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Latest Episode 029 • Wednesday, November 4, 2026
TAX CUT LANDSLIDE! Florida Votes to Slash Property Taxes, Democrats Sweep Congress, and Volusia Picks New Leaders — Dudley’s Wednesday Overnight!
Dudley’s twenty-ninth overnight, past one on a Wednesday morning — Florida voters pass Amendment 3 with about 62 percent, raising the homestead exemption and cutting the yearly assessment cap, while callers weigh lower tax bills against the fire trucks, deputies and libraries that still have to show up. Plus: Democrats are projected to win both chambers of Congress, Brenda Beery unseats the school board incumbent and Wendy Anderson takes the County Council District 1 seat, the St. Johns River near DeLand stays in minor flood stage, and Miami tops the first College Football Playoff rankings. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 028 • Tuesday, November 3, 2026
ELECTION IN HIGH WATER! 8 Million Floridians Vote Through the Flood, the St. Johns Won’t Sit Down, and Miami Tops the Playoff Rankings — Dudley’s Tuesday Overnight!
Dudley’s twenty-eighth overnight, past one on a Tuesday morning — Election Day in high water: more than 8.3 million Floridians voted, Brevard County moved polling places, Melbourne set an all-time 24-hour rainfall record of 11.04 inches, more than 100 people were rescued, and the St. Johns River near Astor stood at 3.4 feet in moderate flood, while callers Aldwin, Meredith and Barnett voted in galoshes, counted their blessings, and kept the coffee hot. Plus: early midterm returns project Democratic Senate wins in Georgia, North Carolina and New Hampshire and a flip in South Carolina, Cyclone Murasu hits India’s east coast, American forces strike Iran’s Qeshm Island, Russia-Ukraine talks are set for Abu Dhabi, the Fall Festival of the Arts returns November 21-22 with more than 150 artists, and Miami sits No. 1 in the first College Football Playoff rankings. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Latest Episode 027 • Monday, November 2, 2026
STATE UNDERWATER! 34 Counties Flooded, the St. Johns Rising, and Election Day Is Tomorrow — Dudley’s Monday Overnight!
Dudley’s twenty-seventh overnight, past one on a Monday morning — record rain floods 34 Florida counties, the governor declares emergencies in seven, and the St. Johns River near DeLand climbs into minor flood stage toward moderate later in the week, while callers Havelock, Calla and Yasmine ride out the storm, confess to driving a flooded road, and keep the dog dry. Plus: Election Day arrives Tuesday with more than 5.2 million Florida ballots already cast, and 91-year-old Rachel delivers the night’s sermon on showing up; Jacksonville routs Indianapolis 42-7, Tampa Bay shuts out Atlanta 16-0 without completing a pass, and Florida State fires Mike Norvell; and the Fall Festival of the Arts returns November 21-22 with more than 150 artists. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 026 • Sunday, November 1, 2026
NINE LOST IN FLORIDA SKY! Learjet Crash Shakes Palm Beach, 51 Million Already Voted, and the Bucs Win Without Throwing a Pass — Dudley’s Sunday Overnight!
Dudley’s twenty-sixth overnight, past one on a Sunday morning — a Learjet bound for the Bahamas crashes near Greenacres, killing all nine aboard and forcing hundreds from a nearby mobile-home community, while callers Anais, Evander and Bettina grieve, wait for the facts, and double-check their own ballots. Plus: more than 51 million Americans have already voted early, two days before the November 3 midterms; Tampa Bay beats Atlanta 16-0 without completing a pass, the first team to do that since 1974; the Volusia County Fair returns November 5-15; and Yannick calls from Montreal. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 025 • Saturday, October 31, 2026
THREE DAYS TO VOTE! Election-Eve Calls, Bulldogs Go 9-1, and a Singing Pumpkin That Won’t Quit — Dudley’s Halloween Overnight!
