12-17-25 - Listeners Sending In Their HMS Stories - Fascinated By The Rob Reiner Murder And Son's Details - Seems Like We're Going To War w/Venezuela And We're Ambivalent About It - 92yo Japanese Woman Wins ESports Prize

Summary

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Holmberg’s Morning Sickness — Podcast Summary

Episode: 12-17-25
Air Date: December 17, 2025
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Brett Vesely, Dick Toledo
Stations: 98 KUPD | Hubbard Radio, Arizona

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Overview

This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness is a hilariously rambling, irreverent look at current events and recent listener interactions. The hosts reminisce about classic show moments, offer sharp (and sometimes uncomfortable) insights on celebrity, politics, and world conflicts, and marvel at headlines like a 92-year-old Japanese woman winning an ESports competition. Their quick-fire banter mixes the personal, the pop-cultural, and the absurd, held together by a long-practiced chemistry.

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Listener Stories & Show Memories

• Retiring the Theme Song:
  The show kicks off with emails from listeners about their favorite theme song performances, particularly praising Katie and the Hobbs’ "Miles to Nowhere." Listeners call it the “most theme songy theme song” the show’s ever had (03:00).

  • Quote:
    “A true rags to riches story from last place as Katie and the Hobbs the year before, to champions, and I know they will be missed.” — John [02:00]
  • The hosts joke about band upgrades and the prospects of new music teasing, “This new band has big shoes to fill.”

• Classic Show Moments:
  Numerous shout-outs to classic irreverent bits, such as the infamous “Brady 69” segment (06:12):

  • Quote:
    “I remember that you got mad when we were saying, ‘have you ever 69ed?’ …That would have been so good—69 at the Yute Fest with a sex doll…” — John [06:12]
  • The crew roast past segments with relish, including Brady’s reluctance and the legal/lawyer intervention.

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Celebrity Deep Dive: The Rob Reiner Murder Story

• The panel is highly fascinated—and troubled—by the ongoing scandal involving Rob Reiner’s son.
  • They dissect old promotional interviews, noticing dark vibes in hindsight:
    Quote:
    “You don’t want to see me when I’m angry. I get real mad.” — Rob Reiner's son in an old interview [12:50]
  • John points out how Rob stepped in to "fix" his son’s erratic, reputation-damaging behavior, likening the dynamic to a “promotional nightmare” (15:03).
  • The hosts discuss the difficulty of being the child of a celebrity, the struggle to make one's own mark, and the tragedy when family history intersects with mental health and violence.
  • John references a listener sending “old clips” to justify political gloating over the murder, which the panel universally condemns as unhealthy and grotesque.
    • Quote:
      “Doesn't mean anybody needs their throat slit. And to be celebratory of that, in a weird way—there’s a certain sickness about that.” — John [23:17]
  • They connect the Reiner story to broader issues about discourse, celebrity children, and the internet age’s quick rush to politicize everything.

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Venezuela, War, and Ambivalence

• There's a long, meandering discussion about America’s new, seemingly sudden conflict with Venezuela (28:12).
  • The hosts are bemused and skeptical, as if they've missed the memo, riffing on how bombings and warfare now resemble desensitized video game violence.
    • Quote:
      “Go bomb Venezuela for Christmas...I didn’t know we were even mad at Venezuela ‘til about a month and a half ago, and now I’m pretty sure we’re blowing them up!” — John [29:02]
  • Holmberg jokes about geographical ignorance (“Is it below Panama?”) and their desensitization to global events.
  • Comparisons to classic and current violent video games add a surreal humor to the whole exchange, e.g.:
    • “That’s the new GTA: blowing up boats...If it’s a boat full of nuns, we’re gonna have a problem.” — John [29:29]
    • Reminiscing about old games like “Gato” for Commodore 64, with stick figure deaths (31:25).

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Colombia, Coke, and Pablo Escobar Tours

• The crew riff on Colombia, referencing its tourism industry centered on Pablo Escobar and cocaine lore (34:36).
  • Allude to friends who travel there for the cheap prices, wild stories about walled-off sections, and jokingly describe the country in nothing but cocaine, “cocaine land,” and “Powder Island.”
  • John's friend Janny, a “lost boy of Sudan,” provides comedic contrast with his escapades and globe-trotting dating life (37:44).

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Old People in Sports & Esports: Age Disparity Riffs

• ESports Champion — At Age 92:

  • The panel marvels and questions the legitimacy/interest of a 92-year-old Japanese woman, Hisako Saiki, winning a Tekken 8 seniors tournament (43:02).
    • Quote:
      “What we’re really celebrating is that they’re not dead.” — John [44:29]
  • They note that in these senior divisions, the competition pool (“how many 90-year-olds are out there playing anything?”) is comically small.
  • Extended, irreverent jokes about Japanese stereotypes, coloring Godzilla books, sushi rolling, and building a PlayStation 5 out of a robot (46:36).

• Old Athletes in American Football:

  • The hosts lament how aging NFL quarterbacks (Philip Rivers, Kurt Warner) still get called up to play, arguing it’s proof of talent shortages or broken sports logic (41:12).
    • Quote:
      “Philip Rivers coming back tells me immediately there’s something very wrong with the NFL that he’s still able to play…Not one guy on a practice squad you couldn’t just pull off?” — John [42:33]
  • Joke about teams fielding the literal children of legendary players if this trend continues.

• Boxing:

  • John derides the trend of boxing legends returning for “celebrity” fights, mentioning Bud Crawford’s retirement and Manny Pacquiao’s unsuccessful comeback (50:40).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Celebrity Son Syndrome:
  “You’ve lived a life no one can understand. That’s the interesting part of the interview. You’re Tom Hanks’ son…If you don’t want to talk about it, don’t do interviews!” — John [21:29]
• Politics and Partisanship:
  “There’s nothing wrong with saying, 'I still love Trump, but I didn’t like that, that was wrong.'” — John [23:50]
• Global Ambivalence:
  “What about the poor Venezuelans? I don’t even know…If you took all the names off a map, it’s somewhere down there. It’s in that middle part.” — John [39:22]
• Old People Triumphing:
  “I don’t like watching old people win. I don’t like watching old people do anything…Hate when old people do well in sports—hate it, just proves the sport is broken.” — John [44:27], [50:40]
• On Colombia:
  “So their two main exports are cocaine and [Sofía] Vergara. I think America kind of liked pretty much everything you’re doing.” — John [51:29]

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Key Segment Timestamps

• [03:00] Listener stories and retiring the “Miles to Nowhere” theme song
• [06:12] Reminiscing about classic bits: Brady and sex doll 69 challenge
• [12:50] Rob Reiner murder case discussion, dysfunctional celebrity families
• [23:17] Political tribalism and reactions to the Rob Reiner story
• [29:02] Venezuela “war” chat, bombings, and video game analogies
• [31:25] Old violent computer games nostalgia
• [34:36] Colombia travel stories, cocaine, and Pablo Escobar tourism
• [41:12] Old athletes and why their presence signals NFL problems
• [43:02] 92-year-old wins ESports tournament: musings on age and talent
• [46:36] Satirical take on Japanese retirement homes, Godzilla coloring
• [50:40] Aging stars in boxing, Pacquiao, Bud Crawford, and Jake Paul

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Tone and Style

• Irreverent, Sarcastic, Unapologetic: The episode is fast-paced and never shies from dark or off-color humor, especially when discussing aging, sport, and world affairs.
• Self-aware: The hosts acknowledge their own ignorance and biases, playing up their detachment from headline events and poking fun at stereotypes.
• Engagement-Driven: Much of the episode’s energy comes from listener emails and call-backs to the show’s storied past.

