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Union Time Capsule - 100 Years for November 19th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: But I got then I got a phone call when
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  I got home yesterday from Brian Nicholson. Brian is the
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  guy who several years ago did that I am Ogden
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  book and which I've got. I'm the only person in
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  the book with two pictures and it's just it's black
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  and it's a really nice book.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a coffee table.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, black and white photographs of people who he felt
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  represented Ogden. And I believe there's one of me in there.
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  I'm holding a radio and I'm wearing an eye am
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  Ogden is awesome T shirt and yeah, so I'm I'm
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  in the book.
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  Speaker 2: Prob.
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  Speaker 1: So he calls me yesterday and he says, you know
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  they had this time capsule at Union Station. I said, well,
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  he said, yeah, one hundred years ago they sealed up
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  this cornerstone. It was a time capsule. They said for
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  one hundred years, leave it for one hundred years, and
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  then opened it up. And they've opened it up, so
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  it was back in nineteen twenty four. I think would
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  they find well, uh, I think it's kind of disappointing.
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  But what they're what they're doing is they're now doing
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  a new time capsule and putting things in it, and
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  they're going to seal it up for another one hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the art.
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  Speaker 1: Here are some of the exciting artifacts they found in
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  the time capsule. A copy of the building permit for
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  the Union Station. Huh. Some newspapers of course, Ogden Standards,
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  Saltly Tribune, Deserat News, the Salt Lake Telegram, some photos
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  of the Union Station. A letter from Union Pacific Railroad
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  outlining the design of the station. A book of Ogden
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  City laws and regulations.
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  Speaker 3: How about a curse? Is there anything with a curse?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, when they opened it up, a frog
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  did pop out and start singing, Hello, Hello, my ragtime gal.
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  But a Monroe and then a copy of the Monroad.
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  Oh no, as a Monroe Doctrine, Centennial half dollar coin
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  as among the things that.
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  Speaker 2: We're in there.
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  Speaker 3: I want to curse.
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  Speaker 1: So Brian, they asked him if he would put some
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  his book in there. Well, it's too big. It's too big,
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  it is. But he's made a small version of it,
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  a pamphlet with with a like some binding. It's bound ups.
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  I haven't seen it yet, but he said, and you're
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  the first thing on it. That's what they will see
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  in a hundred. You're on the cover, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: You're in the You're the first I'm the first photo.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm on the paper. I'm actually in the book
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  three times because I'm on the paper cover, the slip cover.
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  There's a whole bunch of little photos and I'm in
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  one of those.
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  Speaker 3: Well you're more Ogden than anybody, so that makes it.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, Brian said, I can't be there to
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  put it in the time capsule. Would you come up
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  and do it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: And and it's like they say they want you there,
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  you know, and and you you'll you'll speak, you'll give
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  a two and a half minute talk, you know how
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  to do that, and and then they'll put it in
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  the in the time capsule.
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  Speaker 3: Well what an honor.
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  Speaker 2: That's it is kind of cool?
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  Speaker 3: Is this?
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  Speaker 1: Uh Friday Friday? It's I have to be there at
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  four forty five and I have to drive.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Uh my wife said she would take me up.
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  You know. I was all excited.
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  Speaker 1: And then I hung up with Brian and I thought,
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  wait a minute, I can't drive. I don't know I
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  could take the train. Maybe, I but actually that you
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  should take the train if I don't want to just Oh,
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  it's too much time to say it would dump you
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  right there close.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, maybe I should. I'll look into that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but at any rate, I thought that was kind
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  of that's kind of a nice Yeah, that's a hundred
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  and so I'll be in in that time. My picture
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  will be there for one hundred years, and I just
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  would like to be around when they open it to say,
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  what the who's that?
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  Speaker 3: Katie? When you're doing our best of for today, make
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  sure you label this second segment one hundred years, because
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  maybe in a hundred years, somehow this audio will find
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  its way somewhere to be played. Then maybe we don't
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  know how that will happen.
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  Speaker 1: If you can give me a physical copy of it,
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  a recording, I will put it. I will say, I'd
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  like this to go.
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  Speaker 2: In there as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's put it on cassette and cassette no, no,
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  like a like a flash just.
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  Speaker 2: A little flat three or a flash shrip.
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  Speaker 3: And seriously, if we can figure out how to do that, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think that would it's easy.
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  Speaker 3: And and hello, what will the world look like one
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  hundred years from now?
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  Speaker 1: Well, people of the future, now here's what it will
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  look like. Does anybody know how to play this thing?
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  Speaker 4: People of the future. The reference of the frog singing
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  in the box is a classic Looney Tune cartoon which
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  you probably can't watch anymore. It was funny.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's one other thing, and I here's what the
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  mayor of Ogden said about this. Charlie Trentleman, by the way,
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  UH historian and reporter, longtime reporter for the Standard Examiner,
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  is part of all this putting this together. But I
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  just like what Here's what the mayor of Ogden said
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  about the whole thing. This is a moment of history
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  to be proud of, and we have a long history
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  in past to be proud of. We may not be perfect,
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  but we are Ogden, and Ogden is exactly what we
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  want to be. It's exactly where we want to be.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's a states that's that's that's lead with.
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  Speaker 1: We're not perfect, We're not that's that is that is
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  Ogden in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we're as good as anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Ogden always has this sort of inferiority complex and I
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  but I love Ogden. It's where I'm from, it's where
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  I was born. We have a long history in paths
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  to be proud of. We may not be perfect, but
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  we are hogged.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna steal Andrews joke. People of the future.
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  If you want to watch that cartoon, it will only
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  cost you one million dollars. Hey, the Zoslov bought two
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  thousand seeing in the future. A million dollars is like
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  ten bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's just nothing.
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  Speaker 4: You see. The frog would come out and sing.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, maham me hello.
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  Speaker 4: He would only do it for the guy who opened
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  the box, and everyone thought he was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And then whenever anybody else had he'd say, go sing
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  and the frog aldgo really wouldn't sing?
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't sing? It's well worth your million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: To m Brad says. We used to say, if Salt
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  Lake is the heart of Utah, Oggeden is the liver.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, indeed that is true.
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  Speaker 1: That frog, that frog thing, it's what we used to
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  call a shaggy dog story.