03-04-26 - CONDENSED SHORT SHOW - WEDNESDAY - Holmbergs Morning Sickness 98 KUPD

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness – Condensed Short Show (03-04-26)

Podcast: Holmberg's Morning Sickness (98 KUPD, Arizona)
Date: March 4, 2026
Host: John Holmberg with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Episode Theme:
A breezy, irreverent episode touching on workplace mishaps, political and social commentary, and the cultural intersections of sports, strip clubs, and relationships, infused with candid humor in the classic Holmberg style.

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Episode Summary

1. Starting the Day: Mishaps, Coffee, and Cacti

00:30–07:54

• Holmberg opens up about his rocky start: recounting a heavy coffee intake leading to urgent bathroom needs. "Full pot and about a quarter of a gallon of hazelnut mix. Sugar free of course. Don't want my feet to fall off..." (01:00)
• Parking lot misadventure: While texting, John accidentally walks into a spiny desert plant, all in full view of a pretty coworker.

  "It's not a cactus. Coca trees or something? Is that what that is? I don't know. They're just sticks with giant thorns on them. Let me tell you, they're not comfortable to wander into. It's not like bouncing off an oak; you stick to it for a little bit." – John (04:00)

• Brady and John joke about trying to play it cool after such blunders, but John insists,

  "No, there was no playing it off. No, I never do that. That, to me, is the dumbest thing people do. 'I meant to do it.' You walked into a cactus. Of course. What are you talking about?" (05:10)

• Bathroom tales reach TMI: John describes his mortifying coffee/bathroom routine in detail, comparing the experience to commercials about cleaning oil off wildlife.

  "It should be a commercial... Did you ever crap so hard it's on your knees?" – John (07:04)

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2. Satirizing Current Events: The ‘War’ TV Series Analogy

09:25–18:47

• War as Reality TV: Holmberg riffs on how he watches news of current global conflicts as if they're a binge-worthy TV show.

  "The show I'm watching now that you guys should be binging too is called War. It's on CNN and MSNBC and they're all running it and Fox... I don't want to spoiler alert, but early on in the series, we killed evidently the side that you root for killed 48 higher ups." (09:25)

• Satirical comparison between the decapitation of enemy leadership and sloppy TV writing:

  "No government is prepared to have a flowchart to the 51st [leader]... After 12 dudes, you're not a country anymore. After 12 guys die, you've lost." – John (13:00–13:07)

• Brady and John banter about the implications, succession logistics, and improbability.
  • "We're sure of it. We couldn't name... the 51st most powerful person in this country, but we know Iran's top 49." – John (15:54)
• Notable Moment: Parallels drawn to the unrealistic writing in shows like Game of Thrones, Mission Impossible, and Face/Off.

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3. Politics, Principles, and Sex Appeal

18:49–25:54

• Debate over attractiveness and political beliefs:
  • John humorously argues most people would ignore opposing politics or kooky beliefs in the face of an attractive partner:

    "I'm what everybody says they want to be. I like everyone so long as they're good looking. I have no problem with your political beliefs; I'll let anyone into my life as long as they're good looking, no matter what they believe. I'm an acceptor." (22:12)

  • Hypotheticals on famous women or even Brad Pitt propositioning the hosts—emphasis on storytelling and humor over principles.

  "You wouldn't let MAGA Cindy Crawford blow you? I've got principles. You're an idiot. That's your biggest one." – John (21:49)

• Playful banter about astrology, the MAGA crowd, Bernie Sanders, TLC, and social conventions.

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4. Kyler Murray’s Goodbye Text & Sports Leadership

27:29–33:40

• Discussion of Kyler Murray’s departure from the Arizona Cardinals:
  • Reads and analyzes Murray’s farewell text as passive-aggressive, reinforcing the perception that Murray lacks leadership.

  "'I wanted nothing more than to be the one to end the 77 year drought for this organization. I'm sorry I failed us.' ...That is such a move. That is a line that basically takes a swing at the Cardinals. 77 years, they've been. They've sucked and I couldn't pull them out..." – John (28:05–28:30)

• Advice on professional exits:

  "I'm not a PR guy, but I just wrote; you like to say, take the high road a little bit." – Brady (29:39)

• Analysis of Murray’s athleticism vs. attitude, and why other teams might take a risk on him.
• Organizational dysfunction as a theme: The plight of Cardinals and Jets players/teams.

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5. Listener Mail: Menopause PSA

33:40–43:13

• Email from Dr. Ben, a gynecologist: Offers a tongue-in-cheek but heartfelt PSA to men about perimenopause and menopause.

  "If you have a wife who sails through menopause, no issues at all, she's a sociopath. The things happening to her body are extraordinary. If she remains unaffected, she is absolutely crazy. Is going to kill you." – Dr. Ben, via email (35:16)

• John and Brady riff on the topic, comparing it to raising and eventually "putting down" old dogs; extend metaphor into the men’s perspective.
• Extended bit on what would happen if men had periods or menopause:

  "If guys had periods... we'd all just walk around one week out of the month with pants that are covered in blood and every dude high fives." – John (44:00)

• Memorable visual: “Period pants” as a badge of manhood.

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6. Strip Clubs, NBA Promotions, and Empowerment

47:54–53:56

• Atlanta Hawks’ “Magic City Night”: Discussion on the cultural impact of Magic City, a prominent Atlanta strip club, and controversy over the team’s night to honor it.

  "Why is it bad to support a completely legal thing that's a local business. You should be supporting local." – John (50:37)

• Debate over feminism and sexuality: Is promoting strip clubs empowering or demeaning? John argues it’s empowering for confident women:

  "You’re an actual feminist if you run a strip club because the only people you hire are women." – John (53:44)

• Comparison of local strip club culture: Phoenix’s lack of notable clubs compared to Atlanta/Tampa; sidebar on OnlyFans as the next big sponsorship.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “I walked right into one of those spiny, tall cactuses… It's not like the thing isn't visually warning you.” – John (03:59)
• "You wouldn't let MAGA Cindy Crawford blow you? I've got principles. You're an idiot." – John (21:49)
• "No government is prepared to have a flowchart to the 51st [leader]... After 12 dudes, you're not a country anymore." – John (13:00)
• "I'm an acceptor. I like everyone so long as they're good looking. I have no problem with your political beliefs..." – John (22:12)
• "If guys had periods... we'd all just walk around one week out of the month with pants that are covered in blood and every dude high fives." – John (44:00)
• "You’re an actual feminist if you run a strip club because the only people you hire are women." – John (53:44)

