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An Email for Nick and Our Old Handcrank Radios for April 3rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Yes, so I know, Nick, Yeah, I know you're you
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  Speaker 1: know you have kind of a fragile egoing very much.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: So you know you take things too heard, too much, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and you fret over things.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm the X ninety six certified bad boy, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm also sensitive.
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  Speaker 1: Here you are, but I've got something here that'll make
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  Speaker 1: you that might make you feel better. Okay, make you
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  Speaker 1: feel better, like when you get home, you'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to look in the mirror and say dog gunnet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you're okay, Nick?
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, I'm hesitant because everything you present
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  Speaker 3: me is usually an argument against that.
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  Speaker 1: I see what I there?
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  Speaker 2: You go, Well, he's not wrong. I'm nothing but kind
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying you're necessarily mean.
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  Speaker 2: What are you saying?
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying if there is something.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, if you're putting me in the spotlight, it's
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  Speaker 3: not usually a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. All right, let's
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: see what you hit me with it? Bring it here?
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: I always adore Gina, and I this is from a listener. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I am Suzanne. I always adore Gina, and I miss
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  Speaker 1: her when she is not there.
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  Speaker 4: I do as well.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick is so enjoyable. I just love it when
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  Speaker 1: he sits in.
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  Speaker 2: His laugh.
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  Speaker 1: Always makes me smile, and his humor is awesome. All
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  Speaker 1: of you have fabulous laughs. Thanks for always making my day.
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne in the Westest of Valleys.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Suzanne. That's very nice of.
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  Speaker 2: You, doesn't now, doesn't that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You see now you can when you get home. You'll
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  Speaker 1: tell your wife all about it.
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  Speaker 5: You want me to forward this, She'll say, who Suzanne, Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: That do you want me to forward this to you?
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  Speaker 2: So that sure?
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  Speaker 4: So I can hang it up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you can read it verbatim to your wife.
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  Speaker 3: When you And ironically, that is unbelievably kind. Thank you, Susan.
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  Speaker 3: I highly appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: And it's I think it's the it's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: thing that you need.
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  Speaker 3: And I like being here, But you know what I
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  Speaker 3: like more not being here, not working, not working at all.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know how you guys do this every
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  Speaker 3: single day.
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  Speaker 2: It is for thirty nine years. It is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is, You're absolutely correct. I don't I go home.
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  Speaker 1: I leave here usually around noon, sometimes a little earlier
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  Speaker 1: if it's if it's really noisy.
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  Speaker 2: Around here.
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  Speaker 1: I go home early, but I get home and I
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  Speaker 1: take off my coat and I sit down and then
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  Speaker 1: I just put my head in my hands.
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  Speaker 3: You can and just go, oh ah, jeez.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen that.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen that my desk is across from Bills, and
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  Speaker 3: I've shown up to the office seeing Bill with his
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  Speaker 3: head in his hands before, just.
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  Speaker 2: Like oh god, yeah, it's it is, it is. It's.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no, now, I'm not going to start complaining.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It's a difficult thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: I'll complain.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, we keep getting told we shouldn't complain
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  Speaker 5: because you know, we don't work at a lumber.
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  Speaker 2: Yard or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: I would just say that these the people that do
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  Speaker 5: those jobs couldn't do my job, you know, and I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't do their jobs, so we're even.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good at complaining. I would argue I have this
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  Speaker 3: job because I'm good at complaining.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a funny one from Berg in the chat room.
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  Speaker 5: When next ninety six turns forty, you should give away
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  Speaker 5: forty million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's hilarious. It's a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, remember one of the prizes we handed
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  Speaker 3: out today was a hand crank radio.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a valuable radio, very much so.
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  Speaker 2: That it's from the olden times.
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  Speaker 3: Of when I started and I was teching remotes, I
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  Speaker 3: was told, if they break, just grab another one from
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  Speaker 3: the pile.
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  Speaker 4: That was our.
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  Speaker 3: Protocol for because we would have to broadcast the station remotes.
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  Speaker 4: But we don't want to spend money on.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff to broadcast at the remotes, of course, so it
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  Speaker 3: was use the radio shack hand crank radio for a
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  Speaker 3: period of time and if it breaks, just snag another
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  Speaker 3: one from the pile of them we had at the
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  Speaker 3: prize bend on the stairs when that existed.
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  Speaker 1: But this is but Nick, this is an antique. This
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  Speaker 1: is valuable. No, this is this is this is valuable.
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  Speaker 4: The dust and etchings around the corners.
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  Speaker 2: Richard, Richard, he won.
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  Speaker 4: That's you're winning history, Richard.
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  Speaker 2: He'd be able to sell that for ya lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see this, sir, don't don't don't grip it
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  Speaker 2: too hard.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah it's radio shack, all right, yeah, yes, sir ree, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: which doesn't matter which direction you uh, we don't break it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's recharging, going to break it. That's the sound
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  Speaker 3: of it working. That's the sound of Science Bill.
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  Speaker 1: And as I recall those things, well, you you crank
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  Speaker 1: it all up and it'll hold a charge for about
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you could get like a song out of it
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  Speaker 3: at the remotes, and then you'd have to get right
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  Speaker 3: back at work hand cranking them again.
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  Speaker 2: I I don't recall that we ever had to do that, really. No, Well, ye.
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  Speaker 4: You were when I started. Uh uh. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: you were remembering much at the time.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: What I what I think is the case, Nick, is
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  Speaker 1: that they made you do that the rest of us.
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  Speaker 4: I Katie at me like I was right. Yeah, she worked,
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  Speaker 4: She worked that job for a period of time as well.
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  Speaker 4: She's agreeing with me.
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  Speaker 3: The thing is, though, Richard, I can't even get the
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  Speaker 3: flashlight to go. Well, I think there's a switch to
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  Speaker 3: start the flight. Oh and it's how much more.
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  Speaker 2: Do I need to crank it?
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  Speaker 4: Uh more? Harry more? Whatever the answer is, it's more? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: keep it going, keep it going?
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Well, that sounds cranked.
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  Speaker 4: Does the radio work? You should turn it on and
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  Speaker 4: have our show play on a delay through the speaker.
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  Speaker 2: I know nothing is working.
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  Speaker 1: I congratulations, Richard, you've won a non working radio.
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  Speaker 5: You better crank it through the We're gonna play some
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  Speaker 5: commercials in a song here. Okay, you keep cranking and
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  Speaker 5: let's see if that actually works, because and I feel
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  Speaker 5: bad for Richard.
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  Speaker 4: I got to crank with one hand and write a
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  Speaker 4: promo with another.
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  Speaker 2: So oh okay, well all right, well we'll spell you if.
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  Speaker 4: The red recharging light is turned on.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, but I was just trying to get
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  Speaker 5: the flashlight to work.
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  Speaker 4: I wait. I was like, oh no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: a little static there. You got to turn that off.
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  Speaker 4: Turn there we go.
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  Speaker 2: There's a light. Okay, it does work.
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  Speaker 4: Ye yeah, you had to swap it. There's a battery hookup.
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  Speaker 4: Oh is that you can that you can? Uh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so you got to change it's the dynamo switch for
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  Speaker 4: the hand crank.
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  Speaker 5: Well, somebody tell Richard that when he all right, well
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  Speaker 5: we will give him to the handwritten works.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you can stop? All right. You know
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  Speaker 2: when Crustables has a savory sandwiches.
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  Speaker 5: Too, does it do they still or did they stop making?
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  Speaker 2: I think they stopped. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: See the texture was telling me that they used to
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  Speaker 5: have savory and then they stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Thank god. Yeah, they don't look good no,