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Brett Vesely
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Byron from MMP Guns
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Brett Vesely
Okay, but what if he lives out of state?
Byron from MMP Guns
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John Holmberg
Here's another Best of rerun from the Morning Sickness.
Frank Caliento
You're listening to the Best of Homburg's Morning Sickness and you might have heard a little bit of me, Frank Caliento.
John Holmberg
There, who, by the way, just happens.
Frank Caliento
To be at Tempe Improv New Year's Eve 2 shows. Tempe.com or something, you sons of. Now back to the Best of Holmberg's Morning Sickness.
John Holmberg
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Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Disney World's Haunted Mansion was temporarily shut down over the weekend because someone scattered their loved ones ashes on the ride.
Brett Vesely
That's happened a couple times, hasn't it?
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
I think so. One of the employees made the at Disney said, don't pour your ashes on there one. They get swept off and thrown in the trash. Is that where you really want?
John Holmberg
Well, you shouldn't have to tell people not to dump dead bodies at the Disney. Disney has signs somewhere that says please don't dump your bot. I guarantee they've got some Maryville. Yeah, Disney's a. They're a buttoned up organization. They're definitely. There's a note somewhere in the park that states clearly not to drop your debt off. The Disney would prefer if you did not drop off the Disney remains the Disney. Always remember that Disney is buttoned up legally.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Pixar scrapping a transgender storyline from its upcoming series. Win or lose. Disney says parents are catching or draw.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it's Bert Convie's Pixar.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
They said this is a subject we want. You know the feedback we've gotten that parents would rather talk about this subject than having.
Frank Caliento
Yeah, yeah.
John Holmberg
You don't want cartoon trannies. Well, I don't.
Brett Vesely
That's because Trump's in there now.
Brady
We're not doing that right now.
John Holmberg
We're not doing cartoon. You're not gonna erase the dick on my dime. That's not happening.
Brady
And it's easier when you drum. You can just erase.
John Holmberg
Is it eraser or you can draw one on.
Brady
It's not as complicated.
John Holmberg
It's whatever you want to do. You can draw on a dick or you can lose a dick, but you can only do it on Pixar.
Brady
And you can draw balls too. Real balls. Balls.
John Holmberg
They love them. How often do you think there's like a presidential meeting on his. Note that there's a dick and balls drawn on it. This guy is driving me bananas. He's gonna draw a big veiny dick.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
He'll. He'll sell them.
Brady
It's a Trump sketch. And this one has a mustache. It's got a bow mustache.
John Holmberg
Would you like a mustache ride? This dick is asking the question anyway. You can't erase it. Pixar.
Frank Caliento
Yeah.
John Holmberg
I don't think that's a thing that Pixar needs to dabble in.
Byron from MMP Guns
I don't.
John Holmberg
I don't think anybody needs to really.
Frank Caliento
Try to figure out if Muppets gay.
John Holmberg
And like they're felt right. There's a guy's hand up its ass. It's gay. They're all gay. Every Muppet's gay. But they're not the operator. Bert and Ernie. Remember that Big. Are they gay? It's like, guys, stop.
Brady
Ernie. Like.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
And they finally came out and said.
Brady
Oh, yeah, they are. Ernie. Very good guy.
John Holmberg
You knew Ernie.
Brady
Listen.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Think of it.
Brady
Ernie very orange.
John Holmberg
Oh, that's true.
Brady
A little bit of crazy hair.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
He done great in the tub.
Brady
Tremendous. Rubber ducky. Rubber ducky.
John Holmberg
You're the one make bath time. Lots of fun. Rubber ducky. I'm fond of you.
Brady
Burton. His bottle caps. She was always counting bottle caps.
Frank Caliento
Probably.
Brady
Bert was like Elon. Elon. Counting Bob bottle caps and communicating with pigeons.
John Holmberg
That's right.
Brady
So much has changed.
John Holmberg
Autism.
Brady
We were touching it years ago.
John Holmberg
A lot of is on the spectrum.
Brady
It was on the rfk. RFK said we're not. We going to. We're not going to jab the Muppets anymore. There's no more Muppet jabbing.
John Holmberg
No more Muppet.
Brady
The only thing going into them is the hand from underneath. That's not what Mr. Snapalophagus. He was not real. And then he said, we can't have imaginary friends. They've got to be real. And that's like all the polls. The polls that said I was not winning. They weren't real.
