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John Holmberg
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Brady
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Brett
Hey, it's Larry McFeely here with my friend Wayne from Amco. And Wayne, if my car has an extended warranty, do I have to take it back to the dealer for service?
John Holmberg
No, Larry, if you have an extended.
Big Dick Toledo
Service contract, you can use it at any amco.
Brett
It's nice to have other options. I'll say AMCO has dealership quality rental.
Big Dick Toledo
Cars, no hassles and faster service.
Brett
Amco does more than just transmissions, right? Right. If you need car repairs or hear, feel, see, smell, or even think you.
Big Dick Toledo
Have a car issue, call Amco first.
Brett
Just Google Amco for your nearest location. That's Amco double A MCO transmissions and.
Brady
A whole lot more.
Brett
Good morning everybody. Hello there. Welcome to Wednesday. It's 5:45. That's the morning sickness. My name's John. There's Brady, there's Brett. There's Big Dick Toledo. I got something on my mind to talk about, but Brady's hit me with something. Brett's hit me with something. Right as the show starts, we're gonna go down those roads. First off, Brett has the greatest shirt you can buy on the Internet available to us at this very moment. For people who know this particular character you are gonna get, people are gonna drop to their knees and just bow. People who don't know won't even notice now. Moloch Rock, Devil Rock. A famous yet not so great episode of Chips, the 70s TV show where another 70 superstar, Ralph Mouth Donnie, most from happy days, played a satanic rock singer named Moloch. And we recently rediscovered Moloch a couple. A couple weeks ago and started and watched it again. It brought back childhood memories for me. That was probably 82.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Brett
That were through the roof that Moloch was actually used as the, you know, the. He was. He worshiped the devil. He was on. That was when America was losing its mind. A lot of people don't remember that. A lot of people too young to remember it, whatever. But in the early 80s, this metal, this heavy metal thing had the religious nuts were going bananas. Parents didn't know what to do.
Larry McFeely
Congress meeting.
Brett
Oh, that we had. There were meetings and trials. Satan was involved in the masking and all that. Yeah, well, they. The Beatles started that silliness and they're like, see, we told you so. This was the. The great we told you from Elvis and the Beatles and all their satanic craziness. And the Beatles played into it pretty heavily right into the 80s when everybody was losing their minds over, you know, the Iron Maiden and all that stuff that started to show up. Black Sabbath and. Yeah, just bands that were going to kill your kids.
John Holmberg
Well, and Kiss too.
Brett
And Kiss. Knights in Satan service. So Moloch was. Google it, Moloch. And you're going to have a great special episode. Very special. Chips tried to. Chips tried to tap into the fabric of. Of their audience. So they had also. They appealed to younger people who probably liked Moloch. So that was good on their end. That was a really smart episode if you think about it. And then it also tapped into the older audience that Chips had that was scared to death that the devil was going to eat up the grandkids. So it was a. It was a very. The way we divide now over TV is over politics. Where we used to divide was over nonsense that Chips was the. Chips was the catalyst for us thing having conversations.
Larry McFeely
It was similar to the celebrities or famous people eating babies or drinking baby's blood times 10.
Brett
Well, because it went all the way.
Larry McFeely
I mean, you know, politics got involved. Like we're saying it just one of.
Brett
Those two things is a conspiracy theory.
Larry McFeely
Yeah.
Brett
The other one was a true fear. There was nothing that actually. There's nothing that actually occurred.
Larry McFeely
Not.
Brett
Well, I don't know if that had happened at that point yet. Maybe. But you know, a kid killing himself because they listened to Judas Priest and stuff like that. But, you know, the. I remember the religious guy on the news that was just smashing albums and having. They have. They burn albums and Ozzy Moloch. Yeah, Ozzy was the devil.
John Holmberg
Ralph Mouth is the.
Brett
Ralph Mouth was satanic. But yeah, the.
John Holmberg
And Robert Trujillo is actually in it. Right, Kid.
Brett
He's a kid. Yeah, Metallica.
John Holmberg
And on top of that, I just learned because after we watched that episode that day, I'm like, I'm gonna go and watch this again.
Brett
Yes.
John Holmberg
It's just as bad as you remember.
Brett
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
But it's.
Larry McFeely
Peter Marshall.
John Holmberg
Peter Marshall's in it. And Gomez from Adam's Family.
Brett
John asked.
John Holmberg
Yeah, he's.
Brett
He directed it. What?
John Holmberg
Yeah, I found that out too.
Brett
I'm like superstars.
John Holmberg
Like an amazing episode of.
Brett
It's like a Love Boat. There's so many stars on it. That's shirt is amazing. Thank you. And you came in and you proudly opened your arms and look at. I am a supporter of Molok. I might have to be Molok for Night of the Singing Dead this year. Oh, I'll be Mo. If in fact, we're all still here in Holly, Halloween and Night of the Singing Dead occurs. And I'm not one of the participants in the dead part then. Because you never know, Brett. You never know. But Moloch will be my costume for this year. That's pretty good. Now let's kick Brett in the nuts a little bit. Also, Brady brought up two things to me that I've looked both up, and neither are gonna make you happy. Guy wrote a book, came out a couple months ago. You might know this. Your family might have already had a few meetings that Jimmy Hoffa was recycled, cubed, and turned back into paper. He's written a book, liquefied. They take you, put you. They put them in a big dumpster in the, you know, waste management.
Larry McFeely
Because that rumor was around for years. Well, when he wrote the book, he said, you know, there's numerous Teamsters monsters that held on for years that said he was put in this dump.
Brett
Right. They dumped New Jersey. They actually searched dumps. They've searched landfills. And so now they're saying, no, no, he was put into the thing. And then in that time, they would then, like, put you, like a bale of hay, 1500 pounds cube you, liquefy you, and then recycle you into paper goods.
Larry McFeely
So someone got a ream of Jimmy Hoffman paper.
Brett
Think about that. If we can someday DNA test paper and find out that, like, you have a Kevin Costner autograph from a poster for Field of Dreams that happens to be made of Jimmy Hoffa.
