10-22-25 - Entertainment Drill - WED - Would We Go Back In Time To Change Anything About Our Lives

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Episode: 10-22-25 - Entertainment Drill - WED - Would We Go Back In Time To Change Anything About Our Lives

Date: October 22, 2025
Host: John Holmberg
Co-hosts: Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo

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Episode Overview

This episode's central theme is a lighthearted but thoughtful discussion about the "time machine question": If you could travel back in time—specifically, in your own life—would you change anything? The team explores the idea of altering past decisions, with a special focus on health, career, relationships, and physical fitness. The segment contains their trademark banter, self-deprecation, and a blend of humor with reflective moments.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Kicking Off: Back to the Entertainment Drill (01:19–03:43)

• John Holmberg introduces the segment, giving a birthday shoutout and some motivational commentary about continually improving oneself, regardless of age.
  • “Age is a number. It's your mentality that gets you by.” — John Holmberg (02:06)

2. Janelle Monáe's "Time Travel" and the Real Time Machine Debate (03:43–05:54)

• Brady brings up an interview where Janelle Monáe jokes about “traveling” to the 1970s to see David Bowie, prompting John to riff on time machines and what people would use them for if real.
  • They question her story with mock seriousness, and pivot: “If you have the power of going back in time... Why are you doing music?” — John Holmberg (04:48)
  • Jokes about “killing baby Hitler,” buying early Microsoft or Apple stock, and warning actors not to make questionable movie choices.

3. Would You Really Change Anything? Personal Time Machine Dilemmas (05:54–09:54)

• The team explores a hypothetical: “If you could only go back within your own lifetime, start over at any point, and relive from there, what would you do?”
• John shares that his friend John Gordon claims he wouldn’t change anything: “That absolutely nothing, player. ...Except for maybe a couple of bitches I’d have dumped a little earlier and maybe cut my hair in my 30s.” — John Holmberg paraphrasing John Gordon (05:52)
• The conversation steers toward reliving good memories versus correcting regrets.

4. The Role of Health: Would You Do It Differently? (06:29–12:27)

• John challenges the others: Would you go back and make healthier choices, knowing what will happen with your body?
  • Brady resists the idea, saying he doesn’t regret his dietary choices and points out that some issues are hereditary (kidney problems, high blood pressure):
    • “I never felt like, oh, I shouldn’t have done this to lead to this point.” — Brady (07:51)
  • John makes the case for prevention even when health issues are hereditary—“Wouldn’t you rather have it be the best it can be even if it’s not good, rather than go …‘I’m diabetic, I gotta control this better’?” (11:00)
  • Discussion on how blood pressure is “the silent killer” and the challenges of anticipating health impacts.
• Switching to deeper reflections, John notes he’d focus on physical fitness if given the chance to redo his earlier years.

5. Beyond Health: Sports, Regrets, and Playing 'What If?' (12:27–14:51)

• The group admits they might have taken sports more seriously in their youth—tennis, baseball, even golf—or stuck with certain hobbies.
• Hostility toward the idea of “no regrets,” as John insists, “I didn’t like John’s answer when he said nothing. And I’m like, there’s so much you could do for you.”

6. Lighter Moments: Names, Hair, and More (14:51–16:12)

• Quick detour as they discover they've been mispronouncing Mariska Hargitay’s name, leading to more banter about correcting past mistakes—like their hair care routines.
• John: “Maybe go back in time, maybe get a nose job. ...get a little more serious about hair care.” (15:17)
  • John jokes about washing his hair with soap and damaging it: “I'd have been nicer to my hair. F you, Brett. And that mop on your head.” (16:00)

