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Brett
Or four minutes with him every weekend.
Brady
You do?
Brett
Yeah, it's about how often I see the commercial.
Brady
Oh, it's up there a lot. He's on there quite a bit. Saturating. Yeah. Don't let Doug. First night I ever really kind of knew Doug, I was asleep at the H and H ranch. He came barging in with his shirt off. We'd been doing some drinking. I was fine. He was not. And he grabbed my leg and then looked me with an inch. Imagine that, Kirk. You're sitting there just trying to beat off. He's on TV. I've got the real live TVs Doug Hopkins about six inches from my face, and he just says, I don't know where I am, bro. I'm like, oh, no. He's having nom flashbacks. He's not even old enough for that. I was quivering a pair of boxer shorts with a man's hand on my calf leaning way forward. It was hilarious. It still always will be. But I understand your pain, Kirk. I get it. I get it. What a strange weekend I have. My anti Brady behavior in the neighborhood led to. I mean, this would have been your neighborhood. You'd have been over there every day. You'd probably had some Amish barn racing or something. I just found out yesterday that I think it was Friday. I don't even know when it happened. Two things I found out, and I found out from the news, not from anyone else. I rode my bike, and I cut through the neighborhood, just kind of cool down, and there's a big hole in one of the houses maybe right down the street from the Bill and Ted's house. I live in the neighborhood with Theodore's Ted from Bill and Ted. His. His home is in my neighborhood. It's. It's like. It's close. I mean, I could.
John Holmberg
Could you walk there?
Brady
Oh, absolutely.
John Holmberg
Okay.
Brady
I mean, It's. It's maybe 10 houses down, but it's kind of a turn and a curve and a thing. You got to go around a thing. And I think. But. So there's A big hole in the.
Brett
House, like in the side.
Brady
Just a whole front kind of. Yeah, front.
John Holmberg
It's not in Ted's house though.
Brady
No, no, Ted's house is fine. Just made sure. Ted's house is fine. Okay. That was scary. Yeah, well, he could have fixed it because he could have gone right back in time anyway. Yeah, Ted's house, all good. For those of you looky, lose that. Want to find Ted's house? It's right over there. So I just kind of cut through. I wonder what the hole in the house is for. So I go through news, you know, like I just gotta be. I'm not asking anybody. There were people outside, but I'm not asking. So I ride back and I find out not only that I live in a neighborhood with like a UFC middleweight champion. Some dude Friday, flying around the corner of this street, jumps his car into the house and then gets belligerent and tries to leave. Well, the UFC fighter came out in his silken pajamas and beat the. Out of this guy right in the front yard one handed him. You see it? No, it's all. Yeah, it's on the, it's on the news. Huge doings. And I'm. I should have heard this. That. That's how close it was. This should have been something. I was like, what the hell was that? Nothing. Not a peep. And yeah, so some UFC fighter lives right down the street from me and he handled it pretty well, evidently. And yeah, I have no connection to any of what went on there, which is pretty fantastic. But yeah, Henry say Udo. Henry Ceudo? Yeah. You wrestler, literally, right? Yeah. And he was in wrestler issue. Found all that out on channel three. They told me about something that I can see from my front yard. Didn't hear a thing. Amazing. Don't know what time it happened. Don't know, like, I don't know anything. And it's great.
Brett
Are there some neighborhood cameras that caught it?
Brady
I don't, I haven't seen anything. I don't know. I just, I just found out about that.
Brett
That'd be fantastic.
Brady
Literally riding my bike by finding the hole in the house. I'm like, huh, Wonder if I can find this on the news. Anyway, sure enough, it was like the third story on, on Fox 10, on Channel 12 and on Channel 3, all their websites. It's like, yeah, this guy. And I saw the streets and I'm like, well that's, that's. I could throw a rock and hit this. This is close. No buzz, no nothing. I don't check my Next door app anymore because I got banned from it a couple times. And this again. Well, the last time wasn't really. Yeah, last time was kind of a. I called a lady a racist again. That's all it is, is that women just screaming and yelling about, you know, they want to. Lost dogs is. Next door app is all about dogs that can't be found, dogs that nobody wants, dogs that are being rehomed. Rehoming a dog and that somebody wants to rent something and then some lady complaining about a neighbor that just moved in usually is the thing. And I said, what's wrong with your neighbors? Like, well, they just seem off. There's a lot of packages. I don't know what to say. I'm like, oh, by off, what color do you mean?
Dick Toledo
Used to be a lot of.
Brady
Was that a gunshot? Oh, there's tons of that. Who else heard that at 4:30 in the morning? I don't know. And then I always check to see how close it is to my house, and I see that it's a few miles away. I'm like, come on.
Dick Toledo
I think. If you think it's a gunshot and you turn to next door, what kind. How quick of a response are you waiting for?
Brady
I've. I've asked people that.
Brett
They're looking for answers.
Brady
It's the real. Yeah, but you call the police. That's already happened. If you. There it is. If you think that. Wow. Yeah. It's no joke. This wasn't. He didn't bump. He evidently leapt into the house and landed on the bed. He was airborne when he went into the house. And then he hops out and he starts running away.
Dick Toledo
Did he hop out the back?
Brady
I don't know the family members. I. I know nothing. I didn't see cop cars. I didn't hear. I was home. I didn't hear a thing. When was it? Friday, Saturday. I don't even know. I just know there was a hole in the house. There's Henry. There's my neighbor.
Henry Cejudo
He hit something.
