12-20-25 - Entertainment Drill - MIX - John Hinkley Owed Royalties From A Devo Song - Lil Nas X Song On Next Kidz Bop Album - 2021 - BO

Summary

Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – Entertainment Drill (12-20-25)

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This episode of Holmberg’s Morning Sickness’ “Entertainment Drill” delivers a lively rundown of entertainment news, pop culture oddities, and irreverent takes on current events. Hosts John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, and Brett Vesely riff on famous authors’ movie complaints, odd legal and music industry stories, the absurdity of PETA’s latest campaign, the questionable innocence of “Kids Bop” covers, and other newsy nuggets—with their trademark blend of sarcasm, banter, and punchlines.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Authors Who Hated Movie Adaptations (02:06)

• Anne Rice & Interview with the Vampire: Upset over Tom Cruise’s casting as Lestat, but changed her mind after seeing the film.
  • “She just realized her book was boring.” (Brady, 02:24)
• Stephen King’s Disapproval: Did not like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, but liked Tim Curry’s Pennywise in IT.
  • The crew jokes that movies King himself oversees are bad, while the hands-off adaptations (Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me) succeed.
    • “All of Stephen King's, the ones that he was in charge of making were horrible… Misery, The Shining, the ones he didn’t have much to do with, they're all good.” (Brady, 02:43)
• Roald Dahl & Willy Wonka: Dahl called Gene Wilder’s performance “pretentious, insufficiently gay and bouncy.”
  • The hosts ridicule this, affirming Wilder’s greatness.
    • “Idiot… It’s still great.” (Brady, 03:09)
• Ken Kesey & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Disapproved of Jack Nicholson as McMurphy—too short and shrewd.

2. Vin Diesel Walks Meadow Walker Down the Aisle (03:45)

• Vin Diesel stood in for his late friend Paul Walker at Meadow Walker’s wedding.
  • Banter about Diesel’s limited dialogue in films and “Groot” jokes ensue.
  • “They gave him one line… 'Groot.' I bet you there's multiple takes...” (Brady, 04:40)

3. PETA's “Armbarn” Crusade (05:22)

• PETA wants to change the term “bullpen” in baseball to “arm barn” to spare bulls’ feelings.
  • The hosts lampoon the idea, creating fake businesses like prosthetics-only “arm barns” and riffing on the escalating word policing.
    • “I am for the ethical treatment of animals. I am not for the ethical treatment of the People for the ethical treatment of animals.” (Brady, 05:52)
    • “Armbarn’s awesome.” (Brady, 06:03)

4. John Hinckley Jr.'s Devo Royalties (06:49)

• John Hinckley Jr. (Reagan shooter) claims he’s owed royalties for co-writing Devo’s “I Desire” from jail.
  • “He hasn't seen royalties in 35 years. What is the deal?” (Brady, 07:15)
  • “Get him his 20 bucks and he'll… be your king size Snickers.” (Brett, 07:23)
  • Song-based wordplay: “He can’t get no satisfaction…” (Brady, 07:27)

5. Kids Bop to Cover Lil Nas X (07:45)

• “Kids Bop” is set to cover Lil Nas X’s sexually charged song, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).”
  • “The dirty, filthy sexual nature of Lil Nas X… Might as well call it Kids Fap and just let it be what it is.” (Brady, 08:08)
• The hosts joke about how bad kids’ singing sounds, especially when amplified at events.
  • “Kids pretty much speaking or doing anything with a microphone—yeah, they suck.” (Brady, 08:50)

6. Nirvana’s Nevermind Lawsuit (09:22)

• Spencer Eldon (the baby from Nevermind’s album cover) sues Nirvana.
  • Dave Grohl's reaction: “There’s no merit to this dude… he's got a Nevermind tattoo.”
  • “It would be tough to peak as an infant, but even JonBenet had a few years where she climbed. Is that too soon?” (Brady, 10:05)
  • Jokes about peaking as a baby and not topping early fame.

