09-22-25 - Charlie Kirk Memorial Sees Huge Crowds In Glendale Who Lined Up At 4am - Emailer Read Up On Michael Vick's Crimes And Has Sent A Letter Condemning Kyler Murray To Cardinals

Summary

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Holmberg’s Morning Sickness

Episode: 09-22-25 – Charlie Kirk Memorial Sees Huge Crowds In Glendale / Michael Vick, Kyler Murray Condemnation
Date: September 22, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo, Alex

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Episode Overview

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness opens with a raw, humorous recap of the massive Charlie Kirk memorial event in Glendale, Arizona, which drew crowds starting as early as 4 a.m. The hosts reflect on the logistics, atmosphere, and emotional highs and lows of the day, mixing irreverence with honest critique of both the event and its attendees. Additional major topics include stadium concessions, crowd diversity, event production, and a listener's biting response to Kyler Murray wearing a Michael Vick jersey, which spirals into a discussion about sports loyalty, animal cruelty, and NFL culture. The show’s classic tone—blunt, comedic, a little edgy—pervades throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Charlie Kirk Memorial: Atmosphere, Organization, and Oddities

• Crowds and Logistical Chaos

  • Hosts describe the overwhelming turnout ("lines started at 11 or 12 the night before" – John, 02:03) with tens of thousands lining up pre-dawn.
  • “People were in line for it and they went. I can’t sit through a funeral that long.” – John (02:20)
  • The post-event “trashpocalypse” is addressed with wry local sarcasm about visitors leaving Phoenix in a mess.
  • “Thanks for leaving the trash. We’ll get it... Get out of my town.” – John (00:25)

• Event Vibe and Programming

  • Much discussion of the event feeling “a little cultish,” with most attendees of a single political mindset.
    • “I watched the entire thing and got the feeling it started getting a little cultish. Did it feel cultish to you?” – Listener email, read by John (11:12)
  • Mega-church-style worship sessions and an emotional memorial for Kirk, with his wife on stage.
  • The crowd was overwhelmingly white, drawing a comparison to Taylor Swift concerts.
    • “That was the whitest group of people I’ve maybe... it looked like Taylor Swift was gonna take the stage... mayo.” – John (20:34)
  • Attendees came from across the country and even internationally (“One lady from Philippines flew out for this.” – John, 21:24).

2. Stadium Productions and Concessions Conundrum

• Who Paid, Who Built It?

  • Massive production values: pyrotechnics, giant screens, elaborate staging—put together rapidly.
    • “They had pyro, like... every time someone would get introduced, they had that stage of giant sparkler fire. I kind of blown away that they threw that together in a week.” – John (08:28)
    • “All hands on deck. Evidently in the production.” – Brady (08:47)

• Concessions Dilemma

  • Hosts openly wonder if food and drinks (especially beer) were sold during the event and joke about the etiquette of eating at a memorial.
  • Multiple callback jokes reference funeral and wedding food (or lack thereof), comparing to Catholic ceremonies.
    • “Is it kind of rude to go, I gotta go grab a hot dog like in the middle of that whole thing?” – John (15:28)
    • Listeners eventually confirm: there were trays of food, sodas, sandwiches, and “chicken fingers... the fryer going” (19:40).
  • Notable Quote:
    • “That’s a tough gig too, is sitting there deep frying chicken fingers all day.” – John (19:59)

3. Crowd Management and Event Experience

• Epic Waits and Parking Nightmares

  • Listeners report parking miles away, six-mile freeway backups, sitting in stadium seats for many hours.
    • “Sitting in stadium seats for that long, for a guy who’s not short today, I’m in a lot of pain." – Listener email, read by John (14:28)

• Ticketing and Seating

  • First-come, first-served color-coded sections (“white 6,” “red 1”) handled with giant signs.
    • “Like boarding a plane... they would hold it up. It wasn’t like by section 203, seat this... first come first.” – John (13:03)

4. Event Tone: Unity, Division, and the Cultishness Debate

• Hosts analyze whether massive, "like-minded" gatherings are inherently divisive or bring unity.
  • “Anytime you get a group of churches or... that Promise Keepers thing, when everybody’s got this hyper-focused singularity, it does get awkward.” – John (11:47)
  • Ultimately, the hosts believe the event neither deepened division nor truly unified.
    • “Nobody’s going to get along better and nobody’s going to divide from it. It was what it was.” – John (14:28)

5. Kyler Murray, Michael Vick Jerseys, and Sports Fan Ethics

• Listener Backlash to Murray

  • The show shifts to the fallout from Cardinals QB Kyler Murray wearing a Michael Vick jersey.
    • “I am now a staunch hater of the Arizona Cardinals... after last week’s Kyler incident with the Michael Vick jersey...” – Email, read by John (21:54)
  • A listener (Gene) describes learning about Vick’s animal cruelty convictions and sending a letter to the Cardinals condemning their silence.
    • Notable: “Then I read what you said... about what Michael Vick did to those dogs. That situation left me reeling... that dude was a monster. I immediately wrote a letter to the Cardinals...” – Gene, read by John (22:32)
  • John and crew agree, calling for Murray (and the Cardinals) to make substantial donations to animal welfare organizations.
    • “Until he makes some sort of massive donation to the Humane Society or the Cardinals do... that was reprehensible...” – John (23:07)
  • John details Vick’s violence toward dogs graphically, reminding listeners of the severity.

• Sports Loyalty Is Conditional

  • John (a Steelers fan) says watching the Cardinals lose was now a delight.
    • “I giggled like a schoolgirl... look at him, look at him. The midgets leaving the field a loser.” – John (24:20)
  • Kyler Murray: formerly supported for his athletic skill, John now considers him irretrievably “stupid.”