Brady
One witness, Henry Sahuda, a UFC fighter who happened. He wears golden silk pajamas inside this room.
Henry Cejudo
Like, if somebody was.
Brady
Look at that.
Henry Cejudo
Outstanding. They'd be dead. Awesome.
Brady
Several people inside the car struggled to get out. Once they did, the homeowner confronted the driver.
Henry Cejudo
Wayne tried to stop him. Who's the owner of this house? Like, you guys got to. You know what I mean? You guys got to be held accountable for what you said.
Brady
Never seen this guy in my life.
Henry Cejudo
And that he ends up cocking my neighbor.
Brady
Driver Angel Cota. Allegedly assaulted one person from the house before then trying to flee. That's when Cejudo says his physical prowess kicked in. Also posting on Instagram that get your ass kicked by a dude in gold silk pajamas. Stop him from getting away.
Henry Cejudo
Pretty much control him with one arm, honestly.
Dick Toledo
Well, that guy's got a particular.
Henry Cejudo
He wasn't that tough.
Brady
Yeah, yeah, yeah. A drunk that just crashed into a house is going to be a bit adrenalized, but may maybe not the most police. Whoa.
Brett
Had some tweezies.
Brady
Oh, yeah. Had some twisted ice. Twisted teas, unfortunately.
Henry Cejudo
What happened to Wayne? He's great. Father. Great Matt. His daughter's an actual Olympian. I mean, you know what I'm saying?
Brady
Like, is that right? I live next to an Olympian, too. Fantastic.
Henry Cejudo
To the United States. And to see something like this.
Brady
What an athletic neighborhood I live in.
John Holmberg
Boy, Jose Hefner was on.
Brady
He does. He does look like. Anyway, that happened in my neighborhood, and I am oblivious to it. And I started laughing, thinking, good Lord, if this happened in Brad neighborhood, how you'd be in there cleaning that. You'd be everywhere on this. I know nothing. And I felt so proud of myself. Like, when I finally got home, I'm like, this is great. I have isolated to a point where I don't even know this stuff, and it's. It's amazing. Anyway, so I got a. Now I know that there's an Olympian living in the house that got crashed into. And I think Henry was close to being an Olympian if he wasn't a wrestler Olympian. He's, you know, an MMA guy, so he's got a chance at belts and stuff.
Brett
Have my neighbor bake some cookies and take him over.
Brady
No, there'll be absolutely none of that. None of that will happen ever. It will never, ever happen ever again.
John Holmberg
At least Ted's house is okay.
Brady
What? He was an Olympian. I thought the guy. He said, the lady inside, he said, the people. This guy's got a daughter who's an Olympian, too. Yeah, okay. He was an Olympian, too. They might as well just put the rings up around my area.
John Holmberg
But Ted's house is okay. That's all it matters.
Brady
Ted's house is great. Literally. Ted's house is right next to that.
Brett
Yeah, they redid that house looks really nice.
Brady
Just the front end. Well, that's the front side. That house is really nice. Yeah, that's a good one. But you got to do some work coming around that corner that fast to jump into the house. I mean, you. Yeah, I could see where you could do it, but you've messed up pretty badly to leap it.
Brett
Yeah.
Brady
Anybody who's ever hit a house, you've. You've worked to do it. Like, there's. It's rare that the house deserves it, you know, like. Well, they put that in the wrong spot sometimes. Those houses at the end of like a straight and those are the ones where like that house is getting run over. Like, you can see it. But for the most part, 90%, maybe more of homes, it's hard to hit them with a car unless you really screw up. You gotta work to do it. My grandma did it once cause she used to wear combat boots. That's true. My grandma wore combat boots. It's an old. That's very true.
John Holmberg
That's the joke. That's where it started coming.
Brady
Shirley may have been the first that everybody said, literally, his grandmother wears combat boots. But she would wear it on snowy or rainy days. And she got her feet stuck under the brake driving. And instead of, you know, e breaking or doing something smart, she bent down to loosen one of the combat boot laces and latches while the car was going and heard a thump and ended up in somebody's house right there in the living room. My grandma's run into a home, and it didn't take much. She was only going like 10 miles an hour right through the front of the house.
Brett
My buddy Brent Garland, end of the street, there's where the house was at least two times from our four years, from freshman year to senior in high school. His house was hit. The city finally put those iron roadblocks in his yard.
Brady
Yeah, they have to.
Brett
They're like, we're gonna do this.
Brady
That's enough. Your house is in the road. John holmberg's morning sickness. The 98.
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Brady
One in my old neighborhood that had to have it was a terrible, beautiful front yard and people kept bouncing into the yard. They didn't hit the house. But her yard was getting ruined because you'd think you're going straight and then by the time you get to the end of the road, if you didn't make the turn, you're in someone's yard. So they put huge diamond, red and black reflection things because at night the end of that road was dark and that was just keep in. It looked horrible. Yeah, her front yard that she worked so hard on just looked horrible. But you kind of were one or the other. I'd put up a big steel fence, like a decorative ranch style steel fence. See what I can do. But yeah, right there in my hood. No clue. And there's that house. The hole is huge. Like a car hole in the house. They made a garage and it blew right through there too. No, you know, there was nothing stopping that thing. So they got him. And luckily we have a UFC Olympian in our in the hood to knock some people out just in case you run into a house. But man, anytime you see like if you were in a, if you were in a, in a group of people and you were the one that caused the problem, if I'm eyeballing the crowd and I'm like, I'm gonna get my ass kicked here. My first guy I'm looking, I was like, all right, the gay Mexican in the gold pajamas, I'm going first with him. He's the one that kicks your ass. That's more proof that they're right up a tactical black. You can't judge a book by his cover, cuz you're right. Jose Hefner, he probably looks like he just got done with a beat down or Maybe a threesome either way. Yeah, I'm taking. I'm taking gold. Gold silky PJs. And I'll work with him first, and he'd kick your ass. And then you got to kind of weigh it the other way. There's an awful lot of confidence and bravado to put on a pair of gold PJs made of silk.
