Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Kids Say the Darndest Things from June 25th, 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You know, the only the only compliment I ever. I mean,
- 0:03Speaker 1: I don't get many compliments on my work here, I don't,
- 0:06Speaker 1: you know, said no, it's but I but I got it.
- 0:09Speaker 1: So I have to bank do with this a great compliment.
- 0:14Speaker 1: It's here's my paper coffee cup and it says on
- 0:18Speaker 1: it drinks done well for a job well done, a
- 0:24Speaker 1: job well done. So I get to have this little
- 0:26Speaker 1: coffee because I do a great job. That's what my
- 0:29Speaker 1: cup's telling me.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Well, the false statement is drink's done well.
- 0:34Speaker 1: They're not bad, They're okay. So I saw this today,
- 0:38Speaker 1: maybe you guys saw too. It's ah remember our link
- 0:41Speaker 1: ladder way back if you If you remember, he had
- 0:43Speaker 1: a show where he would part of his show he
- 0:46Speaker 1: would talk to children. Kids say the darnedest things. And
- 0:50Speaker 1: this is kids say the darnedest things. They rounded up
- 0:53Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff on you know, threads and and
- 0:58Speaker 1: Twitter and all of that, keep talking about the strand
- 1:01Speaker 1: the funny things that their little toddlers say. And I
- 1:04Speaker 1: thought some of them were actually quite quite funny. Here's
- 1:07Speaker 1: a woman who says, my three year old just named
- 1:09Speaker 1: all the colors of the rainbow, red, orange, mellow, green, blue,
- 1:14Speaker 1: indigo and violence violence. Yeah, and me I thought mellow
- 1:18Speaker 1: was good too. This one says. My four year old
- 1:21Speaker 1: loves cape Cod Demon Hunters. I can't I can't bring
- 1:25Speaker 1: myself to.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Tell corrector that it will always be that.
- 1:28Speaker 1: It's Cape Cod Demon Hunters. Let's see. Instead of saying decompressed,
- 1:32Speaker 1: my kid says decompose. It sure feels nice to decompose.
- 1:37Speaker 1: My toddler is confusing the word honkah with his aunt Monica,
- 1:42Speaker 1: and he is wishing everybody a happy Monica. Happy Monica,
- 1:45Speaker 1: Happy Monica.
- 1:47Speaker 3: These things in your family become that's just what everybody
- 1:49Speaker 3: calls them.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one here that addresses that. Coming up. My
- 1:54Speaker 1: seven year old daughter says, I'm cold and now I
- 1:56Speaker 1: have duckballs. She means goosebumps. But let's see. My nine
- 2:03Speaker 1: year old says he just wants to be on a
- 2:05Speaker 1: beach sipping pinwah koalas pin wah pinwa. Uh. My My
- 2:14Speaker 1: youngest child says pock sickles, uh, baby and baby's babing
- 2:19Speaker 1: suit and sun scream. Uh. Tonight, my five year old, Oh,
- 2:24Speaker 1: here's the one tonight. My five year old called chicken
- 2:27Speaker 1: kebabs chicken on the cob and that's that's now. That
- 2:31Speaker 1: is now the official name. We will always call it
- 2:34Speaker 1: that chicken chicken on the cob. Let's see. Uh. My
- 2:38Speaker 1: toddler calls the trampoline the jumpoline. My nine year old says,
- 2:42Speaker 1: are playing chess and repeatedly calling the pieces prawns.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Uh.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Toddlers calls the A C the A B C. And
- 2:53Speaker 1: mazzarella cheese Mozilla mozill Mozilla cheese. My son calls pretzels prenzels.
- 3:02Speaker 3: I've heard that one before.
- 3:03Speaker 1: And his swim goggles are his eye plugs, so we
- 3:09Speaker 1: use we use his eye plugs when he's in the tub.
- 3:13Speaker 1: My daughter called skeleton skele bones, and the restaurant read
- 3:18Speaker 1: Robin red, Robin hood h. My son calls caterpillars patkillers particiller. Yeah,
- 3:26Speaker 1: you can see how you.
- 3:27Speaker 4: Can make that hungry hungry piller.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. A ten year old says, I have very
- 3:34Speaker 1: mixed feelings about socialism.
- 3:38Speaker 4: Really well, okay, that's.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Yeah, so the ten year olds and then there's a
- 3:42Speaker 1: frown he face, so the so the parent sort of
- 3:45Speaker 1: looks puzzled, and then the ten year old says, I
- 3:48Speaker 1: mean I like my friends and I like you guys,
- 3:51Speaker 1: but sometimes I need some independent time all by myself.
- 3:54Speaker 1: So I have mixed feelings about socialism. Three year old. No,
- 4:03Speaker 1: I can't no, I can't read that one. Actually. Uh,
- 4:06Speaker 1: my son used to say palm dammit instead of instead
- 4:10Speaker 1: of pomegranate, and I still use that word for it today.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Give me, let's get some palm. Damn it, damn it,
- 4:17Speaker 1: palm damn it. I think it's it is. My daughter
- 4:22Speaker 1: calls corn on the cob holders, corn chargers.
- 4:25Speaker 4: Corn chargers. You plug them in?
