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Holmberg
There's more of the best of Homburg's Morning sickness guy emails me I remember we were talking about the things we did to people's front yard, stealing gnomes and pinwheels and I'd mentioned that we had taken some from a yard ceramic deer, put them in someone else's yard in a decorative way and when the people were looking for their gnomes, their gnomes had moved down the street a couple houses so they had to knock on the door and say did you steal my gnomes? Or whatever. We hoped this guy one up that this is pretty awesome. Wanted to let you know a game we used to play back in Wisconsin around Christmas called Baby Jesus Hunting. A large group of us would go out and collect the baby Jesi from the people's Nativity scenes. We would write down the addresses on the baby Jesus, put them in our cars, and then on Easter morning we'd put it back.
Brady
I guess they would stick their scene out even without the baby Jesus.
Holmberg
Jesus. Oh yeah.
Mark
If you put it out there, you only put it out on Christmas morning.
Brady
Yeah. You don't really do for Easter, do you?
Holmberg
Oh, the Nativity scene.
Mark
Yeah, you leave them out.
Holmberg
That's what he's saying. You steal Jesus for Christmas. Be like, oh.
Mark
But he's saying when people put up on their Christmas, you don't fill the manger. You, you have the whole scene set up. They're just hanging out in the manger. And then on Christmas, because we used to put the one at our house, we put baby Jesus out on Christmas.
Holmberg
Morning so he stayed in the box.
Mark
Just like the tree, you know, the 25 days of Christmas.
Brady
So how would he return it on Easter? Like just put it like at their door.
Holmberg
Yeah, Jesus returns on Easter. Every Nativity scene I've ever seen in somebody's front yard, there's a Jesus in the manger.
Mark
I know. And I always thought, take him out of there until Christmas.
Holmberg
Really? So you just think that they sat.
Brady
There like doing authentic.
Holmberg
Yeah, just plastic things. And then Jesus is in a box in the garage for like two weeks. Then. That's just disrespectful.
Brady
He has like, you know, a week or two to, you know, perform for everyone.
Holmberg
Yeah, give him some time. I mean, we're celebrating. It's not Christmas Day. There's no reason to put up the Nativity scene at all until like the day before with your realistic, you know, Daniel Day Lewis style of nativity scenery.
Brady
Plus they, they probably didn't just stay there forever.
Holmberg
Something's going to happen.
Mark
The one we had in our front yard also, there was real people. They lived there for.
Holmberg
Oh, that's a little rough. And then they had to actually give birth. So. Yeah, we're about nine months out now. It's probably time to get your nativity.
Mark
Timing was a little off a couple years. We did some C sections.
Holmberg
No kidding. You, you guys used to wait on the baby Jesus?
Mark
Yeah. On the inside one in the house. Huh?
Holmberg
What'd you do with him in the meantime?
Mark
Hit him in a drawer.
Holmberg
Cuz he's in there.
Mark
We know he's in the drawer.
Holmberg
Right.
Mark
You don't touch that drawer.
Holmberg
Because it's not like baby Jesus, just matching.
Mark
Every now and then I, I'd peek in. There he is.
Holmberg
Jesus is It Showtime.
Mark
Soon you'll be in that.
Holmberg
Hello, Brady. Put me in my manger. I can't do it yet. Jesus not. Not born quite. You stay in the drawer.
Brady
Have you guys been watching the Bible?
Holmberg
I watched yesterday and I laughed hysterically.
Mark
It is so cheesy acting because it's awful and. Is this a new series or is.
Brady
Yeah, yeah, it's a new series.
Holmberg
It's a big deal.
Brady
But now they're in the Jesus part where he's about to get crucified. And the guy playing Jesus is just.
Holmberg
He's the worst actor I've ever seen. Chris Cornell is terrible.
Mark
That's what I said to you.
Holmberg
I'm. He's gorgeous.
Brady
I mean, he is gorgeous. He's like the Brad Pitt.
Mark
Pretty blonde.
Holmberg
No, I think she's the dirty, curly dark haired girl, I think. But I was watching him tip the table.
Mark
Maybe that was Sarah.
Brady
Yeah. When he flipped the tables over because the money was there.
Holmberg
Call me a dog. And I'm doing.
Brady
He touched that one guy's chest.