7. Closing Reflections (16:12–End)

• They wrap up, encouraging listeners to try the “time machine” conversation at home, poking fun at the idea of correcting their partners’ past decisions with a treadmill purchase.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “If you have the power of going back in time... Why are you doing music?”
  — John Holmberg, questioning Janelle Monáe’s priorities with time travel (04:48)
• “Somebody said to me the other day, a time machine, but you can only travel back in your time.”
  — John Holmberg, setting up the central scenario (05:54)
• “I never felt like, oh, I shouldn’t have done this to lead to this point.”
  — Brady, reflecting on regret (07:51)
• “Wouldn’t you rather have it be the best it can be even if it’s not good, rather than go …‘I’m diabetic, I gotta control this better’?”
  — John Holmberg, on prevention and health (11:00)
• “You don't know. But so far, so good on the organs and I want to keep it that way.”
  — John Holmberg, on the value of hindsight (14:07)
• “I'd have been nicer to my hair. F you, Brett. And that mop on your head.”
  — John Holmberg, poking fun at himself and Bret (16:00)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 01:19 – Entertainment Drill starts; birthday shoutout/motivational riff
• 03:43 – Janelle Monáe’s “time travel” story leads into time machine hypotheticals
• 05:54 – Team discusses limitations of personal time travel and what they'd actually change
• 06:29–08:41 – Personal health, dietary habits, and inevitability vs. agency
• 09:54–12:27 – Debate on hereditary health issues vs. personal responsibility
• 12:27–14:51 – Sports, skill development, and self-improvement regrets
• 15:01–16:12 – Name mispronunciation, appearance, and hair care jokes
• 16:12–End – Closing jokes and encouragement to try the time machine talk at home

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Tone and Style

The conversation is a blend of humor, self-mockery, and earnest reflection. The hosts’ camaraderie lends a fun and engaging vibe, even when contemplating more serious “what if?” scenarios about health and life choices. Jokes about “killing baby Hitler,” going back to change careers, or making small vanity tweaks keep it light—true to the show’s irreverent morning format.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode takes a playful but thoughtful dive into the age-old “If you could go back, what would you change?” question—anchored in the hosts’ personal experiences and classic banter. Whether it’s health, fitness, relationships, career, or even something as small as hair care, the gang pokes fun at both the futility and the fantasy of “redos,” while ultimately affirming the unpredictable, often satisfying messiness of life.

Great as an entry point to the podcast, this episode showcases the team’s humor, empathy, and penchant for tangents—making even existential questions sound like a morning chat between old friends.

Transcript

[A]

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[C]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

Monet did an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. She did with a singer, Lucy Dakis. She said she told Lucy she was serious. But then she said, I traveled back into the 1970s and I saw David Bowie to the rise of the Fall, Ziggy Stardust.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And the Spiders from Mars. And it was incredible. Then she added, I was backstage, I was like, this is what I want to do.

[A]

Oh, wait, she's claiming that she actually did this. Not just one on YouTube.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

Maybe she considers YouTube a time machine and just kind of followed along POV.

[C]

But she decided this is what I want. To do. So I jetted back to the 2000s. I was like, I can have the musical, I can make the music. I can create lyrics, create community around transformation and being queer and not even just sexuality, but in how we see the world.

[A]

So what you're saying is, in a lot of words, Janelle Monae went crazy during a Rolling Stone interview.

[C]

Okay, well, they're not too serious, but, you know, if you have the power of going back in time.

[A]

Yeah. Why are you doing music?

[C]

What happened to killing baby Hitler?

[A]

Right. We're right.

[C]

There's a good Microsoft or Apple.

[A]

Well, and also share this time machine with us, because if it's just a concert time machine, tell not to do Black Adam. Oh, yeah, you got to get on that one. That's true. If you. Somebody pointed this out to me. We had the Hitler talk the other day. And killing baby Hitler, not a problem for me. So I'm a baby killer. Big whoop. I get back in my time machine, I come back here, I see how it worked out, be more fun. And then somebody said, well, then you're going to get into a loop because what if you going back killing baby Hitler, you come back here and things are worse, then you got to go back and stop yourself from killing baby Hitler. And then it just becomes this never ending loop of you keep going back, trying to fix you. What if. And this is a great one. And I kind of just asked John Gordon this, because John is celebrating 30 years in the Valley of the sun as of yesterday. And I said to him, what would you change? And he goes, that absolutely nothing, player. And I said, no kidding. And then he goes, except for maybe a couple of bitches I'd have dumped a little earlier and maybe cut my.

[C]

Hair in my 30s.

[A]

Like, all right, so you would have changed something. Somebody said to me the other day, a time machine. But you can only travel back in your time. So mine could only go back to July 26, 1972. I could only return to today, couldn't go forward in my life. I could only start here, 10-22-25. And I can only go back as far as 7-26-72. But somewhere in there, I could go back and. And be part of something again. But the catch is you got to start there and live it back again. What would you do? Where would you go?

