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Okay, but what if he lives out of state?
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Live.
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It's morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail.
Tab it, tab it. Tap, tap, tap it. And get that pass put in your pocket. Larry McFeely, everybody. What you got? You know, that includes the stuff that we're going to announce next year. That's right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, everything. I say that all the time. If we. Because we eventually announced events sevenfold yesterday. Those tickets are on there now. So if we get any shows that pop up in January for next. Any show that we talk about in 26 now, the only thing that wouldn't count. Oh. Is late next year, we're saying, hey.
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Coming up in 2027.
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Wouldn't make any sense that people would think that. Right? Hopefully we don't give that pass to an idiot. But there is the other.
It's a good thing that you covered those, because I would swipe the past from that person. They're like, we just announced it and it's in February.
2026. Give me the pass back. You've lost your means. I get those. Any concert scheduled in 20. In 2026 that we have on the concert calendar is yours.
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Yeah.
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Which includes Avenge Sevenfold, which includes Evanescence, which includes Motley Crue. Already. Yeah. Nine Inch Nails.
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Yeah.
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You got them all extreme. And we just send them to the person, like, here's another batch of tickets. Or do they have to add, I sold Rudy? Yeah.
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Was that.
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Whoever wins this thing, we're going to.
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Have to become best buddies with them.
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Because every time a concert comes up.
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We'Re going to have to put a pair whether they want it or not, because then they can sell them. Right? Yeah. Okay. That's gold right there. You don't have to ask if you win the pass. Every pair. We're just. We're. We're going to bombard you. Yeah. Perfect. Larry, this is a good contest.
I like what you're doing around here, buddy. Like what you're doing. All right, well, it's time for us to do that. Brady always is like what he's doing. Over. Go litter outside. Follow my campaign. That was just brought up in our department head. Was it by Tripp?
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Yeah.
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This littering thing's going great. Is that what he said?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Roll your garbage out and throw it outside. We don't do anything. We don't care. Look, this place is on fire. It doesn't really matter. You're not all going to be here soon anyway. Except you, Brady. I lied to Brady.
It's time for the hot releases. Even though Toledo's gone and we can't figure out exactly what happened, he has a cat that needs to go to the doctor. That's kidney stones. He's got a cat like an old man. I'm all for helping out animals and stuff, but now we're worried that Toledo's dead. I haven't heard from him the whole time. Usually he shoots right back here. What's that boy doing at his house? Got a cat with a vet visit. At 8 in the morning? Yeah. The boy's laying in the bed doing nothing. Toledo had to leave his job so his wife wouldn't be late for her job and got some deadbeat laying in bed there. Toledo's doing all of the work. He's doing more work there than he is here. He's not back, so now I'm worried. He's, you know, been taken.
Toledo's been taken and I won't look for him.
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No hiring.
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I don't know what to think. Hopefully he's all right. Toledo should get back to us. She'd be gone for a couple Hours.
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What am I doing here?
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Well, you know what? I'll get through this because I saw some videos first, and I'll do the TV and stuff first. Okay? There's nothing else to do. Holmberg, assignment for you guys. I don't know if you're on it, Brady. You seem to be ahead of the curve on all these things. You watch a lot of the tv. Netflix, Puff Daddy, Doc. Have you watched it? You watched the whole thing already, and you have a lot going on in there. You hit that couch and veg it. I love it.
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Over the last two days.
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Yeah. There's four episod, and the first episode locks you in, and it's done by 50 Cent, who hates him. Oh, that's pretty.
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Smell a little bit.
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Oh, yeah. But the first episode, you're kind of like, man, they're almost making me feel sorry for Diddy.
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Yeah.
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Until he starts getting the accusations and then the knockaround video, and you're like, and he punched his mom. But they did a good job of being like, hey, we asked him to defend himself, and he said no. Then 50 Cent goes on ABC News to talk about the documentary and won't go anywhere else. And they asked him why, and he said, because ABC is the only. The only channel they show in the prison he's in. So I know he'll see this. He's trying to get P. Diddy to, like, try to shoot him. Because if you don't know 50 Cent is Superman, you can't kill him with bullets. He's got, like, 11 of them floating around in him right now. He's been shot 131 times. So he's like, yeah, go ahead. I think he's trying to bait Diddy into a prison Hit on him because he's way out loud about pissing him off. This documentary. Jen Gardner downstairs wouldn't shut up. Yeah, you gotta watch this. It's like it's gonna get banned. And I'm like, really? And evidently it gets like you've seen it. So after a couple episodes.
