03-04-26 - Rock Wars - Theme Song To Say Goodbye To Kyler Murray

Summary

Podcast Summary – Holmberg’s Morning Sickness

Episode: 03-04-26 – Rock Wars: Theme Song To Say Goodbye To Kyler Murray

Date: March 4, 2026
Host: John Holmberg (with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo)
Station: 98KUPD, Arizona

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the “Rock Wars” music challenge with the theme: Selecting a theme song to say goodbye to Kyler Murray, the departing Arizona Cardinals quarterback. The hosts banter about Murray’s legacy, his possible futures, and Phoenix’s “curse” with #1 picks, each picking a song fitting for his exit. Good-natured roasting, sports cynicism, and the crew’s signature irreverence define the tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Setting the Scene: Kyler’s Departure & Arizona Sports Woes

• [01:25] Holmberg explains Rock Wars and announces the topic:
  “We do what’s right here and we say goodbye to Kyler Murray, say goodbye to little cardinal Kyler Murray.”

  • Metallica, Pantera, and even the Webster theme song are banned to keep things fresh.

• [03:50] Holmberg laments Phoenix’s bad luck with top draft picks:
  “Number one overall draft pick... This sports city is now the last two number one overall draft picks didn’t work for only one city in America, and that’s Phoenix. Deandre Ayton... Kyler Murray, these franchise changing superstars, that didn’t do anything for the franchise. Set ‘em back.”

• The hosts riff on Kyler’s athletic options—baseball (“he was highly touted”), couch-sitting, working for the station, or even esports:
  “He could go into esports for two years.” – Brady [04:28]
  “If he jumped to a parking lot attendant he’d make $37 [million] and $19 [million] from the Cardinals. It doesn’t matter where he goes... he doesn’t have to do anything.” – Holmberg [03:30-03:46]

Song Selections: Biting, Funny, and on Theme

Brady’s Pick: “You Suffer” – Napalm Death

• [06:21]
  “I think we need to keep this short and sweet... I think it’s rock’s shortest song ever by Napalm Death – ‘You Suffer.’”

  • Chosen for the song’s brevity, relating to jokes about Kyler’s own stature and short tenure.

• Host Reaction:
  Holmberg teases:
  “You made a short joke. Yeah, so he doesn’t deserve anything because it’s just... how dare you, by the way, be the one that says he’s too short.” [06:36]

Bret’s (Bert’s) Pick: “Letter from a Thief” – Chevelle

• [06:49]
  “Well, you know that letter that he wrote, the open letter to everybody… I’m pretty much going with Chevelle – ‘Letter from a Thief,’ because he’s going to be leaving with all the money for the next couple years, not doing a damn thing.”

  • Connects Murray’s “open letter” to fans and his lucrative exit payments.

• Host Praise:
  “That’s a lot of thinking and pretty good stuff, Bre… it’s really good. Brady made a short joke… this is actually thoughtful and well presented.” – Holmberg [07:11]

Holmberg’s Pick: “Move Bitch” – Ludacris

• [07:40]
  “Mine is more from the perspective of Kyler. The Arizona Cardinals staring in the eyes... ‘Kyler, it’s not working out. We’re gonna let you go.’ Kyler had to be happier than he’s ever been. All he had to be thinking was this: ‘Move. Get out the way, get out the way, get me out of here.’”

  • Argues Kyler’s departure is a positive for him:
    “Kyler’s the only one with hope in this exchange.” [08:52]

  • Continues the gauntlet of Cardinals pessimism:
    “Cardinals are going to themselves all over the place and smugly smirk about it.” [09:06]

Spirited Voting & Results

• [09:46] Listeners call in to vote for the winner. Greg picks Burt’s “Letter from a Thief” as champion.

