Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / List - Famous People Born in SLC From March 23rd, 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I have a list here. That's it's kind of interesting
- 0:05Speaker 1: because you may not know some of these people.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Well, is it an official list?
- 0:09Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's an official list, like a proper Yeah,
- 0:13Speaker 1: it's a proper list.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well here we go. Then it's Radio
- 0:18Speaker 3: from Hell with another list, because people love a good list.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Act ninety six.
- 0:24Speaker 1: This is ten famous people born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Well i'd better be on the list. Yeah, I can't.
- 0:32Speaker 3: I wasn't born here. I wasn't either, So I was
- 0:35Speaker 3: born in Manten.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Carrie Jackson number one, no, number one.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Number one on this list. Maud Adams. You know who that?
- 0:42Speaker 3: I know?
- 0:42Speaker 2: That name?
- 0:43Speaker 3: Not an actress, Yeah, she's an actress.
- 0:45Speaker 1: In the early nineteen hundreds, she was a young girl
- 0:51Speaker 1: and her mother said, you have a lot of talent.
- 0:53Speaker 1: We're going to New York and she became one of
- 0:55Speaker 1: the most celebrated actresses of her day. Now this was
- 0:59Speaker 1: on the New York stage. She originated the role of
- 1:02Speaker 1: Peter Pan on Broadway.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Really.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Yeah, now here's a name I don't think you'll know.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Maybe Carrie, will Tony and Selmo.
- 1:11Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 1:12Speaker 1: I'm familiar with the name because the last name is
- 1:15Speaker 1: unusual and Selmo he was I guess it says nineteen sixty.
- 1:20Speaker 1: I guess that's when he was born here. Tony and
- 1:22Speaker 1: Selmo was born in Salt Lake City, trained at cal
- 1:25Speaker 1: Arts before joining Disney. In nineteen eighty five, he became
- 1:30Speaker 1: the official voice of Donald duck Oh, a role he
- 1:34Speaker 1: still holds today, making him one of animations most during
- 1:38Speaker 1: enduring vocal talents. Here's a drunken sailor with the anger issues. Yeah,
- 1:45Speaker 1: no pants running around pants, not Tony on Telmo, Donald Donald.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Now this one we all know, of course. Rose and
- 1:54Speaker 1: Barr yep. Born here in nineteen fifty two. Neil Cassidy
- 1:58Speaker 1: you know who that is? Not Neil Cassidy quite famous
- 2:02Speaker 1: if you've ever read On the Road by Jack Jack Carroak,
- 2:09Speaker 1: Neil Cassidy was born here. He was a pivotal figure
- 2:12Speaker 1: in the Beat generation. He inspired the character Dean Moriarty
- 2:16Speaker 1: and Jack Carrowacs on the Road, and was a close
- 2:18Speaker 1: friend of both Jack Carroac and Alan Ginsburg. He's the
- 2:21Speaker 1: guy who drove the car all the time.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Oh. He loved to drive, so when they were on
- 2:26Speaker 3: the road, he just drove and drove.
- 2:27Speaker 2: And I love to drive.
- 2:30Speaker 3: Yeah, you said it there.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Parking Nathan Chen Nathan Chen, uh cook? Oh how quickly
- 2:38Speaker 1: are they forgot?
- 2:39Speaker 3: Wow? Olympic figure skating champion Nathan Chen born in.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Sports I aimed locally in his early years,
- 2:48Speaker 1: known to known for athleticism and artistic skiing. He won
- 2:52Speaker 1: gold in the twenty twenty two Beijing Olympics. Now this
- 2:57Speaker 1: one I think is weird.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Eric Huff Yeah, yeah, why is it weird?
- 3:04Speaker 1: Well, unless she wasn't born here? Doesn't mention his sister.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's what's her first name? She's equally Julianne, Julianne,
- 3:13Speaker 1: equally as famous as he is. But she's not mentioned here,
- 3:17Speaker 1: So I'm I'm guessing it's just a stupid oversight. Or
- 3:20Speaker 1: maybe she was born in Late Provo. Here's the name.
- 3:25Speaker 1: I don't know at all. Joy Lansing born in nineteen
- 3:29Speaker 1: twenty eight died in nineteen seventy two. She was a
- 3:33Speaker 1: model and an actress in the fifties and sixties. She
- 3:36Speaker 1: appeared in films, TV shows, magazine. She was on lots
- 3:40Speaker 1: of magazine covers, often casts for her blonde bombshell image
- 3:44Speaker 1: in Hollywood's Golden era.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Julianne was born in Orums.
- 3:49Speaker 3: There you go here.
- 3:52Speaker 1: This is an odd one. I never heard of this person.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Natasha Rombova born here in sineteen ninety seven. She became
- 4:03Speaker 1: a costume designer, art director and actress in early Hollywood.
