Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Sailor Boy, Chicken Bucket and Pop Tart Bites from September 25th, 2025
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- 0:00Speaker 1: So tracking festus my sailor son as he made his
- 0:05Speaker 1: way to the island in the middle of the Indian Ocean,
- 0:08Speaker 1: where he will be stationed for the next year. He
- 0:11Speaker 1: sent pictures from Tokyo and Singapore, and then my final message,
- 0:18Speaker 1: by the way, I had to get WhatsApp so I
- 0:21Speaker 1: can communicate with him.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Oh so this is officially.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Yeah, sailor boy, all right, I got WhatsApp, which I
- 0:29Speaker 1: know has been a thing for a long time but
- 0:31Speaker 1: I've never used it.
- 0:32Speaker 2: But it's it's okay.
- 0:33Speaker 1: It's so he doesn't have cell service where he is,
- 0:37Speaker 1: so we can communicate this way. And he finally texted
- 0:40Speaker 1: me and he said, I'm on the island and I said, well,
- 0:43Speaker 1: I want to see some pictures of where you're staying
- 0:46Speaker 1: if you go to x ninety six dot com slash live.
- 0:48Speaker 2: So he sent me some pictures of the room.
- 0:50Speaker 1: But I kind of honed in on this one part
- 0:52Speaker 1: of the room and it's it's the top of a desk,
- 0:56Speaker 1: it looks like and there's a big tote bag there
- 1:01Speaker 1: that says one island, one team, one mission, Diego Garcia.
- 1:06Speaker 3: Oh he got a welcome bag, Yeah, he got.
- 1:08Speaker 1: A welcome bag.
- 1:09Speaker 2: He got a beach towel.
- 1:11Speaker 4: It's got cup of noodles, it's got uh.
- 1:13Speaker 1: It's it's water, it's got I know it's hard to
- 1:18Speaker 1: see there. There's wipes, corn, uh, gummy sharks, gummy.
- 1:24Speaker 2: You know, it's an island. Uh, pop tart bites, pop tart.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Yeah. This is this is our military.
- 1:32Speaker 2: It's gone soft, our war fighters.
- 1:34Speaker 3: This is this is the this is no.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Well, look how soft he gets a he gets a
- 1:40Speaker 1: shower puff.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Scrub, a scrunchy scrub scrub.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I didn't think in the military.
- 1:49Speaker 5: You're supposed to you're supposed to use dirt.
- 1:52Speaker 2: He'd hess once you exfoliated.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Jeez.
- 1:56Speaker 1: But just from from a mom perspective who was nervous
- 2:01Speaker 1: about him, this looks like he's on vacation. There's a
- 2:07Speaker 1: beach towel there. For God's sake, they gave him a
- 2:11Speaker 1: beach towel.
- 2:13Speaker 3: You in the navy.
- 2:14Speaker 2: But you know, just he's gonna be just fine. That
- 2:17Speaker 2: desk is absolutely just bare minimum hotel exactly. And I
- 2:25Speaker 2: did send Katie. He sent me a video tour of
- 2:27Speaker 2: the room.
- 2:28Speaker 1: It's it's like a it's like a crappy, like a
- 2:31Speaker 1: bad hotel. Yeah, but he doesn't have to share it
- 2:34Speaker 1: with anybody, which is nice.
- 2:36Speaker 2: That's good.
- 2:37Speaker 5: I have a picture too. I've been telling you about
- 2:39Speaker 5: this chicken bucket picture I got. This is from Joshua says,
- 2:43Speaker 5: thanks again for keeping my early morning drive to work
- 2:46Speaker 5: so much better. A bought this picture of me wearing
- 2:48Speaker 5: the chicken bucket would be different from the rest. Live
- 2:51Speaker 5: long and prosper carry Bill and Gina and Frank. It
- 2:54Speaker 5: was good to see you in bear Lake. Bill, and
- 2:58Speaker 5: it's a it's this Guyosha wearing the chicken bucket and
- 3:03Speaker 5: he's got a very very good mask.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Michael Myers.
- 3:06Speaker 5: Michael Myers mask. I mean, that's an excellent one.
- 3:09Speaker 1: It is.
- 3:10Speaker 3: He paid good money for that.
- 3:12Speaker 2: And his Frank Christ ring.
- 3:14Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I didn't realize what that was. It's a
- 3:17Speaker 5: grim Reaper ring he's wearing on his finger.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Katie. Maybe that we should use this picture like for
- 3:23Speaker 1: Halloween time, for something like.
- 3:26Speaker 2: I don't know if we something.
- 3:27Speaker 5: That is an excellent mask though, the more I look
- 3:30Speaker 5: at it, it's just incredible. So thanks Joshua. He says,
- 3:34Speaker 5: good to run into you at bear Lake.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Do you not remember running into him?
- 3:38Speaker 5: And I think I think I said hi to somebody
- 3:41Speaker 5: when I was buying buzzballs.
- 3:43Speaker 3: In this.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Did you meet anyone that was wearing a Michael Myers?
- 3:49Speaker 3: Oh so you brought a chicken bucket?
- 3:51Speaker 2: You probably met him two things. I was at the
- 3:55Speaker 2: liquor store yesterday.
- 3:56Speaker 4: Yeah, and we do have a pretty good selection of buzzballs.