6. NFL Talk: Sunday Recap and Design Crimes

• Game Recaps and Schadenfreude

  • The group relishes bad results for disliked teams and fans, especially Cardinals, Packers, Cowboys.
    • “Packer fans... They were in the Super Bowl. There was nothing…” – John (29:31)
    • “The Browns were dressed like big turds. Those are the worst uniforms I’ve ever seen.” – John (30:19)
  • The color commentary on NFL uniforms—especially the derision of “turd brown” Browns and gaudy Bengals—is a recurring riff.

• Notable Quotes & Humor

  • “Browns fans are dumb enough because they’re in Cleveland that they’ll buy those turd brown outfits and walk around in the turd town dressed as turds.” – John (33:14)
  • “There’s corn, there’s turd brown, I don’t know what that green stuff is… it looked like my toilet after a rough weekend.” – John (35:16)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [00:25] John: “Thanks for leaving the trash. We’ll get it... Get out of my town.”
• [02:20] John: “People were in line for it and they went. I can’t sit through a funeral that long.”
• [08:28] John: “They had pyro... I kind of blown away that they threw that together in a week.”
• [11:12] Listener email (read by John): “I watched the entire thing and got the feeling it started getting a little cultish. Did it feel cultish to you?”
• [19:40] John: “There were people going back and forth... with trays of food, sodas, sandwiches. Chicken fingers...”
• [20:34] John: “That was the whitest group of people I’ve maybe... it looked like Taylor Swift was gonna take the stage... mayo.”
• [22:32] Gene (email, read by John): “What Michael Vick did to those dogs... that dude was a monster. I immediately wrote a letter to the Cardinals...”
• [23:07] John: “Until he makes some sort of massive donation to the Humane Society or the Cardinals do... that was reprehensible...”
• [24:20] John: “I giggled like a schoolgirl. Look at him, look at him. The midgets leaving the field a loser.”
• [30:19] John: “The Browns were dressed like big turds. Those are the worst uniforms I’ve ever seen.”
• [33:14] John: “Browns fans are dumb enough... they’ll buy those turd brown outfits and walk around in the turd town dressed as turds.”
• [35:16] John: “It looked like my toilet after a rough weekend.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Charlie Kirk Memorial Recap: 00:08–14:00
• Concessions and Stadium Production: 02:39–04:54, 08:22–10:26, 15:19–20:10
• Cultishness & Crowd Analysis: 11:01–14:00
• Football Talk: Kyler/Vick/Jersey Fallout: 21:54–27:07
• NFL Recap, Uniform Insults, Audience Bragging: 27:07–40:12

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Tone & Style

The episode is brash, unsparing, and laced with “Arizona discontent.” The hosts shift quickly from newsy details to irreverent jokes, rarely pulling punches on politics, religion, or sports allegiance. The group’s chemistry leans on local in-jokes, self-effacing stories, and trademark rants—all colored by sarcasm and dark humor.

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Summary for Listeners:
If you want an honest—and at times brutally funny—look inside one of Arizona’s biggest political events and what it meant to Phoenix locals, plus a sideshow of NFL rants, questionable stadium food, and strong takes on football ethics, this episode delivers. Prepare for charged banter, sharp wit, and a refusal to treat any topic as sacred.

Transcript

[Alex]

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[John]

Homberg's morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail is the morning sickness. My name's John. There's Brady, there's Brett, there's Big Dick Toledo. And here we are, ready to go for another week. And it's time to go everybody. What a, what a wonderful event that was yesterday. Peaceful, lovely people everywhere. You left a lot of trash behind. The pictures of the trash are fairly remarkable that you guys couldn't find any garbage cans. You're just throwing stuff all over the place. But excellent work. Now it's time to go. So all of you that came from out of town, let me just tell you, it's lovely and I got to say thanks to our friends in the, in the barrios and the hillbillies. That's pretty much all the city is. So it was a nice day yesterday, but for all you people that were here, you're just going to hate it. You're going to hate it. It's not even worth thinking of this, this cities. It absolutely stinks. So get on your planes and go home now. It's time to go. Get out of my town. Thanks for popping by. Thanks for leaving the trash. We'll get it. There you go. The airplane. Hurry too, because the airport's going to pack up with you and the like of you. And I'm glad you came out and had your moment. And I know it looks good on tv, but it's nothing but illegals and hillbillies and they're constantly fighting. You're gonna hate it here. Am I selling it?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John]

Okay. Yeah. Well, Brett's broke. Say again? Nope, completely out. Well, you're not on. Oh, I know why. How about now? Nope. Scooch over there. Are you serious? The whole place is broken. Nope, that's no good either. That one's out too. Yeah, hold on, let me see about this one. Go. Nope. Alone.

[Brady]

There we go.

[John]

I got you buddy. I got you. All the mics are broken.

[Alex]

Nothing in this place works.

[John]

You're walking around like a seal blowing horns, going into each mic. That's impressive. All right, now we got you figured out anyway. Yeah, it was, it was wonderful. It was pretty amazing event. I had a couple friends texting me at like 4:40 in the morning, standing in line for that thing and they were deep in the line. That line started at like, like 11 or 12 the night before. And people were in line for it and they went. Did you know anybody who went? Yeah, I had a few people who I knew. I was texting me pictures from inside. And I gotta tell you, it's touching and all that stuff, but I can't sit through a funeral that long.

[Brady]

That 4:30, and then it was an all day session.

[John]

It was an all day session. And I get it, it's a big deal, but man, oh, man, I mean, were they. Big question I had. Were they selling beer? And were. Did they. That's.

[Brady]

I said the same thing. I go, are the concessions open?

[John]

Yeah, it's everything else.

[Alex]

It had to be. Maybe not beer, but I mean, they.

[John]

Had it to the people who owned those. Those little shops. I know that it was mainly run by. Because our friend from Eric's Family Barbecue used to have a place in the stadium. And he. He said that the stadium's overlords allow the name. You put the menu together and then they kind of take it over. Which is why he said, I couldn't be part of it. I can't have the name. I can't have their quality be my name.

