11-27-25 - Churches Offering Prayer Vigils For Stressed And Concerned Voters Today - Nov 2024 BO

Summary

Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness

Episode: 11-27-25 – Churches Offering Prayer Vigils For Stressed And Concerned Voters
Date: November 27, 2025
Host(s): John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo

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Overview

This episode centers around the anxiety and tension surrounding the November 2024 elections in Arizona and across the U.S. The hosts discuss local churches organizing prayer vigils for anxious voters, the division within families, media-fueled apocalyptic rhetoric, and their personal takes on voting and political hysteria. Infused with their trademark banter and irreverent humor, the team explores why every election is billed as "the most important ever," pokes fun at campaign candidates, and reflects on coping with stress during tumultuous times.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Church Prayer Vigils and Family Stress

• The hosts observe several churches holding prayer vigils for "concerned voters" amid election anxiety.
• John Holmberg notes the extreme stress some people are feeling, likening it to "the end of the world guy that comes around every once in a while" [01:11].
• Brady shares stories of his family's group emails circulating Bible verses to ease tensions, revealing both genuine care and underlying passive-aggressive undertones:
  • “No matter what happens, I still love you. I’m good.” [02:32, Brady]
• The team jokes about family divisions—"She's a Red. Still love each other and they're blues." [02:21, John]—and how family-wide political emails can backfire, causing more drama.

2. Media, Catastrophe, and Historical Perspective

• John draws a parallel between sensational hurricane coverage ("storm of the century") and the recurring “most important election” headlines:
  • "Every year we have a new biggest storm of our lifetime... Next year, the new one will come." [05:24]
• He tells a story about the devastating historical hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, emphasizing how disasters and political cycles follow similar patterns of hyperbole and hand-wringing [06:00–06:30].
• The team skewers media-driven anxiety:
  • "It's always fear, doom, and gloom that this is the most important election of your life. And in a weird way, they all are. But we gotta stop saying it." [07:30, John]

3. Election Hysteria and Calls for Calm

• The hosts mock both political sides, highlighting cable news commentators and partisan hysteria ("crazy lesbians on the other, plastic people on one" [08:30, John]).
• John acts as “the calming influence:”
  • "Everything will be just fine. And again, I'm the voice of reason here. I'm the calming influence to say, everybody, we're going to be okay so long as you guys act all right." [08:08]
• They discuss the futility of election fearmongering and the resilience of everyday life—"as long as Amazon exists, pretty good with it" [10:24, John].

4. Notable Culture/Pop Moments

• Chris Pratt's op-ed is referenced—with his message to “move forward together, remember we’re fellow countrymen” [09:41, Brady]—which the hosts both appreciate and lampoon.
• Joking about bomb threats and flying, John recommends avoiding big planes for cross-country flights:
  • “If I ever fly to New York again, I’m flying little planes the whole way... Nobody’s blowing up Kansas City to St. Louis.” [11:00, John]

5. Arizona Local Elections & Voter Choices

• The show pokes fun at Scottsdale/Arizona candidates, admitting decisions are sometimes made based on looks or catchy names:
  • "I'm only voting for people on how they look." [17:18, John]
• The process of voting on ballot initiatives and unfamiliar candidates is treated with sarcastic blasé:
  • “I just kept checking it. Keep it the same. I don't know anything about this, so don't change your guidance. More money for them? Never. Keep it the same.” [14:18, John]
• They joke about candidate signs, obscure offices ("mine inspector") and making up reasons to vote or skip votes altogether.