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

You don't know? You don't have a. Where would you go? Well, in your own life. Where would you go back in your life and go, okay, I'm going to Start over here or I'm going to go relive this again because it was so awesome. And then just try to recreate from there. That's a tough one. That's a real tough one.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, it's been so awesome, oddly enough. Yeah, you have. Yours has been great.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You can go back and, like, maybe lay off the barbecue, a little things.

[C]

No, absolutely.

[A]

You wouldn't. No. Why?

[C]

Because that's not what did it.

[A]

I didn't say your kidneys, just generally your shape and form and body. Who cares about your kidneys? You're okay with this. Jesus Christ. He's crazy, too. But I mean, it certainly would have been.

[C]

It didn't hinder me, like, I mean, in my, you know, during high school and all that.

[A]

No, no, I'm not saying. I'm saying, like, you wouldn't. I didn't say high school then. So after that. So sometime when you're like, oh, boy, I got to. I straighten it up because my heart's not in great shape and I got to be careful because you know already. Well, your kidneys are going to be bad, so your blood pressure is going to be attached to that. So for your future, you. You wouldn't go back in time and go take it easy on some of this stuff. You're going to need this heart. No, you wouldn't.

[C]

No. Because, I mean, it has. I mean, the high blood pressure been.

[A]

I know, but it's not in a better position. Because your kidneys are bad.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Your blood pressure immediately attached to that.

[C]

And you're asking me. Yeah. Right off the bat. I never felt like, oh, I shouldn't have done this to lead to this point.

[A]

But what I'm. Yeah, but that's the point. I'm asking because for me, a health concern would be the first thing I go back and, okay, my kidneys are shot. What does that have. Okay, so I've got high blood pressure. I should do better things for my blood pressure.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

To make it so my things.

[C]

So do you feel better things like, is that what one of yours is? Better things on joints or literally like that.

[A]

I can't do anything. But. But I never gained weight to make it worse or I never had. I probably would have gone through that period where I was overwe. For me, and I wouldn't have done that because I bubbled up a little bit, and that probably sped up the process of my joints going through what they. Like, your kidneys were probably inevitably going to go south. Right. Because it's more than likely Hereditary or.

[C]

The tumor caused them to really?

[A]

Sure. But the hereditary part of it was you got bad kidneys, right?

[C]

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[A]

Well, or. So you haven't found out why it happened? No. Okay. But most likely it's genetic. I would, I guess so let's say it is. But that's the point of going back in time and saying, okay, bad kidneys mean blood pressure is going to be a problem later. You treat yourself better to make sure that when your kidneys do inevitably fail, at least the rest of you is okay to handle the punch. That's what we were getting at with that talk before with that guy. Like, that's a really good point. Like, because you could have, I don't know, you don't have like anything going south on you, the kidneys or anything I know of. So that's. But if you knew that. Yeah. You'd go back and make sure everything else is or gout.

[C]

You know that.

[A]

Yeah. You know you wouldn't go back and do anything for like blood pressure.

[C]

No. Because I feel like based on brother and sister, they're all three in that category. I don't think there's any. I think no matter how much weight, like, even if I lost, would my blood pressure be better? It would be, but I think I'm still not to the point where I, I don't know if I could be fully off.

[A]

That's the argument. And the thing is, wouldn't you rather have it be the Best it can be even if it's not good, rather than go, okay, I'm like, being diabetic and saying, well, it's hereditary, so I'm gonna eat sugar. And that's saying, no, I'm diabetic. I got to control this better because I already have it. Yeah, it's like being a smoker, lung smoker. You're gonna stop smoking whether you caught it from smoking or not.

[C]

And that's the tough thing about blood pressure, is there's just no symptoms or signs. So it's the silent killer to call it.

[A]

But, you know, you go your.

[C]

Your entire life with the blood pressure, and you feel like it's being dealt.

[A]

With, but you know you have it. That's the exercise. The exercise is the things, you know.

[C]

That's what I'm saying.

[A]

But the things you know, today you're going to need your heart and blood pressure to be good going forward. So if you had a chance to go backwards, wouldn't you try to regulate that to a lower level or the best level it could possibly be, knowing it's not good hereditarily, you're not doing yourself any favors by eating bad or having extra weight. You see what I'm saying?

[C]

Oh, yeah, I understand. But when I have an opportunity like that, I would look at more events that are saying, well, if I was here on this date with someone, I could redo that or this girl really liked, I should have done.

