The Viktor Wilt Show

Hey. What's happening? Welcome to the Viktor Wilt Show. Wednesday, November 13th. Morning.

I hope you're alright. Hope you're doing decent. I might have bad news for you. The Apple Vision Pro is going away. Yeah.

You remember this $3,000 VR ish device that nobody you know has because it costs $3,000. Yeah. Apple has admitted they're, gonna be backing away from that and, trying to develop a more affordable version. Well, yeah. No kidding.

If VR itself with devices that cost, I don't know, 4, $500, if those are not common, you probably shouldn't unleash a $3,000 VR ish headset and expect people to buy it. Not in this day and age. Yeah. Especially when it I don't know. Did you see any videos about it?

It's not like it was a mind blowing product, you know, compared to the other headsets like that available. I I watched some YouTube videos about it, and it did not look like a very, you know, convenient product, really. And I'm a guy who's into VR. So, anyway, yeah. Perhaps they should have started with a mass market product that was, you know, much more affordable.

And then you put out the pro version that people with just way too much money to blow will go ahead and dump a bunch of stupid money on. But, you know, I guess not every product can just be a winner. So sorry fans of the Apple Vision Pro. I guess you've already got yours anyway. Hopefully, the support for the device will at least continue, but, yeah, I'm not surprised at all about that kind of news.

It's the Victor Will show. Good to be back. I mean, good to be back in town. Not necessarily good to be back at work. As far as work goes, I I've got it about as good as it gets, but home is always better.

Right? It was so nice to get home, see the cats. It was the first time I'd left little Lucy by herself for a few days. She's been very happy that I got back. Koopa, the older one, a bit indifferent.

But I was reading through survey results from Gen Zers and Millennials, and there's a lot of common sense results to this study about pets and children. 43% of Gen zers and millennials say pets are easier to care for and less of a financial burden than kids. Only 43%. What the the other 57% said that children are easier to care for and less of a financial burden than pets. What kind of pet do you have?

What kind of crazy exotic pet? I have a tiger. He's very difficult. Got an attitude problem. I have to feed him whole goats.

I mean, I've I've got children. They're adults, and they still cost me money. Sent, sent my daughter some money just the other day so she can come visit. Yeah. Cat food, a lot less expensive than people food.

I mean, I spend a lot of money on cat food, but still, who are these 57% of people that don't take care of their kids that's all I could think if your kids are easier to care for and cheaper than pets If you don't have a tiger, you're not taking care of your kids. Right? Anyway, it it was good to get back, hang out with the cats. You know, there's something to be said about home. You know?

It was nice to be there. I had an enjoyable vacation. We'll get into some of that. I encountered, of course, weirdness. I was in Vegas, so you're gonna see weirdness.

I was in Phoenix. Didn't really see any weirdness. Just, you know, enjoyed myself, but we'll get into the recap of my my trip later. But I will say it was nice to nice to get home. Just kick back with the the little kitties that, yes, are more affordable than children.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have them. Alright. Industry secrets. Oh. Is this gonna be fun or a bore?

Well, it comes from the Internet, so it could certainly go either way. Industry secrets that people only know because they work in that industry. Alright. Let's see if we could learn something new on a Wednesday. This person says they don't work for Wendy's, but that Wendy's has higher standards for their food than anyone else they distribute to.

They said their beef is actually never frozen. They'll send them back if they get packed with frozen items, and they'll turn away shipments for things like meat touching produce like they should, but no one else does. Send back expired or off batch produce. Alright. Well, that's cool.

Again, this came from the Internet. I don't know if it's accurate or not, but, oh, somebody else commented was a Wendy's worker can confirm. You know, that's definitely one of my, preferred fast food places, so it's good to know. Alright? With as nervous as I get about eating pretty much anything anymore ever since I got that norovirus, always good to know that the food's being handled properly.

While I was on vacation, my buddy, Nick, like, he's not afraid to eat food that's been sitting out for, like, a day. Like, that that's terrifying to me. So any leftovers we had because, you know, hotel number 1, no refrigerator. I just watched in horror as he would, you know, the next day have himself a nice little snack that yeah. You know, this is food that should have been in the fridge.

Alright. What other industry secrets we got here? Today's soup of the day was yesterday's soup of the day now with rice. Yeah. I I bet that's the case at most places when there's some kind of special going on.

You're just trying to use something up. Right? Alright. Let's see here. What else do we have?

Bartenders find a discreet spot to Google the recipe for that rare drink you just ordered. How did they do it back in the day? I guess you just had to know every weird drink or you just ask the customer. Okay. What is that?

I mean, don't remember the last time I was at a bar ordering a drink, to be honest. But, generally, I was, you know, just beer guy. So far as a rare drink goes, what what would I no. I it'd be pretty easy, but that one makes total sense to me. I'd just do it right in front of the customer.

Be like, okay. Yeah. I assume they just had, like, a book or something sitting around. I I guess that's very old fashioned. What an actual paper book?

No. A computer database? That would make sense to me. Alright. What else do we have here?

Sometimes when a job is posted and the requirements are unrealistic, that's because they already have someone that needs to be promoted to that specific position and they tailor that job ad so only that person qualifies even if 100 of people apply. What? I mean, I guess in a lot of industries, you would just have to post a job. Right? But it doesn't seem like you need to go to that extreme.

