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John
I said coffee, not it sounds.
Brady
Oh, okay. Yeah.
John
I just drink coffee. I'm not. That's swallowing dudes. How did you. How did you.
Corey
I just said.
John
I just told Brett off the air. I had. I'm. I'm. I tried and this I got to give credit to my. My best friend Mark and his family are going through a thing and Tip went out tonight for their amazing dog, Rudy.
Corey
That dog.
John
I love that dog. That's my best friend's lab. Got cancer. Cancer is just ravaging a lot of dogs. I've had it happen in one of my, my. One of those special ones. My boy Benny was getting test results today on Coco cocoa. Coco's like 11 or 12 though, right?
Brady
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
John
And it still sucks, but at least you know there's. You got. You got that.
Brady
The vet basically saying there's high levels. I will discuss it with you tomorrow.
John
And. And Rudy was eight and he's still. He's still with us. I'm going to say goodbye to Rudy was a special one for me too. But my buddy Mark has. And his wife Kristen and the family just love them all to death. They're. They've been my best friend since fifth grade and he came over at the end of the game last night and they were. It was just. We were all broken. It was just. It was just painful. It's horrible. And I love that dog. Every time I go over and help them when they're out of town. And I go over and see him. Rudy's my right hand. Like, he's just one of those dogs. It's like, you're with me. Like, I. And they, you know, they're dog people like me. And all their dogs are awesome. They've got my. My dog Jack. Ham's sister is theirs.
Host
Okay. That's what I was wondering if.
John
Yeah, Lucy's still okay. Still fat as a pig, but okay. And. But Rudy's. Yeah, Rudy got cancer, and it's not good. And I want to say goodbye to him. So tip. You know, tip one back and give a cookie to your dogs in honor of Rudy. Another one that, you know, did the best he could for as long as he could. That we got to figure that cancer thing out with dogs. It's. It's. It's everywhere. And all this healthy dog food that we got and all these things. You got to wonder how come cancer is getting them. Betty White talked about this about 10 years ago, saying, something's going on. Cancer is prevalent in dogs now where it used to not be constant, and it's constant.
Brady
It happens, you know, at the zoos most of the time, the animals passing away. A lot of time, it's always. Cancer is probably 80% of the time.
John
And it's got to be age.
Corey
I don't know, because mine was six.
John
Like, young dogs are dying of cancer way more than they used to. Way more than. It's got to be food. It's got to be something in the processing of dog food or whatever. Anyway, so Mark was. He's a coffee guy. And so I'm like, well, if Mark likes it. And we've been friends until, like, maybe I should try. Like, I don't know. We've. We've always had similarities. Maybe Mark and I'll. So we kind of. He said, I'm gonna have a cup of coffee. I'm like, I will, too. And I drank it on Sunday, or actually drank it two Sundays ago. Tried it, didn't like it. And I tried it without creamer.
Corey
I feel like I've not grown up.
John
Because I don't like coffee. Like, there's something about me that's still juvenile in that regard, that everybody said, you'll like it when you get older. You have to eat it. I hate it.
Corey
So I had some on Sunday, and.
John
My breath hasn't been the same since.
Host
Kids nowadays drink it at, like, 8 years old.
John
I know.
Corey
And they used to tell you it stunted your growth. And, like, I don't know what it does, but it stunts your breath. I have not had the same taste.
John
In my mouth since then. And then Brett brought up a gay friend of ours and said that's what he says every Sunday. I'm like, I didn't say I was drinking. Sup coffee Throat coat. Yeah.
Host
Yeah.
Corey
That's what it feels like.
John
Yeah, but not that away. It's weird. And I. And I hated it even more drinking it black. And that's not bigoted. I just. I like. I didn't like my. I don't want to piss that Corey guy off again, saying, I don't like black coffee because it's black. But I don't. I don't. And I didn't like it creamy either. I didn't like it even mocha. I like my coffee lily white is what I'm saying.
Brady
I'm doing a shot of espresso basically every day. Not straight up splash milk.
John
Is that good for you? The milk is not. I'm worried about you. You do espresso shots in the morning?
Brady
Yeah, one.
John
Did you look into this, Brady? Just okay?
Brady
Yes.
John
Making sure that you're doing your due diligence, not just enjoying a. Yeah, I don't like espresso either. I don't understand that. Like, it's just a hot shot for energy, I suppose, but I don't get it. But I'm not gonna. I don't like it. I'm trying. I want to try a new thing. Coffee's my new thing, and I hate it.
Host
Don't try the coffee around here.
John
It's terrible. Is it? Oh, yeah. That went, like, in the pots here. I don't think I drink community coffee anyway.
Brady
Yeah, I still can't do.
Host
It's like Miller coffee.
Corey
Oh, yeah.
John
I just don't like a pot of coffee that everybody has access to and it sits out like, if you had just lemonade in a pitcher in the.
Corey
Kitchen, no one would touch it.
John
By the way, everybody knows by now my absolute disdain for homemade foods being brought to workplaces. And again, Jill, who downstairs, I absolutely love, trust, and believe in 100% and would probably eat at her house if I watched her cook it. But she's got that boy, and he's a mess and his booger hands and all over. So I don't know what's going on in that kitchen when no one's looking. And I know there's some. Some tolerant moments of parents that allow their kids to do stupid stuff and they're like, oh, what are you going to do? Good. Get boogers on my hands from the boy. And this boy of hers has been in that kitchen for a long time. So she brought in donuts and pumpkin puree. Did you eat water? Yeah, I did. Anyway, so they had holes in them and stuff because she made homemade donuts. And she goes, I didn't even have a. I'm like, I don't even want to know how you made the holes if you said you didn't have, like, a holemaker. And then she goes, you won't eat.
