Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Utah Word of the Day - Gourd From August 19th, 2025

Transcript

Utah Word of the Day - Gourd From August 19th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: It's often said that people of Utah speak a language
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: all their own. It's a language that's often confusing and
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: even incomprehensible to newcomers here in the Beehive State. So
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Radio from Hell presents a handy guide to help everyone
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: understand how the natives speak. It's the Utah word of
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: the day, and today's.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Word is gord g O U R D Gord. And
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: here now to use the word gord in a sentence
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: is the Mayor of Mona, Utah, Don Kriddle, and his son,
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: Denver Criddle. Denver's excited about a new job opportunity that's
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: presented itself. Mona City is looking to hire a crossing guard,
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: and Denver thinks he may have the inside track to
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: that position. Again, the word is Gord.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: Betty.
• 0:52
  Speaker 4: I want you to know that Mona City can rest
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: easy and be assured that everything in town will be
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: calm and orderly, because I have a plan to get
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: things under control.
• 1:02
  Speaker 5: Well, Son, I wasn't aware that things was uncolm and disorderly.
• 1:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, I thought everything was just fine. Things seemed
• 1:10
  Speaker 5: to be humming along just fine.
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: Well, I hate to say it, Daddy, I think you're
• 1:13
  Speaker 4: turning a blind eye to the violence that has creeped
• 1:16
  Speaker 4: into our fair city.
• 1:17
  Speaker 5: I don't know about that, Denver. I mean, the last
• 1:20
  Speaker 5: time I looked, the crime rate in Mona was way down.
• 1:24
  Speaker 5: We used to have a felony crime about oh maybe
• 1:27
  Speaker 5: once per month here, but since the first of the year, well,
• 1:30
  Speaker 5: well heck, we've had only one felony crime since the
• 1:33
  Speaker 5: beginning of the year.
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: That's almost eight months.
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: Apparently you are unaware of the roving street gangs of
• 1:39
  Speaker 4: juvenile delinquents menace.
• 1:41
  Speaker 5: In the popular Oh you mean them kids that toilet
• 1:44
  Speaker 5: pain pered Biff Sorgum's yard the other day. Well that
• 1:47
  Speaker 5: was just a prank, Denver, And frankly, I think Biff
• 1:50
  Speaker 5: Sorgum deserved it. He's nothing but a grouch and a
• 1:54
  Speaker 5: and a grot crotch of the old guy.
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: Nobody likes him where Daddy, I'm telling you, if you
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: keep ignoring the out of control gangs of kids tepeeing
• 2:02
  Speaker 4: someone's yard, the next thing you know, them kids will
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: be driving down the street with a baseball bat playing
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: mailbox baseball.
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: You gotta nip it in the.
• 2:10
  Speaker 5: Butt now, Denver, I think alright, son, alright, I can
• 2:14
  Speaker 5: see your plenty worked up about this?
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: What's your plan? How do you propose to nip it
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: in the bud.
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: I see that the city is looking to hire a
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: new port time crossing gard. If you can get me
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: that job, daddy, I promise to use the power of
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: the crossing guard position to get things in the town
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: under control, and I'd be happy to make the money too.
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: Well, all right, let's let's just outlining the job for you, son. Now.
• 2:39
  Speaker 5: The crossing guard pay is fifteen dollars per hour.
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: Fifteen dollars.
• 2:44
  Speaker 5: That's great, and you work one hour per day and
• 2:49
  Speaker 5: you work a couple of hours per week.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: Wow, so I'd be making how many dollars a week?
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: Is that? Daddy?
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: I know it's hard for you to puzzle these things out,
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: so let me help. Fifteen dollars or one hour, and
• 3:07
  Speaker 5: you work two hours a week, So that's Denver.
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: That's thirty dollars for crossing guard work, Denver. Oh, thirty?
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: Well, I think maybe I would do better looking into
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: actual police work, don't you think so? Daddy?
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Join us again some other time as we examine how
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: the Utah natives speak with the Utah word of the
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: day