05-15-25 - Emailer That Hates Katie Hobbs Brings Back In Macho Kari Lake - Emailer Wonders Why People Reveal Such Life Secrets To Our Show

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: 05-15-25 - Emailer That Hates Katie Hobbs Brings Back In Macho Kari Lake - Emailer Wonders Why People Reveal Such Life Secrets To Our Show
Release Date: May 15, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo

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1. Political Rivalries: Katie Hobbs vs. Kari Lake

The episode kicks off with a heated discussion revolving around Arizona's political landscape, specifically focusing on Governor Katie Hobbs and her rival, Kari Lake. A listener's email ignites the conversation, expressing strong disdain for Governor Hobbs and staunch support for Kari Lake.

Notable Quotes:

• John Holmberg [01:48]: "The only thing I don't like about Arizona is Governor Hobbs. She's awful. And she didn't win legit."

• Kari Lake (Impersonation) [02:42]: "I saw her out there. And her security team thinks they can stop the lake. But this lake's swelling and making waves and about to drown the hops in a lake of fire."

• John Holmberg [03:29]: "Still, I truly believe the macho man Kari Lake was robbed. I'm like, oh, my God. Real to me. Damn it. Where's she been hiding?"

The banter intensifies as Kari Lake's persona responds provocatively, emphasizing her resilience and determination to challenge Hobbs' governance.

Notable Quotes:

• Kari Lake (Impersonation) [03:31]: "I would have never needed any security. I either saved the taxpayers by being my own horrifying security system of doom."

• John Holmberg [04:30]: "Where is she? You're such a douche."

2. Listener Emails: Personal Struggles and the Role of the Show

Shifting gears, the hosts delve into the nature of listener emails, highlighting the depth and personal nature of the issues shared. John Holmberg reflects on why individuals turn to their show to vent life secrets, comparing it to the concept of "Loveline."

Notable Quotes:

• John Holmberg [07:40]: "Some of the emails I don't read because they get so personal that people turn to us with these like seemingly real life issues."

• John Holmberg [08:21]: "You can get all this, like everybody wears something. We're all in a uniform. And sometimes you wear a patch on that uniform you don't want people to see."

Brady Bogen adds his perspective on the therapeutic aspect of the show, noting that while some listeners genuinely seek advice, others might use the platform as an outlet without the intention to act on the suggestions provided.

Notable Quotes:

• Brady Bogen [06:05]: "Love lines."

• John Holmberg [09:57]: "It's kind of like yeah, some of the emails I get about when people say their dogs are gone is that they're usually like 16, 17, 13, big dog."

3. Pet Adoption and Animal Welfare

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to advocating for pet adoption and supporting animal welfare organizations. The hosts share heartfelt stories of lost pets, emphasizing the importance of fostering and adopting animals from shelters.

Notable Quotes:

• John Holmberg [16:43]: "Don't you think it's easy to give up another dog? You're too good at this to not have one."

• Brady Bogen [17:24]: "It's insane in this year."

• John Holmberg [17:25]: "When you lose them, you're like, I'm just not ready. But you know what? Shake it off. Get ready and give a great life to a dog like you did Diesel."

The discussion underscores the emotional bond between pet owners and their animals, urging listeners to consider opening their hearts and homes to animals in need.

4. Community Engagement and Support

Towards the end of the episode, John Holmberg introduces a community project spotlight, emphasizing local initiatives and partnerships that support both human and animal communities.

Notable Quotes:

• John Holmberg [12:26]: "We are your earbuds. Hey, you're listening to the Earbuds."

• John Holmberg [14:05]: "Lost our home.org 98kupd.com Prestige Billiards has everything you need for your game room."

This segment highlights the show's commitment to fostering a supportive community, encouraging listeners to engage with local businesses and charitable organizations.

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Conclusion

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness masterfully balances spirited political debates with deeply personal listener interactions. Through engaging discussions on Arizona's political figures and heartfelt appeals for pet adoption, the show underscores its role as both a source of entertainment and a platform for community support. John Holmberg and his co-hosts navigate these topics with a blend of humor, empathy, and candidness, making the episode both thought-provoking and relatable for listeners.

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Transcript

[Byron]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Byron]

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[John Holmberg]

The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. Mopping up the emails this guy says, heard you met Katie Hobbs yesterday. I'm not gonna lie. It's the only thing I don't like about Arizona is Governor Hobbs. She's awful. And she didn't win legit.

[Brady]

Oh.

