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There's more of the best of Hombre's morning sickness. 98 KUPD did you see the bird? Did you see the connection? It was like inevitable.
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Yes.
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Oh, feathers.
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It was just like the pitch.
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Did it blow the bird up or just knock him down?
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Blew up feathers all over the place. And you see the thing kind of drop out of the air. I mean, had.
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No.
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Then I went over there and between the three of us, Jones is like twist the neck.
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Yeah. Jones is gonna just finish it off.
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Let's make stuff. Couldn't do it. It's just sitting there.
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He's Brady. I think making Stu's the best option here.
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Just beat it with a club.
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You gotta take it out.
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I'm not doing it so that you guys just left it to die slow.
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It was. It was still sitting there.
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It wasn't pricks bricks. So it could still be there.
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I mean. No. No way.
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No coyote would have beaten it by now. But you're saying that. Okay, so you just left it to. I felt not able to defend itself.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, maybe it could, but maybe.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I pgx right to that.
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Just.
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Yeah, exactly. Get that Bob Parsons out there. You're gonna love our clubs and just have.
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There are people around.
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You know what Tripp should have done? Swing trip was a decent humanitarian that he claims to be. He'd have taken that same club and hit that bird as far as he could.
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He would have. But he was crying.
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He was upset.
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Yeah.
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Was he really Sad.
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Yeah, it was kind of.
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It's terrible.
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Oh, yeah. We're like going crazy.
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Oh, my God. Now you gotta go. And he's just. The little bird's limping. Was he moving around? No, he just sitting there, like, dying. He broke him. That's what happens when I smash into my windows.
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You can see the side, you know, the wing was definitely broken. And he's got. His ribs were broken. If they have.
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They have ribs. They have ribs. You've seen a Brady, you've seen a bird probably just below.
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Like, the whole side was.
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You have demeated a bird before.
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There's a little blood, too.
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Oh, Jesus God Almighty. Well, anyway, hope you had a good time yesterday. That was fun. And then I, I, I went up and hosted the BE and said, hey, everybody, welcome to the thing. And blah, blah, blah, blah, here's Jeff Jr. From Trades and Wealth. And then after that, Brady's going to read off all the raffle tickets. And sure enough, Brady and Jeff. I sat and watched them, which is even better. I didn't even leave. I just made sure to know. And Jeff was fine with it. I told him right off the bat, I'm like, look, he's like, thanks for doing this. I'm like, I do everything except read these raffle tickets. You got an awful lot of raffle tickets. He goes, what do you want to do? And I'm like, radio. Read them is if that's what you think. I'm like, or you. It's your tournament. I'm not reading these raffle tickets. There's nothing worse than being a guy standing up there in front of a bunch of people, not paying attention, reading off raffle tickets. The worst. Nobody can hear too many times. You read them, what? 1117. 117.117. Hey, it's me.
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The guy from all the John Wayne westerns. Won two of them.
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A lot of those. Yeah, the miner that kept winning everything. That was fun. So thanks to Jeff Jr. And the gang over there at Trajan. I even said to Jeff, I, you know, you're a financial advisor. And one of the first things he told me was, never do anything for free. And I said, I must like you because pony up, kid. And he just started laughing. He walked away. I'm like, well, I thought for sure that would have no financial advisor. That's why he's. Financial advisors are wise. You're telling me to get him. Shouldn't I have invested some time and money into the following Your advice, pal. Yeah. Where's the. Yeah, what the hell? No. He's a good dude. They're actually great people. So tournament seemed nice. I didn't get to play, but it's a good setup. Outside of all the, you know, animal abuse. Seemed awfully nice. Pretty crazy because that was a trip. Was obviously bothered by it. I made two jokes about it. It's so I try to do it two or 300,000 times. You would miss his.
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Dodgers already won. I mean, they're on for this.
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That means the Diamondbacks are going to do it because there was a Diamondback in their fourso. I don't know what it meant. I don't know what it meant, but it meant something. It's a thing.
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And he had a second one.
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He hit another bird.
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No, no, no. He had a second tee shot after that. Go ahead.
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You know, he didn't take the first one.
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We.
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We didn't really need it. He just wanted to hit another one.
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Sure.
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And it went into the tree on the other side. Oh, you hit another one.
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There's a thing Saturday Night Live did with Nate Bargazzi this last year where he was golfing and every shot killed something. He shanked one and it went into a nest and like. Oh, good. Or hit a tree. I think it's just a tree. And this eagle's nest fell out of the tree. And then something comes down and kills the eagles. It was hilarious. But, yeah, it was. It's. It's hard to do that. Like, you can't. You can't intentionally swing a golf club and hit a ball. Well, let alone hit an animal in flight. A bird.