[Alex]

So just some schmo on the west sides doing your stuff. No, it's like, you're not.

[John]

No, it's not. Yeah, it's. Yeah, you. You. You give him the menu. You give him the idea. And then I get. And they wouldn't let him shop his own airports. Sky. Sky King. And then the one out there is probably. I don't know what they call it, but it's a stadium thing. So he's basically like, if this is what people think of my barbecue, like, it won't be the same as what they get at the store. And I don't want that to suffer. So he kind of was like, I'm paying a lot of money to do this, and it doesn't really make sense for him. But I don't know if they're allowed to just go turn the lights on if you technically have your store in there. Like the spinatos are they. I don't know, they're all over. Can they just go in and turn the lights on? Start serving pizzas on a day where there's 65, 70,000 people in there for six hours because it would be hard not to.

[Brady]

You're thinking, you gotta eat, man.

[John]

You gotta have a drink at least.

[Brady]

At the same time. I was, you know, I was around watching early when it was the worship session.

[John]

Oh, man.

[Brady]

And that music went on for an hour Maybe.

[John]

Oh, at least it started at like five in the morning. Six in the morning, once they open.

[Brady]

The crowd to see if people were eating stuff. And I asked Ronnie, same thing. I wonder if they have the concessions open. Probably not.

[John]

Why?

[Alex]

Well, how can you probably six hours of no water.

[Brady]

I've gone to an event at similar stadium like the, you know, I mean, years ago, Promise Keepers.

[John]

Oh, you went to that men's.

[Brady]

Yeah, well, look, when we went to.

[John]

Joe, it was a men's sex meeting. They didn't know it at the time, but. Olsteen, we could get soda. I got a soda.

[Brady]

I don't remember that.

[John]

Yeah, I got a Coke. Maybe that's it. Maybe it was non alcoholic stuff. I don't know.

[Brady]

Yeah, I don't.

[John]

Yeah, but anybody went.

[Alex]

Let us know.

[John]

Yeah. If you went there, they fired over there. Because that's all I could think about was just. It was killing me, man. It was like, you know, watched the whole entire Steelers game. And about two hours prior to that, just on one of the TVs, I was, I had it on and that, you know, they had all the faith people that was like 8 o' clock in the morning. They didn't get that thing started till noon. As far as the speaking. Yeah.

[Brady]

They actually had a church service, I think.

[John]

Sure. And then noon starts and then all that gets going. And then at 4:00', clock, 4:30, Trump's still up there. And I'm like, geez, how's when does this end? And they screwed that up. And I know Trump's the president and all that he should have been second to last speaker because the wife should have gotten the last word. It was Trump went out there. The only thing I like, I giggled because right before he went out, I just crossed my fingers and I said, please don't talk about Jimmy Kimmel. Please don't talk about Jimmy Kimmel. Don't bring up anything other than why you're there. And he didn't. And he did it then he did. And you know, we've been through it. Charlie and now Jimmy Kimmel. And like, no, no. And he was brief. Then he went on. But my, I did giggle that after all that emotion from Charlie Kirk's wife talking about, you know. And to me it's. I'm not saying I don't believe her. It's that religious kind of forced, I'll forgive you thing. And everybody claps. There's no, absolutely no way she meant that. Nobody means that. No human being can be like, I forgive you. It's Forgiven. No, no, no, no. You're saying it. You want to believe it, but you wouldn't, like, have that dude over and, you know, that's. Forgiveness is like. It's in the past to me anyhow.

[Brady]

I think I do.

[John]

They would, but. But it would be tough, like, deep down inside, and that's human nature. So I don't. That forgiveness thing is like. And I'm with Trump on that because he came out in his speech a little bit after that. I don't know about Eric. I'm sorry. I hate my enemies. He just flats at it, and I'm like, that's kind of how I feel. So I live more in that world. I don't know how she does it. I hate my enemies. I'm not gonna. I don't welcome them. I don't care for them. And it was like, all right, that's not the thing to say here, but hilarious. It's the thing to say here. It's the most brutally honest moment of the whole thing. But, yeah, it was pretty. Pretty amazing that that whole thing went off basically without a hitch the whole entire time. So, again, time to go home now, though. I saw a lot of interviews beforehand. Yesterday, I was getting Stevens.

[Brady]

I mean, it's like three times. What a Disney ride was. People getting into the stadium.

[John]

Oh, you mean the snake to get in. Yeah, they've got that. That's. They did that at the super bowl in Dallas. That was the biggest one I've ever seen. I think they. They borrowed that safety measure. I think it was Super Bowl. Built the whole thing like it was the Super Bowl.

[Brady]

And the stage was amazing.

[John]

Oh, it was pretty awesome. I watched though, the before, and they're interviewing people as they go in. I'm from Texas. I'm from Utah. I'm from Wyoming. Off to you. This place sucks. There's nothing you're gonna like here. Go home to your weird Wyoming house and live in that. Tell people that Phoenix is nice, but surprising. And then I heard on the radio on the way out that it's nothing but illegals and hillbillies and they just fighting and fighting. That's exactly what it is. That's all you need to know. Don't look into it. Just get out.

[Brady]

Who picks up the tab on that whole thing? The stage and all that?

[John]

Good question. Yeah. Who paid for.

[Brady]

That's pretty expensive.

[John]

The other thing was, who got the graphics together that quick? Pretty awesome kind of setup. And the. They had pyro, like, the. You know, every time someone would get introduced, they had that stage of giant sparkler fire. I kind of blown away that they threw that together in a week or so. And like, all right.

[Brady]

It was all hands on deck. Evidently in the production.

