03-10-26 - Jackpot Go Obsession Paid Off Big For John - We're Siding w/Timothy Chalamet Being Able To Have His Own Opinions On Ballet And Opera As Most Guys Don't Like Them - Jesse Jackson's Son Mad His Father's Funeral Got Political

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness – March 10, 2026

Episode Title: Jackpot Go Obsession Paid Off Big For John – We're Siding w/Timothée Chalamet Being Able To Have His Own Opinions On Ballet And Opera As Most Guys Don't Like Them – Jesse Jackson's Son Mad His Father's Funeral Got Political
Hosts: John Holmberg (Lead Host), Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Date: March 10, 2026
Podcast: Holmberg’s Morning Sickness | 98KUPD

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Episode Overview

This episode revolves around three main themes:

• John Holmberg’s massive online gambling win on "Jackpot Go"
• The public’s reaction to Timothée Chalamet stating he doesn’t care much for ballet and opera, and whether men should feel obligated to like these art forms
• Jesse Jackson Jr.'s frustration that his father’s funeral became a political showcase

Mixed in are the classic humor and camaraderie of the hosts, trademark jabs at each other, and candid, sometimes irreverent takes on social norms.

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1. John’s Jackpot Go Obsession and Big Win

Segment Start: [01:13]

Key Points

• John’s Big Win:
  John shares the story of turning $500 into six figures using the "Jackpot Go" online slot game. He admits this is unusual, repeatedly mentioning how rare it is to win, but he can’t hide his giddiness.

  “I don’t want to brag, but let’s just say that handheld gambling app things are real. ... by the end of the night it was six figures.” – John [01:32]

• Withdrawal Process:
  The difficulty of moving winnings from the app to his bank—multiple ID checks and utility bill uploads—is discussed.

  “The only problem with it is trying to transfer the money ... they require like three pictures of your utility bills.” – John [04:06]

• John’s Changing Attitude:
  John playfully flexes his win but notes he’s not rubbing it in—just being honest about his good fortune.

  “I’m not rubbing it in as much as I am just saying how great my life is compared to yours.” – John [05:20]

• Skeptics and Scam Alerts:
  Emails flood in, with listeners warning Jackpot Go might be a scam. John fends these off, stating his money arrived just fine.

  “You know, it isn’t [a scam]. My bank account at work transferred right over. ... I wouldn’t text you and tell you, probably gonna lose.” – John [10:06]

• Impact on Routine:
  John jokes about sneaking play during meetings and even dinner.

  “I had the phone under the table because I was up 20 grand. ... I can’t stop winning. I’m not listening to anything.” – John [04:40]

Notable Quotes

• “Work ethic? Bah—it’s just take a risk online!” – John [01:46]
• “You gotta take chance. Don’t do it. You stay away from it. That’s where my money lives.” – John [06:29]
• “Turns out, no, it’s not [expensive]. It’s actually lucrative ... alcohol and drugs never do pay you back. That’s true. There’s no ROI.” – John [12:36]

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2. Timothée Chalamet, Ballet & Opera – Can Guys Hate It?

Segment Start: [16:43]

Key Points

• Chalamet Called Out:
  The hosts discuss Timothée Chalamet catching flak after saying, on a podcast with Matthew McConaughey, that he isn’t into opera or ballet and wants theater to avoid becoming a dying niche.

  “He said he wants to keep the theaters alive and people going to movies... Not like ballet or opera... where it’s just a struggle.” – John [17:44]

• Social Policing of Taste:
  They observe how people (especially on platforms like The View) jump to outrage when a celebrity expresses personal tastes deemed “unrefined.”

  “They’re like, ‘He’s an unrefined piece of garbage.’ I’m like, What? Most regular dudes don’t [like opera].” – John [17:59]

• Personal Opera Experiences:
  The hosts universally agree: opera and ballet are rarely enjoyed by men unless motivated by relationships or social obligation.

  “The fastest way to hate the opera is to go to one.” – John [18:17]
  “No man is like, ‘Guys, after the game, you wanna hit some ballet?’” – John [19:03]

• Male Motives for Attendance:
  They reference a South Park joke that musicals and the arts are “subliminal advertising to make women horny.”

  “Every guy gets a roadie on the way home. ... It’s all [about making women want sex], and so guys started to love the theater because they realized, oh my God, this is guaranteed roadie.” – John [19:30]

• Comparison to Other Arts:
  They link the lack of mainstream male interest in ballet and opera to the need for endless fundraising and lack of TV channels supporting them, likening them to the WNBA and high school bands in their need for subsidies.

  “If opera was so great ... there’d be a Shakespeare channel or a 24-hour network dedicated to it.” – John [28:18]
  “If you have to have fundraisers, that means you’re not making enough money just selling tickets.” – John [35:29]

Notable Quotes

• “No man is going to fit it, Brady, if you came in here and said ‘I’ve been going to the ballet quite a bit lately,’ [we’d] be laughing at your new lifestyle.” – John [29:07]
• “No dudes are going to ballet. Nobody’s leaving the Cardinal game going, ‘We should get out early, I might go watch ballet over that.’” – John [26:23]
• “If any high school student wants to explode the education system—actually read Shakespeare. ... The teachers haven’t done it either.” – John [24:09]

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3. Jesse Jackson’s Funeral and the Politics of Death

Segment Start: [31:56]

Key Points

• Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Complaint:
  Jackson’s son objected to political speeches at his father’s funeral, pleading for people to "keep your politics out of my dad’s funeral."

