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John Holmberg
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John Holmberg
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John Holmberg
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Brady
That's exactly what the dad said. Hey, it's mj.
John Holmberg
Did you spit in his mouth? I mean, come on, be a pro about this.
Brady
He's the sponsor of our car.
John Holmberg
We won. Yeah, because of his money. You let the. You know, the wife was probably like, what did you allow that, Man, That's Michael Jordan. He can finger anybody he wants. I watched that and I'm like, this dude might be.
Brady
It's a little beyond poking.
John Holmberg
It was fingering a lot of it and hammering like it was. Look, if Kevin Spacey would have done it, he'd be in jail. I don't watch a lot of Daytona. I didn't. I watched a little bit, paid attention to the ending. And then I was kind of fascinated by the fact that Michael Jordan's team won. And then that weird thing happened, happened, and it was on tv and nobody really cared. Everybody's like, what was that? Well, and then everybody had Brett's reaction, which was Michael Jordan finger. Kid who gets like, well, he can. Six time world champion.
Wayne
All right.
John Holmberg
You know, hey, that. I guess if you have another way, there's a chance that a ring gets lost in your son and you make a little money. I don't know what that was, but I didn't like it and. But I giggled and I watched it a lot. Look, if Chris Paul shows up. No, no, no, no. Look, you know, come on. Even Charles Barkley.
Brady
How many other players get away with that?
John Holmberg
Six rings, man. Yeah. I mean, Bill Russell could have probably done it. He had 13 or 11. 11 ring. Pat Riley, maybe Phil Jackson. Now coaches and it's gray area there. Pippin.
Brady
Tom Brady.
John Holmberg
Yeah, Tom Brady again. He tries to kiss his own children. Too far. Maybe that's it. You get six rings and you start getting the pass. I don't know what it was, but how many did Kobe have? Did he have six or do you have five? Kobe had. He have five. I don't know. He was there a lot. He lost a couple. Yeah, LeBron's got five, I think, too. I don't know, three or four. Maybe not maybe four. I don't know. LeBron doesn't get that pass, though. No, because LeBron's just a dick. Yeah, nobody likes LeBron. Okay, LeBron, keep your fingers off the. Off the Kender.
Brady
That's one thing he'll hang over. Hey, I didn't do this.
John Holmberg
Well, nobody cares. You should have tried it and nobody that didn't. I thought, oh, boy, we're going to lose Jordan. Like, this is. This is how he goes down. I mean, O.J. simpson killed some people maybe, and he never, you know, allowed to be a normal person again. And I think that's kind of on par with the same deal. He was definitely fiddling with that boy's ball. Anyway, it's good to be back. I had to take a week off. My eyes shot out of my head after I saw that. I'm Like, I'm never going to be the same. It was weird. Very.
Brady
And you're. You're watching it by yourself for the most, over and over. Like, is anyone seeing.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah. Well, I checked the Internet immediately. I'm like, I just fingered that boy on tv. You can't do that. I'm positive you can't do that. Like, not a legal. I'm not Barry Markson, but I'm pretty sure you can't finger a boy at all, let alone on tv. And he did that. And everybody's like, hey, it's Michael Jordan. You did it. Exactly. It's mj. Come on. Sakes. It's Michael Jordan. Finger your boy. You should be so lucky. You're welcome. Yeah, exactly. It was weird. The other thing about the BAFTA awards, I didn't know. I didn't know Brett went to the BAFTAs. Okay, you can be black, white, or otherwise. You've gotta laugh at that. That was horrible and hilarious at the same time. Because a dude with Tourette's at the British Oscars saw Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo and he couldn't help but just scream the N word a couple of times. And the guy who played him in the movie about him won best actor. So he was being celebrated as like, look how. You know, the way actors do. They get all lefty weird and start talking about, like, oh, we're for everybody, and anybody with a disability deserves to be heard. Except for when he goes towards Michael B. Jordan. You're like, oh, my God.
Brady
The guy stunned Delro.
John Holmberg
He stopped. He stopped. It's.
Brady
And then he continued on.
John Holmberg
He's like, oh, it's the Tourette's guy. You hope.
Brady
And then Alan Cumming had to come up later, by the way.
John Holmberg
Gay. Explain it. Yeah, we're trying to be super liberal with everything. That one. That one took us by surprise. Bill Smith was up there and seeing what happened. Then come down. Great.
Brady
Come on, mother.
John Holmberg
Just smack him. Smack the Tourette's guy. And then hear again. Oh, my God, that had me rolling. Because you can't. There's no getting around it. The political correctness of that word. Destroying everything. Unless a Tourette's guy does it because he can't help the only pass. But it's only taught me something about Tourette's. They see it. He didn't yell that at Will Ferrell. He was like, oh. So it was in his brain. It was racist and it was calculated. He just couldn't keep it inside. It's like that. Bailing out loud girl can't see a bald person without going, you're bald. I might not take him out in public ever. Morning sickness.
