09-03-25 - Rock Wars - Song For Brady When He Takes His Oxy Pill

Summary

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Holmberg’s Morning Sickness (98KUPD)

Episode: 09-03-25 – Rock Wars: Song For Brady When He Takes His Oxy Pill

Date: September 3, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely (Brett), Dick Toledo

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Episode Overview

This week’s “Rock Wars” segment sets out to find the perfect song to play as Brady takes his prescribed oxycodone, painting the scene as a comical, surreal fever dream. While poking fun at Brady’s medical journey and penchant for food, the show evolves into tongue-in-cheek support from listeners, with everyone (except Brett) giving up a bad habit in honor of Brady. The hosts reject stereotypical “drug songs” in favor of tracks specifically matching Brady’s personality and unique experience.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Brady’s Health and Listener Support

• The segment opens with Holmberg riffing that Brady’s attempt at weight loss and quitting bad habits has become a movement, inspiring listeners to do the same.
• Listeners write in about their personal pledges: some vow to quit soda, others joke about giving up sex or smoking in “solidarity” with Brady.
  • Quote [01:47]:
    • Holmberg (reading listener email):
      “I was going to give up getting laid for Brady as a joke. But I’m married, so it’s already a joke. So in honor of Brady and giving up some bad habits, I’m going to stop smoking today.”
  • Nicholas [02:09] pledges to quit his daily 4 liters of soda.

2. The Gimmick: Brady’s Oxy “Trip”

• The hosts joke about Brady’s medical cocktail—he’s waiting to take his oxy, and the comedic mood focuses on his expected “yellowing” and “weirdness” as side effects.
  • Quote [02:57]:
    • Holmberg:
      “Five? Yeah. Five minutes to oxy. All right, Brady's gonna take his oxy in a little bit, and if it's anything like yesterday, he goes on a little magic carpet ride and then turns yellow and goes home.”
• Brett, the reigning Rock Wars champ, offers the challenge:
  “Let’s do a song that describes as soon as Brady pops that pill.” [03:12]

3. Rock Wars Rules

• They make it clear: No cliché drug/psychedelic picks (Grateful Dead, The Doors, etc.).
  • Brett [03:29]: “Banning the Grateful Dead right now.”
  • They want songs that would fit “sweet Brady” on his very gentle (if legally prescribed) “drug run.”

4. The Picks & Riffs

Brady's Choice:

• Song: “Up, Up and Away” – The 5th Dimension
• Logic: Childhood favorite, now made literal with opiates.
• Imagined sequence: Brady floating on a pizza-shaped balloon, the hosts picture him as a marshmallow-dropping “marshmallow king.”
  • Quote [08:36]:
    • Brady: “I am your God. I’m the marshmallow king!”

Holmberg's Choice:

• Song: “Hungry Eyes” – Eric Carmen
• Logic: Visualizes Brady, unable to eat, gazing longingly at a conveyor belt of forbidden foods, high on painkillers.
  • Quote [09:21]:
    • Holmberg (on what Brady’s picturing):
      “His eyes focusing in on the thing he thinks is in front of him… conveyor belts of food just going past him. And he’s too drugged up to move. Slowly masturbating a spacid wiener. I’m high, man.”
  • They riff on the dark humor of someone’s donated kidney "being inside Brady" one day.
    • Quote [09:04]:
      • “You’ll be dead. So what do you care? Not you, Toledo, but the person whose kidney’s gonna go in Brady…”

Brett's Choice:

• Song: “Just One Fix” – Ministry
• Logic: Direct, edge-of-darkness pick befitting Brady’s change “after oxy.”
• Quote [10:23]:
  • Brett:
    “But yesterday, after seeing him jump on his oxy, it was a different man…like you said, his balls dropped. He got a little…just a little more aggressive. Especially seeing that food. So I think Al Jorgensen said it the best. Just One Fix.”
• Hosts laugh about Brady’s voice dropping and getting “aggressive” under the influence, comparing him to Ministry frontman Al Jorgensen.
  • Quote [10:59]:
    • “And Brady’s voice started sounding like this yesterday after he took the oxy. It did.”

