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Holmberg's morning sickness. The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail.
John Holmberg
Good. Screw them. I say. Brittany are talking about the Mets. We don't care about them. It is 6:46. Thanks miles to nowhere. Only three more of those to go. And then we put them to bed and start 20. Great theme song there. Excellent job ladies and gentlemen. It is. And then we're talking about sports and I'm so sick of and I have to put it out there. I hate it. I hate it with a passion that all this Philip Rivers attention's being paid to this old 44 year old quarterback. And then yesterday they started asking Tom Brady, you think you Colin coward jackass do you think you would play like you could still make a team like do some drives and like on an offense you're familiar with You Oh, Tom Brady's like, absolutely. I could get right back in there and lead teams to. I'm like, stop. I can't because I own the Raiders and you're not allowed to unretire if you've had ownership stake. And I'm like, the last thing we need to do is start asking 48 year olds to come back into sports. That's not extraordinary. Anyone who believes that when people who are old do well in a sport that it's good for the age person, it isn't. It means the sport's broken. It doesn't mean suddenly you can do more. You can't. I like my sports to be extraordinary with the best possible talent. And when a 48 year old is the best option, something's broken in the game. Everybody remember old guys sell them. All those T shirts at Walgreens, all those little things on Instagram said old dudes do it better. 53 and still awesome. It's like, no, not like you used to quit it. And when Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship and every like, it's great. So score one for the old fellas. I'm like, no, your game's broken. Your game is broke. If Steve Carlton just all of a sudden came back and threw like a two hit shutout, you'd be like, what's wrong with baseball? It doesn't mean it's good. So Philip Rivers, I hope he gets his head knocked off Sunday and just teaches everybody, teaches everybody the lesson. Stop it, old guys. And there's 205 schools in college. There's three quarterbacks per pro team on average, including the practice squad. That makes 90 in the pros and what, 600 college quarterbacks. The best option you've got is five years retired, 44 year old. There isn't anybody who just barely got cut that you could know. I hope he gets, I hope his spleen falls out. I hope, I hope instead of CTE he gets Alzheimer's knocked into him on the field.
Chris
Get these old eyes on that game.
John Holmberg
Get. And that's the NFL's goal, is to get older guys to go. We love it because you're watching. Anyway. I hate when old people do well in sports and I'm nine years older than this guy. I'm like, put it up. Knock it off. Leave it to them. I do not want to watch old men struggle. And you know what's going to happen one of these days? These rah rah stories.
Chris
Great.
John Holmberg
George Foreman was a world champion. He was 48 years old. Remember Phil Mix? The one is at 51. He's going to go out there and you're going to watch an old man die, and that's what's going to have to stop this. And maybe I'm, I'm rooting for that this weekend. The Colts have a tough game, too, which is even better. So if they just, if we finally just put this to rest. Dip, dip, dip, dip. Let's just roll out an old man. Just have him just halved. Just. He gets hit in the hips and his hold and it blows up and he gets an infection. He's in a. And he has to go. We have to put him down. Totally fine with that. Because then you stop asking Tom Brady. I'm not. Steelers have Aaron Rogers crowd around him.
Chris
That's his family.
John Holmberg
I'm fine with Aaron Rodgers getting plastered. I, I, Aaron Rodgers is 42. He's too old to be in the game, but he's in there is what we've got. So you root, but you know this is not the best option in the world to have an old quarterback like that. Brutal. Just stop it. And please, for God's sakes, don't start bringing Tom Brady back into the mix. He's 48. He's magic. No. And if you do, put him out there, because I remember his last couple seasons weren't good. Won the Super bowl in 2020 and then hung around a year or two. It was like. And they're like, oh, the team around him wasn't very good. Stop it. He was 45. Make it end.
Brett Vesley
Might as well bring Jordan back to right.
