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Mark and Stitch kick off spooky season with a week to go before Halloween and the fourth annual Creepy Crawl creeping closer. Stitch shares the most genuinely scared he’s been in years, a terrifying overnight scramble when his son’s diabetes monitor cut out hundreds of miles from home. The guys also roast a list of trendy home upgrades homeowners instantly regret, from subway tile to microwave drawers. Plus, Milwaukee Brewers fans are furious over a decade old ticket promise that’s falling apart right as the team hits the World Series for the first time ever.

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Stitch flies solo this morning while Houston handles other business, and the show still delivers plenty to talk about. Jay-Z might be headlining his own Super Bowl halftime show in February, and Stitch has some thoughts about why that decision feels like a letdown from the guy who runs the whole operation. Arby’s teams up with Halloween in the strangest way possible, dropping a meat print tracksuit built for your twelve foot skeleton, not for actual humans. Then Elon Musk’s flying car reveal sparks a full debate on whether any of us will ever actually ride in one, with...

Houston’s convinced his Edward Scissorhands hot take is basically a federal crime, Stitch is side eyeing an HOA that wants to ban full size candy bars, and somewhere in between there’s a whole breakdown of why everyone’s streaming fatigue is at an all time high. Oh, and don’t worry, the mystery of 96.9 KBYE “the ghost” is getting closer to solved this Friday at the Creepy Crawl.

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Mark Houston digs into a wild TikTok experiment that has people questioning whether Ritz crackers taste different these days, complete with a soggy bread control group. He also breaks down why Americans are hosting way fewer dinner parties than they used to, and the stats on shrinking friend groups back it up. Plus, details on the Creepy Crawl hitting downtown Rapid City, with pub hopping, prizes, and a mystery from the seventies still unfolding.

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Houston’s back after fighting off a head cold he refuses to admit got the best of him, and he’s already found his new weakness: a banana flavored latte that nearly brought him to tears. Stitch and Houston dig into the fourth annual Creepy Crawl and the mysterious “ghost” noises bleeding through the studio speakers, plus a countdown of America’s most haunted cities that somehow has Deadwood ranked way too low. They wrap with a new study ranking the most expensive states for a night out, and South Dakota comes out looking pretty good.

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Stitch flies solo and celebrates a huge milestone, ten years at Homeslice. Along the way she breaks down the real numbers behind Spider-Man Brand New Day’s box office run, and digs into the pole dancing trend couples are trying out locally at Live It Up Studio in Uptown Rapid. Plus details on the fourth annual Creepy Crawl coming up October thirtieth.

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Gen Z wants to rename the tramp stamp to a “cake topper,” and the internet has strong feelings about it. The crew also breaks down hobbies that look totally relaxing but turn into pure stress the second you try them, bonsai trees included. And there’s a real mystery brewing around a Rapid City radio station that may or may not have burned down decades ago, tied into this year’s Creepy Crawl. Grab a bowl of cereal for this one.

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Congress finds something everybody can agree on this week, and it’s keeping AM radio in your car. The crew digs into why automakers want it gone and why lawmakers from both sides are fighting to save it. Over in Deadwood, the Wild West Songwriters competition is lining up a stacked bill of Black Hills talent for a free show. And the fourth annual Creepy Crawl rolls out a real mystery, asking listeners to help solve what happened to a radio station that might have burned down, or might never have existed at all.

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Frosted tips are officially back in style, and Stitch has the receipts tracing the trend from Lance Bass to a bleach and buzz cut craze taking over TikTok. A new sleep study flips the script on dog owners, proving it’s actually the humans tossing and turning first and waking up their dogs instead of the other way around. And the mystery of a possibly haunted downtown radio station called KBYE kicks off the fourth annual Creepy Crawl, with clues hidden around town leading up to thousands in prizes.

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The crew digs into Miley Cyrus making chart history for all the wrong reasons, dropping a brutal 156 spots on the Billboard 200 in her album’s second week. Then they argue over the most annoying things Americans do at restaurants overseas, from demanding instant service to splitting entrees without a drop of guilt. And Dunkin’s absurd Avengers Doomsday menu sends the guys into a full theme song meltdown, complete with a cotton candy filled donut and a latte named after Doctor Doom.