  “All these people were kind of grandstanding at the funeral. Politically, they were saying things... The only reason Jesse Jackson was famous is because he was standing next to Martin Luther King when he got shot.” – John [31:56]

• Hypocrisy Pointed Out:
  The hosts argue that turning funerals into political platforms is exactly what Jesse Jackson did—often showing up at high-profile funerals to make political statements or gain attention for his causes.

  “He went to people’s funerals he didn’t know just to get attention for how they died... He’s like you don’t even know him.” – John [33:57]

• Comparison to Other Politicized Funerals:
  They recall Pat Tillman’s funeral, where family rebuffed politicians and sports figures making it about broader issues, highlighting how such spectacles usually miss the wishes of the deceased.

  “Pat’s brother went up and goes, you’re all full of sh*t. ... Quit saying he’s with God now. Pat didn’t believe in that.” – John [32:55]

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4. Lighter Moments, Listener Mail, and Social Commentary

Notable Humor & Memorable Moments

• On Fundraisers for the Arts:
  "Opera... It’s like WNBA, the high school band. If you have to have fundraisers, that means you’re not making enough money just selling tickets." – John [35:24]
• Parental Guidance:
  “You take your son to the Nutcracker and he comes out of there just beaming... Prep him. Don’t be surprised when he and his friend are just gonna stag it to prom.” – John [36:31]
• On Shakespeare:
  “If Shakespeare’s language was so flowery and beautiful, we’d still do it... If any high school student actually read Shakespeare, the whole thing—the teachers haven’t done it either.” – John [22:33], [24:09]

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5. Timestamps for Key Segments

• Jackpot Go Win and Gambling Segment: [01:13] – [16:41]
• Timothée Chalamet, Ballet & Opera Discussion: [16:43] – [29:14]
• Jesse Jackson’s Funeral & Politics: [31:56] – [35:29]
• Theater/Ballet Fundraisers, Male Perspective: [35:29] – [37:35]
• Parenting, Nutcracker, Childhood Memories: [36:25] – [37:35]

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6. Wrap-Up Notes & Takeaways

• The hosts encourage listeners to be genuinely happy for each other's success, push back against outrage culture (especially over personal tastes), and poke fun at the social pressures around “refined” art.
• Their humor remains irreverent, direct, and often self-deprecating, maintaining their typical morning-show banter.
• The episode closes out with mention of contests, upcoming events, and a teaser for an ambiguous listener story for next time.

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Transcript

[Radio Host]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Producer/Assistant]

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[John Holmberg]

it's more fun this way. Oh, I'm not going to brag. You know me.

[Brady]

No, not at all.

[John Holmberg]

Good morning everyone.

[Producer/Assistant]

How are you?

[John Holmberg]

Yes.

[Producer/Assistant]

No, I'm more refined this morning than ever.

[John Holmberg]

It's 5:45. My name's John. There's Brady, there's Brett. Big dick Toledo. Should probably just retire the World Series Super Bowl. Yeah. Kind of had a nice feeling last night. I I don't brag but I don't think anybody else did it yesterday. I'm probably the only guy who did. But let's just say that handheld gambling app things are real. I had quite a day yesterday and I don't know what I'm gonna do with the money but there's a possibility that gonna just quit. Just gonna retire. I would be dumb to do because it's not enough to retire but I little slot machine on $500 in a slot machine yesterday on my and I don't play those like I'll do it every once in a while, nothing major. And I walked out of there with or had my hand by the end of the night it was six figures. That's that easy people all that talk of work hard, you know, ambition, work ethic. It's all it's just take a risk online. Work smart John work Work. Not at all, Brady. I did it without breaking a sweat. I fell asleep a couple of times hitting the button. You don't have to do anything. It was amazing. Yeah. I couldn't believe what happened yesterday. I had a. I had quite a day, quite an afternoon of online gambling. And I'm sorry to rub it into all of you, but, I mean, it's great. Sorry about that. It's amazing. I had to go to a dinner last night with Tripp, and I showed him when I was about halfway to my big number. Wait a minute. You just. You just did that on your phone? Yeah. And you have at the time, 52,000. It was just peanuts. And I said, yeah, you got a problem. I'm like, if you. If you think winning's a problem, old man, I think you've got the problem. You don't have it. Yeah. It reminded me when I got a student loan for eighteen hundred dollars at mcc and I was kind of cocky for a day or two. I had a cash in my pocket. Rol couldn't believe it. It's called Jackpot Go. I feel like I'm gonna endorse it now. I was playing Jackpot Go and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And it. Boom. Just smashed one. And I'm like, yeah, this is real. The only problem with it is, is trying to transfer the money when you win into your bank. They require, like, three pictures of your utility bills.

[Brady]

What?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. You gotta prove your address. Yeah. You gotta make sure that everything's going in the right place. I'm fine with that.

[Brady]

Is this another generator thing?

