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Scam Texts from May 12th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I so a lot of internet scams, people trying to
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  Speaker 1: cheat you out of your money everything.
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  Speaker 2: My wife got this.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of days ago and it's I mean, it's well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just read it. It's shocking though, that says hello.
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  Speaker 1: I am Ernesto Bertarelli, an Italian born Swiss businessman and philanthropists. Well,
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  Speaker 1: as part of my dedication to charity, I am donating
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  Speaker 1: forty eight million British pounds to a few lucky individuals,
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  Speaker 1: companies and charities to support their cause or personal endeavors.
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  Speaker 1: You have been selected as one of the recipients. Amazing,
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to hearing from you. Greetings, Ernesto Bertarelli. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you reached out to This came to my wife.
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  Speaker 1: I don't don't, I don't want to, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, it's very exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I have been urging her to mister Barelli.
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  Speaker 3: Does that?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it does? Apparently it does, or people wouldn't keep
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  Speaker 1: doing it. But now so here, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: I get this. This came to me an unbidden text
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  Speaker 1: message to my phone, and it's so I won't read
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. It's quite long. There are some pictures
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  Speaker 1: along with it.
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  Speaker 2: A little video.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Kevin O'Leary and it says billionaire Kevin
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  Speaker 1: O'Leary has just called called us out on Fox News
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  Speaker 1: because we're trying to stop his data center project in Utah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Gabby with a progressive group called Elevate Utah. Let
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  Speaker 1: me catch you up. Is this a real thing? Because
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  Speaker 1: they want money from me?
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  Speaker 3: I actually liked them quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: But doesn't this is not They shouldn't do it this way?
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  Speaker 3: Should they do it?
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  Speaker 1: Because it makes me feel like I don't trust it
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  Speaker 1: because it just comes unbidden to my you know, to mind.
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  Speaker 4: It's because you're on some progressive phone list somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Or it's that voter voter information that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: keep secret.
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  Speaker 4: Elevate you to Actually I follow them on Instagram. They
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  Speaker 4: do great investigative reporting and they they're they're great, they're
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  Speaker 4: great young advocates.
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  Speaker 2: If I forward this to you, will you give them
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  Speaker 2: some money?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe the ones I've been getting have been via text. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and they're not you know, Eduardo like that or anything.
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  Speaker 5: It's a it's a sentence and it comes from a
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  Speaker 5: number that's not spam necessarily. It has a local area
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  Speaker 5: local area code it'll say things like should we get
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  Speaker 5: seafood tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm just asking questions and if you engage,
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  Speaker 5: and if you engage, even if.
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  Speaker 4: You say you have the wrong number or something, then
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  Speaker 4: that they know it's a live number exactly. There's also
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  Speaker 4: the one I've gotten, which is, hey.
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  Speaker 3: This is Emily. We're in your neighborhood. Do you want
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  Speaker 3: us to come give you that bid you asked for?
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  Speaker 2: I got one of those things. I got one of
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  Speaker 2: those this week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but do not block it and delete it immediately.
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  Speaker 4: Do not respond to that.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing so the thing go back to the
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  Speaker 1: one about Elevate Utah. Now I didn't read that first
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  Speaker 1: sentence when it's at Elevate Utah, or I would have
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  Speaker 1: looked into it a.
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  Speaker 2: Little more closely.
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  Speaker 1: But just the very fact of they send this thing
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  Speaker 1: out and say we need money from you, Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: makes me suspicious instantly.
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  Speaker 3: But it's bill.
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  Speaker 4: This is no different than you getting something in the
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  Speaker 4: mail saying hey, do you want to donate to this
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  Speaker 4: political action?
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  Speaker 2: I always throw that away.
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  Speaker 4: It's another way of reaching out and trying to get donate.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what about this one I just got this one, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: This is to confirm your appointment with doctor Michael Cobble
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  Speaker 1: today at eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: What about it? Am I supposed to? Oh wait I do, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I do have an appointment. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: I actually think we should have the the relevate you
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  Speaker 4: elevate you to people on the show. They are super
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  Speaker 4: smart and they're good at kind of making it digestible.
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  Speaker 4: What's happening really complicated stuff with the legislature, and so
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  Speaker 4: maybe maybe we can.
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  Speaker 2: Shut to them.
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  Speaker 1: How about this one, Hey, Bill, Redhanger Cleaner's here. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be Oh yeah, wait, they do my shirts. Never mind.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just got one that my glass recycling pickup
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  Speaker 4: is tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I got I got one.
