02-09-26 - Halftime Show Emails And Reacts - Simulation Is Broken As Savannah Guthrie Melds w/Silence Of Lambs Speech - Analyzing Our Best And Worsts Of The SB60 Commercials

Summary

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Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – 02-09-26

Episode Theme:
"Halftime Show Emails and Reactions, Simulation Is Broken as Savannah Guthrie Melds with Silence of the Lambs, and Breaking Down the Best and Worst Super Bowl 60 Commercials"

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Overview

The episode dives into three interconnected topics: spirited listener reactions to the Super Bowl 60 halftime show, a bizarre real-life/news moment that mirrors the iconic movie Silence of the Lambs, and a rowdy, comical rundown of the most memorable and cringeworthy Super Bowl commercials. Holmberg and crew riff on cultural marketing shifts, uncanny simulation moments in the news, awkward attempts at advertising “awareness,” and the thin line between entertainment and discomfort in modern media.

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Major Discussion Points

1. Super Bowl 60 Halftime (Bad Bunny) and Demographic Shifts

[03:00–09:20]

• Emails and Listener Feedback: The team reads a slew of emails about the halftime performer Bad Bunny, with mixed to negative reactions mainly from older fans.
• Marketing Insight:
  • John Holmberg (04:00):

    "But we got to get new money... The goal is to get the new money. So aiming this at an audience that feels like they've never had it aimed at them before is smart."
    The hosts discuss how the NFL is targeting younger, more diverse audiences and that old fans “aren’t going anywhere.”

• Pornhub Spike?
  • Several jokes about whether the prominent “thick Latina butts” in the halftime show would result in a spike in Latina porn searches:
    • Holmberg (08:44):

      "There had to be extra searches for thick Latin butts. There was a lot of really hot Latinas up there."

    • The crew riff extensively on torta meaning (25:55)—whether it’s a sandwich, a thick girl, or something else entirely.
• Flag Football, Helmets, and Overprotective Parenting:
  • Commentary pivots to generational shifts in childhood risk, with Holmberg lamenting helmeted flag football and the “pussy parents” of today.
    • Holmberg (04:45):

      "If you’ve got a kid in a helmet and shoulder pads and somebody's got flags on his hips, that kid’s one of them British smokes ... It’s true, though."

• Coyotes Cross the Road:
  • Lighthearted tangent on animal safety instincts compared to kids and helmets.
• Side Note:
  • Louie Moses, the regular ad-exec guest, is out due to a (jokingly speculated) injury—leading the crew into handling the commercial review themselves.

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2. “Simulation Is Broken”: Savannah Guthrie and Silence of the Lambs

[10:08–18:29]

• Observation:
  • Holmberg notices that Savannah Guthrie’s recent emotional appeal on TV (regarding her missing mother) is eerily similar—nearly word-for-word—to the fictional senator’s plea from the film Silence of the Lambs.
    • Direct Comparison, Played on Air:
      • Savannah Guthrie:

        "She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you’ll see." (10:59)

      • Senator Harris (Silence of the Lambs):

        "Catherine is very gentle and kind. Talk to her and you’ll see." (11:14)

    • Holmberg (11:47):

      "The simulation is broken."

• Crew Reaction:
  • Stunned, amused, and slightly unnerved.
  • Brady suggests this might just be “common lines,” but Holmberg is adamant about the uncanny delivery and script-like nature.
• Deeper Conspiracy Vein:
  • Holmberg and parody-Alex-Jones voice play with ideas that “everything is scripted,” and news/media borrow shamelessly from entertainment.
    • Holmberg (16:46):

      "It sure did look awfully choreographed and not in a creative way."

    • Alex Jones (15:43):

      "They're starting to steal from movies. Everything is a movie. They're wagging the dog."

• Cultural Fatigue/Discomfort:
  • Expressing discomfort with the “scripted empathy” and how it undermines emotional responses to tragedy.

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3. Commercials: The Best, The Worst, The Most Uncomfortable

[26:42–46:48]

General Takeaway

• “Bad football game, bad ads” is the consensus; few commercials stood out as truly memorable, and AI/celebrity-based spots are hit-or-miss.

Favorites, Standouts & Critiques

• Jurassic Park/Xfinity ([27:04]):
  • Crew’s favorite for cleverness—if the park had decent internet, “no dinosaurs would have gotten out.”
• Dunkin’ Donuts/Good Will Hunting AI ([27:47]):
  • Creepy, stiff celebrity “deep fake.”
    • Holmberg:

      "It looked like Red Dead Redemption. Like his eyes weren't [alive]."

• State Farm with Jon Bon Jovi, Meta glasses, Liquid Death Energy Drink, UberEats, Manscape (talking pubes):
  • Manscape ad was memorable for being gross.
    • Brady (28:27):

      "When the pubes were talking to us. Yeah, that one got me, too."

• Prostate Commercial ([28:41+]):
  • Extensive riff on the “tight end” joke and the team’s fear/avoidance of prostate exams. Turns into a trademark HMS rant on unnecessary medical procedures and male vulnerability.
    • Holmberg (29:09):

      "It's a medical conspiracy to have doctors have one last piece of power over you ... It's rape is what it is. And it's unnecessary anymore."

• Budweiser/Clydesdale and Eagle ([32:44]):
  • Lauded for being “white-trash awesome” and “redneck cool.”
    • Holmberg (32:51):

      "There's something so incredibly white trash awesome about a Bud Heavy Clydesdale rescuing a baby eagle."

• Kendall Jenner “Poison Vagina” ([34:12]):
  • Audience cheers the self-aware joke about her NBA dating curse, used for gambling content.
    • Holmberg (34:20):

      "She basically is like, my vagina’s poison. I can make the—I can go bang a guy and ruin it, and go on unders."

• Blue Square/Drewski “Dirty Jew” Commercial ([35:06+]):
  • By far the most uncomfortable spot for the team (as for much of America).
    • The commercial begins with anti-Semitic graffiti, ends with a Black celebrity showing solidarity.
  • Reaction ranges from confusion, discomfort, and outright humor at the awkwardness:
    • Holmberg (35:11):

      "You have hair and you open up your locker and it says, dirty Jew. I'm like, oh, God, what are you going ... I couldn't watch the rest of it."

    • Holmberg (36:00):

      "Don’t bring the Blacks into this. We’ve got—let’s keep all this separate for a second."

  • Main critique: These “awareness” commercials don’t actually dissuade racists or bullies, but do cause discomfort and nervous laughter at Super Bowl parties.
    • Holmberg (40:52):

      "You think it was effective to the kid who hates Jews to go, well, that commercial made me really think?"

    • Brady (40:55):

      "It might have cut down the bully."

• General Theme:
  • Modern advertising "awareness" does little to address real issues and might even backfire, creating a joke out of serious subjects.

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4. Simulation, Cynicism, and Cultural Jokes

[39:01–41:48]

• The joking nature of the show often turns darkly satirical when it comes to repeated cycles in media—kids in wells (Baby Jessica throwback), “scripted” tragedy pleas, and the real purpose of major televised events (profit, distraction, marketing).
  • Alex Jones parody (22:22):

    “Those kids and Wells, they distracted us while they did other stuff, while we watched babies in Wells ... It’s all smoke and mirrors so the pedophiles can touch all the kids and Wells.”

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5. Phoenix Open and Local Color

[47:37–49:10]

• Quick pivot to the scene at Phoenix Open, noting the growing crowd but increasingly passive, photo-centric audience.
  • Gone are the wild, participatory crowds; now, it’s "let’s just stand around and see what happens."