Wayne
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Brady
Steps away from diarrhea.
John Holmberg
I'm not even worried about the food, Brady. You want to take it to food? I'm talking about getting your head chopped off by the drug cartels who are running the entire nation. End of story. You wouldn't go there if it was in Europe. You'd think it was awful. But because it's close and because it's cheap, everybody has this weird excuse for it. It's a dump. Ask any Mexican who escaped it. Like, Mexico's beautiful visually. So San Francisco, also a dump, to be fair. We can say they look good, but there's a lot wrong with it. My friend and I go back and forth, and I transcribed his text to me while he sat in his hotel room in his. Oh, he's there. He's there.
Brady
Oh, now it's been lifted.
John Holmberg
He got back. He got back at, like, 4 in the morning. It says John. It says Johnny. We have jokingly gone back and forth about Mexico in the past. You have never wanted to come with me. He's Got a cabin in Halapala palace where the shooting happened. It's in some mountain town. I'm like, I'll never go there. Well, you gotta go with me. I will never go there. You always said, you know what's Never a story? 14,000 people heading south, caught at the Mexican border, sneaking in. You've always told me, enjoy your head
Brady
while you have it.
John Holmberg
Enjoy the crappiest place in the western hemisphere. And I always laughed and said, ah, he's an idiot. Well, it looks like I picked the wrong week to prove you right. It says, I've never been so afraid as I was when the stay in place was ordered at my resort. And the barrel of a gun, mind you, was the thing keeping us in. It wasn't a friendly stay inside. It was, get the F in there and stay in there or else this entire thing's been a disaster. He lives in like this gated community. I guess it's gated. I mean, you think of it that way. He's got the, it's a, it's a golf resort. He's got a place there. Yeah, I don't know if it's a timeshare or what his deal is. He said, this has been an absolute disaster. I got home 5am Sunday. We were one of the first groups to get out Hawaii. From now on, to quote you again, it's cheap for a reason. You're exactly right, William. Exactly right. Why do people constantly make excuses for the world's like the, like North America's butthole is. It's a gross place and it's not the people and it's not the visuals. It's because you're being cheap.
Brady
And most of the time it's not where they go.
John Holmberg
Oh, it's never there.
Brady
Never in Rocky?
John Holmberg
No, not at all. No. 60 something people got shot when they found this guy because he wanted to have sex with a girl. The El Mencho or whatever his name is. He found, they found out some text and stuff, said, oh, Mencho is going to have sex. And he brings like this entourage of protection with him and he's in the town. 65 people got killed. And there are always like, I had, I sat at my gaze one night with a girl who seemed logical and she goes, if Trump gets elected, I'm moving to Mexico. And I'm like, you got to be kidding me. Like, Mexico is better than here because of Trump? Oh my God, yes. I'm like, no. If you have political divides in your brain to where you're like, I can't stand the politics. Mexico can't be your escape route. That can't be the one where you go. There's safe passage. That's where I'll go. It's like, I've got a place down there. I'll just go to Mexico and I'll be. And I'll just, I'm just gonna ride it out. While Trump's. I'm like, I understand you don't like Trump and there's plenty of reasons he gives you. But the worst Trump can be is 10 times better than anything. Mexico is. End of story, period blank. And people confuse that with. You hate Mexicans. No, I root for them. I think that's, you know, you gotta get away from that mess. I understand why you're running out. I understand why there's so many people escaping here because you can, at any moment, you can just be enjoying your day. Probably watching Colombian's landscape for you, because I think it just keeps moving south to like Antarctica. Like, they're like, there's penguins doing landscaping down in Peru. But yeah, you're just having a nice day. But then, you know, off in the distance, everybody back in the house.
Brady
And now you have a certain number of people that are going down now. Hey, they've lifted back.
John Holmberg
Oh, sure.
Brady
Things are going to be even cheaper.
John Holmberg
You're being.
Brady
They want us back there.
John Holmberg
Yep. You're being cheap.
Brady
There's deal.
John Holmberg
It is. There's nothing but cheapness involved in why you go, yes, visually stunning. Yes, it's. It's nice so long as you don't get killed. But there's always that option. I've never, you know, it's always a threat. Chicago, yeah, you get messed up, but for the most part, it's rare that, you know, 60 or 70, the wrong
Brady
parts of town there.
