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John Holmberg
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Dick Toledo
No purchase required. Terms apply. Available@pocket host.com terms morning sickness. Morning sickness. Thank you. Miles to nowhere. We're starting to prep up a little bit. I think we're live on some video thing. I don't know why people want to see but the Father's Day. Father's Day thing that for some reason they think we should have cameras in the studio. So they they're filming us doing stuff today we're on live somewhere Facebook. Don't do it, bro. Don't get your fingers on your nose. Be an adult, damn it. But I don't know if it's started.
John Holmberg
Yet because I haven't Seen the tech support company?
Dick Toledo
Oh, that's right, our guys. Yeah, Kevin's not here yet. Oh, no, no, you're not begun yet, my friend.
John Holmberg
He's on a flight over.
Dick Toledo
He'll.
John Holmberg
He'll be here soon.
Dick Toledo
I'm boarding my aircraft now. Don't. It should be there shortly if this bird actually gets off the Earth. So. Yeah, so we'll see. But evidently, if you want to watch this. I don't know why you would want to watch this, but you can. I know I'm supposed to act excited about it, but this thing's right in my face. It's like. It's like a. It's like looking through a. You know, one of those door peepholes to see my giant nose. It's like nobody needs to look at my nose this close all morning, but you can if you want to and I think we'll get that together. Father's Day man cave. It's not really Father's Day. It just happens on Father's Day. Man cave upgrade. And we got a girl at. She hasn't confirmed if she's gonna make it this morning. Trying to get day off work or something. We got a girl competing this year, so our five guys who qualified. One of them's a chick. Should be good stuff. So automatically we should move her into the. She can't get eliminated the first couple rounds. You know, DEI.
Miles
Handicap.
Dick Toledo
And if any of the other guys are. I don't see any names that look, you know, ethnic. McElroy, Broat, Beck. Boy, that's been a tough few years for him. Joshua Davis, Mal. Yeah, we got. Most of these guys are McElroy. So we'll keep the girl in. She gets moved forward. She automatically goes forward no matter what. Well, she starts acting up, gets lippy, then we'll bounce her.
Miles
Not a Scottish guy.
John Holmberg
Hop to Postino's Broad.
Dick Toledo
Take away that. Yeah, that 19th Amendment. Or here's we go reading all the. I get a lot of emails from people who seemingly are. I got to temper your expectations. They're very excited about something that was announced yesterday that you need to calm down about. Spaceballs 2 is going to be terrible. It's going to be terrible. You're going to be very, very upset. It's member berries. It's the whole going back in time. Mel Brooks, by the way, if you'd have told me when Spaceballs came out and you just said 45 years from now they're going to redo a Spaceballs who's still going to be in it. I Would have maybe guessed Rick Moranis. What's it? Jeff Daniels is in there. The other one. Yeah. It's not Jeff. Bill Pullman. That's why I was confused. Bill Pullman. I would have certainly thought Mel Brooks would be dead. He's 99, he looks great, and he's coming back as yogurt.
John Holmberg
No, barf.
Dick Toledo
No barf. He's dead. Joan Rivers is dead. Like, I don't know if the girl that was in say anything or I don't remember what she was in.
John Holmberg
Daphne.
Dick Toledo
That's right. She's. Careful, Brett. She's. She's probably coming back. I don't know if she's still alive. Spaceballs 2 is going to suck. Here's another thing. And this.
Miles
Well, if you saw, you know, when they did the. Was it the history of the.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. Horrible. History of the world, too.
Miles
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
Terrible.
Miles
Couldn't touch anything. I mean, it had to be.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. It had to be so PC and I don't know that. Look, Mel Brooks is probably writing parts of it. He didn't write the history of the world. He just agreed that it could go on and then oversaw the script. I think Ike Barinholtz and another guy were big on right now. Here's another thing, and this hurts me to say, the new Naked Gun is going to suck as well. It's going to suck badly. It is going to suck badly. And I do not want the trailer a little. It just seems that.
