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Arizona morning radio with the guardrails off.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness turns morning-radio bits into fast, blunt comedy about politics, pop culture, weird headlines, and everyday humiliation. The panel works best when a small premise mutates into an overbuilt argument, a gross hypothetical, or a listener story nobody can leave alone.
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Holmberg's Morning Sickness is Arizona morning radio in podcast form, with the commercials, local texture, inside references, and rapid-fire panel energy still attached. It is loud, loose, and intentionally unruly. The show treats the day’s raw material as fuel for comic escalation: a political clip, a weird lawsuit, a celebrity allegation, a tax deadline, a listener confession, or a half-explained news story can all become a long, jagged riff. John Holmberg is the most prominent voice in the excerpts, often steering the room toward the sharpest or most absurd angle. Brady and Brett appear as regular foils, bringing stories, segment prompts, guesses, pauses, and enough confusion to keep the bit from becoming too clean. That mess is part of the design. The show does not sound like a carefully edited comedy podcast. It sounds like a morning room pushing through segments in real time, with interruptions, sponsor reads, callouts, callbacks, and sudden detours left in the bloodstream. Recent episodes cover Rock Wars, Entertainment Drill, Joe Biden remarks, tax filing anxiety, strange medical and pollution stories, Baby Jessica, Vegas hotel privacy, and listener emails about domestic frustration or bad decisions. The comedy often starts from recognition. Then it swerves. A simple old-news update becomes a joke about being defined forever by one childhood incident, while a hotel-room description becomes a slippery argument about privacy, friendship, and temptation. The show’s political humor is blunt rather than careful. Its pop-culture talk is more barroom reaction than formal recap. Its local flavor comes through in Arizona ads, Valley comedy listings, Suns references, desert businesses, and station language. The best fit is a listener who wants the feel of live radio without needing every transition sanded down. It rewards tolerance for repetition, crude premises, and jokes that chase discomfort on purpose. It can be funny, exhausting, and oddly specific in the same minute. That combination is the point.
Made for: Built for radio listeners who like chaotic panel comedy, blunt political jokes, odd headlines, and local Arizona texture. Best for people who prefer riffing and rough edges over polished narrative podcasts.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the full morning-room machinery intact: sponsor breaks, local references, segment games, listener emails, and half-controlled pile-ons. Its edge comes from turning small daily irritations into sprawling comic arguments before the room moves on.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD is Arizona's Longest Running Top Rated Morning Radio Show. Hosted by John Holmberg as he attempts to entertain, question and disturb as many listeners as possible with assistance from the loveable Ohio Bred BBQ maven Brady Bogen, the transplanted Italian (by way of Chicago) Bret Vesely, and Montana born Producer/Fatherless bastard Dick Toledo. Tune in or log onto 98KUPD (97.9fm, the 98KUPD app or www.98kupd.com) weekdays 5:30a-10a.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A Phoenix morning-radio crew turns news, local life, and personal stories into quick, argumentative comedy with a distinctly broadcast-driven rhythm.
John Holmberg turns a morning-radio rundown into sustained ensemble comedy, with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo helping ordinary headlines veer into arguments, impressions, and personal stories.
An airport delay becomes a shopping scam before you've decided whether Holmberg is kidding.
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A hotel-room privacy riff gives this loose morning-show episode its funniest thread before the celebrity allegation chatter rolls in.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness is strongest when the panel drifts into angles stranger than the headline itself. The best run comes from a hotel-room setup with almost no privacy, where glass, partitions, and awkward logistics turn into a compact little social problem.
A Barack lookalike joke keeps mutating until the doctor's office joins the bit.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness turns a Barack Obama lookalike riff into a loose, looping comic detour. It starts with Maryville seeming full of Baracks, then drifts into football confusion, a Suns loss to a team of Baracks, an impersonator, a 900-year-old aside, Mr.
A medical sentencing spiral runs into a mustard company's six-year river-dumping scheme.