John Holmberg
Right. But 60 or 70 people aren't going to kill you because they're more in charge than the politicians are. Like, just close. They're close to Chicago. You got one up there that's like, there's argument to be made for that. South side, probably. I'll take chances in Chicago over Mexico. Yeah. Oh, I'll go to a Cubs game. Yeah. I'm not going down to a friendly between Mexico and the U.S. and Mexico City just because it's like, yeah, this might end up bad. And I know it's not constant, but it's enough. Like, we've done this show for 25 years. It's probably the 15th time we've had the. Oh, yeah, they've shut down all Puerto Vallarta because they found all those human heads. It's just. That's a real story. Remember when they started finding all those heads? They're like, oh, these are tourist heads. We gotta do something about that.
Brady
Bodies hanging on the bridge.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah, they have people just.
Brady
Yeah, there's just seven of them.
John Holmberg
Come on.
Brady
Strung up.
John Holmberg
That's enough, enough, enough. It's logic I'm using. Logic is what I'm using. And there's too many times that you hear, wait a minute, what? It went all sideways. And if anybody points a gun at you at the Phoenician and says, get the back in there. Phoenicians no longer on the menu, it's out. Like, I was at the Phoenician once and they pointed a gun at me and told me I couldn't leave. Like, why? Oh, there's like a drug kingpin that was wandering around Camelback and a bunch of guys got shot. But I mean, the pool is so pretty. You would never ever start talking about how awesome the biltmore is if 65 people got shot there because the drug lord had a rendezvous and then you got a gun shoved in your forehead, said, get back in your room. You're not going back to the Biltmore anymore. I don't know why Mexico still gets a pass. It's the Michael Jordan of vacations. For some reason, it can do anything it wants. And we still go, you know, but it's like a dollar now. I'll take a fingering from Jordan before I go to Mexico. Screw that. It just proves my point. I would too. For sure. I would let. I would blow Michael Jordan every day in the month of March before I'd ever take a trip to Mexico. Morning sickness, Medicaid. KUPD. It's John Holberg here from the Morning Sickness for Lifechangerloan.com so, as you know by now, if I'm telling you about a product, I am using it. And that's because I don't want to be accused of steering you the wrong direction. I've told you that most clients of Life Changer Loan pay off their mortgage in about five years. That means you're not paying 30 years of interest. So on top of paying off your mortgage in five years because all your money goes to the principal first, you're going to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on it. Isn't tricky. Nothing about this should have you roll in your eyes. It's not magic. It's just math. Lifechangerloan.com It's John Holmberg here from the morning sickness to tell you about the Core Institute. People who met me found out that I've had four major operations in the last four years. They're blown away. I've had both shoulders replaced and both hips replaced because I was an absolute disaster before my surgeries. I was in pain. Now no one knows I've had any issues. People who hear multiple surgeries assume they'll never be the same again. It's just not true. I'm better than I've been in 20 year. Stop quitting the things you love and get back to being the pain free you you love. The Core Institute dot com. Holmberg's morning sickness. All right, we'll get to what it is. Here's what happened. Here's why I wasn't here all week. Last week and yesterday. This is the craziest thing in the world. And Troy Hayden of Channel 12 was texting me and he goes, what's going on? And he was asking because, A, concern, B, selfishness. He's got something that he was concerned about. Enough. I say this now out of experience
Brady
rather than going to a doctor. Well, yeah.
John Holmberg
Well, no. He's like, what was going on? Like, should I worry about what's. I'm. I'm ignoring something. First off, when there's no pain, a man doesn't react. I know that women love going to doctors. Men don't. And when there's no pain, men don't do anything about anything. So I, like, I will tell you from experience now, floaters in your eyes that are visible before your vision are a telltale sign something's going weird. Right? It's like your eyes are closed and you're seeing floaters. Well, when you're, when your eyes are open and you're seeing floaters. So I always say this like. And now I mean it more than ever. The Jay Schwartz commercials where I'm like, get your complimentary consultation. Go and just get your eyes looked at. Because they don't let you know unless they're poked or burned that something's really bad happened. I had two tears in my right eye. In my retina, two nearly detached and like, no pain. None. When it finally tore, no pain. And my eye filled with blood, and that's all I saw. So two weeks ago, Wednesday, I was sitting on the couch watching tv and I audibly, what's with all the goddamn gnats? Where are they coming from?
Brady
Waving them away.