Miles
So that's got to be the whole thing.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. I liked the OJ joke. It was. But Seth MacFarlane wrote it. It's going to be a lot. And it's just, you know, look, Naked Gun, originally, back in the day, classic, hilarious. Great stuff. Naked Gun 2, not so much. Naked Gun 3 and a half, or whatever they called it, was horror 2 and a half. Yeah, yeah. It was just awful. It was. Anna Nicole Smith was in it. I'm not sure.
John Holmberg
I mean, I don't remember. I mean, I remember it, but I don't remember it.
Miles
Straight to video.
Dick Toledo
Anna Nicole Smith had, like. She was the lead. No, it was in this. Well, probably pretty. Pretty quick bounce out of the theaters in the video, but so to milk that thing any more than they already tried to and then start over. I love Liam Neeson and I like him as Frank Drebin, but one thing he wasn't was superhero cop. And in the preview, when he's pulling off the face mask and doing all these. This guy, I'm like, oh, no. Oh, no. They're temper. Go in thinking it's going to be terrible. Listen to me on this one. You're just. I'm getting a lot of Spaceballs 2, you were nine when Spaceballs came out. Your tastes have grown, I hope, a little. At least a few years. Spaceballs was funny to you because you were a child. It was the 80s. They were allowed to do a lot of stupid stuff. Not gonna happen again. You can't do it again. Rick Moranis is just going to look old and it's gonna make you feel bad. You haven't seen Rick Moranis since like My Blue Heaven.
John Holmberg
Everybody's excited because he's coming out of retirement.
Dick Toledo
I know, but you haven't. Look, it's like we do this to women all the time. When you're like, oh, I haven't seen, you know, what's her name? The Y. Fonda. Bridget Fonda. I haven't seen. Oh, you don't want to see her. No, that's what I'm saying. Because the last time you saw her, she was beautiful. And then she went away for 20 years, got fat and became like just a regular lady and like Bridget Fonda. So your last memory of her, she's 26 now. She's 57 and not. And you can't have that gap of time, not exist and see them and not be taken aback. Rick Moranis is going to be the same. He looked like a man child in my blue heaven, and now he's like 80. You can't have Rick Moranis just show up and not make you feel terrible. So Spaceballs 2 does not excite me. I don't like going back in time. This is what I always talk about when I say, and I've got. I'm living this with the Steelers. I don't like when old people win sporting events. I'm on the opposite of that. I don't like when, you know, when Phil Mickelson won that tournament. It's only good for old people to feel like they're still. That means something's wrong with your sport. When Tom Brady won the Super Bowl a few years ago when he was 45, something was wrong with football. It was going through a transition. 45 year old people cannot keep up in sports that are healthy. Period. End of story. That's it. And I don't like that. I don't like when boxers who are 50 win championships. It means something's wrong with the sport. It's the same with our movies. When you go back in time and try to remake something or redo something, that holds Some sort of memory. The Karate Kid is another one. Like, they won't stop.
Miles
95% failure.
Dick Toledo
Terrible. This is not gonna be good. I hate to throw the wet blanket on you. Was Michael Winslow in that too?
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. Okay. He's still alive. I'm sure he'll begging for the work.
John Holmberg
Dick Van Patten. He's dead too, right?
Dick Toledo
He's dead. Yeah.
Miles
Joan Rivers.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, Joan Rivers.
John Holmberg
Jim J. Bullock was in it. Maybe Prince Valium will return.
Dick Toledo
All the people that stopped working for a reason will now get jobs again and they're gonna look horrible.
Miles
Maybe they'll put John Candy's daughter in.
Dick Toledo
Could be Barfette. She looks just like him. Remember my theory when Jake Paul, or, yeah, Jake Paul fought Mike Tyson and everybody's like, this guy. You've seen him work. I'm like, he's 60. He is not going to look good at all. You remember him.
