09-19-25 - Entertainment Drill - FRI - List Of Albums With Longest Run On Billboard Charts

Summary

Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – Entertainment Drill: Classic Albums With Enduring Billboard Power (09-19-25)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness centers on the enduring popularity of classic rock albums—specifically, those with the longest runs on the Billboard 200 chart. The hosts also treat listeners to lively banter about canceled concerts, actors who turned down iconic movie roles, and SNL's upcoming musical guests. Their signature mix of pop culture trivia and irreverent commentary makes for a fast-paced and engaging segment.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Local Events & Concerts at the Fair

• The hosts open with a casual chat about Arizona’s state fair and upcoming concerts, highlighting nostalgia for “bigger” acts in the past.
  • [01:31] John Holmberg: “The cult’s the one to go to. That’s October 25th. I haven’t really looked at the lineup. That used to be like every day there was somebody huge.”
  • D4VD show cancellation briefly mentioned, with a dark, humorous spin.

2. Entertainment Drill: Actors Who Turned Down Big Roles

• A rundown of major roles that famous actors declined, often for surprisingly trivial reasons.
  • [04:41] Brady: “Tom Cruise could have been Edward Scissorhands, but he had too many questions about how Edward could do everyday things.”
  • [04:54] John Holmberg (joking): “Go to the bath, wipe his ass.”
  • Pierce Brosnan skipped Batman because of the suit; Will Smith wanted Django Unchained to be a love story; Sean Connery “didn’t understand” the Lord of the Rings script.
  • [05:46] John Holmberg (as Connery): “This is a bunch of sh-t on paper. I say no and enjoy your flops. And the Oscar goes to. Ah.”
  • Russell Crowe worried about “too many wolf-related roles.”
  • Eddie Murphy turned down Ghostbusters (“thought the movie sounded like a crock”) and did Best Defense instead.
  • Jason Momoa passed on Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy because he didn’t want to be “a shirtless painted guy”—to which the hosts tease about his near-constant shirtlessness anyway.

3. SNL Season 51 Announcements & Banter

• SNL’s returning with musical guests like Bad Bunny and Doja Cat. Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter noted as hosts.
• In-show banter includes references to eating habits in the studio, with humorous attention to one host eating a banana.
  • [07:11] John Holmberg: “It’s literally just out of bread. Like, what’s going on over there? And there’s a… strange dude who looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.”
  • [08:12] Brady: "Check out the video." (refers to a video of raw ground beef being eaten in the studio)
  • The hosts keep their signature sardonic tone throughout.

4. The Main Drill: Albums With Longest Billboard Runs

• [08:56] Brady: “About 10% of the current Billboard 200 chart is made up of classic rock albums.”

  • Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (1977): 650 weeks on the chart.
    • [09:14] John Holmberg: “That’s pretty good.”
  • Elton John’s Diamonds (2017): 409 weeks.
  • Hall & Oates’ greatest hits (2001): 308 weeks.
  • [09:44] Brady: “A lot of them are greatest hits. Dark Side of the Moon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.”
  • Journey’s Greatest Hits: 874 weeks.
  • [10:35] Host: “Dark Side of the Moon was 989 total weeks. 741 consecutive.”
    • [10:40] John Holmberg: “Man.”
    • [10:44] Host: “So from '73 to '88 it was on the charts.”
    • [10:44] John Holmberg: “That's incredible.”
  • They clarify the difference between total and consecutive runs, noting some albums resurge when events (like band drama) recur.

• Cumulative impact emphasized:

  • [10:13] John Holmberg: “Think about that. 200 albums a week. …After a while, it's just a few every week that keeps the top 200 going.”

5. Clarifying Chart Statistics

• Delve into the detail that many albums re-enter the chart decades after release.
  • [11:09] Host: “Oh, well then that’s not consecutive.”
  • [11:12] Brady: “It didn’t say consecutive. It just said still on the Billboard 200 list.”

