07-08-25 - Hot Releases - EA College Football 26 - Always Sunny S17 - Superman - Plush - Halestorm - Roxen - AI 50s Suicidal Tendencies

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona: Episode Summary (07-08-25 - Hot Releases)

Release Date: July 8, 2025

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1. Movie Musings: "A Talking Cat" and Hollywood Dynamics

John Holmberg delved into his recent viewing experience with the film A Talking Cat, expressing strong criticisms about its production quality and performance. He remarked, “It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever watched. And it’s so bad” (01:16). Holmberg criticized the film's implementation, particularly noting that the talking cat character's lines were delivered over the phone, which detracted from the overall experience. He also compared the movie's performance to that of established actors, highlighting the disparity in net worth between Harrison Ford and Adam Sandler as a point of contemplation (02:26).

2. Video Games Spotlight: EA Sports College Football 26 & Tony Hawk Remasters

The hosts transitioned to discussing the latest in video gaming. John Holmberg introduced EA Sports College Football 26, expressing both intrigue and surprise at its content, particularly noting the absence of prominent teams like Ohio State, which could be due to recent controversies (03:46). Additionally, they explored the remastering of classic titles Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 and 4. Holmberg shared his personal history with skateboarding, providing a nostalgic perspective on the series and critiquing the portrayal of skaters in media (04:46). The conversation highlighted the balance between honoring classic gameplay and updating it for new audiences.

3. Television Talk: "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "Foundation," and "Quarterback"

John Holmberg and his co-hosts reviewed recent television releases:

• "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Season 17: Holmberg was initially surprised by the season count, remarking, “17? That can't be right” (07:08), questioning the longevity and themes of the series.

• "Foundation" Season Three on Apple Plus: The hosts discussed the show's adaptation of Isaac Asimov's work, comparing its complexity and entertainment value to that of a Marvel series (07:35).

• "Quarterback" Season Two on Netflix: Focusing on real-life quarterbacks like Kirk Cousins and Joe Burrow, they debated the series' portrayal of these athletes and the fluctuating dynamics within football teams (08:01).

4. Musical Interlude: New Releases from Plush, Lamb of God, and Roxen

The episode featured a segment on new music releases:

• Plush: Byron introduced new tracks from the band, reminiscing about their past performances and musical style (11:12).

• Lamb of God: The band’s cover of Black Sabbath’s “Children of the Grave” was highlighted, with Holmberg praising its rendition while noting its stylistic differences (12:01).

• Roxen: Discussions about Roxen's latest music touched on her evolving image and musical experimentation, though opinions were mixed among the hosts (13:15).

5. AI-Generated Music: Suicidal Tendencies in the 50s Style

A unique segment showcased an AI-generated rendition of Suicidal Tendencies' music reimagined in a 1950s doo-wop style. Brett shared the creative process behind the track, expressing frustration with the limitations of AI in capturing the desired emotional depth (14:46). The hosts reflected on the implications of AI in music production, balancing innovation with authenticity.

6. Interactive Game Segment: "N Word or F Word"

The hosts engaged in a provocative game titled "N Word or F Word," inspired by Too Short's sequel album. They navigated the sensitive nature of the content, carefully addressing the use of colloquial terms without explicitly mentioning offensive language. Holmberg and Byron discussed the challenges and humor in differentiating between the two words within the game's context (16:19).

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Notable Quotes:

• John Holmberg on "A Talking Cat": “They didn’t even mask that. The talking cat sounds like he's coming through a phone. It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever watched.” (01:16)

• John Holmberg on Skateboarding: “You weren’t hardened criminal badasses that I think most skaters thought they were.” (05:36)

• Brett on AI-Generated Music: “I like it better. You’re driving me CRAZ, My God, like 50s, suicidal tendencies.” (16:07)

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Conclusion

In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, John Holmberg and his co-hosts traversed a diverse array of topics, from critiquing contemporary films and revisiting classic video games to exploring new music releases and engaging in interactive segments. Their candid discussions and humorous banter offered listeners a comprehensive look at current entertainment trends, all delivered with their signature blend of wit and insight.

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Note: Advertisements, promotional segments, and non-content sections present in the original transcript have been omitted to focus solely on the substantive discussions of the episode.

Transcript

[Byron]

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[John Holmberg]

You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself.

[WIX Representative]

He's evil.

