10-01-25 - Followup On N*Bomb Dropper From WWBD Says He Got Fired Over It - Scientists Still Talking About Using Nuclear Weapon To Blow Up Asteroid That Could Hit Moon Sparking Our Concern

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness (Arizona)

Episode Date: October 1, 2025
Main Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Episode Title: Followup On N*Bomb Dropper From WWBD Says He Got Fired Over It – Scientists Still Talking About Using Nuclear Weapon To Blow Up Asteroid That Could Hit Moon Sparking Our Concern

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Overview

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness interweaves offbeat humor and blisteringly candid social commentary, zeroing in on two distinct yet equally attention-grabbing story arcs:

• Follow-up on a workplace racial-slur controversy and its aftermath, sparked by a listener's email featured earlier in their "What Would Brady Do?" segment.
• Banter and genuine musings over ongoing scientific considerations to use nukes against an asteroid projected to pass near the moon, reflecting public anxiety and the absurd behaviors of government and science in the face of potential catastrophe.

The episode oscillates between irreverent laughter and unexpectedly sober reflections, holding listeners' interest as it skewers workplace culture, cancellation, and pop science panic.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. "This Day In History" Rapid Fire (00:00–04:21)

• Brady hands John a list of notable October 1st events, leading to a deadpan run-through of significant moments ("135 years ago, Yosemite started...Babe Ruth called his shot...Johnny Carson debuted...Walt Disney World opened...Beach Boys, Beatles releases...Thriller in Manila...”).
• Humor at the density of the list: "I don't think I've ever seen one of these this day in history. It's like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Like that's a load of them." – John Holmberg (03:30)

2. Halloween "Blight" and Over-the-Top Decor (04:21–05:27)

• John jokes about his neighbor’s unruly yard and city interventions due to excessive skeleton displays—using this to riff on suburban competitiveness and laziness.
• “I don’t know why you want your house to look unclean clean as well, with the cobwebs and the silliness, but it looks good now.” – John Holmberg (04:39)

3. The "N-Bomb Dropper" Follow-up – Fallout from Racist Text (05:27–14:22)

Recap & Email Update

• Background: Listener previously emailed about sending a racially offensive text ("N-word") during a fantasy football chat involving coworkers, including a Black colleague.
• Follow-Up Outcome:
  • The emailer apologizes to his coworker as advised. The coworker accepts the apology but informs management.
  • The emailer is later fired, with prior workplace violence (shoving a coworker into a woman, who burned her hand) cited as a cumulative factor.
  • "Evidently my apology ... he still told the bosses what happened. And because it was a company phone and it was company time, uh, they cited a time in 2022 where I pushed a coworker and he fell into a female by the coffee machine. ...So this is more about my past than the N word." – Listener Email (06:32)

Candid Analysis and Office Culture Skewering

• John and Bret break down the pitfalls:
  • Don’t use company phones for anything personal or inappropriate: "You're setting yourself up." – John Holmberg (07:24)
  • Racial slurs are never workplace-appropriate—even "joking" among white coworkers: "Don’t text the black guy the N word. ...Don’t text the N word to each other as much." – John Holmberg (08:14)
  • Accountability isn’t just about the most recent misstep; your past follows you at work.

Notable Quotes

• “He shook your hand. He was a bigger man by just not saying, you know what? Screw you. ... But I already got you.” – John Holmberg (08:20)
• "You must be pretty good at what you do, because the second you start knocking broads into coffee machines... I'm not real sure what's worse, the physical act of shoving people when there's women near hot things, or just, you know, being kind of out. You sound a little bit like you need some work on yourself there." – John Holmberg (09:41)
• On company oversight: "Google knows exactly what. You use this site to block all the—like your past. Because you’re going on a lot of porn sites, and they’re basically saying, if your wife’s up your ass, here’s what you do." – John Holmberg (15:34)

“N-Word Guy” & South Park Reference

• Comparison to South Park’s “Naggers” episode, lampooning the social consequences and persistent stigma after a racial gaffe. “He became known around the town as N word guy.” – John Holmberg (12:28)

4. The Nuke-The-Asteroid Panic (19:21–30:03)

The Science Panic

• News coverage is ramping up on the possibility of using nuclear weapons to divert an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon, as if “we're just children who want to use our toys.” (20:41)
• John's skepticism: “Can’t we … just be on guard? ... We don’t have to go out there and just start nuking it.” (20:59)
• Paranoia about unintended consequences, referencing Oppenheimer’s original anxieties: “What if in space, whatever’s out there, we don’t know that there’s something in the ‘space air’... and it turned space into a fire.” – John Holmberg (21:47)
• Satirizes the Armageddon movie logic and science in pop culture (“Get some oil riggers. I can handle this. Right. Because it's much easier to educate oil riggers to be astronauts than it is for astronauts to learn how to work big drills.” – 22:10)

