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Brett Vesely
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John Holmberg
There you go. It is miles to nowhere for a couple more days. Our official theme song. And the lame duck. Next week at this time, they will be the lame ducks. We will have a winner in Playdoh one week from today. And then we will begin next year's quest for a great wake up song. We've been lucky because Miles to. No. We're crushed this year. Crushed it. They didn't re.
Brett Vesely
They didn't. They're not in this year.
John Holmberg
One. One time winner. Last two years they've been in it. First year they were ridiculed heavily for being Katie and the Hobbs. Then last year won the whole damn thing with their fun and their frivolity. And they sang the song we made fun of the year before, which was even better. It was great. They were a lot of fun. They're a fun band. They're fun people. So we'll see as Plato gets going next week. Yikes. Get all these emails from people on the Epstein thing. And there's some guys who are out there who are absolutely 100% right about, you know, making sure that you get everything right. Ramon is a listener and he emails and he said, where'd that go? I had a second ago.
Brett Vesely
Oh.
John Holmberg
He basically said, you know, there were videos of all sorts of stuff all over the place. We should probably want to see that. Like, yeah, in a clean world, just the bad guys get hit. But I want to live where Ramon lives because it's a. It's a nicer place to assume that we're going to treat this with respect and the people who aren't really. But if there's a celebrity and he's involved somehow, salaciously. If the general public sees a video of something awful that happened at Epstein's house, there's a timestamp on it. Everything that happens after that is, you should have known. And we, the general public, are not reasonable with that. Stupid, stupid. Then I'm getting a bunch of people saying, john, quit talking about wanting to be asleep. It's too hard. Kevin Falcone is out there. He said, I'm trying to do chest workouts. This is a bad day to do bench pressing because you're laying down so much. Just, you know what, Stop it. I've seen you, Kevin. You're fine for another day of looking that way.
Brady
You're down on the bench and close your eyes.
John Holmberg
Just lay down on that bench. Keep the bar above you and just sleep it off. The folks at LA Fitness won't even notice. Just sleep, my friend. Sleep. It'll be fine. And then this guy says, everybody's talking about the rain and how it is I'm faking. All my energy today is artificial, fake, contrived nonsense. I would much rather be just laying down. Like Brady says, the smell of bacon or grilled cheese going, oh, that's why we used to do the rainy day recipes. Ladies, you shouldn't be out in this mess. Call your manager. Manager, tell him you got some female problems, you get the day off. No man is ever going to. No follow up questions from any man will ever occur. When you say, I've got some real troubling female issues today. All right, Enjoy the day off. No guy's going to be like, what is it? Then your next answer, if he's got the balls to ask, is, there's a heavy flow and a discharge. All right, Take the rest of the day. I don't hear another word from you.
Brett Vesely
Matter of fact, take the rest of them.
John Holmberg
You know what? You take all the time you need.
Brett Vesely
You don't think Trip's questioning any of the ladies downstairs?
John Holmberg
If any of the ladies downstairs called. Trip. Hi, Trip. What's going on? Trip. Hi. It's chill.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
What's going on? Not gonna make it in today. Why? I'm having a late in life heavy flop.
Brett Vesely
My.
John Holmberg
See you later. Never again. Talk to me. Don't ever look at me in the eyes ever again. Goodbye, late in life menstrual flow. I know guys asking that. So, ladies, you do that, and then you stay home, you make cookies or bacon or grilled cheese and just make the whole house smell like grilled cheese. Sounds good, doesn't it?
Brett Vesely
Give Ranch House grill down here and.
John Holmberg
Bring us some Ranch House grilled Grilled cheese. Or maybe Brady can go over to McDonald's to his people and get us those special grilled cheeses that you'll love them. Yeah, I know because I've never had one. Yeah.
Brett Vesely
From McDonald's.
John Holmberg
I just had one. Brady. Hey, Brady's right. It tasted a lot like Clinton's D. Okay. Because it was filled with E. Jack. Don't get a special order grilled cheese. Go to a place that serves grilled cheese. The best grill. I've done this before, but it's a rainy day. Grilled cheese day. November, rain, Guns N Roses. Perfect day, nice weather, nice temperature. If you have time tonight, go to Beckett's table. It's the greatest grilled cheese sandwich combo with whatever that bisque is you dip it in, you could ever have. It's not even close. They give you four different little like, it's grilled, almost like sliders, only they're a little bigger. And in each grilled cheese is a different type of cheese. But all of them are amazing. And again, we talked about this last week. You slap some butter on some wonder bread, flap that around in one of those skillets, and then throw some Velveeta on it. I'm eating that, too.
Brady
Yep.
John Holmberg
I got no problem with grilled cheese. I've gotten more emails and more people talking to me about how off brand it is that I don't mind Velveeta individually wrapped cheese. I didn't realize that you mean just.
Brady
Like, eating it straight up.
John Holmberg
I know when I mentioned it the other day was like, you. Brett was all over me for that. Yeah. Everybody couldn't. I was shocked. Larry was shocked. Larry even brought it up yesterday. People can't believe it. I've got emails from the Velveeta, and I'm like, I didn't realize how bougie everybody was about Velveeta cheese. It's fantastic. Now, I don't like the government block. I don't even know if they still sell that. The one that's in the box. They used to take the cheese out and put baseball cards in. By the way, if you're a baseball card collector, the cheese boxes, perfect people. Perfect size for a collection.
Brady
You cube that up to make your queso.
John Holmberg
I buy cubes. Better to sell the cubes. Why would I. Why would I do all that extra work? They said they sell cubed cheese. Just go buy the cubes. Why do I gotta take a big old hunk of government cheese? It just seems like. It seems like government poor cheese. It seems like gifted to you by socialism cheese. That's what I called it. That's. I'm gonna call that from now on, socialism cheese. But the individually wrapped ones, forget it. That's delightful stuff. Yeah. And I brought it up here, and everybody was pointing and laughing at me.
