#0211 - It's My Birthday! - 06/06/2025
Happy Friday. Alright. Let's talk about great albums. Why not? And you can feel free to call in on this one.
Phone's ringing off the hook this morning. My plan to try to get things done. It's not working out, but I don't mind because I like talking to all of y'all. So if you wanna call in (208) 535-1015, question that I just posted in the k Bear one zero one Idaho rock and metal group, what album is a straight masterpiece from start to finish? No skip.
Alright. I got a number of them that I could recommend to you. Some of you may disagree on these but come on. Everybody has their own opinion. Alright.
We'll start with my all time favorite album, Toole lateralis. I mean, honestly, all of Tool's albums are masterpieces start to finish, but that one that one's the best one. That's in my opinion. What else do we got? Masterpiece start to finish.
No skips. Ghost, Meliora, another great one. Nine inch nails, the fragile, which I was listening to, just the other day. The downward spiral by nine inch nails, also masterpiece, start to finish. How about Poppy?
I disagree. Yeah. That has become one of my favorite albums of all time. Opeth, Deliverance. I mean, I could name masterpiece albums all day.
What are people saying online? Let's take a look here. See if I've heard any of these, if I agree. Somebody said songs in the key of life by Stevie Wonder. I don't believe I've listened to that full album.
Shame upon me. You know, we got all the, the hipsters out in full force on Reddit, apparently. If you like jazz, check out Kinda Blue by Miles Davis. I don't know if I've heard that one either. Massive attack, mezzanine.
I don't know if I've heard that. I've I've only heard a little bit of, massive attack but they're they're pretty good. Jeff Buckley Grace. Yeah. Another alright.
Am I just not musically literate? You know? If I've just been living in the rock and metal world or something and I'm missing out on a lot of stuff. Okay. Nirvana Unplugged in New York.
I have heard that. I think if you're a a rock listener, you've heard that album. Right? I mean, it's been a long time since I listened to it. I I like Nirvana Unplugged, but I prefer the, the studio albums myself.
You know? Unplugged is fine. It's it's good. Oh, there's somebody named, The Downward Spiral. I could certainly agree because I already said that I did.
Oh, Dark Side of the Moon. I mean, come on. How could I have not thought of that one? Obviously, flawless start to finish. One of the greatest albums of all time, and I know I'm not alone on that one.
It's a it's a pretty popular album. Oh, The Beatles? Beatles, Sergeant Pepper? Think I'd have to throw that one in the mix. What else people got here?
I mean, it's not like I'm gonna suddenly start listening to something new today. I'm just gonna be, treating myself with all my favorite stuff. Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie. That is a really good album. Yeah.
I haven't heard of a lot of this stuff. Aja by Steely Dan. Postal Service, Give Up. Okay. Alice in Chains, Dirt.
That's a great album I'm glad they didn't you know take the unplugged route whoever left that response Oh that I haven't listened to that album in quite a while that's that's good stuff Rage Against the Machine self titled album. Really good. Okay. There we go. Lateralus.
That didn't show up on this list. I'd be very disappointed. Songs for the death by Queens of the Stone Age. Another masterpiece. I mean that that's another band that like all of their stuff is so good.
You know, talked about that a little bit yesterday. I'm sure I'll play some of them today. You know, I should probably bookmark this particular thread and, take a look at some of these albums. You know, it's it's always good to listen to new music. You don't wanna be one of those old people who are like I I don't like new music.
Meh. I mean I've I've I've found lots of really great bands that I really like in the last few years. Sleep token. You know? Crazy enough, though, as much as I like Take Me Back to Eden, there's still, like, a song or two on it that I'm like, Yeah.
And I I won't say which songs because I don't I don't wanna make Sleep Token fans mad. Sleep Token fans are, kinda crazy. Alright. Anyway, there's some album recommendations for you here. Now what do I wanna hear?
What music do I wanna hear? We already played some tool earlier. I'd throw that on. I guess we could go, Queens. Yeah.
