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Gina's Minnesota Family and RFH Not for Childrens Book From March 2nd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So I have family in town this weekend. This is
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota family.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you have Minnesota family?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's there's remember I went to that family reunion
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. We have there. There is
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota family. And they are the the German Norwegian side
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  Speaker 1: of of the family. The Irish side of the family
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  Speaker 1: has German Norwegian are the pilot that I told you
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  Speaker 1: about who was shot down in World War Two?
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  Speaker 2: That side of the family. Which side of the family
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  Speaker 2: is more successful.
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  Speaker 1: The better. But we had those cousins in town Hans
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  Speaker 1: and Reva Hans. And that's how you can tell the
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  Speaker 1: German Norwegian and uh they were They were in Salt
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  Speaker 1: Lake for a bit for a for a conference, and
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  Speaker 1: then they went up and were spending a couple of
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  Speaker 1: days at my sister's house.
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  Speaker 2: And what kind of a conference.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, he's a geologist. There was a big geology conference.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought there was a lot of excitement.
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  Speaker 1: There is very exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And so so in Salt Lake for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: and then he went up to stay at my sister's
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  Speaker 1: house in Huntsville and we said, well, if you're up
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  Speaker 1: up north, we got to take you to our favorite
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  Speaker 1: restaurant in Ogden. You guys know, my favorite restaurant, the
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  Speaker 1: Prairie Schooner. If you go to x ninety six dot
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  Speaker 1: com slash live, you can see the covered wagon we
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  Speaker 1: were eating in and we were very excited. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: got to come to the Prairie Schooner. It's great, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna love it. And uh uh my sister and I.
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  Speaker 1: You can see we're we're sitting there at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the table and we're very excited, and and the
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  Speaker 1: waiter comes up to take it, you know, and they
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  Speaker 1: hand us the menus. We don't need a menu?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your usual?
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  Speaker 1: Well here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, Hans and Reva don't have a they don't
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  Speaker 2: have a.
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  Speaker 1: They needed a menu. But my sister and I said,
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  Speaker 1: we we would like our our usual, please, our chicken
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  Speaker 1: fried steak. Of course, they have really good chicken fried
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  Speaker 1: steak at at Prairie Schooner. And our waiter said, we're out.
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  Speaker 1: What And Carrie, your reaction was our reaction?
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  Speaker 2: That's when picks up the table and flips it. What
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  Speaker 2: what what? What? What day of the week was this Saturday?
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  Speaker 1: The day early Friday?
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  Speaker 2: It was Friday Friday evening.
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  Speaker 1: They were out. She said, I'm sorry. We had a big,
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  Speaker 1: big party in here and they all wanted and I've
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  Speaker 1: never had anything You've never had anything else there, and
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  Speaker 1: we it was kind of embarrassing because mckil and I
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  Speaker 1: were just furious and and our poor guests, Hans and
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  Speaker 1: Reva didn't understand our.
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  Speaker 3: Our rightful we sell rightfully, so they would why why couldn't,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, why why could I mean? I would just
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  Speaker 3: look at you though there is a menu with thousands
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  Speaker 3: of items on it, it's okay, something else.
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  Speaker 1: It's not okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right. Our cousins, our children.
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  Speaker 1: And our waiter was a waiter we hadn't had before.
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  Speaker 1: Usually when we're a Prairie schooner, we have Courtney. And
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  Speaker 1: Courtney knows our yes, and she walked by and we said, Courtney,
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  Speaker 1: you're at a chicken price, damn it. She's like, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I don't know what you guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: So what did you do?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so they have the little steak bites there,
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  Speaker 1: which is an appetizer. It's not the same thing as
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  Speaker 1: as the chicken fried steak. So after all of this
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  Speaker 1: I'm home yesterday, I.
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  Speaker 2: Like to know what Courtney and Riva had.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody just ended up getting steak, which was fine.