Brett Vesely
That I was shocked more than anything.
John Holmberg
Why?
Brett Vesely
It's just because you. You're so picky with stuff. That's why I was all like, there is no way you're eating Velve.
John Holmberg
And I will eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese too. I think that's ghetto delicious. Ghetto fabulous, they call it. It's delightful. You get that grilled cheese going today? Oh, Beckett's table. You're getting a free one out of me today. And this guy T says, unfortunately, some of us, John, work from home. So we can't use the weather as an excuse ever. All right?
Brady
That's the downside of staying home.
John Holmberg
Knock it off. You're. You're. Go to sleep. You're at home. People who work from home are running the greatest grift on the planet. I get to work from home. You're sleeping till 9, and you're keeping the phone on high. You're not. I just saw a thing the other day where a cop had to do a zoom call in a court hearing. And he just put his shirt on. I didn't realize there was a mirror behind him and his pants were off.
Brady
You're not wearing your pants.
John Holmberg
Judge is like, are you not wearing pants? He goes, no, go put some pants on. It's like, all right, I'm working from home. Rico Blaze worked from home. You know what he did? Nobody.
Brady
He lifted the lens up.
John Holmberg
Yeah, we're good. You guys don't need to know. It's just. There's no reflection.
Brady
A little low.
John Holmberg
Let's go. We're good. Another guy had his thing on, and he took it into the bathroom and he left the camera on. He didn't realize it. And I was like, do you realize your camera's still on you? And he's like, look, I'm lactose intolerant or whatever. He said, I take dumps, like, every eight minutes. You can steal with it. You guys working from home, you know, I know people who work from home aren't like, they all. Because you all try to justify how much you're getting done. You know who doesn't do that? People at work. I never once go downstairs and go, hey, Kelly, what's going on? I'm working really hard. I don't know why I'm all day. I don't take any breaks. Okay, fine. But you talked to somebody about, like, Jill, you worked from home yesterday. Huh? And I did. I worked. I was working from 8 and 2. I had two meetings. I'm like, you didn't do anything. Stop it. Working from home is the biggest grift alive. So Mr. T. Not Mr. T, but T is his name, that I got out at 5 and walked the dog in the rain.
Brady
Now.
John Holmberg
But we can't use weather as an excuse. When you work from home. Every day is a rainy day for you. Working from home. I don't want to hear it from home workers. You guys get up. I've seen it. You get up and sit down on the couch for 45 minutes and watch TV and you make yourself some coffee, and you want to repet the dog. You hang out. You're at home. Every person that says, I work from home, ask them go, what'd you do yesterday? Watch how mad they get because you. Because they got caught. Nobody who works from home is like, yeah, I didn't do much. They all are, like, justifying their whole. And it's the busiest day of their lives. It's that nobody works from home ever comes in and goes, I really had a light day yesterday. Oh, my God. I got up at seven. I had six meetings. I worked till seven.
Brett Vesely
Does Jill do that?
John Holmberg
Jill. Go down today to Jill and say. Because she has Tuesdays from home, and just say, how was yesterday at work? I worked hard. I'm like, okay, here we go.
Brett Vesely
She.
John Holmberg
She knows we're on to it for patent. It's genius.
Brady
She wrote them out.
John Holmberg
And you know what else I know? Working from home's a scam. Because downstairs there's only like, two, maybe three people that are grandfathered in to get a day off and work from Home. And the ones who don't have it are pissed off. And I'm like, I don't know. Sounds like it. When you talk to Jill in her days where she works from home, it's the hardest day of the week. Why would you want that? And then everybody else just rolls their eyes, like, you know why I want that? I want to sleep. I want to take naps. I want to not get yelled at. I don't want anybody around.
Brady
They have the okay to be outside of the office to begin with.
John Holmberg
Sales, biggest grift going. Jill told me that. She goes, well, I caught her once about two months ago. She said she was at the mall. I said, I thought you were working on Tuesdays. I had my phone with me. That's not working. That's just in case someone at work catches you. Shut up. We were at the queues on silent. Yeah, I had a meeting at one and I had to meet a client, so I decided to do some returns. And you had a day off. I hate you so much, John. Like, don't hate me just for, you know, knowing your plan. It's not just Jill. I'm blaming Jill a lot, but it's not her.
Brady
There's anyone listening from Portland right now. Like, come on. This is what it is.
John Holmberg
Every day until February. But that's why they're so weird. They're all sleepy and high all the time because this is their lives. So true. Somebody said, man, John, you said that the news doesn't hire ugly people, but they've hired some, quote, body positive broads I've seen. To hire newscasters is a lot like being a strip club owner. You gotta have some of that sometimes. You gotta have a white one, a black one, a Mexican, a blonde, brunette, redhead, fat one, skinny one, and a short one. And you have to have a fat white crew.
Brady
Your ABC shift.
John Holmberg
Yeah, well, you have to have your fat white girl crew for, like, in case Mike Tyson's in town and he brings his crew in. You have to have your Mexican crew and you have to have a tall one. You have to have a short one with a fat ass. News is no different. They got a blonde, they got a brunette.
Brett Vesely
The gay guy, too.
John Holmberg
Oh, you gotta have a gay. Well, not at the strip club.
Brett Vesely
Well, no, no. The news.
John Holmberg
Oh, sure, sure. Let's not get into that side of the iron cry. I'm just saying, when it comes to the women, because nobody's gonna watch the news if Ian Schwartz is in a white T shirt getting splashed. But if Holly box out there and somebody brought up giant Michael Mike. Well, that's true. Morning sickness.