John Holmberg
You could add a Pizza Hoffa in your Trapper Keeper.
Brett
You might have. You might have drawn I love Christy Greenway all over Hoffa's ass. But yeah, they turned him into paper, which makes tons of sense. Why. Why would. What. What is. Why is that every time you tell an Italian Jimmy Hoffa had this happen, they're like, nah, that's not a thing. Well, what don't we know?
John Holmberg
Nothing. I know. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
Larry McFeely
But why that tells the story is from the Genovese family. He's one of the guys and he's like look, I. You know all these years are always looking for. I'm like, go. Good luck. Go. Go find him.
Brett
He already knew liquefied well and then.
John Holmberg
There was rumors that he was at the bottom of one of the lakes and then in the end zone, a giant stadium I think it was.
Brett
That's been the one that most people.
John Holmberg
Think they've dug up a million farms and houses in Detroit and I mean there's nothing. No, they're never gonna find.
Brett
So this makes. Because he's Cuz he's been liquefied and he's part of a binder.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I think. I think he was just burned. I think he was in a cremate. Went to a cremation.
Brett
You can. Well, there's that. You can do that because you never find him. Yeah, they can. They can puff out the ashes pretty good. Yeah.
John Holmberg
Grandma Gertrude may have a piece of Jimmy Hoffa in the urn.
Brett
You know, I was involved in a murder here locally. Not that I had anything to do with it, but I did it. Damn it. Once you. Once you start down that road, you can't get out of it. Hu.
John Holmberg
I swear to God, believe me, I.
Brett
Know I didn't do it. How do I. Yeah, it was allegedly. No, but I was, you know, a secondary part of a guy who got murdered. I knew him and I had just kind of started to do business with them. And his business partner kills a special. It was a auto collision store here in town. And what nobody talks about is that like what you just said. I have no proof of this, but it makes sense. They never found the body. So there was. They still got the murder conviction, but they never found the body, which is really hard to do. And insurance wouldn't pay the kids because there was no body. So he could just pop up again. Insurance would be like, see, now he owes Back. It's not going to work out. So a lot of rigmarole with that stuff. However, his. One of the person. People's mothers worked for the crematorium worked in it. And as far as I was told, there was a flash blip at the lock the night of the. You know, allegedly the night of what happened. And they. Then they opened up the doors to her work. And I think we all think of crematoriums as these, like, warehouses with, you know, smokestacks. Like a steel mill.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Brett
Not necessarily what happens. They can be kind of casual and incognito. Yeah. But there was a thing that said, you know, why'd you check in here at 10:30 and leave at 11? And they haven't. Still never found the body. And I've always theorized, how come nobody looked over here and said, I think they cremated, cuz you ain't finding anything.
John Holmberg
Nope. Do you realize that. That the bumper stickers we hang out hand out at the van every. Every week still has that. That company on the back of them?
Brett
It does, yeah.
John Holmberg
That's how many bumper stickers we had.
Brett
Scottsdale auto wasn't.
John Holmberg
It wasn't Legends.
Brett
Legends was the other one Legends. Another one. Another guy that died. That's right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, but he was. He passed away from. Just because he was wildly unhealthy. Okay. The first one was Scottsdale auto collision. And then they started something else, and he got shot by his. By his not brother. But they called each other brothers. Crazy. It's a story on the ID Channel. Sometimes it'll pop up like, oh, are you in? I know those people. No, I wasn't. You know, I was probably a week away from being in that. I was there every day for a little while just doing, like, back and forth with the guy. Yeah, it was crazy. And I remember sitting in that room and I had just purchased a nuke. I actually just gotten two new cars. And he goes, did you get the warranty? Are you gonna get the warranty? And I'm like, I'm usually doing. He goes, don't you got a guy? I'll take care of you? He said, I'm covered. I'm like, all right. All right. And on the drive back, the wise old sage Megan said, what if something happens to him and we don't have warranties? What's gonna happen? And then he died that weekend in a. And I'm gonna shoot him up.
Larry McFeely
She was in on.
John Holmberg
That's what I'm saying.
Brett
You think she did it? We'll throw in the who's gal. Maybe I should maybe should get her implicated. That's not a bad idea. Get some quiet around that house. I'm pretty sure. Oh, really?
John Holmberg
Yeah, I think my wife had something to do with it.
Brett
She was telling me that that's where she met Matthia was at the crematorium. Ronnie drove him. Toledo was also there. That's right. Now I think about it, I'm pretty sure I saw Larry on a bicycle doing circles around it. I didn't get some peace and quiet everywhere I go. And then the other thing we're gonna kick in the nuts on. Have you seen De Niro's daughter?
John Holmberg
No.
Brett
Used to be his son. That was the one that hurt the most. Here's the. Google it. Because you'd bang her. De Niro's trans daughter.
John Holmberg
He's not bad.
Brett
It's hot. Aaron. How old is Aaron?
Larry McFeely
29.
Brett
Oh, my goodness. Google Aaron. It's not spelled the way you think. He went with a cute A, I, R, Y, N. Yeah, the original was.
Larry McFeely
Double A, R, O, N, C, O.
Brett
But the. Yeah, I just found out and that's. De Niro has now got himself a trans daughter. Used to be a bullet. Probably still has the willy. But I say move that right out of the way. Aaron De Niro looks pretty sharp at first blush. I don't know the rest of the story.
Larry McFeely
A couple other pictures you can Pretty good.
Brett
No. Well, you're still dealing with the fact that you're looking going, yuck, I'm tainted. Yeah, I'd be tainting that thing. I wouldn't know. If you'd have shown me that and said, this is De Niro's daughter, I'd have been like, whoa, I didn't even know he had a daughter. Well, he didn't up till Thursday.
John Holmberg
I mean, you could have run into her at the Tempe Tavern.
Brett
Yeah. Oh, my goodness. I don't like that dress. But Aaron's are a little.
Larry McFeely
Must have made.
Brett
I don't know what else you got. That's one picture.
Larry McFeely
Yeah, I mean, it's.
Brett
That close up's a little.
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John Holmberg
No Adam's apple, though.