Miles
There was a handful like you from Nintendo.
Dick Toledo
You remember him from his days of like, all the highlights.
Miles
And you want to believe he still has.
Dick Toledo
He doesn't. And you're only doing that because of you.
Miles
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
The only reason people like Mike Tyson, because you feel like if he does that, somehow it represents that you're not done yet, but you're done. And that's the way it should be. Like, my comparison to that was if I called you and said, guys, tonight I'm going to have sex with Pamela Anderson and we're going to tape it. Your initial thought, your brain goes, oh, my God. Because you go right back to the Tommy tape and you think of her body then, and you're like, dude, you're the lucky. And then I show you the tape and it's the horrors of aging. Because the last time you saw her naked, she looked spectacular. And you can't have 30 year gaps and expect the same result. Mike Tyson fighting Jake Paul was going to be tragic. It was going to be. It was going to make you feel worse. This is also gonna do it. You can't keep doing this. This is. This is a. This is off.
Miles
At least we got Happy Gilmore too.
Dick Toledo
Another one. Happy Gilmore was okay. Funny for its moment. It's going to be an Adam Sandler nightmare with terrible joke after terrible joke. And, like, you're gonna remember things. And I feel Mel Crawford is in it and I love him. And he's playing Chubbs Jr. And he's also missing a hand. But you go back and watch Happy Gilmore and it's all your memories of how much you liked it. It's not really Funny. It's just what you remember as funny when you were like in. When you were 18 coming to America.
John Holmberg
2 wasn't that good.
Dick Toledo
Terrible. Yeah, terrible.
John Holmberg
Maverick was entertaining, but it was again, it was all member berries.
Dick Toledo
Maverick, that was Maverick about as well as you can Play. Top Gun 2 was about as well as you can play that card. And it just so happens that Tom Cruise has stayed an action figure figure guy the whole time. So it wasn't so hard pressed to put him back in that plane. Plus the plane, it was just, you know, you'd have watched the Thunderbirds doing what those guys were doing in that plane. The movie itself is really shallow. You get a bad guy, we all kind of root for America for a little bit. It was.
Miles
It was just, who are they? They're bad, dude.
Dick Toledo
It was toxic masculinity, which has been missing. They actually took a chance and took a swing at, like, you know, war and dudes being dudes. But what they. The one fault in Maverick was they just made up a bad guy. They were too afraid to actually have a bad guy because they'd had picketers outside from whatever country that is going, you can't. Why are we so bad? It's racist. That's the only one. And it's good. Yeah, but it came and went.
Miles
Didn't go back to the 80s where it's just Russians, just.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, they had their moments and they tried to get you to remember, but you can't do it. I remember the first time I said, when I was a kid, this is why I don't like. I was a big Alfred Hitchcock fan when I was a kid. My favorite movie of all time is Rear Window. It's. It's unbelievable. It's one of the best things I've ever seen. But I liked Psycho a lot when I was a kid.
John Holmberg
Love Psycho.
Dick Toledo
Psycho's amazing. Especially because you consider, like what we talked about yesterday. It was the first time you'd ever seen anything like that. Like that. Nobody had seen Blood on a Murder a Woman. And it was just. Did not see that in a mainstream movie. It was horrifying. Since then, it became the template for horror movies. So you watch it now and you're like, well, this is because this. Invented it.
Miles
A lot of chocolate syrup.
Dick Toledo
Oh, yeah. In 1981, they came out with Psycho II. 21 years later, it was still too late. He gets out of jail. What's he out of jail for? This is. And then he goes back and does it again. And you're like, you can't do this twice and they brought in like the lady he killed sister's daughter and was like oh my God what a stretch.
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Dick Toledo
Trust Holmberg's morning sickness then fast forward again to Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore Redoing psycho word for word in, like, 1999. Pointless. Spaceball's 2 is going to suck. It's going to suck. This guy said, remember the Sebastian Bach show? When you were watching him on stage, you're like, what is that? And then you'd look up on the screens and he was showing pictures of himself.