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A wedding video goes viral after the groom blanks and calls his bride by her sister's name at the altar, and the internet has thoughts. New data says most Americans still don't think social media influencing counts as a real career, which kicks off a whole debate about trade jobs versus chasing clout. Plus a list ranks the most neighborly cities in America, and Houston's getting ready for Stitch Fest this weekend with live music and a chili feed benefiting the Friday Band Shell Meals.

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Stitch's birthday countdown is on, Stitch Fest is this Saturday night downtown, and the crew breaks down a new study on the best time to eat breakfast if you want to actually live longer. There's also a Red Lobster incident out of Georgia involving a fake medical emergency and an unpaid bill, plus Tony Romo getting let go from CBS over a DUI. A loose, funny one with some real heart underneath it for Stitch Fest.

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It's birthday week for Houston, Ella Langley is playing five hours away tomorrow night, and the crew is still buzzing about Stitch Fest coming up October tenth. Tom Whillock stops by to talk about the Friday meals that have fed people at the bandshell every single week since 2019, rain, snow, or anything else South Dakota throws at it. Then things get weird with a list of the best smelling cities in America, and Houston and Stitch argue about whether Sioux City deserves its reputation. A solid mix of heart and nonsense to kick off the week.

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Zachy Moon fills in for Houston this morning and the two dive into the fourth annual Creepy Crawl, trying to guess which pop culture costumes will show up this year, from K-pop demon hunters to Pitbull to a Doctor Doom suit you can grab at Spirit Halloween for cheap. Stitch floats an idea for a no phone section at local restaurants and gets called out as the worst offender in the group. And with eight days left until Stitch's birthday, the guys start hyping up Stitch Fest Feed the Need, the fundraiser happening October tenth to help feed the community...

The crew kicks off October trying to crack the mystery of who the secret celebrity guest was at Taylor Swift's wedding, with Graham Norton dropping hints and everybody guessing wrong. A Virginia motorcyclist gets pulled over going seventy two in a twenty five, all because he was racing to make it to McDonald's before breakfast hours ended. And the guys stumble onto bro-lates, the new trend of grown men walking into a Pilates class expecting an easy morning and leaving humbled by a two pound weight. Grab your coffee, this one's got range.

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Stitch and Houston dig into why Geico's Hump Day commercial still works thirteen years later, and it sends them down a rabbit hole to find the actual oldest commercial still airing, a twelve second ad from 1975 featuring an old lady chucking a tire through a window. Then Taylor Swift's VMA drama gets the guys fired up, with Stitch convinced her marketing has taken over the music entirely. Somewhere in there they also diagnose Houston with irritable male syndrome, and he does not take it well.

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A guy tries to win over country singer Ella Langley with a TikTok video and a shopping cart full of flowers after she shut him down hard, and it goes about how you'd expect. A hundred pound tortoise named Lard makes a break for freedom in a Colorado neighborhood before deputies scoop him up. And Florida's attorney general takes aim at ChatGPT, trying to stop it from talking like it's your buddy. Grab your coffee for this one.

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Stitch and Houston tackle a wave of copycat bomb threats hitting hospitals across the country, including one at Monument the day before, and dig into why people keep calling them in. Then the two run through eight things that sound amazing but get exhausting fast, sparking a real argument over whether live concerts are wildly overrated thanks to the cost, the crowds, and the volume loud enough to make you sick. Plus Ella Langley breaks Mariah Carey's all time Billboard record, Gen Z tells millennials to retire the lol, and the guys look ahead to a fall lineup that includes...

Mark's back from Canada with a suitcase full of weird snacks and even weirder stories. He and Amelie crack open BTS Oreos live on air and argue about brown sugar pancake flavor before Mark drops the real find: banana ketchup, a Filipino condiment he picked up north of the border. The boy band debate gets heated fast, with NSync, Backstreet Boys, and O-Town all fighting for supremacy while Amelie makes a case for K-pop taking over. Then things take a dark turn when Stitch tells the story of a woman who fell into an eight foot sinkhole on her own...