Nukes as International Bragging Rights

• Worries about normalization and escalation: “Once we do that, we’re going to be doing it all the time because it’s a display of power for us or Russia...” (30:03)
• “If we can hit this, we can crush you. And then Russia would be like, well, we have to hit one now too. ... Now the whole, like, nukes in space are a constant, which would be a good show, but come on. 4% chance. It's not like you just saw Livy Dunn in a bar and you're like, there's a 4% chance I can get this. Like, you still take that swing. You know ... it's not happening.” – John Holmberg (30:42)

5. Cultural Satire—Anxiety, Video Games, and Learning to Cope (33:41–38:17)

• Draws parallels between old video games (“Asteroids,” “Tempest”) and today's “mental health” discussions, mocking the idea that anxiety is new or unique to younger generations.
• “We paid for anxiety. We would steal quarters from our parents to go have anxiety. You guys don't know how good you've got it.” – John Holmberg (35:24)
• Pop culture as predictive programming: Points to movies and games priming us for future events (“Asteroid did that. We've been shooting at asteroids for years. ... When it actually happens in real life, we don't act like it's crazy.” – 32:38)

6. Running Gags, Music Tangents & Memorable Moments

• Digs at Aerosmith for their “Armageddon” ballad (“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”) and its incongruity with their legacy: “This is like AC/DC doing this song. What are you doing? Gross.” – John Holmberg (24:35)
• Repeated “Hey man, Steven Tyler…” impressions, mocking the seriousness of celebrity ballads.
• Banter on science fiction tropes and the ironic reality of "space nuking"—“Send the blue penis up there with a crew,” referencing Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket. (28:20)

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Notable Quotes, Speakers, and Timestamps

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |--------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:30 | John Holmberg | “I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these this day in history. ... That’s a load...” | | 05:59 | John Holmberg | “His question on Monday was, do I apologize? What do I do? How do I handle this?” | | 08:14 | John Holmberg | “Don’t text the black guy the N word. ...Don’t text the N word to each other as much.”| | 08:20 | John Holmberg | “He shook your hand. He was a bigger man by just not saying, you know what? Screw you.” | | 12:28 | John Holmberg | “He became known around the town as N word guy.” | | 20:41 | John Holmberg | “4% chance. Can’t we like 4 days before it’s close to the moon... just be on guard?” | | 21:47 | John Holmberg | “What if in space whatever’s out there... and it turned space into a fire.” | | 22:10 | John Holmberg | “Get some oil riggers... It’s much easier to educate oil riggers to be astronauts...”| | 24:35 | John Holmberg | “This is like AC/DC doing this song. What are you doing? Gross.” | | 30:03 | John Holmberg | “Once we do that, we’re going to be doing it all the time because it’s a display…” | | 35:24 | John Holmberg | “We paid for anxiety. We would steal quarters from our parents to go have anxiety.” |

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• This Day in History Rapid-fire – 00:00–04:21
• Halloween Decor & Suburban Satire – 04:21–05:27
• N-Word Dropper Email & Office Culture – 05:27–14:22
• Asteroid/Nuke Satire & Armageddon Parody – 19:21–30:03
• Games, Anxiety, and Pop Culture Conditioning – 33:41–38:17

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Summary Tone & Language

Holmberg and crew maintain their trademark sardonic wit throughout, oscillating swiftly between laughs, savage takedowns, shocking bluntness ("office dickhead", "N-word guy"), and genuine ponderings about social and scientific absurdity. The discussion is rapid-fire, peppered with cultural references and ribald asides but never loses focus on the satirical critique of workplace culture, American overreaction, or generational neuroses.

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In a nutshell:
If you missed this episode, you’ll know the team tackled politically perilous territory and moon-wiping asteroid paranoia with the same irreverent, incisive humor that keeps Holmberg’s Morning Sickness atop Arizona’s airwaves. Highlights include a masterclass in why "company phone" is a career deathtrap, why not all apologies end in redemption, and an indictment of both science fiction and 21st-century anxiety—plus, the best/worst moments in Aerosmith’s pop sellout history and the enduring wisdom: “Don’t be the office dickhead.”

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Transcript

[John Holmberg]

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[Brett]

And for some reason I decided to check it out. I'm like October 1st. I'm curious.

[John Holmberg]

Man. This is unreal. 135 years ago, Yosemite started. That's information Henry T introduced or Henry T. Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908.

[Brett]

825 bucks.

[John Holmberg]

Sticker price $100 million back then. Everything. Everything back in 1908 was less than a nickel. I still don't know how they got by then. Today is the day Babe Ruth called his shot at Wrigley Field in 1932. Supposedly argument that he was just pointing. He was just pointing at the hot girl. At a pitcher that hit him earlier in the year, which is a great story. But if he did call a shot, even better because it over the center field fence. Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's record on this day 64 years ago. Damn. Johnny Carson debuted as the Tonight show host today, 63 years ago. His guests were Mel Brooks, Tony Bennett, Rudy Valley and Joan Crawford. That's a heck of a lineup. Yeah. Beach Boys released Surf and Safari. Beatles released Abbey Road. All of this. On October 1st, Walt Disney World opened. This is a little bit of an off one, but it's in the mix. Leatherface, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original came out. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the Thriller in Manila on October 1st. How about that?

