Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness

Episode: 09-24-25 - BR - WED
Date: September 24, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Theme: Hilarious misadventures in math, viral fart videos, and the everyday absurdities of life

Overview

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness captures the show at its funniest: riffing through odd scientific "facts," botched arithmetic about life’s remaining weekends, and losing composure over a viral video featuring a fart in a stranger’s window. The hosts’ trademark banter, good-natured roasting, and digressions on everything from ancient dating to cat reactions make this a quintessential installment for fans of comedy radio.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Yucca App & Healthy Living

Timestamp: 02:25–04:47

• John recounts a listener using the Yucca nutrition app, realizing most habitual food choices score poorly.
• The hosts riff on how the app demystifies the last pounds to lose—"It’s not the last five pounds, it’s you! Everything you eat is bad."
• Discussion on how natural foods (e.g., whole milk, peanuts) are rated more highly compared to highly processed "healthy" alternatives.
• Memorable exchange about milk:
  • Brady: “What surprised me was whole milk.”
  • Holmberg: “It gets a garbage rating?”
  • Brady: “No, it’s excellent. It’s natural, it’s good fat.” (03:47–03:57)

2. “The Brady Report” & Fun Facts

Timestamp: 06:01–08:07

• Celebrating obscure holidays: National Punctuation Day and National Horchata Day.
• Fun animal science: Only humans, bonobos, and dolphins have sex for pleasure. (Leads to Jay Mohr’s dolphin encounter story.)
• Fast food trivia: Grimace (from McDonald’s fame) was originally "Evil Grimace" who stole milkshakes.

3. Math Mayhem: How Many Weekends Do You Have Left?

Timestamp: 08:07–13:17

• Brady shares a stat: At 18, you have ~3,160 weekends left; at 40, only 2,015.
• The group spirals into confusion as Brady struggles to convert weekends to years, conflating weeks and weekends, much to the delight (and frustration) of the others.
  • Holmberg: “If I’m 40 and I’ve got 38 years left, I don’t have 38 years of weekends!” (11:27)
  • Brady: “I meant weeks—no, weekends. I was basing it...” (13:17)
• Dick Toledo tries to clarify (“If you live to 75, you’ve got 783 weekends left”), but Brady's calculations keep looping.
• Running joke: Brady’s new nickname—“Pythagoras Bogan.”

4. Viral News Stories & “I Survived” Tangents

Timestamp: 18:54–22:18

• The hosts spotlight a DoorDash driver’s heroics: A customer in Texas ordered trash bags, zip ties, and other suspicious "murder tools." Driver notified police, who rescued a hostage (who then was arrested on their own warrant).
• The group shares a deep distrust of classic TV crime re-enactment ("I Survived"), debating the wild scenarios people endure/live through.
• Wildest injury story: A tow truck operator with a hook in his neck, saved by his own call.
  • Holmberg: “She thought it was a fishing hook. He goes, ‘It’s a big hook!’”

5. World Record Catch & More Math Jokes

Timestamp: 23:03–23:46

• Little Falls, NJ: 1,179 pairs (2,358 people) set a Guinness record for the largest game of catch. Brady immediately tries to do more math—others plead, “Don’t start doing math again!”

6. Video Segment: Farting in a Stranger’s Window

Timestamp: 30:42–38:54 (Recurring)

• The show’s highlight: A listener submits a night-vision video of a man trying to quietly fart in a stranger’s (elderly woman’s) window.
• The hosts lose it watching the woman react (“Hello? Hello?”) after the fart, pondering the bleakness and hilarity of such a lonely moment.
  • Holmberg: “If I’m ever so weak and miserable in life that I hear a fart and greet it—hello? That’s the last day I want to be on this planet.” (36:16)
• Ongoing jokes about “old people greeting farts,” cats witnessing the act, and what the cat thought.
  • Dick Toledo: "That cat only has 15 weekends of life left!" (32:01)

7. Other Notable Viral/Insane Videos

Timestamp: 24:41–33:34

• They react to:
  • A “fitness star” with an odd physique.
  • Police takedown bodycam footage: suspect in cuffs runs directly into a brick house.
  • Home improvement fail: a man collapses his own porch by overloading it with roofing shingles.
  • Dangerous stunts: a redheaded kid falls attempting to jump from a roof (foot stuck, lands on his head).
  • An explicit video involving a naked woman urinating on her partner, to their horror and amazement.

8. Loose-Ends & Signature Banter

The group tangents into the role of old people in society ("old people having blue bloods"), ancient Roman dating tips from Ovid (“Don’t look like a slob; clean up, get new sandals!”), and cat behavior.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Holmberg (on the Yucca app): "Grass and water—it's the only way to make it right. And who wants that?" (03:24)
• Brady (math meltdown): “If you’re 40, you have 38 years of weekends.”
  Holmberg: “It cannot be, because that would—then you’re 78 years old of weekends. What are you doing the rest of weeks?” (10:36)
• Dick Toledo (deadpan): “Brady has 783 weekends left if he lives another 14 years.” (09:57)
• Holmberg (on fart video): “You’re so lonely that a fart seems like good company. ‘Hello!’” (36:16)
• Dick Toledo: “That cat only has 15 weekends of life left!” (32:01)
• Holmberg (on old age): “If I ever greet a fart with ‘hello,’ just end it for me.” (36:16)
• Holmberg: “I like when I fart on a pussy. It’s kind of funny.” (Cat in window) (32:01)

Timestamps for Important Segments

• 02:25 — Yucca App & Nutrition Realities
• 06:01 — Brady Report: Fun Facts
• 08:07 — Weekend Math Breakdown
• 18:54 — DoorDash True Crime Heroism
• 23:03 — World Record Game of Catch
• 24:41 — Viral Video Reactions Begin
• 30:42 — Fart in Window Video Discussion
• 36:16 — Old Age Loneliness/Fart Greeting Rant
• 32:01 — Cat Has '15 Weekends' Joke
• 33:34 — Explicit Video Segment

Tone, Style, & Listener Experience

The tone is irreverent, quick, and heavily reliant on banter, sarcasm, and comic misdirection. The cast plays off Brady’s confusion and naiveté, propelling both inside jokes (“Pythagoras Bogan”) and public ridicule into laugh-out-loud moments. Their comfort with absurdity, juvenile humor, and shock video content is a huge piece of the episode’s unique flavor.

For New Listeners

If you didn't catch the episode, expect a blend of local Arizona flavor, oddball headlines, viral video commentary, quick-fire mocking, and the spectacular unraveling of simple math facts. Signature segments like "The Brady Report" and the group’s raucous video viewing guarantee laughs, especially for fans of self-deprecating humor and wild digressions.