Holmberg
They put the ear. Put the ear back on that dude. And he just stood there. I'm like, jesus, can you smile? Can you give me a giggle? Why is everything so down? This is our last meal together, friends. Kenny, come on. You're so down all the time. He wouldn't have had one friend if that's how he really was. Three of you would betray me. You know what? I'm gonna go to the bar. This dude is a downer. I like him. His message is nice and all that, but I've got to give all my money to poor people. And he's always telling me we suck. You'll deny me three times before the morrow.
Mark
But then he brought me around when he washed my feet. I mean, that was a big deal school.
Holmberg
He cured that dude's ear and the reaction.
Mark
And that soldier that got.
Brady
Yeah.
Holmberg
Got his ear chopped off when he lived by the sword to dive the sword. He chops like soldiers. And then he stops screaming so someone can deliver a line. Then he's back at it and Jesus touches him. And nobody's like. Nobody is converted at that moment. This dude's ears off. No, we still got to kill him. That was neat, though. I got to tell you, that Copperfield thing was pretty cool. But the acting in it is so bad. And Jesus is absolutely stunning.
Mark
They would testify on his behalf, the Roman soldiers.
Brady
Yeah. You think that they would kind of.
Mark
Ear. And it came back.
Brady
He brought a guy back to life.
Holmberg
I mean, touch the dude's chest, they.
Mark
Brought that into the. Into the trial and stuff. But. But this was all, you know, he was.
Brady
Why didn't you just perform? Just pilot and. Yeah, if I'm.
Holmberg
Look, if you're the king of kings, you can do all these miracles. I would have put on a hell of a show a lot better than that. All this subtle crap nonsense. And you know, if you're that worried about, you know, spare me, spare me all this stuff you to put on some thunderous stuff. I have built the city of the future. This is a new car. You're going to love this stuff. I've seen it all. I know everything that's going to happen. This guy's amazing. He might be a witch, but I think I'd rather follow the witch than the guy who's left us in the bread house that all we eat is this awful tortilla shell.
Brady
You want to make him the genie from.
Holmberg
Yeah, yeah. Take a look over here. God, it's a new car. Kate Upton. Oh, I created it. Look, I don't know if I. I am following this one. God, do you have anything that's.
Mark
That's why I washed his hands. It's like, look, I can't put this guy away.
Holmberg
No, no, I'll give him to you guys. He still killed him, though.
Mark
You.
Holmberg
You put that guy, you know, on a stage. The whole point of it is that they made a mistake, right? That's the whole point of the things like he died. They didn't pull.
Mark
They didn't make a mistake.
Holmberg
Yeah, they did. They could have made him a show. He would have been the best entertainer of all time.
Mark
He could have had that option.
Holmberg
Welcome Jesus Christ. All right, everybody watch this and imagine.
Brady
We wouldn't have that, you know, sad crucifix thing. We'd have like a picture of Jesus around our neck doing cool things.
Holmberg
Will you cure us of disease, Jesus? Some of you. But watch this. This is a light bulb that's coming in about 1700 years. You're gonna love it. Oh, that's really neat. Do we get one? No, I'm just showing you this stuff from the future so you don't kill me. He was a showman.
Mark
Speed it up.
Holmberg
But you know why? It's cuz he was. He was kind of like, you know that one friend everybody has that they like, but he's not. He's got no personality. Again, he enjoys company, but he's got no personality. So he had no stage presence. Jesus had no stage presence. For you, that was the big.
Brady
Well, yeah, just in that Show. I'm not gonna say the real Jesus.
Holmberg
Oh, we don't know. The way they're presenting him. Yeah, the way they're presenting him.
Mark
To leave a story this long.
Brady
Yeah.
Holmberg
Somebody that cool with that many, you know, magical gifts should have been on stage somewhere. So he just. He didn't. He didn't Q score with the audience.
Brady
What I don't understand is why do, like, other religions go by our calendar, like 2013?
Holmberg
I wondered that about the Japanese, especially, because theirs was on thousands of years. Or the Asians.
Brady
Why does everybody, like, why do Buddhists? Why do Muslims? Why.
Holmberg
For business.
Brady
Why do even Jews do it? I mean, he was just a prophet to them.
Holmberg
For business, it's all business. It's all money. Because we, you know, the Western came down. The business.
Mark
The power, too. Because the Roman Empire is probably the. For a while. And then for. I think the. Early on, maybe the Chinese had something going on, a couple of their dynasties.
Brady
But so everybody just said, all right, we'll just make this zero.