Dudley’s twenty-fifth overnight, past one on a Saturday morning — Halloween night, three days before the November 3 midterms, with the generic ballot at 51.4 to 43.2 and both campaigns stopping in Volusia County, while callers Eleri, Owain and Nerys weigh what finally makes up a voter’s mind, cheer the Bulldogs’ eighth straight win, and confess to empty candy bowls. Plus: Intel’s 29 percent one-day plunge, a judge barring threats against election workers, dockworkers striking at 113 ports worldwide, thousands walking at sunrise in Daytona Beach for Making Strides, and Glyn’s singing pumpkin — cut off mid-rant by the dump button. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 024 • Friday, October 30, 2026
A JOKE THAT WASN’T! Daytona Rally Arrest, a $6 Billion Crypto Heist, and a Robot That Ran Away to Sea — Dudley’s Overnight Goes Late!
Dudley’s twenty-fourth overnight, past one on a Friday morning — the president rallies Daytona four days before the election, and before the doors open the sheriff arrests a 21-year-old over an alleged online threat she says was a joke, while callers Wystan, Ceridwen and Hawthorne wrestle with when a joke stops being a joke. Plus: hackers drain more than $6 billion from Binance in the biggest crypto heist on record, Spain mourns up to 69 dead in a high-speed train collision, king tides chew through an $80 million sand project, Beach Safety rescues a runaway research drone at Ponce Inlet, the Brewers parade their first title in 57 years, and Araminta’s taco dog steals Halloween eve. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 023 • Thursday, October 29, 2026
FIVE MILLION EXPOSED! Florida Student-Aid Breach Rocks the State, the Midterms Hit Five Days Out, and the Brewers Finally Win It All — Dudley’s Overnight Stays Up Late!
Dudley’s twenty-third overnight, past one on a Thursday morning — the Florida Department of Education reveals a breach of its student financial aid website that may have exposed nearly five million people, including Social Security numbers, and callers Creech and Pomeroy are freezing their credit and checking their mailboxes twice. Plus: five days to the November 3 midterms, with new polls showing Democrats ahead in Senate races in Michigan, Texas, Maine and Kansas; Spain mourns after a high-speed train collision kills nearly seventy; David Jolly rallies DeLand voters at Earl Brown Park as Volusia turnout tops 25 percent; the Brewers beat the Rays 4-1 in Game 5 for their first World Series title; and a farewell to labor organizer Dolores Huerta at 96. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 022 • Wednesday, October 28, 2026
WALK-OFF MIRACLE! Rays Stun Brewers 4-3 in 12 Innings, a Hurricane Declaration for Florida, and a Cat Calls the Series — Dudley’s Overnight Stays Up All Night!
Dudley’s twenty-second overnight, past one on a Wednesday morning — the Rays, down to their final three outs in the twelfth, rally to beat Milwaukee 4-3 and force Game 5 tonight at the Trop, while callers Laszlo, Noor and Tomaso — calling from Milwaukee — relive the comeback, the scoreboard graphic that jumped the gun, and a parade route down Woodland Boulevard. Plus: a major disaster declaration for fifteen Florida counties hit by Hurricane Isaias, with debris still piled high in Milton; a deadly high-speed train collision in Spain; Volusia County resends about 350 ballots after a vendor mailing error; DeLand’s boys swim team takes third at districts in Ocala; and Zadie’s cat picks the Rays by couch geography. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 021 • Tuesday, October 27, 2026
SERIES ON THE BRINK! Rays Fight for Their Lives in Game 4, the Supreme Court Speaks in One Sentence, and Dallas Stuns Philly — Dudley’s Overnight Keeps the Coffee On!
Dudley’s twenty-first overnight, past one on a Tuesday morning — the World Series hangs in the balance in St. Petersburg, with Game 4 tied at two through five, Milwaukee up three games to none and one win from its first championship, while callers Perpetua, Arlo and Euphrasia pace, theorize and cheer from DeLand. Plus: the Supreme Court declines in a single sentence to restore immigration judges’ power to pause deportation cases; Brazil’s Lula wins the runoff and his rival flees to the United States; DeLand and Spruce Creek swimmers shine at the district meets; and Dallas thumps Philadelphia 38-21 on Monday night. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 020 • Monday, October 26, 2026
KING TIDES AND FLIPPED BALLOTS! Record Water Hammers Florida’s Coast, the Early Vote Flips Red, Serbia’s Students Take Power, and Milwaukee Runs Away With the Series — Dudley’s Overnight Rides the Tide!
