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You're listening to the HMS Podcast, brought to you by MMP Guns.com, your most trusted online marketplace for firearms, ammunition and accessories. Chevy trucks are known for their legendary dependability and capability. And right now is the right time to find your next Chevy truck during the Valley Chevy Black Friday event going on now. It's time to work hard and play hard in a Chevy Colorado. It's time to get in a go getter like Trax that gives you more. It's time to check out the new Equinox. It's time to see the Chevy EV lineup. Find your next Chevy during the Black Friday event at any one of the 13 Valley Chevy dealers. Get yours today at your Valley Chevy dealers. Don't miss the Black Friday event going on now. Hey, it's Brett Vesely and I'm here with Byron from MMP Guns. Look, Byron, I have a friend wanting to sell some guns he inherited. What's the best way for him to do that? Brett, the last thing you want to do is sell the gun to someone who can't legally own one. Tell him not to put himself at risk and come into MMP Guns, where he'll get a fair offer and he can rest easy knowing it's not getting into the wrong hands. Okay, but what if he lives out of state? Easy legalgunbuyer.com and he can do it. It's really that simple. There you have it. MMP Guns or legalgunbuyer.com the safe and legal way to sell your firearms. Still streaming, Homberg's Morning sickness online at 98kupd.com Dolphins fan till the day I die. Number 13 is my favorite. Goddamn Marino. Sorry, Rob. You're melodic. You're in my head. That's a win for you. Oh, boy. I can't get enough of it. My head, it won't stop. This guy says, I'm going to be singing that dude's name all day. You know what, Rob? You're welcome. Come on down to my special car lot. Only sell two types of cars a lot. Gran Torino, El Camino Romanino. I'm gonna go to that guy's car lot and get an El Torino. Gran Torino. Starsky and Hutch solved those crimes driving around as fast as they could. Gran Torino. There's already a song called Gran Torino Dago. Everybody's going to be singing that. In fact, I highly encourage Just today, if you go home to your wife and she has no idea that you listen to this today, ask for dinner, and then just punctuate it with Robino. Until she does it back. That's the win. Make someone else say Rob Menino's name who doesn't know what we're talking about. What are you saying, Robin? You know why you do that? Stop doing that. Why? Romanino. Seriously. Bruce pisses me off. I'll stop right now. Romanino. You did it again. What's gonna fix that? A little Robino. Looks like you're gonna die. He got something wrong. It's growing in your eyes. Rob Menino. Dr. Rob Menino. He's a doctor, too. Damn it. Sorry. It's gonna piss everyone off. I ate Mexican food last night. My tummy's on fire. I won't sleep tonight. I need Beano. Thank you. I can do it all day. I can do it all day. I'm sorry, Brett. I know your people are planning to death. Someone said. Did he say his father played piano or just used piano wire? That's a question. It's a legitimate question. All right, next one up. People are asking all the whole time. Oh, yeah. All right, here we go. The club or the horse? Either one. I was outside at this rancher's house. He said, get on her back, take her out, Ride palominos. People are asking, like, what was that lady's name earlier? DJ Bathsheba. Buy her stuff. Rob Menino is now our adult. Six, seven, Meathead from Prestige Billiards said, can you do a commercial for me for Prestige Billiards using Rob Menino? Pool balls, games, air hockey and more. Come on down. The owner's a nino. That was for you, Meathead. All right, let's get on with it. I can't stop. I am addicted to my own stupidity. The next band is called the Mess I Made. Is that right? Yep. Mess I Made is next. All right. Says bio. The Mess I Made is a new post hardcore alt rock band from Phoenix, Arizona, founded by Christian Jude and former members of Barry the Darkness. We know Barry the Darkness. The very handsome lads, right? Yep. Yeah. Wasn't that them, was it or. No. Bury the Darkness was a different Darkness played. They played you Fest this year. That's right. Opened up. Yeah. Wait a minute. Former members of Bury the Darkness. Maybe it's guys that got kicked out or something. I don't know. They broke up. They what? You know, if you're looking for a singer. Robino. Their debut single, Bleed out, delivers a polished heavy and emotionally driven sound that marks their arrival in the Phoenix heavy music scene. I'm worried that Bury the Darkness is no more. They are still right. I don't know. I'll text. I'll text. Mark and I just. Barry. The Bury the Darkness is a bunch of. They're great dudes. Been rooting for them from Jump. Did they play in our thing? I thought. Were they in Palladio? I don't think they were in Palladio. The handsome lads are different. That was a different group. Bury the Darkness was our. They've been on you fest and they helped us out with the Easter keg. That one. They do it every year. They hide kegs for us. Yeah, well, now I'm worried and you've got me worried. Well, let's see what these guys have. This is the mess I made. Former members of Bury the Darkness, which is a band that's, you know, real close to exploding. It's called Bleed Out. Let's see what the mess I made's got for us. It's Plato. It's 98. But the silence reminds me I'm still a liar. I live in rooms I can never leave Stacking jacks like