Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / University Club Event Recap for March 10th 2025
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I I don't know about you guys, but I had
- 0:02Speaker 1: a great time on Saturday our event up at up
- 0:07Speaker 1: at the ken Garth University Club University Club at rice
- 0:10Speaker 1: Ecles it.
- 0:12Speaker 2: I think everybody showed up. No, there were somebody that
- 0:16Speaker 2: did not show up. I understand it was only like four.
- 0:20Speaker 1: But it was a great crowd of people, and and
- 0:22Speaker 1: I talked to almost everybody there.
- 0:25Speaker 2: I tried, I tried the.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Room, and I met I talked to some really interesting people,
- 0:32Speaker 1: like this couple I was talking to, So what do
- 0:36Speaker 1: you do?
- 0:37Speaker 2: She's the woman?
- 0:38Speaker 1: The wife said, well, I'm a molecular biologists. I help
- 0:46Speaker 1: reconstruct genome sequences. I used to do it in the
- 0:50Speaker 1: lab and now because I'm really good on the computer,
- 0:53Speaker 1: I do it on the People do the lab work
- 0:55Speaker 1: and send it to me and I work it out
- 0:57Speaker 1: on the computer.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Wow. I mean, you know, she got.
- 1:01Speaker 1: A degree in microbiology or at the U and a
- 1:06Speaker 1: graduate degree. And then I said to her husband, what
- 1:09Speaker 1: do you do? And he said, uh, I I stripped
- 1:12Speaker 1: the flesh off of dead animals. And he's a taxidermist
- 1:16Speaker 1: sort of yeah. He and he reminded me. He called
- 1:19Speaker 1: me once or emailed me about it. When little Bill
- 1:24Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, take off, he got that dead raccoon.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Yeah, the roadkill, the road kill that somebody was in
- 1:31Speaker 2: front of.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Somebody on the radio said there's there's a dead raccoon
- 1:34Speaker 1: in front of your house. Bill, and he heard it
- 1:37Speaker 1: and when rent and got it and one and but
- 1:41Speaker 1: this this guy does this, uh for for people who
- 1:44Speaker 1: want to preserve their pets. So he uh and he said, yeah,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I got dead animals all over the house.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Oh wow.
- 1:53Speaker 1: And you know in the free and yeah, well no,
- 1:57Speaker 1: not in the food freezer. I have a big free
- 2:00Speaker 1: They are out in the garage. And you know how
- 2:02Speaker 1: he does it mostly is with insects. It's a long process.
- 2:09Speaker 1: In the insects, he put you he has insects that
- 2:12Speaker 1: stripped the flesh off the huh. And then he reconstructs
- 2:16Speaker 1: the skeletons and uh. And there are enough people that
- 2:21Speaker 1: want to do this that that's a business. Apparently it's
- 2:25Speaker 1: a long process. And I said, I'm guessing it doesn't
- 2:28Speaker 1: come cheap and he said, no, I charged.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Quite a quite a lot for it. Wow.
- 2:33Speaker 1: And I said so. But the one funny thing was,
- 2:35Speaker 1: I said, so, what's the largest animal you've ever done.
- 2:37Speaker 1: He said, I have a horse. I said, what, I
- 2:42Speaker 1: have a horse that I've been it'll it's gonna it's
- 2:45Speaker 1: a long, long project which will go where I don't
- 2:48Speaker 1: I don't know somebody's I didn't get a chance to.
- 2:52Speaker 1: I said, I was going to say, can I have it?
- 2:55Speaker 1: But he, I said, how did you? He said, my
- 2:58Speaker 1: my boss at the time had a horse that died.
- 3:02Speaker 1: And he said, oh, I got to take it out
- 3:03Speaker 1: to the to the you know, the landfill or there's
- 3:07Speaker 1: a dead animal disposal place. And he said, no, no, no, no,
- 3:10Speaker 1: deliver it to my house.
- 3:12Speaker 2: And he did. And he did, Oh man, wow, what.
- 3:16Speaker 1: A and just the nicest And I said, you know,
- 3:20Speaker 1: I said to his wife, how do you?
- 3:21Speaker 2: She said, oh, I don't know. I kind of encouraged
- 3:24Speaker 2: him to do it. You know, it's your it's your passion,
- 3:29Speaker 2: honey goes. I mean, these are just the interesting people.
- 3:33Speaker 1: And I was talking to this one woman and I
- 3:35Speaker 1: don't even remember what we were talking about exactly, and
- 3:38Speaker 1: all of a sudden I couldn't hear her anymore because
- 3:41Speaker 1: I noticed her ear rings.
- 3:44Speaker 2: You were distracted by herr.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Yeah, And because her ear rings were long and dangly
- 3:49Speaker 1: and they each one of them had printed on it
- 3:52Speaker 1: the sea word.
- 3:54Speaker 2: I didn't see that. You were hypnotized by the sea word.
- 3:58Speaker 1: I've got a picture of it. I'll show you. Oh
- 4:01Speaker 1: but and I said, I'm sorry, I'm not listening to
- 4:04Speaker 1: you anymore. I just noticed your ear rings and she said,
- 4:07Speaker 1: she said, oh, yes, aren't they wonderful.
- 4:09Speaker 2: I figured I could get away with wearing them here.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. Crowd, she said, She said, it's a word.
- 4:16Speaker 1: It's a word that I've been that I'm reclaiming. I
- 4:18Speaker 1: think we need to, you know, we need to be
- 4:21Speaker 1: out front with it. And she was. She was very funny.
- 4:25Speaker 1: And I mean, yeah, there were so many interesting people there. Yeah,
- 4:29Speaker 1: like and it's me. I have the tendency to ask
- 4:32Speaker 1: them what they do, you know. Like there's one guy
- 4:34Speaker 1: who has a business as wholes he holds he's a
- 4:37Speaker 1: whole saler of chocolate, you know, find chocolate from around
- 4:40Speaker 1: the world.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Yeah, you should have brought some to share, That's what
- 4:43Speaker 2: I said. Where is it? But Jimmy Santangelo was great. Oh,
- 4:48Speaker 2: he's always good.
- 4:49Speaker 1: The people at the club were great, good. Yeah, every
- 4:53Speaker 1: It was just a great event and hopefully we'll do
- 4:55Speaker 1: it again.
- 4:56Speaker 2: Oh one.
- 4:57Speaker 1: One woman who said, I was in you live studio
- 5:00Speaker 1: audience twenty four years ago, and I said, how do
- 5:04Speaker 1: you how do you know that das exactly what it
- 5:06Speaker 1: was because I was I was very very pregnant at
- 5:09Speaker 1: the time and my son is now twenty four.
- 5:11Speaker 2: Wow, exactly what it was, all right, But thanks for
- 5:14Speaker 2: coming everybody. It was really good, a good time.