02-20-26 - KUPD Shirt Love Connection call - Jan 2006 - BO

Summary

Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – Episode Summary

Date: February 20, 2026
Episode Title: KUPD Shirt Love Connection Call – Jan 2006 – BO
Host: John Holmberg
Co-hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo

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Episode Overview

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness centers on a quirky, lighthearted “Love Connection” story prompted by a KUPD shirt, sparking conversation about romance, lust, and the nature of love. Listener Walter calls in to share how sporting a KUPD T-shirt led him to an unexpected romantic connection at a Sonic Drive-In. Holmberg and the crew riff on the power of KUPD swag, weigh the legitimacy of early “I love yous,” and bring in callers for both skepticism and support, all with their classic mix of humor and banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The KUPD Love Story: Walter’s Call

• The Setup:
  • Walter pulls into a Sonic in Chandler, AZ, wearing a KUPD shirt.
  • The Sonic drive-thru worker notices his shirt, gets excited, and asks if he has another.
  • Walter brings her a shirt, gives her his phone number, and soon after, they start dating.
  • After two and a half months, she professes her love, and they’re going strong.
• Notable Exchange:
  • Host (John Holmberg): “This is why we are KUPD, otherwise known as Cupid… KUPD has fired its bow again.” (01:20)
  • Walter reveals the worker planned a move to Texas but stayed for the relationship:
    • Host: “For us or for you?”
    • Walter: “For me.” (03:06)
  • Host (on the role of KUPD shirt): “So, really, your KUPD shirt not only got you laid, it got you a relationship?”
    • Walter: “Pretty much, yeah.” (03:19)

2. Humorous Take on KUPD Shirt as a Love Talisman

• Suggestions for marketing the shirts as aphrodisiacs.
  • Brady: "Maybe I should get a box of these shirts, then start handing them out." (02:38)
• Joking ideas for a “Morning Sickness bow and arrow lure shirt.”
  • Brady: "If you wear the shirt, chicks will want you...maybe just a blank line where your number can go." (04:52)
  • Host: “But then you would get like fat girls going writing on your shirt… Not you, Chunk, the chick over there working the Ralph 44.” (05:09)

3. Debate: Can Love Happen in Two Months?

• Holmberg is skeptical about quick declarations of love, arguing it’s likely lust, not love.
  • Host: “Love doesn't blossom for, like, two years.” (08:10)
• Multiple callers weigh in:
  • Fred (skeptical caller): Suggests the romance is questionable, possibly for financial or circumstantial reasons. (07:02–08:33)
    • Fred: “I think it’s...the only job she could get while her husband went to prison.” (07:15)
  • Holmberg and Fred agree it’s “awful early” for love.
    • Host: "Love does not blossom that quick." (08:00)
  • Vicki (romantic caller): Claims love in two months is possible; shares her own experience.
    • Vicki: "Yeah, I do think that's possible…It happened to me." (10:12–10:18)
  • The studio revisits the logic-vs-romance debate:
    • Host: “We have to be the ones that stifle love for a while.” (10:26)

4. Comic Self-Deprecation and Relationship Anecdotes

• Hosts swap stories about saying "I love you," often for “logical” (or carnal) reasons.
  • Host: "I think I said I love you back because we're about to do it.” (12:49)
  • Brady: “I've always had to be the one to say it first.” (13:01)
• Guidelines are proposed for when to say “I love you”—wait at least a year, see someone’s “meltdown.”
  • Brady: "At least a year or two... See the full meltdown, what you're getting into." (13:41)

5. Men’s “Logic” vs Women’s “Romance”

• Host: “Women have convinced us that the romantic thing should get in front of our logic...we have to remain logical.” (12:31)
• Repeated calls for men to be less “swept up,” more stoic or reserved about declaring love early.

