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Best Question - Final Goodbye Song from August 14th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's the best question of the week.
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  Speaker 2: We get a lot of questions that not all of
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  Speaker 2: them are the best ones. Try and send us the
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  Speaker 2: best question Radio from Hell at x ninety six dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Put your best question in.
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  Speaker 3: The subject line.
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  Speaker 2: We'll answer just about anything. This one comes in from
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  Speaker 2: trans Sama. Trans Sam says, Hello, lords, I dread thinking
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  Speaker 2: of a possible impending retirement from my favorite radio humans.
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  Speaker 2: But I was wondering, in the sad event of you
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  Speaker 2: all vacating the booth on a more permanent basis, what
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  Speaker 2: song would you want to play you off the studio
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  Speaker 2: property so as your exit song? Your exit song, huh, well.
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  Speaker 4: It would be one of two for me, Okay, it'd
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  Speaker 4: either be Tom Jones singing It's not Unusual or Peggy Lee.
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  Speaker 4: Is that all there is?
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  Speaker 2: What's sad?
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  Speaker 5: That one seems more like a goodbye song? You I
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  Speaker 5: have two?
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  Speaker 2: I have two as well, but the goodbye song is
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  Speaker 2: one for my baby and one more for the road,
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  Speaker 2: which is Frank.
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  Speaker 3: Sinatra Fan Sinatra.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, lots of people have done it, but
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  Speaker 2: but Frank's it's that's a sad goodbye song.
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  Speaker 1: But then.
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  Speaker 3: Joe Dolce, shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Your face oh, I thought, what's really? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: That is that?
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  Speaker 1: I always thought that was? What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: So face got a hey.
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  Speaker 3: I have two as well, goodbye goodbye from Oingo.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: But the one that I would and and I would rig.
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  Speaker 5: It so that it played for an hour or until
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  Speaker 5: somebody came in and shut the computer down would be
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  Speaker 5: around the dial by the Kinks.
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  Speaker 3: The lyrics are specifically about a DJ.
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  Speaker 1: That left I don't know that song.
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  Speaker 5: I've been around the dial so many times, but you're
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  Speaker 5: not there. Somebody tells me that you've been taken off
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  Speaker 5: the air. You were my favorite DJ since I can't
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  Speaker 5: remember when. And to keep my radio on till I
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  Speaker 5: find out what went wrong, you've got to be out
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  Speaker 5: there somewhere on the dial.
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  Speaker 1: H all right, all right?
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  Speaker 2: Umm. And and sort of related, this came in from Nicky.
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  Speaker 2: If X ninety six fired you, Well, what's the most
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  Speaker 2: likely thing you did?
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  Speaker 1: Well? I care. I cared too much. I cared too much,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was. Can you be.
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  Speaker 3: Fired for that?
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  Speaker 1: You can be fired for anything. I mean, I did
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  Speaker 1: too good a job.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been fired from anything, really, I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't really either, I've been fired from all my jobs.
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  Speaker 2: No you haven't. Yes, you've been fired from all of
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  Speaker 2: your jobs jobs.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess we know what's coming then, don't we.
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  Speaker 2: And actually, now that I think about it, I take
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  Speaker 2: it back. I was technically fired from KJQ because it
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  Speaker 2: was it was during the bad times. Yes, and Bill
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  Speaker 2: had left already, I think.
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  Speaker 1: So the Troubles is like the Troubles.
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  Speaker 2: It's the radio station we all worked for that got
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  Speaker 2: sold and we were not happy about the new manage management. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was technically fired as well, and I and everyone
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  Speaker 2: was just kind of dropping off at their own time
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  Speaker 2: as that went. Carrie had to hang on a little
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  Speaker 2: longer because of the cancer I had.
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  Speaker 3: I had to have the insurance.
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  Speaker 2: But I I actually wanted to go to a Guns
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  Speaker 2: n' Roses concert, which was I was supposed to work
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  Speaker 2: that night, and I kind of used that as a
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  Speaker 2: maybe I just don't go in, So I just didn't
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  Speaker 2: show up. I went to the concert. That was not
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  Speaker 2: nice that I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Know whoever was you were taking over for had to stay.
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  Speaker 2: It was a new person that I didn't care about
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  Speaker 2: so much. Yeah, because that's back before everything was automated.
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  Speaker 1: And you had to have you had to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I take back that I've never been fired.
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  Speaker 4: I got that was it, and I was technically fired
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  Speaker 4: by them. They said, you sign a sign a non
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  Speaker 4: compete comp and stay working for us, or will fire you.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, well, I don't. I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: sign a non compete. And they said, okay, then we'll
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  Speaker 4: have to fire you. And I said, that's all right,
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  Speaker 4: that's fine. So I guess I that's a technical I
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  Speaker 4: want them to I didn't want to work there anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And if I were fired for X ninety six,
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  Speaker 5: it would be for insubordination.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's right, talking smack.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not necessarily for anything that happened on the air.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm smarter.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt it, smarter than that, doubt it. I doubt anything.
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  Speaker 5: That's what the red button's for exactly well, or maybe
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  Speaker 5: I was fired for playing the kinks around the dial
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  Speaker 5: over and.
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  Speaker 3: Over and over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: We all have to go sometime, you know. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I really you know.
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  Speaker 4: People keep asking us about that, and and the true
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  Speaker 4: answer is, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know, We honestly don't know, especially on this
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  Speaker 5: day right now.
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  Speaker 3: Then.
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  Speaker 2: The true answer, at least for me, though, is I
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  Speaker 2: I love doing this and would like to keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: That's my truth.
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  Speaker 1: I would too, yeah for a little while, like to
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  Speaker 1: keep doing it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so many goodbye songs people are bringing us.
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  Speaker 5: Now take this job and shove it by Johnny Page Out.
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  Speaker 1: That's that popped into my mind immediately.
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  Speaker 3: But here I Am the DJ by David Bowie.
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  Speaker 1: How about the Stars and Stripes Forever March.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see uh Panic on the Streets of London by
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  Speaker 5: the Smiths, because it ends with Hang the DJ, Hang
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  Speaker 5: the DJ.
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  Speaker 3: The Last DJ by Tom Petty.
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  Speaker 5: H Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John I don't
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  Speaker 5: closing time by Semi song, you wouldn't know that I.
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  Speaker 3: Had been fired. We played We played that song pretty regularly. Lily.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, now, video Killed the Radio Star is
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  Speaker 5: not gonna work.
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  Speaker 3: We got to get out of this place. By the animals.
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  Speaker 1: Mexican Radio. That's where I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Going, Mexican Radio and move to Mexico and do a
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  Speaker 2: radio show down there.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we got a Spanish language station here in the building,
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  Speaker 5: and they're owned by a different company. We just kind
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  Speaker 5: of leased them space apparently, and they always seem like
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  Speaker 5: they're having a great time.
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  Speaker 1: And they're nice people.
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  Speaker 3: They're really nice.
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  Speaker 4: They have a great time, they're nice people. They seem
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  Speaker 4: to like working with each other.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's strange.
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  Speaker 3: Jojo says hi to me. You know, I don't even
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  Speaker 3: know who.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know what she does. She she says
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  Speaker 3: hi to me.
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  Speaker 1: Their manager invited me to a party. A party. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, they always seem like they're having a great time.
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  Speaker 5: I think I'd rather work for them. I don't speak Spanish,
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  Speaker 5: but think, well, yeah, that's that could be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: If you would like to ask us a question, we
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  Speaker 2: would love to answer it. You need to email it
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  Speaker 2: to US Radio from Helen X ninety six dot com.
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  Speaker 2: But best question in these subjects fine, okay, thank you,