5. Rock Wars Voting and Winner

• John Gordon is selected by random to judge. He sympathizes with Brady but picks Brett’s “Just One Fix” as the clear winner.
  • Quote [11:49]:
    • Host: “John, you get to come over here and choose who’s gonna win this week’s Rock Wars. I would give a sympathy vote to Brady, but Brett has the best song. All right, Just One Fix it is. Damn you, Brett Besley. That was a good song.”

6. Humor, Camaraderie, and Running Jokes

• Ongoing themes:
  • Brady’s innocent, food-focused “drug dreams”
  • The transformation of Brady’s voice and persona with each dose
  • Absurd imagery (pizza balloons, “marshmallow king,” slow dancing with pizza)
  • Supportive listeners joining in, silly dares
  • The underlying real-time medical saga

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “Brady, if we don’t save you, we’ve saved so many others. I don’t even feel like Brady matters anymore. This is great.” – Holmberg [02:09]
• “Brady just cracked open his red caps. He’s got himself an oxy coursing through his little veins.” – Holmberg [05:16]
• “A song that fits Brady’s drug run…Not some dumb Doors song or Grateful Dead or something stupid. Something specific to what we know as sweet Brady going through his drug coma.” – Holmberg [06:54]
• “Now I can do it on oxy.” – Brady, enthusiastically, about hearing his childhood favorite [07:44]
• “I am your God. I’m the marshmallow king.” – Brady, in full fever-dream fantasy [08:36]
• “It sounded effective. Good. I like this. This guy couldn’t keep heroin on his veins either. Yeah.” – On the appropriateness of “Just One Fix” [11:01]
• “This is a good one. I like this. From one heroin addict to another. Plus, it buys a little time before Brady’s gotta start reading.” – Holmberg, setting up the winning song [12:29]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:11] – Listeners call/text in with their “solidarity” sacrifices for Brady
• [02:57] – Brady’s oxy countdown/jokes about his side effects
• [05:16] – “Brady just cracked open his red caps…” Intro to Rock Wars
• [07:28] – Song selection process begins
• [07:44] – Brady reveals his pick (“Up, Up and Away”)
• [09:01] – Holmberg’s darkly funny “food fantasy” song pitch
• [10:22] – Brett’s edgier “Just One Fix” pick
• [11:45] – John Gordon chooses the winner: “Just One Fix”

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Summary Table: Rock Wars Picks

| Host | Song Selected | Reasoning / Imagery | |-------------|---------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | Brady | Fifth Dimension – "Up, Up and Away" | Floating, carefree, pizza balloon fever dream | | Holmberg | Eric Carmen – "Hungry Eyes" | Drugged, longing for food, conveyor belt hallucination | | Brett Besley| Ministry – "Just One Fix" | Dark, heavy, fits Brady’s “changed” persona on oxy |

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Tone

• Cheeky, irreverent, and fast-paced—a classic morning shock-jock style with heavy doses of sarcasm, inside jokes, and a blend of dark humor and camaraderie.

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Conclusion

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness is a riotous celebration of Brady, his medical journey, and the show’s brand of uncensored humor. It’s full of creative musical pairings, audience engagement, and affectionate roast-style banter among the crew, all centered around the comedically exaggerated premise of Brady’s oxy-fueled transformations.

Winner: Brett Besley with “Just One Fix” by Ministry.
Ultimate take: “From one heroin addict to another” (Holmberg [12:29])—a perfect HMS punchline to a thoroughly unserious Rock Wars.

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Transcript

[Brett Besley]

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[Host (possibly 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. Brady, you've inspired the nation. You're like the that Alzheimer's ice bucket challenge all of a sudden says I'm a muscular guy. 205. I don't have a lot of fat to get rid of, so it's a little tougher to lose weight. But I'll join with Brady and drop down to 185 with him and get some lean muscle mass in there. And he said, and get that lean. I have to cut down on my drinking, so I'll be giving up 90% of my alcohol intake for Brady. He's got a nine out of the 10 drinks he would normally have taken. He won't. That's pretty good. People all over this stuff. This guy said it. He said I was going to give up getting laid for Brady as a joke. But I'm married, so it's already a joke. So in honor of Brady and giving up some bad habits, I'm going to stop smoking today.

