03-04-26 - Entertainment Drill - WED - Details From Christina Applegate's Memoir Being Released - Sebastian Bach To Replace Dee Snider On Twisted Sister Tour

Summary

Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness – Entertainment Drill – 03-04-26

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode’s primary focus is the “Entertainment Drill,” where the hosts dig into the latest entertainment headlines with their trademark irreverence and humor. The standout stories center on details from Christina Applegate’s newly released memoir (including her past relationships and personal revelations), Sebastian Bach replacing Dee Snider on Twisted Sister’s tour, and a roundup of peculiar news from the entertainment world. The hosts infuse their commentary with personal anecdotes, sardonic takes, and playful banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Listener Email & Banter (01:02–02:27)

• A listener email from "Jen" kicks things off, ranting about workplace drama, women discussing menopause, and even shares a “fun fact” about high STD rates among the 55+ population due to lack of protection.
  • Memorable quote: “‘The 55 and older population does have a lot of STDs because they don’t use protection because they don’t care about babies.’” – Jen (02:15)
• The hosts riff on the absurdity, noting, “Women are even tired of women who called in mad about menopause this morning... quit yelling at me.” – John (02:27)

War Show Preview & Offbeat News (02:28–04:00)

• John promotes his fascination with the show “War,” looking forward to submarine battle previews and joking about how the U.S. handles enemy warships.
  • Notable line: “Nice. Crack open a cold jacket for me there, Pete. War tonight, seven o’clock. I’m all in on that.” – John (04:03)

Eye Health Plug & Segue (04:03–05:28)

• John shares his recent eye health scare, urging listeners to get eye exams and plugging Dr. Schwartz Laser Eye Center.
  • “Your eyes are nothing to mess with. And when you got a complimentary consultation aimed right at you, why don’t you take advantage of that?” – John (05:14)

Entertainment Drill Highlights

Where Are They Now: ‘Cosby Show’ & ‘Better Call Saul’ Actors (05:28–06:31)

• The hosts reveal John Christian Love, who played Ernesto on “Better Call Saul,” also portrayed Jeffrey Owens on the “Cosby Show”; after TV, he’s reportedly worked at Trader Joe’s and become an Amazon Prime driver.
• They discuss how many actors end up working regular jobs between gigs.
  • “He just happened to be one that was on the most popular show of the 80s.” – John (06:20)

Steak ‘n Shake & Cryptocurrency Wages (06:31–07:08)

• Brett shares that Steak ‘n Shake now pays employees $0.21 an hour in Bitcoin and will match $1,000 in July, prompting skepticism about whether bills can be paid in bitcoin.

Nicole Kidman’s Method Acting (07:08–07:44)

• Nicole Kidman reportedly learned to perform autopsies for her role in “Scarpetta.”
  • “She can pull your guts out.” – Brady (07:22)
  • “I can perform an autopsy because there’s no damage. It’s already dead.” – John (07:25)

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Christina Applegate’s Memoir Revelations (08:04–09:28)

• Christina Applegate’s memoir details attending the 1989 VMAs with Brad Pitt—but leaving with Sebastian Bach.
  • “Pitt was just, I mean nine. They were both very young. And Sebastian Bach at the time, dreamboat, he was beautiful.” – Brady (08:23)
  • “He was prettier than Brad Pitt at the time.” – John (08:29)
• Applegate reveals she had an abortion at 19 after becoming pregnant by an abusive boyfriend and details her infatuation with Johnny Depp.
  • “It’s an odd time to mention that. I had an abortion. A man was abusive to me, and man, did I love Johnny Depp.” – John (09:15)

Plastic Surgery & Celebrity Transformations (09:31–09:47)

• A plastic surgeon estimates Jim Carrey’s “surgical transformation” cost around $60,000. The hosts debate whether the rumors and photos look legitimate.

Substance Abuse in Rock & Roll (09:49–10:09)

• Billy Idol claims, “smoking crack helped him give up heroin.” John compares this to methadone clinics’ philosophy.

