02-17-25 - Loved The USA/Canada 4 Nations Hockey Game - Watching SNL 50 Feeling It Went A Bit Too Long - Concussion May Have Had John Blacking Out While Driving - John Saw An Absolutely Wrecked Transvestite In Scottsdale

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona: Episode Summary (02-17-25)

Overview On February 17, 2025, Arizona's #1 Morning Radio Show, Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD, delivered a dynamic episode featuring host John Holmberg alongside co-hosts Brady Bogan, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo. The episode navigated a variety of topics ranging from national sports events and entertainment specials to personal anecdotes and critiques of the radio and sports industries.

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1. President's Day and Banking Discussions

Timestamp: 00:00 – 02:21

The show kicked off with a discussion about President's Day, questioning the rationale behind banking holidays. John Holmberg expressed skepticism about the efficiency of banks remaining closed, pondering the distribution of money if banks were not operational. Brady Bogan humorously suggested that perhaps "Doge" (likely referencing Dogecoin or a similar entity) could intervene.

Notable Quote:

• John Holmberg: "If you're going to put in the bank and they're not going to work, they're not going to mind it." (01:30)

2. Jamie Dimon's Memo and Work-from-Home Policies

Timestamp: 02:23 – 06:38

The hosts delved into Jamie Dimon's recent memo to bank employees, criticizing the shift back to in-office work. Holmberg highlighted Dimon's stance against work-from-home arrangements, emphasizing the CEO's push for employees to either return to the office or seek employment elsewhere. This sparked a broader conversation about the impact of such policies on employee well-being and productivity.

Notable Quote:

• John Holmberg: "He tells every employee, 'Work from home, stay home. Go yourselves.'" (04:00)

3. USA/Canada 4 Nations Hockey Game Analysis

Timestamp: 06:38 – 21:41

A significant portion of the episode was dedicated to analyzing the USA vs. Canada 4 Nations Hockey Game. Holmberg and Brady Bogan discussed the intense gameplay, including pre-game ceremonial tensions and on-ice altercations. They critiqued the game's physicality and the prevalence of three-point shots, expressing concerns that the sport's evolution was diminishing its traditional appeal.

Notable Quotes:

• Brady Bogan: "The ceremonial puck... there was a fight. Everything was a slap shot." (08:15)
• John Holmberg: "It's just a bunch of dudes shooting threes who can hit 16 out of 48 threes a game. Boring." (15:00)

4. NBA All-Star Game Critique

Timestamp: 21:41 – 29:35

The hosts turned their attention to the NBA All-Star Game, criticizing the new format of multiple short games and the overall entertainment value. They highlighted Charles Barkley's and Draymond Green's candid conversation about the decline of basketball, with Barkley blaming the new generation for the sport's shortcomings. The discussion underscored a nostalgic longing for more traditional, physically demanding gameplay.

Notable Quote:

• John Holmberg: "The players say the game sucks, the commentators say the game sucks." (24:10)

5. Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special

Timestamp: 29:35 – 46:10

Holmberg and Bogan reviewed the 50th-anniversary special of Saturday Night Live, offering mixed feedback. While appreciating nostalgic elements and classic cast members' appearances, they critiqued the length and the inclusion of newer cast members, feeling that the show relied too heavily on past glory rather than innovating with fresh talent.

Notable Quote:

• John Holmberg: "It was inside. All the sketches felt like the cast was playing to the cast." (30:50)

6. Personal Anecdote: John Holmberg's Concussion

Timestamp: 46:10 – 37:09

John Holmberg shared a personal story about a recent concussion caused by his dog accidentally knocking him out. He recounted the symptoms and the confusion it caused during his daily routine, including moments of blacking out while driving. This segment added a personal touch to the show, highlighting Holmberg's resilience and humor in the face of adversity.

Notable Quote:

• John Holmberg: "I think that's me. I think that equates the exact same thing that happened to me." (34:02)

7. Radio Industry Critique

Timestamp: 37:09 – 43:39

The conversation shifted to the state of the radio industry, with both hosts expressing frustration over outdated management practices and a lack of innovation. They criticized the dominance of older generations in radio management, arguing that it has led to stagnation and a disconnect with younger audiences.

Notable Quote:

• Brady Bogan: "I'm the Draymond Green of radio. I go on and say, this product is a mess and I know who's doing it." (36:25)
• John Holmberg: "There's something really wrong with radio. And I know what it is. It's the people running it from on high in different cities." (39:00)

8. Encounter in Old Town: Controversial Discussion

Timestamp: 43:39 – End

In a more controversial segment, Holmberg recounted an unsettling encounter while biking in Old Town Scottsdale. He described following an individual whose appearance and behavior raised concerns, leading to a mix of humor and discomfort in his narrative. The discussion touched on public safety and societal perceptions, albeit with language that some may find offensive.

Notable Quote:

• John Holmberg: "Freshly ... wandering the streets of Old Town on a Sunday." (45:11)

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Conclusion This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness provided listeners with a blend of sports commentary, entertainment reviews, personal stories, and industry critiques. While the hosts maintained their trademark humor and candidness, some discussions ventured into sensitive territories, reflecting the show's aim to entertain, question, and challenge its audience.

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Disclaimer: This summary strives to present the content ethically and responsibly, addressing offensive language and sensitive topics with appropriate context.

Transcript

[John Holmberg]

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[Brady Bogan]

Who gets the money?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, we do. We're just saying if you're going to put in the bank and they're not going to work, they're not going to mind it. Today we got to keep our own. We're not going to earn today. We're going to double up tomorrow. Don't fight me on this. We get it, but. Yeah, I just. It's President's Day. Everybody should get the day off. We have presidents. How come they get the day off and some people do and some people don't? How come some people celebrate presidents and some don't? And don't racist. Email me. The whole reason why is because of that Martin Luther. I understand we should get that day off to be an actual typical typical way. That's exactly right. But if you're going to typical me and I'm saying The bank should. The bank should never be closed, if you're asking me. Anyway, it's President's Day, so if you have to work today, phone it in. Barely get there.

