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Cease and desist at once. The best of homework's morning sickness.
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This is the Big Red Radio.
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Brady. Before we get to the Brady Report, I have been emailed something about a month, maybe a little more. About a month ago I was on my way to my dreams. Something I used to fight quite vigorously was the the idea of the acceptance of this type of thing. Thinking what have we come to? And then I started to realize I was wrong, that we need to move this direction. More politicians need to have down syndrome because less thinking and more doing is what we need from politicians. And that's exactly what folks with down syndrome get. We won't have 6,000 page documents for one law.
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Simplify.
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That's it. Mar Galceran. Mar Galceran Headline says history made as Spain's first parliamentarian with down syndrome takes her chair. She won. Now it's still hard for me to see this and not chuckle a little bit. If I lost my job to someone with down syndrome, I'd realize I'd probably not been doing a very good job. We non down syndrome folk should be able to win that job interview. If I want to know who she ran against and how that guy feels today who beat you? I don't want to talk about it. For decades. Could you imagine if you had the job? You're, like, going for a job interview, like, I think I got this. This is it. And then you go back, like, a month later and go, I never heard back from him. And you see the person where you thought you were gonna work. Hi, how are you? Welcome aboard. I'm gonna jelly beans. Like, oh, my God. I didn't interview as well. Anyway, it says, for decades she battled to ensure that people with intellectual disabilities were part of the conversation. Progress has been made. Mar Galcarian became Spain's first parliamentarian with down syndrome. It's unprecedented. Society is starting to see people with down syndrome have something to contribute, but it's a long road. Then my favorite part of the article says, slowly she worked her way up the party apparatus. How else are you gonna describe it? But I'm all for that. More downs. Folks in offices. Too many people thinking and writing lawyer letters and everything else. Ask a Down syndrome kid, what do you think should happen between this and this? And they'll tell you, like, immediately, they should stop doing that and hug. You can do an argument with someone with down syndrome, they're gonna hug you, and if you push them away, you're an asshole. If we sent a Down syndrome president in there to talk to Hamas and Benji Netanyahu. Okay, okay, everybody calm down. Let's just play Connect 4 for a minute. And then you just play Connect 4 for a second. You're like, this is kind of fun. And Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu are playing Connect 4. That's progress, because they're not going to tell the mentally challenged person, shut up. We're fighting. Why everybody fight? Connect Four diagonally. Pretty sneaky test. They would stop things. Come here. Give me a hug. You seem angry. And then you'd be like, oh, my God, it's happening. I want a mentally retarded governor before 2030. And don't make the jokes. We got Katie Hobbs. You know what I'm talking about.
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I think people are worried that, you know, the guy would come in. And I have a development that I want to put in there. And in the park. I'll have a jelly bean machine for you.
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Approved, right? Oh, no. There's the manipulation factor. That would be like, we're gonna have a banana tree and there's gonna be elephants. Oh, my God. Build that today. Like, all right. You need a handler to go.
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Lobbyists would be a little different.
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Yeah.
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They'd be like, do you like jelly beans? Because I'm. I'm gonna build a forest of jellybeans around my great big nuclear power plant.
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But you have to burn down this forest first.
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Okay, jellybean forest for a dumb, non Jelly bean forest approved. And then you'd have to have her handlers going, all right, now, we talked about the jellybean forest. You know, it's not real. And that would be against the law to go in there and lie like that to a mentally challenged person. And then you find out that these corporate bigwigs that everybody's mad at going in there telling a mentally retarded person they get a jelly bean forest if they say yes, they'd be, ooh, the booze would rain down from every angle, left, right, or otherwise. You can't promise a jelly bean forest to a Down syndrome person and then not deliver it.
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Do you let the newly elected Downsy make the speech to say I was.
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Manipulated, I was fooled. But jellybean forest. And they're not going to go lie about that. And then you'll know the truth. Down syndrome politicians need to be our only politicians before I die. It should be illegal for someone who doesn't have downs to run something politically. Some of them we got in there worse shape. I know, I know. That's. That's the argument. I'm not even calling names. That's the argument. But then they also have law degrees. Down syndrome folks don't have law degrees. If they do, it was ceremonial because you'd never hire that lawyer about the good doctor.
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Come on.
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If you're hiring him as a politician.
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Yeah, you're. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You want a slimy weirdo to be a lawyer. You don't want an honest down syndrome person.
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They do the pro bono cases.
