10-10-25 - Entertainment Drill - FRI - A Sports First Happened At End Of WNBA Finals Game Three - Details On Tickets For Night Of Singing Dead

Summary

Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness – "Entertainment Drill" (10-10-25)

Date: October 10, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Brett Vesely, Corey, (with Dick Toledo)
Episode Focus: Today's entertainment drill covers major pop culture news, an unusual WNBA sports milestone, details on the Halloween "Night of the Singing Dead" event, a rundown of iconic horror villains by decade, and commentary on recent music and casting stories, all served with the show’s signature irreverent humor.

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Main Theme Overview

This episode is a blend of entertainment news, sports humor, and event promotion with the unmistakably edgy, playful tone listeners expect from Holmberg’s Morning Sickness. The conversation pivots around the announcement for their annual “Night of the Singing Dead” party event, updates in the world of film and celebrity news, a unique piece of WNBA history, and a comical look through horror movie history.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. "Night of the Singing Dead" Halloween Event

• Announcement: Tickets for the annual "Night of the Singing Dead" event are on sale for Halloween night (Friday the 31st) at Desert Ridge's Copper Blues ([00:21]).
• Event Details: It's a party/show where the crew performs songs from bands with deceased members. The event venue is reopening exclusively for this night.
• Signature Humor: “A lot of times the singer’s dead, sometimes it's somebody else. But the band is not unscathed from the inevitability of death. And we bring that person back to life right there on stage...” (Brady, [00:36]).
• John’s Caution: Responding to an email from a VIP ticket buyer—"I'd have told you not to get a VIP table. That's insanity… one of the promises is you know, I meet you. Not because I want to—it's just because that's where the drinks are." (Brady, [12:18]).

2. Entertainment News Highlights

Ocean’s Eleven Prequel

• Bradley Cooper in Talks: Cooper may join Margot Robbie for an Ocean’s Eleven prequel (Corey, [02:55]).
• Naming Confusion: The crew debates what the prequel will be called—"Ocean’s Ten” vs. the tradition of using the number based on the heist crew’s size (Brady, [03:06]).
• Classic Holmberg Humor: “As long as they don’t do Oceans Girls again.” (John, [03:42]); “Oddly enough, which is exactly 2/3 of 11, which is what they paid the women compared [to] Ocean's 11 as well, which is pretty great.” (Brady, [03:50]).

Sports First: WNBA Married Couple Moment

• Historic Play: Angel Reese becomes the first athlete to walk at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (Corey, [03:59]).
• Game Three Buzzer Beater: Discussion of a WNBA Finals Game 3 moment—Asia Wilson’s buzzer-beater scored over two Phoenix Mercury players, who are also a married couple: "First time in NBA, WNBA, MLB, or NFL that a game-winning shot happened over a married couple.” (Brady, [04:37-05:56])
• Running Jokes: They riff on married couples in sports, imagining spats in the car after the game, and chances of this repeating: “It's going to be a minute before a married couple… gets shot over game winner.” (Brady, [07:47])

Halloween/Horror - Decade's Best Movie Villains

• Decades Game: The group lists top horror villains by decade, hitting all the basics, often with sarcastic asides ([09:43] onwards):
  • 1920s: Nosferatu/Count Orlok
  • 1930s: Frankenstein/Dracula
  • 1960s: Norman Bates ("Normie Bates")
  • 1970s: Michael Myers
  • 1980s: Freddy Krueger / Jason
  • 1990s: Candyman ("The Friends cast" as a joke)
  • 2000s: Jigsaw (from "Saw")
  • 2010s: Annabelle / The Conjuring
  • 2020s: Art the Clown (Terrifier)
• Tangents: Riff on cultural shifts and “villains”: “The Kardashians... No, that's racist...” (Brady and John, [11:49]).

Casting & Celebrity Cameos

• Disney's Tangled: Scarlett Johansson rumored to play the villain in a live-action "Tangled" ([12:02]).
• Michael J. Fox Wants In: Fox lobbied for "Shrinking" cameo; hosts debate if having Fox on a Parkinson’s show is exploitative or uncomfortable ([12:39]).
  • “Nobody wants to… Like, nobody wants—did you see that thing where he was trying to walk from the podium to his chair? And it’s just like, don’t show us this anymore…” (Brady, [12:53]).