John Holmberg
Some were real, which screwed me up because I'd get one every once in a while. I Got him, like, now. Little son of a bitch. Did he get loose? And I'm batting at gnats and driving me nuts. And then I'm in the car, and I'm like, these goddamn. I'm stupid. Keep in mind I'm stupid. These goddamn gnats are following me around. I'm at work. Jesus. The gnats are. We've got a problem with gnats. I was basically Navin Johnson. He hates these cans. I couldn't put it together so early
Brady
in the season for them to gnats
John Holmberg
it' cause the weather's so nice and the gnats are loose. We got gnats, and I'm swatting little bugs, and I can't get them. And they're right there. Like this thing is. It looks like I'm waving through it. And there it was, big. It wasn't like a normal little.it was a gnat swatting at it. So that. That was like, Wednesday. The gnats are still there, but I'm kind of ignoring them now. I'm just assume that's just something we're gonna deal with. It's a new thing in Phoenix, and I'm talking to other people. And even now, oh, we got nats. All right. I'm like, yeah, me too. So the Thursday, I'm starting to get nats again. Friday, I'm at work here, and I start seeing. I get these weird flashes, like these bright flashlight flashes in my right eye. I'm like, wow, that was weird. It didn't hurt, but it was like it looked when somebody's watch catches the sun and it hits you in the eye. It was that. And so I got that, and I was like, well, that's weird. And then I started to feel strange, like this foggy kind of vision in my right eye. That's not good. And I chalked it up to, I think I'm having a migraine. I think I've got the start. I haven't had a migraine in a long time. I'm like, I think I'm having a migraine headache. And it's starting. So I went in my office on Friday. Not last Friday, the Friday before. And I laid on the couch and Tripp walked by. What are you doing? Because he didn't like people laying down at work. That's frowned upon in most office places outside of hospitals and kindergarten. And I said, I don't. I think I got a migraine started. I didn't know you had those. I'm like, me neither. So it Kind of clears up and I just got a little bit of foggy vision, but I'm like, that's strange. But I probably exerted myself. I've been working out a lot. I probably did something, just kind of pulled the bluff, I swear. So Saturday I go about my business. I'm hanging out with some people or just that and the other. My friend Chuck Powell's in town. So I hang out with Chuck and nothing major. Saturday, go about my business again, have some fun. Up late, go back, lay down. Sunday I get up and I start doing these, this drill thing, this cool thing called blaze pods. You can see them on the Instagram all the time. But I bought them and they're neat. They're little light up pods that you can set up all over. And your phone will light one individual one up. And you tap it and it, it's a, it can be a drill for your brain. It can be a drill physically. So I had them spread out in the backyard about 50 yards. There's six of them. And then you stay in the middle and you just kind of do football drills where your feet are moving. So the cardio thing. And then the phone will light one up and you go tap it. Then you run back to home and you tap the next one. You run back. So I'm going. And you bend it over, tapping it, bending over, tapping it. And I go for about three rounds. And then the, the what ended up being the last one I run down. I hit the thing. And when I stood up, my right eye was like a lava layer lamp. Like I was looking through an absolute lava lamp. And I'm like, that's weird. But what do I do? Ah, that'll clear itself up. And I just keep going, not knowing that every time I bent over I was tearing it a little more. So I, I, you know, the lava lamp is going. And that's all I see now. And I'm like, that's blood. Like my, my, my body told me that's blood in your eye. And I'd touch my eye and I'd be like, there's nothing on the outside. I went and looked, actually took the camera on the phone and spun it. And I'm like, it's fine. Like, we're good. Something just popped. It'll fix itself. There's no pain. And when there's no pain, you don't worry. I wasn't worried at all. There's no pain. This will go away. So I keep working out a little bit, and then I'm like, no, this Is bad. Like this is, this is a lot of blood and I need to just ignore this somewhere else. And that's exactly what I did. I went in the house and I sat down and I'm like, a lot of blood. Typical guy move, dude move. Like I broke a blood vessel. It doesn't hurt. This can't be bad. So I go, you know, I had again my friend Chuck Powell in town and the boys had said, we're all going to meet up and go to Trevor's and have a dinner. Like, okay. So I go and meet them and at that point I had probably what appeared to be like a penny sized circle of blood in my sight line. So it's about the size of a penny that was just floating around in my right eye of blood. When I move my eye, it would burst and turn into lava lamp again and then pull down into that little weird ball. And so I tried not to move my eye a lot. That was my solution to that. Go through dinner with Wilson and Colin and Chuck.
Wayne
And what does it look like to them?
John Holmberg
Nothing. Wasn't just like yours showed us your eyes right now? No, no, that was post surgery. The picture of me was after I had surgery.
Brady
Okay.
John Holmberg
So I get, I get done with dinner and it's probably about 9, 30, 10 o'.
Brady
Clock.
John Holmberg
And I'm like, all right boys, we'll. We'll see you later. And I get in the car and I'm like, this still isn't good. And I'm at Trevor's on was a 36th street in Indian school. And I said to myself, I'm like, just, you don't want to do this, but you're gonna have to close your left eye and see how bad this is. And I'm blind, 90, no vision in that eye. And I'm like this probably not like
Wayne
seeing through a lava lamp gone.
John Holmberg
No, it was an eclipse.
Wayne
Wow.
John Holmberg
I could see light around the edges, but the black dot had now taken over my entire eye.