[John Holmberg]

Still, I truly believe the macho man Kari Lake was robbed. I'm like, oh, my God. Real to me. Damn it. Where's she been hiding? Oh, God, I don't know. Where is she? You're such a douche. And, you know, I'm Trigger. I'm Pavlov's dogs. I don't even want to touch the next button, but I'm going to.

[Kari Lake]

Oh, yeah, Homer got to meet my nemesis yesterday. Katie. Oh, I saw her out there. And her security team thinks they can stop the lake. But this lake's swelling and making waves and about to drown the hops in a lake of fire.

[Brady]

It's a cool ghillie suit you want?

[Kari Lake]

Oh, the ghillie suit. Cause I'm living in the bushes watching the hobs make mincemeat of our once great state. I remember when I used to stand next to Hook and listen to his liberal cuck ass give the news. And I said, I'm gonna fix it. All right now what are you benching now? I'm throwing up about 375. Or what I consider a Hobbs and a half.

[Byron]

Would you have needed that kind of security?

[Kari Lake]

I would have never needed any security. I either saved the taxpayer' by being my own horrifying security system of doom. Try and shoot me. It'll bounce off me and stick to you. Rubber glue.

[Brady]

Thanks for coming up from the border.

[Kari Lake]

Boys came up. Fix the border. They give credit to Trump, but it was me. I took one tour and I said, no mas. And they said, okie doke. I was down there with Brady, and I said, look, Villa, sen, get back to your cases. No bueno. And they got the message from Lake and Bogan. That'll do A. Keep your eyes open, Hobbs. The Lake strikes when you least expect.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

You forgot your MREs.

[Kari Lake]

Can't forget those. I'll be in the desert for eight days. I gotta have sustenance.

[John Holmberg]

Thanks for that. Can't avoid it.

[Byron]

It's not my fault.

[John Holmberg]

She wanted to show up. But James Bennett does not like Katie Hobbs and thinks Carrie Lake was robbed. I don't know. And this guy says, kind of listen to this morning's show. Don't you think it's kind of gay to have a gay son get caught giving a blowy at school and then go to a radio show to ask what they would do about it? And I told this guy, I said, justin, you'd be shocked. Some of the emails I don't read because they get so personal that people turn to us with these like seemingly real life issues. The what would Brady do's just generally telling us? I mean, come on, like there's als. Matt just flat out opened up the first day we met him. If I had. My wife was banging the guy at the edge and I got ALS and do. We got his life story. And I think I've only. The only reason I think that it happens is because it's a way of confronting your problems without actually having anybody, you know, hear it. You know what I mean? Like you, you can get all this, like everybody wears something. We're all in a uniform. And sometimes you wear a patch on that uniform you don't want people to see. So you just go to a place where you're unrecognized and you can kind of talk about the problem without it being personalized.

[Brady]

Love lines.

[John Holmberg]

Loveline was a huge one. Yeah, Loveline was like, and nobody's going to know that I've got herpes. And I banged this. And you don't talk to anybody consequential in your life. So they turn to us and say, hit that little steam valve, that little release valve, get it all out of your system like I talked about it, because it's. It's going to explode otherwise. You got to get that stuff out. You got something bruin. And you turn to somewhat strangers that you're comfortable with. That's what we are. We're really strangers. But you're. We're in your car every day. We're in. We're in your earbuds. We're hanging out with you.

[Byron]

And we put it out over a hundred thousand watts.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. You know what? I think I just nicknamed us. We're your earbuds. What's up guys? We're your earbuds. But we're with you a lot. You know, I've always had like. I had a couple of times where I'm in like my mailman did it once, Derek. And then I was at a QT or something and the guy goes, hey. And he's like confused. And he goes, you're in my ears right now. And I'm like, yeah, you're listening to show right now and you're right there. And I'm like, yeah. And. And at that moment I think he realized, oh, he doesn't just turn on when I turn him. Like the solopsis thing, he's only part of my consciousness. So then it becomes the strangers that are actually comfortable. So, man, some of the stuff that we hear and the dude telling us that's a very serious family issue. My son got caught at school blowing a kid in the bathroom. What do you. What would you guys do about it? Why do. That's just a way. He doesn't really care what we say, I don't think. I think he's just like just pushing it across the. I gotta get, I gotta talk. I gotta say something. I can't leave this in my body anymore. I'm gonna erupt.

[Brady]

But the follow up seemed pretty good. Like they're saying, you know what? I, you know, numerous times I did what you guys said and it worked out.

[John Holmberg]

Trust me. The ones I read, I choose. There's a lot of them.

