12-09-25 - Raiders Taking Heat Over Ending That Affected Point Spread - Tempe Tavern Owners Respond To Latest Sting Involving 245 Underage Drinkers As We Remember Getting Fake IDs - Mother Laments Prison No Longer Accepting Written Letters To Her Son

Summary

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Holmberg's Morning Sickness – Arizona

Episode Date: December 9, 2025
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A humorous and biting take on current sports drama, a Tempe bar under fire for underage drinking busts, the nostalgia and mechanics of fake IDs, and a critical look at prison policies cutting off handwritten letters. The hosts mix irreverent banter and sharp wit as they dissect these hot-button Arizona stories.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NFL Drama – Raiders, Broncos & "Point Spreadgate"

[03:30 – 11:18]

• Suspicion Over Raiders’ Game Ending:
  John and the crew discuss the NFL’s brewing scandal after a controversial end to the Raiders-Broncos game, where a last-minute field goal affected betting outcomes.
  • John questions: “Was there any reason for that field goal? The spread was 7.5, the field goal hits 7, and then the game ends. There was no reason for it, and so many people were mad.” (04:04)
  • The NFL’s relationship with gambling is scrutinized amid new technology, with John warning, “It’s inevitable that eventually a game gets fixed… when a full sports book is in your hand at all times...” (04:48)
• Olympic Gambling Risks:
  The crew riff on potential Olympic scandals, noting that obscure sports will inevitably become targets for match-fixing because “who’s going to notice if the American [archer] has an off day?” (07:25)

Notable Quote

“Even my phone knows that these people [the Harbaughs] are miserable, horrible human beings.” – John, [02:20]

“It’s inevitable that eventually a game gets fixed... with a full sports book in your hand at all times.” – John, [04:48]

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2. Tempe Tavern: Underage Drinking Sting & Fake IDs

[11:18 – 24:11]

• Tempe Tavern’s PR Problem:
  After two major police raids catching hundreds of underage drinkers, Tempe Tavern’s statement that they “take underage drinking very seriously” is met with mockery:
  • “Yes, you do. You most certainly do. And you’re great at it.” – John, [13:25]
  • The tavern blames police for not notifying them of the stings. John responds: “The reason I murdered my wife, sir, is because I didn’t know. A cop didn’t tell me I couldn’t.”
• Fake ID Epidemic:
  The hosts reminisce about their own fake ID exploits and describe the high sophistication of modern fake IDs:
  • “One of the kids just had a crayon and a piece of paper that said ‘I am 21’ and drew a picture of himself from Missouri. That’s pretty neat.” – John, [15:35]
  • "At Tempe Tavern, looking around I'm like, can I help you with your homework? Ooh, long division. You need a beer. This is great." – John, [19:34]
  • Bulk fake IDs are the norm for college students, sharing personal anecdotes about how easy and “legit” today’s fakes are.
• Bar Liability & Responsibility:
  The hosts debate the extent of bar responsibility, with universal agreement:
  • “If a kid gets in with a fake ID… that’s the bar’s fault.” (15:39)
  • Satirical suggestions abound about Tempe Tavern’s priorities and business aims.

Notable Quotes

"We here at the Tempe Tavern take underage drinking very seriously. Yes, you do. You most certainly do. And you're great at it." – John, [13:25]

"I want to go to the Tempe Tavern. If it wasn't for getting arrested for leering at youth, I'd love to drink there. That place takes underage drinking very seriously." – John, [17:13]

"They should just have a set of giant balls you tap as you walk in, like you're playing a Notre Dame football game." – John, [23:17]

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3. Fake ID Nostalgia & Techniques

[17:26 – 20:38]

• The hosts recall swapping stories from their bartending days and the creative (and often ridiculous) methods teens used to get past age checks.
  • Testing patrons with questions about astrological signs matched to fake birthdays as a way to outsmart fake IDs.
  • The evolution from crude, ironed ID overlays to today’s scannable, high-fidelity fakes.