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John Holmberg
Homeburg's Morning Sickness. Jamie Serretta on Channel 3. We all know when I say Jamie Serretta, men are like. Even women are like, those things are huge. She knows it and we know it. I know it's disparaging and it's. But there they are on my TV and you think I'm not supposed to see those. Then make the desk higher. You know, put her in a burlap sack or put her in a box like Captain pike from Star Trek and just have her head popping off. We're not supposed to notice those. Then don't show them to me. You put her. My friend Scott just text me. He goes, remember when Seretta got in the cold plunge? He goes, that was years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. I do remember that she was in like a body glove suit and those things she's carrying around were noticeably huge.
Brett Vesely
And I wonder if I can find that.
John Holmberg
You. Hi. I bet somebody's got it. You hire news people the same way you hire a strip club. It's a diversity. Yeah, the. The short Mexican girl with the fat ass and the tall Mexican girl have to be. It's almost Laurel and Hardy of Mexican strippers. They have to exist. They have to coexist as well. And maybe even in the rougher strip club, somebody with a couple of like, stab marks or A scar that can't be explained. The black light kind of makes pop.
Brady
It's funny, you know, been here 30 plus years and it's the same thing. You hear guys talk sometimes on the news. Oh, she's not gonna last long.
John Holmberg
She's going, of course. Yeah. You see him like, wow, that one's. She's gonna be a superstar.
Brady
She'll be out of this market very soon.
John Holmberg
This is a stepping stone. And then you get the ones that do weekends for like eight or nine years in a row and they start mentioning it on the air. I'm still doing weekends. Like, yep, shouldn't have gotten pregnant probably, huh? It's bad for your career. I'm sure you're happy with your kids and stuff, but that's why you wake up at 3:30 on Saturday. Stinks. But yeah, that's. That's it. Yeah, don't defend your working from home nonsense either. This guy even just texted and he goes, serretta on Camelback. I remember she was doing a story on Camelback and then once she did a balloon ride and her jugs were in the air and it started to rain a little bit. I'm like, oh, I can fix the news. You're gonna hire all those hot girls on rainy days. All you gotta do is get them out there. You have to have the old stripper every once in a while. You have to make it seem like you're not age restrictive. We've all been to strip clubs. The strip club guy has to have something for everybody. Body positivity. There's always a guy out there going, these Holly back, too skinny. Then you have to have that thick weather girl. It's not fat. She's just got enough on her to make people like me go, she's a little big, but people like Lamont go, that's exactly the type of weather I'm looking for.
Brady
Controlled expectations at lunchtime.
John Holmberg
What do you mean? Oh, for strippers. Yeah. Well, the midday news is usually not as sexy. So it's the same thing as a strip club. The channel 3 12, 5, 15, they're all strip clubs. They're just strip clubs with information. Then the DJ is like John Hook. And now let's throw it over to someone called Michaela. She's standing live on the corner like, that's the strip club.
Brett Vesely
Get those dollar bills ready.
John Holmberg
Here's something that I have. I've been paying attention to this and I find it hysterical. First off, if you ever Google search hotels in Rwanda, you're gonna get slapped in the Face with what happened to the tootsies and the Christians that got murdered. It was a bloodbath, genocide nightmare in Rwanda. Watching the Clippers play basketball on their jerseys. There's advertisements now everybody's got something. And the Clippers advertisement this year says, Visit Rwanda. And I want to know if anybody has done that. Is this advertising campaign working at all? First off, I checked it out. Don't Google hotels in Rwanda. There's pictures of dead people everywhere. The slaughter was horrifying. Being a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Rwanda, which, by the way, for those who don't know, little south of Uganda, right in the middle of Africa, guerrillas are their big thing.
Brady
Hell of a pitch, that advertising firm and the Clippers.
John Holmberg
Steve Ballmer owns the Clippers. He gets it. Like that dude kind of understands stuff. Visit Rwanda is the hardest thing in the world. Even like Travelocity is like, are you sure? Hotels in Rwanda you know about the genocide, right? And the murders of a slaughter. Rwanda is not. So Visit Rwanda's on the shirts of the Clippers. I understand Rwanda's trying to re do that whole 1994 terrifying slaughter that their country's most known for. And then Don Cheadle ruined it by making an amazing movie called Hotel Rwanda. So the search for a Rwandan hotel is tough. Five star Rwandan hotel. You still get the Wikipedia story of Hotel Rwanda, which was a nice hotel in Rwanda. And basically all there is to do in Rwanda is get into a truck at night and drive around and look for gorillas. And that's real. That's what you do there. And I'm not a huge fan of that.
Brett Vesely
How has Susan not recruited these people that sold that?
John Holmberg
If Visit Rwanda is going on Clipper jerseys, certainly they'll buy time on KUPD.
Brady
12,500 is the starting. It's price for the luxury.
John Holmberg
The big. Well, you gotta find. Yeah, but that's what they do. They put you in a resort and then you find gorillas also. Let's never talk about what happened here. This is what our country. When I say Rwanda, what's your first thought? Oh, yeah, that Don Cheadle movie where everybody got slaughtered and he tried to save a bunch of folks. It's basically Schindler's List he tried to save. It was like a bunch of priests and they had a religious battle and they were trying to wipe them all out. This was in the 90s. This was not like 1805. This was 25 years ago. Then they made that movie. And now the Clippers have Visit Rwanda I have to know because I do this with endorsements and stuff. I get like, you know, Doug Hopkins, we talked last night. He goes, man, I still get tons of leads from you. I'm like, that's great. Do you think anybody@visit Rwanda.com is like this Clippers thing is gangbusters, people. We're booking flights like crazy. Nobody's booked a flight based on that. No one. It's a 19 hour trip to go to Rwanda and hope it doesn't happen to you. That's all I'd be thinking about. Don't watch that movie. It is not. It's too soon. Still. It would have been like in the 60s if Germany did a, you know, come see Berlin. It's totally different now. You'd be like, I don't know, you're kind of known for that. It's all. It's all rebuilt and we got the smoky smell out of the air. All the curtains have been dry cleaned.
