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Holmberg
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Holmberg
Still streaming. Homberg's Morning S this online at 98kupd.com It's October, everybody. It's October 1st, if you can believe it. We're 30 days away from Night of the Singing Dead also, which I can't wait for. That's going to be fun. Once again, our Halloween party is hacked actually on Halloween this year, Friday out at Desert Ridge. And that's going to be absolutely great. So you can, you know, do your thing, give away candy for an hour or so, then head on up there. We'll get going about 9 o' clock and the costumes and the fun and the party and all the silliness that ensues with our Night of the singing dead happens October 31st. Get ready for that. We'll have all the information coming your way in just a few days as everything gets sorted for sure. Emails about people asking, well, what happened to Merc Mania today? Once again, I remind you it was shut down by the fun police that known as radio executives who keep trying to figure out why radio is dying across the nation and then they flip out and have lawyers talk to you all day long when you do something fun on the radio. So. And it's all like. There's nothing worse. It's like, chicks. Well, what would have happened if that did happen? But it didn't. Why are you worried about what didn't happen? But it could have, man. We get hit by a meteor or something. That's what your dad always looks at. Your mom said, you get hit by a truck. I don't know what's gonna happen. Was it worth the risk? Yeah, it was great. And I was right. In the end. I was right. I proved my point. Makes me want to do it again. Damn. What if we did give away? It scared him because of the money. They thought that they were gonna have to give away all that money themselves. And I said, I'll do it. Oh, you what?
Brady
That you couldn't back it up. And now they have.
Holmberg
Well, right. They were worried that I would actually. I've run away. And there's truth to it. There's some reasonable feeling that I would actually run off, change my name, go up in there, be, you know, Dave Lambert living up there in New Hampshire, the Granite State mayor of something. And then 20 years from now, they'd be like, he started a whole new life in New Hampshire and he ran away from the bill. There's a chance I'd have done that. Like, if I could have seen an escape route, I'd have done it. I'm not an idiot. If there was a moment like, I better fess up and do this, I said I would. And then somebody goes, I can get you out of this. I'm going to listen to that guy for a few seconds. Well, how? I can get you an id. I've watched Breaking Bad. I know how it works. At the end, you talk to the guy who runs the vacuum store. He puts you in his basement for a couple days, and the next thing you know, your name's Gene and you work at Cinnabon over in. You know, you're in a different spot, but everything's black and white. It's a little confusing, but you get to meet Carol Burnett. It's a long. It's a long way to go, but it's worth it. You just have to mind your p's and q's and live a life of quiet. But, yeah, Hubbard. They won't let me. They won't let us do those games anymore, Bert. Not at all. Jeez. I know, but thanks for that. What was her name? Melissa. Michelle.
Brady
Michelle.
Holmberg
Michelle. Yesterday. For not Knowing the answer to the question that could have cost this company everything. And me too.
Brady
Maybe she's working today down in China.
Holmberg
Oh, yeah. Maybe yesterday she got lucky because she was unemployed. She's an unemployed house cleaner. Maybe she's in there scrubbing somebody's baseboards today and smiling because that's her passion. I'm sure of it. Brett, it's your week. You won last week for Rock Wars. You got anything on deck? Sure. All right, what do you got? All right, since it is merc mania. It's tons of merc mania. I don't even know. Look at that. If you're a dude and you got drugged to this game for some reason, the girlfriend, the wife, the daughter, something is making you go to this game. What is the song while you're walking into the arena? A song. What? Just going through your head, man. Yeah. At a Mercury game. What men think musically At a Mercury championship game. Yeah, any game. But yeah, championship, because they're all the same. I don't mean that. I mean women playing basketball, that is. All right, you lower that rim, you got a sport.
Brady
I agree.
Holmberg
Shrink the court, you got a sport. It goes to the same argument as people getting mad about not using the HOV lane but speeding. I'm like, well, pick a lane here because you're. You break the law doing one and you're. And the other one scares you. Same thing with the women. You've already shrunk the ball, you have a smaller basketball, you moved the three point line a little bit. So you admit that there are changes that are necessary to make your game better. Now make the court 15ft shorter.
Brady
Shrink the court, you got us.
Holmberg
Yeah, the court, you got a sport. Thank you, Johnny Cochran. And then you drop the nets down a foot. Nine foot rims on a 67 foot long court, you got yourself and cut out two of the girls. There seems to be four too many on the court at all times. So you go three on three, shrink it, drop the nets down to nine feet. And then I think you could do it with four. There's always two on the floor that aren't very good at the game. It's kind of like majority of the.
