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Utah Word of the Day from February 10th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's often said that people of Utah speak a language
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  Speaker 1: all their own. It's a language that's often confusing and
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  Speaker 1: even incomprehensible to newcomers here in the Beehive State. So
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  Speaker 1: Radio from Hell presents a handy guide to help everyone
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  Speaker 1: understand how the natives speak. It's the Utah word of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and today's word.
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  Speaker 2: Is well, you'll no doubt hear many Utah words during
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  Speaker 2: the following conversation between the former mayor of Mona, Utah,
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  Speaker 2: Don Krittle, and his young son Denver Denny.
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  Speaker 3: Denny, how come you're getting in so late. Mama's already
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  Speaker 3: put the thupper away, th'mere to faith with cold cream
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  Speaker 3: and drifted off to dreamland.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that darned city council meeting, it just ran on
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  Speaker 4: and on. Now, when I was mayor, I didn't let
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  Speaker 4: that kind of thing happen. I wasn't afraid to use
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  Speaker 4: the gab to speed the proceduring along. I kept things
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  Speaker 4: moving either by banging the gavel real horde on the
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  Speaker 4: table to end discussion, or banging the gavel real hard
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  Speaker 4: on Athan Nelson's thick skull so we could vote.
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  Speaker 3: I think that might be why old Aisha didn't run
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  Speaker 3: for a second term on the council. If doctor said
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  Speaker 3: that them meetings was probably the source of all those
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  Speaker 3: terrible headaches he.
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  Speaker 4: Was getting, well that could have been. I suppose he
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  Speaker 4: could you heat me up some supper, Denver, what did
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  Speaker 4: your mama make?
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  Speaker 3: Red bean? An oyster slumgullion?
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  Speaker 4: Never mind, then I'll just have some buttered saltines in
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  Speaker 4: a glass of cow's milk.
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  Speaker 3: Daddy, you ain't the man no more? Why do you
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  Speaker 3: keep going to them meeting.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I still feel the need to make sure the
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  Speaker 4: public's money is being well spent. And tonight they was
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  Speaker 4: talking about using a pretty good chunk of change from
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  Speaker 4: the par tax par tax. What is that, well, some
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  Speaker 4: kind of grant or slush fund if we're being honest,
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  Speaker 4: that we need to use for p parks, a orts
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  Speaker 4: or r recreation par And then I was there to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that the council didn't vote to use it
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  Speaker 4: for arts.
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  Speaker 3: Was you successful in your effort?
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  Speaker 4: Yep, we voted to use the poor grant for pickleball courts.
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  Speaker 4: But Asa Nelson's half brother Dink is on the council now,
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  Speaker 4: and he just kept going on and on how we
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  Speaker 4: use them poor funds. The pickleball courts would be owned
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  Speaker 4: by the state and not the city of Mona. It's
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  Speaker 4: just not true. And then he was all a twitter
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  Speaker 4: about where are we gonna put them.
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  Speaker 3: Pickleball court Well, hell, Daddy had just put him where
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  Speaker 3: the old ballfield is. The place is just home to weeds.
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  Speaker 4: Now that's very good boy, that's what we told him.
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  Speaker 4: And you watch your mouth. I will not have you swearing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, daddy, but you put old Dink in
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  Speaker 3: his place. I bet well.
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  Speaker 4: I me and a couple of others, and the council
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  Speaker 4: finally voted to go ahead and authorize the building of
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  Speaker 4: them pickleball courts at the old ballfield site. There's just
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  Speaker 4: one thing, What thing, Daddy? What intarnation is pickleball?
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  Speaker 1: Join us again some other time as we examine how
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  Speaker 1: the Utah natives speak with the Utah word of the day.