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Timeline & Timestamps

| Time | Segment / Discussion Highlight | |----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:30-07:54 | Coffee, cacti, and embarrassing mishaps | | 09:25-18:47 | Satirical take on global war coverage as a TV show | | 18:49-25:54 | Principles vs. attractiveness, politics, and liaisons | | 27:29-33:40 | Kyler Murray’s exit & professional self-sabotage | | 33:40-43:13 | Menopause email, relationships, and the “period pants” analogy | | 47:54-53:56 | Atlanta Hawks’ Magic City Night, strip clubs, and empowerment debate |

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Episode Takeaways

• Self-deprecating humor and absurd honesty are at the heart of the show—morning misadventures, bodily functions, and all.
• Modern social satire: Everything from TV news “storytelling” to politics, workplace mishaps, and gender politics is up for lampooning.
• Relationships, gender, and politics: How far would you bend your principles for an attractive partner? For a laugh, John says, pretty damn far.
• Sports and culture: A critical take on the NFL’s shallow leadership pool, and the real implications of cultural promotions—are strip clubs empowering or degrading?
• Listener engagement: Genuine input from a gynecologist leads to some of the show’s most memorable, over-the-top analogies.
• True to tone: The crew’s banter, language, and irreverence remain unapologetically “Holmberg.”

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This episode is a blend of playful cynicism, sharp social commentary, and the offbeat banter that keeps longtime fans entertained (and occasionally shocked). If you missed this one: expect laughs, squirm-worthy oversharing, and no sacred cows, but also surprisingly thoughtful takes hidden in the humor.

Transcript

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[John Holmberg]

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[Brady]

Scared the crap out of me.

[John Holmberg]

Did it? They told you?

[Brady]

I know I was coming, but I was in the studio recording something and right when you're doing, all of a

[John Holmberg]

sudden it was 10:30 and everybody was standing outside and we were all waiting for the guy said, okay, here we go. And it blew the thing up. So there's loud. So a whole bunch of people were outside. I'm watching them through the window and like, all right, when that dissipates, I'll go out and leave. It's ridiculous. So I get out of there. I had stuff to, I had to be somewhere at 11, so I was like, I gotta go. I want to wander through this thing. So I, as I'm leaving yesterday, I'm getting a text from. It was actually hella stray who I was going to go meet with. And I'm walking through the parking lot, which I've been through I don't know how many times. So, you know, you walk by the sidewalk to my car and then, and then you got, I got to walk through a little bit of desert landscaping to get to the car. And I've done this 100,000 times in the last 10 years of being here. And the only part of that chatgpt show that, you know. So Audrey, she's, she was out there. Yeah, she's very pretty and super sweet girl and don't see him much. I never see the other guys. But she, she's, she, yeah, she's, she's the, you know, she's nice and, you know, as my dad would say, no, no to look at. So I didn't see her, but she's parked in her car, she's in it. And I didn't know that. And I'm texting hella straight back and I walked right into one of those spiny, tall cactuses. I mean, I walked right to the heart of that thing. You know, they're the, they just, they look dead.

[Brady]

You didn't break it?

[John Holmberg]

No, they're just the, you know, the one I parked by. It's the sticks that kind of.

[Brady]

Pretty thick.

[John Holmberg]

It's not a cactus. Coca trees or something? Is that what that is? I don't know. They're just sticks with giant thorns on them. Let me tell you, they're not comfortable to wander into. It's not like bouncing off an oak you stick to it for a little bit.

[Brady]

Spears in them.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Well, tell me. Tell me about that. Because I know firsthand that there are spears in them, Brady. But they're just. And it's not like the thing isn't visually warning you that it's. You don't go. You don't hit it and go, this has thorns. That's all it is, is just thorns. And then I. You know, then you fight it for a second because it's. I walked right into it, I think,

[Brady]

is it a yucca place?

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. And then you walk away saying, who saw that? Like, hopefully no one saw that.

[Brady]

Yeah, you do the look around, and

[John Holmberg]

I look over, and the only. The only beautiful person in the whole building is in her car just staring at me. So I gave them. I'm sure that. Because they don't like us at all.

[Brady]

That's a good half hour.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Yeah, I gave them. Well, they're not going to talk about it on the air because that would be interesting. You know, they don't do.

[Brady]

She'd bring it up.

[John Holmberg]

She should have her own show, because that would be interesting. But they're not going to do that. But she. Yeah. So hopefully she saw the aftermath because I bounced right into it and then just fought it for a second with a few punches. And then.

[Brady]

Did you play it off like you did?

[John Holmberg]

No, there was no playing it off. No, I never do that. I did that on purpose. That, to me, is the dumbest thing people do.

[Brady]

I know.

[John Holmberg]

I meant to do it. You walked into a cactus. Of course. What are you talking about? I meant that. No, complete human error. Yeah. Just malfunctioned in a huge way. Walked right into it, not paying attention, and. And then fought the tree for a good second and a half. I mean, I wailed on it. I was afraid. Who won? Oh, it got me. But I got no marks. I got one here that's pretty good.

[Brady]

I mean, to get away from that. Then it didn't get you?

[John Holmberg]

No, but it hurt. Yeah, but I'm like, oh, I got. I thought I'd look down like I'd been broken. Needle in your arm. Oh, I thought for sure I'd have blood pouring on nothing. Not like I'm going to try it again to prove my point. But, yeah, it's never someone hideous who sees you doing that. It's every time you do something like that, you look up and it's like, oh, Just so happened right over here next door at the Video west, they're doing a bikini shoot. Right in the parking lot. And that's who I walked. That's so. And then she's probably thinking, oh, he was looking at me and walked into a cactus. Which wasn't the case because that does happen. Like a doodle. See a hot girl and then bang into a parked car or something stupid. So. And then today. I start today with the guttural growl that was less a warning and more an alarm. It was like, hey, pot of coffee. Because I didn't have my pot of coffee movement yesterday. Oh, so it was brewing. Yes. It was a two day. It was two pots of coffee ready to take. And it took me. It. Yeah. It was a. It was a wrestling match and I was not gonna win. I. I gave in. I gave in. It was as. It was as inevitable as aging. What happened to me? And I was like, you. You own my body. I rag dolled, but it was a strong but five flushes. I started to clean up. Well, yeah. And then I reached down and I'm like, this cleanup is pointless. I needed, you know, the people from Dove soap and Palmolive to come like, there was oil on ducks. So I was like, I just quit a new commercial. Yeah, I just immediately. It should be a commercial. It's like we haven't had an oil spill for a while, so. Did you ever crap so hard? It's on your knees. You don't want to get in the sh. That it was, you know, so soft. It can. It was bad. So I just hopped into the shower. Turn the floor brown. Good morning this morning, everybody. But I feel fantastic now. Great way to start today. A great way.