Music: Guns N’ Roses and Halftime Shows

• GNR's ‘Chinese Democracy’: Slash teases a potential new album ([14:00]).
  • John: "There's nothing that grabs you on that album [Chinese Democracy]. There's no Welcome to the Jungle, there's no November Rain... there’s some good songs." ([14:26-14:46])
  • Brady: "It actually was very listenable. It just wasn’t great." ([15:09])
• Super Bowl Halftime: Discussion devolves into jokes about language and toxic masculinity when performers like Bad Bunny are mentioned ([15:34-16:13]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Married Couples in Sports:
  “Her buzzer beater shot went over 2 Mercury that share a bed together and scissor. Am I wrong?” (Brady, [04:46])
• On “Ocean’s Eight” Pay Gap:
  “...which is exactly 2/3 of 11, which is what they paid the women compared [to] Ocean's 11 as well, which is pretty great.” (Brady, [03:50])
• On Michael J. Fox:
  “He’s got Parkinson’s, he doesn't have what Michael has, which is uncomfortable to watch to the point where you would turn it off.” (Brady, [12:53])
• GNR Album Review: “Everybody said it sucked. It didn’t, right?” ([15:02])
• On Parenting and Halftime Show Fears:
  “If your kid watches the halftime show, goes to his room, comes back in his mom’s clothes and goes, ‘Hola, Papa,’ you’ve been doing a terrible job to begin with.” (John, [16:07])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:21] — “Night of the Singing Dead” event announcement
• [02:55] — Entertainment Drill starts (Ocean’s Eleven prequel)
• [03:59] — Sports/Fashion milestone: Angel Reese at Victoria's Secret
• [04:37–07:47] — WNBA Finals’ married-couple buzzer beater moment, sports/jokes
• [09:43–12:02] — Decade’s greatest horror film villains (Nerdist.com rundown)
• [12:02] — "Tangled" live-action casting rumor
• [12:39] — Michael J. Fox wants cameo on “Shrinking”
• [14:00] — Potential new Guns N’ Roses album / “Chinese Democracy” defense
• [15:34] — Super Bowl halftime/bad bunny, language fears riff

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Episode Tone & Style

This episode is fast-paced with quick-fire jokes, irreverent commentary, and tangents. The hosts blend genuine pop culture knowledge with biting sarcasm and local flavor, perfect for listeners who like their entertainment news with a heavy dose of prankster energy and social satire.

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Conclusion

Listeners get a healthy serving of entertainment gossip, sports oddities, Halloween hype, and honest (sometimes brutally so) reviews and takes, peppered with the crew’s unique, snarky Arizona wit. If you missed it, this summary has all the punchlines and essential info, from historic WNBA trivia to your Halloween costume inspiration.

Transcript

[John]

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[Brady]

You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil. Sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not.

[Corey]

He's not evil. He's just a bit rude.

[Brady]