[John]

Evidently. Pyro, giant screens. It looked like, you know, it looked like the exact same setup as when Avenged played with Metallica years ago. That was what I saw. I was like, do you buy a. That was a question I had too. Do you buy a generic stadium package of what a. What a band would do that. When Taylor Swift comes, it's like, we don't have our own stage. It's like, we got one. We'll let you borrow ours and it's a fee. I don't know who.

[Brady]

I thought it was borrowed from the gop. The big. To do the convention maybe, but that wasn't an arrangement. A little different setup.

[John]

But it was also in a small.

[Brady]

There's a production company that we got this.

[John]

This one laying around Stadium one is like borrow. It's canned. It's not cheap. We've tried to put concerts on with friends as far as pricing goes. And KPD's like, yeah, you get this. We get that. And like, yeah, well, it's still gonna cost you. Well, she got the couple million dollar.

[Brady]

Stage and they collected. Well, people donated a couple million to.

[John]

The Maybe pays for a stage pyro. And it was pretty impressive. So. But there it is. And that's. And again, airports are gonna clog up today. And that's fine. Get out on the morning sickness. Holmberg's morning sickness. Get out before the rain comes. Get your plane in the air, wheels up at now. And leave my town. That's how I look at things when I see all these foreigners. The Phoenix open, the super bowl, everything else, they come out, gosh, this place is lovely. And they leave their tattered, messy lives.

[Alex]

It was amazing how fast they got everything together for that. I mean, that was a production. We can't barely get a tent in the van out to a van stop for kupd not only, let alone this barely.

[Brady]

We can't.

[John]

And we've got a team dedicated.

[Brady]

We don't have the budget.

[John]

We. We can't pitch our own tent and show up at the right Safeway. Oh, yeah. Oh, I know that. And it just blows your mind that you can put that stuff together. It was amazing. I don't know if the Turning Point group put it together. If Charlie's company, I think, oh, well, if.

[Brady]

If Trump's coming out there. But then how do you allocate that? You can't do that. Because now you're taking money from.

[John]

Yeah. This guy.

[Brady]

Taxpayer money.

[John]

Yeah. You can't do that. This guy said, I don't want to sound bad. Hopefully it doesn't get me in trouble or anyone else. I watched the entire thing and got the feeling it started getting a little cultish. Did it feel cultish to you? I think all things of. There's a weird thing that we all say that we don't want to be divided anymore. We don't like the idea of this is it's too much division. But when we see it all in one group and it's almost everyone of like mind, that's even weirder. You know, that's. We don't like a full homogenized group think and we don't like division. We like somewhere in the middle of that. But yeah, anytime you get a group of churches or like you went to that, like you said that Promise Keepers thing, when everybody's got this hyper focused singularity, it does get, it does get awkward. But it was a funeral of like minded, like 90%, maybe more Trump supporter, right wing. It could have very easily turned into a right wing rally and I'm glad it didn't. And whoever was in charge backstage saying, keep it down on the whole politics of this dance. You can mention it, but don't. We're here for always reset. Back to one thing.

[Brady]

The majority of the speakers and people involved are on the right.

[John]

Oh, it's all right. There was nobody for, you know, Van Jones. But it gets, it gets a little weird when no matter what, and if you got a group of people doing one single thought and there's 70,000 of them. Then they filled up Desert diamond arena next door. The, the, the hockey place that filled to capacity where people had to go home. Imagine standing in line, you get there at like 5 think it's 5 in the morning. This thing doesn't start till 12. We'll be fine. And you get there and you're like, we're not going to make it. How. And I saw another thing when they, in the morning they, they had people walking around with things that said like white six, red one, you know, like your section. And they were these giant printed signs, like boarding a plane kind of. But it was no, it was like they were walking people around their area like this is where you sit. If you have a, a white nine or a red six, like this is your section. So they would hold it up. It wasn't like by section 203, seat this. It was like it's all first come first. And that had to be put together too. I mean, go to.

[Brady]

So you'd go online, get your ticket, and it would say, yes, go to.

[John]

Kinko's and try to get those signs done in a week. It's impossible.

[Brady]

Did they tell you to wear a certain color shirt? Then they could have a really cool.

[John]

Yeah, the red and white. Yeah, look at white out. Like Penn State's kick ass whiteouts. Those are pretty neat. Anyway, yeah, it was a. It was quite an event. Quite a unique and historic thing. And I'm. I'm with you, Alex. It's not a bad thing to say that, that it was. It felt a strange bit cultish.

[Alex]

It would have been that way either way though, right?

[John]

Right. Oh, yeah. No, it didn't matter. It's not. Yeah, it's just mono thought. Yeah, it. It could be a Mormon thing. All Mormons. It's Joel Osteen, which is cultish in itself. But boy, when you're in there, you're like, yeesh. This is wildly cultish. And like, where are these people's minds to think for themselves? Not that that was yesterday. That was the Osting thing.

[Brady]

And did the whole thing come away? You know, was it more divisive or was it a show of, hey, let's get along nothing?

[John]

No, it was. I don't think there was any. Nobody's going to get along better and nobody's going to divide from it. It was what it was. Which this guy says, John, I was at the event yesterday and I can tell you it was quite an amazing experience. However, we did have to park two and a half miles away from the stadium and walk. And the freeway was backed up for six miles. So not just the 101, but the i10 and we were able to get in and the second deck. Pretty good seats. 50 yard line. Ish. But man, I can tell you, sitting in stadium seats for that long, for a guy who's not short today, I'm in a lot of pain. All in all, though, it was nice, uplifting event, which I think has been lacking recently. Once people started talking, it went quickly because there were barely any breaks. Yeah, that's cool. There were no, like bands resetting, so it did help them before. Sitting in a seat for two and a half hours, doing nothing and standing in line for four. It was not fun. That was pretty brutal.

[Alex]

Yeah, but didn't answer the question. Concessions or no concessions.

[John]

Yeah, we're still wondering, were you actually.

