03-03-25 - Trip Got Outbid At Hero Awards Auction But Still Won - Oscars Again All About Movies Seemingly No One Has Seen - Suns Are A Disaster And Booker And Coach Are Beefing About Communication

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: March 3, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo
Release Date: March 3, 2025

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1. Hero Awards Auction Drama

The episode kicks off with Brady Bogen sharing an entertaining yet chaotic experience from the Hero Awards Auction. Brady recounts his involvement in bidding for a coveted trip to Bali, highlighting the intense competition and unexpected twists that unfolded during the event.

Brady (00:35): "I won a trip and then they handed me an award later. It's like, here you go. It's like, this is great. The whole thing's about me."

Brady describes the bidding war between his neighbor Michael and another bidder, Trif Reeb, emphasizing Trif's masterful negotiation skills that ultimately led to Michael winning the auction after Brady deliberately stirred up tension.

Brady (02:36): "It was the best. It was the most swing your D power move I've seen in a long time. Greatest negotiator ever."

The camaraderie and competitive spirit of the auction evening set a lively tone for the episode, showcasing the hosts' ability to blend humor with personal anecdotes.

2. Oscars and the Decline of Movie Appreciation

Transitioning from charity events to Hollywood, the hosts delve into their lackluster experience with the Oscars. Brady admits to skipping the event due to a packed weekend of Suns games, while Dick Toledo laments the minimal political discourse during the ceremony.

Brady (03:37): "Everyone skipped the Oscars. And Conan, evidently, was great."

They critique the Oscars for focusing more on celebrating movies that seemingly go unnoticed by the general public. Brady particularly targets the film "Anora," mocking its repetitive content and questioning its merit.

Brady (04:22): "All this movie is, is a woman who smokes, has sex, sits on the couch..."

The hosts express frustration over the Academy's choices, suggesting that the real issue lies with movie theaters' inability to curate films that resonate with audiences. They argue that both the creation of quality films and the distribution model need reevaluation to revive cinema attendance.

Brady (12:17): "We need to save movie theaters. Like, put up movies we want to see."

3. Deep Dive into "Anora": A Cinematic Misfire

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the film "Anora," an independent movie that received unexpected acclaim despite its questionable content. Brady humorously critiques the movie's narrative, which heavily features smoking and sexual themes, labeling it as potentially the "Citizen Kane" of minimalist storytelling—though in a negative sense.

Brady (06:21): "This is overrated. 40 minutes of just sex, nudity, and stupid jokes. I'm sold."

The hosts mock the film reviews, likening them to "Siskel and Ebert" style critiques, but ultimately dismiss "Anora" as unworthy of its accolades. They highlight the disconnect between critical reception and genuine audience interest, underscoring the broader issue of film quality in contemporary cinema.

4. Phoenix Suns: Team Struggles and Internal Conflicts

Shifting focus to local sports, the discussion intensifies around the Phoenix Suns' underwhelming performance and internal team dynamics. Brady criticizes the team's management, particularly targeting Devin Booker and Coach Budenholzer for poor communication and leadership.

Brady (15:00): "If you want a serious franchise to go forward, you have to detach emotionally from your cute superstar who's not going to get your championship..."

He highlights a specific incident where Coach Budenholzer reprimanded Booker for over-communicating during games, leading to speculation about deeper issues within the team's hierarchy.

Brady (16:02): "The coach told him, you talked too much. Now, the only person that could have leaked that story is Devin Booker."

This segment portrays a team in turmoil, with Brady forecasting potential fallout such as trades or firings that could further destabilize the Suns' prospects.

5. Celebrity Appearances and Fan Disengagement

The hosts express frustration over the frequent introduction of unrelated celebrities at Suns games, using Cooper De Jean, a rookie Arizona Cardinal, as a case study. They argue that such promotions alienate genuine fans and dilute the local sports culture.

Brady (22:08): "Why in the world would Philadelphia fans have any reaction to that at all? Other than maybe booing or throwing a toaster they brought from home?"

Brady mocks the practice of celebrating non-local athletes, suggesting it undermines the authenticity of fan support and the team’s identity.

Brady (23:37): "We need an edge. Need some hard assery that goes out there. But what are you gonna do?"

The conversation extends to the broader implications of such promotional tactics, implying that they contribute to the lack of championship success by fostering a disconnected and passive fan base.

