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Utah Word of the Day - The Criddles are Running for Mayor from July 28th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's often said that people of Utah speak a language
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  Speaker 1: all their own. It's a language that's often confusing and
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: even incomprehensible to newcomers here in the Beehive State. So
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Radio from Hell presents a handy guide to help everyone
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  Speaker 1: understand how the natives speak. It's the Utah word of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and today's word is I.
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  Speaker 2: Bet there'll be several words.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to check in with the former mayor
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  Speaker 3: of Mona, Don Kriddle, and his son Denver.
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  Speaker 4: And I think there's there's some news right right down. Yes, ma'am,
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  Speaker 4: there is news and and and thank you for welcoming
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  Speaker 4: us into your studio here. Oh wow, my son, Denver,
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  Speaker 4: I thought this would be the good time to break
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  Speaker 4: it to him.
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  Speaker 2: This place is really nice.
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  Speaker 4: It is, isn't it, Denver?
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  Speaker 2: You don't compare to what we live in.
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  Speaker 4: Well it is. Well, we're getting a new double wide
• 0:56
  Speaker 4: next year, a new one, A new double wide. Well
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  Speaker 4: it's a used double wide, but it'll be new to me,
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  Speaker 4: it'll be new to you. That's right. You wouldn't you
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  Speaker 4: have not lived in it before.
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  Speaker 2: But I have been excited. I hope I don't get lost.
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  Speaker 4: I have some some bad news for you. Denver. No,
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  Speaker 4: I know you feel very strongly about this.
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  Speaker 2: You sound very serious.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I am your namesake has passed. The man that
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  Speaker 4: I named you after has passed.
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  Speaker 2: Bob Denver.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not Bob Denver. Gilligan, I know it's Gilligan. No,
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  Speaker 4: not Bob Denver. It wasn't him Denver Pile. No, it
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  Speaker 4: was not Denver Pile. He was from the Waltons. No,
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  Speaker 4: not Denver Pile.
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  Speaker 2: What about John Denver. I'm named after John Denver.
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  Speaker 4: No, you're not named after Johnny Mountain. You're not named
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  Speaker 4: after John Denver. And you're not named after a Denver
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  Speaker 4: alma either.
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  Speaker 2: Money you tall Rocky Mountain.
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  Speaker 4: No, you dog who Dolly Parton's brother, Denver Parton has passed.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who that is.
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  Speaker 4: He's he's Dolly Parton's brother. He is eighty two, and
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  Speaker 4: he is he was a crane operator, Denver Crane at
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  Speaker 4: eighty two. Well, he'll fall out. He was a retired
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  Speaker 4: crane operator. But you know I named him after. I
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  Speaker 4: named you after him because well, I mean, you put
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  Speaker 4: a blonde wig on Denver Parton and slap a couple
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  Speaker 4: of falses on him. He looks just like his sister,
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  Speaker 4: really exactly like his sister. It's amazing. Does he have
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  Speaker 4: large well you got you know, he has to have fault,
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  Speaker 4: would have to have falses. That's what I said, A
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  Speaker 4: pair of false.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's gender of firm and care. Daddy where against that?
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  Speaker 4: That's right? Uh. Now, the funeral home tells us that
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  Speaker 4: the funeral will be upcoming, and I think you and
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  Speaker 4: I are going to travel and attend that funeral.
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  Speaker 2: Where is where the gonna happen?
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  Speaker 4: It's the actually funeral home? Actually, yeah, and uh, Denver
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  Speaker 4: Parton has passed. He was preceded in death by his wife,
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  Speaker 4: Carolyn Parton and his dad Lee Parton. Now his sister
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  Speaker 4: Dolly is okay, she's just she's fine, although she tells
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  Speaker 4: a story about her mother sewing her toes back on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I just found that in the in the obituary.
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  Speaker 2: Well that happened to me one.
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  Speaker 4: Dolly party. Dolly Parton says, I was six or seven.
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  Speaker 4: I jumped across a fence and onto a mason jar,
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  Speaker 4: and and I cut three of my toes. My little
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  Speaker 4: one toe on my right foot almost fell off. And
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  Speaker 4: my mom took the same needle she used to make
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  Speaker 4: quilts with and sowed my toes back on. That's what
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  Speaker 4: she says.
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  Speaker 2: That's frontier medicine. Daddy, I think that's what it was.
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  Speaker 4: You know they were. They lived out and they didn't
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  Speaker 4: live in a big city. They lived exactly we live
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  Speaker 4: in Mona, and they lived out in a.
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  Speaker 3: Haller Danny, Are you sure I'm not named after Denver Pyle? Well, no,
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  Speaker 3: you know uncle Jeffy from Dukes.
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  Speaker 2: I've had it.
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  Speaker 3: I know who it is, and I've been telling everybody
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  Speaker 3: that that's who I've been named after.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then you could just keep up with that if
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  Speaker 4: you won't, Oh, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't going to make a whole bunch of phone
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  Speaker 3: calls and tell people that I was named after Denver
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  Speaker 3: Dolly Parton for brother Denver Parton.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean it was. It was his nickname, Denver.
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  Speaker 4: His first name really was Coy Coy c o y
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  Speaker 4: coy oy, Denver Parton.
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  Speaker 3: That's a terrible Well, I know, Well, I hope this
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  Speaker 3: doesn't affect my campaign to run for mayor.
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  Speaker 4: What you're going now, I'm running for mayor again.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I thought you already were the mayor and and
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to keep a critical in the office.
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  Speaker 4: Denver, we're gonna We're really going to have to work
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  Speaker 4: on your memory. I've been out of office for about
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  Speaker 4: a year year now, but I'm gonna run and try
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  Speaker 4: and take the office back.
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  Speaker 2: Well I thought i'd run, but.
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  Speaker 4: Then you were going to run against me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all right, then I will.
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  Speaker 4: And Denver, I think you really need to review some
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  Speaker 4: of our old scripts.
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  Speaker 2: Promised Denver omlets for everyone.
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  Speaker 4: Oh all right, all right, then, all right, I hope
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  Speaker 4: that my opponents still find out that I was named
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  Speaker 4: after a different Denver.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, I'm gonna go get my campaign science together, Daddy,
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  Speaker 3: all right, Mama's going to do.
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  Speaker 2: The printing on them.
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  Speaker 4: May the best man win.
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  Speaker 1: Join us again some other time as we examine how
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  Speaker 1: the Utah natives speak with the Utah Word of the
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  Speaker 1: day