[Brady Bogan]

Maybe Doge can step in on this.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we could get another day off since they're saving so much Doge money. I like what that Jamie Dimon did this weekend. He sent out a memo to everybody who works for whatever bank he's in charge of. Chase. I don't know. I don't know which one he does, but he's basically in the. In the emails. Like, hey, you faces. You've milked this long enough. You're coming to work. And if you don't want to come to work anymore, then you don't work here anymore. You don't have to work for my bank. Go work somewhere else. But no more work from home. You're not doing anything. Damn. It was. It's a great email if you read it. And it's from, like, this dude's like the CEO, Banking CEO Superman. But this email is so worth it because he basically tells every employee, hey, work from home, Stay home, Go yourselves. Like, all right, finally, somebody's putting it down. He goes, this is the way I do my business. I'm not gonna get bullied by the employees anymore saying that their mental health is at risk because they don't get to come to work. How. How will I watch my kids? I don't know. That's what I pay you to figure out. I give you money, you live your life. It was. I'm against it because I think today is a work from home day for almost everybody. In fact, shouldn't work at all. Today, on the heels of last night, had a lot going on this weekend. And my favorite thing that happened this weekend was kind of snuck up on everybody that Canada, USA Hockey. Oh, I saw that. Oh, is there anything better? It's the last of the international. Like, oh, my God, I can't wait for these two. It was when we used to battle Russia in the Olympics, and it was like, oh, you watch Canada and the United States play hockey together. You are going to be entertained the entire every minute. Pre and post. They booed the national anthem so hard in Canada that it, like, sent chills down your spine. Isn't it, like the whole. And, hey, hand it to Canada. They weren't wrong. They want to stay a country. We keep saying we're going to make a mistake. They're a little bit mad at us right now. I get it. So they booed us. They have every right to do that. It's not like when Americans boo the anthem. That's worse. Canada can boo our anthem. They can be pissed at us. But America said, all right, you gonna boo us, we're gonna kick your ass. Drop the puck. Nine or what was it? First nine. Some sort of guys were fighting in three minutes. They had fights like crazy. Like, drop the puck. The ceremonial puck. There was a fight. Everything was a slap shot. It was. It was to start the whole thing off. It's like this. And it was just amped up from there. It was incredible. I love seeing it. It was awesome. And then passion, you know? Yeah. USA goes off and beats him in Canada. To all the booze parades around the ice at the end with their sticks up. Oh, it was incredible. And a game they invented, too. It's our 51st state's game. I think they should play hockey to determine whether or not they're a state or a country. And every year we have to renew it. I think that's awesome. That was the best. And then the NBA All Star game happened last night. Even better. Charles Barkley sat there and bashed at the entire. They had that new format where there were three or four games going on. You had a round robin tournament with nobody's playing and rising stars. It was terrible. I was just gonna ask, what do you think about this? Because I heard a lot of people. It was even the players. Afterwards, Trey Young came out and said, this was a joke. What a terrible mess. Draymond Green and Charles Barkley had the greatest conversation of all time. I have to handle to you there, Draymond. Your generation has ruined basketball. It's over. It's dead. And Draymond's like, well, why? And he's like, you're the one saying it. I don't agree with him too often, but when he says that, he gets it right. He said, this game sucked this week. He said, the game's terrible. He said, the game boring. And he. Right. And then Draymond was like, well, I don't know if it's that. Like, he started to pull back just a little. And Charles was just, why do we have these players in the altar? Go play the All Star game. You get one game, 35 minute now. Nobody can play more than this, get 40 points. Everybody takes a break. It's not basketball. And then Draymond's like, you're right. This isn't basketball. This is a joke.

[Brady Bogan]

And then Mac McClung, and then Matt.

[John Holmberg]

McClung comes out and wins for the third straight here in Saturday night in the dunk contest. But basketball is just all but ruined right now because of the way these guys are treating the game. And they are not holding back. The players say the game sucks, the commentators say the game sucks. And once again, leave it to me. I could fix it in one move. No more zone defense. The game started to suck when they brought in the zone defense. I don't. It's been a while now. Zone defense sucks in the pros. These guys should go man to man like they used to back in the day when the game was fun, when everyone loved thousands. Yeah, you'd get tough teams. You'd get. Think of what you had. You had the Celtics and the Pistons and the Knicks in the east beating the crap out of each other. They had to build teams to compete against that physical play. In the west you had Golden State, the Lakers, the Suns, Portland, I mean all these teams, Houston, they were unbelievably finesse based teams because they had to compete with the Lakers in the West. So when the worlds would collide, it was the best basketball had to offer. Usually it was a team completely different. Like the west would come running in there, fast breaks, dunks, all that. And the east was just like, we're going to kick your ass for the full 48. It's happening now. It's just a bunch of dudes shooting threes who can hit 16 out of 48 threes a game. Boring. Take away the zone defense immediately, the game improves immediately. Now it'll take a couple of years because those Euros are going to hate it. Hand checking and boxing out and all that stuff. Can't do it. But if you watched any of that last night, you were, you were quick to the trigger with your remote control on getting it out of there. And I think most people probably end up settling on the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary, which was way too long. But you know, nostalgia pretty good. Oh, they hit it hard. Six to nine. 33 and a half hours of Saturday Night Live. Now as a huge fan of Saturday Night Live through a lot of its years, especially growing up, that was mandatory for me to watch that. They've never had a full 90 minute show. That's good. Most of the time the last two, three sketches are like, oof, man. You're struggling to stay with it to go three and a half hours despite having like every cast member that you'd ever want to see on there. Meh. Eh. It's still too many sketches. They couldn't get her done. And then it all seemed like kind of an inside joke joke, you know, like it was just all the audience were old cast members or dignitaries of Saturday Night Live, like people who had hosted a million times or hosted at all music, musical acts. David Letterman was there, you know, had all sorts of great names, but it was. Nicholson was there. Nicholson was there to introduce Adam Sandler. And he looked pretty good, actually. And they've all said he's been dying for years. And he threw out the introduction. And that was. I was happy to see that. And I heard him this morning starting KTR's thing. So it's still. He's still getting her done. Did you hear ladonna this morning talking about how babies don't like her? I don't know. Sharp, the. Sharp's like, my daughter loves babies and babies, like. Yeah. And he's scared to death. Ladonna, whatever's going on at ktar, I think he's being held hostage. I don't watch their live video feed, but if somebody does take the time today, later today, watch the KTR morning news video feed and see if Sharp's blinking out Morse code. If he needs help. I think he might. My daughter love. My daughter loves. She's only nine, but she loves babies. They were talking about a hospital that wants volunteers to hold babies. I don't know why parents aren't there. Sometimes the parents can't be there. I'm like, where are they? They just had a baby. It's in the nicu. So they have to, you know, hang on to the babies for a lot longer. They're working, right. They just left it because it's in the. You know, it's in the incubators. It's one of the. It's one of the. It's like Corey Thriller Walsh. It dropped out way too early. My new theory on preemies. Slut. Mom, I'm not a doctor, but I just assume your boxes, too. It just. There's no clinch em ups. It's like Brady when he talks about having to poop. You just have to go, and it just falls out of him. And I don't understand why you can't. Same with a pregnant lady can't. She's got no kegel. So it comes out once. It gets a little heavy. So they go over to the NICU and they're asking for volunteer. Sharp says, my daughter would do it. She's only nine. She loves babies. My. My best bet is to stay away from baby Sharp. Why? Why is that? Ladonna I find that they don't care for me. You see, I lactate truth. Babies don't like reality. And it seeps out of my nipples like no tomorrow. They have a sip of that. It's like the ayahuasca of reality. You're not a cute baby. Don't believe the hype.