[Alex]

Wearing a Coke or what?

[John]

I mean, yeah, I'd have to. And is it. Is it kind of rude to go, I gotta go grab a hot dog. Like in the middle of that whole thing.

[Brady]

I gotta eat something in the middle of someone talking.

[John]

Well, you think about it. Think about that. That's what I was waiting. Were there dudes that were run. Running up and down for at least with water. The. I've been to funeral. Catholic funerals before. We were doing that joke yesterday all day too. Screaming. I read the curse like your mama made lemonade but.

[Brady]

But light.

[John]

Yeah, yeah. Or like they do at the. The Diamondbacks games now, which is in Spanish up and down the aisles. I didn't even like. The dude was yelling for hot dogs and something like something pero of blah blah blah. I'm like, what's this? And he had churros and hot dogs. Anyway, so I've been to like a Catholic funeral. And by the way, I don't love anybody that much. You can be my best friend forever. And if you're a Catholic and you have a Catholic funeral, I'll visit your grave later. I'm not going to that again. Two and a half hours of blah blah blah. And then the funeral starts. And so. And they don't have a spinatos in the lobby. You can't. You get up and pee every once in a while, stretch. And you can't go eat. They don't have like a hot dog vendor or anything.

[Brady]

So. My dad was Catholic too much as one hour.

[John]

Yeah. Did they do the mass though?

[Brady]

The. The priest basically goes up there. My brother did the eulogy.

[John]

Yeah, but they didn't break out a mass because that's what happened at the one I went to.

[Brady]

I mean it was all encased into.

[John]

One that packaged in an hour. That's rare. Those Catholics like that. Weddings. Catholic weddings.

[Alex]

Oh, forget about.

[John]

No way. You again. You could be my best friend because we're having a wedding. It's at the Catholic. No, sir. I'll see you at the reception. There is no way. I went to my buddy Ray's wedding and he didn't tell me that. And I didn't know about Catholic weddings.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John]

He goes get there about 11 and we'll get it out, we'll get it going and we'll get the party started. I'm like, that seems reasonable. 11 o' clock wedding is smart. And we'll be out be drinking all day. I was in that. I'll say G.D. just in case somebody goddamn church until 4:30.

[Brady]

You got your spiritual aerobics in though.

[John]

I Got no, stood up. Sit down. And here was the worst part. One of his best men died two weeks before the wedding. So they had, like, a little service for him in the middle of the whole thing.

[Brady]

Throwing a baptism.

[John]

Yeah, but knock it out. I went to one baptism. I went to. And that's like, I don't like your kid that much to start with. And I know he's not going to be cool for at least 18 years. I'm not interested in this. And it was on a Sunday, and even the priest said, I know you guys. This is tough because you're peeled away from football. And luckily, it was a bye week for the Steelers. So they're peeling away from football on a Sunday. Nobody wants to be here. That was the first thing he said. And I'm like, man, you nailed that. That's the most honest a priest has ever been.

[Alex]

It was an Irish wedding where they were they passing a bottle of jamo through the.

[John]

No, through the pews. That was the worst part. It was a bunch of guys getting shaky, dry, drunk Irish people just waiting for the. When this bar to open up. I'm sure they had some flasks in there. It was awful. You Catholics, you guys, you do not know how to party. That is, unless it's the girls with the, you know, afterwards. But in the church, oh, my God.

[Brady]

It'S a two or three block for miserable LDS.

[John]

Would never go. But I was 11 till about 4:30. And then Ray's, like, coming to the after party, and I'm like, is that dude in the dress going to be there? Because he wouldn't shut up for six hours. No, he's got to be there. Got to have Father there. I'm like, well, have a nice life. I'm out. Your party's gonna just be a bunch of drunk Irish people and a priest telling me what I've done wrong.

[Brady]

You get home and party's going fine. Then the priest, like, I'd like to say a few words, another 45 minutes.

[John]

Stand up and talk a little bit about TJ, who we lost two weeks ago. It's like, oh, my God. It was brutal. Brutal. So it was a man. It's a big one. But if they had. If they had concessions, I would understand it. I mean, and you just can't bring it back to your seat. If they were serving wieners, like, you go over. And he said, yes. There were people going back and forth the whole time with trays of food, sodas and sandwiches. Chicken fingers were.

[Brady]

There we go.

[John]

All right. So somebody had the fryer going.

[Alex]

So you don't have the hot dog guy. All right, pass it down. Ten guys down there. Hang on, hang on.

[John]

Get your card out, get it back. Don't Forget there's an 18% tip added if you'd like to.

[Brady]

I gotta pay that rent.

[John]

Custom. Yeah.

[Brady]

I mean, stadium.

[John]

Yeah.

[Brady]

So I mean, he offered it to him.

[John]

That's a tough gig too, is sitting there deep frying chicken fingers all day. You have how many did you. You got to pre order that. You got to know how many out they had no. 6 hours.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John]