Queens of the stone age. We'll kick off the hour with some of that. Alright. Hang on. I'll be back in a minute.
I don't know why I'm putting on songs that I wanna hear because, you know, the phones are just blowing up, and I'm not listening to them. Just talking to y'all, which is good, which is fine. I appreciate it. But, yeah, might as well let the the playlist just roll. Alright.
What do we got here? It's making the, content digging difficult as well. You know what what a turd I am. You know complaining. Oh, having such a rough time.
Can't get my work done because everybody's being so nice to me. All right. Maybe I'll, just try to do better. I was reading about a Florida man who got arrested. You know, no surprise.
He's a Florida man. Apparently, something happened with this restaurant called Poppy Steak in Miami Beach. And I gotta figure out because this article doesn't say here. I like, I don't know if Gordon Ramsey did a episode of, like, you know, what whatever it is when the restaurant sucks. You know what I'm talking about.
I don't remember the name of that show. So this guy, he was apparently upset that he was in some kind of a Gordon Ramsay documentary. So he goes to this poppy steak restaurant, has a a u lock, and locks everyone inside the building, and then demands $6,000,000. Yeah. Then they just showed up and, you know, kicked the door and then arrested him.
Let's see. He was arrested for attempted extortion, criminal mischief, and possession of Adderall which is, you know, unique for a Florida man. Usually, it's just good old fashioned meth but, I guess this is a slightly classier Florida man going with the, you know prescription style upper there. Anyway, he looks very happy in his mugshot too. How do you look happy in a mugshot?
Trying to think what kind of crime you could get arrested for that you'd be stoked. Like, yeah, that was me. Anyway, I was just trying to find, some kind of story I could use to, you know, twist into an advocate spot because I gotta get that done. I have a feeling I need to get as much done as possible before Lieutenant Crane gets here in about an hour and a half for traffic school powered by the advocates. Man, I'm gonna be, like, asleep by the end of this show after that much talking.
It'll be fun, though. It'll be fun. It's a celebration. I'm gonna keep digging. I swear I'm trying to do a good show.
I swear. It's gotta improve eventually. I'll take some other routes to try to find stupid news. Florida man letting me down. Anyway, back in a Alright, dudes.
Can you stop being a bunch of creeps? Sup with guys sometimes? You know, I I just don't understand some of the behavior I read about online. Let's, let's talk about what this website calls the perv of the day. What do you what do you think, if I threw that to the sales department?
I got a a great new feature for my show. Please get this out to all potential clients so they can sponsor it. The perv of the day powered by yeah. Okay. So that's, of course, another Florida man.
He was in the hospital, and I guess he was he released? All I know is that he was standing out in front of the hospital, but he was still wearing his, his hospital gown. And apparently, you know, it's 06:30AM. He's standing out front and he's just lifting up his hospital gown, showing it all off, and asking people to, you know, hey. Could you check this out for me?
He was seeking advice and opinions as to whether things appeared to be swollen. And then, yeah, I guess he just started shaking things around. He's wearing the, hospital gown in his mugshot. Yeah. Don't do that, dudes.
He was at the hospital. If you're concerned about swelling, you go inside and be like, hey, can I talk to a doc? Because then you can get in a situation where it'll be acceptable to show someone you know put the potential mess under your hospital gown and they'll let you know if things are swollen. So yeah you also just can't shake things around at passerby. You're going to, go to jail.
You're gonna end up on a list. It's just no good, you know? Or go home. Call a friend. You might be able to have a friend check things out.
I mean, you know, I don't know if your friends are gonna wanna see that that potential disaster but, yeah. Can you imagine? It's 06:30AM. I mean, no nobody wants to even be up at that time. And, you know, when they called it a passerby in the article, this whoever this person was, you know, I take it they're, you know, either on their way to work or maybe they've got another family member who's hospitalized.
Nobody needs to put up with this at 06:30AM. Okay? It's just too early for that. You know, that that type of creep behavior is something you expect late at night. Alright?