Miles
A gorgeous supermodel.
Dick Toledo
That's just so sad. It makes you feel terrible about yourself to see all these people you haven't seen for 40 years now. You know, when I watch Cheers reruns, that's how I remember them. When I saw a picture of George Wint when he died a few weeks ago, like, Jesus Christ. When did that happen? Of course it happened. It was 40 years ago.
Miles
Yeah. You're, like, mad at him.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. I want to remember Norm as the norm. I know. Not this aged mess. Yeah, you can't have it. And then in a way, that's why Instagram is good, is because it gradually ages a woman and a man. If you keep seeing Sofia Vergara, it's not going to shock you to see her in 10 years, because the last time you saw her was Modern Family. You know, she's. She still looks. Oh, I mean, that's a specimen right there. But still, if you hadn't seen her for 20 years and then she just showed up again, she's fairly shocking. She's maybe a bad example, but she's gotten frigid. What?
Miles
She's gotten frigid.
Dick Toledo
Why do you say that?
Miles
Because she only dates someone that's as wealthy as her.
Dick Toledo
Oh, yeah, She's a billionaire. That's not frigid. That's your bitterness. She's. She's right. She's not wrong. If you look like that, would you date you?
Brett Vesely
No.
Miles
I don't blame that. But that level, she's like no one. There's rarely anyone that will qualify.
Dick Toledo
Damn right. Yeah. I like that she said that. I like women that say, none of you slaps are gonna get a touch this.
John Holmberg
She don't want some bass player from.
Dick Toledo
The local band she's not looking at.
John Holmberg
Yeah, they're going to the Rebel Lounge to see you play tonight.
Dick Toledo
The drummer from miles to nowhere doesn't have a chance. I like a lady that points out and then. You can't call her frigid. She's 100% correct. She's knowledgeable and smart. We call her Frigid because it makes us mad, because we're not in the dating pool. We can't. We don't know what she announced to 99.5% of the population. None of you can do this. None of you will touch it. Look at it. I'll send you pictures, but you're not going to touch it. And when you look like that, still be some guys.
Miles
I AM net worth 500 million.
Dick Toledo
Nope.
Miles
Sorry.
Dick Toledo
I warned you billionaires only if I look like that. Are you kidding me? And you walk up to me. How's it going? Get away from me, you troll. I'm going to have you arrested for looking at me and you'll go to jail for it. I would never. This whole room doesn't deserve to be eyeball to body on that. There needs to be a television screen barrier between us normals and something that looks like Sofia Vergara. It's just the way it works. And I like a woman that says that my standards are this. You need not apply because you got to imagine saving your time. Her whole life has been dudes just making and goofy gawks and whatever. Good. Good for you. More hot ladies need to do that. I totally agree with her. And that goes back to all the other emails I'm getting of Dua Lipa and that guy of hers. And even Brett's wife, Madea gets involved and sends a picture to Brett of Dua with her new fiance. She's on fiance. They say, Callum. It's a great name too, Callum. And there and then she says, well, it looks like Dua Lipa's into dudes with big noses. John had a chance. You Matthia. I don't need that. I don't think she's with him for his nose. Maybe I can dream anyway. But you know, people are, you know, all the guys in the text are like, don't worry about it, dude. It's just an engagement. It's not locked down yet. He can still screw this up. But he's going to screw this up because within the year they'll be married and within 18 months she'll announce that she's pregnant. And then she's got STDs, little STDs running all over the house singing about.
John Holmberg
I understand. I went through it with Margo.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, you. Yeah, you. Yeah. Margo had a baby and it just ruins it. Yeah.
John Holmberg
She have a couple or just one?