[John Holmberg]

No, no, no. It's already in. It's already in the machine. In the machine, my friend. No. I would have a lot of tears, but, yeah, it was a crazy, crazy. Couldn't believe it. So highly recommend. And, you know, a lot of you're gonna lose money, but somebody's gonna, like, you get a. It was. It was fun. Turn 500 bucks into quite a lot of money. Just dicking around. Literally.

[Brett]

Literally turn on investment.

[John Holmberg]

Literally. Had had a meeting at 11 o' clock yesterday with the folks for Operation Hydration at the Phoenix Rescue Mission. Then finished up here. We were done. I'm like, I got the meeting at 11. Don't want to get anything started till after that's over. So I'll just plop down to my office and decompress for about 20 minutes. And I started there and bam, bam. And then I was at the meeting yesterday. I had the phone under the table because I was up 20 grand. And I'm like, I'm just going to keep playing this during the meeting. And I want to know. I just leaned up to Larry McFeely while everyone was talking about important business stuff. And then I just pointed to my phone and it was another 13. I'm like, I can't stop winning. I'm not listening to anything.

[Brady]

He had to be losing it.

[John Holmberg]

And then I had a nice. And I put it down and I. I involved myself in the meeting. And then I went right back to it and I did it again. And then went home, did some more, went to dinner, did some more. I didn't do it at dinner. Boy, did I want to, though. I'll tell you what. It was tough. He good thing the folks at Larry John Wright were kind of. They were engaging and entertaining because it just kept me just busy enough. But yeah, right here. Jackpot. Go. I'm not saying you're gonna win. I'm saying you can. I think that's their slogan. I ain't saying you're gonna win, but you could. Anyway. Have fun, kids. I did. It was great. It was great. So I'm going to have a very good attitude today. Sounds like it. It's going to be a nice day for me. I don't want to. I'm not rubbing it into you as much as I am just saying how great my life is compared to yours. I don't think that's rubbing it in. It's just honesty, right? It's reality. Really nice. Yeah, I got five people texting me already. Call me. What. What's it called? You're probably not gonna win. But I did. You gotta take chance.

[Brett]

Don't do it.

[John Holmberg]

You gotta take chance. Don't do it. You stay away from it. That's where my money lives. Couldn't believe it. So I know a lot of people get turned off because nobody roots for each other anymore. I'd be happy for you. You know, yesterday I had to. I gave away the Metallica thing.

[Brady]

Can you announce that? We've had like 10.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. The guy. You didn't win. Yeah, exactly. If you're asking. Here's the thing. If you're asking, you didn't win. If you don't know if you won or not. You didn't.

[Brady]

Maybe they want to know if they got to kiss their buddy's ass.

[John Holmberg]

Well, here's the thing. Yes. His name is Christopher Mayhem or Maham M. A H A M. And I chatted with him yesterday. I called him about 1 o' clock, and he's going up to sphere in Vegas. The. Larry showed me the numbers for what you guys did to enter this contest. Holy smokes.

[Brett]

And you're taking them to dinner and.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I was gonna head up there and go to dinner with him. He said yes. Did they run the video already? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I'm going to dinner with them, I guess I asked him if he wanted. I don't know that the answer was that for sure. I think it was being nice, pressured a little bit. All I said was, do you want to go to dinner? I'll go to dinner. He didn't really sure it that nicely. He was kind of like, yeah, I guess. Yeah, sure, that'd be great.

[Brett]

I'm like, you know, right now, you. He and his wife, maybe.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, I'll third wheel that. Yeah, I'm not bringing extra to that. Look, I'm not bringing people to the party that. It'll just be me just going, what

[Producer/Assistant]

do you guys want to do next?

[John Holmberg]

I'm gonna be them to. We're gonna switch it. But yeah, so pretty cool. So Christopher did that. I was happy for him.

[Brett]

That's pretty amazing.

[John Holmberg]

I was pretty happy for him. It's a great prize. I mean, I had a better prize. His prize is, okay, I can now buy, like, eight of those tickets for. It's easy as they do it. But, yeah, it's awesome for him. That's great. That was awesome. It was great. It's great. We got more prizes coming and more things. Probably not nearly as good as what I won, but see, I'm happy for Christopher, so people should be happy for Brett. If you want, I'd be like, this is amazing for you. I'll get emails from people. You talk about all this. You can't be happy for somebody a nice day. What, are you gonna talk about it? Cause it's a positive thing. What do you want me to say? I'm broke. I blew a bunch of money. Happy, happiness, happy.

[Brady]

Not gonna play the song.

[John Holmberg]

You know what? Yeah, Brad.

[Brady]

I figured that would have started the show.

