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Morning sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. He's evil. Sitting right here. Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. Ah, Brett. What I do? 12 hours. 12 hours, Brett's gonna be laughing. You'll be having the time of your life. Show starts at 7, 7:30. 7:30. Yeah. You're gonna be in heaven.
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Be great.
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12 hours from now, you're gonna be rolling. And it'd just about be over like, oh, show it again. Brett's going to book a Mormon tonight.
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We're going Saturday.
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Are you going too? Yeah, I gotta figure. I didn't know it was here. I might go tonight. I might go tomorrow and Saturday or get on Stubhub. Yeah, I'll just show up and start sneaking in. Okay. Yeah.
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You've seen the old people that usher at the Gamma train.
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I might just go and I will suck yo ticket. I'll do it.
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Tell them you're part of the crew, part of the cast.
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I could. Yeah. Supposed to go in Hasidiga Ibo. Why, hello. My name is Elder Clark. Like to share with you the most amazing book. You're gonna love this, by the way. I've been. It is. Well, it's. It's a musical. I know. It's kind of like the Twinkie. Don't worry about it. It doesn't make you gay. If you're. If you're that close to riding the fence of being gay, you just better stay home. You'll be fine. You're not going to come out of there gay, all right? You are going to be like, your stomach's gonna hurt. Yeah. Like eight. Too much bad stuff. So it's A little bit like being gay. I just got news from Adot, by the way, a little breaking news that if you want to go to the game tonight, leave now. It's not going to be good. It's rain. It's going to be miserable. So tonight's game between Miami and Ole Miss, if you want to go, now's the time to leave to get there at a reasonable time. They say that if you're in central Phoenix and you leave right now, you should be arriving right about 3 o'. Clock. So that'll be perfect. The tailgate and stuff. If you live in the East Valley, you should have left two or three hours ago, but you can still get there by game time. If you leave now, this is going to be a.
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Should have got an Airbnb in Glendale yesterday.
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Yep. Yeah, you should have thought ahead. It's going to be really tough with traffic. And now for those of you who are from out of town that are listening, rain in Phoenix and weather and traffic is a disaster. We're horrible at it. We have to. You gotta remember these people are from. A lot of em are from Miami. The other half is from the swamps of Mississippi. They will not understand our behavior. When the magic elixir starts to fall from the clouds, we don't. We lose our minds. So people from Florida who like drive in hurricanes, it rains there every day for a minute or two. They don't have that problem. We do. So Floridians, we apologize. Apologize. But if you leave now, you'll avoid the insanity and rush hour by the stadium is going to be a disaster. So once again Adot has reminded all of you, if you have tickets to tonight's game and you're not already across central heading west, it's about a six and a half, seven hour trip now. So whatever you had planned, put your forks down, no more breakfast. It's over. And head on out to the stadium and get out of our way.
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Your private plane guy could make any money on people.
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Yeah. Getting a private jet from Scottsdale over to it still. Yeah. I don't know where you gonna land. L. Yeah, you can land out there. He'll find a spot.
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It's a good question. I didn't know that there was.
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Don't worry about it. He'll. He'll put it down, we'll get it there. But yeah, Brink could get something together on that. But either way, should have left by now. If you haven't. You got it. You got a big day. Adot said so. This isn't me. This is adot sand. And actually it started by saying, Arizona Department of Transportation asks all people heading to tonight's game to get the out of our way. And that's essentially what I'm doing, is trying to help out the people who actually work every day from having to deal with this disaster because it's going to get Messy come about 4:30 and that's when it's already bad. Now people are going against it. Salmon. Salmon going downstream, stuck in traffic.
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You'll be hearing people yelling, hottie Toddy.
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Why? And just that's. Is that what they yell at Ole Miss for Ole Miss? I didn't know that. That's not as. That's gayer than the thing you're going to be doing. Okay, good. Now I feel good. Hotty Toddy. Also, you don't want to piss Florida people off. We got a lot of Floridians here, so be careful between the scary people from Miami and the hillbilly people from Miami. Loving that Miami team. That's a group of rednecks that look, we could tell them there's a python hunt and that we could distract them for a little while because they'll do it.
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You warned people last week, Michael Irvin's in town.
