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City Weekly Best Of's 2025 From November 21st, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: City Weekly, City Weekly Best of is on newsstands. Go
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  Speaker 1: pick up a physical copy of it. Sure, these are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that we tell you to. Uh, you pick
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  Speaker 1: it up and then you leave it on your coffee
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  Speaker 1: table for the next year.
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  Speaker 2: Because restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all kinds of recommendations of things to do.
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  Speaker 2: And you can find City Weekly like at the grocery
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  Speaker 2: store and a lot of places. Just look at when
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  Speaker 2: you go in there. You little news stay in our lobby,
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  Speaker 2: I believe is there. I think he used to be
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  Speaker 2: anyways to be.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with their Hall of Fame. They do
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  Speaker 1: this every year where they just sort of staff picks
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  Speaker 1: from things they want to honor. Taco's Don Ratha, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Snyder's Meats. Yeah, Maddox Ranch House.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't been to Maddox in years. A good steak.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy five years, it says, for some of the best steaks.
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  Speaker 2: Last time I was at Maddox, somebody had a heart
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  Speaker 2: attack at the table next to me. Well, not kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Utah Book and Magazine.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: Del Vance who owns Beer Hive. Oh they're twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: We remember award for the word and Speedway Cafe. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that mon Yeah, let's see Apollo Berger and car Concepts,
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  Speaker 1: Car Concepts and the Humanitarian Award Utah Zone Ty Burrell
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  Speaker 1: for his work helping restaurant and bar workers. That's terrific. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So let's see readers picks for best elected official are
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  Speaker 1: a good friend mayor Aaron Mendenhall.
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  Speaker 2: Love that she is well liked. I think here in
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  Speaker 2: Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 1: Best community advocate.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't it's okay?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Not you Jen Plumb, Oh, Rosie Card I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure who she is. But number three our own bad
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  Speaker 1: Brad Wheeler.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, you should have been number one, which is.
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  Speaker 1: A good one. Best local podcast City Cast Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 1: We've had them on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Is that who?
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  Speaker 1: Number two? Mormon Stories? Oh, and look at this geek
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  Speaker 1: show podcast number three. I've heard of that podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't even we didn't even rally people to know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, obviously, we're not gonna read all these.
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  Speaker 1: It's a huge, huge issue. We've got let's see best
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  Speaker 1: politician conservative is there? So they have Mitt Romney here,
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  Speaker 1: Becky Edwards and Dan Thatcher. I think Dan Thatcher is
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  Speaker 1: the show the legislator who said I can't be a
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  Speaker 1: Republican anymore. I don't recognize this party. Let's see best
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  Speaker 1: Progressive Senator lose Escamilla. We love the friend of the program.
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  Speaker 1: Stand Out Radio, stand Out, stand Out. This is best
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  Speaker 1: radio show and best radio station. There's a whole little
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  Speaker 1: section here dedicated to X ninety six and radio for
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  Speaker 1: hel nice. Yeah, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: Once again.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see we have standout TV. Our good friend Mary Nichols.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's won best Anchor almost as much as
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  Speaker 1: we've won. Really best radio station.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was Salt Lake Magazine did the
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  Speaker 2: same thing and they picked Carrie Kronk.
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  Speaker 1: Kerry Kronk is in second place.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think which first she retired though, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: She moved to Australia.
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  Speaker 2: She moved.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, she moved to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I still follow her on social media and.
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  Speaker 3: She's I knew she was out of the market.
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  Speaker 1: Best Utahn. Now we were lobbying for bad Brad Wheeler.
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  Speaker 1: He came in third third.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that I beat you, Brad.
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  Speaker 1: I really he didn't. But number two is offa Alu.
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  Speaker 1: Another good choice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, guy who was shot at the protest.
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  Speaker 1: No King's rally number one post Malone. Now he's already
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  Speaker 1: won before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah last year. Yeah, and I was the year before
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  Speaker 2: and I offered to share a sash with him.
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  Speaker 3: You were going to give him this best utah sah,
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna hand it off to us. But so
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  Speaker 3: this is two years in our own Now.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's been snubbing.
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  Speaker 1: I think he had. I think I think we need
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  Speaker 1: to put Brad out there next year again.
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  Speaker 3: Let's push harder for Brad next year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Another Radio from hell all Star Robert Gurky. Gurky won
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  Speaker 1: Best Reporter for Print. What let's see? Oh, what's this one?