It is officially time to bring it up and get it done. How about this? Tickets available at copper blues doctor.com for Night of the Singing Dead 2025. It is official. You can get on there, get your tickets. Copper blues doctor.com. it's on our Halloween night this year. It's the Friday the 31st. We do the entire night of drinking, dancing, having fun. It is a fun show. We have a good time doing it every year. The costume this year I'm very excited about. Should be great. I've got an idea for you and Brett. I'm going to need you guys to follow up on Brady that, that I think will be fun and then we'll make all this happen. But it's just basically a night of us singing songs with bands who have had someone in them die. A lot of times the singer's dead, sometimes it's somebody else. But the band is not unscathed from the inevitability of death. And we bring that person back to life right there on stage and do the Night of the Singing Dead. It's a blast. We have fun. It's a desert ridge out there. You know where that is? And it's Copper Blues doctor dot com. The place isn't even open right now because they're still going through like remodel stuff. They're going to crank it open just for this special event. Bring you ghouls down there, costumes. We're going to have stuff for you, KPD stuff all over the place. And just, you know what, if you've ever been to one in the past, you know, it's just a dopey party. And that's all we're doing. A Halloween party where we sing and dance and everybody has fun. So get your tickets now. Copperbluesdr.com for Night of the Singing Dead 2020. Got a rehearsals beginning and pretty excited about it. A lot of new things. And yes, Ozzy will be prominently placed in several places. It's time for the entertainment drill. It's brought to you by our [e-mail] that's the home of tactical black self defense training. Yeah, that story we did this morning about the lady in Ohio kicked that guy's door down, walked into his bedroom and filleted his testicles or his scrotum. Opened it right up. Uh, yeah, they gotta teach a defense for that. There's a defense for everything. You never know when somebody's gonna go nuts. And we read about it all the time. What if that happened to you? It's called preparation. It's not paranoia. Probably won't, but just in case. Like having a fire alarm. Yeah. Probably won't have a fire, but it's always good to have something telling you, hey, that's a fire. Same with your life. You get in great shape while you're there too. It's a blast to do. And you'll never get bored from the workouts that tactical Black gives you. Tactical Black is the way to do it. ReactDefense.com is the place to go. It's the home of Tactical Black Self defense. Brady, Entertain me.

[Corey]

Bradley Cooper is in talks to join Margot Robbie in the Ocean's Eleven prequel. Ocean's fourteen, they're saying Ocean's eleven prequel.

[Brady]

Oh, a prequel. Ocean's Ten.

[Corey]

Yeah, they haven't named it yet. I don't think I. You think they'd go with Ocean's 10.

[Brady]

But who's in it but Ocean's 11?

[Corey]

Bradley Cooper and Margot Robbie.

[Brady]

But it's the amount of people that they hire, which is why they had 11. Was Danny Ocean's 11 people. It wasn't the 11th installment. It was always the amount of guys they needed to pull off the heist. That was the whole point of the original Ocean's Eleven with Sinatra. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good movie. The second people think it's like, oh, like, because we're so.

[Corey]

Yeah, they keep.

[Brady]

I think it's like Freddy Krueger movies.

[John]

As long as they don't do Oceans Girls again.

[Brady]

Yeah, they did. That was terrible. And remember, wasn't it called Ocean's Eight?

[John]

I think so, yeah.

[Brady]

And it was. And oddly enough, which is exactly 2/3 of 11, which is what they paid the women compared Ocean's 11 as well, which is pretty great.

[Corey]

WNBA star Angel Reese will become the first professional athlete to walk the Runway at the Victoria's Secret fashion show.

[Brady]

Fantastic. Great statistic from Game 3 of the WNBA Finals. Again, we've all got the merc mania tonight. It all ends because one of their players can't play tonight due to confusion. That's a real thing. She's not in the game tonight. She's holding up for confusion. She's got a little concussion or something. So she's confused. So an amazing statistic. An amazing first happened in game three. It was a 90 to 88. I don't know if you talked about this on the sports channel over there. Thriller?

[Brett]

Not yet.

[Brady]

But game three you haven't talked about. What are you catching up to game two. Oh, listen to this. I don't know if you know about this amazing statistic I'm about to hand out. Game three the other night, 90 to 88 buzzer beater, I believe by Asia Wilson, was it not? She hit the. Okay, hits the buzzer beater right over a double team. Now normally when you talk about this situation you have to explain double team, but no, in this was an actual basketball double team. It is the first time in NBA, wnba, Major league Baseball, NFL that a walk off a game winner, a buzzer beater was shot and hit over a married couple. It's never happened before in the history of sports. Her buzzer beater shot went over 2 Mercury that share a bed together and scissor. Am I wrong? Gore, you work at a sports station. Oh wait, your mic's not working. Say again? Oh, wait, they're married. Yeah, I know they're married. Yeah, that's what I just said. Yeah, yeah.

[John]

And follow the bouncing ball.

[Brady]

Yeah. Well, you can't. It goes over you if you're married. They. And were they spatting or something?

[Brett]

I don't believe so.

[Brady]

Do you think they went home and fought like a married couple?