[John Holmberg]

Sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. 98 the Eve of Pity. Not kidding. I've watched it so many times, I took notes. Oh, talking about Adam Sandler movies I watched. Weird Hot releases are here, so we'll tell you about that in a second. But I watched a movie yesterday called A Talking Cat. And the reason you have to say it that way is because at the end of Cat, there's an exclamation point, a question mark and another exclamation point. It doesn't make any sense. And Eric Roberts, Julie Roberts brother, plays the talking cat. And if you look into it a little bit, they just said, will you do this? And he's like, I'll do it right now on the phone. And he did. He did all of his lines over the phone, and it took him 15, 20 minutes to do the whole thing. And they didn't even mask that. The talking cat sounds like he's coming through a phone. It's the weirdest thing I've ever watched. And it's so bad. And it's got a 38% rotten tomatoes rating, which is still better than 11 or 12 of Adam Sandler's movies. And this is one of the worst things I've ever seen. So we were talking about grown ups too. I. I kept a notebook of all the continuity errors in that movie. I hated that movie so much. And then I'm like, it made like $300 million. I still can't figure it out. One of the more depressing things you'll ever look up is the net worth of Harrison Ford and then Adam Sandler and realize that it's not even close.

[Byron]

No kidding.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Oh, I mean, it's not even close. And we're saying that because we got nervous that Happy Gilmore 2 may be coming up. But not today.

[Podcast Co-host]

Not today.

[John Holmberg]

Next week.

[Podcast Co-host]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

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[Podcast Co-host]

All right. Out today, video games is EA Sports College Football 26.

[John Holmberg]

Wow. Are we looking at a drone fireworks thing?

[Podcast Co-host]

Yeah. To start out as your pregame to get off the bus.

[Byron]

Where's Ohio State?

[John Holmberg]

They're getting raped. They're not on. They're not on this.

[Podcast Co-host]

They might have scrubbed them after that documentary.

[John Holmberg]

Saturday, man. Chapel Hill. Oh, they're focused in on Belichick's team. Chapel Hill. Getting attention in a video game is rare unless it's basketball. I thought Jeremiah Smith might have been.

[MMP Guns Representative]

On the COVID Mind our rivals.

[John Holmberg]

There's the well drained boys of Buckeye. The national champion. Rape eyes are barely featured.

[Podcast Co-host]

Now East Carolina gets on the game.

[John Holmberg]

Well, the Pirates are are free of rape. I think that'll get you on the game a lot faster than winning the Natty and having 2,800 sexual assaults under your butt.

[Podcast Co-host]

Tony Hawk Pro Skaters 3 and 4 is being remade for the new game consoles. So they're re releasing it. Putting both games together. Tony Hawk three and four Pro skater Motorhead.

[John Holmberg]

There it is. Motorhead. I was gonna say one's dressed like Krueger and then Ace of Spades is happening. You know what I'm always. All right. You were a skater. You know what I never liked about skaters is that they thought what they were doing was outlaw. They always were. Like the cops are like you guys always thought. Skaters always thought that like because they're skating in places they're not supposed to. Okay, that's trespassing. You're not that big a deal. It's like walking through the wrong parking lot. A skateboard had nothing to do with it. But even in this, like in the beginning, skating down the road. And the cops are after trespassing, bro. Right?

[Byron]

Only when we were stealing wood for ramps. That was about it. From construction sites, right?

[John Holmberg]

Sure.

[Byron]

That's about it.

[John Holmberg]

You were jerks. Yeah.

[Byron]

Oh, absolutely.

[John Holmberg]

You weren't hardened criminal badasses that I think most skaters thought they were.

[Podcast Co-host]

Plus if the wood's in the dumpster, isn't it?

[Byron]

No. We were going to construction sites and grabbing the fresh sheets.

[John Holmberg]

And the cops would come. It's cuz we skate, bro. Or die. No, there's. You're not dying. You're not skating or dying. Like if cops pulled their guns, you'd give up everything. I just thought that they thought they.

[Podcast Co-host]

Were the same thing about.

[John Holmberg]

At what? Empty. Oh yeah. Empty pool. They were going in people's backyards. Yeah. And that's just poor people.

[Podcast Co-host]

House for sale, buddy. Buddy. Ryan Zwick. He still posts that he skates. He's your age, right?

[John Holmberg]

Oh yeah.

[Byron]

I got a buddy. It still does too.

[John Holmberg]

I'm not against skateboarding. I'm against the attitude that the cops are somehow. They're distracted by it.

[Podcast Co-host]

I don't think Ryan's doing that.

[John Holmberg]

What are they skating over there? Put a stop to that. Like cops never cared about skaters. Like they thought they just were tired of businesses calling going a bunch of pricks standing outside doing what they did here. Which is wrecking our.