And certainly not in front of a hospital. You know, maybe outside of a sketchy bar or something like that. Maybe outside of a, a gas station in a bad area of town. You know, I gotta say, Facebook kinda sucks. Alright?
So this morning, you know, with it being my my birthday and all, all of you wonder wonderful people are sending me happy birthday messages, and I'm doing my best to, you know, give them a like and tell people thank you. Because last year, I didn't, have any time to respond to the birthday messages till, you know, after my birthday. So, you know, there were a lot of them. And I was like, alright. I'm gonna sit down.
I'm gonna tell all these people thanks because it really does mean a lot to me. So today, I was like, alright. I'm just gonna keep up on it. I'm gonna try to, you know, hit them as they come. There was, like, 50 of them when I got to work.
The problem is Facebook doesn't like it if you engage in too much activity. You know, if you're, like, clicking like too many times or typing too many messages. So my Facebook, it just keeps crashing. Like, it's just frozen. So if I, you know, don't respond to your birthday message.
I'm sorry. I'm trying because I do appreciate them. But it's just so annoying. Like, what? Why give people the option Do you know have a slew of birthday messages?
But then they have a website that doesn't operate well enough for you to, go ahead and respond to these things. Because I don't wanna look like a jerk. Like, oh, he said thank you to all those other people, but I guess he doesn't like me. No. I appreciate every message.
It's very, very kind. Facebook just sucks. But I think, you know, birthday is about the best day of the year on Facebook because, you know, it's just a, you know, influx of, a nice steady stream of nice, which well, if only social media was always that way. It's definitely a change of pace from some of the messages I've been getting recently. Sorry.
You know? Sometimes I post what's on my mind. And, some people, you know, just can't keep scrolling. They gotta meltdown. Anyway, I'm currently in the process of trying to dig up a little bit of freak news as well.
So hopefully, I could find that. The other websites out there seem to be working fantastic. Just, Facebook giving me some grief today just by trying to say thank you. Yeah. Last year, I couldn't even view all of them.
I would try to you know, it's like click here and view 10 more or whatever, and it it would just crash. So they need to figure out a new system. Alright? Anyhow, I'm gonna get back to the, freak news digging. Hopefully, it won't suck.
I'm I'm trying today. I'm doing my best. Alright. Yeah. Wish me luck.
There are a lot of stories today about creepy dudes in the news. I think this is what the the one we've done on the show. And I've skipped a bunch because they were just too nasty. Alright? This one, I'm gonna I think we can work around this.
You know, imagine you take a vacation to Miami. It's it's always Florida man, isn't it? So this woman, she's in her hotel room, and she's taking a shower. And an employee at the St. Regis Bal Harbour.
Well, he uses the master key to get into her room, and then he just stands outside the shower, staring at her for, like, I don't know, three minutes or so. She spots and screams. He runs away. So she calls host you know, the front desk hotel security and, like, hey. Some guy was just staring at me in the shower for I don't know how long.
And she waited hours for a response they finally get back to her and I'm like oh sorry yeah that that guy just went in the wrong room but then they checked the security footage and yeah they see that he was in there for at least three minutes You know you walk into the wrong room you see that somebody's showering. If it was a mistake you want to run out screaming like oh I can't believe this happened. Oh jeez I'm gonna get fired. They offered to, give her a bottle of wine for the inconvenience. I have a feeling they're gonna be paying out a little bit more on that one.
It's what's up with these just creeps? Okay. What else do we have here? Virginia has passed a law to limit time that teens spend on social media to one hour a day. I I guess they're going to require all social media companies to set some kind of a a timer on the apps for users 16, and parents will have the ability to adjust the time up and down.
Now social media is it's bad for your brain unless it's your birthday. That's the only day that social media is good for your brain. So, I mean, I think it's good to try to encourage your kids to stay off social media. Because, you know, especially when you're young, you think a lot of things are important. You know, like I've talked about when you're in high school, there's all these cliques and, you know, you got the popular group and there's all this drama.