John Holmberg
He tried at the end there with the Wizards and no one remembers it because it was sad. I think I'm Omega Combat. There's nothing worse than those words from in boxing especially. I'm thinking about it come back. I'm like, oh, no, he's out of money. Manny Pacquiao is 45, and he wants his belts back. He's not getting them back. He's going to get his ass kicked. And you. And we're all going to watch him get punched and then wonder what happened to him in fight years. And I can tell you when it happened. Mike Tyson's going to fight Jake Paul. He's 60. He's going to lose the fight. It's not even going to be close. I don't know if you've seen him training. I have. No one's punching back. That bag has no arms. And also the bag is pretty consistently in the same spot. You can. You don't have to go to. It's on a. It's on a rope and it's hanging around. It's kind of easy to hit a pinata without a blindfold. He looked pretty good to me. I wouldn't want to get punched by him. Yeah, nobody does want to get punched at all by anyone. Now go in there with another trained guy who's 30 and watch the wheels fall off the old man, who, by the way, on his walk up to the ring, almost fell down. Stop putting old people in positions that are going to get him killed and acting like we want to see it. We don't. And also, I had to hanker in there just because I like sports. I looked into FIFA and to see, you know, because they have the World cup coming. I just wanted the World Cup. It's an event. Right. So I don't care about the sport. I just want to see what it's like to be inside. Yeah, I've been to WNBA games. I've been to rising games. I don't just hate. I hate with experience. I go and make sure I experience the thing. And then I go, this is why I don't like it. Or it won me over. I had it not been for my attitude like that, Brett, I'd have never gone to sea. One of the most magnificent things I've ever seen, which is the river dance. Sure, I hated it going in, but midway through that fishing session of those Irish dancers jigging around on the. Stop. Jigging around on the. On the. On the stage, I was on the edge of my seat. I was the first one standing at the end this. It was magnificent. And I learned right then and there, you can judge a book by its cover. But sometimes you're wrong. Most time you're not. Sometimes you're wrong. So I want to go to the World cup to see what this whole, you know, it's worldwide insanity. And for perspective, if you try to buy tickets to a Super bowl, face value, most of the time, the upper deck tickets are seven or eight hundred dollars. Sometimes a thousand. Depends on like this year, San Francisco, I think it's going to probably be a thousand bucks. Then down low, the lower bowl has a limit of like five to eight. You go on secondary markets, it gets into the five figures, sometimes six. You start getting into that big money. FIFA is charging $8,000 a ticket, face value for just lower bowl, not sweets, not anything else. Lower bull seats are $8,000. Upper is like, you can get seven, but they're way in the back. And that's. But they're. They're going to be the first one sold. And then the secondary market's going to go crazy. They're saying that there's a chance that lower bowl seats on secondary markets could go for 50 to $75,000 a seat just to get a chair. You're not getting in a suite. You're not getting food. You're not getting anything. You're not getting any special treatment. And that's when I go back to Brett's way. I ain't going to that for any. That's crazy talk. What is it? Soccer. I'm gonna go watch soccer. And they're mad at people and they're like, well, that's just not. What is FIFA doing? And, like, if they sell out, you got to shut up. You just didn't have enough to buy it. Nobody ever stands outside the Lamborghini dealership going, this is out of control. You're charging too much. Like, well, then don't buy it if you can't afford it. It's not their fault. Then I looked, and FIFA's World cup generates ready $80 billion in revenue. 80 billion. 109 countries don't make that much money. Afghanistan's GDP is 11 billion a year. This is eight times bigger than full functioning countries with millions of people in them. Not like little, like, you know, dots. Real countries. $80 billion. And to me, I thought, wow, there's the argument for why they should have never paid the female soccer players the exact same amount of money. Perfect. Examp. Women's World cup does pretty well. I believe Its peak was $6 billion.
Chris
A lot of money.
John Holmberg
It's a ton of money. 80 billion. And I'm not a mathematician, is more. There's a little more, is a lot more by at least half. I don't know numbers. I'm not Asian. I need an abacus and a guy named Kim. That's. That's the biggest things that go back and say, my God, they're charging eight grand a ticket for a family of four to go pays for one person's annual salary on the field. There are going to be 100,000 people at the finals. Not to mention all the games leading up will be sold out for a third of those prices. $80 billion will be put into the world through just soccer. Man, that is incredible. And ladies are like, we need to be paid the same as the men. No, you don't. You need to be paid. 6 goes into 81. 20. Holy cow. 14 times less than the men. Is that right? Something like that. What? Yeah.
Sarah
What we're doing the exact same thing and the manager's getting so much more.
John Holmberg
Like, yup.
Sarah
It's not bad.
John Holmberg
No, it's a matter of economics. 80 and 6. Let me just take the billion off. If I made $80 at the lemonade stand and you made six, why would we split that evenly?
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John Holmberg
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John Holmberg
Let me put it in perspective. A lady will finally understand if you made 80 at a lemonade stand and I made six, you wouldn't even consider splitting it. It's not that you want to be equal. You want more. Because if a lady. If suddenly a guy said, we're going to pay the ladies more than the men, they would never go, no, no, no, no. We just want what's equal. They'd be like, all right, we won.
Chris
It was never a partnership.
John Holmberg
Never. No, no. We never asked for you to be part of it. You begged and begged and begged and begged.
Sarah
Like, make a league for us. Make a league.
John Holmberg
Make your own league, bitch.
Sarah
We can't.
John Holmberg
All right, fine. You can glom onto this one, but don't go barking about the cash because we're still pulling it all in.
Sarah
We Won't we just want to play? Hey, we won the World cup last time.
John Holmberg
Yeah, but you played a country that had a soccer team for the last six weeks. It was not like the competition's all caught up.
Sarah
You guys made 35,000 a game, and we need four.
John Holmberg
Yeah, that seems about right.
Sarah
We want 35 also.
John Holmberg
First off, most of you are lesbians, so you don't have leverage like the other girls.
Brett Vesley
Wish in one hand and s in the other.
John Holmberg
Zip it on equality. And I have a story about that, too. A dude might go to jail.
Brett Vesley
Because.
John Holmberg
They were mountain climbing together in Austria, and it was a pretty hefty hike, right? It was one of them Austrian mountains. If you've seen pictures of that, they're almost always freezing. Yeah, you've been there, but you never climbed a mountain. You know better.
Chris
Well, I went up.
John Holmberg
Well, you went up a hill. Let's not go crazy.
Chris
Feet on the mountain, but you can't.
John Holmberg
Not climb a bowl, so you're not climbing a mountain. You. You were in high elevation.