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[John Holmberg]

Holmberg's morning sickness the show I'm watching now that you guys should be binging to is called War. It's on CNN and msnbc and they're all running it and Fox. And I was again, I'm slightly behind. Yeah, I was watching War last night. I don't want to spoiler alert, but early on in the series, we killed evidently the side that you root for killed 48 higher ups. Yeah, the 48 from the top down there, they keep saying, I mean, the plot is like it's hinging on the fact that we killed 48 leaders. Now Jack Bauer from 24 used to try to go after the head of the snake and that usually dismantled whoever was attacking. And then usually in the last couple hours, two or three of the underlings would take it. And Jack Bauer was really like strapping to get those. So that was a good show because it always led you to believe, you know, these operations, you gotta kill that you gotta get the head of the snake.

[Brady]

Theme yeah, they all say it.

[John Holmberg]

So this plot point they've got in the show is that they right off the bat, they get you with bombs and then 48 of the enemy's leaders are gone. So then yesterday they're like, oh, they got another one. And I'm like, that's, oh, that's almost 50. And then, and then the whole show takes this big spin to like now they're attacking Cyprus. And I'm like, who? Like, you forgot to write that part in. So now, now the plot's gotten where I don't even believe it's so. It's so far turning into Game of Thrones for you now. Yeah, it's the same thing.

[Brady]

Who wrote this? One of the main heads of the snake.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

They're having a three day funeral.

[John Holmberg]

Well, yeah, but here's the thing, though, Brady.

[Brady]

Do they stop and.

[John Holmberg]

Let me. Let me put it this way, because I don't like to apologize for bad writing. And TV shows are mostly sloppy. Like you said. Like, it's Game of Thrones. You get to the end and you're like, oh, the writing couldn't keep up with this awesome idea. And that's what's going on with War on Fox, cnn, and msnbc. Great show. Up till last night. They're lobbing bombs at, like, Riyadh and they got, you know, the bad guys are shooting drones into stuff and Kuwait and all sorts of places. Like, wow, this is a. The plot twist is that they're bombing people who are kind of their friends. And then I'm like, wait, if the United States. If the news came out on the United States and the Iranian leader came out and said, I have killed the top 50 people, who the hell's telling the army to do anything?

[Brady]

Yeah, who's left?

[John Holmberg]

It's just bad writing. Because I know for a fact if the United States lost its top 50 people in a day, we're surrendering. Like, we're not gonna. Like, there's a couple of dudes that'll go rogue a little bit and toss them. Who's in charge of the drones if. Who's making the call? And how did they sort that out so fast? If we lost our. Wait, if we lost our top 50 guys.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

No one would know who's in charge. Even the 51st dude would be like, it's me. There'd be like a week of sorting out, like, constitutional stuff and paperwork going, all right, if he's dead, then Brett's in charge of Brett's dead. Then. Then I guess Toledo's in charge. And if Toledo's dead, then I guess Chris from the sports stations, if he's dead. Like, they couldn't figure it out fast enough to have calls coming in to go, all right, launch a few more drones. Like, who the hell are you? I'm the mayor of Tehran. Teepee copy. Like, are you in charge? I need some paperwork.

[Brady]

Well, they have it. I don't know how many steps it's gone down, but, you know, the vice president steps in. The president.

[John Holmberg]

I understand.

[Brady]

And then for that stuff.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I understand. 4. You don't get to the 50th. No government is prepared to have a flowchart to the 51st.

[Brady]

Dude, it seems like, I don't know, one time, like when a governor died, the wife stepped in.

[John Holmberg]

Well, that happened with Sonny Bono, for God's sakes. His wife just.

[Brady]

He hit a tree, she took his spot.

[John Holmberg]

But that's my point. And then how do they know? How does the United States us. We could not for the life of us agree who the 51st. Most powerful person in. Who's 51st in the line of succession. We would have fights for months on who's in charge. Now we got C words in Washington. I mean, you know, the world would say, all right, you're 51st in charge. We figured out that flowchart. We wouldn't even think about it.

[Brady]

They don't want that to happen. That's when the military steps in. General or something.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, well, there's no the generals or who we've killed. We took out all their top generals, too. There's some sergeant who's in charge of the whole thing.

[Brady]

Maybe. Okay.

[John Holmberg]

No country on the planet. Private Joker, you're up next. Right. No, I mean, who's saying this like I am? Are you sure? No, there would be so much infighting that you wouldn't even have bombs going off. So the writing got sloppy last night with war, and I'm like, oh, if they're going to continue this way, it's no good. Well, Taylor Sheridan's been pretty busy with all his new shows, so, I mean, I think, you know, he needs to step over into this one. You can't. I mean, I get Brady. You're trying to say, oh, yes, we know the president pro Tempest have that. Yeah, they don't have it up to the 50th guy. Everybody agrees that after 12 dudes, you're not a country anymore. After 12 guys die, you've lost. And if we say, oh, we killed 48 of them in a day and they're already organized enough to launch, it's a. It's just bad writing. That's all it is, just really bad. The show has taken a bad turn, it's going to be tough to dig out from under this. I don't think that. I don't know. And then they had a great thing last night, a good plot twist. The Ms. Now people stopped cover, like war took us. You know how sometimes you're watching like, oh, it's like Gangs of London. It's just all action and then they swing over to this, like, moment where you're like, oh, this is great. They introduced a new character last night called Melania, and she gave a speech to the UN about how we need to promote peace through education. And right on the heels of that, the awesome writers at Ms. Now did a story about how he killed a bunch of kids in an Iranian school and then played Melania. Talking about schools are important. Oh, it was great. What a. What a. Oh, it was a diabolical, emotional twist. 50 people top, and we're sure of it. We're positive of it. We couldn't name Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden. We could not name. I'm not saying it's a side. None of them could agree on who the 51st person in charge in this country is. None of them. But we know Iran's top 49.

[Brady]

That's why we need the trading cards.

[John Holmberg]

Well, yeah, but you can have them all day, but they're not in order. Casey kasem only did 40 a week, and that was with pretty good research and numbers and stuff. We didn't. John.

[Brady]

I think they exaggerated on that.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I'm saying. The writing's bad. It's like a kid. It's like a billion zillion. Anyway, I was real into war. I was, like, popping popcorn. I'm in it. I'm watching last night, and I'm like, guys, come on. How much are you asking me to buy here? It's an awful lot. It's an awful lot. It's like Face off and Mission Impossible. Movies are for. I'm sorry. If you liked it. You're one of the dumbest people on the planet. If that plot had you, because it's just bad writing. And when they'd get into corners, they'd take faces off. They're like, oh, they wrote themselves. They painted themselves into a corner and then had the magic of, I'm not really who you think I am. That's what Knight Rider used to do.

