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Donut Critic From September 23rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, here he is. He's brought us some numb numbs.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Lee, the donut critic is here. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: donuts today. It's candy.
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  Speaker 2: It's candy.
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  Speaker 3: It's candy season right now, right, We're getting into fall
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  Speaker 3: and soon to be Halloween, and we need to start
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  Speaker 3: thinking about up leveling our candy game.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a grown up and I need better than gas
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  Speaker 4: station candy. Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: You deserve it, You deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: I love coffee, English coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, to start there, Yeah, so let's start there. So
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  Speaker 2: this is a not a new company in Utah.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of these companies, you know, depending on
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  Speaker 3: how they start, they kind of show up in different ways.
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  Speaker 3: This one showed up as a wholesale business first and
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  Speaker 3: then decided to open their doors for us to come
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  Speaker 3: and look. So about twenty eight years ago they started
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  Speaker 3: this business called Sir Walter Candy in California. So he
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  Speaker 3: had gotten a recipe book from an old family friend.
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  Speaker 3: He'd gone back east it was in New Jersey, and
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  Speaker 3: decided to you know, learn the art of candy. His
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  Speaker 3: name was Walter Ziddel and he was teaching these new owners,
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  Speaker 3: Alfonso and Alejandro how to make candy, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was kind of like his dying wish. He had
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  Speaker 3: sent his recipe books out to him, and his dying
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  Speaker 3: wish was that his candy recipes and what would be
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  Speaker 3: coming about in this candy store would would delight all
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  Speaker 3: of us.
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  Speaker 4: Where is this candy store?
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  Speaker 3: So this candy store is in I think it's Murray.
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  Speaker 3: Is that thirty eight South? So it's thirty eight twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight South and main Street. Is that considered Murray, South
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  Speaker 3: Lake South Salt Lake, Murray, it's on the border. But
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  Speaker 3: they just recently did their grand opening and you can
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  Speaker 3: see the candy being made there. So it's a huge
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  Speaker 3: facility that it's a thirty six thousand square foot facility,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a factory kind of like a store front
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  Speaker 3: and then some windows and you can actually get a
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  Speaker 3: tour there too.
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  Speaker 1: I really can, Sir Waltercandy dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, so on our website you'll mainly see their wholesale
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  Speaker 3: stuff there just because they're newly opened. Really in August
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  Speaker 3: is when they decided to open that soorefront. Okay, but no,
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  Speaker 3: their love for candy and that wish to push that candy,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to future generations and for us to enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: Has turned out beautifully. I mean, you guys are trying
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  Speaker 2: it right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We have.
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  Speaker 2: They had a food truck for a bit, didn't they
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  Speaker 2: in California.
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  Speaker 3: So they had California Food Truck in California for farmers' markets.
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  Speaker 3: They had a little operation there, and then it was
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  Speaker 3: Utah the place they wanted to come.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the place.
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  Speaker 4: So now you told us the first thing we should
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  Speaker 4: try is that, as you said, it looks like a
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  Speaker 4: little chicken wing. That's not what it is. What explain
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  Speaker 4: what it was?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, the best thing you're gonna try on
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  Speaker 3: your plate is, yes, it looks like a chicken wing.
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  Speaker 3: And what it is, it's it's a apple pie bite.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a dried a piece of dried apple covered
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  Speaker 3: in caramel, white chocolate and then dusted with cinnamon and sugar.
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  Speaker 2: And it's delightful.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, basically think about a caramel apple, but in
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  Speaker 3: a very consumable you know, because.
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  Speaker 4: That's the problem with a caramel apple. They're hard to eat.
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  Speaker 2: They're very hard to eat.
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  Speaker 3: I'm up to the challenge, and honestly, like my teeth
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  Speaker 3: just aren't prepared for it anymore, and my kids can't
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  Speaker 3: eat it because they have braces.
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  Speaker 2: And so these are beautiful because it does take it
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  Speaker 2: very good.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, they're they're.
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  Speaker 2: Really addicting, so you got to be careful with those.
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  Speaker 4: Next, Bill wanted to talk about the toffee.
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  Speaker 1: This is really good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the English toffee that is toffee is the
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  Speaker 3: amount of nuts that is covering. That is what you
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  Speaker 3: want to see. I mean, that's the thing about what
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  Speaker 3: you'll see at Sir Walter. Their ingredients are really high
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  Speaker 3: quality and what they do really just pushes all of
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  Speaker 3: those ingredients into every bite. My favorite, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you've tried the coconut cashewritle. Yeah, very really really
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  Speaker 3: really delicious. Sometimes brittle gets a little brittle, a little
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  Speaker 3: brittle now, a little like over toasted, and this one
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  Speaker 3: was perfectly done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Now tell me about the pecans.
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  Speaker 3: So those are just candied pecans, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: they do those really well. As you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: tell that they're crisp on the outside but still have
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  Speaker 3: that really soft pecan in the inside.
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  Speaker 2: Am I am I wrong? I'm getting a little coffee.
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  Speaker 2: So it wasn't listed on the ingredients.
