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John Holberg
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Brett Vesli
Frank would have wanted it that way.
John Holberg
Frank would have loved it that way. He was pure white as the driven snow. This one says. I gotta tell you man, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. But listening to you and Brett laughing hysterically at Brady's horrible mate made me laugh harder than I had laughed in weeks. Brett, you can't do four days a week. Fridays are pure gold when pop pop starts to fade. Thanks as always for the last. Greg, A couple of these things this lady emails in is nice. Megan has emailed in and says I lost my son this Monday and dog, he was at home with me when the vet came took him from me. It was the first time I'd experienced this type of pain. I'm no fool. I knew it was time. I couldn't let my son suffer, but it happened so quickly. I do know he's in a better place. I feel like I lost the center of my being I couldn't leave the spot where he left for three solid days. But finally I was able to get back to work yesterday and I heard some badass positive news there. After everything, it was power. And I instantly felt my son. I wake up to you guys every morning and it's the only crap that can really get me up. But it was your story I heard first. I'm not gonna lie. I couldn't make it to work because I broke down again. Sorry. After a few days of not feeling it. He was with me through everything, all my growing and his. I've always known how much he. We relied on each other. But now he's gone and it's like I'm empty. Like starting over. It's really weird. Regardless, my strength is there and is is in his, is in me. Your story pulled my heartstrings and universally very coincidental. I'm sorry for your loss, John, and to be able to speak strongly about one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. You did in true strength. I can hear your voice now, how much it meant to you. And thanks for sharing and allowing me to break down this morning once again. But I'll get back to work on Monday. Much stronger. You guys are badass. And one thing I would love the challenge to keep up with one of your conversations in persons, because they are great. Stay strong then. Super talk. Thank you, Megan. That's very nice. And it is. It's one of those things I always tell people I've got. I got an affinity for the fuzzy puppies. I got the dogs, and I got four more at home. And the house still feels super duper empty, which is really strange. It's my first day in 14 years of getting up and going to work without Frank being around. I will not go home to him today. And that just tears a hole in my chest. But Also, I had 14 years with an animal that lives 14 years. Amazing, you know, So I always think of the life Frankie would have had had I not found him on that fence, leashed up to that fence in July with no water. I wonder what would have happened to him. And then I, you know, not to pat myself on the back. My dogs have one hell of a life, that is for sure. I make sure they do. And so my gift back to Frank is to make sure another little Frank that's out there right now will get that opportunity to have a frank life again. And to all the people I said this to, Eric, Brian, the other day, we were talking about he lost his dog and he goes, I don't know if I can ever do it again. I'm like, you have to. You're good at owning dogs, and they need good people. And it isn't. It isn't. It's selfish to say, I won't do this for another one, when you're so good and giving the quality life you gave to the last one, they don't last long. You're signing up for heartbreak, but it's worth it. And to give another one a shot later. That's why I love working with lost, our Home Pet Rescue, and the Humane Society and all the rest, is that you sign up for the heartache, but you sign up for the joy, for all the time you get. And I've had dogs that passed away in six years, but that's all they had. That was it. Six years, and that was all I got. But it was the best six years because it was the only six years they got. And I got to spend it with them, which I absolutely love. My Benny, who passed away six years old, he gave me his six years. That's all he got. And I got it. And that's the gift. So if you can put that pain aside, Megan, and say, you know what? I owe another dog that great life you'd be doing. Those little fuzzy guys who give and give and give, and we don't deserve them.
Brett Vesli
It's the best rebound you can ever have.
John Holberg
It really is. And it isn't an insult to the old. It's a tribute. It's a tribute to your last dog to say, you know what? The love I shared with you, I'm going to give that to someone else. And you taught me how to be better. So the next time I'm going to even be better. Dogs deserve all of it, and they. They need us.
Brett Vesli
15 years of Petey I thought I'd never get. I'm done.
John Holberg
It's hard. It hurts. But then you look and you're like another Petey is out there needing.
Brett Vesli
Exactly.
John Holberg
And you're good at it. You gave Petey 15 years. I gave Frankie 14. I've done this. God, I've done. I've had in my life about 14 or 15 dogs I've had to put down. And it does not get easier. It doesn't get easier.
Brett Vesli
And you don't want another pd. You want another bond. You want a new bond, and you get it.