Wayne
Shawn Rockefeller.
Brady
Welcome.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah, no, I, I actually almost. He said he texted. Yeah, it's gonna bug Sean for a minute. Like, hey, not for nothing, but do you remember the last time you saw. So I get in the car like an idiot, close my right eye like a drunk. I'm like, I'm not going to them downtown hospital. That's dirty. Going to Scottsdale.
Wayne
Oh yeah.
John Holmberg
So I made the longer trip. Which you do when you're blind. That's smart. In an open air vehicle, dirt and whatever hit me in the eye at wind, just tooling around.
Wayne
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Brady
Have you ever heard the term Jeffing?
John Holmberg
No.
Brady
In jogging, it's when you run for a while, then you walk for a while.
John Holmberg
It's called lazy.
Brady
Former Olympian Jeff Galloway uses it with runners to help build stamina. Evidently, the Washington Post just did a story on the running hack called Jeffing. It's been around since 1973.
John Holmberg
It's been around since the first time anybody ran. Because eventually you stop running. Yeah, that's Forrest Gump. Yeah, I'm done running. And then he walked. That's not jeffing. That was being done running and then being normal again.
Brady
I guess you're done running if you just. All you're doing is walking, but eventually you start to run again.
John Holmberg
Well, that's all jeffing. What's the time difference? Like, what if I don't run till tomorrow? All right, Then we're all jeffing. Because if I run right now, I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna walk back to something else. Then if I run up the stairs, I'm like, oh, I just jeffed my way around. I've been jeffing my whole life. Yeah.
Wayne
So if you don't restart running ever
John Holmberg
again, you're done jeffing. You're done running. Right. You're constantly jeffing because you're between Runs.
Brady
I think once you start the run, you're jogging and then you go walking, then you're jeffing, then the run is over.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Then you're just walking. There's two very distinct things.
Brady
Your jeffing session is.
John Holmberg
No, you're not jeffing. You're either running or you're not running
Brady
because you have to start back up running.
John Holmberg
You're always going to do that, though. You run, you stop running, you run again. You're running, you're walking, you're running.
Wayne
60 plus years you've been doing that.
John Holmberg
Yeah. You're not like, if I started to crawl in the middle of it, now we're jeffing. Like that's the thing. It's like you run, then you crawl a mile, then you run again. That's an actual thing. But I'm always going to walk. No offense, Caleb, but I'm always going to walk. By the way, Scott Haynes said that he invented something called braiding, which is you do push ups, then you stop, and then you do another push up. Like years later, you're Brady, Brady, you're in between. You're braiding, you're in between your. Your 12th and 13th push up. And you're just going to take a couple years off.
Wayne
What number you on now, Brady?
John Holmberg
There can't be. This is such a stupid thing that you're always in between the activities. And if your two options are walking or running.
Brady
So if you went out and said, I'm gonna run five miles and I'm
John Holmberg
gonna walk two miles, you.
Brady
You ran a mile and you stopped and walked a little bit.
John Holmberg
That's just bad running.
Brady
You're running again. You said five miles is the goal.
John Holmberg
No.
Brady
And you jeffed it.
John Holmberg
You didn't jeff it. You just walked. You're being lazy and you're giving a name to laziness. You didn't finish the run. You quit in the middle because it got too hard and you started to walk because that's easier. And then you started to run a little again.
Brady
Jeff's advice was don't.
John Holmberg
No, no.
Brady
Just stop.
John Holmberg
Jeff's advice was you're too fat to finish five miles. We're gonna give it a name so you don't feel terrible about yourself when you quit.
Wayne
And your point was, if it was five miles and he ran three of them. He ran three.
John Holmberg
He ran three miles and he walked two. It's a good, healthy day. But you're not. It's not some accomplishment that you invented this. Well, I jeff it. No, that, that, that maybe he'd rather fart lick it. Then. What's that?
Brady
That's where you run and then you. You sprint back to jogging.
John Holmberg
Okay.
Brady
Sprint.
John Holmberg
That's actually exerting more lick.
Brady
Fart licking. Yep.
Wayne
I don't think that's.
John Holmberg
No, I can't.
Brady
I think it is.
John Holmberg
N. There's one over here for. It started confident and then it stopped. Are you pulling those off for me? Because I can't. See, this is new term johnning. It's when you beat off religiously for 43 years, then lay face down for seven days and start over. That's it. We're John. It's exactly right. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's giving a name to failure and then making you feel like it isn't. It's what moms do to kids to tell them you're fine. Here's a ribbon. I'm gonna go out and run five miles, but three of them I'm walking. Well, you're not. Well, then it's called jeffing. No, it's called quitting. All right?
Wayne
It's called fart leaking. And it's from your people, the Swedes.