Notable Quote

“The days of the peeling up ID are way gone, though… Ours was just peel up an old one and put a new picture on and then glue it. No, you ironed it. There was a lot of burn marks on IDs.” – John, [20:20]

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4. Satire & Social Commentary: Responsibility, Policing, and Irony

[21:28 – 23:50]

• The hosts satirize the logic of bar owners and criminals who expect to be tipped off about investigations, poking fun at the absurdity of wanting a “heads up” before raids or arrests.
• The parallel is drawn between religious surveillance (“if you know you're being watched, you're probably not going to do terrible things” – John, [22:10]) and bar stings.
• Jokes about Tempe Tavern catering to kids, “Do you have high chairs? Of course we got high chairs… We're a bar. Come on in.” [23:50]

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5. Arizona Prisons Ban Handwritten Letters

[25:00 – 27:59]

• News story about Arizona jails ending physical mail due to drugs being smuggled, now moving to tablets/digital correspondence.
• Emotional comments from a mother (Veronica) are met with harsh critique by the hosts:
  • “Nobody did that but you. You cut off communication between your son and I whenever he committed the crime or when you went to jail.” – John, [25:56]
  • “You’re not owed anything.”
• The hosts dissect the concept of "losing a personal touch," questioning whether those convicted of serious crimes deserve such considerations.

Notable Quote

"We shouldn’t be punished for a few bad apples."
"You’re all bad apples. You’re in jail." – [26:30]

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6. Policing, Drug Law Sarcasm & Africa Food Aid Tangents

[28:24 – 32:13]

• Amusing but darkly cynical idea from a cop friend: lace all drugs with fentanyl and legalize, letting “the problem solve itself.”
• Stories of drone drops for prisoners – both for drugs and extravagant food like steak and lobster.
• Extended riff about food aid to Africa – how warlords always end up with charitable supplies – spins off into a satirical take on Ethiopian restaurants and cultural perceptions ("Would you like a side of flies?").

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Memorable Moments with Timestamps

• John’s phone autocorrects ‘Harbaugh’ to ‘garbage’: [02:20]
• "We take underage drinking very seriously. Yes, you do. You most certainly do." [13:25]
• Describing fake IDs so elaborate that “he could travel with it” [20:20]
• Bar satire: “Do you have high chairs?” [23:50]
• Mother laments new prison letter rule, hosts respond: “You’re all bad apples. You’re in jail.” [26:30]
• Cynical ‘fentanyl nuke’ solution to the drug problem [28:24]
• Africa aid riff: "Would you like a side of flies?" [32:13]

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Overall Tone & Takeaway

A signature blend of Arizona news, sports cynicism, and gleeful irreverence. The hosts laugh their way through moral gray areas, skewering hypocrisy, and finding the dark comedic angle on nearly any topic. If you missed the episode, you missed everything from pointed NFL gambling conspiracies, scathing bar owner critiques, shock-value parental advice for jailbirds, and plenty of biting social satire. But you won’t miss the hosts’ relentless wit – or the unmistakable Arizona flavor.

Transcript

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Good morning, everybody. Hello there. Welcome to Tuesday. It's 5:45. My name is John. Hello. There's Brady. There's Brett. There's Big Dick Toledo. There's his homework's morning sickness. Ready to go for another glorious day? It's freeze. I'm keeping my ski cap on because I came in with the top down. And my body, my body, my body won't cool off or like, it's not doing it right. I'm frozen like a crackhead's credit. It's. I got chilies. It's like 44 out there. It's jelly. You do look like Chappelle with the beanie on.

You got any crack? You got some rock. Reminds me, somebody emailed me and said, I love that you've compared Lamar Jackson to Sandra Bernhardt, but don't you think he's more like Pooty Tang. And all I said back was say that, hey, my Demis. It's exactly who he looks like. It's very good. But almost had a perfect football weekend where two Harbaughs were sad. Almost had double sad Harbaughs, but we couldn't get that double sad Harbaughs are. It's a tough one. It's like a double rainbow. You can't. You can't make all the Harbaugh sad in one day. But boy, you know, it's fun when you get a. You get a weekend where you've got that gaping open mouth. Hillbilly Jim Harbaugh over there in la, who I don't think he's capable of closing his mouth. And then John Harbaugh over there in Baltimore. And the Harbaughs are C words. That's the old. Like, they should have their pictures in the dictionary next to the C word and just say C Harbaugh. My favorite thing last night is I realized I was texting terrible things about the Harbaughs and their family and things I wish would happen. And it didn't. It didn't. Wasn't so far as, you know, wishing colds on them, but it was more like cancer, Lou Gehrig's rape. All sorts of terrible things wished upon the Harbaughs through texts from another Harbaugh hater. And I realized that when I misspell Harbaugh, my phone corrects to garbage. Even my phone knows that these people are miserable, horrible, horrible human beings.