6. KUPD Love Saga Expands

• Hosts refer to other KUPD-fueled relationships and birthdays, continuing the Cupid joke and audience engagement.
  • Brady: "I want to wish Dorsey Randall happy birthday, because we brought Dorsey and Debbie together." (03:59)
• The episode is peppered with running gags about “Hill Jacks” and mock songs about Cupid.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “This is why we are KUPD, otherwise known as Cupid… KUPD has fired its bow again.” – Host, John Holmberg (01:20)
• “So, really, your KUPD shirt not only got you laid, it got you a relationship?” – Holmberg (03:13)
• “Maybe I should get a box of these shirts, then start handing them out.” – Co-host Brady (02:38)
• “Love does not blossom that quick.” – Host, John Holmberg (08:00)
• “Lust can blossom that quick, oh yeah. Lust can feel like love for a long time, but love doesn't blossom for, like, two years.” – Host, John Holmberg (08:10)
• “Women have convinced us that the romantic thing should get in front of our logic. And because we're guys, we have to remain logical.” – Host, John Holmberg (12:31)
• “If you wear the shirt that chicks will want you…maybe just a blank line where your number...could I have your number? It asks for you.” – Co-host Brady (05:01)
• “I think I said I love you back because we're about to do it.” – Host, John Holmberg (12:49)
• “At least a year or two to find when you start seeing real characteristics of the person...” – Co-host Brady (13:41)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:20–03:38 – The main “Love Connection” story from Walter begins and concludes with both laughter and congratulations.
• 04:26–06:01 – Jokes about the magic of KUPD shirts, suggestions for new apparel, and Sonic menu praise.
• 07:02–08:33 – Call from Fred, skepticism about the Sonic romance, debate on early love.
• 09:11–10:42 – Call from Vicki, offering a counterpoint that love can happen quickly.
• 12:31–14:00 – Extended discussion about logic, romance, and timeline for saying “I love you.”
• 13:41–14:16 – Proposed “guidelines” for dropping the L-bomb in a relationship.

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Tone

The conversation is fast-paced, irreverent, and packed with sarcastic wit. The hosts maintain their trademark blend of cynical real-talk and absurd humor, often poking fun at themselves, each other, and their listeners.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a fun, sarcastic dive into the world of “radio romance”—a blend of sincere listener stories and the hosts’ willingness to roast both the idea of love at first sight and themselves. For those curious about KUPD’s community culture, it’s a classic showcase: inside jokes, audience calls, and on-air camaraderie. At its heart, it’s a lighthearted debate about how—and when—love actually happens, served with a heavy helping of Arizona banter.

Transcript

[Host]

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[Host]

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[Co-host Brady]

The rest of Holmberg's morning sickness. This is the big red radio Brady.

[Host]

We've got ourselves a guy, hopefully still on hold there, who has found love. Are you there? Hey, you are there. Sorry. Thanks for waiting the whole time. This is why we are kupd, otherwise known as Cupid. This is a pretty impressive story. We would like. We would like to hear your story, please, because Cupid, KUPD has fired its bow again. Please go now.

[Caller Walter]

I pulled into a Sonic and Val Vista and Chandler. I just wanted a drink and the lady that brought me out the brought me out my drink. She looked in this truck and saw I had a KUPD shirt on. And she just got all excited. That's a great shirt. She asked me if I had any more. So I went home, hopped on my motorcycle and took her back one that I had and. And gave her my phone number and she called later. We ended up going out and playing some pool and stuff like that. And then just last week, she started telling me how much she loved me and things are going great, man.

[Host]

How long has it been?

[Caller Walter]

Oh, about two and a half months.

[Host]

Cupid cupd Cupid, draw back your bone. We did it. Now. Are you guys the one thing we have to ask all KUPD fans, when they unite, is that one of you is sterilized.

[Caller Walter]

She's already got her kids.

[Host]

Oh, okay. You're done. Okay, good, good, good, good, good. Because we can't throw two KUPD listeners together, because then it's just. It's. It's too much, you know?

[Co-host Brady]

The other thing is, you could have taken it the other way and said, man, maybe I should get a box of these shirts, then start handing them out.

[Host]

They are aphrodisiacs, to be sure. But what did. And you just got a little drink at Sonic and pulled in. Was she one of the girls that comes out to the window?

[Caller Walter]

Yeah, she was. She was working the drive through that day.

[Host]

Sweet.

[Caller Walter]

And it just. Everything clicked together.

[Host]

How about that?

[Caller Walter]

He was actually moving to Texas two weeks later for good.

[Host]

But not now.

[Caller Walter]

She stayed.

[Host]

For us or for you?

[Caller Walter]

For me.

[Host]

Good, good, good. Okay. I just want to make this.

[Caller Walter]

She says there's no decent rock stations in Texas.

[Host]

It's true. That'll keep you from moving. So, really, your KUPD shirt not only got you laid, it got you a relationship?

[Caller Walter]

Pretty much, yeah.

[Host]

Nice job. And she's of age and all right. She's, like, 18. Oh, just.

[Caller Walter]

Pretty Girl I've ever dated.

[Host]

Okay, okay. No, I didn't say pretty.