Corey
My food from my house.
John
And she's screaming it in front of everybody. I'm like, I won't eat anybody's food that's traveled from their house to here because I don't know what's going on in your kitchen.
Corey
She goes, I'm clean, and you've known me for 25 years. I'm like, yeah, and I still won't eat the food that you travel from.
John
Your house to here. I just don't do it. Call me crazy, but that's just a consistency of me. And then she said the greatest line that's ever been uttered in the sales department. Because, as you know, a couple of weeks ago, Jonathan from Verlo Mattress dropped off all that ground beef, and we thawed some out, and I ate it.
Corey
Raw right out of the package.
John
And I did it next to Jill. I polished off the pound while we were talking for. I was down there for lunch.
Corey
And she goes, what are you doing? I'm like, it's my lunch.
John
And I'm just squeezing it out like frosting from a tube into my mouth.
Corey
Oh, my God.
John
So then yesterday, Jill says, wait a minute.
Corey
You'll eat raw meat, but you won't eat my donut hole.
John
And I'm like, you know what?
Corey
When you say it like that?
Host
Just leaving it right there.
John
I'll shove meat in my mouth, but.
Corey
I'm not eating your donut hole, lady.
John
And the whole place froze. There was no laughing. Jessica, Jennifer, everybody's like, chill. And then Jill realized kind of what she'd said. So because I'm a kind person that didn't want to hurt her feelings anymore, I went crazy on that donut hole for about five minutes.
Corey
And as expected, boogers and hair.
John
Now I'm. I don't care how much I know and love you, you know, unless it's, like, some sort of process you're doing as a business, I am not eating your experiment from your kitchen. And again, I've been proven right on this. The second Covid happened, Buffets Potlucks were the first two things everybody said, don't have those. I rem.
Corey
And again, I don't know if you're.
John
If you've snapped. You know, they always say FBI statistic is the majority of the times you're attacked in your life.
Corey
Is that your workplace?
John
I remember Debbie downstairs bringing in that seven layer dip.
Corey
I'm not touching that. Debbie hated half of the staff out loud. She's cooking for us. No thanks. I mean, if you had somebody wandering.
John
Around going, I hate every last mother in this building, and I swear to God, I'm gonna burn it.
Corey
And then you have a potluck.
John
And she's like, ah, my chance. And then she brings in this beautiful seven layer dip. She took time. And I'm like, only a killer would do that. There's no way.
Brady
Seven layer dip. And everyone got a pa Black Nikes.
Corey
It was bad.
John
And Debbie's like, you're not going to.
Corey
Eat my seven layer dip, Debbie.
John
I'm not eating anything. The only thing. And I, you know what I brought to the potluck? I. I had a pizza delivered. Because you can sue them that. That they're supposed to cook for you.
Corey
Yes, bad things can happen, but if.
John
They do, there's a lawsuit. They lose their. Their food handler. Debbie cooked something nasty in that seven layer dip. She's gotcha.
Corey
She wins.
John
I marched on this. I don't know if you guys saw that. I had marches.
Host
All that money changed you. That's.
John
I know, I know. Before when I was poor, I used to eat off the streets. You know, just anything I found scrounging for pennies. And then I got money and then started to change my ways. I don't know what that money has to do with anything. That I don't like traffic gnarling. Ramon says, hey, John, why don't they ever do a no kings march at the Renaissance Festival? Wouldn't that be a better, like, metaphor?
Corey
It's where the king is and down with the king. Yeah, Ramon's right.
John
Corey, the other Corey, not the mean one that hates US now after 20 years of listening, but won't tolerate me disagreeing with him. Once says, email says, what does you having money have to do with anything about disliking a march? And I said, oh, well, the Corey that emailed is poor and he's lashing out that someone else's success has something to do with his failure. So he's mad at me. And she goes, as people like to that do. I just find it odd that he Said money's changed you. Is there one point in your john that you're not telling us about?
Corey
Did you used to be poor and constantly lead marches?
John
I don't remember that about you. She goes, I know what his point was, but I just think it's stupid. And he's giving us. Corey's a bad name. Sorry about that. Corey. The mean Corey's there. Yeah. Remember, Brady, how I before I changed, how I was always organizing marches? Remember that? Oh, I was a march machine.
Brady
I can tell you of a couple huge.
John
Which ones?
Brady
The Halloween.
John
Oh, that was. Yeah, the zombie walk.
Corey
Oh. Eight o' clock at night on a Saturday.
John
I'd screw up a half a mile of First Avenue. Oh, it was a nightmare. Yeah, that was a big one. Get dressed up and have fun with absolutely no cause other than to be a fun thing. And by the way, we didn't close streets. We walked on the sidewalks. And then the one street we closed was that thing next to the Diamondbacks ballpark.
Brady
You have to close one street.
John
Yeah, it was just right there by the Diamondbacks thing. Nobody drives on that.
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Corey
Holmberg's Morning sickness.
John
This guy, that's one of your.
Corey
Oh, that was when I was a march.
John
Oh my God. When I was ready to protest everything, dressed as a zombie and laugh and have fun and drink afterwards. Yeah, that was when I was really active. But that was before money had Changed me, Brady.
Corey
Now I'm like, ew, yuck to that.
John
This one says, from Paula, the Toledo haters.
Corey
You got to be kidding me.
John
That asshole listened to this show for 20 years and today he's had enough please jerk off. I've listened longer than that, and I've put up with Toledo most of the time, and I still love listening to you. Kind of a weird stalker vibe at the end there, Paula, but okay, she's right. If you can tolerate Toledo for 20 years, John, will you do a Johnny Carson impression and bring back Karnak the Magnificent and blow the blow? Okay, I'll try. Well, it would be Ed saying that, right?
