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You're listening to the HMS Podcast, brought to you by MMP Guns.com, your most trusted online marketplace for firearms, ammunition, and accessories. You thought that was funny? You were laughing like a hyena when he said it. What the hell is wrong with you? Today is cruising right along. Wednesday's upon us. He's got Rock wars coming up in just a second. I'm going to give you a story and then relate it because this is my pick for Rock War since I won last week. We have to celebrate something here. They always say the pendulum swings too far the other way when you fix a problem. A lot of the times when it's stuck way over here and like, we got to fix that, instead of putting it back where it goes, we usually over pursue it and swing it way too far the other way. Now, I grew up a child of the 80s, much like Brett did. Brady was also a child of the 80s, but it was just a different century. We were. We were always taught to believe that there were so many starving people in the world. Your mother would say, finish that food. They're starving children in Africa or China. Or use like some sort of South Asian something or other to remind you you have a ton of food. Finish your food, you spoiled little American baby. And that went on in other places too. You know, the Western world always had more. We had. We are the World. We had. Do they even know it's Christmas? All these things that. What was that? Hands Across America was to get food. What was that? Live Aid Feeding people. A recent study from the United nations report from UNICEF confirms that for the first time since we started to study this stuff in human history, and that's just since, you know, recorded, man. Basically there are now more kids who are obese in the world than there are starving ones. It's working. We did it. We did it, you guys. Everybody's making this out to be a bad thing. We have a bigger problem with fat kids than we do starving kids. And that was Lionel Richie's dream. That is beautiful. We are the world. I always used to say it. Did that song even work? Yes, it did. Unfortunately. It made everyone fat. Those giant bales just kept coming over. Finally, I could not eat another bite. Please, Lionel Richie, stop. Music for you and Lionel. Like, nope. Hello. Here's some food I'm giving you. Yeah, that's it. This is. This worked. We didn't know it was gonna. But it did because Dan Aykroyd was there. That's right. In the background for no. Helping out Canada. Yep. And I drove by a school. I don't remember which one I was going by yesterday. Somewhere over in the. Just pick one. It's on 68th street in Thomas. Fat kids everywhere. Not one skinny kid. It was the opposite when I went to school. They're all fat. We did it in America. You did your part by making all your kids fat. More fat kids than there are starving kids. They did it. I forgot. We're supposed to do this for Night of the Singing Dead. He was doing the outro. Yeah. God's great big family man. The truth, you know. Love is all we need. Come on, sing it. We made him fat. Fat kids, we are the children Big fat ones we are the ones who make a brighter day do it, fatties. Look at your little fat child today. Smack him on his Buddha belly and say, we cured hunger, you little bastards. But now we got another problem on our hands. We need Lionel and a gang to get together, skinny up some of these fat kids, and bring it back to the center. So that's Rock Wars. This week, a fundraising song to get your kids back to skinny again. Healthy, not starving. Why can't we have nice things? No Weird Al, though. No, no, that's just I'm fat. We can't see. Celebrate their fatness. Something that makes them go the other way. Ah, Willie, I don't want to hear this. Bruce taking a poo. All right. Anyway, I get excited about this, so. A song, a fundraising song, maybe just a celebration song that we've cured world hunger. Let's start there. Rather than have a fundraiser for getting kids to go back to normal, a celebration that says, hunger is over and I'm fat is out. Weird Al's out. So proud of you. We don't have to hear about those. And by the way, in the study, it did say for the first time, the number of children with obesity worldwide exceeds the number of underweight children. The shift was observed globally. Except in Sub Saharan Africa. They still have a problem. But in the United States. We made all your kids so damn fat that we canceled out all those hungry Africans. And now the problem goes the other way. You know what we should do? Africa should start doing commercials. We have to help the very, very fat children of America by bringing them to Africa. And send your fat kids to Sub Saharan Africa to stand there for a month and lose all that weight. Get their Presidential Fitness Award. That's right. That's exactly it. Now I've got a. In my head. I have a song now that's perfect for what I want to do so a song to lose weight? No. Well, you could do that. A song that makes it so we're recognizing the new problem. A theme song for the new problem that will help it go the other way. And yes, speak. Singing about being fat is the opposite of what we want to do. Here. You can help out hombregate98kupd.com on this glorious day where we've cured starvation. Now your parents will smack the fork out of your hand and go, stop it. Do you know how many fat kids there are in Missouri? They give you little tiny plates. Now it's the opposite. Hungry kids in Africa don't matter. There aren't enough of them. So you give us the song. 585-9800. If you want to call it up, you can text 97936. Help us with Rock wars. That's coming up next. Holmberg's morning sickness. It's time for the weekly battle of musical supremacy known only as rock wars. And it's brought to you by our good friends we visited yesterday. Yes, Brett and I were over at mo money pond yesterday. 