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Yeah, there are definitely some accusations coming out of that.
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Pretty good ones too. And I didn't realize that P. Diddy killed a bunch of people in a. In a high school gym or a small college gym.
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The trampling.
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Yeah, I didn't know that. Basketball. Full out trampling at a rap basketball.
Which everybody at the Wisconsin Cinnabon went typical. But it was a full on melee that happened at a rap basketball game.
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Yep.
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And Diddy was the promoter when he was like 19 and a bunch of people got trampled to death. And he was the face of it and survived it somehow. It's pretty amazing. So watch it. You haven't watched it yet?
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No, not yet. I just watched the Eddie Murphy one I've been behind.
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What'd you think of that?
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It was okay. I mean, there was some stuff I didn't know. Yeah. But then the kind of. I'm like, yeah, it almost doesn't stretched it.
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A celebration of Eddie by Eddie.
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Yeah. That's kind of what I got out of it too.
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Somebody else said, this is everything Great.
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I did.
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Yeah.
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If you get the Diddy thing and see his documentary, like Diddy's like where he did it himself, how much it would differ?
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I don't ever know about this one.
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That.
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Yeah. But I mean, if Diddy did a documentary about himself, you know, it wouldn't be good.
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It'd be like, like.
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Well, because it would be all live.
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MTV performance thing would be on it.
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You can't do. Yeah. You can't do a documentary about your shortcomings and be honest about it. Remember N.W.A. the movie.
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Yeah.
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Skipped all the bad parts because the guy's in charge of making it with a Queen. There's that terrible movie about Queen, Death.
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Row and Bad Boy. There are some women beating.
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Oh, man, did they used to swing on broads. But yeah, the Queen movie, which is just atrocious by all standards outside of the music, was done by Queen. So they didn't really do anything bad. They kind of kept it safe. Yeah. They showed you that Freddie Mercury blew a dude at a truck stop once and you're like, well, we knew that.
The only thing I learned from the Queen movie was he's got extra teeth. Remember they said that thing and he said, oh, yeah, they had other octaves because his mouth has extra teeth, which makes his mouth a little weirder.
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So he has to resonate well.
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I don't know. He's got a palette that's wider so he can maneuver his voice room. That was it, though. That's. I'm like, all right. And that's the last thing I want to hear before a dude goes and blows somebody in a bathroom. Extra teeth.
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Yeah.
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Yeesh. Anyway, watch the Diddy documentary if you haven't already. I'm not good at this, so I have no idea what else is coming out. Video games. There's a bunch of cool ones. They're doing another flight simulator, 2024, but they added a bunch to it for PlayStation, so, you know, you can crash in all sorts of new cities and new ways. I would love to do the Malaysia air on the flight simulator and just see how, you know. I bet you they've done it where they simulate the flight. It's like, here's where it last was. Here was its speed. And let's just see how long it will go until it runs out of gas. And then go search where the simulator says they still can't find that thing. They're starting a new search now. There's one called Dome Keeper that's coming out December 9th. Dome Keeper looks kind of cool. It's got. It's basically hair treatment. No. You defend against waves of alien monsters. It's sort of like dig dug modern. Their hands are all. Create your dome bits. Yeah. And use time between. You dig beneath the surface and look for resources and relics and deliver them back to your dome and unlock powerful upgrades and stuff. So it's kind of a scavenger hunt in a weird way that you can do, which is kind of cool, I guess, if you like. It's. It's a fun one for adults. And then the other one that I saw, which was weird and Brett has pictures of it, was digging a hole. The game. Watch this. It's just literally, you dig, hole and score points. Here's the. There's the hole. You just dig holes with a shovel.
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Find stuff, find any bodies.
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I bet you there is a thing where you can find. And then you put the stuff in your cash register and you just raise funds for a racist Cinnabon employee by digging holes. And then you dig all the way down to the core of the earth.
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You dig all the way to Somalia.
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It looks a little bit like a.
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Colonoscopy, that little stick of dynamite.
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Yeah, it does look like the video of a colonoscopy, though. Yeah, there aren't many others, but. Oh, he found something in the hole alive.
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Oh, that's the.
