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Email Of Interest From January 9th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Email.
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  Speaker 2: Oh in trap.
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  Speaker 3: So we had a couple months ago the band Slick
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  Speaker 3: Rock Drifters here in studio. You might remember we were
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  Speaker 3: telling talking about a show that we were going to
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  Speaker 3: have at the Masonic Temple and it was a fundraiser
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  Speaker 3: for kids literacy something like that. I seem to recall
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  Speaker 3: Nic I'll probably come in here in a minute and
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  Speaker 3: remind me.
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  Speaker 4: What it was.
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  Speaker 3: But while while they were here, one of the guys
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  Speaker 3: Skip in the band, he sort of leaned over to
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  Speaker 3: me when we were off the air, and he said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, your dad and my dad were friends and
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  Speaker 3: our family spaghetti sauce recipe is the recipe that my
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  Speaker 3: dad got from your dad. That was your grandma's, your
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  Speaker 3: grandmother's dress, and this is not anything that I have
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  Speaker 3: ever had or my sister's ever had.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh my gosh, could.
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  Speaker 1: You your father would give it to some guy but
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  Speaker 1: not pass it on to his daughters.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I said, could you would you get it
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  Speaker 3: for me? And he said yeah? And I didn't think.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that'd be the last I hear of it,
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  Speaker 3: But I got this email, Higena. I promised I'd send
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  Speaker 3: you your dad's or grandma's a spaghetti sauce recipe. My
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  Speaker 3: dad was a friend of Tom's and had the original,
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  Speaker 3: which I'm sure was ruined with splashes of spaghetti sauce
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  Speaker 3: through the years. Now that's what I wanted. I wanted
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  Speaker 3: the original piece of paper with spaghetti sauce splashes on it,
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  Speaker 3: because I would have framed that and put it in
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  Speaker 3: my kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, writing back and telling you demand the original, ret.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I retyped it and based on the green marker,
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  Speaker 3: looks like my wife has made notes on it.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, this is the best I could do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's still okay.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having our band on. We had about three
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  Speaker 3: hundred people at the temple.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, call it a success.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So here is Mama Barberis spaghetti sauce recipe.
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  Speaker 1: All right, the one that's been kept from you for.
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  Speaker 3: All these apparently, uh, one to two pounds of fresh
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  Speaker 3: ground beef.
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  Speaker 4: Soy sauce. That's weird, isn't it. Little salt, it's a
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  Speaker 4: little umami.
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  Speaker 2: Get that in there.
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  Speaker 3: Half a yellow onion, half a red onion, mixed, two
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  Speaker 3: cans of tomato sauce, all right, oregano, no amount, Just
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  Speaker 3: two tablespoon sugar, all right? Tablespoon thyme, garlic cloves, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as many as you want, uh, A couple of parsley flakes,
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  Speaker 3: a teaspoon of fennel seeds.
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  Speaker 4: That's a couple kind of weird things in there, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: The soy sauce is particularly.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that sort of But I.
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  Speaker 1: Think you're right, it's just for it gives it down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Like I like, if somebody had said, what do
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  Speaker 4: you think.
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  Speaker 3: Your your grandmother's you know, secret ingredient is, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have said soy sauce.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know another thing that you could use, probably
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  Speaker 1: the same way, is it would be a tablespoon of
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  Speaker 1: Worcelster sauce.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I was going to ask if you thought that.
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  Speaker 1: Would be similar. Yeah, when I make certain soups, particularly
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  Speaker 1: chicken noodle soup, I'll always put a little Worcester sauce
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  Speaker 1: in it.
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  Speaker 3: So this say is saute onions, garlic, add the hamburger
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  Speaker 3: and soy sauce. Cook until brown, then add sugar, parsley, thyme, simmer.
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  Speaker 4: Two to three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you gotta let it.
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  Speaker 3: So I maybe over this weekend, not that I cook
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  Speaker 3: in my house. You'll give it to Maybe I will
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  Speaker 3: give this to Joe to try.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty simple, it.
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  Speaker 4: Is, but I just a couple of things, like the
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  Speaker 4: soy sauce was we I would use a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they had Worcester.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm wondering that back in the old days.
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  Speaker 4: This is an old recipe, so I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think it might not have been as common.
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  Speaker 4: Easy to find. Yeah, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I will I will hand this over to the chef
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  Speaker 3: in my house and report back.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm kind of excited because.
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  Speaker 3: I remember eating my grandmother's cooking and how delicious it was.
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  Speaker 3: But I desperately would like the original handwritten one with
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  Speaker 3: the spaghetti sauce. That like that would be a treasure,
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  Speaker 3: Like if your house was on fire, what would you grab?
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  Speaker 4: I would grab that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll ask him if you can have it.
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  Speaker 4: I think he just said it's been lost.
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  Speaker 2: Through the lost to the Yeah, sends of time.
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  Speaker 3: Hm. But what what a gift though, like that that
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  Speaker 3: he was here and thought of that, and like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I have your grandmother's recipe. That's I'm so happy he
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  Speaker 3: spoke up and said something and sent it to me.