[Brett]

I just saw something on Disney World that. It's the same size as San Francisco.

[John Holmberg]

It's huge. It's like. It's like eight square miles or something. It's massive. Yeah. A couple of good Charlotte released an album. Nobody cares about that. George Michael was arrested for at the. For blowing it. No, he got. No, he just got in trouble for being d line. No, this wasn't the one where he got in trouble for that. Today's the day on bad news. October 1st that the. It's the 8th anniversary of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay shooting. Oh, man, that's amazing. I have. I don't think I've ever seen one of these this day in history. It's like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Like that's a load of them. Ali, Frazier. That's nuts. That's nuts.

[Brett]

Ever since our talk yesterday about the Halloween decorations, man, the neighborhood is a buzzing.

[John Holmberg]

Is it buzzing? They put them up my neighborhood October 1st.

[Brett]

You know, we're like, you know, I.

[John Holmberg]

Didn'T know this, but I told you that there was a letter left by the city to that. That blight filled front yard that I live by of the skeleton. That's. Now they think it looks cool, I think since the storm knocked down their skeleton. So it just stays laid down in their front yard. And they had terrible stuff all over their yard when the storms hit. Those dumb cobwebs that they put. And there's no clear path to their door. So the city put a thing that says you can't get Mail. And you can't have this unless you give us a clear path to the door. And it all went away yesterday. Like, they're upset. There's still the dumb skeleton laying dead in the front yard. But all the crap. And now it's okay. I don't know why you want your house to look unclean clean as well, with the cobwebs and the silliness, but it looks good now. Finally. That's how that works. So what are you going to do? It's interesting. Remember Monday in the what would Brady do? Segment of the program, we had the. The guy who inadvertent. Well, inadvertently, he very purposefully text a thread of people at his work. I don't remember the exact game he was talking about, but he said something about curb stomping a. Oh, yeah, yeah. American History X style. And he used the N word in his text in a fit of emotion and attempt to be, you know, crazy and funny and forgotten that one of the people in the thread was a co worker who was a black guy. And so he asked, do I.

[Brett]

Old fantasy football.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, exactly. No, there's a fantasy, all right, that everybody gets along well. He, we. You know, his question on Monday was, do I apologize? What do I do? How do I handle this? And obviously we all said, you can apologize, but you're going to have to eat this one. This is. You know, part of me says if he doesn't bring it up, don't bring it up. But you don't know what his reaction is going to be. I got the email last night says John. Just a follow up and it is not a good one. I apologize to the guy I worked with for using the N word and the text. And I told him exactly what you said. It's something I have used in the past, but after this incident, I have chosen to never use it again and I apologize. I was actually surprised. He took my apology very well and shook hands. And about two hours before he was finished up on Monday, my supervisor asked me to talk with him and the big boss and they fired me.

[Brett]

Oh.

[John Holmberg]

So evidently my apology was he still told the bosses what happened. And because it was a company phone and it was company time, uh, they cited a time in 2022 where I pushed a coworker and he fell into a female by the coffee machine. She burned her hand. Admittedly, I have had anger issues in the past, so this is more about my past than the N word. But I'm toast. Maybe I shouldn't have apologized since the C word. Ratted me out anyway. Well, here we go again. You called him a name. Now it's direct. Uh, anyway, never apologize. I guess Holmberg's right. HC Now I. People keep emailing. I've never said never apologize when you're wrong. Apologize to a person, not a mob. And you did exactly what you did. But also doesn't exonerate you from all things that are bad. And a company phone. How many times. If Homeberg's right about you think that I said never apologize. Also, don't have a company phone. If you're trying to save 40, 50 bucks a month and have a company phone, just know your racist memes, your tweets, your hilarious Instagram watch, this abortion joke, the N words, this, that, and the other. That's just. You're. You're setting yourself up.

[Brett]

Seems to be mentioning a couple of things that have happened in the past.

[John Holmberg]

Well, you punched a guy at work and knocked a woman into a hot plate. So, yeah, you are.

[Brett]

And then company phone on top of that is like, read the room.

[John Holmberg]

Well, how about company phone or otherwise, we don't text the black guy the N word.

[Brett]

That's read the.

[John Holmberg]

Start there, then second. And I know this is a tough one, whitey. Don't text the N word to each other as much. That's a thing we could start with. It's not the black guy's fault for rat you out. He hates you now, and rightfully so.

[Brett]

If that is hard to do, you can't.

[John Holmberg]

You're gonna get in trouble again.

[Brett]

Want to put that on there? Then you.