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6. Listener Tributes and Wrap Up

[50:15–end]

• A segment commemorates the recent death of Brad Arnold from 3 Doors Down, wryly marking the passage of time.
• The crew plays “Kryptonite” as a tribute and discusses “hit after hit” from the band.
• Several lighthearted/joking listener marketing suggestions roll in on how to best respond to anti-Semitic bullying—a recurring meta-joke of the show.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On NFL’s Demographic Shift:
  • John (04:00): “Aiming this at an audience that feels like they've never had it aimed at them before is smart in a marketing way.”
• On Overprotective Parenting:
  • John (04:45): “If you've got a kid in a helmet and shoulder pads and somebody's got flags on his hips, that kid's one of them British smokes ...”
• On Simulation Conspiracy:
  • John (11:47): “The simulation is broken.”
• On Silence of the Lambs Parallel:
  • John (11:58): “We're robbing movies to have emotional pleas to kidnappers ... It doesn't pass the smell test.”
• On Awareness Advertising's Ineffectiveness:
  • John (40:52): “Who's racist and watches a commercial and goes, oh, yeah, I'm not going to do that anymore?”
• On Social Discomfort at Commercials:
  • John (39:18): “Anti Semitism is no good. We all know that. But during the super bowl, seeing that and then hearing people giggle because they did, when ... It's like, everybody's just uncomfortable.”
• On White Trash Cool:
  • John (32:51): “There's something so incredibly white trash awesome about a Bud Heavy having an implied sales come over and rescue a baby eagle ... an eagle riding a horse. I am in heaven.”
• On Medical Exams:
  • John (29:09): "It's a medical conspiracy to have doctors have one last piece of power over you ... It's rape is what it is. And it's unnecessary anymore.”
• On Parenting vs Commercials:
  • John (41:35): “There's got to be a better way. It's called parenting, I think. And parents who raise kids who write dirty Jew on a locker, they're gonna make that commercial a joke at their house.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:00] Discussion about Bad Bunny halftime show/marketing, “thick Latina ass,” NFL’s audience targeting.
• [10:08] Savannah Guthrie speech mimics Silence of the Lambs; conspiracy/simulation bits.
• [26:42] Super Bowl commercials, banners, AI weirdness, “Dirty Jew”/Blue Square reactions.
• [39:01] Extended riff on awareness ads, discomfort, effectiveness, and meta cultural critique.
• [47:37] Phoenix Open recap, changes in crowds and local color.
• [50:15–51:30] Tribute to Brad Arnold and 3 Doors Down.

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Tone & Takeaways

• Tone:
  Playful, irreverent, boundary-pushing, unfiltered—standard fare for HMS. The hosts freely mix insightful social critique with brash jokes and uncomfortable observations, creating a unique blend that’s both sharp and off-color.
• Key Takeaway:
  Modern culture and entertainment are deeply entangled; advertising has gotten more performative, and social awareness spots more awkward. Media sometimes blurs the lines between fiction and reality to the point of absurdity. Underneath it all, the show suggests the real solutions to our social ills—like bullying and bigotry—are never as simple as a six-million-dollar commercial.

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Transcript

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[John Holmberg]

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[Alex Jones]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Brett Vesely]

What's that?

[John Holmberg]

Well, it's an old fashioned thing people use. Congrats, assholes. I just downloaded another effing app. Thanks, Pete. Thanks for helping us out. Put the word downward in there and we'll get you in that suite that feeds. How about that? You go see Nine Inch Nails coming up here in March. The Classiest way you can get in there. We're going to get into the commercial thing. Louie, who usually comes in, the ad executive superstar Louie Moses. Text me this morning. He's got a medical issue. He's got a sag. I can't make it. I don't. Something happens. He's fine. I guess he says, I'm okay, but I got to deal with this. And I don't know if he. Lindsey Vaughn'd himself out of the house and busted an ankle or something.

[Frankie]

I didn't get 13 seconds out of the house.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he tried to ramp into his car, and down he went. You know, I don't wanna say it. I think Lindsey Vaughn's probably an amazing skier to get where she's going, but seems like every time I watch her, she falls or hurts herself. If I was a friend of hers, I'd be like, maybe this skiing's not for you. You win all the tournaments, no one watches. And every time I see her, I'm like, hey, there's that Lindsey Vaughn. I've heard so much. Is she laying down? She's always laying down.

[Frankie]

Hyped up story, that's for sure.

[John Holmberg]

I like it. She's always laying down. Yeah. This guy says, bad Bunny. I got a lot of emails about it. I guess, whatever. Not my style of music. So I really didn't pay attention. I understand wanting to expand into a world product, but should you do it by alienating the home country? Again, the argument will be that Puerto Rico is part of the country. Second part of that, I know what you're saying, as you're alienating fans who have been loyal to you forever, but that's marketing 101. To basically say they ain't going anywhere, at least in Mass. But we got to get new money. The goal is to get the new money. So aiming this at an audience that feels like they've never had it aimed at them before is smart in a marketing way. Nobody, none of us are leaving football because of Bad Bunny. There's absolutely zero risk for the NFL to go, all right, we'll bitch about it and cry. And maybe a few people go, I ain't watching no more. But you weren't spending the money that they want anyway. You've already spent. They've already got yours. Like with me, the NFL has done very well with me. If I stopped spending money right now on NFL stuff, they'd be like, that's cool. You gave us tons. You're. You're good to go. We'll take. They want 25 year old people who are about to come.

[Frankie]

You're fully vested.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I am. Yeah, I am. Yep. They've got me like, oh, you hit your mark a long time ago. We're good with you. They want that 25 year old kid who's about to start a real life and then in five years time has a kid and you buy him clothes and helmets and jerseys and merch me like, that dude's already given us a ton of money. If he wants to keep going, he can still got him. And I still will.

[Frankie]

We're not gonna get him to buy in on the flag football.

[John Holmberg]

No, no. With helmets. I watched one where they were in pads and wearing flags and I'm like, why? Well, they gotta protect them. From what? They're bulking kids up in pads to play flag football. I don't blame the kids. That's on the pussy parents and that's my generation. I don't know what we did to make it so. Kids are so fragile now. But if you've got a kid in a helmet and shoulder pads and somebody's got flags on his hips, that kid's one of them British smokes. I made myself laugh. It's true, though. Put your helmet on, it's flag football. Just what? And I guess it's the equivalent of when we used to ride bikes. Nobody ever, our parents never said, wear your helmet. You look like a dork now. Good Christ. Kid on a bike without a helmet, it might explode if he hits Kicking.

[Frankie]

In on those electric bikes because some of that is.

[John Holmberg]

Well, that's different. That's a motorcycle. That's different. That is. Look, you were. Everybody said if you were mopeds and anything.

[Frankie]

Helmet with training wheels.

[John Holmberg]

Look, that I even understand because you're brand new, but once you're riding the bike, you should be able to get from A to B without your cranium falling off. I don't know too many people.

[Frankie]

Again, the person would say, well, it's not about the kid riding the bike. It's about the cars around.

[John Holmberg]

Well then get out of the road, you dumbass. Learn that those things hurt. We have coyotes that cross 52nd street on a regular basis. We watch them. They're not wearing helmets. They look, they look both ways. You've seen, you've watched me and you have sat out this window and like, look, the coyotes are going to cross 52nd Street. They look both ways like the cars. We're good. Teach your kids.