[Brett]

Would I talk about in the car?

[Brady]

Yeah, you got in my way. You were.

[Corey]

If we would have held hands.

[Brady]

Yes, if you would have gone with my idea. That's what I. They got to get in the car on the way home. First time ever a game was won with a game winning shot over a married couple. That's what you get in the WNBA that you don't get anywhere else. Gay marriage on the same team, huh? You act like you're not even amazed by this.

[Corey]

Play together, you can stay together.

[Brady]

You think that's what they say? That's been an old adage since legalizing of gay marriage in like 2017.

[Corey]

Playing sports together.

[Brett]

It's coming to golf. Don't worry. It's coming to golf.

[Brady]

Oh, it's. But you can't hit a buzzer beater over a married couple in golf. Now you could be in third place, sink a putt. Yeah, but still then you would pass two and they're competing for each other. They're. It's an individual sport in team sports.

[Brett]

Yes.

[Brady]

There has never been a married couple Standing in the way that got dunked on by a hoe. Great. It's a great stat.

[Corey]

Ryder Cup.

[Brady]

Nope.

[Corey]

Alternate shot.

[Brady]

If a couple of those dudes end up getting married on four ball day, and let's say Davis Love and Mick Fleetwood. I call him Mick Fleetwood because it's funny. They're playing and then let's say DeChambeau and not on live.

[Brett]

They're not getting gay married.

[Brady]

Playing to live and getting gay married because you'll get. You'll get strung up down there in Saudi. He's right. But let's just say, yeah, Scotty scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau got married and Matt Fleetwood, or whatever his name was, and. And they. They. Jesus, they beat him with a, you know, an eagle putt and jumped over him and go 1 up on 18. That would be the only way. So we need a couple of golfers to get hitched. I don't. I'm going to go out on a limb here. I don't see that happening again anytime soon. That's a tough one.

[Corey]

It'll be a while.

[Brady]

Oh, it's going to be a minute before a married couple gets. Gets shot over game winner. The two people defending you are married.

[Corey]

They won't ever double team again, I don't think.

[Brady]

Well, that's not true. Maybe not in basketball. Yeah, it's a great stat, I'll tell you that for sure. Can you think of it? You work at a sports station. What other times have a married couple even been on the floor together?

[Brett]

I mean, debatably, you could say, like a golfer in the Caddy, but that'd be it.

[Brady]

Are they married?

[Brett]

Sometimes once in a while, you'd let.

[Brady]

A woman carry her back.

[Corey]

Calcavecchia used to have his.

[Brady]

His wife carried. Yeah, that's slavery. That's a heavy bag.

[Corey]

Good marriage, I guess.

[Brett]

It is.

[Brady]

That's a good wife.

[John]

Wow.

[Brady]

And Calcavecchia is one of Brett's people. Carry my bags.

[John]

You know what's good for you.

[Brady]

You know what's good for you. You're gonna. Hey, look, if you're gonna spend half of the winnings, you got to earn it. All right? There you go. You imagine the fight on the way home if you and Ronnie blew a buzzer beater.

[John]

Whoa, careful.

[Brady]

Wow. That's true. You imagine the fight on the way home if you asked Ronnie to say that to blow the buzzer. Hberg's morning sickness medicate. K.D. holberg's morning sickness. And Cory. That is a maniacal Ed Gein laugh. Please don't do that.

[Brett]

Ever. It's fine.

[Brady]

You should go as Ed Gein. Now that that's such a popular thing, man, would you pull that off?

[Corey]

Guilty of two murders.

[Brady]

Ed Gein.

[Corey]

Yeah. They found remains of ten.

[Brady]

Yeah, they only found they didn't have very good DNA evidence like the two.

[Corey]

We can confirm.

[Brady]

Well, when they found the other one, when they found the skin suits, they weren't really worried about putting them away for murder anymore. It was a different time. He's got a lot under his belt there. That's just even worse than murder. All right. Sorry, Birdie. I. I got off my WNBA knowledge.

[Corey]

The greatest horror villain of every decade over the last 100 years.

[Brady]

Horror villain?

[Corey]

Yes.

