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Bill's Water Issue From July 10th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Man, I was busy yesterday. I had to So when
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: we got off the area yesterday, we had to record
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: a little video.
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  Speaker 2: What I guess it's a promo for a contest. It's
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  Speaker 2: a secret bill. We can't talk about it. It's a secret.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to I just want to thank though,
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  Speaker 1: our director, Nick Davis, for for allowing me to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to improvise and use my acting chops and in these videos.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: I can't stand to look at it. I'm not going
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: to be able to look at it, I know. So
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  Speaker 1: we did that and then I had to go up
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  Speaker 1: to Ogden to do some recording and I went to
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  Speaker 1: the this place on twenty fifth Street, the Mercantile, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's in the old Greyhound bus station.
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  Speaker 2: That's our friend Kim's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kim and Kim. There are two Kims. There's Kim
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  Speaker 1: Bauchard and then there's Kim Boucher and Kim Boucher's kind
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  Speaker 1: of runs it and she's a partner in it and
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  Speaker 1: she works with they call them, you know, There's Kim
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  Speaker 1: and the other Kim as they refer to themselves. And
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  Speaker 1: we had some It's a really cool place, but I
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  Speaker 1: had I had not walked into it walked through the
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  Speaker 1: doors of it, probably since I went and got on
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  Speaker 1: a greyhound bus and and and went across the country
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  Speaker 1: to Pennsylvania to go to graduate school. And uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was also the greyhound bus station where I went got
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  Speaker 1: on a greyhound bus and brought me down here to
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake from my my pre induction draft physical to
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  Speaker 1: see if I was suitable to serve in the Vietnam
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  Speaker 1: You weren't. No, I wasn't. I wasn't. I was physically
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  Speaker 1: and mentally or physically and intelligently able. But then they said,
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  Speaker 1: but you're crazy. We don't want we don't want you.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was eventually four f so I. So
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  Speaker 1: I did that, and then I had to you know.
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  Speaker 1: Then I drive home and and I get back to
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  Speaker 1: my house of Salt Lake and and there is no
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  Speaker 1: water on in my house. The water is gone. My
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  Speaker 1: wife said, I don't know what's what's going on. It's
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: been off for about a half an hour. Our next
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  Speaker 1: door neighbor water off as well. So I call the city,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the water department, and they and I get uh, oh, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know where do you live? Again.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got water emergencies all over the city
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  Speaker 1: right now, Well, there's no emergency in your area. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to do some detective work on that. I'll
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: call you back.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes me have to fee, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: And so so they so they didn't call me back
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  Speaker 1: for quite a while. My neighbors water came back on
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  Speaker 1: but ours didn't. And so I called them back and said,
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  Speaker 1: what if your neighbor's water came on but yours didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Did you not pay the bill?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, of course I paid the bill. I paid my
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  Speaker 1: neighbor's bill too. But then I'll send a technician up there. Then,
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's all I can do. I've got water
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  Speaker 1: emergencies all over this city. I can I'll send a
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: technician up. Well, what it turns out is that they
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  Speaker 1: put new, some new device on the water meter outside
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  Speaker 1: my house and on my neighbor's house too. It's so
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a device where they can monitor.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to start charging you for your use.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they can monitor it electronically, better then they than
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  Speaker 1: just for the old you know, sending a meter reader around.
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  Speaker 1: Now they can do it electronically. I think with this thing.
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  Speaker 1: But they had to turn off the water to the
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  Speaker 1: individual houses to do it, and and so what did what?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't I have water? They just forgot to turn
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  Speaker 1: it back on. That was it. That was it. They
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  Speaker 1: had forgotten to turn it back I've so so the
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  Speaker 1: and the technician guys who came that, they came up
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  Speaker 1: and they, oh, there's their problem. They've put the people
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  Speaker 1: who put the meter on, you know, the thing on
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  Speaker 1: the meter. They've just forgot to turn the water back on.
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  Speaker 2: And I just a knob timing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a tool of some sort that has.
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  Speaker 2: To a wrench. It's a special.
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  Speaker 1: Rich's probably a special wrench. So but finally we get
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when you don't have water, you wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I use that for everything.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait, I can't. I don't really want to
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: use the toilet very much because actually I think you
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: can get one flush.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's whatever's in the tank.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get one flush. But then and you
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  Speaker 1: don't and then I'm gonna go take a shop. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. Uh, well, let's make dinner. No, we're not
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: gonna make dinner. There you got to order out. And
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  Speaker 1: but but the Actually the water got back on in
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  Speaker 1: a time timely enough fashion that we had that we
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  Speaker 1: had dinner. You should send the water department your bill
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: for dinner. Oh yeah, yeah, something like you because you've
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  Speaker 1: ordered out. Right, Now, what is it you say they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna this is? I think this is just a way
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  Speaker 1: that they can meter monitor your water usage, probably more
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  Speaker 1: accurately than.
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  Speaker 2: Me, because they're going to start charge you for your usage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they still they charge you for your usage. Now
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  Speaker 1: the meter registers how much water you're using.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're going to be more, That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be more.
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  Speaker 2: If you use more, they're going to get charged more
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  Speaker 2: than what they think you should be using. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a more accurate way of keeping better.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: Better, get take care of those leaks. Better get Larsen
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  Speaker 1: plumbing in there. Take care of the leaks. I got
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  Speaker 1: all over the house.
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  Speaker 2: Then you got a leaky house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, leaks everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: People keep their mouths shut all these leaks