[Frankie]

Go.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they do the go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And they both take Off. It's kind of neat. And they're not in helmets. They're running the risk of getting run over if your kid's in the road and the only thing protecting them is a helmet. I can tell you two things have gone wrong already. First off, he didn't know not to stand in the road. Second, that helmet ain't protecting him from anything. Obviously you're a bad parent. We had a kid in seventh grade named. I think his name was Chad Hall. Do you remember him? Chad never was for him. Yeah. Run over by a car like three weeks later. He came back with like scars all over his face. And he was a little bit dopey for a while. He got smashed. Showed up like. Yeah, if he had a helmet on, he still would have had been smashed. I'm not saying you shouldn't wear a helmet, but I'm saying we used to not. And we were pretty okay. Football flag football with helmets. I'm looking at this the other day, I'm like, come on.

[Brett Vesely]

It's like you said you'd be a dork or something if you were, you know, back when you're a kid, that.

[John Holmberg]

Was a thing relentless ridicule you would have received. Taking your helmet, having it attached to you all day long.

[Byron]

Oh.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett Vesely]

But again, we didn't need the little neon green guy with the flag out there. Slow down. We knew better.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Telling watch out for the car. Watch out for us. It's the other way, right? You watch out for cars. The guy in the cars might have had a bad day.

[Frankie]

Found out my dogs go crazy on those green guys.

[John Holmberg]

They don't like those just.

[Frankie]

But we encountered one for the first time. They're weird and wanted to attack it.

[John Holmberg]

They're old school. Dogs are like, yeah, kids should.

[Frankie]

I don't understand that strange green thing.

[John Holmberg]

Keep your kids from running running in the road. That's the key. And the ones that run in the road usually have a story later. Yeah. It's a strange one. Man 1 here's something I'm curious about with the Bad Bunny halftime show. I wonder, you know, they said I was surprised to see the. The pop for Bad Bunny on Apple Music. A lot of those downloads. I didn't expect it to be as good as what we're seeing. But I wonder this. And can we get this report with all those hot Latina asses bouncing around on the screen? Did pornhub see a surge in Latina porn?

[Frankie]

Had to.

[John Holmberg]

Those numbers would be much hot Latin ass bouncing around. I think the camera's right in their butt. So it's not me being perverted. They were doing it on purpose and they had thick butted girls.

[Frankie]

I saw a good mix.

[John Holmberg]

Did you? I didn't think, yeah, I saw a lot of thick asses. I went back and watched it again when I got home. Just see, like, what do I do? There's a lot of thick asses in there. A lot. A lot of thick asses. Latin asses. I'm like, I wonder if pornhub saw a little bounce.

[Brett Vesely]

So the empanadas.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. I wonder if dudes went home and went, thick Latin broad just in the search line.

[Brett Vesely]

How can we find that out?

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. There had to be a surge in thick Latin.

[Frankie]

But porn, sometimes they come up with a after stats on has to.

[John Holmberg]

The pornhub has to because that would look. If we're talking about the commercials motivating you to do all this stuff, there's no doubt that that commercial that ran for 20 minutes in the middle of the game for thick Latin ass did its job. There had to be extra searches for thick Latin butts. There was a lot of really hot Latinas up there. I just curious if that was a thing because I thought about it when I got home and went, well, there's this guy just emailed over. Somebody tweeted out. Could have been nice if bad bunny would have presented Savannah Guthrie's mom right there at the halftime. We found out you're terrible people.

[Frankie]

Saved her for the half.

[John Holmberg]

You're just terrible people. All right. And we can get into the. Well, let's get into the Savannah Guthrie thing for a second because I am. Here we go. Here's my Alex Jones turning bright red. I'm getting a little fat. I don't know what. I'll eat your ass.

[Comedy Announcer]

We just offer our children up to.

[Alex Jones]

The system with the fluoride and the.

[Comedy Announcer]

Water and the gmo.

[John Holmberg]

I've been saying it for a little bit.

[Comedy Announcer]

Fat perverts grab them at the airport to train them for the pedophile government.

[John Holmberg]

Thank you, Alex. I've been saying the Savannah Guthrie thing doesn't pass the smell test for a while. And I don't know what it is. I don't know where I'm right and where I'm wrong with this. Here is Savannah Guthrie's plea to the kidnappers on TV the other day. Are you ready?

[Frankie]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Here's her plea. Now, this is sad. Her mother's missing. This is not, you know. Here's her plea.

[Savannah Guthrie]

She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her, and you'll see.

[John Holmberg]

All right, here's the senator from silence of the Lambs in 1991 talking about her daughter in the. Well.

[Savannah Guthrie]

Catherine is very gentle and kind. Talk to her and you'll see.

[Frankie]

They.

[John Holmberg]

They. Wow.

[Brett Vesely]

What the.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah, real quick.

[Frankie]

Those are common lines.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, real quick.

[Savannah Guthrie]

She is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you'll see.

[John Holmberg]

Senator, love the suit.

[Savannah Guthrie]

Catherine is very gentle and kind. Talk to her and you'll see it's.

[John Holmberg]

Delivered the same way.

[Frankie]

Oh, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

The simulation is broken.

[Brett Vesely]

We're.

[John Holmberg]

We're robbing movies to have emotional pleas to kidnappers. And I know Savannah Guthrie's going through a thing.

[Frankie]

I've been watching it. Okay, I like that line.

[John Holmberg]

That's the thing. That's, like, just so weird.

[Frankie]

That is weird.

[John Holmberg]

Did you breastfeed your babies? Toughens the nipples. I mean, what are we doing? This one got me. Because when I saw this, I was. I'm a Silence of the lamb super fan. I know the whole movie front to back. And when she said it, I'm like.

[Savannah Guthrie]

Oh, she is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you'll see Catherine is very gentle and kind.

[John Holmberg]

It's so weird.

[Savannah Guthrie]

Talk to her and you'll see.

[John Holmberg]

It's just so weird. Does that not make you guys go, wait a minute.

[Alex Jones]

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm turning bright red and getting fat and figured everything's fake.

[John Holmberg]

I can't imagine that someone, if I figured it out, someone didn't sit back and say, hey, little tight with the silence of the lamb's plea to James Gumm to let the little heiress out of the well.

[Frankie]

I mean, now, in the movie, was the senator coached to say that by the.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, they had a thing. Of course. Yes.

[Frankie]

That's what I'm saying. So I want to stand.

[John Holmberg]

But come on. It's like saying, hi, ho, Silver. It might be the first time you're saying it's popular, but we know where it comes from. You can't quote something and act like some people aren't going to pick that up. You have to deviate and be original. You can't have template FBI talk Because then it's just like, okay, they're working with the FBI. I mean, if I'm telling you this works. If I'm. Every time I'm a kidnapper, I'm like, oh, this is from Silence of the lambs. They're going, this isn't an emotional plea. This is a script.

[Frankie]

They're going to hit you with a script.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they're going to hit you with script. It doesn't matter to them. Don't worry about it.

[Brett Vesely]

First, Hollywood's out of ideas. Now the politics are out of ideas too.

[John Holmberg]

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[Comedy Announcer]

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[John Holmberg]

And yeah, the guy said they even made Savannah sort of look like her from the movie. Yeah, they gave her like the. And then I got all you people. John, you're starting to see it. I know.

[Alex Jones]

I don't necessarily want to go down that road. That's where it is, where all the fluorides are. It's where the chemtrails.

[John Holmberg]

I found that.

[Frankie]

That is spot on.

[John Holmberg]

It's weird. And maybe it is a template, but that makes it worse because then it's not emotional or personal or anything else. And then after that is said in the movie, they cut to the girls of the FBI and she goes, ah, making it personal. That's smart. Making her a human. Like you're doing the same exact thing. You're hoping that the kidnapper seer is a human being and not just a product.

[Alex Jones]

Starting to see it now. They're starting to steal from movies. Everything is a movie. They're wagging the dog.