Brett
I controlled them, basically, with just one arm.
Brady
That's. It's brave to. To wear that, to wear those PJs.
John Holmberg
Well, your neighborhood's turning in the Roosevelt district over here.
Brady
What's going on? You tell him that. I'm not gonna tell Gold still. Hell, no. You're not telling that guy.
John Holmberg
Jose Hefner's gonna kick my ass.
Brady
A whole lot of gay in those pajamas. But he looks great. And he's defending the neighborhood.
John Holmberg
Pulls it off.
Brady
Yeah, he pulls it off. I don't know where those other people came from, but they. They turned the corner and made a mess of things and then tried to. How dare you, by the way? You run into a house, and then you try to fight the homeowners. That's what this guy did. You just kind of take your lumps at that point. You can't. There's no getting away. The other people in the car are going to give you away. Anyway, he got. I don't know how the driver got out of there, but he got out and started to try to run anyway. Strange all the way around. Then I get a call. I realize I'm at this age where there's a guy I haven't talked to. I worked with him years ago at Tony Romas, and he used to always pop up and tell me. He would. He would say things like that were very strange. He's like, you know, I didn't. You were kind of a mentor to me. And I'm like, I was an idiot. I was, like, 22. Yeah. But he was a busboy, and I was a manager. And he's like. He kind of, you know, made me understand, you know, things about this that. And I'm like, I don't know how this happened, but he always looked up to me, some. Some reason. And he was always really nice. And then within, like, a couple of days of that call, he would just barrage me with insults, like it was the strangest thing. So he's really strange. And another friend of mine said, have you spoken to Rob in a while? I'm like, no. Why? What happened? I figured he won the lottery or something crazy. He's dead. And that's what I realized. And I'm at that age now that those. Have you talked to that guy in a little while Call.
Brett
It's been a while.
Brady
It's been a minute. It's been. It's. It's no longer like, oh, my gosh. Yeah. He's getting a divorce. Had something happened to him? He lost a foot. Nope. Dead. And he's young. He passed away. Nobody knows why. But it was awkward for me because we were. We were basketball friend. We played basketball four or five times a week back. Way back. And then occasionally would talk and stuff. And he went through a tough, tough spell where he was drinking too much. And I think his liver failed. I'm not even sure how it happened. And then he got back on the horse and he was good and he felt. And then the last time we spoke, he was talking about the benefits of all these health things he's discovered and how everything was great. We found out we hosed the same girl. He knew it. I didn't. He told me, remember your girlfriend from. Well, we dated from. Like. I don't care. That was years ago. Good. I'm glad. I hope it was great. And then he always said she was so tight. So tight. And I'm like, that's my fault. I did no damage. Way after me. But I guarantee I did again, like a Native American. I leave it the way I found it. And then. So he said we went on and on about how healthy he was. And then the next day, 121 texts from the guy. And they were like, why aren't you responding? Talk to me about this. That it was just this manic craziness. And I told him. I said, hey, you gotta back off. I can't. My phone's like buzzing every two seconds. Please stop texting unless you got something important to say. Then it went crazy. And I blocked him. And that's our last interaction. And he's dead. And I don't know how or why. Maybe he got run over by a car in his house. But it was very awkward. Is that it was the realization that those phone calls. Now you know, Brady knows he's gotten a few of them are not gonna be. And that's the thing that kind of took me back it. I wasn't surprised. I think that's an age thing too. Remember, you get calls and like, oh, my God, Rob's dead. And you're like, I can't believe it. And I'm like, no, this adds up. This all adds up. This is.
Brett
I see that Coming.
Brady
Yeah. This is through time and life experience. Oh, yeah. Next time I hear that name, probably, and I've got a few people on deck with that, next time I hear that name, it's going to be that call, and it's not going to surprise me. This one was a little bit jarring because it. I don't know, just. It felt really strange that someone a little younger than me is very acceptably gone.
John Holmberg
And there's those ones when you hear that they're still alive. Right.
Brady
Really Right. No kidding. Well, that. Never would have thought in the text thread. That came from all the old Tony Roma's gang. And I don't know why this 19. Well, I was there from 1987 to 1994. I don't know why this little group of people from 90 to 94 have a connection. It's just working in a restaurant. But there's a lot of us that stay in touch. And so we started this little kind of back. I did back and forth with a bunch of these guys, and all of us kept saying, if you'd have bet money back then, you never said Grant would have outlived Rob. And this because we knew Grant. Grant was not an. If Grant dies, it's when Grant dies. And that was back when we were in our early 20s. You knew Grant. Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Brady
And if you knew Grant, you knew.
John Holmberg
Odds are there's a lunatic then this.