• Alan calls in and puts Holmberg last:
  “I don’t think that’s good for anybody.” – Alan [10:01]

• The hosts reflect on Chevelle’s quality and Arizona’s sports woes, leading into the winning song.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On NFL Contracts:
  “If he jumped to the couch, [he'd make] $19 million the following year... it doesn’t matter where he goes. He doesn’t have to do anything.” – Holmberg [03:35-03:40]

• On Arizona Sports:
  “This Sports city is now the Last 2 Number 1 overall draft picks didn’t work... Phoenix. Deandre Ayton... Kyler Murray...” – Holmberg [03:50-04:15]

• On Rock Wars’ Absurd Fun:
  “I think it’s rock’s shortest song ever by Napalm Death – ‘You Suffer.’” – Brady [06:26]

  “You made a short joke… How dare you, by the way, be the one that says he’s too short.” – Holmberg [06:36]

• On Kyler’s Legacy:
  “Who do you think has a better chance of having a modicum of success going forward? Kyler or the Arizona Cardinals? Let history be your guy. That’s easy.” – Holmberg [09:06]

• On the Fan Vote:
  “Bert Gummo’s the champion. Damn it.” – Greg, caller [09:53]

• Outsized Card Humor:
  “Things will change when Garoppolo gets here. And by that, I mean it’s going to be a population boon in Scottsdale. Going to get—impregnate all of you guys. Handsome. And he’s got a hell of a hammer right here.” – Holmberg [09:25]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:25] – Topic reveal: Kyler Murray’s farewell theme
• [03:30-04:16] – Holmberg’s take on Arizona’s failed #1 picks and Kyler’s options
• [06:21-06:37] – Brady’s pick: “You Suffer” and the ensuing short jokes
• [06:49-07:11] – Bret’s pick: “Letter from a Thief” and Holmberg’s praise
• [07:40-08:52] – Holmberg’s pick: “Move Bitch” and sports pessimism
• [09:46-10:03] – Listener calls, winner declared, playful loser shaming

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Summary Table: Song Picks

| Host | Song & Artist | Reasoning / Fit | |--------------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | Brady | "You Suffer" – Napalm Death | A micro-song; short joke for short career/stature | | Bret (Bert) | "Letter from a Thief" – Chevelle | Alludes to Kyler’s farewell letter and cashing in | | Holmberg | "Move Bitch" – Ludacris | Kyler’s personal theme to leave Arizona (optimism for him)|

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Final Voting Results

• Winner: Bret (Bert) with “Letter from a Thief” by Chevelle
• Last Place: Holmberg, as voted by caller Alan

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Tone & Takeaway

The episode blends sports nostalgia, biting local humor, and musical laughs. Holmberg leads the panel in lampooning the Cardinals’ failures and Kyler Murray’s bumpy tenure, with playful jabs at coworkers (and Kyler’s size). Listeners get a dose of Arizona sports catharsis and solid song picks for a memorable “goodbye.”

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[C]

what's your Mount Race Rushmore podcast. There's two things that I think I am almost always. It's hungry and tired. I spend. I seriously probably spend 80% of my life, my waking life, being either hungry or tired or both. I will mirror that, but I will add a third one. I'm always also gassy. Yes, you are. There is no doubt about that. What's your Mount Rushmore? I don't know. Listen wherever you get podcasts. Holmberg's morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. And the nine o' clock word is fade, F A D E. And you get on that deal right there and you fade into the contest. Nine o'. Clock. Put it in the little box. They say great phrase phrase that my grandpa told me to live by. I always put it in the little box and you can do it at the app [e-mail] and why you ask if you're new to the show or if you're a podcaster? Because the podcast is huge. This is the live version. We tape here and then the podcast goes out for the masses. But we give give all you guys listening live on the radio a chance to win stuff for listening. And fade being the word today can get you up to METALLICA in Vegas October 1st and October 3rd. Those are two different shows. You're not seeing the same show twice. Two different set lists. As far as I understand it. They're gonna do two different shows for those nights and you get tickets to both. You'll be in in Sphere in Las Vegas. And that's enough of a thing right there. If we gave you tickets to go see wizard of Oz, it would be neat. This is pretty amazing. So good luck to all of you. The game ends on Friday. Friday I got Rock wars coming up. I Came in last place the last time we played, which was four, three or four weeks ago. And that means I get to pick the topic this week. Got a lot to choose from. We got the menopause talk this morning. Karen losing her mind. We've got, you know, the Metallica contest ending on Friday and things like that. But I think it's, you know, we do what's right here and we say goodbye to Kyler Murray. Say goodbye to little cardinal Kyler Murray. I'm going to ban not only Metallica and Pantera, like always, but also the theme to Webster. If you were thinking the theme to Webster is a good idea, we're going to cut that right out.