[Brady]

Over the last 100. Nerdist.com Nosferatu. In the 20s.

[Corey]

In the 20s, correct. Count Orlok.

[Brady]

30 would have been Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. Frankenstein. Bella Lagosi's Dracula is my other one.

[Corey]

40S.

[John]

The mummy.

[Corey]

That was Chaney Jr. World War II.

[Brady]

Not the mummy.

[John]

Phantom of the Opera. Wolf Boy.

[Brady]

Oh, that's right.

[Corey]

50S.

[Brady]

Had to be aliens.

[Corey]

That's what I'm not. Wrote a pen mark from the Bad Seed. One of the evil kid movies. Oh, it's a classic.

[John]

Okay, so classics we don't remember.

[Brady]

60S would have been. Well, it was a Sidney Potty and Guess who's Coming to Dinner.

[Corey]

Close.

[Brady]

Yeah, but that's how white America saw that movie.

[Corey]

Oh, Normie Bates.

[Brady]

No, Norman Bates was not. Yeah, that's true. Good one.

[Corey]

70S.

[Brady]

Michael Myers, actually. Was it Michael Myers?

[Brett]

Yeah, for sure.

[Corey]

79, right? Or 77.

[John]

78, I think.

[Brady]

You wouldn't go with Pazuzu and Regan from the Ex.

[John]

That one scared me more. But Michael Myers was such a big.

[Brady]

Okay.

[John]

I mean, yeah.

[Corey]

80S.

[John]

Jason.

[Brady]

I'd say Jason. Or Freddy.

[Corey]

Freddy Krueger.

[John]

Yeah.

[Corey]

90S.

[Brady]

The Friends cast.

[John]

Blair Witch Project.

[Corey]

Candyman Candy.

[Brady]

What was a weak decade?

[Corey]

2000S.

[Brett]

Scary movie.

[Brady]

90S. If you're gonna go with that kids movie, then the worst 90s one would have been Hannibal Lecter. That would have been a better choice there. The 90s. Yeah. What was Scary Movie? It would be this.

[Corey]

Well.

[Brady]

Or Scream.

[Corey]

Yeah, you got the first one. Jigsaw. Yeah.

[John]

Okay.

[Corey]

Two thousand and tens.

[Brady]

Geez, I don't even know. The doll. Annabelle. The doll.

[Corey]

Conjuring Man.

[Brady]

We got all of these, I think.

[Corey]

Except Last one is 2020. They're saying.

[Brady]

What would be a bad one for that?

[Brett]

The account centers.

[John]

Kardashians.

[Brady]

No, that's racist. You can't have that. Corey. As much as you're begging for it.

[Corey]

Art the Clown from the Terrifier movies.

[Brady]

I have not seen anyone.

[Corey]

All right, looks like Disney's gonna do a live action version of Tangled the Hair one. Yep. Yep. And they're looking to book Scarlett Johansson as the. The evil mother. Mother.

[Brady]

By the way, a guy just emailed me, said, john, I just purchased a VIP table for the night of the Singing Dead, and it wasn't the cheapest thing, so I'm just asking you in return that you don't suck. I'd have told you not to get a VIP table. That's insanity. One of the promises of that is that, you know, I meet you, I hang around afterwards the whole time. Like, I meet everybody. And not because I want to. It's just because where the drinks are.

[Corey]

Michael J. Fox asked for his role in the upcoming third season of Shrinking. He told the show's creator, you're doing a show about Parkinson's and you didn't call me. So whether or not because Harrison Ford.

[Brady]

He'S got Parkinson's, he doesn't have what Michael has, which is uncomfortable to watch to the point where you would turn it off. Parkinson's. Nobody wants to. And I feel bad saying that, but you can't. Like, nobody wants. Did you see that thing when he was trying to walk from a podium to his chair? And it's just like, don't show us this anymore. Like, this is a private life for him. And I know he wants to do a lot of work, but if they.

[Corey]

Get Monty Python it up, you know, like, give him a pot of coffee or something and glasses where he's just going, there. It's just.

[Brady]

You just want him to do random Sesame Street.