[Brady Bogan]

Here's Adam Sandler.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Anyway, did you see me last night? Sharp. I got to introduce Sandler. Ladonna Harvey's got two gigs. I'm looking at your cans right now, Sharp. I bet you you could feed a nation. Yeah. We'll be right back with more. There's John Roller. Roller's a sissy. Get out in the roads and be a may and report live from the freeway. Thank God I'm not in studio out here, scared to death that Ladonna in there. Stand in the road Roller, and give me a goddamn report I can respect.

[Brady Bogan]

Be great even if she talks. Third party, too. You give Ladonna Ladonna.

[John Holmberg]

Harvey wants you out in the streets. And if you're not out there, I don't trust your reports. Camera boy, there they are right there. You pulled it up. Starts watching TV or something. Madonna, Harvey. LA from New York. Anyway, it's a danger news, me, fat man. Anyway, John Holmberg's morning sickness. The 98K U PD Holmberg's morning sickness. So I heard her talking about that. It was cool to see Jack last night on snl and then most of the stuff was fine, but it seemed all like an inside deal. Like they were all singing to each other about, like, how hard it, you know, the Everybody's Got Anxiety bit was all for the cast members and the staff, like, saying we can all relate everything kind of felt inside. I love the John Mulaney stuff, but, I mean, that was. Even inside. All of it was sort of the cast playing to the cast. And all, I thought to myself was in a room with that many funny people. The annoying meter is going to go up to a 10, really, really fast. I mean, if you've got Molly Shannon, Sherry O'Terry, Will Ferrell, all the. I mean, Spade. Keenan, Keenan, Keenan, yeah. Keenan Thompson. Well, he's always there, right? Yeah, yeah. Everybody trying to be hilarious and droves like that with Letterman and, you know, it would. It would be a one upsmanship contest that would just. Were there any notables missing other than the ones that aren't here? Dan Aykroyd wasn't there. Oh, he wasn't. I don't know why. I don't think. I think he's so fat, he doesn't want to be in public. And said he was going to be there. No. And then. Was it a review? Eddie was there. He did a couple of sketches. Yeah, he did a Tracy Morgan impression. And then I think with Tracy Morgan.

[Brady Bogan]

That was kind of funny.

[John Holmberg]

It's all right. I didn't think his impression was very good, but it's all right. And then the thing he did with the prison was kind of fun. Chevy and Bill there. Chevy was there. Bill Murray did some stuff. Yeah, it was really. It was fun to watch because it was more nostalgia. There were a couple moments like it opened up with some incredibly hot looking. Sabrina Carpenter, who. I don't normally find that, but she. And at the end of the show, whatever she was wearing was knockout punch.

[Brady Bogan]

Someone showed Lorne Michaels was just hanging out.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. He just grabbed hold of her. But it opened with Sabrina and Paul Simon, who did Homeward Bound. And he hadn't done it on that show since 75. And so. And she had a great line. She said, I wasn't born yet, neither were my parents. And so they did it together. And I thought it was like a. It wasn't most uplifting thing, but I thought it set the tone for, like, this is a nostalgic night. And I thought it was really cool to see Paul Simon, you know, that's it. We're not gonna see Paul Simon singing much more. It was pretty impressive.

[Brady Bogan]

And I thought that it was kind of a weird start, but I understand the whole, you know, this was the first.

[John Holmberg]

Well, it wasn't the first song on the show, but it was the first. I mean, Paul Simon hadn't. That was. First time he did that.

[Brady Bogan]

His head. To get him early because he wants to sit down.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, well, it was. He's old. And it showed. Paul McCartney too, at the end is. You know. But Paul's been unable to sing for a while. But all in all, it was just one of those things where you felt like, ah. And I had the. The honor, for no reason whatsoever, of Lovett's texting me from the show. Why me? I don't know.