souvenirs I keep every version of me it's still here. Lies where I grow Light round. Maybe healing's just a myth we chase. Pretty your name for learning to stay with the mess we made a talking over case Like a afraid to say too much Even silence has its weight and I carry it like rust but the silence. Let up my own blood let I cry out I'm crying I live in wounds I can never win Stacking dust like super Every version of me it's still here Glad I love it All Wise Land. Of our lives. I like that one too. That's good stuff, boys. Well done. That was. That was very marketable music for that genre. That's good. That sounded like. Like nothing more. I mean, it's in that realm of those bands that you're kind of like, man, these guys are. There's something that's modern. It sounded like a modern newer. Bring me the Horizon. That's. Yeah, yeah. I got a good vibe off that. Excellent job. Mess I made is that band. And again, the screamo. The. The. Sometimes that the screaming parts get me like, yuck. That was melodic. That song had depth. I like that one a lot. Mess I made song is called Bleed Out. People are emailing. Good vocal mix. Production was great. Made me want a headbang. Please sing the following and Rob Menino. It's not a language. This band is good at what they do. It's not my cup of tea but at least they're not Poo Robino. Now we get people saying they're gonna have sex with their wives tonight. When they finish they're gonna say robino. Videotape that and send it to Toledo. Sent to Toledo. Said my wannabe emo 16 year old self loves this. Reminds me of story of the year. Oh yeah, forgot about that story. Yeah, it's got that vibe to it. It's kind of like a Again, I don't know what these guys look like, but that's going to be important to that sound because you have to have a certain look that goes with that. If you're a bunch of, you know, chunky 45 year olds that won't fly. But if you guys are, you know, you have to have one strapping guy in that band. You can't all be five one either. I'm gonna give that an eight. Hear the words you say sometimes. I mean, who talks like that? The best place to get in on the NBA action is Underdog. It's Brady from hms and playing underdog is easy. 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If Rob Menino shows up with an acoustic guitar, will he just plays and I'll sing songs about him? I don't want to hear from you, Bismuth. This is Mike Tyson's band called business. It's. That's a biz myth, damn it. It's my business. It's my business. Biz myth. Waste. Yeah. Song's called Wasted. We have. Hey there, Arizona rockers. As the bio starts, we are Bismuth. Bismuth. We're a new hard rock band that's been showcasing our showcasing our sound around the valley for the past year. We are composed of four members who all contribute their individual styles of various rock genres into one grand sound. We have our lead guitar and vocalist, Billy Badass. That's probably his real name. Gabe on drums, Anthony on bass, and Tomas on rhythm guitar. We have worked hard on all of our music, as has everyone in this. And we're happy to present our song waste. Well, not everyone, I guess. There was that one guy put no effort in. So much putting effort in. Anyway, it says we have worked hard on all our music and are happy to present our song Wasted. The song is about wasted talent and how not pushing to reach your dreams can put a hold on you. Boy, boy, that's the truth. We want to thank audio Confusion for helping us make our dreams reality by recording and mixing our EP space Lady that dropped earlier this year. Check us out on YouTube and Instagram at Bismuth Band and listen to Space lady now on all major streaming platforms. And their song is called Wasted. The only thing I have is that I sound like I have a speech impediment when I say your band's name, Bismuth. It's Wasted, everybody. It's Palladio. Submission number 34, man. 6am I can't believe that I'm wasted again I'm seeing dreams I can't reach But I chase them. For so long My vision been bl. It's getting worse and I'm starting to worry I buried hope just to try to relax. I can't believe that I'm wasted again. Day by day Till I reach the end the out. All right, get rid of Bismuth, because we were all giggling at Danzig the frog. It's a Patrick. Patrick Mahomes was a lead singer of Bismuth. I just want to get out there and do my thing, you know, guys, I just want to sing to people. I can't believe I'm wasting again. He's got a country song sound and he's doing Danzig songs. I would suggest that for you, lead singer, look into country music. You've got the natural kind of back twang that just comes out of your sound. And lighten up the bass a little bit on the. I think the bass player paid for everything. That would be my guess. That song sounded like a bad Danzig cover. Yeah. No, Bring Back Rob Menino is the first text type. Homo negative. All right. Bring back Rob Menino. Bismuth. Bismuth wasted all of our time. Thank you, Sean. The song is about wasted talent, huh? Great news for you guys. There was no waste, Kyle. There's nothing you're wasting at all. The singer sounds like he's drowning in the rest of the music. This would sound bad if it was live, let alone produced. Yeah, the production did not do you any favors. And it sounded like Danzig having, like, his post stroke comeback show. Maybe they should have gone with their first ep. The first other song I had on that big bio, Tamu Danzig. I'd change your name to Biz. Quick. New