08-20-25 - Entertainment Drill - WED - Now We Find Out Brady's Parents Were Denied Entry Into The Peace Corps But Brady Didn't Question Why

Summary

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Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Entertainment Drill (08-20-25)

"Now We Find Out Brady's Parents Were Denied Entry Into The Peace Corps, But Brady Didn't Question Why"

Main Theme:
The morning show spins into a funny and skeptical deep-dive about Brady's parents' failed attempt to join the Peace Corps, scrutinizing the official story versus what might actually have happened, all delivered in the show’s trademark irreverent tone.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bob Ray, The Naked Neighbor (01:44 - 02:49)

• Brief Anecdote: The segment kicks off with a story about Brett’s neighbor, Bob Ray, a serial window-flasher, whom the guys debate was really just "a sexual predator."
• Lighthearted Tone: Holmberg jokes, “That's not a flasher. That's a sexual predator.” (02:24)
• The group lightly roasts neighborhood oddities before seguing to the key topic.

2. The Peace Corps Family Mystery (02:49 - 10:45)

The Story Unfolds:

• Brady explains his parents sold their house intending to join the Peace Corps (02:49).
• Their application was rejected, supposedly due to his dad’s history with kidney stones.
• John Holmberg is immediately skeptical, questioning, “Mom, that doesn’t make any sense. Tell me what really happened.” (04:20)
• The guys circle around the issue, poking fun at possible alternate explanations (KGB operatives, cover-ups, etc.), and questioning bureaucratic logic.
• Repeatedly, Holmberg calls out the "holes" in the story:
  • “If the Peace Corps one thing is that you can’t go to the next place if you’ve got a pre-existing condition, they’re going to waste their time? Then they didn’t have a rule.” (05:43)
  • “You’re not getting the full story or something not true and something not right there. You don’t see holes in that?” (07:17)
• Brady remains largely unbothered, accepting the story while the rest remain incredulous.
• Holmberg muses about interrogating Brady’s mom (“Bunny”):
  • “I’m gonna ask Bunny. Next time I see or talk to Bunny, I’m gonna ask her a couple.” (09:13)
• Running gag: The essence of Brady's family lore being full of “holes” and entertaining yet suspicious.
• Memorable quote: “When things don’t add up like that, you gotta go, nope, doesn’t make sense. Start over.” (05:37)

Show’s Signature Tone:

• The hosts playfully roast Brady’s uncritical acceptance and invent goofier theories (kidney stones as a cover, parental secret agent past).
• Frequent gentle ribbing about government incompetence.
• Brett chiming in sarcastically: “This is insane.” (06:06)

3. Entertainment Drill: Hollywood News and Bizarre Bits (10:45 - 12:41)

• Austin Butler’s Baseball Role (10:48):
  • Discussion on Austin Butler preparing for "Caught Stealing," focusing on studying baseball players' butts and doing squats.
  • Holmberg quips: “Baseball players have big, thick asses.” (11:10)
  • More playful banter about notable “baseball butts.”
• Donald Trump’s ‘Heaven Odds’ (11:46):
  • Trump allegedly expressing doubt about getting into heaven, unless he brokers peace in Ukraine:
    • “Hearing I’m not doing well. I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.” (12:17, attributed to Trump via interview quote)
    • Holmberg riffs: “I have to achieve world peace to make good for the things I’ve done wrong.”
    • Adds, tongue-in-cheek, “An awful lot of urine. Also, I’ve killed a few people, and I made people sell their homes before I took the Peace Corps away from them.” (12:22)
• The Wrap-Up (12:41):
  • Quick signoff and teases for upcoming show features.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• John Holmberg (04:20):
  “Mom, that doesn't make any sense. Tell me what really happened.”
• John Holmberg (05:37):
  “When things don't add up like that, you gotta go, nope, doesn't make sense. Start over.”
• Brady (07:23):
  “No.” (in reply to whether he spots holes in the Peace Corps story, highlighting his good-natured naivete)
• John Holmberg (09:13):
  “I'm gonna ask Bunny. Next time I see or talk to Bunny, I'm gonna ask her a couple.”
• Brett Vesely (06:06):
  “This is insane.”
• John Holmberg (11:10):
  “Baseball players have big, thick asses.”
• John Holmberg, riffing on Trump (12:22):
  “A lot of infidelity, Brett. And an awful lot of urine. Also, I've killed a few people, and I made people sell their homes before I took the Peace Corps away from them.”

