08-04-25 - Calling Out Those Who Say Sydney Sweeney's No Longer Hot Cause She's Republican - Details Of Our New Pantera Backstage Contest

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Episode: August 4, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-Hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Release Date: August 4, 2025

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Episode Overview

In the August 4, 2025 episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD, host John Holmberg delves into a mix of pop culture commentary, political discourse, and exciting listener engagement opportunities. The episode is marked by humor, candid discussions on political tribalism, and the announcement of a thrilling backstage contest involving the legendary band Pantera.

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Corrections and Pop Culture Banter

Timestamp: [01:40]

John Holmberg kicks off the episode by addressing a previous mistake regarding the character Jessica Rabbit from Roger Rabbit. He humorously clarifies, “Roger Rabbit married Jessica Rabbit. She was a human. I said she was a rabbit. Yeah, we got a bunch of emails. She was not. She was human. She just a rabbit.”

Notable Quote:

"Roger Rabbit married Jessica Rabbit. She was a human. I said she was a rabbit. Yeah, we got a bunch of emails. She was not. She was human." – John Holmberg [01:40]

This lighthearted correction sets the tone for the show's blend of humor and candid conversation.

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Sydney Sweeney and Political Tribalism

Timestamp: [02:24 - 05:55]

The discussion shifts to actress Sydney Sweeney, focusing on her political affiliations and how they intersect with her public persona. Holmberg argues against the notion that Sweeney's political views diminish her attractiveness, stating, “Sydney Sweeney's breasts being so delightful that it shouldn't matter what she votes for, Republican or Democrat.”

He extends this argument to a broader critique of political tribalism, emphasizing the loss of personal relationships over political differences. Holmberg shares a personal anecdote about a conservative listener whose relationships suffered due to political conversations, highlighting the deep divisions caused by partisan biases.

Notable Quotes:

“Sydney Sweeney's breasts being so delightful that it shouldn't matter what she votes for, Republican or Democrat.” – John Holmberg [02:24]

“If breasts aren't hot anymore because of the way someone votes. Come on, you've lost your mind.” – John Holmberg [05:05]

Holmberg advocates for maintaining friendships irrespective of political differences, lamenting the current state of heightened tribalism.

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Misinformation and Societal Divides

Timestamp: [05:01 - 05:55]

Brady Bogen joins the conversation to discuss the rampant misinformation fueling societal divides. Holmberg and Brady compare political belief discrepancies to fringe beliefs like flat earthism, questioning which is more damaging to societal cohesion.

Notable Quote:

“Which is more tolerant, the political view differences or flat earther or, you know.” – Brady Bogen [05:27]

“What would I deal with more like hot girl stupidity. Yeah, both are acceptable, Right? I don't care.” – John Holmberg [05:35]

The hosts explore the impact of extreme beliefs on interpersonal relationships and societal harmony, urging listeners to adopt a more tolerant and logical approach.

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Pantera Backstage Contest Announcement

Timestamp: [09:01 - 13:44]

A major highlight of the episode is the announcement of a new contest offering listeners a chance to experience an exclusive backstage pass with the iconic band Pantera. Holmberg enthusiastically details the contest mechanics, prizes, and personal anecdotes to excite the audience.

Contest Details:

• Prize: One grand prize winner and a guest will join Pantera's security detail, walk the band on stage, and access the photo pit to watch the first three songs of the set.
• Additional Rewards: Pantera tour shirt, security shirt, flashlight, and exclusive merchandise.
• Entry Method: Listeners must call into the show at 585-9800. The winner is determined when Pantera's riff is played, signaling listeners to call in.

Notable Quotes:

“We're going to start this today. We've only got 40 minutes. 30 minutes left in the show. One grand prize winner and their guest will join Pantera's secret secure.” – John Holmberg [09:01]

“If you hear that riff at all, Pantera's walk comes your way. During any moment of the show. Could be right in the middle of us talking.” – John Holmberg [10:37]

Holmberg shares his past experiences with similar contests involving Metallica and Avenge Sevenfold, adding credibility and excitement to the Pantera opportunity.

