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Utah on Worst States to Live in List from July 14th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, imagine my shock this morning when I see a
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  Speaker 1: headline where did I see it first? Fox website? I think,
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  Speaker 1: why is Utah on the Worst States to Live in list?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Indeed it is. It's CNBC's list of the worst States
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  Speaker 1: to Live in. Utah made an appearance and was the
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  Speaker 1: only Western state with that distinction. CNBC set it used
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  Speaker 1: factors such as crime rates, air quality, healthcare to determine
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  Speaker 1: its rankings, along with childcare reproductive rights. Overall, it gave
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  Speaker 1: Utah a quality of life score of ninety five out
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  Speaker 1: of two hundred and ninety points possible, and they wrote
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  Speaker 1: disparagingly of it as well. Let me go to the
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  Speaker 1: complete description here, Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Come on America's most powerful weirdos.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: For all its natural beauty, Utah is not the healthiest
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  Speaker 1: place to live, ranking number forty seven for primary care
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  Speaker 1: air providers. Air quality leaves something to be desired with
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  Speaker 1: high ozone levels. According to the American Lung Association, The
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  Speaker 1: Beehive State gets its nickname from the industriousness of its workers,
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  Speaker 1: but the state doesn't do much to make their lives easier.
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  Speaker 1: The minimum wage of seven dollars and twenty five cents
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  Speaker 1: an hour covers just sixteen point five percent of the
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  Speaker 1: cost of living for a family of four, according to
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  Speaker 1: Oxfam America, and Utah has just five hundred and thirteen
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  Speaker 1: This is not true, is it? Utah has just five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen licensed childcare centers in a state with
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  Speaker 1: three point five million people.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it. That's one of the biggest issues.
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  Speaker 1: What is the strength of the living Utah? Crime is
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  Speaker 1: not bad, but weaknesses health, childcare, worker protections, and air quality.
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  Speaker 1: So the bottom ten the very worst state to live
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  Speaker 1: in is Arkansas and uh then let's see it goes Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: so southern states, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Oh, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: it says ranked worst overall.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: It's let's see what they say about I've got the
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  Speaker 1: whole red states are the Uh probably, Let's let me
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  Speaker 1: look at it again. Yep, yep, yeah, there's not a
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  Speaker 1: there's not a democratic controlled state on there. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to know where the best ones are?
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  Speaker 1: Also not nearly as much fun as the worst ones. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's here's Tennessee. Let me do that. First rank the worst. Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: led by Governor Bill Lee, make no apologies for a
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  Speaker 1: rash of state laws targeting lgbt Q plus community, including
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  Speaker 1: a so called bathroom law requiring transgender people to use
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  Speaker 1: facilities to sign for their sex at birth. The state
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  Speaker 1: also explicitly bars localities from adopting their own anti discrimination ordinances.
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  Speaker 1: To underscore the point, we signed a resolution earlier this
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  Speaker 1: year designating June Nuclear family Month h yeah, consisting of
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  Speaker 1: one husband, one wife and any biological, adopted or foster children.
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  Speaker 1: It's God's design for familiar familial structure and has been
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  Speaker 1: the bedrocket Society since the creation of.
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  Speaker 3: The World Family Fun. Utah Fun.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee also has one of the highest violent crime rates
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  Speaker 1: in the nation, and it has the third highest rate
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  Speaker 1: of drug deaths according to the Utah or the United
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  Speaker 1: Health Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: That childcare thing for Utah, those yes, that should be
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  Speaker 2: you know, for a state that says we care about kids,
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  Speaker 2: we care about well and they should have the best
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  Speaker 2: childcare of.
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  Speaker 1: It And they just pulled all that funding and closed
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  Speaker 1: those centers recently out Yeah, Salt Lake County did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we should have the.
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  Speaker 2: Best quality childcare, affordable childcare available here. I still want
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how New Mexico has done. New Mexico
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  Speaker 2: has free, quality, state sponsored childcare for anybody who wants it.
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  Speaker 2: If they can do it, we should be able to listen.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to give tax breaks to the data centers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what are the what are the best ones? You have those?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's see.
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  Speaker 2: We have Nebraska, Okay, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 3: This is counting down to number one. North Dakota. Kind
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  Speaker 3: of surprising, North.