I I don't know. That that seems weird to me. Teachers do in fact have favorite students. Yeah. No kidding.

How could they not? You're dealing with 30 kids at a time. There are going to be some you like better than others for sure because there's some terrible children out there. Alright. Well, so far, I'm not learning any industry secrets that are just blowing my mind here.

Carpenter here. After 8 years of framing houses, 3 as a foreman, and now 3 years of trim carpentry, I've realized that the vast majority of houses aren't built to code or just slapped together with the cheapest products. And now I've heard this kinda rumor that, like, newer houses, they're just churning them out and that, like, the wood's not as dense now or some I don't know. I mean, here's a person who claims they work in the industry. I don't know.

It makes you wonder, you know, about that house inspector you got when you get your house checked out. Highly recommend you look into reviews and really dig before picking a home inspector to come by and inspect the home you're gonna buy because you you want the best of the best where they're gonna find every little thing. Yeah. And it it'll be unnerving when you get the report back, and you're like, all this stuff's wrong. But you could get a inspector who just wants to get the job done and, you know, help the deal go through.

So they're like, yeah. This place is in great condition. Then all of a sudden, you know, your roof's caving in. Alright. Yeah.

Still didn't really find anything here that, totally blew my mind. So I don't know. We'll just go ahead and move along. This person said, as far as I could tell, military grade means painted green. Alright.

I guess that's not too surprising. We'll be back. Jeez. My voice is cracking. Turning into a teenager.

Anyway alright. What was I gonna yap about here? I got distracted by my own stupid voice. Oh, for those of you who are into thrifting. Yeah.

I like hitting up the thrift stores generally to see if there's any good books hiding out on the shelves there. I don't tend to buy clothes, but if you are into vintage clothes and you pick them up at thrift stores, wash them. They're dirty. They're covered in germs. Yeah.

Because we are covered in germs. Look at this. Our skin is coated in millions of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. That's what this says. So that means our clothes are as well.

And, I mean, how many people are throwing a load of clothes into the wash before taking them to the thrift store? I mean, they may have been cleaned previously, but I don't know. You never know. You might be dealing with somebody who's cleaning out somebody's estate. They just throw the dirty laundry in a bag, drop it off at the youth ranch.

Would people really not wash clothes they pick up at the thrift store before wearing them? I don't even wear clothes I buy brand new before washing them because I don't know. Maybe some dirtbag tried it on before me. You just never know. So, yeah, wash them.

You're supposed to wash them in hot water. Yeah. They they might be covered in bugs and who knows what else from the the dirty person who had them before you. Makes me nervous about pretty much anything you pick up used. Am I buying books that are full of bed bugs?

Sorry. I just got out of a situation where I was at a couple hotels and anymore. You're always worried. Is a bed bug gonna climb into my suitcase and come home? Just grosses me out the thought of little bugs just bite me all night.

Okay. Sorry. You might have just woke up. My bad. It's not my fault.

I didn't mean to come across this article about dirty dirty thrift store clothes. Then I just start thinking of that creepy crawlies crawling all over you. Alright. Boxing back in the news. Doesn't happen too often.

Generally, it's because Mike Tyson is gonna be fighting somebody right or Jake Paul. Well, they're gonna be fighting each other Friday on Netflix. Gonna be airing at 6 PM mountain time. That would be 8 PM EST. Looks like they're doing it live as well, so it's pretty cool.

Not a fan of Jake Paul. I don't know. Just the Paul brothers, they're off putting to me. Alright? That's just my personal opinion.

Whatever. So I'm looking forward to seeing Mike just punch Jake Paul right in the face and knock him out. What I actually guess will happen is it's gonna be a lot less exciting than we hope. Any of these recent big touted matches in the last number of years Like, who did Jake Paul fight? Was it, like, Floyd Mayweather or something?

It was kind of a snooze fest, but Mike Tyson's monster. You know? He's he's he's a beast, So maybe it will be pretty good. I'm I'm gonna tune in and check it out for sure because, I mean, even if it's not a vicious battle, there's a guarantee that Jake Paul is gonna get punched in the face by Mike Tyson. Right?

Anyway, apparently, Jake Paul, according to the betting odds, favored to win. I mean, he is less than half of Mike Tyson's age. Mike Tyson, like, 58 years old, but anyway, that'll be going down Friday, and, I would assume most people are gonna be tuned in because why not? Why not watch a, live Mike Tyson boxing match? So yeah.

We'll I'm sure be talking about that Monday unless it's the snooze fest that I truly expect it will be just based on the previous matches I've seen like this with a lot of hype. You know, you got a YouTuber versus a legendary boxer, and then nothing happens because they gotta stretch it out as long as possible. Netflix doesn't have commercials, though. I don't know. Maybe there's not gonna be advertiser demand to draw this match out as long as possible.

I get conspiratorial when it comes to, some major sporting events especially things like this where okay. The longer it goes on, the more money there is to be made. Time spent watching. Yeah. In radio, we call it time spent listening TV.

I believe it would be time spent watching as a metric. Very important. So as I scrolled through the Internet, I came across a post. Somebody saying they wanted to go to Vegas with their dad, but their dad is very concerned about Vegas being dangerous and all of the hotels being run by organized crime. And so the guy was looking for advice on how to convince his dad that Vegas isn't what it used to be.