12th street in Indian school. If you want to head on over there and do like I did and come out of there with a whole bunch of cool stuff. Man, do they have a lot of memorabilia right now. Their walls are packed full with like autographed jerseys and sports. All sorts of great stuff. Dude next to me was selling all his old Activision video games. Whoa. Yeah, I know. It's pretty cool. Yeah, pitfall, probably. It was all of them. Mo money pawn right there in 12th street in Indian school. Shorter long term collateral loans from $10 to over 100,000American dollars. No credit needed, top dollar paid with the entire process just taking several minutes.mo money pawn.com. 12th street in Indian school. By the way, before we get into the rock wars, which is fascinating, the alert has gone out that there is a bomb squad investigation at the turning point USA headquarters right now. First and foremost, I don't know how you got a bomb in there. Aren't there people just standing outside paying honors and there's somebody out there all the time. There's just flowers and all sorts of stuff. Well, they put a suspicious package down, so the bomb squad just closed that area up. It's Beverly road and I don't even know it's down on the south side, but it's. Yeah, they've got that. So way to go, pricks. Can't have one. Can we just have. I like the old America where somebody would die and everybody just Be like, this is terrible what happened to us. That's pretty bad. Let's just let that. And in a couple of weeks we can start, you know, being a little light hearted about some things again and whatever. It's just, you know, you don't have to be on the right side of it. It's just ugly. Don't be uglier. But yeah, if you're gonna go drop off a balloon or something like that, like you planned on doing that. It's all closed up because some jackass left a package they think might be a bomb. Way to go stomping on flowers. Way to go politics. Thanks for making us all awesome. Anyway, the top. And on a day like this, Brett. Yeah, DEI day. Brady brought that up earlier. Day after Sit with a Stranger day, which is dangerous. Don't tell your kids to do that. That's horrifying. We have solved world hunger. A problem that has plagued man for years and years and years. We've solved it. There are more fat kids in the world than there are undernourished. So now we must take a page from Africa and find out how to be more like them. For years of my life trying to make Africa us. And now we've done it so good. There are too many fat people. So we've got to swing it back and regulate this. Normally, Brett, a theme song like We Are the World, only instead of trying to feed people, it's We Are the World. For people who are too fat. Go right ahead. For people that are too fat. And I think we always talk about the story about Peter Steele wanting a Diet Pepsi from the album Life is Killing Me, which fits. I don't want to be me. Yeah. Oh, very nice. You want to be a fat ass. Getting into the psyche of the overweight kid. I always like this song. Take me to death, toes. That's good stuff. I don't want to be a music. You guys want to drink right now? You good, Peter? I'll have a Diet Pepsi. It was from the great haunted state of Pennsylvania. All right. I like that one. Brady, what do you got? Well, I know you know you can continue the celebration of food. I'm finding this out. But it's got to be healthy food. If you eat healthy, you can still eat. Food can still be your friend. Yeah. Even though it's not dirty and awful like a whore. Love jingles. I went with the Beach Boys. Vegetables. What vegetable is that? A pan flute? It's a guy on top of Squaw Peak. I brought a big brown bag of Them home, big brown bag. I jump up and down and hope you toss me a carrot. What the. I'm going to. 57 years it took me. I wish it was another 57. Actually, I could go. I could go another 57. Man. Brady is the king of the seaside. On the album. Yeah. No, this is. No, that's on the. On the 45. He can find. He can find the third song on a 45. You knew about this, too, didn't you? No. You didn't? Okay, good. Vegetable by the Beach. What do you Google search for Rock Wars? Songs that haven't been played in 100 years? What song hasn't been played? I don't go go that far. 57 years, color television, man. That ain't going to work. Nobody's going to. Finger on the pulse. Exactly. You're not going to cure. Finger on the Pulse. John Gordon's ready to pick you today. Yeah, just eliminate that. Brett, I'll talk to you. You and I are in a battle. We are. Good Lord. Brady's kidney's glad it got out. New old music. You heard it first. Yeah, definitely heard it first. That's great. First again with that crap. We need David Lee to make those drops first again with your rock. That Brady knows, but no one else does. It's the new one from the