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Conclusion

This episode is a microcosm of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness—equal parts wild reminiscing, cultural critique, and raw, off-the-cuff humor. The interplay between the hosts brings continuity and warmth to a show willing to laugh at anything, including themselves, the world, and especially the inexorable march of time.

Transcript

[Brett Vesely]

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[John Holmberg]

Still streaming Homberg's morning sickness [e-mail] that's it. Well done by Katie and the Hobbs. Excellent job. We're so proud of you. Miles to Nowhere. A great theme song. And then at the Palladio just a month ago, they introduced me to picklebacks. I've never understood what that was, and it was awesome. Jameson and pickle juice. A fantastic beverage.

[Brett Vesely]

Be a tough act to follow for the Thomas James.

[John Holmberg]

Thomas James Band had confidence in him.

[Brett Vesely]

But man, well, you know, great song.

[John Holmberg]

Somebody even said that in this email about Katie and the Hobbs. And who would have guessed it after all the crap we gave them when. When we first heard them about how silly it sounded when she was yelling at us. This one says it's from David Morgan. So we bid goodbye to Katie and her Hobbs. Miles to nowhere. I just wanted to say Their morning song was awesome. Talking about how good things have been, I think Miles to Nowhere's morning song was the best one so far and has ever come out of Playdoh. Just the right, right amount of rock, irreverence and comedy to match this show. I want more verses. I want them to write a longer version about Toledo going to Thailand for ladyboys and Brett disposing bodies on the west side. A true rags to riches story from last place as Katie and the Hobbs the year before. Two champions and I know they will be missed. This new band has big shoes to fill. David. I agree. I think that was the. Was the most theme songy theme song that we've ever had written for us and it was pretty great. So it is over officially with Miles to know where I am going to now Ceremonial. Ceremonially snuff out Katie and the Hobbs by hitting delete.

[Byron]

Light the candle.

[John Holmberg]

I like the candle, everybody.

[Brett Vesely]

But they do have a longer version of that song. You can get it on YouTube.

[John Holmberg]

Do they?

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Is it all about remember?

[Brett Vesely]

Because Toledo cut it down.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. But did it add more words?

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah, there was like another minute of the song.

[Byron]

It was.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Singing about Toledo and the lady boys.

[Brett Vesely]

Not the lady boys, no. But there is a longer version of that song.

[John Holmberg]

How come I've never heard this?

[Brett Vesely]

That was the first day we played it. It was the long version and Toledo had to cut it down for time. Worse.

[Byron]

It doesn't have a shredding. Like a 30 second shred.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, we gotta shred a little bit, man.

[Byron]

I don't remember that either.

[John Holmberg]

I don't either. How about that? All right, so, John, next contract negotiation you need to take three months off to rest that giant nose. Thank you, Marshall. I appreciate that. Very nice, everybody. Everybody's so nice to me. Says, thanks for the free entertainment, boys. I hope you guys have a safe and good holiday and I look forward to hearing from you next year. Once again, you absolutely make my morning's laughable. I'm a few. I'm a huge fan of that Huggy Bear Jew. They're so kind to me. Every message is so heartfelt. Kevin emails and says, man, my favorite time on this show and I've been listening since day one is you did a bit a long time ago about two planes crashing into a building. You called it 9 11. Can you replay that? No. Although I've never once listened to our 911 show. I know it's terrible. I guarantee it's bad because I got.

[Byron]

I had to say, well, there wasn't I mean, it just came in to give an update, and then.

[John Holmberg]

No, we were half.

[Byron]

Wasn't it Because.

[John Holmberg]

What? No, I thought we went to the.

[Byron]

Feed in the last. For last hours, or is that after we got off?

[John Holmberg]

No, it was the last. About the last hour of the show because I had to find out. We kept calling if my. If the girl I was dating was dead because she was there. Meanwhile, I got my new boss of two weeks. Play the goddamn spots. That's all I heard. Why are you skipping commercials and talking about them like, okay? And I'm like, well, there's a chance that NBC News just said 25,000 people could be dead. We'll be right back. Hey, come to Labor Day car sale. I'm like, oh, my God. Labor Day car sale ads are running. I. It's Labor Day. This one's going to go on for another two weeks because the world will never end. I'm like, okay, play the goddamn commercials. American Airlines wants to take you to Hawaii. Like, oh, my God. We get. Are you sure? Chuck was insane making sure those commercials play. Then I'd run out on those brick phones trying to find out if she was alive and come back and talk more about. The buildings just collapsed. They're down. Many, many dead. We'll be right back. What do you need, Tasha? Like, oh, no, I need something more secure in our building. Well, that's going around. Yeah, Crazy Eddies. Yeah, yeah. Come to Crazy Eddies. Everything must go. This sail's insane. And then we're just gonna tear the building down. Oh, this is bad. This is bad.

[Byron]

What should we do? Just don't miss commercial.

[John Holmberg]

Don't miss those spots. Yeah. They're saying now the Pentagon's been hit. This is a bad, bad day. We'll be right back. I'm leaving on a jet plane. Who wants to take a vacation? It was bad. This one says, I remember one thing on this show every time I think about it, and that's when Brady got cornered by you guys, asking him if he'd ever 69. And he hemmed and hawed and then verbally argued with everyone for about 20 minutes straight on whether he'd done it or not. He got very pissed off, and it created dark days. Brady and I love it. I remember that you got mad when we were saying, have you ever 69? And then you said you didn't. You yelled at us. We were laughing. That was fun. Then we tried to get him to do it with a doll, and our lawyers stopped it. That would have been so good. 69. And that they. You fest with a sex doll that I would have bought in a second had that thing delivered. First generation Japanese sex doll. And Brady's gotta tangle up with that thing for how would you have done it? Would you have been top or bottom? I tell you exactly what you need to be. Think about this before you answer. Would you be top or bottom?

[Byron]

Don't know. I just, you know. Game time decision.

[John Holmberg]

There's only one decision with a sex doll. You have to be the top because she can't move. So all you'd be doing is. Yeah. On a doll and she just had you resting in there. He's uncomfortable at it now. Dark days might be making a comeback now. Did your mom land yesterday?

[Byron]

Probably wouldn't perform that on stage.