I would assume a quick YouTube video would do that, but I don't know. Some people, you just can't change the way they think. I was just in Vegas. Alright? Far as I could tell, it's pretty chill.

Alright? I talked about this before I took off. Was looking for an affordable place to stay because the CEMA show was happening in Vegas. And, therefore, every single person on the planet who was into cars was in Vegas. Alright?

Hotel prices were the most expensive I've ever seen them. Generally, Vegas. A place you can go and, you know, enjoy a pretty affordable vacation. Not the case last weekend. Alright?

So my friend Nick and I, we got a room at what according to YouTube is the worst hotel on the strip, Circus Circus. Alright? You might be familiar with Circus Circus if you've seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. If you, you know, read the reviews online, most of the recent reviews were like, this place is fine. But anytime you find the worst places to stay, it's always gonna be there.

I gotta say after spending 2 nights at Circus Circus, yeah, the room wasn't anything fancy, but it was just fine. I didn't see anybody sketchy outside. The place is bright and colorful. You know, it's it's not modernized. You know, it's not all highfalutin like the Bellagio or the Palazzo or something.

I'll get into my thoughts later on the show on what they did to the Hard Rock Casino. But Circus Circus, if you're looking for a cheap place to stay and especially if you have kids, I think it would be just fine. Alright? It's not fancy, but it was fun. It was fun.

They have an amusement park in there. They have video games, cheap souvenirs, food. It was just fine. Alright? So anyhow, the SEMA show's going down, and it was actually happening right across the street from Circus Circus.

So we decided let's walk over there and see, you know, what we can check out before they kick us out because we saw the people walking around with the passes and, you know, figure, alright. Those will get you somewhere, but maybe we can see some of this. Turns out everything outside of the convention center, we were able to look at, so we checked out a bunch of cool vehicles. I need to go post some of those on social since I know we got people into cars around here. Saw a lot of really cool stuff.

And then they were having the burnout competition. Now I'd never seen one of these in person. I assume somebody pulls in, you know, holds down the brakes and just starts, you know, burning their tires. It was it was more than that. They're whipping all over this, you know, little tiny area kicking up so much smoke.

You can't really see the vehicles, But you can hear them coming in. It sounds like they're just gonna smash right into you. I posted video of this on Instagram. We lasted about 5 minutes at the burnout competition. How people sit there and watch the entire thing, I have no idea because I mean, do you like the smell for 1 of burning tires?

Like, thick, nasty smoke just billowing into your face. It's not very pleasant. Alright? Seems seems unhealthy. But aside from that, we got covered in pieces of tire like little tiny microscopic pieces of tire or asphalt.

You know, we left after watching the one burnout that I posted a video of. I had to shower afterward. I had black streaks all over myself. Yep. I was filthy.

I was filthy. So I do not recommend burnout competitions unless you're, like, far away. They need, you know, arena style seating that's, you know, significantly further away from the event than we were. Because we were right next to it. It seemed like a giant smoky monster just barreling towards you.

There's no way to describe what it was like if you weren't there. You can watch the video. But, man, was it nasty. So so that was our experience with the SEMA show. Aside from that, the strip itself was filled with lunatics in their over the top vehicles all night when we were out walking around Friday night.

And some of them were really cool vehicles. Some of them were cringey vehicles. It's how I'll put it. And the cringey vehicles could generally be spotted by no. You you got these gigantic jacked up trucks, and I I drive a lifted truck.

It's fine. I don't know. The if if you've got a whole bunch of, you know, 20 year old dudes in the back screaming and yelling, You're doing burnouts in the middle of the strip. I'm sure it's fun, but I I did find some of these guys to be a little bit cringey. And it was all night.

All night with the burnouts on the strip. Vegas, I guess, they don't care. So, anyway, I did get to see a bit of the SEMA show. It made my hotel stay a lot more expensive than it needed to be, but it I don't know. It was alright.

It was something something to see. So go check out that video of the burnout competition and, Yeah. I don't know. If you're into, breathing in the most horrific smoke and getting covered in tire parts, you might like it, but just wasn't quite my jam. It was interesting.

You know? It was it was an experience, but that was a one time deal for me. Freak news powered by Grease Monkey voted Idaho's best oil change. Hey. What's up?

It's Victor Wilt. Morning. Alright. Are you getting ready for the day sitting on the can listening to this show? Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes.

Yeah. Apparently, doctors are saying it's bad for you. It might be the only time you can get any peace and quiet from your family, but you're gonna have to just stand in the bathroom and stare at your phone. Alright? Apparently, sitting on your phone longer than 10 minutes can lead to an increased risk of weakened muscles and hemorrhoids.

Doctor said, generally, they'll ask patients when they come in with complaints. How long do you sit on the can? Oh, you're sitting there for too long. No longer than 10. Alright?

What if you get yourself, one of those old fashioned toilet seats like grandma used to have, the padded ones? You don't see those around much anymore, do you? Kinda like a carpeted bathroom. Disgusting. I mean, the padded ones probably ain't too bad unless they get a little hole in them.

You know? Then that foam, it's just soaking up whatever. Gross. Alright. What else do we have here?

If you've recently wrapped your Cybertruck what do we have? Like, 3 of those in the area? I guess some people are finding that some wraps are, staining their Cybertruck when they take the wrap off. So you put some kind of stupid words. Like, I saw one when we were driving around Vegas.