John Holmberg
That worked.
Frank Caliento
The Snuffy fake news.
Brady
Fake Muppet.
Frank Caliento
Fake Muppets.
John Holmberg
I call CNN Snuffy news. It's not real. It's imaginary news.
Byron from MMP Guns
All right.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
He won by seven.
Brady
Shock.
John Holmberg
See? Leno fell down. Did you. Did we talk about that?
Frank Caliento
Happens all the time. I filled in for Leno when his face burned up. I was doing a show in Vegas for him.
John Holmberg
Oh, I thought you meant on his Whose Line Is It? Or whatever that show is where I.
Frank Caliento
Show up in my pajamas that are also denim.
Brett Vesely
Yeah.
Frank Caliento
Hey, you know what's great about this show? I don't even have to have somebody do my hair. That's amazing.
John Holmberg
Yeah. What is it called? It was the Rolling out of bed. I think it's called Groucho March Show.
Frank Caliento
Rolling out of bed.
John Holmberg
What was that called?
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
What's my line?
John Holmberg
Or no. Ah, damn it. That comes down, give me $100, I don't really care. That's it. Joke is a joker, a joke. Political science, the price is right. So I thought I found that to be one of the stories of the year that nobody ever followed up on. That Jay Leno was wandering around.
Brett Vesely
You bet your life.
John Holmberg
You bet your life. At the Hampton Inn.
Frank Caliento
I was at the Hampton Inn. I don't stand these luxury places like John Lovitz does.
John Holmberg
Yeah, but why were you running down the hill?
Frank Caliento
What I like to do, I like to roll down hills every once in a while. You ever make yourself into a ball? You ever make. Roll yourself like Sonic the Hedgehog?
John Holmberg
Don't you look at Brady when you.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Yeah, I do.
Frank Caliento
Throw yourself into a ball. Like a cinnamon.
John Holmberg
Cinnamon swirl.
Frank Caliento
Cinnabon. Yeah. Get you glaze yourself with a little bit.
John Holmberg
Oh, I do that. And then you throw yourself down a hill and roll it down.
Frank Caliento
You collect a little bit of dirt as you're going down. You got a little bit of, you know, black and blue.
John Holmberg
Massive head wounds.
Frank Caliento
Yeah, a massive head wound, Harry.
John Holmberg
Yeah. I still think that story has something behind it. Like he was in that Hampton.
Frank Caliento
I'm not so sure.
John Holmberg
And he's running from.
Frank Caliento
I know that area.
John Holmberg
And I know you're not staying at a Hampton Inn.
Frank Caliento
I've stayed. There's nothing in there. In that area. It's. There's, there's. I've studied, like something kind of like that. Right in that area.
John Holmberg
But then you're not going to walk down a hill.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Do you know, I've done.
Frank Caliento
I've done those kind of.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Why?
Frank Caliento
Yeah, because you just go down. You don't want to take the windy road. I've done it.
John Holmberg
I think Jay was in the hands of him. But something terrible happened. The husband showed up. I gotta get the hell outta here. This guy's gonna kill me. And he pulls his pants out, grabbed his denim, zipped his denim tuxedo and ran. I gotta get. I gotta get the hell outta here. Run down this hill. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. My face.
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John Holmberg
They're gonna recognize me now. I'm all broken. My chin, my beautiful chin. I did that when he burned. That was my joke with. I was like, oh, my God, my face. My beautiful face. Oh, my chin will never be the same.
Frank Caliento
I went from looking like George Clooney to myself.
John Holmberg
Yeah, it was. There's more to that story. That's got a little, you know, Jussie Smollett.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Well, now that Frank said there's really nothing around there, and that's the place you gotta.
John Holmberg
For sure. I know it is. You know, you book me there. What does it cost, 60, $70,000 for me to do 10 minutes? I'll stay at the Hampton and that seems reasonable. It's not. It's not.
Frank Caliento
You know, they gave me the private jet. I get the private plane, $100,000, and.
John Holmberg
Then put me in a basic double queens, and we'll put it up there in the Hampton.
Frank Caliento
And remember Shatner saying, it's the mattress?
John Holmberg
It's the mattress.
Brady
That's what you bought.