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Most Memorable Quotes & Moments

Passive-Aggressive Family Emailing:

• Brady: “No matter what happens, I still love you. I’m good.” [02:32]
• John: “Kind of passive aggressive. Kind of like, I don't win. Yeah, that's not nice. Basically tell them to go F themselves.” [02:35]

On Election Hyperbole:

• John: "Every single one of them is the most important election of our lifetime… It's always fear, doom and gloom… we gotta stop with it." [06:54–07:30]

On Political Media Outrage:

• John: “You got these plastic people on one, crazy lesbians on the other. And everybody's got a place to land if it doesn’t go their way.” [08:30]

On Coping with Stress & Perspective:

• John: "I'm the calming influence to say, everybody, we're going to be okay so long as you guys act all right." [08:08]

Voting Based on Name Recognition & Looks:

• John: “I'm only voting for people on how they look.” [17:18]
• Brady: “We got [a candidate sign] up in the lawn, Tonya.” [16:55]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:11] Opening on prayer vigils and election anxiety
• [01:43–03:35] Family political email drama and religious messaging
• [05:05–06:30] Historical context, hurricanes, and media sensationalism
• [07:28–08:30] "Most important election" fatigue; calls for calm
• [09:34–10:07] Chris Pratt’s op-ed and the futility of partisanship
• [10:25–11:36] Voting, Russia distractions, and paranoid travel strategies
• [13:15–14:55] Local politics, props, and superficial voting rationale
• [16:55–17:18] Looks-based voting, candidate sign banter

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Conclusion

The episode encapsulates the absurdity, stress, and dark humor that fuel modern election cycles, especially as experienced in family life and local Arizona culture. The hosts encourage listeners to relax, keep perspective, and remember that, despite the hype, life (and politics) keeps rolling on—even if you decide to pick your candidate based on looks or the funniest ballot name.

Transcript

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[A]

Show with none of the fluff. Let's get started. There's more of the best of Homburg's morning sickness. I saw last night too as I plopped down into bed right after the Suns game. I turned the news on for a second and there are several churches offering prayer vigils to people like your mom will probably be at one concerned that this is it. Like this is weirder than the end of the world guy that comes around every once in a While and says October 24th, we're all gonna like it's.

[D]

My mom's youngest sister this morning. It's a you know email to everyone. Just about in our family. Cousins is a Bible Bible verse representing today. You know, just know that's it.

[A]

We're all gonna die. Well, was she rooting for it?

[D]

No, she's just saying.

[A]

Basically saying that this is doom and gloom. Nothing about this is fun and happy.

[D]

No, because I I think she is on the other side of a lot of the relatives. So let's all get along. Oh no matter what happens, she's a Red.

[A]

She's a Red. Still love each other and they're blues.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

And she's maybe not getting along with everybody. Yeah.

[C]

Every.

[D]

They've had a couple of heated.

[A]

She's putting out the olive branch. Yeah. And getting kicked in the vag every once.

[D]

No matter what happens, I still love you. I'm good.

[A]

Kind of passive aggressive. Kind of like, I don't win. Yeah, that's not nice. Basically tell them to go F themselves. Yeah, kind of. It's just like for the most part.

[D]

And that's what you'll get back there probably. She sent one out on also after Halloween for All Saints Day. You know, kind of pray for all the saints in purgatory.

[A]

Sure.

[D]

And my sister fires back, well, not my dad. He's not in purgatory.

[A]

Oh, geez.

[D]

And then another one said, my uncle, not my dad, was my cousin because he passed away a couple years ago. And I said, not Woody Hayes.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Saturday, I'm game day.

[A]

It's game day.

[D]

He's not in purgatory.

[A]

He's not in purgatory. He's at the shoot that broke the ice. He's in football heaven. Yeah, that's what you think. It's probably caused about three divorces. That's just awful to have a family email where somebody has to go, hey, the only person I know.

[D]

But Witchy Poo's the only one that sends it out.

[A]

Oh, it's Witchy Poo. Well, no wonder she's the one that's always starting trouble. Yes, she is. You always defend Witchy Poo, but she's the one that called you Chunks when you were a fat boy. No, not Witchy Poo. Might be like just sitting back, rubbing her hands together on top of her giant witch house. She called Brady Chunks as a little boy, and Brady thought it was a loving, kind name and making fun of a fat kid. Terms of Endearment. What's up?

[D]

Chunks hasn't changed.