Brett
They shave those off now. Oh, do they? Yeah, that's one of the first things they do. Aaron De Niro. And.
John Holmberg
She takes up to her mom.
Brett
They're. Yeah, yeah, It's a pretty good look. Not bad.
Larry McFeely
And the columes of mother, daughter.
Brett
Oh, they do that. What? What's this? Oh, there's a hammer in a nail. My God. All my buttons. I don't know. I gotta tell my dad something. I figured I'd come in here and talk to you guys first. I. I gotta talk to Rob. I gotta talk to Bobby. I got a thing going on. I don't want my dick no more. Brett, how do you think you'd handle that if you had to tell your dad? I got to tell. Hey, Raging Bull. Raging Bull. I don't want my dick no more. How do you tell Robert De Niro, Although he's so insane with his, he probably encouraged it. I Don't know why. Come in here. I wanted to. I want to tell my dad and I want to tell him, you know what? I love you, but I don't want my dick. You gave me. You gave me that dinero dick. I don't want that no more. I got a De Niro dick. Do you want to. You want to put in a jar? You want me. You want to give it to you? I mean, rightfully it's yours. I mean, he's yours. He built it. So Aaron De Niro. And you know, Robert De Niro's politics are so wildly one sided that he probably just told his son, do me a real good thing if he was. If you were to lean, you know, lean into the fact that you want to be a lady. I don't mind that. Take you down to Tribeca, walk you around. I don't know. Some of those.
John Holmberg
There's a couple deceiving ones.
Brett
Couple of pictures in there that Aaron De Niro. I don't know. I want to make out with you. I think you're very good looking, Brady. I think. I think we'll take you back to the house, lift my dress and have you blow me.
John Holmberg
Now, did. Did Aaron go after.
Brett
I like. I don't know.
John Holmberg
I don't know, Brady.
Larry McFeely
What's that?
Brett
Aaron go full.
Larry McFeely
I don't.
John Holmberg
Chopping everything. Okay.
Brett
It's just. Yeah. You know, and then you're asked to take the doctor. Come here for a second. That. Doc. I want to talk to you before we do this, sir. Why don't you make her. Make her a. You know, you got to take my daughter and make her so people want to that thing, you know. I don't want to do some ugly daughter coming around, you know, I gotta cut off. Plus, I want. I want a piece of deal. You give me that piece of deal, we're gonna. Because if he changes his mind, I want him to be able to go back to the original part. You know what I'm saying? Mr. Tanira, please. You know, I give you a little extra money, make sure you know it's not an embarrassment.
Larry McFeely
Did you f my daughter?
Brett
Did you. Did you. Did you f my son into my daughter? Huh? How did he get the balls to ask me, Where'd you get those balls? We're talking about balls. Whose balls are those? Give me those balls back. And he is just now we're gonna make a movie about that. So your hero, Robert De Niro is out there keying Teslas and march around his trans daughter.
John Holmberg
Hopefully he can spell Thief. Correctly. Unlike that guy in Mesa 30 years ago.
Brett
Brett, if I'd have told you Robert De Niro had a transsexual daughter, or Bill Cosby is a rapist, or Caitlyn Jenner is now a woman that used to be Bruce Jenner, which one would you believe the least?
John Holmberg
Dinner.
Brett
Me, too. Yeah, I would have. You know, those are three very hard to believe.
John Holmberg
We'd have been fighting then. That's before Tactical Black. We'd have been fighting then.
Brett
We'd have been fighting. I think now nowadays I'm kind of.
John Holmberg
Like, yeah, you got me 30.
Brett
It's not surprising anymore. 30 years ago, that would have been scandalous. I got a daughter. Might be a little Twinkie. Might be a boy. Kind of a boy as a Twinkie boy, likes to put on dresses. Gonna be on Leto, gonna be on Leno.
John Holmberg
Can you imagine Pacino and. And Pesci and stuff going, what's going on?
Brett
He's gotta make those calls. I know. Oh, it's gonna be awkward. All right. Hello? Hey, what's going on? Yeah, Bobby, what you got? You got a movie idea? No, I wish I did. That would be better than this call. But my boy's Twinkie and he's cutting it off. Oh, you're calling me with this information for. I don't understand. I just had to tell some friends before you get surprised. Well, answer the question, Bobby. I don't like what it's going. She's got a great ass. Pretty nice ass. Not a badass. Not a badass.
Larry McFeely
That's what he calls with lines. Or he does little subtle jabs like, you want to come over some wine and Twinkies?
Brett
Why don't you bring her out by the house there? Let's take a look at it. She's not your type. She's. She's not your type there. I gotta go. I gotta call someone else. All right, I've send photos. Hey, what's going on, Bobby? Oh, boy. Ah, here we go. Oh, Joe, I gotta tell you something. I remember Aaron. Oh, I love him.
Larry McFeely
Great kid.
Brett
Played ball with him when he was you. Taught him how to throw a ball. It's a girl now. I turned it, got rid of his piece of deal. That's my Rena.
John Holmberg
That's probably very close.
Brett
Yeah, yeah. It's got to be a tough one.
John Holmberg
But it's kind of a rough day for me.
Brett
It's a. It's. But you've got Moloch in your corner.
John Holmberg
That's true.
Larry McFeely
Nothing will stop that.
Brett
That's what Makes it all better. I didn't expect that. Brady hit me with that thing. He goes, have you seen Robert De Niro's trans daughter? And he always says it with sort of disdain and judgment in his questioning, whenever there's a trans question.
Larry McFeely
I did.
Brett
You do. You have to accept your reality. And it is weird to all of us. You're allowed to have that feeling. You seen that horrendous abomination of De Niro's daughter? Son? No, I hadn't take a look at this. And he had the picture up, and I'm like, on the ready, huh? Yeah, he's been scouting. He's been looking at it. Ah, she makes me tingle. This.
Larry McFeely
Something's not right.
Brett
I don't like this feeling. You seen De Niro's affront to God? No, I haven't. Braylon. Not bad, but there you go. If you want to look it up. Aaron De Niro. I don't know. It's a. We're going through a lot at the house. And then Hoffman, you know, cubed them.