Maybe it was in Utah, and they kinda made it look like an old fashioned, like, wood paneled station wagon. It was a terrible wrap. It looked so stupid. I mean, I'm I'm all down with people driving whatever vehicle they want. You wanna drive a Cybertruck?

That's fine. You know, I I can't afford it. Good for you. But, man, if that person who put that stupid wood paneled wrap on takes it off and it's stained to the side, they're gonna really feel like an idiot. It was it was just terrible looking.

Anyway, I I don't know. Maybe that's certain kinds of raps, but nothing I gotta worry about anytime soon. But I think I'm gonna have a $100 for a new vehicle. No. Alright.

This next article will tell you why. CNN host Chris Wallace leaving network after 3 years to explore a possible full time podcasting career. Yeah. If it's more lucrative to potentially start a podcast from scratch than be one of the main broadcasters on a 247 National News Network. It ain't looking good for the the media biz.

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That's why I can't afford a Cybertruck. I work in radio. K? This is a regular old blue collar job in 2024. It's not like the old days.

Yeah. When I was a kid, you know, you'd see these radio guys and be like, wow. They're making all this money, and they get to just work such a fun job. And they're like, well, it's a kind of fun job. The end.

Alright. Well, I'm I'm not I'm not about to just bail on radio. Okay? I I ain't got that Chris Wallace money. This guy's been broadcasting for who knows how many decades.

He's 77 years old. He's the type of guy who could afford to go ahead and quit. Yeah. Also, you're 77. Just retire already.

K? Hey. Am I pretty enough to get a job on CNN? All you gotta do is read a teleprompter. News is easy.

I get on here and I wing it. I'm talking, talking out of my butt. I almost said, something else, but Jade wouldn't like that. Yeah. Yeah.

I just jump on and go. There ain't no script for me, Chris. Okay. Anything else here for freaking news? Don't drink, 4 and a half liters of Doctor Pepper a day.

You'll mess up your teeth. You might die too. Tom Bowey, he had to go to a, like, a psychiatrist or hypnotist to help get off of doctor Pepper. How hard is it to get off doctor Pepper? I mean, I guess it's delicious, but there's other ways to get caffeine.

How much caffeine do you get if you drink 4 liters of doctor Pepper a day? Anyway, that makes my teeth hurt to even think about. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey, voted Idaho's best oil change. I got poppy coming up and more. Hang on.

It's the Victor Will show. We got peaches in the house. Anything exciting happened in East Idaho in the last 5 days? In East Idaho, I mean, we got some snow yesterday. I Your grand return.

Yeah. I did wake up to that and was very disappointed. I did not get out and, deal with it in any way. I'm hoping it'll just melt and go away. Go away, snow.

I was in perfect weather for 5 days. It was beautiful. Was it nice and hot down there? Yeah. Yeah.

You know, I wore shorts for about 3 days. Wow. You know? When because we did 2 days in Vegas, one day in Phoenix. Once we left Phoenix, it just got cold again.

So, you know, when once you get out of Nevada and Arizona, just turns to crap. You know, you roll into Utah. It's just what happens. Turns crappy and cold and Utah y. So, yeah, it was a good time, man.

The show was really good. I mean, it was one of those, like, just the greatest musicianship of all time type of shows where you just sit there and go, holy crap. How do these guys do it? It it was really cool. It was really cool.

You're wondering why exactly I took up the guitar. Exactly. After seeing those guys play. And, dude, you you're watching, you know, Adrian Balu. He's 73 years old.

73 years old. And he's just up there singing and playing the most complex stuff you could possibly imagine and killing it. It it was so crazy. The disappointing thing I had relating to the show was the actual venue it took place in. Where the show itself was was fine.

But this casino, it used to be the Hard Rock Casino. They did a lot of rock radio conventions there. It's off strip a little ways. And, you know, it was not a fancy place or anything, but rock memorabilia all over the place. It was just a fun place to hang out.

And now, it's the Virgin Casino. And they made it all, like, typical modern Vegas, really fancy. You know, the crowd that was hanging out there was the typical just kinda what's the or Jade would be happy with me using to describe him. Anyway, a bunch of people I wouldn't wanna hang out with. Bunch of, hipsters?

That type of crowd? Not not hipsters. Just, tourists with a lot of money, you know. Rich snobs. Snobby people.

Yeah. Yeah. And I the vibes of this casino, they just sucked. We got out of there right when the show was done. I don't know.

Vegas itself is a place I like for about 2 days. You know? And that was about the perfect amount. We got up after the show, and we're like, let's get out of here and get to Phoenix where things are better. You know?

There's a lot to see in Vegas. It's very overwhelming with all of the, flashing lights and screens and but I I don't know. It's just gotten to be really expensive. And I don't I don't know. It's it's a 2 dayer.

2 dayer. But once we got down to Phoenix, it was real nice. Hung out with the kids. I gave Matt, one of my guitars as a late birthday present, and so I I think he earned it. This kid, you know, he earned one of my personal guitars at this point.

What do you like, Master Shifu? Like, here's my guitar, Yun Paddawong. That's right. Is that a big deal? You know?

You've been dating my daughter now for quite some time. Here's a guitar for you. Exactly. Yeah. I was like, alright.

You've you've earned your keep. You're taking care of my daughter. You're doing good for yourself. You gave me a place to crash. Here's a guitar.

