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Email of Interest - Listern 9/11 recap From August 18th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have here an email of interest, Well, is it
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  Speaker 1: truly of interest? Kind of yeah, email kind of of interest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of gonna pay attention there, sort of.
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  Speaker 1: I went to see uh, went to the movies on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: went to the uh the Broadway Salt Like Film Society
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  Speaker 1: they have. They were playing the movie Weapons and which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is very good.
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  Speaker 3: It's a horror movie, but it's also a.
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  Speaker 2: It's got Julia Garner and Josh Brolin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're both great. Benedict Wong is in it,
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  Speaker 1: who was on our list today. He's really good. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: in it is good. And then uh, what's her name?
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  Speaker 1: Maryann Harris? Amy Madigan?
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  Speaker 3: Who? Who?
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  Speaker 1: You'll sit there now you'll probably remember this now, but
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  Speaker 1: you'll sit there when she first comes on the screen,
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  Speaker 1: and then the whole time she's all of her scenes.
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  Speaker 1: You keep you'll keep going, what I know? Who that
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  Speaker 1: is is?
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  Speaker 3: Who is that? Who is that?
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  Speaker 1: It's Amy Madigan in a really bizarre performance, very very
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  Speaker 1: creepy and very bizarre. And I recommend the movie. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's entertaining, it's it keeps you on your toes. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on, and it's scary, but as we
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  Speaker 1: walked into the Broadway. The ticket takers there, well, there
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  Speaker 1: aren't ticket takers really. There's somebody sitting and they have
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  Speaker 1: like little machines. But I always go up there, and
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  Speaker 1: if there's nobody ahead of me, I just always go
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  Speaker 1: up to the man or the woman that's sitting there
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  Speaker 1: and say you help me buy my tickets please, because
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  Speaker 1: they have like a computer there, and he'll sit there
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  Speaker 1: and just say, okay, what how many tickets you need?
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  Speaker 3: And he'll do all the do all the work on
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  Speaker 3: you make this go. Yeah, that's kind of what I do.
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  Speaker 1: I could do it myself, but it's easier, and I
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  Speaker 1: just go, hey, can you make this go?
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  Speaker 4: I'm always confused when they want you to pay for
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  Speaker 4: the snacks on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd rather go over to the snack.
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  Speaker 4: I found most people would and decide what I want
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  Speaker 4: and then I'll pay.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, when that, when that happened,
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  Speaker 1: and he's so we got the tickets all around, he said,
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  Speaker 1: now popcorn, and I went and my son was there
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  Speaker 1: and he said, no, we're going up to the counter.
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  Speaker 3: Want to get it?
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  Speaker 4: Fine, that's fine, So anyway, buy the tickets.
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  Speaker 1: And then we're standing by the concession stand waiting for
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  Speaker 1: my kid to buy popcorn and stuff, and the guy
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  Speaker 1: who sold me the tickets came walking up. He said, Hi, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to bother you. I know you're but
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  Speaker 1: but I just wanted to tell you something. And I
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  Speaker 1: said okay. And he told me this story, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: send that to me in an email, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't forget.
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  Speaker 3: It in an email, which is here.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Bill, this is Todd, the ticket taker
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  Speaker 1: guy at s l f S. We met today before
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  Speaker 1: your Catfest movie. I hope you enjoyed the antics. I
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  Speaker 1: wondered what he meant by that. Yeah, and then so
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  Speaker 1: I looked up at Salt Lake Film Society does have
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  Speaker 1: a some Catfest video twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: It's a compilation of a bunch of cat videos. It's
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  Speaker 4: gone viral like.
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  Speaker 2: Memes and which I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go at that.