Chris
You took a tram, John.
John Holmberg
All right, good. Well, stop talking, because this has nothing to do with your terrible hill climbing skills. But if a very experienced hiker said, hey, Brady, want to come with me up the mountain? And you said, okay. And he's like, all right, read up on it. Grab some gear. I'll take you up. And then you guys get to 135ft of the peak, and it starts blustering and winding, and he looks back and he goes, freddie.
Chris
What?
Sarah
I keep going. I'm freezing to death.
John Holmberg
You bought a bad coat.
Sarah
I know that now. I'll see you later.
Brett Vesley
Bye.
John Holmberg
A guy finishes the hike, leaves you there, and you freeze up. He didn't die. He almost died. You go back, do you think he's guilty of attempted murder?
Chris
Yes.
John Holmberg
You do.
Brett Vesley
Yeah.
John Holmberg
That's attempted murder.
Chris
You signed up for a guide.
John Holmberg
No, no, he's not a guide. Oh, just a buddy that'll take you up there.
Chris
Well, in the climbing code.
John Holmberg
There's no climbing code. First off, you don't know the climbing. First off, stop saying things you don't understand. As crime. You don't have a climbing code. You don't know the climbing code. Go on.
Chris
Well, it's based on that movie in Everest.
John Holmberg
Oh, here we go.
Chris
The people with a. But they were hired. Hired Sherpas, Right?
John Holmberg
Their guides left.
Chris
A couple people got down there.
John Holmberg
They tell you on Everest, hey, if it starts getting sideways, we're not taking you with. That's the climbing code. You're not going to risk my life being dead weight. So there's your climb.
Chris
Unless you're. Unless you're the guide.
John Holmberg
So the 36 year old man is facing manslaughter charges because he left his girlfriend 130ft behind him. She didn't make it. So now a guy can go to jail for being better at something that's essentially all he was. I know that's not fair. If she did it, you'd be like, well. And then you're like, well, she didn't have the proper equipment. It's like, although we were all about equality. She bought a bad coat. Women are always cold. They're cold in movie theaters, for God's sakes. He could have bought her the best coat available. It wasn't going to be enough.
Chris
What's 10 minutes?
John Holmberg
Prosecutors allege I got 135ft. Look that. But you think that's manslaughter? You think you can get a. No, of course you don't. That's part of the climbing code that Brady's so well versed in.
Chris
There is a code?
John Holmberg
Come on. From a movie you watched. And the code we just discussed was the opposite of the point you're trying to make, which is you're dead weight. We leave you here. That's the code.
Chris
No, it's not.
John Holmberg
Oh, what is the code then? Why are there so many?
Chris
You do not leave them.
John Holmberg
Yes, you do.
Chris
They have hunker down with them.
John Holmberg
14 bodies on Everest, you don't stay day. You leave them there. They don't even go to recover your dead body. That's part of the code. Mr. Green Jeans is something I know about because people hike past him to this day. We're not taking that back. No dead weight. It's too hard. So the code is not. Now you're in trouble. Then I'm gonna die too. Every man.
Chris
Captain of the ship.
John Holmberg
Every man. From what AI says, we're talking about Everest. Because that's what Brady brought up. If you're hiking camelback. Yeah. You don't leave people behind. Yeah, but we're hiking Everest. They tell you right off the bat, hey, if things start going sideways, you're staying. We'll try to get you back, but if it's too hard, you're gonna die and you're gonna. Your body's gonna live here forever. There's tons of bodies on Everest because they don't have the code of like, I'll stay with you until we both go. And that's all this dude did.
Sarah
I can't go on. I don't want tearing on coat. It's too cold.
John Holmberg
All right. I'll be right back. 135ft from here is the peak. The whole purpose of this climb.
Brett Vesley
There isn't one single code for Everest climbers, but rather established ethics.
John Holmberg
Yeah, unspoken rules. Official regulations. Which are, you start dragging ass, you become an icicle. Unspoken rules. Because if they were rules that were to help you, they'd be more than happy to print those out. But unspoken rules. Basically they're like, we're gonna leave you for dead.
Brett Vesley
Sci Fi Club.
John Holmberg
It's Fight Club. That's right. But now this dude's gonna go to court for manslaughter because he was a better hiker than his girlfriend. He's 36. They say he's an experienced mountaineer. Abandoned his 33 year old partner for over six hours and deadly cold while he sought help. He was actually hiking some more after he got the top. Came back as. I'm gonna go grab some help. You stay put.
Sarah
I can't move.
John Holmberg
He's supposed to stay. No.
Chris
Yeah, it's not like he can put our over his back.
John Holmberg
And by the way, don't start in with the adverbs. Deadly cold either. Because she knew when she looked at that big white mountain, it's probably kind of chilly up there. She knew what she was getting into. I want to be this guy's lawyer. First thing I'd say is, look, the earth's better off. This bitch is an icicle. Night rack. She was just causing nothing but trouble. You agree to go hiking up Austrian Mountain. You don't, I need your help. Is not an option.
Chris
He didn't say you bad, you bought a bad jacket, did he?
John Holmberg
Well, he. No. Well, no, but they were saying she had her equipment. Wasn't good enough.
