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Email of Interest - Best Teacher From April 2nd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have an email of interest here? Okay? Is it
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  Speaker 1: in fact of It is in fact an email of
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  Speaker 1: interest of some import and it's time sensitive.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, okay, email of interest of some court time in
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  Speaker 2: dext do it now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry I didn't get to this sooner. I
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  Speaker 1: received this email on Tuesday and now it's Thursday. Hey
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  Speaker 1: radio from Hell, longtime listener here like day one, Long Wow,
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  Speaker 1: February nineteen ninety two, Long Wow, back when the station
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  Speaker 1: was still figuring itself out. I won the cure album
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  Speaker 1: Wish and I had to drive down to that tiny
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  Speaker 1: Provo station by the old asbestos plants to pick it up, which,
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  Speaker 1: in hindsight feels very on brand for the early nineties.
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  Speaker 1: I've basically grown up with you, Kerrie Jackson, Bill Alred
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  Speaker 1: and Gino Barbari and have been in my background noise
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  Speaker 1: or you have been my background noise through day decades
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  Speaker 1: of life, and somehow you're still standing, which is impressive.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's my turn to shamelessly ask for help.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a second grade teacher in Ogden, and I'm currently
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  Speaker 1: in the America's Favorite Teacher contest, up against seventy five
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  Speaker 1: thousand plus teachers across the country. They've split us into
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  Speaker 1: one hundred plus groups, and I've somehow clawed my way
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  Speaker 1: to first place so far thanks to my local Ogden
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  Speaker 1: people going all in. And when I say all in,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I've been out there handing out flyers to
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  Speaker 1: thirty three local businesses, including fire stations, police stations, and
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  Speaker 1: the library, like I'm running for mayor of second grade.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the catch, because of course there's always one. Every
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  Speaker 1: round resets to zero, so it's kind of like groundhog Day,
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  Speaker 1: but with more anxiety. Upcoming rounds the top ten, second
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  Speaker 1: which is today through the ninth, Top five, the ninth
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  Speaker 1: through the sixteenth, and there are group finals sixteenth through
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  Speaker 1: the twenty third, quarterfinals twenty seventh of April, seventh of May,
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  Speaker 1: semifinals May eight to fourteen, Finals May fifteen to twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to put Ogden, Utah and my low income school,
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  Speaker 1: Ogden Preparatory Academy, on the map and actually take this
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  Speaker 1: thing all the way. If I win, Bill Nye comes
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  Speaker 1: to my school all which for my students would just
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  Speaker 1: be completely life changing. Also for me, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And there's also twenty five thousand dollars on
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  Speaker 1: a Hawaii trip. But here's the real deal. I'd use
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  Speaker 1: that money to help my students in school and community,
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  Speaker 1: you know, payoff lunch balances, library fines, support families, cover
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  Speaker 1: some lingering medical bills from foot surgery, and chip away
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  Speaker 1: at my student loans from earning my master's degree. And
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  Speaker 1: just be clear, I've already been to Hawaii because my
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  Speaker 1: brother lives there and I go there plenty of times.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this for Bill Nye, my second grader's told
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  Speaker 1: me to get with the times, so I started a
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  Speaker 1: YouTube channel documenting everything, parents, coworkers, classroom clips with more
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  Speaker 1: content on the way. Let's well, the YouTube is, it's
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of numbers than so we will have to
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  Speaker 1: put a link up now the voting link is, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll put both of these. I think we can post
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  Speaker 1: both of these right. America's Fave f av America's faveteacher
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  Speaker 1: dot org. And her name is Julie Avelino a v
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  Speaker 1: E l l I n O a v E l
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  Speaker 1: l I n O. She's on Facebook Jules of Alino
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  Speaker 1: j O U l E s Jules Avadino red cowboy
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  Speaker 1: hat because Lee high roots never die. I know you
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  Speaker 1: guys get a million of these kinds of things, but
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  Speaker 1: if there's any chance of a shout out, a mansion,
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  Speaker 1: or even a sarcastic eye roll in my direction, I'll
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  Speaker 1: take it. Thanks for thirty years of keeping Utah weird,
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  Speaker 1: informed and mildly inappropriate. Julie aka Jules, a nickname given
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago because I have so much energy, still listening,
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  Speaker 1: still laughing, now slightly campaigning. Ps. I've attached the campaign
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  Speaker 1: flyers I've been using to claw my way forward in
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  Speaker 1: the finals. Equal parts teacher energy, caffeine, and determination, if
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  Speaker 1: nothing else. You'll see I'm fully committed and possibly a
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  Speaker 1: little unhinged at this point. So let's can we get
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  Speaker 1: this on our Facebook pretty quick?
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  Speaker 2: I sent the place so, yeah, Facebook, probably are all
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  Speaker 2: of our socials, right, Hudson, We can do.
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  Speaker 1: That, yeah, so and again and her just the voting
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  Speaker 1: link is the easiest thing for me to read at
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  Speaker 1: this point. America's faveteacher dot org and it's twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: Julie Avellino. But we'll post all of that stuff. Go listen,
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  Speaker 1: look at our Facebook and our and and help her out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Find if Bill N came to your school. That'd be
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  Speaker 1: really cool. Bill n came here be on the show,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he could come here and be on the show.
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  Speaker 1: If if, if we can help her and push her
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  Speaker 1: through to the top. I think it's remarkable that she's
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  Speaker 1: on her own. Maybe she's she's the top of the
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  Speaker 1: heap in the first round. So great, so excellent. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder do you still have your copy of that
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  Speaker 1: Cure album that you went home? That'd be nice to know.
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  Speaker 1: And also we need to know did you buy any
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  Speaker 1: chance to get me liomia mesothelioma by coming down to
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  Speaker 1: the studio where the ast lord knows I did the
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  Speaker 1: asbestos play. That's where? Isn't that what it is? Mesama?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So Julie Avelino, good luck and we'll pay
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  Speaker 1: posts and we love you, know and I'm an Ogden
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  Speaker 1: boy through and through, so we'll do our best for
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  Speaker 1: you and keep at it and let us know how
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  Speaker 1: it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get that on our social media. So I
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  Speaker 2: guess you can forward that to Katie and I will
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  Speaker 2: do it right now and she will get that on there.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Well, that was certainly an email of
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  Speaker 2: intro