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Key Timestamps

• 01:44 — Opening banter, Bob Ray the naked neighbor
• 02:49 — Brady’s parents and the Peace Corps story begins
• 04:20 — First major questioning of the official story
• 06:06 — Brett provides his sarcastic take
• 07:17–09:13 — Deep dive into skepticism; plans to ask “Bunny” for the truth
• 10:48 — Entertainment Drill: Austin Butler and “baseball butts”
• 11:46 — Trump and the ‘Heaven’ quote
• 12:41 — Closing moments; wrap-up

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Summary Impression

This episode leans into the show's specialty: humorous skepticism, relentless teasing, and lampooning of both personal family tales and absurdities in popular culture. Holmberg leads the charge, refusing to buy into a suspect family legend about the Peace Corps, while Brady remains good-natured and unbothered, unintentionally feeding the bit. The entire segment is a lighthearted, sharply comical take on how family myths get accepted, the mysteries that linger, and the joy the show finds in never taking anything at face value.

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Transcript

[Brett Vesely]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Guest or Caller]

Morning sickness.

[John Holmberg]

You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil. Sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. 98 to you, PT. All right, thank you very much. Suicidal tendencies with the win. Brett. Nice job. Congratulations. Thank you. Brett's favorite band of all time pulling so many sprays, telling us more stories about his family and how that neighbor who got naked in the Window once, evidently, was naked like five or six Other times, Bob Ray, the naked neighbor, and you guys dealt with it, called him a flasher, but he just stand there totally nude.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah, the two times.

[John Holmberg]

That's not a flasher. That's a sexual predator.

[Guest or Caller]

Makes a move.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, you assume sexual predator when your neighbor is nude in the yard?

[Guest or Caller]

Well, they addressed it.

[John Holmberg]

Did it stop?

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Are you sure?

[Guest or Caller]

Oh, yeah. As far as you know.

[John Holmberg]

As far as he knows, you just moved it to a different neighborhood.

[Guest or Caller]

Then we moved. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Then you guys moved.

[Guest or Caller]

We. My mom and dad, after 28 years, sold the house. Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

They intended to sell the house, or was it because Bob Ray naked next door was.

[Guest or Caller]

They were selling the house because their intention was they wanted to go and do the Peace Corps thing.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, so he was getting together years after you'd moved out.

[Guest or Caller]

No, I was. I was still. I would have been in high school.

[John Holmberg]

They went and did the Peace Corps and left you here.

[Guest or Caller]

They got rejected because my dad had kidney stones.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, is that why?

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah, that's what they told him.

[John Holmberg]

That's right. It wasn't nothing to do with the Cuban revolution. Brett and his history.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You can't be in the Peace Corps.

[Guest or Caller]

With kidney stones with the medical issues at the time they were worried about.

[John Holmberg]

Huh.

[Guest or Caller]

Because he's gonna go to, you know.

[John Holmberg]

Anywhere from, like, Honduras, horrible African nations that had no hospitals.

[Guest or Caller]

I think that's their thought.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Guest or Caller]

Process.

[John Holmberg]

So he had to go that place where if he had a kidney stone, no one could treat him. That was the problem. Or. Or it's just a lie.

[Guest or Caller]

They strung them along. Well, they said, oh, yeah, you're good.

[John Holmberg]

Like, right away on the day one applications. Do you suffer from any medical thing that would.

[Guest or Caller]

That was the thing. Wouldn't you know that if you knew this? That the whole time?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Guest or Caller]

Why didn't you just let me. They were saying, oh, yeah, we're gonna be really good. And then they decided, no, we're not gonna let you.

[John Holmberg]

Those are those moments when you're having a conversation with your mom. You're like, mom, that doesn't make any sense.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Tell me what really happened. No, it was kidney stones. We tried for a year, and they rejected us. No, they were like operatives in the KGB or something weird.

[Guest or Caller]

They were going to Cuba.

[John Holmberg]

Your parents were Mr. And Mrs. Smith. You don't even know it. Yeah, man. The mission got called off, and you can join the Peace Corps, do anything you want, but they would ask you right away, do you have any medical issues that'll keep you from Having to go to these places and they go.

[Guest or Caller]

You go through kind of like a physical.

[John Holmberg]

They check out like he had him at the time. Maybe he had kidney stones and they had to cancel that trip.