6. Concluding Thoughts: A Call for Authentic Engagement

Wrapping up the episode, Brady and Dick Toledo reinforce their criticism of both the local sports management and the broader entertainment industry's shortcomings. They advocate for a return to genuine engagement—whether in supporting meaningful films or fostering a passionate and involved fan community at Suns games.

Brady (24:40): "It's dumb, and it bugs me. And I don't know why, because I'm not a fan of the Cardinals. And I just don't understand why maybe."

Their closing remarks serve as a rallying cry for listeners to demand better from both the film industry and local sports organizations, emphasizing the need for authenticity and quality to revive interest and success.

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Notable Quotes:

• Brady on Auction Negotiations (02:36): "It was the best. It was the most swing your D power move I've seen in a long time. Greatest negotiator ever."

• Brady on "Anora" (04:22): "All this movie is, is a woman who smokes, has sex, sits on the couch..."

• Brady on Suns' Management (15:00): "If you want a serious franchise to go forward, you have to detach emotionally from your cute superstar who's not going to get your championship..."

• Brady on Celebrity Promotions (22:08): "Why in the world would Philadelphia fans have any reaction to that at all?"

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This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness offers a candid and critical look at contemporary issues in both the entertainment and sports industries. Through engaging anecdotes and sharp commentary, John Holmberg and his co-hosts invite listeners to reflect on the quality of media they consume and the authenticity of fan engagement in local sports.

Transcript

[Dick Toledo]

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[Brady]

Still streaming Homberg's morning sickness online at 98kupd.com got, you know, a nice award, a nice thing for being friends with them. I guess that's basically all it is. It's just they, they're very nice to me for no reason at all. But there's the, the auctions that go on, right? All the stuff that happens in and amongst the fundraising and the. Oh, I want a trip to Bali. That was pretty awesome. I had to make everybody angry. Wow. Yeah. I won. I won a trip. It felt rigged. I won a trip and then they handed me an award later. It's like, here you go. It's like, this is great. The whole thing's about me. But in the middle of the auctions, there is. They had an event for sushi night at your house, which was one of the biddable events, right? My God, you get like 15 or 16 people over to the house. And then another thing that comes with it is you get to help with the opening of this restaurant or so you get a second night of all these things for like 12 more people. So you get a ton of this thing. And my neighbor Michael of the gays, Michael and Troy, they were there, and Michael bids on it. And then in the table behind us, a guy bids on it. And then Michael bids on it again. And the thing gets up to around $8,000, right? For the whole thing turning around, the guy bidding behind us is Trif Reeb. So now I'm in between both guys. At the end of the bidding, Michael like that. Oh, the auctioneer turns. Yeah, I know. Sandwich between trip and go over until the trip bails. Michael wins it. And then the lady says, you know what? We've got two of them, if you like. The second one for the same price. That or your last bid. And Tripp is the ultimate negotiator. Never seen anything like it. He just turned. He goes, no, 7,500. He dropped the price. And she's like, really? Is it security? It was awesome.

[Dick Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Yeah. But that's too much. I know. It's not. And I'm like, that was. And she walked over and said, he just dropped the price for everybody. Like, that's fantastic work. Yes, it's for charity, but there's a certain aspect, like, you bid and you bid, and then you lose. You're like, all right. And she's like, you want to go up to that? And he goes, no, that's why I bailed out. I'll give you this. It was a little less. It was the best. It was the most swing your D power move I've seen in a long time. Greatest negotiator ever. Wow. And then he looks at me and he goes, you. And I'm like, why? It's your event. I'm here because of you. Like, you didn't have to raise your paddle. You. Yeah, well, now I did. Awesome night. So now we're going to have some sort of weird sushi party next door. Trip's house. But in Bali, I don't know what's going on. It was a great night. It was so much fun. We had a great time. It was a very busy weekend, though. Had three Sons games since Thursday. Got the thing on Saturday, and went to a spring training game yesterday and just gassed myself out for the entire weekend. It was brutalized. I skipped the Oscars. I don't know, Brady, you said you watched for a little while.

[Dick Toledo]

I. Mr. T. The Marathon.

[Brady]

Everyone skipped the Oscars. And Conan, evidently, was great. But I. I did see this morning on the news that they said that the name Trump was mentioned zero times.