And, like, I don't want them to get hit by a car or anything. I'd prefer if it was a plane or a train or a large bus or semi truck, not a car, that. That might create hero status.

I'd like them to eat something with survival. Yeah, I'd like to eat like go to a restaurant and eat something that potentially had an explosive in it. That's the kind of, like, this is tasty. That's a Harbaugh. I hate them passionately. Sports creates that. And it's their fault that I feel this way. And I have no issues saying it out loud. It doesn't bother me at all. Not at all. So almost. Almost a perfect Harbaugh weekend. But I don't ever mind seeing Brad Zit do well because he's banging Madison Beer and that keeps pictures of her in the TMZ and stuff like that. I like Justin Herbert. And then seeing the Eagles lose means that they're sad Eagle fans. It's a really, the mix of hate I have that brings joy into my life is very. It's a tapestry of hate and beauty and all combined. Never feel better. But yeah, I was a little upset last night. Went to overtime. I thought the Eagles were going to knock him out. And Eagles fan travel. Well, there was. There was a lot of Eagles fans. LA is. There are no Charger fans in Los Angeles. So it's. They sell tickets to everybody. Get out of Philly. Yeah, well, that's true too, but they go ruin another city. But Herbert. Don't feel sorry for Herbert. Last night was a fun game. And then he went to go bang Madison Beer afterwards. And that's a. That's a fantastic kill for Brad Zit. I think he's. He's really got it together. I like that. So, yeah, I got no beef with that. I'd like to have Brad sit on my team. I think he's pretty solid. I just. I just can't stand when they show. And they seem to manage to show Harbaugh's face. Maybe they just never looked that bad. I saw him, John Harbaugh, in Dallas at the Super bowl in 2012. And he was at the Kennedy Museum. And I was going in and he was coming out and I just remember going, ugh, like out loud, like, there's John Harbaugh. And he just walked by with his smug little Harbaugh face. And I just thought, oh, maybe you walk into the road. And he didn't. I was rooting for it. But he. He's still here. It was a rough one, but yeah, we'll start again, try again next week for that beautiful double Harbaugh bashing. And the NFL is in trouble there. Pete Carroll might be asking if Pete Carroll made any money on bets. Boy, I watched that thing again. And there was a big story about that pass and field goal at the end of the Raiders and Broncos game. And they got the. The refs might be in on it cause they called a weird penalty that got em in field goal range. And then the spread was seven and a half the field. Go cut it to seven. And then the game ended. There was no reason for a field goal. And it was so many people. Mad investigation. Oh, it's so bad. Well, it's gonna get looked into for sure. But I'm assuming the NFL will have enough to make this disappear. But all this gambling that's involved, it's inevitable. It's inevitable that eventually a game gets fixed. It is inevitable that when a full sports book is in your hand at all Times you don't even need a bookie anymore. You got one. You are your own bookie. It's right there in your paw. It's inevitable that something happens to. I mean it's already happened in baseball and basketball. We'll see if football's. We don't know about hockey yet because people. It's always last one. It's probably the one doing it the most because nobody's looking. But it'll be fun. I wonder if the Olympics get hit this year because there'll be Olympic gambling and now that everybody's got these little handheld gambling sports books. Wonder if the Olympics with some of the lesser than go down on your final run. If I know there's archery bets and I'm an archer and I'm, you know, like pride of the country. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some guy says, hey, toss a couple up in the upper right corner and then ski over to this thing and do it again. Be like, ah, it's not a bad idea. Two or three hundred thousand dollars. Nobody's ever gonna remember your arching ass. They'd have to tap the Nordic guy on that one. They just like it. And I think those countries actually give them. They get pray they're like Michael Jordan. When they go home, they. The American archer. Name one. Geena Davis is the only one. And the only reason you know her is because. And that was summertime. I'm talking about those cross country. I don't know the one. Yeah, and they're not archers. We have one of the top female archers. You don't know anything about that? You know the last Sunday. Stop talking. You don't know any of that? No, you don't. You heard once we have a good archer and you're carrying it around like you have a piece of information. See nothing. You know nothing. The only two archers I know is Robin Hood and Ted Nugent. That, that's well put. Joe Rogan in there too. Oh, is he? Is he one too? Okay, but then you got the one. I'm thinking of that other thing where you ski and then you shoot and you ski. Shoot. Nobody knows who those guys are. And don't say you do, Brady. That's what I was saying. It's always the Nordic guys, right? But they go home and they're heroes. The American dude doing that. Nothing. Never there. Nothing. He's there. There's the problem. You don't even know if he's there. So who's going to notice if the American guy has an off day and starts plugging the upper Right. Of the thing. And he tells you, here's the time I can manufacture. Now, if I'm really humping it, I'm gonna get through that whole shooting decathlon in about two hours or whatever it takes. But I can make it 2 hours and 35 minutes. Give you the over under on me, I said. And then probably I can hit no bullseyes at all. I'd be like, oh, if you can find a prop bet on that, you make a billion dollars on that stupid sport where you ski and shoot. Brady Ellison. His name's Brady Ellison. He's considered the US's best.