They're only used to like three hour football games. They PD home Bloomberg's morning sickness when Trump was there. Last call. Yeah, have it up on the screen. All right. The last call for beer, folks. I don't know. It was a. It was an event. That is for sure. So what a unique thing. And the people who email and I'm reading them all the. The subject lines are like. It was amazing. It was incredible. It was great. Good for you guys. I'm, you know, that's pretty great. But it was as another thing, Bruce noticed what I noticed. Every time the camera got to the crowd, I'm like, there aren't any black people there at all. Like, that was the whitest group of people I've maybe. I mean, it looked like Taylor Swift was gonna take the stage. It was. It was a stadium filled with mayo. Eventually they ran out of mayonnaise. And 70,000 white people in one room. It was white. Maybe they just didn't show the black guys. But there weren't many, if there were any at all. Maybe the workers at the, you know, concessions. That had to be a tough kid. But I think making all that money, who cares? That's a good thing. But. Yeah. So time to go. Yeah, the interviews beforehand, they had, you know, families. And one lady from Philippines flew out for this. Like, man, they're televising it. I just. Crazy. So then we move on to what. What else we did yesterday. Well, that was all kind of this obvious thing that was going on in the corner of our. Of our city. This guy said, yeah, this football was the most important part. And I realized that after last week's Kyler incident with the Michael Vic jersey and everything else, I am now a staunch hater of the Arizona Cardinals. And I can say that out loud. I used to not care about them because they're meaningless now. I. Now yesterday I laug. Laughed hysterically at the mis. Sorry, Cardinal fans, but your quarterback. And it's that guy can Eat it all day long. I got this email scratcher. I got this email, which I love, from a guy named Gene. It says, John, I heard what you said about Kyler last week, and I was mad at you. So what? He had the Vic jersey on. Big whoop, right? Then I read what you said because I didn't believe it to be true about what Michael Vick did to those dogs. That situation left me reeling. I had no idea, man. Then he says the holy. That dude was a monster. I immediately wrote a letter to the Cardinals and said I'm done supporting them until they unload Kyler or acknowledge this issue with more than that weak ass explanation they gave. Everyone should read the horrors of what Michael Vick did. Wow. Is there room on the Steeler bandwagon, Gene? Geez, I don't know. Yeah, you can do that. But don't start asking yourself over it stuff. I don't know you, Jean. That kind of creepy. But you can be a Steeler fan. Plenty of great Steeler bars around. And yeah, I'm with you. The Cardinals, so long as Kyler Murray's there. Until he makes some sort of massive donation to the Humane Society or the Cardinals do. That was reprehensible, the decision that he made. And. And you know, then again, like, if.

[Brady]

It was Sinclair's decision, he'd be suspended.

[John]

Oh, yeah. No, and they. And he should. Yeah, he did. What he did was 10 times worse than Jimmy Kimmel. And Jimmy Kimmel lost his job. Kyler should be thinking about this, but they lost yesterday in a. In a hilarious way to Mac Jones and the 49ers with a bum knee. Sock it, Cardinals. Yeah, I don't care. I'm not one of those. You live here. You're supposed to support them now. That's why they invented the NFL package, so you can watch the team you want to watch and not stuck with the local garbage. I'm out on them completely. And I didn't realize it until I watched that kick go through yesterday. And I giggled like a schoolgirl. Like, look at him. Look at him. The midgets leaving the field. A loser. Yep. And I've been a big supporter of Kyler, everybody. All these Cardinal fans have been down on him for so long and you're saying he's. Look, he's. He's potentially got it. He's got all the tools. You need that out routes. Ridiculous. He's got a whip for an arm, a quick release. He's short. Big deal. But he's fast. He's athletic. He's got a great throw. He's, you know, his decision making is not that great, as we've seen. And then off the field, he shows he's just never going to get past being stupid, and that's what he is. So goodbye to Kyler and the cartons. I laughed. I laughed. I laughed. That's great. And you can hate on my team all you want. I'm going to hate on yours, too. So I know it's. There's more of them here than anywhere else because Cardinal fans aren't anywhere but in this city. So I'm sorry to you. It's nothing personal, but working up to.

[Alex]

That Lamar stage, I mean.

[John]

No, no, no, no.

[Alex]

Lamar and everything else.

[John]

Lamar is a threat on the field and he can, like, win Super Bowls and stuff. This is not a threat at all. It's just. It's just pure, pure hate. It's just pure hate for an idiot. So I just look at him like, you're an idiot. Lamar is an idiot and he's great at football. And it makes you crazy because they surrounded him with a quality operation, too, so Lamar could dumb his way right into something amazing and become legendary. That's never a threat with Kyler. But, yeah, there needs to be some sort of a. I'd like to see that. A little mea culpa going. Boy, I didn't realize how bad I was. And immediately forgiven. True apology. And a check to the Humane Society or a shelter or something. A big fat one, too. Not. We're not talking little. And that's out of the goodness of your own heart, since you supported a murderer of animals and a violent one. Again, for those of you who don't know, used to crack the spines of dogs over the over like posts. Like, he'd have a. Like a hitching post. And he'd take the legs, the front legs and the. I'll tell you, because it needs to be said. He would hold the back legs, the friend would hold the front legs, and they'd smash its spine until it broke in half. Here's another fun thing that Michael Vick used to do. Attach electricity to puddles and put the dying dogs that were in the fights that didn't do well, and he would electrocute them and slowly kill them that way. Oh, here's the other thing. He would hold his head in buckets of water. The dogs would have their heads held in buckets of water and drown that way. Oh, here's another thing. He would pick them up and smash them into the ground like a Like a welcome mat while they were alive listening to the scream and yelp. Because that's the kind of person Michael Vick is. So put your jersey on Kyler Murray and walk around with pit bulls and think it's funny or cute because it's not. And anyone who doesn't know that story that says Michael Vick wasn't that guy, you're wrong. So any support of that needs to go. Get on the ball, Cardinals. It's in your court. But in the meantime, I will openly mock and laugh at you completely. 1615. Niners. Go Niners. Go Niners.

[Brady]

It was a tough one to watch. The fourth and three this last. Let's go for the 20 yarder pass with the Cardinals. Yeah.