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  Speaker 1: Best Reporter Sports all Media was won by Andy Larson
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  Speaker 1: at The Tribune. Number two Radio from hell Zone, Amy Donaldson,
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  Speaker 1: Number two, okay, Number three Radio from hell Zone, Gina
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  Speaker 1: Barb Barry Sports for sports Recording. So this is.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly a popularity contest as opposed to a really judging things.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Bill, Yeah, let's.
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  Speaker 1: See best best weather castor Okay, Chase thomasin from to TV.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, he's good.
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  Speaker 1: Number two Kevin you bank, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Kevin is really good.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, look here Radio from Hell Zone, Geena Barbary
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  Speaker 1: the about that?
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  Speaker 2: What? How's that? This is just a who was number one?
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  Speaker 1: Chase thomasin see I didn't know whether that was a
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  Speaker 1: man or a woman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know who that is. He's not. I
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  Speaker 2: sat by him at an event one time and he
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  Speaker 2: was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah worst Utah Mike Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, there's all the food too. Do we want to
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  Speaker 1: dive into those? Do we want to save them?
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  Speaker 2: A couple, a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just give you a couple, Let's see, give us
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  Speaker 1: a few, let's see, let's do best bagels, baby bagels.
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  Speaker 2: Baby bagels is the name of the place.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a type of bagel.
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  Speaker 2: Let's know, it's a place.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I've not heard of them.
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  Speaker 1: Best appetizers no, now, I'm I'm sorry to accept that one.
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  Speaker 1: But the best appetizer are the best appetize. You are
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  Speaker 1: You're you're just a little taste bill uh white Horse.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they did have good apps.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, they're coming back. Don't don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to Tyberrell, who was mentioned number two.
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  Speaker 1: Thinka I love think. I think it's great.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't been to Yeah, they're they're still just great.
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  Speaker 1: Carry I know you like biscuits and gravy, best biscuits
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  Speaker 1: and gravy, Sweet Lake biscuits and liming.
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  Speaker 2: They're okay, I've seen that place I haven't been in.
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  Speaker 3: I've been there.
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  Speaker 2: There was like a night South or South.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see best breakfast burrito bedos, Yes, best breakfast sandwich,
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  Speaker 1: Central ninth Market.
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  Speaker 2: M okay, best.
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  Speaker 1: Pancakes penny and yeah and he ends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now back to best breakfast burritos. You'd have to talk
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  Speaker 3: to my wife about that. She's she's an expert on
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  Speaker 3: the best breakfast burritos.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she doesn't make the best, No, but she knows
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  Speaker 2: where to get.
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  Speaker 1: The bas knows where to go. Yes, Okay, let's see burgers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh see what would be? Is it gonna be Lucky thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: It's always Lucky thirteen. I feel like they win everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Cromburger came in second?
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  Speaker 2: And who was first? Again?
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  Speaker 3: Lucky Lucky thirteen. Yeah, that's a good burger. Although Burger's
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  Speaker 3: on Wheels is a place I just discovered.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a food trucks?
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  Speaker 3: It was originally, but now they've got a brick and
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  Speaker 3: mortar place.
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  Speaker 2: Where is it?
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  Speaker 1: It can't be Burgers on Wheels anymore.
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  Speaker 2: If it's a it's still called burgers.
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  Speaker 3: Really, it's like facts around the ninety exactly. It's down there,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's in Jimmy's old neighborhood. It's my the golf
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  Speaker 3: course on seventh East.
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  Speaker 1: And what's that other place you just went to build
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  Speaker 1: the didn't you go to a burger place not that
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  Speaker 1: long ago? I remember, don't.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, all of all of those awards for
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  Speaker 3: us are wonderful and we appreciate it, but none of
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  Speaker 3: them will will top this award that we got. This
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  Speaker 3: this is it says, this is one of the Mountain
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  Speaker 3: West's best businesses in the tradition of value, fair play
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  Speaker 3: and a big Western howdy.
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  Speaker 2: So that's us.
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  Speaker 3: That's the best big Wester, a big Western howdy. This
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  Speaker 3: is the best award that we've gotten.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing is we have to agree now to
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  Speaker 2: end every show or begin every show with howdy.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only problem. All right, Well, thank you, Gina, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Pick it up. There's way way away more
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  Speaker 3: Than that, And thank you to all you folks have
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  Speaker 3: voted for us.