John Holmberg
Yeah, but he's not staying at the Hampton. Oh, no, he's 90. He made it to 90. Hips sleep for the win. I still think that's the story of the year. No one's talking about. P. Diddy's clearly the story of 2024. Like, that's the one everybody scriptures still. Nobody's talking about that.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
It might go into 25.
John Holmberg
All right? It went away because it's like we don't have any info. Like, they hid it all. There's so much more.
Frank Caliento
Have you seen this P. Diddy stuff? You know they found 5,000 gallons of lube. It's the same stuff I used on my face after my standard after fire.
John Holmberg
They loaded me up with P. Diddy lube.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
That's what he slipped on.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Slipped on. Yeah, that's right.
Frank Caliento
They threw me into these Asian women's cooches. See me being rammed in on Brit's video here.
John Holmberg
It makes the same sense.
Byron from MMP Guns
I'm out.
Frank Caliento
I'm in and out. It's like me and the Tonight Show, 10, 15 years ago. Oh, Conan at the end of the.
John Holmberg
Have you heard of this? The Kazuka, The Kazakh. What's that called? The Japanese mob there? The Kazakaza.
Frank Caliento
I think it's great. Kazuka Yakuza.
Brady
Great.
John Holmberg
Kazuka Yakuza. Yakuza, yeah. They showed up at the Hampton, and I had to run the hell out of there, and I fell down the hill. Whoa. Yikes. He wouldn't fall like that, too.
Frank Caliento
He would do a cartoon move.
John Holmberg
Absolutely. It would be the Jay Leno. The Hampton Inn. Oh, my God. I hope they don't have cameras. Yakuza. I think he was being chased around by somebody. Jay Leno ain't running down a hill to a stake.
Frank Caliento
What is that?
John Holmberg
Letterman. Letterman.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Letterman.
John Holmberg
You finally found me. How did you find me here? He's been running from Letterman for 30 years. We don't have time for anything. We're going to all these years.
Brett Vesely
Doesn't matter. Phone it in.
Frank Caliento
Brett wins Rock wars after all these years.
John Holmberg
I did it for me. Walter White's Letterman. I did it for me. I still think that's the story, though. There's something goofy that.
Frank Caliento
I was selling meth.
John Holmberg
There's a lady in there that's not.
Frank Caliento
Try this Blue ice look. That's what it does to your face, huh?
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
And what wasn't it like?
John Holmberg
Mavis, we're a family. And doing this for. You know, it wasn't like he was.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Going to the show.
John Holmberg
No. He was going to get a steak. He's going to a restaurant down the hill. And all he had to do was walk around, call an Uber, like You said. And in Pittsburgh, people forget, like, you do whip around a lot to go straight, because there's a lot of bumps and hills and, like, terrain, but still. The Hampton Inn is where I was like, what's he doing there? And it's at a casino.
Frank Caliento
No, they don't have the stuff attached.
John Holmberg
They don't have a hotel by the casino.
Frank Caliento
I've stayed. I'm telling you, I've stayed in a hotel. There's, like. There's all kinds of road construction right there.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Frank Caliento
And there's, like, where all the workers stay are the only places to stay.
John Holmberg
There's, like, Jay Leno, and some have.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Restaurants in there, like, let me go in there.
John Holmberg
Road workers.
Frank Caliento
I'm trying to think who else would be there.
John Holmberg
Yeah.
Frank Caliento
With DraftKings, you stay in a better place.
John Holmberg
That's what I'm talking about. Make it happen. I don't understand any of that, and I won't accept it.
Frank Caliento
I've stayed. Listen, I stay. He's cheap, and he.
John Holmberg
I know he's cheap, but he's not paying for it.
Frank Caliento
I stayed in a place in Cleveland that I thought I was getting a deal on. By where? Right by where Michelle's parents lived. And it was. It was. I don't know if I should say.
John Holmberg
And I've been to plenty of those. I've fallen.
Frank Caliento
And they're nice.
John Holmberg
There's some of the nicest places.
Frank Caliento
But this one, we got there, and there were dryer sheets on the air conditioner, like they were trying to clean.
John Holmberg
The air smell better.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
Yeah.