Beach Boys. Vegetable. Which I believe Brittany might be. He would say vegetable. Yes. There's no way David Lee says vegetables. Pass me some vegetables. It's not good. Pass me some vegetables. Green beans. Green beans. Light salt, less butter. Healthy guts are good for you. Bok choy, kimchi, okra vegeta. Don't you start. Although he's kind of diving into the new world of vegetables. Vegetables. You are one. And Brady is looking. If you have a family member who is a vegetable, he could use their kidneys. You're not going to talk to a new generation of fatties with that. Who's their hero? Bert Lizzo? No. Who can make the entire carpenter? You. Thus. Oh, not a bad one there. I thought that's where Brady was going to go. That would have been really good. Too modern. The Carpenters. No, vegetable. But, you know, I mean, Brady's like a. I liked it better. Yeah, Brady's like a bad Netflix friend. You can't talk about anything because he hasn't caught up to the 70s yet. Another good Bollywood. No, no. Why Indians are. There's only one person on the planet that can motivate all these fat girls and boys to do anything. And I've seen this in person. If she says it, they do it. And all you got to do is go, shake it off, baby. Take it away. Keeps them moving. Shake off all that fat you chunks. And it's perfect. You know when that little fat kid puts that fork into another pile of gravy riddled meat. Mom can even say tap, tap, tap. Shake it off. Tay Tay wants you to be skinny. I don't think we've ever played Taylor Swift on this station before. Never play vegetable either. So this is just to shove it first. Tight race. Honestly. Sure it is. This is to just shove a giant rod up the Bob's asses. Because they do all that. They spend all that money on music research. Why are you playing Taylor Swift? Don't know. Why are we number one? You don't know what you're doing. Bye. Play a little Tay Tay mixer in there. All right. There you go. Those are your choices this week. You've got typo. I don't want to be me. You've got the Beach Boys and vegetables. Taylor Swift. Shake it off. Now we'll go to John. We gotta go John. Who are you gonna choose this week? Come on over here. And you can't pick Brady or we'll kill. Imagine David Lee getting What the. Larry. Larry, it's David Lee. I think you screwed up and sent me the wrong copy. 98 KUPD brings you the Beach Boys vegetables he's now voicing for pbs. Here's Big Bird and vegetables. Big Bird live this weekend. Vegetables. Oh, you know what? Brian Wilson died this year. Maybe for Night of the Singing Dead we'll do vegetables. Oh, my God. And bum. Nobody went with physical by living here. It's kind of an easy one. Almost. Almost. But the only rock song in the whole shooting match is from Brett Veslie. You don't know what you're doing anymore. Bring me a Diet Pepsi. I'd like a Diet Pepsi. Blow ice, please. Brady, you've gone full vegetable. This is vegetables. I think the new diet is killing Brady. It's Google search. Nailed it. Will somebody get Brady some dirty, fattening food? Somehow he's more scatterbrained than he was before. This is a good one. Vegetables. Vegetables. I took a chance for Shake it Off, but in the chance taking genre, I was stomped into the earth. I don't know. He smoked. You Flying Melinda's over here. What am I supposed to do? All right, we'll do a little typo. Negative. I don't want to be me. We'll do it after the break. It's 98 KUPD, Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station.
Date: September 17, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Station: 98KUPD, Arizona
Episode Theme:
This episode’s “Rock Wars” challenges the hosts to find or create the ultimate fundraising song—not to end starvation, as in the past—but to inspire kids to become healthier and counter the new global issue: childhood obesity. With the discovery that worldwide childhood obesity numbers now surpass those of undernourished children, the crew debates the cultural swing from famine to fatness and jokes about devising a new anthem for the cause.
The episode spotlights an unexpected global health shift: for the first time, there are more obese children than starving ones worldwide (except in Sub-Saharan Africa). The hosts discuss this reversal, its cultural underpinnings, and riff on what a modern “We Are the World”-style anthem would sound like to encourage kids to get healthy and active.
The crew maintains a sharp, irreverent edge, using dark sarcasm and nostalgia to lampoon both past and current approaches to global problems. The banter is rapid-fire and loaded with pop culture references, inside jokes, and local flavor.
This “Rock Wars” episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness takes a fresh and cheeky look at the changing face of world health problems—from the 1980s mantra of saving starving children to today’s challenge of overcoming childhood obesity. The hosts debate what a modern fundraising anthem should sound like, poking fun at musical choices and the awkwardness of suddenly having to encourage kids to eat less rather than more.
Not only does the episode highlight a significant global shift, but it also serves as a satirical snapshot of contemporary culture, complete with mock anthems, knowing winks to radio programming, and a lot of laughs—making it fun and insightful even for those who didn’t tune in live.