[Dick Toledo]

So again, the Ukraine was mentioned once by Daryl Hanna. Just only, like, one that I can recall. Slava, Ukraine.

[Brady]

Slava, Ukraine.

[Dick Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Which means enslave Ukraine. That's weird that she would scream that. I don't know what slots. Probably save. I don't know. But Slava, Ukraine, yeah, that's fine. You can have that and fire that out. But nobody gave, like, crazy political speeches and stuff, which is according to the paper and the reviews that I was reading from real people, they were like, hey, it kind of felt like they were celebrating movies. Too bad no one's seen any of these.

[Dick Toledo]

And they are about saving the movie houses.

[Brady]

Yeah, well, yeah.

[Dick Toledo]

A thousand theaters are closing each year.

[Brady]

Right? It's. It's our fault.

[Dick Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

It's like with radio executives that I always bitch about. Like, you're blaming the people for. For bailing out on radio across the country. You're blaming them? Yeah, them. Like, why don't they listen to what we're doing? Oh, listen to us. What are we. Oh, you guys don't know what you're doing. We do it a different way. Play more Taylor Swift. If we play 12 Taylor Swift songs an hour, why aren't they there? Like you're doing something wrong. That's training. Do the same thing with. Yeah, the movie houses and the theaters. It's like, well, you don't make movies we want to see for $40, plus dinner, plus drinks. And it's like, oh, wait, I'll do it at home. I'll have a. A can of Pringles, and I'll watch half the movie if it sucks. I don't care about leaving. I'm not making a full night. Yeah, for even a brand new one's like 20. I'll rent it, but it ain't going to cost me, you know, three hours of my life before and after. You didn't pay $17 for Pringles. Right? Right. Yeah. And I can pause it, go to the bathroom. I can quit. Can watch some of it later. I haven't. Like, movies are. They're not worth it. They haven't made good ones in a long time. And so I told Megan while I'm at the game, hey, tax me. Whatever wins Best picture. Wilson and I aren't paying attention, so I'll just see that. And I got a text at the end of the game that just says anora. And I'm like, oh, she's sleeping. Like, that's just thumbs across the keyboard. That's not a word. That's nothing. I didn't. I never heard of it. I've watched a few award shows. I don't remember hearing it in those. Never heard of it. And evidently, it's right down my alley. It's about some sort of a stripper. You can't stop getting naked and having sex, and then like some Cinderella thing. This guy sweeps her off her feet. I don't know what it's about, but she falls in love with her. It's. It's Pretty Woman.

[Dick Toledo]

I wasn't sure what it's about either, but they, you know, they went up five times.

[Brady]

Yeah. Yeah, they got a lot of them. Anora.

[Dick Toledo]

Independent film. Cost $6 million to make.

[Brady]

Yeah, I wasn't paying any attention. I. This morning, I look, I'm like, aoro. Oh, that's what that word was, actually. What? That. She was actually right. I thought it was just a sleepy person, you know, fumbling around with her phone. And the word anora got corrected and she hit send. And then the next thing it said, sorry, I forgot to hit send. Like, I don't even know what that word means. Okay, Anora. So that's it. And then I started to read reviews of Anora and, like, this morning. So people went afterwards and watched it last night and then reviewed it on Flixter and Rotten Tomatoes. I. They, I think they think that they were reviewing the movie to make it, so I wouldn't care to see it. But let me tell you, there's a couple of these people who have written probably the best Siskel and Ebert reviews I've ever seen. Starting with this first one that said, all this movie is, is a woman who smokes, has sex, sits on the couch, meets a guy, smokes, has sex, gets on the couch, then they smoke, have sex. I'm like, that. This is like, maybe the Citizen Kane of what I'm looking for, because I don't. And then, of course, people think it's about Russians or supporting prostitutes or like, all this stuff sounds pretty great to me. This is overrated. 40 minutes of just sex, nudity, and stupid jokes. I'm sold. Yeah, I'm in. Like, this is one star. Worst movie I've ever watched. This is the best picture. We're in big trouble. Like, I need to see somebody smoking and having sex this much. I'm like, jesus Christ, this might be the best picture ever. This one is another one says, here's what I saw first half of the movie. Two young adults have sex, smoke, get drunk, have sex, smoke, get drunk, sit on the couch, have sex, smoke, sit on the couch, engage in an occasionally uninteresting conversation, then have sex, get drunk and smoke. Then they go to Las Vegas and get married, have sex, smoke. Like, this thing should have won all that weekend to me. Second half of the movie introduces other characters. And from this movie on, from this movie, from this moment on, the movie becomes long and arduous path for new cast characters to smoke and have sex. Wow. I think. I think I should have gotten an Academy Award for inspiring this or writing it at the very least. But, yeah, I'd never heard of it before, and now people are, you know.