[Brady]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You know, their lives got worse. And not because of what we said, it just, no, they're not in good spots. But turning to this show to solve your problems, I don't think they really want to solve the problem. Maybe they'll get some advice. Maybe they'll get something good out of it. Maybe it's just going to confirm what they already think. But I think it's more just like, yeah, this is a horrible thing I'm going through and I don't want to tell anybody I know about it. And I certainly don't want to really admit to like a therapist or a family member that I've got this happen.

[Brady]

At times, hearing a few of them, I'm thinking, this person wrote this just to get it on the radio. Like made the scenario up. But then you find out, no, no.

[John Holmberg]

You mean it's not like they show up too? That's the crazy part. You think they'd hide in closets when they saw us? Like, those are the guys I told about the thing. They run up, hey, I'm the guy who said the thing about the blowjobs and the bat. This is my son. He's the one who did. I'm like, I didn't want that door to come. I don't want that opening up.

[Brady]

You're a good kid, Danny.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. And David Jordan nails it. He goes, it's just an effed up therapy session with you guys. It's true. We're free. You know, you'll get a couple laughs out of it, hopefully. And then you kind of realize, okay, it's out there. There's something healthy about just putting it out in the ether. You know, when they tell. Therapists will tell people, if you got a problem with somebody Like, I had a guy who used to work here who got mad at her old boss for firing him. Like he was really mad. And his therapist said, write a letter to him and like mail it to other people, mail it to a friend, mail it to Brett, mail it to Brady. And just the letter to him got mailed out and you did every action except because it wasn't at the time. It was Chuck, our old boss, Chuck. He was dying. There was no time to tell him, I hate you. It just wasn't an appropriate time to get the bitterness and anger, which was legitimate, out to the guy who was literally going to die, like in a couple days. It just wasn't a kosher human move. So he wrote letters and he gave them to other people and just said, I just got it off my chest. And that's kind of what I think happens with us.

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[Byron]

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[John Holmberg]

Guns.Com Holmberg's Morning Sickness. That's the best way I can do it. Because otherwise that doesn't make any sense. Why anybody would never email anybody on the radio. And that's why I think half the time the names are probably not right. The emails are always a number. Google and like 694155. It's like the brand new Google email. They just put it together. So it's a. Yeah, it's a release for lunatics. But we are your earbuds. Hey, you're listening to the Earbuds. Oh, my God, I hope the Bob's done hear that Fantastic count on that new Cincinnati morning show from Hubbard. The Earbuds. Oh, no. I apologize in advance. My little joke about how stupid that would be is going to be taken very seriously by the terrible human beings that run radio or copyright that.

[Brady]

You can modify it. Put a Z on it, too.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that's what it would be. That earbuds right now. Four bobs. You know, I just had this thought. Earbuds is a pretty good name for a new show. That's a great idea, Bob. Yeah. And since we destroyed the entire medium of radio, why don't we just go a little further and nauseate people with stuff now? And Earbuds will be, like, in nine different markets. The earbuds are in San Antonio and St. Louis and Cincinnati. All different shows, but all called the Earbuds. And it'll be my fault. I will. I am sorry in advance, but right now, brainless radio executives heard that. I hope not. Are having a meeting somewhere, or at least on a zoom call going, ah, earbuds. And it's gonna. Oh, see, I breathe it out into the air. Way to go, pal. You know, that's. That's the proper response. Nice job, pal. You really on that one. Hey, kari Lake. I heard ladonna was talking crap about you. God damn it.

[Kari Lake]

What am I hearing about this Ladonna character? She hasn't had a hit since 1987. You want to Talk about being a material girl. That's me, baby. In the material. Real as Kevlar.

[John Holmberg]

Get out of here. Stop talking about her.

[Byron]

It's like they summon.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, yeah. You have buttons that summon the beast. And this says, tell brady that double Ls in Spanish are 95% of the time pronounced like a Y in English. Polo loco. White people say, no, we all know Pollo Loco.

[Byron]

Brady knows that one.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you got that one. That's Billy. Yeah, that's it. And then another guy says, hey, John, ask Brady what we're supposed to do. I heard him get mad at it. I have a friend who mispronounces words constantly. And then when people say no, you say it like this. He gets mad and acts like they're doing something wrong. And he says what Brady said, which triggered me. Thanks for pointing it out. Am I supposed to just ignore it? I get if I ignore it occasionally, but when it happens, it's all the time. This dude is Brady times 10. Constant flow of dummy words and mispronunciations. He's also from Ohio. Is it the school system, Harris? Would you prefer we just ignored it? Because then we'd have to.

[Brady]

I do with you guys.