[A]

That's nice. Thanks. Nice to see you. Should call you Chunks still. Yeah, yeah. He isn't changed. Why should. Why should she? Yeah. So, yeah, Witchy Poo is definitely sending it out there. That's. That's passive aggressive. I know I'm gonna be a decent person when this ends. Are you? That's essentially what that email said. Yeah, I'm still. I'm. I'm already taking the higher ground before you even have a chance. No matter who wins, I'm a good person. And it's just pissing off your families. Like, ugh, Mary. Self righteous nonsense. Telling us that she's gonna take the high road no matter what. Assuming we won't. And already she's. She's pissed off at her. Ah, she's done it. I delete myself from that family email. There's no. Nothing good comes from a full family email ever.

[D]

My mom sent me a picture. She's got the gun out the window turret.

[A]

She's just patrolling. Is she worried about her neighborhood being overtaken?

[D]

I don't think so, but maybe.

[A]

Maybe a little fear. Old people get scared of stuff. Anyway, who knows what's going to happen? But prayer vigils are out there. Some people think this is the end of the world.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

I look at this the same way I've looked at, like, every storm that's hit a coastline in the last. I don't know how many years. It's every. We talked about it earlier. When the hurricanes come, it's the storm of the century. Every year we have a new biggest storm of our lifetime, and we got.

[D]

28 on its way. Not a big one, but, you know, it's the 28.

[A]

Still might be the storm season of the century. All we hear about is that this is the biggest thing that's ever happened in our lives. And next year, the new one will come. All right. And then I just found out over the weekend watching. I think it was Aerial America. They couldn't really predict hurricanes very good, like, 60 years ago. And Texas just saw some clouds there. Galveston's like, things are going great here in Galveston. We're the number one city. What's going on? Other little weather coming our way. And this thing wiped out Galveston in, like five minutes. 8,000 people died. Like, just mowed them over. That was unexpected. Nobody told us about that one. And. And they keep saying that we haven't had hurricanes. Like, this is the biggest hurricane. I would say go find a Galveston citizen from that day. Say, do you think the hurricanes are better or worse? They're all bad. Like, you wouldn't have a moment to sit back. Oh, clearly, the Hurricanes today are 10 times worse than they used to be. The Galveston thing wiped them out. And then Houston, it's like, we'll take it from here because Galveston was the biggest city in Texas at the time.

[D]

Getting kind of windy.

[A]

Quite a breeze out there. Melissa, how you doing? This? I don't know, feels like rain. My trick knees acting up there.

[D]

Clyde, we're gonna stay open.

[A]

Yeah, we're gonna keep the stalls open. I don't. This will pass. The heavy stuff's not coming down for a few hours. 8,000 dead people in Texas. Like, well, I wish we could Come. That had to be the reason they ended up with weathermen.

[D]

I told you to stop the parade.

[A]

We're gonna go out. You know what we're gonna do? Take the tractor out with the dogs and the horse. Just have a nice one. And they got blown off the face of the earth. And they keep saying, storm of the century this election. I'm 52 years old. I've been voting since 1992 for president. Every single one of them is the most important election of our lifetime. They never say. Up to this point, they say, of our lifetime, which means for as long as I'm alive, before and after, this election will be the most important one. And they've said that every four years that I've been.

[D]

And the phrase, yeah, but this one's different.

[A]

This one's different. So will the one. When will we ever get to the one that says this is an important election? Nowhere near as important the last one, that was the most important of our lifetime and will never be usurped. But it isn't. It's always fear, doom and gloom that this is the most important election of your life. And in a weird way, they all are. But we got to stop saying it. It's just. It's just. It's our election. It is time. All elections are beneficial to our lives. All elections shape our lives. But we got to stop with the. This is the. And, you know, if it doesn't go the right way, America's in the toilet. Everything will be just fine. And again, I'm the voice of reason here. I'm the. I'm the calming influence to say, everybody, we're going to be okay so long as you guys act all right. We're going to be all right. Your side might not win. Okay, that's okay. You're going to be pissed off for a few years. You know what you got for that? You got MSNBC or you got Fox. Whichever side you're on, there's an outlet for your incredible rage where you'll have some bald black lady yelling at you that Trump's horrible, or some crazy, weird Duracell people with blue eyes that pierce through their souls. And they're just weird over on Fox telling you that Kamala's the worst thing it's ever been. Boys, kind of. They look like they're on Compound V over there on the Fox on that five. I don't know what kind of lights they're using, but everybody's got those creepy, murderous. Their eyes turn pool blue. All of them. So, yeah, you got These plastic people on one, crazy lesbians on the other. And everybody's got a place to land if it doesn't go their way. Homeworks. Morning sickness. Hear the words you say sometimes.