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  Speaker 4: Cat's playing with cucumbers, are being scared of cucumbers like
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  Speaker 4: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think he knew, I mean he must he was
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  Speaker 2: being silly.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was just kidding me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we did have an exchange. I said I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to see weapons, and he went, oh, I really
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  Speaker 1: want to. I'm going to see it right probably tomorrow here,
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  Speaker 1: but he said, here's my memory of the morning of
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  Speaker 1: September eleventh, two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 3: It was a normal morning.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting ready for my teaching job, eating breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: packing my lunch, you know, going off to school to teach,
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  Speaker 1: all the while listening to your show like I did
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  Speaker 1: every morning. Occasionally I'd call in and make a comment
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  Speaker 1: or ask a question, and listen to Punk's movie reviews.
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  Speaker 1: It was my morning routine to prepare me for the
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  Speaker 1: challenge of teaching eighth grader's algebra. When I was on
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  Speaker 1: the work mel routine meant everything to me. Well that
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  Speaker 1: particular morning, I remember Carrie talking about an airplane crashing
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, and as I listened, I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's a small plane of some sort that happens in
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  Speaker 1: towns across America some from time to time, small planes
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  Speaker 1: crash into buildings, and I remember you saying something like that,
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  Speaker 1: isn't a small plane. Time stopped for a moment, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about what might be happening. I turned on the TV
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  Speaker 1: to watch the second plane fly into the second Tower live.
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  Speaker 1: I knew my teaching gig was over and I would
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  Speaker 1: be at my Air National Guard base for the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 3: I was right. The call came in about twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I was a military policeman back then, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: that my services would be needed. It was two years
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  Speaker 1: before I would step back into a classroom again. My
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  Speaker 1: life changed all at once that day, and I remember
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  Speaker 1: you and your show plane as day. I can still
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  Speaker 1: feel time stopping, as I'm sure you experienced the same anomaly.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for allowing me to share that with you today.
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  Speaker 1: You and carry are part of my history, a story
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  Speaker 1: I've told numerous times. Be well and best wishes with
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  Speaker 1: that foot of yours. Oh he's a bicycle rider, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, I used to see you riding your bike
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  Speaker 1: a lot around around the Capitol in places. And I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't ride much anymore because of my foot. I
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  Speaker 1: hope to see you cruising around the Capitol again soon.
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  Speaker 1: And it signed Todd Rushton, and I'm sure he meant
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  Speaker 1: you too, Gena.
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  Speaker 3: He just said you and Carrie.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I was there.
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  Speaker 3: Gina was there as well.
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  Speaker 1: And he was very nice and did his part. He
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  Speaker 1: did his part when that happened, and isn't that fast?
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  Speaker 2: He well that they called him up that quickly.
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  Speaker 1: The minute he saw that, he said, I'm not probably
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  Speaker 1: not going to back to class to teach twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And I assume.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he's in the Guard, right he was.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he still is.
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  Speaker 4: My point being, that's what the Guard it is for,
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  Speaker 4: for this kind of thing being called. People that sign
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  Speaker 4: up to be part of the National Guard are signing
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  Speaker 4: up to help with that kind of thing emergence or
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  Speaker 4: with natural disasters, rescuing ice cream vendors.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, it was nice to meet you, Todd, and thanks
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  Speaker 1: for helping me buy my ticket.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we had to buy five tickets. It was a
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  Speaker 3: big deal.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard email interest. I went to a freaky Friday.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I was along for the ride on an event that
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  Speaker 2: was already happening.
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  Speaker 3: It's too bad.
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  Speaker 1: You know that there there's a two letter word that
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  Speaker 1: you never know how to use.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I mean no, because it was these are
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  Speaker 4: people that I wanted to spend some time with and
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  Speaker 4: this was the way to spend.
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  Speaker 3: Spend time in the with the movies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting in the Dark and we chatt.
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  Speaker 4: I told my husband this after what what did you
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  Speaker 4: enjoy about the movie? The car ride there and back?
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  Speaker 4: Because we chatted, so it was worth that.
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  Speaker 2: I watched a monkey.
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  Speaker 3: You watched a monkey. The Monkey, The monkey, that's Stephen King.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's that's an old Yeah, not an old movie.
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  Speaker 3: This year hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: It was supposed to be kind of funny.
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  Speaker 3: It was, it was, it actually was anyway,