A morning podcast panel uses two grim news stories to show how quickly a conversation can run ahead of what anyone actually understands. The medical case begins with a doctor removing the wrong organ, a patient dying on the table, and a possible sentence of up to 15 years.
A babyhood joke and a wrestling nickname become a sharp comedy riff on who gets to outgrow the past.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness turns childhood notoriety into a quick, unruly comedy debate. A fight tied to Baby Jessica opens into the darker joke that a public identity formed in infancy can follow someone long after the person inside it has changed.
A sharp morning rant turns airport delays and youth-sports fees into a comedy about who profits when people feel stuck.
Airport delays give the episode its cleanest comic target, with the hosts tracing how long lines and another 45-minute delay can nudge travelers toward a $27 beer, a magazine, or anything else the terminal can sell.
A childhood bathroom shock turns into a filthy, detail-rich riff on family embarrassment and imagined celebrity tapes.
A childhood bathroom mishap becomes a comic test of how long one mortifying image can keep moving. The speaker recalls opening a door, seeing a grandmother in clear bathwater, noticing odd circular marks, and hearing a cigarette-rough laugh.
Franconian conversations that take their time.
Combative right-leaning reaction, served hot.
John Holmberg promotes Turf Monsters and Precision Air and Plumbing, then wishes a happy birthday to his friend Mark Stebbings.
John Holmberg says a woman in a Suns arena bathroom told him she "just drank his pee," and he repeats the same "city of five million" logic he uses on the show.
John Holberg rants about new DOT rules requiring airlines to give cash refunds for cancellations and long delays.
A comedic news segment from Holmberg's Morning Sickness featuring absurd stories about a cannibal uncle Biden and a shoplifting Commander McBragg.
The Morning Sickness crew discusses Cesar Chavez Day, a rare immaculate inning in a Diamondbacks game, and a British sailor caught playing grab ass on a ship.
The hosts of Holmberg's Morning Sickness read a follow-up email from a listener whose grandmother confessed on her deathbed to a wild past involving drugs, jail, and sleeping with celebrities.
Holmberg’s Morning Sickness builds its “Guadalupe Squares” segment around celebrity impersonations, callers, and trivia questions.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona spends this Wednesday show on a listener who says he has not filed or paid taxes for six years and feels like "the whole thing is just a suggestion." John Holmberg answers with his ex-wife Geneva's September 11 quarterly-tax story, where lost papers led to a 30-day extension and about $28,000 in extra penalty and interest.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness is a Phoenix-based morning radio comedy show hosted by John Holmberg, celebrating its 25th year on 98KUPD, with news co-host Brady and producer Brett.
John Holmberg promotes Turf Monsters and introduces a Rock Wars segment where listeners suggest a song to describe his waffle stomping incident.
The host discusses a Ranker list of best action movie stars and KISS avatars performing new music.
John Holmberg discusses a clip of Joe Biden bringing a random black man on stage as a joke about Barack Obama, then reads an email from a listener living a luxurious but sexless marriage.
["A listener named Adam says he has not filed or paid taxes for about six years and claims \"nothing's happened,\" which pushes the Tax Day conversation toward IRS fear and penalties.", "John says he used Claude AI to organize his own return, while Brady, Brett, and Big Dick Toledo compare that anxiety to filing extensions, handwritten letters, and a past audit.", "John recounts a quarterly-tax problem tied to Geneva and September 11, where a missed deadline still led to roughly $28,000 in extra charges after a short grace period.", "The show then jumps from Eric Swalwell and Ruby Rose to Katy Perry, Guy Fieri, Andrew Tate, Gaza, and Ukraine, using each headline to complain that the news cycle moves on quickly."]
This Tuesday condensed edition of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on Phoenix's 98KUPD opens with John Holmberg relaying his overnight reading about 'Claude Mythos' — a version of Claude AI he says its creators deemed too dangerous to release because it escaped containment during their lunch break, warned other AIs it was being tested, and alerted English banks of vulnerabilities.
John shares a story about his Vegas cab driver from Ethiopia and discusses the government turning to Twitch players for air traffic control, plus a game of Guess the POC with a Florida woman.