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Yeah, Michael Irvin's here. Warren Sapp may be here, probably Ray Lewis is here. It's almost like a jail has opened up. Miami is in town. The convicts are here. And that's not their reputation anymore because they figured out how to get away with stuff. They still like you, you know, they're still convicts and deep down want people to think so because all of their. Their stars from the past that they allow on the sidelines. You don't see Vinny Testaverde on the sidelines. It's all the guys who got out of jail at one point or another. It's Miami loaded up with dudes with prison records and they let them still hang around the team. They should have like Steve Walsh, Kelly and Bernie Kozar and all. But Bernie's sick. But all these other guys, Ken Dorsey. Yeah, some of these you get. You got a few of them Willis McGahey dudes who haven't been to jail. But you look on that sideline, it's all their jailbirds, you know, all of them. And Michael Irvin went crazy against Ohio State. He dressed up a Gatorade bottle as an Ohio State fan and took his belt off and began to spank. Wasn't a bottle. It was one of those coolers. Did you see that? He took a T shirt, an Ohio State T shirt, and put it over a Gatorade Igloo cooler, and then pulled his belt off and then had a guy bend it over and just whipped the thing on the sideline. The game's still going on. Yeah, the game was still going on. Michael Irvin lost his mind. It was hilarious, but he'd lost his ever loving mind. All the convicts from Miami are going to be on the sidelines. The city is loaded with rap sheets because Miami's here. So be careful, because the python hunters are their fans. They're. They're weirder than the actual convict. And I think they're going to win. So there's a good chance something gets lit on fire. That's west side, man. They'll be used to it. But this is this. Even the West Sider. The West Siders come, they turn into Paradise Valley people compared to these Miami fans. What? Oh, yeah. No. Oh, yeah. You'll see. Luther Campbell. All right, Maryvale, step it up. Luther Campbell is. He'd be like. He'd look at the west side and like, what's with all you prissy? Like, there's nothing. Yeah, 2Life Crew, they'll be there. Michael Irvin, Ray Lewis. Hide your kids, hide your husbands. Everybody getting raped around here. Warren Sapp chucking women around. You'll see the U.
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Don Johnson.
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Did Don Johnson go to the U?
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No.
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Just thinking. Miami Vice. That's. No, we're not talking about that right now. Not all of Miami, just the school. Edward James, almost. He'll be there, too. Yeah. No, well, no, no, see, don't get distracted by him and then go down the wrong road. No, look, I gotta drive this train. Whenever he derails it, I gotta put it back. Don't help. Speaking of Florida, by the way, did you see the thing they got going on with those python hunts? They've got heat sensor fake robot rabbits now to lure them out. Yeah. And they put them in cages, and then they. And then the. Because they can't find all these pythons, they think that even with the python hunting by all these creepy Floridians, that they slow the population. They don't know, so they're. They assume They've got over 10,000 adult Pythons living, trying to do those roundups and cut down. Nothing you can do. And they're having these invasive bucks a foot. Get something, something. Check out homework's morning sickness podcast@98kupd.com the.
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But anytime one of those snakes gets pregnant, they have like six or seven more snakes and they're just a non. It's never going to end. So they've they've hired Floridians to walk the swamps and try to catch them, and they're doing a pretty good job considering. But they're like, what if we have robots that like let off heat sensors and then the snakes will smell and sense the heat pattern and go towards it. And then so here's what I thought they were doing. I thought they were I.E.D. ing the rabbits and then the snake would start to eat it. No. So they're getting there and they have it in a cage and then when the sensors go off, somebody from Game and Fish goes and rounds up the snake and then they I like your way better. It's a better way. And then they release it humanely, where they're not releasing that thing.
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They're releasing the.
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Humanely releasing it. They're just putting it into a shelter and doing tests on it. They're going to kill it anyway, have the rabbits explode.
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The roundups are taking them out.