[Corey]

The guy with the cakes always drop.

[Brady]

So what you're creating is a thing called Fun with Parkinson's. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's comedy. Real silver lining you're putting on this.

[Corey]

Flash says there might be.

[Brady]

I'm Michael J. Flash. Time for fun with Parkinson's.

[Corey]

Mallory.

[Brady]

Michael's gonna try to take a cake all the way across a restaurant floor without hitting one person in the face. Look out, Doc. Marty, look out. He's gotta play Tapper the live version. You're an Brady.

[Corey]

Slash says we might be getting close to a new GnR album in the near future.

[John]

That's always better than last one.

[Corey]

It's underrated material.

[Brady]

Stand by Chinese democracy as being wildly underrated. It's because Axl Rose was involved. Anyone else puts that album out, you're like, this isn't bad. But because the expectations for a decade were, what do you got? What do you got? And he wouldn't shut up about how great it is. And then it kept getting delayed. I think it's average.

[John]

Inevitably, there's nothing that grabs you on that album.

[Brady]

I think it would have had it been timely.

[John]

I don't know.

[Brady]

Yeah. It came out 10 years after they said.

[John]

There's nothing like, oh, that. That's the song. There's no welcome to the Jungle. There's no November Rain. There's no, you know, Sweet Child. Oh, my. There's not a song. It's. There's some good songs.

[Brady]

I got that. The guitar work on that is unreal. That. What's his name?

[John]

The name one song.

[Brady]

I can't do that anyway. But I. But.

[John]

But you can name other GnR songs. That's what I'm saying.

[Brady]

But it's a very.

[Corey]

I still don't believe it came out.

[Brady]

Everybody, I'll say this, okay?

[John]

I don't hate it.

[Brady]

Yeah, I'll go with you on this. Everybody said it sucked. It didn't, Right?

[John]

No, I'm not saying.

[Brady]

Maybe it wasn't. It just was, like, their best work.

[John]

It was there.

[Brady]

But, yeah, it's. It had quality to it that everybody said, oh, it's. They dismissed it as terrible. It wasn't terrible. It actually was very listenable. It just wasn't great. That's fair to say. But people are like, ugh, I hope this and I hope they do put on it whenever Slash wasn't on it and all that other stuff.

[Corey]

But maybe they'll be part of the Turning Point halftime.

[Brady]

Think the new GnR would be part of the new.

[John]

The headline keeps going up there. They're looking. They wanted Creed up there for the.

[Brady]

Turning Point halftime show. Good Lord.

[Corey]

Yeah, they talk.

[John]

Literally.

[Brady]

Just watch the Puerto Rican kid dance in a dress and shut up. I'm not watching anybody speak another language in my country, okay? Enjoy never having bus boys. It's okay to sing in another language. What is so scary about that? Our kids will be indoctrinated into speaking Spanish and wearing dresses. That's your fault. If your kid watches the halftime show, goes to his room, comes back in his mom's clothes and goes, hola, Papa, that you've been doing a terrible job to begin with.

[Corey]

You got something.

[Brady]

Yeah. I told you, honey. I told you. You have a fragile boy. If Corey starts showing up to work after the super bowl and makeup. Very ed gain, by the way. Makeup and dresses. And then goes, hola, I only speak espanol. See pinch John, like, hi, Cory. I get it. Bad Bunny did this to you. It's 9:32. We got the Guadalupe Squares sitting and waiting on us.

[Brett]

What are we giving away?

[Brady]

Do you know Brett? What do you got in there? Give us a call. We need a girl. We need a boy. 585. 9,800. The Guadalupe squares require two contestants. And then we play. You got it.

[John]

It's coming up as soon as this computer.

[Brady]

Stretch.

[Corey]

Stretch. Stretch.

[Brady]

Saying stretch is not stretching. Just the opposite.

[John]

Oh, Nine Inch Nails tickets.

[Brady]

Oh, for the March show. They're back in March. And you got tickets to go see Nine Inch Nails. You want to play five eight five nine. 800 is the number. The squares are next.

[Corey]

It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee.

[Brady]

I have heard enough of this for you, pj.