[Brady]

Nice.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Brady. If we don't save you. We've saved so many others. I don't even feel like Brady matters anymore. This is great. Says I will give up soda starting today. Nicholas says I'm currently 284lbs. I want my weight to be 200. He drinks 4 liters of soda a day because he's driving trucks. That's a lot. That's a lot more than me. And I drink way too much. But I don't drink the straight stuff. I drink the zero. If I drink all that sugary soda, I'd be a blob. I'll quit it. This is my last. Can hear it. Down to the last, like, quarter, too. Well, this is a good thing, Brett. You're the only one not really participating.

[Brett Besley]

I'm giving up water.

[Brady]

Five minutes.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Five? Yeah. Five minutes to oxy. All right, Brady's gonna take his oxy in a little bit, and if it's anything like yesterday, he goes on a little magic carpet ride and then turns yellow and goes home. It's really weird. We'll take some yellow pictures of him. Brett, you are in charge of Rock Wars. You won last time. What do you got for us?

[Brett Besley]

Let's do a song that describes as soon as Brady pops that pill.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Okay. A Brady on Oxy. So not like we're not going down the typical. You're high on heroin. It's Brady, right? High on heroin. Yeah. A song directed specifically to his needs.

[Brett Besley]

Banning the Grateful Dead right now.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

The Doors. The Grateful Dead, all the psychedelics. Typical crappy psychedelic. Everybody's a hippie song. Brady is trying heroin for the first time, and he's enjoying it. We're enjoying it more than he is. He's a mess. So when Rock wars begins, he'll have taken a pill. By the time it's over, it will have kicked in. And yesterday his voice changed. His balls dropped. It was amazing. He went through old man puberty. He walked in.

[Brady]

Hello there.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Yeah. So a song. Hey, how y' all doing? My name's Brady, and I'm enjoying all the dragons in the world. Things that Brady would fantasize about in his dreams, his fever dream state. Man, there's a couple of them, though. All right, you help us out, Holmberg. At 98kupd.com you can text 97936 or you can call us 585-9800. We'll find out what this is all about in just moments. Rock wars is next. Morning sickness Medicate K u p d.

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[Brett Besley]

I want this to come.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

That kidney is processing the blood right now and giving it back to his body in ways you can only imagine. As his liver splits up what needs to be done as poorly as it's working, his kidney spits out whatever blood it can. And next thing you know, he's more oxy than man. He gets a little weird, turns yellow, goes home. But on September 3, 2025, which we've made. Give it up for Brady Day. Tyus says I weigh 200 pounds. Nice and muscular. Maybe a little extra weight, but not much. I've got two really bad habits. Gotta pick one to quit for Brady. You tell me and let me know. I can either quit smoking cigarettes or weed. Sure. My weed threw and cigarettes would probably be better. Well, my weed through what? Oh my weed though. And cigarettes would probably be better. It's a tough battle, but for you, Brady, I'll do it. I'll let you choose. Cigarettes or weed. What does Tyus get?

[Brady]

Give up the cigarettes.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Yeah, cigarettes are worse for you than weed. I think weed seems more natural for some reason.

[Brady]

It does.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Cigarettes have all those chemicals and weird stuff. So yeah. Ty, give up the cigarettes. Do it for Brady. Brett has chosen the topic of Brady's drug induced fever dream theme song. Like if it a movie like the Doors, only it was the bogan. You'd have a song that fits Brady's drug run. Not the typical drug run. Not some dumb Doors song or Grateful Grateful Dead or something stupid. Something specific to what we know as sweet Brady going through his drug coma. Brett, who would you like to go first?

[Brett Besley]

It's Brady's topic.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Brady, let's go.

[Brady]

Finally, as this thing's kicking in. I can finally enjoy this song the way it was meant to be. Growing up listening to this song. It was one of my favorites when I was like 6 years old.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

That's right.

[Brady]

Now I can do it on oxy.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Okay.

[Brady]

Fifth Dimension. Up, up and away.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

I could see this actually working out. If I was to make a movie about Brady being on heroin, this would be the song I use. That's pretty strong. You liked this when you were a kid?