Stitch and Houston dig into TikTok's divorce talk trend, where people are turning their breakups into content for total strangers to comment on. A new survey says thirty percent of daters are accepting dinner invites purely for the free meal, no romance required, and yes, that includes folks well past retirement age. And Houston's already planning his next trip north, chasing down an honest to goodness Viking settlement outside Winnipeg. Grab your coffee for this one.

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The crew marks Patriot Day with an honest look at growing up on opposite sides of 9/11, and notices a few old airport rules quietly sneaking back. From there, talk shifts to a charity chili feed and concert built to support a weekly community meal program. And once things start feeling a little too wholesome, a local dentist's list of common teeth brushing mistakes turns into a full blown debate.

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Ten hot dogs and only eight buns, phone chargers that lie about actually charging, and Capri Suns that spark real fear about what's floating in there... today's crew has some strong opinions about everyday stuff that shouldn't be this annoying. A baby who can name every NFL starting quarterback from a helmet alone steals the whole show. And there's already a dream brewing to turn downtown Rapid City into a full blown horror experience for next year's Creepy Crawl. Coffee's required for this one.

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The crew is bracing for NFL season to kick off tomorrow, and the predictions are already flying about who's in trouble before the first snap. Down at Reptile Gardens, there's a giant saltwater crocodile named Maniac who spends his days sunbathing with his mouth wide open, and the backstory on him is not for the faint of heart. Then things get spooky as the crew teases out a real radio station that vanished after a mysterious fire back in 1977, with signs it might be coming back in time for this year's Creepy Crawl. Grab your coffee, this one's got some...

Mark's flying solo and diving straight into the most chaotic corner of the internet and the news. A guy in Taiwan catches his wife cheating through his own robot vacuum's camera, and the legal fallout gets wilder with every turn. Then there's a fresh horror to worry about called pheromone maxing, where guys are skipping showers and deodorant hoping to become biologically irresistible, and Mark is not buying it for a second. Toss in a petting zoo scare involving baby goats and rabies, and you've got a Tuesday that proves real life beats fiction every time.

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Stitch, Houston, and Loren are stuck reliving August 31st like their own personal Groundhog Day, and honestly the confusion is the whole show. Somewhere between griping about the heat, they spiral into confessing their childhood prank call habits, including cold-calling window glass repair shops with increasingly unhinged sob stories. Then breakfast takes over completely, from squishy eggs dipped in toast to a mother-in-law's fruit pizza that has the whole crew drooling on air. Stick around for the wild true origin story behind Nashville hot chicken, because it involves way more betrayal than you'd expect from a sandwich.

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The crew kicks off Sturgis week talking about a shirt you can supposedly wear every day for a month without it getting gross, which sounds like a miracle for anyone packing light for the rally. Then the mood shifts when a Wisconsin man named Ernie hands over the keys to his own truck so a stranded band can make it to their next show on time, and a tiny Chihuahua's weird habit turns out to have saved her owner's life. It's a wild mix of gear talk and heartwarming chaos, and somehow it all fits in one show.

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The crew rolls into Hump Day dreaming about getting summoned for jury duty smack in the middle of Sturgis week, mostly so they can skip the rally chaos. Then the show veers into TikTok's protein maxing trend, where gym bros are chugging so much whey protein that baby formula prices are climbing because of them. And a rescued lynx named Ursa gets her first steps on real grass after a wild, high risk journey out of a war zone in Ukraine. Grab your coffee, this one's got range.

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Stitch and Houston dig into some genuinely bad boomer advice pulled from a BuzzFeed roundup, covering everything from skipping the movies to save for a house to marrying someone you can merely tolerate. New Jersey police are dressing up as bushes and Sasquatches to catch distracted drivers, and the crew debates whether that counts as entrapment. Plus, Sturgis rally prep kicks into gear as the team gets ready to hit Main Street this week.

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This week on Hot Mornings, the crew tackles a viral list of celebrities who turned out surprisingly rude in person, and the reactions get more heated with every name on it. There's also a much needed dose of good news, covering a Powerball winner rebuilding his old neighborhood and three women who survived a wild car crash thanks to a group of strangers who refused to walk away. Expect strong opinions about Morgan Wallen and the kind of morning chaos that makes this one worth a listen.