Chris
That's your fault.
John Holmberg
That's her fault. It is. Because he didn't know that she was going to complain the whole time.
Sarah
I don't have enough experience.
John Holmberg
Do you want to go up the mountain or not?
Sarah
Yes.
John Holmberg
All right. Well then you said yes. It's not his fault.
Sarah
Is it going to be hard?
John Holmberg
Can you see it, dumbass? It's. Look at. It's the big one. The big white one in the middle. That's what we're going to climb. Are you cool with that?
Sarah
If you can do it, I can do it.
John Holmberg
I don't know. We'll see. We'll see.
Chris
Experienced climber wouldn't have taken her up there.
John Holmberg
Should know he wasn't that experienced. But he made it. We're not talking about Everest. It's a big mountain. He's being accused of ignoring his partner's inexperience and failing to call call emergency services before nightfall when a police helicopter that he went and got went over. Officials eventually reached him at 12:35am he faces three years in prison. Manslaughter by gross negligence. They can get us to go to jail now just for being better than them.
Chris
I'm trying to offer.
John Holmberg
I'm a better hiker than you. If you're climbing Camelback.
Sarah
I never climbed this before.
John Holmberg
I've climbed a few times. Just follow me. And she falls and bonks her head. Just because you didn't, you can go to jail for it now.
Chris
You dodged a bullet taking Josh Blue.
John Holmberg
Up there, but you. Yeah, I. No, I didn't. He agreed to it. It's like all of Diddy's party go experience. John, all those women that dated Diddy for 10 years and said this was just tragic. Like it was a decade of you going back to the party. I have trouble feeling sorry for you at a certain point, Josh Blue saying, I want to hike Camelback Mountain. Okay. You're a grown up.
Chris
And it worked out barely.
John Holmberg
You should have seen him. I almost left him. Like, I can't be part of this. But that wouldn't have been my fault. If you and Ronnie go hiking and you fall and hit your head, they're not even going to consider manslaughter charges for her. They know it's murder because you're a man. Well, she probably. If you fell off the mountain, we'd know for sure it was murder. In fact, if she said, let's go hiking, it's murder.
Chris
It was murder.
John Holmberg
Her mere suggest, parking at Echo Canyon and looking at the mountain with you going, we're gonna climb this, right? That's where the murder begins.
Sarah
I can do it.
John Holmberg
Oh, boy. She's. She's gonna kill him. And it's gonna be.
Chris
It's been a few years. No problem.
John Holmberg
Not a soul. If a woman, experienced woman hiker goes up a hill and a dude dies, nobody's ever gonna know she killed him. He just wasn't as good as her. We accept it. It's 80 million versus 6 million. Knock off the equality talk. Quit it. If you're gonna put us in jail for being better at stuff than you, knock off the equality talk and just say we're not as good. Until then we can have our way. 80 versus 6. She would never get charged if that dude died and she Made it. She's like, I left him behind. I was looking for help. She'd be a hero. He left her. He was supposed to die with her. What the kind of Romeo and Juliet nonsense is this? Fairy tale, Fairy tale. No man's doing it.
Chris
The issue is he went and had to summit 135ft.
John Holmberg
That's not when she was dying. Just because she quit, that means he's better than her. The whole point of the climb was to get to the top of the mountain. You're 130ft away from here to KDKB if you're dying right now. And our only goal was to go down.
Chris
Sandbag is not going to make it.
John Holmberg
You just. That's sandbagging.
Chris
You got to go get help.
John Holmberg
No, you don't. She made the climb, too. I wouldn't do that. Be like, I'm going to go to the top, I'll touch the tip and then I'm coming back. You know what I mean by that? I'm gonna jerk off on top of this mountain. That's what I mean. And I'll be back. And he was back. And she was still alive because. All right, I'm gonna go get help. And he did. It was too late.
Sarah
You went on.
John Holmberg
Why didn't you just lay on top.
Sarah
Of her and die with her?
John Holmberg
Because I'm not an effing moron, that's why. Why would I do that?
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John Holmberg
You know who didn't leave the plane when that soccer team crashed? Ever watched that story? The dudes that hiked for a month to go help the rest of them. Three guys. Not one woman said, I'll do it. Not one.
Chris
They were eating.
John Holmberg
They were probably eating. Well, they were eating, but they were still alive. All those ladies were getting eaten on that hill for sure. Pack snow in there. Make them sometimes. It had strawberry flavor. All right, we feel the sustenance. We're gonna go hike down there and find somebody. And then a man in a helicopter came up. At heights, helicopters don't fly because there's no air. Barely picked up all the ladies first. This whole thing has been bull from the beginning. A man ran a boat into an iceberg after a bunch of men built this giant awesome boat. Who got off first? The women. Both you guys know you're not. You ever go golfing? Brady goes golfing. One of those red dots up there. 100 yards away from these where we hit. Oh, that's the ladies teeth Never once have I heard a woman go, I'm not using those. You know, you're taking advantage of us. And it's high time us men said, you say you're gonna climb the mountain, you climb it. Because if it was Brady and I, you'd tell me, like, I'm so cold, but we're so close.
Chris
Go on ahead.