Additional Rules:

• Sober Participation: Winners must be sober during the backstage experience, as Pantera has strict rules regarding alcohol consumption during their time.
• Security Measures: Winners will undergo a breathalyzer test to ensure compliance.

Humorous Banter: Holmberg and Brady engage in playful banter about the contest, including exaggerated scenarios like sharing a rental car and hotel room with Randy Johnson, adding a comedic flair to the announcement.

Closing Remarks: Holmberg encourages listeners to stay tuned for the Pantera contest riff and assures them of a seamless entry process, emphasizing the uniqueness of the opportunity.

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Conclusion

The August 4 episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness masterfully balances humor, critical social commentary, and engaging listener interactions. John Holmberg and his co-hosts navigate through correcting pop culture misconceptions, addressing the perils of political tribalism, and culminating in an exhilarating contest that promises an unforgettable experience with Pantera. Listeners are left entertained, informed, and eager to participate in the exciting opportunities presented.

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Connect with Holmberg's Morning Sickness:

• Website: www.98kupd.com
• Listen Live: 97.9 FM, 98KUPD app
• Schedule: Weekdays 5:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Transcript

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[Larry McFeely]

Morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail. Let's get this thing going. We got the Guadalupe replay. Before we get to that, I do have to stand corrected on something I said earlier this morning. Roger Rabbit married Jessica Rabbit. She was a human. I said she was a rabbit. Yeah, we got a bunch of emails. She was not. She was human. She just a rabbit. That makes it normal.

[Brady]

She took the last name?

[Larry McFeely]

Yeah, she took Roger's last name because she married a rabbit. I got confused that she had ears under there because I hadn't seen that movie since I was a kid, so I thought it was neat.

[Brady]

Well, that's why guys fell for. Because she was a real.

[Larry McFeely]

She was a real cartoon lady. Well, my dad was the one that made me uncomfortable with it and I thought, she's a rabbit. No, no, she wasn't. She just loved to rabbits. Then years later, you see what Kathleen Turner actually looked like. Yeah, she ate too much rabbit. The. The better thing is is that the insinuation was that the only thing that could keep up with her sexually was a rabbit, which made Jessica Rabbit even hotter. Or such a horse. She had to leave the human species and start banging some woodland creatures and some ground animals. Don't think rabbit is where she drew the line either. I bet she a couple squirrels, maybe Rodent fetish had a thing. Also, we talked about Sydney Sweeney's breasts being so delightful that it shouldn't matter what she votes for, Republican or Democrat, or she's got a video here with guns. People are sending me that she shoots guns, and liberals have lost their minds. And I'm just saying this is a great opportunity for us to reset this whole am I too tribal or not vibe. If you. Two things. This is another thing. If you've ever posted on Facebook, you don't want to be friends with people. If you. If they vote a way you don't like, you've gone too far because you might lose some really good friends that you thought voted your way. I've got a couple of people who think that I'm on their team, and I think they're insane politically, but they're great people. I don't care about their politics. I'm not necessarily on the other team. I'm just not on their team. I'm not fully invested, but they think I am. And I've got people who think I'm fully invested on the other side, and I'm not. It's the fun of living as an independent middle person with logic and accountability and all that weird stuff. But Sydney Sweeney's breasts stop being hot to you because she votes Republican. You've gone too far. This guy says, my cousin passed away. This ties all of our conversations earlier. And he had a bunch of conversations with me on his phone about politics and other things. Both of us are wildly conservative. We keep it kind of quiet. His wife is incredibly liberal. After he died, she went through his phone and no one talks to me anymore because they found your conversations about how much you love Trump and guns. I don't know how far you took it. Possibly, possibly racism and I don't know what's going on. And she's nuts because she wants, like, social programs and, like, open borders and insanity. Can't get along like that.

[Brady]

It'S just the misinformation too. It's also like they believe in.