Corey
Maga tard. Oh, great one Magatard.
Brady
Yeah, throwing out the word.
John
And then Karnak would come back and go, I. What is Toledo's password to his poor person?
Corey
Chime Checking account.
John
Yes.
Corey
So great one Maga time.
John
Yes. It was good bringing back Carnax Fun. And then, of course, people talking about me getting flacco said, sucks to be you this morning, John.
Corey
Brady. Bread and Uncle Mike for the win.
John
Love you boys. Congrats on the bungles.
Corey
Yeah, we're all, you know, we're all so down on the word tarred.
John
It's like getting people fired in spots. And sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. And I think that Thomas has it figured out.
Corey
He said, why can't we all just.
John
Come together and unite in the understanding that in some way or another, we're all a tard?
Corey
You can pick one moment in everybody's.
John
Existence and say, oh, that's where Brady's a blank and tarred.
Corey
I like that. That's a unifying message.
John
David says, john, don't be too hard on Corey. Last night was his turn to be the bottom, and his boyfriend is black.
Corey
Oh, I said I didn't know that.
John
That's going to be tough marching for him that you don't recover from that overnight.
Host
By the way, people are screaming for the next word.
Corey
Oh, yeah, it's 708 chips.
John
Like the 70s cop show.
Corey
Yeah, chips.
John
C H, I, P, S chips. Thank you, Brad. I'd have forgotten chips. Hop on that thing. Get on the app. Put that in the promo code. Then people really want to piss Corey off.
Corey
What the F is a no kings march? We live in a democracy, right? Jesus Christ. Get a job, you lazy hippies. Yeah, that's how I feel, too. Lazy hippies. And if you go back in time.
John
Back when I didn't have money, I hated when the tea party was marching around too. I didn't like that.
Corey
I don't like marches.
Brady
Started out the background like, oh, when they were standing on the Constitution and all that. And then it just went a little.
Corey
Wire and they're running around in parks and messing stuff. Couldn't go anywhere. People in those tri tipped hats, they were nuts.
John
I.
Corey
It was bananas.
Brady
It turns into. Ends up turning into a very Jimmy Buffett like thing.
Corey
It's mob mentality.
John
It is. It becomes a pat yourself in the back. I was their picture on your Instagram.
Corey
It's mob mentality. Unlike any group of people.
John
I probably agree with like something all of them think. But in a group they become weird. I don't like mobs. This is. I was in Jerome three weeks ago.
Corey
They had a no kings march of protest going on there. I thought, what the hell are you doing in Jerome?
John
Protesting.
Corey
There's eight people live here.
John
Nick's right.
Host
They started the haunted hamburger.
John
Well, you wanted good pictures for you.
Corey
Is that what that's called?
John
Yeah.
Host
Well, they started at, you know, like PF Chang's here.
Corey
Wait, the meat in Jerome has ghosts in it?
Brady
Yeah.
Host
You never heard of the haunted hamburger?
Corey
I haven't either.
John
Oh yeah. I don't know that at all. The haunted hamburger.
Corey
What the hell is that?
John
I avoid Jerome. I don't like. I couldn't name a restaurant too many maga. There's a shocker right there.
Brady
Yeah, I know. Down here.
John
Yeah. I'm surprised. Well, it's such a long drive to that. Well, the only one hamburger never do. I'm not a Jerome fan. It's not liberal enough for me.
Brady
How long's that been there?
Corey
The views are amazing.
John
If you're going to have a march. There you go. And that's beautiful. That looks. Yeah. The haunted there are years.
Host
But I mean, I think they've redone it and everything.
John
Oh yeah, they have. It's beautiful.
Host
Since 94.
Brady
94.
John
Well, that's when they opened up. Yeah. I've been to Jerome once in the last. Since I was a kid.
Brady
I went to one restaurant there, that House of Joy that was open for years.
John
No idea what it is.
Brady
It used to be a brothel.
John
We took a restaurant. I think all of it was a brothel. The whole place. What else is there to do?
Brady
Well, you either, you know, worked in the mine or went to the brothel and went to a saloon.
John
But isn't that what all mining towns were? Yeah, miners and booze. And booze.
Host
Yeah.
Brady
It's a good mining town.
John
That's. That's how you know you got it right. That's the three points of a mining town.
Host
I'm the same. Jerome's a great, like, motorcycle ride up to 89. That's great. And then once you're there, you're like, this is.
John
This is it.
Corey
I gotta ride back.
John
We used to take people from Indiana. Our family would come visit and we'd drive them up to Sedona and show them like we built it. Like, look at this, huh? This is ours. I like it. And we live here. And then we would drive to Jerome some random way.
Brady
That's where Elvis lands. Everyone has different.
John
Elvis's old house. And Marilyn Monroe here, she fell in the water right there once. And then we'd go to Jerome. And I just remember my Aunt Connie came out. Like, oh, no, it wasn't Aunt Connie. It was. It was cousin Chris. And she comes out and she brings her daughter. And there we go, piling the car. There's six of us in a goddamn Chrysler Cordo, but not enough room for six. Not even close. Truck it on up to Sedona. It's already a cruddy drive. And then Sedona's nice. Get out and you do your thing. Then to Jerome. And boy, you can talk about being mall legged at age 11. Trucking around Jerome with no care in the world about the haunted part. Miners used to live. I didn't know about brothels. I didn't care about brothels. I mean, when are we going home? And then we'd.
Brady
Another gallery.