And then the minute you're done with school, it all meant nothing. Like, I can't imagine being a kid and dealing with social media in in the current age, but do we need to pass laws to do this? Isn't there more important things that the, you know, legislators in Virginia could do? I guarantee they've got problems. It's like around here.
You know? Let's ban truck nuts, but, oh, we just can't do anything about daylight saving time. Something that everybody agrees is just useless and stupid. Okay. Sorry.
I'm gonna get on a tangent here. That's just my go to. If we have to put up with all this crap, at least do away with the daylight saving time, the time change every six months. K? That's coming from a tired person this morning.
I feel like it might as well be, the time change today. Very, very sleepy. So that makes me extra mad. Just thinking about the fact that in a few months, we're gonna have to deal with the clocks. Okay.
Anyway, Virginia, Get it together. Do something that people actually, want to see happen. I don't I don't know. Maybe this was a big problem in Virginia. But alright.
What else do we have here? I I was trying to look at a list of the cities that were the most infested with mosquitoes because I saw a link about, you know, some city, Oklahoma City or something being high on a on a list. And I'm like, oh, okay. Where are the worst places for mosquitoes? Because I get bad reactions to them if I'm not taking allergy meds.
Oh, that reminds me. I better take my allergy meds. So I wanna know the places where mosquitoes are a problem because I don't wanna go there. You know, that like, my family, most of them live in Minnesota these days. Visiting Minnesota, if you have problems with mosquitoes, it sucks because I mean, the whole state is basically a swamp.
You know, they call it the land of 10,000 lakes. That's a lot of, you know, just standing water. It's a mosquito breeding ground, and I've gotten brutalized by mosquitoes in Minnesota. But the list, it's just basically a list of the biggest cities in the country. Like New York's number one, LA's number two.
It's all population based because they make the list based on people who have hired companies to come and spray for mosquitoes. So, obviously, places that have the most people are going to be the places that are gonna have the highest numbers of that. That does not inform anybody what the worst places for mosquitoes are, so that made me mad. What else do we have here? One arrested after shots fired from rented Lamborghini during wedding celebration.
Whoo. And, there's a picture of somebody driving down the freeway. This is in Michigan, and they're next to the Lamborghini, and yet the passenger is holding a pistol out the window up in the air. Pretty sure that's not gonna fly anywhere. Alright.
Man. Well, at least it wasn't a Florida man this time. It's good to see, Michigan mixing it up a little bit. Michigan, another place that I bet they're terrible with mosquitoes. Yeah.
Lot of water around there. The flat lands, man. The Midwest, not really a fan. You know? There there's good people in these areas.
I got lots of family and friends around the country, but I I tell you what, the Midwest sucks. Alright. That's enough freak news for now. We'll see what else I can dig up. I'm gonna continue drinking caffeine.
I'll be back. Morning, people. Welcome to the program. Happy Friday. I hope you're doing great.
You know, I need to, check the old weather forecast here. I know that earlier in the week, the weatherman was talking about just torturous heat coming our way this weekend. Is that still accurate? Let's find out. Alright.
Scroll. Scroll. Scroll. Okay. Yeah.
The weekend's not gonna be too horrific. Mid eighties, high eighties, but then nineties next week? 90 degrees? Well, glad that, I got most of my yard work done. Hi, Peaches.
The birthday guy. Oh my goodness. Look at these treats. And then? And then Holy cow.
Oh, and I need the caffeine. I'm I'm already digging into a rainstorm Oh. Over there. I'm tired. Alright.
So Peaches just walked in with the best treat ever. Yes definitely. Biscoff ice cream bars. I haven't had any of these in quite a while because they're they're dangerous. If I have them in my freezer the box is just gone and looks like, we're gonna be eating good around here today with the classic variety cheesecake.
Alright. Party. We're partying. Well, the one thing that sucks is that your birthday gift, got declined. Got declined?