[Larry McFeely]

Well, just. You're too into it. If breasts aren't hot anymore because of the way someone votes. Come on, you've lost your mind. Go see Dr. J. Schwartzen. Yeah, yeah, go. Yeah. He can fix your political views. Yeah. He can get you seeing 2020 again and get you out of this tribal weirdness. You can't see the cans that overpower.

[Brady]

Which is more tolerant, the political view differences or flat earther or, you know.

[Larry McFeely]

What would I deal with more like hot girl stupidity. Yeah, both are acceptable, Right? I don't care. She could be a flat earther who like, thinks surreal law is a good idea. And I'm like, yeah, you should wear the Burkitt.

[Brady]

Amongst a friend.

[Larry McFeely]

Yeah. If it's. Again, if it's.

[Brady]

I think the flat earthing, I don't.

[Larry McFeely]

Know who yours is. You went with Daddario in the past, but you're clearly Margot Robbie. I'm Dua Dua Lipa. Dua Lipa get me to join Al Qaeda for a couple weeks and Dua Lipa said, let's go join Al Qaeda. Like, for what? I don't know. I think they've got a lot of things to say and I want to hear them out. And I'm like, yes. Like, it wouldn't even be like a thought. Like, I think that's a bad idea. I'm like, okay, do a. And then I'm in the back of the Dua mobile or whatever she drives, and we're going over to the Al Qaeda meetings. Guy says, perfect example of what you're talking about, John, if you think a woman's hot enough, they can dress you up. While you were talking about this, I saw on the cameras in his studio that Toledo covered up his no Kings T shirt. She makes him wear that to work. Anyway, pop in the Duomobile and let's go hear out Al Qaeda. I'll drive. I'd eat coconut from her. Yeah. Now it's all fantasy. So it's not a realistic thing to say. I'm just saying if by chance that world famous millionaire who happens to look fantastic took a liking to me, I'm doing whatever I need to do. Same with Margot Robbie. Oh, yeah. If it's just some broad over here at the zoo who looks good, I'll listen to her. But I mean, it's got to be you got to have. You got to back that up. I'm not talking about just looks like this chick's on a world tour. People buy T shirts. That's changing a lot of ideas, don't you think? Hamas has great ideas. Yeah, I want to be a frequent flyer. What are we doing? Let's get involved. I'm fine with all of it. Sydney Sweeney's breast should not make you think. Yeah, but she voted for Trump. Something's wrong with you. Speaking of something being wrong with you, Frank was in here on Friday. Caliendo did the Squares with us. He's got a show coming up here. The 21st, 2nd, 3rd, something like that. 22nd, I don't know. That weekend of August, he's going to be over at Desert Ridge Improv. If you want to go over and see Frankie, he's going to be whoring himself here on this show quite a bit, I'm sure over the next few weeks to get rid of all those tickets he was here for Friday for the Guadalupe squares. Let's replay those. Now it's 98.

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[Larry McFeely]

Get to what would Brady do? But it has become official in my hands right now. Listen to this. We've been giving you a heads up on this too. Yeah, I wish I had a conch shell. I would blow it all. The KUPD listeners should gather around. Drop what you're doing. I when the email starts and again, give it to King Larry right now. He's a kind program director. Most of them aren't. Most of them are pushy knobs who have worked in he. He's worked only at kupd. He knows and only loves cupd. He's a Phoenix kid. He knows what you'll like. Larry got this done. The email starts. Larry, Holy. We got Pantera to sign off on your idea. That's a great way to start a letter when Pantera is a month away from being here, right? Says, let's run with this promotion. One grand prize winner. We're going to start this today. We've only got 40 minutes. 30 minutes left in the show. One grand prize winner and their guest will join Pantera's secret secure. It's not secret security detail that escorts the band from dressing room to the stage. You get to walk Pantera on stage. The winner will also take home a flashlight and security shirt to prove they were there. I can't do photos or anything like that. After escorting Pantera to the stage, winner and their guest will be escorted to the photo pit to watch the first three songs of the set. You get yourself a Pantera tour shirt, security thing, all that stuff.

[Brady]

You'll probably bump into Randy Johnson.