6. Live Giveaway Tease & Wrapup

• Marilyn Manson tickets teased for the next contest segment, “Guadalupe Squares.”

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Notable Quotes

• John Holmberg, [09:33]: “It’s incredible. Am I right? 650 weeks. Like, 12 years. …Holy cow, man.”
• Brady, [08:56]: “About 10% of the current Billboard 200 chart is made up of classic rock albums.”
• John Holmberg, [06:12]: “Too many wolf sidekicks for him. That was a good choice, I guess. Don’t want to overwolf and get typecast. This guy who owns wolves.”
• John Holmberg, [05:46]: (As Sean Connery) “This is a bunch of sh-t on paper. I say no and enjoy your flops. And the Oscar goes to. Ah.”
• Host, [10:35]: “Dark Side of the Moon was 989 total weeks. 741 consecutive.”
• John Holmberg, [10:44]: “That's incredible.”

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Segment Timestamps

| Time | Segment | Highlights | |-----------|---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:31 | State Fair and Concerts | Talking about local concerts, the fair, and nostalgia for past lineups | | 04:40 | Actors Who Turned Down Roles | Hilarious breakdown of missed Hollywood opportunities | | 07:15 | SNL Season 51 Musical Guests | Announcements and studio snacking banter | | 08:56 | Billboard 200 Classic Albums | Discussion of albums’ record-breaking chart runs | | 10:35 | Chart Facts Explained | “Dark Side of the Moon” and what counts as consecutive weeks | | 12:10 | Contest Teaser | Giveaways for Marilyn Manson tickets, setup for “Guadalupe Squares” |

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Summary
With playful ribbing, deep-cut trivia, and chart geekery, this episode is a celebration of classic rock’s unstoppable appeal. Whether you tune in for the detours into actor what-ifs or the meaty numbers of chart history, Holmberg and crew keep things energetic, funny, and informative. Perfect for both music buffs and those who simply love the irreverent chemistry of Arizona’s #1 morning crew.

Transcript

[Brady]

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[John Holmberg]

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[John Holmberg]

What the hell is wrong with you? Wasn't paying attention. My apologies. We were just talking about the fair, which I believe starts today. I think the fair's getting going right now, isn't it? Yeah, we were talking about concerts that are coming. The cult's the one to go to. That's October 25th. I haven't really looked at the lineup. That used to be like every day there was somebody huge. Now it's broken down country, rap, rock, all that other stuff. So you get to pick the night, you get to go.

[Brady]

Peso, Pluma and Nirvana played there years ago.

[John Holmberg]

I saw Stone Temple Pilots there once. The fair, pretty great. So, yeah, welcome back Fair. That's kind of cool. And by the way, if you did have tickets to the D4VD show at the fair, that's been canceled.

[Brady]

Oh, man.

[John Holmberg]

And murder will do that. It'll slow down a show. Definitely slops up a tour when the lead singer, or only singer has a dismembered body in the back of his Tesla. But it truly is the only time a Tesla has been interesting to me. Otherwise, I. Yeah, Dave hard drives a Tesla here and he came to me the other day and he goes, I'm going to lunch now in my Tesla. Is that okay? I'm like, I don't know. Is it you going home first to pick up your balls out of your wife's purse?

[Brady]

It's going to Roosevelt Road.

[John Holmberg]

Lunch.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

October 17th is Mastodon.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, there.

[Brady]