[John Holmberg]

It's you got One by me.

[Frankie]

I mean, I didn't put the two and two together.

[John Holmberg]

Well, no, not a lot of people would. But I happen to be a super fan of that movie to where if you give me a line from it, I'm gonna give you the next three. Like, I have that thing memorized. I love that movie. And that's Senator Harris. And she's an impassioned plea for what we then found out was Jane Gumm keeping her in a.

[Brett Vesely]

Well.

[John Holmberg]

Senator. Love the soup. Yeah, his name is Lewis friend. Stands about 5, 11 inches tall. Said he was from Philadelphia, but he could have lied. Yeah, it's. It's a weird thing to me that that exists. And maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's not, but it sure did look awfully choreographed and not in a creative way.

[Frankie]

Good delivery.

[John Holmberg]

Watch this thing and say the same stuff. This is a great. This movie's fantastic. What, do they just sit down, watch Silence of the Lambs while they're waiting for Savannah's mom? Oh, we should do that. That's a good idea. Talk to her and you'll see. And once it. Once she hit that line, I'm like, well, that's the senator. Then my brain goes. Toughens the nipple. I can't be empathetic and think of Hannibal Lecter, or, as Trump called him, the great Hannibal Lecter. There. It's just a man. It's weird. And, no, I don't want to just be part of this, but I don't want it to be fake. I don't want it to be something. I'm like, oh, what's this? It's just that seven o'. Clock. Got to give you another word. Raw, R, A, W. You go onto our app, you find that little suite that feeds thing for the Nine Inch Nails concert. We'll give you raw for the seven o' clock hour. We're going to keep doing this every hour of the day, and then we're going to give away sweet tickets. I think we got six of them. Six pairs.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

We're going to fill that suite with KUPD listeners. Six pairs, and we'll give those away. That'd be great. David Vasquez says, I'm with you, John. Big booty to legal immigrants can stay. Everyone else, get the out. That's from David Vasquez. That's a Mexican guy. That's not just me. I mean, if we have a standard for who can stay and who can't, it's them. Big booty. According to David Voska, he ain't Rock crazy. Yeah, the world's just not normal. He said, did you watch the end? Scott ain't said, did you watch the end of the tape? When she looks into the camera and.

[Alex Jones]

Says, give me back my son.

[John Holmberg]

Like, oh, my God, it's the Mel Gibson movie. And then later she did one says, gotta get these snakes off this mother plane. Just quoting movies to try to get your mom back. It seems so insincere. Anyway, they got a five million dollar bounty that comes due tonight. The ransom is due tonight or else. And we don't know what the or.

[Frankie]

Else they think is.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, the legit one. They say there's a time that will pass. How many ransom notes did they find? That's another thing. It's like we've got a couple that aren't real. Where were they? And how quick did somebody dick around to get a ransom note? It was pretty fast.

[Frankie]

Didn't one go to a radio station and do something? I don't know.

[John Holmberg]

Maybe. I don't know. But they're like, yeah, this one. The time will pass on that. Who knows?

[Frankie]

Might have been a news station too.

[John Holmberg]

I. I hope that they find the lady and everybody's back in normal again. But this is just strange.

[Brett Vesely]

They went to Larry Mack in Tucson and.

[Frankie]

Yeah.

[Larry Mack]

Then they got this to the authorities and locate. Okay, okay, we can just. Okay, it's KFMLA station at.

[Frankie]

Give them a little.

[Larry Mack]

It's Larry Mack down here.

[John Holmberg]

Tucson.

[Larry Mack]

Okay.

[John Holmberg]

All you people who are not familiar, go to Tucson and listen. That's dead on. We all do it. Okay.

[Larry Mack]

I've got a repson. Since he's gonna kill somebody after your mom.

[John Holmberg]

If you.

[Larry Mack]

For fourth wack here at kfmi. I'm gonna play a little.

[John Holmberg]

Wow.

[Larry Mack]

We're gonna play a little White Zombie and then we're gonna see if we can get this ransom note taken care of.

[John Holmberg]

Okay? All right. On my jocks.

[Larry Mack]

I'm gonna need you to do something. We're gonna have to stop the Nine Inch Nails promotion. We're gonna do a little ransom note step. Okay. It's one of those really good ones too. Okay. With the, you know, letters, kind of the magazine. Okay.

[Frankie]

Good to have you back, partner.

[Larry Mack]

Hey, it's good to be here.

[John Holmberg]

Dad was Brady for a little while. Okay.

[Larry Mack]

John was gone. I filled in. Okay. Okay.

[John Holmberg]

Said her speech for the mom just made the kidnappers tuck their dicks between their legs and tell everybody they'd F themselves. Yeah. They're just recreating the movie. I don't want to be this cynical but, man, you can't help it when it's put right in front of you. Like we're not even trying anymore. They're just not. I'm hoping again, I don't want to hear from anybody, because I'm certainly hoping I'm wrong. I'm hoping that this is all legit and everything's on the up and up and we're gonna do the right thing. But, man, Ed from Jump. This thing seemed like a script, and I don't know that the Guthrie's are in on it, but it just feels like it's the oddest thing I've ever seen and making me question all sorts of stuff.

[Alex Jones]

Well, I was a boy. Oh, here we go. The voice came back. I turned red. I got fat. I don't even know if those kids in Wells when I was growing up that were so heartfelt be if they were actually down in there. Nobody's fallen in a well since Baby Jessica. Why was that such a big deal? For a while, kids were in Wells. Seemed like every couple weeks. And then Wells didn't go away, but the kids falling in them did.

[John Holmberg]

Remember that the kids in Wells thing? That was like, a lot for a while.

[Frankie]

It's a celebrity thing. Is it big celebrities have wells now, do they?

[John Holmberg]

Well, there's no kids in them.

[Frankie]

They're putting babies in.

[John Holmberg]

Diddy have one. Kids used to dip down in wells constantly. Baby Jessica was down there for weeks. They had to drill in from the side for some reason. Seemed like an easy get. If she can fall in, why can't we tug her out?

[Frankie]

Oprah has 5,000 wells.

[John Holmberg]

I'm sure she's just eating babies like crazy. And her incubating Wells of baby food. Baby. But then. But the whole country, like, united over this kid. Yeah, we're all nuts and like, oh, that's good. And then a few weeks later, another kid fell in a well. And I'm like, wait a second. And that was when I was younger. Like, the youth. This. Wait a minute. This is the same blueprint.

[Alex Jones]

Those kids and Wells, they distracted us while they did other stuff, while we watch babies in Wells. That made it. And then no one cared. I'm telling you right now, I don't buy the kid and well thing. Go back and look. What was the government doing while we were watching Baby Jessica in that well? It's all smoke and mirrors so the pedophiles can touch all the kids and Wells.

[John Holmberg]

I'm going crazy. Something's not right. Devin says, john, put your tinfoil hat on. This one for me. We have trackers being put in us for health reasons. They say pacemakers now under the guise of an old person being lost, but they can find them. And they can also know when they're not around, they're going to have something in there and just basically say, hey, your heart's no good. You're going to want this. And you of course are going to think my heart needs help, so I'm going to put that in me. That is an unreasonable thought. Says from the trackers will start being metal rods and screws for broken bones, blah, blah, blah. Before you know it, we're all tracked. It's a trap. There's no way that this expired broad is commanding this much attention. She's probably gone. That's not a good thing to say. The amount of money that we're going to find, that we're using to find her is being used as money laundering. That's a different conspiracy. Anyway, have a good week. Start the fart jokes now. Devin, again, we're already tracking. I know. We volunteer phones. We volunteered for that. I agree. Once you signed up to get your phone, you said, I'll carry my tracker. You don't have to implant it.

