08-18-25 - Entertainment Drill - MON - Tarrantino Asked Which Of His Films Are His Favorite

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness

Episode: Entertainment Drill – MON – Tarantino Asked Which Of His Films Are His Favorite
Date: August 18, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo

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Overview

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness focuses on the team’s signature irreverent banter as they lead into their “Entertainment Drill.” The main highlight is a discussion about Quentin Tarantino’s appearance on a podcast, where he reveals his favorite films among his own work. The hosts also reminisce about soap operas and comment on celebrity news, all in their topical, teasing style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Golf Banter & Diversity in the Sport

• The hosts open by riffing on golf tournaments, particularly Scotty Scheffler’s recent performance.
• John laments the lack of diversity at the top levels of golf, saying white domination has become repetitive.
  • “Problem with golf right now, there’s too many white guys.” (01:21, John)
  • The group debates what would make golf more exciting, joking about needing a “ridiculous tiny Asian” or someone with “six fingers” to shake things up.
  • The hosts playfully slam "ultra white" names like Maverick and Scout, poking fun at affluent naming trends.

2. Show Milestones & Looking Ahead

• Larry Mac interrupts to remind the crew that August 27 marks the start of their 25th year at KUPD.
  • The team recalls botched attempts to celebrate anniversaries due to COVID, and muse about a possible trip or event.
  • “The 25 starts August 27th. Boom. And hopefully Brady makes it through next Tuesday so we can actually be part of the 25th year.” (04:38, John)

3. Tarantino’s Favorite Films: The Entertainment Drill

• The main pop culture segment centers around Quentin Tarantino’s interview on the "Church of Tarantino" podcast.
• The hosts playfully imitate Tarantino and unpack his rankings:
  • “The one I was born to make? Kill Bill.” (06:46, Tarantino via hosts)
  • Favorite film/Opus? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
  • Best film? Inglourious Basterds.
  • “He’s allowed to direct the Cliff Booth series because we’re the two best directors by far.” (08:08, paraphrased Tarantino/John referencing Tarantino’s comments about David Fincher)
• Discussion on Tarantino's claim that he doesn’t get enough credit as a screenwriter since he directs his own scripts.
• News that David Fincher is being entrusted to direct an upcoming Cliff Booth series, as Tarantino considers him the only other director capable.

4. Soap Opera Nostalgia & Celebrity Deaths

• Quick detour to report the deaths of actor Terence Stamp and soap star Tristan Rogers.
  • Terence Stamp remembered for “General Zod” and a prolific film/TV career. (09:11–09:23)
  • Tristan Rogers recognized for his long-running role as Robert Scorpio on General Hospital.
• The segment sparks a lively tangent about the confusing plotlines and identity swaps typical of soap operas:
  • “Didn’t he have a patch for a while?” (10:12, John)
  • Anecdotes about “Days of Our Lives” characters, with John joking about his youthful crush on Jennifer and a “stalkery” obsession with Jessie Spano from Saved by the Bell.
• John also notes actor issues: playing with an eyepatch daily led to real-life vision problems for a Days actor.

5. Celebrity Ghosts & Van Halen

• Brief mention of David Lee Roth’s claim that Eddie Van Halen’s ghost visited him (and Sammy Hager’s similar story).
  • “There’s no word on when the ghost is visiting Gary Sharon, but you guys hear that?” (11:54, Brady)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Golf’s Lack of Intrigue:
  • “What we need is a like a ridiculous tiny Asian to just start mashing... Or like somebody with one eye...” (02:00, John)
• Tarantino Film Preferences:
  • “The one I was born to make. My favorite film. Okay. Right. Favorite film. Are you with me?” (06:46–07:10, hosts channeling Tarantino)
• Anniversary Reflection:
  • “It’s been a fun 24, kid. Nice job. Way to hang in there.” (05:29, John to Brady)
• Soap Obsession Confession:
  • “I had a massive crush on Jennifer. Like, one of those dream at night, think you’re gonna meet her? Kind of. Maybe shoot her on her doorstep. Crushes ... one of those it’s getting too far kind of things. A bit stalkery. Strange.” (12:39, John)
• On Tarantino/Fincher Collaboration:
  • “Quentin’s right because... I don’t think I get the credit for being as good a writer as I am because I direct my own movies. So now putting it in the hands of another great director and seeing what he will do with my words is interesting to him.” (08:15, John)*