Okay, that's right.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I forgot Mastodon, sir. That's a good one. They're not great fun live, but their songs are awesome. Anyway, yeah, the fair's back. That's kind of cool. And I like driving downtown and seeing the fair at night. When you see it from the freeway, it looks really cool. It's 9:16. It's time for the entertainment drill. It's brought to you by our [e-mail] the home of tactical black self defense training. Get on that right now. It is a beautiful time for you to get involved in this. The weather's starting to be good so you can start showing up and realize, you know what, I can continue this getting in shape program with a little extra here. I can jog outside if I feel like, ride my bike, do whatever, and then roll over to reactdefense.com and start practicing your skills of the new you. It's an awesome thing that they'll teach you how to become a stronger version of yourself as you traverse the day to day activities of Earth. The weirdos that are all around you and especially with this, you know not to use fear as a basis for this, but the challenges we face with people being all wound up and unhinged and losing their minds. You don't know who just had an argument with their best friend about Trump or Kirk or Kimmel or whatever and now they're mad and you look at them the wrong way and the next thing you know they've got something going wrong with them and you're the target. Don't be a victim. They teach you that first and foremost, learn how to not look like or be a victim. Head on a swivel. Your spatial awareness is wildly important in knowing exactly what's going on around you is the key to not being victimized. Bad guys look for people who are asking for it. That's a terrible thing to say, but it's very true. Don't be one of those people. Simple as that. They'll show you how. And they'll also show you if it does go pear shaped, that you got a lot more skill in you than you know. Your confidence will rise, your physique will look better, and you're just going to be smarter and better at being you. Reactdefense.com it's the home of tactical Black Brady. Entertain me.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Here's a list of actors who turn down massive roles for silly reasons. Tom Cruise could have been Edward Scissorhands, but he had too many questions about how Edward could do everyday things like.

[John Holmberg]

Go to the bath, wipe his ass.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

First thing you think when you see the poster.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Pierce Brosnan could have been Tim Burton's Batman, but he didn't like the suit.

[John Holmberg]

Pierce Brosnan as Batman, a British Batman.

[Brady]

That could have worked.

[John Holmberg]

I think it would have worked just fine. Would have been a wonderful Batman.

[Brady]

Gonna be great. Bruce Wayne.

[John Holmberg]

Fantastic Bruce Wayne. In fact, I'd have been. I'd had to do Doubtfire instead. Those are Miranda Hillard's kids. Just crazy about them.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Will Smith wanted to change Quentin Tarantino's version of Django Unchained. He wanted to make it a love story, tone down the violence. And he wanted Django to kill Calvin Candy.

[John Holmberg]

Who?

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf because he didn't understand the Lord of the Rings books or script.

[John Holmberg]

None of this makes any sense to anyone. This is a bunch of sh. T on paper. I say no and enjoy your flops. And the Oscar goes to. Ah.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Russell Crowe. He was the first choice to play Wolverine but didn't want to take on too many wolf related roles because Gladiator. Yeah, he had a wolf companion.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Too many wolf.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Wolf symbol on his armor.

[John Holmberg]

Too many wolf sidekicks for him. That was a good choice, I guess. Don't want to overwolf and get typecast. This guy who owns wolves.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Eddie Murphy. Dan Aykroyd had him in mind to play Winston Zabimore and Ghostbusters, but Eddie thought the movie sounded like a crock.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, oops. Instead he did best defense with Dudley Moore. Vampire. Brooklyn vampire. Brooklyn is better than people give it credit for. But it wasn't Ghostbusters. It had a couple of real flipperty flops there.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Jason Momoa, he turned down the role of playing Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy because he didn't want to be a shirtless painted guy.

[John Holmberg]

Just wanted to be Shirtless.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Instead, he played Aquaman.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he's got a. That's worse. And now he's in that Chieftain shirtless the whole time. He was shirtless all through Game of Thrones.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Yeah. Drago or whatever.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. Cal something, right?

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Yeah. SNL just announced their musical guests for season 51. If it happens, if it doesn't get canceled.

[John Holmberg]

Well, you know what I was gonna say. It's fine. You might be. Who knows? I've got you, Brady, in my line of sight. Here and over your right shoulder. I gotta watch Thriller eat a banana and that ain't normal. That ain't right. I don't like it. He did this. He did this to me on purpose.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Sexy.

[John Holmberg]

It's literally just out of bread. Like, what's going on over there? And there's a. Just a strange dude who looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Brady]

Your snack right there.