John
Yeah, another gallery. Another hillbilly. Another trash can full of bees. My nightmare. And then we'd pile back in the car and sweat it out for two hours, heading home. And it was awful because my dad would never spend enough money to stay the whole night. We'd leave at 6 in the morning, get to Sedona, hoof around, grab like, McDonald's breakfast. He's not buying anything. Good. And then we'd drive up to Jerome.
Brady
Go to that special McDonald's.
John
Yeah, yeah, the blue teal. The teal.
Corey
It's the only one in America. Okay.
John
Why do I get the tour every time?
Host
Still the same food.
John
I know.
Corey
It's just McDonald's.
John
I liked it. I was 11. That was great. And then that.
Corey
How much longer?
John
Shut up.
Corey
No, Cousin Chris is sitting on me and.
John
Come on.
Corey
Gotta show them that tlacopaki. We don't fit back here, dad.
John
Shut up.
Corey
There's four, like, big people. Shut up.
John
You're gonna enjoy it.
Corey
Sedona's beautiful. Can't you just enjoy the goddamn scenery. I know I can't see it. And Chris sitting on me. I'm the smallest one back here. It's killing me. That's Bell Rock.
John
And then you're sweating, and you realize you're not sweating. You're just. You got cousin Chris and her daughter sweat all over your arms because you're crammed in between them. No seat belt. Brutal. I don't get Jerome. And I certainly wouldn't drive there for a march. No, I don't care. If it was to get Dua Leap. Well, now, wait a minute. If there was a march. If it was a. Yeah, I would do a hunger strike. If Dua Lipa had a march in Jerome, I think I'd be on it. And it could be Dua Lipa's march for, you know, more Al Qaeda leadership in America. I'd be like, you know what? I'm marching. I'll close traffic in Jerome. There isn't any. This one says John.
Corey
In my opinion, when you have to.
John
Announce that you're done, it's just you wanting attention, and you want someone to.
Corey
Beg you to stay.
John
Otherwise, you just leave. So to Corey, I say off. We're better off without you. Sign Jason.
Corey
Thank you, Jason. I agree. I'm leaving, okay? You better know it.
John
Here, let me help you out. I'm.
Corey
I'm serious.
John
Bye now.
Corey
Oh, you will pay. I've lived here for 20 years, and I'm walking out that door. Okay, bye. No, you're an asshole. Money's changed nerve.
John
Let me close my expensive door. All this money made me happier when that person walked out of my really expensive front door. Stupid. Anyway. Okay, chips is the word for 7am.
Corey
Let'S get to something that really matters.
John
What we should be marching about. That dude on Channel three is still alive. That Jason Barry guy. I'm not calling for his death or anything. I wouldn't do that. But he's gonna get in trouble. He knocked Pacinos again for.
Host
Oh, yeah, he's done.
John
For the. For the food.
Corey
Dirty dining.
John
Yeah, dirty.
Corey
Evidently, they got knocked for, like, a dirty vent.
John
And he's all on it.
Corey
Pacinos is back on the bad boy list. Like, dude, you've got to stop saying that. It's named Pacinos.
John
Stop it.
Corey
Please stop getting on them.
John
You're going to get your.
Corey
I'm looking out for you, man.
John
And. Yeah, and I don't understand that. Like, why would you want to attack the Italian restaurant twice? But Irish, huh? I don't know. Somebody did. Somebody in the, like, An Italian did something terrible to his mother. There were three. There were some violators at El Jefe.
Corey
Tacos but I don't go to El.
John
Jefe Tacos for the cleanliness.
Corey
I want them to be a little dirty.
John
And then there was a place called Sweet Magic Etta up in Scottsdale which is at the Quarter. That's nice.
Corey
And then there's one that I didn't.
John
Know was a possibility place called the Kickin Crab. And I'm gonna give you some plug here because I don't know, it's on Dobson Road. And they had violations. No certified food manager. Not a big deal. Employee food stored above food for customers. Dude brought his lunch, put it close to the other food. Can't do that. Outside food inside. Then another one was raw shrimp stored above boxes of potatoes. All right. Yeah. All right. That doesn't bother me.
Brady
Then this one, it goes into a shrimp oil.
John
Yeah.
Corey
Potatoes and shrimp, they get along swimmingly.
John
As far as I understand.
Corey
That's an awesome combo. We can't do that pre. They're gonna put them in the same.
John
Water anyways and just boil out all the problems.
Brady
Saving a step.
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Corey
Holmberg's morning sickness. That doesn't bother me. Kicking crap.
John
Your three violations so far? Not so bad.
Corey
Then this one. It says 10 dead clams mixed in.
John
With the live clams. How do you know a clam is dead? I thought they've not.
Brady
Don't they arrive dead?
Corey
Yeah, that's what I thought. Who's got live clams and how do you know? I mean, the person that's most surprised.
John
About that is the owner of the.
Corey
Kicking crab and the clam.
John
Like, your clams aren't breathing.
Corey
I'm like, I don't think clams breathe. And if you asked me, how do.
John
You know when a clam is dead? I'm like, I think she just lays there.
Corey
Oh, no, not like that. What is a dead clam? Aren't they in shells? Does the shell just open and close? I wouldn't know how to. Is it kind of blue?
John
Is it.
Corey
Are its lips blue? How do you know when a clam's dead? And who's got the eye for that? There's 10. There's 10 dead ones in there with your living clams.
Host
Jason Barry does.
Corey
Yeah. If I was the manager of the kicking Crab, I'd be like, we've got live crabs. Yeah. You got 10 dead ones in there. I'm like, huh? Clams.
John
Not crabs.
Corey
Clams.
Advertiser
When clams don't open, they're dead.
John
Is that right?