7. Bill Murray Joins Ant-Man 3 (10:45)

• Bill Murray agreed to act in Ant-Man 3 because director Peyton Reed also did Bring It On (which Murray claims to love).
  • “He did Bring it On, the cheerleading movie. Thinks it’s a damn good film.” (Brady, 10:57)
  • “Everything he does is kind of tongue in cheek. I think he's playing with us.” (Brady, 11:04)
  • “But after that, he's like, I'm done with Marvel. Do it one time. LeBron James…” (Brady, 11:11)

8. LeBron James and Squid Game Critique (11:22)

• LeBron James didn’t like the ending of Squid Game; the director trolled him for Space Jam 2.
  • “Have you seen Space Jam 2? LeBron James is cool. I’m very thankful he watched the whole series.” (Brady, quoting the Squid Game director, 11:38)
  • Commentary on cultural and political beefs.

9. Keanu Reeves Gifts Custom Rolex Watches (12:15)

• Keanu gave his four-man stunt team custom Rolexes after wrapping John Wick 4.
  • Cue jokes about knockoff “Rolex” watches.
  • Quick opinions on the John Wick films: 1 > 2 > 3.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Stephen King adaptations:
  “The ones he didn’t touch were great… the ones he was involved in, like Pet Sematary and Cujo, and it was just… Maximum Overdrive. Maximum Overdrive was terrible.”
  — Brady (02:43)

• On PETA's term change:
  “Armbarn’s awesome. The Armbarn is incredible.”
  — Brady (06:03)

• On Kids Bop covering Lil Nas X:
  “The dirty, filthy sexual nature of Lil Nas X… Might as well call it Kids Fap…”
  — Brady (08:08)

• On peaking as an infant (Nirvana’s baby lawsuit):
  “It would be tough to peak as an infant, but, you know, even JonBenet had a few years where she climbed. Is that too soon?”
  — Brady (10:05)

• On Keanu’s gifts:
  “Here you guys go. Whoa… Rolex. I'm an FBI agent and Rolex salesman.”
  — Brady (12:39)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Authors who hated casting/adaptations: 02:06–03:42
• Vin Diesel walks Meadow Walker down the aisle: 03:45–04:33
• PETA's “arm barn” campaign and jokes: 05:22–06:37
• John Hinckley Jr. & Devo royalties news: 06:49–07:26
• Kids Bop covering Lil Nas X / Kids singing sucks: 07:45–08:56
• Nirvana’s Nevermind lawsuit mockery: 09:22–10:28
• Bill Murray on Ant-Man 3 and Bring It On: 10:45–11:17
• LeBron James vs. Squid Game director: 11:22–11:53
• Keanu Reeves gifts John Wick stunt team: 12:15–13:14

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Tone & Style

Consistently irreverent, sarcastic, and pop-culture obsessed. The crew mix real entertainment news with rapid-fire jokes, impersonations, and mockery—making even Hollywood lawsuits and legal weirdness sound like stand-up.

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Takeaway

This episode exemplifies why Holmberg's Morning Sickness is a favorite for pop-culture junkies who prefer their news skewered, not sacred. If you enjoy fast-talking, lightly dark, and relentlessly offbeat takes on Hollywood and media, the “Entertainment Drill” is a can’t-miss morning ritual.

Transcript

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[Brady]

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There's a little list of authors that did not approve of the casting when their book was turned into a movie. For example, Anne Rice. She was upset that Tom Cruise stat an interview with a vampire. But after seeing him, she called him up, took it back.

She just realized her book was boring.

Stephen King did not like Jack Nicholson's performance as Jack Torrance in the Shining. But he did like Tim Curry's Pennywise for the IT miniseries.

Stephen King has terrible taste in making his movies or his books.

[Brett Vesely]

Movies.

[Brady]

All of Stephen King's, the ones that he was in charge of making were horrible. The second he kind of let them go, they're all good. Misery, the Shining. Like the ones he didn't have much to Shawshank Redemption. The things he had less to do with were all good.

[Brett Vesely]

Stand By Me was one too.

[Brady]

Stand By Me, that's right. And the ones he didn't touch were great. The ones he was involved in, like Pet Sematary and Cujo. And it was just maximum overdrive. Maximum overdrive was terrible.

Raoul Dahl didn't like Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

Idiot.

He thought his performance was pretentious, insufficiently gay and bouncy.

Yeah, it's true. And at that time, that was probably.

A concern over the weekend. And it's. It's fantastic.

It's still great. When I was walking around with that cane, the only thing I wanted to do was do a somersault and start singing.

Ken Kessie disapproved of Jack Nicholson playing Randall McMurphy and One Flew the Cuckoo's Nest. I don't think anybody short and too shrewd. My man. Vin Diesel.

Triple X. IO.