John Holmberg
Yeah. And no one would ever accuse me of killing you. What they do is look at a picture of us at base camp, my arm around you and smiles and thumbs up, going, why'd that dude take that fat guy up there? He's gonna kill him. What was he thinking? Since when the bald shoes climb like that? Yeah, they judge us by the look. Yeah. That's not real, but if you want. Brady's written a book about climbing codes.
Chris
No, no.
John Holmberg
He knows them up and down my hand. Because when you used to be a huge mountaineer, I mean, I remember that years ago. You're like, he's dressed up like Daniel Boone. I'm a mountaineer now. And you just start climbing stuff as Brady was. We called him Parkour for about four years because he just couldn't stop climbing things. He's a climber.
Chris
On belay.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You. You know a few of the words. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Yeah. You know what else? I'm a bullfighter because I can say, olay.
Chris
There's a code.
John Holmberg
El toro, ole. Look at me. I basically know the whole sport. A code for climbing. He shoots out of his butt.
Chris
You know the code.
John Holmberg
You don't know the code. Neither do you. I am. You're right. I don't know the code. But I do know this. If you say yes to climbing a Swiss Alp, you're in on it. You're complete. You're not my responsibility. If you freeze to death in the freezer and you got in it, your fault.
Chris
I think he should go to jail to begin with, taking his girlfriend.
John Holmberg
Yeah, well, there's. There is that. There is. That's like taking a woman golfing. We saw that last week in that Trajan tournament when the guy tried to get laid. Took a girl. She's never golfed before. I'm like, this is a nightmare for the other players. This is just a disaster.
Chris
Hazardous.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Chris
Dangerous.
John Holmberg
If you want to climb the Alps, I mean, there is that argument. If you want to go devil's advocate and you want to climb the Alps and you take your girlfriend, it is probably to kill her.
Sarah
I've not climbed a lot.
John Holmberg
Well, this is a good place to start. The Alps.
Chris
So you told her that shorts and a T shirt will be fun?
John Holmberg
Yeah, she'll be good. We're not even gonna get that. Plus, the sun's up, right? Yeah.
Sarah
We're gonna get closer to it the more we climb.
John Holmberg
That's right. We'll get closer to the sun the higher we get. It's gonna get warmer up there. That's why there's so much snow.
Sarah
Weird.
John Holmberg
I know. Follow me.
Chris
Then the straps on my sandal broke.
Brett Vesley
I was gonna start you out at Echo Canyon, but.
John Holmberg
There'S. Plus there's tons of people. We'll be alone. Maybe we'll do it in the snow.
Sarah
You're so randy.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I know it. Anyway, it's gonna take three days.
Chris
What?
John Holmberg
Just put your Columbia on. Let's go. You got your cocoa?
Sarah
I have a whole thermos of it.
John Holmberg
Oh, your Stanley is pink and adorable. You put stickers on there. That's cute.
Sarah
You think it'll last the whole time?
John Holmberg
Oh, sure. Stanley's a real reliable. Stay warm.
Chris
Go.
John Holmberg
Let's go.
Sarah
I have to pee.
John Holmberg
I bet you do. How many times did she say that?
Sarah
I have to pee again.
Brett Vesley
This mother.
John Holmberg
Zip, peel, zip. Take the little straps off your shoulder. Get that whole suit off. She pees, you're. Dress her back up. Thanks.
Sarah
It gets real cold.
John Holmberg
Next time, just piss your pants. Please, no.
Sarah
Let me turn into slushy. How much longer?
John Holmberg
I told you, three days. We're 100ft away.
Sarah
So cold.
Brett Vesley
Keep it up. It's not going to be that long.
John Holmberg
Don't worry about it. You're going to start. You're going to start feeling a lot less the longer you're out here. Yeah, I'm just mad because the dude's up for manslaughter charges. Some. Where's her agency in this? Where's her personal responsibility? He should have gotten you a better coat. Really? The gift giving is the issue? She got a job when she buy her own coat? Should she ask somebody at rei? Hey, I'm going to climb the Alps. Is this good enough? And the guy's like, no, neither are you. What are you doing?
Sarah
I love him.
John Holmberg
The woman was reportedly left unprotected, exhausted and hypothermic. Was wearing gear considered unsuitable for high altitude climbing. What was he wearing? Was he wearing similar stuff?
Chris
Correct clothes?
John Holmberg
No, maybe not. Maybe it was. But it's a perfect murder break.
Chris
Yeah. So, yeah, it sounds like. Or may sound like he was an.
John Holmberg
Experienced client right now. If he had her at gunpoint, he's like, you're Going to climb the goddamn else with me. And you're going to do it in this windbreaker. That's different. But she agreed to it.
Chris
That doesn't sound like. If you're experienced, you'd know.
John Holmberg
Please. She bought a coat. She had what he thought was fine. Now, now, in hindsight, her lawyers are saying not enough. You should have bought her a ring, too. What was this, getting the milk for free? They're getting him on gift giving. You climb the Alps, it's every man for himself.
Brett Vesley
Agree.
John Holmberg
There's two skydivers that are in the news, too. And one jumped out of the plane and his emergency chute accidentally went off. The second, he jumped out and he floated right back to the tail wing and it caught and he hung there.