Rock Music Suppression Conspiracy (10:09–11:05)

• Billy Corgan claims rock music was deliberately held back by the industry, even blaming the CIA, and points out rock still sells the most concert tickets despite little mainstream support.
  • “As a genre, rock is the number one concert going experience, but it has no support anywhere.” – John (10:42)
  • “Billy’s not wrong.” – Brady (11:04)

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Sebastian Bach Replacing Dee Snider on Twisted Sister’s Tour (11:05–12:45)

• Sebastian Bach steps in for Dee Snider, who retired from touring due to health issues, for Twisted Sister's 50th anniversary tour.
  • “No one ever said that phrase. More Sebastian Bach news today.” – John (11:11)
  • “Is it still a 50th anniversary tour if the dude singing isn’t part of it?” – John (11:28)
• Band nostalgia, minor digs at the changing lineup, jokes about where the tour might play (Alaska State Fair, puppet shows), and planning to invite Bach back for an interview.
  • “I don’t think Twisted Sister pulls more than that. Maybe Van Buren. I might go to that.” – John (11:54)

Lighthearted Close (12:53–13:14)

• The hosts wrap with a promo for a station giveaway and a playful sign-off.
  • “You guys put that word in, listen for more of them, and try to win the Metallica stuff. And we’ll get back to you tomorrow. Have a great day. So long.” – John (12:55)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• “The 55 and older population does have a lot of STDs because they don’t use protection because they don’t care about babies.” – Jen, listener email (02:15)
• “Nice. Crack open a cold jacket for me there, Pete. War tonight, seven o’clock. I’m all in on that.” – John (04:03)
• “She can pull your guts out.” – Brady, on Nicole Kidman's autopsy skills (07:22)
• “He was prettier than Brad Pitt at the time.” – John, on Sebastian Bach (08:29)
• “Billy’s not wrong.” – Brady, on rock music suppression theory (11:04)
• “No one ever said that phrase. More Sebastian Bach news today.” – John (11:11)
• “I don’t think Twisted Sister pulls more than that. Maybe Van Buren. I might go to that.” – John (11:54)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Listener email/STDs in older adults: 01:02–02:27
• War show preview: 02:28–04:00
• Eye health plug: 04:03–05:28
• Cosby Show/BETTER CALL SAUL actor update: 05:28–06:31
• Steak ‘n Shake, Bitcoin wages: 06:31–07:08
• Nicole Kidman autopsy trivia: 07:08–07:44
• Applegate memoir revelations: 08:04–09:28
• Billy Idol crack/heroin: 09:49–10:09
• Billy Corgan CIA/rock conspiracy: 10:09–11:05
• Twisted Sister/Sebastian Bach: 11:05–12:45

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Tone & Style

The episode delivers entertainment news with punchy, irreverent humor, snappy observations, and personal asides. The hosts maintain a conversational, often sarcastic, and slightly edgy tone throughout, poking fun at both celebrities and each other while revealing the latest pop culture tidbits. Their banter ensures the news remains lively and relatable, appealing to both loyal fans and new listeners.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

I don't know.

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[A]

The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. Maybe there's more than two. It's like finding dinosaur bones. Chevelle right there. A letter from the same. Nice job, Brad. You're the big winner this week. And that's a. That's a catch right there. That's a keeper. That's keeper. Gummoe. Before we get to the entertainment drill, I got a thing. It says, hey, broad here. That's how she starts her email. I love her.

[B]

It's gonna be a good one.

[A]

I think we like her. Well, let me change that for you. Brett just hit 45 years old. Never mind. Just kidding. Because I seem sane. Anywho, can't stand females who talk about female stuff out loud. You look crazy, bitch. Not you. Control your crazy. Old or young. I'm not here to deal with BS because someone can't identify they have problems. Dear Katrina at work, get a new job or go to treatment, you nut. I think she's talking about Katrina. Who's that? She's losing her mind.

[B]

Your.

[A]

Your shrink. Oh, yeah, we all have issues. Oh, I see what you're saying. And I don't think this should be an excuse if I turn into an a hole. I keep my pumpkin butt at home. People need to stop projecting. I've also spoken with different pharmacies because I've heard it from different nurses. The 55 and older population does have a lot of STDs because they don't use protection because they don't care about babies. Have a great day. My name's Jen. That's right, Jen.

[B]

Good fun fact.

[A]

That's right. Women are even tired of the women who called it. Or the one that emailed in mad about menopause this morning. It's not my fault she's going through it. Quit yelling at me. Geez Louise, you can get through that, man. Tonight on War, they're going to show that ship getting blowed up, which is pretty awesome. Submarine preview. We saw the sneak preview of the submarines going in and blowing that stuff up. And what I really hope happens on War after. But that's just me as a. Like what John and I used to do when we were talking about Better Call Saul's. Like, oh, what if. So tonight, history is my guide because I watched the. The. The show that nobody watched before war was Venezuela. That was kind of fun. But what we got known for was blowing boats up and then having a helicopter go by and take out the survivors. You got an Iranian warship that just got subbed.

[B]

I heard we got 51 through 75.