[Co-host Brady]

She's gonna clarify. Cherry Limeade. What'd you get?

[Host]

Yeah, what'd you get?

[Caller Walter]

I was getting the raspberry limeade.

[Host]

The Route 44?

[Caller Walter]

Yep.

[Host]

The only way to go. Nice job. Well, congrat. What's your name?

[Caller Walter]

Walter.

[Host]

Walter, Congratulations. If we'd like a picture of you and your loved one that our Cupid FM wave plastered you both in the ass, and now you're doing it to each other. So congratulations. Well done. And I guess that's it. And if we ever leave, you got to go with us.

[Caller Walter]

There you go, buddy.

[Host]

All right. Good job. We'll talk to you later. Congratulations. Look at that, Brady.

[Co-host Brady]

You know, also, now that we're on the Cupid line, I want to wish Dorsey Randall happy birthday, because we brought Dorsey and Debbie together.

[Host]

Did we?

[Co-host Brady]

Yeah, when they were married with someone else.

[Host]

Was that our doing? Well, happy birthday also to Jessica. While we're on this positive Cupid thing, Kathy called and said, please say happy birthday to Jessica. So, happy birthday, Jessica. It's everybody's birthday.

[Co-host Brady]

How old's Jessica? Say?

[Host]

Don't remember. Teens.

[Co-host Brady]

Dorsey's 53.

[Host]

Dorsey is 53 years old today, and his wife is 20 years older than him. So it's a beautiful thing over there. But how about that, Brady? A KUPD T shirt caused love to blossom at the Sonic.

[Co-host Brady]

How about that? We need to have a. We need to come up with a morning sickness

[Host]

bow and arrow lure shirt.

[Co-host Brady]

You know that if you wear the shirt that chicks will want you wearing that shirt. Okay, what kind of symbol you can have on the front?

[Host]

Just a big picture of you, I think.

[Co-host Brady]

Maybe just a blank line where your number. Could I have your number? It asks for you.

[Host]

Hey, that's a good idea. But then you would get like fat girls going writing on your shirt. I'll give you my number. Not you, Chunk, the chick over there working the Ralph 44. But Sonic, I've never thought of dragging somebody out of a Sonic Drive in. Never really paid attention. Great sandwiches. Love blooms. Thank you to KUPD and our shirts. You can get our shirts. You go over to Zia Records and pick up one of those shirts. You can steal one from Eric this morning at Hayden and Indian School.

[Co-host Brady]

Yeah, Hayden Lynn's Cool Bashes, southeast corner.

[Host]

And everyone's in love.

[Co-host Brady]

Boy, oh boy, those Sonic Toaster breakfast sandwiches.

[Host]

That sounds pretty good. Cupid, please hear my cry. We let the arrow fly. And two young Hill Jacks are now gonna have kids.

[Co-host Brady]

How about those French toast sticks?

[Producer or Technical Staff]

Oof.

[Host]

You know, it isn't fair really, at Sonic to fall in love because you feel so good eating that food. You get me a toaster in the French toast sticks. Everybody's more attractive, but they are in love at the Sonic drive thru. Love. That's hot.

[Co-host Brady]

Supersonic.

[Host]

Wonder how long a kupd, an average KUPD couple takes to close the deal? I think it's about eight hours on that one. Eight to nine hours later. One CUPD fan. And that's what they have in common. Initially. They're gonna have sex that day. That would be my guess. But congratulations, man. That's pretty darn cool. At 98 KUPD, we're all about love.

[Co-host Brady]

It's the best of Homburg's morning sickness.

[Host]

We gotta stop doing the commercials while they're on. It's fun, though. It's. And everybody's calling to say, you know, that might be crap. The Cupid thing might be something to look out for. This guy. I don't know. Hi there. Who's this? Yo. Yo, what's up, man?

[Caller Walter]

What's happening?

[Host]

How you doing? Is this Randy Jackson?

[Co-host Brady]

Fred?

[Host]

No, it's Fred.

[Caller Walter]

Doesn't matter who this is.

[Host]

That's right. You lose in one try. What did you think? You had some conspiracy thoughts about the Sonic Love Affair that Cupid started. Kupd.

[Caller Walter]

Yeah, I think it's what it is. That was probably the only job she could get while her husband went to prison. Hurting way out, you know, easy way out of working.

[Host]

So you assume the kids. Because it is, what, two months, he said, into the relationship, and the love has already blossomed. They're saying, I love you and I don't want to. I don't want to crap on a relationship. Relationship that KUPD started. But you're right. Awful early. Awful early to say love.