[Brady]

He was never, you know, Tom Cruise.

[John Holmberg]

No, we're not talking about.

[Brady]

Ethan Hunt was never assigned to say, you got to take 50 people out.

[John Holmberg]

No, it's not how it works. You can take out seven, and then a country kind of looks around going, we still got to. I think we can figure it out. Okay, It's. Jesus Christ. It's. It's that Al Green guy with the cane. You're in charge. And then America would be like, I don't want him in charge. And then. And then we infight and the whole place.

[Dick Toledo]

Oh, nothing.

[John Holmberg]

Would ever get done. Somebody has to go time. There's no time out from Iran. There's still. There's still somebody making phone calls there. Or their military is just a bunch of rogue dudes who are like, let's bomb uae. Nah, I'm not buying it. The plot twist was bad. It's like the Star wars sequels. Like, guys, nobody's buying into this. This has just gotten silly.

[Brady]

Anyway, it goes in the order of, like, when the state was founded. Well, looks like the governor of Arizona takes over.

[John Holmberg]

Here's the other thing, you know, trickles down. In order for this to work properly, for the plot to actually work. And that's why I'm really. If I was a. If I was a teacher and I was, you know, literature teacher, I'd be like, hey, your story doesn't add up, because in order for this to work, you'd had to kill them in order to not have mass confusion. And. And we killed 48 of them. But if we didn't kill him in order, you know, I'd have to make some calls going, hey, I'm pretty sure Brady was 43rd. Is he around? No, he's gone. Damn it. And there's a. There's number 51. Has to be dialing up the first. It doesn't. It doesn't make sense.

[Brady]

Yeah, because it was all in a row.

[John Holmberg]

It's like waiting in line at the deli with a little ticket. All right, I guess I'm next. 52 now have the deli ticket numbers. Like, I'm. Please hang on. God, hang on. I don't want to run this thing. And then number 52, who wasn't real qualified for the gig, is standing there like you're in charge. What do we do next? Like, we surrender. We're getting our ass kicked. If I'm in charge. If it came down to the 52nd person in the United States, the only responsible thing to do is quit.

[Brady]

Well, we might want to shut it down.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. I am the. Are you sure you're supreme leader? Okay, where do I sign the treaty? These people are in charge. We're losing. The what's your Mount Rushmore? Podcast. The topic. Workplace sitcoms. My final pick goes against me disagreeing with your favorite band from the 90s TLC.

[Larry McFeely]

Oh, you don't like them?

[John Holmberg]

I love them, but they didn't want scrubs. But I do. I'm putting scrubs on my mom. Mount Rushmore there. Oh, you sneaky little bastard. You're sneaky. What's your Mount Rushmore? I Don't know. Listen wherever you get podcasts. Holmberg's morning sickness. I like that Christy Gnome. I don't care about her politics. I'm old school. If you're hot, your politics are what I think, too. At least to your face. Nothing about. I never understood that. Had a dude email me yesterday when Jimmy Whisman was on. He goes, I thought that comedian was hilarious. Really enjoyed him till he revealed himself as a lib cuck. Screw that guy. Hard pass. And I'm like, was he funny up to that? Yep. And all he said was, trump's a bad person. He can feel that way and still be funny. Can he? Nope. If there's a gorgeous model that wants to hit her knees for you and the thing she says right before is, don't you just hate Donald Trump? Hard pass. Yup. Yeah. Me. I do. I do, too. I think we should be socialists. Yeah, me too. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it doesn't like my politics being for sale in the moment changes nothing. Sold changes nothing. I could keep my core foundations to myself for eight minutes of a blowjob. I think Mom Donnie's the smartest man in America. Me too. But we don't do that anymore. Remember when we were a quality nation, we used to lie to women to get blown. We'd tell them anything. Not anymore. They pipe off with, I'm if she has a MAGA hat on, but she looks like Cindy Crawford in her heyday. There are people who'd be like, never. You're out of your mind, you idiots. We've lost our way. Indeed you are. Officially. You know how I know you're gay? You wouldn't let MAGA Cindy Crawford blow you. I've got principles. You're an idiot. That's your biggest one. Wow. Margot Robbie wants to blow you and talk a little about socialism. Like, in what order? Sign me up. Yeah. Cause I'll do it either way. But I just need to know what to prep for. She gonna talk socialism, then blow me, or afterwards, when I want her to leave dinner, Bernie Sanders house. No problem. I would cuck with Bernie in the room spouting his deals. If you, Margot Robbie, would like to blow you. And in the meantime, I'm going to give you some information about how I feel about socialism. Start now. You got it, Bernie. Even you can't ruin this. First things first. The hierarchy is Never the top 1%. It's like, oh, God. What? What is that old Jew saying? Oh, God, pass the baby. What can it go. Anyway, the good thing about Socialism is. I'm next. You wouldn't let a model blow you because of her political views? Like they matter. Like she's changing the planet. What would we talk about? She can't talk right now. What are we talking? What do you mean conversations? Your mouth's full. Well, you said that about AOC too. I'd let her AOC bob on me for an hour and the whole time she just. She'd take a break and go to hands and go. And another thing I hate about Trump, and I would tolerate it because AOC has got a nice set of cans. I. Technically, what I am is a beautiful human being. I'm what everybody says they want to be. I like everyone so long as they're good looking. I have no problem with your political beliefs. I'll let anyone into my life as long as they're good looking, no matter what they believe. I'm an acceptor. Brett, you want to talk about your wacky religion or, you know, God forbid, astrology? Start bashing into me with astrology and you're kind of serious about it. I'll handle the whole thing. It's like, oh, my God, we're both Leos. This is. Oh, yeah, it's fun, right? But if you start going, your rising sign means that you're in. Oh, boy, here we go. She better be really hot.

[Brady]

She's a Virgo. You're not gonna get along.

[John Holmberg]

What time are you born and in what city? I don't know. 8:O. 8:00am Hammond, Indiana. You can do a chart on that. After you blow me. Whatever you want and wherever you want. I was born. Yeah, exactly. What makes this blowjob happen faster? Well, if you were born in Puerto Rico, C. And anytime after 10. 10:02. Oh, my God. It's all aligning. I know. It's crazy, right? The stars. We're idiots. People saying they wouldn't let a guy. You know, somebody. I let a. You know, like, Brad Pitt wanted to blow me. All right. Why not? That's a good story for later. Brady loses mine. Hey, guess who blew me last night. What? I met Brad Pitt. Oh, that's awesome. I remember he was in that movie, like. Yeah, I know some good movies, right? He blew me. What? Yeah, I let that happen.