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I've never seen a fly. I saw the feathers fly one time. I don't know if you were there or not. It was. It was a worm burner. Someone hit. And the birds were just in the fairway. All of a sudden, you.
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I have never seen a golf ball hit an animal ever.
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Well, what about the squirrel or something that Brady was crucifying out there?
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It was already dead.
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Oh, okay.
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And he crucified it with golf tees for the next four, which I was. That's crucifixion. That's exactly what they did. That's right, The Romans. The Romans, yeah. It was in the peg game. He did. It turned into that. So he was in the foursome ahead of us. Did you run over the rabbit or just find. No, because he ran over a rabbit later that day. I remember that, too.
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No, that was another.
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Was that a different time? Same course?
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That was at the Karsten.
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I thought that was at Phoenician.
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Because it was.
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Either way, he's killing some damn A.
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Grim reaper over here.
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And we came up on this. And you were driving. No, he spread. Well, I have killed one before. That was at the Phoenician. That was me. And we're going. And I'm like, no, no, no. And he just ran right towards the tire and he exploded. I was going like two miles an hour. Oh, it was horrible. And he.
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He.
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That was suicide. That little guy killed himself. Because I was going too. There was nothing about me that was trying to fly through that or just die. Don't go, don't go, don't go.
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No, no, no, no.
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And I'm like, no, no, stay there, stay there. And he just ran right, right towards the tire as I tried to stop. And he just heard. I'm like, oh, just go. But Brady took the rabbit and pulled his little arms apart and pinned them to the grass. And then his. His bottom little arms and pinned those to the grass and put a T in the middle of his chest with a ball on it, if I recall correctly. And the poor little rabbit's corpse had been just horribly desecrated by Brady and laughing. He's still doing it now. You was.
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Exactly.
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That's.
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What do you call it? Otherwise, what do you call it?
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Fun stuff.
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No, you took a corpse and you mangled it up like a serial killer in training. And then you put a tee in its chest and a golf ball on it for us.
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I don't remember that.
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You did he up. Why else would you on a golf course? Why? What else would you have done that?
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I thought it would just like a.
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Tea mark because he can't leave the wildlife alone. And this one was just laying there dead. So he's like, I'm gonna touch that. And he did. And he probably had lice for like three weeks and didn't know it itched for a while and then off he went. And, you know, it wasn't a reaction of fun when we pulled up, like, oh, come on, this is disturbing.
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Oh, so you weren't with him.
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You're. He was doing it for me. And I believe Doug King was with me. And Doug and I pulled up and goes, oh, this is. It's not even remotely funny. Like, this is just something. This is the work of a just. I know he finds it hysterical to mangle dead bodies. He thinks it's fun. I mean, he worships the Jesus. What's the difference? That's what they did to him. He just took it and I mean. And the poor little thing was stretched as far as its little arms could go. And I don't think rabbit arms are supposed to go out to the side. Brady made sure they did. I'm sure you heard cracking and busting as you giggled your way through, pinning him to the earth. It was one T. It was not. You pinned all of his feet down and then put a tee through him and a ball on it.
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First of all, he has paws.
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Okay. Sorry. I didn't realize how much you cared about him when you were mangling his clothes.
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Gentle.
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Gross. So it's not uncommon for stuff to die when Brady and Tripp golf together. But mostly Graham. Surprised you didn't pick the dove up and start messing with it. Did you move them close?
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No, I didn't want to. You know, he's just sitting there.
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Okay. So you don't move him because he's staring at us. Final thing you want to do is move them. You don't want to paralyze him. Poor little guy sitting there like Stephen Hawking. It's terrible. I think I've told you this before, but I was at. Remember Kiwanis park when you score ice blocking?
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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There was a girl named Jamie o' Traver who had a really cool Jeep Renegade. I liked her a lot. We were having fun, and we all went ice blocking. Me and about six other girl. Or like, there were girls and six other people. I think most of them were chicks. And I was, you know, in the heart of heating up some fast balls and feeling pretty good about myself. So at the end of the day, I got this ice block. You got to break it up, stand at the edge of the lake, just whipping it. And I just remember her saying, you throw so hard. I'm like, you know it. And I really read back and gave it a whip and then didn't make a water sound. You just heard. And then this duck goes, like. Like, slowly floats towards the side of the Kiwanis lake. I took its head, just bashed it, like, just turned it over. It was just laying up against itself, and she hated me immediately. And, like, I started to cry. Like, you did it on purpose? Yeah, like, I was chucking it at the ducks. I didn't even see them. It was nighttime, and, yeah, like, it was. It was Seabeed yourself. Oh, man. Well, even if she was okay with it, I wasn't. I was literally crying. I was, like, crying. I'm back in my jeep, crying.