Brady
Dude is not going to make it. And he didn't care. Like, you could tell him, grant, you're gonna die young. Oh, I hope so, bro. I hope so. It's like, all right. And. But he's fine. He's good. Couple of kids, he's fine and still crazy last I saw him. But it was a strange thing, a strange realization that I'm at that age now, that when I hear about someone I haven't talked to and probably haven't talked to Rob in about a year, that that next call is going to be, he's dead. It's not going to be, he moved away. He's gay. Those were the ones that I used to. Did you hear he's gay now? A few times I've gotten one call in my life about someone, and it was from other people who were asking me if I knew. Said, do you know about. I won't use his real name, Kyle. What do you mean? He said, they always ask me, you don't have, like, social media, so you can't keep up. And I'm like, yeah. And he goes, have you noticed, Kyle, any pictures of him. You've seen him lately. And I'm like, I haven't seen him for about eight months. And he goes, he's a girl now. Like, what? And sure enough, without any warning at all, dude's a girl now. How does Kylie look? Not good.
John Holmberg
Oh, didn't pull it off.
Brady
He was a bald man. There's a certain point when your inner you says, I think I'm living in the wrong body. But look, having male pattern baldness, kind of a clue you might not be in the wrong body. It seems kind of male to me that that's the first sign of, like, truly crazy. I'm bald and I'm still gonna go through with this. It's like, oof, you know what? Half a dozen of one and six of the other. I'd stick with the boy thing and just kind of live in my. Live in my misery. Occasionally dress up around the house. But I'm not taking bald woman out to. Not happening. So, yeah, that's. Those are the calls that you get when you start running into a certain age. It's the everybody's dead or something extremely strange is happening. You never hear from any, oh, wow. Nothing good's gonna happen anymore. Back 15 years ago, you get that call, hey, hear about old Kyle? Like, yeah, what happened? Always the name CEO of Apple. Like, oh, my God. Idiot was. Wow. Nope. Now it's they're dead or they're a different gender now. And I'm fine with it. I know Brady knows him. He just showed me a picture. And good for him. If he's comfortable with it. Her. It just was shocking.
Brett
I didn't know that, Josh.
Brady
You didn't know till just now.
Brett
I knew. I knew we were following that path.
Brady
I didn't. I knew. Well, based on the first yes. Yeah, yeah, I. I was taken completely sideways by that one. And again, the last time I spoke to Kyle, he's again, my neighborhood, riding my bike. I gotta get off this bike. Leads me to nothing but bad things and riding by, and he's like, hey. And I'm like, what are you doing over here? Oh, I'm friends with these people. I'm like, good for you. And then, I don't know, maybe a month and a half later, he's no longer. He sold all of his boys clothes. He dropped those off at the Goodwill.
Brett
About a year and a half ago, I was gonna play golf with Kyle.
Brady
Oh, that was post. That was pretty darn close to the swaparoo.
Brett
Must have been the reason why we didn't play.
Brady
Might have been. Even if that would have been. Well, and that's what you got to do. You especially, because you're playing a lot of those golf things. Call him up and get him into those golf tournaments. He hits from the ladies tees. But deep down, we both know.
Brett
Great idea.
Brady
This is that transgenders and women's sports thing. Take those ladies tees, put Kyle on it. In fact, you should start thinking about it. Get one of them little Korean wigs and those culottes and roll out. You can whack a ball pretty good. They put you up on the red tees, Brady, you're not going to lose a tournament. You and Steve Jones and a couple of the mashers you usually try to drag out to those little golf outings. We put you in the Korean woman's tees. I really. Brady, what are you doing? Don't ask a question. Just watching me roar. That's a great idea.
Brett
I'll get sponsored by Dunkin Donuts.
Brady
Said you, John. It says shocking news. You say, hearing about guys who are still alive and you're like, no way. Happens to me every morning when you say, Brady's here. Very true. John holmberg's Morning Sickness. The 98 KUPD.
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Brady
Yeah, there's a just so you know, message to everybody out there if you haven't talked to a guy in a while and I think, I wonder what that guy's up to. Maybe reach out, just say hi, I wasn't going to do that with Rob because I was. He. That's the first person I've ever blocked because I thought, well, that's the end of that guy. You know, he's. He's off the rails again. And I felt terrible about it, but there was nothing more I could. Everybody's got that friend too, where there's nothing you can do. There's no, like, every text back was like, are you doing okay? Was just a follow up of how the government's behind this, vaccines are doing that. And I'm like, okay, are you okay right now or is this going to keep going? Thousand more texts about, you know, Biden did that, Obama did this, Trump's doing that, we're all in. You know, nobody's. I'm like, okay, he's lost it, Blocked him, Didn't get any more texts and kind of knew at that moment, my friend that I knew was no longer there, that this dude was gone. And I tried.
Brett
Which side would you rather be on? The one is, oh, I saw that coming. Not surprising he died or he's still alive.
Brady
Well, yeah, I think that he's still alive thing. I'd rather be, I'd rather be that guy. I'd rather walk into a room and shock everybody with my lack of self care and horrible treatment of my body. To have people go, wow, he's amazing. He's still making it. Rather than the phone call saying, wow, he's dead. Not really shocked. But yeah, it's the first person I've ever blocked and said, I've done all I can for you. And then. And I don't really feel like I've got. But it does. It just floors you. It's on my mind. It's definitely in my brain. I had a friend pass away a couple years ago who was drinking way too much and we all knew it. Had a divorce that just ruined him and he was bad and then had some sort of weird infection, wouldn't stop drinking and ended up just dropping dead on his porch. Sitting outside one night and that was another one. We were like, yeah, he was going down the wrong road and you did. We were in the middle of like, if we can help, we'll help kind of thing because every time you'd see me, he was having time of his life. He was always drunk and having fun. Deep down we knew. But yeah, reach out to somebody Today you have a friend that you or like, oh, that guy might not make it. You have somebody on there every time. If you went through your contacts right now, would you be like, oh, that guy.