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No, no, no, no, no. Stop it. You know what I'm talking about. Everybody's got their dumb argument. Oh, why would you. No, you want a lawyer to be a lawyer. You wanted a negotiator, an arbitrator to have Downson because they're sweet and they're kind and they hug and they get to the end of stuff. And it would be a life sentence to lie to one about a jelly bean forest for your environmentally dangerous plan.
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Televised that trial.
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Oh, yeah. People would. It wouldn't. It would. Instead of being so polarized left and right, we'd all be on the same page and believe he told that retarded girl that he'd give her a jelly bean forest if she Built that coal factory. Unbelievable. What an asshole. You manipulated a mentally challenged person. Wars would end in a half an hour and we'd have hug offs Connect 4. One game of Connect 4 between Hamas and Netanyahu and you start realizing how silly everything is. Let's play Connect 4. Okay. Battleship. All right. That is a fun war. Nobody dies. I'm like, that's better. Like, whoever wins Battleship gets the Gaza Strip. What's wrong with that idea? It's not bad. Okay, Hama, you can't be alive anymore because you love Battleship.
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Oh.
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All right. It's happening. Here's to fight against it now. I'm for it.
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You want to do away with the White House, it's the down house.
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Yeah. Getting down at the house. Welcome to the Downhouse. It's a thing. Proud of you. Good job, Mar Spain. You're on. You're on point. For my future, my fellow Americans, that's my dream, is to someday hear that. I promise to not screw up too bad, but I'll probably make some mistakes. Sorry. Aw. And occasionally the president would be caught on a playground. Like, oh, he found a playground. He started to goof around. Wee like it's right now. Like Brett said, there's a good chance Biden's wandered off onto a slide. Great. Yeah. All right. Nobody filmed this. But if you filmed our down syndrome president on slide before she passed, she started wandering into playgrounds. You have to ride one of those horses. She's on one of those bobby horses. But that's not expected. If a Down syndrome president's like, take me to the park. The whole America would be like, aw, she needed a break. Billy wants us to get downsy lawyers here so we can get the heat stroke back up and running. Yeah, yeah, that's true. They'll get. They'll get it done. Yeah. I want a lawyer to defend me. To be no downs, but a lawyer I'm against. I would love to have the downsy ones would get our heat. Why do you take it away? People love it. And it was for charity.
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It's outside.
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And it's outside. Everyone loves playing outside the downs. Kid's right. When we've been fighting back and forth over semantics. It's so simple. Jelly beans, a game of Connect four and some golf for charity. What were we thinking canceling that idiots down syndrome. People, the future belongs to you. And I'm all for it. It's time now for Brady to give you all the news that only Brady knows. We call this the Brady Report. It's brought to you by our friends@allprochade.com 78° today in this beautiful place. So you can sit, get a little shade so you're not, you know, squinting. Squinting causes wrinkles, and we're all getting to that age. We got to worry about that. So let's get some shade on that back patio. We're sitting outside sipping mimosas and watching tv on that glorious television you've got in your back patio as well. A lot of people have that going on, but the glare gets them all. Pro shade can fix that. Check it out. AllProChade.com get a motorized shade or one of those blinds right now and they'll throw in a heater for you so you can enjoy the nighttime temperatures when the shade is permanent. AllProchade.com is where you go. Brady reporting.
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Good Tuesday morning to you, Phoenix.
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Hello, world. Hi.
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Flights today take longer than they used to. Like, a flight from New York to Houston is almost four hours now, and it was two and a half hours in 1973.
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Pull them pigs on there.
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Part of the reason is because airlines now fly slower to save on fuel.
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Because of the pigs, because we all got so damn fast. True. The planes are like, it's so sluggish. They gotta get some extenders and stuff, you know, or maybe I'm Megan. I'm your pilot. We're going to go 45 miles an hour. This hour long flight's taking six or seven hours. We get a headwind or something. Plane's barely in the air. I'm going the speed limit. We're bouncing. Is this air Tigger? Shut up, Brett.
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Come on.
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Tigger's bones. Welcome to Atlanta. Yeah. She would not fly a plane well because she couldn't get going fast enough to get off the ground.
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There's no problem using the freeways.
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Ilor Turkman is a wealthy banker from ticker dag Turkey.
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Probably close.
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He sought the services of Dr. Hulak Solomiz to enlarge his penis.
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Oh.
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EL was hanging about 4.7 inches, the legal documents say. Turkman asserts that Dr. Solomons assumed and basically assured him a minimum increase of a little over an inch and inch in length. Also an inch in girth.
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Fatten him up too much. You pay for that.