[Guest or Caller]

He didn't have them at the time, but he had him in the past so it could happen again. Again. Like I said, I think the disappointing thing for them is why didn't you tell us from the get go? Rather than saying, that's what I'm saying.

[John Holmberg]

That should be one of their first questions. If it's going to stop the process, they're wasting their time.

[Guest or Caller]

And evidently it wasn't.

[John Holmberg]

Which makes me. No, evidently the story is mom lied to you and that's what they. That's the story they go with.

[Guest or Caller]

Then my dad killed three people from the pizza.

[John Holmberg]

You don't know. You're just seeing how you're doing that rose colored glasses thing to try to deflect. You don't know. But that's not a real story.

[Brett Vesely]

Blocking.

[John Holmberg]

When things don't add up like that, you gotta go, nope, doesn't make sense. Start over.

[Guest or Caller]

Makes absolute.

[John Holmberg]

No, it doesn't. If the Peace Corps. One thing is that you can't go to the next place if you've got a pre existing condition. They're going to waste their time. Then they didn't have a rule.

[Guest or Caller]

Obviously they kicked it down the road a little bit.

[John Holmberg]

They would ask.

[Guest or Caller]

Our final decision is we don't.

[John Holmberg]

We're not that. Because you had kidney stones years ago.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I'm going to take this risk going forward. Doesn't make sense.

[Brett Vesely]

This is insane.

[John Holmberg]

It doesn't make sense.

[Guest or Caller]

It has to be five. It was like five years. Over five years.

[John Holmberg]

It adds up. It doesn't add up.

[Guest or Caller]

Okay.

[John Holmberg]

No, it doesn't. It just doesn't.

[Guest or Caller]

All right.

[John Holmberg]

Peace Corps is a big up. It's a big. I'm not saying that's made up. I'm saying that's not a proper answer. There's questions that have to be asked there. The Peace Corps wouldn't waste their time interviewing people if one of their prerequisites was if you. If you've had any of these conditions in the last five years, don't bother us. So they wouldn't have hemmed and hawed over it for a long time. Nobody's. No family is worth that. They're not going to sit and go, well, it is the Bogans. We can. No, it just. It doesn't make sense. It just doesn't. You know, you got to see through those.

[Guest or Caller]

They made a Mistake. Then who did and sold the house.

[John Holmberg]

And that's what I'm saying. You got to the point where you sold the house.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah. They were ready to go. They're downsizing.

[John Holmberg]

And the Peace Corps never once said there's three or four things that are changing from this. You with me on this one? I'm trying.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

That's. There's no way rough. You sold your home. And then they're like, never mind. We forgot to tell you one of.

[Guest or Caller]

Our major again my. You know, I was out of college.

[John Holmberg]

Sure.

[Guest or Caller]

Everyone was out. It was just them.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I'm saying.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

You're not getting the full story or something not true and something not right there. You don't see holes in that?

[Guest or Caller]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Really?

[Guest or Caller]

No.

[Brett Vesely]

You're surprised.

[Guest or Caller]

Turns you down last minute for something.

[John Holmberg]

That they would have asked day one.

[Guest or Caller]

Well, they asked right off the bat. But they're saying they decided no. We don't want to take that risk.

[John Holmberg]

But why did they at first.

[Guest or Caller]

Don't know. Wasn't there.

[John Holmberg]

That's what I'm saying. No, there's holes in the story.

[Guest or Caller]

Okay.

[Brett Vesely]

This is the entertainment troll.

[John Holmberg]

This is entertainment.

[Guest or Caller]

Wow.

[John Holmberg]

That's why you're. That's why your family's so interesting. You just accept that. Doesn't seem like there. Seems like they accept when Peace Corps.

[Guest or Caller]

Says, sorry, you can't.

[John Holmberg]

I understand that. But I understand you're. See, you're doing it right now.

[Guest or Caller]

No, I don't understand. But no, it wasn't. You know, was I upset for them? Sure. I thought it was. You know, you're more mad at the Peace Corps. Why wouldn't they say that from the get go?

[John Holmberg]

Right. Because they wouldn't have considered it.

[Guest or Caller]

I mean a government agency not being super efficient on stuff.

[John Holmberg]

The Peace Corps government. I don't think it's a government agency.

[Guest or Caller]

Is it financed by the.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know where it's financed.

[Guest or Caller]

Kennedy started the Peace Corps.

