02-09-26 - Entertainment Drill - MON - Billions Of Chicken Wings Eaten On Super Bowl Sunday And Onliners Mad At High Stadium Prices For Food

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness – Entertainment Drill: Billions of Wings & Pricey Super Bowl Snacks

Date: February 9, 2026
Episode Theme:
The crew discusses the aftermath of Super Bowl Sunday, focusing on astronomical chicken wing consumption, debates about outrageous stadium food prices, and a mix of quirky entertainment news. Expect the show’s trademark blend of humor, skepticism, and local flavor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Super Bowl Reactions

• Atmosphere at the Game

  • Holmberg and crew share reports from friends who attended the Super Bowl, describing the game as underwhelming.
    • [01:24] John Holmberg:
      “Both of them just kept firing back. Sucked. Game sucked. Atmosphere sucked. Everything.”
  • Discussion about the halftime show and its confusion for fans unfamiliar with the language or style.
    • [01:38] Speaker:
      “The crowd was confused at halftime.”

• Comparison to Telemundo

  • The crew riff on watching Spanish-language television and not understanding what’s happening, joking about still enjoying the visuals and energy.
    • [01:44] Holmberg:
      “It's like watching Telemundo. You're like, this might be a great show. I don't know...”

2. Entertainment Drill: Super Bowl Bets and Food Consumption

• Big Bets on the Super Bowl

  • A high roller wagered $253K on the coin toss at Caesar’s Palace and won.
    • [05:30] Brady:
      "Someone bet a quarter of a million bucks on the coin toss and won... $253,000 on it. Won $245,000."
    • [05:42] Holmberg:
      "That is a fingers crossed crazy moment. That's got to be pretty great."
  • "Mattress Mac" lost millions betting on the Patriots.

• Billions of Chicken Wings Consumed

  • National Chicken Council estimates 1.5 billion wings eaten on Super Bowl Sunday—enough to circle the earth nearly three times.

    • [06:28] Brady:
      "The National Chicken Council estimated we down to 1.5 billion wings."
    • [06:41] Holmberg:
      "Chicken wings...just a little butt to wing all in a linear chicken wing line. Three times around with chicken wings. You fat pigs. That’s disgusting."

  • Joking about the absurd amount of ranch dressing required.

    • [07:00] Holmberg:
      "Peter North Earth in ranch. How much? Oh my God, that's brutal."

• Stadium Food Prices Outrage

  • Social media outrage over $20 hot dogs and The Hammer Burger at Levi’s Stadium costing $180.

    • [07:14] Holmberg:
      "Nobody's bitching. People who didn't go are bitching. People who were there, they had money to go to the Super Bowl."
    • [07:21] Brady:
      "They did have the Hammer Burger. That was 180 bucks, right?"

  • On stadium food pricing complaints:

    • [07:41] Holmberg:
      “People on Yelp will sit and go, the prices are something. Then don’t order it. Why are you yelling about the prices if you can’t afford it?”

  • Masters Golf Tournament cited as the only major event with cheap food ("1950s and 60s prices").

    • [08:09] Brady:
      “It’s the Masters. They keep the pricing of what it was in the 50s and 60s.”

  • Lighthearted commentary about tailgating culture and stadium class divisions.

3. Entertainment News Highlights

• Austin Butler Cast as Lance Armstrong

  • Crew jokes about Butler’s intense method acting and prior struggle to drop his Elvis accent.
    • [09:34] Holmberg:
      "Does he still have his Elvis accent? Because he couldn't get out of it."
    • [09:42] Holmberg (on Jim Jeffries’ bit):
      “It’s acting. But he’s such a good actor… how come nobody ever does that—‘I’m sorry, I played Hitler three years ago and I just can’t get it out’... You’re just a mental basket case is what you are.”

• Twisted Sister 50th Anniversary Tour Canceled

  • Due to Dee Snider’s health (arthritis), Twisted Sister retires from touring.
    • [10:49] Brady:
      “D's having some health problems. He's got some bad arthritis and says, I'm not singing as good either.”
    • The team jokes about cover band names and the likelihood they'd attend such a show.