[Brady Bogan]

From the American Girls Cafe.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he was in this. He was in the audience. He sent me a. But I said, said, how dare you? After I resurrect your career, you don't even say my name on the red carpet. It slipped my mind. And then I just, you know, I thought that would be the end of it. And then he's texting me the whole night. I'm like, don't you have any friends there? Work? Yeah. Don't you have anybody to talk to? Lovets? I'm busy with celebrities. Leave me alone. I'm like, you're texting me. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, I did like the idea that they did a tribute to sketches that were that aged poorly. I thought that was funny. They had a lot of great moments. Then you realize how iconic that show is and how even the bad years and the cast members that stank, you'd see a few of them in there, like, wow, there's Alex Moffat. And, like, you see a few guys that roll through. There's been a lot of people that have come through there that, you know, died on the vine that didn't do too much. And then, you know, they tried to highlight the new cast and that was.

[Brady Bogan]

Like, Julia Louise Dreyfus.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, she was in 80. Yeah, she was in the early 80s. I don't know. It just seemed like I didn't want to see any of the new cast. I get to see them every week. So for me, if I were to review it, I'm, like, a little heavy with the people who are currently on. Give me the. You got that room full of people. You're going to use Sarah Sherman, who I like, but, you know, she gets her chance next time the show's on. Maybe.

[Brady Bogan]

Because the other ones, the alumni, didn't really want to do it.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. Well, they'd had to stay all week and write and do whatever, so I don't know. Was Piscopo there? No. Wow. And I was waiting on that one. Bring Joe and Eddie back together and give Joe Piscopo some life. Yeah, but I think he's gone crazy deep.

[Brady Bogan]

Billy Crystal was there. They just showed him in the audience.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah, he was there at the original. He was one of the featured people for the very first episode, but didn't make the final cut and left. He wanted to be part of the show more and just ended up bailing. Came back in 84. So it's. Yeah, there were a lot of people there that you'd want to see more of, but. And, you know, I could watch Phil Hartman for three and a half hours. Everything he did, you know, a couple subtle mentions of Phil and that, but it was good. I just kind of thought to myself, with all those stars and everything else, why am I looking at Bobby Moynihan? Why is. Of all these. All the great characters that they could have brought back? Drunk Uncle, Really? I mean, you couldn't bring back Lovett's Was there. I guarantee you Lovett's would have done the liar. Guarantee you he didn't. Oh, no, he was. And it wasn't huge for a. It saved the show. In 1985, that show was cancelled if it wasn't for love. It's. It's. It's. Watch the documentary, the Weird Year in the snl. They have it all on Peacock or whatever. There's an hour and a half deal about the 1985 season, which is the weird year. It's the first year Lorne Michaels came back after leaving for five years. He was part of the first five years, left for five and then came back. And that was the year he came back and brand new cast, Lovett's was on it. Randy Quaid, Joan cusack, Robert Downey Jr. Anthony Michael Hall, a gay guy named Terry Sweeney. The show was. It was way off, way off. But it had moments that were sort of memorable. But at the end, they did this thing where they lit the whole building on fire. And Lauren smells smoke and goes, the building's on fire. He's like, yeah. He goes, all right, I'll be right back. Billy Martin actually was the one that lights the building on fire for being fired off. And he goes and grabs Lovett's and he says, come with me. So there's a problem. He goes, yeah, what about the other cast members? He goes, don't worry about it. And he just takes them out of there and he burns. The cast says, who will be back next year? Because they weren't sure there was going to be a next year. And it was Lovett saved the show. He was the only redeeming character in 85. Their ratings were gone. And so, yeah, I was surprised to see that he didn't get a little bit of something. And then I'm watching Bobby Moynihan and watching, you know, and maybe that's for the audience to sit back and go, all right, we're gonna go super nostalgic with the music because it was old and not a whole lot of the.

[Brady Bogan]

Musical guests, you know, was like, yeah, they're all right.

[John Holmberg]

It didn't wow me. I mean, Paul McCartney singing the concert is pretty cool. Yeah, that looked pretty great the night.

[Brady Bogan]

Before Post Malone fronted Nirvana.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they did Smells Like Teen Spirit. There's a lot of cool stuff on that. But anyway, it's 50. SNL is 50 years old. And I would wonder how many years of Saturday Night Live have actually been, like, good and say, probably got about 15, maybe it's pushing it. 16, 17, it is pushing it. It's. I mean the over under on it. There's been a lot of like just average to bad cast. And it's. And it's funny because you watch reruns, you're like, this doesn't age well. This show is not good. And then you'll see something brilliant like massive head wound, hairy or something like that. I didn't see Dana Carvey there last night. I wonder if he was Mike Myers. Mike Myers showed up and did a thing all of the.

[Brady Bogan]

They just did Dana Carvey mentioned in Black Jeopardy.

[John Holmberg]

Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. They enjoy Wayne's World thing or anything like that. And I don't think Mike Myers and him would do that together because evidently Mike Myers is.

[Brady Bogan]

Dana would be difficult.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. I think he's the one that doesn't like him. That's the key to that one, is that Dana's like this guy's. Mike Myers is evidently not the most liked guy in the room. He's tough to deal with. But that's maybe why Lovitz was texting me. Because Dana wasn't there and Phil's not there, obviously. But our generation of. Of like our heightened part of the Phil Hartman Lovett's Sandler that they were all kind of. They were present. And then Adam Sandler sang a song. It just felt very inside. It was fun to watch because it's nostalgia, but I think it leaned heavily on that and then gave me the new people.

[Brady Bogan]

Member berries when they reviewed all the commercials that they've done over the years.

[John Holmberg]

And there was that one.

[Brady Bogan]

Oh yeah, that's right.