[Brett Vesely]

Your laptop, everything.

[Frankie]

Phones, cars.

[John Holmberg]

No, the phones were the big ones. The phones were the one where we actually volunteer and pay a monthly fee to have a tracker with us at all times.

[Alex Jones]

The kids and the wells. I don't remember anybody.

[John Holmberg]

That's all go back to. I'm thinking maybe I'm gonna dig around a little today and go, what was going on the week and a half Baby Jessica was stuck in that well and that was one of the weirdest things in my lifetime. That kid was like seven days old. The hell was it doing out there by wells? It tumbles all the way down there and bounces around to the bottom of the well and they're like, ah. And how did they know to look to check the well? Like, oh, Jesus, no, let's go.

[Brett Vesely]

That's the one place I didn't look.

[John Holmberg]

The only spot I didn't think a baby could fall. Oh, sure enough, there it is. I see it.

[Frankie]

And with the technology today, we could have just thrown a camera down there and watched for a year.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, we could have made all like, Jenny Karen.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Is that baby masturbating? Oh, my God, we're gonn a fortune. It's an only fans. I don't believe anything anymore. And I hate my brain for doing this. I hate it. I don't want this. But it's happening. Yeah, everybody's emailing. So whether Guthrie's mom just wanted to see if her kids still loved her, I wouldn't put it past my mom to try this. They stopped coming around and visiting, so she just staged the whole thing. And now it's way out of control. It's like the falcon, the balloon boy. They wanted to get a little attention, and it got crazy. Next thing you know, CNN's got a chopper up following that odd balloon that they thought a boy was in. Bad news, by the way. Torta searches evidently did go up. And that means that's some. Some sort of Spanish word for thick Latina ass. Is that it? Torta?

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Do you call someone a torta?

[Frankie]

I thought it was a pastry.

[John Holmberg]

Like, if you said it's.

[Brett Vesely]

I think it's a sandwich, actually. I think a torta is a sandwich. Like those kind of stuffed sandwiches.

[John Holmberg]

And you discover. I didn't even notice that the bride and Bad Bunny's halftime show was knocked up.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah, well, Batman showed me that. The picture.

[John Holmberg]

I'm like, oh, okay, that's a shotgun warning. I didn't see that. Oh, my God.

[Larry Mack]

Okay, then he came from la. We just get the more weird things. Okay, we're gonna play a little bit, get a little Megadeth coming your direction. And hopefully no Megadeth tonight after five and the ransom note comes due and.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[Larry Mack]

Okay. Learn that. Getting it done. Gonna do a little local band feature here at 7 o'. Clock, and hopefully that local band doesn't.

[John Holmberg]

Know anything about what's going on here.

[Larry Mack]

In Tucson with Savannah. I'm okay.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. So, yeah. All right, let's get to the commercials thing yesterday with. With Louie not coming in, we can kind of go through our little list. And essentially, with a bad football game, you get bad ads. And it's not the ads fault. It's just bored while they go on and they're ranking the top 10. There were some that I enjoyed and some that I didn't care about. The one I liked the most was the Jurassic park one. I think that one kind of popped Xfinity. Yeah. Where they basically said if they had better Internet, it never would have gone sideways and it would have been a fun park that just would have been awesome for everyone. But you'd have never had the fences go down, the dinosaurs, which I find great.

[Frankie]

And that was directed by.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it was pretty good. That was a good one. And then you got the State Farm one, which was the Jon Bon Jovi thing at the end there, and picked everybody up.

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[Frankie]

Did you like the Goodwill hunting one? That.

[John Holmberg]

That creeped me out with all. With how great AI is. The Dunkin Donuts ad with all the thing, like, Sam Malone came out. It looked like Red Dead redemption. Like his eyes weren't.

[Frankie]

Yeah, there's a couple of weird AI.

[John Holmberg]

I didn't like that.

[Frankie]

Seemed like. Although I did like the ending when Aniston put Tom Brady's face against women.

[John Holmberg]

I guess I don't like to see him either. That's the one I don't.

[Brett Vesely]

There wasn't any that, like, without looking at the list that I'm like, oh, yeah, that was a great one.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, Pepsi was good there. The UberEats ones are kind of funny. I like that they're doing that with. You know that. That's all about food.

[Frankie]

The manscaped one grossed me out when the.

[John Holmberg]

When the pubes were talking to us. Yeah, that one got me, too. But it. But you know what? I remembered it and I thought to myself at the end, oh, that one's going to get me. Because it's. It grossed me out to the point where I'm like, Manscape had a commercial like, I'll remember their name.

[Jim Jordan]

Did the loosen your tight end hit me? Because it's that age.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I did watch that. It was the closest I'll ever get to having a prostate exam. When they did the loosen your tight end, it was funny. I'm still never going to do it because I think that that's a doctor's plan to finger me.

[Jim Jordan]

You don't have to.

[John Holmberg]

I know.

[Jim Jordan]

That's what the whole point of the commercial was.

[John Holmberg]

Yes, you do. They want you to loosen your tight end. You're supposed to get fingered. And with all the technology we've got to look inside my body, you still have to finger me to find out if I'm sick.

[Jim Jordan]

It's a medical conspiracy to keep proctologists in business.

[John Holmberg]

It's a medical conspiracy to have doctors have one last piece of power over you to just. It is. It's. It's. It's rape is what it is. And it's. It's unnecessary anymore.

[Jim Jordan]

Do they still cup your balls like when we were a kid and you got the if.

[John Holmberg]

Yes nicely.

[Jim Jordan]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

When you had to get your physical. I don't.

[Frankie]

Turn your head and cough.

[John Holmberg]

I think they probably squeeze your nuts or something for a physical. I haven't had one for a while.

[Jim Jordan]

Has it been proven that it's effective.

[John Holmberg]

Can he. Yeah, that. That is always looking for. What do my balls do? I coughed. It just like. Does one go balls like, oh, you've got a herniated nut. I would have never known that. I've never had anybody go, I got a physical, and when I cough, maybe, like, you feel a BB on your balls. But I feel my balls all the time. I'm always on those things. So I'll notice a difference if there's something different. I'm going in. I don't want you to go digging around, Doctor. Bend over. I'm gonna finger you. Like. And I had a trauma with that. You know, I'm like one of those people who. Like, when they're kids, they had a traumatic experience and they fell under some ice when they were. And then they're afraid of water forever. That doctor, when I was 20, fingered me so hard, I shot out onto the table. I'm not going back for that.

[Frankie]

That was a good experience.

[John Holmberg]

Well, mentally, it was not. It was the Ohio State guy. And I'm like, I don't know. That was a necessary exam. All I told you was, it hurts to pee. I had a UTI and he fingered me. Jim Jordan was your doctor until I. And I'm like, ah. And he goes, that'll happen. I'm like that. To me, it's never happened. That's the first. I mean, you're essentially that you just took my ass flower, so I don't want to go back and have that embarrassing thing again. I'm triggered so Ron Wolfley can yell at me all I want. Put the dress on. No, I'm not doing it. No. If my ass breaks, it stays broken. I'm doing all right. Everything keeps flowing. Your prostate might be a problem. I don't think so. My prostate is worn out. My prostate doesn't have time to get cancer. It's. It's being abused.

[Jim Jordan]

Taking. Taking breaths.

[John Holmberg]

My prostate is lucky. My prostate is like a. Like a professional wrestler. If you pulled it out and put it up next to my. It would just be standing there like a little action figure. Like I am. Worked regularly. There's an.

[Jim Jordan]

One of those Apple fitness trackers on your.