John Holmberg
I'd have to go through my contacts. None that are coming.
Brady
Yeah. You know what? You haven't talked to Man Goop in a few weeks probably.
John Holmberg
Well, he's. He's on his honeymoon.
Brady
I know.
John Holmberg
Now. So he's in Bangkok.
Brady
So he's inevitably about to get to. Oh, my God. Man Goops in Bangkok.
John Holmberg
Yep.
Brady
He's currently under a ladyboy you need to call. Probably a safe bet. Probably safe bet. And the wife is nowhere to be found now. Yeah, she's long gone. They got a Bangkok divorce. Text him and make sure he's doing okay. Reach out to that one friend. I don't know. I have to go through my texts or my emails.
Brett
Mango got taken out by an elephant in my contacts.
Brady
No, that wouldn't happen. The elephant would have lost the mango. He's put on £3,000. That's a fair fight. Yeah, I worry that that would be my one for that.
John Holmberg
And then, yeah, probably the safe bet on my phone.
Brady
If I were to rank my top five.
John Holmberg
I'm going to Looney Tunes.
Brady
Yeah. Go through your contacts today and rank. We should do this more of it. Rank your top five dudes who. Probably the next time I hear from them, they'll be gone. I got a few. I got a few. I still have some dead people in here too.
John Holmberg
I do too. I, you know, I have to get weird to get rid of them.
Brady
Yeah, the hang ons. Yeah, yeah, I got a few of them. He was, he was. The guy that ended up dying was probably a top three, you know. Oh, that guy's going, I gotta reach out to. Oh, that guy. Big Rob. Yeah, for sure. That guy's not gonna make it much longer. Text him. I haven't talked to him in a long time. That guy. Gotta talk to him. And then, you know, there's the one. The people who will let you know they're about to do it on Facebook. They, they'll say the thing. I had one friend just put a post up and people were texting me, hey, did you read this post? And it was like, hey, I've had a nice life. Everything's. Everything's kind of not the way I want it to be. So it's better if I go. And he posted it. And I remember telling everybody else, like, reach out to him. This is him screaming at us. He. If he was Serious about it. He wouldn't have posted that. This isn't a good buy. This is a please help me. And he's still around. There's Broomhead. I gotta. I gotta text Broomhead just in case. Yeah, well, working over at that KTR can't be any fun because ladonna might kick his. Yeah, Ladonna.
Brett
Hey, Broom just don't make the list.
Brady
I saw you lift your little Cheeto dust fingers all over the console again. Last warning. Yes, sir, Mr. Ladonna. Hey. Yeah, I got a few, but go through your contacts today.
John Holmberg
Is Sharp on that list?
Brady
No. Sharp's gonna live forever. Well, no. Cause he'll acquiesce. Remember that little salacious crumb next to Jabba? Yeah, yeah, that's Sharp. Anything Jabba wants. Yeah, there's a few. But, yeah, go through it today. Cause there's a few. There's another one. I got. There's three. Ooh, I got some good ones on here. I'm only into the Ds, and I already got three guys that I'm probably gonna. He checking in the. Check in, the old check in. Nothing wrong with that.
John Holmberg
Man, there's people on my list. I don't even know who they are anymore.
Brady
Yeah, I got a few of those too. I looked, I'm like, who's Bernie? Yeah. Oh, there's one. That's five. I'll be texting you later. Pat Drake. Just keeping my eyes on him. Say, hey, Pat. I'm gonna do it now. Send message. Hey, buddy. Just reaching out. Yeah, that's all. I'll just text him now just in case. There's a few of them anyway. It's weird.
Brett
Certainly dive into that. It'll take me two weeks.
Brady
Yeah, you got a lot. Yeah, you're. You're. You're at an age beyond mine. You're. You're just in that next cusp of.
Brett
But it's probably three or four a week dead guys. Just checking in on some of that. I haven't talked to a long time.
Brady
You do?
Brett
Yeah. Every once in a while, like, whether. Whether it's a. I see a post on Instagram, like, oh, my God, for.
Brady
A week, you reach out to people. Maybe that's a little high opening. Way too many black widow over here. Yeah. Okay.
John Holmberg
Take my phone. My number out of your phone.
Brady
That's too many reach outs. Yeah, you can't care that much about that many people. You got to narrow that down to maybe one every year.
Brett
If you see something that you haven't seen a long time oh, that it's still around?
Brady
Well, sure, but that you got to seek them out. Yeah, that's. That's the dangers of Facebook and hanging around Instagram too much. As you start, you start trolling your own past.
John Holmberg
I still have our old production director in here too.
Brady
He's been dead. I know, I just. How did he die? He got his legs cut off.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it was during COVID but it wasn't from.
Brady
It wasn't covered? No, before that he had like, his whole body was getting chopped off. Every time he talked about him, he lost another leg.
John Holmberg
I guess I could delete him.
Brady
Now you're deleting him?
John Holmberg
Yeah, why not?
Brady
There's really no reason not to.
Brett
What's up, Double D?
Brady
That guy, Double D, he's not on my phone. You need to reach out. Yeah, that is the danger. I don't like that about Facebook and Instagram too. It's. It's. To me, it shows you're sad. When you spend all your time looking at people from years ago. Like, that's like if you were to say. If you were truly like every couple days going, I gotta find out what happened to that person. You're. You're seeking a better. Like, you're in a bad time now.