theme song for the Munsters of the Adams family. What am I listening to? Peter Plastic from type HIV Negative. All right, Steve, that's not right. Peter Plastic, hiv. I'm sorry, Bismuth, that was not very good. I will give that a 3, 4. And again, it's right on the heels of something very good, well produced. And I don't know that you guys are that bad, but the production was horrible. It just was muddy. And you have a producer that doesn't understand compression because that's what you just got killed by. Radio compresses. All of it. It doesn't matter. It's not over the air radio. All major radio stations or, you know, XM or whatever platform you're on will compress your music and it muddies it up. So if you don't have a good producer, it turns into. When you send me a file that's compressed, it looks like a block of green. It's going to do it again. Double it. Yeah. If you look at your sound wave, if It's a block. You're in trouble. Yeah, there's a key to this. There's no dynamics. I'm not a producer. But you know what the key to this is? And I learned this years ago, and Brett knows it. When you're mixing music with voice, there's a cue speaker. Turn everything down and listen to the mono cue speaker because that's kind of what you need to. And if you can differentiate on that through the big speakers, it's going to be incredible. A little crappy Q speaker. Yeah, that crappy. The crappy cue speaker is a gold mine for mixing because it's like, oh, I hear all the elements. Which means now when it goes through the big speakers, it's going to be clean. That did not have that. But it's none of my bismuth. What you guys do from here? The Fousies? It's all instrumental. This one. Well, I listened to it twice and it says that they have a vocalist here or lead guitar. Sorry, no. Yeah, that's not a vocalist. Dan Dar's new band. It's the new Dandar. It's a single guy because he says, here is my submission for Plato. Oh, nope. My band of three others. He doesn't even include that. My submission. Even though these jackasses are here with me, they weren't in on it. Chris, Rick and Randy Yohry with lead guitar. And Jared Gabriel's. Here's one track. Boy. Jared. Jared Gabriel. Sorry. Here's one track. Let me know if you need anything else for submissions. The song is called Real Crew. R E E L Crew. I don't need that. Real Crew. It's an instrumental, so deal with it. It's the Fousies. Good luck, boys. Oh, the man's trying to eat the out. What are you doing? What are you doing? Get a singer, for Christ's sake. What are we doing? When's the last time you heard of instrumental on a radio? Winning again? Talk about over compressed. Yeah, it's over Compressed, but you're also just showing off you're good at what you play. That's great. You know, put a song together. Felt like I was cruising on a lake on a bass boat. Exactly. Yeah. Again, it goes back to like a B movie where, you know, Colin Hanks and, like, he's the big star. And they're floating across a river on a passport that's very good for maybe one of those airboats in Florida. And you got. It's the beginning and it's. They couldn't afford good music, so they hired that instrumental for the background bikini car wash. Three would have that going while they wash the cars. Come on, you guys are good players. Why aren't you? We don't like singers. Singers ruin it. All right, well then enjoy not making a penny sickness. Hear the words you say sometimes. 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But Dandar did step it up this year and let's give him credit. Dandar is back with their instrumental super song. You have to wonder, would it sound good? No, no. I'm trying to play the no plants guy. That's terrible. All right. Yeah. Instrumentals don't work. And I know you're like, well, singers are a pain in the ass. And we don't need it. We're all about the music. All right, well, then you're gonna enjoy that by yourselves. I will give that a 2. Not because you're bad. There's just no point in that. I'll go a 3. Brady 4. You're probably great at. You're good players. Why are you being stubborn? And you'll argue with me? Oh, singers suck. Why can't it. Shut up. Stop it. If you need a singer, there's a guy named Rob Menino. He's out there. I mean, he could put words to that. He could put words to that. That could have been more of an audition. Submitting one of these bands might swoop on them. It could be. Well, Menino's out there. I hate that song. It ruined my day. I can no longer make jokes about the gays. Robin, Nino. Thanks, Justin. All right. Would Piss Ball Pete sing Robinino? I think you could. Somebody will. Somebody will do it tonight. All right, we got Invisible you. Oh, I like the name of this song. Guttermaster. Oh, the bios are getting two pages long. Come on. My name is Mason, from the band Invisible. You were a local group from Scottsdale and I wanted to share our debut single Gutter for potential air player future consideration on kpd. Invisible you is a three piece metal core band from Scottsdale or sound. Blend cinematic atmosphere with emotional intensity. Combining heavy breakdowns, haunting metal of these and raw lyrical honesty. Fronted by myself on guitar and vocals, with Nate on bass and synths and Bonham on drums. How about that? Thought he was dad. Nice job, guys. Good get. We bring a sense of urgency and emotion to every performance. We draw inspirations from modern heavy acts like Sleep, Token, Loathe, Thornhill while shaping a sound and visual