[B]

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[D]

Chris Pratt, the actor did a little op ed for his mother in law's website. Maria Shriver's.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And he basically says, no matter who wins today, we have to find a way to move forward together. Remember, we're fellow countrymen.

[A]

No, that's. They don't want that. That's. He's right. But that ain't. That ain't a plan.

[D]

He says, no matter what happens, we still have people that need help.

[A]

And screw them if they believe different than me. Yeah. It's just strange.

[D]

And that's where we're kind of, you know.

[A]

I agree we're screwed up.

[D]

Missing the boat on that.

[A]

Oh, we're missing some boats. But again, most important election in your lifetime. Sure. It's another election in your lifetime, each equally important. But yeah, I'm sure that the news will tell you all day long that if you screw this up, we're all going to be speaking Korean. I don't think it's going to happen. I think we're going to be all right. I still think Amazon, as long as Amazon exists, pretty good with it.

[D]

I know they stuck in the story yesterday. Try to divert things that. You know, Russia's idea of putting bombs on planes.

[A]

Sure.

[D]

In the United States is.

[A]

Yeah. Russia would probably not do themselves any favors. I don't think electing a president is gonna stop them. If their idea is to bomb some of our planes, I think they're gonna do that no matter who's president. Maybe not. Maybe so.

[D]

But either way, mostly commercial flights.

[A]

I don't care who puts bombs on planes. I'm always worried about it. I don't like the looks of half the people on a plane, even on jsx. That's why I fly JSX so much. Anybody bombs that plane, they're not even making a political statement. There's killed 20 people from here to San Diego. That's a dumb. So you fly those little flights. In fact, if I ever fly to New York again, I'm flying little planes the whole way. Take like nine stops. Nobody's. Nobody stops. Nobody's blowing that up. Nobody's blowing up Kansas City to St. Louis.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Me. Me. It's the Chris Berman flight. It's gonna take me six days to.

[D]

Get to New York, Frog.

[A]

Yeah. I'm gonna leapfrog all the way across. You take one of them cross country flights full of gas. Those are the ones they want. I take the baby flight hour at a time. It's nice. Take a little break wherever I land. Get out, have a Cinnabon, go back in the next little town. Going to Kansas City. We're gonna land in Kansas City. Then we're gonna go to St. Louis. Gonna land in Chicago after that chances. No way. And it's. Yeah. And it does suck. But I'm not that worried about bombs on planes. But I do look around and I'm like, no one's gonna bomb this JSX flight. So I just probably keep going to Vegas. Dude. Might bomb Vegas and possibly bomb everybody. Either way, our own Shelly Boggs of Make Arizona Beautiful Again has said get up everybody. Go vote. I know what she means for her. And we have endorsed her as make Arizona Beautiful Again. We want your election results. If you know anything about Kylie Butler. I always forget her last name. Barber. Barber. Kylie Barber. I just think of the Kylie part. It's a very sexy name. Kylie Barber. Now she. We're going to see if she wins. I don't know. I don't even live in Scottsdale. Didn't have a chance to vote for but Lisa Borowski running for that Scottsdale mayor or something like that. She's making Arizona beautiful again. Got to get that Keith Seaman in office. Arizona for Seaman as his website. I'm voting for that guy just because he knows it. Got to keep our mind inspector in there. Paul Marsh. Paul Marsh. I don't even know. I didn't vote for mine inspector yesterday. I don't think he was on the list. I skipped all the. I skipped all the judges. That's just a waste of time. And I'm not qualified to get. I don't want to be responsible for judges losing their jobs. I don't know what you've been doing.