[Brady]

The guy from Meet Jim Black?

[John Holmberg]

Close enough. Yeah, that handsome devil took me to town. Why'd you do that? For this very reason to talk to you about it. Anyway, I'm on a different plane. I guess I'm just higher than most people. I'm not as petty. Isn't that right, Brad? No, not at all. I'm not as petty as all of you who won't even be friends with somebody good looking. If they have the wrong political views, I'll let them blow me. I'm equal. Equal opportunity. I don't know anybody's political views. I don't care. You start spewing them off, you're gonna annoy me. But if you're hot enough, I'm gonna agree with you.

[Brady]

I do. On some of my friends know their political views. The boys, they won't shut up.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you got guys or ugly people and you're not well, but they're not trying to blow you, and you probably dodge them. But you don't have any hot models coming to you with Mom. Donnie, talk. Because if you did, you'd be like, they're welcome.

[Brady]

They're welcome.

[John Holmberg]

I hadn't thought of that. You'd say that all the time.

[Brady]

Wow.

[John Holmberg]

I really need to educate myself.

[Brady]

I'll look into that.

[John Holmberg]

Let me put some stuff in there and tap that brain. Oh, my God. I see what you're doing. Yeah. I just want to tie to it. And I don't even care if, like, she's like, just tell me you love Mandami in the middle of blowing. Yes. It really gets me off. All right. I'd moan his name. What happened to us as a nation? As men. As men. You sell your soul for that kind of stuff? Yeah, we used to do it all the time. Whatever needs to happen. Back when this country was great, we used to do that.

[Brady]

I think the Curb youb Enthusiasm episode,

[John Holmberg]

boning that Palestinian lady. And he's like, and she hated the Jews, and she was really hot. That was. And he's 70 something years old. He's from a time when that was okay. His friends would yell at him, I can't believe you're doing this. He's like, it's good stuff. They tried to protest because she had a chicken restaurant. It was great when we were a great country. A great country. Not anymore. We act a fool all the time. The word. This one says, what if Dua Lipa started talking about how she's a Pratt fan? Well, if I don't deserve it, who does? That would be the next thing out of my. Where's your gavel? I'd start singing Going to the River. All right, buddy. That relic would be. I'd get posters and put them up on the wall. If Dua Lipa wanted to blow me and talk about Pratt, I'd start promoting his worldwide Pants Star Network or whatever the hell that thing is. I can. I can. Trust me. If Dua Lipa. He. She could talk me into it and

[Brady]

seconds nothing if we play some 3:11

[John Holmberg]

play it all day. Yeah. Taking my example. I dip did it for me. Take a love your money go it all charity. You're a really big fan. I am now. Whatever it takes. Homburg's morning sickness. People are emailing too, like crazy about Kyler Murray. He. He's out. He's basically out.

[Brady]

Farewell text.

[John Holmberg]

He gave a nice text yesterday that was very passive aggressive. But Kyler Murray's gone. It's not official yet because, you know, they'll wait for the new season to begin, which I think is the 10th. The new NFL season technically begins on the 10th. And he wrote to everyone that supported me and showed kindness to my family during my time in Arizona, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Here's where Kyler hurts his image. The one thing about Kyler Murray, we'll get into it in a second, but his big problem is between the ears. It's not his athleticism. And this is the kind of crap that he thinks he's getting away with, but he's just not that clever. It says, I wanted nothing more than to be the one to end the 77 year drought for this organization. I'm sorry I failed us. I wish this community and my brothers nothing but the best. And that is such a move. That is a line that basically takes a swing at the Cardinals. 77 years, they've been. They've sucked and I couldn't pull them out of the tr. They're just bad. And he's not wrong. Wrong, I was just gonna say, but you don't do that when you're. When you're. When your big problem is, oh, you're kind of a. You're not a leader. You're a. And that's what people think of Kyler Murray. He gets hurt too much. He's a bit of a baby. He's got his video game clause and all that. And everybody's like, I don't know. It says, I'm no stranger to adversity. I'm prepared for whatever's next. I trust in God and my work ethic, and I believe my best ball is in front of me. He's. He's a bitch. Nobody's in his corner saying, kylie can't do that crap. You don't mention the franchise's hundred years of failure. You just don't. On your way out the door you don't point out it's a flawed organ. I tried to be the one to change it. Even I couldn't do it. What a mess back there. Anyway, thanks for your time. He's a bitch. That was a passive aggressive swing at the Cardinals because he's a baby. And when you've got a reputation of being a baby, all you do is type out, my time here has been fantastic. I got to live out my dream. And the Cardinals gave me that opportunity. I will forever be in debt to them. Thank you. Onto the next adventure. Kyler Murray. That's it. I'm not a PR guy, but I

[Brady]

just wrote, you like to say, take the high road a little bit.

[John Holmberg]

It isn't the high road. It's a bitch road. He didn't even take high or low. He went bitch. He went personal. Here's my biggest flaw, as it's seen by everybody in football, is that I'm a bad leader. I'm a bitch. I personalize things and I take little catty scratches. And he did it on his way out.

[Brady]

I tried to help the worst organization in National Football League.

[John Holmberg]