[John Holmberg]

I forgot about that because I was so happy. I just. I just forgot about how happy I am. I will say this. The Ravens losing still makes me happier. So there are things that are more valuable than money. Brady. Scott's right. And it's the pain of Baltimore, people. I told people that last night at the. At the dinner, said something about, doesn't trip have a house? And nobody thought it was funny. When Tripp was like, no, no, my house, we're rebuilding it in California after the. And I just turned to a guy and I went with it. Like I was lighting a match, I was going to throw it on his new house. And he goes, what's wrong with you? And I'm like, everything. And he goes, doesn't he have a house in Baltimore too? And I'm like, yeah. And Joseph pointed out, he goes, john finds anything bad that happens in Baltimore. Good. And I tried out my line about, yeah, in fact, when that boat hit the bridge, I was really happy that we trapped all those people in Baltimore. They couldn't get out. And not sure everybody took to that. As I'm like, you don't understand. There's Ravens fans in there. Yeah, it's pretty nice though. It's close. Winning money and hearing bad news. But like, if Max Crosby's legs just fell off on his flight to Baltimore today, I'd be like, I'd play this. Like, oh, spinal injury from X Crosby. I saw that

[Brett]

first game back.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, the first game with the Ravens would be like a practice or something stupid. Like, I hope. I hope he signs with. This is what I kind of hope. I hope he signs with Baltimore after the training until the trader of complete and all that. And then he goes to tour beautiful downtown Baltimore and like most people there, gets shot like eight times and like, it's dump. So I do. I think winning this money and the Ravens losing are what causes great joy for me. You should want people to be happy. Don't email me about bad things. This guy says, I looked it up. Lots of reports that it's a scam. Well, you know, it isn't. My bank account at work transferred right over. Nathan trying to poo poo on my win. Lots of people call it a scam. It's not a scam. It went right in, got receipts. I'd be happy for you, Nathan. I wouldn't text you and tell you, probably gonna lose. All that scam. And now everybody's emailing. It's called jackpot. Go. I'm not saying you're gonna win, just saying I did and I enjoyed it. I had a good time doing it. Killed some time.

[Brett]

It was a full day and then some.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, it was a lot. I looked up last night after I'd, you know, toying around with a little extra and kept it there, had the numbers stay. And I said, I wonder what time it is. And it was a quarter after one in the morning. I didn't know the time had passed like that. Pretty much been playing for. Saved for dinner.

[Brady]

14 hours were you playing under the table? Kind of.

[John Holmberg]

I did not. At dinner. I didn't. I was very respectful at dinner. I do have to admit in the very beginning of the meeting yesterday, after, after, you know, the, the oxytocin and the, the dopamine that flowed through my system after hitting on the couch and my. Yeah, it was pretty nice. It was a. I played a little bit during the beginning of the meeting when everybody was doing the, you know, we're so happy to see him. Like, hey, greetings. Greetings. We're all well in greetings. I love these. Yeah. Salutations. Do you. Well, I'll be probably down here. And then when we got to the meat and potatoes of the, of the meeting, I put it down. It was hard, I'm not gonna lie. But a lot of people use drugs and alcohol to feel good. I use gambling and it works.

[Brett]

That's expensive. I mean, I, I guess they all could be.

[John Holmberg]

Takes toll on your body. Takes tolling. No, no. Turns out, no, it's not. It's actually lucrative. You know what? Alcohol and drugs never do pay you back. That's true. There's no roi. I know I sound smug because I am. I'm feeling it this morning. This is what smug sounds like. It's good.

[Producer/Assistant]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Producer/Assistant]

Sickness.

[John Holmberg]

I've got a. I got emails. I love these. This one will solve this body is

[Brett]

designed with an algorithm.

[John Holmberg]

You think?

[Brett]

Yeah, because I mean you're. I mean just the slots you've.

[John Holmberg]

I get some.

[Brett]

Overall, you definitely have had more success on slots than I do.

[John Holmberg]

Pretty good on the losses. Says they thought online casino gambling was illegal in Arizona. Evidently not sure isn't. Here they let you go right through. Everything's confirmed. We're okay. Whoa.

[Brady]

So we can't have pornhub, but we can have this?

[John Holmberg]

You can have pornhub. You just have to get a VPN on your phone. And do you have the problem with pornhub now that they've done that? That you can't throw it up? Air airplay it up on your tv. I don't have a vpn, so I've there nothing. Just this.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I need literally download it and hit a button and it turns it on and off. You can turn it on and off all the time. It made it so pornhub doesn't go to the tv. So I'm back to the archaic days of just holding it with my left hand in my. And staring at the little screen while my right hand goes to town.

[Brady]

Can you get it on an Apple tv?

[John Holmberg]

Well, that's what I'm saying. You can get it all on tv.

[Brady]

Well, I mean you can go through and use.

[John Holmberg]

But it's like seven things. It used to just be hit the little TV square, pick which TV you want it on. Boom.

[Brady]

Is it just pornhub?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Larry McFeely]

Like movies.

[John Holmberg]

X Hamster. Yeah, it'll go up there. X Hamster's a struggle. I don't like that. You don't either. Your face went sideways on X man. Did it. Which one do you use?

[Brady]

Usually porn up.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, me too. But yeah, because it's so clean and easy. I gotta get better ones. And people always with foods. It's better. I'm like, yeah, this one says it's a sweepstake style casino with virtual currencies like gold coins and sweeps coins you can redeem. Sweet. No, no. There's a way you can play for their little silly money and then you can play for your money. I got it. It came back as mine. It's pretty fun. It's great times. Great times you go through and you, you can have it loaded up to your PayPal. You can put it in your bank. Trust me, Nathan, quit trying to crap on my day. I knew there'd be people out there not saying, good for you. I found a way that it sucks your thing. I found a way that you're going to have suck time with that.

[Brett]

Don't do it, man.