Brady
Time, if you go to three, it's going to. Majority of the time is going to be two on two. Yeah, but always be at least two on the floor.
Holmberg
Right now, five on five is three on three. So if you cut some dead weight, get rid of two of them, drop down to nine, you'd have more open lanes, you'd have a You'd have a. It's a better game. And I think they're going to come up with, that's a sport. This WNBA thing is a mess, terribly awful, boring, and no one ever calls it that. If you ever watch one of the games this week, give them some ratings. Watch one of the games, and when somebody throws an airball or just falls down for no reason, listen to what the announcers say, because they've been told to sell you that. It's never bad. An airball is like, oh, good defense. What. What did she make a face at? Her? She was four feet away. She playing basketball. Was there an insult? But I will say this about the ladies game. That many women doing the same thing at the same time is inevitably going to cause a couple of them to hate each other. They get physical and mean. It's the same as if you got 10 ladies at postino. When the bill comes, there's probably going to be some hair pulling and a little arguing. You can't get that many women doing the exact same thing to stay on the same page for two hours. There's going to be some fighting. They're getting physical. One of them just put out a hole. The one from the losing links team just put out a whole video basically saying that the commissioner sucks. And the commissioner is a lady. And they're like, I talked to her and she's not doing her job. I'm like, this is exactly what I expected to happen. You get a man commissioner in there and he starts in there, starts infiltrating or implementing some of these moves. Pretty solid. Now, I'm going to go ahead and ban bulls on parade for Brett's suggestion.
Brady
Well, that.
Holmberg
That's it. But a man's. A man's feelings about walking into a WNBA game because he's trying to appease a girl or a daughter or stepdaughter would be even worse. Unless it ends like a pornhub video. Your step lesbian. I don't know what kind of attraction I would have to have to somebody to make them say, it means a lot to me to go to this WNBA game with me and still not want to break up with them. If Mathias was into it, would you go with her? No. Cordell or Cordell? Yeah.
Brady
You would be there.
Holmberg
Brady would go with Kirby and then come back with that horsesh. It's not bad. I was practicing. I was entertained.
Brady
Three stars, I'd call that.
Holmberg
Michelle brought on the west side even though she's unemployed. I'll take that over going to a Wish she ain't going.
Brady
Gotta tell you, there are some pretty amazing layoffs.
Holmberg
I was entertained. You would say that if Kirby liked it, you go with me. We'd make fun of it the whole time because the true you would be there.
Brady
You're wrong.
Holmberg
If Kirby loved the wnba, you'd be.
Brady
Going, oh, I'd have to take her.
Holmberg
That's right. And you'd come back.
Brady
You know what?
Holmberg
Yes, I would. That's what you said.
Brady
I've become kind of a fan.
Holmberg
If the thing is is that Kirby loved it a ton, you would break her heart if you were saying, I hated it. So I know you well enough to know that you wouldn't have Kirby listening to the show and have you go, I went with Kirby. It sucked. You would come back and on the air go, I was entertained. And you would stamp down your true feelings because you don't want to hurt her. Yes. You know, Dan tdm. I know. And you said, not bad. Weird.
Brady
Did not.
Holmberg
You didn't say it sucked either, because she liked it.
Brady
I was blown away at the the positive.
Holmberg
My point. No.
Brady
The line for merchandise and the show is really just kind of weird.
Holmberg
Well, she's in school now, so I know you'll say anything. You'll tell the truth now. But you weren't gonna go. I went to that show with Kirby and it sucked. I hated the whole night sucked. You're not gonna do that.
Brady
She knew about wnba.
Holmberg
I was entertained. Look away. Yeah, you did a good job training her to not like great work. All right, we'll have Rockworth Suggestions at homeburg@98kupd.com you can text 97936. Our selection is coming up next. It's not yet.
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Holmberg
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Brady
Tough.
Holmberg
Had to take off. So we're rooting for him and everything that's going on. Go get him, buddy. Yeah, Definitely thinking about Brett right now because a few seconds ago everything was just fine. Not so much. We'll keep you up to date on what we know. We don't want to say anything until we know everything. He's out there. He's sped out of here. He. And he should. But his topic this week was if you're a guy wandering into the WNBA finals and you don't want to go, but you've got a daughter or a girl that wants to go and you're just appeasing her needs, the song that runs through your head the entire time to kind of get you through the whole deal. Brett would normally pick between all the three of Us. Who would like to go first. But since Larry McFeely sitting in for Brett. Welcome, Larry. And I'm just going with Brett's pick anyways. That's right. Well, yeah, that's what we're going to do. So then you have to pick. Who. Would you like to go first? Sure. All right. Larry can go first. Go ahead. You got to sell the song. Why?