Advertiser
Like when you steam them, if you have one that doesn't open, it's.
Corey
But you have to cook them first to know.
Advertiser
Not always, because you can see them. Like, they put them in water and they feed them like cornmeal until they.
Corey
Cook them at the kicking crab. That kind of care is going into clams.
Advertiser
And that's how you clean them. It's how you clean them. You put them in water, you give them some cornmeal, and then they get rid of their own sand and all that.
Corey
They don't just show up, like Brady said, dead in a bag.
Advertiser
No, they're not dead. They're alive. When they get. When they come in the bag. Yeah.
Corey
Everywhere I've.
John
I've ordered clams.
Brady
Yeah.
John
Which isn't often.
Corey
They're alive.
John
Yeah.
Corey
They have buffets of them.
Brady
Buffets?
Advertiser
You're never going to a buffet.
Corey
I know, but I've seen, like, clams on a. On a marquee.
John
Yeah.
Corey
Like on a buffet.
John
King crab, clam, 7.99.
Advertiser
Never seen. I mean, I've seen the fried clams.
John
That I don't know. Yeah. I was picturing, like, shrimp.
Brady
When you bring in shrimp.
John
No. Living ones.
Brady
No. And then you cook them.
Advertiser
They're.
Larry McFeely
They're fresh.
Corey
At the Kicking Crab on ice.
Advertiser
Yeah.
John
I can't imagine that's true.
Corey
They've got a clam tank.
Advertiser
I don't know if they have a tank.
Corey
Well, they know how they got to put them in water and feed them.
Advertiser
You put them in a big pot.
John
This place going out of business.
Advertiser
It's called purging. They purge themselves of all their sins.
John
Like Porkop was having an actual pig walking around. Like, just order.
Brady
Order it.
Advertiser
Finished visiting the tables.
John
And they've got a bunch of dead ones in with the live ones.
Advertiser
But that's in every bag of clams.
Corey
But don't you want your clams dead eventually?
John
Right?
Corey
Why not?
John
To start. I'm fine with them being trucked over dead.
Corey
Because if you give me a discount.
John
I'll take 10 dead clams.
Advertiser
Because that's when you. That's when you get really sick. Is if you eat the dead clams.
Corey
It is.
Brady
Yeah.
Host
There's Pacinos coming up.
John
Pacinos is. Yeah, Pacinos is. He goes after that. Pacino's an awful lot out.
Advertiser
Road in Mesa.
Larry McFeely
Three violations.
Corey
Jason Barry's gonna get.
John
We're gonna find him.
Larry McFeely
Temperature. A container reveal kept past its discard date.
John
Makes me sad.
Larry McFeely
Can of insecticide. Below the food prep area.
Corey
There's a kicking crab.
John
Yeah, there's the kicking crab at Dobson.
Corey
And Maine and Mason. Dobson and Main.
John
They've got live clams. All right.
Corey
Calm down.
John
It's a big Asian area right there.
Advertiser
Violations.
Crab.
Larry McFeely
Had no certified food manager on duty.
Advertiser
Why is he home?
Larry McFeely
Employee Food stored above food.
John
This is at the Channel 3 kitchen. He just wanders around.
Larry McFeely
Acts like he's clams mixed with live clams.
John
His head's in a microwave.
Advertiser
Nobody has kitchen cabinets like that in there. Boxes of potato.
John
Kitchen. The restaurant is now on notice to clean up. Get your. That's the saddest one of all. That is that Pacinos had veal go past its expiration date. Which is odd because that means it sat on the shelf longer than it was alive. Yeah. I don't like baby cows getting slaughtered and then throwing that meat away. There's no expertise. You cook.
Corey
That is it.
John
It's a crushing blow. Two adorable little calves. But feels so good. It's such a. How are you throwing that out? Make. You know, the day that expires. Make. Make veal for an employee. Don't toss it. That little cow didn't live in that box for eight hours just so you could throw his soft, soft meat away.
Brady
I wonder what the deal now. I want to know. On restaurants like how many dead clams are they throwing away?
Corey
Did you know that?
Brady
I didn't.
John
I didn't either.
Brady
I just thought they came like, again, like shrimp out of the boat. They freeze them, then you gotta cook them. Yeah.
John
Brent Crandall says. Hold on. Toledo's the expert here. When did Sizzler ever serve clams?
Corey
That's a good point.
John
And if you're gonna go, who's the clam expert on the show? I'm not turning to Toledo.
Host
I'd have lost that fanduel.
John
Better, right? That's not my Seattle, I guess. Yeah. Very few restaurants have live fresh, never frozen seafood in Arizona.
Corey
That's what I would figure.
John
That's. Tom says that that's what I would assume, too, that there's not a lot of guys shipping in living clams across the desert. Most of them are dead.
Brady
I mean, you can get them over here in a couple hours.
John
Oh, man. William might have found my sting point. So there's a march in Maryvale and a meet and greet with Dua Lipa, but the march is to promote dog fighting. Oh. Rumor that Dua Lipa may even have a kissing booth. Traffic's backed up for miles. Are you gonna go Promoting dog fighting? Might be my one point. I wouldn't do it with. Do it.
Brady
And are you hitting that kissing booth after a thousand people?
John
Yes. I'll just bleach your lips for a second. Who says I'm kissing her mouth? I'll just work the neck and earlobe for a minute. But from. Yeah, I think. William, I think you win that one. I think I finally found my breaking point with do a march for dog fighting. I don't think that's gonna happen, though. I think that's pretty far fetched anyway. Yeah. If you're eating clams, just know that evidently the kicking crabs got a tank back there with some cornmeal there. I don't see that. I don't. Corn. That's happening.