4. Community and Local Entertainment

• Brief shoutouts to local comedy acts and venues in Phoenix: Stand Up Live, Desert Ridge Improv, Tempe Improv.
  • [00:38] Speaker:
    “Get out and see the comedy of Moshe Casher... for tickets, standuplive.com desert ridgeimprov.com and tempeimprov.com.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On not understanding the halftime show:

  “It's like watching Telemundo. You're like, this might be a great show. I don't know.”
  —John Holmberg, [01:44]

• On the chicken wing stat:

  “Three times around with chicken wings. You fat pigs. That's disgusting.”
  —John Holmberg, [06:47]

• On the price outrage at the Super Bowl:

  “Nobody’s bitching. People who didn’t go are bitching. People who were there, they had money to go to the Super Bowl.”
  —John Holmberg, [07:14]

• On stadium food pricing in context:

  “If you can afford a Super Bowl ticket, for the most part, you don't care about the beer.”
  —John Holmberg, [07:49]

• On method acting and Austin Butler:

  “You’re just a mental basket case is what you are.”
  —John Holmberg, [09:42]

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Segment Timestamps

• [01:24] – Attendee reports: Super Bowl “sucked”
• [01:38] – Halftime show confusion and Telemundo riff
• [05:30] – Big bets on the coin toss and “Mattress Mac”
• [06:28] – 1.5 billion chicken wings stat revealed
• [07:14] – Super Bowl food prices and “Hammer Burger” debate
• [09:11] – Austin Butler as Lance Armstrong/Method acting jokes
• [10:24] – Twisted Sister retirement news

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Tone & Style

The episode retains Holmberg's irreverent, observational humor and banter among the crew. Much of the discussion is lighthearted, with hyperbolic jokes and local references, offering listeners a funny, breezy recap of Super Bowl fallout and quips about pop culture news.

Transcript

[A]

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[D]

Sickness. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself. Love it. Who won?

[A]

Tom Hopkins of Maricopa TV's Tom Hopkins.

[E]

That's right.

[D]

Thopkins. A man. TV's Doug Hopkins kept texting me he got to go to the super bowl yesterday. And you just got your buddy. Billy was there, too, and both of them just kept firing back. Sucked. Game sucked. Atmosphere sucked. Everything.

[E]

The crowd was confused at halftime.

[D]

Yeah. No, yeah. Well, of course they don't speak the words.

[E]

It's just kind of like, quiet.

[D]

It's like watching Telemundo. You're like, this might be a great show. I don't know. I want to understand telenovelas. I want to watch some of those weird sabado gigante things. That show seems awesome. Everybody's having a blast. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know.

[A]

Those hot newscasters, though, they got.

[D]

God damn, I'll sit through it.

[A]

Yeah, absolutely.

[D]

But I don't know what they're doing. I don't know if they're saying, like, kill whitey the whole, whole time. I don't care. But when I don't know what's going on, I can't really get too excited. But I watch Telemundo sometimes because it's remarkable visually. Telenovelas. Have you ever sat through one of those?

[A]

No.

[D]

Don't know what's going on. Don't know a peep of the words. But those chicks that come rolling through, my God, man. No. Something, something.

[F]

No.

[D]

I'm like, okay, night, Night. Of course, on El Corrizon. Yeah. Like, it's usually like El Corrizon del Muerte. It's like the dead heart. What. What am I watching? And then hot girls walk by. They're gorgeous. I'm like, I'll sit through this for free. They have game shows and stuff. Sabara jugante. That dude's been on running that thing forever. And then like, a bee runs by.

[E]

It's like 95.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah. It's like a guy is. It's like a guy dressed as a child who's clearly in his seventies is there. And. And then gorgeous women come by and they, like, put pies on their heads. I don't. I don't care what's going on. Just don't know. I can't get too excited because it might be horrible, but that was the bad bunny. Halftime shows, Telemundo, of course, everyone was confused. It's like boom hour from King of the Hill. I don't know what he's saying, but it seems entertaining. It's time now for the entertainment drill. Post super bowl, post Phoenix open, little breath. And then we get into that spring training. In the meantime, you know, if you're not seeing everything perfect, look how clear today is. Look out this window, boys. Clearest day ever. And if your vision makes you have to squint to see it, well, you can fix that. Dr. Jay Schwartz is ready for you complimentary consultation so you can see our glorious city the way the rest of the nation just saw it on TV all weekend with the Phoenix open. It looked great on tv. And if you need glasses and contacts to see it, you're. You're, you know, behind the times there. They can fix that. If you write for Lasik, they'll get that straight for you. Get the lens replacements. So many options for you to get the crutches off your nose and out of your eyeballs and start seeing the world clearly. Dr. J. Schwartz is trusted by the Suns and Diamondbacks. That's why he is teamidoc.com and you go there and set up your consultation and see if you can stop squinting and start seeing the world clearly. I did it. It's awesome. Schwartz Laser eye Center, everybody. Teamidoc.com Brady, entertain me.

