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Frank Crist From September 12th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Frank.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Frank Christus joined us in the studio. He is here.
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  Speaker 3: How is it flying through the air on your electric
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  Speaker 3: scooter when it's raining so much?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't feel it. The rain passes right through me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't affect you at all?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Magical being.
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  Speaker 2: Frank, I want to know if you were on stage
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: there for Mike Love's big performance.
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  Speaker 1: I was just offstage waiting.
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  Speaker 2: I think you should kind of follow him around for
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  Speaker 2: a bit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I rarely wish I did that. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear about this. Precious, precious celebrities, you know, the ultimate fate.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm wishing here. What happened with Mike Love? I
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: will show you some video, Bill. He's not well.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: He's remaining seated on stage.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, I never cared for him anyway. Yeah, he's
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: a turd. Are you allowed to say that?
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  Speaker 3: And so says the reaper of celebrity souls.
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  Speaker 1: Well, as I've gotten into the job and older, I.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Taking a few liberties.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Frank Crist is the Grim Reaper of celebrity souls, ladies
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  Speaker 3: and gentlemen. He is a, as you would expect a
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  Speaker 3: Grim Reaper to be, he's a skeletal figure.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: He's gaunt. He wears a robe and carries a scythe.
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  Speaker 3: And he, when a celebrity dies, he goes to the
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  Speaker 3: scene and takes the celebrity soul to the distribution center.
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  Speaker 1: And from there, we don't know where the souls go.
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  Speaker 1: It's hell. All right, it's hell. Frank joins us to
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  Speaker 1: play the game we call Frank Chris Presents.
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  Speaker 3: They're fine.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: They're just fine.
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  Speaker 3: He's brought me a list of four precious celebrities, celebrities
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  Speaker 3: that he just loves. Three of them on the list are.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're just fine. But one of them, Frank, is taken.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: And it is a.
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  Speaker 3: Contestant's job to determine who the dead celebrity is and
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  Speaker 3: who do we have to be a contestant.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: It looks like Jerry is here. Jerry, good morning. How
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Lord and Lady. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm fine, just fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, Jerry.
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  Speaker 3: Jerry. If you can identify the dead celebrity on this
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  Speaker 3: list Frank has given me, you will win what, Gina?
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  Speaker 2: You will win tickets to Nightmare on 13th. Experience the
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  Speaker 2: all-new 13th Manor with new scares, new monsters, and more.
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  Speaker 2: You can also get tickets and get a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a discount if you go to x96. com and use the
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  Speaker 2: code BROADWAY.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jerry.
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  Speaker 3: Because it is National Free Thought Day, a day for
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  Speaker 3: thinkers who challenge conformity, Frank has given me a list
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  Speaker 3: of actors and movies... that focus on original thinkers who
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  Speaker 3: challenge conformity. Identify the dead celebrity and you'll get those tickets.
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  Speaker 3: Number one on the list, Tuppence Middleton. She had significant
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  Speaker 3: roles in Jupiter Ascending, The Current War, and Manc. She
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  Speaker 3: also appeared in Trance and Sense8 and the horror film Tormented.
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  Speaker 3: Her original thinker movie is called The Imitation Game, based
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  Speaker 3: on the life of John Nash, a mathematical genius whose
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  Speaker 3: fiercely original ideas reshaped economics. Number one, Tompkins Middleton. Number
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  Speaker 3: two is Ian Holm. He won a 1967 Tony Award
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  Speaker 3: for his performances Lenny and the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming.
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  Speaker 3: On TV, he won awards for King Lear, The Last
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  Speaker 3: of the Blonde Bombshells. His notable films also include Alien,
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  Speaker 3: The Fifth Element, and he played Bilbo in the Lord
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  Speaker 3: of the Rings movies. His original thinker movie, The Aviator,
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  Speaker 3: the story of the wildly innovated years of Howard Hughes,
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  Speaker 3: whose uncompromising engineering aviation ideas Completely disrupted multiple industries. Number two,
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  Speaker 3: Ian Holm. Number three is Stephen Fry. He came to
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  Speaker 3: prominence as a member of the comic act Fry and
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  Speaker 3: Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie.
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  Speaker 1: Fry was notable as Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde.
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  Speaker 3: He also had roles in Chariots of Fire, A Fish
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  Speaker 3: Called Wanda, V for Vendetta, and Sherlock Holmes, A Game
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  Speaker 3: of Shadows. His original thinker movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity.
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  Speaker 3: the story of a self-taught Indian mathematical genius who traveled
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  Speaker 3: to Trinity College, Cambridge, and challenged established Western mathematical dogmas.
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  Speaker 3: Number three is Stephen Fry, and the final celebrity on
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  Speaker 3: this list is Tom Skerritt. He's known for his film
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  Speaker 3: roles in M.A.S.H., Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, Up
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  Speaker 3: in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. He's also
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  Speaker 3: known as an actor who seems unable to close his
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  Speaker 3: mouth even when he's not talking. His original thinker movie, Contact,
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  Speaker 3: unwavering skepticism, deep scientific rigor, and original thought is applied
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  Speaker 3: to search for extraterrestrial intelligence despite bureaucratic opposition.
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  Speaker 2: He was in Steel Magnolias.
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  Speaker 3: Number four, Tom Skerritt, who can't close his mouth. Which
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  Speaker 3: one of those celebrities is dead, Jerry? Is it Tom Skerritt?
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  Speaker 3: It is not Tom Skerritt. He's very much alive. His
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  Speaker 3: mouth is very much open. And he's 93 years old.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the last surviving people who was in Alien. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let me give you another chance, though, Jerry,
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  Speaker 3: because unlike Frank, we believe in second chances.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Stephen Fry? Is it Tuppence Middleton? Or is
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  Speaker 1: it Ian Holm?
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  Speaker 3: I think it is Ian Holm.
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  Speaker 1: It is Ian Holm.
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  Speaker 3: He died in 2020 at the age of 86, a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic actor.
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  Speaker 2: Too soon.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, Jerry.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the nightmare on 13 tickets.
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  Speaker 3: Hang on and Katie will tell you what to do next. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I have to go check on a few precious celebrities today.
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  Speaker 1: Susan Anton. Oh, remember?
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  Speaker 2: I thought she was gone.
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  Speaker 1: 76 today. She did the cigar.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that her? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I know she was perfect sleeper.
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  Speaker 1: By Serta. Oh, that's right. Well, I'll put her to sleep. Goodbye, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye. Goodbye, Frank.