Brett
For me, a lot of times it's like suggested the people that you want to follow, I'm like, oh my gosh.
Brady
Yeah, there's.
Brett
He's still alive.
Brady
Nostalgia is dangerous.
John Holmberg
There's a few in here I wish that were dead too. I'm like, oh great.
Brady
Oh yeah. I got a couple of them that I'm like, I hope I get the call from this one. Scott Haynes just text and said, john, I just thought I'd check in. My stool is slightly solid today, so I'm off to a good start. All right, good. And I don't need an update on you all the time. If you're feeling great, just a thumbs up will do. I don't want to do friend roll call. I kind of. I kind of torn in between now. Pat, my friend, I just text said, hahaha, Effer. I'm listening to this show between bong hits. Life is good. All right, cool. Pat's alive. We got him. Yeah, I don't. I don't want to be nostalgic. That's one of the reasons that I don't like all that stuff. I think it makes people sad. I don't see a lot of people who spend time on Instagram as like forward momentum types. It's all looking back. It's all remembering befores. It's all. It's. None of it's forward momentum. I gotta hand it to the Instagram people who are, like, making money on it, because they're the only ones on there that are forward momentum. They're like, I'm going to do this, so tomorrow I make money. Or most people are just sad and depressed and looking at old girlfriends or past looking for people they haven't talked to in a long time, back when they were happier. That's my perception of it. And then, of course, the racist memes. I mean, you can't get past that. That's what makes the whole Internet tick. If it weren't for that, I don't know that the Internet would have been successful. It's as loud as me. Oh, pornhub is the. Well, God damn it, you're right. Pornhub and racism are the only reason the Internet actually has legs. And stealing for, you know, all bad things. Stealing for reports, for people in college and stuff. But, yeah, nostalgia to me can be very dangerous. And that's what I look at Instagram and Facebook. It is inevitable that you're on there, and you're like, wonder whatever happened to that? And then you start looking. We do it. You hear a name from the past, like, find that person. See how. See what they turned into.
Brett
Brief second. Then Tree man comes in. I'm looking at that.
Brady
Yeah. I'd rather look at human goofs than find out whatever habitat. You know. Amy Johnson, I can almost guarantee you what happened to Amy Johnson? She's a woman in her 50s now. It's not good. If my last memory of you was you when you were 20. It's not fair for me to look you up now. I missed the 30 years of progression. I'm going from 20 to 50 in one bounce. That's never good for anyone. You go from my 20 to my 50, it's. It's jarring. Yeah, you don't want to do that. So I think it's also kind of a mean thing to do to people. There's nothing. And it also makes you feel good when you go back and you're like, ooh, let's see what happened to Erica White. Now, Erica White was one of the hottest girls at my school. She was absolutely stunning. And. And then it makes you even sadder that you see her now at, like, 52, and she's prettier now than she was then. What? I have not looked. I'm just making that assumption. She was a stunner. Christie Greenway the queen of Dobson High School. I was there.
Brett
She found Drake Midnight.
Brady
She married a bald radio host. And to me, I believe that's my whole. That's my name, Drake midnight. Since the 80s, that was my. People would ask me, it's like, it's John. People would say, that is John Holmberg your real name? And I'm like, no, it's Drake Midnight. I changed it to have more consonants. What the hell do you think? I'd pick Holmberg as a fake radio name. No, I'm Drake Midnight. That was a terrible radio name. I went with John Hollenberg. The L, the M and the P all in a row. It's the only name that does it. Yeah, she married a disc jockey, bald guy, kept it together as far as I understand. Good on her. But it just makes you go, oh, that's just sad. Nostalgia's sad. I prefer looking up people that used to have the world by the ass in their early 20s and seeing the ravages of time. Like, if you're going to show me somebody that says, oh, remember how man, she seemed like it was all. And then. And then you see her now. It's like, oh, the last 30 years have been unkind. That makes me feel good. That makes me feel better about, you know, the trajectory of life. Holmberg's morning sickness, the 98 KUPD.
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John Holmberg
What's with Colin right now?
Brady
Colin at the time did really well for himself for some reason with. With the intern.
John Holmberg
Women excel after. After him apparently.
Brady
Oh, life is so much better after you take the elixir that is Colin seed. Once Colin feeds you, you're on a fast track to success. Don't let him feed the other one. Turned into like a lesbian and owns apartment buildings in New York City. In Manhattan. Yeah. Once Colin fed her, she's like, you know what? I never want to deal with this again. And then she moved on to green or pasture. And Colin still lives alone down there in Phoenix. But he's, you know, I don't know. That's still work.
Brett
There'll be some knocking today.
Brady
You think?
Brett
I'm in between jobs.
Brady
Yeah. Feed me if you could. If Colin could. If he could. If my friend Colin could bottle his seed and give it to women who are kind of like, ah, gotta start fresh. The success, you can't stay with them. But the success level afterwards is unbelievable.
Brett
I'm more focused.