[John Holmberg]

You don't think so? Yeah, I think you should have just in the even and just get in the position.

[Byron]

It's just one of those dumb things that 20 years later. Whatever.

[John Holmberg]

Please. No, that's hilarious. 20 years later. How bad can that be? You did what with the sex doll. How bad is that going to be? 20 years? Like what's the. You're never going to be a law. You'll be 80. Who cares?

[Brett Vesely]

None of us are going to be.

[John Holmberg]

Around in 20 years. You'll be dead. Kirby's going to show people that my dad was kind of crazy. Man. Check it out. No, I mean it's. That couldn't come back to home.

[Byron]

There's enough stuff in the resume. It's like, oh geez.

[John Holmberg]

That wouldn't haunt you though. 69 with a sex doll. Hilarious.

[Byron]

No, but.

[John Holmberg]

What he hates 69. This is. The guy was right to bring this back. That's not gonna get you 69. He might haunt you someday. End up with bumps or something if you do it to the wrong people.

[Byron]

Yeah. Dirty doll, huh?

[John Holmberg]

No, no, it would have been Brandy. You'd have been first one in. Very uncomfortable. Yeah, he said that would have been funny though. Give me that sex doll. Be rolling around up there with her for hours.

[Brett Vesely]

That's because Bunny's listening right now.

[Byron]

I would have got on top because I would have popped that thing.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, Jesus Christ. Well, it's not a blow up. Oh, you don't like this dog? Look at all. Yeah. Did Bunny come in last night?

[Byron]

No.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, okay. Today he does have that.

[Brett Vesely]

Oh, I thought it was.

[John Holmberg]

There's an air of. Bunny's listening right now. I mean she could be listening.

[Brett Vesely]

I mean getting ready for her flight.

[John Holmberg]

She might. Let's see what they're talking about. Oh, Brady's. Having upside down relations with an inanimate object again. Yeah, my flight leaves at 3. What's new, anyway? I hope they hose that out and put it in a closet. I think my wife signed one of those Howard Stern contracts. She doesn't show up to jerk me off for three months. A year, too. That could be maybe one of them wife summers off. She takes summers off. And now she's starting to work it into fall as she gets. She'd been. She'd been in it so long, she doesn't have to show up anymore. That's basically Stern saying, I've been doing this for 50 years. I shouldn't have to be here every day. And that's what a lot of guys, wives do. Why we all become monks eventually. Yeah, but you probably should hear Howard Stern's voice when your wife says that. Yeah, I mean, that's just stuff we used to do when we were kids. I don't understand why you. When are you going to be done with sex? That's what my friend's wife told him. When are you gonna be done with this? Like, you mean, like, right now? About three minutes. No, I mean, like, for good. Huh.

[Brett Vesely]

Cordell files the paperwork. I'll be done with it.

[John Holmberg]

You want me to never want it again?

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, can I have it with other people? Good God, no. Like, I don't understand what's going on.

[Byron]

How do we work this out?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah. How does this. So I have to just. You don't want any more. So now I can't. Right. He is asking me in the car. He's like, what do I say to her? I'm like, goodbye. I guess that's the.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Aren't we more than that? No. I mean, yes, but I mean, no.

[Brett Vesely]

It's a trick question.

[John Holmberg]

So what, you're telling me it doesn't matter that much? Right. It shouldn't matter at all. So I can do it with other people? Good God, no. It's the worst thing that could happen. I don't understand. So it can end the relationship, but you don't want it to exist at all?

[Byron]

Yes. You flip the. You know, thing about. You flip the question around. Aren't we more than this on my side of it, including sex?

[John Holmberg]

I don't care. Do you care if you're more than this?

[Byron]

No, I'm saying without sex. Way more than this, because sex is part of.

[John Holmberg]

Sure.

[Byron]

More than, like, you're my wife. That's generally more than just friends.

[John Holmberg]

You're not talking to me right now, are you?

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, my God. When did that happen?

[Brett Vesely]

Boy, this is the best part of the show in 25 years.

[John Holmberg]

I guess we got married. I don't know what he's saying. Like, if she said, well, that. Like, no guy cares if he's more than this.

[Byron]

The. You hear it a lot in marriages that they're saying, okay, you know, oh, my wife told me she's out or she's no longer.

[John Holmberg]

Right. She don't want to do it anymore. Yeah, right.

[Byron]

But her point of saying, aren't we over this or more than this?

[John Holmberg]

Do we need that to still be together? And the dude's always like, yeah, like, I'm a simple creature part of being. I need meat. I need this thing tugged every once in a while. And sports, it's pretty much all I need. And it has nothing to do with. And I like you. Like, that's a nice. Like, I tend to like you. Is that all we are? Like, like, you meet target. This seems easy. Like, I'm making this easy. I think this is, like, you're making it hard. You're adding a bunch to the meat. Tug it. Sports. I like you. Like, that's. That's it. Shouldn't it be deeper than that? I can't go any deeper. This is what I got. You know what I mean? Yeah. Poor guy. I don't know. Poor, poor fellow. Emails and says his wife doesn't tug him anymore. What are you gonna do? I can't get enough reading about this Rob Reiner thing. This kid of his in the interviews over the years. God, they keep showing all these interviews from the two of them when they did the Being Charlie promo tour. And Rob Reiner and his son co wrote and then directed that together. And that kid was like, well, it's all hindsight, but because I never watched any promo clips of the Being Charlie junk it. Yeah, it was 12 years ago. 10, 10, 11 years ago. And they went on these tours of interviews promoting the movie together. And Rob Reiner was pretty much like, my name's on this. This is my son. I helped him. He did the most of this himself, but it's still lending the Reiner legacy to it. And that kid, they asked one question 10 years ago, and the guy's like, did you guys get in any battles? I mean, how does that work? Was, you know, creatively working on something to get any battles? And the kid just goes, you don't want to see me when I'm angry. I get real mad. It's like, what? He goes, yeah, I get pretty hot. And Rob Reiner's like, haha, yeah, we both get pretty hot. We have tempers. Mary Effing Holidays from the Big Red Radio.

[Dick Toledo]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Byron]

You know what else I noticed on that problem is shut up, kid. Now I'm taking over.

[John Holmberg]

Because he was about to walk into a promotional nightmare. His dad.

[Byron]

I'm not gonna let him go down this good.

[John Holmberg]

Yep, he was right because he's like David Banner.

[Brett Vesely]

You don't like me when I make.

[John Holmberg]

He didn't answer that question with fun. He answered it with. And I thought the one I heard.

[Byron]

Him say that you don't see. Yes, I'm explosive. Hahaha.

[John Holmberg]

THEY laugh he laughed because Rob Reiner fixed it because that kid was looking at him like, yeah, I've got a. I'm hot. I get hot. You don't want to see me when I'm mad. I don't. And Rob Reiner was like, all right, don't do this. You're not going to Endear yourself to. And he was trying to sell his son as much as the movie. Like, this is my son. And the son was like, he wasn't.