[Dick Toledo]

It kept coming up again by their, you know, like, the director coming up and the whether the other four other words that they got. You didn't get that impression. That was that kind of movie. Although they did say, thank you so much for the sex worker industry.

[Brady]

All right, okay.

[Dick Toledo]

Really admire working with these. We've learned so much about people.

[Brady]

Yeah. It says, honestly, it looks like a fan fiction script for supporting prostitution, which, by the way, is criminal. I love somebody that angry at a movie that they'll review it and then like break out the. You know, what you're supporting here is criminal. It's like there are prostitutes you can make movies about. How many movies have you watched where it's criminal? I bet you the same person watched like Ocean's Thirteen and went, oh, George Clooney and Brad Pitt are awesome. You know, that's criminal. What they're doing the robberies. Oh, right. But prostitution pisses some people off because it's probably Jesus related, but they get upset about the crime aspect or the sexual. But then they'll go watch any movie where people are just blowing each other's heads off and stuff. You never see that. Never see a review of somebody saying, I just watched a gladiator. I mean, so many murders. You know, that's against the law. Right?

[Dick Toledo]

Adrian Brody got his award and went on for like five minutes. He tried to play him off. He's like, no, no, stop the music. I've done this before. I can control this.

[Brady]

Yeah, I saw the clip of him.

[Dick Toledo]

And he threw the gum.

[Brady]

Throwing his gum at his wife and his girlfriend. Who cares? I'm not writing. I'm not. I'm not their biographer. They can. It could be a sister. It doesn't matter. It was such a stupid thing there. People are like, what are you supposed to do? And you realize I just won an Oscar and I'm chewing gum. You know what you do? You swallow it. It's not a gobstopper. It's not car keys. It's gum. Swallow. But he made a big to do. I watched the clip this morning, throwing it to her and she catches it. Yay.

[Dick Toledo]

She did Cat.

[Brady]

Well, again, who care? The whole point of him throwing the gum to her like that was unplanned. It just seems so heavy handed and lame.

[Dick Toledo]

So what I noticed was after he threw the gum, you know, underhand through it or whatever and goes to the stage, Killian Murphy's up there with the award and the hand that he took the gum in and threw it, he puts it on the back of Killian Murphy's head. You're a good man.

[Brady]

Yeah, but they're gross people. They're just gross, in fact, disgusting.

[Dick Toledo]

So was there any movies you actually.

[Brady]

Heard of during this?

[Dick Toledo]

Well, only from the Golden Globes.

[Brady]

Yeah, the brutalist.

[Dick Toledo]

Brutalist.

[Brady]

Which seems to be something that no one's seen but keeps winning things. Yeah. I don't get it.

[Dick Toledo]

You know, one that got a lot. I don't know how many nominations he got. Wicked only came away with one.

[Brady]

Yeah. Wicked. If I hear that stupid Wicked sounder again or see that bald lady and Ariana Grande starving themselves to death in front of each other. I don't know what's going on with those two. Ariana used to be cute. She has gotten, like, scary little. Like, I understand she was thin before. But it was, like, healthy. She looks emaciated and she's hanging out with that. That bald woman who doesn't look all too healthy either. And the two of them are like, let's see who can eat less Over a year's time. And they're just. They're disappearing slowly. Yeah. I used to like when Ariana was dating Pete Davidson. Pretty solid. Look there.

[Dick Toledo]

Looked healthy.

[Brady]

Yeah. Now, Jesus. Get her to a clinic as fast as you can. But yeah, I'm. I've. I have lost touch with all of film and all the movies. I'm not alone there. But them blaming movie theaters. Like, we need to save movie theaters. Like, what do you got to do for that? Let's see. Put up movies we want to see. There's one. Two. Yeah. That's it. No. Put up movies we want to see. That'll pretty much do it.

[Dick Toledo]

Catch all the reboots and streaming services.

[Brady]

Yeah. Do Black Panther 3. You'll get some people in there. But I'm about doing things to make the movies and then stop making them stream so fast. It's the same thing as when movies went to tape. Like when.