Holmberg
Yeah.
Mark
Well, there was one. Who was it? August. One of the. Augustus decided, hey, my birthday. I want to add a day. Or was it a month?
Holmberg
I think that was before Jesus, though. I think that was BC time. They still had them.
Mark
It was, but he. But they changed calendar then.
Holmberg
But, like, the Chinese still celebrate their Chinese New Year. But I remember this now. We don't do it anymore. We still celebrate it. We'll go to Vegas and stuff. But we still have to go by Jesus time.
Brady
Yeah. Why do you. They're on Jesus time ad. Yep. Why would they use the ad after death?
Holmberg
Of what?
Brady
Who?
Holmberg
That guy? Yeah, that guy. I never liked him. I never went. He never went on stage. And he didn't give us any, like, memorable moments, really, as our culture seems.
Brady
Why is a Buddhist ad.
Holmberg
Yeah, it's a great point, Brady.
Mark
He just didn't have the impact that Jesus did.
Holmberg
Buddha. Buddha, yeah. He's selling lucky jeans.
Mark
He did smile, but I think people, again, were snobby and they're like, look, Jesus is a little more fit if it wasn't. That's true.
Holmberg
The thing I liked about Buddha is that he's still smiling. You know, he basically lost his job and he's still smiling.
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Mark
And they never. I don't think they put Is Buddha more of a prophet? I mean, of course other religions look at Jesus a prophet, sure. And Christianity look at.
Brady
But why is he the man? Like, even, even Jewish to me, like why. Why would you go by that?
Holmberg
Buddhism's even weirder than Jesus is out on both of them. But I like that Buddha lost his job. He said, ah, forget it, I don't care. I go sell jeans. He's a lucky jeans guy. He's a spokesman though. He had a job as the face of a company you imagine in other countries. We went over there and Jesus was on their lucky brand jeans. Oh, cool. Or you get to rub the Buddha. When you go into casinos and stuff. The aria has a big Buddha there. Everybody rubs it. It's like one with the Jesus. Rub the Jesus for luck. The last of Humber's morning sickness. That, my friends, is a concert Psych rock right now for you fest. Which I'm thinking if things go right in the next few days, we'll more than likely have a pot leaf in the poster. That's just a thought. Keep that in mind. It's not official, but the new bands we're looking to add to the Ufest could possibly.
Brady
Or is it getting legalized? Are we going the way of Colorado?
Holmberg
It's not going to get legalized before April.
Mark
It's going to be added spice.
Holmberg
But I'm under the assumption that will be a weed festival. If the cards fall the way they're looking, they may. I don't even smoke it, but man, will I go and watch that.
Mark
There'll be some glassy eyes.
Brady
You won't need to.
Holmberg
You know. I'll say that if this band that we're looking at gets on the bill and I'm backstage, I'm smoking weed with them. I will.
Brady
You have a chance.
Holmberg
If I have a chance to smoke weed with these guys, I'll do it. I don't even like it. I don't like, the way it makes me feel. I'm one of those paranoid weirdos. When I'm high, I'm nuts. I don't like it. I'll do it with them. Because that's.
Brady
It's like, if Snoop Dogg's around, I'm smoking weed.
Holmberg
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. If Keith Richards is around, I'm gonna be like, you know what? When in Rome. Give me that needle. There's certain guys who just do what they do, and it's okay. You feel safe for some reason, because Keith Richards is 95 years old. I might throw it in your veins. All right. It's worked for you.
Brady
Well, Larry didn't make you feel safe?
Holmberg
No. Larry. I ended up in the hospital with Larry. No, I would do that with Cypress Hill. I mean, oops. We'll see. It's up in the air. It's a maybe. But how awesome would that be? God, that would be incredibly cool. Yeah. If Brielle was back there. I call him Brielle. We're tight. It's be real to you guys, but Brielle for me, because I can scram it together. You want some? I do. Which end? The omelette side.
Brady
Yep.
Holmberg
Getting high with the Hill, that would rule Snoop Dogg. There's a few other guys you'd do drugs with. I think your parents would be okay with it too.
Brady
Yeah.
Holmberg
You know.
Brady
What about you, Brady? Anybody from, like.
Holmberg
Yeah. Is there any famous person that you'd be like, man? Snoop Dogg.
Brady
Luther Campbell.
Mark
Hey, player.
Brady
Hey.