There you go. And don't act like you knew that. Brady, stop it. I didn't. No. Okay, good. Started to say we got one of the world's best archers. I thought our female archers. You don't know that either. Making my point for me, saying things like that without names or anything specific. We don't know anything about archers. Okay, here's the best female archer. She's a Casey cough. Hold on. She's a phenom. First US woman to reach world number one. That's great. Just now learning about it. And guess what? It'll be the last time I ever pay attention to it.

Even if she's the world's greatest archer, no one will care. And also, she's not hot. Whoa. So turn that. That is a dude in that picture. She got no chance to be famous. Oh, man. She can be the world's greatest something or other. And people will go, turn it. It doesn't matter. Even if Mike Tirico's there going, you've never seen archery this magical in your life. And then they go, oh, geez, this might be good. And then they show her. You're like, turn it. Turn it to reruns of anything else. Put that Puff Daddy documentary back on. You're going to. You have to make the money on the figure skating. Her, they can wipe out. She'd ruin figures. Oh, yeah, and they could. Those guys can manufacture a loss. But it'd be tougher. It'd be tougher to, like, if you could say, I don't know how you can prop bet that, but I think the Olympics are a ripe target for all this gambling because the big boy sports are going to be tougher. More eyes on individuals. You know those people. We see them again next week. People who are, like, just skiing. Like, oh, I'll turn that corner and I'll eat about two minutes in. And maybe the. The snow cross, stuff like that where they have races together in the and then you see. I don't even know what that is. The one where they're. They're motorbike and down the hills and stuff. Yeah, but I love that. And then they do it on the snowboard, like 12 or 15 of them at once. That's fun. But if you just have a like I bet a million dollars on a did not finish and it's a top fiverr huge. It's possible. We'll see though. But the Broncos and Raiders are doing it and the refs are in on it. The Olympics. Who's going to notice? It's awesome.

They say things that are horrible.

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They're blaming the police for not telling them they were gonna do this.

What you doing? You tell anyone? She tells us you were an ongoing investigation. We just stopped serving the kids. Come on. It's the cops fault. It says the First. This is the first time they're hearing from the Tempe Tavern since the police released details of the drinking busts and all. And there was a hit and run back in early November. It says the bar sent a lengthy statement, and they basically were saying, hey, if the cops are investigating you, shouldn't they tell you? Then I'd have cleaned it up. Yeah, I agree. Zabar sent a lengthy statement to Arizona's family saying they were never given notice of any concern from Tempe or the Liquor Board. So they kept serving the teens. Nobody was telling them it was wrong. Come on. Anyway, the reason I murdered my wife, sir, is because I didn't know. A cop didn't tell me. I couldn't. The balls in the Tempe Police Department. I mean, what are you doing over there? Investigating you behind your back? Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

They rated the popular bar twice this year. Tough enough asking for IDs. Exactly. Takes forever. You gotta line out the door. You got the paycheck. Just let them in. It's cold out there. Push that stroller right over here. We'll get him a cool one.