[A]

We're just. We're doing it one at a time. But wouldn't it be great is if we had the. Tonight on War, they show the submarine blowing up that. That carrier over there for the Iranians or whatever it was some warship. And then you see the little glow in the dark, bodies in the water. And then that helicopter goes over the top of them like we did for the vennies. We were just practicing on those vennies. Hey, Pete Hegseth. We got a few still straggling around the warship. Okay. Mission accomplished. Nice job, Pete.

[B]

Just need the go sign.

[A]

Nice. Crack open a cold jacket for me there, Pete. War tonight, seven o'. Clock. I'm all in on that. Brady is here and he's going to get you all set up for what's going on out. Because if you have been watching the news, you realize that there's nothing else going on. So Brady's here to help you with the entertaining news that nobody's talking about. The entertainment drill, brought to you by our friends at the Schwartz Laser Eye Center. I got a bunch of people emailing me going, man, you scared me. I'm getting my eye checked. Yeah, do it. Complimentary consultation from Dr. Jay Schwartz. Make sure your eyes are going right. And even if they are going right and you kind of know it. Before. Remember before my eye fell out a week or two ago when I would just say, hey, look at the license plate in front of you and see if you can read it. If you can't, go get your eyes checked now. If you're seeing nothing but a big puddle of blood like I had probably a good idea to go to Dr. J Sports and get your eye checked. Do it immediately. That guy's email yesterday didn't scare you? That his friend had the exact same thing I did and now he's blind because he waited just a hair too long. I was close. I was close. I. I didn't realize it. Your eyes are nothing to mess with. And when you got a complimentary consultation aimed right at you, why don't you take advantage of that? Teamidoc.com Schedule your consultation today and see how your peepers are doing. They trust them with the Phoenix Sun's eyes. They trust them with the Diamondback's eyes, and they're certainly going to take care of you. Dr. Jay Schwartz and the Schwartz Laser Eye Center, Brady Entertainment.

[B]

Do you remember John Christian Love most recently played Ernesto on Better Call Saul?

[A]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I didn't know that was.

[B]

He also played Jeffrey Owens on the Cosby Show.

[A]

Oh, that was the same guy?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, wow. Wait. Because wasn't he begging for money a

[B]

couple years ago working at Trader Joe? Now he's an Amazon prime driver. Driver.

[A]

He was married to the oldest daughter from Huxtable Clan. She was. Name something. Sabrina or. That was her name. Damn it. Well, we've lost the Cosby kids. Don't you start looking around. You're not going to remember.

[B]

Her initials were ghb. So he's driving for Amazon. I haven't given up on Sandra acting. It's just a little slow right now. Got to do whatever it take. I got bills.

[A]

A lot of actors end up being waiters or Trader Joe's clerks. He just happened to be one that was on the most popular show of the 80s. He wasn't a crucial member of the Cosby Show.

[B]

If they have a steak and shake where he lives, he should get a job there.

[A]

Why?

[B]

They're paying employees now 21 cents an hour in bitcoin. Hey, and they're throwing in another thousand on July 7th. And that Trump. Big deal. You know the account that they'll start out on? You get a thousand dollars, they'll match it.

[A]

Hey, can you pay with your bitcoin? Can you pay bills?

[B]

I don't know how they're.

[A]

Yeah, cash out. All right.

[B]

Nicole Kidman can actually perform an autopsy. Her show coming at Scarpetta. She trained with a doctor. She's playing one? No, she's method actor.

[A]

I asked my doctor friend.

[B]

She can pull your guts out.

[A]

My. Okay, everybody can do that.

[B]

It's really not that hard.

[A]

I can perform an autopsy because there's no damage. It's already dead. But I talked to my buddy, the liver surgeon, Jeff Brink, and I said, how long would it take you to teach me to pull a liver out of a dead body? And he said two years. And I'm like 48 hours. I can get it down now. Putting it into the living thing, that's something else. Probably.

[B]

Yeah, that's different.

[A]

But if I was hyper focused on the antelope before, sure, that's nothing. But you didn't like you. You. If you carved up it's. It's individually or something.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or it's heart. You can screw it up for medical research, but for the most part I can open up a body and pull out parts. That's all an autopsy is.

[B]

Christina Applegate's new book, just came out, her memoir and she talks about one of the stories. In 1989 she was at the VMAs and she went with Brad Pitt and left with Sebastian Bach.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Pitt was just, I mean nine.

[A]

Yeah. They were both very young.

[B]

And Sebastian Bach at the time, dreamboat, he was beautiful.