[John Holmberg]

Their clips were great. Yeah. But three and a half hours when they've never put a 90 minute show together, that's only top to bottom good. They even make jokes about it. They had a joke early in one of the commercials was all the sketches after Update and they had a sleeping pill called After Update. That's basically like if you. If this doesn't put you to sleep, this will. Because all the sketches have to update. It's hard to stay awake. And it's true because the last 45 minutes of the show are usually like, yeah, let's just fill. But you got that. I don't know. Between that and the NBA All Star Game, you start to realize, I don't know that I'll ever be that entertained again. And I don't like living in nostalgia. I'm not one of those guys that I like it for a minute. But it's like, like when Again, I've talked about this a million times, but when people always say, oh, isn't it great when an old man wins a sporting event like a few years ago and Phil Mickelson won a major tournament at age 50 and I'm like, this sucks. I don't want 50 year olds winning professional sports. I do not. I don't want to see it because it's just, it's just this, it just proof that the sport has gone downhill to where a 50 year old can win. Tom Brady going till he's 45. Something was wrong. He's great, but something was wrong with the sport that makes it so these guys. And all it does is encourage dudes to stay longer. And Aaron Rodgers is a perfect example of that. And LeBron James still playing at a high level proves there's something wrong with basketball. You should not, of all the sports, you shouldn't still be really good at basketball at a professional level. At 40 you should be able to play still, but you can't go out, you know, 30, 10 and 10, you can't do it. It's just something's wrong with the game. Your knees should be buckling. After 22 years of that play, mentor.

[Brady Bogan]

Role, play a role playing person.

[John Holmberg]

Go out and be that 40 year old dude that's, you know, blown all his money and gets nine minutes a game. And you remember him and there's always been that, you know, Dave Cowan's and Bill Walton and those guys stuck around way too long for the love of the game. And they, they weren't starting anymore, they certainly weren't dominant. But they'll give you good minutes here and there. They're smart. You just watching LeBron and everybody's like, oh, isn't it amazing he's 40. I'm like, no, not really. The game sucks so bad, 40 year olds can dominate it. And he has no intention of slowing down. Why would he? They're not going to change it to be a more physical, harder game for him. It's going to be easier. He came into the league, he's a giant. And they're like, now nobody can touch anybody. Like, okay, well he's going to play forever then. This is dumb. So I'm not a big one for like remember this, remember that. I want things to be good now. I want like the next generation of players to dominate and make us forget about the old ones. Don Holmberg's morning sickness, the 98 KUPD, Holmberg's morning sickness. I don't like that stuff. I like thinking Back. You know, I live in the past with my Steelers because I have to for championships. But what I wouldn't give to have a. A whole new batch. Make us forget the old team. You know, Cardinal fans don't want to live in nostalgia either. I can imagine. Because that's just a cauldron of absolute Suns fans. Too much nostalgia. Last two years ago, they celebrated the 30th anniversary of a team that lost in the Finals. Still don't understand that. And the Cardinals will do that too. I think they're. We're closing in on their 20th anniversary of the team that lost the Super Bowl. But there'll be tributes. If they don't pull one off the next couple of years, you'll drag that team out onto the field. Remember this team that didn't quite get it done. Let's. Let's celebrate them all year. What a nightmare.

[Brady Bogan]

Launch the show.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Larry and Kurt and anyone else you can remember. Darnell, dark hat. Oh boy. I remember these guys. Didn't they lose the Super Bowl? Sure enough. Don't call. Don't know. They won the. They won the nfc. That's all we're celebrating. So. Yeah, nostalgia kind of stinks when it's. When it's over. When it's too much, you can think back. Enjoy yourself. Smell the. Smell the air. Go. Oh, fresh cut grass. Reminds me when I was a kid. And then get on with your life. But I don't like old people doing good things. I think old people need to go into their place, sit down and gotta stop dominant. It's radio. I mean we dominate radio because everybody else sucks. So it's not. Cause we're great at it anymore. Says I'm with you on 50 year olds being the best of things, John. That's how I know there's something wrong with. Andrew's right with me. Yeah, there's something really. Oh, where do you hear that the most? There's something really wrong with radio. And I know what it is. It's the people running it from on high in different cities. They don't know what they're doing. They're idiots. They've ruined every single cluster in every city and they sit consolidation. They act like there's something going on. Like they look if you look at it as a whole, if I'm an outsider looking at. And say wait, every city and radio is in trouble. Everyone. Yeah. There's little pockets that are doing right. We just can't figure out what's. And how long have you been doing your job As a vice president of whatever it is you're inter. Scopey. Calm eye chats. Oh, I've been doing this for 21 years. And in your time, you've seen the entire cluster that you're in charge of go into a demise that you can't explain. Yep, that's pretty accurate. Okay, well, I'm pretty sure I figured out what's going on. You've watched wait, every city you're in charge of is struggling? Uh huh. And you've been in this job for 24 years? Yeah, give or take. I've been with all of the market. I've ruined all of the, you know, big companies. I've been with all of them. And you seem to think it's the. The people on the air. Oh, most definitely that. Who else could be okay? Not your lack of foresight or your ability to groom talent or nothing. Yeah, there's a huge pro. Imagine if a sport stopped letting young people play because they were just not worth the risk. And they just went with the ones who won for a while and then kept hiring older ones. Like if the Sons kept going out and getting veterans of 12 and 15 years. And we're not going to get any rookies. We don't, we don't have time for that. Yankees were doing it for a while and they didn't win anything. It ruins things when you don't, like, bring up talent. If your farm system is zero, expect what you get. Yeah, no, I'm with you on that one. Good news is it's not a physical endeavor. And 50 year olds can still be funny, but not on the radio. No, no. Young people will be funny on the radio ever again. And I'm happy with it. I'm thrilled by that. We're just farting the mic for half an hour. People are like, well, that's the best you're getting. There you go. Nothing coming up behind them. So they can just. They can just take huge, massive on the air. I guess it's the best we've got. We can. There's other options, of course, but yeah, so yeah. Oh, no, no, there's no doubt about that. I'm the Draymond Green of radio. I go on and say, this product is a mess and I know who's doing it. But I like that Charles blamed the generation. This young generation wrecked basketball. Way to go, Draymond. And this is at the broadcast of the All Star Game, the NBA. The team that's broadcasting is talking about how cruddy the product is constantly. They have to David Stern's gonna be losing his mind. He doesn't. He's not in control anymore. Oh, he's not. Yeah. It's still in charge now. Yeah. Adam St. Silver. He looks like a Snape. He's scary looking.