[Dick Toledo]

When it first wasn't like a year almost.

[Brady]

It depends on if the movie was good.

[Dick Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

If it was good. It stayed in theaters longer. So it took longer to get to video when it sucked. Seemed like. Wasn't this just in the theaters? Yeah, it sucked. That's how you knew a movie really kind of sucked. Is that it was. Then it went to video too fast. Just do that. Make it so we have to see the movies in a movie theater and then you'll start making that. But what they did was crush themselves with all those terrible Marvel movies and they had no other ideas. And then dumb America flew to those. And then when dumb America got tired of the Marvel movies, they didn't know what to do. And they start hitting them with anora and the brutalist. Nobody's gonna go to these art house films when they just Got done watching red Hulk smash black Captain America. I mean, that's all they really can think about. They're not smart enough, thanks to you. Holmberg's morning sickness. Holmberg's morning sickness.

[Dick Toledo]

Amelia Perez.

[Brady]

Yeah. Don't know what that is, but evidently there's a racist musical.

[Dick Toledo]

I didn't know that.

[Brady]

Heard of that. Well, the race.

[Dick Toledo]

Saldana is singing a dancer.

[Brady]

Yeah. There's a racist transvestite in that, but not in the movie. Racist. Just had some tweets and things that were wildly racist in the middle of it. The best thing I saw from the entire awards show, though, and I didn't see it, but I saw the clips this morning, was Conan O'Brien's joke saying, we're halfway through, so it's time now for Kendrick Lamar to come on stage and call Drake a pedophile. And I was like, all right, that's a great joke.

[Dick Toledo]

The reactions, fantastic.

[Brady]

That's a great joke. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, they're. They're taking.

[Dick Toledo]

He's like, don't worry, I'm lawyered up.

[Brady]

Yeah. Yeah. Conan is. Is great. So, yeah. Otherwise, though, the award shows, zero ratings, zero everything. And will anybody see Anora after this? Will it get a huge spike? I might peep in. Sounds like there's a lot of nudity in it. Sex.

[Dick Toledo]

Smoking.

[Brady]

Sex and smoking. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you got the smoking out, right? Yeah. You know, smoking is bad for you. Prostitution's illegal. That's my review, but I don't know. She doesn't look hot enough for me to, like, chase down the nudity either. She's pretty. The lady who played. I don't know. We'll see. I was at Suns game last night. Let me. Let me. Let me say this. First and foremost, the sun stuck. We know that. They're just a miserably bad team Thursday night. I've been calling for this for 18 months. At the very least, the trading of Devin Booker, because if you want a serious franchise to go forward, you have to detach emotionally from your cute superstar who's not going to get your championship and should have traded him after the first, not the half season. I guess the one last year when we realized midway through this team doesn't have what it takes. The Durant trade was a big swing. It's not necessarily meshing at a bad coach last year, got a bad coach this year. Coach Budenholzer called Devin Booker into his office on the week last week and said, you talk too much. You're babbling too much. You Talk. When I'm in huddles, you're talking on the floor all night. You're talking to guys. You're constantly talking. He's like, you got to pull back on talking. Well, after the game Thursday, nobody knew this meeting had happened. There was a weird post game press conference with Devin Booker saying, well, because somebody said, what happened? You lost to a team that has four wins on the road. What happened? He goes, communication. Nobody's talking out there. And he said it a thousand times. You know, nobody's talking. If we could just talk more. Seems like we're not allowed to talk. I know I talk too much. I talk an awful lot. And I know I'm not supposed to do that, but there's a lot of, you know, we need, the guys need to talk and communicate and talk. But, you know, it seems like there's. It's kind of pushback on that. Then the story breaks on ESPN that the coach told him, you talked too much. Now, the only person that could have leaked that story is Devin Booker. The only person that would have said, I was in a meeting with my coach privately and he said some really dumb. And here it is. And then ESPN ran with it. Devin's the only one that could have possibly said that. The only one. So that goes out and then you realize, oh, this toxic mess. The beginning of the end. And this is the unraveling of an entire operation that got people fired, probably traded, moved on and everything else. But here's the problem I have with the emotional connections at Suns games and local sports in general. Imagine this, you're in Philadelphia at a 76ers game, and in the middle of the game, the in house announcer goes, fans, I'd like you to welcome linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals, Dennis Gardek. Do you think that Philadelphia fans would have any reaction to that at all? Other than maybe booing or throwing a toaster they brought from home? Why in the world would that happen? Last night, Suns game fans, please welcome super bowl champion and rookie of the year, Cooper De Jean. Place goes insane and I'm like, he's an Eagle. Begin the booing now. Why are we celebrating Cooper De Jean? It's not like he went to asu. No ties, don't care if he's a high school product or not. Philadelphia Eagle. The guy behind me is like, man, pick six in the Super Bowl. What a year he's had. And I'm like, he's an Eagle. Why is he even being introduced in Philadelphia? Introduce anybody from another team in Philadelphia. Could you imagine The Patriots winning the championship. Please welcome in the front row, Philadelphia fans, Rodney Harrison of the World Champion Patriots. Gunshots. Possibly gunshots. Definitely a stabbing, but no. Here in Phoenix, this resort town cheered.

