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Email of Interest - Cabela's Polar Bear Update for June 3rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It is an email of intrap Well.
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  Speaker 2: A while ago. Gina was waxing nostalgic for her childhood
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  Speaker 2: in Idaho, and Caldwell was Nampa, Nampa and about the
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  Speaker 2: carture Mall where there was a stuffed polar bear in
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  Speaker 2: a glass, big glass case.
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  Speaker 3: My memory of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, little kid, here it is Sketchy Blake from Ogden.
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  Speaker 2: This is your radio from hell Field report from Sketchy Blake, Ogden,
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  Speaker 2: your humble servant in the trenches of mid tier mystery
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  Speaker 2: and lightly fried meat. So there I was, dutifully making
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  Speaker 2: my way to Boise on assignment for Gina, chasing the
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  Speaker 2: great Idaho tradition of fingersteaks, because apparently fried beef strips
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  Speaker 2: are a cornerstone of our cultural identity now. But like
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  Speaker 2: any good investigative journalist with ADHD, I was swiftly derailed
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  Speaker 2: by a bigger story, the mystery of the missing Carture
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  Speaker 2: Mall polar bear. Yes, now, before we go further, let
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  Speaker 2: me say this. Everyone loves a polar bear, sure, but
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  Speaker 2: if you ever actually looked at the carture Mall display,
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  Speaker 2: you'd know this was not the Coca Cola commercial material. No,
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  Speaker 2: this bear looked like it was mid lunge jaws agape
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  Speaker 2: about to obliterate a baby seal, oh, which, having lived
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  Speaker 2: in Idaho for several years, feels disturbingly on brand.
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  Speaker 1: There was a baby seal there as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Rible, So what happened to this bloodthirsty icon of potatoes
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  Speaker 2: suburban taxidermy? I hit the hallowed halls of the Carter Mall,
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  Speaker 2: still very much open for business if your business involves
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  Speaker 2: questionable cell phone cases and anxiety. I asked several locals
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  Speaker 2: about the polar bear, most of whom looked at me
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  Speaker 2: like I'd lost all my potatoes. Eventually I found some
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  Speaker 2: longtime Idahoans who knew exactly what I was talking about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: whispered of a rumor, because of course, there's a rumor
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  Speaker 2: that the bear had been relocated to the Health and
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  Speaker 2: Science Center and Northwest Nazarene Nazarene University in Nampa. Naturally,
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  Speaker 2: I pursued this hot tip like the serious journalist I
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  Speaker 2: pretend to be. After wandering through the sterile academic hallways
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  Speaker 2: that smelt like lab gloves and existential death, I found it.
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  Speaker 2: A massive polar bear named Ivan, a true specimen and
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  Speaker 2: based on its menacing glare and unspoken trauma. I was
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  Speaker 2: eighty four percent sure that this was the Carter Bear,
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  Speaker 2: but the seal gone oh likely digested one student's drug,
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  Speaker 2: but another student freshman nave blue graph confirmed this bear
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  Speaker 2: used to be a rug. Yes, the majestic mascot of
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  Speaker 2: the Northwest Nazarene was once walked upon by someone's uncle
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  Speaker 2: before being stuffed and propped up in a Christian universe
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  Speaker 2: any lobby, truly the circle of life. But this was
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  Speaker 2: not the bear we were looking for. No, no, it's
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  Speaker 2: not the one. Feeling only mildly defeated and fully out
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  Speaker 2: of gas station burritos, I made my way back to
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  Speaker 2: the Nampa Motel six and took my search online. And
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  Speaker 2: what did I find? According to some highly credible Internet sleuths,
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  Speaker 2: and by that I mean read it, the polar Bear
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  Speaker 2: and shockingly, the fully undigested seal are now living their
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  Speaker 2: best diorama life at a Cabella's in Fargo, North Dakota. Yes, Fargo,
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  Speaker 2: I've attached to photo. I should have given this decadia
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  Speaker 2: for evidence for your review. Though, let's be honest with
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  Speaker 2: how good AI these days, it's just possibly be a
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  Speaker 2: deep fake or particularly an elaborate tax evasion. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: could travel to Fargo to confirm. While sure, but I
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  Speaker 2: have some freaking fingerstakes to report on. This has been
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  Speaker 2: your radio from hell. Field corresponded, I'm Sketchy Blake of Ogden,
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  Speaker 2: still stakeless, still confused, steal, still haunted by that seal.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, Well done, Sketchy Blake. Let's see in the
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  Speaker 1: Google polar Bear Cabbella's Fargo.