[John Holmberg]

Come on, man. What a. What a. Steve, this guy's an absolute no word. You are. I told him I was sorry. Yeah. But just. It's still. The damage was done. He hates you. You immediately made him hate you. He shook your hand. He was a bigger man by just not saying, you know what? Screw you. He took your apology, looked you in the eye, and said, damage already. I already got you. I already got you. I'll take your apology. That's great. But I already got you. Now it's up to the boss to see what's going on. That's bad. And if you've been pushing people around the office for the last few years and you're sitting there going, this is about my past. I think we all have had that guy in the office that have done stuff like that, and you're like, yeah, it is about your past, and we don't want that to happen again. So N word guy is what you're known as now. And luckily, he didn't. Maybe he did. Maybe he will. He didn't tell everybody else at work that that's who you are and you just need to move on. But it sucks you got fired. But he should have been fired for pushing that guy a couple years ago. Yeah, that. That blows me away, actually. You must be pretty good at what you do, because the second you start knocking broads into coffee machines. Yeah. I'm not real sure what's. What's worse. The physical act of shoving people when there's women near, you know, hot things or just, you know, being kind of out. You sound a little bit like you need some work on yourself there. Maybe take this.

[Brett]

You know, even the scenario, even if the guy said who he called the N word or, you know, apologized to.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Said something to the boss or whatever and goes, you know, he apologized to me. The boss is still going to say, what's going on here?

[John Holmberg]

As a boss, you can't have the. If. If the black guy at work comes in and said, that's. You know, that's why I always said, miles Garrett's the probably, you know, one of the worst people in the NFL, because when he tried to kill a guy with a helmet, he tried to get out of it by saying, he called me the N word. And everyone on the field went, don't do this to him. He did not. Even his own teammates were like, I didn't hear that. He was using it as that cure all. Because there's no person on the planet who's running any business or even, like, a restaurant floor who's like, hey, by the way, Brett called me the N word. You gotta talk to Brett and go, did you call me N? And then the fight starts.

[Brett]

No, I said, dinger.

[John Holmberg]

No. I was trying to get the Rockies mascot. It's a common mistake. But, yeah, everybody. Every boss has to react with it. Can't have that. Because if I don't react now, I'm on the right. Like, I'm done. So it's a weapon that can get used to. To get people in trouble. And Miles Garrett did. I remember saying that the day after Miles Garrett tried to kill Mason Rudolph with his helmet. And I remember saying the next day, the only way out of this. And I guarantee you he's going to try it, is to say that Mason did something racist and set him off. And when he. And he didn't the night of, he didn't the next day. He waited for, like, Tuesday after the Sunday game to say it. And even the guy that Stands next to him. Larry Ogun Jovi stood right next to him and said, yeah, I didn't hear that. And Larry Ogun Joby ended up on the Steelers. And then a year later, Miles Garrett and Mason Rudolph are shaking hands in the middle of the field. You think of a dude who tried to kill you with a helmet. Tried to do it.

[Brett]

Remember that time I swung my home with you?

[John Holmberg]

Remember that time that you called me and got away with it and I tried to kill you? Yeah. Bygones, right? Oh, yeah. No, we're going to have a great game. Enjoy a good game. Caught up in competition, Right? That doesn't happen. Sorry I lied and tried to ruin your life. Yeah, well, you also tried to kill me. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was pretty frustrated that day. Yeah, that's what I'm gathering. I want to know what happened at the end of this conversation. Like, when he's walking out and he goes, I take it all back. You are. Yeah, I know. He probably. He's one of those guys. And then he went and he grabbed a woman and he put her in the microwave.

[Brett]

Finish the restless kid.

[John Holmberg]

Put your head in the oven. I'm not done with this place anyway. So what are you gonna do? It's a slippery. And I hate to say this because it's gonna get him. So it's a slippery slope that you get into when you start using racist language around the office like that. Yeah, that's right. Nick emails in. He's like Randy on South park when he went onto the Wheel of Fortune and he thought the clue had the N word in it, and he said it, but it was naggers. It's one of the funniest episodes you've ever seen at South Park. And then he became known around the town as N word guy. And that's what they just called him. And he's like, hey, it's. But they said it out loud. It was hilarious because it was like such a. It was such a cloud that followed him. And it was a. It was a scourge he could not shake. And it was. It's exactly. What's happened to this dude who emailed us. Morning sickness.