Chris
Yeah.
John Holmberg
You know what the other skydivers did? Got out.
Chris
Oh, yeah.
John Holmberg
They went on with their day. They had to tell the pilot later. Somebody inside goes. There's a. The pilot's like. It's like, what's wrong with the plane? He didn't know. Somebody goes on, one of the parachute is stuck to the back of the plane. Oh, that makes sense. And then he adjusted for it, and.
Chris
Then at least he was able to release.
John Holmberg
Well, yeah, he cut 11 chords and then did his real shoot because his emergency one's the one that caused the problem. He cut him off. He figured it out. He didn't sue anybody for having a faulty pack.
Chris
There's not much help you could do when he's on the tail.
John Holmberg
Sure there is. Those guys are like, sure there is. You find a couple plungers, get out of here, jump. Much like your argument.
Chris
No, he's still on the tail.
John Holmberg
Much like your argument of I saw in a movie once. You go get a couple plungers and you walk along the side of the plane and you go on, and then you walk back in. I saw Tom Cruise do it. A Mission Impossible, same as Usain. Everest is a movie of fact. This guy just sent me a thing, said holmberg. You're right. Mount Everest is a graveyard. 300 bodies of fallen climbers will remain on its slope, exposed as glaciers melt due to climate change, becoming grim landmarks like you said. Green, Mr. Green Boots, sleeping beauty. Climbers navigate, prompting costly recovery missions. They won't go get them because it costs too much and you knew what you were doing. There's that whole situation there. You can't go to jail for saying, brett, let's go climb camelback. Unless I push you. If you just fall. It's not my. What'd you take Brett up There for. He doesn't know what he's doing. Well, I thought he was a grown up. I thought he knew. He knew what he was capable of. Why am I aware of that on that.
Chris
That the, that documentary of that climb. It was tragic. The Everest climb. It was probably came out, I don't know, 10 years ago.
John Holmberg
But the guy, the guide, the avalanche one that killed all those people.
Chris
No, this is the one where he made. Made the decision, okay, we're gonna summit.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Chris
But then a storm came.
John Holmberg
Oh, the, oh, the movie they made about that. Yeah, yeah.
Chris
And that guy that he had to go to trial to the.
John Holmberg
The guy for making bad decisions.
Chris
Yeah. I'm not sure.
John Holmberg
But he's a guide. You paid him to make sure everything was going to go right. Because you don't know the. You and your wife proper to do.
Chris
The proper procedures as the guide. It was, look, you were like a little, you know, you felt for the guy. Like, I can't blame the guy.
John Holmberg
I didn't do anything. Except for said you guys want to make a bad call. But if everybody's like thumbs up if you say so. But if you're paying a guy and he's like, no, it's not a good idea, you're relying on his knowledge. If it's just the two of you knobs climbing camelback and somebody falls, it's nobody's fault. Drives me nuts. Drives me nuts. Now everybody's like, what mountain was that? My wife and I aren't getting along right now. It's not a bad idea. Silly. Yeah. I go back to the argument if you climb in the walk in under your own volition and it's freezing in there and you die inside of there a freezing. You can't blame the waiter that took you in there to get the bj. It's not his fault.
Sarah
I'll go in there and blow you.
John Holmberg
How many times of Tony Romas that. That walk in freezer was used for blow jobs. And we used to lock people in it as jokes when we'd see them go in and put a broom in the handle so they couldn't pump out brilliantly funny. And they'd come out freezing.
Chris
You such dicks.
John Holmberg
Don't go in there and blow each other during the like we're all suffering because the place is packed and you two can't get enough. You can't keep your hands off each other. We're gonna lock in there. But if she drops dead of hypothermia while she's blowing you, it's not the dude getting blown's fault. She said yes. Getting more and more of those Japanese robots are making a lot more sense. Yeah, she's not gonna get you for manslaughter if you leave her on the side of a mountain. In fact, you can just chuck her out of the car, get a new one. You're a misogynist when you're an idiot. You shouldn't climb the mountain.
Sarah
He should have bought me a better coat.
John Holmberg
You got a job? Well, yeah, but I mean, come on. No. Buy your own coat. Ask a couple questions. Is this coat good enough? That's an easy one. That's the first one I'd have asked. Is this good enough for climbing the Alps? And if you're going to rei, it's not good enough. You got to go to like, sherpavillage.com or something.
Narrator/Interjector
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Narrator/Interjector
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John Holmberg
You have to have someone with an accent tell you, I wouldn't do that. That's what you're looking for. One of those Sing Songy guys. Also, I found out that if they ever have ice cream giveaways on a Royal Caribbean cruise, that means they're using the freezer for a body. You want to talk about code?
Chris
They're making space.
John Holmberg
They got a little morgue on all cruise ships. And because they're talking about that guy that died a few days ago, and they're saying, maybe not. He was drunk off 33 drinks. And then he's a big boy, too. He was huge. And they pinned him and they're saying he was asphyxiated from the drinking plus the pinning. So they were like, really bad. This, that, and the other. So they. Their family's like. And then you stuffed them in a freezer. And they're like, when the morgue was full, the morgue has like two or three boxes per cruise.
Brett Vesley
How many people died on this cruise?