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  Speaker 1: I did get one this week that said, uh, we've
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  Speaker 1: been we we noticed your roof might need some repair.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's what I got that one too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we know we noticed you that your roof might
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  Speaker 1: need some repair. We'd be happy to come and give
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  Speaker 1: you a bid. No, no, thank you. Here's a Texter.
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  Speaker 5: I had someone call and leave me a message saying
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  Speaker 5: they were from the Salt Lake Sheriff's Office on behalf
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  Speaker 5: of an honorable judge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I did not know that we don't get
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  Speaker 1: the ones too much anymore. That people calling saying I'm
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  Speaker 1: selling tickets for the Policeman's.
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  Speaker 2: Benefit ball or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, if you'd like to buy some tickets,
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  Speaker 1: here's how much they are.
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  Speaker 3: I had yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I was home and I don't answer my door.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I just don't people know that.
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  Speaker 4: If it's my family or friends or something, I know
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  Speaker 4: they're coming over and they know how to get me
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  Speaker 4: to let them in the house. And it's so I'm
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  Speaker 4: sitting in the reading room, which is close to the
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  Speaker 4: front door.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you were in the bathroom, No, the reading room, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The fat room. And you can always tell when it's
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  Speaker 3: the too jovial knock, like what what do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like it's a happy knock. It's like I'm a friendly
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  Speaker 3: knock kN knock, knock knock.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still yeah that that yeah okay.
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  Speaker 4: And I can see that it's a guy with you know,
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  Speaker 4: a vest on and a clickboard, and I just I'm
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  Speaker 4: not answering no, And he looks in my window and
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  Speaker 4: gives me a wave.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I yeah, not answering that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: About an hour later he came back, really and I
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  Speaker 4: watched him across, you know, knocking on and I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what he's selling or I don't answer the door.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think he was probably there to to
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  Speaker 1: to alert you that there's a gas link in your
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood and you need to get out. But but Gina,
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  Speaker 1: you're defeating the purpose if you're sitting with with your
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  Speaker 1: shade shades drawn or up right by where the guy
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  Speaker 1: who's knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 3: Cause how am I? I don't care if he you should?
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  Speaker 3: I don't answer. I don't answer the door.
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  Speaker 4: I don't okay, But I think you should also to
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  Speaker 4: say is no to whatever you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I think you should also pretend that you're not home.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you should, you know not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna hide, I'm just not.
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  Speaker 1: You should do what Carrie's mother used to do when
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  Speaker 1: the Jehovah's witnesses came to the house.
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  Speaker 2: She would dive behind the.
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  Speaker 5: Christ You guys don't answer the door this week, dive
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  Speaker 5: by why the Jehovah's witnesses are in town, and if
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  Speaker 5: they do knock on the door, get behind the couch.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to answer.
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  Speaker 2: That's a true story. Yeah, I just love to get
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  Speaker 2: behind the get behind the couch.
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  Speaker 1: They can't see you. You don't want them to see you.
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  Speaker 1: I think you should not let them see you.
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  Speaker 2: There, Gina, let's see.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: The nineteen seventies, my friend was the number one salesperson
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  Speaker 5: in San Francisco for door to door Encyclopedia sales. She
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  Speaker 5: knew how to knock on doors who had signs that
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  Speaker 5: say no soliciting because that meant they could They couldn't
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  Speaker 5: say no to a salesperson.
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  Speaker 2: M why is that?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see Rocky Mountain Power employee here. If you don't
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  Speaker 5: answer the door, your power may go out.
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  Speaker 2: It happens.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, yeah, I'm not answering the door.
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  Speaker 4: And lots of people asking us to have elevate utah
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  Speaker 4: on I I I usually will always answer the door
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  Speaker 4: and it uh. You like talking to people though I
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  Speaker 4: don't like talking to people.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're in the perfect profession. You are the perfect
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  Speaker 1: person to be a part of this radio show.
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  Speaker 3: I am never going to buy anything or no at
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  Speaker 3: the door.
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  Speaker 5: I don't buy anything from my front porch.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: If I need something, I'll look for you. My favorite thing, though,
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  Speaker 2: was the last time, the missionaries came to my house.
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  Speaker 2: I've told the story before.
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  Speaker 1: Came to my house and I chatted with them for
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  Speaker 1: a second and they and I said, well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I believe in God. And one of the missionaries went,
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  Speaker 1: what I said, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that. I don't. I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: believe in God anyone. But that's lame.
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  Speaker 3: He said, well that's la.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you remember that? Ye wait a minute, all right,