[Dick Toledo]

Wildly Will Howard at the University of Michigan basketball game. National champion.

[Brady]

Right, But. Well, that's the point. If it's Michigan, yeah, it's a rival. But why would Will Howard at anything, you know, a college game?

[Dick Toledo]

True.

[Brady]

Like, what is he doing here that we care about? Oh, don't forget, they celebrated the losing sons that year. Well, and it was. It was on the floor where they're still celebrating, like, the 1995 All Star Game. This dumb. Everything's. They just. I'm gonna have to go over there and apply for a job is what's gotta happen. I guess you're all idiots. Like this promotions thing you got going, it's so bad. Why did we even point out Cooper De Gene? You know what I'd have done? I'd have said, all right, hey, Vince Morata. Here's how you do this. You say, please welcome 2024 Rookie of the Year and Super bowl champion and future Arizona Cardinal, Cooper De Jean. Make a joke of it. Say something that, who cares that the Eagle guy is there? But nope, the city just lost their minds. Lost their minds. Then I saw Cooper in the Rah Rah room, and he looks like somebody you'd see at a Kid Rock concert. He's kind of got a weird little half mullet Mohawk thing. And comes by and I'm talking to a guy I know, Anthony, and his daughter's there, and she's in her mid-20s, and she just watched him. I'm like, really? He's a thing? And she goes on the big screen. It was better. I'm like, okay, okay, I get it. Yeah. There's our city in a nutshell. The reason we can't have championships is because there's no passion. It's all passive. It's like watching, you know, soccer at a park in Gilbert. Oh, the kids are trying. That's all that matters. Hey, there's a boy who played hockey in another city somewhere. Yay for you. You just don't cheer the opposition. Please welcome four time super bowl champion. You know, Terry Bradshaw? That's different. He's a legend. But this dude just won the super bowl last year. He's probably going to beat your team soon by himself. Because he's good. He'll do a pick six here in Arizona, too. Remember, we were all cheering for that guy. Just because he showed up. We're Celebrity hunters.

[Dick Toledo]

Maybe we can get it done tomorrow night.

[Brady]

We'll go tomorrow and we'll see if they'll. Enough. Please welcome from the Netflix documentary. Yep, tomorrow's gonna be a big day for this. We've got Kato Kaelin coming to town later today and he's gonna sit in with us tomorrow. That's real people still, though. Not sure I'm 50. 50 on people remembering him. I was with Jim Wilson last night. He's Asian. My friend Jim is an Asian and a lady at the Rah Rah room up front because I told her that Kato Kalin was coming on Tuesday. She said, oh, my God. I called my. I think she said, I called my ex husband and told him that was gonna happen and he was losing his mind. She goes, I don't know who he is. So then she says to me last night, she goes, is that. Is that your guy? And when I look over at my Asian friend Jim and I'm like, by looking at him, I can see where you'd think his name might be Cato. Yeah, probably fairly Asian. But no, that is not.

[Dick Toledo]

You said. No, that was Judge Ito.

[Brady]

Yeah, that's different. Ito. Cato. I understand why you're thinking that maybe that guy is Cato, but no, it's a different dude. She's like, oh, my ex husband losing his mind. But then some people are like, I just don't know who that is. Like, you know, Cato came in.

[Dick Toledo]

Wilson.