Nick Toledo
Tell him the topic.
Holmberg
That's right. I did. If you were going into a WNBA game as a man. Yes. It's going to be very difficult. And I know you don't care for sportsball. Not so much. But if you were drugged to this event, you'd realize, you know what? This is the time that Larry and I can relate on sports. I don't want to go to this either.
Nick Toledo
He said drugged to this event, not drugged.
Holmberg
Yeah, yeah. No, I Taking drugs. That drugs. Which Larry would love, but something a normal human male would not want to do. But he's being forced to go by maybe work a woman he's trying to have sex with, which I wouldn't want to have sex with any woman that was into that or like your daughter. It would still stink to go. Larry, what did Brett choose as his song? You would just have to commit suicide. All right. I don't know if that's how he'd sell it, but. All right. At that point, with Ozzy's suicide solution. I see. So this is rolling through your head the whole time. The only. The only way out of this nightmare I can't do it is a suicide I' song, too. When did this come out?
Brady
80 something.
Holmberg
We played this on the day Aussie Pass. Yeah, you were ready for that. 81 or 2. Didn't Black Label cover this, too? Suicide messiah. I know that. All right. I'm sure at some point they played it. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. All right. Well, thank you, Brett. Larry, excellent choice. Blair, would you like me or Brady to go next?
Brady
Brady.
Holmberg
Brady. All right, you go ahead.
Brady
Mine. The first song came to mind because if you're going on a date or you're going with your wife, there's only one reason you're going then. The nookie doing it for the nookie.
Holmberg
I often brought up the daughter.
Brady
I took that out of the mix.
Holmberg
You're trying to get laid by a WNBA fan.
Brady
Why else are you.
Holmberg
I would become a monk before that would be a quest of mine.
Nick Toledo
Well, Larry's going to commit suicide.
Holmberg
That's a better solution. Not gonna be in the game. No, no, you're fine. Rather than.
Brady
That's how bad the drought is.
Holmberg
You are in a drought. You have tapped the wnba.
Nick Toledo
Sure, I'll take you to a WNBA game.
Holmberg
Man, am I getting some how.
Brady
No, you're not even. You're not even extending that. She's like, I want you to know.
Holmberg
That she's saying, you want to come with me? And you're like, this is my going to go only option. I have got to get to the gym and start learning how to be a better me. Like this. This is my fastest way to get laid. And I have tapped into the barrel of WNBA fans and I have to pretend to like it. I'm willing to pretend like a lot of stuff. And in order, those things would be coconut, Al Qaeda and the wnba. That would be my. Okay, I'll try coconut if it gets me laid. All right. I'll listen to your ideas about Al Qaeda and maybe join up. Wnba.
Brady
Coconut.
Holmberg
That bad? Coconut is worse than Al Qaeda. Wow. I mean, I don't like coconut either, but I didn't realize you had such a problem. Coconut, Al Qaeda, WNBA, 311. In that order. Because as you know, my theory, Larry 911 was greater than 311. I'd rather watch that live. Wow. Again. Wow. No.
Nick Toledo
You could probably track the last time 311 was actually played on this show.
Holmberg
I will throw it on there every once in a while because I'm not 100% the. You know, some people like it, and I like to play music for the retard sometimes. There it is. My choice is easy. When you go to a basketball game filled with the WNBA players, you realize there's one word that keeps popping up in your head after each time they take a trip down the floor. That was an abortion. Every single time. And you want it to just go away. That's your goal is to just will this thing please just go away. But it's a bunch of women. And who am I to tell women what to do with their bodies? They can play basketball if they want, but all they're going to do is shoot brick after brick. So abortion, women's rights, and bricks. It's Ben Foltz with Brick. She's a brick. You get the live version. That's how good Ben Folds is. And it would just roll through your head on another brick. Another brick. What? An abortion. But I can't tell him to stop. It's up to them. Brickworks. We'll take votes. Holmberg@98kupd.com you can text 97936. The word wars and Brett is still in play. You don't have to write Larry's name. He's just a proxy just standing in. That's right. Filling it. And then of course, you can phone 585-9-800. Those don't work. So you wasting your time and we'll figure it out. Maybe John Gordon or some trivia will get us through this. You vote. Who will win? Will it be Brady nookie because he's trying to get laid by a WNBA fan. Will it be Brett? Larry Suicide solution by ozzy seems reasonable. And of course, brick by Ben folds is mine. Who wins? We find out next when rock wars continues. Morning sickness. Culver's morning sickness. 28 kupd. Holmberg's morning sickness. There you go. Three days grace right there. Getting in the middle of. That's a good one right there. So damn good. I like that. Mayday. They're here in a week. Yeah, it's right around the corner. It is a rock wars in the middle of it song to convince you. Brady's talking about he said if dua lipa wanted to take you to WNBA game, you'd go. And that is the one person on the planet that's. That doesn't count as a normal person. Well, every day Joe wants to take me to girl wants to take me to a WNBA game. And that is the only option I have for getting laid. I'm gay. Starting that day, I'm moving into the other field. All the stuff I've eliminated in the past, I'm like, well, guys can't be that bad if I have to pretend to like it to get laid. Oof.