Yeah. Should I just tell you what it was? Sure. We bought a cameo from the Arthur Morgan himself. Why did it get declined?
I kinda I told him to, what's it called? Say, you're listening to the Victor Wilt Show on KBEAR. And is that that's why? Do a business thing with that one. Nah.
You have to pay, like, tons of extra money, so that's what we were hiding from you. Roger, Clark, come on, bro. Well, dude, that that's really cool. I I definitely would have been, blown away by that. Yeah.
I'd he I'm sad that it wouldn't do it. Well, I I'm I'm kinda happy because you guys, you know, you you'd mentioned dollar amounts yesterday that sounded kinda steep. And they're like, don't spend that kind of money on me. We're not really crazy. Well, it was kinda dumb anyway because, like, he cost that much money, then he accepted it.
And we were all stoked, and then Maddie texted me late last night bad news and then sent me the email. What the heck? How dare he? Well, you know, Roger Clark, whatever. Arthur Morgan, we're still cool because you're a you're a character.
But that's really nice of you guys. I really appreciate that. But Dutch is a whole lot cheaper, so we might, we might, go go with him. I mean, I have a plan. I just say Arthur declined our cameo.
Exactly. So I know you were here late yesterday because you called me at one point. Yeah. Who, decorated my office? It was me, Maddie, and Melissa.
Well, thank you guys. That was very fun to walk in and see. It brightened up my morning. So thank you guys. Boulevard.
The sign's great. There's some funny stuff hanging around. Prune Juice Junction. I didn't see Prune Juice Junction at when I because I made a little video right when I got here. Yeah.
You pointed your camera right at it. Yeah. I didn't notice it till later on when I went back in my office, so that was pretty funny. But, yeah. It's very festive in there.
Oh, yeah. Very festive. So thank you. Thank you for the treats. Where who what's this present?
Who who gave me this? I believe that's Maddie and Melissa too. Okay. I hadn't opened it because, I figured I'd wait till people got here. So thank you to whoever.
If it's, Maddie and Melissa, we'll just have to wait for them to come by. There might be something in there from everyone in the building. Oh, well, dude, I you know, I really appreciate it. Of course. Because, you know, I I didn't expect that at all and, to have all you guys do these nice things for me, it made me feel really good.
Now we're gonna dig into that cheesecake. Yeah, dude. Cheesecake for breakfast. Heck yeah. I'm gonna go stick the Biscoffs in the freezer though.
You know, because otherwise yeah. I I don't know if, our engineer would appreciate Biscoff ice cream, you know, being eaten in the studio. So but cheesecake for breakfast, it is. And then I might just, you know, get the, cheesecake pass out, go on, take a nap in my office. Well, that's why you have two energy drinks.
I know. And I'm gonna need them because I got a I got a lot to do. And I've I've been trying to, knock down tasks, but the listeners are just as good as all of you. I've been getting endless phone calls, you know, happy birthday calls. And so the time I'm usually multitasking, I'm getting nothing done.
It doesn't help that I, told them to do that on Facebook and Instagram. I appreciated that too, Peaches. Thank you for that. No. It's been very nice.
I I feel, very very loved today. So thank you to everybody. But now let me do my job. No. I'm just no.
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm so mad at Roger Clark right now. I can't believe he declined it. Yeah.
Like, why didn't he just at least he could've left out the one line. Yeah. Yeah. True. Yeah.
But now, like, Matty's money's on hold for, like, five to seven business days. Oh my gosh. Shame. Tweet at Roger Clark. You ruined Victor World's birthday.
I'll just put take a picture of you crying right there in the seat and be like, you ruined his birthday. I'm now a GTA five through and through fan. That's right. Screw the cowboy game. I throw my Red Dead game in the garbage.
I'm glad you died. Tuberculosis. Team tuberculosis. Oh, no spoiler. So also how old is the game now?
It's it's pretty old. 20 '18, seven years? Yeah. Seven years old. At this point, you know, definitely, can't avoid spoilers.