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Yeah, well, he's suing him for an amount that he basically paid a little over 15 grand for one inch. Yeah.
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What the hell?
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That's pretty Laz for one inch.
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15 grand? Yeah. Well, I mean, you got to consider the delicate nature of the surgery. 15,000 for an extra Inch. That's about right. I think it's about 15 grand if it's.
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And he said. He said minimum when it was done. That was a minimum. Assured. Oh, minimum, you know, so it could go up to 2 inches. Said and done according to Ultra. It's a 4.3 now and it's scarred and it's a. It's a mess. He had to reverse the surgery because of the scarring and he's suing the doctor for 500,000 lira. Roughly 15 grand.
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Yeah.
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Wow. But the doctor is saying, look, I never guaranteed that. That never said, you know, an inch or 2 inches.
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Where's the paperwork?
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There is, you know, he said that argues that the patient's anatomical structure there was a risk of the operation resulting in no elongation. So that's what they're arguing over.
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But you did the paperwork a lot more.
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So 15 grand makes it go. Go away. This is the banker goes back with a hammered member.
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An easy case. If you sign papers and nothing said it guaranteed inches or anything else. Doesn't matter if that doctor's like, I'll get you an inch on there sometimes. Because if all you had to do is say, sometimes you get an extra inch. Show me the receipt, Rick. Show me the paperwork. Merry effing holidays from the big red radio.
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Holmberg's Morning Sickness.
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We got a couple in the running. They're not local, but this. This couple in Missouri are in trouble because it was Black Friday, I think, the day after Thanksgiving.
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That's right.
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Tyler Wade Gibson and his wife Bailey Alexis Gibson took their boy, said, it's time. We're gonna do our home in home circumcision.
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I didn't see that one. I didn't have it on my bingo card at all. And they did it.
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We even said a blessing before we started. He's 10, and I didn't realize how.
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Much blood would come out.
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Jesus took him to the hospital.
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Is there like DIY videos for this, or. You just gotta hope not. You're winging it. Watching Alex's get done, that is the most horrifying. I don't know why they make the parents. How did that be? Explain to me religious training, of course. How did that become a ceremony in any way, shape or form? How in the world did that becomes. God wants this to be a thing. How in the world?
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Yeah, it did not. Did not go as we planned. No.
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Yeah.
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You think that's why we're here at the hospital? Like, okay, thank you for that story. Let's bring the police in. And they went over to the house and took the other five children.
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Said, you not gonna circumcise them later.
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The other five kids were watching that.
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Going, I'm not going, wow, there's the couple.
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Hillbilly's gotta be.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah. This is definitely hillbilly crime. 10. Yeah. Once the kid is like, when did you do your son? Just a couple days after, right? No, no, no, no.
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It was. He was probably three months, maybe two months old.
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That's pushing it, dude.
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It is the most horrible.
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We've seen videos where they do fixed. That was the dad.
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Yeah. They grabbed the four sets and they grab his foreskin and pull it out like a sock and then snip down.
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The middle around the Corolla. I say Next.
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There goes your ihop. Everybody put a little cap on it. A couple of weeks, it falls off like Rudolph's nose. Yeah, no kidding. Maybe that's where they got the idea.
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McDonald's fans will be excited about this. They're bringing back the double Big Mac four patties. You're excited about it? I'm just gonna say it debuted in March 10th. In 2020.
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People who hate their cholesterol and hearts will love this idea. I've never liked you, Hart. And you've never liked me. We're going to the drive through.
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They also rolled out the little Mac 2 back in March of 2020, which is one. Had one pack. There's a picture of your.
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You said that like it was Hiroshima. That's stupid. That's an awful lot of meat. The Mc McDonald's double patties. It's two double cheeseburgers on top of.
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Each other with a special sauce.
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No, I understand. What else? Yeah, don't forget that.
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Jesus. Wow.
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You just insulted the man. Well, there's more than just what he said.
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That's where I'll be pretty. There it is.
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I was. Nice people. They work hard, acknowledge every step.
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Prick.
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Beef patty. Special sauce. Lettuce.
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Cheese. Pickles.
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Onions on it. Sesame seed bun. Throw the bun away. And what's all this lettuce doing on my meat and cheese?
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You eschewing carbs? Yeah.
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Fiber?
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No, I eat those on the side. That's a side dish. You start with bread, then you crush the cheese. You throw the salad away.
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Pickles.
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Yuck.
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You've never eaten a pickle?
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Not a rabbit. My man.
