06-10-25 - Recapping The Empowered Mom Hikers Story - Entertainment Drill - TUE - Presidents Ranked By Their Hair

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: Recapping The Empowered Mom Hikers Story - Entertainment Drill - TUE - Presidents Ranked By Their Hair
Release Date: June 10, 2025

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Introduction to the Empowered Mom Hikers Story

In this episode, host John Holmberg kicks off the discussion by addressing the recent news surrounding the "Empowered Mom Hikers." He humorously critiques the group's attempt to climb a mountain under extreme heat, which ultimately required a rescue by firefighters.

Holmberg (01:00): "It's already 100 degrees today... if you're in a mommy empowerment zone and you guys want to climb something right now, highly recommend you climb the oven and do some work in there and get some cookies made."

Brady Bogen and Larry join in, further poking fun at the situation, highlighting the inefficacy and humorous side of the empowerment movement when taken to such extremes.

Brady (01:55): "And four couldn't handle it."
Holmberg (02:00): "Dumbasses. Bunch of dumbasses."

Commentary on Empowerment Movements

The team delves deeper into the dynamics of empowerment groups, contrasting mommy and daddy empowerment movements. Holmberg sarcastically suggests traditional roles as an alternative to such groups.

Holmberg (03:00): "As a man, let me suggest as a men's empowerment movement, you go home, you shower up, you make a nice meal, have a stiff drink waiting for the fellow when he gets home and thank him for that paycheck."

Brady reflects on failed men's movements like the Promise Keepers, emphasizing the challenges in genuinely uplifting men's roles without falling into clichés.

Brady (04:18): "Even the Promise Keepers. So you know what?"
Holmberg (04:19): "Yeah. They were just packed with dudes. Just like, I'm lost."

ReactDefense Entertainment Drill

Transitioning from empowerment discussions, the show introduces the "Entertainment Drill," sponsored by ReactDefense.com. Brady promotes the importance of self-defense and physical activity for older adults, emphasizing cognitive and physical benefits.

Brady (07:21): "It's the home of Tactical Black Brady Entertainment."
Holmberg (07:46): "Reactdefense.com. Check it all out right there."

Hollywood Headlines and Movie Endings

The conversation shifts to Hollywood, where Brady and Holmberg dissect recent celebrity court cases and the buzz around movies with disappointing endings, referencing a BuzzFeed list.

Brady (09:31): "Great news. We won't have to hear about Justin Baldini. And yeah, Blake Lively's court case."
Holmberg (10:33): "Why does the car fly?" (Referring to the movie "Grief")

They critique several films, including "Hancock," "Signs," "Interstellar," and "X Men Origins: Wolverine," discussing how their finales detract from the overall narratives.

Brady (10:32): "Buzzfeed just put a list of great movies that completely fall apart at the end."
Holmberg (11:37): "She would always... Everything you have that you ever needed in your life is right there for you." (Discussing "The Wizard of Oz" reference)

Presidents Ranked by Their Hair

A humorous segment ensues as the team ranks U.S. Presidents based on their hairstyles, highlighting both historical and contemporary figures.

Brady (12:46): "There was a poll that asked Americans which presidents have the best hair."
Holmberg (13:00): "It got messed up. Who else had great hair? McKinley."

They discuss various presidents, from JFK and Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln, with playful banter about their iconic looks.

Brady (13:25): "The bottom of the list was William McKinley."
Holmberg (14:27): "Obama. It's both." (Referring to Obama's hairstyle)

Tribute to a Beloved Family Dog

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts share a heartfelt moment honoring a family dog named Mila who passed away. They express condolences and emphasize the joy pets bring to their lives.

Holmberg (15:07): "Mila was my kid's favorite, and cancer got her leg, and there's nothing we could do. She was 10 and lived a good life."
Brady (15:06): "Dogs make people happy."

Closing Remarks

The episode wraps up with Holmberg reiterating the day's dismissal of empowered mommies' mountain-climbing antics and a lighthearted promise to return the next day.

Holmberg (16:55): "Sorry, empowered mommies, good luck today."
Brady (17:45): "Larry's going to be handing out money too."

He signs off humorously, hinting at more antics to come in future episodes.

Holmberg (17:46): "Have a great one. We'll see you tomorrow."

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Notable Quotes:

• Holmberg (01:00): "If you're in a mommy empowerment zone... highly recommend you climb the oven and do some work in there and get some cookies made."

• Brady (04:18): "Even the Promise Keepers. So you know what?"
  Holmberg (04:19): "Yeah. They were just packed with dudes."

• Brady (09:31): "Great news. We won't have to hear about Justin Baldini."

• Holmberg (13:37): "It's the best and worst black president hair we've ever had."

