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John Holmberg
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John Holmberg
Cease and desist at once. The best of Homburg's morning sickness. This is the big red radio. But the real problem I was getting to there was I was watching OP live Friday night and this is what the TikTok generation did. Very serious call to the police. It's America's. It's a ride along for all of us. If you want to go on Fridays and Saturdays on the reals channel and they get a call to a Hooters like restaurant, it wasn't Hooters. The girls are a little sluttier. A couple of waitresses look pretty hot. But as the cops are walking up with the camera, you see why the call has been made that at the doorstep of this not Hooters, Hooters is a dead body. Dead man. Like real dead man? I think so people have called saying, I think that's a dead guy.
Brett
Okay.
John Holmberg
So the people there are all concerned at the dead man. The cameraman shows up with the cop and you hear a girl standing next to the dead body going, am I on tv? And he goes, they're just following us for a documentary. She goes, oh, I'm on tv. And she starts twerking over the body. Of course she does. The dude woke up. It was a heroin thing.
Brett
He woke up with an acid.
John Holmberg
It was pretty much like everybody was celebrating. And seconds earlier, they're calling, oh, my God, this man's passed out. This is terrible. But when the cameras got there, the corpse didn't matter as much as her turn in fame. Like, next to a dead body that they thought was dead, she started to twerk. Let's lighten up. And I just pointed at the TV and goes, there it is. There's the downfall of society in one frame at a time. I'm watching it. I'm literally watching the implosion of humanity being a viral sensation over death. Oh, yeah. Well, the only thing that makes her a viral sensation is the corpse itself. So she took advantage of the setting. Next scene, we got a call in North Carolina. We're gonna go. Or South Carolina. Over there. We gotta go out. It's this weird double trailer and everyone's yelling. The domestic violence situation. Son pulled a knife on his sister inside the house.
Brett
What part of the country?
John Holmberg
South Carolina. They're inside this place. There's 15 people screaming and yelling. People on the porch across from them screaming and yelling at each other. And the one girl sits there, and she's probably the only attractive one. I think there's like a minimum of 12 to 15 people in each trailer. They just keep pouring out like a clown.
Brett
She's Ruth from Ozark.
John Holmberg
Kinda. Yeah. Only. Yeah, yeah. So on the porch, the one girl's like, ah, I don't wanna be on camera. What's that? And the cameraman, he's like, ah, it's a doc. They say the same thing. It's a documentary. They're just following me. You don't have to worry. He goes, by the way, all of us have cameras on. Everything's being filmed anyway. I don't wanna be on tv. Am I on tv? They're documenting us for a documentary. She goes, okay. And then a few seconds go by and that same girl just staring at the camera, just gets up, starts twerking. Like, what in the is going on in America that they just can't not. I gotta twerk. There's a camera. I have to. Now, keep in mind there was a dude in this mix of people stabbing his sister like a minute and a half ago. Camera shows she's over it. I Got a tour. I gotta, I gotta. And it was a pretty decent twerk, I gotta be honest. But she did the full, like, not just shake your ass. Did the full bend over, grab the feet, like ass up and making the stallions. That one. Yeah, the big, the big high end one. You know, the top shelf. Yeah, the grand marnier of twerks. We can contain it. Just when the Google Maps goes around. Twerk away. Yeah, get on that. I couldn't believe what I'm seeing. If you ever feel bad about yourself, just watch OP Live. Because your life is not that bad. It is not bad at all. You sure you don't have anything else on you? But here's the thing, though, and it's also, it's also, it's generational, it's somewhat cultural and it's education. Because never once, and I may have been a couple of pickles. Car wrecks. I had a friend crash her mountain bike and cut pretty badly. And when the firefighters arrived, the last thing I wanted to do was dance. The last thing on my mind was, well, right now, what you guys probably want to see while you're bandaging up my friend's arteries is me shake my ass a little bit. I think that's a thing I'm going to do the last thing. But uneducated, incredibly poverty stricken people can, I guess, they just see a dead body so often. And Florida, to be fair, the Hooters thing was in Florida.
Brett
They.
John Holmberg
They just twerk. It's just a thing they do. 10 car pile up, there's a dead body. Brady, look at it. If you and I came across a dead body and then you started to film and I'm like, what are you doing? I'm documenting this for my Instagram. Well, hold on a second. Let me shake my ass for this. We're gonna be super famous for it. That would be what Stand By Me is now. You guys want to see a dead body? And then they'd go stand next to it and twerk and leave. There'd be no middle. There'd be no fun story tonight on Twerk News. Great. I get to see Vern over there twerking. It was insane. Maybe that's how they can get the local news numbers back up. All the girls are reporting and twerking. Yeah. And Vincent said, I could not have said that any better. I watched OP Live, John. Every time that a certain age of person says the words, I don't want to be on camera within a minute of that time, they're twerking, they're doing it. They're doing a jamilio dance. They're doing a TikTok dance. They're doing something. They're all. I hate to say this to you, but I think the reason the R word's gotten so unpopular is because all your kids are retarded. There isn't a single one out there that isn't. That is smart. They're. It's. It's like a Pavlovian switch. When the camera's there, it's like, oh, somebody's filming. Well, dead body be damned. I gotta shake my ass for a second. Now, don't get me wrong, and I think twerking's old and done. I'm not a big.