Holmberg
Wants to get you stoned to the bee. Jesus. Just the two of you hanging out in this Cadillac. Like you and Larry King or. I bet you Larry King smoked with him. Sure. I'll take some of that. Snoop Dogg.
Mark
What are you smoking now?
Holmberg
Oh, rainbows and unicorns. We'll be right back.
Brady
If one of the Doobie Brothers offered it up.
Holmberg
Yeah. If hall and Oates were baking up. You know, I got one.
Mark
Think about it. Who?
Holmberg
Hall and Oats. Right there they are. Just got done doing Man Eater and Daryl's big old house. You're over there. Darrell has the show live from Darrell's house, which is music and cooking. He makes pot brownies. Do you eat pot brownies with the hero Daryl Hall?
Mark
I think about it.
Holmberg
That's not the question. Of course I'm asking you to think about it and then give me an answer. My answer is, would you get high with Daryl Hall? No, you would not.
Brady
Lame.
Holmberg
There is. Okay. What about, like, Paul McCartney? He's a notorious Beatty. There's a Beatles. One of the Beatles, Right. He made you some booties.
Mark
That'd be tough to turn down.
Holmberg
You would get high with Paul McCartney. Really?
Brady
Jeez.
Holmberg
What are you afraid of happening if you. If you do it? Becoming dying Reefer madness.
Mark
My brother waking me up again. Where are the breakfast rolls?
Holmberg
Yeah, but that's. But nothing bad happened.
Mark
Happened. I felt horrible.
Holmberg
You were.
Mark
Because he was mad at me.
Holmberg
Because you ate all the breakfast.
Mark
Because it wasn't Paul McCartney that I bowed down. It was Mark Sager.
Holmberg
All right, but that's my point exactly.
Brady
If you're doing Mark Sager.
Holmberg
Yeah. Why wouldn't you do it?
Mark
That's why I'm saying, do I reprise that let down again?
Holmberg
So it's more. Again, back to food. The breakfast rolls were missing and you angered him.
Mark
And then my brother was disappointed because my brother passed on it. It was around a campfire through couple of guys around there.
Holmberg
But you were like 11, so it's all right. You were disappointed then you're. You're a 50 year old man, for God's sake.
Mark
Yeah. And now I still don't want to disappoint my brother.
Holmberg
What if your brother and you were there and your brother's like, I'm getting high with Paul McCartney.
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Mark
Then I'm in.
Holmberg
You would do it. So it's up to your. So, yeah, so if your brother.
Mark
I'll call my brother. Hey, how about this? I got Sir Paul over here.
Holmberg
No Paul McCartney. Tom comes by and he goes, hey, I've just found out I love weed. Want to smoke with me? Would you smoke with your brother?
Mark
I would shake him.
Holmberg
Would you do it? No, he.
Mark
Probably not.
Holmberg
I'm kidding.
Brady
You know, gotta have the celebrity.
Mark
Although it would be better on the. You know, even that time when we had Ralphie there and those breaststrips, which was the easier way to do it.
Brady
Rather than, you're lucky you didn't do that.
Holmberg
Horrible mess. His THC breast strips were. I feel like I hit in the head with a wrecking ball in like two seconds.
Mark
That's what happened there.
Holmberg
But I'm no good at it because.
Mark
Now you're assuming that, you know, you're gonna have a similar experience.
Holmberg
Plus I didn't like it that you.
Mark
Did with Snoop or whoever.
Holmberg
But I didn't want it with Ralphie. I didn't want to be high with Ralphie. Ralphie offered. It says, real mellow. Oh, yeah.
Brady
He lied to him.
Holmberg
Real mellow. There's nothing to it. I'm like, oh. He's like, it's demon and it's just a breaststrip.
Mark
Yeah, it's totally breaststrip.
Holmberg
Real mellow.
Mark
You'll be all right.
Holmberg
Put it in my tongue. I'm like, okay.
Mark
Day, Day.
Holmberg
For like eight hours, I couldn't see straight.
Brady
It was horrible.
Holmberg
It was awful.
Mark
I had fun. I mean, watching us.
Holmberg
But yeah, I mean, that's Ralphie May. That's not celebrity. And that was something I wouldn't have normally done. He said it was a mellow breath strip. Yeah.
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Mark
It was. I going to the, Going to the snacks. Yeah, that was funny. It was more funnier than 10 hot dogs.