Corey
And where does. Where do clams get cornmeal in the ocean? They're not eating cornmeal.
John
He's crazy.
Brady
They'll go for it, evidently.
Advertiser
Sounds like it.
Corey
You throw cornmeal in the ocean, where do they. What do they eat?
John
Otherwise? There's no corn in the ocean.
Brady
You got to be careful, though. You throw it in there, you get clam bites.
John
All right, stop.
Brady
They get aggressive.
Host
Come on.
John
I'm not listening to Toledo. TV dinners don't have clams. That's true. Yeah. He's not exactly the, you know, Anthony Bourdain. Of the show might turn to Brady on this one and go, you mean Salisbury steaks?
Corey
Yeah, Salisbury steaks and live clams we.
John
Had to keep alive in a tank before the good folks at Swanson stuffed it in that tin.
Corey
Toledo's changed since he's had money. He used to eat out of tin.
John
Boxes, and now he's a clam expert. Stupid.
Corey
I didn't know that.
John
And he's probably right, but I just don't think. It's like when Brady chucks pumpkins into the mouths of hippopotamuses and thinks that that's. That's normal.
Corey
Let's give it a steak.
Brady
So, oysters, Would it be the same thing? When they crack it open, Are they technically live? I don't think so.
Corey
Got me, man.
John
I think when you say the word.
Corey
Crack it open, immediately.
John
That's O.J. it's dead.
Corey
Yeah.
John
You can't crack something open and still expect it to live.
Brady
I know when you, you know, steam the clams, whatever, the shell opens up and it kind of cooks it. Like the shrimp.
John
This. Yeah. This guy says, right, the clam is dead. The shell won't open and won't close when tapped. And I know that about clams either. I just assumed restaurants picked them up dead like they do all the other meats. I've never gone to the kicking Crab, but if I went in there, I'd be like, can I see your clam tank? And can I meet the guy who feeds it cornmeal?
Brady
Do they feed it like a bass?
John
Pro shop every day at 2. All right, it's time to feed the clams. Look. Ooh, that sounds. Oh, this isn't what I thought. I'm in the wrong room. I should pull my pants up. Cause feeding clams to me is totally different than what you're doing.
Brady
They'll flap up to the surface of the water.
John
So. Well, the seventh seal has been broken, Brady not knowing that a restaurant existed. I guess it means that it's no longer meaningful to all of us. Happy Friday to everyone except Richard.
Brady
End of the world.
John
The end of the world. This lady says.
Corey
Miranda says I miss when the show was more misogynistic and didn't have any.
John
Politics As a woman.
Corey
Can we get back to you talking about tna?
John
And never mention politics. Hell, I'll take football over nonsense like that.
Corey
Bring back the MILF contest, Miranda, you slut. My God, all she wants to do is disparage her own kind and then put them on display. I'm all for it.
John
Technically, I wasn't talking about politics. I was talking about traffic. This Thriller must be pissed. There's another Corey with the ability to walk normally and wasting it on marching.
Corey
The audacity.
John
A good point.
Corey
Meet you at PF Chang's. We'll have some Chinese food, and then.
John
We'Re going to democracy night. Anyway, the word right now is chips. Get on that, throw it in the promo code and make some money, because everybody's after it. Then go get some of them delicious living clams over at the Kicking Crab. Because when I think quality clams, I think Dobson and Southern. What? I go to the Kicking Crab. They're notorious for their desert clams. Remember when I said the thing about the dolphins in the desert when they put them out there and I'm like, this is not good. They're all going to die in the sun. And they did. I kind of feel the same way about dragon clams. Living. What truck is delivering this guy, like, sloshing ocean water and these clams in it. And there's some dude in the back of the truck just throwing cornmeal in there and waiting to get it to.
Brady
Crank, pull them out of the water and freeze them immediately. They just kind of go into a. They're not dead.
Corey
They're like sea monkeys.
Brady
Yeah. Like a frozen state.
John
So we anesthetized the clam and then bring it back to life. That's a fascinating. Seems expensive for the Kicking Crab to want to go through all that.
Advertiser
Yeah.
Brady
Because I don't think they're delivering in. In a tank.
John
Yeah. Well, how are they getting them there they are. You're probably right. They have to put them in some sort of state of. They have to reanimate them. When it gets to the kitchen, Felido will know. He's. He's just. He's a south.
Brady
Yeah, they're packed and ice, so they're still alive.
Corey
Back to Nice and then driven across.
John
The desert to Mesa, where people are clamoring for clams flown in daily. Is that right?
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Corey
Yeah, you can get them in a couple hours. The kicking crab has this.
John
This.
Corey
It must be a thousand dollars for.
John
A plate of clam.
Advertiser
I don't know how they're doing it. I just know that that's the process.
Corey
That's an awful lot. They fly in like.
Advertiser
I can understand clams.
John
All of that.44 is doing it because.
Advertiser
It'S flown in packed and ice.
John
80 or 90 bucks a plate, no matter what you get there.
Corey
But kicking crab thrown in. Somebody goes to the airport every day and gets kicking crab food.
Brady
Well, they're coming out. The kicking crab is also in California and Texas.
John
It's a chain.
Brady
A lot of delivery. Yeah.
John
They got planes flying all over with clams.
Advertiser
You sure it's a chain?
Brady
I'm pretty sure.
John
I think they have multiple questioning Brady on restaurants. He didn't know about the clams. I got to give it to Toledo on that one. Toledo is our.
Advertiser
He didn't know about the kicking crab.
John
That's true.
Brady
No, I knew about the kicking cry.
John
Don't get insulted. Jesus.
Brady
It was the haunted burger.