So yeah, it was nice. We went out to eat at the restaurant my daughter works at, and it was really good. And then we got up, bombed back through, Northern Arizona, went through Sedona to, Kanab, Utah where we were finally exhausted and just crashed out. But weather was perfect the entire way Good. Till I woke up yesterday morning to a bunch of snow, which was annoying.

It was sort of warm when you left and you were gone and all that, but then right as you came back, the snow appeared. It's your fault. Yeah. I, brought it back from Utah. You know, I'll blame Utah because it it was perfect in Vegas and, Phoenix.

It it was wonderful. Not a cloud in sight. I actually got a little bit of a tan. I had to Woah. Slap some sunscreen on because when we went over to that SEMA show thing, I was getting roasted.

It was like 60 degrees but the sun was just brutal. Yeah. Once again, on our Instagram, you posted the exact same time that I did. My video was uploading and then I saw on my phone it says an unrecognized device is now trying to log in to your Instagram in so and so Nevada and I'm like, oh, there's Victor. He's about to upload something right as I'm finishing this up.

Yeah. That was that was nasty, man, being in that, that burnout competition. I mean, not like in it like a participant, but I I I got my one time experience of a burnout competition. Watched, 2 different vehicles and were like, okay. We gotta get out of here because I was covered in tire parts and, just all covered in black streaks.

Had to go take a shower afterward. Did you check out that mega t shirt store in Phoenix? Went to the mega rocks t shirt store. I've sent it to Tarrin before. Yeah.

I I didn't have much time to do anything in Phoenix. We got in in the afternoon, you know, checked out the kid's house, went and got some food, went to sleep, got up, and left. It was most of the trip was just driving. I listened to a lot of the Marc Maron podcast, WTF pod, if you've never checked that one out. For years.

Oh, yeah. It's it's good. It's good stuff. Listen to interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Uh-huh.

Listen to, Les Claypool, Billy Strings. Listen to a bunch of that. It was good stuff and a lot of stand up comedy, you know. I I find that, if you're making a long drive, talk is the way to go. Music music doesn't help the drive go by as quick.

So No. You're you're totally right. I only listen to podcasts in my car for the most part. So it was good. It was good.

But good to be back too, you know. It's always always nice getting home, hang out with the cats, be lazy. So And Josh was on top of his duties. He He was. Care of the To good care of my little kitties.

Yeah. The little kitties. So I forgot the souvenirs I brought. So What? Yeah.

I'll have to I take it you also forgot your camera too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I didn't remember anything this morning. So, anyway, I'm back.

We're doing it live. So I just spent, like, 5 days driving. That was pretty much the bulk of my time off just out on the big open road out in the middle of the desert, driving endlessly. One good thing I gotta say about the areas of the west I traveled in, no toll roads. Yeah.

We just don't really have that as a thing out here. Maybe in Southern California, perhaps up near Seattle or something, but not like out east. And on the eastern part of the country, toll roads all over the place. And, apparently, you can rack up some pretty good bills, especially if you're driving in an RV. This family, they drove for, like, 45 miles on a toll road, and they're like, it might cost us, like, I don't know, 20, $30.

It ain't gonna be too bad. It's 40 miles. Each way was about 22 miles. Total bill that this family racked up, $576. Yeah.

Oh, man. I'd be furious. You know, you pop into that HOV lane. You're like, it is alright. It says 25¢ a mile.

That ain't too bad. Apparently, if they are, you know, weighing the vehicles or you know, you're paying a higher rate based on size, it could get to be really bad. Dynamic pricing, so it's a busy time of day. Dynamic pricing is the worst. That's why, concert tickets are so terrible.

It's why getting an Uber sucks. And, apparently, why just driving now has to suck. Well, thankfully, East Idaho is generally so far behind the times. I don't think we will have a toll road in this area in my lifetime, but who knows? Government's always trying to come up with new ways to make money.

I wouldn't be surprised to see I 15 suddenly turn into a toll road, but I'm hoping that ain't the case. Need every penny I can get right now. Alright. I figured you'd show up and give me some work. You know?

Oh, yeah. I got plenty for you. Don't you know I'm trying to play catch up here, buddy? I've got work. Alright?

You for going on vacation? I know. We need a normal job where you go on vacation and you're just on on vacation. Get back and you just get back to work, not do all the work before you go and then have to pick up, you know, the slack. Ugh.

It's terrible. What you get? Could be worse, though. Could work for Iheartmedia. Not work for Iheartmedia.

With that wonderful little bonus they gave all their employees for Christmas. Yeah. Have a nice vacation, a permanent vacation. Jeez. You can reapply next year Ugh.

And keep your job for 3 weeks 3 months 3 weeks. Yeah. Our business, man, I talked about an article earlier where one of the main CNN anchors, this, you know, old boomer guy. You know, he's he's old enough to retire, but he's like, yeah. Yeah.

I'm gonna go ahead and just, I think it's more lucrative to get into the podcasting business, so he's just quitting. That's that's the state of media. If you're, you know, one of the main anchors on a national 247 news channel, and you're like, yeah. I think I'll just start from scratch. Yeah.

That that's not good. That's pretty bad. But do you think I have the beauty to be on CNN? No. No?

