Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Utah Word - Don and Dinver Interview From March 10th, 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Uh, so we are.
- 0:02Speaker 2: We are a publicly licensed radio station, which means we
- 0:06Speaker 2: have to do community service. We have to highlight local
- 0:09Speaker 2: communities in order to keep our license.
- 0:11Speaker 3: Well, I don't think I want to help with that.
- 0:14Speaker 1: That's a that's a mayor of Mona, Don Criddle. And
- 0:20Speaker 1: I see you right, you say.
- 0:23Speaker 4: Denver, we're in here. I that's this is my son,
- 0:27Speaker 4: Denver Criddle. I'm a former mayor of Mona, Utah, Don Piddle.
- 0:32Speaker 4: I will be running for reelection, but right now I
- 0:35Speaker 4: am not the mayor.
- 0:35Speaker 5: I was across the hallway at your country station.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Yeah, well, what'd you find over there? Boy?
- 0:43Speaker 1: They call it?
- 0:44Speaker 6: They call a station by a person's name, that's Hank.
- 0:48Speaker 6: That don't make no offense to me. Well, you just
- 0:51Speaker 6: not a person.
- 0:52Speaker 4: No, it's not you. Just they're just trying to trick you.
- 0:55Speaker 4: And it's pretty easy to do with you, Denver. Benny
- 0:57Speaker 4: the Egg wouldn't put up with that. No, Benny the
- 1:00Speaker 4: Captain Breakfast. I don't know where they're working now, that's.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Where they're not in this building. I'm sorry.
- 1:05Speaker 5: I think they could work at your country station.
- 1:08Speaker 3: What are we doing here, ma'am?
- 1:10Speaker 1: Well, I thought we would go to your website.
- 1:13Speaker 2: You have a nice website here could use a little work,
- 1:15Speaker 2: though it's a Mona, Utah dot Gov.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Your website here.
- 1:20Speaker 2: And says says here, welcome to Mona City, home of
- 1:23Speaker 2: young living, farms, lavender fields.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Right the Burst and Ponds.
- 1:27Speaker 3: Use me you living Lavender Farm and Distillery.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Oh sorry, Burst and Ponds. The Mona Reservoir Mountain EBow
- 1:36Speaker 2: a wonderful small community it is. But as nice as
- 1:40Speaker 2: your website is, it looks here like like you want
- 1:43Speaker 2: to fix it up. There's an ad here that says
- 1:47Speaker 2: share your Mona moments. We're building a new photo library
- 1:51Speaker 2: for the Mona City website, and we'd love to include
- 1:54Speaker 2: your best shots, scenic views, community events, historic places. Send
- 1:58Speaker 2: us what represents it's Mona to you?
- 2:02Speaker 4: Well, I think what represents Mona to me, as being
- 2:05Speaker 4: the former mayor. Is my my home, my living room.
- 2:09Speaker 4: I'm taking pictures. I'm gonna take some pictures of my
- 2:12Speaker 4: living room and send them off.
- 2:14Speaker 5: Make sure to get my book collection in there.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Well, I will, Denver. I want to.
- 2:18Speaker 5: I want to be able to see all the doctors.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Thuth.
- 2:20Speaker 4: We'll get all of them, I promise. Now Denver has
- 2:23Speaker 4: been out taking some pictures too, haven't you Denver?
- 2:26Speaker 6: How was I taking a picture of the only Chinese
- 2:28Speaker 6: food restaurant in the town.
- 2:30Speaker 3: M that and that certainly is I had to see immediate.
- 2:34Speaker 6: Well, it's it's it's integration, which is a good thing.
- 2:38Speaker 6: I was told on Sesame Street.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Oh you mean you mean we have diversity in Yeah,
- 2:43Speaker 4: we have, we have. We have that guy from Pakistan
- 2:46Speaker 4: who runs the Chinese rep.
- 2:48Speaker 3: See we got two of them.
- 2:49Speaker 4: Yeah, well it counts as too. Like Uh, well, ma'am,
- 2:54Speaker 4: I'm I'm happy.
- 2:55Speaker 1: To uh to submit some pictures.
- 2:57Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be submitting some pictures. I'm looking here or uh.
- 3:01Speaker 4: Some of the things that are really important to me
- 3:03Speaker 4: in Mona is, of course, when I was a kid,
- 3:06Speaker 4: the Mona rope swing. You know, you go out to
- 3:09Speaker 4: the burst and Palms and get on the rope swing.
- 3:11Speaker 4: I always got tangled up at the room.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Well, we had to rescue Denver from natale.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Lady's terrible.
- 3:19Speaker 5: That's where I got.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Your dad helped you with that close. Are you not
- 3:23Speaker 1: allowed to go there anymore?
- 3:24Speaker 3: No?
- 3:26Speaker 5: He said something about some rock singer died that way.
- 3:29Speaker 3: I don't know. Well, we don't, we don't want to
- 3:31Speaker 3: go into that right now, Denver.