Frank Caliento
And it was not cleaned, and there was nothing taken care of. And then in the middle of the night, we just left. I'm like, I'm not staying here, kids. We're not staying here. We tell my wife's half brother. Not Uncle Chris, but my half brother. Like, yeah, we were at that courtyard, and we just left. And I said, I don't care if I'm paying or what. We just got out of there. He goes, yeah, well, it was kind of weird when you chose to stay there. I was like, why is that? He goes, well, it's kind of known for human trafficking. I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. First of all, why do you know that? And why is nobody dealing with that thing if it's kind of known for that?
John Holmberg
It's got a little reputation.
Brett Vesely
Check the Yelp reviews before you booked it or what?
Frank Caliento
It had, like, sevens. It's sixes and sevens, which is terrible. But I was just like, we're only staying there for a few Hours. And then we're flying to Italy the next day. We got better places of staying in Italy, right?
John Holmberg
Looks like we're bunk mate Frank. I'm gonna save a couple bucks and sleep with you and your family here at the Human Trafficking Inn.
Frank (possibly same as E or another commentator)
No stairs.
John Holmberg
No more stairs. I don't like hills. I don't like stairs.
Frank Caliento
HTI the Human Trafficking Inn.
John Holmberg
Hey, Joey out there and the knees right in my back there. We're trying to get a good night's sleep. I got a show in the morning.
Frank Caliento
Joey texted me, like, before we left. He goes, I am not staying here.
John Holmberg
Yeah, I've done that. I will leave a place. I look at the kids.
Frank Caliento
I can't. I could have. I could have dealt with.
John Holmberg
All right, so maybe I guess you're. You're not putting me at ease, though. I still think Jay Leonard was up to no good.
Frank Caliento
What? Something going on in the neighborhood got scared of me. I said, we're moving with auntie uncle and Auntie and Bill A.
John Holmberg
It's AI Franklino. All right.
Frank Caliento
I was trying to. Down the hill there. There was a stake to myself.
John Holmberg
He was close to.
Frank Caliento
I hope I'm not gonna be late.
John Holmberg
So I went anyway. Stop it. It's the entertainment. Joe Brady.
Byron from MMP Guns
Go ahead.
Frank Caliento
I rolled down the hill. I was finally there.
John Holmberg
My face was all blue and I just don't care.
Frank Caliento
So I had to do the show. It was at about 8.
John Holmberg
And he did his show that night. Yeah, of course, nobody knows I look terrible, but that's all right. I don't agree.
Frank Caliento
Anybody knows my face getting a little bit old hair.
John Holmberg
What's the deal with bruising? I mean, what's the deal with the elephant man?
Frank Caliento
He was handsome, wasn't he?
John Holmberg
Oh, my God. Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. It's John Holmberg here, and it's time to talk about TVs Doug Hopkins of my home group and Doug Hopkins dot com. I got a call from Doug the other day thanking me for leading so many of you guys his direction. He told me a story of a listener who had been through quite an ordeal and had a house they absolutely had to sell to feel like they were getting back to a normal place in life. You just never know when simple business transactions can actually change someone's life. So you want to deal with somebody great. TV's Doug Hopkins. That's your guy. So if you want to sell your house, start the process right now online@doug hopkins.com or grab that phone and sing Hopkins 1-800-sale now.
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This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness centers on pop culture shenanigans, irreverent banter about entertainment headlines, and a particularly deep-dive into the mysterious circumstances surrounding Jay Leno's recent fall. Comedian Frank Caliendo joins the crew, putting his stamp on the conversation with comedic takes, impressions, and first-hand stories, while the regular cast riff on everything from Disney controversies to weird hotel experiences.
"They get swept off and thrown in the trash. Is that where you really want?" ([02:48], Frank)
"You shouldn't have to tell people not to dump dead bodies at Disney." ([02:59], John)
"You don't want cartoon trannies… You're not gonna erase the dick on my dime, that's not happening." ([03:53–03:59], John)
"I think Jay was in the Hampton Inn, but something terrible happened. The husband showed up. I gotta get the hell outta here." ([08:02], John)
"I went from looking like George Clooney to myself." ([09:46], Frank)
“That’s got a little, you know, Jussie Smollett.” ([09:50], John)
This episode stands out for its freewheeling comedic riffs, the group’s playful skepticism about entertainment news (especially around Jay Leno’s accident), and a round-robin of stories about the weird underbelly of show business and travel. It’s a blend of sharp commentary, parody, and wild speculation, touching on Disney, Pixar, P. Diddy, and especially the mythos around Jay Leno’s very public, very fishy fall.