03-19-25 - We Might Be Getting Sick From All The Construction Around Us - 80k JFK Pages Released But No One Will Read Them All - Stranded Astronauts Returning To Earth Is An Amazing Feat - AZ Executing Man Today And He Asked For Big Breakfast

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Episode: March 19, 2025 Host: John Holmberg with Brady Bogen, Brett Vesely, and Dick Toledo

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Introduction and Building Concerns

The episode kicks off with John Holmberg addressing a persistent issue affecting the show's team: unexplained allergic reactions within their workplace. Throughout the past two weeks, Holmberg and his co-hosts have experienced severe sneezing and sniffing bouts, leading them to speculate about the source.

John Holmberg [00:43]: "There's something in this building... It's in the building. Brady and I both for the last two weeks would come in here just fine. I just sneezed for about 45 minutes."

Brady Bogen and Brett Vesely engage in a dialogue that delves deeper into possible culprits, ranging from asbestos dust to black mold, and even humorously blaming the building's construction materials on "cancer and agent orange."

Brett Vesely [01:56]: "This black mold."

The conversation highlights concerns about prolonged construction activities adjacent to their office, suggesting that the extended grinding and demolition might be releasing harmful substances into their environment.

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Personal Anecdotes on Construction and Hidden Secrets

John Holmberg transitions into sharing personal stories from his father's construction background, drawing parallels between past and present building projects. He reminisces about his father's involvement in building the Superdome and the unexpected discovery of treasure chests during construction delays.

John Holmberg [04:17]: "We went... first week we was on it, we uncovered some treasure chests. It delayed the progress on the building so much."

Holmberg contrasts these experiences with the current mysterious construction next door, where instead of uncovering historical artifacts, workers seem to be hiding something more sinister.

John Holmberg [02:14]: "They ground that building up for four years. There's a reason they didn't just tear the building next to us down."

The hosts humorously discuss the inefficiencies and oddities of modern construction practices, lamenting the lack of transparency and the prolonged nature of the current project.

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JFK Assassination Files Released

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the recent release of 80,000 pages of JFK assassination documents by the Trump administration. John Holmberg expresses skepticism about the public's ability to digest and interpret such a voluminous release.

John Holmberg [12:11]: "80,000 pages unredacted. Released yesterday by the Trump administration."

Holmberg critiques the likelihood of anyone thoroughly reading the documents, comparing their significance to religious texts like the Bible or Quran, which many also rarely read in entirety.

John Holmberg [12:55]: "Nobody will... It’s the Bible... Everybody just waits for somebody to tell them what it means."

The discussion touches on conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's assassination, with Holmberg debating the notion of Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone versus being influenced by others. He underscores the public's reluctance to engage deeply with the released materials, fearing the complexity and potential implications.

John Holmberg [14:22]: "Nobody reads it. It should have been exciting. Not a soul, not a soul took the time to go... AI could just break it down in a couple of sentences."

The hosts collectively express frustration over media interpretations and the general public's disengagement from critically analyzing the released information.

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Returning Astronauts and Space Technology Achievements

Shifting gears, the episode celebrates the successful return of stranded astronauts, highlighting it as a remarkable feat of modern technology. John Holmberg praises NASA's precision in landing capsules and the advancements in space travel.

John Holmberg [19:22]: "They have the technology now to bring something back unmanned and float it back right to the exact spot soft as a feather and place itself in Florida."

The hosts discuss the physiological effects of long-term space travel on astronauts, such as changes in bone density and vision, referencing recent news about Scott Kelly and other astronauts' experiences.

John Holmberg [22:01]: "His heart changed size... He was taller... It's amazing."

Holmberg laments the public's lack of enthusiasm for space achievements, contrasting it with historical awe and suggesting a societal shift towards skepticism and indifference.

John Holmberg [25:18]: "It's an airplane that goes out of the... and burns back up and comes back, and we could use it over and over again. It's 3,600 degrees coming back into the planet, and this thing can take multiple shots. We manage this constantly, and everybody's like, I don't care."

He envisions a future where technological advancements will revolutionize daily life, lamenting the current underappreciation of such milestones.

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Execution and Last Meal Discussion

Towards the episode's conclusion, the hosts broach the topic of the latest execution in Arizona, blending it with humorous banter about last meal preferences. They discuss the often overlooked aspects of the execution process and the impersonal nature of the state's handling of such matters.

John Holmberg [28:22]: "This might be it. Yeah. They lethally injected a dude last night for murdering folks in 2002. His name's Ted Price. We killed him last night."

The conversation shifts to speculative and comedic scenarios about inmates' last meal requests, interspersed with light-hearted jokes and personal anecdotes.

Brett Vesely [31:22]: "Yeah, they limit it. You're not gonna sit next. You can get a big breakfast."

Holmberg emphasizes the impersonal and procedural aspects of executions, questioning the depth of the public's engagement with such events.

John Holmberg [28:40]: "He was talking about that because he was up there for almost a year and he came back and it took him months to reacclimate. He was taller... His heart changed size."