John Holberg
And the good thing is you've just in that dog reckoned with Frank knew the day I got him, you saved me. And he was Glued to me like, you saved me. And then he just became the king of the house. Like, the dude was 15, 16 pounds, and if any other dog had a ball in their mouth, Frank would go up and take it and go, put it down like, these are mine. And he allowed them to play, but when he wanted it, he'd walk up and they just hand it to him like, yeah, he's the man. So he. He was. He was. He was a little foreman. He'd wander around the house and see what's going on. All right, a little work to do here. A little work to do here. He was awesome. Unique in his own way. And I owe it to another dog later, not right now, but very soon, to another dog to say. Frankie would say, hey, go save that one. He needs you. Like I did.
Brett Vesli
I also understand how people adopt their dogs in similar ages.
John Holberg
Yeah.
Brett Vesli
So that you're not constantly going through that puppies bring.
John Holberg
I said this to people who have dogs who are older and they're kind of slowing down. A puppy comes into their life, and they get puppy energy again. You know, you can get an older dog, a little more juice as long as they're healthy, but they're just slowing down. It's the same as an old person. If they start hanging around younger people, they do younger things. Anyway, thank you to everybody for. My mind is definitely on that. And I know I'm harping on it, but that was a big punch for me, and I'm. My chest is definitely heavy. That weird feeling you get, isn't it? This straight, like, when you lose something, and it's like your chest just has that thing in it, which is why we all say, oh, my heart broke. Your chest feels just like something's in there. Just like weighing. It's just. And it won't go away. It's going to be days and days before I feel like, oh, it's gone, and I kind of want it there right now, you know, It's a great lyric in a song. If it doesn't hurt, it wasn't worth a thing. You know, if it doesn't hurt, it didn't matter. And, boy, it hurts. But this job's cathartic. And thank you to you guys for. You've been through enough in the last year with everything you've got, and you come back in here and you just kind of all of us. It's kind of a relief. Yeah, it's. You know, get some laughs in and normalcy in your life. Exactly.
Brett Vesli
Get a Brady gem here and there.
John Holberg
Oh, yeah, Yeah. A story about slavery. Yeah. You know what? Brady Brady took my sorrow and said, I have a slave. And then I went crazy for 45 minutes to an hour, and we really had a good time. It didn't hurt that Brett was the greatest laugh track on the planet. It's awesome. And then you say, get back to normalcy. And the story comes across. Oh, the news that President Trump has put out a video of himself as a lion and the Obamas as monkeys. This is not gonna go well.
Brett Vesli
True Social.
John Holberg
Yeah, he put it out on True Social. He does not like the Obamas, but you can't do what he did here. And he put it says, when the second vote stopped counting. Rooted in other countries as well. President Trump was significantly ahead. And it's got this video, this, this chart where he's winning, he's winning, he's winning, and then suddenly he loses. And then look, then he put the king of the jungle up there.
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Dale
I'm here on the job site with Dale, who's a framing contractor.
John Holberg
Hey, good morning.
Dale
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John Holberg
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Dale
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John Holberg
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Dale
We're so far up here.
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John Holberg
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Dale
Oh, I'm good. So good.
John Holberg
Get a commercial auto insurance quote today@geico.com and see how much you could save. It feels good to Geico Holmberg's morning sickness. They weren't even involved. No, no. He's got something else brewing there. It's just got this whole thing and then he starts this video, and then he's walking around with his head on a lion's body. And then the Obamas are there, and they've even asked the press secretary, what the hell was that? She goes, oh, it was. He's king of the jungle. And then the Democrats are just the lunatics in the characters from the Lion King. And they put the heads of Barack and Michelle on monkeys and like, oh, my God, could have picked another animal. You could have not done it.
Brett Vesli
Yeah, that too. Just go with the lion.
John Holberg
Just stop or stop. Don't. Just don't. It's almost like there's, like right when you're like, all right, everything's a little bit calmer. I'm going to light a huge part.
Podcast Announcer
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John Holberg
Hold my beer. This is insanity. And it isn't. Look, the argument's going to come. Oh, he's just kidding. Okay, sure. But you know what you're doing anyway, it's not going to go well. That's not a good one. And so I kind of liked my staying away from getting back to normalcy.