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Golf segment & diversity chat: 00:51–03:16
• 25th anniversary reflections: 04:29–05:29
• Entertainment Drill (Tarantino’s favorites): 06:34–08:54
• Soap opera nostalgia & celebrity deaths: 09:09–11:18
• Van Halen ghosts & closing soap opera stories: 11:40–13:29

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Tone & Style

The episode is packed with snark, personal anecdotes, and offbeat tangents—true to the show’s morning zoo, “shock jock” style. The hosts riff off each other with quick jokes, playful jabs at pop culture, and a refusal to take Hollywood news too seriously.

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For listeners seeking a substantive but irreverent take on entertainment headlines, with plenty of side-road nostalgia and radio chemistry, this episode delivers classic Holmberg.

Transcript

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[A]

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[D]

No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude.

[A]

It's official. Golf talk is interesting to me and I'm not sure. Oh, I don't want to do that yet. I'm not sure. That's good. I missed the golf tournament. I feel like I missed something. Brady and Tripp started to talk the golf. Evidently, Scotty Scheffler had a shot yesterday. That was ridiculous.

[E]

It was a BMW.

[A]

Was this the 10 million dollar win next week is okay? Yeah.

[E]

So I don't know how that only the top 30 got to qualify. And then the same thing on the. The other side. The live.

[A]

Yeah, that was a big.

[E]

Their big one is next week, too.

[A]

Problem with golf right now, there's too many white guys.

[E]

Fact, boring sprinkled in there, you know, like the JJ spawn.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. But still, you got to have a dominant personal color. Yeah. Fine to have it. Scotty Scheffler is the current Tiger woods and that's. We've seen that before. So it's nothing new here. It's like Rocky 4. It's like I know what to expect.

[E]

But what he's doing.

[A]

Oh, he's amazing. But if he was a different color, it would be better because we've seen white guys be great at this. In fact, if another black guy showed up and started to be great at golf, it wouldn't be as interesting.

[B]

It's like Rocky 5.

[A]

Yeah, exactly. You start getting. We've seen this movie. What we need is a like a ridiculous tiny Asian to just start mashing. No, like, dominate. You've seen good Asians.

[E]

I know.

[A]

Don't conflate. This is, like, Tiger woods version Asian. We've never seen it. What Scotty Scheffler's doing what? Nicholas did, what Tiger did. You need, like, another color. We can't have whites doing this over and over. It's boring. Nobody's gonna watch Scottie Scheffler dominate golf. Whites have dominated. There's nothing new. You need something weird. Like a dude with one eye or like something weird. Can you believe this guy's doing this with six fingers? That kind of thing.

[E]

So you don't want to see Maverick McNeely step up?

[A]

I like the name, but he's probably white. No, he made the cut. But he's, like, ultra white. He's a white dude. Yeah.

[E]

And his brother scouts on the back.

[A]

Maverick and Scout already pissed me off. That's the paradise family. Paradise Valley. Our kids went to pv, but we sent them to Brophy. Who? Maverick and Scout. Go Yourself. Jason. Jason and Amanda named their kids Maverick and Scout. You make me sick. I hate your family. Here's another picture of us at Scott still in front of the love. Okay, gross.

[E]

I gotta get a photo of that.

[A]

I gotta play these. We're playing these. We'll do the entertainment drill next. I don't know how you guys got me on, but Maverick and Scout, it's an idiot.

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[E]

I like it.

[A]

Larry just came in and reminded us that next Wednesday, the 27th of August starts our 25th year on the air at KUPD. So we gotta. We're coming up with some ideas for maybe taking a little trip with you guys again, like we were trying to do for our 21st birthday, go to Vegas, but it ended up being our 22nd because stuff got screwed up because of COVID Still not sure how that happened because it was 2022, but we still managed to Covid screw up. It's okay. If we're going to celebrate on our 21st birthday, we end up doing 22. That's fine. The 25 starts August 27th. Boom. And hopefully Brady makes it through next Tuesday so we can actually be part of the 25th year. But it's been a fun 24, kid. Nice job. Way to hang in there.