[John]

Well, that wasn't tough at all, Brady. That was awesome to watch. That was another bad decision. That's what he makes hilarious. What are you. No. Yeah. No. What are you doing? Get him, Kyler. That's exactly what I expect. You don't say no. That means you're rooting for him. And I'll fire you for that too. He's out. Anybody in this room supports Kyler Murray even in the slightest bit. Oh, you're out on your ass until he does something right. Because right now. And I think Cardinal fans would be thrilled if the Cards cut bait with him at this point. I don't know. I don't know what you expect anymore from somebody that stupid. But we can keep it alive if you want to keep him out there. I was a supporter of his skills. I just didn't realize how dumb he actually was till last week. Football was weird yesterday. Like nine blocked extra field goals. They just non stop field goal blocks and missing. I feel bad for Rams fans. They had that game locked up. And then another like that two block kicks. And then the one was no reason for that dude to run it back for a touchdown. The game was over both. And he just ran it out. Yeah. It's ridiculous. They have at the end of the Rams game. The dude blocks it. They're up one. All he had to do is down at the clock expired. He's just truck and 19 mile an hour clock on him. He puts six more 30 pounds.

[Brady]

Let me show you how fast I.

[John]

Can run fly big fat guy running with the ball. Great. But yeah.

[Brady]

And then the weird young way coup.

[John]

Yeah. Falcons guy.

[Brady]

And Romo replaces the first two. Missed.

[John]

It's Tony Romo was kicking.

[Brady]

That's.

[John]

Oh, I know. I'm just saying. Yeah. That's gonna say. I'll be right back. Jim, I gotta go. Get a chance, friends. We've lost Tony Romo to the game. I'm down here now, Jim. I'm kicking field goals. Watch this. Yeah, that coup dude shouldn't have been on the team after last year. He just shanks him all over the place and yeah, it was good. It was weird, though. It was a weird day. And just watching. And then the fun thing last night, watching Camp Scatterboo be the only part of the Giants that's worth a crap dude is great. It was really fun to watch. So plenty of great teams for Gene the emailer to go support that aren't the Cardinals, you know, how about the Browns Brownies? Putting one on the Packers.

[Alex]

I mean, I was loving it.

[John]

Don't get me wrong. It had to be thrilling at your house because the arrogance of the Packer fan. After two weeks, I mean, they're in. I've got a few Packer fan friends. They're in the Super Bowl. There was nothing style.

[Alex]

It's already done.

[John]

Yeah, I had one of them texting with tickets that was like, jordan Love keeps this up. I don't see anybody beating them. And I'm like, okay, we handled the Lions. I mean, we've got their number. Bears are nothing. Vikings are done. So our division's wrapped. And I'm like, wow, getting ahead of yourself. And he goes, everybody stays healthy. I don't see anybody on our schedule that can beat us. I'm like, morning sickness. Hol's morning sickness. The Browns might do it.

[Brady]

Said no one ever.

[John]

I didn't even say that because I was with them. They were going to be 3 and 0. Oh, yeah. I would have never even had the audacity to text. You gotta watch those Browns this weekend with this. No way. Even with the we've got it all made kind of attitude, they still should have won the game. Absolutely crazy that those and the Browns were dressed like big turds. They had those terrible uniforms. Those are the worst uniforms I've ever. Don't wash them either. Just mud brown from head to toe. If I saw that at all, I'd be like, oh, my God, the washers ruined my. There must be some dirty water in my washing machine. They're ugly, ugly ass uniforms. It's gross. It's disgusting. And they won. I wouldn't want to touch them either. Maybe the packers, maybe if they put the smell of to match the look of their uniform. It was like the packers, like, I don't like touching these guys. I think their uniforms are actually made of Turd juice and like paper, their helmets are definitely turds, but you can't smell it because you're in Cleveland. So it's exactly what it would smell like if you just walked around Cleveland.

[Brady]

Anyway, things. The first time a defense had more rushing yards than the offense. Vikings.

[John]

Incredible. Yeah, the Vikings destroyed your team. You don't even need to think about that. You're. You're. You're on the clock, my friend. That team is not. That's trouble over there. And since the good news is you're going to have a high draft pick next year, good for you. But it was remarkable that. And again, yeah, my team's not going super bowl bound, but it'll be nice to have a nice season. We almost always do. Got a little squeaker yesterday, but watching the Browns beat the packers and having had conversations with a couple Packer fans this week who were inviting themselves over. Week. What is it? Week 11? We play you guys on a Sunday night. You having us over? I'm like, yeah, literal. Next sentence. We may be 10. And oh, by then the Brown stopped that.

[Brady]

Oops.

[John]

The human turd machines that can't get out of their own way to do anything played a terrible game and beat. You overlook one much. It was great. So was Matthias. Did she watch the whole thing? And now she was buried at work.

[Alex]

But she was keeping up with it on the phone.

[John]

And you were watching you mother. What is happening?

[Brady]

What is going on?

[John]

It gets better and better. The best thing that happened now is that the Lions beat Lamar. Put them at 1 and 2 and then the Lions are tied with the packers with a tiebreaker going to the packers in the top of the division. They're undefeated after two weeks and they were in the Super Bowl. I get bragging. But week three, to talk about being undefeated with 15 games left, that's a little early. Great stuff, though. This guy says, I'm a Lions fan. I had so many Packer fans talking a massive amount of crap after the game in week one. Then they go off and lose to the worst franchise in football. Counting down the days for the revenge game. The Lions will try to hang a 50 on them or they'll get beat again, but either way, you've always said, even if you're walking off the field and the packers are like, we beat you, Lions. Lions fans would be like, you lost to the Browns.

[Alex]

Yeah, that's the whole thing.

[John]

The rest of the season. You lost to the. You lost to the mother Browns. Oh, yeah. Well, so what? Yeah, so what? Nobody loses to that that's silly. You gotta try to lose to the Browns. Oh, I love those turd brown uniforms. Only the Browns would give that a thumbs up for their color rush. What if we made him, like, the healthiest turd brown ever? Like, I guess you could do that. Turd brown is not a color I want to. And then the Browns fans are dumb enough because they're in Cleveland that they'll buy those turd brown outfits and they'll walk around in the turd town dressed as turds. Ugh, Cleveland.

[Alex]

But all they can say is, we beat the Packers.