- 4:27Speaker 1: Yeah, you plug them into the ends of the corn
- 4:29Speaker 1: Where are corn charges? Ten year old sipping from a
- 4:32Speaker 1: tiny cup. Look at me, I'm an extinguished gentleman. Extinguished.
- 4:38Speaker 1: My toddler calls balloons baboons.
- 4:41Speaker 4: This is a good X pole.
- 4:43Speaker 2: I think we're getting a lot of yeah, a lot
- 4:46Speaker 2: of texts about this. My brother calls them not caterpillars,
- 4:51Speaker 2: but collar pudders. Let's see. Let's oh, here's one my oldest.
- 5:00Speaker 2: When my oldest was a toddler, the Pirates movies were
- 5:03Speaker 2: coming out, she couldn't say Captain Jack, so he always
- 5:07Speaker 2: known around our house as Jackie bapp.
- 5:11Speaker 1: My three year old calls hard boiled eggs, card boiled eggs. Uh.
- 5:16Speaker 2: My husband had some pimples on his back, and my
- 5:18Speaker 2: son went around telling people that he had.
- 5:20Speaker 4: Nipples on his back. That's very, very different.
- 5:26Speaker 2: My daughter calls her pajamas her bahamas.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Instead of rewind. My son calls it fast backwards, that
- 5:38Speaker 1: I should go fast backwards.
- 5:40Speaker 4: Let's see.
- 5:41Speaker 2: My son always calls pina coladas cocoa pinatas. Let's see,
- 5:48Speaker 2: we got maca noodles and asparagus. My youngest calls his
- 5:54Speaker 2: forehead his four noggin.
- 5:56Speaker 1: That is good too, huh.
- 5:59Speaker 2: I tack are contacts it tax I was on the
- 6:06Speaker 2: phone in my car with my young son in the back.
- 6:09Speaker 4: I said to the person on the first line, I
- 6:13Speaker 4: don't know.
- 6:13Speaker 2: I haven't decided. When I hung up, my son said, Mom,
- 6:17Speaker 2: what you so decided about?
- 6:22Speaker 3: Now we're decided about everything.
- 6:24Speaker 2: My little sister used to not be able to say
- 6:26Speaker 2: Uncle Steve, and so now he's uncle Beef. Okay, Uncle
- 6:32Speaker 2: Beef's a good band named. My daughter was little, she
- 6:37Speaker 2: would carry her binky in her blanket everywhere. When she
- 6:40Speaker 2: would ask for it, she called it bean t boinkiem
- 6:45Speaker 2: hm hm. My daughter calls tailan hal tena doll. My
- 6:52Speaker 2: brother calls Catholics calf athletics.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Man, there's a lot of these we could.
- 7:01Speaker 3: I think we should save this for an next bowl.
- 7:02Speaker 1: We might get. I was trying to think of something
- 7:05Speaker 1: that I did when I was a kid. You know
- 7:07Speaker 1: that my mother would always remind me of and for
- 7:09Speaker 1: the only thing I can think of is that my
- 7:12Speaker 1: grandmother had a cat named Olie, and so for some
- 7:18Speaker 1: so I just that's whenever I saw a cat, that
- 7:21Speaker 1: all cats were, all cats were Olies.
- 7:24Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I said, you nark knicks.
- 7:28Speaker 1: I still say that, you nark knicks.
- 7:32Speaker 4: Let's see.
- 7:32Speaker 2: My son calls flip flops plip plops, that.
- 7:37Speaker 4: The spot behind your knee is your leg pit.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Well, that's true.
- 7:43Speaker 4: Mistakes are just steaks.
- 7:45Speaker 1: I made some misteaks.
- 7:49Speaker 2: They were called jumpolines until your mom got in onto Okay, all.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Right, these are these are just remarkable.
- 7:58Speaker 4: Doughnuts, not doughnuts.
- 8:00Speaker 2: When I was a toddler, my mom once wore her
- 8:03Speaker 2: work apronto the grocery store. In horror, I yelled, Mom,
- 8:06Speaker 2: you left your bra on. My son would say straw
- 8:12Speaker 2: babies instead of strawberries.
- 8:14Speaker 1: That's cute.
- 8:15Speaker 2: My son called starbursts star wars, and we still call
- 8:20Speaker 2: them that.
- 8:21Speaker 1: Oh. I like my four year old calls the song
- 8:23Speaker 1: psycho killer bicycle killer.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Our son calls hand sanitizer hanitizer.
- 8:29Speaker 3: We have hanitizer in our family. It's always hanitizer because
- 8:34Speaker 3: we have that, and we also have sunshine Sunshine, which
- 8:39Speaker 3: is sunscreen and sun lotion. Oh, sunshine Sunshine. One of
- 8:43Speaker 3: the kids said that when they were little that they
- 8:45Speaker 3: needed sunshine, and it has remained always sunshine.
- 8:51Speaker 4: I would always call the Greek slovaki the Greek hut.
- 8:55Speaker 2: You're getting off track there, Yeah, the goon is famous, uhgon.
- 9:01Speaker 1: My son called mister Magoon. Let's go, We're going to
- 9:04Speaker 1: go to see mister Macgoon.
- 9:06Speaker 2: My three year old, when he's carrying too much stuff, says,
- 9:09Speaker 2: I'm full of hands.
- 9:10Speaker 4: Instead of my hands are full.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's let's revisit this for next
- 9:19Speaker 1: We're great