It's passive aggressive crap. It's what kids call gaslighting. Well, he's never had a good PR person. I mean, look at the whole thing when he was wearing the Michael Victors, you know, nobody. That's the problem with Kyler Murray. Nobody's on his team. He has no consigliere. He has no one that's sitting back on Kyler. Don't do this. Like, let me see your tweet before you tweet it. Yeah, and if I saw that, be like, kyler, this is great, but the middle of this is going to be construed as bitch. And if he says, oh, you're fired, like, then you're a bitch. Like, you can't hear what other people are reading in. That is going to hurt you. You're not getting the Cardinals. Everyone knows they suck. There's no reason to kick this dead horse. But what you're doing is a bitch move. And people will see that more than they'll see that the Cardinals stink. We already knew one thing. You're trying to reintroduce yourself to the rest of the league as a guy. Like, look, I'm ready to move on. Let's put this behind me. My time in Arizona was amazing. I wish it could have gone better, but I'll just keep trucking along. That's it. You just have to. But he personalized it by saying, they're bad. You know they're how horrible they're. I couldn't, there's nothing I could do. I'm. I'm. I trust in God and my athleticism. But even that couldn't help me out with the Cardinals. It's a bitch move. Now that said, for 9 million a year, 10 million a year, every team that needs a quarterback should take a flyer on Kyler Murray because it isn't his fault that the team was bad. In fact, of his, I think he's like 38 and 48 as a quarterback. About 10 of those 38 wins are him single handedly winning the game. They never gave him an offensive line. He always had them. The team was always injured. There was coaching changes constantly. Like this dude never had a chance. And I've always said this about Kyler Murray. He's. He's got his flaws for sure. He's not perfect, but if somebody ever got hold of what the athleticism and that arm, that Dude's arm is 65 yards on a flicker. He has a rocket pro arm. It is a baseball arm. And the dude is the best athlete on the field almost all the time. And if he wasn't a bitch and somebody could have corralled that mind of his in the last six years and made him a, you know, made him see, like what? Here's where your bitch moves are. And you keep doing it. The fact that his agent even, you know, he allowed the Cardinals to even introduce the. You gotta practice, you gotta watch tape for an hour. No video games on Tuesdays. And like if that was in his contract, that was them announcing you're a. We're trying to fix that. His agent should have said no. But if Kyler Myth people, they've linked him to my Steelers. Like would you take him? I'm like, in a second. Cardinals are paying the 30 million dollar dead money. Steelers pick them up for 10 million. Yeah, worth a shot. You make an incentive laden deal that's easy to cut, no guarantees, you're on a prove it contract. You were the jets and the Cardinals. Whenever they cut someone, you can never sit back and go, yeah, but that guy sucks. No, he was a Jet or a Cardinal. It's the organization sucks. You got to give them another chance. He might, he might suck. You might be right. But right now he's cheap and he's a super athlete. Update Holmberg's morning sickness. I got this interesting, very interesting email, by the way. The word again at seven o' clock for the Metallica, disappear to the sphere is Cliff. Cliff is the word for seven. It starts off with a statement I think may actually be very true. Says Dear Holmberg. I think I'm probably your only gynecologist listener in 25 years. I've never heard from a gynecologist who's listened. Not a one. I live in the beautiful city of Houston, Texas. I listen daily on the podcast. Well, thanks for picking up the podcast. It's doing great. I grew up listening to you. I'm 36 years old. Oh my God. I literally have been checking in with this station since my dad introduced me to it for 20 plus years. Oh, second gen means he was 15 or so and now he's a honey hole fixer. Says. Anyway, I think you're the place I should go to to talk about this since your audience is mainly men in their 30s, 40s, and 50s and you've joked about how your dad was afraid of menopause. Most men the age I've mentioned are dealing with menopausal wives. There's perimenopause, which also can present eight to 10 years prior to real menopause. Oh, is that a real eight to ten years? You can start for a woman in her late 30s. No one ever talks to men about how to deal with it. We're all just on pins and needles about what a woman's going through. So as a professional, let me tell you this. If your wife complains about menopause symptoms and not just hot flashes, but behavioral issues, if you're noticing that, she's off her rocker, first off, it's hormonal. That's very true. And my advice to all the men who have this is to get the out. John, your dad was right. Here's the other side. If you have a wife who sails through menopause, no issues at all, she's a sociopath. The things happening to her body are extraordinary. If she remains unaffected, she is absolutely crazy. Is going to kill you. There's no winning here. Vaginal dryness, no big deal. Hot flashes, deal with it. Also no big deal. It's the mood swings to watch for men. Because it's my experience that those are not just symptoms, those are her new personality. They never go back to normal.

[Brady]

Doesn't go away.

[John Holmberg]

So he's basically telling us to become gay. Yeah, I mean, he said, I just thought I'd give you this PSA. Dr. Ben Go Cougs, the Houston cougar. Or he's saying, live life like DiCaprio. Yeah, just keep catching beforehand. Go back and deal with the period 8 to 10 years and then menopause. He said it's the perimenopause is an 8 to 10 year run. Then menopause. Because that's the pre. That's the trailers to the movie you went to see.

[Brady]

Yeah, I thought, you know, I'd always hear once they crossed over, it got better, but they had to.

[John Holmberg]

Well, because it isn't. You're not free. Well, it depends.

[Brady]

Years or whatever.

[John Holmberg]

According to Dr. Ben, once they get out of it, whatever you just saw is who they are now. Oh, my God. So, you know, seven years. You're just used to it. I don't know how it works. My dad was horrified of it. Used to talk about it all the time. But you know, it's from a doctor that's not even me talking about. That's an actual doctor. It says run for your life. If she's got moods. Yeah. Vaginal dryness. What man married for more than five years hasn't dealt with that? She's tired of you, you're tired of her. Spit in your hand, get to work. But personality changes, if you're starting to see those, I got a friend of mine who's his has gone crazy. Like, not normal, like crazy. Like just cries for no reason at all. Has to pull her car over and get rides home because she can't emotionally control herself anymore.

[Brady]

It's baffling for them.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, sure. That's not my problem. Yeah, it's not like it surprised you, you know? You knew about this. If somebody told you you're going to get hit by a truck when you're 44 and it's guaranteed, just brace yourself for impact. I think you start planning for it, you know, your doomsday prep a little bit. You have to be super aware of the fact that you just tried to cut Brett's throat. Jesus Christ. Did I just do that? I'm sorry. It's menopause. You got to learn the words. I'm sorry. I suppose that would be a good one. I don't know. I'm not dealt with it.

[Brady]

I think it scares me more that he says. The ones that get through it like a champ.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's. They're the craziest. There's a sociopath. Because if you can have that much hormonal imbalance and just look and go, I'm fine. How are you? She's planning your death. Men don't talk about this because we're scared of it.

[Brady]

Well, and as far as the beginning part, not knowing much about it, we're Scared of it.

[John Holmberg]

We don't even want to know. We don't know what your period's doing. We hear the word slough and shed and we're out. And we don't want to know. We're not educating ourselves on any of that stuff. Just deal with it. Ruins vacations. That's about it. That's right. That's. That's what we know about periods. And evidently, after those are over and that menopause steps in and ruin and ruins every day. We're afraid of it. But we're men, like Brady said. You just deal with it. You step up. You be a man. Yeah, my wife's a. Now, nothing I can do about that. I can either give her half and start over or just tolerate this weirdness.

[Brady]

So the doctor saying. Next brought up.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, kind of. That's kind of what Dr. Ben said. I'm not sure I agree with that. That's kind of rude. It's like a dog, you know? I don't like to say it that way, but a woman's a lot like a dog. You agree to hang out with it until it's gone. You don't just cast it off to another family and give your problems to someone else. You pay for its vet bills and you make sure it's comfortable when it dies.

[Brady]

And you decide when to put it down.

[John Holmberg]

That's exactly the thing I'm aiming at. Eventually, it's like, that's enough of this. This isn't getting better.

[Brady]

Look, you're in a lot of pain.

[John Holmberg]

Hey, baby, what is it? I've always promised you to have no bad days. It's time we. We ended this. You want a divorce? Oh, God, no. That would be giving you all this money. I'm gonna go ahead and put you down now. Oh, my God.