Brett Vesli
And I can't help, you know, like, is that real or did they. Is someone.
John Holberg
No, they're talking about it. And the press secretary's like, of course he did it, but he was kid. You know what? Let's talk about policies rather than this. And they're like, we want to talk about that. Just don't. Please don't. Anyway, then you got that going on. And then I got this one. Where is that? Where'd I go? Oh, no, I gotta find the one. I must have thrown it out accidental. Well, I'll get it. Hold on a second, everybody. I'll be brave. Just talk amongst yourselves. Brady has a slave discuss. All right, hold on. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. I've got it. It was a great email. I wanted to get.
Brett Vesli
Can we post?
John Holberg
Here we go. Colonel Brady. Colonel Brady's pretty good. Yeah, that's a good one. Put that up. It says, hey, Holmberg. Emergency. Emergency. Paging Dr. Beets.
Brett Vesli
Urgent.
John Holberg
My wife wants to get breast implants because she doesn't feel sexy anymore. She says that will help her feel sexy and spark our incredibly dead sex life. Found a guy she will go to in San Diego. $24,000. Is that how much breast implants are now? Geez Louise. She's a very fit girl. I asked her, don't they have doctors here? There we go. The woman doesn't have a job. I'm gonna have to foot the bill for this, which I'm willing to do. But we haven't had sex in about 10 months because she doesn't feel like she's proportionate. She has small breasts, but she's in great shape. Would you guys do this? Emergency. Emergency. She says she's doing it because she saw my Internet history and I do watch a lot of huge boob porn, and that's because it's different than what I have. Isn't that what a fantasy is supposed to be? This happens today. The discussion. I need your help now, Ricky. First off, you're a grown man. Stop calling yourself Ricky. You're Rick now or Richard, right? It sounds a little heavy just doing that.
Brett Vesli
Yeah, I just said between 5 and 12,000.
John Holberg
That's what I thought. 10 or 12 cans is she going for? What is $12,000? And that sounds like she's doing more than just resting.
Brett Vesli
A mommy makeover.
John Holberg
She could be. Well, if she's. But he says she's in great shape. She might have that. That baby, you know, bat that she just can't get rid of. The Pringles tummy.
Brett Vesli
Yeah, and that could be the doctor of the stars, too.
John Holberg
That's what I'm thinking she's doing. She's going to a high end doctor and thinks that paying more means better results. I don't know what's going on there, but I would say this. If she hasn't rewarded you for 10 months with a physical relationship and you put boobs in, they're for someone else. Peace out. Yeah, she's gonna feel good about herself and then realize, oh, it wasn't the breasts that were keeping me from having sex with you, it was you. And you're gonna watch her walk out of there, hourglass shaped with those $24,000 cans, and Brady's maid's gonna slap them.
Podcast Announcer
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John Holberg
Yeah, that's rough. In this day and age, again, we go back to gender roles. If she's asking for money. For boob implants. No, you buy those for yourself if you reverse the role.
Brett Vesli
Either way.
John Holberg
A dude's never worked once a day in his life, and his wife's making money, and he's like, hey, I want some plastic surgery, and I want to do this and whatever. He'd be a deadbeat. You'd consider him a loser. What do you need plastic surgery for? Walking. I just. I want to look better. I want to feel better about me. Like, you know what? Pick up the ball a little bit around a job. Go get a job. But a woman can do that. And then the guy's like, maybe I'll buy her cans. Maybe that'll make you feel better. I would recommend no on this. I'd say, no. Let her fix what's wrong. The boobs are going to be. They're not going to fix anything, right?
Brett Vesli
No.
John Holberg
She's going to come back with bigger boobs and still have a problem with you.
Brett Vesli
It's like the buying your first boat, your rv. You discover what you like, and then you want more after that. You got to go. Second one. She might eventually be. I'm not real happy with this first one. I'm gonna go tweak it.
John Holberg
Well, there's the odds that it's probably not gonna be the last surgery yet.
Brett Vesli
Wait, you know people with two RVs? No, the thing. When you buy an RV, okay, the first one you get, you realize, oh, this thing's only.
John Holberg
You will compare breasts to recreational vehicles. They are kind of recreational.
Brett Vesli
Brett's not wrong.
John Holberg
But at least.
Brett Vesli
Yeah.