John
Oh, that's right. Haunted burger. He was unfamiliar with that.
Brady
Two kicking crabs here in Arizona. Then they have them in one of cornmeal. California. Riverside, California.
John
Which they throw in there in the tank.
Advertiser
It's not. Yeah, just if you're cooking them, it helps them purge. They purge their sand and all their impurities and stuff like that.
Corey
No kidding.
Advertiser
While they sit in the pot, they take a big.
John
Because of the cornmeal. Yeah, no kidding.
Advertiser
You'll see them.
Brady
You'll see them. They're so clam dumps. Yeah.
John
Can you serve that? I didn't see Jason Berry talking about that.
Advertiser
Well, you don't boil them in that water.
John
Yeah, I don't know. Like.
Corey
And then we went to the kicking crab. Stop it, Jason. I hated everything back there. And then cornmeal not being served properly to the clams.
John
Who knew?
Advertiser
I think it is different with oysters, by the way.
John
Yeah, I don't know any of that. That's crazy.
Advertiser
I just figured oysters have to be shucked. Anything in a forced to be Open.
John
I assumed everything in a strip mall restaurant was already dead. I've never been in one where there's living.
Advertiser
Not in that area.
John
No kidding.
Advertiser
All right, you're talking Dobson.
Host
That's the Asian area right there.
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Advertiser
Right.
John
No, I'm not saying dead business. I'm saying dead inside. Like they don't have living animals inside. I'm fascinated by that.
Advertiser
They've got live crabs.
Brady
Yeah, they might have a crab.
John
Kevin said, I work for Alaska Airlines. We download craploads of boxes of oysters every morning for Buck and Ryder.
Advertiser
Oh, there you go.
Corey
That sort of makes sense.
John
I just. I think I want my clams to be super expensive. Or dead, that's what. If they're living, I want to be pricey.
Corey
Oh, yeah.
John
I'm fine with nuts.
Corey
How about that?
John
Well, get on it. Kicking crab or get used to this noise. That dude is relentless. He keeps coming back to Pacinos, and he's gonna get up, gonna.
Corey
Things aren't gonna go well for him.
John
If he does that. That's the second time he's been over there and keep coming over.
Corey
Drag him back in.
John
They hear that door open in Pacinos.
Corey
Jason. Barry. Channel three. Oh, what do you want over here, Barry?
John
Let me take a look at your veal.
Corey
It's got an expiration date on it.
John
But it's today.
Corey
We were gonn. No, he's mean.
John
How would you like to be Jason, Barry? His wife.
Corey
Honey, I'm home. I've got the weekend off. Oh, that's great, Jason. Want to go to a restaurant? I suppose you're gonna wear your mask. Nope. I'm going right in.
Brady
He gives her a list every morning of the violations.
Corey
You call this French toast? Three violations and a gong.
Brady
We have dead bams in our refrigerator.
Corey
I see your lunch from yesterday stored above my lunch. Kitchen witch didn't have a food handler's card. I am your wife, you bastard.
Host
Can you imagine if he came into Tony Roma's back in the day?
Corey
Bitch. Didn't wash your hands after handling beef. Jason, that's enough. Sorry, honey. I can't stop.
John
And he never talks. The dean's list. They always go back to Yeta and Jared. All right, let's talk about some good restaurants that passed instead of Jason's. You know, obsession with making you think everywhere's awful.
Corey
This place. A server walked past the st. Put his coke down. Son of a.10 violations.
John
If that dude walked into my restaurant.
Corey
I'd be like, hey, there's that Jason Barrett. He thinks we're Gonna serve him food. Anybody haven't jerked off for a couple of days, I want to give him a good one.
Brady
And every week on the dean's list is dineros.
John
I see we're in trouble again there. Pacinos, De Niro's.
Corey
How do you do it? You're always on the dean's list. Who?
John
I don't know. We keep it clean. We pay Jason. That's proper payment.
Corey
That's what we do.
John
Jason Barry's car pulls up in the parking lot.
Corey
I don't like anything I'm seeing right now. Somebody dropped that kid.
John
Good luck out there, Jason. But if you're Jason Barry's wife, you have eaten a lot of boogers. Oh, you have eaten a lot of bodily fluids, Mrs. Barry. And it's because your husband won't stop going on tv, showing his face and talking about kitchens in the Valley and hitting that bus and just buzzing the Tara. The guy's working hard.
Corey
Money's changed.
John
Jason Barry. What do you got on the big board of musical treats there? Oh, I got one over here. This was John. You got to stay grounded. Like Brady. Money didn't change Brady at all. He still tries to barter his Brady sauce for everything. Well, that is his money, so it is different.
Corey
How would a booger apple pancake cup eating Mariner jinxing ass Toledo know anything about good clams? His ex wife, however.
John
She knows a clam. That's true. She turned to clams. Well, maybe that's why he did all that studying. Because he used to drive people to clams. Fresh ones. He was stuffing cornmeal in her the whole time.
Brady
50 pound bags of cornmeal.
John
He knows clams have cornmeal because his ex wife used to do it to dry up.
Corey
I won't let you in there. I'm full of cornmeal.
Brady
I'm buzzing you on that violation.
Corey
Cornmeal in the vagina. Three violations.
John
Jasonberry needs to review prostitutes.
Corey
Bumps on the thighs. Her food stored over her cans. Didn't wash her hands after handling my meat. Three violations.
Brady
Stored her lunch in.
Corey
Stored her lunch inside her anus.
Host
Owner garage had three violations.
Corey
She's got one month to clean it up. Clam filled with bumps.
John
Yeah, I wouldn't want to be Jason Barry. Not even close. I would less want to be his wife. And she lies about her name all the time.