[Dick Toledo]

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[John Holmberg]

53342 morning sickness and I don't know if you want sympathy from us, but it sounds like you might have been the office dickhead way before N word gate Sounds like you might have been the office dickhead. N word gate. I like. I would like to. I mean, to this idiot's credit, that's a very funny thing if that became a gate. But yeah, it sounds like when you push that dude and knock that lady down, you were the office dickhead. So you should have been fired for physically attacking a co worker a long time ago. So work on yourself. You've got some time now, and I'm sure they gave you a couple weeks of pay while you're looking for it. Take take three or four hours a day to look for a job and three or four hours today to look inward. I said the inward and find out why you're such a dick knocking people. Well, I mean, there's never going to be a reason why pushing or throwing something or doing things at work is reasonable to any manager. Unless that guy attacked you, which you didn't include in your email, so that tells me you didn't say I had to defend myself once from a crazy co worker who tried to punch me and I accidentally hit a woman into the coffee machine in the fight. That's you being attacked. You sound like you. You know, I've had anger issues, things like that. That's your past will catch up with you with that kind of stuff. Don't be the office dickhead and don't use a company phone for wacky Sunday afternoon football jokes. It feels like it's yours, but it's not. You're borrowing it. I've talked to I don't know how many people have talked out of having the Hubbard company phone here. Well, what are you doing? What are you doing? Google knows what you're doing. You think that they can't. You know, Hubbard's good. They warn you in pornhub. It's like Google knows exactly what. You use this site to block all the. Like, your past. Because you're going on a lot of porn sites, and they're basically saying, if your wife's up your ass, here's what you do. But if you. You know, it's easy. All they do. They have to. They ask for your phone. You got to give it to them. That's Tom Brady. Yeah. And that was his phone. I know. And they still almost got it. Imagine if it was the NFL's. Like, we have a Verizon wireless plan for the NFL players, and you will save you 90 bucks a month. I don't think any of the football players were like, oh, that sounds like a grind. Gonna save that money. No, I'm good, man. Yeah, so don't. Just stop it. Everybody be smarter and don't be the office dickhead. And stop saying the N word freely like that. Although N word gate is pretty hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. Ryan says, you should have done the Amon Ra Saint Brown when you left and just said it. I run this. Ah, there he goes again. Yeah, double down on it or something. But guess what? Now you got to go. First thing you got to do is head over to AT&T and get yourself a new phone. Then start complaining to people on that.

[Brett]

The hypocrisy. Hypocrisy sometimes cracks me up when people complain about something like what happened. Well, it called me.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

You know, a racial slur that I didn't, like, appreciate.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Brett]

Who did it? Well, it was the mini guinea.

[John Holmberg]

Right. Here we go. There's a lot of that. There's a lot of. Or you can just double down and start throwing it around a lot more with an A on the end of it, as if you just use it. And then when the guy goes, hey, you want to calm down on that? It's like, oh, no, no, I'm. Wasn't harder, bro. Yeah, no, And I'm also, like, I said all the time, I listen to rap, and I'm like, no, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, text him in the morning, what's up? And just, hey, this guy's getting. I think he thinks we're too close. And then tell them, I thought we were good friends. I thought I had a pass. Like, never had a pass. And they're like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I thought this is cool. Cause I listened to so much old school rap. It's the only way out of it. I mean, you're a jackass. And that time you push that mandig in.

[Brett]

I'm a chronic kid.

[John Holmberg]

How badly did the woman get burned at work? Probably not a lot, but it was just enough to scare her. She was in the midst of a kitchen fight at work. So. She was horrible, this broad. All right, now see, this is gonna be.

[Brett]

Here we go.

[John Holmberg]

This. But yeah, she. But you know what? If she had better balance, she wouldn't have had to grab the coffee pot to to it. It was her own fault. Jen had asked twice. You shouldn't be in a scuffle in the office kitchen. Especially when chick just trying to make herself a cup of joe. I'm gonna knock you the out. Please wait till I'm done with my coffee pour. Once Susan leaves this room, you're going down, chief. Yeah, don't be the office dickhead. That's it. But thanks for sharing everything with us. And did you win the football pool? That's the bigger thing. You said that you had won the. It was. If I remember right, it was Jacksonville versus the 49ers. It's gonna need that money now. Yeah, yeah, Hopefully. Hopefully they pay out still because this happened on Monday. You got fired Monday.

[Brett]

It's the company. Sorry.

[John Holmberg]

More than likely we still needed a points for Monday night footballs game. I don't know if you won your pool. Oh, he's not in Toledo's league, is he? That's what I'm saying. Toledo's a. There's no way he's pay. That was the C word, by the way. Not an N word. Just to let you know. I don't. I'm not gonna throw that bomb at anybody. Don't worry about it. Yeah, so he kind of hit us with that, and it's pretty good. And then more. Last night I watched that asteroid that's headed towards the moon. And now we're getting serious about it. I talked about earlier in the week how we had the Armageddon. You know, the Armageddon.

[Brett]

Shoot a nuke at it.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, we're gonna try to nuke an asteroid. And I'm like, this thing must be kind of serious because now we got like, NBC is talking about it, like. And I don'. That's not a. There's a lot going on. So they didn't have to waste time. This isn't a time filled story. There's. They could dodge this if it was. And so we're talking about throwing a couple nukes at it because they're worried that if it hits the moon it'd cause a disruption and debris would go shooting into space. And then there's a chance it could hit the space station or satellites. And I'm like, well isn't nuking it. Isn't there a potential that it goes off course towards us? What do you think the percentage is of it? The chances are they think it'll hit the moon. That's making us discuss nuking the asteroid.