Tempe Tavern fired back Monday, saying the numbers are wrong. Officers only arrested a couple people and the rest were just citations for underage drinking arrests.

The bar leadership said the establishment was never cited, which is a weird thing. They got to open up again. Says they've also addressed the police post linking the hit and run to their establishment. Well, that's part of bar ownership. You can't overserve and have somebody go run someone down. That's true at your house, by the way. You have a party at your house and someone drives away and kills Someone. You got a liability problem.

The police haven't even passed. If a kid gets in with a fake id. Yeah. That. That's the bar's fault. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For sure. You gotta. You know, you couldn't. There's a reason why there's signs that say we ID under 30. They basically are telling you, don't get on our ass. Give you the. Then they give you the fake ID that is just. You're still supposed to be able to. Yeah. Figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. And if you miss one, they'll probably go, hey, keep an eye on this. 236 in one night. You're not paying attention. One of the kids just had a crayon and a piece of paper that said, I am 21, and drew a picture of himself from Missouri. That's pretty neat. Just out of safety. You want to get everyone inside, you can have a lion. No, it's right up against the road. Brady's right. It's for the kids safety. That's right. We're always talking about kids safety inside. Strapping them up in cars with car seats till they're 11. Jesus Christ. These kids would have been standing out to Tempe Tavern. Cares about your kids.

It's hilarious. That is my favorite sentence for a bar that's been hit two times and had. Okay, Tempe Tavern. I'll go with you. Hundreds of citations in two different incidents. The biggest complaint I heard was the drive line to pick the kids. Oh, yeah. It's like the Dutch brothers. It's brutal. Yeah. When the moms have to come get them. It's not. It looks like an Uber line, but it's just their parents. The bouncers are out there. So how you doing today? See any good movies? Yeah. Just like. What are you up to? We take underage drinking very seriously. They're going for the record is what I hear there.

I want to go to the Tempe Tavern. If it wasn't for, like, getting arrested for leering at youth, I'd love to drink there. That. That place takes underage drinking very seriously.

You know who's happy about. And you know what? I'm guessing it's a double business. Tempe Tavern is getting busted for giving you alcohol. My guess is that's just speculation, but I could be right. And I'm sorry. Tempe Tavern. Let. Let. I'm not investigating you. I know you guys like to know when that's going on, so I bet you that they also have a side business. Making fake IDs or selling them back. You know, now that the cops took their figure, they can make fake IDs now. So they sell them to the. Because now there's 500 kids without fake IDs over these last two raids. They're going to need go to the Tempe Tavern, extra couple bucks under the. Under the coat, under your. You know, maybe it's even under your binky when you put it down to order. And, yeah, another $100 per ID. That's good business. That's. That's thousands. Tempe Tavern doesn't need to. Let me just say this from experience. When my son was down in Tucson. Yeah, they got bulk rates, so they all got two IDs. They are legit IDs. Nice. His shows our address in Seattle. Nice. His actual birth date, but the right one to make him 21. Right. And it's his name. So if he were questioned, even if he knows how to answer all the. Knows how to answer all those questions. Because the big old question, it's got the bar, right, the barcode on the back. No kidding. As a bartender back in the day, but I was for old people, because Tony Roman's true In the old. Occasionally on, like, a Tuesday, two girls would wander. And I remember my. My old buddy Jim Ortiz, the other bartender's like, watch this. He goes, they'll give me IDs, but they're terrible. And they hand over these IDs, and they were like. One was like this girl's mother, like she found her old idea 47 or something. And the other one was a Chinese black man. I'm like, I don't think this is you, Teresa. But. And then they say each other's names, and it was nothing. So he would make them virgin daiquiris because they always ordered daiquiris, and they were never alcohol, and they'd walk out drunk, and it was one of the funniest. He goes, if they ever got tested, we didn't give them anything, so we're in the clear. He goes, little lesson for you, But I would ID every once in a while, and I knew a minute that someone got ID'd, and they'd be like, oh, my God, I can't believe you're IDing me. Like, she's 12. Like, nobody and everybody just give me my drink. Here's my id. So it was one of the questions that I always asked was, oh, we have the same birthday. What's. I'm not doing. What's your sign? What's our sign?