[E]

We got a trip in OR two.

[A]

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[E]

Quentin Tarantino recently appeared on the Church of Tarantino podcast.

[F]

Okay, just Sounds like Larry Mac. Okay, okay.

[E]

And he was asked which of his films is his favorite.

[F]

My favorite. The one I was born to make. Brady.

[A]

Okay.

[F]

The one who was born to make. Okay. Was Kill Bill. This one was born to make. My favorite film. Okay. Right. Favorite film. Are you with me? Okay. Okay, okay. It is Inglourious Bastards.

[A]

Guessing I'm going once.

[E]

Incorrect.

[F]

Okay. There was Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, my favorite. Inglorious. Inglorious.

[A]

Once Upon a time.

[F]

Opus. That is my favorite. It's my opus.

[E]

Inglourious Bastards is my best.

[A]

That's his opus.

[E]

But I think Kill Bill is the ultimate movie because nobody else could have ever made it.

[A]

The one I was born to make.

[E]

Yep, you nailed it.

[A]

Flip flopped him. I got the three movies, but I didn't necessarily get them in the right place.

[F]

Okay. We used to work with the guy in Larry Mack. Okay, okay. You guys knew. Okay, okay.

[B]

But Pulp Fiction's the one who made him his money.

[A]

Pulp Fictions, well, Reservoir Dogs put him on the map. Pulp Fiction made him a superstar. You and I both agree Jackie Brown is better. So much better than it. Than it gives credit for. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has rapidly become one of my favorite movies. So good. And now they're making the thing. I just read this and you talked about it last week, but Quentin talked about how he's letting. Who's the guy directing it? He handed it over to somebody. He goes and he actually said the words, the only way I would allow this is if I gave it to David Fincher.

[E]

David Fincher? Yeah.

[A]

He said he's allowed to direct the Cliff Booth series because we're the two best directors by far.

[E]

He'll do the follow up in the Once Upon a Time.

[A]

Yeah, because he said, I wrote it. And what? And actually, Quentin's right because in the article I read, he said, I don't think I get the credit for being as good a writer as I am because I direct my own movies. So now putting it in the hands of another great director and seeing what he will do with my words is interesting to him.

[E]

The movie Critic is the title of the.

[A]

Well, that. No. Is that the Cliff Booth one? The movie critics on the shelf. Cliff Booth is a different animal. Okay, so Quentin's writing it then. He wrote it. He's writing the Booth. Okay. Cliff Booth thing's getting kind of getting worried, Right? Fincher's going to direct it. Cuz Quentin's like he's the only other director that's good enough to do this. But the movie critic is one. He's. He's working on.

[B]

Is everybody back in? Do we know Star?

[A]

Yeah. Brad Pitt is for sure.

[B]

Leonardo's back, too.

[A]

I don't know what they're going to do with him because he doesn't need to be in it. Although he was his stunt double the whole time. Time. So maybe, hopefully Bruce Lee's back. Oh, get Bruce Lee back in there.

[E]

Celebrity Death. We had Terrence Stamp.

[A]

Huge. Terence Stamp is a monster.

[E]

Played General Zod and Superman movie there.

[A]

Go down the laundry list of. Of movies that Terence Stamp was in in TV shows.

[E]

Star Wars, Episode one.

[A]

Amazing. He's been in a couple TV shows. He's amazing.

[E]

And the other one was Tristan Rogers.

[A]

Why do we know that name? Who?

[E]

There you go. Robert Scorpio on General Hospital.

[A]

Oh, my God. John Gordon.

[E]

79.

[A]

When did you ever work at KDKB? How did you know the answer to that?

[E]

Pipe up on that one.

[A]

He fired off the Robert Scorpio. Yeah.

[E]

You recognize when he kind of seemed. If you ever watch.