[Caller Walter]

I haven't even been into the story. How are they gonna fall in love?

[Host]

Exactly.

[Co-host Brady]

You don't know.

[Caller Walter]

Oh, come on. We don't even know what Brady doing is. Because we know what Brady would do.

[Host]

Brady, What? What would you do?

[Co-host Brady]

See how much free Sonic.

[Host]

Yeah, that's what I. You don't want to ask Brady about that because he's dated the Sonic girls for all the wrong reasons.

[Caller Walter]

Love does not blossom that quick.

[Host]

That's. I'm with it. No, it cannot.

[Co-host Brady]

Absolutely.

[Host]

No. Nope, nope. I'm with you. It can be. Lust can blossom that quick. Oh, yeah, we all know. Well, lust and lust can feel like love for a long time, but love doesn't blossom for, like, two years.

[Caller Walter]

That's right.

[Host]

And in reality, let's be men here. In reality, we're the ones who are

[Co-host Brady]

lodging after that, too, hopefully.

[Host]

But let's be the logical man and not the romantic crazy chicken. Love does not happen the first two years.

[Caller Walter]

Now you're sounding more logical.

[Host]

Thank you.

[Caller Walter]

Now I can go back to work.

[Host]

All men. Thank you, Fred. Good call, man. We'll talk to you later.

[Co-host Brady]

I bet you surprised who weren't out there and said, okay, I knew I was in love after the first month we've been married ever since.

[Host]

They are wrong. They just got lucky. Well, lust confuses for about a year and a half. Then if it's love, it just feels the same and you never knew any different. Love does not happen right away. It can't.

[Co-host Brady]

Love is patient, Sean, until is kind. No. Love does not boast.

[Host]

Jesus Christ. Hi there. Who's this?

[Co-host Brady]

That's right. That's who wrote it.

[Host]

All right. Hi. Who is this?

[Caller Vicki]

Vicki.

[Host]

Vicki, what's going on?

[Caller Vicki]

I'm curious to know what this guy does for a living. Because if she was supposed to move to Texas and she stayed, he's probably got a really good job. And she's not exactly making a lot of money working at Sonic Drive Thru.

[Host]

So you're saying maybe she's a gold digger. Maybe oh, Sonic. Gold digger. But she gets all that free. Still, those free toasters, it's almost worth it.

[Co-host Brady]

Are you in a relationship right now, Vicky?

[Caller Vicki]

Yes, I'm married.

[Host]

What's your husband do?

[Caller Vicki]

He works for pest control.

[Co-host Brady]

Wow. And what do you do?

[Caller Vicki]

I'm a mail carrier.

[Host]

Okay. Well, there you go. You're doing better than him then, huh?

[Caller Vicki]

Well, yeah.

[Host]

All right, so he's digging.

[Co-host Brady]

You've got great benefits, too.

[Host]

All right, well, I think the conspiracy theory's out. Do you think?

[Co-host Brady]

Yeah, but the anger. Don't anger.

[Host]

Watch this. Yeah, no, she's a lady of. She's a female lady.

[Co-host Brady]

Yeah.

[Host]

So do you think that it is possible to be in love in two months?

[Caller Vicki]

Yeah, I do think that's possible, but.

[Host]

You're out of your mind. You're out of your mind.

[Caller Vicki]

No, no, no. It's happened. It happened to me.

[Host]

No, it didn't.

[Co-host Brady]

You knew you were in love within two months. It's different.

[Host]

They're crazy. We're logical. We have to be the ones that stifle love. For a while.

[Co-host Brady]

You looked at him with that pest wand and you're like, this is my man.

[Host]

He's a bug killing machine.

[Caller Vicki]

You gotta love that.

[Co-host Brady]

They can make bank.

[Host]

Oh, they do. Well, no. There you go. Nice job. Congratulations.

[Caller Vicki]

Thank you.

[Host]

All right, we'll see it.

[Co-host Brady]

Boy, the guy that fleeces my place every month.

[Host]

You're right, Brady. Actually, I'm right. You're wrong. Love cannot occur that fast. There's something up with that relationship. I'm encouraging those kids to be together forever. No. If you're 16, you can't define love. You can define. Oh, Toledo. Are you with me here? Please. Yeah, please. Anyone else out there? Please. Love doesn't happen that quick.

[Co-host Brady]

Quick?

[Host]

Two and a half months? No way. You're a man. Men have to start being more logical about this stuff. We get sucked into the trying to

[Co-host Brady]

make the romance on love.