John Holmberg
Fart kicking, Fart licking, Fart leak. Of course.
Wayne
You know, speed play. Flexible, informal style of interval training designed to improve speed and endurance by mixing high intensity bursts with lower intensity recovery periods. Fart leaky. All with within a single continuous workout.
John Holmberg
Fart licking. Also, I got an email. Of course. Birdie. No, That's a funny one. I'm not gonna do it, but I'm gonna.
Brady
Oh, I did it.
John Holmberg
Really? Yeah, I did. Yeah, with the Mongolian barbecue. First time. That was years ago between YCS and Viet Shack. Wait a minute. 50 off at both. I'll be right back. I'm gonna fort lick all the way from Viet Shack over to the Mongolian barbecue and get a pound of that. I'm gonna fart lick back over there. I'm gonna jeff my way around. Jeff ins. It is. It is. It's the participation ribbon. It's embarrassing to call it jeffing. Yeah, I was running and I quit, and then I started walking. They got a name for that. It's called jeffing. So I don't feel terrible about myself for not accomplishing anything. I got most of the job done, boss. Then I quit, and I did a lot less. And then I started to work hard again. It's called johnning. You didn't finish. I did. I finished johnning. I'm gonna go jeffing. I'm gonna take about six steps running and then walk to the kitchen. Everybody's jeffing.
Brady
Everyone's doing it.
John Holmberg
Everybody's dancing.
Wayne
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John Holmberg
It's John Holmergy here from the Morning Sickness and it's time to talk about Doug Hopkins, my home group and Doug hopkins.com let's talk about the people who make claims. For instance, a company out there saying they'll get you 100% of market value for your home. And a lot of times Mr. 100% getting that inspection and says, oh, 100% just dropped because you've got a few more problems. Don't play around with these people. Trust me when I say you can trust TV's Doug Hopkins. He won't play with the offer at all. If he does, he'll give you $5,000 guaranteed. You can start the process at Doug Hopkins.com or grab that phone and sing. Call Doug Hopkins. 18 Hol's Morning Sickness. I do have to say, though, that the Amber Alert worked. That was the most amazing. Did you guys see that? Now here's the thing. I'm laying face down on the couch, pissed off. Day 6 I got one to go. And that starts going off my phone. I'm like, I thought I'd turn those off. I don't care about anybody missing. Didn't. So this Amber Alert goes off. And I look and I'm like, well, I'm talking to the wrong dude. I can't find my shoes right now. There's no way. And I'm not going outside. So I dismiss it like all the rest of us did in the Amber Alert. Whatever. Then on the news last night, I see the dudes that caught, they recognized a baby from a truck. Try doing that again.
Wayne
What you pointed out was. I think they recognized the racial makeup situation.
John Holmberg
Well, there was a situation. There was a black baby and a white woman, and the white woman was doing some crack in the car. And then one of the guys in the car is like, I think that's that amber alert baby. And then they have in. In camera or in the. In cab Cameras. And the dude's like, yeah, that's the baby. And they're looking at their phone. That's her. They moved the truck up and blocked the lady from pulling out of the qt. And they got her, and the little kid got back. It was awesome, and it was a great thing. And then they asked. They asked one lady what she thought of it. She goes, are you kidding me? And then it said, oh, that's Savannah Guthrie. Like, she's. That's. I see they found the baby in, like, a day. Her mom. They've just upped the price, if you're interested. A million dollars if you can find Savannah Guthrie's mom. And that tells me that they're not real serious about paying. That opened up.
Brady
Open up with a million.
John Holmberg
Now, I don't want to go. I don't want to go old west tombstone on this, but does the poster say dead or alive? Because otherwise, I'm not looking.
Brady
I didn't see any poster that said said dead or alive.
Wayne
You just saw the increase.
John Holmberg
You saw the money increase. But did it say dead or life? Like, if her. And they're like, oh, we wanted her back breathing. I'm like, what? It didn't say that. Like, old posters used to make it clear. Like, back when we were men, we'd put posters up, and we weren't all sensitive about it when it's a dead or alive.
Brady
But that wasn't for a missing.
John Holmberg
Sure, technically, kind of was criminal. He's missing. Can't find him. You're missing.
Brady
Right.
John Holmberg
I mean, if you're putting up posters saying, we're looking for this guy, clearly he's missing. Now, whether or not you're checking on them for nefarious reasons or whatever, this is the same exact search. Like, if you're looking for William Bonney and you're looking for Nancy Guthrie, pretty much the same tactics apply. Right? You put up posters, you say, there's a reward, there's pictures. There's not a whole lot of difference.
Brady
Yeah. You know, and I think at this particular time, they're happy if you just find her.