[Byron]

And he's trying to tell him, I understand what it is, because I had a famous dad and I grew up.

[John Holmberg]

That was another interview, the one I'm talking about. And he said, that kid lost it. And he started to go. And Rob Reiner was like, you're not selling you at all here. You're coming across like a lunatic. And because he was. And then the daughter said, they've lived their lives in fear of him for years. Like, they've tried so hard to make this okay. And then, and then the party, the, the, the Conan o' Brien's party is now getting a thing. And all he did was bounce around and scream at everybody, are you famous? Are you famous? And then Bill Hader told him he was in the middle of a private conversation. Would you please leave? And that's when he got real pissed off and he walked away. It can't be easy to be Carl and Rob Reiner's, you know, the third level of, you know, that's some Hollywood royalty right there. And then he's trying to get into the same business and it's, you know.

[Byron]

Trying to help your son out wherever you can. Sure.

[John Holmberg]

But that's, you know, now he's like 40, and he's not really made a name for himself. When you look back at Carl Reiner early days, he was super famous. Had the Dick Van Dyke shows, show shows with Sid Caesar, and the guy made it early. Then Rob Reiner comes along. He makes it in his early 20s. This kid's made no mark, and his dad's been trying to help him the whole time. And then you start reading about, like, that party. Bill Hader was the one that they're kind of blaming in a couple of things, saying he set him off that set by. By saying to him, you need to walk away. Please leave. This is a private conversation. He was driving people nuts. Do you think anybody, like, even working here, like, it would be annoying to be like, oh, God, there's Reiner. The, the kid of Rob Reiner coming in, acting like, to a Hollywood party. Why was he at Conan o' Brien's party? You know, one of the, like, all of us normal people who aren't famous are like, oh, that had to drive the real celebrities crazy. Like, I know why you're here.

[Brett Vesely]

God, you're bringing the kid.

[John Holmberg]

And then that kid has to feel that too. And he, he had A hopefully that wasn't okay.

[Byron]

We're gonna. We're gonna let you in this first year. You can come with us.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah.

[Byron]

Or has he been going there?

[John Holmberg]

He may be best friends with a lot of them, but from what it sounds like he was flitting around that party, pissing everybody off with his. He was acting erratic. And all reports like he was acting really.

[Byron]

You're having a holiday party, right? You're the host, and you're a buddy of yours calls you up and say, hey, can I bring my son with me? And you know, the son has been in and out of rehab 15 times.

[John Holmberg]

Well, that's Hollywood, though. Everybody at that party has about. There's about 10 people in and out.

[Byron]

Of Reho that would make it like, he's good. He's good.

[John Holmberg]

First off, the thing that makes me suck up some air is anybody who calls and asks if they can bring their kids to a party ever, the answer is no. But we have to be nice and say, I guess I just say no to people now. Is it okay if my kids come? No. Kelly downstairs has been wanting to come to a Steeler game the whole time, and she's like, can I bring my son? Like, no. He's like, 18, so. No, you're barely invited. Don't start acting like the whole family can come. He knows football. Like, yeah, but I don't want your kids there. Like, he's got. I don't got no Sprites or, like, what does he drink? Fruit juice? I don't know. I got Capri Suns in the fridge. We're have a cooler of Pepsi Free. I don't know. What. What does he drink? I don't want to babysit that fireball keg.

[Byron]

And no pro.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, well, he could, but he can't. He's got to pretend he doesn't want to be there. There's the worst thing in the world. Like, you. You want to come see Mommy's work friends? No. So, yeah. No, no, don't call people and say, can I bring my son? And plus, Rob Reiner wasn't.

[Byron]

Which I don't think he did. No.

[John Holmberg]

Because the kid's 40.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

His dad's still not calling. Oh, can I bring my son? That's not happening. But the whole thing is just really terrible. And, you know, now in hindsight, all this news coming out saying, oh, boy, this is all bad. Everything coming at you is bad. He. We knew it the whole time when that daughter said they lived in fear of him. And he'd threatened him before, but that interview I watched where he gets crazy eyed and he just looks nuts. And I thought, Rob Reiner did the right thing, going, all right, you don't know what you're doing. This is a promotional junket. I've played this game a million times. Follow my lead. And he let the kid have a little rope and then he idioted it. And then Rob Reiner fixed it. And there's a, there's a magic to that. When you go in, like a lot of these comedians come in that don't understand you're selling yourself here. It's not my job to make you look good. I'll help, but. And the interview was just asking a simple question. That guy was like, well, yeah, I get angry and I get, you don't want to see me. I go off. It's like, okay, no, no, no, no, no. You can do that in a fun way.

[Byron]

And I wonder, you know, on the rest that interview, sometimes guy just doesn't answer the question. You're like, you're with the father and son there. And he's. Maybe the interviewer asked him a couple of questions. All they were. Were just short. Yes.

[John Holmberg]

I don't know. And then all I know is what I saw.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

When I saw. The one thing that I saw was this kid was not about to sell this movie. He was about to make himself. You see Rob Reiner's kid, he's crazy. Like, that's all I got off of that. Even watch him like, oh, yeah. This is immediately you see, like, oh, boy, he's not there. And a lot of it's hindsight now. And you know what else?

[Byron]

It is hindsight, because that interview happened.

[John Holmberg]

When that was like 10 years ago.

[Byron]

But I don't remember people going, man, did you?

[John Holmberg]

Nobody watched. Nobody knew the. Nobody knew the movie. So if, if it was a bigger deal, nobody cared. Because it's like, man, kid's kind of a dick. I mean, we talked to Colin Hanks that one time. I asked him a couple questions about his dad, and he started getting really snotty. And I'm like, look, you're Tom Hanks's son. I can't get curious about how you were raised. I'm like, okay, enough. Yes, it is. And I even told him, like, yeah, that is pretty much all I care about with you. Did you really?

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

Because at the end of it, I asked him, I said, you still go like, what's holidays like? Because you go back to Tom.

[Byron]

It's a pretty light question.

[John Holmberg]

I wasn't even asking, you know, Is that all they're going to talk to me about?

[Byron]

Touched by your dad.

[John Holmberg]

And I'm like, yeah, like, I'm curious about your life. I don't care about this movie that's coming. I'm curious. Like, you've lived a life no one can understand. That's the interest of the interview. You've lived a life I don't get. You're Tom Hanks son. At certain point, when Forrest Gump came out, your life changed. And then you find out from him, well, I didn't even live with him. He didn't like Rita the wife, and he was getting grouchy about it. Well, then don't do interviews. Or when you do them, say, hey, don't ask me about Tom Hanks. You're Tom Hanks's son. Like having Clint Howard on going, what was it like having Ron Howard is why don't talk about him, Alex. That's the only thing interesting about you.

[Byron]

Frank Stallone had no problems.

