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Bill's Birthday and Dad Jokes For May 27th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So I had a party over the weekend to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: my birthday, and it says it said explicitly on the
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: invitations we bill does not need any gifts, and yet
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: people brought gifts. I just don't I don't say.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: You don't need any, it doesn't say you don't want any.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I did end up with four bottles of bourbon,
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  Speaker 1: which is you know, that was okay, I guess, but
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  Speaker 1: I really, you know, just I don't know. It made
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  Speaker 1: me feel weird that people seem to ignore that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it clearly was meant for everybody but that person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's right. But I got, and I got.
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  Speaker 1: I got this dad Jokes book. Somebody thought this would
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  Speaker 1: be a good I think it was my sister. And
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear a dad joke from this book? Sure?
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  Speaker 2: I not really, it's just gonna hurt.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Well, this one's pretty good. Actually, Okay, my friend is
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: getting rich by taking pictures of salmon dressed in human clothes.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: It's like shooting fish in apparel. Oh, that's pretty good. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's a long way to go. Yeah, it's okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's there. I don't understand. They're terrible. What did the
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: sofa say when it got hurt?
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  Speaker 2: Did the sofa say when a cow?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, ye see.
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  Speaker 2: People should not have brought that's Dixie riddle cups.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't bring you a gift, Bill, My husband brought you.
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  Speaker 1: A gift, he said, So he apparently didn't see the No.
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  Speaker 3: He was at the liquor store and said, I was
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  Speaker 3: at the liquor store and I bought Bill subourbon to
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  Speaker 3: take to his party.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was very It's very nice of her, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a good party though. It was very fun.
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that I hadn't seen for a while, and one person
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  Speaker 1: that I had not seen in forty years. Forty years, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: who did. His name is Jeff Hirsh, and he's He
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  Speaker 1: lives in Seattle, and we were We were close for
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  Speaker 1: about a year back when I was in college at
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  Speaker 1: we were stay in the theater department. He was there
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  Speaker 1: for a year. We became very close friends during that time,
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  Speaker 1: and then he left to go off to another school
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't We saw each other maybe twice after that,
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  Speaker 1: once in New York when I was living there. He
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  Speaker 1: came to New York on some kind of a trip
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  Speaker 1: and looked me up. And then I saw him once
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco a couple of years after that. But then,
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  Speaker 1: so it's been about forty years. You must have kept
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  Speaker 1: in contact with them, No, no, no, no, we just
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  Speaker 1: sort of saw.
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  Speaker 2: He ended up at your party.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I invited him, I thought, And I thought, sure,
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  Speaker 1: surely he won't. But does he live here? Did he fly?
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  Speaker 1: He lives in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: He flew in for your party.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: He I sent him an invitation and he immediately texted
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  Speaker 1: me and and said I'll be there, And I said,
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  Speaker 1: you're kidding me. And then he texted again and said
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  Speaker 1: why would I not be there Seattle? Yeah? And so
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  Speaker 1: he flew in on Friday, and uh, he said, do
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  Speaker 1: you have Do you have time to come and have
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  Speaker 1: a drink? And and I thought it would be a
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  Speaker 1: good idea to sort of catch up before.
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  Speaker 3: If not, you would have spent the whole time with
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  Speaker 3: the party with him.
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  Speaker 1: Probably, Yeah, So so I went. I met him at
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  Speaker 1: the bar at the Monaco where he was staying, which
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't been there for a long time. It's that's
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  Speaker 1: a very nice part. And we sat probably drinking and
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: eating or dervs at the bar for a couple of hours. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, and then he said, oh, I have
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  Speaker 1: to go. I've got tickets to the symphony. Well, I've
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  Speaker 1: got a ticket to that. He was by himself, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, I like, I love symphonies and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go hear the He said, is is it a
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  Speaker 1: nice haul? And I said, yeah, it's very nice soon
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  Speaker 1: and I think you'll enjoy it. That's a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: Like I could see if it was like a close
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  Speaker 3: friend that you saw the time and they were having
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  Speaker 3: a birthday party, and like, yeah, I'm gonna go to
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  Speaker 3: Bill's birthday, but someone you haven't seen.
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  Speaker 2: For forty years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we traveling to their party. That's well, we were
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were really we had a really strong
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  Speaker 1: connection at one time, and we then we neglected it
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  Speaker 1: and let it, let it lapse. And and I think
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  Speaker 1: both of us felt bad about that, and he felt
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  Speaker 1: bad enough about it to say, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a whole article in the Atlantic right
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  Speaker 3: now about men's friendships.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just about to read that. You should
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  Speaker 1: read it because men don't have friend and yeah, much.
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  Speaker 3: It's like men struggle. I mean, there's a larger conversation
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  Speaker 3: about maybe things are bad right now because men struggle
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  Speaker 3: in lots of different ways, and that's coming out in
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  Speaker 3: this hyper masculinity stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They're like solitary or solitary lonely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but men, men aren't. Men aren't good at friendships.
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  Speaker 3: And the gist of the story is I had all
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  Speaker 3: these friends when I was younger, and I've lost touch
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  Speaker 3: with them.
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  Speaker 1: And it really is about, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, you should call them even if you haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: from him in forty years.
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  Speaker 2: It's maybe reconnect with them.
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  Speaker 1: It is a thing, it really is. It's ridiculous. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see may I don't see friends very often, and
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  Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. I mean, Jeff Model and I feel I
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  Speaker 1: consider a really good friend, but we don't see each
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  Speaker 1: other that much. Jim Facer, he came down to the party,
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  Speaker 1: and you know Jim, he's he's the former owner of
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  Speaker 1: X ninety six, and but he and I have been
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  Speaker 1: close friends for a long time and and but we
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  Speaker 1: don't see each other anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But they say everybody's sitting at home going, Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: We don't see each other anymore. One of you needs
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  Speaker 3: to reach out and say, you know.
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  Speaker 1: What, Well, wasn't it good that I reached out to
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Hurst?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And it was wonderful to see him and talk. Did
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  Speaker 1: you did you do? You know who he was at
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  Speaker 1: the party. He had long, long gray hair, and he
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  Speaker 1: was dressed well. He was he always dressed well, even
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  Speaker 1: in college. You know, he made it a point, and
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  Speaker 1: he was dressed well. You know, he had like slacks
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  Speaker 1: with a plead in it. Wow, and uh, and he
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  Speaker 1: almost looks like he should have had an ascot on.
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  Speaker 1: But but he didn't have an ask. But it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was and it was great to see him. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that I stay in touch with
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  Speaker 1: him and maybe go visit him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. Yeah, all my friends are dead.
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  Speaker 4: Please, Okay, let's see a quick, quick dad joke. Let's
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  Speaker 4: see my dad died. Oh god, let me pick a
• 7:04
  Speaker 4: different one.
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  Speaker 1: What did one earthquake say to the other, Hey, it's
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: not my fault.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh they're horrible. I wish I were dead.