[John Holmberg]

I found a way that everything you're talking about, that you're having a nice day. I found a way to ruin that. I'm trying to wreck it. I don't want you to be happy ever. Yuck. You're in a scam. You basically a Ponzi scheme. I read about it on Reddit. No, it's in my account. No, it's not. I went to your account and I burned the bank down. I love what's. Brady and I were talking about it off the air. You're not allowed to not like something anymore. Just casually. Timothy Chalamet while the war rages on and people like the View is the one that confuses me most. They're always mad about topics and stuff that seem to be current, I guess. And right now they should be angry at war. Right? Like that's the thing they should be most mad at or concerned with. The thing they were most mad at is Timothy Chalamet saying he's not a big fan of opera. He said he wants to keep the theaters alive and people going to movies. And that's a big deal. He goes, I don't want to be, you know, sitting back trying to. I want to keep it alive. Not like ballet or the opera or something like that, you know, where it's just a struggle to keep it going. And they're like, oh, he's unrefined piece of garbage. I'm like, what? He doesn't like ballet and opera? Most regular dudes don't. Right?

[Brett]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

It's a very small percentage of people that are huge into the ballet or opera. Have you ever been the fastest way to hate the opera is to go to one? Did you go, oh, I went to an opera a long time ago? Well, cause, you know, Brett I played. It's easy. I did okay. It's easy to say yes. Very much so, because it worked. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I struggled through it. Then I was less than honest afterwards about it being the least entertaining thing I've ever dealt with in my life. I had easier time following Inception than it. What the hell's going on? You can't tell the love in his heart for that. No. They're just singing in Italian. Like, the guy's got a good voice. But enough with the yelling.

[Brett]

So it all. For him. It all started. He was on a podcast with Matthew McConaughey.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

And he says, the reason I didn't go down there one is I'm into the arts, but not that much in the arts because there's no money in opera and ballet.

[John Holmberg]

Right. And he even said it. He goes, it's just going to be hard for to. I don't want the theater to fall into the niche category of, like, trying to keep. And everybody's like, oh, it's been around for 500 years. Yeah. And the only reason men go is gay or their wife made them. Yeah, yeah. No man is like, nobody's sitting around Buffalo Wild Wings going, guys, after the game, you know, hit some ballet. You don't see five dudes at a ballet going in together. It's not a thing. We do it to get laid. We do it for you.

[Brady]

Ladies, no one's ever come to studio here, so, guys, come on.

[John Holmberg]

Have you guys seen Shin Yoon? Oh, it's amazing. Me and my bros went, what, you're gay? Not gay. Me banging that boy robot yesterday. A whole lot less gay than just guys tailgating at the Shiny. And it might be a great show. That's why I went to the opera. Two reasons a delayed. I knew it was gonna pay off, possibly with. And that was the one thing she knew. She knew I would. That's the only reason guys go. That's that south park episode about musicals. It's like they're all loaded with subliminal advertising to make women horny. And every guy gets a roadie on the way home. It's a whole episode. Like, did you know about this with Broadway? The whole thing's just littered with subliminal messages. That's why women love it so much. It's all. And it gets it. And they'll blow you on the way home. And so guys started to love the theater because they realized, oh, my God, this is guaranteed roadie. I think opera's the same way. I don't know what they're singing. But I'm pretty sure it just plants messages in women's heads to make them plant things in their heads. But I wanted to see for myself. It's easy, Brett, to sit back and say, oh, I hate that. But you never actually experience it, right? Yeah, you can. People don't like things they don't understand because it's easier. So I went and I realized that I hate it for real too.

[Radio Host]

I don't.

[John Holmberg]

It wasn't about like just assuming I was gonna hate. I actually hated. Didn't make me more or less refined. I just. I hated it. I thought it was. It was like the, the WNBA of. Of theater. Boring.

[Brett]

I know you might. It might surprise you, but I. I dozed off a little bit at the opera.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know how.

[Brett]

Yeah, I know.

[John Holmberg]

Because it's a lot of screaming now. I don't.

[Brett]

I like the screaming woke me up.

[John Holmberg]

I like theater. I'll see some great plays. But it's. It's still pulling teeth to get me to go to like. I'm not going to all of them.

[Brady]

Like the Book of Mormons.

[John Holmberg]

Hilarious. And I did enjoy Madame Butterfly. That was beautiful. It's a beautiful story. And they're doing a lot of singing in that too. But you know, let's get with you. You know, it's a tougher sell, but again, when it was over was tough. Shakespeare's impossible to go to. You don't know and. No, but Shakespeare's the Bible. Everybody pretends they've read it and understood it, but nobody's gotten through that.

[Brett]

I got lectured on it about two weeks ago. He invented language. The English language.

[John Holmberg]

Who's talking to you about.

[Brett]

Nobody uses my brother in law's his. His sister who comes from a theater background.

[John Holmberg]

All you have to do when somebody's talking to you about that like that, especially a guy like you is just gonna. I've grown tired of you. And walk away from them because their conversation skills suck. If you're still selling me Shakespeare.

[Brett]

So beautiful.

[John Holmberg]

Probably. I don't know. I don't understand it. And then they get high and mighty about it like ah, you. And then you just go, I've grown tired of this conversation. I'm going somewhere else with someone who's interesting. If Shakespeare was so great, we'd still talk like that. I stand by that. If Shakespeare's language was so flowery and beautiful, we'd still do it.