Brady
It's where my nephew is.
John Holmberg
He's in Germany right now. Well, right now it's fine. He's not in Rwanda.
Brady
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Which is. You don't want to go there. You got to give him like 50 years before you can trust him again. I'm not. Rwanda had a full out, like, surprise genocide. The thing they were. They were inviting these priests into places saying, we're going to have meetings. And then they'd burn the buildings and lock them inside, just slaughtering people. The movie's horrific and it's called Hotel Rwanda. So in order to go there, you gotta eventually read that story. And that is not. There are not. I can't tell you how many gorillas it would take for me to say, okay, it's worth going to Rwanda. It's not a destination for anyone. And then you look on a map at where Rwanda is and you're like, I'm going to San Diego. There's no way I'm going all the way over there. Just in case you got the Congo, Uganda. No, thanks. I better go with Don Cheadle because he's like a hero over there. Because they think he's the real guy. He's not. I don't even know if he. I don't even know the real guy lived. That movie's so depressing. Nick Nolte's in it and he's dropping n bombs and there's. Yeah, he's got like Nazi stuff and Visit Rwanda is not gonna. But again, you're right. How is Susan not. Yeah, if they're advertising for Rwanda, they Should be a heavy blanket across the entire nation. Just trying to. We would like people to know the real Rwanda. Yeah, yeah. The not slaughter one, right? Yes. What else are you known for? We have gorillas now. Let me ask you something real quick. There. They got the gorillas in other parts of Africa. Oh, yes. Africa is filled with them. Why would I go to the place most known for a genocide when I could go to the other one? I'm not. I'm not going to Uganda because of IDI Amin. That. That city was going along just fine until Ubudu's men decided to start a coup out of the blue. Too many coups. I like to go to coup free places. When's the last coup you had? Is a good question for your travel agent. If they're trying to sell you on Rwanda. Oh, they had a coup like 25 years ago. And has that settled down? All right, I'm not going there. No coups, no genocides, and, you know, no recent deaths by gorilla in the street. Those are pretty much deal breakers. Because I can go up to Half Moon Bay, they've got a zoo. Go see a gorilla. San Diego's great. Just go over to watch that wild animal park. And it's almost like being in Rwanda without all the actual genocide. There's just more Mexicans. That's the only difference. That wild anim. It feels like you're taking off into some other place. It's great. The only thing I wish they did was take the fences down. So occasionally you could see a. A real life feeding. Like the zebras just minding their own business. And a lion comes up and takes care of them. That would make that park legitimate. They'll never do that. Scares the kids.
Brady
And if you do the San Diego Zoo thing and you want to dabble in some danger, you know, go across the border, Tijuana.
John Holmberg
Sure. You'll see a zebra.
Brady
There's potential to disappear.
John Holmberg
You'll see a zebra.
Brady
Yeah. You'll see a zebra. Take some pictures with it.
John Holmberg
Actually a donkey with some paint on it. You're not gonna see that in any other nation. And actually people smiling and nobody trying to stop it. Yeah. You want some adventure? I'm not going to Mexico. You think I'm going to Rwanda because the Clippers said so.
Brady
Which one first?
John Holmberg
The Clippers paid Bradley Beal five more years. The Suns are paying Bradley Beal for four years to not play here. The Clippers make bad choices. The last thing I'm gonna do is take their advice on what if Mike.
Brett Vesely
Tomlin Was a spokesman.
John Holmberg
We're going to Rwanda. I figured he would speak to the entire nation. He would straighten up whatever's going on. If there was a coup. Questions. He'd grab a microphone. Good afternoon. We have a. We have some bumps and bruises associated with coups. Questions. Mike, what do you think about the coup? All in all, I'm not in favor of coups. You know, he makes a lot of sense, this Mike. We were here for a guerrilla adventure and there was a coup. We go day to day here. Next. Man up. We lost seven people in the coup. Still doing the gorilla adventure. Questions?
Brady
Aaron Rodgers, your safari guy.
John Holmberg
That's awesome. I do that. If the Steelers had visit Rwanda on their jerseys, I would have some questions. And I'm. I'm just wondering how bad things are that Rwanda is your title sponsor. John Holmberg's morning sickness. The 98K Holmberg's morning sickness. You know how many, like, Miami visit Miami? Okay, I get that, but you can't do that in la. Why Rwanda? Visit Vancouver. Like, pick a city we want to go to. Not a nation that's known for coups.
Brett Vesely
Cardinal's gonna visit Maryvale on theirs or something.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it's the same thing, except for Maryvale is safer than Rwanda. Think of that. Challenge accepted.
Brett Vesely
Maryville's just.
John Holmberg
Oh, really? It's. It's this Google search right now. Five star hotels in Maryvale ain't getting anything. You go to Rwanda and they try to, like, who started a resort in Rwanda after that movie? You just move away. The decency to change the name. The Congo's changed its name like nine times. After every coup, they have a new name. How many times you've looked at a map of Africa that's like 10 or 15 years old, and there's like seven or eight countries that aren't there anymore because they changed their name after the thing. That place is moving around like it's, you know, a puzzle. We are not called that anymore. Why? Too many people died. We changed the name. Oh, still cooing? Maybe. Jani's always talking to me about that. You need to come to Sudan with me, John, and see it for yourself. No. Why not? You don't want to hear my answer? Too many brothers. You are an idiot. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not going over there. You guys kill each other like crazy. It's not been a coup in months. Did you. Did you hear that? It's too soon. Jenny goes there. I get a email from him talking about how awesome everything is. Comes back I have lunch with him, talks to me about how amazing it is. Next time I see him. Two weeks later. By the way, my whole village was ravaged. What happened? Coup. Ah. The North Sudanese sent in some people. They are Muslim nation. We want our freedom. I'm like, I'm 14 days removed from there. Did you lose any family? Yes. Like, huh? Same village you stayed in? Yes. What about the hotel I would have been in? Burnt to the ground.
