10-13-25 - WWBD - How Can He Get His Mom To Cook More Than His Wife - He Wants To Play A DNA Prank On His Buddy - His Wife Is Unfulfilled Sexually And Wants To Add Girls To The Mix

Summary

Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – Episode Summary (10-13-25)

Podcast: Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona

Featured Segment: WWBD (What Would Brady Do?)

Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo

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Overview

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness centers on the popular advice segment "WWBD: What Would Brady Do?" The hosts tackle three unconventional listener dilemmas involving family boundaries, pranking with high stakes, and sexual tension in marriage. As always, the panel brings a mix of irreverence, honesty, and dark humor, dissecting the modern human condition from an unfiltered, male perspective.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mama vs. Wife: Who Does It Better?

(Laundry & Cooking Battle – 02:38)

• Listener Dilemma: Vincent’s mother believes his wife does a poor job with laundry and calls to get permission to do it herself. Vincent admits his mom’s right and wonders how to “parlay” this into getting his mom to start cooking again.
• Hosts’ Take:
  • The crew quickly brands Vincent as the archetypical "Mama’s boy."
  • John: “If the food sucks and the laundry stinks, okay, the cooking takes a little more time, but how hard can it be to mess up the laundry?” [03:56]
  • Bret: Suggests the wife might be deliberately bad at chores to offload them.
  • They joke about the potential family landmines of having the mother-in-law take over household duties, drawing on their own experiences.
  • Key Insight: If partners abdicate duties and parents step in, it’s a recipe for relationship chaos.
  • Holmberg’s Humor: “Next thing you know, you’re gonna want your mom to do that too. You weirdo. Watching a little too much Ed Gein.” [06:25]

Notable Moment:

• The hosts drift into explicit jokes about how far “letting Mom do everything” might go:

  John (to Brady): “Next thing, yeah, Mom, do an old fashioned for her. Show her what it’s like. Overhand grip. She’s like Peyton Manning over here with this thing. So docile, tender...” [06:41–07:06]

2. Playing with DNA – The Prank That Could End It All

(Friend’s Wife, Secret Affair, and a DNA Test Prank – 09:41)

• Listener Dilemma:
  • For 18 years, a listener has been friends—and employee—to a man whose wife wants to pull a DNA test prank involving their son (who looks suspiciously like the letter-writer). They actually slept together once, years ago, but no one knows.
  • Should he go along?
• Hosts’ Take:
  • Bret: “Dumb. Yeah, don’t do that.” [09:41]
  • John: More into the mischief, jokes about the possible fallout and the “fun” of such pranks.
  • The crew debates whether the prank is playing with fire, and if keeping old affairs buried is smarter.
  • Key Insight: “You’ve been doing a great job for nearly two decades. Pull the prank, and no one’s ever going to believe that you guys slept together. You pull that prank—” [10:00]

Memorable Quotes:

• Brady: “It’s evil a little bit.” [10:14]
• John: “At 22, who cares whose DNA it is?” [11:49]
• Concerns about the wife’s motives:

  “The fact that she’s acting like nothing ever happened and wants to still do this. Yeah. I’d be more worried as the friend that she’s up to something.” [12:05]

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3. A Wife’s Unfulfilled Desires – Open Relationship or End of the Road?

(Sexless Marriage & Bringing Girls In – 13:57)

• Listener Dilemma:
  • Justin’s wife, fresh from an affair, now wants to bring women into their marriage because her sexual needs aren’t met. He’s fine with a sexless marriage, but knows she isn’t. Should he allow it?
• Hosts’ Take:
  • Bret is skeptical: “First of all, I don’t believe this scenario.” [13:57] Hints the situation may be the other way—men asking for more, not women.
  • John counters: “No, there’s... He’s not interested. They’re usually very sexual.” [14:22]
  • The team bats around theories: Is Justin asexual? Gay? Is the wife insatiable? Is this just role reversal?
  • They explore what it means when one partner’s needs aren’t met, and why men are so rarely on the “not interested” side of the equation.
  • Key Insight: The group ultimately agrees, seriousness aside, that partner needs matter; denying your spouse fulfillment (sexual or otherwise) is unsustainable.