[John Holmberg]

Here's the counter. You do with us. That's like Guy Fieri giving cooking advice. No, no, no, no. That's. You do it constantly. If Dale mispronounces a word, you beam and laugh. We all find it funny on the news. Well, you're not in a position to.

[Brady]

There's fun with it too.

[John Holmberg]

You're not in a position to correct. It's like me trying to teach you to barbecue. Like, you'd be like, get out of here. And you're making all sorts of mistakes. You would correct me constantly. When Dale screws up or news people screw up, you say, oh, my God, they screwed that up. Because it's. You got to point it out.

[Brady]

Oh, good. I'm not the only one.

[John Holmberg]

Everybody makes mistakes. You do it all the time. That's what makes it fun. This guy does it more than you. It's crazy. We're not ignoring it though, because it makes us look dumb. That's like they're accepting that. That's not an acceptable answer. This one says, good morning. Here we go. Another one says, good morning, John. Lost another furry friend Yesterday. Diesel, my 13 year old German shepherd. He was the best dog to my kids, the ultimate protector, and will be truly missed by the whole family. Sign. Ian. Ian. There you go. Everybody's got to give their cookies to their pets, right? Now for Diesel, German shepherd, that goes 13 years. That's a win. That's getting them to the finish line. I always tell people that it hurts when they die because 13 years is not long. But a German shepherd going for 13, that's all nine innings, man.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

That's a full life. You did a good job. So tip your cap and do me a favor. Give another German shepherd or another dog that you find at a shelter the same chance you gave Diesel. That's the ultimate tribute to Diesel, is to say, you know what? I gave Diesel a great life. There's another one out there waiting for that same chance, sitting in a cage right now at a shelter. Lost her home. I'm going there later today, the Humane Society. Somebody threw a cat out a window, a kitten just a few weeks old, chucked it out a car window. And the Humane Society is asking for people to foster. They need help.

[Brady]

And people, the number from the Humane Society, it's insane in this year.

[John Holmberg]

It's insane.

[Brady]

22,000.

[John Holmberg]

It's insane. Their numbers are. When you look at their numbers, it is unbelievable how bad we are at this. So when you hear somebody like Ian, who gave Diesel The German Shepherd, 13 great years, I know it sounds callous. I've gotten. I've gotten way past this where you say, I'm just not ready for another dog. Well, another dog's ready for you. You're too good at this to not have one. Three of our four rescues have to do it. You have to. If you're great at owning dogs, I got no problem with you. Like, I understand what you're saying. When you lose them, you're like, I'm just not ready. I'm just not ready. But you know what? Shake it off. Get ready and give a. Give a great life to a dog like you did Diesel. Cookies and drinks for Diesel tonight. And all the Diesels out there. It bothers me when great like Larry bothers me. He's a great dog guy, and he's just like, I can't. I'm not ready. The last one hurt. They all hurt. They all hurt.

[Byron]

Yeah, you're human.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. They're your best friends. They're amazing. But what hurts more, that shelter where those dogs don't even have a chance to feel that life that you gave the last one. There's so many of them out there that need good people, and they usually come from bad people. They bring us too much joy. I get too many letters every day, but always talking about how amazing their pets were, and I love that. The only good thing about all these emails I get about when people say their dogs are gone is that they're usually like 16, 17, 13, big dog. You know, I don't like hearing the ones like it was four and had a thing that's just awful. And I understand that's painful. But if you're a good, if you're a good pet person, get over the whole I'm not ready yet thing and recognize you know what, the next dog needs me. And you'll find it. It's there. Dale Hellestra is going to join us in just a little bit. It's 98 KUPD. It's not weird. It's pretty cool actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of. It's John Holmberg here from the morning sickness and we're talking to you about reactdefense.com the home of tactical Black self defense training. You know all about it by now. Get in great shape. Learn stuff you didn't know you needed to know. Prepare for a life you just can't prepare for until you start doing the work. And right now the price is unbeatable. Two months of personal training right there. Hands on react defense self defense system. It is 199 bucks for too much. You're not getting that anywhere else and all you have to do is go to reactdefense.com the home of tactical Black. 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 someone. 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 Jep. Check it out. Lost our home.org 98kupd.com Prestige Billiards has everything you need for your game room. From top of the line pool tables to billiard balls and everything in between. This includes game room furniture, air hockey, dartboards, ping pong tables, arcade games and much more. Prestige Billiards is family owned and operated and is dedicated to providing the very best quality products and service. Prestige Billiards has five star ratings on Yelp and financing is available. Check them [e-mail] or in person at one of their three locations in Mesa, Scottsdale, and now Glendale Prestige Billiards delivers statewide. And tell them John Holberg sent you.