[Byron]

I'd have to yell at them at 2 in the morning sometimes to be out there.

[John Holmberg]

What a loser.

[Podcast Co-host]

How they find all the places that haven't been skateboarding.

[John Holmberg]

But you're a loser if you're skateboarding at 2 in the morning. Bench you have over there.

[Byron]

That's why we had to put the chains on the bench.

[John Holmberg]

And if Brett was yelling at you, that means it was a weekday. At 2 in the morning, it was. You live with your parents. Yeah. You're not. The cops aren't after you. Your dad is. And so are creditors.

[Podcast Co-host]

Right.

[John Holmberg]

I'm sorry, skaters. I just had to say something.

[Podcast Co-host]

All right, quickly. Season 17 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is out this week.

[John Holmberg]

17? That can't be right.

[Byron]

Oh, baby, am I boned up?

[John Holmberg]

That's right. It's like 20 something years of TV volunteers.

[Brett]

Get the hell out of here.

[John Holmberg]

Is this an old season.

[Podcast Co-host]

Longest running live action comic?

[John Holmberg]

Maybe they do two seasons. Well, no, it's the longest running live action show. I thought it would be longer than 17 years.

[Podcast Co-host]

We'll skip that one. Foundation. Season three is on Apple Plus.

[John Holmberg]

Know what that is?

[Podcast Co-host]

Nothing says summer like the galactic adventures of Lee Pace and Jared Harris. Apple's adaption series of Isaac Ammo's Asimov's supposedly unfilmable book series got off to a famously complex start in his first season. But in its second season, it dialed up the fun.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, I don't buy it.

[Podcast Co-host]

So it's like Marvel season three. Yeah, it does a little bit. Today Quarterback season two is out on Netflix.

[John Holmberg]

Who's the quarterbacks? Kirk Cousins, Joe Burrow. Let's go.

[Brett]

Let's go.

[John Holmberg]

Start out your career.

[Podcast Co-host]

I thought Kirk was in the first season.

[John Holmberg]

20 years.

[Podcast Co-host]

Was that a different one?

[John Holmberg]

A lot. And then maybe you blink your eye and you're in year five next time. Now where we're at the gray ones. Make it work. Twink Burrow fixed those highlighted hairs, though. He was. Kirk Cousins wasn't. Yeah, you can be in multiples. Why not? Well, you guys always have to have new quarterbacks. I want new blood, man. Kurt's going through a lot. He might not even get the starting job down there in Atlanta football. That's a week away from being our car. Sanders, man, they're going to cut him and send him to Canada, which is even better. Browns being Browns. Oh.

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[Brett]

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[John Holmberg]

Holmberg's Morning Sickness.

[Podcast Co-host]

Last one I got for you. We talked about it this morning. Superman out in theaters on Friday.

[John Holmberg]

This is this Friday. It's an immigrant story. Yeah. Make people angry. Did he land here in the cap?

[Podcast Co-host]

He was a baby, I thought in the first place.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I thought. In this one, he just landed in the snow. He's brand. He's a grown up. His job is to assimilate and be just like us. So if he landed in Pakistan or Russia, we'd have had a different story on our hands. And I like the Superman. I like the theory of predator. If it bleeds, you can kill it. Superman bleeds a lot.

[Podcast Co-host]

That's all I got because we got to get to Brett.

[John Holmberg]

All right, go ahead.

[Byron]

All right.

[John Holmberg]

Super. You're. Are you interested in it for real? Is Kirby. Is it a kid thing? No. No, I don't think.

[Podcast Co-host]

Well, can't be kid thing. No, not teenager thing. No way.

[John Holmberg]

She's not. When her and her friend dig into the dc. When her friend were talking. When you had abducted them this weekend, did you ever hear any of them whisper, if your father lets us go, we need to go to the movie now. They heard couple songs. I couldn't hear you over the farting.

[Podcast Co-host]

Oh, there was talking while you were in the esser.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Byron]

This is new music from Plush. You remember the four girls that played you fest couple years back?

[John Holmberg]

They were good. Wasn't one of them like 19. Wasn't even allowed in the I think so.

[Podcast Co-host]

Was that the warning?

[Byron]

No, the warning was definitely young.

[John Holmberg]

Yes. The blonde one from at her. I don't think they let her in the bar.

[Brett]

Sure.

[Byron]

She got her way in there.

[John Holmberg]

But she got. They were good. I remember watching they covered that Barracuda.