[Brady]

You're not eating. You're not eating. You're not sleeping. You've got headaches.

[John Holmberg]

You don't come here.

[Brady]

It's. It's time.

[John Holmberg]

Your coat's a mess. You just. It's just not. There's no pride left in this. It's so hot in here. This is what I'm talking about.

[Brady]

There's the flash.

[John Holmberg]

You can't even regulate temperature. We're on Earth. It's 80 degrees and you're complaining? That's beautiful outside. You don't understand what I'm going through. And I'm gonna put you out of this misery.

[Brady]

Fixler.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, Dr. Fixler. I have. And Dr. Fix will be on there. Like, who is it? Is it Jack or bus? I'M so sorry. No, actually, it's. It's that woman. Oh, yeah, I understand. I'll be there in 20 minutes. And he'd come by and he and Amelia would happy euthanize the wife. Man, that's. I don't know anything about this.

[Brady]

Oh, we're having a picnic.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Sit down with a blanket.

[John Holmberg]

You push around in a wagon for a day and let other people pet her. It's her last day.

[Brady]

You know what? Let's see what we want.

[John Holmberg]

Why are you doing all this for me? I want you to have the best last day ever. I don't understand you. Okay.

[Brady]

Shh.

[John Holmberg]

Sleep. Holmberg's morning sickness. This one says, hey, Holmberg. Come on. You're making up these complaint letters yourself. How else is it possible that someone named Karen in 2026 lacks the self awareness not to write the complaint letter or at least change your name? Dear Christ, tell me you made that up. Making all of us bitches sound insane. Sign, Sexy Suzanne. Well, you're helping the cause there, Sexy Suzanne. I did not make that up. I wish I would have. In fact, all I did on that one was. Was that you that printed that one? I leaned back and grabbed it off the printer. Brett. If anybody made it up, it's Brett, because I had nothing to do with it. I can't write that good. That's poor English, even saying that. There you go. You mean don't write that good? Sorry, Karen. And Karen, I also have to remind you, as you wrote that terribly mean letter to me, as I stood by you, I said, I don't know what you're going through. I can't imagine how horrible it has to be to wake up one morning and just be a For eight years. I don't know what that's like. It's got to be awful.

[Dick Toledo]

Can't relate.

[John Holmberg]

I can't relate to it. I'm happy a lot. I'm a cynic, but I'm a happy one. I can't relate to you being normal and then suddenly open your eyes one day and you're sweating and it's 60 degrees, and then you're just mean to everybody for a dec. I don't know what that is. I'm on your side. I don't want to hang out with you because you sound awful. But you have to know that if you listen to this show for a long time, you probably laughed at me making fun of some of those videos Brady has where I've said, just kill that and some of the things that are that Brett Laughs at that are just terrible. That maybe Karen, you laughed at, but today was your day to feel it. Somebody on this show made fun of menopause. His name is Brady. There was no reason for it, but he did it. And it hit you right in the heart because you're dealing with it and it's made you kind of an.

[Brady]

Sorry, I shouldn't be laughing.

[John Holmberg]

No, no, don't laugh at it. No. Karen's an unlikable for a decade and she's. You're laughing at that. Wrong with you. I'm sorry, Karen. That was uncalled for.

[Brady]

I read something.

[John Holmberg]

Well, yeah, well. Oh, you were sidetracked by something actually hilarious over. You were just distracted. It had nothing to do with Karen waking up. Being in just an untamable shrew.

[Brady]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Anyway, it's not my fault, Karen, I'd love to help you out. I know if men had menopause, we. We also would take 10 years to have it as an excuse to be mean to people. That would work out fine for us. Imagine if dudes had menopause and we just came home and were mean for like eight years. Women, we. What would you tell each other? You'd all say, get out of there. What an. He's not even trying to fix it.

[Dick Toledo]

It'd be Postino.

[Brady]

You'd be a loner.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. You'd be by yourself. No man could get away with that. My goddamn testosterone. Make me some dinner. I've had it. I'm hot now. I'm cold.

[Dick Toledo]

There'd be more Postinos than Starbucks.

[John Holmberg]

Oh yeah. The ladies would be like, you gotta get out of this. He's lost his mind and he's not even trying to cover it up.

[Dick Toledo]

Alcoholism rates in women would skyrocket.

[John Holmberg]

Some of these ladies sit around and go, it's my right to feel that way. I'm going through a chemical imbalance so I can be mean to you for a decade. Well, not all of you. Just you, Karen. That's who I'm talking to right now. You sound pretty awful.

[Dick Toledo]

You were talking about those 20 year old influencers that they. They deserve a 20 millionaire.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dick Toledo]

You know those guys, if they had to go through men opas.

[John Holmberg]

Oh my God.

[Dick Toledo]

In order to be there.

[John Holmberg]

We did that. Yeah. If dudes had it. Like I've always said that if guys had periods, we wouldn't even. There wouldn't even be an aisle for male care. We'd all just walk around one week out of the month with pants that are covered in blood and every dude high Fives. Hey Ramon, what's up man? We gotta get up on the roof and do some roofing. Oh, I see her on your period. You're in your period pants. Yeah man, it's heavy flow. And then we just gush out into those pants and we take those off and we put them in a special box at home and we wait another month to slap them back on.

[Dick Toledo]

I was gonna say just don't drip on the tile.

[John Holmberg]

Hey man, come on. Your period pants are full. You got to have the backup period pants player. Sorry guys, heavy flow Knights panties. And they would be ugly.

[Brady]

You run home to your dad on your first period.

[John Holmberg]

Dad, Dad, I had my period. Be a man today. You were a man. I don't know why I'm using Mexican roofers as my example, but if there's any Mexican roofers named Karen, I'm sure I'll hear from you. You'll be a man. Now put your period pants on. And then your 13th birthday everybody gets these weird asbestos thick ass pants that look like you're wearing a body cast. Bleed into these for five days.

[Brady]

It's your first set of big boy

[John Holmberg]

pants and you know everyone else is going through it to Ramon so nobody wants to hear your about it. If you're not unique, look it over there, that guy wearing his cast pants too, he's got his period. We deal with it and we move on. We don't complain the whole time.

[Brady]

I'll never forget when Ramon came in with white pants.

[John Holmberg]

Sitting in sixth grade next to Stephanie Stall Necker and they're both. Hey, what's going on Mr. Rochers and my pants are filled with blood. I think I am dying. No, no, no, no my friend, you're a man today. What? Stephanie has it do. She's, she's pissing blood everywhere. She is allowed to be a bitch about it. You, you have to trudge forward.

[Dick Toledo]

Coach Zellner, can we wear dark pants this Friday for the game?