- 4:00Speaker 5: Not in every liquor store, I don't think, but they
- 4:02Speaker 5: Which one did.
- 4:03Speaker 3: You go to?
- 4:03Speaker 2: I went to the Let's see, is that Cottonwood Yeah.
- 4:07Speaker 4: The one, the one down there that was by Cottonwood Ball, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 4:12Speaker 2: By whatever it is now, whatever it is now?
- 4:14Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And they're refrigerated right, No, no, they weren't.
- 4:17Speaker 2: No, they were just on the shelf, but you know,
- 4:20Speaker 2: pick them up.
- 4:21Speaker 3: Yeah, they got a lot of different ones.
- 4:23Speaker 2: And then for you pop tart bites. I'd never heard
- 4:27Speaker 2: of these. This is what I was excited about.
- 4:30Speaker 1: How handy, no, how handy on the go?
- 4:33Speaker 5: You know, a buzz ball and a handful of pop
- 4:35Speaker 5: art bites and it'll.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Get you there.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Hy tell you he's got the toe bag. You throw
- 4:39Speaker 1: your beach towel in there and your pop tart bites
- 4:42Speaker 1: and your buzz balls and go to the beach and
- 4:44Speaker 1: that's there.
- 4:45Speaker 2: You go, hey, you need to get us some of these.
- 4:48Speaker 2: I will, I need to try them.
- 4:50Speaker 1: I will, I will look for them.
- 4:52Speaker 2: That's my next food assignment.
- 4:54Speaker 5: Pop tarts themselves are no good. I can't imagine the bites.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Well you this pop tart lovers have been clamoring for
- 5:02Speaker 1: this because it's not always easy to take a whole
- 5:04Speaker 1: pop tart with you places.
- 5:08Speaker 2: You have some the let's try them out. They're kind
- 5:17Speaker 2: of old. You wouldn't know.
- 5:18Speaker 3: You can't tell the difference.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't be able to tell.
- 5:21Speaker 3: You gotta let me see though.
- 5:23Speaker 5: You you need to have a little tiny toaster for that.
- 5:29Speaker 3: They're pop tarts. Look, look, see you'd have to have
- 5:32Speaker 3: a little tiny toaster for the whole.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Let's get the Barbie toaster going. Yeah.
- 5:39Speaker 4: M anticipated oh, they're different flavors too, They're all right, okay,
- 5:47Speaker 4: these are no these are all cinnamon roll ones.
- 5:50Speaker 3: I like it.
- 5:52Speaker 1: By these.
- 5:53Speaker 3: They taste pretty chemically. Hmmm.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Yeah, someone stole the filling out of mind. Oh well,
- 6:03Speaker 2: she said they're kind of old.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I'll see if I can find some fresh ones.
- 6:07Speaker 3: M hmm.
- 6:08Speaker 2: They're canetically delicious.
- 6:11Speaker 1: They're they're a fine.
- 6:12Speaker 3: Little snack, are they that.
- 6:16Speaker 5: Now, I wonder that's kind of a small bag. How
- 6:19Speaker 5: many are in there?
- 6:20Speaker 2: Well, it's just a snack. You don't need a bunch like.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Five, Yeah, just a little something. I wonder if they
- 6:26Speaker 3: come in bigger.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Well that the package that Festus has is.
- 6:30Speaker 3: A is a good sized bag?
- 6:32Speaker 5: Oh bigger than yeah, good side, that's the the one
- 6:35Speaker 5: Katy has is the fun size.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 6:39Speaker 3: Look how fun that is.
- 6:41Speaker 5: We had to get some of the get a bunch
- 6:43Speaker 5: of those and put them in the chicken bucket. That's
- 6:44Speaker 5: part of our prizes.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Oh yeah, tell you what, I'll buy a thing of
- 6:49Speaker 1: them and we'll put them. We'll try some different ones,
- 6:51Speaker 1: and then we'll put.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Them in a chicken You know, everybody talks smack about
- 6:54Speaker 4: the fun sized candy bars, but I'm here to tell
- 6:56Speaker 4: you they're just enough candy bar.
- 6:58Speaker 3: Oh I agree, Sure, if you eat four or five,
- 7:00Speaker 3: I don't know, just enough.
- 7:02Speaker 1: I don't need any more than that.
- 7:04Speaker 5: Yeah, you're you're depriving yourself.
- 7:07Speaker 1: That's all I need. That's why I only need the
- 7:10Speaker 1: little tiny coke cans. I don't need more than that.
- 7:12Speaker 3: That's just a little You don't know, you don't need
- 7:14Speaker 3: some fun sized that's those little co coke cans. You
- 7:17Speaker 3: don't need more than four or five of those a day.
- 7:19Speaker 2: That's all. That's all you need. That's all you little
- 7:22Speaker 2: coke cans.
- 7:24Speaker 5: I do prefer the small coke can. That's all the
- 7:27Speaker 5: so I can't just a sixteen ounce I can't.
- 7:30Speaker 1: Really, they should start calling them fun sized, fun sized
- 7:35Speaker 1: die they're called. They call them the minis.
- 7:37Speaker 3: They should be mini is fine.
- 7:40Speaker 5: They're for your mini fridge and your mini coke appetite many.
- 7:44Speaker 2: Fridges, and your and your mini pop tarts. M hm,
- 7:48Speaker 2: you're all set.
- 7:49Speaker 3: Well, there you go, all right,