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This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness seamlessly blends humor with sharp commentary on social movements, entertainment, and even presidential aesthetics, all while maintaining the show's signature irreverent tone. Whether you're interested in the latest empowerment fiascos, Hollywood's missteps, or simply in for a laugh, this episode delivers a comprehensive and engaging listen.

Transcript

[Holmberg]

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[Holmberg]

Morning sickness. This guy. Jeez. Trying to do your job around here, you start getting fart at what do I owe you? Money? Reminders. Anywho, now I forgot what I was gonna talk about. You son of a bitch. It's your fault. Anyway, most of the stuff I was reading about here has been about that mommy empowerment thing. So I did kind of want to give the PSA out there. It's like already 100 degrees today right now. So if you're in a mommy empowerment zone and you guys want to climb something right now, highly recommend you climb the oven and do some work in there and get some cookies made. If you're at home and you're empowered and you got nothing to do today, hiking's a bad idea. Somebody just sent me a clip from Fox 10. Evidently there were 11 of them. We talked about the women's empowerment climb yesterday that ended with firefighters rescuing everybody.

[Brady]

And four couldn't handle it.

[Holmberg]

We had a first responder email back and say they were a pain in the ass. Yeah, we didn't say which one. He didn't. He remained anonymous, but he said I was on that call. Dumbasses. Bunch of dumbasses. Anyhow, so now's the time we give out our, you know, end of the morning's kind of winding down. You know, this is when the women's empowerment movement gets going. For those PV moms who have nothing to do most of the things, they got their coffee out of the way. Probably that brisk walk down whatever they live on arm in arm. Yeah, they're pushing something ahead of them. It's either a Yorkie or a Yorkie. Well, yeah, you know, well, Gordon rides around in that. He's Old now, but he gets still pretty pvish. What should we do today? Let's empower each other. And then they try to climb a mountain. They put firefighters at risk. So today, as a man, let me suggest as a men's empowerment movement, you go home, you shower up, you make a nice meal, have a stiff drink waiting for the fellow when he gets home and thank him for that paycheck.

[Larry]

Learn how to make an old fashioned.

[Holmberg]

And you're mad at me, but I'm saving your life. You're the ones that are trying to trek the mountains at 110 degrees, you dummies. Although it did make my news better last night. And better still, there was a woman in charge at Channel three that scrubbed the story. Oh, yeah. It wasn't on there. It was on there this morning at 5 and it was gone by the time I had you looking. And you were looking for it. You had to have it sent to you.

[Larry]

Is that true? I missed that part.

[Holmberg]

Scrubbed.

[Brady]

Really?

[Holmberg]

It was gone. Well, they can't have it. Look, somebody pointed out. And that's. I went off on this again. Somebody pointed out the funniest thing of the video of the lady talking about the women's empowerment movement being such a success is that you can hear the boop boop of the fire truck backing up while she says how great it went.

[Larry]

All I heard was her say sometimes they make mistakes, but that's part of it.

[Holmberg]

Sometimes they just overshoot your boundaries. We miscalculated and again, this never happens. Daddy empowerment movements are. Usually there's. Well, I'm, you know, it's not great. Usually there's a prostitute involved. That's probably a daddy empowerment movement. Usually a daddy empowerment movement is six dudes walking through a casino. That's they're not golf course. Very rarely are daddy empowerment movements.

[Brady]

Even the Promise Keepers. So you know what?

[Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Even close to your wife so she doesn't get into women's empowering Keeper off the mountain.

[Holmberg]

Those dudes were all in turmoil. We don't like to keep the promise we've talked about. Yeah. I don't include the Promise Keepers in anything. That was a bunch of dudes trying to save their half. That was all that was. I screwed up, man. I gotta find Jesus or something. Yeah. That was just packed with dudes. Just like, I'm lost.

[Brady]

What happened?

[Holmberg]

You know what happened? Same thing happened to you. We all had it happen. Just listen to the dude down there. He somehow has managed to get through it. And the dude on the stage, turns out he did it too. You just hadn't gotten caught yet. All of it was bad. But these empowerment movements and it's too hot to be empowered. Let's just say that we need to print up T shirts and sell them at Postinos. It's too hot to be empowered today.

[Larry]

Less empowered.

[Brady]

We learned from the guy that had the sweat room.

[Holmberg]

Oh, yeah, the sweat lodge guy up there in Sonoma. It snowed a bunch of people into thinking if they sweat harder, their lives would get better. I don't know how that works.

[Brady]

Purify.