Brady
Yeah, more focused. It's like a great. It's like wilderness. Athletes should put that in their hero packs for women. And it's the all new female hero packs now with 80% more collin juice. Since I've been drinking Collins juice, I've gotten a new job and I'm the CEO of a brand new company I just started online. Thanks. Collins juice. I'll reach out to Colin too. Well, there's another one. That was one that when I got the text from my or I got a call two days later from my friend Colin, his brother called Colin. He lives alone. He had a stroke for God's sakes. It's out of nowhere. Pretty healthy guy. Not crazy bad at A stroke. His blood pressure was high. He knew that. Not insanely high, but high. He was riding a little hot. I had a crazy stroke a couple years ago. He's doing well now, but. But if he strokes for you and you decide to ingest that, your life's going to be better anyway. Anyway, it's Reach Out Monday. I say, find that friend and say, how you doing, buddy? Unless it's that guy that you expect, like I kind of did. Yeah, you have to block him because you don't want to open that door. And we've all got that friend, too. I know there's a couple more in my phone that I'd go through and go, I've done all I can here. It's. I can't. I can't waste my energy and time on a person that doesn't want to any help, you know? And that's kind of where I was with my man Rob, but it's still jarring.
Brett
One's just gonna have to change from buddy to how you doing, girl?
Brady
Right. Yeah, just. Hello, sir or madam. If you remember me, I don't know your current state of affairs. And then stop going back in time to your high school and looking up people, because it's just really, what you're doing is to not see how they're doing. You're seeing how you compare in the aging department. I don't know that anybody really. Maybe Brady, but any real human being truly doesn't go back to Instagram and Facebook to see how people are actually doing. You're going back to see if their lives are complete mess because that's what you're hoping for. Yeah. Yeah. Look like they just. They ate all the Crisco and then stood in a sandstorm for a month. She looks terrible. I should reach out. That's most people. Probably not Brady 99. All of everyone except Brady goes on Instagram and goes back to see if people's lives are screwed up. Nobody's really. Nobody's going back to see their ex girlfriend flourish?
John Holmberg
No.
Brady
I hope she's doing fantastic. No, you don't. Deep down, you're just hoping, wow, she got fat. And then you have smile. Really monitor yourself next time you go over somebody that you haven't seen for a while. Look at Brett's face. He's thinking about someone he's half smiled.
John Holmberg
There's a few of them.
Brady
There's the. Go back to the ex girlfriend to see what she's up to 20 years later, and you see just a mountain of a woman with The United nations of children. There's a brown one, there's like a lily white one. There's one you can't identify. Like she's been around the block. She's huge now. And really do some self evaluating because I bet you you're smiling. I bet you're kind of like there's a certain, there's a certain aspect of that with all of us. Not Brady so much. He goes back and wants to find her phone number. And like really conn, none of us, none of us normals do. All the rest of us are kind of like good, that's hilarious.
John Holmberg
I got it before I became a wildebeest.
Brady
And then you go back and you see. Exactly, I nailed that. And then every guy, I don't know if girls do this, but every guy thinks to themselves, wow, after she and I broke up, wheels fell off of that cart. She couldn't live normal without me. She replaced my D with food. Evidently. Cause look at that. I'm thrilled. My ex girlfriend was a turned into a drug addict. Got arrested a couple of times. I'm like, well you hadn't around with this, this is what you could have had. Pretty stable over here Then I wonder what would have won out. Her insatiable desire to do drugs. Would that like had that stayed together, Was that her inevitable path and she'd have drugged me down? Or would my incredible stability have taken her off of that path had we stuck it out? You know, you wonder, you wonder.
Brett
It's the sliding doors thing. Makes you curious about what would happen if I went that way.
Brady
Here's the thing. The ex wife, she went off, married a guy who's got tons of dough. They did very well for themselves. It was in the newspaper when they bought a house in Texas and somebody sent me that and I just started laughing. I'm like, you son's a bitch. But her kids have huge Toledo sized heads. So I know that thing's blown out like a joke cigar and that makes me happy. I mean the kids heads are the size of television monitors. They look like Minecraft.
John Holmberg
Kids Samsung on their phone.
Brady
Oh my God, Samsung would be like a too big ten days. No American would buy a gigantic head like that. Huge heads. And I looked at their kids heads and I'm like adorable. Except for. I know what that means. You got that gigantic thing. That's a floppy, that is. It's the curtains from a car wash down there. And that made me smile. On the outside everything looks good. But to the keen eye, those kids did a lot of Damage. The episiotomy wasn't enough. They probably cut all the way up the crack and look how happy it makes me. And I'm not wrong, ladies. You should. You should monitor that more. If you've got a big headed kid, just know that not Brady, but all the rest of us look at you and think to ourselves, wow, that's a mess down there. I love a big headed kid. Tells me all I need to know about mom. That's it. And usually she's worn out and the kid's full of energy. Ugh, he's too much. Yeah, I know why. It's hard to walk, isn't it? What are you saying that for? I'm just exhausted all the time. Yeah, I can imagine. Your body's in constant repair mode and it's never going to catch up. Hilarious. Let's get a wake up song and reach out, say hello.
John Holmberg
Feel safe in your neighborhood now because Henry lives there.
Brady
I got that.
John Holmberg
Talking about that.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Gold medalist from Maryville. So you. There's never anything bad going to happen to your neighbor. Henry is going to take care of.
Brady
Business into my neighborhood from Maryville.
John Holmberg
I just got that email from somebody, buddy. Good on him, though.
Brady
I probably met him at Halloween. Yeah, I probably moved or he's probably come by for Halloween. Yeah, that's the only time I really have loads of interaction with the whole.
John Holmberg
You know, nothing bad's gonna happen in that neighborhood. Gold medalist and Maryville.
Brady
Yeah, I mean, you got Mary, like right in the seat.
John Holmberg
You got security right there.
Brady
Because I'm in like this weird horseshoe thing where three streets turn into horseshoes, then the street behind is the straight.
Brett
One with four or five. A potential gold medalist probably out of the house.