He walked Paul Walker's daughter down the aisle. Meadow got married over the weekend.

Somebody had to pause. Not there anymore, obviously.

Triple X is Meadow's godfather, so it was his privilege to walk her down the aisle.

He teared up a little bit. Thank you, Mr. X.

[Maddie Akupd]

Anger. But.

[Brady]

That'S what family does.

[Maddie Akupd]

You are very dark. Pretty.

[Brady]

Thanks, Vin.

[Maddie Akupd]

Duh.

[Brady]

Thanks, Dom. Duh.

[Maddie Akupd]

Making fun of me. Duh.

[Brady]

Did you read your next script for Fast and Furious?

[Maddie Akupd]

Let's read.

[Brady]

Right. Never mind. We'll just film you.

[Maddie Akupd]

Groot Brute.

[Brady]

They gave him one line. You know what? We want you in this. We're gonna pay an exorbitant amount of money and all you have to do is say the word Groot. I bet You. There's multiple takes. Nope, not quite.

Vin.

Try again. There's an R in it. Vin. Goat.

[Maddie Akupd]

No line.

[Brady]

Groot. Nope. No, sir.

[Maddie Akupd]

Duh.

[Brady]

Try again. Say Vin.

Hey, there's one. Nope.

[Maddie Akupd]

Take 500.

[Brady]

Well, we were talking about the Major League baseball, the arms and all that. I don't know if you saw what PETA came out with.

This was a couple days ago, the arm barn.

Like to ban the term bullpen. What a bunch of.

They want to call it the arm.

Barn because bullpens devalued talented players and mocked the misery of sensitive animals. Strike out the word bullpen, which references the holding area where terrified bulls are kept before slaughter. I hate them.

You know, I am for the ethical treatment of animals. I am not for the ethical treatment of the People for the ethical treatment of animals. Yet.

But please change it to Armbarn.

Armbarn's awesome. The Armbarn is incredible. But I mean, if you. What if you lost your arm in a accident? Now you're. You're like the arm bar. Oh, God, that's a tragedy. A PTSD moment. There's no safe.

Those guys will get sued. That have the. The store that they sell prosthetics. The arm barn. Right.

What are they gonna do now? I don't know that. They just. We're focused only on the arms, folks. I sell prosthetics, but I'm not. I'm not that.

[Brett Vesely]

Arms only.

[Brady]

These goddamn legs are. They take up too much space and they're not moving. Arms only. We're the Armbarn for fatter ladies, like the dress.

Barn down the streets. Crazy legs, right?

Crazy legs is. He's a happy dude. I do arms, he does legs. I just need some fingers or a hand. No, no, that's hand barn. Doing the hand job. I don't know why.

You ready for this one? John Hinckley Jr. The guy who killed. Who tried to kill President Rick.

He shot Rick?

Yeah. Is owed royalties from an old Devo song. He's saying this, and he could be right. In 1982, he co wrote a song with Devo called I Desire. It's on their.

Oh, no, it's Devo album from jail, I guess. So he'd already shot Reagan by then.

Yeah. Goes. I haven't seen royalties in 35 years. What is the deal?

Yeah, you know what?

[Brett Vesely]

John campaign making much money anyway, by the by?

[Brady]

Doesn't matter, right? Get him his 20 bucks and he'll.

[Brett Vesely]

Be your king size Snickers show.

[Brady]

What you're saying, Brady, is if I Could borrow a joke from you. He can't get no satisfaction. They covered it, but that was.

They can try.

They could try.

[Brett Vesely]

I hope the roof caves in right now.

[Brady]

Well, they better get that check to them and they better whip it into shape quick.

The last little thing. John, you're a huge fan of Kid Bop. Kids Bop? All right. I don't know the whole albums, you know, where they.

I prefer Kid Pop songs. Means there's less kids. Just singular. Kid Bob.

Well, the new.

Feel like we're getting Kids Bop.

Does Lil Nas X Montero.

Oh, yeah.

Call me by your name. You should hear that version if you get a chance.

So the dirty, filthy sexual nature of little Nas X videos and things like Kids Bopping it now. Might as well call it Kids Fap and just let it be what it is. Because Lil Nas X makes.

They probably do that song on there too.

He's very sexual with this stuff. I don't know what song.

The 20th anniversary of kids Pop.