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  Speaker 4: It was so nice.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you skip uh who says had ginus send it
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  Speaker 2: to me?
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  Speaker 4: You want to give it?
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  Speaker 2: Give it a go, see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds pretty straightforward. Yeah, I don't. I'm not quite
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  Speaker 1: sure why you. I mean, it doesn't hurt anything, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what it would add to have both
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  Speaker 1: red and yellow onion. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Do they have slightly different tastes?
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  Speaker 1: They do well, yeah, but you cook them, and you know.
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  Speaker 2: It red as sweeter onions, more more baked basic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe it's a.
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  Speaker 4: I want to try it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and then I want you to put some
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  Speaker 1: put it in a bottle and bring it to us.
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  Speaker 4: Can we start selling it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe I have to try it first.
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  Speaker 5: I think there are permits that are Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I noticed an ingredient that was missing from that list.
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  Speaker 4: Love every Grandma's rest and how much loved? How do
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  Speaker 4: you measure that?
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  Speaker 2: Three quarter cups?
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  Speaker 3: My mom used to have and I think this was
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  Speaker 3: like a Mormon ward Mother's Day gift thing that was
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  Speaker 3: passed out and some of her friends gave it to her.
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  Speaker 3: It was a little tin can, like a like a
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  Speaker 3: seasoning can, and it just said love on it, and
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  Speaker 3: on the back it said put a pinch of this
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  Speaker 3: and every and it was just an empty you know
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  Speaker 3: you left it on the can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you put cocaine in it. That's what it's for. See.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had my Radio from Hell cookbook.
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  Speaker 5: It's on my desk all the way over there. I
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  Speaker 5: wish I had it here because I would go through
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  Speaker 5: and see if there was another spaghetti sauce respite.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we had a spaghetti sauce wress. We
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  Speaker 3: know in there it's a lot of funeral potatoes.
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  Speaker 5: I mean there's a whole section that is funeral potatoes,
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  Speaker 5: which which my my nieces from Texas. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when they were talking about how you know barbecue you
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  Speaker 5: is the thing in Texas, I said, well, yeah, we've
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  Speaker 5: got funeral potatoes.
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  Speaker 2: What's funeral potatoes?
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  Speaker 4: It sounds bad, and I tried.
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  Speaker 2: To explain it to them. I don't think I did
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  Speaker 2: a very good job.
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  Speaker 1: Funeral potatoes are most often pretty terrible. I think disagree
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  Speaker 1: people make them, but they don't do a good job.
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  Speaker 1: If you do a if you there's a way to
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  Speaker 1: do it so that they're good. But I think people
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  Speaker 1: just sort of dash them together. And I've been to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of funerals, so you've had a lot of them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of death, a lot of potatoes.
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  Speaker 1: But I always take my little my little can that
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  Speaker 1: says love on it, Sprinkle a little, a little pinch
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  Speaker 1: of love.
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  Speaker 5: They're called hash brown or potato cast role in the
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  Speaker 5: Midwest apparently, but we call them funeral potatoes here.
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  Speaker 4: It's a better name, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 5: But Tristan says, I'll never forgive the guy who made
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  Speaker 5: funeral potatoes for Gordon ramsay, he made it like soup
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  Speaker 5: and it looked horrible.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's not ruined it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there, I've run across that. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: not good. You know, you go to a funeral and
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  Speaker 1: everybody brings something, and they bring these soupy.
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  Speaker 2: These are people who don't know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you always have the Relief Society make the funeral
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  Speaker 5: potatoes because they've made their share.
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  Speaker 4: They're the professionals. Leave it to the professionals.
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  Speaker 2: He says, no mushroom soup in your funeral potatoes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm try it. I try it.
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  Speaker 1: My mom had.
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  Speaker 5: A cookbook that was from Campbell's and it was just
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  Speaker 5: cooking with soups.
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  Speaker 4: That's the who's the secret ingredient?
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  Speaker 2: It was recipes based around cooking with soup.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the famous green bean casserole is based around
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  Speaker 1: Campbell's something soup in the mushroom.
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  Speaker 3: That story about the Campbell soup guy saying it's poor
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  Speaker 3: people food.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that.
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  Speaker 3: My husband went out and bought a bunch of Campbell's soup.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: And he's He's like it.
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  Speaker 2: It made him stay something.
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  Speaker 3: It made him nostalgic, or because when we were young,
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  Speaker 3: that's the only soup we had that Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: Other than I mean, if you'd have homemade soup.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean if you went to the grocery
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  Speaker 3: store about soup. It was so, I have like several
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  Speaker 3: cans of Campbell soup.
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  Speaker 4: In my house.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember what he got, but it's it's just weird.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had canble soup.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope you need I hope you said to him,
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  Speaker 1: if you bought that stuff, you better damn well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh he has. He's like been having it for lunch.
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  Speaker 5: Would you look up and see if they still make
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  Speaker 5: the cheddar cheese soup Campbell's because.
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  Speaker 2: That was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Cream of celery remember that one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no soup terrible.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well there was an email, little email in
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  Speaker 5: tract and we're sorry about the political nature of our discussion.
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  Speaker 2: This show us so political.