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Coffee slushies are going viral, and Stitch is convinced we've officially entered the stupidest timeline. The whole crew gets into it over what counts as a real hack, complete with ziploc bags and a meat tenderizer. Minivans are cool again too, and the Chrysler Pacifica has everyone rethinking what they drive. Then Oscar Meyer turns ninety, and somebody floats the idea of a wiener cake for their next birthday. Buckle up.

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This one has the crew arguing over hidden talents nobody would believe, from sniper level accuracy to reading a song's tempo without even trying. There's a McDonald's hack breakdown that borders on secret menu theft, plus a good news segment that closes it out with a dog getting reunited with his family after five years apart. Grab your coffee for this one.

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This episode gets weird fast. A viral cruise ship video has everyone talking after a woman was caught using a dining fork on her foot fungus, and Carnival had to respond. There's also a real cash wager on the table over whether Spider-Man: Brand New Day can out-earn Odyssey at the box office this weekend. And ahead of the Sturgis rally, Sammy Hagar publicly invited his old Van Halen rival David Lee Roth to join him onstage in Vegas, and it actually sounds sincere.

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A Monday morning full of heat complaints turns into one wild recap. Stitch and Houston talk about a Japanese company selling a nine thousand two hundred dollar refrigerator you can actually sit inside to cool down. Then there's the woman in California who tried to walk out of two different grocery stores with bacon and vodka, getting caught both times. And a fourteen year old ranch kid in Montana lassos a man out of the river using his rodeo skills like it's just another day at the arena.

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A seven and a half foot alligator parked itself in front of a family's door in Florida and had no plans of leaving. A sixteen year old in Illinois turned around for a car in a ditch and ended up saving a woman's life. And Elon Musk wants AI to make a historically accurate movie out of the Odyssey, which is stirring up way more debate than a Greek myth should.

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Song of the Summer voting is getting intense, a hero rescue team carries a hundred pound dog two miles down a mountain trail, and Houston fires off a ninety three page email about a hot dog that gets mistaken for an actual missing pet. These are the moments that had the Hot Mornings crew laughing, arguing, and rooting for their favorites this week.

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A new pregnancy doll hits shelves that lets kids pull out a squeezable amniotic sac and pop out a tiny baby, and the internet has a field day with it. Coca-Cola rolls out a rebrand that looks a whole lot like a certain cigarette logo, and people are noticing. Then a Morgan Wallen concert takes a soggy turn when a very drunk fan starts using the family in front of him as a bathroom. Mark Houston covers it all on Wednesday's Hot Mornings.

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This week on Hot Mornings, Jimothy the raccoon is taking over the internet with his short-spined, extra-round charm out of Seattle. An Arizona man swapped his clothes for a ride on top of a moving train through Colorado, landing him in some serious trouble. And a Kansas City man spent eight hours locked inside a porta potty, all in pursuit of a dropped Mountain Dew. It's a morning full of raccoons, runaway trains, and questionable decisions you can't look away from.

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Monday starts strong with a round of One Word Go, the game where you say one word and get on with your day. It goes sideways fast when "antithesis" shows up and the whole crew tries to figure out what it even means and how to spell it. From there we get charcuterie boards, toenails, and proverbs tossed around like it's championship level radio. The wax museum talk takes a wild turn toward a presidential one where you can do modifications, think JFK with some upgrades. And it all wraps with a heated little chat about pencils and the last...

This episode of Hot Mornings covers a lot of ground. The crew digs into a New York school rolling out a robot teacher named Sally, complete with silicone skin and glowing eyes that scream "she's about to end us all," and the argument over whether she belongs near actual kids gets heated fast. From there it slides into the dead internet theory, where bots outnumber real humans in the comments and the same creepy fish-carrying video keeps popping up with the same eerie voice. There's also a song of the summer showdown happening on the Hot 93.1 Facebook page, plus a...

Ever squished an ant and figured you handled the problem? Turns out that tiny move fires off a chemical distress signal that calls in the whole colony, so this episode has the smarter way to send them packing. We also get into the traits guys online swear make someone instantly attractive, from a sharp sense of humor to racking up free drinks with trivia winnings. Then there's the wild new science of temporary tattoos that track your heart rate and steps, shark design totally optional. It's a fun, fast recap of Thursday morning on Hot 93.1.

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