[Byron]

Nailed it, too. So this is why. From Plush.

[John Holmberg]

All right.

[Byron]

We played this yesterday.

[John Holmberg]

Lamb of God.

[Byron]

Lamb of God's cover of Children of the Grave from Black Sabbath.

[John Holmberg]

It was good. It was a little bit to Randy. I like it. Children up the Grave by Lamb Magot.

[Byron]

That's where Solid Hailstorm's got a new one out. They're actually opening up for Volbeat. Speaking of which. So.

[John Holmberg]

So that racist guy Kevin and our friend Kimberly will see them if they go early enough. They'll probably be backstage with Voldy. Well, Hailstorm. Is she overdoing it again now? Yep. The world is still. It's just brace feet.

[Podcast Co-host]

Is that Lizzie on the piano?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host]

Really doesn't look like her.

[Brett]

Inside my head.

[John Holmberg]

You were playing it or Larry just. We're already playing this. Fast forward a little. Darkness always win. Go. All right. Slow build it gets there eventually.

[Byron]

How about Roxen?

[John Holmberg]

I don't know what that is. I don't either.

[Byron]

This his favorite type?

[John Holmberg]

Dachon. It's. Yeah, it's. Dawen and rock got together. Oh, no.

[Byron]

It's another one of those. Do I not like this?

[John Holmberg]

16 or 45? Damn it, Brett. Favorite. Yeah. Do I like this or not? I don't know what is. I don't care for the song that much, but do we like her? Roxanne?

[Byron]

I don't know.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. I am intrigued. Xeroxing her butt.

[Byron]

I can't tell.

[John Holmberg]

I can't tell if I like her or not. I'm with Bread on that. I think I do. I'm gonna lean towards. Yes. They wouldn't have put an underage girl in an office building. And now she looks like she's 35. No, she's damn it, double damn it and burned by this before.

[Byron]

Let's go to one of those AI songs. This is for me, Mike and the Suicidal boys. This is institutionalized 50s style.

[John Holmberg]

So it's like Suicidal Tendencies, only they.

[Byron]

Did it in institutionalized 50s style.

[John Holmberg]

In a doo wop. Yeah.

[Brett]

Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I want it to. And I get real frustrated. And, like, I try hard to do it and I, like, take my time.

[Podcast Co-host]

Does he know about this?

[Byron]

I don't know. I'm not sure.

[Brett]

It's like I concentrate on it real hard, but it just doesn't work out. And everything I do and everything I try never turns out. It's like I need time to figure these things out, but there's always someone there going, hey, Mike, you know, we've been noticing you've been having a lot of problems lately. You know, you should maybe get away and, like, maybe you should talk.

[John Holmberg]

They get into the.

[Byron]

It comes up behind it.

[Brett]

No, it's okay. You know, I'll figure it out. Just leave me alone. I'll figure it out. You know, I'm just working on myself. Take over. Well, you know, you won't talk about it. I'll be here, you know, and you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it. So why don't you talk about it? I go, no, I don't want to. I'm okay. I'll figure it out myself. But they just keep bugging me. They just keep bugging me. And it builds up inside. So you gonna be institutionalized. You come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes. You won't have any say until you see their way. I'm not crazy institution.

[John Holmberg]

I like it better. You're driving me CRAZ, My God, like 50s, suicidal tendencies.

[Podcast Co-host]

That's great.

[John Holmberg]

Thank you, AI, for making the world better.

[Byron]

And that will bring us to the game that is sweeping the nation. N word or F Word? Today we got Too Short, More freaky tales. So this is the sequel. This isn't the original one.

[John Holmberg]

This is. Nobody heard a song off of this album.

[Byron]

Probably not.

[John Holmberg]

Just two Shorts Family.

[Podcast Co-host]

I'm going F word.

[John Holmberg]

Go F word. Angry N word from Too short. I'll go friendly. N word. Okay, here we go.

[Byron]

Now, you got to be careful because the both words come. Yep. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

So gotcha.

[Byron]

So it's the second, though.

[John Holmberg]

Okay.

[MMP Guns Representative]

These are the chills that I tell so. Well, for 15 years, I've been a real player. So if you want to have sex, say, hell, yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Hell, yeah.

[MMP Guns Representative]

I met this girl in Atlanta. She let a.

[John Holmberg]

It was me.

[Podcast Co-host]

That was you?

[MMP Guns Representative]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

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[Brett]

Hey, it's not weird.

[John Holmberg]

It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fees. I have heard enough of this.