Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Hearts Forward Wooden Hearts from Ron the Carpenter July 10th, 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, some time ago last week I believe it was
- 0:04Speaker 1: was the right at the end of June, we got
- 0:06Speaker 1: an email message from Ron the carpenter, and he sent
- 0:11Speaker 1: us three pictures and one of them is him wearing
- 0:16Speaker 1: a chicken bucket on his head.
- 0:18Speaker 2: And which we encourage you to do a few winnings.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Yeah, you should take a picture of it as a hat.
- 0:24Speaker 1: And he's doing some carpentry work there with a drill.
- 0:28Speaker 1: And then he sent us also a picture of these
- 0:31Speaker 1: wooden hearts that he makes by hand.
- 0:33Speaker 2: He carves these.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Yeah, they're in it's sitting in a radio from hell
- 0:39Speaker 1: coffee mug to show it off. And then he sent
- 0:41Speaker 1: a picture of he sent one of these hearts to
- 0:47Speaker 1: Shirley McLain and there's Shirley McLain holding and Shirley McLean
- 0:53Speaker 1: is like one hundred and five or something. Now she's
- 0:55Speaker 1: quite old, but she looks very alert in that picture.
- 0:58Speaker 1: And so we talked to Ron on the phone and said, there,
- 1:01Speaker 1: it was wonderful. How did you get to do that?
- 1:04Speaker 1: And he told us the story and he says he's
- 1:06Speaker 1: been trying to send them to celebrities all over. Theirs
- 1:11Speaker 1: picture Shirley McLean and a couple of friends of hers,
- 1:15Speaker 1: and she's holding the heart.
- 1:17Speaker 3: But he called in and we said, how did that happen?
- 1:21Speaker 3: Not only did he tell us how that happened? Apparently
- 1:23Speaker 3: he's he's gotten hearts to lots of people.
- 1:26Speaker 1: And I got an email from him with more pictures.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Oh really, but I I've lost the email. Oh there,
- 1:33Speaker 1: Katie's got it. That's Jane Fonda. He gave that one
- 1:37Speaker 1: for her and she's holding it up there. She looks great.
- 1:42Speaker 1: But then you know, and there were some other celebrities too.
- 1:44Speaker 1: I forget who was in the here? Oh, here we are?
- 1:47Speaker 1: Who's that? That's I don't know, yes, Lily Tomlin and Tomlin.
- 1:55Speaker 2: In the hat?
- 1:56Speaker 4: Who the other two are?
- 1:57Speaker 1: And so anyway, but then I horse reproach for Ron.
- 2:01Speaker 1: I said, well that's great you're Oh who's this one?
- 2:03Speaker 4: Kathy Griffin?
- 2:04Speaker 1: Kathy Griffin? Yeah. He. I reproached him and said, well,
- 2:08Speaker 1: what what about us? You haven't sent us made hearts
- 2:11Speaker 1: for us? And he felt bad about it, and so
- 2:15Speaker 1: this morning. Uh, and and he should have felt bad
- 2:18Speaker 1: about it. He shouldn't. He should have. He should have
- 2:20Speaker 1: he should have done ours first. But uh, here it is, Uh,
- 2:24Speaker 1: this is from Ron. I've got one here. This is
- 2:27Speaker 1: Are they all the same? I don't know.
- 2:30Speaker 4: Similar.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Yours are a little bit.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Mine's bigger than yours. Jina, I've got the biggest heart.
- 2:37Speaker 4: That's a that's a medical problem.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Uh, he says. My card, says Bill. A gift of
- 2:41Speaker 1: love and kindness for you. This Baltic birch heart is
- 2:46Speaker 1: completely shaped by hand for you to keep or give
- 2:49Speaker 1: as you want. One heart can start a ripple, Ron, Uh,
- 2:54Speaker 1: thank you. Ron.
- 2:55Speaker 3: Ron doesn't just give these two celebrities. He likes to
- 2:57Speaker 3: hide them around for people to find.
- 3:02Speaker 4: I'm guessing this is his U Instagram.
- 3:05Speaker 1: At Heart's Forward, Yes, yeah, At Heart's Forward, you can
- 3:10Speaker 1: see a bunch of pictures of Ron's hearts all over
- 3:14Speaker 1: the playoff.
- 3:14Speaker 5: Okay, it seems like all of ours are different woods.
- 3:16Speaker 5: So what woods are your guys? I got Bills.
- 3:18Speaker 4: Mine is Baltic birch as well.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Mine is lacewood whatever that that's I have redwood tracks.