Dudley’s twentieth overnight, past one on a Monday morning — king tides smash records up and down Florida’s east coast, with Port Canaveral’s highest non-tropical water level since 1994, waves up to eleven feet, and flood warnings covering 4.1 million Floridians, while callers Fenn, Clemmie and Garrick watch the water come up. Plus: Monday’s early vote flips Florida’s combined ballot count red by about 6,300 ballots eight days out; Serbia’s student-led opposition topples longtime leader Vucic with about 52 percent of the vote; Volusia County resends about 350 ballots after a vendor mailing error; the Brewers torch the Rays 10-0 in World Series Game 3; and DeLand High volleyball rolls in as the Region 1-6A top seed. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Dudley’s nineteenth overnight, past one on a Sunday morning — gunfire outside Florida A&M’s Bragg Memorial Stadium during homecoming weekend left 11 people shot, including six children, the youngest 11, plus a grandmother hurt while fleeing, with no arrests by Sunday morning, and callers Tavish, Ottavia and Ysanne light a candle, say a prayer, and dance one song in the kitchen for Tallahassee. Plus: Brazil’s runoff gives Lula a fourth term, 51.8 to 48.2 over Flavio Bolsonaro, with hello from São Paulo; Obama and Trump both stump in Michigan ahead of the November 3 midterms as the Justice Department plans 1,000 election monitors; DeLand High volleyball storms in as the Region 1-6A top seed; the Dolphins beat the Jets 28-25 for their first win of the season; the Brewers rally from 4-0 down to take a 2-0 World Series lead; and a meatloaf bet gets settled on the air. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 018 • Saturday, October 24, 2026
WRONG BALLOT, RIGHT CALL! 350 Volusia Ballots Go Back Out, the President Votes Early, and a Cat Calls the World Series — Dudley’s Overnight Goes All Night Long!
Dudley’s eighteenth overnight, past one on a Saturday morning — Volusia County is resending about 350 mail ballots after a vendor error gave some voters the wrong city or area contests, seven already cast and counted, and callers Willaford, Ondrea and Jabez are checking their ballots twice before they send them back. Plus: the president voted early in person in Palm Beach County and headed to a rally in Georgia; Marvel dropped an Avengers: Doomsday first-pitch trailer during World Series Game One; the Bulldogs beat Mainland 46-27 for the District 2-6A crown and the volleyball Bulldogs are 26-3 into the regional final; World Series Game Two is a shootout in Milwaukee with a Canadian catcher making history; and a cat who predicts baseball, a traveling garden gnome, and a coastal flood warning rolling in for Sunday. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 017 • Friday, October 23, 2026
CAMERAS COME DOWN! Volusia County Kills the Plate Readers, Trump Rallies in Fort Myers, and Game One of the World Series Is ON — Dudley’s Overnight Goes the Distance!
Dudley’s seventeenth overnight, past one on a Saturday morning — the Volusia County Council just voted a twelve-month moratorium on license-plate reader cameras: the cameras are off, they’re coming down, and callers are split on whether the county got it right. Plus: the president rallied Friday at Florida Gulf Coast University with a two-hundred-fifty-million-dollar nurse pledge, a vow to “deal with” Cuba, and Dr. Oz rushing up the bleachers to help a fallen man; Game One of the World Series is underway in Milwaukee with the Rays and Brewers both chasing their first title; and spooky season in West Volusia — Blue Spring after dark, the Orange City haunted house, and Monsters on MainStreet on Halloween. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 016 • Friday, October 23, 2026
FIRST IN FLORIDA! Volusia County Launches Public Abuser Database, Judge Slams Brakes on DHS Voter Stings, and the Persian Gulf Is ON FIRE — Dudley’s Overnight Goes Full Throttle!