Holmberg
Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Paul McCartney, Stones, heroin. There's a few guys out there I'd, you know, partake with, but I don't like it. I don't, I don't, you know, it doesn't make me feel in control, so I lose it. But those guys, it would be like, all right, this is okay, Ralphie.
Mark
Sabotage. You know, when you get into heroin or something like that, I don't care who it is. I, I, I just don't want to.
Brady
Cross that about Jesus.
Holmberg
Yeah. What if Jesus did to me?
Mark
You know, I have a little more tolerance on, you know, the drink. Like, if it was a shot or something, sure could maybe do that. Or, you know, entertain.
Holmberg
Everybody's doing it. Brady.
Mark
If he came in and said, I want. Yeah, I'm in.
Holmberg
I want you to shoot heroin into your veins.
Brady
Brady's in with Jesus.
Holmberg
You wouldn't do it if Jesus said, be a heroine.
Mark
If Jesus said that? Yeah.
Holmberg
Like, what are you crazy? Get out of here.
Brady
That was your test.
Holmberg
You failed.
Mark
I'd have a couple of questions. You know why?
Holmberg
Because I said it's a little arrogant. Because I said, who answers to that? No, get out of here. This is when you show up to make me a heroin addict. I mean, like the winning lottery numbers. First you can't say, oh, it's pretty obvious. If he's floating around and he's telling, you know, and the harps are happening.
Mark
Hey, look, that was happening. Gary.
Holmberg
Really? Jesus? Yes. What proof do you need?
Brady
Flies in on a cloud.
Holmberg
Yeah, come on. That's pretty obvious. And if it's not, this is a test. It's still a pretty awesome situation you got. You do that heroin. That terrestrial being is trying to help you out.
Brady
Yeah, I'm not going to argue with him. He's flying on a cloud.
Holmberg
When you do the heroine, you'll be given all the lotto numbers. It's your choice.
Mark
It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually.
Holmberg
No membership fee.
Mark
I have heard enough of this.
This episode features the usual irreverent banter of Holmberg and the crew as they riff on everything from mischievous holiday traditions to pop culture depictions of Jesus. The crew dives into the authenticity (or lack thereof) in TV portrayals of biblical stories, imagines what Jesus would be like with more charisma and stage presence, jokes about world religions and their calendars, and wraps up with a hilarious hypothetical: would you do drugs with certain celebrities — or even with Jesus himself?
[01:41–04:36]
"We're celebrating. It's not Christmas Day. There's no reason to put up the Nativity scene at all until like the day before with your realistic, you know, Daniel Day Lewis style of nativity scenery." — Holmberg (03:36)
[04:36–09:01]
"We wouldn't have that, you know, sad crucifix thing. We'd have like a picture of Jesus around our neck doing cool things." — Brady (08:06)
[09:01–11:01]
"For business, it's all business. Because we, you know, the Western came down. The business." (09:16)
[11:47–12:52]
[12:52–16:13]
[19:00–20:29]
The Authentic Nativity Scene Debate (03:36):
"It's not Christmas Day. There's no reason to put up the Nativity scene at all until like the day before with your realistic, you know, Daniel Day Lewis style of nativity scenery." — Holmberg
On Cheesy Jesus Acting (04:52):
"He's the worst actor I've ever seen... I mean, he is gorgeous. He's like the Brad Pitt." — Holmberg
If Jesus Had More Stage Presence (06:47):
"I would have put on a hell of a show... I've built the city of the future. This is a new car. You're going to love this stuff." — Holmberg
Calendar Confusion and Global Business (09:16):
"For business, it's all business." — Holmberg
Comparing Buddha & Jesus in Pop Culture (12:00):
"I like that Buddha lost his job... He's a lucky jeans guy." — Holmberg
Celebrity Weed Hypotheticals (15:51):
"Would you get high with Paul McCartney?" — Holmberg
Would You Do Heroin if Jesus Asked? (19:25):
"You wouldn't do it if Jesus said, be a heroin?" — Holmberg
"If Jesus said that? Yeah." — Mark (19:26)
"That was your test. You failed." — Brady (19:33)
This episode is a quintessential outing for "Holmberg's Morning Sickness": playful, sometimes pointed, and always pushing the boundaries between irreverent humor and cultural commentary. Whether they're debating the authenticity of nativity scenes, criticizing wooden TV portrayals of Jesus, or imagining doing drugs with famous musicians (or the son of God himself), the humor stays sharp and unexpected.