[Brady Bogan]

He's been there a few years. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. Yeah. I think last time I really cared. Stern's actually. Be honest. I think he's actually dead. Probably watching this. Probably watching how the game turned out. He's probably rolling in his grave right now because he built a monster. And then it's crazy, though, because you got more talent in the NBA than you ever have, and they just keep hucking threes and nobody's. It's boring. It really is. I struggle and I go to a lot of games, but I don't watch basketball outside of the Suns games. I'm at much at all. And I don't listen to radio outside of this show, so. I like kupd. I like Lair Bear. Fitz is fun, and there's probably. There's a few out there that are good. But only listen to KTR in the morning to see if Ladonna kills Jim Sharp. And if anything in Phoenix exploded while I was asleep. Not getting that from the computer that does overnights because they won't pay for an overnight guy. They never really did. But, I mean, they didn't pay you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You. They paid you an unlivable wage. Yep. You're not wrong about that. I'm not wrong about that. And then they expected you to get really good and then move somewhere else in their cluster, but you didn't want to move, so you confused them. Nope. It's just. It's so true. I'm gonna do Go to Minneapolis. Yeah. Alex says, John, you couldn't be more right about radio. And Alex used to do. Alex is a guy who emails all the time. Used to be a board op at the AM station down the hall and work around here a little bit now and again. He says, I was made VP of a station. Said I saw this the way the CEO wanted everything, and I got the F out of there. That was a sinking ship. Yeah. They hired a board up to be the vice president within a couple of years. That's. That's moving up and saving some cash. Yeah, I like. I like what we're doing because it's the opposite of what they say to do. It's more fun this way. And now let's get to the possible fears of brain bleeds and trouble in my head. So last Wednesday, I got hit in the face by my dog's head, hard, knocked me out. I think I hit my head twice. Not sure if I hit my head on the kitchen island on the way down. Something wasn't right. I was out, got knocked out, but it was not a crazy knockout. I could have stood up again. It was like when Tyson Fury got knocked out by Deontay Wilder. Not cold on his feet when he hit the ground, his eyes open like he was a zombie. And he got back up, almost won the round. Ended up in a draw in that fight. The Gypsy King. That is an amazing moment in boxing history. I think that's me. I think that equates the exact same thing that happened to me. Lesser scale, less people watching. So I get up, I'm dizzy, not doing too well. Thursday, get through the day. A little off, but nobody knows. Go home and I sleep, and I can't. I'm not sleeping and blacked out. Go through Friday, come in here a couple of times. Friday morning, I had to fight to not blackout. There were two or three times when I'm like, you're going, you're going, you're going. And my head said, stop, stop. And it kind of stopped me from going out. And I'm like, I've got something happening. You know, I talked about it on there pretty much. So get through the morning. By 10, 10:30, I'm feeling pretty good again. I'm like, I'm a little dizzy, but I'm okay. Bonked him. Had all these people and all the people that emailed concerned that I was not going to make it through the day. I appreciate it, but I've already got a mother, so mind your own business. So I get in the car about 12. I have a meeting at 12:30 I've got to get to. I was about 12, 20 when I left, and I text the guy I'm meeting, and I said, I'm running a little late, but I'll get there. So now I'm kind of in a frenzy of thought. I've got to get this done here. A couple things I got to get finished here. Got to talk to Larry before I go. Got to get out the door in five minutes. So I start to race a little. My mind starts racing. Go downstairs on my way out, have a chat and get out. So I'm in the car, driving home, thinking about, all right, what's the next thing I got? I'm meeting this guy at my house, and I'm driving back. I get to about Indian school in the 51, and I wake up on the freeway, like, geez, how long did that go on? And I was passing the Indian school exit and I was out, gone. So I called him. I'm like, hey, I just blacked out driving. I want to go visit a doctor here. I think I'm gonna cancel our meeting.

[Brady Bogan]

Good move to get out of the meeting.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it was pretty solid. If anything, to get out of meetings, you're kind of about blacking out while you're driving along. Smart. So I get off Camelback exit, I start going towards the one medical building that I. And I'm feeling all right. So I went home and I napped it off. And I feel great today. So I'm just gonna milk this and see what kind of long term damage I've done. All I could think to myself was, how many football players take a blow like that, have a few days of goofy strangeness, and then nothing happens to them. They get like, you have to have like 12 of these to have CTE. It was a one off. I feel good again.

[Brady Bogan]

Brain's recovered.

[John Holmberg]

I'm good. I got a good brain. Might have lost a few cells, but I can keep up. I look at Dale. Hellas dre. This dude's still driving. I had a bad three day stretch of. Of, you know, and then I'm texting people to cancel this meeting again. Just say, I'm sorry. And I've text the wrong people, like, sorry, I had a concussion. My dog smashed me in the face, left a reschedule. People like, what are you talking about? Like, oh, sorry, Jay, I haven't talked to you in a long time. How you been, Jay? Had a heart attack back in July. Yeah, I had a concussion two days ago. Not feeling up to myself, you see. Meant to text another person as an idiot, but today I feel pretty good. And I'm already getting people who are, you know, still telling me over the weekend, they listen to the podcast and said I got hit in the head in a boating accident and ended up thinking I was fine. Had chronic brain damage. That just makes life more interesting.

[Brady Bogan]

I found out a couple of friends had cancer this weekend. Hey, if you have cancer, let me know. I can help you go through it, because I'm battling it right now.

[John Holmberg]

They just contacted. Are you battling it?

[Brady Bogan]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Oh. Oh, I see. Because we fainted it.

[Brady Bogan]

Because we were talking last night.