Dick Toledo
Margo's got the one. She'll have more. She'll load up again. But yeah, yeah, big nose. Guys. You know, Doja, Cat said that she likes a guy with a big nose because it tickles her butt when he's down there. Humpty Humper Shut up, Brad. There's been an occasion where I've had to rub the end of the nose. Gotta get that off of there. I don't know what that little dot was. Anyway, so, yeah, we're done with that one too, but Spaceballs 2, Naked Gun. Let's drop Naked Guns. Coming out in 14 days. And I get emails from people. Have you seen the trailer? I'm like, I have. It's mildly amusing. If it was its own movie, maybe. But the fact that it's Naked Gun. I have. I am trepidatious. I don't think they should ever imagine if they did that to, like, the Godfather. Let's just redo it. And they tried it with Godfather 3.
John Holmberg
Sort of place down.
Dick Toledo
Godfather 3 was a reach. 15 years there wasn't even that long ago. Cash grab. It was. Of course it was. And you're. And you've already got a brand. You don't have to worry about people not knowing it.
Miles
Man, if they do that.
Dick Toledo
Well, they would never.
John Holmberg
They did.
Dick Toledo
Godfather 3 was basically like, who. Who's willing to come back? And when they got Pacino, they're like, we're doing this.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah.
Dick Toledo
Because there was no reason to have George Hamilton and Andy Garcia and all the.
John Holmberg
Garcia did an okay job. Yeah, but George Hamilton replacing.
Dick Toledo
Come on, Duval.
John Holmberg
Come on.
Dick Toledo
Come on. That doesn't work already makes me mad talking about it.
John Holmberg
And then one of the worst actresses ever in film.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. It was a Coppola, Sophia. And she ended up being, like, a really good director. Yeah. She couldn't act. Oof. It was bad. So they want to tap into that vein of you saying, oh, remember Spaceballs is. Go back and watch Spaceballs again. And you'll be like, oh, no, they shouldn't do this ever. All those old movies you have great memories of. They're not. You're not gonna want to see them again today. It was sort of like when the Star wars movies came back. And I know Spaceball is going to make fun of it, but you saw those people, like Princess Leia's 90 and Han Solo's limping. And you just don't want to see these dudes in the same outfits. Old. When Han Solo rolled in and he's still in the vest, you're like, no, I. I had hoped he'd been promoted at this. It's been 45 years. He's still bootlegging.
Miles
Take him out.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, kill him. And they did. He asked to die. You know, Harrison Ford did the right thing. I don't like seeing Mark Hamill anymore. He looks like he's been burned in a car accident. I like young, a burnt Ewok. Super healthy Mark Hamill. I like the drones R2, D2 and C3PO. They never change. That makes me feel good.
Miles
BB8 was.
Dick Toledo
BB8 was awesome.
Miles
Pretty solid.
Dick Toledo
I like BB8. But again, roll him out in 25 years, he's still BB8. You don't want to see hurts. So I'm sorry to rain on your parade, Spaceballs2 supporters, because I had a lot of people thinking I'd be excited about this. I'm not. I haven't seen Rick Moranis.
John Holmberg
Nobody has. It's been years.
Dick Toledo
It's not going to be pretty because.
John Holmberg
He didn't even come back for the Ghostbusters, did he?
Dick Toledo
I think so. I didn't watch that.
John Holmberg
I didn't either, but.
