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Utah Word - Snuggly For March 18th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's often said that the people of Utah speak a
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  Speaker 1: language all their own. It's a language that's often confusing
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  Speaker 1: and even incomprehensible to newcomers here in the Beehive State.
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  Speaker 1: So Radio from Hell presents a handy guide to help
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  Speaker 1: everyone understand how the natives speak. It's the Utah word
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  Speaker 1: of the day, and today's word.
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  Speaker 2: Is snugly, s n ugg l y, snugly. And now
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  Speaker 2: to use this word in a sentence is the mayor
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  Speaker 2: of Mona, Utah, Don Krittle, and his unusual son Denver.
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  Speaker 2: In an atypical moment of curiosity, Denver has asked his
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  Speaker 2: father about how the city they live in got the
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  Speaker 2: name Mona. Again, the word is snugly, Daddy.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have nothing to do earlier today, so I decided.
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  Speaker 2: To do some thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Oh when I started thinking about with the name of
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  Speaker 3: our town, how come the town we live in is
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  Speaker 3: called Mona? Mona a lady or something like that. Well, son,
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  Speaker 3: there is a story there, But the name of the
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  Speaker 3: town don't have nothing to do with a lady. It
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  Speaker 3: has to do with a surgeon with the British Army
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  Speaker 3: who come to town and thought he knew better than the
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  Speaker 3: folks who live here what the town should be called.
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  Speaker 1: So was the town called Mona?
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  Speaker 3: Then, no, it was not. When the pioneers came here,
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  Speaker 3: they settled a little village around Clover Spring, so they
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  Speaker 3: called the town Clover Spring. No, they called it Clover Creek,
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  Speaker 3: and then they changed it to Willow Creek. How come
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  Speaker 3: they changed the Daddy, Clover Creek sounds just fine. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the story goes that they looked around and somebody said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there aren't all that many clovers around here,
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  Speaker 3: and then somebody else said, but there's sure a lot
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  Speaker 3: of willows. And that's how that happened. What about Mona? Well,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, there was this former surgeon in the
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  Speaker 3: British Army who come down here to attend a meeting
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  Speaker 3: in the ward meeting house, and he was asked to
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  Speaker 3: speak because well he was a foreigner and that would
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  Speaker 3: be something different. And doctor mcune, that was the BRIT's name.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor mcune. He said to folks, you should change the
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  Speaker 3: name of this town. Willow Creek's snugly name, and the
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  Speaker 3: name of Clover Creek snugly name too. Well, then what happened, Daddy,
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  Speaker 3: How did they come up with Mona Well. Because he
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  Speaker 3: was a British surgeon. The local folks paid attention to him.
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  Speaker 3: He told them, your town needs an impressive name, and
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  Speaker 3: he suggested the name Mona. But why Mona, Daddy Well,
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  Speaker 3: because that was the name of his hometown on the
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  Speaker 3: Isle of Man.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: It's an impressive name because his town was named that.
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  Speaker 3: I know, snugly reason Denver, but remember he was British.
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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,