[Host]

Hold on.

[Commercial Announcer]

Plus, you gotta find out when the last relationship he was in was exactly right.

[Co-host Brady]

Their moons crossed at the right time.

[Host]

Brady, nobody has moons.

[Co-host Brady]

I'm not saying. But I don't.

[Commercial Announcer]

Nobody left the light on.

[Host]

Yeah, yeah. Here's the. That's right. In the morning, woke up because the moon was too bright. Somebody want to turn the moon down? I can't sleep in two and a half months. As a man, we have to start getting back to being men. Somewhere along the lines, women have convinced us that the romantic thing should get in front of our logic. And because we're guys, we have to remain logical. You didn't start throwing love around for the.

[Caller Walter]

No, I.

[Co-host Brady]

A long time and you didn't know people. But I, I. Oh.

[Host]

Beware of a girl who loves you too fast.

[Co-host Brady]

And you're right. The, the biggest, you know, misleading thing is the in lust.

[Host]

Yeah. Because I've, you know, you can pound away for two months and think it's love, but it's not love. Beware of a girl who loves you too fast because it will screw with your logic. And you're a man and logically, you're not supposed to love that.

[Co-host Brady]

Have you ever had a girl say it to you first?

[Host]

Uh, yes. Then I punched her in the nose. No, I didn't. I gave her a strawberry shortcake.

[Co-host Brady]

But what'd you say?

[Host]

You're nice to me and I enjoy pets. No, I don't know. I don't remember. I think I said I love you back because we're about to do it.

[Co-host Brady]

Yeah.

[Host]

So logically, my brain said, well, mathematically, if you don't say I love you, you're gonna be stymied tonight, so just say it and then don't ever say it again. So I set it back.

[Co-host Brady]

I've always had to be the one to say it first.

[Host]

You know what my thing is too, with the I love yous first. And it's only happened once, but when, when it happened, I do remember because later she called me on it because she said, I love you. And I said, and I you. And she made fun of me for

[Producer or Technical Staff]

that for a while.

[Co-host Brady]

Now fetch me some more air.

[Host]

Because I became old Englishman. And I you. Take off your pants. So it worked.

[Co-host Brady]

You're my betrothed.

[Host]

It worked. But it was a little early. No, Guys, what is the. Let's put a guideline on it for

[Co-host Brady]

all men before you can drop the L word.

[Host]

You can't say it to them, for you gotta have some control over the relationship.

[Co-host Brady]

I would say, you know, at least a year or two to find when you start seeing real characteristics of the person that you're going out with. Is that three month window. I'm not saying you throw that. Oh, we're there. But that's when you really see what a person is like, some of the stuff. And then six months later, so you can see the full meltdown, what you're getting into.

[Host]

Yeah, well, you have to see them afterwards. If you can tolerate the meltdowns, then maybe, but that's. You got to see a meltdown a year or so into it.

[Co-host Brady]

And the talking.

[Host]

Gotta find a girl who doesn't like talking.

[Co-host Brady]

That's a tough find.

[Host]

They're not out there. That sky from American Gladiators would have been solid. She was deaf. I want to talk. No.

[Co-host Brady]

And she could read lips.

[Host]

Yeah, I know. That's the worst. You had to cover your face all the time. Telling her to f off you. That would be great. I'd become a ventriloquist just to mess with my deaf wife. Talk to my friends with just a big smile on my face. What's going on, Holmer?

[Producer or Technical Staff]

Nothing.

[Host]

How are you? Aren't you moving your lips? I wish around.

[Co-host Brady]

You know, why don't a home builder finally good English? Why doesn't a home builder trying to make the point?

[Host]

I got you. I'm sorry.

[Co-host Brady]

Go ahead. I know I just. So rattled, but I. I don't know why they don't come up with a concept where they build a house with

[Host]

a cave for men. Yeah, they do. But women find it. What we need to do is build. Well, they do have caves. They're called sports bars. But then some dudes are starting to drag kids to those. I don't understand that at all. Trying to get their girls to go to those bar.

[Caller Walter]

It's

[Host]

ridiculous. It's sand at the beach, man. Don't take those with you. Yeah, you can't as a man. Just be logical. If you don't love her and you don't, you know, you can lie and say you do for the sex, but explain to her later how illogical it is to say love that soon. And any guy that calls me and says I knew I loved her right away. You're ruining it for everybody, dude. It's out of control now.

[Producer or Technical Staff]

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