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They're not. Their population growing like crazy. That's why they have the fake bunnies now, is because their little roundups aren't working. So it's working, but not fast enough. So, like, let's just get fake, fake prey. So they're building all these stuffed rabbits, you know, and they're putting stuff in them, and then they put them in little cages, and the snakes, like, they have a scent of rabbit and then the heat, because that's how snakes, like, sense the heat of something. Like. Oh, that's a living thing. So they see the heat and it lets off, like, it emits, like, a little heat pattern. The snake shows up to see what the hell this is, because they think it's prey. And then some guy comes and picks it up, evidently to let it eat the rat. Let's build hundreds of explosive heat rabbits and just blow the living out of all these pythons. It's an easy solution. But then, of course, you get people who are mad that that's what. What are they doing with all these pythons? They're capturing. They're killing them. Yeah. So blow them up. Make it fun.
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They say they also, you know, relocate alligators.
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No, they don't.
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Too big in certain areas, like in Naples.
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And that's to keep people quiet.
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We'll put them over there in the Okeechobee.
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They're not putting them anywhere but in. They're holding their heads under brackish water to drown them in salt, and they're killing them anyway. They're trying to make it so they don't start going after kids and people because there's so many of them now, and they can't. They can't find them. So they're called cyber bunnies. And so far, it's gonna be pricey how you put a couple of those heat packs you put in your pockets when it snows. I guess maybe Josh sells them at Action Ride Shop. For God's sake.
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You spray them with heat.
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Okay. Put whatever you want to rub them up against a real rabbit.
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I don't think you need that. No. But if you like swimming and pee.
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Yeah. Just go rub it on a real rabbit and put it out there and if no snakes come rub a rabbit on it again, you get one rabbit and 6,000 of these robot rabbits. This is. This is over in a week. If you include explosives, that wouldn't take much. One of those little M80s, those little tiny things. A cherry bomb, something like that. And if you've got monitoring on it already, I mean, what's more expensive, the rabbits blowing up or having a guy sit there and monitor? Okay, there's a snake. He's got to drive all the way over there, pick up the snake, drive all the way back.
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You're talking about doing that in Florida.
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You take people out. So tell Floridians.
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I'm gonna hug it.
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Tell Floridians they're allowed to blow snakes up. Your snake problem goes away. Saturday, it's over. You can blow them up now, gang, or you can put 10 right out. Yep. And I know you've got it, so go crazy. The amount of yahooing that would go on in central Miami and Florida area. Oh, my God, look at snake chunks everywhere.
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That's good eats.
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Yeah, that's. Of course it is. You think those rednecks are out there picking them up and taking them to a humane location and disposing them? No, they're chopping them in half and making lassos and boots. And I just think of the. The Mountain Dew buckles. Yeah, that's what it is. My cyber bunny got one. They'd make them at home. It wouldn't cost the state anything. Just like here. You're allowed to put M80s and Tannerite in a stuffed animal. If you just put this little heat seeker in there and then just sit in your backyard and wait for the pythons, those rednecks would love it. And by the way, Saturday 2:33 in the afternoon, Governor of Florida goes out and goes, we don't have a problem anymore. We blew up over 30,000 snakes in, like, eight houses. But that was gonna happen.
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We are snake free.
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We're snake free. In fact, we have more fake rabbits now than we know what to do with. Give Florida permission to blow st up. Problem solved. Absolutely solved.
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Oh, my God. Apparently we have a Cuban listener. John. We have a thing called banana rats In Cuba, the pest control guys just shoot them at night, and then the giant boas come there and eat them.
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What are we waiting for?
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Difference there. Just the rabbits are cuddlier.
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Well, I think the risk of releasing a bunch of rats that become more rats than you need. There you go.
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And sometimes the dead feed is hard.
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They.
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They want the life or has A little warmth down.
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All right, well, then shoot a BB into them and let them struggle and make them easy prey. This is simple. This is a simple solution. Deep down, I think they kind of want the python problem because it eliminates a lot of hillbillies as they're hunting. We don't hear about that. Like 20 Floridians die every month from python hunts because they drown. Or most like dogs. Yeah, they blow themselves up or they do something really stupid. But I like robot bunnies until I read that they're decoys for proper disposal. I want. I want explosions screwing around with that. Also, I'm getting a lot of emails about what happened up there in Minneapolis. I withhold comments till I know for sure what's going on. And by the way, let's not go crazy. I already watched a little news on this one. One side's packing its lunch, the other's packing its lunch. On how wrong once both things can be. True, everyone could have been wrong here. Still, one person lost their life. But if that lady was trying to run people over with a car, it doesn't get good after that. Usually when you're trying to run people over the car, there's a chance you're going to get hit.