Brady
Okay.
John Holmberg
I'm never visiting your cruddy country. There's a reason you left. I left because I had to consider that the luckiest day of your life.
Brady
You want to go in certain months because that's coup season.
John Holmberg
Yeah. It's like hurricanes. They even predict them. Got a coup developing just off the coast.
Brady
It's changed directions.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Rwanda is generally. Look, I don't even like that word. Says Rwanda is generally considered safe for American tourists. I don't want an adverb in there. Just say Rwanda is safe or not. Known for its stability and low crime rates. Major tourist areas like Kigali national parks. However, the U.S. department of State has a level two exercise increased caution advisory for the country due to potential armed violence.
Brady
It's not bad. Level two.
John Holmberg
It's not level one where I want it to be.
Brady
How many levels are there?
John Holmberg
One is all I need. The super safe one. The one where I don't even check levels of concern. Even when I go to Albuquerque. I'm like, let's take a look at the department of the U.S. state Department's level of exercise caution. It's a little increased. It's a level two. I'm not going. Thanks, Clippers, but no thanks. Here's another thing on the list of things to concern yourself with. Rwanda. And it's kind of thrown in there. Malaria is a risk. Tap water's not safe to drink. Only consume boiled water. No.
Brady
You'll probably need numerous shots.
John Holmberg
Of course you do.
Brett Vesely
Just go to Rocky Point. It's closer.
John Holmberg
Exactly. Can't drink the water there either. Comprehensive travel insurance includes medical evacuations. Clippers. Take that off your jersey. Nobody's going to Rwanda.
Brady
They got a lot of choppers over there.
John Holmberg
There's some guy. You're telling me there's some guy on a plane right now going. Where you headed? Oh, we're off to Rwanda. We got a stopover in D.C. oh, yeah. Why are you going to Rwanda? Because Chris Paul wears it on his jersey.
Brady
My friend's getting married there. Yeah.
John Holmberg
We have a big party. It's a bachelor party in Rwanda. No kidding. What Gave you the idea. The Clippers, you know, the Clippers are known for an entire lifetime of existence of terrible choices. Yep. I'm gonna do what the Clippers say. Not happening. Visit Rwanda. You gotta. You got a set of balls on you, Clippers. Bradley Beal was there. If it wasn't for the Clippers signing Bradley Beal, the Suns would be the Clippers of the NBA making dumb decision after dumb decision. I want to meet somebody that said I'm thank God for that Clippers advertisement. Because I'd have never visited Rwanda otherwise. And it has got to be the toughest job in the world other than Somalia or maybe Pakistan. What do you do on the Chamber of Commerce for Islamabad? Oh yeah. What are you trying. We're trying to boost tourism. Good luck with that. Is there a Chamber of Commerce in Maryvale or do they just shut that down?
Brett Vesely
I don't know. Well, I did look up five star hotels in Maryvale. There's no official five stars.
John Holmberg
Google said, hahaha, what's the highest rated?
Brett Vesely
But it doesn't say. It says. But there are some that are close. Royal Palms.
Byron
That's not.
Brett Vesely
Which is not close at all. Hyatt Regency Phoenix and Arizona Grand.
John Holmberg
Arizona. I know. Arizona grand is closer to Guadalupe. Yeah.
Brett Vesely
Hilton Tapatillo Cliffs.
John Holmberg
Way far away.
Brett Vesely
I know. Maryville Chamber of Commerce.
John Holmberg
Basically, the Maryvale Chamber of Commerce even sends you to places 30 miles from Maryville. You should probably stay over here at the Royal Palms. Oh yeah.
Brett Vesely
Oh, they do have one.
John Holmberg
They have a hotel?
Brett Vesely
No, they have a Chamber of Commerce.
Brady
Are you guys okay if we say it's in Maryvale? I know it's in Phoenix.
John Holmberg
Toughest job ever. Maryvale Chamber of Commerce. At least in Phoenix. Who's the leader of that? Let's give that person some serious credit. And also they work from home and they're sleeping. Well, everybody in Maryville is asleep right now, but they're sleeping until at least noon every day and every Monday when they have that meeting. How's it looking over at the Chamber of Commerce? We got an uptick in tourists yet. Come on. Next. Next order of business.
Brett Vesely
Not who I was expecting to be in the Maryville Chamber.
John Holmberg
A guy named Jared. He's the vice president. The president is Tyler. It's a group of Mormons running Maryville.
Brett Vesely
They don't live in Maryville.
John Holmberg
They do not live there.
Sleep Number Advertiser
No way.
Brett Vesely
Absolutely none of them.
John Holmberg
None of them. Look at this bald white guy. This looks like a group of people at like a country club that didn't allow Jews for Years.
Brett Vesely
These are the ones couldn't get it in Gilbert, so. Yeah, well, it's going to Maryvale. We got this.
John Holmberg
They'll vote for us. They'll think we're going to try to change.
Brett Vesely
Maybe this one, but that's about it.
John Holmberg
They're trying to convince people to head over to Maryvale. Good luck.
Brady
A lot of time in the spring.
John Holmberg
Training for the Brewers. They have the worst team in the whole lot. It's almost like Milwaukee's here. Yuck. Yeah. Maryville's got no time. There's no reason to go in there.