[Holmberg]

If you guys just sweat it all out, really, it's distorting you in sweat. Your glands are the problem. If we could just wring you out like a towel. No, you're not. I'm not feeling it yet. Weak people need water when they're sweating out all their bodily fluids. You just sit here and sweat. Okay? Yeah, it'll. It's never ending, these scams. You know, my grandma never did wander off into the woods with a yoga mat with a stranger. It just never happened. She never got into a yurt and then turned up the coals. Grandpa went, what are you doing? $185. I'm gonna go to a yurt, and they're gonna put hot coals in it. I'm gonna sweat out all my toxins. Stand by the oven. Sweat out all the toxins. There. You're good.

[Brady]

Let's say yurt.

[Holmberg]

Yurt. Nah, you're not getting it. That's not happening. And grandma lived to be, like, 85. She was happy. We got an entertainment drill coming up in seconds. This is not what I was gonna talk about, but Talita ruined it. It's 98. Blondburn's Morning Sickness. 90.

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[Holmberg]

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[Brady]

Great news. We won't have to hear about Justin Baldini. And yeah, Blake Lively's court case.

[Holmberg]

The big thing got.

[Brady]

Judge said you're both pricks. I'm throwing it out.

[Holmberg]

Yeah, he tossed the big Baldini 400 million dollar whatever towards her. And then so that kind of negates everything she's fighting about. It means it's all going to disappear. It's the least interesting Hollywood story of all time. A lot boring going on with the Baltimore. Nobody saw the movie that they did together that caused all this. And then it came out. Oh, it's been out for years. It was nominated. No idea. And the weird part is, is that women watched it.

[Brady]

Well, some women watch ends with us.

[Holmberg]

But nobody was interested enough in this controversy to go seek it out. Most of the time when something like this happens, like what movie are we talking about? And you see it just like dominate Netflix. Never happened. Never happened.

[Brady]

Buzzfeed just put a list of great movies that completely fall apart at the end.

[Holmberg]

Oh, there's a few of them.

[Brady]

Yeah. I'll give you the list that they came up. Hancock.

[Holmberg]

Oh, yeah, that's. That got really.

[Brady]

Took 136 degree turn into something really weird tacked onto the plot.

[Holmberg]

Yeah, that wasn't a very good movie to begin with.

[Brady]

Signs.

[Holmberg]

Yeah, I liked Signs. That was like actually surprisingly. But it does get a little weird at the end.

[Brady]

Grief.

[Holmberg]

What?

[Brady]

Why does the car fly?

[Holmberg]

Yeah, that is kind of strange.

[Brady]

That's all the way at the end.

[Holmberg]

But power to fly the car into space the whole time. And we had to watch a. Why didn't you just take Grease Lightning out of the LA riverbed?

[Brady]

They put wizard of Oz on there. I never. The remark was I never forgave the movie for having it all turn out to be a dream. What was the point of all of that?

[Holmberg]

Well, it like made Dorothy appreciate her surroundings a little better. She would always. She's always thinking about where like the grass was greener is the message of the wizard of Oz. I was like, you take a look around you. Everything you have that you ever needed in your life is right there for you.

[Brady]

Interstellar. Totally Flummoxed me on the romantic relationship at the end.

[Holmberg]

That one wasn't good at all.

[Brady]

Glass Dud ending to a decent trilogy.

[Holmberg]

That's the unbreakable, right? Mr. Glass.

[Larry]

Mr. Glass.

[Brady]

You can defeat Bruce Willis with a puddle.

[Holmberg]

Yeah, I don't remember. Glass. I don't think I saw it.

[Brady]

X Men Origins, Wolverine, the third act and the screwed up version of Deadpool. Ruined it. The overall film.

[Holmberg]

You know why that got ruined? Oh, no. It was you. Logan is the one you wrecked. Yep.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Holmberg]

Yeah. When you told everybody the day it came out that he dies.

[Larry]

Actually, I think it was the Thursday before.

[Holmberg]

It was. It was. That's right. Because you said. He said. Yes, it was. It was the preview. That's right. Like you didn't know. We didn't. That's the whole point of going to movies, you guys. Dicks. Slap Jack. It was our fault that he said Logan dies. What? What? Oh. Can make me the bad guy.

[Brady]

There was a poll that asked Americans which presidents have the best hair.

[Holmberg]

Ooh, Reagan. Jfk.

[Brady]

Reagan was number four.

[Holmberg]

I don't think it has hair.

[Brady]

JFK was number one before.

[Holmberg]

Yeah, it got messed up.

[Brady]

Just had one bad hair day.

[Holmberg]

It got. Who else had great hair? McKinley.

[Brady]

Benjamin Harrison.

[Holmberg]

That's the dude I'm thinking of. That dude's got a mop.

[Brady]

They're saying number three. Abraham Lincoln. Some of these. You know. Franklin Pierce was number five. Ulysses S. Grant. But Trump was not at the bottom of the list.