Larry McFeely
A I, R, Y, N, A, A.
Brett
Y, R. That was a I, R.
Larry McFeely
A I, R, Y, N. Okay.
Brett
Yeah, it's. That was unexpected. One of the least, like, the most manly, like, tough guys in the world has.
John Holmberg
70S through 80s. I mean, at least, you know, I.
Brett
Mean, if you were to. If you were to say, you know, somebody who would, you know, this is not acceptable. I don't know, you know, making jokes about it and whatever. It had to be them. You can't imagine. Pesci and De Niro were pro trans movement, you know. No, not them. They've had to do a lot of adapting and. Yeah, that's a tough announcement to go into your. That's a tough announcement to go into Robert De Niro's house as his son and just say, hey, dad, I'll. I think I want some help with something. It's pretty accepting of Mr. De Niro, I bet. His friends, I bet. Yeah. And then you get that thing on the other end. Hello.
Larry McFeely
You hear about Bobby's kid?
Brett
Oh, did I ever. Let's chat. Spill the tea. Oh, my God. I'm never looking at the same again. None of us will.
Larry McFeely
She got a great ass.
Brett
I know you'd say that. I wanna. Oh, now we gotta make sure.
Larry McFeely
Making sure that his baby right now.
Brett
Oh, I gotta go talk to my kids real quick. Hey. Hey. How you like your piece of deal? Is it still good? They do that now? They got to do a new movie. I'm the Irish woman. Oh, no, I gotta. He tries to throw acceptance her way by dressing. I'll do it, too. I'm gonna dress. Robbie De Niro's in a dress in his 80s. Nobody saw this coming.
John Holmberg
Gives a new meaning to Raging Bull.
Brett
Yeah, it's our new movie. Raging Bull. Die Killment. Anyway, the last people you'd expect to have it good for them.
John Holmberg
Can't wait till his Subaru commercials come out. You know, he whores himself out to anything now, so.
Larry McFeely
Oh, man, that would be spectacular.
Brett
Oh, that might be the day I just go, well, get the strict nine. It's not gonna get better than this. You know, I like to go out. I like to go out with my daughter's son. My daughter. Sorry. My daughter Aaron. Drive around in the Outback Subaru, the brand new 2025 Outback safety. What do you think, Aaron? It's a good car, dad. It's good car. And get three lesbians in it comfortably. Very comfortable. Most of the time I'm worried about how many people fit in the trunk with my. My new Lesboro. A Dinero Twink. Daughter. Now I. The new Subaru Dinero Twink. Yep. There you go. So that's. That's your news for today. So let Moloch be your guy.
John Holmberg
Damn right.
Brett
That's right. That's all you need to do the. The thing I wanted to bring. It's running like wildfire. This is something this stupid show did 20 years ago, and it's becoming crazy again. Not because of us, but this argument. Fitz used to do something like this based on what we started, which was insane thoughts of how many animals you could take on at once.
Larry McFeely
Yeah.
Brett
And now this Internet wildfire thing of how many men would it. 100 men. Could they beat a silverback gorilla? And we would have these chats now and again about. I think we had ostrich fights and. And then Fitz did the. The zoo death match for a while. And he would. He would. He would put all of them on meth that was his. And people never once. This started on this show years ago, we used to have these conversations, silverback versus 100 men. And I didn't want to get into it, but now I have to because I've heard too many people arguing insanity. Silverback would tear 100 men apart. It would be easy for him, even if they rushed him all at once. The first line of defense is just getting decimated. If he's angry enough to fight. A hundred men are not taking down one gorilla. Have you seen a gorilla? The strength of their hands. They just pop your head if they want to. You sweep them all away.
John Holmberg
We're here with Byron from MMP Guns. Byron, why should someone choose to go to MMP Guns?
Big Dick Toledo
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John Holmberg
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Brady
Podcast, time again to let you know where to go for some great comedy in the Valley this week. Get up north to Desert Ridge to see comedy sets from Leo Gonzalez and Tempe at the Improv. You've got Randy Felt Face performing. Just Google it. And you're gonna have to go see for yourself on that one. And downtown at Stand Up Live, the very funny Gary Owen entertains you all this week. For the complete lineups and for tickets go to standuplive.com desertridgeimprov.com and tempeimprov.com Holmberg's Morning Sickness.
Brett
You're not even going to take them.
Larry McFeely
The toughest thing is who's going to be the first 20 in.
Brett
Cause you're if you.
Larry McFeely
Nobody.
Brett
No. If you remember John Riggins of the of the formerly Washington R words dude would get Larry Zonka. Big giant guys would. You could ride them. Three or four dudes hitting them at once. Couldn't knock them down. So all 100 coming in. That thing's gonna barrel through. If it starts running at the 100, it'll be at the end of the 100 with a, with like a. An alley of where those guys used to be. This is the stupidest argument of all time. Now give me the argument of 100 men versus an angry large chimpanzee. You're still gonna lose most of those guys.
Larry McFeely
A couple you're gonna lose some. You'll lose quite a few some limbs and fingers.
Brett
And they can grab your arm. A chimpanzee can grab your arm and pull it off if it wants to.
Larry McFeely
Pretty close.
Brett
It's pulling it out of its socket like lickety split. Won't even break a. Like it won't even breathe hard. That one pulled that lady's. Oh, your hands are coming. Your fingers are right. They'll squeeze your hand into pulp. So I'd say you get two chimpanzees and a hundred men. I, I just don't see it happen. It's like a Bruce lee movie. All 100 men can't fight at once. So if the chimpanzee has his wits about him, that's going to be tough to take down the hundred.
Larry McFeely
Yeah. The only way you do it is, I mean, you have to wear them down with a fatigue.
Brett
He ain't getting tired. Fighting men. Where did our arrogance come from that we think that we've got a chance to, you know, soften up a gorilla with the first hundred he's not going to let you have. But go fight one guy that's bigger than you, get into a boxing ring with one guy that's bigger than you and see how easy it is to land a shot. It isn't.
Larry McFeely
Now the guy has a gigantic mouth with fangs.