And I don't know the correct answer. But if they even hesitate, everybody knows their sign. It's annoyingly. Like I said, I think we're Leos, aren't we? Yeah. Or I would look and go, that's my birthday, too. We're fellow Leos, and they were born in, like, March. I'm like, yeah, like, ah, you're done. No, they're out. You're out. But it was very rare at Tony Rome. It's at Tempe Tavern. Looking around, I'm like, can I help you with your homework? Ooh, long division. You need a beer. This is great. Days of the peeling up ID are way gone, though. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Alex's id, he could travel with it. Yeah. Oh. Oh, it's. They're great fake ids. Ours was just peel up an old one and put a new picture on there and then glue it. No, you ironed it. Well, you tried to iron it. There was a lot of burn marks on id.

We at the Tempe Tavern take underage drinking very seriously. If you haven't had two, you're not doing it right.

Great job. Tempe Tavern.

All hail the Tempe Tavern. And let's all not clutch our pearls about this. There was an accident. That's terrible. But that could happen. Age or underage. And also, we all, except Brady, raise our pints to the place that used to be pretty lax about underage drinking because we loved it. There's going to be collateral damage. And unfortunately, in this case, it was pretty damn bad. But that kid was going to drink somewhere. She was wanting drinks. They found the tavern. They're gonna get in trouble for it. But they haven't linked them together yet. Cause you don't know if that chick was stoned on top of it all. And then what?

I love it. They wrote a letter back, hey, cops. How dare you do an investigation of our illegal activities without letting us know. We just straighten that right up.

A murderer. It's like, evidently I was under investigation the entire time for this murder, and that took me off guard. I didn't like that at.

Usually, I know, you know, not a cop either, but pretty sure the idea of an investigation is to not let the person you're investigating know you're there.

You know, that'd be nice. Just kind of track you for a little bit. Make sure you're, you know, with a body part you're hiding. It's like I'm watching you. The cops are gonna pretty me. If you know you're being watched, you're probably not gonna do terrible things. When a cop is behind you on the freeway, you do the speed limit. You know you're being watched. My argument against religion. Nobody actually believes God's watching all the time or they wouldn't do anything bad. If your dad was in the bedroom with you at all times, you'd never beat off and just go, well, I'm human. It's not. It's not a viable excuse. Morning sickness. Disgusting. They say things that are horrible's morning sickness. I don't know. Eventually you'd say, dad, turn around. No, you wouldn't. If your dad was in the room, you'd keep your thumb out of your ass. I guarantee it for your whole life. You'd be all pent up and frustrated. But you're not gonna start beating off if Dad's all. If you know you're being watched all the time, you're not gonna do anything bad. There's no excuse. Well, I make mistakes. Nuh. And that's where Tempe Tavern's like. We don't. We'd have done so much better had we known a little North Korea would have been nice. Tell me. When I'm being watched all the time, like my rights have been violated. I feel like I should sue you. I'm doing an investigation to you. How does that feel?

Tempe Tavern. The balls on the Tavern. They should just have a set of giant balls. You tap as you walk in, like. Like you're playing a Notre Dame football game. John, who's the attorney for Tempe Tavern? Saul Goodman or what? They've got a good guy.

I'll fight for you, Albuquerque. They're definitely going to push this to the limits. And I think the story is going to get better. So let me just. Just let them know. Tempe Tavern. I got my eyes on you. Let me just let you know before you get up. What are you looking at? They're basically saying that.