Dudley’s sixteenth overnight, past one on a Friday morning — Volusia County just became the first in Florida with a public, searchable database of domestic abuse offenders: full name, booking photo, case numbers, all of it, and the lines are split between safety and shame. Plus: a federal judge orders DHS to suspend voter-fraud field operations in nine states through Election Day; Iran says four vessels caught fire in the northern Persian Gulf and oil jumped two bucks a barrel; Daytona International Speedway wants your vote on the 2027 Daytona 500 infield grass design; the Bears lead the Patriots 20-14 at the half on Thursday Night Football; and Ronaldo gets fined and suspended thirty days by Portugal. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 015 • Thursday, October 22, 2026
BARK LOUDER! Bulldogs Battle Mainland Friday for the District Crown, Miguel Aviles Gets His Day, and a Pizza Wins the Last Call!
Dudley’s fifteenth overnight, past one on a Thursday morning — DeLand is all in on Friday night lights: the 7-1 Bulldogs head to Mainland for the district championship, and callers are picking sides — Dunstan’s buying coffee at the lodge if the Bulldogs lose, Nell’s niece is the volleyball team’s secret weapon, Fitzhugh blames a humming light tower for a 1976 missed field goal, Sukey shows off her “Bark Louder” sign, and Minta turned her grandson’s Bulldogs jersey rose with a red sock. Plus: the county honors its first Veteran Employee of the Year, Miguel Aviles — twenty-two years a Marine, seventeen with the county; the vice president and attorney general announce a $42-million food stamp fraud bust; Dossie proposes a Porch Summit for world peace; and last caller Piers loses a fight with his pizza delivery — the line goes dead mid-rant. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 014 • Tuesday, October 20, 2026
SPACE JELLYFISH OVER DELAND! Falcon 9 Paints the Dawn Sky, the Rays Win the Pennant, and Ethel Owes Morwenna a Quarter!
Dudley’s fourteenth overnight, past one on a Tuesday morning — a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at 7:04 AM and the sunrise turned its exhaust plume into a glowing “space jellyfish” seen from Tampa Bay to Daytona Beach, with Marley sprinting into her driveway in pajamas convinced the invasion had begun and Oswin reporting the Stetson physics department standing in the parking lot pointing at the sky and going “ooh.” The Rays beat the Guardians 7-3 to win the American League pennant and set up a Friday World Series date in Milwaukee against the 103-win Brewers. Plus: Banyon meets the dump button mid-rant on the death penalty, Petal cries happy tears at a Dancing with the Stars baby reveal while 71-year-old Crisp prescribes an aggressive tango for reality TV, Wells hunts for a hat loophole in the Falcons’ ten-billion-dollar math, Senna’s dog supervises early voting at the Sanborn Center, and Morwenna’s bridge-club argument ends with Ethel owing a quarter. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 013 • Monday, October 19, 2026
CAMERAS GO DARK! Volusia Pulls the Plug on 79 Plate Readers, the St. Johns Runs High, and Lowell Thinks the Eiffel Tower Is Spying!
Dudley’s thirteenth overnight, past one on a Monday morning — the Volusia County Council slaps a one-year moratorium on license plate reader cameras and revokes the permits for seventy-nine already on county roads, with plumber Digby making the freest case against surveillance yet heard: his taco runs don’t belong in a database. The St. Johns River is running high and the state asks boaters to stay off the populated stretches — forty-year river resident Eugenie on what the river does with docks and porches. Plus: Hypatia calls from Lyon at seven in the morning to explain France’s curfew chaos, Lowell accuses the Eiffel Tower of plate-reading, Algernon prepares for six million free eggs, the Rays stand one win from the World Series with Leota’s kayak for sale, Festus meets the dump button mid-rant about spitting, and night nurse Corliss sees football’s injuries for what they are. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 012 • Sunday, October 18, 2026
SHERIFF VS. THE NEWSPAPER! Marsy’s Law Showdown, Early Voting Opens Monday, and Alberta Eyes the Door!