[John Holmberg]

That thing would be humming 10,000 steps. Yeah. They rank everybody on tonal. Like, there's thousands and tens of thousands of people on tonal. And you can look and see where you stand. Like, how my workouts are doing. Like, how many I've done. I'd be in the top three with the prostate. Tonal, I think I'm like 14,000th place on tonal. I'd be third if it was for prostate work. Because, man, and sometimes during a workout, I'm like, nah, let's put the prostate in on this for half of the. And then I'll get back to working out. Can't help it. I'm in soft shorts and starts rubbing around. I gotta do something about this. Prostate is fine. My doctor would probably finger me and hit the prostate. Oh, my finger would break his finger. What is that in there? Told you not to touch it. It's angry. So, yeah, I'm not doing that. But that was the closest I've come.

[Frankie]

That's handcuffs.

[Brett Vesely]

Oh, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, no. It'll grab. It'll bite. It'll break your finger. Right? And have she comes back in the bones. Told you, man. Letting me go. Dude's a monster. I wouldn't mess with him. But that was as close as I've come to a prostate exam. I'm with you on that. Yeah. There was the manscaped one was gross. There was a couple others.

[Frankie]

Bud Light keg rolling. Deal with it.

[John Holmberg]

I skipped it.

[Frankie]

And then I didn't see. I saw it beforehand. But the Budweiser ad where The Clydesdale.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And the Eagle. That was awesome. That was so redneck cool. Like, there was something so incredibly.

[Frankie]

That's amazing.

[John Holmberg]

Merc. White trash awesome. About a Bud Heavy having an implied sales come over and rescue baby Eagle. It's like, my God, Pegasus. Is him off of his bag.

[Alex Jones]

Like, oh, my God.

[John Holmberg]

An eagle riding a horse. I am in heaven. That was so cool.

[Jim Jordan]

What about the waste of money Coinbase did.

[John Holmberg]

Which one was that?

[Frankie]

It was just.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Brett Vesely]

It was the Backstreet Boys karaoke.

[Jim Jordan]

Brett and I were like, is the DJ doing this?

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[Frankie]

Until at the end, you're like, what?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I didn't. I didn't get that one. Brett pointed out the Cliff Booth movie from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The trailer for that looked like that was the thing that I'm probably walking away going, that has my attention more than all the rest. There was a couple.

[Frankie]

I thought the Mandalorian. I think it's Netflix, was like a. Is that a joke?

[John Holmberg]

It's a movie, right?

[Frankie]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

It's gonna be a movie, too. Yeah. I. You know, I've got a few. The Meta glasses. I wrote them down. The Meta glasses was good. The exploding head energy drink from Liquid Death was like, all right, that's clever. But I didn't think it was super bowl great.

[Brett Vesely]

The Doritos even Have a commercial this year.

[John Holmberg]

I didn't notice.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah, I didn't either, because usually they're one of the big ones.

[John Holmberg]

Toyota pissed me off because they had those kids talking.

[Frankie]

Miss that one. I remember seeing a dog drinking Red Bull, going crazy.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah, that was a good one. I also liked that Kendall Jenner admits that her vagina's poison. She basically is.

[Brett Vesely]

I missed that.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, no. It's a great one for bet. Fan for betting. And she goes, you know, a lot of people say, I've dated a lot of guys in the NBA, and usually after they're with me, they're cursed. They're cursed. And she goes, so basically, my vagina's poison. I can make the. I can go bang a guy and ruin it and go on unders. And so basically she's like, you think I can afford all this from modeling? And she's getting on a plane. And so, like, I go and put my poison vagina. She didn't say this, but paraphrasing, put my poison vagina on a pro athlete. And then he caves and you can start betting against him. And she played along with it. And I was like, that's pretty awesome to admit. Your vagina is absolute poison.

[Jim Jordan]

Pretty good in your ad. Follow me for more gambling tips.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And she's like, look, if I'm banging them, they're not gonna play well, so I'm poison. And then we get into the big one, and yes, Brett, you just printed it.

[Brett Vesely]

There's like seven of those emails asking your opinion on it because.

[John Holmberg]

Well, yeah, the way I was presented this one just on an email, was, see the commercial with you in it? Like, what said you as a kid? It's like, you. You have hair, and you open up your locker and it says, dirty Jew. I'm like, oh, God, what are you going? He goes, I couldn't. I couldn't watch the rest of it because I thought of Brett, and I started laughing the whole time. I'm like, that's an anti Semitic, Semitic, like, against that. But then at the end, a black guy comes on and goes, I know.

[Frankie]

I got you.

[John Holmberg]

Like, don't do that. That was just uncomfortable. And I know it's supposed to be, but I'm not. I mean, you see the words dirty Jew, and you're like, oh, no, this is not gonna go a good direction. This can't possibly be uplifting in the end, can it? Then the little blue square comes on, and then, like, you know, Drew Ski pops up and says, I got your back, man. We good.

[Alex Jones]

I'm like, no, no, no, no.

[John Holmberg]

Don't bring the blacks into this. We've got. Let's keep all this separate for a second.

[Jim Jordan]

By the way, I've. I've looked for the blue square. I don't know where it is.

[John Holmberg]

What do you mean?

[Jim Jordan]

On your phone?

[Frankie]

It's hashtag.

[John Holmberg]

We have it. It's on all of our phones.

[Jim Jordan]

Supposed to be on. That's how you use it. You're supposed to be able to text it and use it and post it.

[John Holmberg]

But you're saying it comes with your phone.

[Jim Jordan]

I think it's part of the emoji pack, but I haven't found it.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, all right.

[Brett Vesely]

We can't even figure out our online context. We're never going to be able to figure that out.

[John Holmberg]

I have to take pictures of emojis and then. And then crap it. Well, then get bigger, because I don't know which one it is.

[Frankie]

Wait.

[John Holmberg]

Somebody sent me one the other day that I thought was a thank you, and I don't know what it was, but it like a surprise. And I looked, and I'm like, is this. And then I had to look it up, so I spent like, 20 minutes online. Like, what does this emoji mean? And it was pleading, and I don't know what that means, and I don't know why you would ever write that. And then it also says cuteness. And, like, I don't know what this is.

[Jim Jordan]

Someone sent you cuteness.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know what it meant. It had, like, nine meetings, but it's just. And I'm like, okay. Because I didn't know which one it was. There's too many. It was a very sweet message. It was nice to say thank you. As, you know, Frankie and my doggie and all. That was a nice thing. But then that was on there. I'm like, is that. Is that crying? It's like, no, no. It's saying thank you in a very nice way. But I don't know. I don't know any of it works. But, yeah, the Dirty Jew commercial was not. That was one of those. Oh, geez, I feel terrible.

[Frankie]

10 million bucks a throw on a commercial.

[John Holmberg]

I know. And that's just to buy it. That's not even production. That's crazy. Yeah. I didn't walk away screaming that anything was great. The Dunkin Donuts one will get a lot of attention. It was okay. Serena Williams isn't fat anymore. She's got muscles. I thought that was good.

[Frankie]

Chris Hemsworth had the idea.

[John Holmberg]

I like that one. I Like when he wrestled the bear for no reason. That was pretty good.

[Frankie]

He just chucked Serena Williams. Did you like.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I already said. Brady. Oh, what's the matter with you? I just said it like the sentence before.

[Frankie]

There's a battle of the GLP too, because there was a lot of.

