11-20-25 - Entertainment Drill - THU - w/Dale Hellestrae - List Of Most Listened To Country Songs Of The Year

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness – Entertainment Drill (Nov 20, 2025)

Special Guest: Dale Hellestrae
Segment Focus: List of Most Listened To Country Songs of the Year (2025)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness brings together John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo, and guest Dale Hellestrae for the popular “Entertainment Drill” segment. They cover a range of absurd celebrity stories, playful banter about bath and hot tub habits, music debates on “yacht rock,” and a humorous but dismissive exploration of 2025’s most popular country songs.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Celebrity Mishaps: William Shatner & Olivia Munn

• William Shatner’s Embarrassing Confession
  • William Shatner admitted to an unfortunate onstage accident during his 2012 one-man Broadway show—pooping himself before performing.
  • Holmberg recalls a recent incident where Shatner collapsed backstage, initially thinking it was a joke until “his lights went out.”
    • Notable Quote (John Holmberg, 03:46):
      “I watched him stagger and I started laughing because I thought he was screwing around and then out like a light, smashed his face on the ground. Just relived it again. It's so weird.”
• Olivia Munn’s Sushi Bath Fiasco
  • Olivia Munn suffered food poisoning after eating sushi in a hot bath, leading to projectile vomiting at the airport.
    • Notable Exchange (03:35-04:44):
      Brady: “She ate sushi while she's taking a bath in a hot bath... heated up the sushi enough—the temperature in her tummy. Projectile vomit the next day.”
      John: “Oh, that's a bad idea. How do you even get sushi and a bath in your brain?”

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2. Bathing and Hot Tub Habits – A Spirited Debate

• The crew launches into a hilarious discussion on sharing baths, peeing in hot tubs, and general hygiene confessions.
  • John playfully accuses everyone of peeing in hot tubs, sparking mock-denials and laughter.
    • Notable Quote (John Holmberg, 07:04):
      “You pee in a hot tub, you liar. I want a lie detector test to come in here, strap up to you, and say you don't pee in that hot tub.”
• Reminiscing about pool parties where “nobody gets out,” leading to speculation that everyone’s peeing in the water.
  • Exchange (06:32-06:52):
    Dale: “We'd have six guys that are playing volleyball, drinking beer... all of a sudden, you look around, it’s been two and a half hours and nobody's gotten out.” John: “We've been in this pool for five hours and we've never left. We're drinking... You can't sit in hot water and not pee.”

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3. Yacht Rock Mount Rushmore

• The group debates which artists qualify for the “Mount Rushmore” of Yacht Rock.
  • Ultimate Classic Rock's controversial picks (Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan) are critiqued.
    • Holmberg argues Steely Dan doesn’t belong:
      “Steely Dan is rock, jazz, and I... Steely Dan has no business being mentioned in yacht rock. You can play them on a yacht, they are not.” (08:03)
  • Christopher Cross gets “dogged” by the poll, despite crew disagreement.

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4. 2025’s Most Played Country Songs – Disdain & Snark

• Dale Hellestrae presents the list of 2025’s most played country songs, but the room is generally unimpressed.
  • Top mention is “28” by Zach Bryan—none of the hosts have heard it.
  • Other titles: “Four by Four” by Lainey Wilson, “Tipsy” by Shaboozi, “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” by Johnny.
  • The panel, especially John, expresses utter disdain for modern country music:
    • Notable Quote (John Holmberg, 10:39):
      “Metal is better than country music. At least your IQ doesn't fall off the planet... Country music is terrible.”
    • Joke (10:53):
      “You lose one [IQ point], like, every day you hear a [country] song. So you gotta be down to a pretty close to zero at this point. You're at birth weight.”
  • John mock-threatens to give up government secrets if subjected to country music torture.
    • (11:09):
      “That's one thing. I would give up government secrets the second they're like, all right, watch us. The codes be like, I'm not telling you. And they're like, my dog, my beer, my truck, and God and the flag. I'm like, all right, the codes are 53Q179X. Immediately. Just turn that off. We're done.”

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Memorable Quotes

• On William Shatner (03:46):
  "I watched him stagger and I started laughing because I thought he was screwing around and then out like a light smashed his face on the ground." – John Holmberg
• On bathing habits (07:04):
  "You pee in a hot tub, you liar. I want a lie detector test to come in here, strap up to you, and say you don't pee in that hot tub." – John Holmberg
• On yacht rock (08:03):
  "Steely Dan has no business on that being mentioned in yacht rock." – John Holmberg
• On modern country music (10:39):
  "Metal is better than country music. At least your IQ doesn't fall off the planet...Country music is terrible." – John Holmberg
• On country music as torture (11:09):
  "I would give up government secrets the second they're like, all right, watch us. The codes be like, I'm not telling you. And they're like, my dog, my beer, my truck, and God and the flag. I'm like, all right, the codes are 53Q179X." – John Holmberg

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Important Timestamps

• 02:44: Entertainment Drill begins
• 02:44-03:41: William Shatner story
• 04:17-04:44: Olivia Munn’s sushi misadventure
• 05:01-07:21: Bath/hot tub habits debate
• 07:21-08:16: Yacht rock “Mount Rushmore”
• 08:59-10:56: Top country songs of 2025, with jokes and criticism

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Tone & Style

The conversation is sarcastic, fast-paced, and filled with friendly jabs. John Holmberg leads most exchanges with irreverence, dry humor, and exasperation at both the state of country music and the absurdities of pop culture. The panel’s authentic chemistry and willingness to “disturb as many listeners as possible” keeps the segment unpredictable and consistently entertaining.