Dudley’s twelfth overnight, past one on a Sunday morning — the sheriff is feuding with the Daytona Beach News-Journal over a published road-rage victim’s name the sheriff says Marsy’s Law protected, and caller Nathaniel lands the line of the night: “the law has to be the line.” Early voting opens Monday in Volusia and Flagler — poll worker Elodie, eighteen years of coffee urns and brownies, says just show up. Plus: Alberta’s separation referendum has Colette mistaking it for a divorce, the Rays are one win from the World Series with Malachi’s late grandfather in his heart, Lucille explains the AI-debt panic with lemonade, Giselle sums up DeLand as “heartbreak and hope before noon,” and Antoinette calls from a Tim Hortons parking lot in Calgary. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 011 • Saturday, October 17, 2026
NO KINGS DAY OF ACTION! Hundreds Rally at Woodland and New York, Bulldogs Hang 73 on Homecoming, and Volusia Schools Ace the State’s Test!
Dudley’s eleventh overnight, past one on a Saturday morning — Saturday was the “No Kings” day of action and DeLand showed up: hundreds at Woodland and New York, from first-timer Cassiane with a trumpet in the crowd to Balthazar, who kept driving and told Dudley exactly why. The Bulldogs made homecoming history — 73-0 over Tavares, the most points since 2004 — and Volusia County Schools was just named an Academically High-Performing District, one of only eighteen in Florida. Plus: the Brewers sweep the Dodgers and wait for tonight’s Rays-Guardians Game Four winner, an energy ceasefire in Ukraine that nobody’s honoring, a two-million-yen sleeping contest in Tokyo, Wrenley cut off mid-sentence [SFX: line disconnect], and Farrell on Kepler Road with the windows down, begging for harmonica. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 010 • Friday, October 16, 2026
BREWERS TO THE FALL CLASSIC! Milwaukee Sweeps the Dodgers, a Hard Day on Volusia Roads, and Early Voting Starts Monday!
Dudley’s tenth overnight, past one on a Saturday morning — the Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series, first time since nineteen eighty-two, after sweeping the two-time defending champion Dodgers in four straight: six to four in the clincher behind Jake Bauers’ series MVP night and Aaron Ashby’s nine-out save. A somber open: a sixty-seven-year-old Port Orange motorcyclist was killed at Tomoka Farms Road and Avocado Drive, and veteran rider Clive’s advice is simple — cover the brake, find the driver’s eyes, and assume they don’t see you. Plus: Biketoberfest’s cold front brings forty-mile-an-hour gusts and red-flag surf, the Bulldogs rout University 57-7 with Georgina demanding more snaps for the sophomores, early voting starts Monday at any Volusia County site, a stacked streaming weekend led by Sacrifice and Tenzing, Sabrina’s weather-steering theory [SFX: line disconnect], Hermione calling from Bend, Oregon — and Eleanora asks the night shift to think of seven-year-old Tommy. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 009 • Friday, October 16, 2026
DUMP BUTTON! Ludovic’s Fish-Fry Threat, Biketoberfest vs. a Forty-Mile Wind, and the Brewers One Win from the Fall Classic!
Dudley’s ninth overnight, past one on a Friday morning — Biketoberfest meets a rude cold front: rain all weekend, gusts to forty Saturday, rip current risk high, and forty-one ocean rescues since Monday have biker Corban parking it for a hot-dog weekend. Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies hit Woodland and New York at ten — Sutter’s going, with a two-person “Honk if you early-voted” sign and his daughter’s sign glue. And a four-point-six-million-dollar conservation land buy turns into a motocross track — Ludovic was two seconds from a fish-fry threat when Dudley hit the dump button. Plus: Rays and Guardians tied at one with Donovan Mitchell duct-taping his Nike logo, the Brewers up three games to none with Ismene screaming in Missoula, Netflix cutting a thousand jobs, Thessaly’s gallows-humor break room, Marilla’s pencil-charted Bulldogs defense, and Cosima’s Candyland Fall Festival. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 008 • Thursday, October 15, 2026