[Brady]

I'd like to argue that. But you can't.

[John Holmberg]

You can't. It's impossible.

[Brett]

She point out she did point out a couple of things that he invented a couple of words.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah. Invented a ton of stuff. So what?

[Brett]

I can't remember.

[John Holmberg]

Eventually, some people, like, you know, there's a couple of them. He invented hie, which is high, but it means let's go, or kind of like get a move on or something like that. It's like, so what? And again, proof. No one ever read it. He. He added in gibberish at the time. If it wasn't a word. People had to read it and go,

[Larry McFeely]

what the hell is this?

[John Holmberg]

The hell is this one? Does anybody know what this means? Only Shakespeare knows. And then. Come on, that's like the Helen Keller myth that she ever even wrote a book or had a language with her fist in her hand, that none of that was real.

[Brett]

Whatchamacallit.

[John Holmberg]

You can't read a book. Like, if you wrote. If Brady wrote a book right now, there'd be plenty of words in there you'd never seen before. Now they're just misspellings. But let's play pretend that Brady's trying to invent words. You'd read it and you go, hey, there's like 10 or 11 things in here that don't make any sense. You'd have to ask the author. Back then, there wasn't an Internet or a phone or anything else. So if he'd just thrown in words only he knows, any decent reviewer of a book would be like, every once in a while, it's just like a word that doesn't exist. He's a retarded person. I think, dad, with your Shakespeare, nobody's read it. Bible, Shakespeare, nobody's actually read either of them. They just play pretend they've been. They've been told by teachers or. Or pastors or anything else that this is what you. This is all you need to know. You've been given the notes.

[Brady]

I don't even think the junior high and high school teachers have read it,

[John Holmberg]

because none of us have.

[Brady]

And we're just BS and through.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

If. If any high school student wants to explode the education system actually read Shakespeare. The whole thing. Read it. Nobody's ever done it. The teachers haven't done it. The teachers that taught them haven't done it. You go back to maybe the last person actually read Shakespeare. Like, read it, not acted it out. Read it was. It was probably like 1450. Probably.

[Brett]

I got an award in high school for Shakespeare. I acted out scene, but I totally modified it.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. What you were. Was what? The teacher's dream. Because you were the comedic deflection to any questions about the book that that teacher had also not ever read. I hard pressed to find one public school teacher that's actually read Shakespeare. Not a thing. You were told what it is by someone else and they were told by someone else all the way back to maybe Shakespeare himself, who actually I think it just got a. He's like the luckiest author ever. Romeo and Juliet was the big sell. They made a movie out of it. They tried and they did it a couple of times.

[Brett]

He was tougher. You know, one of the rare ones that died with money. Most of them became famous after

[John Holmberg]

he said Reed Siemens, great name. Says I like short operas. One of my favorites is when people sing. If you have a structured settlement and you need cash now. Oh, JG went west. 877 cash now. 8, 7, 7, cash now. We all know it.

[Brady]

Oh yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And that's as good as. That's, that's rube opera. And we're like, that's as much as I can handle. And sometimes when it runs a couple of times in the day you're like, all right, enough with the Vikings yelling at me. So Timothee Chalamet is allowed to not like the opera and say that he thinks it's. I don't think it's thriving as far as its interest. It has some areas that you know, like the. And ballet is the other thing he said. Ballet is another one. No dudes are going to ballet. Nobody's leaving the cardinal game going. We got to get out of here a little early. I might go watch ballet over that. That's a good point.

[Producer/Assistant]

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[Larry McFeely]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Producer/Assistant]

Holmberg's morning sickness,

[John Holmberg]

it's, you know, it's a skill. It's an art. Nobody's saying it's easy, but you know what is also a skill and an art and not easy at all is shooting a bow and arrow. But I'm not gonna watch you do that either. It's boring. Don't you appreciate how hard she's worked? Huh? I was playing Jackpot. Go. Are we still. Oh, I'm sorry. What?

[Brett]

What?

[John Holmberg]

Am I still getting a blowjob? Of course you are. Yeah. That's all I care about. And you have to just sit and go, yeah, this is fun. I enjoyed it, too. Does that mean that you're gonna knob me now? Oh, fine. I owe you a knobbing. Did you like it?

[Brett]

Yes.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, because you're essentially a woman or a gay guy. I'm straight. I have no interest in that. If it was so great, and I say this about a lot of things, it would have like, a fun full day where everybody, you know, shuts down and watches it. Like football. That's how you know something in America is good. There'd be a Shakespeare channel or there'd be a 24 hour network dedicated to it, but there's no business in that. If you had 24 hours of opera on your TV, sweet Jesus, you'd kill yourself.

[Brady]

I might read a book at that point.

[John Holmberg]

But then you got Whoopi Goldberg yelling at Timothy Chalamet for not liking opera. I'm like, he's not allowed to think opera's dumb. Then he's coming for you, baby. I'm coming for you, baby. It's like, what, Oprah? What are you like. You're.

[Brett]

You better be careful, boy.

[John Holmberg]

Be careful, boy. I come for you. All right, well, she's a boy to me.

[Brady]

That show you're not allowed to have an opinion on, so it's.