[John Holmberg]

I got a snack too, there. Thriller, you go ahead and eat your banana for breakfast, and I'll have some raw ground beef.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

SNL debuts Oct. 4 with Bad Bunny.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, he was great when he was hosting guest.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Doja Cat.

[John Holmberg]

Thanks again to Jonathan for bringing over this ground beef. This is amazing.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Check out the video.

[John Holmberg]

We did a video and put on.

[Brady]

Facebook because it's on Instagram. I'm posting it to Facebook right now, so give me a minute or two.

[John Holmberg]

It's so good. It was so pure.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

October 11th, Amy Poehler makes her return musical guest role model. And October 18th, Sabrina Carpenter will host and be the musical guest.

[John Holmberg]

Didn't defrost the entire thing there, Brad. I'm in the middle of a meat ice.

[Brady]

Sorry.

[John Holmberg]

And I gotta watch Thriller. Will you move to the other end of the couch, please?

[Entertainment Drill Host]

He did.

[John Holmberg]

He. He put himself right where I'm. I gotta kind of stare and watch some dude by himself slowly working a banana.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

About 10% of the current Billboard 200 chart is made up of classic rock albums. Rumors. Fleetwood Mac came out in 1977. 650 weeks on the chart.

[John Holmberg]

That's pretty good.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Diamonds. Elton John's album, 2017. 409.

[John Holmberg]

50 a week. That's. What? I don't know how many years.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

That's at number 27. The lowest one. The very best of Daryl hall and John Oates came out in 2001. 308 weeks.

[John Holmberg]

It's incredible. Am I right? 650 weeks. Like 12 years. That's. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Holy cow, man.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

A lot of them are greatest hits. Dark side of the Moon, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

What was.

[John Holmberg]

Tom. What was the Dark side of the Moon that was. That was on there for. They always talk about it was never leave the billboard 200.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

I don't even have it on.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, that one. That one had a astronomical run.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Great Fleetwood Max. Great greatest hits 352 weeks. Journey's greatest hits 874 weeks.

[John Holmberg]

We start getting into that weird thing where the Nirvana. Think about that. 200 albums a week. The bottom 100 are like nine or 10 of them sold just to stay in the top 200. Not. You know, you're thinking that's just astronomical amounts of. But after a while, it's just a few every week that keeps the top 200 going.

[Brady]

Dark side of the Moon was 989 total weeks. 741 consecutive.

[John Holmberg]

Man.

[Brady]

So from 73 to 88 it was on the charts.

[John Holmberg]

That's incredible. It's not.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

But. But the list that I'm reading, they're still on the.

[John Holmberg]

Huh?

[Entertainment Drill Host]

They're still on the bill.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, they're still there today.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

So then how is. How. Why would it only be 650 weeks if it came out in 1976?

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Because it made a resurgence.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, so it's back on the list?

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Oh, well then that's not consecutive.

[John Holmberg]

That's not. That's right.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

It didn't say consecutive. It just said still on the Billboard 200 list.

[John Holmberg]

But still would make it seem like they've been there the whole time.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

I think when Stevie and. When Stevie and broke up.

[John Holmberg]

Now these are every classic rock album that is currently on the billboard 200.

[Entertainment Drill Host]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Okay. That's it. And they've been on there for 650 weeks. Not since 1977. They got back on 650 weeks ago and they've stayed on it. That's Fleetwood Max Rumors. Yeah. But yeah, Dark side of the Moon's no longer in it. So it's not on there today that now it all comes together. Which is not on the list either. There you go. It is. It's your entertainment drill. The next thing we do is the Guadalupe Squares. And we need you for that. We need a girl and we need a boy for your Guadalupe Squares. What are we giving away this week, Bert? What do you got?

[Brady]

Manson tickets.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, we got sold out Marilyn Manson tickets. This is. Oh, there's some. That's a good one right there. Marilyn Manson in your hands. If you win the Guadalupe Squares, call us. Be a contestant. 585-9800. We need a girl, we need a boy. The squares are next. Arizona's most powerful power rock radio station.

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