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I didn't mean to do it.
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I felt so horrible. And then a couple weeks later. And I didn't even know who did this. It was pinned up onto the ground with a golf tee in its chest. Ready? Will mangle a corpse.
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You blow it with a. You're like, foul ball.
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Yeah. What are you gonna do? That was a tough one, though, because I don't think that was going anywhere anyway. But that absolutely guaranteed that. And that takes a lady, right?
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That would change things up. Yeah. Change the mood when you.
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When you kill a precious animal. Wanna make out? No. I want that duck to come back to life. You know what? You never know when an ice block's gonna hit us in the head. We should probably consummate this relationship. Mary Effing Holidays from the Big Red ra.
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It is a beautiful time to be in Arizona. Just a nice time. December, I just discovered that in my brain, kind of wrapped around it for the first time. Realizing the time of year it is, but not really realizing, oh, my God, December 10th. Huge. But it is the holidays. And for the holidays, we've decided to try to compete a little bit with Kez. We've done this in the past trying to find rock songs that are good for Christmas, and there just aren't any real good ones. And in fact, there's not any good Christmas music that's come out in a long time. We're still leaning on Mariah Carey. Those British people that were trying to feed Africa, do they know it's Christmas? Do they care? It's Christmas is the bigger question out there. But they haven't done a new Christmas song in such a long time. They still. Kez still just goes right back to the old crap that's been going on since I was 10. Like, even the most modern one is Mariah Carey.
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Andy Williams pounded.
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I don't know if they're still doing Andy Williams on Kez.
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Oh, yeah.
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Really?
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Oh, yeah.
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Recording doesn't seem like it would be very clean. No, I suppose that's true.
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Yeah.
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They get that one out there either way. We've got our own versions of this. And Brady AI Brady has been programmed to sing Christmas songs for you. And yesterday we had some gems, I believe, gorgeous version of Rocking around the Christmas Tree. And then of course, the Blue Christmas. Porky Pig, AI Brady, which was fairly hilarious. Platinum today. International Brady singing Christmas to you. Jose Feliciano's great big hit Feliz Not Done by AI Brady is something that will bring a tear to your eye, we hope, in the right and wrong way. So here it is, our Christmas tradition that starts today and ends in a couple of weeks, and we'll probably forget about it. It's AI Brady, Felice Navidad. Merry Christmas, everybody.
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Billy's my be that fetty's my be that fetty's Maddie that frozfredo Ban yoi Fizzy Diamond Fetty's Natty that fell he's naughty that felli's Maddie that from Ale I'm going to a daisy that I'm always. You go. Merry Christmas, Kransco. I'm always go merry I wish to the merry Christmas. I owe you a merry Christmas I want you to Merry Christmas I wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom.
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Of.
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Ferris Nanabila fer. Betty is Maddie that Betty is Maddie.
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That.
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Betty's Maddie that cross Meadow I'm your D.C. i want a wish you a merry Christmas I want to wish you a merry Christmas I want to live to a merry Christmas on the bottom I want to win see what Merry Christmas I want to wait see Chris says I better wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom. I want to wish you a merry Christmas I want to wish you a merry Christmas I want to wish you a merry Christmas I want to wish you a merry Christmas I want to wish you a merry Christmas I want to wish you the merry Christmas on the bottom for my mom. Really Nodding loud Bradley's that.
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Oh, my God. That was stunning.
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Beautiful.
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Beautiful work. My God, if you weren't in the Christmas spirit before, you should be now. And I don't think it's that far off of what we would have gotten out of Brady for the real Feliz Navidad. That didn't. Didn't sound like you knew all the words properly. But AI Brady is just our Christmas. Our little Christmas angel. What a fine day Brady's been.
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What a crooner.
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And the suggestions came pouring in yesterday for all the things we're trying to make. Baby, it's cold outside between Brady and Dale, but the AI is really messing that up something fierce. So it is better than having Brady sing it because we don't have to do any editing. And we would if you had sung it for real. So AI Brady already, pardon the pun, trimming the fat on the costs of what it would take to produce an AI Brady versus real Brady Christmas album. Feliz Navidad, everybody. All of our Mexican listeners out there and Spanish speaking. Anyone's. What a beautiful moment, Brady. Was there anyone you like to sing that? He sounds a little retarded, I'm gonna say. It also says, why does AI Brady even sound like he might be a little bit out of shape? Sounds like he's running out of air. Well, it's AI Brady.