Corey
I have it to go.
John
What's the name, man?
Corey
Jason Balooi.
John
You're not Jason Barry's wife, are you?
Corey
Oh, God, no. I hate that man. I hear the Buzzer in the background. You're Jason Barry's wife. Lied to my wife on the phone. Two violations.
Brady
That's the horn on his car.
John
Yeah.
Corey
Oh, my God.
John
Barry's in back chasing food trucks around.
Corey
Exhaust pipe cut for noise.
John
What do you got over there? All right.
Host
Wake Up Song brought it to you by Action Dry. So I'm sorry, Josh.
John
All right.
Corey
Yeah, sorry, Josh.
Advertiser
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Host
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Action Ride Shop.
Host
A lot of King songs. Anthrax for All Kings. Avenge Sevenfold. Hail to the King, Kill the King from Megadeth. Absolute Zero from Stone Sour. Angry Again for all the marches this week. Kings and Queens from Aerosmith.
John
And I mean, Kiss.
Host
We got Kiss. Detroit Rock City.
Corey
We got to give Juice Crank.
John
No, you did you crank last week.
Host
Shock Me from Ace Freely. Let's do Mastodon's playing tonight.
John
Let's do a little deuce. All right, I'd like that one. I'm not a huge KISS fan, but, you know. And they are now part of Night of the Singing Dead, which is crazy that, you know, we always get a last minute entry. And that'll happen October 31st over at Desert Ridge. Copper Blues. You can get your tickets. I don't know how to do it.
Corey
We'll figure it out.
John
Copper Blues, Desert Ridge. Google it. And then go buy tickets. And actually they're selling out really fast. I didn't know that. We looked yesterday. I'm like, a lot of people bought tickets and expectations are high. And once again, I'm telling you, lower those. I'm warning you. Don't go in there thinking this is going to be. It's going to be fun. But I don't like when things sell out that quickly. Then you got to try, like kind of a half empty room. The gas isn't bad.
Corey
It's about right.
Brady
Some dead clams.
John
Yeah, dead clams in the back. And Jason Barry's in there.
Corey
What's he singing?
John
Deuce wrong for.
Corey
It's not even an ace freely song. Two violations.
John
Yeah. Kiss. Ace freely passed away. 74 years old. Brain bleed. I bonked his head, right? He hit his head, caused a brain bleed, which is previous and that brutal. You don't want to do that.
Host
And would you like Live Deuce or Studio Deuce?
John
I like Studio Deuce.
Host
All right.
John
There you go. It's a good one. And yeah, it's weird because the members of. The original members of Kiss passing away. And you had a week ago, Gene Simmons almost.
Corey
And he showed the pictures of that.
John
Wreck that Gene Simmons had that wouldn't.
Corey
He hit that thing pretty good.
John
It sounded like he just hit a parked car. He hit another guy sleeping behind the wheel because he passed out. And it was a pretty good wreck. Paul Stanley even said, I'm surprised Gene's still with us. That's a pretty dangerous thing to have happen, going to sleep on that road he was on. But, yeah, the members of Kiss are starting to go. And Ace Freely dropped out. This is a good one, though. This is. Deuce gotta like this for a Kiss song. I gotta. Got no complaints. So long, Ace. It's been a tough year for music, that's for sure. It's 98.
Advertiser
It's out of control now.
John
98.
Episode Title: Holmberg Keeps Trying Coffee But Still Doesn't Like It Prompting His Shared Food Rant Again
Podcast: Holmberg's Morning Sickness | 98KUPD, Hubbard Radio
Date: October 17, 2025
In this lively episode, John Holmberg and his co-hosts (Brady, Corey, Bret, Toledo) steer through a series of rants and conversations ranging from failed attempts at drinking coffee, personal pet losses, and deep gripes about homemade food at work, to passionate exchanges about emails, marches, and local “dirty dining” restaurant reports. The show is packed with sarcastic humor, personal anecdotes, and lighthearted digs at each other and Arizona life.
On dog cancer:
"That we got to figure that cancer thing out with dogs. It’s everywhere... Cancer is prevalent in dogs now where it used to not be constant, and it’s constant." — John (02:34)
On office food:
"I'll shove meat in my mouth, but I'm not eating your donut hole, lady." — John (07:38)
On workplace trust:
"If you had somebody wandering around going, 'I hate every last mother in this building,' ... And then she brings in this beautiful seven layer dip... Only a killer would do that." — John (08:56)
On marches and money:
"Remember, Brady, how I before I changed, how I was always organizing marches? Remember that? Oh, I was a march machine." — John (10:49)
On protests:
"It is. It becomes a pat yourself on the back. I was there. Picture on your Instagram ... It’s mob mentality, unlike any group of people." — Corey (16:15–16:21)
On Dirty Dining and Jason Barry:
"He’s done. Pacino’s is back on the bad boy list." — Corey (22:09)
"Why would you want to attack the Italian restaurant twice?... Pacino’s stop it." — John (22:21)
On clams in the desert:
"Who’s got live clams, and how do you know?" — Corey (25:10)
"If you asked me, how do you know when a clam is dead? I think she just lays there." — John (25:23)
On listener departures:
"I’m leaving, okay? You better know it." — Corey (21:14)
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness is a classic display of witty banter, absurd tangents, and pointed rants about office food, local news, and odd Arizona life. John’s inability to appreciate coffee leads to a larger meditation on aging, quirks, and distrust of community food. As always, listener emails, local controversy (Dirty Dining!), and frenetic tangents keep the show unpredictable and funny.
For listeners, this summary provides the arc of the show and the best moments without the need to endure the ads, intros, or non-content interludes.