Dick Toledo
But dark helmet. Pulling that helmet up and you see a decrepit, old, little, tiny man named Rick Moranis in there, you're like, oh, no, I'm old. It's gonna make you feel bad. It's not pretty. All right, seven o' clock. We're gonna get the wake up song early and do the Brady Report early. And at 8 this morning, all of our contestants will roll in here. Dale Hellestrae is going to be our judge for the man Cave upgrade this year. I know, I know. Stay tuned, though. Please don't turn your radios on. Dale's gonna come in here and help us out. Very excited about that. We're even gonna. Dale, if you're listening, we even have a country music segment for you. Just for you, my friend. Since you're the judge, they'll play to the judges, and we'll have the girl rank us. Because Dale seems to think that if he was in a room with all of us, he'd be the one that gets the highest out of 10. It's never happened. He thinks he's a 7 or an 8 in a room because of his height, but that cranium of his puts him back down to, like, a three. There's no possible way. Johnny even said in a gay bar. Remember? He would get more action in a gay bar than. Than me. He's out of his mind. There would be a few dudes who want Dale to, like, conquer a giant cripple. Like, that's a. That's a fetish. But I'll tell you, if Dale ever won the gay bar challenge and we still haven't done that, we need to go do that, sit in a gay bar, and see how many dudes come up to me or Dale? I'm the winner.
Miles
I saw it work in Miami.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, I don't know why gays like me. It's my ass. It's a great little bubble. Got a nice ass.
John Holmberg
Nice ass.
Dick Toledo
My ass is like my nose sticks out a little too much, but in the best possible way. Let's get that Wake Up Song. What do you got on the big board of musical treats?
John Holmberg
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Dick Toledo
This, but Rick Moranis got beat up by that guy on the streets a few years ago. Remember that?
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah.
Dick Toledo
Guys walked up and started punching him.
Miles
There he is.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, you don't want to see dark helmet looking like that. Come on, he looks fine. Yeah, but it's not. When he bliss that helmet, it's not going to be what you want it to be. Guy says, remember the member Barry's fiasco of an S show? That was the Munsters movie by Rob Zombie.
John Holmberg
Oh, it was horrible.
Dick Toledo
Oh, too many of those. All right.
John Holmberg
On the list. Parkway Drive, Megadeth. Kind of going with whatever. Everything going on Holy Wars.
Dick Toledo
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
Disturbed, going along with everything. Gnr, Pantera, Static X, which we did the other day for Teacher, for Brittany Zamora, Bombshell for Netanyahu and Gene Simmons and Fear Factory.
Dick Toledo
I think we go with Holy War. Since they started last again, they never ended.
Miles
Really?
Dick Toledo
I'll do a little Megadeth. We'll make people happy with some Megadeth. But yeah, don't look at your stocks today. If you have stocks, don't look. And gas is going to be $11 a gallon because they always abuse us at the pumps whenever something goes sideways over there.
Miles
Except a dime means a dollar.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, the barrels go up. We got to cover that dime per barrel with a dollar each a gallon for us. That's going to suck for a minute. It's Holy wars. It's Megadeth. It's 98 KUPD. It's waking you up. It's out. DX, can you PD?
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Episode: 06-13-25 - Spaceballs 2 Announced And We Warn People That It's Gonna Suck Cause All Other Memberberries Movies Sucked Too
Release Date: June 13, 2025
Host/Authors: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Station: 98 KUPD | Hubbard Radio
The episode kicks off with the usual banter among the hosts, setting the stage for a lively discussion. While the initial moments feature advertisements and promotional content, the main discussion begins around the 4-minute mark, focusing primarily on the announcement of Spaceballs 2 and the broader trend of reviving classic movies.
Dick Toledo leads the conversation by addressing listener excitement about the upcoming sequel:
"Spaceballs 2 is going to suck. It's going to suck badly. It's going to suck badly."
[04:31] - Dick Toledo
He emphasizes the pitfalls of reviving beloved classics, citing the concept of "member berries"—nostalgic references that often fail to resonate with contemporary audiences. The hosts express skepticism about Mel Brooks' involvement, highlighting the challenges of maintaining the original's charm and humor after decades.
The hosts delve deeper into the trend of remaking or continuing older films, drawing parallels with other franchises:
Naked Gun Series:
Dick Toledo criticizes the potential new installments, referencing past failures:
"Naked Gun 2, not so much. Naked Gun 3 and a half, or whatever they called it, was horror 2 and a half. It was just awful."