John Holmberg
People say, like that. So that's what I found out. It's like, they have that morgue. Well, they're all 90. Like there's a whole section of nine year olds. They have people dropping dead on cruises like crazy.
Brett Vesley
Was a Carnival cruise, right?
John Holmberg
No, Royal Caribbean Carnival doesn't know. They just overboard. Yeah, they just have boys to men. That's how you know there's a death on a Carnival cruise. You hear boys to men over the speakers and everybody just kind of bows their head, pours some 40 out, and then gets back to dancing. But no, in Royal Caribbean, they have morgue. All of them have little morgues and then old people die and then they get the family off the boat and everybody just kind of disappears and they'll fill it. But if the lady said, there's one thing you need to know, she used to work on cruise ships. If we ever do a free ice cream giveaway, we're using the freezer for a body.
Brett Vesley
Oh.
John Holmberg
Oh, my God. It's weird because there's 4, 000 people that only know three or four people per. Like, every group only knows, like, either two or six or seven. Like, you had your whole family on there, right?
Chris
14.
John Holmberg
There were 14 here. That's huge. That's not normal that. Most old people go on cruises to get away from there. That's two at a time, right? One of them dies to take the other one on a helicopter, they get her out of Dodge at the next stop, stuff the body in the morgue, they have that. But if they're ever like, hey, Alaska, you want some ice cream? No, no, no. It's freezing out here. We got a bunch of ice cream for free. Well, it's free. I'm gonna eat that.
Brett Vesley
Or did they just forget to clear. Clear out the morgue at the last stop?
John Holmberg
Yeah, they're kind of like, hey, Mr. Johnson's still in the hole.
Brett Vesley
Kind of like when you get off the plane, the guy's out there vacuuming and reloading the chips and everything else and.
John Holmberg
Right.
Brett Vesley
Forgot to mark the.
John Holmberg
Ah, yeah. Ain't nobody died in that last one, man. How do I say goodbye? We at Carnival would like to say goodbye to Mr. Blaze.
Brett Vesley
Tip that, Hennessy.
John Holmberg
That's how you know Carnival Cruiser, we're going to pull over for a second, say goodbye to Rallo. What happened? It's not important what happened, but here you go. It would be rough. It would be amazing to be on that cruise line. There it is. Hey, y'. All, we all saw it by the pool yesterday. What was that man thinking? Getting in that pool is dangerous. We got signs up everywhere. It's just for show. Let's not get in there without your floaties. Now, this is my homie Rallo. Carnival would like to say goodbye the only way we know how, y'. All. By the way, the rock wall is open during the morning period climb for rallo begins at 5:00'. Clock. We're gonna raise some money, enjoy the Pink the video.
Brett Vesley
They're even pouring.
John Holmberg
When I look, they're pulling it out for Rallo. Didn't make it on that water slide. God knows what he was thinking. Daredevil Ralo, Tennessee.
Brett Vesley
On the house for the next five minutes.
John Holmberg
Next five minutes is the Rallo special going out. Connor would like to give you one free from the same bottle. But we're not going to give you all cups. That's a lot of washing. That's true. Anyway, so if you want to take your wife hiking, just know you're risking your freedom.
Chris
Just visit one of the Tims at the bar. Everyone named Tim.
John Holmberg
That was John. All of them were Chris on mine. They're all from the Philippines.
Sarah
Oh, we got a Philippine man.
John Holmberg
Chris. Chris. Yeah, Chris. Chris Fernandez. Chris Fernandez. Oh, we got conquered by the Spanish. They took over everything. Bring us Catholicism. Oh, he had crosses all over his body. I love Jesus. I'm like, okay, you want to do shot? Like, Yes, I do. Chris. Chris wasn't your real name.
Tim
Oh, no.
John Holmberg
Yeah, Chris Fernandez. You got raped into that. There's no way you're. You guys were Fernandez's the whole time. No, no. See, Spanish conquistador come over, take over the whole place. Give us Jesus. I'm not kidding. If I. If that was. If that wasn't a real conversation, it was pretty damn close to what he was saying. Oh, give us Jesus. The best thing ever happened to our country. Jesus. Yeah. And then all the Spanish, Latin, we're on him. Fernandez. Now what they are, every one of them was named Fernandez. Chris Fernandez.
Brett Vesley
What type of cleaning is needed on a freezer with a body in it?
John Holmberg
Not that Brett would know or anything. Yeah, I don't know. Freezers are good, Joe.
Brett Vesley
I don't know.
John Holmberg
You just. You heat, you defrost, you bleach, and you freeze again. Kind of does the work for itself.
Brett Vesley
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Well, I'm only saying that because I know when the, like when the freezer melted and we had all that beef broth and chicken juice leaked down onto the floor. We had to like hazmat that thing. And then we got the freezer fixed and everything froze again. We had to redo, restock. That was actually an insurance claim because we lost a lot of dough that day when all that meat went, you know, had to technically go bad because you can't risk the chicken water unfreezing. Yeah, we didn't know it was an overnight thing in it summer. And we came in the next day and it stunk. Opened it up and there's water all over the floor. And it was kind of warm. And they're like, oh, no. All the meat had to go. All of it. It was terrible. There was one girl in the back. I was Blowing air in the chef. And he left me in here. I'm gonna sue him for. Oh, come on. You went in on your own.
