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Email of Interest for May 12th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Last week. Is this an email of interest?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? In track.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we did an next poll recently and we asked,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what kind of weird thing do you have
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  Speaker 1: in your house that a lot of other people wouldn't have.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if we still have the picture, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We should have the Colonel Sanders, Colonel
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  Speaker 1: Sanders statue. This so this guy, uh said, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't participate in the ex pool, but he sent
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  Speaker 1: a picture. He said, this is what I have and
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  Speaker 1: it's a statue of Colonel Sanders and it looks to
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  Speaker 1: be life size in his house. And we said, how.
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  Speaker 2: How we need more information?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he has now sent more information. He says,
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  Speaker 1: here's the story of how I came into possession of
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  Speaker 1: the statue of the KFC icon. It's a little long,
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  Speaker 1: so you may have to condense it for time restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the sixties, when I was five years old,
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  Speaker 1: my parents took on a KFC franchise. I had no
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  Speaker 1: daycare at the time, so they took me to work
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  Speaker 1: with them. The statue was right in front of the
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  Speaker 1: entrance to Greek customers with a bucket of fake chicken. Well,
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  Speaker 1: my parents moved on to several other locations. Over time,
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  Speaker 1: they were able to take the Colonel with them. It's
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  Speaker 1: always been in our home growing up in the basement.
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  Speaker 1: Then they put it in the backyard for decoration. Years
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  Speaker 1: went by. Fifteen years ago my parents sold the home
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in. My mom asked, you want to
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  Speaker 1: take the statue, and I said, well, yes, of course
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: My childhood.
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  Speaker 1: After a lifetime of KFC, I worked there with mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad. When I turned fourteen, life moved on, and
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  Speaker 1: so did I. I found new jobs an industrial painter.
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  Speaker 1: To what I am now, I am Mikey, whom emailed
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  Speaker 1: you in the past to say thank you for letting
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  Speaker 1: my daughter, my girlfriend, and I come to see the
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  Speaker 1: show in person. On that day you asked me. You said,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, sir, what do you do for a living?
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  Speaker 1: And I said I was a welder, And you asked
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  Speaker 1: me back then if the company I worked for had
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  Speaker 1: any issue with my black painted fingernails. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: I still get manny petties and I still get them
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  Speaker 1: painted black. I wrote to you about my daughter passing
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  Speaker 1: away due to diabetes ten years ago. I also told
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  Speaker 1: you that I have cancer again after losing a kidney,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm still fighting everything the best I can. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I still work, I go to treatments, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you can let Kerry know that I'm not a redneck
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  Speaker 1: as he thought seeing the beer can on the floor concerned.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, God bless you Katie for finding
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  Speaker 2: that so fast. Well there it is x ninety six
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  Speaker 2: dot com slash slash.
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  Speaker 1: Said I was in fact moving into a new place
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  Speaker 1: and just cleaning up the old one. Sorry to ramble on,
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  Speaker 1: but it's what I do when I tell my life story.
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  Speaker 1: I am turning sixty this year. Thank you for so
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  Speaker 1: much of your time reading this. I've been a fan
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  Speaker 1: since KJQ days. I will call when I have time
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  Speaker 1: at work to do to do so. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to be known as Mikey the black nailed Welder.
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  Speaker 1: Getting my nickname is another story for another time. And
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  Speaker 1: thank you all three of you for helping me enjoy
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  Speaker 1: my morning's laughing with you and the news. Peace be
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  Speaker 1: with you, and never give up no matter what life
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  Speaker 1: brings you.
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  Speaker 2: You know that reminds me at my remote on Saturday. Cement,
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  Speaker 2: Dave and Missus Cement Dave Good and Lily lil Semen.
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  Speaker 2: Lily was there and her little brother, even littler Cement.
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  Speaker 2: Dave all came by, and Lily, who checks in with
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  Speaker 2: us sometimes in the morning, about sixteen. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 2: just said, what are you up to this summer? And
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  Speaker 2: she said, I'm I'm learning how to be a welder.
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  Speaker 2: Good for her, like she's and she's into it, like
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  Speaker 2: she's excited about it. And wow, yeah, she's taken welding
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  Speaker 2: classes that you're I'd forgotten about that till you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: the welding build.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's so. Mikey. Thanks for the email, Mikey and
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  Speaker 1: explaining how you came into possession of that Colonel Sander's statue.
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  Speaker 1: Very odd. So Lily is just a steel Town girl
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  Speaker 1: on a Saturday night, Maia, Maia.
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  Speaker 2: Joke for Gina there email, oh intrees, there we go