Do you have high chairs? Of course we got high chairs. We're a bar. Come on in. Who wouldn't? Who wouldn't? Why wouldn't we cater to the family? Ted, we're out of kids menus. You want a little grilled cheese with your beer? A little baby spider? He's adorable. How old is. Once he gets his teeth come in, he's going to be adorable. Mac and cheese over there. Come on.

Put a nipple on that. He's having trouble with the big, heavy glass. Good on you, Tempe Tavern. Good on you. I'm proud of them. They get it together.

By the way, John, the thing you were looking for, the ski and shot contest in the Olympics is called the trans masculine non binary athletes. Oh, okay. That's what it is. I saw the shooter that archers. Trans masculine. That's fo joke. Oh, joke. Yeah. So if we all should go to Tempe Tavern before they close and have a pint, let's go for the kids. We should, you know, we should do. We should have like a charity drive over there for like toys for tots or something and then just give them to the people as they leave. Here you go. This is for you. What, man? Go ahead, Tot, take it.

Bring your kids. Another story I saw on the news last night that made me laugh was there's a lady who was in jail for eight years and her son who's 29, is now in jail because, you know, apple tree situation there. But they're taking. Oh, they just announced that they're going to not allow any more physical letters to be delivered to the inmates because too many times there's like something in there. There's drugs or something stupid. So now everything's a tablet. And so the lady's like, she said some really dumb stuff like only a formerly incarcerated person could say. She said her name's Veronica, she did seven years in prison and her 29 year old son is now incarcerated. Says that handwritten letters are a very important part of the times. As she said to me, it's like holding the hand of a family member. Their hand was on that paper and the love that they put into it and the thought and the time and the money they paid for the parcel and stuff. I felt like they're cutting off a line of communication between my son and I. And I just yelled back at the TV and I'm like, nobody did that but you. You cut off communication between your son and I whenever he committed the crime or when you went to jail. And then suddenly you started to lose. You don't. You're not owed anything. But the new policy says that all personal mail from family and friends will be sent to processing centers. They'll scan it and upload it onto a screen. That way they know if you sent over a knife or drugs or anything like that, because they just had a big problem, a big drug delivery and somebody had all over the paper. The officials are basically saying this, you know, it's for safety sake. And she's like, we shouldn't be punished for a few bad apples. Like, you're all bad apples. You're in Jail. It was one of the dumbest interviews I've ever seen. Like, who's your PR? That's empty tavern.

It starts December 15th. She said other family members worry the policy will remove a personal touch of handwritten correspondence. She said, I want my son to have, you know, my letters, my words, not just some scan or tablet for those bad seeds that are out in jail with him.

He didn't do it. He's a bad seed. Sorry to break it to you there, Veronica. He's not. He was in there. No, he made a mistake. They got the wrong guy. I know for sure he's a bad seed. His mother was in jail for seven years, too. The whole family's in on it. Might be a nice guy. Doesn't mean he's a bad guy. Like, it's like, you're charming, but you're still in jail because you did something dumb.

Especially, you know, if you're getting letters in jail, that means you're going to be there for a while. And if your mom's on TV saying, we got to get them these letters, that means you're going to be there for a really long time. So I don't know what your son did. And, he's 29. He didn't want to open a letter and read your handwriting. He was raised on tablets. Just drone a couple of packages. Well, that's the new thing. They just drone steak and lobster over to some guys and some drugs. Yeah. Get creative. Prisoners for years have been smart about how they get things into the other guys. So, you know, if they're. Can basically cut off any tangible something. Yeah, do that.

Yeah. It doesn't. It doesn't bother me at all. Especially when they say stupid things like, you know, it's very important that we have the tangible thing that I touched and gave to him. It's like. And they're taking that away from us. Yeah, they took him away. Remember when he was in trial and they said guilty, and he lost everything? So you can't just give him letters anymore. Probably she wanted to give her son some drugs.

I have a friend who is a former police officer whose solution for the drug problem is fairly drastic. He wants to put fentanyl in all of it and then make it legal. He calls it his fentanyl nuke. Anybody who wants to take it, we let them all know. Probably fentanyl and everything now. And if they take it and they die. So. Well, I'm like, huh? It's a solution, A final one.