Brett Vesely
No.
John Holmberg
We had the greatest weekend in Maryvale. Said no one ever. Business of the month, Kawasaki. Well, they get good.
Brady
Belongs to the President of the Chamber.
John Holmberg
Yeah, Vice president.
Brett Vesely
Yeah, right there.
John Holmberg
So he named his own business the Best Thing in Maryvale. I'm pretty good. I'm Maryville's man of the Year also, by the way. I named myself that. I feel for those people. That's a tough gig. Guadalupe had a Chamber of Commerce, Remember, you'd leave and you go out. Carmen, when we'd leave there, and you'd look across the street and they built that building. It was a pretty building. It was the Chamber of Commerce. Yeah.
Brady
They finally got a.
John Holmberg
You know what you need, though?
Brady
The newer one.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it's nice. Nice building. But you need Commerce to have a chamber that oversees that. What in the world is Gilbert trying to. Or Gilbert Guadalupe trying to do to get you there? We need to draw people in. We need to sell more tires. We need a new yantara shop or at least a sign.
Brady
They tried those festivals every now and then.
John Holmberg
Yeah, Every once in a while they'd have a. A dry fish. Jalisco Night. Come to Jaliscos de la Playa. Is that an. You're just throwing words at me.
Brady
Come for the fish, leave with some ribs.
John Holmberg
Come for the fish, stay for the dysentery. And it's free dog night. Okay. Every day in Guadalupe is free dog night. Just open your door. They get in.
Brett Vesely
I think our old building was the only tourist trap in that. You know, I mean.
John Holmberg
Well, they had Christie's.
Brett Vesely
Oh, that's right.
John Holmberg
Yeah. They were smart enough to actually go to the cities and say, we want to annex a little. They gave up the Christie's, the Revenue.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
John Holmberg
And they gave up that hotel. Remember, they had that Best Western or whatever that was right there, and they gave that up to get the Christie. So if you looked at Guadalupe's map, it changed to just kind of jut out where Christie's is because they wanted the revenue from Christie's, so it was KUPD and Christie's. I don't know how it's still a city. I don't know what they're. That tow yard where our building used to be can't be pulling in that kind of cake. Maybe. But, yeah, good luck. But I'd still rather go to Maryvale for a weekend than Rwanda. It's close, but I can drive out to Christie's zoo and do that Figuerilla's Pumpkins thing Brady does and, like, get close enough to think that's it. Do they have gorillas there at that zoo? They don't have gorillas out at that zoo, no. I have to go to the other zoo.
Brady
They got a lot of monkeys.
John Holmberg
Eh, close enough. You know, somebody in Rwanda told me, that's a gorilla. It's just really small. And he was lying. I wouldn't know. What am I, Jane Goodall? I don't know. Let's go over to the zoo today, put a park on, stare at the things. And it's raining, so it's Gorillas in the Mist. You can play pretend you were in Rwanda or something. Visit Rwanda. A lot of nerve. And then I started my whole day with a lady on the news talking about how her body's messed up and she couldn't figure out how. She didn't realize for years that sweat wasn't white.
Brady
Oh, boy.
John Holmberg
She finally went to the doctor to say, what's going on here? Doctor's like, that's milk. She sweats milk. Oh.
Brett Vesely
I was thinking it was something else.
John Holmberg
Your husband's sweating on you in your sleep from a very specific area. Wouldn't that be great, though, if it turned out the husband was just pouring milk in her armpits at night. She thinks she sweats milk. She went to the doctor, and turns out she's got double boobs. She has a boob growing under her boobs. It's kind of leaked back into her armpit, but there's no nipple. But it got stuck into her sweat glands, and her sweat glands now just ooze this white milk. And the doctors looked at it and, like, this isn't normal at all. And then could you imagine the smell on a hot day if she's in Phoenix? And, geez, my deodorant's not working. I smell like sour dairy. Like, that bitch stinks. She sweats milk. They found it. They scraped her. Get that, you know, in the top of the milk carton, has that crust on it. That was her Armpits every day.
Brett Vesely
A.
John Holmberg
Little, like, paint scrape. And they took the crusties, and they put it in a cup, and they put it under a microscope. And this is sweating milk. John Holmberg's morning sickness. The 98 KUPD. Holmberg's Morning Sickness. And then they gave a closer look. And, like, you've got a second boob under each boob that has a duct that's going through, and it's tied to your sweat. It's confused. Your whole body's confused. And they call it overlapping breast on the news, which means her boobs covered up her other boobs.
Brett Vesely
I never heard of that. I mean, I've heard of double butt. I've seen that in Vegas.
John Holmberg
There's double butt and double. You have the. Well, the double bubble on a breast implant is when you get the implants put in and they sit on top of the old boobs, and it makes kind of like a stacked pyramid. Like, you can see it didn't. It's not the same circumference. There's a second boob under your boob. Double bubbles are bad. You see them in porn a lot when girls bend over and you're like, oh, that's where her real boobs are. And the fake boobs are right there. They're not connecting. But if you're sweating milk, if you're sweating white.
Brady
Check it out.
John Holmberg
Go see the doctor. I didn't see. I didn't see far enough into it whether or not she'd recently had a kid and she just started lactating out of her armpits and stuff, but that she was like. Couldn't figure it out and goes to the doctor, like, I got this crust growing under my arms, and they said it was getting into her hair follicles and coming out through that. I can't imagine the smell in Phoenix, Arizona, of milk sweat. Just pour milk. Even like, after it stops raining in a couple days when it's 70, pour milk on your counter and let it sit there, and then go back in about an hour and just give it a whiff.
Brady
So our armpits, look, they are flocked.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Every day, like dandruff. Only the worst case ever. Anybody else hot? Oh, I'm like a dairy cow over here.