[Larry McFeely]

Randy will be there for sure. You'll probably stand with Randy. You get to be with Pantera, walk him onto the stage with security. I've done this before. It's actually kind of cool. Like, sometimes when you're just part of these things, they just kind of shuttle you around. You're in the mix. There's like two dudes in security. You'll be one of them and you just do a flat. The only reason, what you really are is just a guy lighting up their path. Right before band goes on stage, everything goes black backstage. Like, dead dark. And then the old screen is usually running for the fans. They can't see. So the two dudes with flashlights. I got to do this with Metallica, and I got. I got a. Unintentionally got to walk Avenge Sevenfold off the stage. And that was just move, move, move. Because I was in the way. I didn't have a flashlight, but, like, I walked with them off the stage, stood at the bottom like, all right, let's go. And then I'm standing with James Hetfield. We weren't talking or anything, but we're standing. And then walked up with him. And then I ran out on stage and did the thing come back off. They got me right out of there. And then I saw Metallica standing back there waiting for their cue as a big video screen started around, like, five minutes later. But they were. There was the coolest thing. Like, the security walk up was awesome. This is cool. So Pantera's like, yeah, get one of the KUPD listeners. We'll take him up on stage with us, with them. Not to mention, you're gonna get tickets to the show, right? Yeah, we're gonna qualify.

[Brady]

Three songs in the photo.

[Larry McFeely]

That's amazing. The photo area, you're in the. You're in front of the pit. I mean, you're right there. You've not. If you're in the pit and you're in the front row, this is the Front row to the front row. Yeah. You'd see Zach and Crazy Phil. Crazy ass Phil. Might spit or sweat on you. Definitely gonna spit. Might not have worked up a lather by the third song. So here's how this works. If you're a. This is awesome. This is that moment. I'm gonna do this sometime during a song this morning, you'll hear this. I'm just gonna jam it into another song. Somewhere before 10 o', clock, this will play. Brett will man the phones. 585-9800, starting right now. If you hear that riff at all, Pantera's walk comes your way. During any moment of the show. Could be right in the middle of us talking. Could happen at any moment, that button gets pushed and you are going to be the. We'll go 10th caller. Right? It's gonna take. That's fine. 10th caller. 5859-800. We'll get it going. We'll do that. If you hear that at all in the mornings for the. At all, phones will light up. You guys will go. And then one of you will qualify. You'll get the tickets to go see Pantera. Then one lucky listener gets to go hang out with the guys backstage. Security detail, walk up, get a whole bunch of free stuff and walk out of there. That's awesome. Don't forget the one detail, though. What is that? You must be so. Oh, that's right. Yes. And I'll have a breathalyzer there. We're going to breathalyze. Yes. Seriously, Pantera actually had one rule. Winner must be sober. You can get drunk afterwards, right? Yeah. When you're done in the photo pit.

[Brady]

Take your three songs are over.

[Larry McFeely]

Yeah. Take your free and then go get drunk somewhere else. But don't do it on their time or you get kicked out. Don't ruin this by showing up or high. You know, it's not that important. Wait for it. You've got all night. This is pretty cool. And don't call now. I'm going to blank out these phones. This one says, does the winner also get to share a rental car and hotel room with Randy Johnson? Play your cards right, Brady didn't know that was going to happen. And it worked for him. He slept with Randy Johnson once. Or maybe more than once. I don't know how often you guys are. Either way, keep it in mind. All right? We'll get this done. So sometime before we leave this morning, I'll play that somewhere in the middle. It could be in the middle of a commercial. I don't know. It's just going to happen. Got to get rid of these. Busying out the phones to all you people trying to cheat. Drop them all foreign don't worry. This thing's going to break the phones anyway. Oh, yeah, yeah. No question. We'll do a quick what would Brady do after this? But in the meantime, keep that in mind and hang around with us and we'll get that to you. One qualifier today. We'll keep that going. It's Limp Bizkit right here. It's the nookie. It's 98. Hey, it's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fees. I have heard enough of this.