John Holberg
One, you'll enjoy the ride. Yeah, well. Yeah, well, one, you're gonna get to play a lot more.
Dale
Yeah.
John Holberg
And every once in a while, you're not going to watch the recreational vehicle drive away with another dude behind the wheel and go, bye, that's my rv. They're not yours. They're placed inside of another person's body. That becomes their property. If you foot the bill for this and she hasn't had sex with you for 10 months, there's a bigger problem than this ain't gonna help just her boobs. Yeah. It's the people who always try to go on vacation to spark their marriage. They just take a vacation for a week or so from what's back home, and then they come back home to the problem. You're not solving anything. You're just ignoring it out loud for a little bit. Don't buy that woman boobs. There'll be somebody else's toys down the road, and that's fine. If you want them to be, but she can do it herself if she, you know, tell her to get a job and earn it. That's not a bad idea. Why don't you go out and get a job and then pull the 24k for your boobs? That cost 6 grand. I don't know why, but Scottsdale doesn't have any plastic surgeons. What? San Diego. That's less than Scottsdale.
Brett Vesli
Get a couple more bids.
John Holberg
Yeah, yeah. Have. Have a couple dudes come to the house and price shop your cans. I'll call. We'll call Precisionaire and we'll have a couple of plumbers come by, see if those guys can bid it out. And couple roofing guys that knock on the door. We'll see what they've got. Emergency. Emergency. Have that conversation today and say no. I think this is a no. Hard no. For everybody. Yeah, absolutely. I don't think you put boobs in somebody who hasn't. Who says that she won't have sex with you. Let's put it this way. You also haven't had sex with me in 10 months. Would you give me $24,000 with the promise that yes, I would? Maybe.
Podcast Announcer
Maybe.
Brett Vesli
So it's not a yes.
John Holberg
Yeah, let's.
Brett Vesli
Let's see what happens at the end of the 24th.
John Holberg
What if she doesn't. What if she doesn't like him and it makes her more insecure?
Brett Vesli
Oh, man. And it. She. That's what I'm saying. There's a possibility of.
John Holberg
Anyway.
Brett Vesli
So I think you might have mentioned. It doesn't. It doesn't solve the problem.
John Holberg
No. You got something else going on. Yeah. She's got some insecurities and maybe there's some of it you could help with, but putting a new set of cans in is only going to make her feel good about her and then still look at you and go, now that I feel good about me, I still don't want to have sex with him. It's going to amplify what she doesn't like about you. She doesn't like you anymore. That's all it comes down to. Three needs. How many times do I have to go over my new philosophy? Desire. Manifestation of desire. Support. That's all a man needs. And an occasional thumb in the butt. That's it. But that's the star. That's the sometimes. Why? To my. My algorithm. He's got knocked first. Yeah. You got a text before you come over. I'm not gonna answer the door. Otherwise it's gonna be a home invasion and we got an entertainment drill coming up in just moments. It's 98, Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98 KT.
Episode Title: Emailers Console John On The Loss Of His Dog Frank - Trump Posts Video Depicting Him As Lion And Obamas As Monkeys - Emailer Says His Wife Wants To Spend 24k On Breast Implants
Date: February 6, 2026
Host: John Holmberg
Co-hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Station: 98KUPD, Arizona
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness is a blend of humor, real-life vulnerability, and the gritty honesty that the morning crew is known for. John Holmberg opens up about the recent loss of his beloved dog, Frank, sparking an outpouring of consoling emails from listeners who share similar heartbreaks. The crew then pivots to current events, humorously dissecting a controversial Trump video, and closes with a wild listener dilemma: should a husband pay $24,000 for his wife’s breast implants to revive a dead bedroom? Throughout, the conversation features candid, often irreverent banter on everything from grief to self-worth, relationships, and plastic surgery.
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The episode masterfully balances heartfelt sincerity (with frank talk on pet loss and emotional healing) and wicked humor (as listeners are swept into wild real-life dilemmas), all in Holmberg’s signature, unfiltered voice. Whether offering empathy, critique, or just a laugh, the team delivers a relatable, conversation-driven show.
Great listens: John’s reflections on pet grief, and the group’s endless riffs on RVs, “cans,” and relationship economics.
For more candid conversation and twisted humor, follow Holmberg’s Morning Sickness weekdays on 98KUPD.