- 3:28Speaker 5: I have redwood with this salvage from a piece almost
- 3:31Speaker 5: two hundred years old, and it's like it's slightly uh,
- 3:34Speaker 5: it's it's not symmetrical, it's asymmetrical, and it makes.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Me very happy.
- 3:39Speaker 5: Well, your textured or really smooth.
- 3:41Speaker 4: It's really smooth.
- 3:42Speaker 5: Mine has Mine has slight texturing to it and I
- 3:45Speaker 5: love it.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll trade you no each to us.
- 3:51Speaker 4: And he's even signed him. You can see.
- 3:53Speaker 3: One of the women in all of those pictures is
- 3:55Speaker 3: Kat Kramer and apparently he's friends with her somehow, and
- 3:59Speaker 3: she knows all of these famous people, the redheaded woman
- 4:03Speaker 3: in the pictures.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Oh huh, that's how I.
- 4:06Speaker 3: Because we asked him, how do you how are you
- 4:09Speaker 3: getting a hold of these celebrities? And Kat Kramer, she's
- 4:13Speaker 3: an actress and producer.
- 4:15Speaker 2: She did you know.
- 4:18Speaker 3: Little Focker's and some of the other Yeah, and I'm
- 4:21Speaker 3: not sure how he knows her, but he knows her
- 4:24Speaker 3: and she knows all these famous people.
- 4:26Speaker 1: So yeah, Moyer Woodworks, Ron Moyer functional wood producer or
- 4:33Speaker 1: functional wood products. I mean, and uh, what a nice
- 4:37Speaker 1: thing to do. Yes, and and uh you know Ron,
- 4:41Speaker 1: they so they came in these nice little muslin bags
- 4:45Speaker 1: that that to have handles on them, and Ron, you
- 4:48Speaker 1: could if you want the bag back, because that's kind
- 4:51Speaker 1: of a cost. That's well, I'll give you your your
- 4:55Speaker 1: little muslim bag.
- 4:56Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean too, I don't need it, I don't
- 4:58Speaker 4: really need.
- 4:59Speaker 2: You can give it to the next celebrity. Yeah, well
- 5:03Speaker 2: I'll take a collection for you guys.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll pass it on to you, Katie kay.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Yeah, And if Ron wants to come and get it,
- 5:10Speaker 1: did he just dropped these off?
- 5:12Speaker 5: Yeah? It was here when I You didn't see it
- 5:16Speaker 5: when I got here. No, it was here when I
- 5:17Speaker 5: got here.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I uh so it came sometime yesterday.
- 5:20Speaker 2: It was in a nice box.
- 5:21Speaker 1: So so Ron, if you if you would like the
- 5:24Speaker 1: bags back, you can retrieve them.
- 5:26Speaker 5: I have them. You know my number.
- 5:28Speaker 3: I bet Carrie has made things out of wood before. Yeah,
- 5:34Speaker 3: what like, what kind of things have you?
- 5:37Speaker 1: If I have to not in school, Oh, not in school,
- 5:41Speaker 1: it's gonna say crossbow because I was in school.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, in school.
- 5:47Speaker 4: This was you know, back in the day when we
- 5:49Speaker 4: rode in the back of pickup trucks and things like that.
- 5:51Speaker 1: So you know, I made it. I made I made
- 5:54Speaker 1: some stilts. He made stilts, and I made I made
- 5:58Speaker 1: a sword. You get one stick in and then you
- 6:00Speaker 1: nail us a cross piece on it, and that you.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Got you got a sword.
- 6:03Speaker 4: I made speakers.
- 6:05Speaker 5: I made one of those penny board once penny boards,
- 6:07Speaker 5: but that was in school.
- 6:08Speaker 1: So I made a wooden duck in shop, in a
- 6:12Speaker 1: wooden duck with a copper wing. And I made an
- 6:17Speaker 1: ash tray at a at a copper in high school.
- 6:19Speaker 2: It's going to say not wood wood's not a good
- 6:21Speaker 2: ash tray.
- 6:22Speaker 4: No, not. Usually Ron says, keep the bags, but we
- 6:26Speaker 4: don't need them.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Ron, Well, okay, no.
- 6:29Speaker 5: I was gonna say either that or toe bags or
- 6:31Speaker 5: I can.
- 6:31Speaker 1: I can keep my heart? Should I keep my heart
- 6:35Speaker 1: in my bag? Or should I wear it on my sleeve?
- 6:36Speaker 4: On your sleeve, because I'd like to see you try that.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little heavy, as we'll.
- 6:42Speaker 5: Give it forwards somehow, chicken butter something, yeah here, Yeah,
- 6:47Speaker 5: I don't need Okay, they're just too nice, all right,
- 6:52Speaker 5: thank you well, thank you Ron, and thank you Katie.