57 TO 7 AGAIN! Bulldogs Hang Fifty, the Brewers Torch the Dodgers, and Pope Leo’s in Our Prayers!
Dudley’s eighth overnight, past one on a Thursday morning — the Bulldogs are number one in Volusia-Flagler again after hanging fifty-seven on University, 57-7, outscoring their last two opponents a hundred and twenty-four to seven, and Crenshaw of DeLand says Tavares needs water and a priest on Friday. The Brewers are up two games to nothing on the Dodgers — Elspeth, a Wisconsin girl in Florida, measured William Contreras’s four-hundred-and-thirty-six-foot homer against her whole house — and the Rays and Guardians are knotted at one with Grafton calling in sick for Game Three. Plus: Pope Leo’s lung-cancer diagnosis and Guinevere’s quiet kitchen-table grief, the IMF’s forty-trillion-dollar debt weather system, oil over a hundred and six after a mine sinks a ship in Hormuz, Texas a two-point coin flip twenty days out, Wire 3’s fiber trenches and Sibley’s dead swale, the New Smyrna Beach High School guardian arrest, and Ottoline in Manchester, England, declaring Bulldogs country. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 007 • Wednesday, October 14, 2026
TOW HITCH TERROR! Port Orange Road-Rage Ramming, Saturday’s “No Kings” Rally, and Eleven Sailors Missing!
Dudley’s seventh overnight, past one on a Wednesday morning — Saturday’s “No Kings” rally at Woodland and New York tops the night: first-time protester Rosalba is bringing sunscreen and water, and Dudley wants to know what makes somebody stand on a corner on a Saturday. The Port Orange road-rage ramming has his blood up — a Tahoe backing into a rented Nissan at a stop sign, the driver laughing and driving off, now in the county jail with no bail — and Renshaw, forty years pulling trailers, says you feel that hitch in your bones. Game Two of the ALCS in St. Petersburg, the Dodgers down two games to nothing with Ohtani hurting, record diesel and a Russian deal Corwin can’t square with his three trucks, nine people in the theater for Sorkin’s five-and-a-half-million-dollar flop, the Volusia school board’s double session, and Elfreda — a Navy wife of twenty-two years — on the eleven sailors missing in the Black Sea. Plus Verbena’s one-line pitch, Millicent on who actually shows up, Tolliver’s mango habanero wings, and Pomona’s arithmetic on benching Ohtani. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 006 • Tuesday, October 13, 2026
HE TOOK THE BELT OFF! A Deputy’s Midnight Dive, Bulldogs 57-7, and Marlena’s Night at Barcelona Sants!
Dudley’s sixth overnight, past one on a Tuesday morning — the hero of New Smyrna Beach: Volusia County Sergeant William Leven took his gun belt off, grabbed a rescue buoy, and dove into the dark marina water for seventy-two-year-old Bill Von Herbulis, who clung to a pipe for over an hour after his electric wheelchair tipped off the dock; Dudley watched the bodycam video twice. The Bulldogs hung fifty-seven on University, 57-7 — fifty points in the first half, two weeks running, with Taihj Moore going a hundred fifty-one yards on six carries. Federal agents searched Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home in an immigration-paperwork probe, a Madrid-to-Barcelona high-speed train caught fire and stranded thousands, actress Selma Blair was arrested on a Delta flight out of Los Angeles, and Gator Thomas Haugh is the preseason SEC Player of the Year with Florida picked to win the league again. Callers: Wilfred on the quiet part before the dive, Hyacinth’s cousin’s boat two slips down, Osric off to the fire academy, Barnabas wanting boring warrants, Melba’s casserole on the team bus, Marlena’s fifteen hours at Barcelona Sants [SFX: line disconnect], Prunella’s rotisserie-chicken rule of the sky, Dulcinea’s dad and the jinx, Fitzroy’s staging theory cut off mid-rant [SFX: line disconnect], Sophronia’s fifty-seven-to-seven call to Ohio, Ysolt’s night-ward connection, and Cymbeline’s cat Gator knocking over the lamp. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 005 • Monday, October 12, 2026
DAY TWO OF THE CLEANUP! A Judge Kills Nineteen Million in Ads as Dudley Keeps the Lines Open!