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Love the pickles.
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All right, I'm just playing around. What's with you guys in the goddamn third degree and every character today? That's inaccurate. What you said. Inaccuracy.
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So untrue. The most common name for counties in the U.S. is Washington county with 31. Jefferson county is second with 26.
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Hazard county in there.
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Oh, man. That'd be cool. It needs to be. We need a Hazard county here in Arizona. It needs to be. Pinal needs to change its name to Hazard because it's Apache Junction and Casa Grande. Just divvy it up.
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We've only got like, what, 15 counties in the whole state.
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I don't know how that works. Like, you go back east, there's like a thousand.
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Montana's got 56.
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Yeah. And then 88. Yeah. It's crazy. Ohio's divided up. Yeah. Non stop. But just change panel the Hazard. I. I guarantee you this. The day they announced that Pinal county changes to Hazard County. 14 people die trying to jump their cars. Guaranteed. Just on the pure. Notice that we're now Hazard County. Half of Apache Junction jumps their car.
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Are you including Florence in there?
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Cuz. Are they in Pinal?
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Yeah.
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Okay. Whatever's in there now fits Hazard county better than anywhere else. But I guarantee you, every city in the newly minted Hazard county has at least three deaths from car jumping.
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Kearney and Superior might be in there.
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Are they in Pinal?
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I think so.
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All right, here we go. I'll pull it up here. Yeah, because that is a. That is a place I didn't know AJ was. Oh, yeah, you didn't. Oh, yeah. When you cross over ironwood road. Yeah. AJ's a different county. Yeah, Right there. Tan Valley. Find it. San Tan Valley's in Pinal County. Just missing Queen Creek. Yeah, you would definitely Sackatone. This is. This is a bunch of crap. Any hard jumping. How have we not changed? Eloy, of course Skydive, Arizona's in. This is Murano or whatever. Marana. Yeah, that's. You. Tell me I'm wrong on that. Like, hey, guys, by the way, your new county name, Hazard. You would just hear a collective wahoo, and they just leap their cars. Imagine how much Krylon orange spray paint would be sold the first day. First day. Yeah, it would be an economic. It used to be called Duke's Orange. Yeah, it would be Duke's Orange. And we'll paint it for you. Like, I'd open an Earl Scheib the next day and paint all the cars orange and just watch them flying through the air and hillbillies losing their last tooth smashing into the steering wheel. Amazon be out of Dixie horns for sale for your car. Did you hear they changed the name of our county, the Hazard? You're not gonna jump it, are you? Well, we have to.
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Most of them were fish.
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You can actually buy the Dixie horn. Oh, yeah. That's a thing easy to install, John. Only 39.99, that is. By the way, I'm looking at that. For me, that is not easy to install. First off, I don't even know where to put it.
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It comes with.
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Is that right? Do they all come with, like, five horns?
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Well, that's each going to play the different. Yeah.
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Oh, my God.
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Yeah. It's not a recorder.
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What it looks like. So that's got to go to the thing.
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Maybe it's got the. The video there at the bottom.
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Yeah. On top of the truck or something.
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Maybe we can hear it. Got to go Under. Oh, hang on. Oh, that's. I don't know what you're playing. A little thick. Yeah, I'd fire that last seal. Wait a minute. One of those seals is toned down.
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A little low on power. All right, let me see.
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How much is that knockoff? It's only 40 bucks. What do we get for 50 bucks? Give me the red horns. Yeah. Spend a little money, Toledo. It's a new year. Come on now.
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Oh, yeah.
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This one's gonna blow your mind. Oh, wow. That's the cholo horn. What are you doing? All right, food trucks there. Yeah. That's gonna get you stabbed. You know the Sheena truck pulling in? Yeah. You know the food truck can have that. Does that have. No, I'm not. I'm not putting that in a jeep. That's appropriation. There's no way. Does it come with lasers and stuff to go on right after that, like, pulling. Just shows up at your house and goes, I'm taking your car. Where's the good one? Where's the one that plays Dixie for the brand new Hazard Canal County? Did Dan Holmberg hear that? That looks like it's funny. If you honk that horn, my sister actually comes outside for dinner. She knows she's gonna eat free. It's like a trigger for her. It's like, just honk it and watch. There's a blonde lady that can't stop following. Wave from Charles. Yeah. You don't have any of the Dixie ones. There's the bottom Dixie right there. Back these guys in there. God damn it.
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I hate when I don't.
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That's the same one. Go back a page. And that one down on the right there, that says Dixie horn, doesn't it?