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  Speaker 2: Dakota, Virginia, New Hampshire, Hawaii.
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  Speaker 3: Carrie wants to go to.
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  Speaker 2: Connecticut. Minnesota. Oh, and Donald Trump hates Minnesota. They get
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  Speaker 2: an A for quality of life a rating. New Jersey
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  Speaker 2: kind of surprising. Maine and Vermont. So lots of the
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  Speaker 2: New England state. You know, we're all the liberals. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so Maine, Maine gets an A plus read the description.
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  Speaker 2: Maine has America's lowest violent crime rate, with just one
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  Speaker 2: hundred incidents per one hundred thousand people. Maine legislators passed
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  Speaker 2: a series of reforms that earned the state most improved
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  Speaker 2: honors from gun violence Prevention.
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  Speaker 3: The Pine Street Pine Tree.
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  Speaker 2: State's laws offer a wide range of protections against discrimination,
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  Speaker 2: but the state does have some challenges when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to health. My sister in law moved there and she's
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  Speaker 2: had a hard time, like finding a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: They just aren't aren't enough.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as crime inclusiveness, air quality all ranks
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  Speaker 2: a plus.
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  Speaker 1: For those plus you can get a good lobster roll.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well you can get a good lobster in
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake, Vermont.
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  Speaker 2: Did I say Maine was topt Vermont is top? People
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  Speaker 2: are feeling good in Vermont. Fifty four percent of Vermonders
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  Speaker 2: survey reported that they were in good or excellent health
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  Speaker 2: more than any other state. Crime is low, They've got
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  Speaker 2: great reproductive rights.
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  Speaker 3: Air quality is great.
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  Speaker 1: So Sketchy Blake of Ogden says, I agree. Once you
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  Speaker 1: guys retire, I will be Sketchy. Blake of Oregon is
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  Speaker 1: Moregon on the best.
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  Speaker 3: Morgan's not.
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  Speaker 1: So. And I've you know, I'm not that familiar with
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  Speaker 1: New England, but I think I'd like to become more
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  Speaker 1: familiar with New England.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's beautiful. They have water, which which is a
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  Speaker 3: good thing.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, my sister in law, I did say that
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  Speaker 2: one of one of the problems is finding just finding
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  Speaker 2: a doctor, any doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Really, it is difficult. There's just not not a lot
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 1: There Minnesota, who don Donald Trump hats and you know,
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  Speaker 1: sent the National Guard there and Alex pretty and the
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  Speaker 1: Orne Good killed there by ice officials. Minnesota offers among
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  Speaker 1: the nation's strongest guarantees of reproductive rights. While there are
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  Speaker 1: few issues more divisive than abortion, the economics of it
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  Speaker 1: are become increasingly clear cut since the Supreme Court's Dobbs
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  Speaker 1: decision returned jurisdiction to the states. A twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: study of the National Bureau of Economic Research found abortion
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  Speaker 1: bands increase net migration outflows, and that the effects are
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  Speaker 1: more prominent for single person households and family households, which
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  Speaker 1: may reflect larger effects on the younger adults.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, Minnesota is where Tim Walls said, yeah, free school
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  Speaker 2: lunch for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but aren't they right?
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  Speaker 3: What again, if you care about children, free school lunch
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  Speaker 3: for everybody?
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  Speaker 1: That does? Say? Here, though, one of the weaknesses of
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota is childcare. They don't have enough childcare. But other
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  Speaker 1: than that, well, okay, why would I go to Utah?
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  Speaker 2: I love booze, caffeine and monogamy.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, okay, traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how traffic is in Utah by the way.
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  Speaker 2: I love living here. I would love to be able
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  Speaker 2: to flip this list and be on the great list
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  Speaker 2: rather than blake, rather than moving. Let's let's try to
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  Speaker 2: make let's try to make Utah great again.
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  Speaker 1: Let that let me say that this about the way
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  Speaker 1: it's described, way Utah has described uh huh. I would
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  Speaker 1: dis any politician in the state of Utah. I would
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  Speaker 1: like you to dispute it. How How what could you
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  Speaker 1: say about that that's not true? How you can't I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you can. Well, I've got some facts and
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  Speaker 1: figures from a made up organization that you know I
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  Speaker 1: can quote. Can't you tell you? Tell me how none
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  Speaker 1: of that is true.