Holmberg’s Morning Sickness (98KUPD) | November 27, 2025

Episode: 11-27-25 - BR - MIX - 5x - It Would Take 8mins Before We Would Know If The Sun Exploded

Episode Overview

This morning’s episode dives into the kind of darkly funny, hypothetical banter that Holmberg’s Morning Sickness is known for. The team—John Holmberg (host), Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo—kick around the chilling concept: What if the Sun exploded, and we all had eight minutes left to live? They riff on what everyone would (and wouldn’t) do with their last moments, veer into the subject of bizarre job titles like "baby name consultant," the strangest things ever found during home renovations, and what makes them collectively gag. The show is rich in ridiculous asides, irreverent jokes, and a dose of Arizona flavor.

Main Discussion: If the Sun Exploded, What’d You Do With Your Final Eight Minutes?

(01:55–07:24)

• Factual Spark:
  Toledo shares a science fact: "If the sun exploded, it would take 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the energy to hit us." (01:58)

• Immediate Reactions:

  • Holmberg muses about delivering that apocalyptic news live on air.
    "I want to be on the air telling people the sun just blew up. I wouldn’t mind having that be the show’s legacy." (02:09)
  • The group debates if people would even believe them or think it's a radio bit:
    "For the first seven minutes you’re like, no, he’s doing research...and by the time you actually accept it, it’s over." (03:01)

• How Would You Spend Your Last Minutes?

  • "Eight minutes for a freak off." (Toledo, 03:40)
  • Holmberg doubts anyone could stay calm for final romantic acts:
    "You’re gonna maintain an erection during the sun exploding? If you can, I’m impressed—but also, you’re kind of a douche." (03:46)
  • Jokes about embracing chaos and inappropriate behavior:
    • Holmberg: "Pretty much gonna rape Trip. What’s happening? You got seven minutes to live, old man." (07:48)

• Band Plays Out the End:
  Holmberg likens the crew to the Titanic band, “we just play it out” (05:07), envisioning absurd final moments.

• Quote-of-the-segment:
  "We are going full Nagasaki, like, times a million." (Holmberg, 05:07)

Quickfire Trivia and Oddities

(07:24–16:45)

High School Gyms and Sports Obsessions

• Indiana’s dominance in the size of high school basketball gyms (Toledo, 07:24).
• Texas claims the biggest high school football stadiums (John, 07:33).

Baby Name Consultants and Generational Naming Trends

• The group riffs on the absurdity (and new trends) in naming kids, poking fun at “baby name consultants.”
  "That’s a job? I can do that. What, is it, baby name consultant? You’re so indecisive, you hire a guy to help you name your kid." (Holmberg, 09:11)

• Poking at trendy names:

  • "Grandpa names for girls have been trending for a while...like Max, Lenny, Teddy." (Toledo, 10:25)
  • Holmberg: "Those are all sexy chicks with those kind of androgynous names that end in ‘ie’." (10:54)

• Bandies about familial naming traditions:

  • "If you need help naming it, you’re not gonna do too well raising it." (Holmberg, 12:12)
  • John: "My daughter Charlotte, we call Charlie. Her middle name is Byron..." (12:44)
  • Holmberg retorts: "If Charlie’s hot, you got yourself something. If not...she’s gonna have trouble." (12:49)

Secret Service Presidential Code Names

(13:21–18:45)

• Presidential Nicknames History Lesson:
  Toledo runs down the quirky, sometimes odd Secret Service code names for presidents and their families.

  • FDR: "Kid Wheels" and "Rover" (13:42)
  • Kennedys: "Lancer," "Lace" (14:51)—with a segue into JFK’s notorious pool exploits.
  • Nixons: "Searchlight", "Starlight"; Carters: "Lockmaster", "Lotus", "Dynamo"
  • Recent: Clinton as "Eagle", Hillary as "Evergreen", Trump as "Mogul", Melania as "Sunkiss" (18:18); Bidens: "Celtic" and "Capri"

• Memorable jokes:
  "Clinton was the Johnsons." (15:52, playful misdirection)
  "Joe and Jill. Hospice, Celtic and Capri...Skeletor and Crypt Keeper. HBO said Tales from the Crypt." (18:39)

Strange Renovation Find: Plush Toys as Insulation

(19:13–22:24)

• Story: A Canadian couple finds over 100 stuffed animals in their wall, used as insulation while renovating.

  • Toledo: "They were using 110 plush animals...and now they’re sending these older plush animals to people who grew up with them." (19:17–20:11)

• Discussion on how to find your childhood toy via TikTok:

  • Holmberg frustrated: "Can I ask you again where I would find this? Don’t just say TikTok. That’s a big animal. Like an address." (20:54)

• Detours into what makes a teddy bear “well-loved”—Holmberg admits some confessions about childhood experimentation:

  • "If Teddy was a living child, I’d be in jail. Not because I’m touching Teddy. Just the stuff I did to myself." (22:39)

Most Disgusting Video: Eating Flies off Flypaper

(23:21–25:34)

• The group recounts a TikTok of a lady eating flies from a fly strip.

  • Holmberg’s visceral reaction: "I can’t see that. Oh my God. You got the watery eyes." (24:01) "Every time my brain thinks of it...Fly paper gets you. Really? A lady eating flies right off of it." (24:40)
    • Toledo: "That's the worst sound we've had on the air..." (24:33)
    • Holmberg: "We found it. We found my button." (24:40)

• Comparison to other gross-out moments the show has survived, with everyone delighted to discover the one thing Holmberg truly can’t stand.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "For the first seven minutes, you’re like, no, he’s doing research...and by the time you actually accept it, it’s over."
  (Holmberg, 03:01)

• "You’re gonna maintain an erection during the sun exploding? If you can, I’m impressed—but also, you’re kind of a douche."
  (Holmberg, 03:46)

• "If you need help naming it, you’re not gonna do too well raising it."
  (Holmberg, 12:12)

• "If Teddy was a living child, I’d be in jail. Not because I’m touching Teddy. Just the stuff I did to myself."
  (Holmberg, 22:39)

• "Fly paper gets you. Really? A lady eating flies right off of it."
  (Holmberg, 24:40)

Timestamps for Segments

• 02:00 – 07:30: Eight Minutes After the Sun Explodes—What Would You Do?
• 07:24 – 13:21: Trivia: High School Gyms, Baby Name Consultants, Generational Names
• 13:21 – 18:45: Secret Service Names Hijinks
• 19:13 – 22:24: Stuffed Animals Found During Home Renovation
• 23:21 – 25:34: Ultimate Gross-out: Lady Eats Flies Off Flypaper

Tone & Style

• Irreverent, quick-witted, and moderately crude
• Warm, inside-jokey rapport; Arizona references and local color
• Humorously skeptical about pop culture trends and human folly
• Classic morning show blend of facts, speculation, and zany hypothetical debates

Summary Takeaway

This episode is an exemplary slice of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness: outrageous, fast-paced, and thoroughly tongue-in-cheek. Through banter about astronomy-horror, bizarre jobs, questionable parenting choices, weird insulation methods, and a flypaper-eating challenge, the crew keeps things edgy and funny while sharing genuine surprise and disgust. If you love irreverent banter, think radio mornings should be unpredictable, or just want to hear what grown men say they’d do with their final minutes on Earth, this episode delivers.