Notable Quotes:

• John: “If you’re not giving your wife pipe... how dare you say, ‘Go get your pipe somewhere’? What a jerk you would be...” [17:03]
• Brady: “Then why stay together?” [19:11]
• Bret: “The relationship is doomed.” [19:28]
• John, on the unfairness: “Why do we make these simp jokes all the time? We simp ourselves and then, when they’re not happy sexually, it’s our fault too, anyway.” [20:33]

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Additional Highlights & Humor

• Laundry & Smelly Clothes: Multiple riffs on men not being able to smell their own sour laundry, and the mystery of people who can’t wash correctly. [07:15–08:13]
• Listener Mailbag:
  • Roasting of a listener who “traded domestic capability for looks” [12:17]
  • Calls to have Vincent do “his own damn laundry before this broad bails on mama’s boy.” [12:40]

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Key Timestamps

• 02:38 – Italian mama vs. wife (Laundry/cooking issue)
• 06:41 – Explicit “mom does everything” jokes
• 09:41 – DNA test prank dilemma begins
• 10:14 – Hosts debate the ethics of prank
• 11:49 – “At 22, who cares whose DNA it is?”
• 13:57 – Sexless marriage/bringing girls into the bedroom
• 17:03 – Debating marital fulfillment and hypocrisy
• 19:28 – “The relationship is doomed”

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Conclusion

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness delivers trademark irreverence and honesty on sensitive relationship issues. Whether it’s family boundaries, the perils of pranking, or navigating mismatched libidos, the hosts dissect every angle with their brutal humor, real-world cynicism, and the occasional unexpectedly sincere moment. As always, advice is served raw, sometimes helpful, and always entertaining.

Transcript

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[C]

That's true.

[B]

Might be something else. So one and around 44 this week. Somewhere in that area. So get ready for it when helping us out is awesome. Let's get right to a Brady. Save the day. All right, it's time now for what would Brady do? Back last week, Brett solved some problems. Got a little strange.

[A]

No. Come on.

[B]

Yeah, there's a lot of people getting killed.

[A]

Reality.

[B]

When. When what would. It was weird. Like we did. What would Brett do once with Brady out of town and immediately like carpet places wanted to sponsor it. Couldn't figure that out. Working for the People carpeting kept showing up at the door. Roll them up, roll them up. Say, how you doing? Happy Indigenous Columbus Day. You're welcome.

[A]

There was a lot of that.

[B]

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[C]

Laundry stinks, okay, the cooking takes a little more time. But how hard can it be to mess up the laundry?

[B]

Oh, are you kidding? How many people do you smell with sour laundry clothes every day?

[A]

All dudes.

[C]

Okay. The fix.

[B]

It doesn't seem like people do it.

[C]

I know right when they're done, but.

[A]

She'S forgetting to watch something.

[B]

People are bad.

[C]

She's watching the game.

[B]

No, but people are bad at laundry. Some people are bad at it. I don't get it.

[C]

I think it's some people are bad correctable thing. I think fixing the laundry is easier than the cooking.

[B]

You do? Yeah. I think some people are just bad at laundry. Bad detergent.

[C]

If you wanted, you know, I would start off the cooking thing, like, simple. You know, simple. Just a handful of recipes instead of.

[B]

But some people can't cook with recipes. Mama can.

[A]

Mama don't need no recipe.

[B]

Mama shows up with the gift. Do you just let mom start cooking more and say, look, let my mom feel useful. She's. She's an old lady. She won't be here forever. Let us.

[C]

If she let her, I'd have no problem with it. Like if you said why my mom does a laundry battery and that. That basically keeps you from doing laundry. You have to. You don't have to do laundry.

[B]

You say that as the mama's boy. Imagine mom at the house all the time doing laundry.

[C]

It's.

[B]

You remember how you're heading for doom? Yeah. Ronnie and your mom just simply over a cabinet. When your mom decided to rearrange her kitchen, there had to be talks, there had to be sit downs. And that was the right thing.

[C]

And it wasn't even the established. It wasn't even her bear den yet.

[B]

What?

[C]

She had just moved into my house basically kind of.

[B]

Or just was not your mom.

[C]

We weren't even married yet.

[B]

Oh yeah. But she had already kind of. It wasn't her bear den.

[C]

Yeah, that's what I call her. She wrestled up the bear, messed with the bear and got that.

[B]

And you had to put a stop to it somehow. Everybody had to have a chat.

[C]

Yeah. So eventually, if. I mean, if he wants his mom to do it, you got to make sure the wife is on the page.

[B]

I think the wife is clever. She's doing bad laundry. Mom shows up, she'll do it. Start cooking some bad meals. Mom comes up, she's getting out of doing everything. Well, no, she's. You're an idiot for marrying this girl that's eventually going to work herself right out of doing a thing. She's lazy.

[C]

Better be hot.