[Brett]

2%.

[John Holmberg]

You're a little low. 15%. It's 4. Brady was closer than you thought. But it's 4% before we're just children who want to use our toys. 4% chance. Can't we like 4 days before it's close to the moon, realize okay there it is and just be on guard. We don't have to go out there and just start nuking it and just go. We got to get rid of this thing. It's. What if it doesn't work? And here's the other thing. I watched Oppenheimer. They were worried that it would chain react and all of the Earth's atmosphere would light on fire across the globe. That was their fear of. We don't know how this. How this is going to stop itself. Because that's what the nuclear is it fusion they do is that it reacts by building more and more and more and more and more and never stops as long as it has its fuel. And they thought it was oxygen. And they were wrong. They know it has a certain. But it kills itself. What if in space whatever's out there, we don't know that there's something in the space air that there isn't any of.

[Brett]

That's what I was.

[John Holmberg]

And it turned space into a fire.

[Brett]

Or does that mushroom cloud just stay.

[John Holmberg]

And float around and just nuke everything and then just dips down and it's impervious to the atmosphere. It gets hotter. So then. Yeah. What if the mushroom cloud full of nuclear nonsense hits our atmosphere which is blazing hot and starts it again? Yeah, it doesn't seem worth it to test nukes that close to the house. You know, if you're gonna do it, take it out to Mars. That's what we're talking. That's the whole point of going to Mars, isn't it? Let's see how nukes react out by Mars and If Mars goes, big whoop. But don't start screwing around. 4% chance. Let's take our chances. I like the 96% chance it's not gonna hit the moon. Can we be a little positive? Just send in the riggers. They'll take care. That's Armageddon taught us. All right. Damn you, Brett. He's not wrong. We go get roughnecks. Roughnecks? We get some oil riggers. I can handle this. Right. Because it's much easier to educate oil riggers to be astronauts than it is astronauts to learn how to work big drills. Such a. Such a concept, Michael. Only Michael Bay could come up with something as stupid as that and watch Americans plop down 20 bucks a person to go sit and watch that nonsense save the world. Oh, Buscemi had the space crazies. They made up. And then Aerosmith died on a vine by putting a Diane Warren song out. There's nothing worse than when Aerosmith plays this live because it's. It's the. It's literally like watching your favorite person put a gun in their mouth and just like. Oh, yeah, this is when they killed themselves. I can't remember.

[Brett]

Did they run the scenes? Movie scenes in the background in that con in the last concert? Aerosmith?

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. I stopped watching Aerosmith live for a reason. Where's Joe Perry? They got two of the best guitar players you could ever imagine. I got a piano and strings going. I gotta listen to him. And that makes me think of Ben Affleck trying to nail and Bruce Willis daughter and hitting Steven Tyler's daughter. Yeah, this was it. This was when Steven Tyler called you and you weren't sure they were serious. When he's like, hey, man, Steven, what's up? I'm gonna kill myself. Bye. Oh, he's joking. And then this happens. Always take it seriously when Steven Tyler calls you and says, I think I'm gonna write a ballad. No, don't do it. I didn't even it. He borrowed it from some lady. Ah. Has written every ballad in the world for the most part. Yeah.

[Brett]

You ever played this for a wedding?

[John Holmberg]

I think I have a couple times here. And you know who didn't want it? The groom. And you. And you. Yeah, the DJ and the groom. This could have been anybody else. The fact that it's Aerosmith is. This is like AC DC doing this song. What are you doing? Gross. And for one of the dumbest movies I've ever watched in my life. And now we're going to recreate it in Real life. It didn't go well. By the way, Watch Armageddon. Everyone died. They all was.

[Brett]

It wasn't.

[John Holmberg]

I think three of them made it. Well, you know, a couple of them got on the kid.

[Brett]

Yeah, he made it.

[John Holmberg]

But Bruce Willis. Yeah. Stayed and waved to him. Like, it. We killed a lot of dudes. I love you, Gracie. Yeah. For a 4% chance of this thing hitting the moon. We killed Bruce Willis.

[Brett]

I can't even remember.

[John Holmberg]

He's a good man. I'll tell you what. I think that that's what gave Bruce Willis what he's got today. Is it floating around up in space, playing with nukes? Yeah. And he was in Armageddon. He had to listen to the song again. I think it caused that horrible dementia that he's got, because that song was probably like. And he had to watch the. The rough cut and everything else. We're gonna add the song here. It's like. Okay. It's like the 800th time I've heard that it's gonna cause dementia in, like, a rare form. Yuck. I want to push a man into a woman in the kitchen. That's what I. That's the only excuse that guy who emailed us has. If this was playing on a speaker, you're allowed to punch the guy closest to you. Ugh. Close your eyes. Hey, man. Hey, Stephen. What's going on? I'm gonna take my life tonight, and I'm gonna ruin Aerosmith. I'm like, all right, don't do it. It's too late. And he did it. Holmberg's morning sickness. Holberg's morning sickness. 28 KU. Holmberg's morning sickness. Joe Perry project didn't do this one, huh? Nope. Joe Perry didn't do this one when it was out. Yeah, there's nobody in it. Yeah, he was probably pretending to be sober then. Remember when they went sober and then did this song? And shortly after, you started to see him drinking again. Oh, yeah. I don't blame him. I was drinking after I heard this, too. Why couldn't this have been Celine Dion? It could have been just as easy. Anybody. Anybody but Aerosmith. Oh. Anyway, because Liv said, daddy, will you do a song show, baby? That's how he talks to people.

