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Frank Crist - They're Fine, Just Fine from September 30th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, hello, Frank.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, everyone.
• 0:04
  Speaker 3: Frank Crist is here, as he is most weekday mornings.
• 0:08
  Speaker 3: Frank Crist, the Grim Reaper, the agent of death.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: He is....
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: The reaper of celebrity souls. Thanks for making time for us, Frank.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: I know you're very busy. Time is just a construct
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: to me. You live in a linear timeline.
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: You live in a sort of an infinite number.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: Sort of everything everywhere all at once.
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  Speaker 3: Frank is, as you would expect a grim reaper to be,
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: he's a skeleton. He has a robe and a scythe
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: and bony fingers and The only kind of difference, Frank,
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: as a reaper, most grim reapers ride horses.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: There are many grim reapers. I mean, like, if I
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: were a reaper, I would ride a horse. If I
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: were a grim reaper... You know what you should do
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: if you're a Grim Reaper? You should pogo stick. You
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: should pogo stick.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: I hear you're very good at that. I can do it.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, you can. Oh, it'll be the death of you. Uh-oh,
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: do you know something I don't?
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, sorry.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, whoops.
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: Frank joins us to play the game we call Frank
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: Chris Presents.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: They're fine. They're just fine.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: You see, Frank, when a celebrity dies, he has to
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: go and claim the soul of the celebrity and take
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: it away to the distribution center. So the game is
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: he brings me a list of four actors... And he's
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: happy to report that three of the actors on this
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: list are.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're just fine.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: But one of them, oh, one of them Frank has
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: had to take.
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  Speaker 3: And it is a contestant's job to identify the dead
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: celebrity and win a prize.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: And who do we have?
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Mark is here.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: Mark, good morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm fine.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Just fine, thank you. I'm glad to hear that, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Mark, are you ready to try and capitalize on a
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: celebrity's death.
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  Speaker 1: And win a prize?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am.
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: All right, Mark, here we go. You identify the dead
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: celebrity here and you'll win that prize. Because it is
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: Blasphemy Day, Frank has given me a list of actors
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: in movies about people who blaspheme. Number one, Annabeth Gish.
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: Her film roles include some of these movies. Shag, Hiding Out,
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: Mystic Pizza, SLC Punk, Double Jeopardy. On television, she had
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: a recurring role in The X-Files. and also on the
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  Speaker 3: West Wing and Halt and Catch Fire. Her blasphemy movie?
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  Speaker 3: She was in a movie called The Last Supper. A
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: group of liberal graduate students invite ideological extremists and religious
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: zealots to a dinner intending to murder them.
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  Speaker 1: As an act of moral cleansing.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, Annabeth Gish. Number three is Charlotte Rampling. She
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  Speaker 3: began her career as a model. Her first film was
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  Speaker 3: Georgie Girl, followed by arthouse films The Damned and The
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  Speaker 3: Night Porter. She went on to star in Stardust Memories,
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  Speaker 3: The Verdict, Long Live Life, The Wings of Dove, and
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  Speaker 3: Assassin's Creed. Her blasphemy movie Benedetta, set in a 17th
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  Speaker 3: century Italian convent, a nun experiences sensational mystical and erotic
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  Speaker 3: visions that challenge church authority and trigger accusations of blasphemy.
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  Speaker 3: Number two, Charlotte Rampling. Number three is Michael Parks. He
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  Speaker 3: starred in cult status TV series called Then Came Bronson.
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  Speaker 3: He had guest roles on The Real McCoys, Wagon Train.
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  Speaker 3: He also acted for Quentin Tarantino in the Kill Bill films,
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  Speaker 3: and he was also in Grindhouse from Dusk Till Dawn
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  Speaker 3: 2 and The Savage Bees. His blasphemy movie, Red State,
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  Speaker 3: a dark thriller following a fanatical homophobic extremist church led
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  Speaker 3: by a charismatic preacher whose compound faces a.
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  Speaker 1: Violent siege by federal agents. Number three. Michael Parks.
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  Speaker 3: And finally, number four, Catherine Deneuve, considered one of the
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  Speaker 3: greatest European actresses on film. She gained acclaim for her
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  Speaker 3: collaborations with Jacques Dami starring in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,
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  Speaker 3: The Young Girls of Rochefort, and Donkey Skin.
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  Speaker 1: She starred in Roman Polanski's Repulsion and.
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  Speaker 3: Louis Bunuel's Belle du Jour. Her blasphemy movie, The Brand
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  Speaker 3: New Testament, a whimsical fantasy where God lives as a petty,
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  Speaker 3: mean-spirited tyrant in Brussels until his young daughter, hacks his computer,
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  Speaker 3: and leaks everyone's predetermined death dates to the world.
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  Speaker 1: Number four, Catherine Deneuve. There you go. Four actors in
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  Speaker 1: movies about blaspheming. Who's the dead one?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know if Catherine Deneuve is still alive, she's
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: got to be really old.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess Catherine Deneuve.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: That's a good guess.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. She is really old, but she's still alive.
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: She's just fine.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: That was a good guess.
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  Speaker 3: This will give you another chance, though. Listen carefully. Is
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: it Annabeth Gish as Charlotte Rampley?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it Michael Parks? My second guess would be
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: Michael Parks.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Michael Parks died in 2017.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: He was 77. He was kind of a cult actor.
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  Speaker 3: He was somebody that a lot of directors really kind
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: of liked, and he did unusual roles. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if that show, Then Came Bronson, is still available,
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  Speaker 3: but that was a really interesting TV show.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, Mark. You have won the prize. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You're welcome very much. Hang on,
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  Speaker 1: and Katie will tell you how to get your prize.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have to go check on some of our precious,
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: precious celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: You do that on their birthday, usually. Yes, on their birthdays.
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  Speaker 2: Taking a look at the list here. Monica Bellucci's only 62. Oh, well.
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  Speaker 1: She's fine.
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  Speaker 2: She's fine.
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  Speaker 1: She's holding up.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Stoltz, 65.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: Fran Drescher is 69.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Barry Williams. Greg Brady?
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  Speaker 3: 72.
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  Speaker 2: Is he really? Geez.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's kind of gross.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Goodbye, everybody. Goodbye.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: Goodbye, Frank.