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It's literally called a game about digging a hole. And its simplicity has me curious. December 10th, which is tomorrow, Mutant Football League 2 comes out for all the platforms. And I think that one looks pretty cool, too. Or it's just mutants. The best part about that is when you try to read about it, it makes you enter your birthday. So there must be something brutal about it. Or porn. And then Warhammer 40,000 for Switch 2 and Terminator 2D. No fate for all the other ones coming out on the 12th. So if you're shopping for somebody for Christmas, the video games are. There are times. Star Trek Infection for personal computers is out in a couple days. There's a lot of games coming out. Toledo. There's a lot to skip. He's not wrong.
They say things that are horrible.
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Which basically it's a. It's. It's a bold bit of masterfully orchestrated comedy that confounds expectations at every turn. You're just basically going into places and fish out of water. Kind of stuff the whole game out of just being in a store.
Instead of going to a store, you do it on a game there.
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We dig a hole in that store.
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If you bring that other game with you, maybe. Otherwise it's all just nerd games and Yakuza. That might be good. Brett, what do you got for music?
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All right. Music wise. Oh, you made me play some Christmas.
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I didn't make you.
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You did you're like, it was Christmas.
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Nobody cares about Christmas. Everybody does. Look at the ratings. It's ridiculous.
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All right, so Kylie Minogue, who's one of the few expired ones that still got it.
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She looks great.
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Yes, she does. This is hot in December.
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Whoa.
This is her Christmas release?
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I believe so, yeah. You're changing me. Like the we.
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See.
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What those Australia broads.
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Her Margot Rob. Yeah. You gotta remember they're from Australia. So it's always hot in December. It's summer.
I was. When I was in Australia, I remember asking a guy, so, what do you guys do for Christmas? Because, like, is it still the snow and Rudolph? What's the story about the fat man? He goes, yeah, keep it all the same. It's easier. Like, so you guys just play pretend it's winter? Yeah. Like, do you put snow on the tree? Yeah, that's stupid. All the ornaments are the same. Like snow drenched Bondi Beach. Like.
Well, in the desert, sure. But it makes sense. We're at least in the Northern hemisphere where it's winter time. We just have a mild winter there. It's not even winter.
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Here's one from Luke Spiller. This is Merry Christmas, everyone.
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Who's Luke Spiller?
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I have no idea.
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Country music guy. Trash, probably, but we'll play it anyway. Fred's very bitter.
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Are you hanging up? You're stuck, you know.
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Oh, Luke Spiller is the guy from the Struts.
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Oh, the lead singer.
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That's the time that every Santa has.
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Doesn't mean the song's not trash.
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If it's a Christmas song, it's still trash.
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What does he ride a red nosed reindeer? Does he turn upon a.
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He's gonna get. Yeah, he's gonna get that number one hit Christmas song that Britain does.
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And then here's one for. For all the guys out there. For your wives. This is the Treadmill from Sam Fender. So buy your wife a treadmill for Christmas.
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Jesus Christ. I'm piling on the bones. Spend a year on the kinds and pounds emasculated by my reflection. Please God, give me a new complexion.
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Oh, he's just life on a treadmill. I. He's complaining or he's gonna buy his wife one. Now I'm curious about the Luke Spiller. I love the Struts.
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All right, let's see. Where do we go from here? Okay, we can do Thunderstruck Thunder Funk.
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AI. Yeah, this is AI Funk. Thunderstruck.
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The thunder of gun. Yeah. Tore me apart.
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I wouldn't even recognize him.
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You've been thunderstruck.
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I still don't recognize.
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I don't know.
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Went through to Texas. Yeah, Texas. And we had some fun.
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I remember that from the song.
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Some dancers who gave a good time.
Broke all the rules, played all the moves.
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Come on.
Has AI missed? Not.
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Not often.
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They're like clive owen. Everything they touch is amazing. Jesus christ.
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We could do hotel california blues, soul restyle cover AI.
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We don't need people.
You know what I just realized?
Hold on.
AI is. This is sad and terrible, but it's true. Bear with me on this, AI.
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On a dark desert highway oh, man.
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Feeds white people's needs for black people to work for them for free.
It'S true.
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Warm smell.
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What's the first thing we did with AI Is make fake black people do stuff for us musically.
We're not paying anybody.
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No.
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We're right back to our roots. And I hate to use the word roots.
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My head grew heavy and my sight grew down I had to stop falling.
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This thing's gonna explode like a.
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There she stood in the doorway.
I heard the mission bell.
And I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell.
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I would dump so much money in this guy's tip jar if he was real.
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There were voices down the corridor.
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I.
