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Zots Taste Test For May 23rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: I'm enjoying these zots. Oh I forgot I had them.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: I gotta have one. What do you want? You want orange?
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: I got the grape.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: I'll take an orange though I have an orange orange.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: I'll trade your grape for an orange. Cep it of them. Yeah,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: there you go. Excuse me? No, no, thanks, no, But
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: I'm curious you you don't. You've never had a zot.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: It's a candy that's got You never had one? Gay?
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: Do I bite it or suck it?
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Well? You can. You can bite it, by the way
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: you can bite it. Uh, but if you suck it,
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: it's more subtle. I agree. Sucking is really more subtle. Yeah,
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: I agree, because all the stuff doesn't come out.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: Of it exactly.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I don't like to bite. Well, when you buy it,
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: all this stuff just kind of comes out of it,
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: But as you suck it, it kind of releases.
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: It's phenomenal of something in my mouth for oh.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Break, Yeah, well you can do that.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: No, people don't want to hear that out.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Can you put it in your cheek? I think they
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: don't care between your cheek and gum like chew, yeah, sure,
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: like a zin like a zin.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: I think that's fine.
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna buy that. I'm just gonna do it.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, you break, you can break your teeth. No, it's
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: not they're not that. They're not that hard or sour. Yeah,
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: it's good. Isn't that? No?
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Is that the orange?
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: It might be You're right, Gene, it might be a
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: little too challenging for you.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: I like simpler candies.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: By the way, I looked up Salt Lake City and Boise.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Uh and it says here that Salt Lake City is
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: the largest city between Bois and Salt Lake In terms
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: of area, Salt Lake City covers one hundred and ten
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: square miles, Boise eighty two. Boise has a slightly larger population, however,
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: with two hundred and thirty five thousand, six hundred and
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: eighty five people in twenty twenty compared to Salt Lake
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: City's one hundred and ninety four.
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: There's the cities, and then there's.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: The metro area. Uh So, I don't know. I don't
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: know about the metro The Salt Lakes metro area is
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: probably bigger county.
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: It's not like county's got to be a good one.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, but boy, Boise's pretty metropolitan. It's so metropolitan they're
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: calling it boise A. Now it's really not a you
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: don't you think it's going to be a sort of
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: a you know, backwater but it's not.
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: Noomall stop saying no to the job offers that I'm
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: saying no because I'm like, why would I go to Idaho?
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: Well? You should have checked it out. It's a bigger
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: market then, sure m.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: I've lived in two places in Idaho, really, Nampa and
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: cald Well.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: You lived in Napa, why?
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: Oh my aunt lives there.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: I lived in a lot of places from from birth
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: to about fourth grade.
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: I went to several different in first grade.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: I went to several different schools in first grade in
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: several different states and cities. We were we were nomadic,
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: tiny children.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Why why was that?
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: Well, build, there's divorce, and there's yeah, remarried, yeah, and
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: there's yeah things happen.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Well, who who who was? Who was your father of
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: the moment in Nampa?
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: Was your father of the moment? Daddy Gary?
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: He got he got a job in Caldwell, and then
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: he got a job in Nampa, and then we made
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: our way back here.
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: I remember my uncle Lloyd and aunt Nancy lived up
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: and they still do well.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: Nancy does anyway.
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: In Nampa, and Uncle Lloyd died and I said I
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: should go to his funeral because Nancy always helped Dad out.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: I should show up.
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: That would be nice.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: That would be nice.
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: And Sue said should I go? And I said, Nampa, No,
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: I think it's best you don't go.
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: And I was right, you thought that, and then you
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: went there.
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: As I drove through the town, it's all the Confederate
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: flags and all that.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: I just went, Yes, I was correct.
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: Better to not be, better to not be there.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna eat all your ats are good, and
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: I want to thank Philip the pharmacist for the zots.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: He gave them to me at the university pharmacy yesterday
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: or else in Idaho, Caldwell.
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: Caldwell, which is close to nan Do.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: You remember anything about those places?
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Nampa.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: There's a mall there called the Carter Mall, and there's
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: a stuffed polar bear, like a real taxidermied polar bear.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: There was at the time.
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: I wonder if it's I'm going to google Carter Mall,
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: google Carture Mall.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not what I You know, when I think of.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: You said, what do you remember about living there. That's
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: what I remember. Oh, here it is is a picture.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: When I think of malls, I don't The Cartuer family
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: does not figure into mine.
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: Let's see if it says anything about I've got pictures
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: of the Polar Bear. I should send it to Katie
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: and she can put it up.
• 5:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: That's a fast turnaround.
• 5:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, cold Well. My friend Lane took that name
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: for his last name for a radio name. Lane Coldwell,
• 5:47
  Speaker 4: you thought it was funny.
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: So I'll tweet out a picture of the polar Bear.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: But you don't know if it's still there.
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: I can't tell if it's still What happened? What happened
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: to Nora the Polar Bear at the mall?
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: So it's not there anymore. Well, the mall burned down,
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: and so did Nora.
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, let's see. Oh, they tore it down and reconstructed.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: So the mall is gone. The mall's gone. But what
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: happened to Nora?
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: Somewhere in someone's living room in Nampa, someone has somebody
• 6:21
  Speaker 4: that you think they sold it, like auctioned.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: It off or something.
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: Possibly. I need I need to investigate this.
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: Lore of the lore of listen a taxidermy polar bear.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: You just don't toss in the garbage. There is a.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: Whole Facebook page called Vintage Carter Mall and it says
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: I'm here because I want to see picts of the
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: polar Bear. I grew up hearing it from my dad
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: and uncle. Does anybody have a picture of it?
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: There are a bunch of pictures of there you go.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: What happened to the polar bear, though.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: I bet you could find out.
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to follow this story for you until I've
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: find out what.
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: Happened to Jimmy John's in the chat room. My uncle
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: lived in cour De Lane told me not to visit,
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: said they don't think they'll like you up here.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: You know, you wonder about the polar Bear, and I'm
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: wondering if they still have the hot nut machine that
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: was at the j C. Pennies in downtown Ogden.
• 7:19
  Speaker 4: Well, you don't just throw those kind of things out.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Hot nut machine. I love that when I was a kid,
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: all right,