[John Holmberg]

Well, you're not allowed to differ from those broads, but I figured they'd be more into the war than, like, they're distracted by the op. They. That's a group of women. If that's the core audience for the opera. More right than I knew. I don't want to sit behind Whoopi and Joy Behar and hear them bitching the whole time. That. No, thanks. Yeah, there's a lot of things out there that people don't like. You're not. You know, you can love the ballet and stuff like that. You're. But, you know, we all know you're homosexual. No man is gonna fit it, Brady, if you came in here and said I was. I've been going to ballet quite a bit lately. Fred and I are not gonna listen to the next thing you say. We're just gonna be laughing at your new lifestyle. We'll accept you into our fold, but not without jokes. You find out your friend is gay. Oh, it's great stuff. I. For Gary Cannon, the comedian, when he finally. He said. He sent me this big, long letter, like, telling me, you know, it's been this. I'm getting divorced from my way. I'm gonna move on. And I'm. I'm a homosexual now. And I'm like, you think you needed to tell me that? I've always known you. I was gonna say, did you know

[Brett]

this ahead of time?

[John Holmberg]

I've always been a. I can't believe I was more shocked at your wife, to be honest with. How did she not know every time you rolled her over and called her Ron? Well, Brady actually gets to do that. His wife is named Ron. You can do that if you want. Wait a minute. Yeah, it was this big, flowery letter, hoping that I'd accept him. And I'm like, yeah, I've always known you wanted to just all of that stuff. What?

[Larry McFeely]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Just want to let you know I don't believe you. I'm a homosexual. Gary, come on. When you got divorced, I assumed it was for another guy. You're such an asshole. Right? That's what we're talking about. You love those. Anyway, just keep it off of me. I don't care about your. Do whatever you want. But even Gary would say that the opera's. You know. Yeah. So don't. Don't get on Timothy Chalamet. Another thing I do like, though it's flying around, is people are trying to get mad at Jesse Jackson's son for yelling at all the people. It's been. It's getting bigger, which I like. Jesse Jackson had his funeral. And all these people were kind of grandstanding at the funeral. Politically, they were saying things about politics and everything else, like, what else are you going to say about Jesse Jackson at his funeral? That's all he did. And then his son went up and said, you keep your politics out of my dad's funeral. I'm like, your dad was known to inject his politics into everything he ever did, including funerals. The only reason Jesse Jackson was famous is because he was standing next to Martin Luther King when he got shot. And then he just used that as his leverage for his whole life. Some things he did were great, some things he did were terrible. But you can you. You inject politics into a dude that just shoehorned his way into every single aspect of political life, and everybody's all, like, mad at the people who. No. Exactly what he did.

[Brett]

Well, the only thing, too is you have to agree in a way, like, he didn't have a say on who can speak. Because his point was, yeah, look, you could, you know, if. Interject your politics. But he's like, any. All these people that were talking didn't know my dad. Like, what are they doing?

[John Holmberg]

There's some truth to that. One of my favorite moments in funeral history that was televised on ESPN was the Pat Tillman one. John McCain went up and spoke about this and that, and they had all these people, and Chris Berman was like the host of the funeral. It was the weirdest thing. And then I guess they're sold on.

[Brett]

We'd like to honor him.

[John Holmberg]

Well, Pat's brother went up and goes, you're all full of. First off, quit saying he's with God now. Pat didn't believe in that. What do you do? None of you knew him. And he cracked a beer and he started doing all sorts of Jake Plummer another one. I gained tons of respect for Jake Plummer. Basically calling a dog and pony show. I felt the most sorry for Chris Berman, who was hosting it like it was a charity event. Is it a little bit awkward right there with the Jake Plummer telling everybody to go themselves? Say what you will, Pat Tillman would have wanted it that way. He loved to tell people to go off every once in a while. That's what he was. But it was the strain. I like that. I think a funeral where people get up and try to make it about themselves and stuff like that get called out. But nobody in the history of funerals was more that way than Jesse Jackson himself. He went to people's funerals, he didn't know, just to get attention for how they died. Like, he'd find a political. Like a. An s. Storm of a story, you know, like somebody was killed or something like that, and he'd run to their funeral. He's like you don't even know him. You got.

[Brady]

You gotta.

[John Holmberg]

You're just talking because you're gonna get attention.

[Brett]

But a lot of times that was to get justice.

[John Holmberg]

Was it? Or was it to get Jesse Jackson's foundation more money? Because a lot of times there was no justice. But he worked both ways. So he did exactly what everybody's saying you shouldn't do. It was his career to go grandstand at terrible events and funerals and things like that. He was no better than the West Baptist Church on occasion. I think he did a lot of great things too. But when it comes to that, your dad's gonna have some political people saying political crap and doing exactly what your dad did.

[Brett]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

At his funeral. You can't get mad about it.

[Brady]

That'd be expected.

[John Holmberg]

Absolutely. It's how you lived your whole life. Anyway, I just gotta keep depositing money into my account. This is ridiculous. But if you are a guy that wants to go to the opera, I bet you it would be easier to tell your family you're gay than it would be to try to get them to go with you. Nobody wants to go to that. Just to circle back. There's no possible way that's something that anybody's wrong.

