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Email of Interest - More Polar Bear Stuff For June 6th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have here a letter that people perhaps would like
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  Speaker 1: to hear me read.
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  Speaker 2: You mean an email of interest, Yeah, an email of
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  Speaker 2: interest Bill.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Dave, another listener from Perry City. We
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  Speaker 1: all have events in our lives that seem to happen
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: and remind us of how fortunate we are, and sometimes
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: we find that we are so close and yet so
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  Speaker 1: far away. I listen via the podcast, and therefore I'm
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: sometimes a day or two behind, depending on how much
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: I am able to listen. Anyway, I found myself in Fargo,
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  Speaker 1: North Dakota this week for work. Now that makes it
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  Speaker 1: sound like I don't know how I got there. I
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  Speaker 1: finished up for the day and found a park to
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  Speaker 1: go run around and turn on the show. I like
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: you had been invested in hearing the outcome of the cartcher.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: Mal polar Bear Ah.
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  Speaker 1: That evening, as I you tease that you had, in
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  Speaker 1: fact received a letter from Sketchy Blake about the polar Bear.
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  Speaker 1: I listened during my run and returned to the hotel
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  Speaker 1: to get to bed as I had a five am
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  Speaker 1: flight the next morning. The next morning, I got on
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  Speaker 1: my flight, and when I landed in Minneapolis, I had
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  Speaker 1: a walk and sometime between my next flight home. So
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  Speaker 1: I popped on the show and you started to read
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  Speaker 1: the email from Sketchy Blake, and I soon realized that
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  Speaker 1: the polar bear is in the Cabela was in Fargo,
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  Speaker 1: North Dakota, where I had just come from.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, i'd only ran.
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  Speaker 1: If I had only run for ten more minutes, I
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  Speaker 1: might have been able to get a picture of the
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  Speaker 1: polar bear. I should have done two laps around the park,
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  Speaker 1: albeit it was a pretty pretty large park. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: I was lazy and I failed you. But anyway, there
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  Speaker 1: might be a chance that I'll return to Fargo soon
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully redeemed myself. But then it might not be
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  Speaker 1: very topical by then. No, no, I've got a news
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  Speaker 1: for you, Dave. It wasn't topical to begin with.
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  Speaker 3: It's timeless. It's a timeless story of my youth.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that that is how my life goes, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: so close yet so far away. Thanks for letting me listen, Dave.
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  Speaker 1: From the most ree of pair, Harry, it doesn't always work. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: another listener from Perry City.
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  Speaker 3: So to backtrack, if you missed the story, I told
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  Speaker 3: a story of my youth in Nampa, Idaho, and I
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  Speaker 3: remembered going to Carter Mall, and the thing that I
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  Speaker 3: remembered about it was there was a giant stuffed polar
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  Speaker 3: Bear on display there and wondering what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I The first thing I would have wondered is why
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  Speaker 1: there was a giant stuff polar bear on display at
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  Speaker 1: the Carture mall?
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  Speaker 2: And who is this carture? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I loved that Friends of the
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  Speaker 3: Program and this show would never work outside of Utah, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yet that's what we have been.
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  Speaker 3: And yet we have people listening all over the world
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  Speaker 3: and so close yet so far away, and Fargo, well.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's I I wish we'd I wish he had
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  Speaker 1: been able to that would have been cool. But I
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  Speaker 1: guess he has to go to Fargo for work occasionally.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, next time you're there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think he'll he'll be able to maybe
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  Speaker 1: go to the Cabella's and get a picture of the
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  Speaker 1: polar bear.
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  Speaker 3: Someone else might be listening in Fargo.
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  Speaker 2: It could be I.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose if you're listening in Fargo, North Dakota, North Dakota, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: North Dakota, Yeah, North Dakota. Right now, please give us
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  Speaker 1: a call.
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  Speaker 2: We're better. Yeah, just go to the Cabella's take a
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  Speaker 2: picture of the polar bear. Polar Bear. It's got it.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a dead baby seal next to it, which
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  Speaker 2: I'm still baffled by. You know, it's not called Carture
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  Speaker 2: mong anymore. Well, it's gone, isn't it. No, they renamed
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  Speaker 2: the mall. No, the guy who.
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  Speaker 1: Went there, uh he uh, he said, there's still they
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  Speaker 1: there are some shops still there. It's called District two
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  Speaker 1: eight formerly Cartuer Mall.
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  Speaker 3: That's a terrible name. District to eight.
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  Speaker 1: A shop, a shopping set. Well, I think maybe the
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  Speaker 1: Carchers didn't want their name associated with it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what do they have?
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  Speaker 1: They have a buttery food and drug, a Tempo Sprouse
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  Speaker 1: rights and uh let's see. Yeah, that's about it. Joe
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  Speaker 1: they have a Joe Anne. No, they don't, not any
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  Speaker 1: nobody has the Big five sporting goods.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. So here's the history of Carture Mall.
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  Speaker 3: There's a whole history.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can find the history of anything.
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  Speaker 3: District to eight is a terrible name. That sounds like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, future military base. District to eight.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think if you know, if you know anything
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  Speaker 1: about modern day Nampa there.
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  Speaker 2: Very dystopian.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Carture Wall. It featured two movie theaters at
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  Speaker 1: one time, now none.
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  Speaker 2: It's seen better days.
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  Speaker 1: Well, once they took the Polar Bear out, there's no
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  Speaker 1: reason to go there.
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  Speaker 2: Downhill from there band Marche