Sarah
Of course I did.
John Holmberg
I wanted to blow him, but I.
Sarah
Didn'T know he was gonna leave. When he was done, I thought we were gonna hold each other and stay.
John Holmberg
Stay warm. Well, you were wrong. That's your fault.
Sarah
He's gonna go to jail.
John Holmberg
Sure. I'll climb the mountain. Immediately dismisses all murder charges.
Narrator/Interjector
Period.
John Holmberg
End of story. 80 million. 6 million. Stop getting mad at us for being better at stuff. Brett, what do you got on the big board of Musical Tree? All right.
Brett Vesley
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John Holmberg
And you can go to that one and get a nice warm coat for Flagstaff for you. And that.
Brett Vesley
Yes, Josh will make sure that you have the proper gear for your. For your up north visit.
John Holmberg
So.
Brett Vesley
Actionrideshop.com and check them out on all the socials.
John Holmberg
All right. What do you got on the list?
Brett Vesley
We got Black Sabbath, Snow Blind for the Cane Talk earlier, Papa Roach, Even A Kills Me. Metallica. Grandmaster Flash making an appearance. Buck Cherry, Jane's Addiction, Mountain Song for this broad, Slayer, south of Heaven, Primus, John the Fisherman, gnr, Dope. Die Mother, Effer for the broad that was hiking Ramstein and sabotage.
John Holmberg
That's necessary. Necessary, but hilarious.
Brett Vesley
Maybe he requested it.
John Holmberg
I don't know. It's a Guy Said John, the movie Brady's talking about. No one died from the cold. They died from a lack of oxygen. Had nothing to do with their coats. You got to take oxygen tanks with you. There's no air up there. I'm obsessed with that kind of trash.
Chris
They leave all those tanks?
John Holmberg
Yeah. Well, because.
Chris
Can't pick them up.
John Holmberg
Dead weight stays on the mountain. That's the code. The real code, the unspoken code. What's that code again? It's radio time. A code red, subsection B, line 130, colon, 2 Thou shalt not. No, you're just making stuff up.
Chris
Here's a code you follow.
John Holmberg
You're goddamn right. We live in a world. Brady knows hiking codes and all sorts of incredibly exhausting physical activity codes that he does on the rig. He's the Commissioner of Climbing. Who's Gonna do the codes. You, you, Lieutenant Weinberg, stand in there. I can't say the word homo. F word. Uniform. Extend me a little code courtesy. Whatever you want to do today. White lines is so good, we might have to do it. Okay, let's pump it out there. For those. For all your kids are gonna be that delicious fruity cocaine everybody's talking about, starting with the Attorney General. Right on down to every news channel. Fruity cocaine and news. Stop it. Andre, text me. And he said he had the news on in his house yesterday and the kids are running around. And he had it up kind of loud so he could hear it in the other room. And they're like disturbing new images of some underage teenage girls showing way too much skin on TikTok. And he said, well, damn it. And he put everything down to go watch. And I'm cooking. You can't go throwing that out there. Way too much skin on these incredibly hot underage women. If you look, you're a weirdo. Well, you made me stop doing that news. Delicious fruity cocaine is available now for your kids. That's bad. We didn't know about that till you said so.
Brett Vesley
Did somebody say fruity?
John Holmberg
Ooh, fruity cocaine makes you fruity or just for us? Anyway, I think this is the way to do it. Keep your kids off the fruity cocaine. Who sang this? Grandmaster Furious 5.
Brett Vesley
That's right.
John Holmberg
Sing it if Krista Greenway, if you're listening. How you doing? Get higher, baby. It's 98. It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee. I've heard enough of this.
Tim
I'm here on a job site with Tim, who owns his own electrical contracting business.
John Holmberg
Three employees and two work trucks.
Tim
Tim traded up to Geico Commercial Auto Insurance. We're positively here where he needs us most.
John Holmberg
They sure are.
Tim
With Step by step help on all the his insurance needs. All for shockingly low rates.
John Holmberg
Shockingly low.
Tim
Just a little bit of electrician humor. Do you get it?
John Holmberg
I got it.
Tim
You know, it feels like we have a real connection.
John Holmberg
All right, I'll stop. Get a commercial auto insurance quote today@geico.com and see how much you could save. It feels good to Geico.
Date: December 12, 2025
Podcast: Holmberg's Morning Sickness (Arizona’s #1 Morning Radio Show, 98 KUPD)
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
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A classic, raucous episode exploring hot sports topics (aging stars in pro sports, World Cup ticket prices/economics), moral and legal dilemmas in extreme situations (manslaughter after leaving a hiking partner behind), gender economics and equality, and the weird realities behind cruise ship protocols—all with the show’s trademark irreverence and sharp sarcasm.
This show delivers pointed social commentary on sports, money, and modern morality—with no sacred cows and plenty of gallows humor. Expect unflinching opinions, relentless teasing, and rapid-fire banter. The hosts argue that:
Memorable, brash, and full of quotable moments, this episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness keeps the laughs (and uncomfortable truths) coming.