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I like to hear this Christmas.
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You want to hear this Christmas?
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Yeah.
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Oh, I don't know if it's the WHAM song.
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No. This Christmas.
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Oh, that. Oh, I thought it was. Oh, the black version. Yeah, I thought. Was it last Christmas? Do they know it's Christmas? Last Christmas is Wham. Do they know it's Christmas? Is the Africa thing Oh, yeah, that's right. Anyway, I enjoyed that very much. Said Feliz Navi Dodd Brady started out strong for Brady, then turned into a cross of midwestern drunk uncle and a Down syndrome cousin. Doing karaoke at the reunion. Yep. All I heard was Felice never that racist. Yeah, I think it's a. It's a Down syndrome version of you who's had a couple of pops, maybe some eggnog. But that says Christmas to me. Everyone's invited. Beautiful thing. Thank you, Brady. Maybe we'll revisit another song before the morning's out. I think we should. It's 98 KUPD. Merry Christmas. It's out of control. Can you pd. Hey, everybody, it's John Holmerg here from the Morning Sickness and you hear me all the time talking about my friends at Lost Our Home Pet Rescue. We do the pick of the litter and it's brought to you by our friends@turfmonstersaz.com Every week I head over to Lost Our Home Pet Rescue and I meet a brand new beautiful animal that needs a home. The work they do at Lost Her Home is unbelievable. Not just your average pet shelter, that is for sure. They help people in a lot of situations. Look them up online. Lost our home.org and check out everything we do at 98kupd.com in the pick of the litter section. It's John Holberg here from the Morning Sickness. And it's time to talk about TVs Doug Hopkins of My Home Group and Doug Hopkins dot com. Have you ever thought to yourself, I'm going to sell my house? Of course you have. And one reason or another, you just didn't do it. Probably because it's a hassle when you try to make a real estate deal. What if I could say, you can sell that house the day after you say the words, I want to sell my house. Doug's been at this for over 25 years, and that's why he's still on top of the Hill. TVs Doug Hopkins can handle everything. Won't move the price, or you get $5,000. What do you do? Start the process right now@doug hopkins.com or grab the phone and sing.
Date: December 24, 2025
Host(s): John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Podcast: Holmberg’s Morning Sickness – Arizona (#1 Morning Radio Show – 98KUPD)
In this episode, the crew recounts bizarre and darkly comedic animal incidents during golf outings, including “Trip” accidentally killing a dove, which segues into stories of Brady’s past questionable golf course animal interactions (notably the infamous “crucified rabbit”), all delivered with the show’s signature irreverent humor. The latter half lightens up with a deliberately bad AI Brady rendition of “Feliz Navidad" as their unconventional Christmas tradition.
| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote / Description | |:----------- |:------- |:-------------------- | | 01:24 | John | “Blew up feathers all over the place. And you see the thing kind of drop out of the air.” | | 02:34 | Brady | “He was crying. He was upset.” (on Tripp after the dove incident) | | 03:53 | John | “There’s nothing worse than being a guy standing up there in front of a bunch of people, not paying attention, reading off raffle tickets.” | | 06:37 | John | “He crucified it with golf tees for the next four...that’s crucifixion. That’s exactly what they did. The Romans, yeah.” | | 08:08 | John | “You took a corpse and mangled it up like a serial killer in training...” | | 11:11 | John | “...and then this duck...slowly floats towards the side...I started to cry.” | | 13:28–14:20 | Group | (Discussion criticizing the lack of new Christmas rock music; Mariah Carey reference) | | 15:27–18:18 | AI Brady/John| (AI Brady’s mangled “Feliz Navidad” and live reactions; "That was stunning. Beautiful work.”) | | 19:00 | John (listener feedback)| “Feliz Navi Dodd Brady started out strong...then turned into a cross of Midwestern drunk uncle and a Down syndrome cousin doing karaoke at the reunion.” |
If you haven’t listened, this episode showcases the show’s signature blend of macabre storytelling (animal mishaps on the golf course), relentless teasing, and tongue-in-cheek appropriateness (AI Christmas carols gone wrong). It’s a reminder that for Holmberg’s Morning Sickness, even tragedy and discomfort are fodder for laughs—especially when Brady is involved.