[A]

I would have never known his name.

[E]

Sister used to watch the tar.

[A]

My mom loved General Hospital. But, yeah, I'd watch every once in a while. And I knew. I knew Scorpio. Didn't he have a patch for a while? There was a guy on Days of Our Lives that had a patch, and I think General Hospital.

[E]

Was that Luke?

[A]

No. Luke. Luke might have had a patch, too. Well, no.

[E]

Did have a patch.

[A]

No, I think it was Bo. Was Days of Our Lives. Yeah.

[B]

Isn't that what we're doing?

[A]

Bo didn't have a patch. General Hospital. No. Yeah. But Days of Our Lives had a patch guy, and it wasn't Bo. It was Bo's buddy. I think it was a guy. And then they switched him. His name was John. And then another actor came. Didn't look anything like him. Was the original John. No. 1.

[E]

Multiple storylines with eye patches?

[A]

No. But the funny thing was that the John that showed up, that took the place of the guy that took his name, didn't look anything like him. And then they realized that he'd stolen his identity. So the other dude had to go, like, pirate, and he lost his eye somehow.

[B]

Man, are we flaming out?

[A]

And because he had the eye patch in real life, the actor who played the patched guy started to have vision problems because every day he had to wear an eye patch, and it was screwing up his good eye because it was fighting so hard to work all the time. So they had to build an eye patch he could see through. I Watched that because Jack and Jennifer. I was. I had such a hard on for Jennifer back in the late 80s. I thought she was beautiful.

[E]

Luke and Laura never did much for you.

[A]

Luke and Laura. I was seven years old, Brady. I was beaten off to Luke and Laura. Laura was okay. I like the Christopher Cross song about that whole thing. Think of Laura, Laugh, don't cry. She'd want it that way. She was only 19. Her name was Genie Something right in real life.

[E]

Oh, cow.

[A]

Yeah, that was a big deal. The Luke and Laura.

[E]

David Lee Roth claims Eddie Van Halen's ghost visited him and told him that he was messing with Sammy Hager. And a while back, Sammy said that Eddie's ghost visited him for a songwriting session.

[A]

Yep.

[E]

There's no word on when the ghost is visiting Gary, Sharon, but you guys hear that?

[A]

There's that clock. We're gonna lose David soon. Talking to ghost man. All right, David, quiet down. No more singing. Oh. Now Gina has emailed in Roman Brady and John Black. That's right. And that Roman. John Black and Roman Brady had to swap up. It was very confusing because they didn't look anything alike, but one was evidently the other. And the wife didn't know. Like, she didn't. And like, I was 12 or 13. I'm like, that's a different dude. No, no. And Deidre hall was the wife.

[E]

Did he have the quality? He had a power mullet.

[A]

John Black did. Yeah.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Roman Brady had dark hair, looked a lot like the dude who just died on General Hospital. Those days of our lives, all I cared about was Jack and Jennifer. I don't remember who played Jennifer, but I had a massive crush on Jennifer. Like one of those dream at night, think you're gonna meet her? Kind of. Maybe shoot her on her doorstep. Crushes one of those it's getting too far kind of things. A bit stalkery. Strange. I've had a couple of those. Jennifer was one where I'm like, if I let this keep going, I'm going to jail. The other one was Jessie Spano from Saved by the Bell. I had a dream about her, that we were meant to be together. And I almost got in the car and tried to find her.

[B]

Is that until you watch Showgirls and then.

[A]

No, Showgirls didn't help. Although her ass was so disappointing in Showgirl.

[E]

Oh.

[A]

I wanted her to be so much hotter than she was.

[B]

Gina Gershon was better in that by a long shot.

[A]

A couple of those dancers should have gotten the job. Anyway, that's it. We're done. This is your 1988 update. Flaming out bro. 25 years on the air starting next week. Can you believe is 10:10 Larry's coming up next. He's been on for 3:30. He must know everything about soap operas. We're done. We'll catch you guys tomorrow on the morning Sickness. Hey, it's not weird.

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It's pretty cool actually. No membership fees.

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I've heard enough of this.

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