[John Holmberg]

A lot of fat pills. The Benson Boone one with Ben Stiller, everybody lost their minds on. That was just slapstick comedy. It was fine. I still don't really know what Instacart got out of that, outside of. There was some good stuff, though. And then the kids that were talking about retirement also made me mad. I don't like kid talking commercials. Yeah, I'm trying to find one. I think the Jurassic park one was the best. William Shatner, that was the other one where he did the. But that. That came out on the Internet a couple days earlier. But Shatner doing the. The Will Shad on the car. And they played the play on words about fiber or whatever. I don't even know what it was for, but I don't think I saw that. Yeah, it was a good one. And William Shatner running around. Everybody's like, will Shad is on the. Will Shat on the car. And they just point at him and there's Shatner standing on the thing. And then he jumps into the. He's in a buffalo tailgate.

[Frankie]

It was a cereal.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it was like a fiber thing for cereal. Yeah. He's. You know.

[Frankie]

And that's when the. When it was being filmed. Someone had a picture of him early on.

[John Holmberg]

Well, eating cereal in the car.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[Frankie]

And they're saying, oh, controversial. But it was all part of the.

[John Holmberg]

All part of the plan. Catch him, put it out there, act like it was an accident. So, yeah, I don't know. It was.

[Jim Jordan]

People are showing solidarity with you because there's. You can have the Star of David and the Menorah emojis on your phone.

[John Holmberg]

That's what those are. Yep. Anyway, I just don't like the. I don't like. Anti. Semitism is no good. We all know that. But during the super bowl, seeing that and then hearing people giggle because they did. When. Because it's uncomfortable. I laugh. I laugh. You definitely laugh at uncomfortable things. That one was extra uncomfortable. When you see the words Dirty jew on a 200 inch screen at a bar and you hear. It's like, everybody's just uncomfortable. No, nobody's. Nobody's, like taking. Everybody, calm down. Take this in. You're all like, we're all drinking and you're eating and having a good time. And then you see that and somebody's going to giggle. There's going to be. There's a Brett in every super bowl party that's going to break the silence of the discomfort of the racist commercial and go. And they're, oh, he's horrible. And then you. And all the attention turns towards us being. Thank you for hitting that release valve. Visit Holmberg's morning sickness online at 98kupd.com Holmberg's Morning Morning sickness. But when the brother came on at the end, he's like, yeah, I got you. I've been there, man. Like, you've never been called a dirty Jew. You have a whole new commercial. We can't write the words down on your locker. Whole world would explode. Basically, I'm asking the question, who's moved? Who's racist and watches a commercial and goes, oh, yeah, I'm not going to do that anymore. Who are they aiming that at? Like, if you're. If you're about to write dirty Jew on a kid's locker, don't. The commercial says it's bad.

[Frankie]

It might have cut down. Might have cut down the bully.

[Alex Jones]

Think.

[John Holmberg]

You think it worked. You think it was effective to the kid who hates Jews to go, well, that commercial made me really think. And then there's that black guy at the end of the.

[Jim Jordan]

Can I put this into perspective for you? David Vasquez just texted in the blue square.

[Brett Vesely]

Sanjay just texted it over to me, too.

[John Holmberg]

It becomes almost a laugh point because you don't want it to be. You don't want that much discomfort surrounding. We all know people are bad. You don't need a commercial to go, you shouldn't be. We know. And the ones who don't know don't know with or without advertising. What am I supposed to do with that? Nobody. Horrible.

[Jim Jordan]

No.

[John Holmberg]

You know, we're not going to stop the next Hitler by going, that commercial moved me. I used to hate the Jews. It's not going to be a thing. There's got to be a better way. It's called parenting, I think. And parents who raise kids who write dirty Jew on a locker, they're gonna make that commercial a joke at their house. They get loans.

[Frankie]

Sometimes they really need loans. Buy houses. You know, all this SNL will be doing trill.

[John Holmberg]

No, they won't. They won't touch it. No, they won't touch it. But it's. Yeah. What was the Mike Tyson one? I didn't hear that one.

[Larry Mack]

Yeah, it was.

[John Holmberg]

He was talking about something and I'm like, all right. I don't know. I was giving prizes away. Oh, that was. That was one about being fat. Yeah, that was. Yeah. He was screaming like, OVI or something. Like, knock it off. Be skinny. Knock off being.

[Frankie]

So he ate a ton of ice cream. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You don't have to be fat anymore. That's basically what it was. Yeah.

[Frankie]

He got up to 345 pounds.

[John Holmberg]

Tyson did.

[Frankie]

That's what he said on the commercial.

[John Holmberg]

He was 345. He's 5 10. We'd have noticed. 345. That's Ralphie size.

[Frankie]

Ralphie was.

[John Holmberg]

Ralphie got under 400 for a little while and he never looked. Really?

[Frankie]

I don't know.

[John Holmberg]

About 345 is ridiculous. And see, this is what I get now, my emails. I got like seven in a row that say Jew commercial.

[Frankie]

This is.

[Larry Mack]

It did nothing.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And why not run that during the Turning Point event? That would have been more effective.

[Jim Jordan]

Yes, you would think so.

[John Holmberg]

Like, if that's what you're worried about, there's your audience. You know, I don't know. Dave Chappelle hates him. Right. I mean, maybe he should have been.

[Jim Jordan]

In it and forever. Like, a bunch of people were texting in that. The Turning Point thing was just a big ad. Like, they ran text. I'm like, so did Bad Bunny.

[John Holmberg]

Everything's a bit. That was.

[Dick Toledo]

That was all to 10.

[Jim Jordan]

Turn you on to his Apple music store. And like you said 700 times, his normal download.

[John Holmberg]

I. I don't know if anybody understands that. If you're watching it on tv, it's an ad.

[Jim Jordan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

No matter what it is, everything is. Yeah.

[Brett Vesely]

NFL is a business.

[John Holmberg]

It's all a business. Everything's a business. You don't buy to, you know, expressing it.

[Frankie]

I am.

[John Holmberg]

And what's the goal with the blue square? Are we supposed to send money?

[Jim Jordan]

I don't know. Does it automatically send money?

[Frankie]

Just awareness.

[John Holmberg]

I'm aware of people who are. We've all.

[Jim Jordan]

We've gone over awareness and many things before.

[John Holmberg]

What am I supposed to do with that awareness?

[Frankie]

Just knock it off before you.

[John Holmberg]

But I wasn't doing that. We're not doing it. So I guess I don't need that. I'm not running around writing dirty Jew on people's stuff. I was raised right. My dad, like, don't write dirty Jew on things. I'm like, really? And that was never a conversation.

[Alex Jones]

Are you sure, dad?

[John Holmberg]

Like, I really like writing Dirty Jew on things. Well, don't do it.

[Brett Vesely]

Oh, man.

[John Holmberg]

Come on. You ruin all the fun. He's like, well, I'm just trying to do the right thing by you. Never. And the kids who wrote Dirty Jew had parents that high fived them when they got home. This is more than just a commercial. Do a commercial that says, man, you people suck your kids, everything sucks. Let's bully back. Don't make the thing about not doing the Jewish. Let's turn and just have Jews going, hey, you redneck. Piles of. Start writing on their lockers.

[Jim Jordan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Instead of acting like victims, turn around and go, if somebody wrote Dirty Jew in my locker, I'm gonna kick everybody's ass until I find who did it. Go full like, you know, was that the Mossad Go nuts in that. Israeli army goes Krav Maga. Everybody's ass to the ground until you find the kid who wrote Dirty Jew. That's how it should be portrayed. We're sick of it. We're not gonna tolerate it anymore. We're gonna go on you like you're Hamas. And we got the black guys on our side now at the end, the black's like, yeah, man, we're sick of it, too. He's like, all right, here we go.