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  Speaker 3: I would have to ask them, but I think it's
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  Speaker 3: just the toasting us that must be it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: and they have a lot of other stuff going on,
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  Speaker 3: and so you know there's obviously you know, mixtures and
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  Speaker 3: things that can get into those, but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: it quite And then the popcorn, Yeah, so that's Rocky
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  Speaker 3: Road popcorn. So it's like the up leveled version, you know, Bill,
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  Speaker 3: you and I were talking about the Zebra corn and Costco.
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  Speaker 3: This is like the up leveled small business version of it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's super delicious.
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  Speaker 2: There's almonds in there too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Overall, like I think I'm serving a pretty good breakfast
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  Speaker 3: for you all.
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  Speaker 2: You know, candy for breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: Now, can you get this? All of these things they
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  Speaker 1: all have them all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So these are all the time things and it's
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  Speaker 3: in their storefront. And that's the beautiful thing about it.
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  Speaker 3: Before you'd have to go to where they are whole selling,
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  Speaker 3: but now with that storefront you can go in see
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  Speaker 3: it being made. And by there they also have where
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  Speaker 3: you have the cup of strawberries and it's drizzled with
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  Speaker 3: the chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The viral thing that we've seen in London and a
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  Speaker 3: few other places pocketable popping up.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so go in there, get your strawberries drizzled with chocolate,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll be very delighted.
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  Speaker 4: I like your idea that if you're going to have candy.
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  Speaker 2: Get some high quality candy candy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you're always going to steal some of your
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  Speaker 3: kids candies or or you know, eat out of the
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  Speaker 3: candy bowl when it's Halloween, So why not have that candy,
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  Speaker 3: the good candy leading up to it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, yeah, we had some Halloween candy lying
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  Speaker 5: around and there was a box of nerds there and
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I haven't had these in years. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it's sugar, yeah, nothing, nothing special, nothing, but this this
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  Speaker 5: is something you'll remember, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And now one other thing that they do that's super
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  Speaker 3: popular is the iced or the cold hot chocolate hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's really delightful there, and since it's still hot,
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  Speaker 3: you can go in and it's not like you're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: having a cold spell out here and getting.
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  Speaker 2: Cold hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: Is it kind of slushy? Is that what?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little slushy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's very similar to what you'd get at Serendipity,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the popular New York City one.
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  Speaker 2: But I would love that. It's it's it's really delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Another thing that I wanted to let you guys know.
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  Speaker 3: About, the Fall Festival for cross E is going on
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  Speaker 3: right now, and you guys got.
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  Speaker 2: To get out.
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  Speaker 3: Those are just so fun. They have donuts there and
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  Speaker 3: so they do.
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  Speaker 4: They have the apple cider donuts or those though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I brought those in, or I brought those in,
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  Speaker 3: or I brought the lemon ones in this last time.
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  Speaker 3: But they are the best in the state of Utah.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want the best apple cider donut, go
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  Speaker 3: to Crossey. They just barely opened this last Friday, are they.
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  Speaker 3: They're up north Salt Lake, so it's like twenty six
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  Speaker 3: hundred north, you know, and kind of.
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  Speaker 2: By the airport.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just a little family farm and they have
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of games and animals and good food. They're
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  Speaker 3: burgers and fries and such are are really good as well,
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  Speaker 3: but the donuts are my main draw there.
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  Speaker 4: We'll go spend an afternoon there.
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  Speaker 1: I know you do burgers and stuff too, best Hamburger
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  Speaker 1: top ten Hamburger. I had one yesterday Burr Trail Grill,
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  Speaker 1: the Bird Trail Grill in Boulder, Utah.
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  Speaker 2: In Boulder, Utah, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 4: To make it to Boulder very often.
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  Speaker 3: I have been there once, but that that is quite
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  Speaker 3: out of the way. There's there's another one that's in
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  Speaker 3: a truck in the middle of Utah too that I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they yessuh, I forget what they call it. My
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  Speaker 1: wife and daughter had it. They were not particularly impressed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they were real busy. We'd rove by.
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  Speaker 3: It looked like it was like the over to the
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  Speaker 3: top with like the mac and cheese type of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily my vibe, but I mean Riches downtown here
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  Speaker 3: is one of my favorites, and I think that that
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  Speaker 3: is one of the more cheney ones. Seven Brothers is
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  Speaker 3: super good. They're burgers, so it's a it's a Hawaii brand.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually going out to Hawaii in January and gonna
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  Speaker 3: go see their like main place, and they have desserts
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot. But I've had it a few times here,
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  Speaker 3: especially if you like barbecue sauce. Their burgers are really
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  Speaker 3: really good.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So the candy place we were talking about, Sir
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  Speaker 5: Walter Candy, thirty eight to twenty eight South Main Street.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, go get your candy on, you can do it.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds great.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta try that croze upon Chotku.
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  Speaker 1: And this was just enough to make my stomach a
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  Speaker 1: little sick.
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  Speaker 2: Keep going.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you have suggestions for Ben the donut critic
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  Speaker 4: on especially interested in like local places, new places pop
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  Speaker 4: up all the time, and he's willing to go. Try
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  Speaker 4: him out and let us know what he thinks. Just
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  Speaker 4: go to your Instagram page the don't is it the
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  Speaker 4: donut Critic or just don'nut just don't it? Just don't ye?
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks much, man, all right,