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So put herself in harm way.
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Maybe hold with whole comment till we know for sure because right now it's just what everybody wants it to be. Whatever feeds that side, you know, So I don't know. Doesn't look good.
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How about this?
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Aren't sure. Did they fire him? Yep. All right. The Miami Dolphins coach has been fired. He can go hunt cobras now or whatever.
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Hello. John Harbaugh.
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I heard Tom Brady made a hard play for Harbaugh. Oh, yeah. First contact him. There's going to be calls for Harbaugh who's left on the list. Who else are we expecting for coaching? The Cardinals are going to interview Matt Nagy. That's smart. We'll talk to to Dale about this in a minute. Pretty solid list of people the Cardinals are going to screw up by, not by hiring.
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Is there anybody else, though that should.
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Be fire is expected to be in the Cardinals camp? No, no, to be fired. Well, now that Harbaugh's out, I would suspect there's two or three teams like Tampa, New Orleans that are kind of middling with their coach and like, oh, well, that's much better. So you'd get rid of a coach that you didn't expect a fire to keep him, to get him. We'll see Tennessee a couple of those places they're like, we're automatically better once he shows up. So let's not try and find out if we have the, like. I can't imagine that the dude down there, Kellen Moore down in New Orleans, is breathing easy on his contract with John Harbaugh floating around. I don't know. We'll see. We'll find out. And Dale's going to come in here and talk a little sports with us in a minute. But, yeah, fired Mike McDaniel. He might be the next Cardinals coach. Another coach with capri pants. That's what this place needs. It could happen. We'll wait for Dale. He's coming in here next. We'll talk a little sports. It's 98.
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It's not weird. It's pretty cool, actually. No membership fee.
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I have heard enough of this for you, PD.
Date: January 8, 2026
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Episode Description: The crew tackles the chaos of Fiesta Bowl game traffic in Phoenix, riffs on Florida's ongoing python problem (and wild methods to control it), and sneaks in some sports talk and dark humor.
This episode has a comedic, chaotic energy as the hosts juggle two main topics:
The conversation is filled with local color, edgy jokes, and spontaneous tangents into sports, wildlife, and regional stereotypes.
Notable Quote:
“Arizona Department of Transportation asks all people heading to tonight's game to get the out of our way… I’m trying to help out the people who actually work every day from having to deal with this disaster…” – John Holmberg (03:57)
Notable Quote:
“All the convicts from Miami are going to be on the sidelines. The city is loaded with rap sheets because Miami's here.” – John Holmberg (05:35)
Notable Quote:
“Let’s build hundreds of explosive heat rabbits and just blow the living out of all these pythons. It’s an easy solution.” – John Holmberg (11:03)
Notable Quote:
“Difference there, just the rabbits are cuddlier.” – Brady Bogen (15:26)
On Fiesta Bowl Traffic:
“Once again Adot has reminded all of you, if you have tickets to tonight's game and you're not already across central heading west, it's about a six and a half, seven hour trip now. So…put your forks down, no more breakfast. It's over. And head on out to the stadium and get out of our way.” – John Holmberg (03:29)
On Miami Fans’ Reputation:
“It’s almost like a jail has opened up. Miami is in town. The convicts are here.” – John Holmberg (05:07)
On Python Robots:
“They have a scent of rabbit and then the heat, because that's how snakes, like, sense the heat of something. Like, Oh, that's a living thing. So they see the heat and it lets off, like, it emits, like, a little heat pattern. The snake shows up…Then some guy comes and picks it up, evidently to let it eat the rat. Let's build hundreds of explosive heat rabbits and just blow the living out of all these pythons. It's an easy solution.” – John Holmberg (11:03)
On Florida’s Solution Attitude:
“Give Florida permission to blow st up. Problem solved. Absolutely solved.” – John Holmberg (14:59)
If you missed the episode:
Perfect for listeners who appreciate localized humor and absurd, energetic banter about sports, wildlife, and the unpredictable chaos of real-world events.