Some of those kids are old enough to drink now. Listening to kids sing is okay. New list. Kids singing Guy Fieri, 311 Kiss. Kids singing worse than Guy or Worse than. Yeah, Guy Fear.

[Brett Vesely]

And we'll put kids in there announcing at games too.

[Brady]

Kids pretty much speaking are doing anything with a microphone. Yeah, they suck. Yeah, I'm with Brett. Anything you amplify a child's voice with.

I gotta go. Come on.

Is it time to go, Brady? Yeah, time's your ride here.

I gotta. I gotta meet the ride at 11 where home barbecue is.

All right, well, now you know where Brady's car will be parked unattended for a while.

There's five locations.

Oh, well, you got five chances. He'll be gone all day.

Spencer Eldon, the dude that was on the COVID of Nirvana's Nevermind album, He's got that lawsuit. Someone asked Dave Grohl about it. What do you feel about it? He says, I feel like what most people are feeling. There's no merit to this dude. Yeah, he says. That's what I have to say. But listen, he says he's got a Nevermind tattoo. I don't.

It's true.

Brilliant.

And he was on the COVID of Nevermind. And Dave Grohl isn't.

Yeah.

So really, just accept the fact you're legendary forever and you're not gonna accomplish anything better. It would be tough to peak as an infant, but, you know, even JonBenet had a few years where she climbed. Is that too soon?

[Guest or Caller]

She couldn't get up steps after all.

[Brady]

No, that's right though. You know, she had her peak and then she lost her figure and all went to hell.

[Guest or Caller]

Are you saying that cuz she was found in the basement?

[Brady]

Yeah. No, I'm just saying as a baby, if your best days are like, wow, right out of the gate, it only goes downhill from there. That's a long run. So you get a figure around 30. You're like, I'm pretty pissed off about that whole baby peak thing.

[Guest or Caller]

And I thought the people who peaked.

[Brady]

In high school were annoying rough. The finest days are behind me, boys. I was seven months old when I hit my mark. Wow, that has to be hard. And there's. He's done nothing better anyway. What are you gonna. Maybe he has. He's got a little time left. He's quitting.

Bill Murray says he's agreed to do ant man 3 to be a part of it because he. He likes the director, Peyton Reed. One particular reason why he likes him, really likes that film.

He did Bring it on, the cheerleading movie.

Thinks it's a damn good film.

Everything he does is kind of like tongue in cheek.

[Guest or Caller]

He's delusional now.

[Brady]

Yeah. And I think he's playing with us. He's in on it.

But after that he's like, I'm done with Marvel. Do it one time. LeBron James.

Yeah, well. And that's why I love Bill Murray. Like, this isn't for you anymore. This is what I want.

You might agree with Bron Bron on this.

Okay.

He talked about Squid Games and he wasn't a big fan of the ending.

It hasn't ended yet.

So well, of this.

Right. First eight episodes, I think idiots think it's over.

So he voiced his opinion and the director from Squid Games tweeted out, have you seen Space Jam 2? He says LeBron James is cool.

Yeah.

I'm very thankful he watched the whole series.

Well, South Korean's not happy with LeBron because he's such a supporter of China. So I'm sure there's some beef there. Plus, I would have liked the way the South Koreans said that. Have you seen a Space Jim? Their last words are always like sun. That's why I liked watching in the original Korean. They go.

Keanu Reeves has a four man stunt crew that does all this stuff for John Wick. And they just wrapped John Wick four. And each one of the guys got a custom Rolex. The Rolex watch.

That's the Rolex custom because nobody's ever heard of it.

[Guest or Caller]

They couldn't afford the real one. They spent too much money on effects, I'd be smoking.

[Brady]

Here you guys go. Whoa.

[Brett Vesely]

Rolex.

[Brady]

I'm an FBI agent and Rolex salesman.

Were the last couple. John Wicks.

[Brett Vesely]

Good.

[Brady]

Third one was dumb. Okay. First one's great.

Yeah.

Second one's fun. Third one was not very good. Okay, you would agree. You liked it. John Wick.

[Guest or Caller]

Actually, you haven't told me.

[Brady]

Oh, you haven't? I haven't thought you were the one I told.

[Guest or Caller]

I've been meaning to watch them forever and I just never did.

[Brady]

First one is surprisingly really good. Like. Like this is. And it doesn't take itself wildly seriously, but it's really fun. The second one, you're like, alright, thanks for that.

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