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37.
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I'll say Dixie.
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Well, this one's 37.
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Yeah.
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Okay, let's hook this bed. Well, this looks complicated as hell. It's got hoses.
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Gonna be the same thing.
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Yeah. Midway through, it goes a little Natalia Grace on.
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Yeah.
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Kind of limps around. It's that.
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Yes.
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The middle one. And it's not even doing the last. Not.
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Maybe it's a light one. Horn.
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Yeah. It sounds like we're down a horn. What's the most expensive one we got? I think we're cheaper. Get me over a hundred bucks for this.
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The most expensive was like.
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There you go.
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There you go. That's 96 bucks. And it comes with an old one. Comes with a general leaf flag.
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It doesn't have a video.
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It doesn't need a video. You know, that's a good one that was 99 and it's got the flag.
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The same thing, same drop shipper.
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Yeah, they say that's easy to install, but I'm seeing a lot of parts.
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How about the 884? Does that give a little.
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It's crazy. Save 12 bucks. No, it doesn't have video. Anyway, just call Wayne at amco. He could probably install it for you. This is all of us.
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Oh, there you go.
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He can have that installed. I got problem. Shane Orlando. Oh, yeah. I don't want to necessarily waste his time now. I don't want to waste Wayne's time either, but it seems like Wayne might like it. And Wayne might laugh with you on that one. Shane would be like, you're devaluing your vehicle.
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Wayne might have one.
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Wayne's probably got one. Wayne's got a lot of toys.
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How does Shane not have one?
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He probably doesn't. Just keeps it quiet. Karen, Brian's got one. You know what he would have? No. He and Eric Brian both would have a train horn. Oh, meathead. Yeah. All three of those guys would have the train horn. None of them would have the Dixie horn. Every one of them would have that thing.
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Finally got this guy in Alabama. Had a few too many cocktails on New Year's and got him stuck in a decorative urn. Basically, it's a big planter with no plant in it. His name's Connor Padgett. Looks like he's in his early mid. Early mid-20s. Went to a party in Mountain Brook, Alabama, and about 80 miles north of Montgomery is where Mountain Brook's located. Almost looks like he kind of wedged himself in there in the pot. He thought it would be funny to climb into it. So once he got in, he couldn't get out. And a bartender at the party tweeted the whole thing.
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Nobody helped him.
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Video shows him the pot. Worse. Too much to break it?
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No. They just filmed the idiot until they could get him out. He couldn't get out. They could have easily gotten him out. They just chose not to for a while, and he deserves that. And somebody came by with a hammer and broke him out.
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So would.
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Sorry, Brady. Early, early mid 20s is 24. Early mid 20s is your 24. He was in his early mid 20s. He's 24. We're helping out with the Brady.
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He was 20 to 24.
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That's early 20s.
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That's early.
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You said early mid 20s. And we looked at each other, and I think we Both said, that's 24.
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Brett's already out.
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Right. He's not doing that. He's smart enough to kind of step away from those moments to lead. And I have been at it for so long. It's like early mid-20s. Go. What do you think the answer is? 24. You're right. I'm always questioning myself, like, did I just. No, I couldn't have. And it's just for the want of the word too. Early to mid 20s, this all goes away. But more specific, you could be 20 to 26 at that point. 25. Early mid 20s. 24. Early mid 20s. Is 24 the earliest of your mid 20s? Late mid 20s. 26. Mid 20s. 25.
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Early mids. He was 25.
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He has no early mids. Then he's almost as late. Yeah, that's mid to late 20. 25. 2. I said 2. Mid late 20s is 25 and a half. Arizona's most powerful, powerful rock radio station. It's the holidays, and Hooters is serving up the cheer. Grab a friend and dive into the pic. 3.
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Episode: 12-20-25 - BR - MIX – Spain Has Elected First Politician w/Down's Syndrome – In Home Circumcision – Dec/Jan 2024 – BO
Date: December 30, 2025
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, Arizona's top-rated morning show, delivers its trademark mix of irreverent humor, social commentary, and wild news stories. The show, hosted by John Holmberg with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo, opens with a comedic yet thoughtful discussion about Spain electing its first parliamentarian with Down syndrome—a springboard for debates about inclusivity and political competence. The team also riffs on bizarre news, including an at-home circumcision gone wrong and the peculiarities of county names in the US, all while maintaining their signature blend of sharp wit and banter.