I it all those people are really old. You don't even have the beauty to sit in a room by yourself. Speak for yourself. I'm I've seen myself in the mirror. Look at that guy.

Gross. Beards are getting all gray. Talk about it. Your yeah. Your beard's real gray.

The longer it gets, the more gray it seems to like, the ends. It's weird. Yeah. I know. I trimmed mine down a bit because it it looked a little bit less old when I chopped some of it off.

But the hair coming in on the sides because I I went about a week without shaving. Yeah. There are a lot of white hair there. I'm like, no. I'm just going for wizard status at this point.

Well, then you need to continue growing the hair on the top out because I wanna see you with long white hair and white beard. It's getting there. Yeah. It's it's that's the longest I've seen in quite a while. So that would be Just gonna keep combing it back.

Alright. I I'm down to see you turn into a straight up wizard. The world's thinnest wizard. Right. Let's see what this person wants.

They better be on topic. Kaye, you're live on the show. Keep that in mind. Who's this? I am not on topic, and this is Cheryl.

And I just wanted to say, Victor, you have the looks to fit anywhere you want. Oh, Cheryl. Thank you. Like under a bridge. Trolling it up.

Anywhere she wants, Jade. Anywhere she wants. Yeah. Alright. Ciao.

Wants and where he actually needs to be are 2 different things. You are on topic, Cheryl. You are certainly on topic. Don't don't inflate his ego. Goodness.

He needs less of it. Well, Cheryl, you're the listener of the week. Aw, how sweet. You guys are fantastic. Now play some music.

Okay. Alright. See? Shut up and play some music already. You got it, Cheryl.

Alright. Thank you, guys. Have a good day. See you. Alright.

Here's your music, Cheryl. When is that band gonna give us a new tour, Jay Davis? I was just thinking the same thing. It's been forever. It's been forever.

You know, and they're one of the best live bands on the planet. Besides the the light show but just their performance itself. They sound great but some bands sound great and they don't move or do anything. They're just shoegazers. Yeah.

Yeah. That is not 9 inch nails. No. No. I mean, they're not quite as wild as they were back in the day.

That's what happens when you get those little rickety bones. But they they still put on a pretty good show and move around quite a bit. Dude, that show I went to the other day, I was amazed at how much those old old fogies were moving around. Those old codgers? Yeah.

I mean, again, 73. And I'm sitting there going, oh, I'm sore from walking here. I'm sore from sitting. I I was sore from sitting because I I did all the driving and I noticed my arms. Like, the final day, I'm like, why do I feel like I've been pumping iron?

Oh, I held the steering wheel. Oh, I wasn't just pushing a button every once in a while and talking. Yeah. Yeah. Eventually, I had to hold on.

Exactly. I had to hold. Oh, it hurts. I will give you that drive between, what is it? Provo and Saint George.

Yeah. And that that whole section of road is terrible. Boring. Snooze fest. Boring.

Yeah, dude. Once you get past Provo, it's just a snooze tell about Saint George when something interesting to look at pops up. The last time I did that drive in that area, there was a a little wildfire. Ah. So it shut off part of the freeway, and it turned that from, what is it, 80 to, like, 35.

Ugh. And it was that whole section. What is that? Like a 100 and some odd miles? It it's a long 200 miles?

It's a long section. Dude, dude, I would have been 30 miles. An hour. It was terrible. Oh, I'd be so annoyed.

We made that 9 hour drive from Vegas into what I think it was like 14. Yeah. We, the route we took, we went from Idaho Falls all the way to Vegas, you know, so bombed that down on Thursday. Got checked in at Circus Circus, which I have determined is Don't ever stay there. Dude, it was just fine.

It was just fine. I wanna let everybody know your bag, so I guess that fits. Alright. You and I stayed at the low quality inn in downtown Salt Lake City. Alright.

Low quality inn. So I figured with the reputation on YouTube that Circus Circus has, it was gonna be on par or worse. Well, you didn't stay in the buildings that are out back. No. The the that's No.

That's that's worse than the quality inn. We stayed in the tower. One of the towers, the cheaper tower. Yep. It was not cheap because of the stupid car show.

Shout out to anybody who was there. I know there had to be people from around here because there's people into cars. But, Circus Circus, I thought it was pretty fun. You know? It was kinda my kinda place.

It was very Do they still have the 2 foot cheese dogs in the lobby there? I didn't see that. For, like, $2? Those were always my favorite. No.

I didn't see that. Traveling as a band and neither the cheap place to eat and stay. Yeah. They they had the small food court with, like, Burger King and, some kind of a bagel place. And I don't know.

I I didn't get any food in there other than, a Krispy Kreme donut once I got back from the the concert. This hot dog had a normal bun, but the dog itself was, like, 2 feet long, so it just hang up and then they slathered this thing with the liquid nacho cheese and not just where the bun was. That sounds great. Just a walking disaster. That sounds like a walking disaster.

It was only, like, $2. But, yeah. I was expecting, like, chaos outside, sketchy people everywhere. It was just fine. Just fine.

So from Vegas after the show, then we drove, to Phoenix, which is 5 ish hours, stayed overnight, got up first thing in the morning, drove to Kanab through Sedona. So that was, like, an extra long way. And then from there, woke up and drove from Kanab all the way back to Idaho Falls. I was so mad when I left Kanab because I just happened to end up on the highway behind state patrol. I'm like, of course, I would not be speeding in this area where there's no Are you disgracing lieutenant Gray's profession?