Brady
And the guy that lived behind me, one down, he's moved since, told me that he was in Colorado on the Olympic team for. What's that thing where they run around in the mountains and they shoot at stuff and then they get up and run some more?
John Holmberg
Oh, I know what you're talking about. I can't think of what it is.
Brett
Shoot and run.
Brady
Shooting and running in the snow. That's what it's called, Stanford. Shooting, skiing, shooting and running in the snow. I don't remember what they call that, but he was one of those back in the the day. So I had that guy living behind me I didn't know about. UFC champ from Maryvale.
John Holmberg
Yeah, man. Right on.
Brady
I dare you to come into our hood. Yeah.
John Holmberg
F around and find out in your neighborhood.
Brady
I mean, I'm no slouch But I'm. I'm gonna leave it to Henry to you go crazy and do all that. But I'll sit back and you know any fall off the weaker people. And I would have looked at him in his gold lame pajamas and thought, you're one of them. But now, who knew? Can't judge a brain.
John Holmberg
Nope.
Brady
I'm feeling pretty good about that. Also feeling terrible about the idea that I can't hear a car mash through a house in my own with the windows open. All the windows are open. Didn't hear it. Did not hear it. Crazy. Not sure what the hell was going on at my place. My dogs didn't bark. We were all, screw it. It's over. It's nuts. Give us that wake up song. Five eight, five nine, eight hundred. A good one. We'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up.
Dick Toledo
Hey, it's not Weir.
Brady
It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this. It's John Holmberg here from the morning sickness. And it's time once again for this week's pick of the litter, brought to you by our friends at Turf monsters. Go to turfmonstersaz.com they help us out at lost our home pet rescue. We appreciate them greatly. This week's pick of the litter is a project. It's Jep. He's a special project for that special summer one. Jep is one of my projects. Let's get him a forever home. They'll waive the fees right now. It's this week. Pick of the litter. It's Jeff. Check it out. Lost our home.org 98kupd.com.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: April 7, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Release Date: April 7, 2025
The episode kicks off with a gripping recount of a bizarre incident in John Holmberg's neighborhood involving UFC Champion Henry Cejudo. A man named Angel Cota crashed his car into a nearby house, creating a large hole and attempting to flee the scene. The homeowner confronted Cota, who then struggled to exit the vehicle.
Brady: “[...] a UFC middleweight champion [...] some dude Friday [...] gets belligerent and tries to leave. Well, the UFC fighter came out in his silk pajamas and beat the out of this guy one-handed in the front yard” [08:09].
Henry Cejudo swiftly subdued the aggressor, showcasing his physical prowess. The incident was widely covered by local news outlets, though John recounts that he was unaware of the event until seeing it reported.
Henry Cejudo: “Like, if somebody was [...] Somebody was [...] he can control him with one arm, honestly” [08:27].
The hosts discuss the implications of having such a formidable individual residing in their neighborhood, emphasizing a sense of security and admiration for Cejudo's actions.
Transitioning from the neighborhood incident, the conversation delves into the somber topic of a former coworker from Tony Roma's who recently passed away under mysterious circumstances. Brady shares his personal connection and the abruptness of the loss, highlighting the unpredictability of life.
Brady: “[...] I worked with him years ago at Tony Romas [...] Within a couple of days of that call, he would just barrage me with insults [...] And he's dead. And that was what I realized” [17:24].
The hosts reflect on their past relationships with colleagues, discussing how sudden changes and untimely deaths can leave lingering impacts and unanswered questions about one's well-being.
A significant portion of the episode addresses the modern dilemma of stalking ex-partners on social media platforms. The hosts explore the psychological effects of continuously monitoring former relationships, often leading to unnecessary comparisons and emotional distress.
Brady: “Nostalgia is dangerous. [...] It's a please help me. And he's still around” [33:03].
They discuss the temptation to revisit past connections on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, cautioning listeners about the potential for negative self-reflection and the importance of moving forward.
Brady: “You go back and you see [...] it's like, ooh, let's see what happened to Erica White. [...] That makes me feel good. That makes me feel better about [...]” [37:40].
The conversation emphasizes the need for mental resilience and encourages listeners to focus on personal growth rather than dwelling on past relationships.
Throughout the episode, the hosts share various personal stories and anecdotes that add humor and relatability to the discussion. From Brady's tales about his grandmother accidentally crashing a car to problems with neighborhood traffic and humorous takes on friends' life changes, these segments provide a light-hearted balance to the more serious topics.
Brady: “My grandma wore combat boots. [...] Instead of braking or doing something smart, she bent down to loosen one of the combat boot laces and latches while the car was going and heard a thump and ended up in somebody's house” [12:14].
These stories not only entertain but also highlight the unique dynamics and challenges of their local community.
As the episode winds down, the hosts return to the theme of maintaining connections with friends and acquaintances. Brady particularly emphasizes the importance of reaching out to those who might be struggling, urging listeners to take proactive steps in supporting their social circles.
Brady: “Reach out to somebody today. You have somebody out there [...] I have a friend just put a post up and people were texting me, hey, did you read this post?” [28:36].
John and Bret echo similar sentiments, encouraging the audience to prioritize meaningful interactions and be vigilant about the well-being of those around them.
John Holmberg: “If you haven't talked to a guy in a while [...] maybe reach out, just say hi” [26:10].
The episode closes on a hopeful note, reinforcing the value of community and the positive impact of simple gestures of kindness.
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness masterfully blends humor with poignant reflections, offering listeners both entertainment and thoughtful insights into the complexities of modern life and community dynamics.