[Holmberg]

Who was? We have a bald guy.

[Brady]

The bottom of the list was William McKinley.

[Holmberg]

Well, how does Washington get up there? He was faking.

[Brady]

Gerald Ford.

[Holmberg]

He was bald.

[Brady]

John Tyler. And then Trump was. Nixon have a full head of hair, too.

[Holmberg]

Nixon had good hair.

[Brady]

Nixon did not make. He's number 10.

[Holmberg]

Yeah. Nixon had good hair.

[Brady]

He just beat out Thomas Jefferson.

[Holmberg]

He was. Well, he was redheaded, but he was. He was powdered up, too.

[Brady]

Clinton was number 12.

[Holmberg]

Clinton had good hair.

[Brady]

George W. Yeah. Was number seven.

[Holmberg]

Obama.

[Brady]

I guess he was number 15.

[Holmberg]

It's tough to comp. Oh, I mean, it is. Was that good for. It's the best and worst black president hair we've ever had.

[Larry]

It good or is it what we know?

[Holmberg]

It's both.

[Larry]

Yeah.

[Holmberg]

He's also first and last in black presidential hair.

[Brady]

And you know, I. The presidents don't change their hair at all during the office.

[Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brady]

It just turns gray or.

[Holmberg]

But not Trump. His gets stronger.

[Brady]

We lost a legend in the funk.

[Holmberg]

Yes, we did. Most definitely. Get it, man. Put it on the bass lines. Best bass Lines ever. We might put it on the list for singing dead. Just let the audience do it. Let Chris Kotero knock this silly. And that documentary about them was pretty cool. Yeah. How many people done?

[Brady]

There's a lot of people on stage.

[Holmberg]

The big group, like 13 or 14 stones. What's this one called? Thank you. Thank you. Let me be myself for Let Me Be Myself Again. It's spelled that way, right? And it's just the cool little touch of Sly Stone. Thank you for letting me be Mice Elf. M I C E E L F. I thought it was a goof the first time I saw him. Like, yeah, I got a misprint. Mice elf. Anyway, have to get on there. I have to say this. It says, my dog's my mom's dog. Mila was my kid's favorite, and cancer got her leg, and there's nothing we could do. She was 10 and lived a good life. Dogs make people happy. And this dog did her job well. She is survived by her sister Dixie and her best friend Callie, a German shepherd. Can we get a shout out to my sad family? Absolutely. You got a shout out to the sad family. And we all have a couple of cookies for our dogs and tip one back for Mila, Another one of the HMS Doggies that has passed. My goodness. Now stop it. Get 10 of these a day now. Guy sent pictures. The dog was on the slab. His name is Aaron. I just threw it away. Anyway, sorry you're going through that. That's it. We can fix a little bit of your sorrows if you're having a bad day, if you're in your mommy empowerment group. Only made it a quarter of the way up the mountain before men had to save the day.

[Larry]

Actually made it that far.

[Holmberg]

Some of them.

[Brady]

Some of them.

[Larry]

Yeah, I guess that's fair.

[Holmberg]

Somewhere in the parking lot laying down. So hot. I don't want to be an empowered mommy today. Make it stop.

[Brady]

I can't empower today.

[Holmberg]

I want to empower tomorrow. Or maybe in the evening.

[Brady]

The lady interviewed just cut the four people that didn't make it. Yeah, you guys are out of the group.

[Holmberg]

New empowerment movement's down to seven. It's like the. The. Like they're from the ultimate race, the amazing Race or whatever that is. We're gonna get down to one empowered mommy by the time this is all over, and it's gonna be me. Kick the. Out of all you empowered mommies. Like, the most. Like, what do you get if you're in first or the most empowered mommy? I feel sorry for the chunky one that comes in last and the four that got rescued. Anyway, empowered mommies, good luck today. Empowered daddies. Sorry. You're probably working. So your empowered mommy's gonna act like jackasses on the mountain. We're done. Larry's gonna help you guys get feeling better. He's got money for you. Yeah, he's going to. He thinks that probably cutting some checks to some empowered mommies, some rich empowered mommies are going to make me pay them.

[Larry]

You get cash.

[Holmberg]

You get cash. Everybody get cash. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It is. Larry's going to be handing out money too. Toyota Valley, Toyota, Toyota dealers and Larry. It's the Mucinex. They're going to hand you some money. Larry's going to tell you about it. The excellent adventure is what he mentions. Be nice to Larry. He'll be nice back. We're done. I'm gonna go take more Mucinex and sleep the day away. Have a great one. We'll see you tomorrow. It's out of control now. 98. Okay. You PD.