It wasn't him. It was Utah state patrol. Who who they? Like, what's the luck of getting stuck behind a cop on a road that everybody's speeding on? You gotta be kidding me.

And it was a there's no way to know. You're a host of Travis School. I know I wouldn't speed, but I do you know what's trying to think from the perspective of someone else who would be in my position. It was really funny in, in, Nevada and Arizona. Nobody obeyed the speed limit anywhere.

Like, there were all these zones that were, like, 60, 65. People doing 90. Yep. So, you know, you just go with the flow of traffic and, you know, you see the cops drive by, like, well, okay. Alright.

So, I I, of course, did not actually do that to anybody. I didn't speed just to go with the flow of traffic. I I kept it slow like an old man and just puttered along, you know, like a good boy. And then we did stay at the quality in in Kanab. It was not a low quality in.

It was a mid quality? It was it was Or just low? I call it average quality. Okay. An average quality.

I was a little bit nervous, but it it was it was good quality. Not great quality, but it was good quality, and it was cheap after dumping all that money into holy cow. Circus circus. I can't believe we paid that much money, but it it was fun. I'd like, for you and you got kids, I bet your kids would have a blast at that place.

Yeah. I've never taken my kiss of Vegas until they're 21. Why? You don't want them to see anything crazy? No.

Maybe I wanna go do something crazy. Oh, okay. You wanna actually have fun? Yeah. Okay.

The last time I rolled through, the Circus Circus was, I don't know, 18 years ago when I was still playing in an abandoned, the singer, and one of our little roadie guys decided they were gonna go wander around the strip at, like, 1 in the morning. Mhmm. And before they went, they decided to wear only their whitey tighties. Did they get arrested? No.

Surprisingly enough. Wow. They it was during a time there's another convention down there that revolves around that and they pretended to be part of that. Okay. So yeah.

That scene. Kinda like why they weren't arresting the guys in the trucks who were just doing burnouts on the strip. You know, they they made a lot of money off that crew. So they pretended to be these actors Oh. And ended up taking all kinds of photos with random people.

That's a good that's a good way to do it. You imagine tattoo you remember what my old singers and they looked like all tattooed and Yeah. Disheveled with big flock of seagulls hair? Yes. Just tighty whiteys.

Yeah. It is one of those places where it's surprising when people walk around. With one of those hot dogs I was talking about. What's happening? Did you talk yesterday about the, or today about the, sexiest bald men list of 2024?

I figured I didn't need to because I'm at the top of the list. No. I haven't seen that. Somehow Prince William made it to number 1. And number 2 was The Rock.

3 was Shaq. And Danny DeVito made it to number 7, and we're not even on the dating list. Dating list. Prince William, the sexiest bald man. That's just because people are obsessed With the royal family.

With the royal family and celebrities. Isn't it funny? I would assume that movie stars would pop up in the list, but not I mean, Prince William has the horseshoe haircut. He does. He's my dad's haircut.

Yeah. If you have the horseshoe haircut, you are not on the sexiest list. Alright? Horseshoe haircuts gotta go. You do that as a goof.

Like, Halloween, like, hey, I'm gonna grow it out and be old guy for Halloween. Phil has that same haircut. Yeah. And doctor Phil is terrible on about 10,000,000 different levels, peaches. Like, Dave Ramsey also has that haircut too.

Dave Ramsey, another turd. Josh Tyler from class of 97. When he grows his out, he has the horseshoe look. Josh Tyler, another turd. No.

I like Josh. But Danny DeVito, to see him pop up on the list. As well. He does have the horseshoe. He's, like, 3 feet tall.

I I like his inclusion on the list for sure. All the rest of the people, what what did you have? Vin Diesel? Yeah. Terry Crews on there.

Alright. Samuel L. Jackson. I'm does is Jason Jason Statham on the list? I didn't see him in on there.

Shaq? Yeah. Shaq? Yeah. There you go.

Yeah. I mean, this is just basically a list of the 10 most well known bald people. Right. Yeah. That's essentially it.

You know? Because there have to be better looking guys than Samuel L. Jackson. You know? He's in his seventies.

He's super old, and, you know, he's got a a look to him. But when I think of Samuel l Jackson, I don't think of, like, a sexy man. You think of, like, that pulp fiction meme? I think of someone who's gonna, you know, scream profanity at you before he kills you. You know?

A very aggressive and scary man, Samuel l Jackson. Well, I guess I gotta try harder, Peach. Both of us. I don't see either of us on this list. We're getting beat by Vin Diesel and people who I don't even know who they are.

We'll just scream family on the show and then see if we can make it. Is is that how how you do it? I guess that's that's what Vin Diesel's career is all about. Oh, yeah. It's what a clip from the one of those car movies.

The Fast and the Furious. Yeah. You haven't seen any one of those movies? No. Really?

Is the plot worth digging in? The older ones are great. Once you get past 5, it's like, okay. What's going on here? Because to me, it's like, okay.

Guys, fast cars. I don't know. I just I it's never been one that I'm like, I gotta find out what's up with these guys and going fast. It is more than just cars. There was, like, shooting.

There's a whole bunch of stuff. Alright. Well, I do like movies with some good, shooting. What did I watch recently? I watched a couple good movies.