[B]

She better be hot. And she better be performer. Next thing you know, you're gonna be wanting your mom to do that too. You weirdo. Watching, watching. A little too much Ed Geen.

[A]

Probably in shape to realize sucks so bad.

[B]

Mama's boys aren't necessarily the good direction to go.

[C]

Mom, show her the handy.

[B]

Next thing. Yeah, mom, do an old Fashioned for her. Show her what it's like. Overhand grip. She's like Peyton Manning over here with this thing. So docile. Tender. See? Follow what mama does. Nice and slow to the top. Use the thumb. And what's your other hand doing? A whole bunch of nothing. And there's this back door I got. Could use some deadland.

[C]

But the laundry and cooking thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Your wife rarely is going to work out on that situation.

[B]

There are. I will say this. There are some people in Relationships that don't have a nose for sour laundry. I don't get it. Like, if I had sour laundry. Yeah. Matthias would tell you, hey, your clothes stink.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

But if she doesn't have a nose for it and you don't have a nose for it, you're going to wander around with bad laundry and nobody's going to know it. Your mom would be one that tells you your clothes stink. What's going on over there?

[C]

A lot of times, some people don't get it ever happens to a batch that. That never comes back, that you might as well throw that clothes, you just wash them again.

[B]

If you just sour them up, they're not gone forever. There are sweat activated clothes. If you have clothes that have been used too much and you're trying to wash the stink out, that doesn't happen. But man, oh, man. Yeah. Because I've left clothes. I totally forgot. It's in the.

[A]

Then you kind of take a sniff. You're like, that might work. And then you get outside and you're like, nope, that didn't work.

[B]

Yeah. I automatic. If I leave it in there more than, like 40 minutes, I'm like, I forgot. I automatically just run it again. It's not gonna smell good. Your wife is lazy. That's what I'm hearing, Vincent. I know that. If anybody told me, hey, can I do the laundry around your house? Be like, what for? Don't worry about it. Like, you think we stink. I would do a better job. I wouldn't. I wouldn't give in Holmberg's morning sickness. You're gonna like this one, Brady. That's. That's a different one. This is the one. Dear Brady, I want to play a prank on my friend from school. For the last 18 years, this man's also been my boss. Uh, his wife actually wants to do this, and her plan is doing DNA tests that say their kid is mine. The kid looks exactly like me. People always think it's mine. He's going to lose his mind, because that's what people talk about all the time. But here's the thing. His wife and I did sleep together for a little while a long time ago. And no one really knows it. She even acts like it didn't happen. I'm 99% the shirt. The kid isn't mine. But this made me think that someday I should probably come clean. I'm torn. But I still want to do the prank. What would Brady do? These people are a catastrophe.

[C]

Dumb. Yeah, don't do that.

[B]

You don't want to do the prank.

[C]

No, I still do because. Well, that all you're doing is opening up the. For him to feel more compelled. And why would you, you know, come on.

[B]

The wife pretends it didn't happen.

[C]

Sharing that info.

[B]

Keep that quiet. You've been doing a great job for nearly two decades. Pull the prank, and no one's ever going to believe that you guys slept together. You pull that. Pranks. Like, would we pull a prank like that? If we. Come on, it puts him at ease.

[C]

It's kind of. It's evil a little bit. Yeah.

[B]

Kind of fun, though. Or the DNA test you do when it comes back. See, we did one, and it's all good. Now I'm gonna go sleep with your wife.

[C]

You actually want to do one and, like.

[B]

Well, I don't think it would be. Yeah, I don't think it's a. Yeah, I don't really think it's a thing where they're worried that the kid is actually his. But what if. It all sounds kind of fun to me. I think I'd do that.

[A]

I don't think he'd be questioning if that was. If he was sure it wasn't his.

[B]

Well, I think he's questioned. I know. I think he's. Well, what I read in that one, though, is that he's like, I'm not really worried about the kid. I'm worried about this opening up the questions and one of us. One of us goofing up.

[C]

But I don't think.

[B]

Don't know.

[C]

Be doing the DNA test just in case.

[B]

I don't think that's the concern. I think the concern is that once he starts asking questions, you know, when the pranks at his peak.

[C]

Looks a lot like me.

[B]

Well, because that's what, you know, maybe they do.

[C]

I don't know. But some people can tend to, you know, date the same person.

[B]

Well, yeah, they're friends, similar. I mean, clearly she's attracted to both. They're probably in the same ballpark.

[A]

If kid's 18, who cares?