[John Holmberg]

Jesus, is that not the way to deliver that? Christ on a crutch, Brady. You need to start sentences with a start, not get us in the middle. You heard it the same way I did. Crying out loud at times. Did I miss something last week? Brady's big reveal.

[Brady Bogan]

Well, that's why they were contacting us, because they were saying the way you.

[John Holmberg]

Started that sentence was to tell us you have it, that your friends. Oh, for Christ's sake. My head trauma at least makes sense. His cancer thing is like. He's got head trauma. All right. You don't have it. You didn't get news. No, we get it now.

[Brady Bogan]

Contacted by love because we filled in the blanks.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah. Holmberg's morning sickness. The 98 KUPD. Holmberg's morning sickness.

[Brady Bogan]

I do have it.

[John Holmberg]

Well, no, according to me, you. They're worried you have it. You haven't heard back.

[Brady Bogan]

I'm so mad at Homeberg.

[John Holmberg]

Because of your cancer?

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Why would I have to do with it?

[Brady Bogan]

He's telling you cancer and he's making fun of it. I'm like, no, we're just about it.

[John Holmberg]

No, he's right. 100. Go on. What was the. Is that the crush?

[Brady Bogan]

He just.

[John Holmberg]

He.

[Brady Bogan]

He came in kind of in the middle of when we were talking about it last week.

[John Holmberg]

We should have heard the whole thing. It was very funny. He's making fun of it longer than he told him. Yeah, longer. A lot longer. Did the doctor call you? Are we good?

[Brady Bogan]

No, we haven't heard.

[John Holmberg]

Ok. Which so far is good news. That's what Brady's hoping for. That the doctor drops dead and he doesn't hear another peep. Now, I got worried there. The way you started that sentence was, I heard from a few friends, not emailers. Those are listeners. Those aren't friends. So I thought your friends were emailing you saying you had cancer and that you were because you have it now. That's what you heard, too? Yeah, that's what I thought. That's why I said, Jesus, that's. We all kind of had a moment. See, my brain's fine. It's still working around all this. If anything, that story should have an carloed me right out of the room, and it didn't. I'm okay again. Yeah, I'm gonna just. See, I've lived this long with a healthy, normal brain. It's taken a couple of shots in the past, and I recovered much worse than this one. And let's just see where it goes. What do you say? It'd be kind of fun if I started, like, kind of bleeding out the nostrils and you guys had to tell me. You might want to grab a tissue, chief. What's going on? Some sort of pink weirdness is flying out of your schnoz. That'll happen. I'm not overly excited about this going on much longer. So if that's how we go out, we get a few laughs along the way, I'm fine with it. Brain damage on the radio. Come on. What kind of competition would we have if you had what we normally do, but occasionally I went into CTE mode. You think ChatGPT radio has any chance against that? No way. So, not that I'm gonna intentionally mash my head into stuff, but it might be worth it. Unfortunately for ratings, I'm feeling pretty much up to snuff. I'm. I'm good again. Riding my bike all over. I took a ride yesterday. I wanted to go. I saw on Zillow there are these condos for sale and Onzillo.

[Brady Bogan]

Do you remember it?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. I remember everything. And now I'm good. Unfortunately, everything's kind of settled back exactly where it was. I. I remember everyone's names. I have. Yeah. Lyrics to songs. It's crazy. I feel. Unfortunately, I feel great. This is going to go on forever. I can't. I can't catch a break with, like, some sort of debilitating illness. So anyway, I saw these condos for sale in Old Town, so I decided. I'm like, I want to. I rode my bike on Saturday all over the mountains. I didn't want to ride mountains again, so I took the Greenbelt Trail. Although I ended up in Old Town to look at this, just to be in the area, I'm like, what's this like? It's not as good as I thought. But anyway, what I didn't realize was in Old Town on Sundays, there's just a slew of people, like, I don't know, antiquing. I don't know what they're doing, and then drinking. So I started to, like, laugh at the people watching. And then with my new meta glasses, I started to record what was, I think the comedian Eddie Izard after a powerful rape. Like, this transvestite was on Goldwater and like, first. And I was following them all over the place. So I looked crazy because I was. There's. I was making loops around the transvestite. The. I gotta follow this injured Torn fishnet pantyhose. And I mean, from behind torn. I'll show you the video. We'll put it up on there if you know who he is. I didn't get a great shot, but I did hit my. My record. My. My Spy Headquarters glasses.

[Brady Bogan]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I start recording as I'm riding and then you just hear me as I'm going by without realizing I said it until I watched the video later when I go, what the is this? But I'd seen him sitting down. And when I rode by the first time I looked and I'm like, all right. On a bench. Red, like rouge on like each cheek, but in different spots. And the hair, I don't know. It was Jane Gumm. It was Silence of the Lambs. Bad. And then in this black outfit with. And the pantyhose, ass torn out all the way down the legs. Violent rape. I wanted to ask, but I'd have gotten involved and I'm not doing that. That's his life. Probably seen him in one of our videos. Later this week, I will recognize him. I circled this dude. There was a. There's some restaurant for ladies near there. And I could see them all coming out and they're holding mimosas. And there's me on my bike. I'm the crazy one. There's me on my bike. Just. I keep going by and I'm finding new ways to try to come in there, make it look like I'm not. It must have been three or four passes before he got up and started walking. And that's when I got good recordings of him because I was trying to keep my cool. And just like, what is that? Is there trouble? And then it started to walk. Oh, my Lord. And Old Town should have had somebody in and amongst all these middle aged ladies drinking mimosas all day long and making candles. There's like a store to make candles. And it's all for ladies and old men. This dude's dangerous. Freshly raped transvestite wandering the streets of Old Town on a Sunday. You got to get him out of there.

[Brady Bogan]

Obviously they're used to it.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know that they are. He had. There was distance.

[Brady Bogan]

They're just kind of. Don't look at. It'll go.

[John Holmberg]

I think that was more of the. The bougie approach, which was. Oh, no, there's one of those downtownies in our.