[John Holmberg]

I know he started it, but it was as a. Like I don't know if it was a government maybe facilitated thing, but either way there's holes in that story. Tons of them.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And it's not the Peace Corps only that would just go. Yeah, we changed our mind. Sorry about that.

[Guest or Caller]

You think it's something that my. That.

[John Holmberg]

No, I just think there's probably.

[Guest or Caller]

Or that was going on with my dad or mom.

[John Holmberg]

Don't know. That's where the questions come in. But I know them just saying. Never mind. On the whole house sale and all the stuff we put you through forgot to ask you day one if there's any of these things.

[Guest or Caller]

I mean, they were older, right? But I don't think usually most. You know, you go Peace Corps right out of college or.

[John Holmberg]

Sure, sure. Something went on. I'm gonna ask Bunny. Next time I see or talk to Bunny, I'm gonna ask her a couple.

[Guest or Caller]

Give you the number.

[John Holmberg]

Okay, I'll talk to her. Because it'll be like finally.

[Brett Vesely]

I'll do that tomorrow.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, we'll drill her.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And she'll be like, I can't. I don't want to tell. And kidney stones. Click, boop.

[Guest or Caller]

You'll come away with the same thing. There's holes in the.

[John Holmberg]

I know, but I'll tell her. No, you never tell her. Mom, this doesn't make sense. Someone has to tell her. That doesn't make any sense.

[Guest or Caller]

They could have maybe asked some more questions.

[John Holmberg]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

[Guest or Caller]

Maybe. Or they didn't.

[John Holmberg]

I sell my house to start a new life with some group that has accepted me to the point where I've actually sold my home.

[Guest or Caller]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

I mean, I'm pretty.

[Guest or Caller]

That was gonna happen regardless. But this. Let's just do this now.

[John Holmberg]

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[Brett Vesely]

Nothing as entertaining as what we just heard.

[John Holmberg]

That's probably true.

[Guest or Caller]

We. Austin Butler was preparing for his new movie role by looking at baseball players butts.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he had to do some squats to get. Baseball players have asses.

[Guest or Caller]

He's in a movie called Caught stealing. Plays a former baseball player.

[John Holmberg]

I actually saw a preview for that it looks pretty good.

[Guest or Caller]

He's like, yo. You know, he showed him pictures of baseball players. They have thick butts.

[John Holmberg]

Everybody train. You got to do some squats. Baseball players have big, thick asses.

[Brett Vesely]

Ron say.

[John Holmberg]

Ron say was a big fat. Yeah, there's that dude that plays first base for the Indians. The other night, I was at the Guardians and I was at the game, and he had a home run. He's 661-1-92. He's rounding first. Ass was huge, but he was tiny, skinny dude.

[Guest or Caller]

Kirby Puckett.

[John Holmberg]

No, Kirby was just a blob, but he was. Yeah, there's that. All these. You look at them asses and baseball players are thick. Sexy.

[Guest or Caller]

President Trump doesn't. It's not sure if he's getting into heaven.

[John Holmberg]

He's not. If there is one, he's not.

[Guest or Caller]

He suggested yesterday that he's. He's not doing well when it comes to his chances getting into heaven, but he thinks it'll help if he can broker a peace deal between Russia and.

[John Holmberg]

Ukraine that might bang out a couple of the prostitutes that pissed on him. When Jesus might. Jesus might be like, you know what? We'll forgive that because you brought peace to the Ukraine.

[Guest or Caller]

On Fox and Friends yesterday. Said, I want to try to get to heaven if possible.

[John Holmberg]

Got a lot of work to do.

[Guest or Caller]

Hearing I'm not doing well. I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole.

[John Holmberg]

I got a lot of work to do. You know, a lot of people just have to say a couple Hail Marys. I have to achieve world peace to make good for the things I've done wrong. A lot of. A lot of infidelity, Brett. And an awful lot of urine. Also, I've killed a few people, and I made people sell their homes before I took the Peace Corps away from them.

[Guest or Caller]

Trump will let him in.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, just a lot of questions. It's 10:14. That's it. We're done. McFeely's coming up next. You guys have yourselves a grand Wednesday, and we'll see you tomorrow on the Morning Sickness. Hello.

[Guest or Caller]

It's not weird.

[John Holmberg]

It's pretty cool, actually.

[Guest or Caller]

No membership fee.

[John Holmberg]

I've heard enough of this.

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[John Holmberg]

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