Brett
Apparently not.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Still strong, evidently. For the camera, at least. Right? I don't see a lot of that. You know, I don't know that it's as popular as it once was because I think the TikTok dances are pretty. And when Hildy would do a TikTok dance. And that's pretty, man. Oh, man. You put a camera in front of him. Just try it at home today with your dumb kid. If you've got a kid who's like, 20, 21, walk around with the camera for a second and then just aim it at him. And I bet you just, like, something takes over. Like. And they just start. Like when Reggie Jackson was gonna kill the Queen and Naked Gun. It's his watch. Once somebody switched it, you got it. Twerk over a. What they thought was a dead man. There's something wrong with everybody. So as soon as the cops pull up, does this song just start playing? Yeah, it was like, oh, I don't want to be on tv. I don't want to be on tv. All right, look at me go. Move that corpse. Move that corpse. Hey, hey, Move that corpse. Twerk on his face. Twerk on his face. Twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk. I'm a shake when my mom gave me. Yeah. Would you move, please? We're trying to revive a dead body. Twack, twerk. Put it in your face, copper. That's why you got down on your knees, because you wanted this fat ass in your face. No, I got on my knees because that's where the body was. I need. I. I need to revive a man. Get some Narcan, please. Will you stop hitting me in the face with your ass cheeks and Narcanning a man? There's gunfire happening right now. Twerk, twerk, twerk. I got a twerk, twerk. Twerk.
Brett
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John Holmberg
Homburg's morning sickness. When I get my freak. That's exactly what was going on in their minds. I think that's it, Brett. I think in their minds, like, oh, dead body. This is terrible. I don't know what to do. That's how they deal with tragedy. Or yeah, everybody. Everybody just starts twerking. Yeah, this is the worst reaction. Twerk, twerk, twerk. I can't deal with so much sadness. Is that a camera? My boyfriend died. Yeah, he's been shot. He's dead, honey. He's dead. Oh, God, not that. Here, let me film your reaction. Okay. Let me get my hair right. Funerals all twerking. Paul Bears are twerking. Texas. That's what it is. That was the weirdest thing I ever heard. Twerking song there. That's the City girls. Yeah, I just. I duh. And I laughed. I laughed really hard at it because I'm like, ah, this is great because people just don't care anymore. And then I'm like, how sad is that? That, that. What if I fell down in front of the hooters because there's a chance that I'm going to. The girls had these like weird boy shorts on. And the girl that was standing outside with dumb face, and I love dumb face more than anything in the world is like, what's going on? Dumb face. Is that what they looked like too? That's exactly the album cover. Twerk you later. That's what they were doing over the body.
Brett
That's hilarious.
John Holmberg
That picture you just pulled up is exactly what's happening over a corpse. But I thought to myself, if I was leaving this makeshift poor man's hooters and I turned to look at the ass on the one girl in the boy shorts who had dumb face because she was really hot and hot girls can get dumb face better than anybody when they don't know what's going on. Hot girl. Washes over with Dumb Face. And it's the sexiest thing in the world because it's like. But I thought I would turn my head over my shoulder and look back and maybe see Dumb Face's ass for a second because I'm a man. That's what we do. We take a peek, and maybe I slip or don't see the stairs, and I fall and hit my head. And there I am, dying. And the last thing I see is someone caring for me, looking up, seeing a camera, and then. Why did they start to twerk? Are they happy I'm dying? Do you want to make it a pact if one of us drops at lunch or something like that, something happens. Yeah, I see what you're saying. For comedic needs, if either of us die in each other's arms. Yes. Break the camera out and twerk over them. That you and I have that pack. That's funny. Strangers can't twerk over me.
Brett
Guy says, job. We just had a. We just had a weekend honoring our most.
John Holmberg
I know.
Brett
And this is what you pull out to show of America.
John Holmberg
Oh, yeah. No, this is America. This is what they fought and died for. This is what Private Ryan was about. But when Private Ryan, Torculator. Nobody twerked over his corpse and then told his parents, here's your flag, John. John. He says, yeah, twerk. I don't ever. I don't ever see, you know, like, when the bodies come out with the flag draped over and everybody's saluting, and then the president doesn't. At the end, just over the. Over the caskets. Let me just twerk on that.
Brett
You guys were talking about the airlines earlier. Do you think those airline countries have hillbillies like we do?