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Conclusion

John Holmberg wraps up the episode by reflecting on the day's discussions, from workplace health hazards and historical construction tales to significant national releases and space exploration triumphs. He teases an upcoming humorous segment involving an email from a listener, promising laughter and entertainment.

John Holmberg [34:32]: "We got this one email that's just for Brett. You're gonna like this. And we're going to get a wake up song. 585-9800. A good one and we'll scream it together."

The episode concludes with the hosts maintaining their signature blend of humor, skepticism, and insightful commentary, leaving listeners anticipating future discussions and engaging segments.

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Notable Quotes:

• John Holmberg [00:43]: "There's something in this building... It's in the building."
• Brett Vesely [01:56]: "This black mold."
• John Holmberg [12:55]: "Nobody will... It’s the Bible... Everybody just waits for somebody to tell them what it means."
• John Holmberg [19:22]: "They have the technology now to bring something back unmanned and float it back right to the exact spot soft as a feather and place itself in Florida."
• John Holmberg [28:22]: "This might be it. Yeah. They lethally injected a dude last night for murdering folks in 2002. His name's Ted Price. We killed him last night."

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Conclusion for New Listeners

In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, listeners are treated to a blend of investigative curiosity, personal storytelling, and critical analysis of current events. From unraveling mysterious construction activities and delving into historical conspiracies to celebrating technological advancements in space travel and discussing societal issues like executions, the show offers a comprehensive and engaging exploration of diverse topics. Holmberg and his co-hosts skillfully balance humor with depth, making complex subjects accessible and entertaining for both regular followers and newcomers alike.

Transcript

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[Brady]

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[John Holmberg]

You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. Good morning, everybody. Hello there. Welcome to Wednesday. It's 5:45. This is the morning sickness. My name's John. There's Brady, there's Brett. There's big Dick Toledo. We're off and running for a glorious, beautiful Wednesday. As the weather starts to get going again, we got to start feeling it. All good about it. Start snorting and sniffing. There's something in this building. Brady and I both for the last two weeks would come in here just fine. I just sneezed for about 45 minutes. It's in the building. Brett, your allergies are not outside. We can't stop blaming the wind. It is asbestos dust. Yeah, whatever they built Saddam's palace here out of, I am allergic to it because I'm fine until I walk in here. Whatever the cleaning crew snorts off of our desks because I tell you right now, they're not vacuuming anything. Something brewing.

[Brett]

They must be treating that couch.

[John Holmberg]

It's also down the hall. I open the office door down the hall and immediately I'm like. Like I was fine two seconds ago. So, yeah, we'll all end up with some sort of a.

[Brett]

This black mold.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, some sort of a miner's lung from the stupid building. That looks good, but I don't think it's. I think this thing was built with. If it was an illegal thing and we got it for cheap, they used it. I think the walls are made of cancer and agent orange and whatever else you could find that'll mustard gas is all through here.

[Brett]

Can only imagine what the Project's like in back of us there.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God, the thing. They just ground that building up for four years. There's a reason they didn't just tear the building next to us down. And they spent four years grinding it up. And when we say that, we would look out the window for four years. They didn't just knock the. And it was a pretty new building to begin with.

[Brady]

Yeah, it was.

[John Holmberg]

We don't know something about this. They knocked it down and then they just ground it up and made a mound of old building out of rocks and rubble. Then they ground that up into a fine, like, pulp.

[Brett]

Then it just. The ebb and flow, like, okay, it looks like they're done. Then all of a sudden they grind down in the dark. Walking back again.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, night workers. And they're. Yeah, they're back. They went away for about eight months. And then. And then there's a mound of ground up building that they just moved over there. Like, they can't throw it away. There's something horrible going on behind us. And these poor guys in these orange vests we see every morning walking to work.

[Brady]

It took them long enough, too. That is definitely four years.

[John Holmberg]

Something going on to knock a building down and then nobody touch it. Why? Why can't we clean this up and just put a new building up? Good Christ. Are you crazy? We can't touch that stuff. It's nuclear, man.

[Brett]

I don't understand. If they stumbled upon like a T. Rex or a mammoth or something.

[John Holmberg]

Look, my dad's company. My dad's company built the Superdome back in the day. And his old boss. When I was a little kid, my dad's boss name was Jimmy Richards, and he was from DK to Georgia. He would always tell a story about. We went. We built that Superdome. First week we was on it, we uncovered some treasure chests. Like what? Yeah, we was digging around down knowledge with treasure chests come up and we're like, my God. It delayed the progress on the building so much. They had to play the super bowl in Tulane. And it's. The Steelers played the. I didn't even remember that. Well, I was too young. But Steelers played the Vikings in Tulane is supposed to be in the Superdome. They were like nine months behind. Why Treasure chest. So we got to. We got to work in eight months after we get back on the job, find some more treasure chests. We kept those. I'm like, was there anything in it? We just didn't tell nobody. Max.

[Brady]

Breaking them things open.