[A]

He was prettier than Brad Pitt at the time.

[B]

That's what she said.

[A]

Who knew that the aging process would attack one of them a little bit harder.

[B]

Brad didn't talk to her for a couple of years.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Finally made up after that. Then the other thing she mentions is when she was 19, she had an abortion, got pregnant by an abusive boyfriend and her years long infatuation with Johnny Depp, I don't know if that was the boyfriend or I just think because. Didn't you hear rumors about Johnny Depp And.

[A]

Well, I knew from a guy my sister dated that he was in a band with Johnny Depp in Florida and he said he was getting everybody pregnant.

[B]

I don't think it was that Johnny Depp was on this one. She was just infatuated with him during

[A]

that time while she was getting beaten up by some other guy and having abortions. Yeah, it's an odd time to mention that. I had an abortion. A man was abusive to me and man, did I love Johnny Depp.

[B]

It helped her deal with it.

[A]

Well, maybe he hit her so hard her thoughts aren't straight.

[B]

A plastic surgeon chimed in and he thinks Jim carrey spent around 60 grand for his surgical Transformation.

[A]

I think he's just kidding.

[B]

I'm seeing those pictures now and it looks. Doesn't look as. It's not weird as that one picture.

[A]

Pretty weird.

[B]

Billy Idol says smoking crack helped him give up heroin.

[A]

Oh, that's always nice. Silver lining. If you're looking for one thing about crack, it's gonna. Well, that's all they do at clinics is you're on heroin. They put you on a drug that's gonna knock out the heroin. But you get addicted to methadone. It's the same thing.

[B]

Billy Corgan has a conspiracy theory. Thinks rock music was purposely dialed down beginning in the late 90s.

[A]

Yeah. On purpose. Yeah.

[B]

And he says the CIA was involved.

[A]

All right. Hey, I'm no longer batting my eyes at that stuff.

[B]

I don't either. He brings up the point of. He goes, you know, it still sells the most tickets.

[A]

It's all the concerts that are huge are rock shows.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And there's still a couple that it

[B]

doesn't get the representation. No.

[A]

As a genre, rock is the number one concert going experience, but it has no support anywhere. And he blamed MTV for this. He basically said they went on a thing where it was all aimed at, you know, an urban audience and, and, and intentionally trying to like groom a new audience and for whatever reason.

[B]

But the videos.

[A]

Yeah. Billy's not wrong.

[B]

Yeah. And the other Sebastian Bach news is he's taken over for D. Snyder.

[A]

No one ever said that phrase. More Sebastian Bach news today because they had originally planned.

[B]

They scrapped their plans or their 50th anniversary tour because Dee retired due to health issues and immediately Sebastian stepped in. It's like, this has gotta happen.

[A]

Is it still a 50th anniversary tour if the dude singing isn't part of it?

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And the only guy that anybody cares about in that band. D. Snyder. Yeah. I mean, I don't even know who. I couldn't even guess one of the first names. J.J. french is the only. Impressive, Brad. I give you that all day long. Well done.

[B]

Of course.

[A]

John, do you know JJ French, D. Snider and the rest?

[B]

Yeah, they've changed it to the 50th anniversary cash grab.

[A]

Yeah. Well, that's fine. I don't think it's going to be at the Marquee Theater. I don't think Twisted Sister pulls more than that. Maybe Van Buren. I might go to that. See Sebastian, if he's back in town, we're having him in again and I'm going to ask him about Christina Applegate's abortion. Was that you. He wouldn't shut up about Johnny Depp, man. I'm like, yeah, I know. That's what it seems like.

[B]

Evidently, in his book, he talked about that, too. He's like, who's better looking than Brad Pitt? This guy?

[A]

For a little bit, yeah. But, man, the horrors.

[B]

He goes, I can always say that

[A]

at one time, I was Houston to win. Too much, man. Oh, they're playing the Alaska State Fair on September. Big crowd. Yeah. I don't get you guys.

[B]

Big money.

[A]

Are they headlining it or. I would hope so. See, Alaska State Fair, for Christ's sake.

[B]

It's puppet show then, right?

[A]

The guy spinning plates, he's been great. Alaska treasure, 10 o'. Clock.

[B]

Word.

[A]

Moth. M o, t H. Moth. You can put it up on our app and you can throw it right down there on our website. 98kupd.com we're done. Larry McFeely's coming up next. You guys put that word in, listen for more of them, and try to win the Metallica stuff. And we'll get back to you tomorrow. Have a great day. So long.

[B]

It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee.

[A]

I have heard enough of this.