[E]

There's a couple of news.

[D]

Oh, wait, you know what? I'm not going to do that yet. I just realized we have another thing. You'll entertain me in a second.

[E]

Okay?

[D]

Because I just looked up like, oh, my God.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

All right, we'll get to that. Sorry, that's my fault. I got excited about all the other stuff.

[E]

We'll be back.

[D]

We'll be right back. That's some of your entertainment. Drill the introduction. Brady will entertain you after this visit. Holmberg's morning sickness online at 98kupd.com Holmberg's Morning Sickness now we've got it straight. Sorry about that, everybody. 10 o'. Clock. So I might as well give Larry's word out to start. 10 o', clock, right? Nails. N, A, I, L, S. Nails is the word for 10 o'. Clock. You've got an hour to figure out how to spell that one and get it in there on the app or 98kupd.com qualify yourself for those. Nine inch nails. Nails is the nine o' clock word. And now that we all have an agreement starting Tomorrow at like 6, you need to start reminding me. John at 6. One of those deals today was our job to make sure we'll forget and then you bring it back. That's how it works. All right, Brady, We've done what we do. Entertain me.

[E]

Someone bet a quarter of a million bucks on the coin toss and won 40 minutes before the game. It was at Caesar's palace. They put $253,000 on it. 1, 245,000.

[D]

Nice. That is a fingers crossed crazy moment. That's got to be pretty great mattress.

[E]

Mac lost two miles.

[D]

Doing what?

[E]

Bet on the Patriots.

[D]

Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't have put it like I didn't see it being. There's either going to be a blowout or the Patriots would keep it clumsy. Close, and they almost did, but they couldn't catch a break.

[F]

Give their defense credit. They played pretty tough in the first half.

[D]

All they could to keep that in order. Nine, nothing at the half. I'm like, patriots are going to put one of those sloppy touchdowns on the board and win this goddamn thing. 10, 9. And they don't deserve it.

[F]

Which contributed to my anxiety.

[A]

I had to leave.

[D]

No, no, I don't blame you. You had to go. Being a Seahawks fan, sitting in amongst strangers and Just totally focused in. I don't know how you did it.

[E]

But the National Chicken Council estimated we down to 1.5 billion wings.

[D]

Damn.

[E]

That's enough to circle the earth almost three times.

[D]

And chicken wings. Yep, just a little. But to wing all in a linear chicken wing line.

[E]

Three times.

[D]

Three times around with chicken wings. You fat pigs. That's disgusting. How much ranch was there? Like a full.

[E]

If you add ranch in, you can cover earth.

[D]

You don't want to know. Oh, yeah, you could. Peter North Earth in ranch. How much? Oh, my God, that's brutal.

[E]

And then you have people bitching about the prices that Levi's Stadium. 20 bucks for a hot dog.

[D]

Nobody's bitching. People who didn't go are bitching. People who were there like they had money to go to the Super Bowl.

[F]

Yeah, there you go.

[E]

They did have the Hammer burger. That was 180 bucks, right?

[D]

Don't order it.

[F]

Oh, they sold them.

[D]

I know, but if you're gonna. About the price, don't get it. I hate when people do that.

[E]

When they introduce. That said 180 bucks, the hammer burger, there was only 200 available.

[D]

Oh, well. And it's a supply and demand issue. I hate that.

[F]

People create a scarcity, and then people. Then you sell out.

[D]

People on Yelp will sit and go. The prices are something. Then don't order it. Why are you yelling about the prices if you can't afford it? It's not the. It's not the quality of the food.

[E]

If you can afford a Super bowl.

[D]

Ticket, for the most part, you don't care about the beer.

[A]

Right?

[D]

You'll go, geez, the beers are pricey. Oh, well, I'm at the Super Bowl.