[John Holmberg]

If you find anything, an archaeological find, they stop Everything. And then dudes show up with feathers and start dusting the earth for eight months. But I know they didn't do that because they were working there every day, just moving the mounds of death. I was around construction my whole youth. Then my dad's companies built big projects. Never once did my dad go, we're going to be. Every time he'd say, hey, we're moving. It was an 18 month job because that's how long it takes him to build the thing. So when he was, you know, one of the worker bees and the project managers and stuff, he'd be like, hey, we're. We're finishing up West Virginia Stadium. We're moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico to build. @ the time, it was a computer chip plant. It was the most amazing technology ever. Never once did they tear an old building down, grind it up for four years and then start the building. He built the civic center down here. The reason we moved to Phoenix, they tore the old one down. You know how they tore it down? Clint Eastwood filmed the movie. They had a. And they tore it down by just shooting up downtown Phoenix and blowing up buildings.

[Brett]

After the Gauntlet.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. For Dirty Harry movie, it's. They drive downtown and where they had to build a walking bridge between the two places they were connecting the old to the new. They had to wreck a bunch of stuff. And Holly, you know, Clint calls up, I understand you're going to tear down some of Phoenix. And they're like, yep, we'll take it. And he just drives on and they blow up stuff for the movie and then they act like it's part of the movie. Well, he was part of that. You know what they did right after that? Got some shovels, scooped it up and started building. Never once did it get ground up for four years. Like this building next to us that gives us, you know, the dust aids that we have. Every time I get close to this place.

[Brady]

Didn't they have that like one of the freeways here or something? They found some stuff and then it got delayed.

[John Holmberg]

101.

[Brady]

Okay.

[John Holmberg]

It was right off price. And I was in college at the time, and I had an instructor. We were in a. An archeology class. Oh, yeah, I took that at mcc. What a waste of everyone's money.

[Brady]

Indiana Holmberg. Now, what is this?

[John Holmberg]

Indiana Holmberg Community College? Like, why? What archaeologists come out of McC? This. Well, we found something pretty major here. It's like your bomb.

[Brett]

Keep dusting.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. The only thing you've ever dusted in your life is, you know, maybe your Apartment. But I went to most of. Nobody at MCC was going to be a great archaeologist. But we got to go when they found that stuff to the archaeological dig and see it. And they had done some. It was right off Price and Southern, and that freeway wasn't there yet. And they were trying to build it, and they worked around these guys who dug this little hole. And you know what they found? Two pots. Like, some broken. Broken native pottery and then, like, teeth.

[Brett]

Then strung them up on the 51.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And then they said, these are gonna look great. And then. You know what's crazy about that? That was all native land. So they had this area cordoned off. That was probably. It had to be like a square mile. It was a lot. It was a big space. And they're dustin. There's dudes in there dusting and dirt and. And stuff. And that whole. You're telling me that whole entire freeway after that, they didn't find anything else that had.

[Brett]

Nope.

[John Holmberg]

Nobody said a word. They're like, some dude reported it, and then nobody said anything.

[Brett]

How many pots?

[Brady]

So somebody's jug of fire water fell off a horse and broke, and they just.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they found the original. Years ago, they found the original Budweiser can. It's mine. And they're like, no, no, no. It's ancient. I don't think so. That my great grandfather. Yeah. This guy says, I'm. I'm baffled at how you could have been around construction your whole youth and you can't hang a bike rack on your garage wall. Armand. Armand. It baffles me. And what's more baffling is my dad was in charge of these things. He's about as handy. He knows how to do stuff. It's just. It's awful shame. Yeah. Oh, he's terrible at building things. He's blueprints and boss and stuff. And he. You know, I think it's because you give him a big project. He knows what to do. He's just terrible at it. And then passing it down to me, he was. He always made me so afraid of the tools, the saws, and the. Almost terrifying. I wasn't allowed to touch anything. So I grew up some other guys doing, like, excellent work. And also, why would he ever teach some kid how to do it when he had three dudes that he could call at any time and say, hey, I need this, this, and this done. And it was. It would happen like a day. Like, in a day. What would have taken me months to learn. Three dudes from his construction site would come by Give him some extra money and some beer, and they would do a little project around the house. It was easy.

[Brady]

Well, didn't you say he built a Chinese restaurant pergola in your backyard?

[John Holmberg]

The pergola was. He and I together. I. I handled giving. I was the guy. I was the nurse hammer. And I'd give him a hammer wrench. What? Why? Which one? God damn it. And then he'd get up, and he'd get it himself. So I never learned vice grips, which are those? The ones with the screwy thing in the bottom. God damn it. And then he just grabbing himself, and I'm like, I don't know what's what. You won't teach me. So I just stood there with, like, a tray of stuff, and he'd reach back and get it. I didn't learn a thing. And he built the biggest, dumbest, ugliest Chinese pergola in our backyard.

[Brett]

He throw the crescent wrench at you now. That's how you learn.

[John Holmberg]

Well, he did. There was times when he's just like. I dropped it once, and we took the weekend off. I had the. Like this. These are the things I'm gonna need. Stay behind me.