[Brett]

I just want to call him.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. Hey, man. That's how he answers the phone every time. You can't get away around it. Thank you for coming to the funeral, Stephen. Hey, my ear, please. Even the guy in the box. Like, if somebody keep. Keep it down. Sorry, man. Anyway, we're gonna Recreate Armageddon for some reason, because that seems to be our plan. And all this sounds like to me, even NBC, crazy, liberal, nutty NBC is like, yeah, nuke it. They seem to be all for it. We all want to see one go off, just not here. I do want to see it, but I do fear that we don't know something. And without. And I don't want to find out, like, watch Oppenheimer. Even the dude who knew, like, the smartest people were like, we don't know how this stops itself from continuing to just create more molecules and burn those up. And I mean, it could just keep going and going and going. Yeah, let's try it out. That's basically what Oppenheimer was, was a bunch of people saying, might blow up all of air. Give it a run. We haven't tried it in space yet that we know about.

[Brett]

Send the blue penis up there with a crew to get that thing done.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, get William Shatner and Katy Perry and that. Yeah, she can sing it down. Yeah, those are that gaggle of broads that went up in the blue orbit and became astronauts for eight minutes. Let's get them up there, start nuking stuff. It seems maybe they won't come back. Oh, wouldn't it be great if Katy Perry was the one just waving goodbye to Grace? I love her. Hey, man. Hey, man, we've already done that movie. I wouldn't want to miss that thing. I wouldn't want to miss that at all. I'd watch that for months anyway. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why 4% chance has us thinking we should nuke it. And I'm also thinking to myself, man, you bang into that and then let's say it works and we blow it up. Now you've got like chunks of asteroid going every direction. Isn't that more dangerous for the space station and our satellites? Like, we don't know. Yeah, the fraggin. That's right. Careful, Brennaman, the fragging that happens. We'd be the mayors of Frag City. But yeah, you can't do that stuff. Four percent. And I just. I'm watching it last night, I'm shaking my head just like these guys are dying to. We've got. What we've been doing since 1947 is building nukes. Like, once we got that 45 out there, we're like, well, I need a few more of these. And we just started to churn them out just to be ahead of Russia. And then Russia's like watch, hold my beer. In the 80s and 90s, Russia passed us by a lot. And then we like could you please dismantle a few of those as we're getting silly. And then when they did that we caught them. So it's even up at there's a lot of them and a whole bunch of old ones. You know, let's chuck the old ones. I'm all in on that.

[Brett]

But looking like, you know, that old. The fear of this stored old dynamite. Oh, it's just unsettled. Don't move it. What do you do with the old nuclear bombs or.

[John Holmberg]

Well, I know they dismantle difference the shelf life on these things but if we've got a few like champs that are laying around, there's just for, you know, well, we can rebuild those and pretend and just put those bad boys up there. But I also don't want to find out that but whatever is in space as far as the atmospheric conditions aren't conducive to like making nukes better.

[Brett]

It's like old firecrackers. Even you know, the fuses aren't as consistent when they've been sitting around.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you don't know. Super fast. Yeah, I don't know if we're using old ones. We're going to put one of them awesome. Ivy.

[Brett]

I'm sitting for 30 years.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know what we've got, who's we're going to use. I don't know. Is America going to spend all that money on a nuke and throw it at a Donald Trump would. He'd be like, our nukes are the best asteroid destroyers ever. And here's the other thing. Once we do that, we're going to be doing it all the time because it's a display of power for us or Russia or whoever it's it is somehow or another it's an agreement too. Like Russia wouldn't want. Like we would have to have a neutral country do this. So America didn't get all the credit for saving the moon. The simulation's broken. Once again. America saves the moon. And where was Russia? Nowhere. Putin didn't do a thing. And where was Rocket Man? Mr. I shoot my ballistic missiles all over the Pacific. Nothing. We had to save the moon and we did. And we're going to do it again. And we would just be firing nukes at asteroids non stop to let Russia and everyone else know, guys, if we can hit this, we can crush you. And then Russia would be like, well, we have to hit one now. Too. Because we have to show them our power. And now the whole, like, nukes in space are a constant, which would be good show, but come on. 4% chance. It's not. It's not like you just saw Livy Dunn in a bar and you're like, there's a 4% chance I can get this. Like, you still take that swing. You know you're gonna. You know, it's not happening. 96% chances of missing the moon. It's gonna miss the moon. But for some reason or another, we're all about throwing nukes at asteroids. Now we got other stuff to do, don't we? Isn't there something the government completely closed. I didn't. Aren't we gonna, like, you can't go to a park today because it's closed. Oh, man. Be just like this. Oh, no. Oh, it's asteroid. This is where they got the idea. This is that thing that they tell us at the. When. This looks so fun. Damn it. The graphics are horrible. But look at that. One thing we learned from asteroids, you hit one, and they break into, like, a hundred pieces. Let's keep shooting. What is that thing called when they. When they show us stuff through entertainment to get us used to something that's real, that's common, like Manchurian Candidate. And then when it does happen, we're used. I forget. There's, like, a phrase for it. Asteroid did that. We've been shooting at asteroids for years. And it's like, eventually we're gonna. People will be like, oh, yeah. And then Armageddon shows us, like, get used to this because it's coming. That's how they use the entertainment industry, is to get people used to things. So when it actually happens in real life, we don't act like it's crazy. I always use the, like, FaceTime phone as an example, because when Dick Tracy had it on his watch.