Brett
And also, by the way, your head lift that De Niro Twinkmobile without any effort, could probably with both hands if you could talk to him and say, hey, pick up these two cars. Nothing to it. We get excited when, you know, we watch Nick Chubb or saquon Barkley squat £500. Nothing to it. So this argument is driving me crazy. The gorilla, if it knew it was in a fight, would, you know. Yeah, let's go get this guy. Put an article in the paper. It says, help me bum rush a gorilla. I need 99 friends to come to the Phoenix Zoo and settle the debate for good.
John Holmberg
No, I'm good.
Brett
I would watch that in a sec.
Larry McFeely
Who's the first group, man?
Brett
Who's the front line?
Larry McFeely
The first wave.
Brett
Now, I did bring this up to the person that brought it to me just to quiet the argument. And I said only. And I still am betting on the granola gorilla only if it was a hundred people with down syndrome, that's it. Because then you could get the front line of people to run at them. They're not. They're never going to be angry enough to want to fight. But you'd have to. You'd have to drug them all, and then they would. Because the only time you could talk them into getting close to the gorilla is if they were mentally incapacitated. There's no possible way. The front line of 10 sane men of a. Of a. Of a box of one ropes.
Larry McFeely
No it's hand to hand.
Brett
Hand to hand. Take down that gorilla. 100 of us. Not happening. Not happening. 100 untrained men go down to a UFC thing and try to try to get one of one of those guys on the ground, one at a time. Then bring in your buddy. Two at a time. Try to get. Try to get those guys on the ground. I don't.
Larry McFeely
And I don't know if you could choke a silver back out.
Brett
You can't.
Larry McFeely
That is so thick.
Brett
There's no way you saw King Kong. It took planes, multiple planes. Back when man was rational and imagined gigantic beasts and said, man, this is like a gorilla 10 times bigger. No way normal warfare takes it down. It's gonna have to be multiple planes. We need tons and tons of weapons and not a small amount. 100 men could take down a silverback. What's wrong with you people even having the debate? And the last thing I want to hear, like, I heard it yesterday. I don't know if you got. Oh, stop it.
John Holmberg
Sound like Chuck Powell.
Brett
Yeah. I don't know. I think maybe if you got the right group of people. A hundred trained UFC fighters would not take down a silverback gorilla. Just not happening.
Larry McFeely
We need you to go in first.
Brett
Yeah. Who's going in? Chum. You'd have to busy him up with a bunch of chum. And I'd say the first 40 are easy. And then you're right. Maybe takes a breath like, what's going on?
Larry McFeely
It's not like he can pile up on him because then you're.
Brett
He's just going to bust them open.
Larry McFeely
Yeah.
Brett
It's like a cartoon. You get on top. He's just going to do that chest flex, and everybody's going flying. And you think punching a grill is going to hurt. How tough do you think you are? How do you take him down? You wrestle them to the ground. Then what it's going to look like when all those Agent Smiths got on Neo.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah.
Brett
And he just blew them all up into the air. I don't know how this started. This show used to debate this stuff all the time.
Larry McFeely
What is it? Is the finishing deal, like, putting him down or pinning him?
Brett
Yeah.
Larry McFeely
Or they just kill him. Kill him.
Brett
No way. Yeah. Good luck. Because once he starts realizing, oh, they're fighting to the death. Oh, the bloodshed. Eric. The guy that used to be on this show thought he could land a punch on an ostrich once. I'm like, let's go. Let's go do that. Ostrich is going to kick your ass the second you ball your fist up and come at him with a little aggression. There is nothing. He just won't know. That ostrich is going to see you coming and it's swing its head around, you're done.
Larry McFeely
Try to get to that didn't work out too well.
Brett
Of course, it was all lip service. Nobody ever has the courage to follow through with this one of these days. And I want, you know, AI isn't accurate, but I want one of these days, one of these silly things to actually. All right, fine. And it'll be Irishman. It'll be a hundred Irishmen and get them drunk and say, all right, we've got a gorilla, you guys, I think you can do it. Not only did I think I can do it, I know I can do it. And I got my friends to back me up in the first five Conor McGregor's. They get split in half and then that gorilla's sitting there going with that breathing guarantee. The next 95 are a little bit trepidatious about their next few steps. So what the argument is, if there were a hundred men in a gorilla cage, you'd look around and go, we're pretty comfortable with this. Like, if he starts charging us, we'll be fine. You're out of your mind. All they'd have to do is bowling ball. You just run at you with that gorilla run. And good luck getting hold of that. If you had a football team, look, a hundred regular dudes couldn't take down Saquon Barkley and those giant legs. Professional athletes can barely get the guy to the ground. If you didn't know without pads, that would be awful. They can't even tackle Cam Scatterboo in college, for crying out loud. And the guys, ah, this argument, it drove me nuts. I was in the middle of it and I'm like, I. I've sworn this off for days and I can't do it anymore. It's everywhere. There are a few animals where it would be close.
Larry McFeely
Well, you know, you talk about the, the mental game too, because, you know, they have to be wired to tell me they're all in the survival mode but the gorilla. Yeah. I'm saying a lot of their challenging. You know when you see that, like Jane Goodall and. Yeah, they go out there and you'll gather with the guides and they'll go there where the gorillas are. It does that charge.
Brett
Yeah.
Larry McFeely
You basically curl up and you curl.
Brett
Up or you get that gun out.
Larry McFeely
Yeah.
Brett
But if you don't have A gun. There is no logical plan.
Larry McFeely
Well, they hold off, but I'm just saying. Yeah, the fit. It would be.
Brett
It would be a blood.
Larry McFeely
I don't.
Brett
It would be fast. I don't think you get to the.
Larry McFeely
First round just with your hands.
Brett
You don't. You absolutely don't. There's no reason to even think about it. You don't. That gorilla starts realizing he's under attack, and there's gonna be 100 dead. 100 dead guys. And I guarantee, if you're. If you do 45 through 100 standing there is the next line. Like, you got to step over all those dead people. And then the gorilla would probably pick up some of the dead people and swinging them around. I would like to see this.