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  Speaker 1: But yesterday I'm cleaning out my bookshelves and what did
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  Speaker 1: I run across in my bookshelves was the Radio from
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  Speaker 1: Hell Not for children children's book, And I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot we did this. Yeah, you did it as
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  Speaker 1: a fundraiser years ago for the Road Home. And it's
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  Speaker 1: and it's written like a children's book. You know, A
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  Speaker 1: is for alcohol is the F is the first one.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm flipping through it and I get to C
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  Speaker 1: and do you know what.
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  Speaker 2: C is for the ABC chicken? C is for chicken
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  Speaker 2: fried steak. On my plate, it's brown and it's hot,
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  Speaker 2: and I and to eat it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait, And I said, I sent a picture
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  Speaker 1: of that to Hans and Reva and I said, now,
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  Speaker 1: now maybe you'll understand how important chicken fried steak is
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  Speaker 1: because we did a children's book and my selection for
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  Speaker 1: the book was the letter C for chicken fried.
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  Speaker 2: And you'll know and you'll notice that that I am
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  Speaker 2: depicted as what I really am, and that the child.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm looking through this book. Did we write these yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you got chicken fried steak is see we
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  Speaker 1: divided them.
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  Speaker 2: Up because I don't recall any of these that I wrote.
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  Speaker 2: How did we divide them up? Do we know?
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  Speaker 1: You don't remember?
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  Speaker 2: But the illustrations are absolutely charming.
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  Speaker 1: Remember it says in there who did a.
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  Speaker 2: F It says it's illustrated by Amy Forston? Amy Forston?
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  Speaker 2: Where is Amy Forston?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know? Amy? Are you listening?
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  Speaker 2: These are charming illustrations.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really cute.
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  Speaker 2: It's very well laid out and put together. I'm impressed.
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  Speaker 1: Now you forgot we did this, didn't you?
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  Speaker 2: I did? Now the name, the or the writing isn't well.
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  Speaker 4: It's written like Ldren's book. It's yeah, supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: high brow. R Here's here's one for Carrie and is
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  Speaker 4: for neuticle. Ah, Carrie has one, and you guess which
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  Speaker 4: one is? This game is sure fun doesn't really rhyme
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  Speaker 4: very well. Let's see what's let's do another one here?
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  Speaker 4: Oh there was one for me that was really telling. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: this is a good one. Fis for flip the Utah
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  Speaker 4: square swap. God knows what you're meaning and you wish
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  Speaker 4: yould stop.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, you've got one ball. I've got one solid ball.
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  Speaker 2: This is really we should do a sequel to this.
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  Speaker 2: We should. Sweet lady cancer took one of my nads.
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  Speaker 2: P is for piste off. P is also for pound.
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  Speaker 2: What Bill does to the table when he's pissed off
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  Speaker 2: with them.
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  Speaker 1: See that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's all right.
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  Speaker 1: You know who has one real testicle? That's what they
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  Speaker 1: call it. They call it he's.
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  Speaker 2: Got one ball. There was an old World War II
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  Speaker 2: song too, Hitler has only one ball, and Himmler has
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  Speaker 2: something similar. Garring has only one ball, hit Himmler has
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  Speaker 2: something similar, and Hitler has no balls at all. Something
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  Speaker 2: like that. Didn't know I was a World World War
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  Speaker 2: two vet. They did not. Well, that sweet little book.
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  Speaker 1: I love.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're always touching it. Hey, when you only got
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  Speaker 2: one you like to make sure it's still there. I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember that. That's good. You know what we could
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  Speaker 2: do is just reissue it. We could do a reissue
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  Speaker 2: of it. I would take the There's a quote on
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  Speaker 2: the back of it that I would take off. It says,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to tell you this. On the back cover,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to tell you that this book is an
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  Speaker 2: epic in contemporary literature and Destined not in Destined for
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  Speaker 2: a nod from the Pulitzer Prize folks, But I haven't
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  Speaker 2: read it. I'm waiting for the movie. Richard Paul Evans
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  Speaker 2: number ones. Yeah, we'd take that off. We take that.
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  Speaker 1: How long ago
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  Speaker 2: Best selling author of dust Bunny of Dust Bunny's Do
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  Speaker 2: the Work