[John Holmberg]

Frank Stallone loved talking about all. And Frank Stallone was great because he's. All he said was, my brother had a lot of pussy, couldn't nail. And I took care of that for him. I was like, all right. He basically gladly took the fall off from Sylvester. Now that's how you handle Hollywood family stuff. Excellent. Anyway, and then I've got emails from people. Here's the thing that's bothering me about the Rob Reiner thing more than anything is people are now like, you sent one last night. You weren't doing it, but you sent one last night where people are scrounging.

[Byron]

And, yeah, old interviews.

[John Holmberg]

Well, they're going through old things saying, this is what Rob Reiner said about Trump. This is what he's been. And everything I've seen so far is like, yeah, he hated Donald Trump, but Donald Trump's a politician. He's got it. He's got to handle that heat.

[Byron]

You gotta be above that.

[John Holmberg]

You have to be way above that. So everybody's trying to find it's okay to say that was wrong about your.

[Byron]

Favorite idol hating, not liking President Trump in the office. Absolutely.

[John Holmberg]

There's a lot of that. Doesn't mean anybody needs their throat slit.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And to be celebratory of that, in a weird way, there's a certain. I emailed back a guy, I'm like, look, I get you love Trump, but there's no reason to go back and find historical evidence that, you know, we know Rob Renner hated Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean that he should say, good I'm glad.

[Byron]

And I know people were like, well, it's exactly what people were doing when Trump was. There was assassination. Sure.

[John Holmberg]

And he hated it.

[Byron]

Good should have happened then.

[John Holmberg]

He hated it. And it was wrong.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

It's wrong to do that. That's sick. That's. You're sick.

[Byron]

You gotta be above that.

[John Holmberg]

You've got a disease. If your idol does something wrong and you can't go on, that wasn't good. There's nothing wrong with saying, I still love Trump, but I didn't like that that was wrong and just leave it. But they're sending me clips of Rub. This is why he did it. I'm like, oh, I understand his pettiness.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And I love pettiness, but not from that office, not from that position. I should be. Brady should be petty. He should be every day. He should make a joke about Michigan every day. I believe off the air, he calls the retards in Michigan still want him to be there. Like, that kind of crap should come out on the air. It's not going to, but it should. Those dumb morons up in Arbor, they still want that moron. I'm like, brady, why isn't this on the air? Oh, no, no, no. I don't want to do that. I want to sound petty. I love petty. Brady, about Michigan, you should do it every day. But if you were the president of the company and you're doing it like, I don't think this is good for the Michigan cluster. I think you probably keep that to yourself. Do it like everyone else does. Wander around with your friends and say horrible things about a tragedy and then don't make it public. But there's. Yeah, I just. I've gotten a lot of people, like, see, this is Rob Reiner saying bad things about him. I'm like, oh, yeah. He and I. The first guy said, you're right, I'm wrong. It's good that he got his head cut off. I'm not saying that. I'm like, why are you bothering me with this then? Well, you said that it was, like, bad. But, I mean, dude, has somebody tried to kill him twice? I'm like, I know. He should be more empathetic to murder. I think that's all. It's a pretty horrible thing to have tweeted and to make it about Trump derangement syndrome, which, by the way, he should be having fun with elsewhere because it's very real. But don't. Don't. What he did was just inexcusable. And to defend it Makes you look crazy. I get it. Rob Reiner didn't like Donald Trump. Donald Trump ran for president knowing that he was gonna. Like, there's gonna be a bunch of people that. Have you ever seen a president where everybody's like, this guy's awesome. Across the board, people hated every president. Obama took a beat. Whatever side he's not on takes a beating. No one should get their throat slit just for not liking someone.

[Byron]

To blame it on that.

[John Holmberg]

Well, to even have it politicized. Yes, he was very politically active. I didn't agree with any of how he handled himself either. But it doesn't mean, you know, and. And the one guy said, you think that if Trump would have died, Rob Reiner wouldn't have celebrated. I'm like, we don't. We'll never know. That's all hypothetical. Yeah, that's a. It's nonsense. It's weird, though. And then the kid went back to the hotel room covered in blood, bloodied up the whole hotel room. When they went back to go to find it, did you see that? The hotel room Reiner's son went back to was just a bloody disaster. Blood trail. He was covered in it, they think now.

[Byron]

Just didn't care.

[John Holmberg]

Nuts.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

He went back to probably clean up, but he was. He was so copy.

[Byron]

Cut somebody's throat.

[John Holmberg]

This is why OJ's argument was pretty solid. If I. If I'd have done what you said, I'd been covered in blood, and then this kid was. And then they think that maybe he did it after that party and just left him there because they didn't find him till three the next day. And the daughter said they had already hit rigor mortis. They were stiff, awful, and that kind of stuff. You can't. You know, again, you can hate someone and their heads get cut off. You should be like, for a second, just go, that's too far. You shouldn't jump on Twitter. I've got a few things to say about this. Dear Twitter, this is because of me. Yeah. I thought it was inexcusable. I've been going back and forth with a guy, so it's on my mind about, like. All right, you need to calm the F down about this. I'm just saying he said it for a reason. I'm like, shh. That's the better thing to say. Shh. Merry effing holidays. From the Big Red Radio.

[Byron]

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[John Holmberg]

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[Byron]

To take realize how mad.

[John Holmberg]

I'm pretty sure it's going to be a state. I'm pretty sure we're going to blow up Venezuela. It's getting like. Did you know this was a thing?

[Byron]

No, I just remember a few years back there's they're not real happy about the current president.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, sure, yeah. That happens all over. But I don't know what was said.

[Byron]

Back and then I didn't realize the cartel power, how much stuff was coming through there.

[John Holmberg]

Sure. Loads of it.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

But I didn't know that it was getting to the point where like we gotta blow them up and now we're gonna do it. So. Okay. I guess I'm on that side. Club Venezuela. I get it. Makes sense. But I'm all right. I like the boat videos that's like a video game to me. I think that's fun. And I have no beef with blowing up drug boats so long as they keep doing that. Like, if it's a boat full of nuns, we're gonna have a problem.

[Brett Vesely]

If that's gonna be the new gta.

[John Holmberg]

Blowing up boats and stuff, man. Brett, don't. Don't tickle. Don't you dare tickle the tip. GTA is next October now. Gotta wait to blow up Venezuelan boats for. Could somebody quick make a game of the Trump and the boats?

[Byron]

That's why they had it on there, and that's why they got the call. No, you can't. You gotta push back.

[John Holmberg]

No way they GTA would have added more boats. I don't think the screaming and struggling is authentic enough for our second go round. When the survivors are yelling, you can't hear it from the plane. So we need that to be. We need the screaming to be louder. We only have to move it back to October to make it more violent. Yeah, please do that. Yeah, that's an awesome. There's an old computer game called Gato. It was just blowing up navy subs for U boats and stuff. The graphics were awful, but me and my friend Stebigs played that for hours on a Commodore 64. And the main reason why is because the second version of it, when you blew up the boats, people's like stick figure bodies floated. And like, this might be the greatest thing that's ever happened to me as a child. It was. It was a terrible game. It took forever to load. It was just miserable. But when the boat blew up in number two, their little stick figure, but there it is. That's the original, though. That's the early. God, you don't want the original one class submarine. I don't remember. Let me see this. It was awful. But after a while, they did stick figures that would come out of the bodies. Yeah. This is just the one where you had to chart where you're. It was basically Battleship.