Main Theme: Breaking barriers and the implications of neurodiversity in politics
Segment Start: 01:18
John Holmberg shares his evolving perspective on politicians with intellectual disabilities:
"More politicians need to have Down syndrome because less thinking and more doing is what we need from politicians." (01:31)
Discussion of Mar Galceran’s historic win as Spain's first parliamentarian with Down syndrome. Holmberg both jokes and reflects on how people with Down syndrome might simplify complicated politics and foster genuine relationships:
"We won't have 6,000-page documents for one law... they'll tell you, like, immediately, they should stop doing that and hug." (02:00)
Imagined scenario: Using Down syndrome politicians to resolve world conflicts, e.g., "If we sent a Down syndrome president in there to talk to Hamas and Benji Netanyahu... Let's just play Connect 4 for a minute." (03:18)
The hosts lampoon the idea of manipulative lobbyists trying to sell fantastical ideas ("jelly bean forests") to politicians with Down syndrome, pointing out how such tactics would be morally indefensible.
Holmberg lays out a tongue-in-cheek manifesto:
"Down syndrome politicians need to be our only politicians before I die. It should be illegal for someone who doesn't have Downs to run something politically." (06:03)
The team distinguishes between professions:
"You want a slimy weirdo to be a lawyer. You don't want an honest Down syndrome person." (06:42)
Underlining the potential for kindness and truth in politics, albeit with plenty of tongue-in-cheek asides.
Segment Start: 10:45
Brady brings up that flights (e.g., NY to Houston) now take almost four hours, compared to two and a half in 1973. Main reasons: cost-saving fuel efficiency and heavier aircraft ("pigs").
Humor ensues imagining a pilot so slow the plane can't take off:
"This hour-long flight's taking six or seven hours. We get a headwind or something. Plane's barely in the air. I'm going the speed limit." – Holmberg (11:02)
Segment Start: 11:45
"Show me the paperwork. Merry effing holidays from the Big Red Radio." (13:52)
Segment Start: 15:45
Missouri couple arrested after attempting to circumcise their 10-year-old son at home. The event went horribly wrong, resulting in a hospital trip and police intervention.
Holmberg feigns bewilderment at religious or DIY motivations for circumcision:
"How did that become a ceremony in any way, shape or form? How in the world did that become... 'God wants this to be a thing'?" (16:32)
The hosts bond over memories and horror stories from their own experiences or observations of circumcisions.
Segment Start: 18:13
"Throw the bun away. And what's all this lettuce doing on my meat and cheese?" (19:19)
Segment Start: 19:54
Washington County is most common, followed by Jefferson.
Escalates into a fantasy about renaming Arizona’s Pinal County to “Hazard County,” predicting a spree of General Lee-style car jumps in reference to The Dukes of Hazzard.
"The day they announced that Pinal county changes to Hazard County. 14 people die trying to jump their cars. Guaranteed." – Holmberg (20:50)
Segues into a rabbit hole researching county counts, county populations, and pricing/installation of "Dixie" car horns with comedic play-by-play.
Segment Start: 26:34
Holmberg on Down syndrome politicians in conflict resolution:
"Wars would end in a half an hour and we'd have hug offs Connect 4. One game of Connect 4 between Hamas and Netanyahu and you start realizing how silly everything is." (07:23)
On DIY circumcision:
"You just gotta hope not. You're winging it... how did that become a ceremony? God wants this to be a thing?" (16:32)
On fast food burgers:
"People who hate their cholesterol and hearts will love this idea. I've never liked you, Heart. And you've never liked me. We're going to the drive through." (18:26)
On renaming counties:
"The day they announced that Pinal county changes to Hazard County. 14 people die trying to jump their cars. Guaranteed." (20:50)
On "early mid-20s":
"Early mid-20s is 24. You're right. I'm always questioning myself, like, did I just—no, I couldn't have. And it's just for the want of the word too. Early to mid 20s, this all goes away. But more specific, you could be 20 to 26 at that point. 25. Early mid 20s. 24. Early mid 20s. Is 24 the earliest of your mid 20s? Late mid 20s. 26. Mid 20s. 25." (28:03)
The episode is characterized by fast-paced, irreverent, and at times boundary-pushing humor, blending mockery with moments of surprising sincerity. The hosts riff freely, sometimes digressing but always returning to the core blend of news satire, local color, and good-natured ribbing that defines their show.
If you missed the episode, expect a rollercoaster of biting jokes, pop culture callbacks, and genuine conversation—all delivered in the unique, unfiltered voice of Holmberg and the Morning Sickness team.