[Brady]

It was a Christmas story. Fudge.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. It was very fudge worth. But I. But no. At least in a Christmas story, somebody bumped something. I just wasn't paying attention, and I turned and just spilled, like, bolts and everything. God damn it. Go inside. And I'm like, all right. I did. And then he comes in, just huffing and puffing and sweating. We'll get back to this another time. It was the sturdiest Chinese pergola of all time. Because he built it like it was still there.

[Brett]

They can't remove it.

[John Holmberg]

I think you need teams of Chinese men. It's the. It's the Great Wall. It was overkill because he built big buildings. He didn't do little projects around us. That's not handy. He didn't know how to build a spice rack. You know, to build a stadium. You don't teach a kid that.

[Brett]

Just the pride of finishing it and then showing.

[John Holmberg]

And my mom hated it. Painted it barn red. It was awful.

[Brett]

Anyway, that is horrible.

[John Holmberg]

Whatever's going on next door, I'm. You know, I should. We should probably. We're all going to have a Camp Lejeune story from that building next door.

[Brett]

Brady Mesh all over our.

[John Holmberg]

Kirby's kids. Your grandkids that you'll never meet will be just loaded with lumps and tumors. Hopefully, AI solved it by then, because we're all Bringing sick around here.

[Brady]

Did you work for KUPD?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Did you ever drive by 52nd street in McDowell from the years of 2016 to today?

[Brett]

Just more Instagram postings.

[John Holmberg]

For what?

[Brett]

Of people. Deformed people.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah. For you. You'd be excited.

[Brady]

More videos.

[John Holmberg]

You do love that. But we'll be gone by then. I hope that's true. Long dead from whatever that dusk was next door. But they'll finish. There'll be hundreds of guys dead and buried because of whatever that thing is. It is bad around here. Also yesterday. You know, I have to call myself the world's biggest hypocrite when it comes to this. I have been into the JFK assassination for so long and, like, not knowing and sort of being the one person that believes the conspiracy is conspiracy. Not that I'm not for conspiracy theories, but I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did this by himself with funding. Like, there were people behind it that talked him into it. But I've always thought you're probably the only shooter. Like, it makes sense to me that, you know, we wanted it to be so much bigger. Somebody said that once, and I was like, that makes most sense. When the world and the people in it can't believe that it can be altered by one. Nobody over this morning sickness Hear the words you say sometimes.

[Brett]

I mean, who talks like that?

[John Holmberg]

98 KUPD. Holmberg's Morning Sickness. Some. Nobody shoots the most powerful man in the world and alters the course of history. We just don't want to believe that some do nothing. Nobody is capable of rattling the entire planet the way that happens. So it needs to be a bigger deal. It needs to be Cuba. It needs to be. There has to be huge players involved. Can't just be some guy who decided to do it. And I think we don't like to accept that one person can alter all that stuff. So I've always kind of leaned towards Lee Harvey's alone, but there were people at play that. That put him in that position. He shot alone. 80,000 pages unredacted. Released yesterday by the Trump administration.

[Brady]

How much did you read?

[John Holmberg]

None. Nobody will. It's the Bible. Everybody just waits for somebody to tell them what it means. Not a souls Reddit movie.

[Brett]

Hell yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Nobody. Exactly. Nobody. Everybody who was into it.

[Brett]

Where do I start?

[John Holmberg]

Even, like, JFK's grandson or. I don't. What's funny is he was like, I can't believe they did this. Well, when they find out what's in there. And I'm like, well, you could read it. I'm never gonna do that. It's your own family. Nobody's gonna read this. Now we're at the mercy of whoever does. Take the time to read it, interpret it, and tell us what it is to have it have meaning. They'll find a couple of things and then you'll hear jackasses. Well, I read it. You read all 80,000 pages of that bull. Nobody will.

[Brady]

Alex Jones will. He's got nothing better going on but bringing him back.

[John Holmberg]

He's already nuts. So when he's, here's what you need to know. Like if you're listening to Alex Jones and you buy he probably will get some of it right. Oh yeah, but his interpretation is going to be crazy. It's to me, it's, it's the same as the Bible, the Quran and everything else. Everybody says, oh, it's the most important thing though. Nobody's actually ever sat down and read it, understood it, went back, read it again if it's this important to you. This should have been exciting. Not a soul, not a soul took the time to go, I'm something for AI. Nobody's going to leaf through it. And then AI is going to tell you, well, I got 20,000 page dissertations on your 80,000 page stuff. You're not reading that either. AI, could you just break it down in a couple of sentences? What I need to know about this.

[Brett]

Could we just ask you questions?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, and that's part of the deal with government paperwork, is that they bog you down with that. They know you're never gonna read that. They gave 200,000 pages on the Pat Tillman thing to his family and said, we dare you to get through this. Well, they did and found out it was all lies and still got away with it because nobody else is gonna see if that's real or not. Nobody's going through that again. Nobody will read these 80,000 pages and if, and somebody will email me and you know what? They're gonna tell us this. You're not gonna do it though. So don't get all fired up like you're part of this. You're waiting for whoever you believe most of the time, Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity, whichever side you're on, to tell you what it means and then bark it out in some sort of story later. You're never gonna tell. You're never go. You're never gonna do your own work. You're never gonna, you're gonna wait for your team to interpret and then tell you what it is and then you'll fight oh, they're liars over there. They believe this. And I go, okay, nobody read it. I don't want to hear it. But I'm right there with you. And I'll probably forget this conversation in a couple years going, you know, when they released all that stuff, it said we're all gonna be slaves to whomever says those 80,000 pages have this.

