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Best Question of the Week for October 18th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's best question of the week. We need that from you.
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  Email US Radio from Helen X ninety six dot com
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  put best question in the subject line it can be
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  about anything, and we've got a simple one today from Brianna.
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  Brianna says, what's the best experience you've ever had in
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  another country? Talking a lot about moving to other countries
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  if your candidate doesn't win in the election, what's your
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  best experience you've had in another country?
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  Speaker 2: Best or perhaps strangers? Sure, I guess the most memorable
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  experience I've ever had in another country is being in
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  in the foothills of Mount Everest at a Buddhist monastery,
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  the monastery at Tembouchet, and having a young monk with
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  a pair of dull scissors cut off all my hair,
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  my long hair. And yeah, that's that's probably the most.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking for I was looking for some pictures.
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  I know I have pictures of it somewhere, but it
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  was it was just yeah, it was just surreal. And
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  you did that because why I had very very long hair.
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  I was hiking every day in difficult situations. I got
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  altitude sickness. I was feeling pretty bad. I thought, well,
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  maybe if I do something drastic, it will it will
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  recommit me to this journey?
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  Speaker 1: And is there a religious significance to it having a
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  Buddhist monk do it?
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  Speaker 2: Well? We were at the monastery and surrounded by these
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  these these gentlemen who are who are really fantastic to
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  visit with and to watch and to listen to. And
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  I don't know. I just asked the lama who the
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  guy the headman and at the monastery. I've told the
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  story before, but you know, he spoke. He only spoke
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  to baton Irwa and so we had to go through
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  a translat later and I asked, I said, would you
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  ask him please? We could each get one question. I said,
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  would you ask him how can I best complete my journey?
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  And there was this long exchange between the old man
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  and he was ancient, and the translator and then I
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  mean like it was a two minute exchange between and
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  then he turns to me and said, he says, you
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  have to be strong. I have the feeling that there
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  was a lot of nuance there that the translator, Gelgian
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  said it would take too much to explain it to you,
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  just be strong, And I thought maybe it would help
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  me be strong if sort of do a reverse Samson
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  and cut off all my hair, that's why that haed
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  Oh okay.
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  Speaker 1: So we took Jonesy to Italy when she was six
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  months old, and when we were planning the trip, we're
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  like taking a baby to yeah, do that well, but
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  we were told no, the Italians love babies because nobody
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  there's having babies, so they absolutely adore and everywhere we went, museums, restaurants,
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  everybody there was just so excited.
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  Speaker 2: At seeing that happens. That happens throughout Europe. We took
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  my kid to you were with us carriage, yeah, when
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  he was like a little baby, and people everywhere in Europe, England, France,
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  they disadore them.
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  Speaker 1: But the interesting thing is this is her memory, not mine.
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  She's six months old, remember, and she's in a backpack
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  that Joe carried all over Italy. She has a vivid memory.
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  We are in Siena. She can describe the street, she
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  knows the side of the street we were walking on,
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  she knows what the weather was like. And we saw
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  this art gallery where there's a painting at the very
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  back of the gallery with the life on it that
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  you could see through the front door, and we saw
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  this painting and we said, oh, we want to buy
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  that painting, and we went in about the she she
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  can describe what we were all wearing. She's six months old,
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  six months like it imprinted on.
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  Speaker 2: Her, and she's never seen any pictures of it in adulthood,
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  I mean, as she's gotten older, she's never seen anything
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  photographs that you gotation.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you're getting at. But the things she
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  described are not in the picture, like what the streets were,
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  like what the streets were made out of the She
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  has a very vivid memory, Carrie.
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  Speaker 3: Six months. Yeah, I'm trying to remember my first memory
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  and I want to say, like maybe two anyway, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right me, that's it's about as far as I.
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  Speaker 1: Printed on her. For some for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: I've had so many I can't pick just one. Releasing turtles,
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  baby sea turtles in Mexico, releasing them into the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: The one of the best, slash worst trips I've ever taken,
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  the one that nearly ended our marriage. Oh yeah, to
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  Paris was as rough as it was, it was also
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  one of the most exhilarating trips. Staying up until you
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  know the sun comes up partying with these Parisians.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was just wasn't it like a closed
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  down restaurant?
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  Speaker 3: There was there was, Yeah, it it opens. You have
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  to know where it is because there's no sign. And
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  you know, they served the what they call the black chicken.
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  It's very very good chicken, delicious. But I would have
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  to say, I keep flashing back to this memory of
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  this small Italian town up on top of a hill.
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  There are no cars allowed up there, only walking, and
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  they're very proud of their white wines up there. This
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  is also a great segue for Jimmy coming up. They're
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  very proud of their white wines. I remember sitting we
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  found a cafe. Everyone else was running around buying stuff.
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  And so when I sat down and watched this cat
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  for like forty five minutes while we drank our bottle
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  of wine, this cat commanded the street. He just sat
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  in the middle of the street. People are going around him,
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  people with like you know, carts and things going around.
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  He didn't move. He just sat there and just this
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  is he just laid there. I just loved that cat.
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  Never no, just terrific him. Just he owned it that street.
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  Speaker 2: And those people they were his people.
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  Speaker 1: That's it best question of the week. What questions do
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  you have for US email? US radio from how at
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  X ninety six dot com. Put best question in the
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  subject line and maybe we'll answer your question.
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  Speaker 3: No, Andrew, it was not the Korean photo shoot. Those
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  pictures will never be seen again. It's called appropriation. Yeah,
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  because I don't want anyone to see those