[D]

Hit the road, Jack. That's a little hanging.

[C]

Oh, yeah. You don't do that if you wanted to go down that road. But yeah, let's just. I don't even have to ban it. If you go that route, you deserve what you get. But a theme song to say goodbye to little Kyler Murray, who passive aggressively took a swing at the Cardinals on his way out and will be possibly a Steeler, possibly a Minnesota Viking Dolphin. A lot of teams that'll try it and we'll see if Kyler can resurrect himself. I've been saying it for a while. He should play baseball. And that's kind of a rumor that's circulating. He was a highly touted baseball player coming out of school. He got drafted in the mlb and they were like, we're going to hang on to this guy. He's special.

[A]

So I saw that if he jumped to baseball, he's still going to get 37 million.

[C]

Yeah. If he jumps to the couch, 19

[A]

million the following year.

[C]

If he jumped to a parking lot attendant, he'd make 37 and 19 from the car. It doesn't matter where he goes. He doesn't have to do anything.

[D]

You could do promo at the station.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Drive the van around.

[C]

And they're mental basket cases, too. Fit right in. But Kyler Murray is leaving Arizona. Number one overall draft pick, you know, bad. This Sports city is now the Last 2 Number 1 overall draft picks didn't work for only one city in America, and that's Phoenix. You got yourself that deandre Ayton who was supposed to change the game,

[A]

dominate

[C]

dominating at four points the other day. Son of a. You got the Kyler Murray, these franchise changing superstars, that didn't do anything for the franchise. Set him back.

[A]

He could go into esports for two years.

[C]

You think he could be good? Yeah, he's good at gaming. Maybe give him a chance. But I'm still. I'm not blaming Kyler for all that ills the Cardinals. I'm still taking a chance on him. So a song for our friend Kyler Murray as he departs on Steve Keim's party bus one last time. If you want to help [e-mail] is how you email your suggestion. You can text 97936. We'll have Rock wars next. Holmberg's morning sickness. And away we go. It's time for the weekly sometimes battle of musical supremacy becoming monthly with all the stuff we've had going on. It's Rock wars. And it's brought to you by our friends at Mo Money Pond. Short or long term collateral loans from $10 to over 100,000American dollars. No credit needed. Top dollar paid. The entire process just taking several minutes. Mo Money pawn.com. 12th street and Indian School. A little theme song today. A theme song we're going to throw out there to our little pal Kyler Murray. He's leaving the Cardinals. He got the news yesterday that they will not be bringing. Are you all right? Gummoe And a dude who can't swallow. Brady's the healthiest guy in the room. All of a sudden I got a bubble in my mouth.

[D]

Yeah, we're a mess.

[C]

Disaster. He started choking on a single sip. Anyway, got worried. I had to Heimlich you. I'm dying for that day to come back. I owe you one.

[D]

Way back.

[C]

You're Heimlich. Your Heimlich maneuver didn't work

[D]

for lunch today.

[C]

Bad ribs. I'd rather choke to death and go back there. Anyway, so. Saying goodbye to Kyler. We just need a theme song for that. And I believe. Brady, you can go first if you'd like.

[A]

All right, I. I just think we need to keep this short and sweet.

[C]

I get it.

[A]

And I went with the. I think it's rock's shortest song ever by Napalm. Napalm Death.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

You suffer.

[C]

Okay. You suck. Why?

[A]

That's it, everybody.

[C]

Just because it's short. You made a short joke. Yeah, so he doesn't deserve anything because it's just. How dare you, by the way, be the one that says he's too short. It's a pretty great song now, I gotta say, Bert.