Larry McFeely
I'd pick up his leg and club it. My buddy's leg that just got ripped off, right?
Brett
And then he would break that. He'd get that as a bat. Gorilla is not going to. He's not gonna. There's no owies on the gorilla at the. Not even though. Not a mark on them. And I say it lasts five minutes. Maybe that gorilla might be a little bit winded and confused, but I want to find 100 people that say absolutely and put them in there and go. Then do it. And let's. Let's. Let's stop having these debates. Let's actually do the. Whoever the morons are who believe this is true, line up on the left. Everyone else, all us normals, we'll buy.
John Holmberg
Tickets, a case of Jameson to the first guy that wants to take it on.
Brett
I'll give you a lifetime supply. Jameson if all 100 of you beat him. And no knives. Mexicans for the 100 of you. I know what's going on. That thing, that's the size of their middle finger. You can't see, but it's got a point. No shivs.
Larry McFeely
Next week, we take on an orca.
Brett
Right? Well, it's your thing about who swims faster. Michael Phelps or a dugong. I'm like, are you kidding me?
John Holmberg
Jonathan nominates meathead from Prestige Billiards to take it on.
Brett
He's. Here's something.
Larry McFeely
If you had 100 meatheads, they'd be.
Brett
A hundred dead meatheads. A big man, little tougher tear. But a big man is still no match for a silverback. It's a big human male. We have this ideal of ourselves that, like, he's very big. He's a silverback gorilla, for Christ's sake. Have you seen one?
Larry McFeely
The Dutch giants?
Brett
I saw 90 people run from a gorilla and it was in a cage. It charged at the cage and everybody ran. Like we all kind of had it in the back of our mind. I think he can get through these bars if he hits them hard enough. And they stopped putting them in those in zoos now they're in glass enclosures. And they say it's for us. Oh, it's better for the viewing thing. They made those things triple thick.
Larry McFeely
You can run a semi truck into them. And they've cracked that right before.
Brett
Yeah. And I think the gorillas started to make way with those bars a little bit. And the zookeepers were like, hey, that thing's bending it. What do we do? I don't know. Send in 99 guys and just start reason with it, you idiots. Chimpanzee. I'd say two 50 guys and one chimpanzee is a good fight. Have you ever seen an angry chimp? You're not running 50, Adam. He's going to get through.
Larry McFeely
They say this, you know, they say the strength of ten men, the speed.
Brett
That's what I'm thinking. It has less to do with the strength and the speed in which they would bounce off of you kicking your ass. They don't stand in, you know, box. You're not getting into the ring with them. There's no rules. He's ripping and tearing and screaming and jumping. You can't imagine like in hitting walls and doing parkour and landing on you and ripping your eyeballs out. Not even close. Sodberg's morning sickness medicate. Can you p. D?
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John Holmberg
100 woman, 100 women would win. They would just talk him to death.
Brett
The emailers, these people. I tell you what, I'd like to watch that, though.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah.
Brett
It's just. A trans man dominates women's sports and we're saying, I think a human being can get in there with nope. The difference between a trans man and female sports. And why we're all like, this is silly. Is tenfold a gorilla to a man's abilities. End of story. That's it. Physically, we're relying on the fact that it wouldn't know it's in a fight until it's like 20 deep. Go ahead, get in there with him and charge him. Be the bravest one.
Larry McFeely
Thank God that we're smart enough not to fight them.
Brett
Are we? Because we not. The Internet says we're not.
Larry McFeely
Brady, I haven't seen the.
Brett
Yeah, well, you know why? Because we would. First off, someone would have to clean it up. The biggest reason that won't happen, because if I was in charge of a zoo, I'd be like, what? What are they saying? Oh, there's 100 Irishmen outside so they can take on your gorilla. Okay, let's bring them in. They really want to do this. Yeah. Where's this big joint piece getting in there with it? All right, who's. Who's gonna run at him first? Because I'm gonna nickname you Operation Dead Guy. Get behind the dead guy. I say, I think 100 of us could take him down. Nope.
Larry McFeely
The Zoo just added 100 hats to their gift shop.
Brett
But then I Get a thing. It says, hey, Mr. Zookeeper. Holmberg, do you mind not having Irishman come into the gorilla case? It's. Cleaning this up is disgusting. There's brains and Irish guts all over it. Smells like Guinness and feces. And that's before the fight. Yeah. Nobody'd want to clean it. You'd get sued for doing it in the first place. And it would be animal cruelty for no reason at all to make the animal just. We can't even. Can't even take a walk in show low. If a. If a fox bites your kid, 20 people go out there and hunt the fox because it tastes for human flesh.
Larry McFeely
Don't feed it.
John Holmberg
We have Christie set this up.
Brett
Hey, Christy, would help us out. With us. They got silverbacks out there?
Larry McFeely
No.
Brett
Ah, man. Nuts.
Larry McFeely
They got a baboon.
John Holmberg
Close enough.
Brett
Couple. You drunken mix. Want to hop in there with a baboon and piss it off? Go get them. You know what happened. You'd be raped by a baboon. Those things are sexual predators. They're weird.
Larry McFeely
Yeah. The one they call. I call him Hugh Hefner. Or he just hangs brain right on the fence.
Brett
Just. He's got no choice. That's the. Honestly, look away, cats. Pre Internet, the only thing I ever saw masturbating was a baboon. Ever. My life. The Albuquerque Zoo. And my dad and I were laughing because it looks so much like John Travolta. And as we're teasing him, my dad and I are standing at the other thing, you know. My God, look at that. Scat. A little red butt. My face is all colorful. How you guys doing? We're joking, goofing around, and he just pulls on. He starts pulling on it. I'm like, what's he doing? He's like, oh, we need to go. And he just started, you know, choking his pod. My dad was dying, and I didn't really realize what it was because I was like seven. What was John Travolta doing to his pee pee? You'll figure that out in a couple years on your own. And then. Probably one of my first thoughts when I first discovered my own parts. Ah. That's what that baboon was doing. I get it now. Now I get it. O. I'm glad I left because I don't get hit by those ropes. Anyway, it's the dumbest debate that's ever been on the Internet. And that's saying something. And the arrogance of.