John Holmberg
What do you mean? I don't know. Flight attendants. Oh, the flight attendants. Like British Airways or something. The British do. The British have hillbillies?
Brett
British do, yeah. Not the.
John Holmberg
Well, no, but not on the airlines. Emirates Air. Emirates. Oh, there's probably some. You think there's hillbillies in every place. There's just. There's a. Yeah, there's a low class of what I hear that's a dream job in the airline business to be an Emirates. Yeah, sure. I'm positive that. Well, that's the high end. But if you. Wherever their hub is, Riyadh, I don't know, Twerk Air. There's. There's a. There's a segment of people chewing on hay and spitting, and they're. Oh, go on their cud. There's a wt factor in every country yeah, right. There's white trash Middle Easterners, Brady's. Right? And there and there ends like, you know, Hasid Bob. Hello to my friend Hasid Bob. Boy, I tell you what. You twerking over dead bodies, that's a new low. Memorial Day weekend. Twerking over dead bodies.
Brett
But a guy says, how dare you stop Dave Pash from twerking over Bill Walton.
John Holmberg
There's a big man, has the cancer about to fall, succumb to the illness and pass on Dave Pash. I thank you for coming on My last few minutes of life. What's he doing? Why is. Why is twerking? Why is everyone so excited about this passing of a legend known as Walton? Hold still, Bill. I'll just twerk this away. He's trying to seduce me into a coma. I'll just twerk away. Eat my gas so quick. Maybe it is my son. Luke will twerk. Luke now comes in for his final twerking to his father. I loved you so much, Luke. It's been an amazing run. Now, do you have anything to say to your dad as he passes to the great beyond? Break it down for that. Yes. Twerk for me, Luke. Twerk. Yes. Throw that ass down to the ground. Yeah. I've never seen anything like that. Two straight stories. So I guess beyond a trend. Ah, that's where we are. We've trained them. You've trained all your kids to be emotionless puppets to their computer master. And God forbid a camera pops up. And I thought they didn't know about tv. You know, like, they hate, like, tv. They're all like, oh, we still doing that? Like, young people don't. It's on the phone. Tv. Camping, man. Tv. Yes, you are. Oh, good man. Dead body be damned. Look at my ass. It's weird. It is weird. No punctuation. Ah, damn it. You know what I mean? Don't twerk with your periods. That's what I'm saying. Oh, I just fixed that. My kids trying to stay cool in a New York street, shooting that stuff all over red rain. That's what Peter Gabriel was talking. Anyway, we'll text it 97936, the word twerk. And we'll have our first qualifier today. We'll stop it at 9. Normally, we're going to start at 8 in the morning, but today, since we're starting to tell you about it, I think it's great. Give you a little. Oh, we missed a day. So we're giving you a little bonus. You're right. Should have been a little head Start. You're right. Give you a 30 minute head start. How about that? So, yeah, the pool table, the ping pong table. Here's the thing about it all. Twerking Too contagious. Okay, man, Brett's got it too. And Brett's used to a corpse. He probably tw works over all of his. I don't know, I don't go there. I gotta say, I'm not a mortician or anything, so it's okay. But when the song comes on, you do kind of start twerking. Start wanting to go money. I'm shockingly good at the twerk because I've got a fat ass. Wow. And new hips. Well, the hips are gold. I haven't twerked. I probably have twerked with the new hips. I haven't thought about it. I don't even think about it anymore. Think smart.
Brett
It's just reflexive.
John Holmberg
Yeah. I've got a very high up. I've got kind of a black guy, butt kind of sits up. I'd be a good twerker. Not like that girl this weekend, though. But yeah. If you hear the phrase on op live, it's a drinking game. I don't want to be on camera. If you hear that from somebody who's not even the focus of why the police are there, there's background noise. Hey, what's this camera doing? They're not on it. They just see it. I don't want to be on tv. We're not here for you, ma' am. I don't want to be on tv. Cameraman swings. Hey, hey. They can't help themselves the second that camera's pointed at you. Keep that away from me now. I'll sue you. What? This camera right here, I'll pay. It's impossible to not do. Turns you into a twerculator. Yeah, you twerkulate. You can't help it. God damn it. This thing's got some sort of hypnotic power over me. You aim it at me and I'm like, hey, look out. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station. Hi, I'm Richard Karn, and you may have seen me on TV talking about the world's number one expandable garden hose. The brand new pocket hose Copperhead with pocket pivot is here. And it's a total game changer. Plus your super light and ultra durable pocket hose Copperhead is backed with a 10 year warranty. What could be better than that? For a limited time, you can get a free pocket Pivot and their 10 pattern sprayer with the purchase of any.
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Podcast Information:
In the July 2, 2025 episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, host John Holmberg delves into a controversial and unsettling trend observed on live broadcasts, particularly focusing on the show OP Live. Holmberg, along with his co-host Bret Vesely, examines the disturbing phenomenon of individuals twerking over deceased bodies, highlighting a perceived decline in societal empathy and decorum.