[E]

You load up at the tailgate for the most part.

[D]

People who didn't go to the super bowl, you know, beers were 25 bucks. You didn't have to pay for that.

[E]

What were you expecting, deals? There's only one, right? There's only one event that does that.

[A]

Really?

[E]

It's the masters.

[D]

Do they do free stuff?

[E]

They keep the pricing of what it was in the 50s and 60s. The masters.

[D]

Really?

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Can black people buy them? No.

[F]

All the concessions can only serve and also tailgate.

[C]

Get out of here.

[D]

Bag of Vance. You're not allowed to have beverages.

[F]

Tailgating doesn't happen at the Super Bowl.

[E]

No, you got to pay for that, too.

[F]

I mean, there's just.

[E]

No, there's.

[F]

You can't bring your RV in your tent and everything. And you're chilly.

[D]

Yeah, it's.

[F]

Nobody does that because you're flying in.

[D]

Yeah, it's a. It's a different animal. The masters thing's interesting though. And I know the suns have that whole two dollar menu.

[E]

Yeah, it's like. It's like a two dollar hot dog.

[F]

D backs have that.

[D]

Yeah, but you gotta go sandwich them.

[F]

No, there's one on the main level.

[D]

There's not. There's no main level deals. Brady's right. Raiders fans up top there with them. Go up and start ordering those two dollar foods. You know who serves the two dollars foods? People lower than them. God knows what's going on in that hot dog water.

[E]

Austin Butler is going to play Lance Armstrong in a biopic. If it's anything like his Elvis deal.

[D]

He'S gonna dive in, do some blood transfusions and you know, really gonna really act this one through.

[E]

Gonna remove a ball. Wasn't he a one baller?

[D]

He lost out.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

I wonder if he'll do that. Does he still have his Elvis accent? Because he couldn't get out of it.

[E]

Jim Jeffries, partly. It's pretty much gone.

[D]

Jim Jeffries is so dead on about that because he's like, Austin Butler had that whole thing. He's like, he became Elvis and had a problem getting out of it. And he goes, which is crap. It's acting. But he's such a good actor. He dove into the role and he goes, how come nobody ever does that? I'm sorry. I played Hitler three years ago and I just can't get it out. You're a method actor. It's only because Elvis is cool. And that guy, he walked around pretending to be Elvis like three years after the movies. Like, oh, I'm just so immersed in the character. Nobody's ever immersed themselves as Genghis Khan and walked around for two years after. You're just a mental basket case is what you are.

[E]

Looks like The Twisted Sisters 50th anniversary tour is off. Dee Snyder's hanging up the microphone due to health issues.

[F]

Did you pluralize Twisted Sisters?

[D]

Twisted Sisters? Yeah, he did. I caught that too.

[E]

Twisted Sisters, 50th anniversary.

[D]

Yeah, but it was. I liked how you said it. It sounded cuter.

[F]

It didn't sound possessive.

[D]

It sounded like you called it that. Very hillbilly. I liked it. I like the Twisted Sisters.

[E]

D's having some health problems. He's got some bad arthritis and says, I'm not singing as good either.

[D]

Yeah, we get older, it goes away.

[A]

Well, he was never a Pavarotti on the mic anyway, so.

[D]

One thing he was, though, was volume man that energy anyway. Well we weren't going to that anyway no thanks Twisted I've always like yeah we don't care you weren't gonna go.

[F]

Buy the command rated box set at Marquee like all of us up there.

[D]

You know I got the Corey Feldman when I learned my lesson I might go to a Twisted Sister at Marquis for free tickets but I'm not spending any money on we we're not gonna.

[E]

Snyder wigs he'd sell there.

[D]

The Sarah Jessica Parker tour would be fun but uh let's go we're done. Uh, the word for 10 o' clock is nails. You go to 98kupd.com or you go to our app and click on the suite that feeds. Win yourself some Nine Inch Nails tickets. Qualify to get into the KUPD party suite for when they are here. In just three short weeks Nine Inch Nails will be here and you guys can be part of that. We're done. Have a great Monday. We'll see you tomorrow. Right here in the morning sickness. It's not weird.

[E]

It's pretty cool actually. No membership fees.

[D]

I have heard enough of this.

[E]

PD.