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Utah Word of The Day - Pickleball from May 5th, 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
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  Speaker 1: even incomprehensible to newcomers here in the Beehive State. So
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  Speaker 1: Radio from Hell presents a handy guy 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.
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  Speaker 2: Word is well.
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  Speaker 3: You'll no doubt hear many Utah words during the following
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  Speaker 3: conversation between the former mayor of Mona, Utah, Don Krittle
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  Speaker 3: and his young son Denver neddy.
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  Speaker 4: Nddy, how come you're getting in so late? Mama's already
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  Speaker 4: put the thupper away, thmear to faith with cold cream
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  Speaker 4: and drifted off to dreamly.
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  Speaker 2: Well a darned city council meeting. He just ran on
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  Speaker 2: and on. Now you When I was mayor, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: let that kind of thing happen. I wasn't afraid to
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  Speaker 2: use the gabbl well to speed the proceduring along. I
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  Speaker 2: kept things moving, either by banging the gavel real horde
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  Speaker 2: on the table to end discussion, or banging the gavel
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  Speaker 2: real hard on Athan Nelson's thick skull so we could vote.
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  Speaker 4: I think that might be why old Atha didn't run
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  Speaker 4: for a second term on the council. If doctor said
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  Speaker 4: that them meetings was probably the source of all those
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  Speaker 4: terrible headaches he was.
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  Speaker 2: Getting, well that could have been. I suppose, hey, could
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  Speaker 2: you heat me up some supper? Denver, what did your
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  Speaker 2: mama make?
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  Speaker 4: Red bean? An oyster thlum gullion?
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  Speaker 2: Never mind, then I'll just have some buttered saltines in
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  Speaker 2: a glass of cow's milk.
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  Speaker 4: Daddy, you ain't the man no more? Why do you
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  Speaker 4: keep going.
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  Speaker 2: To them meeting Well, I still feel the need to
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  Speaker 2: make sure the public's money is being well spent. And
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  Speaker 2: tonight they was talking about using a pretty good chunk
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  Speaker 2: of change from the par tax par tax. What is that, well,
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  Speaker 2: some kind of grant or you slush fund if we're
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  Speaker 2: being honest, that we need to use for p parks,
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  Speaker 2: a orts or R recreation par And then I was
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  Speaker 2: there to make sure that the council didn't vote to
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  Speaker 2: use it for orts.
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  Speaker 1: Was he successful in your effort?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, we voted to use the poor grant for pickleball courts.
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  Speaker 2: But Asa Nelson's half brother Dink is on the council now,
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  Speaker 2: and he just kept going on and on how we
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  Speaker 2: use them poor funds. The pickleball courts would be owned
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  Speaker 2: by the state and not the city of Mona. It's
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  Speaker 2: just not true. And then he was all a twitter
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  Speaker 2: about where are we gonna put them pickleball court Well.
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  Speaker 4: Hell, Daddy had just put him where the old ballfield is.
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  Speaker 4: The place is just home to weeds.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's very good boy, that's what we told him.
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  Speaker 2: And you wash your mouth. I will not have you swearing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I'm sorry, daddy, but you put old dink in
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  Speaker 4: his place.
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  Speaker 2: I bet well, I mean, And a couple of others,
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  Speaker 2: and the council finally vote to go ahead and authorize
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  Speaker 2: the building of them pickleball courts at the old ball
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  Speaker 2: field site. There's just one thing, What thing, Daddy? What
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  Speaker 2: intarnation is pickleball?
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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 day.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's how we went down.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know, a former mayor, do you know what
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  Speaker 3: pickleball is? Now?
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  Speaker 2: I do indeed know what pickleball is now. I've seen people,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen I've seen the inverplay it.
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  Speaker 4: I did some research on this, Daddy. There are no
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  Speaker 4: pickles involved.
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  Speaker 2: No, none, none. It's a ball. It's a lie. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't shape, it's not shaped like a pickle. It was
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  Speaker 2: some jokester who decided to name it pickleb It's a
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  Speaker 2: big lie. But we had a really nice ribbon cutting ceremony.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank Dank Neltson and his brother Asa Neltson.
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  Speaker 2: They come around, they come around, and they they they
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  Speaker 2: brought the ribbon and the balloons and the balloons for
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  Speaker 2: the ribbon.
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  Speaker 4: Lots of balloons.
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  Speaker 2: There was lots of balloons. And the jew Ab Health
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  Speaker 2: Department donated some bottles of water. So that's nice.
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  Speaker 4: Now I have an idea, Daddy, because you know Mother's
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  Speaker 4: Day is coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right. Oh, if I could get your mom
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  Speaker 2: to stop making that red bean and oyster slum gullion,
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  Speaker 2: well that's one thing.
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  Speaker 4: But I was thinking, if that's the way we could
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  Speaker 4: get Dink to name the pickleball court after Mama for
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  Speaker 4: Mother's Day, that's a that's an idea. I mean, she
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  Speaker 4: ain't never played, but at least her name would be
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  Speaker 4: up on it and her memory would live forever, so.
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  Speaker 2: It would be called the Missus Criddle, the.
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  Speaker 4: Mama criddled pickleball.
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  Speaker 2: Court, Mama criddled or missus criddle something. Missus griddle is
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  Speaker 2: a little more formal.
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  Speaker 4: Well, but she's my mama.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's true.
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  Speaker 4: Well you're a missus.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Dink about.
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  Speaker 4: That about it all right, but mama crittled pickleball.
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  Speaker 2: I like the idea. You're a smart one, Denver.
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  Speaker 4: I do what I can day, all right, thank you?
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  Speaker 2: And scene I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, now so so the Mona City, which is one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite Instagram follows Mona City Instagram page. They
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  Speaker 3: they put a post about the pickleball court ribbon cutting.
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  Speaker 3: It says tonight at six pm, refreshments will be served.
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  Speaker 2: Well and what were the refreshments bottled? That you have
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  Speaker 2: County Health Department. Yeah, I mean it.
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  Speaker 3: It's very refreshing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They have on their page the page you sent me,
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  Speaker 2: it's fun facts for May, and they have all these
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  Speaker 2: little cartoon things dates to remember in May, and for
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  Speaker 2: Cinco Demayo, they have a little cartoon drawing of a
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  Speaker 2: of a cactus, one of those cigaro catas with a
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  Speaker 2: wearing a sombrero. And and what something is something to
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  Speaker 2: remember in in May for some reason is Lily of
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  Speaker 2: the Valley. Now. I don't know why, but hm hmm,
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  Speaker 2: is that like.
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  Speaker 3: For Memorial Day flowers?
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  Speaker 4: And another thing on their instagram is the street department
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  Speaker 4: is going to start to mow the streets.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, there's remember street mowing is coming up.
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  Speaker 4: So remove all debris, cars, trailers from the streets.
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  Speaker 3: Mowing the grass streets.
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  Speaker 2: I don't apparently it just says the street department will
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  Speaker 2: be mowing the streets. In the streets at least remove
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  Speaker 2: all debris cars, railroad trailers and everything from city property.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to put a car.
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  Speaker 2: I think what I think what it means is they've
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  Speaker 2: got the sides of the of the road where the
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  Speaker 2: weeds grow up. Now have them mowers go through there,
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  Speaker 2: knock them weeds dale. I think that's what it means.
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  Speaker 4: And no decorating the flowers of the cemetery before the
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  Speaker 4: Friday before Memorial Day. They'll take them down.
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  Speaker 2: Most people in Mona call it still call it though
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  Speaker 2: they don't call it Memorial Day. They call it decoration
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  Speaker 2: Decoration Day. Yeah, all right,