[B]

Good point. And once the kid's 18. Yeah. Then it's. Why do you care if it's yours anymore at all anyway? That's true.

[A]

Kid's already been paid for.

[B]

John's done. Yeah, well, actually, you want to wait till after college because then you're still a little bitter about paying for college. 22. At 22, who cares whose DNA it is? Play this prank in a few years.

[A]

I find if that adult's gonna go to college.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And some of these dummies Won't even make it, I'm saying. Yeah, you better hope it's somebody else's. Anyway, I don't think you should follow through with this either.

[C]

I'm just giving more evil the wife more than anything.

[B]

Well, the fact that she's acting like nothing ever happened and wants to still do this. Yeah. I'd be more worried as the friend that she's up to something.

[C]

Something's not.

[B]

That she's going to try to reveal to your friend.

[C]

There's a little smoke on this story.

[B]

This one's ugly. Now to put some snakes and some peanut brittle and go the old fashioned route. Let's not do this DNA nonsense. I got an email from Hugh that says, dude must have traded domestic capability for looks. And if she isn't hot, then he needs to trade that in too. Yeah, if she's not doing good laundry and not cooking well, and is ugly too.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Time to go. And this one says, tell that fairy to learn how to cook and do his own goddamn lawn laundry before this broad bails on mama's boy. Well, that's true, but if she's not fairy, if she's not doing anything and her job is to do housework and laundry and stuff, do it right. The last thing you want to do is tell somebody who doesn't contribute financially. Ah, you're off the hook on like six or seven things around the house too. You're not doing anything. But why can't other people do that so you have more free time. This one says, dear Brady, my wife was having an affair a while ago and I forgave her, but she has a different sexual appetite than I do. Admittedly. We had a talk this weekend and she wants to bring girls into the bedroom for more satisfaction. She says she loves me very much, but she's just different. And sexually, I'm not giving her what she needs. I'm not a sexual person at all and I want my wife to be happy. Should I let this happen? I'm honestly perfectly okay with a sexless marriage, but I know she's not. She needs it at least once a week and I frankly don't care. What would you do, Justin? Wow.

[C]

First of all, I don't believe this scenario.

[B]

You don't think so?

[C]

Maybe the other way around.

[B]

You think women are the only ones? I knew one.

[C]

I know there. I've known a few out there.

[B]

Yeah. You know one?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You know asexual people just like I do. It's weird when you meet them. Dudes. Gay, not gay.

[A]

That's what I'm going with.

[B]

No, there's what he's not interested in. They're usually very sexual. But you didn't say the broad's not doing it for him.

[C]

Right.

[B]

He's got.

[A]

There you go, too.

[B]

Gay.

[A]

Twinks.

[B]

Brett's an idiot.

[C]

What?

[B]

And that's what makes me so happy he's gay. He's not gay. He has no sexual appetite.

[A]

That's what he tells you.

[B]

Yeah. I like it with the fella boys. I'm all worn out from all the anuses. Yeah.

[A]

There's a parade next week. Yeah, have fun.

[B]

I don't think he's gay, but Brett's got me leaning now.

[C]

See, I don't know. I mean, I'm a. I never think for me, like, if I'm gonna say, all right, no, go ahead and have it. I don't think it's gonna work out eventually.

[B]

That's because of you, though. That's because you're not doing your.

[C]

He's asked me to answer. Would I allow that? On the.

[B]

No. I'm saying if you're not.

[C]

But if I.

[B]

But it's no different than the laundry thing. If you're not delivering on your end of the goods, why can't the other person, if they don't, like, say, I want to seek happiness. I don't want. I don't want to be away from you, But.

[C]

So the question I have is, when did. When did he decide, you know, what was it sexless to begin with?

[B]

Don't know.

[C]

Then that's. But if he just changed all of a sudden.

[A]

Gay.

[B]

He's gay. When in doubt, assume homosexuality. Some people just don't have that.

[C]

But if they got into that deal and he was like that.

[B]

Well, that's what women do all the time. They do it at first and then they lose interest.

[C]

They close the deal.

[B]

Yeah, they close it and they lose interest. Maybe this is just role reversal. And what, as men, would we love, Right, if this were reversed for you? What, as a man, would you love if she said, I'm not interested in sexual. It's not because of you. You're free to do it. Yeah.

[C]

I just need to have that need fulfilled.

[B]

No, the other way. Now, what would every man. If you reverse the roles, what would every man want his wife to say when she says, I'm no longer interested in sex? You've got a different sexual appetite than I do. So I'm not going to let this be a hindrance to our future. It's a dream scenario for a Man.