[John Holmberg]

It'll be great. It's like ah, the jets taking on the Steelers. You see out there, Aaron Rodgers is in perimenopause but he's out. He's out for the day with just cramps, sadness and a headache. He's got a lot of sadness. Filling in for him today is Mason Rudolph. Now he's, you might notice doing his period pants this week for the year. That's going to be tough getting around. You think you can get around there? It's going to be tougher, you know, lack of mobility, wearing period pants out there on the Field. That's what we'd do. We'd be men. Wrap it up with some toilet paper, put on those big old asbestos pants, and everyone would understand. Zero excuses. Holmberg's morning sickness. The Atlanta Hawks. Atlanta is known for its strip clubs. Like. Like, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is great. So the Atlanta Hawks decided, well, let's just have Magic City Night and, like, honor the strip clubs that all these NBA guys like. And our audience loves this. Like, the audience. NBA audience in Atlanta, they like strip clubs. And that's where I mean, the Gold Club. TI Ray Lewis killed a guy at a strip club down there. Got away with it because people were like, the strip clubs are fun. Every rapper from the dirty South. It's all about the strip clubs. And I've never been. I'm not a big strip club fan, but they say Atlanta and Tampa have the best in the world. There's one in Tampa called Mos Venus that's supposed to be. We went by it, and it's big. It's right off the freeway there in Tampa. It's a monster. But.

[Dick Toledo]

Well, and that has, like, legendary status.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, in the. But evidently, so does this stuff in Atlanta. So Magic City Night was something the Hawks were going to do. And one of their players, Luke Cormel, says, I don't like the San Antonio Spurs. It wasn't even their player. I guess it was a guy for the spurs. Says Luke Cornett's passionate plea to the Atlanta Hawks isn't stopping them from hosting Magic City Night. Says, don't worry, Luke. No strippers will work the party at the game. The spurs center spoke out Monday, calling the Hawks to scrap their plan to honor the iconic strip club in Atlanta when they host the Orlando Magic. Magic come to town. Magic City Night. Yeah. And Luke's like, no. And they were gonna have wings and food and merch and music and T.I. who made it, put it on the map. There's songs that are Magic City's mentioned. It's just tons of raps, cardi Bs in there. Future TI2 chains, dude's content, live crew. What it says. He says it's claiming it sends a bad message to women. And Al Horford, who played for the Hawks back in the early in the aughts they call it. He said, I give praise to Luke Cornett and said that this is not a good idea. A rep for the Hawks tells us that the plans haven't changed at all. And there have been no talks of calling an audible. Good for you. Atlanta Hawks now isn't this, the mixed message. Yes. Does it send a bad message to women or does it send a great message to women to say, you know what, that's a legitimate job and you're making you're paying ends, you're making ends meet and you're paying your bills and you're. And we support you no matter what you choose to do? It says. The team's initial statement on the promotion didn't mention the adult nature of the establishment, nor did they say any of the dancers would be present. There's no real point to it. So the. From the food to the music, we're an exclusive merchandise. We're excited to team up with Magic City to create an authentic, true to Atlanta inspired game experience. This tells me two things. Atlanta's got a problem with attendance and Magic City threw some money their way and they're like, all right, we'll do that. So that's basically what this is.

[Dick Toledo]

Did you mention, are they featured at halftime?

[John Holmberg]

No, no, no. They're not doing anything.

[Brady]

That would be spectacular.

[John Holmberg]

Why is it bad to support a completely legal thing that's a local business. You should be supporting local. And the taxes of strip clubs in almost every metropolitan area are specially designed to help, like education and stuff and roads. Like, they make them pay extra because they are dirty.

[Dick Toledo]

No less morally constraining than all the legal gambling that we do with them.

[John Holmberg]

Exactly. You have, like, why is that? But it's against women. Isn't it against lonely men too? Then supporting a strip club is like, sad men. Strip clubs are not like dance against your will places.

[Brady]

I know. And that's. I think that's maybe part of the perception too. It's wrong that they think that they're. There's trafficking going on.

[John Holmberg]

But shouldn't women be, like, empowered by other women who are confident enough to do that job and willing to do it? Like, why would you yell at other women and say, this demeans me? You don't have to do it. Let's do mean it sexualizes us. Yeah. So do the Kardashians. You guys can't get enough of that. So the Real Housewives, and that's the number one show for women on tv. Men don't watch that. I mean, straight ones, but of course, everything's sexualized. I've seen Instagram. I've been to stake 44. Every woman that goes to stake 44 gets up like she's at fashion week just to go to the bathroom because she knows every eye's on her because she worked for an hour and a half to make sure everybody looks, and then she gets upset when they look. No, I like strip club night. It wouldn't make sense here. Phoenix is not known for its strip clubs. No, not at all. Like, people don't come here for, like, oh, that one. We don't even. I've lived here my whole life. We don't have. Bourbon Street's probably the one people know the most. But it's not like people don't fly in for it like they do. Atlanta and Vegas.

[Dick Toledo]

That's also, like, one of the last big ones here, right? Like, skin is small. All those ones on Scottsdale Road.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they're typical.

[Dick Toledo]

Mons. Venus and Magic City are gigantic.

[John Holmberg]

It looked like one of those crazy

[Brady]

girls is changing that.

[John Holmberg]

Yo, crazy girls is great. There's great clubs. I'm just saying, nobody's flying in, going, we gotta get to this place. That's a good move, Brady. It's an advertiser smart. That's what the Hawks are doing. Hey, these Magic City people handed us a lot of money. We're gonna bow down to this. I just think it's time we stopped bashing strippers. I think that's against women, and I think you're pigeonholing women who are like, I want to be an outward kind of exhibitionist, and it's not hurting anybody, and it's paying my bills. What's wrong with it? Why is only fans not, like, something like, I'm sure if only fans gave the Hawks or Sons or anybody a bunch of money.

[Dick Toledo]

Only fans night at the. At the Hawks game.

[John Holmberg]

I think what we're learning here is

[Brady]

my buddy who owned Bourbon street at one time said, I'm in the top 20 of employers of employees, yet 287 women.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

On rotation.

[John Holmberg]

And you know how much that would have been if those were men? You got to pay them 100%. You're only paying the women 70.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Dick Toledo]

So it's only, like, hiring 110 men.

[Brady]

List of employers in Arizona companies. And they would be up there.

[John Holmberg]

I never thought of that, Brady. But you're an actual feminist if you run a strip club because the only people you hire are women.

[Brady]

Pretty much.

[John Holmberg]

That's genius.

[Brady]

It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually.

[John Holmberg]

No membership fees. I have heard enough of this. So you PD.