[Frankie]

Sit back. My buddy from college, he's Jewish. It's his birthday, and it was my birthday. We're on the basis a day apart. We had birthdays very close together. I'm fat and he's Jewish. And I go, hey, it's Fat Tuesday.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. All right, well, that's great.

[Frankie]

He laughed.

[John Holmberg]

Sure. Because it's a fun joke.

[Jim Jordan]

It's a circular way to get around.

[John Holmberg]

I'm fat, he's Jewish. Tuesdays on Fox.

[Jim Jordan]

I hate you, Brady.

[John Holmberg]

No, that's a good one. It's a good joke. Good jokes are still good. Jews appreciate that. They're funny people. They just don't like showing up to work with the word dirty Jew written on the door. I mean, that's basically what the commercial taught me. This one says, there's a Jew commercial. I passed that one over. Okay, That's enough. See, it doesn't do anything. It makes people worse. Turn around. And you know what it should have been? Is that kid gets that this would have been better. Kid gets to the locker, sees Dirty Jew written on it. They show his eyes, they light on fire, and he's just hellfire through the entire school. And then he's standing at the end.

[Jim Jordan]

Just breathing sparks him like he's one of the boys.

[John Holmberg]

Just bodies everywhere. And it's like. And then it just says, don't mess with the Jews and that's it. And then blue square. That, and the blacks are like, Jesus Christ. Okay, I got you, brother. I just. I just thought it was weird. Of course, I'm. The commercial's not gonna change you if you're a Nazi. That's. I feel bad about. No, you're not. Turn it up.

[Brett Vesely]

Turning in my swastika right now.

[John Holmberg]

Turn it up a notch. Yeah, yeah. It's a thing. Anyway, I'm getting all these people joking, says they should fight back. That's what I'm saying. Jiu jitsu. No, no, no. It's a karabaga. We're not doing that. Anyway, Super Bowl's over. Phoenix Open is over. Everybody get out. Spring training's coming up next.

[Jim Jordan]

How did the Open do? Was it huge on par?

[John Holmberg]

It was good. Good. Good pun. Yeah, it was a monster finish. Would have been very exciting if people didn't have their eye on something else, but, man, oh, man.

[Jim Jordan]

Somebody asked if Tripp was going to come to the super bowl party last night. And I'm like, no, I think he's still on the green. And it's not over.

[John Holmberg]

He went every day. Yeah, that dude was. He worked it at the Open this weekend. He was there every day. I was there Friday. We stayed till the sun went down, hanging out, and it was fun. Kevin Ray and we went back up to 18 and started messing around with those. The gang from Toyota. And it was fun. It was a good group.

[Frankie]

Pros were out working. The men at the club I went.

[John Holmberg]

To, you know, I kind of found it disappointing as far as it seemed this year to be more of a let's just stand around and see what happens crowd. Like, I think it's now it's no longer an active group. It's just stand and drink group and then kind of look around and take pictures of yourself. Like, it was very boring. Although busy, you know. You know when you go to a place and there's just hundreds of people and they're just standing there waiting for one person to go, alright, here's what we're doing. There was nothing really going on. Nobody watches golf at all.

[Frankie]

And then most backs I've seen turned.

[John Holmberg]

Towards, oh, my God, there's nobody watching. A couple of places I went, and I'm like, it's just a fun place to be, but it's just more just like everybody sitting around waiting for something good to happen. And there's not a lot. There's not a lot to do.

[Jim Jordan]

Does everybody just fight to be on 16?

[John Holmberg]

No, there's 40 different places you can go now. 16 is awesome, but it's, I mean, it's three levels. Greenskeeper's amazing.

[Jim Jordan]

Oh, it's in my time here, that.

[John Holmberg]

Thing has gotten Bay Club, 18, 17. There's, there's place. There's tons of stuff going on. But I was, I was kind of like on Friday, I'm like, everybody seems to be like waiting for an activity, but it's a great event. We, we house a great event. Now everybody go home. What do you got on the big board of musical treats here? While we still go with the word raw on our app, Click on the sweet that feeds, Download the KUPD app, get on that thing and throw the word raw in. You've got 22 minutes to do that. We'll give you another word at 8 o' clock and you might be in the suite for nine inch nails just packed full of food and fun and get you up there. That is the first of many things we're going to be handing out for no reason whatsoever. Just wait for the next thing. My God, we got a big boy coming up in a week or so. This one's great, but this is just a basic radio giveaway. Wait until you hear the next one. We're going to keep doing it. 25th anniversary of the show. So we're taking credit for everything that gets given away on the station as if we had something to do with it. On this podcast or the podcast. Yes, podcast. This podcast is going strong. It's huge. What do you got? Right on the list.

[Brett Vesely]

Allison Chains, Chevelle, Volbeat, Kid Rock, of course, American Badass, Megadeth. Peace sells for all the gingers out there. The fix. Red skies at night for the gingers. But we had tons of emails for 3Doors down because Brad Arnold passed away this weekend.

[John Holmberg]

It was huge, big news. He's 47 years old. Made me realize also that 3 Doors down had their success. He was 20. Yeah, like 99, 2000. Same. When I saw he was 47, I'm like, I played those songs at the other station. So that was at least 25 years ago. Found out it was late 99, early 2000, when Kryptonite. Yeah. And a couple. And I'm like, my God, that guy was 21, 22 years old when this hit. Wrote it when he was 20. And those are some heady songs for a 20 year old kid to write.

[Brett Vesely]

You know the hits that they had too.

[John Holmberg]

Smash it. You don't even realize how good it was. I went back and listened. Just. I was Playing basketball and put it in my meta glasses and just started. I'm like. I don't remember all, like, Citizen Soldier and things like that, where it was kind of half hits, but you still knew it, but prolific. Like, they wrote a lot of songs and a lot of hits.

[Brett Vesely]

So I saw them on their last tour through, I think, when they were opening up for Shinedown, and they were great.

[John Holmberg]

You said that.

[Comedy Announcer]

You said this was just a hit.

[John Holmberg]

Factory one after the next.

[Brett Vesely]

You just knew every song they were playing.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Not My Time Is the. I think that's a great song. That's a banger.

[Frankie]

When we went to Vegas and saw Shined down, who was the opening band? Was that Three Doors Down?

[John Holmberg]

No, no, I didn't get there.

[Brett Vesely]

We got. I got there late, too. It wasn't them on that one.

[John Holmberg]

It's a great. I mean, they were. That's a great one. And he passed away from cancer. I think he announced it a year ago in May. Stage four. It's not good. Yeah. So Three Doors Down. We'll do a little Three Doors down for you. I got an email from a guy, says, how about this marketing plan? Kid walks up to his locker, sees that filth written on it, and then they show him at home and he just starts plotting. Gets his dad's credit card, which I'm sure he could, and then he starts buying stuff. He goes, the next day, he's got all these packages wrapped, and he's just handing out packages to all the students. They all open it up like, what's this? He buys them all beepers. And then later. Yes, yes. That'll show em. Show em fighting back. You need to see. I like that one. Nice job, Michael. Good plan, but the eye of the Jew from Beer Fest. Remember he got the little Star of David in his eye and he'd get mad and then he couldn't. It was undefeatable. It's kryptonite from Three Doors Down. This was a sad one. Got lost a couple people this weekend, too. The guy, one of the guitarists from Cake died, and then somebody from Blondie. 70s 80s disco, weird band, Blondie. So it was like a strange little triad there within a day. But this is a good one. It's kryptonite. We'll go with this for Brad from 3 Doors Down. 47. That's too young. It's 98 KUPD. It's not weird.

[Frankie]

It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fees.

[John Holmberg]

I have heard enough of this.