- 4:08Speaker 1: She was known also known as the wife of Rudolph
- 4:11Speaker 1: Valentino really and was deeply involved in spiritual and design
- 4:16Speaker 1: movements of the nineteen seventies. Rombova Tatscha Rombova and I
- 4:23Speaker 1: think this is the last one. No Elizabeth smart Zon
- 4:27Speaker 1: Molis famous Utah.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Bill Haywood.
- 4:31Speaker 2: I don't know who that.
- 4:32Speaker 3: I believe he was called Big Bill Haywood.
- 4:34Speaker 2: That doesn't help.
- 4:35Speaker 1: Labor leader Big Bill Hayward was born in Salt Lake
- 4:38Speaker 1: City and became one of the most prominent figures in
- 4:42Speaker 1: the early twentieth century American labor movement. As a founding
- 4:47Speaker 1: member of the w or the International Workers of the
- 4:51Speaker 1: World IWW, he helped organize miners and industrial workers across
- 4:56Speaker 1: the country. That became his thing. He went and started
- 5:00Speaker 1: and we're gonna unionize here. You get get your better
- 5:03Speaker 1: work and better conditions. Yeah, Bill Haywood, and he looks
- 5:08Speaker 1: like a Big Bill Haywood. I was the same guy
- 5:10Speaker 1: in the chat room. Found a picture of him. He
- 5:12Speaker 1: looks like a tough he looks like a toe, he
- 5:14Speaker 1: looks like a tough son of a bitch.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Like. So, there you go. That's ten.
- 5:20Speaker 2: You're not you didn't on there.
- 5:23Speaker 1: No, I questioned the validity of not there. Are you
- 5:27Speaker 1: sure you were born in Salt Lake I was. I
- 5:29Speaker 1: know you were a foundling, the baby in a basket
- 5:39Speaker 1: on somebody's porch, But so there you go. Ten famous
- 5:45Speaker 1: people born in Salt Lake City.
- 5:47Speaker 3: That's yeah. I'm not satisfied with that. There are others.
- 5:53Speaker 3: I mean, I don't Bernard Devoto was Oh no, he
- 5:57Speaker 3: was born in Ogden. Sorry, never mind. And nobody knows
- 6:02Speaker 3: who osmins are born in Ogden.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody knows who Bernard Demoto is anymore. He was
- 6:08Speaker 1: quite famous in his time. He was a writer who
- 6:11Speaker 1: hated Ogden. He often wrote about how much he hated Agden.
- 6:15Speaker 2: If I told you lately about how much I.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Hate I hate the place I grew up.
- 6:20Speaker 2: All that's sad. Ogden's awesome.
- 6:23Speaker 1: I used to hate Ogden when I was I couldn't
- 6:26Speaker 1: wait to get out of Augden. When I was growing up.
- 6:28Speaker 2: But then now you have a new appreciation.
- 6:30Speaker 1: I developed a soft spot for Ogden there right there, No,
- 6:35Speaker 1: it's over there.
- 6:36Speaker 3: I keep it at my desk.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Your soft spot, I keep my soft spot.
- 6:42Speaker 3: Keep it at my desk.
- 6:45Speaker 1: You'd enjoyed another list with Radio from Hell on X
- 6:49Speaker 1: ninety six.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm not satisfied with that list. You're just jealous.
- 6:56Speaker 3: That's what it is, isn't it. No, It's just there's.
- 7:00Speaker 2: There were they weren't really famous people, is the thing.
- 7:02Speaker 3: I mean? They're famous famous.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Huh, Katie says. My friend's older brother dated Julianne Huff
- 7:11Speaker 1: in high school.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Didn't work out. Huh, guess not? Did there?
- 7:19Speaker 1: That famous Lorenz Scott was from she's from Roy Roy.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Yeah. She was married to Mick Jagger. Oh yeah, hmm,
- 7:29Speaker 3: tragically died by suicide.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Well, I think we need to make our own list
- 7:33Speaker 2: of famous Utons. Maybe this is an ex poole we need.
- 7:36Speaker 1: To Yeah, maybe not necessarily born here, but famous Utahs,
- 7:42Speaker 1: just famous Utons in general. Yeah, okay, like three eleven
- 7:48Speaker 1: Blue Blue October. Right, yeah, all right, let's take a break. Yeah,
- 7:57Speaker 1: miss Julie from Rock sure you know? Oh yeah, she
- 8:01Speaker 1: was premiere.
- 8:01Speaker 2: James Woods was born in Vernal really.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what's what's the what? What's her name? Born
- 8:08Speaker 1: in Delta.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Oh, this is John Legend, John Legend.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris h what is her name?
- 8:19Speaker 2: Christy Tagan?
- 8:19Speaker 3: Thank you, it's Chris Chris something