[Brett Vesely]

Well, there was another one here.

[John Holmberg]

And you had to pick up sub torpedoes. Jesus. This is a brand new version of Gato. This might have people just exploding. Oh, Gato stuck around for 25 years, apparently.

[Brett Vesely]

This was a year ago.

[John Holmberg]

And you keep stuff.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[John Holmberg]

We can plant something. Guy playing on esports.

[Brett Vesely]

Well, those graphics are pretty amazing.

[John Holmberg]

That's incredible. Maybe Trump just thinks he's playing Gato. I wanted Gato last night. I did another one. I got three. How many did you get? Hegset, sir. That's real. I know it's so amazing. The graphics are unbelievable. Hegseth, how did you do this? Sir, that's very real. It's almost like it's happening. Sir. There's real people down there. I. Look, Pete. I know. I'm watching it. I want to talk to the guy who created this. He's amazing. God though. And then remember that was. The next thing that came out was when they used. When you used to hit hockey players and make them bleed.

[Brett Vesely]

Oh yeah.

[John Holmberg]

And the original John Madden. The ambulance would drive out onto the field and hit other players. It was awesome. Violence ran through the day that we took away the bloody hockey player.

[Brett Vesely]

I hated swingers when they were.

[John Holmberg]

Watch. Watch them little. Make Wayne bleed. Yeah, you couldn't knock Wayne out. But your. Your guy got kicked out the second. But man, when you made little 99 bleed and on the ice and they'd come out and pick him up in an ambulance and then you'd. You just keep hitting B and skate guys in front of the ambulance. And then they took it away from us. It's too violent. Don't blame us. We liked it. You guys are the ones who did it. We need to take it back. That was my favorite thing in video games ever. My friend Steve Miller. Not that one. Played John Madden football all the time. And when we discovered that ambulance. Bring it on, baby. We would. After the play you used to be able to just launch into a guy while he's just standing there. And you could break backs. You took the biggest dude you just beat until you got the biggest dude just standing there and would say 72. And they were always kind of like bouncing a little because it was the bits. 32 bits. Never made him hold still. And then you just go. And he just hit the quarterback in the back. You'd get a 15 yard flag but then that ambulance would come out and run over everybody.

[Byron]

Was it Street Fighter? The one that pulled the skull and spine?

[John Holmberg]

Yes.

[Brett Vesely]

Mortal Kombat.

[John Holmberg]

Mortal Kombat. That's right. They spine a dude. Get over here. That's when video games mattered. Not like the one I'm doing now. Venezuelan drug boats. I play it every day. Pew. Pew. Got him. Heggy. Sir. That was a very real one. I know. I hit him right in them. Oh look, there's one struggling. Get him. Do the flyback. There you go. Bye bye Venezuela. I don't know what's going on there. It's oil. I mean it's all oil based. But I didn't know we were mad at him. So for the holidays we're gonna blow up Venezuela. I hear it's beautiful. Hopefully don't wreck it. Venezuela. My friend goes down to Medellin every once in a while now in Colombia that's got another buddy that destination.

[Byron]

A former buddy.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, every movie I've ever seen is like, don't go there. He comes back with pictures. I'm like. He's like, it's beautiful. And then they have super cheap. It's like a dollar. Everything's a dollar. So go down there and give him a buck. You get everything. And then there's this one section by the. That's still walled off. They walled out the poor people. And they live in these tunnels and stuff by the ocean. And then just above that is like Gneiss. And that's where. What do they call that thing, though? Cartagena. They live. And then you can actually. It's a tourist attraction to go through that dude Pablo Escobar's house. That's like one of his zoo. Yeah. And it's. They just where they'll walk you through this. DC Ditono, he used to use to run drugs and dead people.

[Byron]

Here's the prison he built.

[John Holmberg]

It's their proudest thing. What else do you know about Colombia? Nothing. They made their mark on cocaine and they. Then they tore it. Yeah. Take a tour bus.

[Byron]

Those days are over.

[John Holmberg]

This is it. No, no, no, no. We love the cocaine. We take the tour bus over to his house and then we drive around and we look for where dead bodies were for that. Because we don't have anything.

[Byron]

Show you the whole distribution chain.

[John Holmberg]

Does Colombia have any, like, fun parks? Yeah, we have cocaine land. We have Powder Island.

[Brett Vesely]

This is where they filmed Romancing the Story.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they filmed it a little bit. We got the Michael Douglas.

[Byron]

He'll give you a free package to take back to the stage.

[John Holmberg]

Here's some cocaine for your family and friend. He's a little package for the kids. It's called a little. The little cooking. Here's some yayo for you, little fellow. You give us a little yayo. Are you gonna take us to the fun part? We are going to. We just went to the fun park. You're gonna have a good time.

[Byron]

There's the cutout of Pablo. You can take pictures with him.

[John Holmberg]

Hey, if you want for an extra $10, you can snore a line off. If he's. They have a carbon cutout and we put a dick on it. You can snort a line of Pablo's dick. $10, honey, you can't beat these prices.

[Byron]

Great Christmas photo.

[John Holmberg]

That's awesome. Send that to everyone. Put that on my Insta. And we were down there in Columbia snorting cocoa for Pablo's cutout. It was pretty fun. Kids got Yayo.

[Byron]

You do the tour? I do, but I don't remember it.

[John Holmberg]

It was great. The whole trip was sort of a blur. I think we were in for a year.

[Byron]

The place is so clean.

[John Holmberg]

It's just an amazing thing. It's beautiful. Don't go down in that little area, though, by the ocean where the. Those people live. Just don't want to go down. We have soccer fields. Sometimes we do some killings. That's fine. The views. You can't beat the views. I don't. I don't know anything about Colombia outside of, oh, that's a cocaine. When my friend and it was Jani, my African friend John, you have to go to Colombia with me. I'm like the second worst thing you've ever said to me besides come back to the Sudan. I'm not going to the Sudan. You are the worst travel agent in the world. Come to Colombia. It's amazing. What do they have? Cocaine? I don't do the cocaine. The views and the women are a dollar. A dollar? They're a dollar.

[Brett Vesely]

Wow.

[John Holmberg]

Janny goes, Jani had a girlfriend there for like a minute. He went down there, met somebody in a week and had like bucks or what? No, like a real relationship. She didn't speak English. I don't know how it worked. They would translate things back and forth. I know.

[Byron]

And it was there for like, the dude I knew went down there, but got a girlfriend.