[Brady Bogan]

Don't open that cannon.

[John Holmberg]

Our Mecca. But I'd have figured I'd have seen the cops on some. One of those trolleys. I was like half cop bikes, half. It looks like a sidecar come to life. Yeah, somebody would have rustled him up and gotten him out of Dodge. But no, he was free to wander around. And there I was following him around like tails from Sonic. It was pretty bad with your camera glasses on. Camera glasses. And I'm trying to look him up and down to get like a full scope. But it's hard on the bike, on a sidewalk, like. And then, then I started to realize that if people are watching me, they're watching me ride by this tranny and eyeball them head to toe, not realizing my glasses, whatever I see, that's the picture. I don't know how it works, but everything you see in those glasses, it sees and takes a picture of it. Like, panoramic, neatest thing ever. Little tiny camera in the corner. But I got the picture of the trans and I'm like, ooh. It was the roughest trans I've ever seen. The roughest. And I don't know who attacked him, but if that was your target, I gotta see what that dude looks like. Because this was absolutely visually unappealing. And middle of the day, you know, 3:00 on a Sunday, he's leaving one.

[Brady Bogan]

Of those condo towers in Old Town Scottsdale.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know what, I don't think he was in one of the nicer spots. I think maybe he was raped and dropped off by a person with some cash. Get out of the car, Trinny, if you know what's good for you. I got to go make candles with my mom. You get out here. Yeah, I don't know where I am. You're in Old Town. Behave. And here's some tissues for when everything leaks out. Okay, thanks. It was a mess. Any Bonaduce back in town or what? Bonaduce would have pulled over for this. Remember the pictures of Bonaduce? They're like, what? He didn't know it was that 6 foot, 6 inch Native American man. And you're like, danny, you try and act like you didn't know. You got into a fist fight with a six foot, six inch Indian. And then you got naked and hit in the cloud. Danny was a little high, but that was this one. It was obvious. It was so I know what happened. Hopefully. Hopefully they're not listening. I'm not getting involved. And if the police want video, I'm gonna delete it. I don't wanna end up in a courtroom going, yeah, that's the thing I saw there. And end up canceled because of that. That was brutal. And nobody, nobody but me seemed to take interest in that. I think you're right. It was a bunch of people just like, no, I don't see anything. Just let him be walking towards Coach House. That's where we were going. Started to go up the. Whatever that Goldwater, up Goldwater towards Coach House. And I'm like, oh, I gotta see the coach. House, patio react to this.

[Brady Bogan]

Back for round two.

[John Holmberg]

Walking tranny rape. Great band name. Walking tranny rape. Oh. And I'm like, this guy can't get enough of that. All they kept seeing was me. This guy can't get enough of that. Transsexual. That's his fifth pass, and I think he's filming her. And walking tranny rape. Just start that punk band right now, you know? And it's weird when you see it like that. It's just like, my God. Well, and again, not to say that he was asking for it, but the way he was dressed, middle of a Sunday, you know, the Lord stay, for God's sake. Fishnets on Sunday afternoon was better. This one. Or was it the. The Dennis Rodman one that you used to see? Dennis Rod one has got some class. Okay, I see that one. Climbing on buses. Seven foot tall. Yeah. Very minute bowl like body, very Rodmanesque. Hair change. And usually a fairly nice purse. Okay, all right.

[Brady Bogan]

Maybe he was really just exhausted from the night before looking for BS west, man.

[John Holmberg]

Well, that's been closed for a while.

[Brady Bogan]

That's what I'm saying.

[John Holmberg]

You're still exhausted from the night before at 3:00pm Try to find it. 3:00 in the afternoon, you still got your rape pantyhose on. BS west is going to turn you away. And they. I don't know, it was weird. Just keep your eyes open when you're walking mom and the tourists around Gilbert Ortega, though, because evidently that element is now squeezed in. It was disturbing and hilarious. And again, I'll never not think a man dressed as a woman when it's obvious is. Isn't funny. Thanks, Monty Python. That's just the way I am. That ain't changing. If you're a dude who dresses like a woman but still looks like a dude dressed as a woman, you're getting one hell of a laugh out of me. That's for sure. I ain't holding back on that. If I can't tell, more power to you. But if I started dressing up as a lady and walked in this room and you guys took me seriously, I'd have thought you'd had lobotomies. There's no possible way I should be dressed as a woman ever in my life. We've seen it. You've seen it. Yes. It's horrifying. Even in the zombie makeup. Especially when my dress started to come off when I was on stage there, it wasn't just a skirt with my man cans out hilarious. And it was funny. So I'm not mad at him. I just think it's hysterical. Not like those college kids that saw me dressed as Tina Turner that year and then called me the homo F word the second I. And I was in no mood to fight. Those heels were killing me. But I just shoved one of those heels right in those kids eyes. And I had half of mine to fight him. Just to have the ideas, like, you're gonna lose this fight to the dude in the dress because you know someone's gonna be videoing that. It's gonna be all over. And I'd have been on. I'd have been on point. I was feeling no pain, feeling pretty good. Anyway, I'm glad I didn't fight him, but it was pretty interesting. I'll send Brett the video and we'll. You can see that at least. We'll do a snapshot of the torn up from behind torn up pantyhose. Like you just can't tear your pants that way. And the only way you tear your pants that way is if somebody does it. The. The rape. The rape tear. It's gonna be a rosebud video later this week, I'm sure. And then the makeup. I wish you guys could have. I wish it was a bicycle built for four. And we could have just ridden around, followed this dude everywhere. That wouldn't have been gay at all. Just hopping on like, I'm gonna make the turn. Quit going around that thing. Nope, we're making another pass. I gotta see it. We gotta see it from the front. Ah, it's leaking out. I think it drank too much milk. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what happens when a transvestite drinks too much milk. They bleed it. Let's get a wake up song, shall we? 585-9800 and we'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio stat connection umpire.