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In summary:
This episode’s Entertainment Drill delivers comic relief through celebrity mishaps, honest (and gross) talk about bathing, a debate on yacht rock, and an unapologetically critical review of 2025’s top country hits. Even if you’re not a country fan—or maybe especially if you’re not—this segment brings non-stop banter and laughs.

Transcript

[A]

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[D]

Little follow up on your boy shat. William Shatner.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

He followed up on that California show.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

With a new story. He pooped himself. When back in 2012. The world we just live in, one man Broadway show that.

[C]

Oh yeah.

[D]

Before he went on stage he's like, I feel I have to go. Oops, I already went.

[C]

I went right on the stage. One of the jokes he tells on the pants in that show last week when we were he, he set you up with the boxers or brief thing and he always answers it with depends and it gets a huge laugh even though everybody would do it. But that's probably how that was the catalyst to that story because he passed out. I told you, Dale, last week. He passed out as we walked onto the stage.

[E]

No, I, I think I heard you talk about it because that was last Thursday night.

[C]

Right. So horrifying.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

I thought he was dead.

[E]

You didn't catch him?

[C]

Catch him? No, I knocked him out. It was me, I hit him.

[E]

Did you grab in front of you, grab his shirt from behind just far enough away, Break the fall.

[C]

I wished I could have been that quick on my feet to watch him. I watched him stagger and I started laughing because I thought he was screwing around and then out like a light smashed his face on the ground. Oh. Just relived it again. It's so weird.

[E]

And you were laughing as he's falling.

[C]

I laughed when he stabbed 90 year old person. 94. I laughed as he staggered because I said, oh, here we go, we're losing him. I thought he was that and he laughed. So I'm like, oh, he's just screwing around. And then his lights went out and it was fast. Oh, My God. That makes my stomach hurt thinking about it.

[D]

Olivia Munn just told a story. She had a recent bad experience involving sushi. A bathtub in her stomach. She ate sushi while she's taking a.

[C]

Bath in a hot bath?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, that's not good.

[D]

It heated up the sushi enough.

[C]

The temperature in her tummy.

[D]

Yep. Projectile vomit the next day. Oh, at the airport. Yeah. Can it right into garbage can.

[C]

Oh.

[E]

At least she did it before she got on the plane.

[C]

Yeah. Could you imagine? Oh, that's a bad idea. Yeah. How do you even get sushi and a bath in your brain? I'm just gonna carry this into the.

[D]

Bathroom while I take a bath. I'm gonna eat my.

[C]

No dinner.

[E]

John, do you take baths?

[C]

I haven't for a long time, but I don't. I don't dismiss the bath. I enjoy the bath. Hot tub.

[E]

Oh, no. Hot tub's great.

[C]

It's a difference. One's clean.

[E]

Difference.

[C]

One's clean.

[E]

Taking a bath with a little rubber ducky floating around.

[C]

What's the difference between that and your hot tub?

[E]

Hot tub. You're getting. Got the jets blowing on your back.

[C]

I got a jet. You don't. You need a job. They have tubs now that are like hot tubs in your house. They got jets, heat, swirls. Feels fantastic in there.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Nothing better than beating off in the past. That's a fact. Nothing better. And then you try to run away from the white worms. And then you get out. It's awesome. So you haven't done that. Liar.

[D]

Ultimate classic rock.

[E]

Last bath. I took on the heat.

[C]

That's not true. You've taken. You've had a romantic bath with rose petals and.

[E]

No. The water rises too high.

[C]

You don't pour it all in. You get half of it in there.

[E]

And then.

[C]

And then you secretly pee. And then. And everybody's bathing in your room.

[E]

The guy who showers after he poops pees in the bathtub.

[C]

It's my own. It's my own. I'm in there with somebody.

[D]

So brute.

[C]

But in the hot tub. Don't think you're in a hot tub with Brady and he's not peeing the whole time. Nobody can get in.

[D]

Hot water flows.

[C]

Please, no bull crap. Nobody can sit. You pee in your hot tub. Absolute liar.

[D]

I got the whole backyard.

[C]

Liar.

[E]

At our last house, we had a. One of those play pools where you played volleyball and all that.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

And we'd have six guys that are playing volleyball.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Drinking beer.

[C]

Everybody's beer.

[E]

All of a sudden, you look around, it's been two and a half hours and nobody's gotten out.

[C]

We were at the Aria pool with my friends and my birthday in August, and Jordan and I are sitting there talking. I'm like, we've been in this pool for five hours and we've never left. I'm like, we both. And we're drinking.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

40 ounces. You can't sit in hot water and not pee. You're alive and it's okay. I don't.