[John Holmberg]

Larry can't find one here. Janny was in Colombia for an hour and he's like, I'm getting married. Like, what happened? She's my. He is like a girl in a. Every section that he travels. I was in Mexico and I. My girlfriend, I'm like, what, a one from Colombia? Oh, no, that's my Central American girlfriend. Like, you can do that? I do, man. You're real. And you can't get mad at him because he just goes, I was a lost boy of the Sudan. I ate my friends legs and urine to survive on a two year trek through the. All right, all right. You can have as many girlfriends as you want. Thank you. Then he just goes and does baths with him. It's great. But he tried to get me to go to Colombia with him. You need to come with me. Never. Because he'll go anywhere. He's not afraid of anything. He wrestled lions and stuff as a kid. He was just at Columbia. That's nothing. But we're going to blow up most of that soon, so I think it's great. I'm here for the laughs. I don't even understand why we do anything anymore. Venezuela's pissing us off. Let's get rid of them. I'm done with caring. What about the poor Venezuelans? I don't even know to be honest with you. If you took all the names off a map, it's somewhere down there. It's in that middle part. I know where Panama is because I can find the canal. But Venezuela below the canal.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah, it's gray area.

[John Holmberg]

Is it?

[Brett Vesely]

I believe so. Isn't it? Isn't a Panama above Colombia? Yeah, it is. Let's pull up a map, see where.

[John Holmberg]

It is I'm talking about. It's a good thing I'm not in charge of the flight over. I'm bombing everything until I hit it. But that'll be fun. I'm into bull fighting in Africa because it's different than in Mexico and I'm completely and utterly and to just a video game type stuff on the news. I think it's fun. Then I saw another thing and I just don't want to be true is that they have 90 year old esports now.

[Byron]

Come on.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, they got 90 or some 92 year old woman is the world champion at esports and in her age group. Well, yeah, she's not. She didn't. That I would be impressed with. But again it would be my theory would come true. It's like, oh, there's something wrong with esports if a 90 year old's winning it. The same reason that Philip and Philip Rivers did absolute nothing in that game the other night except show up and the media's just jerking it off. No, it's you. I want to see him get hurt or fail. Yeah, I want to see him fail. Only old people over 40 are interested in Philip Rivers doing well because it makes us feel better about aging. He, he was horrible. He played horrible. His throws are bad. He just looked terrible. He's fat. When he would get up that was my favorite part. If somebody knocked him down, he didn't spring back up. He had to get to his knees. Yeah, he had to do the little roll and he had to do that strange like two sit up rock to get his legs back. And like that's funny. I hate when old people get in sports and do well. I just hate it. Merry effing holidays from the Big Red Radio 98 KUPD come on down to the Ranch House Grill. Comfort food is your next meal.

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[Byron]

In all the practice squads there's not a corner you couldn't plug that you.

[John Holmberg]

Could just pull off. Not one. I thought he was pretty good. He had a hundred yards through three quarters and threw a game losing interception at the end. Everybody's like well that's pretty impressive. What that he's alive? I guess if that's your bar for impressive. So some 92 year old woman's doing esports now and she won. And I'm like who did she beat? How many 90 year olds are out there playing anything?

[Byron]

10 maybe.

[John Holmberg]

If there's 10, I'm shocked. But some, yeah, some old broad did it. 92 year old grandma wins Tekken 8 tournament with Japanese senior citizen Esports. Yeah, sure. Our name's in here too. Goroma92. And she started to play Tekken 8 and then probably started her own like group at the home.

[Byron]

You got a lot of downtime at the home?

[John Holmberg]

Oh sure, you can work on it. Her fingers are probably just loaded with arthritis and stuff from rolling sushi her whole life. And then all the rest of them at the home sitting there like she's rolling sushi. Please. She's a 92 year old woman.

[Brett Vesely]

That's something I would say.

[John Holmberg]

I'm not wrong. A lot of the times you're not wrong either. You just are callous about it.

[Byron]

Rolling sushi, making tofu.

[John Holmberg]

Look, Brady, you can back me up on this. It's only been like 30 years since she didn't have to have her feet bound by her master. She's been rolling sushi. That place wasn't exactly the kindest to the ladies back in, you know, before Sunshine hit them in the 40s and she was around for that. She remembers the bomb. Now she's an esports champion. I would watch for two minutes and I'd be like, she's not playing anybody any good.

[Byron]

Who else is there a senior level in that game?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, who else is competitive? And in Tekken 8, Philip Rivers, maybe 44. He's more than half her age. She played. She's been playing since 2019. She started tournaments with someone named Othello Rogori and it's just there. Come on, you don't want to watch 92 year old people do anything and then they're like they're celebrating. It's just that what we're really celebrating is that they're not dead.

[Byron]

So she beat him.

[John Holmberg]

Well, I don't know if it was a guy or a girl. I don't know the names. Othello could be a woman.

[Byron]

Shakespeare. Japanese Shakespeare.

[John Holmberg]

No, wait. Her name's Hisako Saiki and she's. Yeah, anyway, she's rolling sushi and then somebody said, you're good with your hands. You want to here, try this video game. And she took to it and then she challenged everybody else at the home and they started a tournament. And then the news is like she's alive and she's doing things. That's a story. If you make it to 92 and you cross the street without help, the people, the news will cover it because you're not supposed to be here anymore.

[Byron]

That's good at least to get, you know, to do more different games. Electronic games rather than, you know, doing Godzilla coloring books.

[John Holmberg]

Which is probably fairly factual to what Kozahana did. A very Japanese retirement. Yeah, you quiet on eat a sushi car and Godzilla. We are so goddamn stereotyped. It's not fair. You're outside of the lines. Try again. What? Yeah, she's making sushi and doing her thing. I so tired of covering Godzilla. Can we get PlayStation 5? You'll get the PlayStation 5 when you make a PlayStation 5. Okay. Japanese probably whipped up a PlayStation 5 pretty quick. She knitted one up. I don't know. Took the TV apart and rebuilt it.

[Byron]

One of the Sony's was at the home.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, I made it happen. I make a PlayStation 5 out of robot. Yeah, she took the toaster apart and next thing you know they're playing Tekken 8. That's what I think. Then they stopped. Like Brady said, Coloring in those Godzilla books. Guess that's all they've got. It's fun to think we're right. We have no other interest at all. Oh, we're right. Video game, sushi and Godzilla. Mothra is bad. Don't occur in Mathra. It only antagonizer him. We also don't speak our own language. Just broken English. I like fake Japan in my mind much more than real Japan could ever be. I'd be disappointed in real Japan that it isn't. That we're not coloring in Godzilla books. I got actual interests. I didn't need to know. This like a baseball dojo, sushi curring book, space station. I don't want to know the nuance of it all.

[Byron]

Karaoke.

[John Holmberg]

And we hit our own language. Speak only other languages to some crazy. I love that. Stereotypes are funny for a reason. Whether they're true or not, I don't care.

[Brett Vesely]

You're talking to me about it.