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  Speaker 2: I uh, yeah, the picture, he said, is kind of sketchy.
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  Speaker 1: Demetri says she knows some people who moved here from Fargo.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't don't know if that helps.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. I think this is the I
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  Speaker 2: think this is probably your polar bear.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's see taxidermy polar bear at Cabela's. This one
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  Speaker 3: has a little seal.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, are there any pictures?
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  Speaker 3: There's pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Does it look like the one you remember? You're not convinced.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not convinced you are here.
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  Speaker 1: Come and look at Sketchy Blake's Yeah, look at Sketchy
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  Speaker 1: Blake's picture. Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think he got this online.
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  Speaker 1: My god, We'll get to the bottom of this.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of not.
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  Speaker 3: The one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is a that's the one that's Carter Mall carpet.
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  Speaker 1: That's the red carpet from cart So this is an
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  Speaker 1: old but.
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  Speaker 3: They're always pointing at it right there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's that?
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  Speaker 3: That's the mouth open there and the mouth open there.
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  Speaker 2: So it is so it is there?
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  Speaker 3: That could so it is that that could be.
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  Speaker 1: If it's that, there must be better pictures of it.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible picture.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's got a damn camera. That must be,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's got a social media.
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  Speaker 3: Here's here's a better picture of it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there must be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that I think that's it. It's very similar.
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  Speaker 1: Have we solved the mystery?
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  Speaker 3: I think we may have.
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  Speaker 1: Should Sketchy Blake has solved the mystery.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so pleased with your reporting. Sketchy place there it is?
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the one that call what.
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  Speaker 1: Why do they have a dead baby seal there?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's what polar bears do.
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  Speaker 1: That's it's just terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Let's good, look kids, he's gonna eat the seal.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy about this information.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why it was at the mall.
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  Speaker 1: Is Sketchy Blake single? I may be a love I
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  Speaker 1: don't text her.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, earlier I saw Blake texting in that
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  Speaker 3: his daughter Dawson really wants to go to the Lowly
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  Speaker 3: Young Show. She didn't win those tickets, but Katie, I think,
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  Speaker 3: based on this reporting, I mean, sketchy Blake went way
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  Speaker 3: out of his way. I think we should find so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he didn't bring us any fingerstaks, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should find Katie's going to see if
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  Speaker 1: she can make that happen.
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  Speaker 3: I think we need to make that happen. But excellent report.
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  Speaker 2: That must be.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, maybe you can go and talk to promotions.
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  Speaker 3: We'll make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: See if we can make that work. Well, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: we can sleep now.
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  Speaker 3: You don't understand. So that mall, that the red carpet
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  Speaker 3: at the mall. Part of the reason I remember that
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  Speaker 3: carpet so vividly is my baby sister Carrie. I was
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  Speaker 3: pushing her in a stroller there and I was running
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  Speaker 3: with the stroller because that's fun. Yeah, and uh, I
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  Speaker 3: stopped too fast and she wasn't buckled in and she
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  Speaker 3: went flying onto the onto the onto the red carpet.
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  Speaker 3: She was fine. But at school, we were doing confession
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  Speaker 3: at my Catholic School up there, and when I went
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  Speaker 3: to confession, I confessed that I dumped my baby sister
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  Speaker 3: out on the red carpet at the Carture mall and
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  Speaker 3: I had to say several Hail Mary's, and polar Bear
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  Speaker 3: almost got her.
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  Speaker 1: See, I was worried that it was your sister's blood
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  Speaker 1: that made the carpet red. But apparently it's the seal,
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  Speaker 1: the dead baby baby seal. Mister email of interest.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm glad he didn't call in. That was better
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  Speaker 3: as a letter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a