Brady
No need to raise your hand if you have a question.
John Holmberg
And while she's like, why you're. While she's doing any. She's exerting anything, just squirting out milk. Now, I'm gonna leave you for a second, Brady. You have a nice time over There. Talking about yourself. Would you taste it?
Brett Vesely
Wait a minute. Straight out of the tap or after it's been sitting there for a while? Curdled milk.
John Holmberg
You're in the throes of passion with the milkmaid, okay. And you look down and you start to notice that she's producing.
Brett Vesely
Yeah, yeah, I'll give it a shot.
John Holmberg
I would, too.
Brett Vesely
Yeah, yeah. But like you're saying.
John Holmberg
Yeah, no, yeah, we knew. We knew that already. That's why I told you to go do your own thing.
Brett Vesely
I thought you were talking about the dried up, like, summertime out and the heat of passion.
John Holmberg
I'm in heat of passion. You see, she's like, yeah, I'm in. Oh, yeah. I'm g. Give that a taste.
Brett Vesely
Four cans. Okay.
John Holmberg
Oh, her second boobs are starting to shoot. I'm going in. I did that.
Brady
Only if it was.
Brett Vesely
I did that.
John Holmberg
I did that. I made you sweat milk. It's like Sugar Pops. I've never sweat so much milk in my life. You're the only one.
Brett Vesely
You're welcome.
John Holmberg
You're welcome.
Brady
Have you dated Sugar Pops?
John Holmberg
Yeah, just pour. You know, it'd be kind of fun. I'm gonna see you, Brady. You take some cereal and you pour it in there and get ready. And then when she lifts her armpits up, you just crush those.
Brady
Soggy. Enough.
Brett Vesely
He's back in.
John Holmberg
Well, you really have to do some work. I mean, I don't know your system, but I pretty much think you get it over with. I don't know if you're gonna get a full soggy, fruity pebble situation going on. Her armpits, like, you probably. Sorry. God. And then you roll over and go to sleep.
Brett Vesely
Soggy Shredded Wheat.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it's got half of it's sugary and half of it's Alfred. And now I want to do it. Anyway, thanks News for that story this morning. I laughed and she goes on tv. Sweat and milk. She's in Kentucky or something. Doctors couldn't figure it out. And then they took a look inside, and I got boobs leaking into my armpits.
Brady
But if we do a story on this.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I'm gonna call the news. Do you mind if I call the news about your milk armpits? No. Why would I care? Most people think it's gross, but okay. And they did. And now she's on the. Sitting there staring at that this morning just like, what the hell?
Brett Vesely
Trey Hayden needs to get on this.
John Holmberg
I mean, he needs to interview her, and then, like, at a gym, make her do it. Yeah, put her on a treadmill and go. We're waiting. And then Hayden takes a glass. She lifts her arm up right into the glass. Hayden takes a sip. Back to you. Mark Curtis doing shots. Do a milkshot. That's interesting. And then he takes his finger and he scrubs some off and kind of shakes it into the glass.
Brady
As the restaurant scraper.
John Holmberg
Yeah, that. I wish I was making this up. Which is why I believe the simulation is broken. I like Brady's ideas of the Bible. Anybody sweats milk out their armpits, they're either canonized or killed. But either way, they're getting. We're done with them.
Brady
She fed 5,000.
John Holmberg
She sweats the milk. She is Guadalupe's greatest dream. Come suckle at my armpits, sister Leche. That would be. She'd be the patron saint of leche. Armpit leche. He comes from a special spot. The Lord has blessed our armpits with the gift of life. See? All right. What are you guys doing over here? We're eating at the armpit of the heavenly one, ladies. Armpit sweats milk. And you don't see it as a medical anomaly? You're saying God did this?
Brett Vesely
Okay, Christian said, guys, people are effing eating right now.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I know. Out of an armpit, some soggy fruity Pebbles.
Brady
Some cereal.
John Holmberg
I go with the soggy cereals that don't do well in milk because it would be, like, bite it wouldn't have to fight for a sugar pop. Fruity Pebbles be the best one. Oops. All berries would be the worst because they're, like, impervious to milk. They fight the milk. You can keep those in mouth source and they stay dry. Nuts. Yeah, it's like eating dirt, clots, Grape Nuts. What am I, 90?
Brady
You gotta wait 30 minutes at least.
John Holmberg
Wait 30 minutes on grape Nuts.
Brady
Yeah, a lot of the age.
John Holmberg
Why do you even own Grape Nuts? Grape Nuts? Grape Nuts are disgusting, by the way. Grapes don't have nuts. I don't know what a grape nut is. Their shape. Just shut up and eat them. Out of that lady's armpits. What is her. What do her knees do?
Brady
Oh, the backs of the knees.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I can tell you that story. I knew a girl, Tony Romas, back in the day, who sweat really hard out of her knees when you, you know, we're down south.
Brett Vesely
Sweat from the knees.
John Holmberg
Our knees would drip sweat. She wasn't fat or anything, but you go down like that was how you know you were winning down there. She didn't tell you she Was having the big O. Yeah, but her knees did because they were over your shoulders and they were sliding around like you were a big surf. All of your arms like, Jesus, he's soaking my arms. And then we also found out that it was an erogenous. So. So you could slip one in between her calf and side. She would go crazy. She was nuts. So maybe she had something wrong with her because, I mean, her knees lubricated to the point where it was dripping. It wasn't a pig. You'd think it was a pig.
Brett Vesely
People are calling out what cereals now?
John Holmberg
Oh, everybody's gonna have their favorite.
Brett Vesely
Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I'm in, John.
John Holmberg
Whatever. Oh, Cinnamon Toast Crunch out of that lady's armpits. I'd do it if she didn't even leak milk. That stuff would be good in sweat.