[Brady]

I did.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

So gay. Even the fifth dimension. You're a big six year old fan of the dimension.

[Brady]

Harold McCoo.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

We know who's in it.

[Brett Besley]

Forget it.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

It's such a. Yeah, you lived in a dreamscape for a little bit. Up, up and away. Yeah. I could see Brady imagining himself on a big pizza balloon floating over the skies, dropping marshmallows on the people below.

[Brady]

I am your God. I'm the marshmallow king.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

All right. Want me to go next?

[Brady]

Yeah. Hit it.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Mine is what I would see Brady going through. And I know he's got to give up food for all of his health problems right now. And he's trying to straighten himself up to make sure he's in tip top condition for when that new brand new dead kid kidney comes in. Somebody out there listening right now could very well be inside Brady.

[Brady]

Who?

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Well, you know what I mean.

[Brady]

Deep.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

You'll be dead. So what do you care? Not you, Toledo, but the person whose kidney's gonna go in Brady. Wouldn't that be weird? Yeah, it would be an odd thing. Like right now, if a guy listening. Check your driver's license right now, if it says organ donor, there's a chance you'll be inside Brady by this time next year. Cool.

[Brady]

Warm.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

And when Brady's taking his oxy. Yeah, it's nice and warm inside of Brady. Wet like bougie poon. I just picture one thing and one thing only. His eyes focusing in on the thing he thinks is in front of him. Because, you know, he's fantasizing about all the stuff he can't have. And he'll have hungry eyes. Oh, yeah. Seeing one of those conveyor belts of food just going past him. And he's too drugged up to move. Slowly masturbating a spacid wiener. I'm high, man. He starts like slow dancing with pizza and a tuxedo. It's a love song for food, you know he's missing it. Hungry eyes. Eric, Carmen, Brett, what do you got?

[Brett Besley]

And I'm staying straight with this one.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Oh, so what.

[Brett Besley]

You know Brady's talking about the fifth dimension and all that kind of stuff. But yesterday, after seeing him jump on his oxy, it was a different man. Yeah, I mean, it was like, you know, like you said, his balls dropped. He got a little. Just a little more aggressive, Especially seeing that food. So I think Al Jorgensen said it the best. Just one fix.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Oh, wow. From another heroin addict like Brady. Brady is just like this guy. Yeah.

[Brett Besley]

And Brady's voice started sounding like this.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Yesterday after he took the oxy. It did. It sounded effective. Good. I like this. This guy couldn't keep heroin on his veins either. Yeah.

[Brady]

Feeling it, man.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Yeah. See?

[Brett Besley]

And it's from the album Psalm 69 Social.

[Brady]

All right.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

All right. There you go. I like that a lot. We're late. So it comes up to you, buddy. We're gonna go. We can do between. Last call, John Gordon. When I have time to tabulate everything and emails, emails, emails I haven't checked.

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[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Oh, yeah. Last call, JG Trivia. Who wins this week? Go ahead.

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One through three.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

One through three. Number two. Number two. John Gordon picks himself. John, you get to come over here and choose who's gonna win this week's rock horse. John Gordon. I would give a sympathy wrote to Vady. They did. Oh, my God. Check your pills. I've been taking those, too. Yeah, I would give a sympathy vote to Brady, but Brett has the best song. All right, this one fix it is. Damn you, Brett Besley. That was a good song. All right, there we go. Nicely done. You got it ready?

[Brady]

Do we have to play spots?

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Are we either. Would you calm down? We'll play them out of the. It'll work perfectly. Play the song and we'll play the.

[Brady]

Spots out of this.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

Okay, you're good. Give me the just one fix. We're gonna do it on time.

[Brett Besley]

Yes.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

This is a good one. I like this. From one heroin addict to another. Plus, it buys a little time before Brady's gotta start reading. Oh, I can't wait. And he's on heron. Listen to that guy over there. These guys. All right, you got it ready? It's just one fix. Go get him, Alex. 98. Hey.

[Brady]

It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fees.

[Host (possibly Holmberg)]

I have heard enough of P. Day.