[John]

We beat the Packers. That's their. They won their super bowl yesterday. Now they're gonna go in some sort of a weird downward spiral.

[Brady]

And that's all the Bengals could say right now.

[John]

We beat the Browns back in 2010. I won a ton of money on in Vegas, and the next day, the day we were leaving was a Sunday, and I got a wild hair up my ass and I had a ton of cash in my hands and I was standing at the sports book and I said I should put like 10 grand on the Browns to beat the Patriots this week because Peyton Hillis was running wild for a little bit. But that was the only thing the Browns had. And I'm like, ah, nobody bets on the Browns. You don't put astronomical amount of money on the Browns. It would have been like $150,000 win, and the damn Browns won the game. And you can't, as a reasonable human being, go, I'm putting a ton on the Browns. Not a thing. Not a thing. Dave Nash, who I do that, that podcast with Hella stray with big Packer fan. We didn't even talk about the game. There was no point. And I agreed with that. Going into the game, I was just like, the Packer fans, like, look, he'll be three and oh, let's not worry about that. But not going 17 and oh, I didn't know the Browns would kick him in the. They're turd nut. A bunch of Mr. Hankies just running around out there beating the packers and what may be the ugliest color combination. And you got to discount the Bengals. They're always wrecking your television. I wish there was black and white TV when the Bengals played. I can't stand looking at that mess. But then you got the bronze. No, it is not awesome. It is so trailer trash. It's so fitting for Cincinnati to have that awful helmet and uniform. It's just atrocious. It's all. It's. You're Joe Exotic. You guys look like all the blonde mullets and super tight jean shorts. It's the whole city. It's. It's representative of the city, but you can't compare, like, color combos when you're like, this is tough on the eyes. Yesterday's Packers, Browns game, putting the. The. The peas and the green beans with the brown turds. It was just like, good Lord, it looks like my toilet after a rough weekend. There's corn. There's turd brown. I don't know what that green stuff is. When the packers and Bears got. Or Browns got into a pile, it was pretty. It was ugly. And I had some guy yesterday tell me, it's like, man, the Patriots uniforms are pretty sweet. It was Toledo.

[Brady]

Toledo. Yeah.

[John]

Yeah. This is pretty, you know? Yeah, because nothing better than having a dude bent over as your. As your logo. When you. The reason they went away from that logo was you had a dude smiling, staring directly at you from the helmet bent over. We celebrate centers. Anyway, good day so far for football yesterday. Kyler took one. Packer fan has to humble up a little bit. Humility. Your Bears demolished the Cowboys. Demolished the Cowboys.

[Alex]

But it was like when we did our pick. So I still took the Cowboys because I didn't know which Bears team were.

[John]

Going to show up. And had you taken your Bears, Brady.

[Alex]

Would have been kicking down.

[John]

No, no. Dale would have been kicking down because. Yeah, but he didn't pick him bad.

[Alex]

My bad.

[John]

He knows his team's all done.

[Alex]

I just don't know what. What team's going to show up.

[John]

Obviously that one.

[Alex]

I don't know who that was yesterday.

[John]

Same with the Cowboys. Yeah, they don't have a defense at all. Oh, that was fun to watch. Yeah. More I talk about yesterday, the more I realized what a great day it was. Cardinals took one, Cowboys took one. My team won. The Browns were dressed like turds and made me laugh.

[Brady]

Winning turds.

[John]

Yeah. But okay, you can win. You can't support them. It's one or the other.

[Alex]

Dale's team lost.

[John]

You can't be a Browns and Bengals fan. You gotta hate them, too. Out loud. They were dressed as turds. And that should make you happy because for the first time in 41 years, the Bengals didn't have the worst uniforms in football. Those things were brutal by a lot. In fact, the Bengals changed their old uniforms to these because if you can imagine, their old ones were worse.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[John]

You know, when you go buy stickers at Ace Hardware for your mailbox, that was what the old helmets were for. The Bengals. B, E, N, G A, L s just written across the side of their orange helmets.

[Brady]

I remember putting the letters in Little League football one year. It's on the Bengals. You just buy the letters, put them on the helmet. That's how easy it was.

[John]

It was. Yeah, it was for mailboxes. And it was the worst, worst uniform.

[Brady]

Wrong font, man.

[John]

And they managed to say, how do we make this gayer and trashier? And they nailed it. And then they said, let's hang on to these for 40 years. Hilarious. At 6, 23. Football's in the book. Is this.

[Alex]

Is this the jury?

[John]

The.

[Alex]

The mailbox letters?

[John]

Yeah, that's it. Man, those uniforms were bad.

[Alex]

73.

[John]

They look like they cost, like, eight or nine bucks for the whole thing. Like in Little League, when they used to make you pay for your shirt and your helmet. Like, it's $17 per player. I think the bungles had that, too. But, man, those uniforms. Oh, what an atrocity. Nightmare. If the Steelers went to some sort of Joe Exotic uniform, I think I'd quit it.

[Brady]

That is football.

[John]

That is not football. That is. That is BS West Saturday nights. Tiger night. Stop. Stop. We're going dressed as tigers. Gulp. Gulp. This tiger's got claws. Roar. Oh, God, those are awful.

[Brady]

Haven't shown the zebra one yet.

[John]

I noticed. Go farther back. I noticed. You don't go wandering around in those uniforms like, traffic cone with tiger stripes. I noticed. Yeah, the color rush where they decided to just wash out all the color because Cincinnati's that smart. Is that it, or is that just. No, no, that's what it looks like. Their color rush uniforms are white and black. Which is the smartest? That's Cincinnati in a. In a nutshell.

[Brady]

Look at that. Dude.

[Alex]

It's like Charlie Brown's helmet.

[John]

It's great. Anyway, let's get a wake up song. Football is so upon us. It feels so good to have it. 585-9800. A good one will wake us up here. Let's get a wake up song and do it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this for you, pd.