Brady
Booberry.
John Holmberg
Booberry is a little childish, Brady. You don't go for those.
Brett Vesely
Cookie Crisp would be the worst.
John Holmberg
They're saying you can't have the cartoon mascot in your head while you're doing this.
Brett Vesely
It has to down there.
John Holmberg
I know Fruity Pebbles is a stretch, but they don't. It's the Flintstones, so it's kind of human. Yeah, you can't have Follow my nose. It always knows flavors of fruit. Just bury a snoot in this bitch's armpit. She sweats milk. Anyway, Brett, what do you got on the big board of musical treats? We start this gloriously strange day.
Brett Vesely
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John Holmberg
And McDowell actionrideshop.com so, just for fun, I searched Rwandan news today. Ron did. He said, here's the headline. It says in quotes, it would have better. It would have been better had they killed me. Headline, horrifying accounts of women among thousands as young as eight, raped by soldiers. Oh, visit Rwanda today. Thanks, Clippers. Idiots. Cocoa Krispies. Make that armpit milk. Chocolate milk.
Brett Vesely
Not bad. I'm still down with the Cinnamon Toast Crunch, though.
John Holmberg
Nick said I don't think you're thinking about this. I have a feeling that sweat is not pure milk. It would look like drywall mud.
Brett Vesely
Well, in the summertime, it would.
John Holmberg
That gray paste. Oh, my God. So send her jogging. She turns up that milk. She runs long enough, you get some free butter. That's true. She can turn her on. It's a good idea. All right, what do you got on the list?
Brett Vesely
Coffin Cats, Scars on Broadway. Slayer at dawn, they sleep. From our conversation earlier today, Sleepy Wednesday, The Cult Rain, Anthrax, Indians for Mary Kim. Yeah. Nine Inch Nails, Piggy for Trump.
John Holmberg
Oh, I like Garbage.
Brett Vesely
Seven Dust. You knew GNR would be in there. Iron Maiden, Allison Chains, Rammstein, and Avenged Unfold.
John Holmberg
Let's do Piggy by Nine Inch Nails. All right, that's a good one. I like that. I'm getting a ton of AI memes of Donald Trump based on the idea that he may or may not have blown Clinton. At least that's kind of fun to think. Even though they say it's now a horse, and that doesn't make it better. But one of that my favorites is the AI, Monica Lewinsky and Donald are in bed together, talking, but it's not sexual. They're like a slumber party, and they're laying on their tummies with their legs up in the air in the back, and Donald says, hey, Monica, what did Bill taste like to you? And Monica goes, oh, my God. On the count of three, we'll say it together. Then they go, one, two, three. Gas station sushi. And then they giggle and they start to pillow fight like, AI is my future. It's the greatest thing ever. I hate that. I hope that's true, but I really hope that's true. Milk. All right, let's. You got Piggy? Yeah, I got it. Okay, I gotta check this one. Is this bad?
Brett Vesely
It doesn't have explicit on the thing.
John Holmberg
Here, so it could just be so explicit they don't even say it. Let Me See Piggy lyrics. I've never put that in a computer before.
Brady
You'll just get the transcription from the interview questions from the report.
John Holmberg
It could be. Yeah, I think it looks good. All right, let's do it. Piggy by Nine Inch Nails for that reporter that Donald Trump called Piggy, It's out of control now.
Theme / Purpose:
This episode is classic Holmberg’s Morning Sickness: irreverent hot takes, local Arizona color, and male-driven banter about daily gripes, oddball news, and a sprinkling of absurdity. The team dives into the real importance of "working from home," draws hilariously inappropriate parallels between hiring TV news anchors and staffing a strip club, pokes fun at the LA Clippers’ “Visit Rwanda” sponsorship, and reacts with both horror and fascination to a viral news story about a woman sweating milk from her armpit. The typical mix: social satire, local references, raunchy humor, and panel chemistry.
Notable Quote:
A rainy Arizona day triggers nostalgia and debate on comfort food: grilled cheese.
John confesses a liking for “bougie” Velveeta singles, and the team and listeners recoil at what they see as off-brand taste.
The virtues of various grilled cheese styles are debated, including a plug for Beckett’s Table’s gourmet take.
“I got no problem with grilled cheese. I’ve gotten more emails and more people talking to me about how off-brand it is that I don’t mind Velveeta individually wrapped cheese... I didn’t realize how bougie everybody was about Velveeta.”
— John Holmberg [06:11]
Memorable Moment:
Notable Quote:
“Visit Rwanda is the hardest thing in the world. Even Travelocity is like, are you sure?... Rwanda’s trying to redo that whole 1994 terrifying slaughter that their country’s most known for.”
— John Holmberg [18:09]
“Do you think anybody@visitRwanda.com is like, ‘This Clippers thing is gangbusters, people! We’re booking flights like crazy!’ Nobody’s booked a flight based on that. No one.”
— John Holmberg [20:17]
Notable Quotes:
“Could you imagine the smell on a hot day if she’s in Phoenix?... I smell like sour dairy. Like, that bitch stinks. She sweats milk.”
— John Holmberg [35:59]
“I wish I was making this up—which is why I believe the simulation is broken.”
— John Holmberg [41:49]
On Work from Home:
On TV News Diversity:
On Rwanda Tourism Marketing:
On Woman Sweating Milk:
This episode is quintessential Holmberg's: fast-paced, provocative, and Arizona-centric. It features biting satire about remote work culture, an eyebrow-raising comparison between TV news and strip clubs, lampooning of questionable sports branding, and a viral medical oddity that goes off the rails but sticks its landing in hilariously disgusting territory. If you’re game for edgy humor, local references, and banter that walks the line, it’s classic morning radio chaos.