[Brett]

People be quoting it, like, Bible verses.

[John Holmberg]

Well, right. Oh, yeah. People. Yeah. Nobody's read that p. Like, eight guys total since it came out. There's only eight people who have sat down and read the Bible. Eight maybe. Total. Most people are like, did you read it? Yeah. What did you think of this? And that's what you used to do with book reports later. Oh, yeah. And then they give you a little thing. You kind of go, okay, I got to remember that because I haven't read it.

[Brady]

Is there Cliff Notes or the thing on the back of the book, the 80,000 pages?

[John Holmberg]

If you have read it, you don't understand it. You don't at all. You had to have somebody tell you what it means, and that's. It doesn't mean it's the most important book in my life. It's the most important thing I've ever. Have you read it? Well, no. No. I go to church and they tell me what it means. I'm like, okay, so you never actually sat down and read the most important thing in your life? It's too hard. It's too hard.

[Brett]

Paul is a compilation of letters to the Ephesians.

[John Holmberg]

You learned that. You learned that from someone else. You didn't sit down and go, wow, it really is. You just took that person's word so you didn't have to do any of the work. You're not going to sit down page by page and go through that thing. Impossible. Everybody says, I've read the Bible. Did you get it? Well, no. If you've read that thing, it's impossible to understand. The words don't even make sense. Like, yeah, I know. So you just go to somebody who says they've read it and they tell you what it means to them, and then you just take on that. Same with the JFK stuff. There's so much about it. And somebody will email me and tell me, oh, this guy says, john, I just had chat. GPT read it, and it told me it was Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick. Yeah, that's. I'm fine with that, Steve. I think that's. I think that's. I'd rather have that. I'd rather have that. Anybody says, you say 80 pages to me, I'm probably out. All 80 pages were released. I'm like, ugh, that's like an hour.

[Brett]

I'm good with waiting for my team to come up with the synopsis.

[Brady]

When's the movie?

[John Holmberg]

And then we bit the movie media. Just, you know what, it's all fake information. Yeah. When's the 80,000 page JFK movie? You know, we already watched it. Oliver Stone made a movie that. He made half of it up. It was. Most of it was a soap opera on there.

[Brett]

A couple of added characters.

[John Holmberg]

There's loads. Well, there were amalgamations of, like, eight people into one character, like, he took care of. So we didn't have to introduce, like, 10 or 12 people he took care of, you know, bonking out a few and making Donald Sutherland's character more of a. That was. What was so brilliant about Austin Powers is that they had a character named Exposition. Nobody caught on to that. His name was Basil Exposition. So when the story got a little convoluted, Basil came on and said, all right, everybody, here's what's going on. And that's exactly what Donald Sutherland's character was in jfk. It's like, there's a lot going on. We can't introduce you to 10 more people, but we can make one guy those 10 people, you know, and we'll have him give a big speech, an exposition of all the things that you think you followed and haven't, and then that'll jet us forward to the ending. JFK was mostly made up. Ask someone about my age about the JFK assassination, and they'll bring up Clay Bertrand. They'll bring up David Ferry. Like, you watched the movie, didn't you? Oh, yeah. That was your history lesson. Yep. Half of that was all made up. And it was. And it. It made that courtroom that Kevin Costner was in, which was a small little trial they had in New Orleans that got attention because he was trying to. He was nuts. The dude that was. The dude Kevin Costner played was just. Was Don Quixote gonna try to get someone convicted so the government would admit there was something there and they didn't. The Tommy Lee Jones character, if you pay attention at the end, gets off, and then Kevin Costner's looking at the camera going, you have the power to release the files. Well, they did, and nobody cares. They released them. You know what else nobody cared about yesterday, which is, again, we're completely incapable of shock and awe and admiration for technology. They went up two days ago picked up a couple astronauts who've been up there for 10 months and dumped them in the Gulf of America yesterday. And it was beautiful. I don't, I, Jay at Tactical Black was saying, did you watch the rocket return? And I'm like, did they catch it with the chopsticks again? He goes, no. They decided in the middle of that, it's like, let's just see if it'll land where it took off. And they told it to go back. And with pinpoint precision. We have the technology now to bring something back unmanned and float it back right to the exact spot soft as a feather and place itself in Florida. And nobody's passing out America. We still argue over whether it's worth. People are mad at Elon Musk burning up Tesla dealerships and stuff when we should for one moment all be American and go, that was American ingenuity at its finest. What we did with this SpaceX thing the other day, that is spectacular. Shoot two dudes up, we'll go get them. It's like, it's an uber ride.

[Brady]

It's Waymo in space.

[John Holmberg]

It's Waymo. And we're like, nah, I don't care. It is unreal. I watched that thing 12 times yesterday. I was rewinding the NASA app, just watching this over and over. Like that is remarkable stuff.