[05:13]
Godfather Trilogy:
The discussion shifts to The Godfather Part III, which is labeled a "cash grab" with poor casting choices:
"Godfather 3 was basically like, who? Who's willing to come back?"
[21:01] - Dick Toledo
Happy Gilmore and Maverick:
Both movies are critiqued for relying on nostalgia rather than offering fresh content.
"Happy Gilmore was okay. Funny for its moment. It's going to be an Adam Sandler nightmare with terrible joke after terrible joke."
[10:53] - Dick Toledo
"Maverick was entertaining, but it was again, it was all member berries."
[11:29]
A significant portion of the discussion centers on how aging actors affect the reception of sequels:
Rick Moranis and Other Icons:
Dick Toledo expresses concern over seeing beloved actors like Rick Moranis in new roles:
"You see Dark Helmet looking like that, you're like, oh, no, I'm old. It's gonna make you feel bad."
[22:16]
Character Consistency:
The hosts lament the unrealistic portrayal of characters who remain unchanged despite the passage of time:
"When Han Solo rolled in and he's still bootlegging... It's been 45 years."
[22:27] - Dick Toledo
Nostalgia vs. Reality:
They argue that revisiting old characters often leads to disappointment as actors age and characters' stories become less believable:
"Spaceballs 2 does not excite me. I don't like going back in time."
[07:22] - Dick Toledo
The hosts interact with listener feedback, addressing concerns and shared sentiments about the decline of movie sequels:
Expectations Management:
Dick Toledo advises listeners to lower their expectations:
"You're just getting a lot of Spaceballs 2, you were nine when Spaceballs came out... Your tastes have grown, I hope."
[05:15]
Nostalgia's Double-Edged Sword:
They discuss how nostalgic memories can overshadow the actual quality of current productions:
"You can't have that gap of time, not exist and see them and not be taken aback."
[07:24] - Dick Toledo
Beyond movie sequels, the hosts touch upon other aspects of pop culture influenced by nostalgia and aging:
Television and Icons:
Dick Toledo reflects on how iconic TV characters age out of favor:
"When you watch Cheers reruns... you just don't want to see these dudes in the same outfits. Old."
[22:27]
Social Media's Role:
The conversation briefly shifts to platforms like Instagram, discussing how gradual aging presentation can mitigate shock from long-term absences:
"That's why Instagram is good, is because it gradually ages a woman and a man."
[16:31] - Dick Toledo
Humor in Aging:
The hosts use humor to address the discomfort of seeing beloved figures change over time:
"She don't want some bass player from the local band... My ass is like my nose sticks out a little too much, but in the best possible way."
[17:36] - Dick Toledo
As the episode wraps up, the hosts preview upcoming segments and maintain their humorous tone:
Man Cave Upgrade Contest:
John Holmberg announces a contest segment judged by Dale Hellestrae, poking fun at his own and co-hosts' attractiveness:
"We've got a country music segment for you. Just for you, my friend."
[23:17]
Music Segment and Final Remarks:
The episode concludes with a brief discussion on music preferences and a humorous take on current events:
"Holy Wars. It's Megadeth. It's 98 KUPD. It's waking you up."
[26:35] - Dick Toledo
"Spaceballs 2 is going to suck. It's going to suck badly."
- Dick Toledo [04:31]
"You can't have that gap of time, not exist and see them and not be taken aback."
- Dick Toledo [07:24]
"When Han Solo rolled in and he's still bootlegging... It's been 45 years."
- Dick Toledo [22:27]
"Maverick was entertaining, but it was again, it was all member berries."
- Dick Toledo [11:29]
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness provides a critical perspective on the current trend of reviving classic movies, particularly focusing on the newly announced Spaceballs 2. Through a blend of humor and candid opinions, the hosts explore the challenges of meeting nostalgic expectations and the inevitable pitfalls of aging actors in beloved franchises. Their engaging discussions offer listeners both nostalgia and a sobering look at the entertainment industry's current landscape.