[Brady]

I know Wilson got beat up. Hey, Cato, follow me. Why do you call me that? Yeah, she just thinks Asian people have funny names. And I'm going to call you Cato from now on. That's not him. I loved you a short round in Temple of Doom. You were the best. I loved you. And what is it? Crazy rich Asians? That was the. You're. You were one of them. I know you were one of them. I love the orientals.

[Dick Toledo]

This is my friend Hops thing.

[Brady]

Yeah, he's my guy. He's gonna pull me home tonight. Dong, duck, dong. You were so good. And Sixteen Candles. But anyways, yeah, tomorrow we've got Kato, Kayla. Is he going to the game tomorrow? He wants to go to.

[Dick Toledo]

Yeah, he wants to.

[Brady]

All right. I'm taking the sunscreen bluff down next to Kato at the Suns game. See? How are you? Is everything good? Where are you living? Yeah, we'll have Cato tomorrow morning. That's kind of interesting, but yeah, Cooper de Jean getting the applause bugged me. It bugged me beyond belief. And I. I just don't get it like the city. It just doesn't add up to me that you don't have any. The boo factor needs to be strong.

[Dick Toledo]

They would show them on the camera during a promo or something. They did, like in the past, I'm saying without acknowledging him. Like they used to go around the camera. Like sometimes they call games of celebrities there. Sometimes they ask him, you know, is it all right if we do that?

[Brady]

Sure. But again, why the Philadelphia PR team at their. That their arena isn't going to recognize an Arizona Cardinal and they're certainly not going to cheer for it. They have. They don't care. They don't care. You know, and you could put Eli Manning up there in Philadelphia and he's won two Super Bowls and he's retired and he's got. And they boom now because he was a rival for. It just doesn't make sense.

[Dick Toledo]

When I did the Diamondbacks thing, if there was someone like that in there, we'd go over there, ask him. Hey, would you answer the trivia question of the game?

[Brady]

Sure.

[Dick Toledo]

But why Bobby Knight?

[Brady]

Bobby Knight is, you know, in an unrelatable field. Who is out of the game? Cooper De Jean is the rookie of the year. He's going to haunt you for years. He is. He is a. He represents a swing and a miss by your franchise that maybe he was available. You should have drafted him, skipped it. Ain't got to pick six in Super Bowls. Got a Super bowl ring. What do you guys have? Nothing but real happy to meet you. You boo that. And that's the thing. You make my point for me. It's like even at the Diamondbacks games years ago, it's like, are there celebrities from other things here that are unrelated completely to Arizona that people will, you know. Oh, you just stop it. It's the reason that. It's the reason there's no championships in this city. It's the reason everybody goes resort town, just happy to be here. We need an edge. Need some hard assery that goes out there. But what are you gonna do?

[Dick Toledo]

I mean, if he got out there and did a little mini tramp dunk or something.

[Brady]

No, he shouldn't be invited out. He shouldn't have been acknowledged. Cooper Jean's more than willing or welcome to go to any of the games. Why acknowledge him? Why? Maybe without even. Nobody knows what Cooper Jean looks like. You could have put him on camera, not had a thing. It would just been some guy in the crowd. He's a rookie from Iowa, for God's sakes. He's not even who cares? ASU missed on him. The Cardinals missed on him. And there is Sunscape waving like, yeah, superhero championship ring. You guys don't have any of these. It's dumb. It's dumb, and it bugs me. And I don't know why, because I'm not a fan of the Cardinals. And I just don't understand why maybe. Maybe it would sway people to be like, yeah, it's kind of got a passionate fan base. You'd never pull this off. You would never do that at a Pirates game. Welcome, Philadelphia Eagle. That boo immediately like, my God, we've got a team. And we're none too pleased about you parading your guys around our city. They do it everywhere. You ignore them and point them out, and then if they get pointed out, they get ridiculed. Any other city, I'm sure the guy would be like, oh, God, no. Don't put me up there. The fans will eat me alive. There's not. Here. They won't. You're gonna get. They're gonna throw flowers on at you like you're an opera singer.

[Dick Toledo]

Okay, I'll do it.

[Brady]

Yeah. Trust me. This crowd's gonna go n. Because we don't know what super bowl champ. We just cheer for everything. Suns fans, you got to get better at booing. You got to get better at booing things. And that is the team as well. Boo them. Let's do a wake up song, shall we? 585-9800. A good one, and we'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up. Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98.