world that feels deeply, personally, vividly alive. Our debut single, gutter, introduces a world with, or introduces that world with full force. The song explores shame, identity and the breaking point between who we are and who we pretend to be. It moves from moments of suffocating tension to explosive release. Romanino capturing the sound of everything, finally snapping Gutter both a statement and an invitation into Invisible. Use vision. All right, you built it up. Mason's last name is Slump, which I would have gone with as a band name, but you chose your go. Different direction there. All right, the song's called Gutter. It's Invisible. You Thrillers here Hop on a mic. Thriller. Listen to you. It's Invisible you by gutter. It's 98K, Updio. You. It's been a while since you've shown your face but it's good to know you're still there I see now in the way you wear around your neck you're everything to me. As I pass your shame. You swallow the day. No lost again but you love burning me down you swallow the day I take the shame you through the ground the out stor. That's Gutter from Invisible you and Thrillers joining us. Corey Walsh is here. Hey there. I thought I'd hop in last. I can take all the credit. Unless you're good at it. Yeah. You always show up when the show's about to end. You're. You make me feel good. I started walking yesterday morning and I just got here. No, that's true. You walk to work now. That's a bad idea. It is. That song there by Invisible you. I felt maybe you guys all felt the same way. They're very good now. I'd like to hear them sing a good song. Song Fair. Yeah. It just didn't go anywhere. Yeah, it was just there. The song was not good, but you guys all sounded very good. The singer was good. The production was good. The instruments were. The song's not. It's. Maybe it's good on an album that's not a hit song. That's not a go grab them. In fact, Kyle says invisible, you change your name to mute you. Because that's what I did. See, it's not a song that's going to grab you. It doesn't make you mad. But it's also a tough spot being band 36. It's just not a good. Moved me so much there. Yeah. I think it's just not a good song. It's okay. Thriller. You heard that's the first one you're into. Yeah. If you need help sleeping, though, that's a good one. All right. Thriller. Thriller's a bit of a C word right off the bat. He's only gotten you for one band, Brett. Four. Okay. Brady. Five. Yeah. It's the song. I don't want to give them a bad score because I think they're good. I just think they need a songwriter to come help them out. Yeah, but it's about your first impression. So at the end of the day. Four. Four. Yeah. It's. I want that to be better. I want you to be better because I think you can be. The singer's really good. I Actually like that guy's voice. He was solid, but the band, the song just stunk. Lady Strange and the right got three left. We need to take a break. We're fine. I mean, just. Oh, you know what? Let's take one. We'll take one. We don't need to. But you know what? We'll do it just so you shut up. That works out perfect. Let's do it. Lady Strange and the rights. Coming up. Dawn of the Rising and Without Fear. Those are the three we've got left. And then you scratch one off because he submitted two different emails. He was disguised by ashes. Ah, so. And then his second email came in with just his name, so I thought it was two different people. Gotcha. So we got three to go. Thank Christ. We're almost done. Lady Strange in the right, there is a God. Dawn of the Rising and without fear. And you know what's even weirder about this today? If we get through this in the next little bit. We will. I think we should play the top five songs. All of them. Okay. We normally just play a clip. Yeah, let me just give them all a run because we're looking at right now. Well, let's not jinx it. But there's some quality on this list that I. Man, we still going to play the ones that are not going to be able to. The good gods. I need Pete. I need to hear Pete again. Oh, you need Pete? We'll get you. We'll get you some Pete. You get that? All right. We keep going with Pleadio. We're. We're locking it up. And I'm not miserable. Normally at this time, I'm miserable. Not yet. It's. You guys have kept us alive this year. It's 98 KUPD, Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98 KUPT.
Podcast: Holmberg’s Morning Sickness
Host: John Holmberg, with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo
Episode Title: 11-25-25 – Playdio DAY TWO – Bands 33-36 – THE MESS I MADE – BIZMYTH – THE FOOSIES – INVISIBLE YOU
Date: November 25, 2025
In this episode, the HMS crew continues their annual Playdio contest—where local Arizona bands get their shot at airplay and critique on 98KUPD. The hosts listen, react in real-time, banter, and give scores to four more submissions: The Mess I Made, Bismuth, The Foosies, and Invisible You. Expect honest, unfiltered feedback and lots of running jokes (notably about “Rob Menino”).
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This episode of Playdio spotlights emerging Arizona talent—with the signature HMS blend of humor, candor, and constructive (sometimes brutal) honesty. Listeners new to these bands will get quick, real-world feedback on what works, what doesn't, and why constructive criticism (with a few laughs) helps the local music scene thrive.
If you like dry wit, radio banter, and a no-BS approach to unsigned rock, this episode delivers.