[John Holmberg]

I'm looking at Brett when I say that. The coloring book things got me because they just get bored and cross their arms. What else is there to do? You could color. Oh, me, I'll cover a book. I like coloring. Anyway, 92 year old lady won the Tekken 8 tournament for 90 year olds. And she's got to be the only one. She beat one other guy who's got like a. A watch eye and like a broken arm. He wheeled in, played Tekken 8. First I kick your ass and it was over. I just don't like. I don't like watching old people win. I don't like. I don't like watching old people do anything. Especially Philip Rivers. I can't stand him and Then he started to cry. And you lost. He started to cry in his press conference. Just get out there and do my thing. It's like you'd lost and you weren't good. Just showing up is all you cared about. If I was a Colts fan, I'd be furious. We didn't have a better plan than this. If Daniel Jones, which we didn't expect to be good in the first place, but we didn't have it. Just in case he gets hurt or sucks. Our plan was to call Philip. Why didn't you call Johnny? Unite us his wife. Do you have any kids still with Johnny or. I'm the new owner of the Colts. Johnny's been gone for a while. Jenny, grandkids that. Can anybody throw anything? We'll just take them and she try Phillip Rivers. Oh, that's a good idea. We have no plan. That's a Cardinal move.

[Byron]

Impatient. Wait two more years. You got his kid.

[Brett Vesely]

Who?

[John Holmberg]

Philip Rivers? Yeah. He's got to be. Well, okay, but fine, just don't.

[Byron]

They don't have that time.

[John Holmberg]

Could you imagine if the Cardinals did that? Oh, geez. We don't like this whole thing and Jacoby Brissette's hurt and we don't want to go with Slovis, even though he's a local. Then we're not going to put Slovis. Let's call Kurt Warner and see what he's up to. If they dressed Kurt Warner up in the outfit again and shoved him out on the field. Anyone excited? Is a.

[Brett Vesely]

Does Neil Lomax still around?

[John Holmberg]

You are dumb if you. Oh, this is great. And Kurt Warner's out there whipping footballs around like you're just. This is a. A plan for losing. If you're okay with it, you'd have.

[Byron]

To get it cleared by Brenda first.

[John Holmberg]

Brenda's probably just as good as Kurt at this point. I hate that. I hate when box old. But Bud Crawford retired from boxing. He's one of the best I've ever watched. And he just retired yesterday and already Jake Paul's calling him out like, please don't. Just let your legacy go. Please don't.

[Byron]

Was Pacquiao talking about fighting?

[John Holmberg]

Pacquiao did fight. He's 45. Nobody needs 47. He wasn't good. That was 45 his last couple fights. He wasn't good when he was still fighting. Then he took years off and comes back older. You think he's going to be better? No. I hate when old people do well in sports. Hate just proves there's. The sport is broken. Brett what do you got in the big machine over there?

[Brett Vesely]

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[Byron]

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[Brett Vesely]

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[John Holmberg]

So it's actionrideshop.com but I just got reminded that Sofia Vergara is Colombian. So their two main exports were cocaine and her. I think America took to that. I think America. America really kind of liked pretty much everything you're doing. He mixed in that fentanyl and made everything bad. But for a while there, you guys were the coke and the Sofia Vergaras were. That's pretty good stuff. I don't think I have any complaints about what they're. And oil. I don't know if they're doing it, too, but Venezuela is. But I'm. Yeah, I'm a fan. And that was a heck of a picture Sean just sent me of her saying, yeah, they also sent us this, and it's Sophie Vergar in a bikini. You're like, yeah, that's a win. Hopefully we don't get too mad at Colombia. Venezuela's gonna disappear. If you had Christmas plans to go get your cocaine tree down in Venezuela, it's. Might want to rethink that. Head to Florida instead. Just as much cocaine there. What do you got on the list?

[Brett Vesely]

Parkway Drive. Dedicated for John not pulling a Stern Megadeth. A two Limone for the end of the year. Coffin Cats, Slipknot, Volbeat, Mud Vein, Orbit Culture, Five Finger Death Punch. Lou Rawls making an appearance on there. For some reason, Social D, you'll never find. Yeah, I think that's. They just want to hear Kiss 12:30. Guy.

[Byron]

That's low Ross. Is that a different band?

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, you spelled it Low Roll.

[Brett Vesely]

It doesn't matter.

[John Holmberg]

Low Rolls is a rapper.

[Byron]

I like it.

[John Holmberg]

It's Little Rolls. Yeah, there you go. We can do this.

[Brett Vesely]

All right.

[John Holmberg]

God. That's just the intro. It's just it. Immediately. Bray, give me a little kiss 1230. Go.

[Byron]

Who, me?

[John Holmberg]

You're Brady, right? That's you? Yeah.

[Byron]

I thought you said Brett.

[John Holmberg]

No, I said Brady. As a Japanese woman coloring. Go.

[Byron]

I enjoy this 12:30.

[John Holmberg]

Never mind Brett. I don't know.

[Brett Vesely]

Hello there.

[John Holmberg]

You got eight seconds, Brett.

[Byron]

Hello there.

[John Holmberg]

This is Lou Ross. No, that's not good.

[Brett Vesely]

What?

[Byron]

Hello there.

[John Holmberg]

There's no Tom Jerry. Ah, it's such a great song.

[Brett Vesely]

Kiss Love gun on there. Frank Stallone far from over for the show. And the Hives. Countdown to shut down for the last.

[John Holmberg]

Show.

[Brett Vesely]

For the end.

[John Holmberg]

That's what we do. Countdown to shut down is the one. Load it up. That's it. We're done after today. And Brady's mom's coming to town. Bunny's flying out, right?

[Byron]

Yep.

[John Holmberg]

She's gonna be here the whole time?

[Byron]

Seven days.

[John Holmberg]

Oh, she's sticking around for a while. Any of the other family rolling out?

[Byron]

Getting her out Christmas morning? Get out.

[John Holmberg]

She's flying back on Christmas. That's smart. Nobody travels on Christmas day. And no other families coming out. It's just you guys. Nice. She's gonna love it. That's gonna be good. Getting out of Columbus, which sucks, cold.

[Byron]

Miserable when she gets back.

[Brett Vesely]

And Ohio off to Florida.

[John Holmberg]

Yeah, she's going to Florida to hang out for. That's good. That's living right there. All right. Well, the countdown to shutdown begins as our final show is on right now. It's the hives. It's 98. Arizona's most. He said fully erect. It's John Homer here, shilling away for new ac unit dot com. Holiday money is on everybody's mind. Purchases need to be good deals right now as you navigate the inevitable spending this time of year. But looming over so many of you is the eventual need to replace your AC unit. Three easy steps online and you're getting a present that's going to last four years. It'll make your house Christmas cool all year long. Let's add a fourth step, shall we? And don't worry, it's easy when you're checking [e-mail], use the promo code Holmberg and you're gonna knock off another thousand bucks right away. Save thousands, save time. Buy online newac unit.com.