Nick Toledo
Texter says. Does Brady realize how he steps in it sometimes? First he nominates his daughter to go to the WNBA game with him. Then he says he's going for some nookie. Does he realize which one of the three of them is bringing the green dildo?
Holmberg
That's different. If I reach into do his bag and she's like, yeah, throw it. I'm like, oh, right, Larry. Brett chose suicide solution by ozzy. Tripp's already cast his vote for Brett. I chose brick by Ben folds because I think it's fitting that it's women's rights, abortion, and bricks. That's what WNBA should be. I should have that song play every instead of the national anthem. And Brady chose nookie. Cause that's his way of getting laid as WNBA guy. The text came in. I have an 8. Brady has 3 and bre 10. Wow. So Brett stole those.
Brady
He goes to win Rock wars.
Holmberg
Oh, Brett. I know. He's even got proxies. I know. To get the emotion card because he's got his Toledo. What do you have on the text? Text.
Nick Toledo
Right now, Brett's got the lead over 40.
Holmberg
All right, John Gordon. What is it? Four? Pick a number between one and five. One and five.
Brady
Number three.
Holmberg
Number three is. Yeah, text. Which means Brett has won it. Congratulations. It's good that Brett won today. Now Tripp won't get up anybody's ass. So we get to play the. I text.
Brady
He's gonna come over here.
Holmberg
Winner. I text, Yeah, I told you guys. You don't know anything. I. I text Tripp last night during the Dodgers game. He's a big Dodgers fan, and it was eight to nothing at the time, and the Dodgers bullpen's terrible. And I said, bullpen can't even blow this. It's easy street. You're gonna be just fine. No jinx possible. And then I checked back in, and it was 8 to 2, and then it was 10 to 2, and then I looked like a second later, it was 10 to 5, and I'm like, oh, these dodger fans are on a. Get a text back, just says, you almost again. They play again today. It's good. All right. Suicide solution. This is Ozzy. It's a good thing. And for our boy Brad, who's not even in the room with us, but there he is. You will. Love you, Bretzky. Yes, It's Ozzy. It's 98 Rock wars winner, Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98. Not great with finances. That's okay. Experian is your big financial friend. Explore credit card offers, Some labeled no ding decline, which means if you're not approved, they won't hurt your credit scores. See experian.com for details. Applying for no ding decline cards won't hurt your credit scores if you aren't initially approved. 2025 Experian. Experian.
Episode: Song Playing in a Man's Head As He's Going to a WNBA Game
Date: October 1, 2025
Host(s): John Holmberg (A), Brady Bogen (C), Dick Toledo (B), Bret Vesely (absent; proxy Larry)
Theme: What song is playing in a man's head as he’s reluctantly going to a WNBA game?
This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness centers around their recurring “Rock Wars” segment: a comedic, open-ended battle where each host picks a song that best answers a scenario. Today’s debate: What song would be playing in the mind of a man being “dragged” to a WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) game by a wife/girlfriend/daughter?
The hosts exchange banter about men’s reluctance toward WNBA games, what would motivate them to attend, and general commentary on women’s basketball, all delivered with the show’s signature irreverent, sarcastic humor.
Topic: If you’re a man walking into a WNBA game reluctantly, what’s the song playing in your head?
Brett’s Proxy (Larry):
Brady:
Holmberg:
On the segment’s comedic spirit:
On male motivation:
On honesty for your kid’s sake:
On the winner:
This episode is a typical, rowdy installment of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness: quick-witted, often irreverent, loaded with cultural commentary and musical puns. The “Rock Wars” format provides structure for their comedic riffs, while the hosts’ friendship and willingness to push buttons set the tone.
Most memorable is their synthesis of current events, pop culture, and edgy humor—this time, all about men, reluctance, and what it would take to enjoy a WNBA game.