[E]

Got your own bathtub.

[D]

I tell you, if I do. I don't. I don't do it.

[C]

You're just lying. You may not know it anymore. You might be at the end of. You don't even know when the hot water is on your balls. It just comes out. You pee in a hot tub, you liar.

[D]

Nope.

[C]

I want a lie detector test to come in here, strap up to you, and say you don't pee in that hot tub.

[D]

The Mount Rushmore of yacht Rock. Who are the four that go on?

[C]

Michael McDonald. Christopher Cross.

[D]

They dogged Christopher.

[C]

Christopher Cross is not on the Mount Rushmore of yacht rock.

[D]

All right.

[C]

Air Supply.

[D]

Nope.

[C]

What? Or is it all individuals?

[D]

No, it's. It could be a band.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

But it's three individuals. This is according to ultimate class.

[C]

Well, Michael McDonald's the king of it.

[D]

Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins.

[C]

All right.

[D]

Steely Dan.

[C]

Boscan is not yacht rock. Steely Dan is rock, jazz, and I.

[D]

Don'T know if they do that. Their. Their logic behind that was really downshifted to the silky smooth gems like Peg. Dirty work.

[C]

Peg was. No, no garbage.

[D]

And then it was a big comment like, they dogged Crystal Cross.

[C]

Christopher Cross. Steely Dan has no business on that being mentioned in yacht rock. You can play them on a yacht rock. They are not.

[D]

They probably did that because of the documentary where they called them garbage.

[E]

You're about a yacht?

[C]

I guess it was a yacht. Yeah, I've been a one. Wasn't great. It's okay. It wasn't a yacht. It was a really nice boat. You who's yacht who?

[E]

No, no. A guy in Dallas has. Yeah, I think it's 60 foot, you.

[C]

Know, three bedroom, nice.

[E]

All that and family went on there. The. The girls got pulled behind on the inner tubes and all that. He's like, every time I gun it, that's a hundred bucks because of the gas.

[C]

It's not worth it. Just seems like a pain in the ass. All right, Dale your story and let's.

[E]

Get out of here. Okay.

[C]

Hurry up.

[E]

Well, the Most played country songs of 2025.

[C]

All right, I gotta go. Of what songs?

[E]

The most played country songs of 2025.

[C]

Yuck.

[E]

Well, I just looked at the top one. I've never heard of it.

[C]

Is it. This one.

[E]

Doesn't make the top 10.

[D]

You know any of them?

[E]

I. I know. Okay, so the first One is Zach Bryan, 28. Never heard of it. I have heard Lainey Wilson. She looked pretty good on the country musical.

[C]

There's some pretty slots on that four.

[E]

By four bar song. Tipsy by Shaboozi.

[C]

All right, I don't want to hear anymore.

[E]

Ain't no love in Oklahoma, Johnny.

[C]

Unless it's related.

[E]

Am I okay?

[C]

Boy, that's.

[E]

That's not a good list. Yeah, that's not a good list. What's your favorite.

[C]

What's your favorite country song of the last year?

[E]

Four by four. By you.

[C]

What's that?

[E]

That's my girl.

[C]

Lainey Wilson. You like Lainey Wilson? She's pretty, but they dress them up like sluts, and they put that slut hair on. And I think it covers up the fact that there's not a lot of talent in country music, so they gotta have something to look at.

[D]

Oh, is that about a 4x4 her husband made her?

[E]

Yeah. Brady.

[D]

4X4 by you.

[C]

Brought him a nice cold beer. We got inside and Swift. Those gears. Yes. Not when you do it, though. I like that better than I. I'd rather have that scream in my ear than country music.

[D]

Dale Battle.

[C]

Yeah, Dale. Metal is better than country music. At least your IQ doesn't fall off the planet. Of course, you. You have to have an IQ to know that country music is terrible. So no risk of me losing any points. You come into country music with, like.

[E]

30 points on your IQ.

[C]

Yeah. And then you lose one, like, every day you hear a song. So you gotta be down to a pretty close to zero at this point. You're at birth weight.

[E]

Do you. Do you listen to Spotify or do you listen? I listen.

[C]

I have all over the place. Yeah, yeah. Tons of it.

[E]

But I.

[C]

Country music.

[E]

Yeah. Come on. Come on, John.

[C]

It gets me mad sometimes. Sometimes on my tonal, it, like, goes through a thing, and then like, a country pop song will come on, and I immediately just shut it. I'm like, this whole workout's over. Awful. I just go do my own thing. I don't need that crap in my ears. It's torture. That's one thing. I would give up government secrets the second they're like, all right, watch us. The codes be like, I'm not telling you. And they're like, my dog, my beer, my truck, and God and the flag. I'm like, all right, the codes are 53Q179X. Immediately. Just turn that off. We're done. Larry's coming up next. You guys have yourselves a glorious Thursday, and we'll see you tomorrow on the morning sickness.

[D]

Hello?

[C]

It's out of control.

[E]

Now.

[C]

You pj.