[D]

At least give us a well, still. You got to check it off. Like not sure. Yes. No.

[A]

Who's this guy?

[D]

Indifferent.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Why would a button that says who's this guy? I'd scribble in who's this guy? All the time. Who's this guy? What's this one? Who's this guy? They should Have a thing next to the candidate you vote. It would be too confusing. People aren't smart enough. But you vote for the one and then you see the two or three on the thing and then like, I never heard of them. Like you get a scratch. I never heard of this one. Never heard of this one. Like never heard of them. Needs things. So then those people that were running for something that spent a few million dollars and they're never heard of them. Outweighed how many they got. There was a couple running for president. I know. Jill Stein. I didn't recognize the fourth dude. Who the hell is that? What's he wasting his money for? Gotta run. I'm making a point. Never heard of you. You did a terrible job. That's the system. No, it's not. It's you. You did a terrible job. Never heard of you on election day. You've had like three years to make a name for yourself. You know, crash your car, do something.

[D]

More props than I thought.

[A]

There's a lot of props. I read through those. I'm turning into an old man too. I just kept checking it. Keep it the same. I don't know anything about this, so don't change your guidance. More money for them. Never keep it the same. I'm just an old man now. Keep that the same. What is it about? I don't know, but I saw money. I'm keeping that.

[D]

Moving money.

[A]

Peyronie's disease. We can vote on that. I don't know what it was until yesterday. Vent carrot dot. Keep it the same.

[D]

Community pays for treatment.

[A]

Keep it the same. Shelley says, yeah, I told you. Get up. It's game day. Get up and vote. She said they just need to vote for me. And I don't know if that violates equal time, but that strange lady with a mop for hair that's running against Shelly Boggs. You have your opportunity to text me as well. The door is open for that weird, goofy looking lady that's running. Shelly Box, who I'm not for. She could come in here if she wants, but I don't like her and I'm not voting for her. I already didn't because of her hair. Oh. If this was a hair election, Shelly Box would be president and that other lady would be the janitor. Boggs has it in the bag, there's no question about that. She looks like, like a scarecrow made her hair like. Like her hairdresser isn't scarecare scarecrow. You just cut it in a weird hay like bowl. Make me look A lot like things that scare birds. Oh, no problem. I like to perch out there on a fence and just make birds go away. You're doing it right. Your scarecrows look at her like she's got the job. But she has the opportunity to come on this show on election day because we've given Shelly so much free time. And I know we have to offer that to her ugly scarecrow opponent. So we'll do that as well. If she'd like doors open, I'll look for a batch of flying crows to fly across the sky. And I know you're on your way. I know. Oh, it smells like hay and corn. She's here. Go open the door. But you're welcome to show up if you want. And any of the opponents of all the ugly people that we're voting against because you don't look good, or at least your opponent looks better, you also have the opportunity. Opportunity to come on here. Kylie Barber's opponent, who I don't even know because why would I. Kylie Barber was a fitness model and now wants to run stuff. Okay. In my book. There's tons of her signs by my house. Are they? Oh, yeah. You should steal one in the garage.

[D]

We got one up in the lawn. Tonya.

[A]

I do. She's running for something in Mesa, and I'm. I got one. Somebody asked me if that Carter lady was part of Make Arizona Beautiful Again. No offense to Pamela Carter. Little too old to be in the makeup, but she looks. She still looks good. And she's Wonder Woman's sister. She's Lynda Carter's sister, and they can't get along.

[D]

Not endorsed.

[A]

Not endorsed by her own sister. I don't want to get involved in family drama. So you don't wanna go and get to Wonder Woman and that too. I think maybe Lynda Carter's got some juice in this town. Maybe still a little bit. I don't know. I'm not fighting Wonder Woman, But Pamela's just not part of Make Arizona Beautiful Again. Although I don't know what her opponents look like. And I'm only voting for people and how they look. Arizona's most powerful radio station. He said, fully erected.