[D]

All right, me, I'm going to go with. Well, you know that. That letter that he wrote, the open letter to everybody. Everybody, all the fans and everything else. I think that I'm playing this one too.

[C]

By the way. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[D]

So I'm pretty much going with Chevelle Letter from a Thief, because he's going to be leaving all the money for the next couple years, not doing a damn thing.

[C]

That's a lot of thinking and pretty good stuff. Bre. A letter from my feet. It's really good. Brady made a short joke and I got it, but this is actually thoughtful and well presented.

[D]

About 36 million this year, 19 the

[C]

next, and it's tough for me to turn Chevelle off. John and I were just talking.

[D]

Everyone's favorite second band.

[C]

Oh, everybody's second favorite band. You'll get it. This one especially. God damn, what a song. And maybe for my birthday, we just do Chevelle sauce. Oh. Coming up in July. I'll get the boys on. That is. They're so good. I like that. Well done. Mine is more from the perspective of Kyler. I mean, you got yourself the Arizona Cardinals staring in the eyes going, you let us down. That's rich. But when the. When the. When the little Michael Bidwell stands eye to eye with the quarterback and they're about the same height and says, kyler, it's just not working out. We're gonna let you go. Kyler had to be happier than he's ever been. And all he had to be thinking was this. Move. Get out the way, get out the way. Get me out of here.

[E]

Move.

[C]

Get out the way, get out the way, get out the way. Move. Yeah, I would love that. And then he's gonna. Cardinal fans, you're gonna sit and laugh. Ah, Kyler Murray sucks. And you're gonna watch that little bastard in a black and gold jersey thanking God and his parents hold silver football.

[D]

That song could go for either way. Yeah, like, Cardinals could be saying that. He could be saying that Cardinals got

[C]

no nerve to ever say, Move, get out the way. Because that would imply their forward momentum is taking them somewhere. Kyler's the only one with hope in this exchange. Now, they could both fall flat on their face, but who you betting on ends up in a better spot after this?

[D]

I'll take the zero on this one.

[C]

That's a tough question, but who do you think has a better chance of having a modicum of success going forward? Kyler or the Arizona Cardinals? Let history be your guy. That's easy. Cardinals are going to themselves all over the place and smug and smugly smirk about.

[D]

All right, Jimmy G. The savior.

[C]

That's right. Things will change when Garoppolo gets here. And by that, I mean it's going to be a population boon in Scottsdale. Going to get. Impregnate all of you guys. Handsome. And he's got. He's got a weapon. He's got a hell of a hammer right here. All right, we need to figure out how to win this without going to John Gordon because we're short on time. Final call.

[A]

That's it.

[C]

585-9800. We're just going to leave it up to one of you who calls next and let you decide who wins this week. Last. Brett. Letter from a Thief.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Excellent. Thank you. I chose Move Bitch by Ludicrous and Brady chose Napalm Death song.

[A]

You suffer.

[C]

You suffer, which is less than a second. And all we need is you to call 585-9800 and tell us who you think wins out of all of that. Let's go right to the phones. Greg is there. Greg, are you ready? I'm ready. All right, who wins this week, Greg? Bert Gummo's the champion. Damn it. All right. Thank you, Greg. Hold on. You got to say who's last? Oh, I'll find out who's last next. We'll go with Alan. Alan, who came in last this week? I'm going to go with you, John. I don't think. Oh, yeah. I don't think that's good for anybody. All right, well, thank you, Alan. All right, thank you very much. Well, you can't really argue around. I don't think this is good for anybody. All right, we'll do it. Well, Letter from a Thief is the one we'll go with. And it is a great song. Chevelle's great. John Gordon and I were talking about it yesterday, about how some of the new stuff hasn't moved us. But you go back to 2004 to 2012, about, probably, maybe even before 4. Like 2000. There's not much better than what Chevelle is offering up, that's for sure. We'll do a break. We'll come back with Chevelle's Letter to a Thief. Gummoe is this week's champion. It's 98K upd. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.

[E]

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