[A]

That's the point of it. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

That's the whole point of going back. Yeah. Yeah. Probably if I went back, I'd be more serious about, like, physical fitness.

[C]

A trip that you cut short, that you stayed longer.

[A]

None of that stuff bothers me because I can do that again. I can't redo my physical self. If I had a chance to go back, I think that's what I'd focus on. Go back and try to bang a girl. But I go back and try to, like, make sure that physically I did better things. Knowing what I know now, you know, like, would you work out harder, Brett? Would you, like, have a better physical fitness regime?

[C]

Probably.

[A]

But, I mean, you know, you're not in bad shape, so it's not like something you have to think about like tennis.

[C]

If I would have taken up. Gotten more serious about it when I was younger, but then that takes away from. I got better at tennis in my older.

[A]

No, you would have been better earlier, though. Think about that. Right.

[C]

But what. What direction that would have gone?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, you had focused on it earlier. Tennis Baseball, Yeah, same. I might have kept playing baseball. Yeah. You know, I would have worked harder at that stuff. Football, I'd have been. I'd have been more into the physical me, as in taking care of that part of me a little differently.

[C]

Even golfing.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Just be better at the things I like. I know that I like now. It's a really interesting thing. So you start talking baby Hitler, time machine stuff, and that just gets to be. So when you think about yourself, people should be more introspective. I didn't like John's answer when he said nothing. And I'm like, there's so much you could do for you. If you went back in time and not change anything else other than take that hour and a half a day that you were wasting, that wouldn't have changed the time space continuum at all and just been better to you, you know, that's why I couldn't answer it. Because they're, you know, I know there's something I just couldn't really. But baseball would definitely be one of them. Just try a little harder.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. It's weird because I know I would have been. I would have. Yeah. Because you don't know. But so far, so good on the organs and I want to keep it that way. So could I have done better for myself back then? Especially now knowing that I had that weird disorder with my joints? I'd have gone back there and gone. If I put more muscle on back then, that could. I could have prolonged this a little bit. You know, it's a good little interior test to hear people who are a little bit more self aware than what John Gordon said, which is, I was perfect. Nothing changes. Gotta slap that bitch around a little more, though. Boy, oh, boy, was she a problem. All right, finish up. I like time machine talk.

[C]

Mariska Hargitay. We've been saying her name wrong the whole time. Mariska. She cleared that up on Amy Poehler's podcast.

[A]

That's Mariska. They got a funny.

[C]

I don't think she cares.

[A]

Yeah, she's not being a about it. Yeah, it's like the Steelers have a titan named Pat Friar Muth. But everybody says fryer moves. Yeah, I'm not going to correct anymore. It's a waste of time to try.

[C]

All I hear is move.

[A]

Well, because they do. Heath move. Yeah, it's a tradition. Anyway, go back in time and change my name. Maybe go back in time, maybe get a nose job. Oh, maybe that I go back in time, get a little more serious about hair care. John Just nodded. He just changed his 30 year plans. That might be something I'd do.

[C]

Well, you think it was the hair.

[A]

Care that caused your pretty involved.

[C]

Yeah, I know.

[A]

But I would go back in time and try to correct that. You keep thinking that everything's inevitable. No, I can't. You can. But I'm not going to go to Turkey and get plugs. I'd say go back.

[C]

You mean like white? Right when it started happening.

[A]

I would have paid more attention to what I'm doing with my hair, knowing that I was going to lose it. To try to prolong that a little bit or have healthier hair. When I was younger because I used to wash my hair with a bar of soap. I never cared about like shampoo and stuff like that.

[C]

But I don't think. Yeah. Whether or not that caused it.

[A]

That's foundational muck and goo. If you're just using dial and then you have your propensity to that. Anyway, if you're clogging your pores with glop. That's why they make shampoo. It's like it's different for just your hair. Cleans your hair better. Your hair's in better condition. Women ask women. Healthier hair. It's a thing. Mine was not. And then I wouldn't bleach it every three or four days or diet. I treated it terribly. It was awful. I'd have been nicer to my hair. F you, Brett. And that mop on your head. It's interesting. It's a fun talk. Do it at home. Have fun at home and tell your wife what she should have done. Should have bought her a treadmill back in 2008. That's what she should have done. We don't have to go back that far. Would you get on it today? It is a time machine. Face the other way. That's it for us. You guys have yourselves a grand day and we'll see you tomorrow right here in the morning sickness. So long. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station.