Larry McFeely
Funny how it starts back up.
Brett
I know, but we talked about this years ago. We would say, how Many men to take down that. And silverback gorilla is not even on the list. Not even stick to the good stuff. Of 100 men, how many would beat. I don't know, like an elephant in a running contest. You start getting into that stuff and it's interesting because elephants can run really fast, but it takes a while to get going. So the distance is important. And I'd say, you know, in a hundred yard dash.
Larry McFeely
Yeah.
Brett
Like a 40 yard dash, all the men win. All the men. When elephants don't get going real fast. Once they get going. Yeah. And they're long, they can run forever. So you get, you get a mile. I think the elephant takes you. You giraffes, they look like they're going slow. They can go like 30 miles an hour, but they take forever to get going there. So how many of 100 men, average men, could beat a giraffe in a foot race at 200 yards? Number that. See, there's an interesting debate. Maybe one really fast one you're getting. It's low percentage, but I think it's possible on a straight line.
Larry McFeely
No, I think giraffes can run up to like 40 miles.
Brett
30 or 35 miles an hour. For sure. Sure.
Larry McFeely
And an elephant is 20 plus.
Brett
Yeah.
Larry McFeely
Miles. I don't know, maybe.
Brett
And the fastest man is like 26 miles an hour.
Larry McFeely
Is it 23?
Brett
Well, 22. Happens a lot in pro football. You start getting into those super fastest dudes at, you know, 100, 100 meters.
Larry McFeely
Yeah.
Brett
And then they gas out. They can't go much further than that elephant will look at that. Like nothing. So you give him 150 and now you got a real fight on you. Your hands or giraffe, especially once they get going. I was at San Diego Zoo and I watched them start running and I'm like, gallop. It looks like they're in slow motion and you realize what kind of ground they're covering. They're flying. 100 idiot mix can beat up a goddamn gorilla. Idiots. It's that Conor McGregor swagger that they wander around with. And yeah, I'm blaming most the Irish. I know it's not their debate, but I guarantee you the only ones keeping this alive are the Irish. You know who's not making these debates like a reasonable amount of time in their lives? Indians. Not the feathers, the other ones. They sit there on their computers and like, what are you talking about? Oh, how many of us Indians do you think it would take to beat up a gorilla? That's nonsense. Back to your computer, please. And Then you just go back to work being a doctor or a computer tech. And that's why we're losing in schools. China doesn't think about this stuff. India doesn't think about this. Stu. Americans who are constantly complaining that everything's horrible sit and debate this kind of nonsense. Think this is going on in Beijing at the Gucci sweatshop.
Larry McFeely
No.
Brett
Not allowed to talk like this. Get smacked around.
John Holmberg
Get back to making them Jordans.
Brett
Yeah, yeah. Just hurry up and load up on nike.com all the stuff that I want. I wonder if you think 100 of us Chinese could have beat 1 pound of bear. Shut up, Mankuchi.
Larry McFeely
They're just trying to keep friendly by feeding the macaque monkeys at these temples and stuff. Yeah, they get attacked every now and then.
Brett
Sometimes the macaque monkeys get a little angry and start taking down a family of seven.
Larry McFeely
They're strong.
Brady
Of course. They're.
Brett
They're. They're wild animals. Have you seen them work themselves through trees? Yeah, they can pretty much fly. Now. I know the argument there is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The people could fly too. As far as I understand. I've never been to the Far East. That. That's a fantasy. Although I did have an Asian neighbor right after that movie came out who used to sweep his roof a lot. And it made me nervous that that was. That they were. That that movie was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That he could start doing rooftop dancing like they did in that amazing movie. Crouching Tiger's incredible. And when they start floating across rooftops, I'm like, whoa, that would be cool. And then I'd go, well, it was actually my mom's neighbor and I was staying there. There. My mom's neighbor was this Asian guy. And after he never saw him up on the roof. It was a two story roof or two story house. Never once was he on the roof until Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon came out. And then he was up there all the time sweeping. And I never knew.
Larry McFeely
Happy that it came out. So people know now, but it was. I won't be shocked when I'm up on the roof.
Brett
The red. That's what I thought. It's like, oh, movies tell us what's true. Eventually. Like eventually it's like, oh, they just. They get you used to something and then. Then you just see it every day and you're like, oh, that. I knew that from Crouching Tiger, but it was one of those red tile roofs you're not supposed to walk on. You'll break the tiles.
Larry McFeely
Yeah.
Brett
Up there all the time.
Larry McFeely
Wow.
Brett
Sweeping. Never understood why he had a pine tree next to his house. And he sweep the needles off his roof like once a week.
Larry McFeely
Could he walk on rice paper without tearing it?
Brett
He didn't need to. He could fly. I'm pretty sure he was sweeping the whole neighborhood's roofs every once in a while. If you stayed at my mom's house in the late 90s, you would hear across the roof sometimes, like. And you get up, it's a Christmas. The roof was clean. No mama, just Santa cross. Happy July. What are you doing on the roof up there, Santa sweeping. Who sweeps the roof for what reason anyway?
Larry McFeely
Wasn't oleanders, it was bamboo backyard.
Brett
I don't know what. He had that pine tree. Hated those pine needles. And he swept them off his. Never broke a tile. Never once up there. Oh, God damn it. I break another tile. He never broke a tile. I put up Christmas lights at my parents house once and we had to call a roofing company because you cracked so many. I'm not on those. But one of my big dumb feet on the. Well, these things are glass. I didn't realize that.
Larry McFeely
And hooked in by just one nail stack.
Brett
There's nothing. They just kind of stack them on each other like this will do. And I took a step and I broke like three. Like. I didn't know you couldn't get a super careful look next door. Not very good in bed, huh? When did you get up there? I froed up a second ago. You froed it up? What? Come over here and help me hang my Christmas light.
Larry McFeely
I turned around and asked him to help. He was gone. What happened?