John Holmberg
But I'm not talking about dead or alive. Okay. But I'm not talking about their happiness. I'M talking about if you're gonna put up the reward money. Like this dude, El Picho or whatever got killed. El Mencho. El Mencho, he. $15 million, but it was on. And by the way, you're welcome, Mexico. You tell them, Hobart. Yeah, our government helped. Our government helped kill El Mencho. We did that. We gave you the tip and you did it. But if you're in the military and you kill the guy, like Bin Laden had that massive thing, but the.
Brady
The dude, we never knew the payout there wasn't.
John Holmberg
He got money, but he didn't get like the big boy. Like, they had a reward on him. But, like, if Toledo found him, there's like a 50 million dollar bounty on the guy. A million. Good. But I need some insurance that if
Wayne
I find her had a poster. Like El Mencho had a post. I don't know.
John Holmberg
So does Nancy Guthrie.
Wayne
I don't know if it's in pesos, but it said 15 million.
John Holmberg
That's not pesos. They're going to give you $830 for finding a Mencho, you know. Yes, I know it's a lot of money down there. Why don't we put it right under a grand? No, they knew what they were doing. And I don't know if they'll. You'll get a nice bonus, but you're not getting the full 15. If you're part of the cops or military, that's your job. But if it's just Toledo wander around, he sees Nancy Guthrie's mom. Mom, I'd nab her again. Like, you're not going, right? You know, I'm not gonna save you right away. Get in the car. And then I'm driving around going, hey, I got Nancy Guthrie. I didn't kidnap her, but I found her and I want that million. And I can back that up. I've been face down for seven days. Like, there's. I have not been with her. But if I also find her kind of in a decomposing condition, no bush somewhere, I get half, right?
Wayne
Well, if they get the one caller that says, hey, just to clarify, why only half?
John Holmberg
I don't know.
Wayne
She's not full.
John Holmberg
I guess you just bring the cord. I don't necessarily want to do it, but I would call. I would do, like, the tiller. Hey, I think I found Anti Guthrie. But before I tell you everything. Yeah, what's that? What's that reward look like? Well, if you found her, where are we sitting? You should just want to report it. Yeah, I do, but I'M just saying.
Wayne
And can I get that lump sum,
Brady
or do I have to?
John Holmberg
I think I'd start treating it like I did kidnap her. I'm like, I think I want the money up front before I tell you where I'm at. Yes. I'll give you my routing number, and you pop that in there. When I see that, I'll tell you where we are. But as of now, I just found her. You don't want to put a million dollars on it. That just. That's just a giant announcement that they're desperate and they think she's gone. Still, I stand by my original thought. This is going to turn into a border situation, and we're going to have.
Wayne
I don't disagree, because if you're the kidnappers, you're like, hey, then keep up with the money.
John Holmberg
But they're not. Hang on to us.
Wayne
And then get, you know, Greg down the road to find her.
Brady
Y.
John Holmberg
And you split it five ways just to get her out of the house. Anyway, congratulations to the dudes who did the ember alert. That was impressive. And it was just some moving company, right? Yeah.
Brady
And they.
John Holmberg
I wish I knew the name of the movie. Yeah, they pulled their truck up behind the truck of the. And again, the lady was smoking crack with a baby in the car. Pretty sure you're supposed to call the cops about that every time. So it was a bit of a reward for that. It's a bit of a dice roll or a bullseye, so to speak, that they kind of got the big one that we were all alerted to a lady smoking crack with a baby in the car. You're supposed to call the cops. Everything happens depending on what kind of neighborhood you're in. Was there a reward on the Amber alerts? Did we get a couple hundred bucks for that?
Brady
I don't think it was at a play. When it went off, we were in
Wayne
Gamma, and the entire theater was, like, the worst.
John Holmberg
You get, like, tenor at Rhodesio Grill or something, right? You solve an Amber alert, you get a. You get a Brazilian steakhouse night.
Brady
He's like, we got trouble right here.
John Holmberg
What play were you at?
Wayne
Clue.
John Holmberg
Oh, I see.
Brady
It was good.
John Holmberg
Yeah, sure is. No, nobody's judging you.
Wayne
It's a camelback moving company.
John Holmberg
I don't think that's right. That was on the. I think that was on a.
Brady
Whatever company moving in.
John Holmberg
Yeah, yeah, they're all camelback Beacons. We at Beacons are always looking for children. Anyway, good job on that. Morning sickness medicate. Kupd.
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Brady
You don't want to do that.
John Holmberg
Copyright. Yeah, that's. Is this legal? About to take this patch up, man. I know. I'm starting to see tape. Let's just eliminate that. I'm unpatching. I don't know.
Brady
This is good.
Wayne
Dewey.
John Holmberg
I did post the before picture. I'll post the after picture a little bit later. So it's on our Instagram.