But he's not wrong. Be Terrible. But it would keep. All of a sudden, there's a mass drop from, wow, all drugs kill. No more reefer madness fears. No more of those billboards of crystal meth making your teeth fall out in the first day. It's like, no, it just kills you. The first step. The second you do it. So good luck if you want to get high in your peer pressure. Suddenly, I think you would see a lot of people going, I don't think I'm going to try that.

And he's just a cynical. When you. When you're friends with cops, you realize you don't have a dark sense of humor. You don't know what a dark sense of humor is until you hang out with a police officer for, I don't know, couple hours because they've seen everything awful. They've been around just about everything you can imagine, and they're tired of it. Everybody's sick of their job a little bit. Now imagine your job is constantly dealing with the worst human beings on the planet. Eventually you're like, yeah, we could do without him. And he's not wrong. Now, first things first. We start with no letters, and then we move on to getting rid of them. But I did like the ingenuity of the drone. What was that in Kentucky? I don't remember. It was. They droned over lobster steak and drugs for a couple inmates. And I don't know how the inmate knew that that was just for him. And how the other inmates cooperated with that. Yeah, I would. He had to have some pole. I mean, basically, they got the. The idea from the Red Cross because that's how we give food to the poor Africans, that we won't land on the. Because we'll get beat up by warlords. We just let them. But the warlords always kill the people we're trying to help and then take the supplies. We dump giant bags of rice down on port. Just take the supplies. We just fly over. Like, we're not landing. It's crazy down there. And they just throw food at them. And then hopefully the right people get it. But every time they get it, that big plane going over, the warlords are like, oh, cool, there's some rice coming. And we'll get that later. That wasn't bad. They liked the old way because they'd get a truck out of it, too. Yeah. When they used to drive it in. Now get out of the truck. And the Red Cross, like, we're losing too many trucks. We like it just over the announcement of the intercom. We like, you down there, but we're not landing. It's crazy in Africa. Have you seen it? Good luck. Yeah. Get a catcher's mitt. And they're just down there. Just like, I got it. I got the plane. Three flies up with bags of rice, and then some guy comes through. Deray says, mine now. And then he takes it home to the fat people of Africa. Oh, that's a great band name. The Fats of Africa. Fat Africa would be great if it just said, hey, hey, hey. It's fat Africa. Oh, I want that to be on a poster. Anyway, that's why I wanted to start that African restaurant years ago where they. We didn't have drones when I came up with this idea. But instead, they just throw the food. The food drops down from the ceiling onto your. Onto your table. And you got to hurry up and eat it before busboy warlord comes and clears the table for his family. So you're in there. I never understood express eating. They had that place in Tempe, the Ethiopian restaurant. And I'm like, all I know of Ethiopia is they're always hungry. How do they have a restaurant? And then to do it off the off. And it said, on the authentic Ethiopian. And I'm like, if that's true, that food falls from the sky. Authentic Ethiopian. Does it come with flies on my face?

Would you like a side of flies? I think you're saying that wrong. I am not. You will watch this. They're everywhere. Would you like a horsetail? What's that for? Sweating with the flies. Okay. This is authentic. Then some white woman from 70s Hollywood comes and cries at your table for the bill. We just need 32. 50 comes out of the kitchen. Yep. Just please pay the bill. Jesus Christ. What's going on? I guess I'm picking up a couple other tables, too. My dad's friend had a guy. Was my dad's friend. Yeah, it was his friend. He worked with his son worked at a African restaurant. And I'm like, how weird was that? Heaven. Kenny, the white kid from a Clintock wandering in and out of an Ethiopian place. Hi, my name's Kenny, here to help you. Hello. If that's what you want. I don't know how to say it. That good? How's your goat? It's pretty good today.

The guys in the back are clicking like crazy. Must be good. Anyway, two of our chefs died of malnutrition last night, so they're gonna make it. We do have a special on flies. Crazy. Let's get a wake up song, shall we? A good one to start off this day. 5859800 and we'll scream it together. It's 98 KUPD. Wake up. It's not weird. It's pretty cool actually. No membership fee. I have heard enough of this.

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