Brett
Four houses over, sweeping. I'm over here now. How'd you get over there? Oh, I fro. I fro. He did fro. I didn't see him. He's frozen all over the neighborhood anyway. What are you gonna do? So stop it, everybody. Come up with a reasonable one. And then realize that all you're doing is whittling it down to an animal. You can beat up, you weirdo. Like a hundred kids. And a German shepherd. Would you ever even consider that to be an angry German shepherd and 105 year olds. I still put my money on the German massacre. It would be horrible, just horrible. Visual. The German shepherd would probably get tired. But each bite. You think you can fight through some injuries. The second that gorilla squishes your hand and breaks your arms, you're out of the fight. Not saying everybody'd be dead, but there'd be a lot of useless maimed people. Ah, this is two days in a row. I got emails. You the hundred gorilla thing. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I'm not talking about that. Here I am. Some idiot told me about it yesterday. I think we could do it. Oh, here. Oh boy. Here we go. Go. Let's get a wake up song, shall we? 585-9800 A good one. We'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD.
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Wake up.
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Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: April 30, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo
Release Date: April 30, 2025
Timestamp: 01:48 - 05:30
The episode kicks off with Bret reminiscing about a notable yet controversial episode of the 1970s TV show 'Chips', titled "Moloch Rock." Bret explains how the episode featured Ralph Mouth Donnie, a character portrayed as a satanic rock singer, which sparked significant concern among parents and religious groups during the early 1980s.
Bret Vesely [03:21]: "There were meetings and trials. Satan was involved in the music scene and all that."
John Holmberg adds that prominent figures like Peter Marshall and Gomez from 'The Addams Family' were involved, highlighting the episode's attempt to cater to both younger audiences admiring heavy metal and older viewers fearful of satanic influences.
John Holmberg [05:16]: "Robert Trujillo is actually in it. Right, Kid."
The hosts discuss the societal impact of such portrayals, noting the divide over topics like satanism in media, which contrasted with today's political divisions.
Timestamp: 05:30 - 08:42
The conversation shifts to Jimmy Hoffa, with Bret introducing a recently surfaced theory from a book suggesting that Hoffa was liquefied and recycled into paper products after his disappearance. This theory contradicts longstanding rumors about Hoffa being disposed of in landfills or hidden at significant landmarks.
Bret Vesely [06:43]: "They take you and put you in a big dumpster... turned him into paper."
John Holmberg humorously muses about the absurdity of this theory, imagining everyday items unknowingly containing Hoffa's remnants.
John Holmberg [07:09]: "You could add a Pizza Hoffa in your Trapper Keeper."
The hosts delve into the mechanics of such a process, questioning its feasibility and the lack of concrete evidence supporting this claim.
Timestamp: 11:45 - 23:43
A significant portion of the episode centers around Robert De Niro's newly publicized transgender daughter, Airyn. Bret expresses surprise and skepticism, mocking the idea of such a revelation from a figure like De Niro.
Bret Vesely [12:09]: "De Niro has now got himself a trans daughter. Used to be his son. That was the one that hurt the most."
The co-hosts engage in a mock conversation imagining how De Niro and his circle would react to Airyn's transition, blending humor with insensitivity towards transgender issues.
Bret Vesely [17:22]: "She has a great ass. Pretty nice ass. Not a badass."
The discussion highlights the show's penchant for tackling controversial and sensitive topics with a blend of humor and irreverence, though it treads into questionable respectfulness regarding transgender subjects.
Timestamp: 24:32 - 51:40
One of the main highlights is the ongoing online debate about whether 100 men could overpower a silverback gorilla. The hosts passionately argue against the notion, emphasizing the immense strength and agility of gorillas.
Brett Vesely [28:00]: "Silverback would tear 100 men apart. It would be easy for him, even if they rushed him all at once."
John Holmberg brings up historical debates from the show about similar topics, reflecting on how such discussions have persisted over the years.
John Holmberg [24:32]: "There are a few animals where it would be close."
The conversation evolves into speculative scenarios, with Bret advocating for the impracticality of humans taking down a gorilla, regardless of numbers or effort. The hosts employ hyperbolic humor to underscore the futility of the argument.
Brett Vesely [35:27]: "I'm never looking at the same again. None of us will."
Additionally, they touch upon related debates involving other animals like chimpanzees and elephants, maintaining their stance on human limitations against powerful wildlife.
Throughout the Episode
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Timestamp: 51:34 - End
The episode concludes with the hosts reiterating their stance on the gorilla debate, emphasizing their frustration with the recurring nature of such discussions on the internet.
Bret Vesely [41:07]: "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
John Holmberg and Bret Vesely sign off with humorous takes on the episode's topics, leaving listeners with a blend of humor and critical thinking about the subjects discussed.
Key Takeaways:
Cultural Impact: The discussion on 'Chips' illustrates how media can influence and reflect societal fears and interests, especially regarding sensitive topics like satanism in the 70s and 80s.
Conspiracy Theories: The Jimmy Hoffa segment showcases how enduring mysteries can spawn a plethora of speculative theories, some lacking substantial evidence.
Transgender Representation: The segment on De Niro's trans daughter Airyn highlights the show's tendency to approach sensitive topics with humor, though it may border on insensitivity.
Human vs. Animal Strength: The persistent debate about humans overpowering gorillas serves as a metaphor for recognizing and respecting natural strengths and limitations.
Notable Quotes:
Bret Vesely [03:21]: "There were meetings and trials. Satan was involved in the music scene and all that."
John Holmberg [07:09]: "You could add a Pizza Hoffa in your Trapper Keeper."
Bret Vesely [12:09]: "De Niro has now got himself a trans daughter. Used to be his son. That was the one that hurt the most."
Brett Vesely [28:00]: "Silverback would tear 100 men apart. It would be easy for him, even if they rushed him all at once."
Bret Vesely [35:27]: "I'm never looking at the same again. None of us will."
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness delves into a mix of nostalgic reflections, conspiracy theories, contemporary social issues, and spirited debates, all delivered with the show's signature humor and irreverence. Whether revisiting classic TV episodes or engaging in fiery online debates, the hosts provide a lively and entertaining discourse for their listeners.