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5 Year Earthquake Anniversary For March 18th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Five years ago today, seven am, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: seven nine, a five point seven magnitude earthquake hit the
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  Speaker 1: Washsat Front and it was our last day. So so
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic started. Like we I mean officially we.
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  Speaker 2: Were about to leave the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Well we had talked about it, but we weren't. And
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  Speaker 1: then the earthquake hit on this day five years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and then we never came back for like two.
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  Speaker 3: And a half years.
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  Speaker 2: We all we all went k.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I want we all went home, and I remember
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  Speaker 3: being home and there was an aftershock and I felt
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  Speaker 3: that I.
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  Speaker 2: Want to I want to compare this, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna play you for here just a second.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe oh uh uh the uh?
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  Speaker 2: What what happened that day when we were on the air.
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  Speaker 3: She's still trying to find it.
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  Speaker 2: But I heard another radio person talking about this the
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  Speaker 2: other day and he said, I was right in the
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  Speaker 2: mid of doing a traffic report and I felt this,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, that's an earthquake. I know that's
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  Speaker 2: an earthquake. I wonder if I should say something about it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: and then I just threw to the back to the anchor.
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  Speaker 1: This is a news person, Yeah, well yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Working at a news station. We're not a news station,
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  Speaker 3: but we were talking about it. We took phone calls
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  Speaker 3: for an hour.
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  Speaker 2: I went to and then I went out to Todd's
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  Speaker 2: house because we shut down here. Oh that's right, and
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  Speaker 2: I went I went out to Todd's house. I asked
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  Speaker 2: my wife, are you guys okay up there at home?
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  Speaker 2: She said, yeah, go ahead, and so I went out
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  Speaker 2: to Todds and there we felt after shocks at Todd's
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  Speaker 2: and we talked to people on the air for several hours,
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  Speaker 2: Todd and I did.
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  Speaker 3: And it was especially egregious here in this studio because
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  Speaker 3: our studio is, you know, kind of a walkway for
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  Speaker 3: it's on a bridge. It's it's a bridge that's between
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  Speaker 3: two buildings, and so the bridge was shaking more so
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  Speaker 3: than than everywhere else.
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  Speaker 2: The creepiest part to me, too, was we we were
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  Speaker 2: instructed to leave the building. Yeah, so we did, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: I was waiting out front. I forget why. I forget
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  Speaker 2: why I was standing around out front because ever everybody
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  Speaker 2: was well and leaning against the building and and then
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  Speaker 2: there was an aftershock and the building shook and that
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  Speaker 2: was the worst.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I got to get my car out
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  Speaker 1: of the the parking structure. I don't want the building.
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  Speaker 3: Falling on my thought too.
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  Speaker 1: And Festus at the time was working at Fox News. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's it was the camera guy at Fox News. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Scott McCain that was outside here.
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  Speaker 3: McCain does like to set up out of here.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember when we left the building, I ran
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  Speaker 1: over there and they were in a commercial break. But
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  Speaker 1: I poked my head in the camera and I said, fastus,
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  Speaker 1: Mama loves you. And he's thinking, because I knew he
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  Speaker 1: was at the TV.
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  Speaker 3: We have we have the audio if you want to
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  Speaker 3: hear it. It's it's just a minute. Okay. So folks,
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  Speaker 3: keep in mind this is recording from five years ago.
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  Speaker 3: This is not happening right now. Okay, So here we go.
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  Speaker 2: So this so here's this is what happened.
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  Speaker 3: For those who don't know, we're talking about Dave, the
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  Speaker 3: flower guy. He decides who boner of the week. Again,
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  Speaker 3: this is a recording, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We had said. I called him last week and said, Dave,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want you to come into the studio on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll call you and you can pick the boner of
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  Speaker 2: the week on the on the phone and he said okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so we called him and we didn't get an answer.
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  Speaker 2: This past Friday, I called him yesterday and I'll say,
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  Speaker 2: I said, Dave, are you okay?
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  Speaker 3: We're having an earthquake?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: No, oh, we aren't having an earthquake. That is.
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  Speaker 3: That is a bit of an earthquake there. Oh my,
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  Speaker 3: let's are we still on the air, still on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, We're downtown Salt Lake and the whole building is
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  Speaker 2: shaking like hell, yeah, it's letting go now it's stopping.
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  Speaker 2: But that was certainly an earthquake as it was. We're
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  Speaker 2: still on the air.
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  Speaker 3: We're still in the air as far as I know.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any way to determine that? If you can
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  Speaker 2: call the radio station, there we go. So yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: was that was that brought it all back. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: little that you could you could hear the building shaking,
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  Speaker 2: which was this awful.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hear me on that recording because I behaved
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  Speaker 1: in the way you're supposed to behave during an earth.
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  Speaker 3: Stopped drop and roll.
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  Speaker 1: They dove under the death stop dropping roll.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Gina did, all right,