Dudley’s fifth overnight, past one on a Monday morning — day two of the Isaias cleanup: four hundred thousand homes and businesses still dark across four states, fifty-five thousand back online today, and crews climbing poles in the Panhandle. A judge pulls the plug on nineteen million dollars of taxpayer-funded campaign ads, a missile hits the Riyadh airport, the Jaguars win in London while the Dolphins fall to oh-and-five, and a Sanford man’s five-hundred-dollar bribe earns him a second arrest. Callers: Tamara’s lineman brother sleeping in a truck in Pensacola, Greta doing the bribe math, Ruth double-featuring a horror movie, Edith waging war on her HOA over a palm frond, Mildred hunting a truck sale that was actually the federal government, Hedda adopting the Jaguars from London at six in the morning — and Mitzi’s one-AM rooster [SFX: line disconnect] on that one. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 004 • Sunday, October 11, 2026
THE MORNING AFTER ISAIAS! Panhandle in the Dark as Dudley Keeps the Coffee On!
Dudley’s fourth overnight, past one on a Sunday morning: the morning after Hurricane Isaias — at least four dead, close to eight hundred thousand homes without power across Florida, Alabama and Georgia, and a Fort Walton Beach Waffle House closed, which Dudley counts as the official measure of disaster. Estelle’s sister is melting in the dark, Pierce rode it out in a Pensacola hallway, Cullen laughs through a 57-7 Bulldogs rout, Geneva eats ice cream over the Gators’ 38-19 stumble, Verna watches the diesel deal at the pump, Marshall clocks the Nobel timing against the ICC sanctions, Florence bids Mike Ditka farewell, and Harriet takes on the county’s license-plate cameras. The coffee’s on until sunrise.
Episode 003 • Friday, October 9, 2026
LANDFALL! Isaias HAMMERS the Panhandle as Dudley Keeps the Coffee On All Night!
Hurricane Isaias slams ashore near Destin as a Category Two — a hundred and five mile-an-hour winds, up to fifteen inches of rain — and Dudley stays up all night with the folks riding it out, including Bing in a Pensacola hallway with a snoring beagle. Ida’s pacing the kitchen with freezer-pancake energy, Stavros is offering moussaka from his slippers, the Bucs stun Dallas 24-16 behind Bucky Irving’s 165 yards, Norma is furious that the DeLand game got shipped to turf in New Smyrna Beach, and Rollo claims to be flying through the eye of the storm from a convenience store parking lot. [SFX: line disconnect] on that one.
Episode 002 • Thursday, October 8, 2026
ROOKIE MAGIC IN DALLAS! A Scam Run From a Prison Cell, and Biscuit Is Fine!
Dudley’s second overnight: Hurricane Isaias spins toward a Friday landfall as a Category Two, the Nobel Chemistry prize goes to Kagan and Soai — and Eli teaches chemistry at one in the morning and makes it stick. Thursday night football: undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels takes over for the injured Baker Mayfield and the Bucs top the Cowboys 14-10; the Dodgers close out the NLDS and draw the Brewers in a rematch; the White Sox chase their first home playoff series win in a century. A second arrest in the DeLand Bitcoin ATM scam — a Georgia woman, sixteen grand, and a boyfriend serving life in a Georgia prison — Goldie got the call too. Seventy-one thousand French students march for the second time in a week — Celeste watches from London and calls it “the most French answer possible.” Plus: Nate checks in from Dayton, Juliet meets the dump button, and Biscuit is fine.
Episode 001 • Thursday, October 8, 2026
ISAIAS BEARING DOWN! Hurricane Spins Toward the Gulf as the Rays Sweep the Yankees!
The premiere! Dudley opens the overnight lines as Hurricane Isaias strengthens in the Gulf with Friday-night landfall expected — including a caller evacuating Gulf Shores — celebrates the Rays’ 4-3 sweep of the Yankees and first ALCS trip since 2020, squints at the $110 billion Paramount-Warner mega-merger, cheers Volusia’s $13.1 million in ECHO grants, and meets GPT-6. Plus: grandmothers vs. the robots.