[Brett]

So did they fix the Boeing, the engines, or was it. It was SpaceX that. Weren't they supposed to go up there and pick it up and then.

[John Holmberg]

What are you talking about the astronauts.

[Brett]

That splashed down yesterday?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's who they picked up.

[Brett]

Yeah, it, you know, I was, I was surprised too, because it said that splashed down. I didn't see any of the video.

[John Holmberg]

What do you mean? You're supposed. We're surprised by that. That's how we land them.

[Brett]

I thought in the water. I thought they were coming back.

[John Holmberg]

No, the star rider.

[Dick Toledo]

The Star rider was sent back on starliner.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, because the, the capsule that comes back still comes back. The old fashioned.

[Dick Toledo]

They sent up a new capsule to get them. That's what he's talking about. They sent up a whole new thing.

[John Holmberg]

Well, because the other two had to live at the. They were there for eight days and then stayed for 10 months. That's a bad house guest.

[Brett]

Do you see the effects the body has?

[John Holmberg]

Oh, it's amazing. Baby feet was my favorite one. Baby feet is where you're in zero gravity long enough that your feet are just like, well, you don't need me anymore. And it just, they just get real super Soft. And then your bones don't matter. So when you try to walk again, it's like walking on glass.

[Brett]

Your vision gets blurry as your eyeball. Eyeballs start to flatten from fluid.

[John Holmberg]

All your body, all your bodily fluid goes up instead of down. So it's floating around in your eyes and your brain. It's neat. They had Mark Kelly's brother Scott on TV yesterday and I had to hear that in the middle of watching that. That looks just like the Arizona guy. All right, enough. They're twins. Oh, all right. The news is on. The adults are talking and. Yeah, they had. He was talking about that because he was up there for almost a year and he came back and it took him months to re acclimate. He was taller. He was like two and a half inches taller. His heart changed size.

[Brett]

It was crazy because the Russian cosmonaut holds the overall record. So Frank Rubio was up there for 371 straight days. 2022.

[John Holmberg]

Scott Kelly was there for like 350.

[Brett]

Hear the words you say sometimes. I mean, who talks like that?

[John Holmberg]

98 KUPD. Holmberg's Morning Sickness. It's a long haul. I wouldn't want to be up there.

[Brett]

Cosmonaut was 437 straight days.

[Brady]

Did he get a better looking broad up there with him though?

[John Holmberg]

I don't think was up there with a broad brain.

[Brady]

Oh, man.

[John Holmberg]

He had a. A female.

[Brady]

Let's hope she better than this one.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that poor guy.

[Brady]

Ten months.

[John Holmberg]

Yes.

[Brett]

That door popped open and Sunita Williams just shot out.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's right. That's right there. An afronaut. That's what we call for Brett's sake. And we're going to. The reason I tease this is because I've got one of my favorite emails that's ever rolled in here. Basically asking Brett for help. Well, in a weird way, it's not really. It's. You're going to love this. This is directed so just. If there was an arrow and a bullseye, it would hit directly into your. This is hilarious. This email will make Brett laugh, I'll tell you that. That's coming up. I promise you. You're gonna sit back and giggle at this like crazy. But yeah, like we used to be a country. I know the sound sounds like back in my day. It is true. But we used to be a place where something like this would make us all go, you know what, for all our differences and stuff, this is one great place. We did this. We. We have the capability within a couple of days of going and Uber riding people out of space and coming back. We don't even marvel at it. We got bored with the space shuttle Challenger for. Or space shuttles for a while. A couple of them blew up. We got interested again. But, like, that thing was. It's an airplane that goes out of the. And burns back up and comes back, and we could use it over and over again. It's 3,600 degrees coming back into the planet, and this thing can take multiple shots. It's on, and if there's a hairline crack, it disintegrates. We manage this constantly, and everybody's like, I don't care. We're just idiots. It's just. It was such a cool feel, and it's changed. Like, what? You don't realize how much it's gonna change Everything we do because of this kind of stuff, because of the speed in which we can get from here to there and all. It's changing everything in the next 30 years.

[Brett]

More people standing outside of windows, looking at TV monitors of stores, stopping whatever.

[John Holmberg]

They'Re doing, holding each other, going, this is beautiful. Like, we brought back a couple of. This is amazing. And I think it's because we all became skeptical of what the hell's going on up there. Nobody knows why astronauts go up to space. And it used to be that is one reason to be. Like, we used to, like, they're going to the moon. We're gonna see if there's stuff on the moon. And then they. We went up there a few times. Like, I'm kind of bored with this. I don't think they're gonna find anything. But we do when we go exploit. But now we don't really know what they're doing.

[Brett]

Three or four companies that can do it now, and, like, most of the.

[John Holmberg]

Time, it's satellites, but whenever there's a. Do you know what they're doing on the space station at all? Me neither. And it's been up there for, like, a long time. To me, it's. It screams when. When this finally explodes down here, there'll be a spot for elite human beings. Like, they're making it livable for the 20 people they're gonna restart humanity with somewhere else.