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Thought I heard them say welcome to the hotel. God damn. Hell upon you.
Such a lovely place Such a lovely place Such a lovely.
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Face God damn.
Is. It's our innate Caucasian need to make people of color do things for us without paying. We're horrible. But that's the only thing we've done for AI so far. Is to turn all white songs into black songs.
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How's the film?
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Okay. I know how much you love Depeche Mode. Here's Enjoy the silence in a 60s Motown soul version.
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This might be better. At least it won't make me want to do heroin. Second Goan starts singing.
I stand corrected.
Yeah.
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Break the silence.
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It's already better.
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Come crashing in into my little world.
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Wouldn't even know it's the same song.
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No.
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Painful to me.
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And you know what else AI is doing? Eliminating the need for bass players, which is a fantastic thing because they're the most frustrated and annoying musicians in the world.
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Oh, my little girl.
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That's fantastic. Damn it.
A
All right, and then we'll go back to Christmas here for a minute. This is a Santa's sweatshop.
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AI.
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Yeah.
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Oh, no.
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There's a place of magic so it's told Tucked quietly away at the North Pole where the elves all smile and make the toys that Santa Claus will Bring to the girls and boys this.
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Is nice, but we're all trapped. Oh, there is no oh, wait a minute.
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So please don't believe everything you hear.
It's a snowy living hell that does not pay. Was water boarded with hot cocoa yesterday?
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It's from the elves perspective.
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And if I don't hit my quota by the 10, he says I'll never ever see my family again. It's cold, so cold and dark, so dark every day in Santa sweatshop.
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I love this. Another playing. That one. Oh, that's good.
A
And then we'll just. I know we're running out of time, so we'll just go to. We'll just go to N word or F word? The game. The sweep in the nation. Drew down. Can you feel me?
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Pretty. I believe I won last week. Or I think it was me. I'll take. That is a hard R N word coming out of this album cover. That dude is mad right off the picture. So I'm gonna go hard N word.
Angry.
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I'll go F word.
D
Okay. All right, here we go. Broden.
Straight on. That real?
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Always been real.
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Fifteen blocks down the street from that field. But still.
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See?
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Is that it? There it is. There it is.
I think that might have been a friendly one, though. Kinda. Yeah. We both lost today.
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It was with an A too.
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It felt more warming.
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Yeah, it had an A on it. I was thinking he was gonna go like a pirate. All right, well, there you go. Those are your hot releases. Who's Bro down or Drew down?
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Hey, look who's back.
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And he's already yelling at us. Don't tell me. Time. We haven't seen you for hours.
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You.
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Time.
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Where have you been? How's the cat?
Come say come. Stop. There you go, everybody. Those are your hot releases.
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It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually.
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No membership fees.
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I have heard enough of this.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness, 98KUPD Arizona – December 9, 2025
In this lively episode, the HMS crew dives into their signature “Hot Releases” segment, touching on new music, games, documentaries, and with their trademark irreverence: debates about Christmas music, AI in entertainment, bizarre video game concepts, and the new Netflix docuseries about Diddy. Alongside their reviews and banter, the hosts reflect on authenticity in documentaries, pop culture phenomena, and poke fun at each other's taste—especially Bret Vesely’s notorious disdain for Christmas tunes.
[Segment Begins 04:52]
Christmas Music & Bret’s Hatred (12:39 – 13:53):
Luke Spiller’s “Merry Christmas, Everyone” (14:02):
Sam Fender’s “Treadmill”:
AI Covers: Thunderstruck Funk, Hotel California (AI Blues/Soul version), Depeche Mode (19:01):
AI Christmas Song “Santa’s Sweatshop” (19:56):
On Christmas Music:
On AI Music Covers:
On Diddy Docuseries:
On Video Games:
The crew brings their trademark irreverence, skepticism, and biting humor throughout—teasing each other, lampooning the commercialization and sanitization of pop culture, and questioning trends like AI creativity and the endless churn of Christmas music.
You’ll get the inside scoop on the new Netflix Diddy doc (spoiler: 50 Cent really hates Diddy), quips about sanitized celebrity documentaries, a rundown on quirky indie/video game releases, and a comedic take on how AI is changing music (mostly by making “AI black musicians cover white hit songs”). Plus: expect cynical takes on seasonal music, Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere, and plenty of off-the-cuff social commentary.
Skip the ads, but don’t miss the music and game recommendations—and, of course, Holmberg’s rants.