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Round three. Your Lost Coast Outpost and KHUM are again teaming up for arbitrary and capricious listing of local topics. This is still Humboldt Ranked.

Here’s how this works: Starting at 11 a.m., we’ll open up the phones on KHUM (786-5486). At that point you can call in and pitch a nominee as well as where you think it should go on the list. Sell it, folks. Over the course of the next hour, live on the radio, a definitive ranking will be discussed, debated and ultimately etched in e-stone for all eternity.

Tune in to KHUM 104.3/104.7 (or online here) to experience the drama live and follow along with the results below. Later we’ll upload the audio for posterity. Do you love this? Yay! Let’s rank Humboldt now.

THIS WEEK’S TOPIC: You know how when you venture out beyond the safety of the Redwood Curtain and people ask you where you’re from and you say “Humboldt” and they’re like, “__________”? Fill in that blank. What do outsiders say to you when you tell them you’re from Humboldt? Go.

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THE LIST:

1. “Where?” (complete blankness and versions of that) (nominated by listener Vanessa)

2. “How much weed are you carrying right now?” (and similar marijuana-related queries) (nominated by listener Bryan)

3. “Oh! Redwood trees!” (and other acknowledgements of our natural beauty) (nominated by Natalie in Freshwater)

4. “Have you seen/are you Bigfoot?” (nominated by commenter Zeke)

5.  “You got hippies/armpit hair/different hygiene standards!” (nominated by commenter Klamathman) 

6. “You guys have crappy weather.” (Or other comments about our unique climate) (nominated by Scott in Ferndale; Editorial Note: One human’s crap is another human’s crème brûlée, Scott!)

7. “Here’s one i get all the time: “Where are you from originally?” lol like there’s never been a black person born in Humboldt County lol. (nominated by African-American commenter Michelle Crockett)

8. “I went there once.” (nominated by listener Yvonne)

9. “You guys got so much water!” (nominated by caller Shawn and commenter Ford Prefect)

10. “You ever been to a Crabs game?” (nominated by New Christy Minstrel Lowell Daniels III)

 

Bubbling Under:

“That’s by San Francisco, ya?” (and similar; different than the geographic listing above which encompasses complete unawareness of Humboldt) (nominated by multiple LoCO commenters) (We decided to lump this in with the other geography listing).

“You live in Arcadia?” (nominated by commenter)

“‘You’re a bunch of piss-heads.” That’s what I got in New Zealand wearing a Humboldt Brew Co. sweatshirt. Piss meaning beer. And it was all in good humor. (Trevor in Eureka).

“Marching Lumberjacks!” (nominated by caller)

“Cheeeeeese!” (nominated by Casey in Indianola) 

“Don’t y’all speak Elvish?” (nominated by listener Judith) 

“What’s your rent?” (nominated by caller)

So many weed things. We’re gonna lump ‘em all in the thing on the list, mmmK?

“Isn’t that in the Emerald Triangle?” (Is that necessarily weed too? Maybe.)

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