[Brett]

You should maybe think, like, imagine you're there. We're in this building the whole time. You can't go out.

[John Holmberg]

Horrible. Oh, horrible. With the same people. Oh, you, me, Sean Knight. We love Sean. Give him heat.

[Brady]

No. Well, Sean. Ed. I mean, Fitz.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Moynihan McFeely. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And we Bring all that gay with us, Katie. KB Would be floating around like a gay bar. Oh, my God.

[Brady]

Atmosphere now. I'm busting out.

[John Holmberg]

I'm breaking the door.

[Brady]

Let me out.

[John Holmberg]

Yep, I'm walking. I'm walking. I'm. I'm back. See me with a hobo stick. Where are you going? Like, anywhere but here. Anywhere. You're right. It's the size of this building. It's floating around. We're like, ah, Christ. Ed needs something. I gotta go talk to Ed for a while. He's gonna tell me something. Hi, Ed. Everything's fine. I like Ed. But every day with Ed, Every day down there with Jill trying to work from home every three days. I mean, this is just impossible.

[Brady]

Imagine how many gay parades we'd have in that amount of time.

[John Holmberg]

Never ending like it's another holiday for you guys. Can we. And then we'd have to. You know what happened? We'd cut off half the hallway. We'd segregate the building. There'd be a war. There'd be a battle. Yeah, we'd have a fight. Because we're like, I'm so sick and tired, you, rainbows wandering up and down my hallway. Stay on your own side.

[Brett]

We lost Brett. He went to the other side.

[Brady]

That's not happening. Brett's jumping out the airlock.

[John Holmberg]

I'll tell you this.

[Brady]

Brett's jumping out the airlock.

[John Holmberg]

Dustin starts walking around in those bikinis. After a while, you're like, you know what? Dustin looks pretty good if he walks. If he rainbows by one more time, I might jump in there. I don't worry. He got all that space oil, but that dude's always, always prepared. Anyway, it's pretty. And we executed a guy last night. Nobody cares about that either. Yeah, Arizona killed a guy last night.

[Brady]

Is that the guy that was trying to get kill?

[Brett]

Was Troy there on that one?

[John Holmberg]

You know, I don't know. I don't know if Troy.

[Brett]

Troy going to one.

[John Holmberg]

This might be it. We haven't done it for.

[Brett]

It's got to be it.

[John Holmberg]

Two years. So this is it. Yeah. They lethally injected a dude last night for murdering folks in 2002. His name's Ted Price. We killed him last night.

[Brady]

Okay, funny, I watched the news this morning even, and I didn't even hear about it.

[John Holmberg]

This guy says every. The father from some church said, every person deserves a chance at redemption. And then you read what the guy did, and you're like, nah, this one, not this one, Father. Sorry about that. Wrong. He'd get redemption with that whole thing you guys do where he gets redeemed by your great redeemer somewhere else. I'm not redeeming him. It doesn't mean we all have to be on board that you can believe that, but do that in your own world. Yeah, he was. I forget what the guy did. He, he, he was a murderer. I know that, but they were. The whole thing doesn't even tell you what the dude did. The whole article and all this stuff is all about like, should we have done this? Is this bad? I don't think so. I think a guy killed some people and he did it in an ugly way. It was for the murder of. Oh, it was the murder of Ted Price. This is the guy scheduled for Aaron Gunches. He's the one who did. Ted Price was the guy he killed. But the whole thing is like, it goes into like the church and everything. So nobody even says, did he deserve it? Oh, it's not. It hadn't happened yet. It's going to be at 10 this morning. Oh, okay. I thought usually they do that like midnight. So when I saw it, I'm like, oh, they must be killing them. All right. They're going to kill him this afternoon. So if you're listening. See ya. We'll try to put on a great last show. Wouldn't it be great if his last request was, I just want to hear the morning sickness one more time. You got it. And you know what's great? We're probably going to bleed over to like 10, 10. You're going to miss the end.

[Brady]

Maybe, maybe Sean and I can do a live broadcast from out there.

[John Holmberg]

We'll send Sean up there. Yeah. What are they giving him? Right? They giving him some lethal cocktails. Yeah. So 10:00 this morning, we're going to ice a dude. So if he's out there listening right now, eating his. I don't know what you do when they kill you in the morning. Do you have your final breakfast?

[Brady]

I think it's whatever you want.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you. Your last night is. But I mean.

[Brett]

Or maybe it's the night before, then.

[John Holmberg]

You don't eat again. What are they worried about aspiration? They're killing you.

[Brett]

Yeah, I guess it would be whatever time of day.

[John Holmberg]

Like if you were getting murdered.

[Brett]

I can only have snacks in the afternoon.

[John Holmberg]

If you're murdered at brunch, does your last meal have to be like, I'll just have some. I'll have a charcuterie, but just a little. What would your. Like if you're getting killed at 10 in the morning. I know you. You're very specific to, like, it's breakfast time. We're gonna eat breakfast. Yeah. Well, you would probably have French toast and like, if it was a middle. If it was a middle.

[Brett]

Nice breakfast sandwich.

[John Holmberg]

What is that?