I watched a really, weird movie on Netflix. What do you want? The Platform. The Platform. I don't think I've seen that.

It's when the table comes down each level and there's people on each level and some the people at the top get the food right off the bat. The people on level, like, 250 get nothing. Oh. So they have to, like, fight to the death essentially. I'll have to check that out.

I watched, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Okay. And I hadn't seen that. Have you read the book at all? No. I have the books.

Haven't read them. And then we watched, it's a Quentin Tarantino movie called Inglourious blank. Oh. And, I think Jade wouldn't like it if I said that word even though it's fine. Inglorious blank, and that one was a lot of fun.

It's a great movie and, nothing like just watching the Nazis get just mowed down brutally. I've it was good. It was good. Hadn't watched it in a few years. It's still just as good as it always was.

Pretty brutal. Pretty brutal. I feel like working for him would be the worst thing ever. Being an actor under Quentin Tarantino. Oh.

You think so? Man, it would he'd be micromanaging you. He'd be telling you how to do certain things. I'm I'm sure. He's screaming in your face.

Is he a screamer? A scream in your face kinda guy? He's a full thing that Jamie Foxx was talking to Howard Stern about experiencing what it's like to deal with Quentin Tarantino. In that, what was the name of the movie he was in? He was also in Inglourious blank.

Jamie Foxx was? No. Was it was it Django Unchained? He was in Django Unchained. Yeah.

That's what it is. That movie is really good too. I've I've really really like that movie. Can't repeat what he said, but it's funny. K Bear, you are live on the show.

Please keep that in mind. Who's this? Listen, fellas. This is doctor Phil. Okay.

I heard you talking about my haircut. And, Victor, I heard you were flexing that you have some butts, and that, my friend, is just a straight up lie. Everyone here knows that you can't read. That's why you're on radio. Oh, doctor Phil saying I can't read, Well That's okay.

That's okay. Do do you have my tapes? They're they're very easy to listen to. Your tapes. Yeah.

Because that that's the only way I can get through a book is a book on tape. I can't imagine anything being more fulfilling in life than listening to a doctor Phil book on tape. Well, there is a doctor Phil comedy special out there right now. Yeah. But it's not doctor a lot of different books.

In fact, I just finished a, reading of, the stand by mister Stephen King, fantastic book, by the way. It wasn't a huge fan about how Walter White dies at the end, but, Oh, okay. You know, this is the first, as far as I recall with doctor Phil calling into the show, we haven't gotten any celebrity calls in a while. Usually it's like Gene Simmons and people like that. So Beavis and Butthead was the one recently for me.

Yeah. Really though, I I I've spoke to them. I've met both Mr. Pincus and Mr. Butthead.

And I am I I I'm a fan of their work. They're, fantastic gentlemen. Have you have you guys had a call from, what what's that fella's name? Lassie. Lassie the dog.

Lassie the dog. Blue blue doctor Phil's mind. You know, it's been a while, doctor Phil, since Lassie called in, so you'll have to work that out for us. You know? I couldn't give up with a better name.

I apologize, but That's fine. Well, thank you, doctor Phil. Sorry. Guys can play more music. Alright.

We we plan on it. Yeah. Talk to you later. See you. Have a good day, brother.

Love the hair. Love the hair. Love the Well, thank you. Thank you, doctor Feld. Oh, jeez.

Show's already over. My goodness. Anyway, good to be back. Thank you for all the nice calls from people who said they were happy I was back. Didn't get any calls from people saying, not you again.

Had it with your crap. Yeah. Everybody was being very kind. So thank you for that. Means a lot.

What else is going on here before I go? Oh, I guess I would like to advise against doom spending. A lot of people to cope with stress are not, you know, boozing it up, which is good. But instead, they're just buying a bunch of stuff. Splurging on new clothes or, I don't know, fancy foods.

I think the problem is these Black Friday sales that are just popping up and it's not even, you know, the middle of the month yet. We're close to it, but Black Friday's not for over 2 weeks. I got a mailer from Best Buy. I got an email from Walmart. Check out all our deals, man.

Come on. Look at these deals. Well, I don't know what to tell you. Sometimes spending money can make you feel a little bit better till you look at your bank account after, and you're like, oh, how did that happen? Generally, for me, it's from paying bills.

You know, I'll, like, pay all the bills and then be like, okay, what's left in the bank account, which is generally not much of anything. I like to have a, like, something in there. So I, you know, feel like, well, if I get the Iheartradio treatment, all of a sudden, I'm booted. Maybe I'll be able to get by for a week. Maybe.

So not a lot of doom spending going on in the Victor Wilt household much as I'd like to. Not these days. Anyway, 70% of Gen zers doing a little bit of zoom or, doom spending. Who better than Gen z to do it, though? Right?

You're young. When you're young is the time to be a little irresponsible. I mean, you could totally screw your life up but, hey, you know, buying some stupid Black Friday sale. There's much worse things you could do as far as your life goes than buy a stupid item that you probably don't need. I'm not encouraging reckless spending.

But, again, there are worse things you can do. Does bad news make me spend money? Not usually. Usually, it makes me, less likely to spend money. Yeah.

It's when I just lay on the couch, lay in the recliner, and watch movies that make me feel terrible. Yeah. Alright. Anyway, I'm gonna get out of here, people. I'll be back for the noon hour of madness and mayhem.

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