[C]

So the guys are more like, if it's wrote on the man side, okay, go ahead and be free.

[B]

Right? We're. We're expected to be like, you know what? You're right. And you should. You should find your satisfaction. So he's in a quandary of going, do I let my wife have sex with these other women? At least she's being honest with him. At the very least. At least she's saying, I'm gonna do this. I'd like you to know about it.

[C]

Go get 10ft of pipe.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I want you happy.

[B]

Right? But you're not giving it to her. So why are you mad? If you're not giving your wife pipe as Brady so eloquently. Radiator medically put down pipe. Yeah, it's. Yeah, they're darker.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

So if you're not giving your wife pipe. How. How dare you say, go get your pipe somewhere. What a jerk you would be to say, here's nothing for you that you like. Here's no food. How dare you eat at someone else's house? So if you flipped it around where so many guys compl. My wife doesn't want it anymore. My wife doesn't want. And they're like, what would you want your wife to say? You'd want her immediately? Or that.

[C]

How many wives allow that?

[B]

Allow what?

[C]

That saying, you know what? I'm. I'm done with the. The sex thing in the relationship.

[B]

So many of them do.

[C]

I know.

[A]

Then leave.

[C]

And they don't want the husband, man.

[B]

But they don't want you. That's. They want something else. They'll. They'll move on to someone else and put on that show again, the sex show, and then pull back on that guy. But what's the harm in that? I mean, if this guy's wife wants more and you're not going to give it to her, there's where the gay thing kicks in, Bert, is that she's begging you to do it with her, and you're like, I just don't care. Then you kind of. Maybe she's a pig or she's a pig. We haven't gotten.

[C]

People haven't figured out a little bit.

[B]

Gay or pig.

[C]

Look, she's not going to be able to keep up.

[B]

Yeah, well, I got to go, Ma. And that's where the women are like, you got to go, Ma. I just don't ask no questions. Happy Columbus Day, everybody. What a classy group.

[C]

Gay.

[B]

Whenever. You don't understand anything. It's just the fastest way to go. What was the third thing? Well, you could get the chili soup, the chicken noodle soup.

[C]

Gay.

[B]

What was gay about that? I don't know. I don't remember the first.

[A]

Hey, if he doesn't want to. If he doesn't want nothing to do with her, what are you going to do?

[B]

Exactly. What's she supposed to do? I'm playing devil's advocate. I'm not sure how I'd respond. But what are you supposed to do when you're saying, I'm not willing to provide this for you? It's essential for your happiness.

[A]

Then why stay together?

[C]

That's what you're saying?

[B]

Well, that's because they like each other.

[A]

Outside of that, I got friends that I like, too.

[B]

That's true. It's a good point. I got a lot of friends. That's a good point. Then maybe. I don't know. Geez. Gay.

[C]

I just look at it. It's doomed.

[B]

You know what?

[C]

The relationship is doomed.

[B]

Like what Brett says, go get some pipe. Dude.

[A]

That radiator hose.

[B]

Go get that radiator. The both of you need a radiator hose. There you go. Yeah, the both of you maybe should bring dudes into the bedroom. Bread will volunteer. Eh, I'm here. I guess. You ordered a man. Well, my wife doesn't. Yeah, yeah. Out of the way, Cuck. Mrs. Toledo. How are you anyway? Gay. Perfect. Well done. It's a tough one because she's like, as guys, we're kind of like, oh, why aren't you giving it to her, dude? But when a woman does it, it's like, dude, it's just the way marriage. We make jokes. Last time, wedding cakes. Last time, they get a blow job. Like, what? Why do we make these simp jokes all the time? We simp ourselves and then make when they're not happy sexually. It's our fault too, anyway. Let her bring chicks into the bedroom. What's wrong with you? What man is like writing Brady a letter saying, I'm not interested in that. Are you crazy? Makes her happy and get into an accident. You can't see the rainbows at the end of that.

[A]

Oh, he sees the rainbows.

[B]

Oh, yeah, he does. And at the end of his rainbow is a pot of.

[C]

Pipe damage. That's right.

[B]

All right, that's enough of that. Stop it. Jesus Christ. Morgan went nuts. All right, there you go. I don't know if that solved anything, but I enjoyed it.

[C]

That's my alarm.

[B]

There you go. That's Brady's. Wake up. There you go. That's what Brady did. It's time for you guys to recognize he's the most moral man ever. Nice work. It's out of control now. 88 K U PD.