[Brett]

Burrito.

[John Holmberg]

You don't get all the food.

[Brett]

Oh, yeah, you order.

[John Holmberg]

No, it's within reason. You don't get all of it. Or you could.

[Brett]

Well, I've seen them order multiple entrees.

[John Holmberg]

They'll tell you no too.

[Brett]

Well, I'll take a lot of no's.

[John Holmberg]

Just hold up the menu. This. Like, we're not getting all that. Yes, it's my final meal. You don't get the lumberjack breakfast.

[Brett]

I want three meats.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they limit it. You're not gonna sit next. You can get a big breakfast. Yeah, but if they're. If you're like, you don't want to stay and I want this and I want lasagna. They're like, all right, pick two. It's like a kid at a toy store. It's like, you can't pick two and we'll leave. But you can't have eight things.

[Brady]

You're not gonna call tong up with the Teppanyaki grill to show up there from Viet Shack and not for breakfast.

[John Holmberg]

You would have. You would have Viet Shack as your last meal, maybe.

[Brett]

No, not for breakfast.

[John Holmberg]

Not ever. Oh, what do you mean, not for breakfast? That's on the menu.

[Brett]

Viet Shack, that fried rice.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, but that's not a last meal. Spring rolls. You know what?

[Brady]

Get the injection ready.

[John Holmberg]

Let me tell you this. It may be a last meal, but not on purpose. You may. You may MSG yourself into a Tracy Morgan right there. But there's another thing about the Tracy Morgan deal that doesn't smell right. You've had food poisoning. Yeah, I've had a couple bouts of it. You don't get better that day. The puke and then the next day making jokes. Yeah.

[Brett]

Usually it's a 24 hour.

[John Holmberg]

You're miserable. Yeah. You can't move for. He was drunk. Something. Something else. They're like, oh, he's fine. It was just a bad hot dog. I'm like, you don't get attacked by food poison. Anybody's had gone to the hospital for food poisoning. Yeah, probably should have twice, but didn't. There was one time that I.

[Brett]

They had to take them there anyway.

[John Holmberg]

They rolled them out. But still, I mean, fill you with fluids and whatever. You don't get better the next morning. You just don't. You Just don't feel good for a while. If it's real food poisoning. If it's just my stomach was upset and I ate something and it disagreed with me. You. Then you have time to get up and go throw up in the bathroom.

[Brett]

Yeah, sometimes, I guess. You know that. That purging relieves a little bit again.

[John Holmberg]

That's what food poisoning is. You get so real sick. It's dangerous.

[Brett]

And you're shooting out of every end.

[John Holmberg]

Nothing's right. And the more fluids they put in, the more comes out. So he's. Something happened to Tracy Morgan and all of it wore off and he's in the hospital. I'm fine now. It's like, that's not food poisoning.

[Brett]

He did have a lot of monitor patches on him.

[John Holmberg]

Did you? Yeah. Cause he was. He's dying. Something's not right. I got Hunter virus from Gene Ackman's dead wife's corpse. I should have never gone in there to investigate.

[Brett]

Want to know?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. But, yeah, you don't start joking or food poison. You're like, just leave me alone for a month. I had a bad hot dog. I got food poisoning. Now I'm okay. Instagrams. I don't believe it. A lot of stuff. I'm just like, no, tell me the truth. And you don't hang your head, puke hanging out of your face in public without even trying to scramble out of there at all.

[Brett]

He didn't try, you know, anywhere, did he? Did he get something at the stadium that, you know, then it would have.

[John Holmberg]

Caught, like, a bunch of people would have been puking.

[Brett]

They didn't care about those people.

[John Holmberg]

No. Well, yeah. They just let them throw up on the floor. Yeah, that's right. You get moved out. Yeah. Done. Chunky. Anybody but a celebrity in the front row. So I give me a wheelchair to ride to a hospital.

[Brady]

That's not right. Spike Lee would have been in the hospital next to him if I.

[John Holmberg]

That's true. My seats at a son's game, though. If I just turn and I look at. You know, I'm going tonight with Shane from life change alone. I'm like, Shane. Like. They're like, all right, everybody get out. Nobody's getting me a wheelchair. Get out of here, you booze hound. Cut him off. And then probably get a call from the Suns. You're not allowed in the rah rah room anymore.

[Brett]

Maybe a fight on your way out.

[John Holmberg]

Take a swing at another guy. What do you mean? I'm a drunk. I already got a mother, you piece of. This guy's a booze hunt. I hate sitting by him, but if I start throwing up, my first reaction is, oh, my God. And I start running away. I don't just hang my head with puke out knowing there's. This guy's losing his mind. I better just sit still. Only 20,000 people can see this. Tell me, right, with the Tracy Morgan thing, and they're trying to sell me that it was just a bad hot dog is beyond. Anyway, there's a lot going on yesterday. I'm gonna get to that email that only that's just for Brett. You're gonna like this. Let's get a wake up song. 585-9800. A good one and we'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up. Hey, it's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually.

[Brett]

No membership fees.

[John Holmberg]

I have heard enough of this.