John Holmberg initiates the conversation by recounting a disturbing segment he witnessed on OP Live, where multiple individuals were seen twerking over what was initially perceived as a dead body. Holmberg expresses his disbelief and frustration, stating:
"There's the downfall of society in one frame at a time. I'm watching it. I'm literally watching the implosion of humanity being a viral sensation over death."
— John Holmberg (01:54)
He describes the scenario in detail, emphasizing the jarring contrast between the seriousness of the situation and the inappropriate behavior that followed:
"The cameraman shows up with the cop and you hear a girl standing next to the dead body going, am I on TV? And she starts twerking over the body."
— John Holmberg (01:57)
Holmberg criticizes the superficial pursuit of fame, suggesting that the individuals prioritize viral moments over genuine human emotion and respect for the deceased.
Florida Incident at a Hooters-like Restaurant ([01:11] - [03:37]): Holmberg describes an incident where a woman begins to twerk over what is believed to be a dead man outside a restaurant resembling Hooters. The situation escalates when it’s revealed that the man is alive, suffering from a heroin overdose. Despite the gravity of the initial assumption, the woman's reaction shifts focus to self-promotion through dance.
"She just staring at the camera, just gets up, starts twerking. Like, what in the is going on in America that they just can't not... I gotta twerk."
— John Holmberg (02:21)
South Carolina Domestic Violence Call ([03:18] - [05:40]): Another example involves a domestic violence situation where a woman, amidst chaos and violence, begins to twerk. Holmberg underscores the juxtaposition of serious circumstances with frivolous behavior aimed at garnering attention.
"She's Ruth from Ozark. ... And then a few seconds go by and that same girl just staring at the camera, just gets up, starts twerking."
— John Holmberg (03:39)
Memorial Day Weekend Twerking Over Corporations ([12:14] - [13:22]): Holmberg humorously imagines a scenario where individuals twerk over military caskets during Memorial Day, highlighting the absurdity and disrespect inherent in such actions.
"They just twerk. It's just a thing they do. Memorial Day weekend. Twerking over dead bodies."
— John Holmberg (13:18)
Holmberg attributes the troubling trend to generational and cultural changes influenced by social media. He suggests that the desire for viral fame overrides traditional values of empathy and respect:
"It's generational, it's somewhat cultural and it's education. ... uneducated, incredibly poverty-stricken people can, I guess, they just see a dead body so often."
— John Holmberg (05:40)
He laments the loss of genuine human connection, emphasizing how technology and the quest for online recognition have distorted social behaviors:
"When the camera's there, it's like, oh, somebody's filming. Well, dead body be damned. I gotta shake my ass for a second."
— John Holmberg (06:20)
Throughout the episode, Holmberg interjects humor to underscore his critique. He uses exaggerated scenarios and playful language to highlight the absurdity of the observed behaviors:
"If you ever feel bad about yourself, just watch OP Live. Because your life is not that bad. It is not bad at all."
— John Holmberg (03:37)
He also mocks the trend by envisioning a world where twerking replaces traditional mourning practices, further illustrating his disapproval:
"That would be what Stand By Me is now. You guys want to see a dead body? And then they'd go stand next to it and twerk and leave."
— John Holmberg (07:11)
In his concluding remarks, Holmberg reflects on the broader implications of such behaviors, questioning the future of societal norms and human empathy:
"We've trained them. You've trained all your kids to be emotionless puppets to their computer master. ... Dead body be damned."
— John Holmberg (11:49)
He expresses a deep concern for the direction in which society is headed, emphasizing the need for a return to more respectful and empathetic interactions.
The episode serves as a poignant commentary on contemporary societal issues, exploring how technology and the pursuit of viral fame can erode fundamental human values. Through a blend of humor and critical analysis, John Holmberg and his co-hosts invite listeners to reflect on the importance of empathy and respect in an increasingly digital and superficial world.
John Holmberg (01:54): "There's the downfall of society in one frame at a time. I'm watching it. I'm literally watching the implosion of humanity being a viral sensation over death."
John Holmberg (02:21): "She just staring at the camera, just gets up, starts twerking. Like, what in the is going on in America that they just can't not... I gotta twerk."
John Holmberg (05:40): "It's generational, it's somewhat cultural and it's education. ... uneducated, incredibly poverty-stricken people can, I guess, they just see a dead body so often."
John Holmberg (11:49): "We've trained them. You've trained all your kids to be emotionless puppets to their computer master. ... Dead body be damned."
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness offers a critical lens on the intersection of media, technology, and societal values. By highlighting extreme examples of inappropriate behavior in sensitive situations, the hosts underscore the potential consequences of a culture increasingly driven by the pursuit of online validation.