[Brett]

Did you go to the. This past year? The movie fundraiser? The show business fundraiser?

[John Holmberg]

No, I don't go to movies anymore.

[Brett]

But you've been to an opera fundraiser.

[John Holmberg]

No.

[Brett]

Find that interesting? I haven't, but they do that every year.

[John Holmberg]

I've been to the opera.

[Brett]

Needs money.

[Radio Host]

Sure.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, I see what you're saying. Oh, yeah.

[Brady]

Oh, Sonya Twink or what? What is it?

[John Holmberg]

He's trying to make the point that they have fundraisers to keep it alive because it's.

[Brady]

Because it can't pay for itself.

[John Holmberg]

It's like wnba, the high school band.

[Brett]

It's just a lost form of art. I mean, they want to protect.

[John Holmberg]

It's just not that interesting to everybody. He's. You know, if you have to have fundraisers, that means you're not making enough money just selling tickets.

[Brady]

It's like the WNBA sort of like.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, it's. It has to be subsidized by things that aren't that. You know, I go to the audience

[Brett]

that enjoys it is. Yeah. Too small to support.

[John Holmberg]

Right. They can support it, but just that it's not going to be some thriving thing. I like theater. I like plays. I think they're great. A lot of the times I support the Arizona Theater Company. I go to the thing every year

[Brett]

again that though, you know, another one that it's great when you go, but it's just.

[John Holmberg]

It's not like you're running out there every Friday. Like, what do you want to do? You want to go to the theater this week? No, it's fun, but there's a ballet thing. Dragging me to a ballet. Your chicks are hot, but they're super thin. There's no, like, I'd like to see some of those opera ladies try that. The big fat brats.

[Brady]

Oh, please.

[Brett]

One Christmas bunny, the whole family, she's like, we're going to the Nutcracker ballet.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, well, moms drag families to that thing. We've all sat through the Nutcracker. And they take kids, which is, why is there a kid on the planet? That's how you know if your kid's gay. If you take your son to the Nutcracker and he comes out of there just beaming, saying, prep him.

[Brett]

There you go.

[John Holmberg]

Prep him. Because he's. He's. Yeah, don't. Don't be surprised when he and his friend are just gonna stag it to prom. We're just gonna go together. We don't have dates. Oh, boy.

[Brett]

No kidding.

[John Holmberg]

My dad probably asked me a hundred times, did you like the Nutcracker when your mom took you? It was all right. Like. What do you mean, all right? Like, good or terrible? And do you want to. Do you want to go back? I don't know if mom wanted to go. Kind of ambiguous here. You're leaving your dad no answers. It's Dan.

[Brett]

I think you're some lesson pipe in his future.

[John Holmberg]

It just. He's not saying he hated it, but he doesn't seem overwhelmed. I don't think he's made a decision yet. I'm just gonna leave it there.

[Brady]

You didn't take Mark with you, did you?

[John Holmberg]

No. Okay. Just making sure.

[Brady]

They already had questions about you guys.

[John Holmberg]

As it is, my mom and my dad's boss's wife and me and their kid named Mason and Mason turn out gay. There you go. I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know. And their daughters, my stupid sister. And there was some other lady there. I don't remember who that was, but. Yeah, me and Mason were the only boys, and we were, like, eight. We hated it, but we didn't know, like, what it was, so we just kind of knew. Going in. Mom's making. It's like going to the mall. We got tired. We were both tugging on. Come on, get some food. And we knew on the way home we'd get Roads. We'd get roadies from our. That's the detail on the training. It's like my dad. You'll thank me someday, son. This is. This is tolerance training. You're going to sit through this with your mother, and someday you're going to do this with the lady you choose. And it's going to be equally as terrible, but at the very least, you're going to get a little ass out. Good message. You know how I know? Also, there's no real interest in it. Timothy Chalamet's right. There's no sports bar with the ballet side. The tv, you know, that shows just ballets and like, you can go over to Twin Peaks and you guys showing the ballet. Get out of here. Get out immediately. It's not a thing. You're allowed to not care for the ballot. End of story. I've got a couple emails here. They're gonna. We have to solve a man's life in a fun way. I emailed me. It's the saddest, most ambiguous email I think we've ever gotten on the show. And when I read it, I just giggled hysterically internally. And I'm like, this poor bastard is. And he's in a spot. This isn't a what would Brady do? This is a what the hell happened here? And it's got. He's. He's in hell. We'll talk it. We'll talk about that in a little bit. In the meantime, you got the Sick New World stuff going on on your app. You can tap the track and go crazy with that. You know how it works. If your phone is what you listen on or the computer is what you listen on, it will start telling you, hey, hit the button right now, and you'll qualify yourself for some Sick New World tickets up there in Vegas in the end of April. It's as easy as doing it. So every time an artist from that show and just about everybody is playing that show comes on, you tap it, you go into the pile. We'll draw your name and maybe you'll get the five, you know, five pairs of tickets for people going up and then a VIP package for one lucky winner. So pay attention to that. That's going on through the, you know, the fingers of this show right now. In the meantime, let's get a wake up song. 585-9800. A good one. We'll scream it together. It's 98K up.

[Producer/Assistant]

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[John Holmberg]

He said fully direct.

[Larry McFeely]

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