- 3:32Speaker 6: Okay, now speaking of pictures of Mona, Yeah, on the website, yes,
- 3:38Speaker 6: which he's brought to you by square Space. By the way,
- 3:41Speaker 6: squarespace dot com. If you building a website, that's where
- 3:43Speaker 6: you go to middle a website them tell them, uh,
- 3:49Speaker 6: Denver sent you put put the promo code Denver d
- 3:53Speaker 6: I n V e R.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Get a little piece of that Denver yellow taste.
- 3:56Speaker 3: D I n V e R Denver, Denver.
- 4:00Speaker 5: Now I understand they're looking for pictures of.
- 4:04Speaker 3: The Mona Cemetery.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Yes, uh so the the Mona Cemetery. Actually, if you
- 4:09Speaker 2: got to Mona, Utah dot gov slash cemetery, you can
- 4:13Speaker 2: find the exact location of a loved one's grave. Using
- 4:17Speaker 2: GPS technology, you can view headstones, grave information.
- 4:22Speaker 4: We could take a picture of the whole Gobil family's
- 4:25Speaker 4: buried out there.
- 4:27Speaker 6: I am not taking pictures in the cemetery. Why is
- 4:30Speaker 6: that because with a certain kind of film and a
- 4:34Speaker 6: certain kind of light, you can see the ghosts of
- 4:38Speaker 6: all the all.
- 4:40Speaker 3: The sold including the Goebel family.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Daddy to do that, damn no.
- 4:46Speaker 5: But if you put that up on the website, it's
- 4:48Speaker 5: going to scare people away.
- 4:49Speaker 3: They won't move the mona. That's true. That's true.
- 4:52Speaker 6: Are the orbs that you see that they're oh they no,
- 4:55Speaker 6: they look like people.
- 4:56Speaker 3: They look like floating They float up above the head stone.
- 5:00Speaker 6: Yeah, and they're dressed for some reason. I don't understand
- 5:03Speaker 6: why ghosts need How.
- 5:07Speaker 5: Does that work?
- 5:07Speaker 6: It was buried in clothes, but clothes don't have souls.
- 5:12Speaker 6: I would think they'd be naked. Although I don't want
- 5:15Speaker 6: to see Steve Goebel naked, you do not.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Want to be naked inside of the Lord either. If
- 5:21Speaker 4: you want to be clothed when you go meet the Lord,
- 5:24Speaker 4: you don't want to be naked when you meet when
- 5:26Speaker 4: you meet Heaven.
- 5:28Speaker 6: I'm really confused now now I'm really confused.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Well, I what kind of camera you're gonna use to
- 5:35Speaker 1: take pictures?
- 5:36Speaker 6: I have a Pentax K one thousand. The best way
- 5:40Speaker 6: to get pictures of the ghosts. Use this digital stuff.
- 5:43Speaker 6: You're never going to catch the pictures.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Of ghost The iPhone doesn't work.
- 5:46Speaker 6: Everybody says, how come we don't see pictures of the UFOs?
- 5:50Speaker 5: People got cameras all the time. It's because these kind
- 5:54Speaker 5: of cameras don't take the pictures of the.
- 5:56Speaker 6: UFOs A real camera, real film, the Pentax CAN one thousand.
- 6:00Speaker 4: That's the that's the right camera for that. Where did
- 6:04Speaker 4: you get that?
- 6:04Speaker 3: Denver? Found it? Really?
- 6:10Speaker 4: You found it and I found it, Denver, you didn't
- 6:16Speaker 4: find it. Where did you find it? In the backseat
- 6:19Speaker 4: is somebody's car.
- 6:20Speaker 7: It was in somebody's house and I found it, Denver.
- 6:26Speaker 7: I'm afraid we're going to have to return that Go
- 6:28Speaker 7: for real, Daddy. We're gonna go right, Denver, but we're
- 6:31Speaker 7: gonna have to return that camera.
- 6:33Speaker 6: I got to prove that, go for real, Daddy with
- 6:35Speaker 6: my Pentax K one thousand. It was covered in dust
- 6:38Speaker 6: when I when I found it was well, they weren't
- 6:42Speaker 6: using it.
- 6:42Speaker 3: Well, you'll have to show me where you found it,
- 6:45Speaker 3: and I.
- 6:45Speaker 5: Checked the sheriff's department.
- 6:46Speaker 3: Nobody called the police. Right.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Well, when you get those pictures, Denver and send them in,
- 6:53Speaker 2: we might post them on the Mona, Utah dot gov.
- 6:56Speaker 5: Website, Money Utah dot gov website.
- 6:58Speaker 3: Ma'am, do you work for the Mona City? Is that
- 7:00Speaker 3: how you're doing?
- 7:01Speaker 1: I've been a hired spokesperson.
- 7:02Speaker 3: I see, I see. Well, it's nice to meet you.
- 7:05Speaker 6: What is the website Monyutah dot Go created by squist Base,
- 7:12Speaker 6: which brings you this feature. Use the promo code Denver
- 7:16Speaker 6: Denver d I n v e R you'll say fifteen
- 7:18Speaker 6: percent you thank you both for stopping bon Thank you, madam.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Join us again some other time as we examine how
- 7:29Speaker 1: the Utah natives speak with the Utah word of the day.
- 7:35Speaker 3: I don't think I'm going back.