[Brett]

So cool.

[John Holmberg]

It was the neatest thing ever. And if it ever happen, I'll pass out. And then when it happens, driverless cars. We don't. We're not amazed by anything because we've been shown it long before it's been invented. They didn't have that with light bulbs and stuff. When Thomas Edison tried to tell people, this is a little piece of glass. I've got some cardboard in it. And you light it on fire, and it glows for, like, hours on end. And you can turn it on and off. People, that was the first time they'd ever heard of it. So you can imagine the amazement the first time they ever Showed a movie feature on the side of a building because you remember they didn't have movie theaters back then. People ran away because they didn't know it wasn't real. Giants coming off the wall. We've had asteroids since 1981. So, I mean, we've been waiting to blow these up. God, that sound is inside me. That's a good one. Oh, I gotcha. Damn it. Oh, Asteroid was just as good as it gets and just an anxiety riddled nightmare. This is why I don't like the new generation. You want to talk about. You guys all bitch about, you know, your mental health and your anxiety. We played games that caused it. We would play games that, as you kept playing, the anxiety grew and it turned you into a crazed lunatic. Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Asteroids. And you thought at first. And the worst part is they teased you with the first round. Like, this is easy. If you ever played the game Tempest as a child. Oh, yeah, many times. There's a reason I'm bald and it's video games. That was the most tense insanity of all time. I sit and listen to this generation of people. I have anxiety, and I'm triggered. I'm like, we paid for it. We would steal quarters from our parents to go have anxiety. You guys don't know how good you've got it. God damn these kids today. Robotron with all them robots, shoot all around. Oh, man, the worst game ever. That's why I always kind of just shake my head when I see somebody young going, I've got mental. I've got anxiety. I watched Dancing with the Stars last night and it was TikTok night, and like five or six of those performers did songs to shake off the anxiety that they've lived with for years. Like, I suffer from anxiety. We all do. It's called being alive life. I've been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and also I'm like, okay, I can get around this. It's not easy. Sometimes you feel like kind of cruddy, but that's just life. And then so the Jordan Childs was a gymnast and she did her dance and she goes, I really feel like I left it all out there. I've dealt with so much anxiety and mental illness. I'm like, because you've been told you can't get over it. So she did the dance. I'm like, we think about Asteroid. Brett. I'm gonna throw one at you. All right, bartender. Oh. One of my favorite games, but it kills me. It's. It's a heart attack waiting to. If you try to play that in your 50s and like, oh, this will be fun. You're going to have the Widowmaker. Even if you were completely healthy, that game is the most stress inducing thing I've ever played in my life. When you try to run down and grab the tips and everything else. Tips was the worst one once you got into them. Throwing tips and the tips and nothing can break. And there's just five or six beers per thing. And, oh, it was horrifying. And I was nervous watching other people play. Waiting for my turn with my quarter up on the thing. We used to pay for anxiety. Used to pay for it. And the graphics weren't that good. And we still paid for anxiety. Bartender, Dig Doug. ColecoVision came out with a game called Cosmic Avenger that my dad and I used to play together. And I thought we'd get into fist fight fights. Good Lord. Missile Command, Centipede. I couldn't play Zaxon. I never understood the Dragon's lair. And Zaxon beat me in the first three seconds. We used to pay for anxiety. Space Ace. Ah. And now we're living the life where we're actually going to nuke some asteroids and Space Ace. Oh, I hated that guy. That was just a cartoon. You got to play Space Ace and he'd look at you and bounce. Ready like, yeah, he's dead. What did I do wrong? Another quarter down. Yeah. And then it was dollars. I'm like, I'm gonna get him past that first Ace. It looks so good that it never worked. Let's get a wake up song, shall we? 585-9800. A good one before we nuke space. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up, Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erected.

[Brett]

Basketball game crushed.

[John Holmberg]

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