Brady
Plastic.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I got my shield. You thought I was lying about that? Yeah, I thought I'd make that story click.
Brady
That Was. That was his eye.
John Holmberg
He wasn't kidding. Tap, tap, tap.
Brady
I thought he should have done that. Look at. You're like.
John Holmberg
Now you're favoring. No, I have to shut it because I can't see out of it.
Brady
Put the thing back.
John Holmberg
No, it's fine. It's. I've been this way the first time I've worn the tape over my eyes just because I drove.
Wayne
Oh, okay.
John Holmberg
That's right. I'm driving.
Wayne
I know. I saw. I got a. I saw you, and you were in the. The turn in lane, and I. All I saw was your. Your blinker, and I thought your hazards were on. I'm like, oh, no, he's done it already.
Brady
We need to wait in the Termino. The Terminator glasses.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah. Just to close it up. Well, that's the crazy part is I look like. The hell's that guy's name? The Kano from Mortal Kombat. Like, I have.
Wayne
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
My eye turns red. Anyway, that does feel better. But now I'm just looking through the bubble, and now it's just wobbling around so weird. Don't do that. It's okay. Bubble smaller. Anyway, I'm gonna be focused on that morning sickness. Okay, you P.D. holberg's morning sickness.
Brady
Cher puts Tom Cruise in her top five of all time when it comes to sex.
John Holmberg
Sharon Sex with Tom Cruz?
Brady
Guess so. Like a.
John Holmberg
She's like seven feet tall. He's five. He's a baby. You.
Brady
During a visit to a private zoo,
John Holmberg
did you just try to do a share or are you okay?
Brady
Yeah, yeah, little share.
John Holmberg
Little share. Brady had, like, a gas bubble in his tummy. Didn't dawn on me. That's what you were doing. I thought you were joking.
Brady
It took a minute.
John Holmberg
Well, yeah, because it wasn't anything. It was just a. It's like Bus does that when he needs to go out.
Brady
During a visit to a private zoo, Mike Tyson once offered the owners $10,000 to let him fight a gorilla. They turned it down.
John Holmberg
Yeah, because it's a terrible idea. Get in there and fight a gorilla. I mean, what's the harm? Ten grand. What's the heart's $10,000? How else am I gonna earn that? How am I gonna earn that, Brady? If I'm getting the 10,000, I'm doing it. No, Mike. Who's in? Mike's team? We haven't talked to you a little bit. Mike, I think it's a great idea. We're gonna get this done. I think it's a terrible idea. I'm gonna have to go ahead and say I vote against it. One.
Brady
Four.
John Holmberg
One against. That's two. I win. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station. Hey, it's Larry McFeely here with my friend Wayne from AMCO.
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John Holmberg
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Episode Date: February 24, 2026
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Wayne, Dick Toledo
Podcast: Holmberg's Morning Sickness (98 KUPD, Arizona)
Episode Title: 02-24-26 - CONDENSED SHORT SHOW - TUESDAY
This fast-moving, irreverent episode sees John Holmberg and the crew back in action after some personal drama (namely John’s medical scare with his eye). The show balances raunchy, boundary-pushing humor with biting social commentary, including jabs at celebrities, cynical takes on vacationing in Mexico, a blow-by-blow retelling of John's eye emergency, and absurd riffs on exercise “techniques.” The team peppers their conversation with pop culture references, sports commentary, and their trademarked blend of mockery and camaraderie.
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On celebrity privilege:
"He can finger anybody he wants. I watched that and I’m like, this dude might be… it’s a little beyond poking."
— John, 02:14
On Mexico’s reputation:
"There’s a reason it’s dirt cheap...there’s a high chance, much higher than Raleigh, that you’re going to have your head chopped off by a drug cartel."
— John, 08:48
On stubborn male health logic:
"When there's no pain, men don't do anything about anything."
— John, 18:35
On “jeffing” (run-walk intervals):
"It’s giving a name to failure and then making you feel like it isn’t. It’s what moms do to kids to tell them you're fine. Here’s a ribbon."
— John, 31:49
On Amber Alert success:
"They recognized the racial makeup situation… and they got her, and the little kid got back. It was awesome. And it was a great thing."
— John, 35:03–35:10
The episode maintains the show's sharp, riff-laden comedic style—irreverent, self-deprecating, and edgy. John leads with a blend of everyman cynicism and acerbic wit, the crew riffing, needling each other, and jumping between stories with high energy and plenty of inside jokes for regular listeners.
If you enjoy boundary-blurring humor with plenty of local flavor, sports references, and a willingness to roast anyone (including themselves), this episode is Holmberg's Morning Sickness at its full-tilt, unapologetic best. Expect frank talk, brutal honesty, and zero filter—especially when it comes to celebrities, travel horror stories, and the absurdity of modern trends.