So yeah. Yeah. It's, it's been fun so far this morning. You got you scared that one caller. He was calling in and Here.
Well, let's see. Still are they still calling in? They're still calling. Let's see who it is. K Bear, you are live on the program.
Keep that in mind. Who's this? Hey. This is Bobby. Bobby.
What's up? I thought it'd be Roger. He should call. Victor, is it your birthday? It is my birthday today.
I'm very old. Birthday, birthday twin. Oh, it's your birthday as well today. Yes, sir. Did I send you a happy birthday on Facebook?
Are we Facebook friends? No. I don't think so. No. Okay.
Cause I went through my list and I didn't remember seeing a Bobby, but a happy birthday, Bobby. That's kind of funny. I know another Bobby who's has birthday today. Oh, that's funny. So well, appreciate it, man, and I hope you have an awesome weekend.
Yeah. You too. Right on. Peace. Alright.
See you. Alright. Well, I mean, we got traffic school coming up in Savvy. It's gonna be a busy day. It's gonna be a busy day, but thank you for getting, Monday all scheduled, Peaches.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I stayed at about 07:30 last night. Wow. Well, I I really appreciate it, and, I've got none of my Monday showtime.
Not a single break. But that's alright. Well, I'll get through the day somehow. Thank you for the extra caffeine. I'm I'm gonna be crawling out of my skin.
Well, howdy, people. What's going on? It's the Victor Will Chill. I was just reading about toilet water. Yeah.
That's what I do. I read about toilet water. No. It was actually an article about, you know, water shortages here in the West. Year after year seems to be getting worse and worse.
Well, apparently, with modern technology, they can clean toilet water so well that they actually strip out the natural minerals in the water. So, there there are a bunch of different places working on how to turn toilet water into, you know, good quality drinking water. But we got a bunch of states that, you know, they ain't getting the job done. Like, some of the states that, you know, really deal with water issues like Nevada, Arizona, they recycle, like, huge portions of their water. Nevada reuses 85% of their their toilet water.
Arizona, 52%. But then you got all these other states where the water comes from, like Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. They ain't doing nothing. Alright. Listen, people.
The water issues are gonna continue to get worse. And I I mean, I don't I don't really like the thought of drinking toilet water. You know, no matter how good the technology is, that's one of those, like, okay. You guys go ahead and do it, but just don't don't tell us about it. K?
If the tap water I now again, I don't know if they're pumping, you know, purified toilet water into the taps in places like Arizona and Nevada bottled water from now on when I go to Phoenix but yeah you know if they have the ability to do this get it together, Wyoming. Get it together, Utah. Come on. Clean that toilet water. Ugh.
That is just grody to think about. But, you know, there's a a little bit of a drought in many areas. So you wanna be able to keep going to Lake Powell? You don't want them to end up, having to drain that? Drink toilet water.
Okay. Don't drink toilet water. K? Not directly from the toilet, especially. I have a feeling that is not good for the guts.
Alright. What do we got going here? Before lieutenant Crane gets in, what do what do I wanna listen to? What do I wanna hear? It's my birthday.
I can listen to whatever I want. I mean, I can do that any day, but, oh yeah yeah we could play a tool song that'd probably be about perfect length to lead us up to traffic school powered by the advocates get those questions ready I'm I'm really relying on you to help drive traffic school today because I'm I'm sleepy. Alright? Like, I I did not get good sleep any day this week. So, yeah, I need your help, people.
Alright. What, what tool song do I wanna hear? Let's just do some, some forty six and two. Sound pretty good to me. And then hopefully, the, cops will isn't that funny?
I can't wait for the cops to get here. Hopefully, the cops show up soon. Who says that? Pretty much only me on Friday mornings. Song's so good.
Do you like their new one? Yeah. That's pretty good. Oh, you're on mic three. There we go.
It, it has a different feel than the normal Callboy stuff. Yeah. It's kinda got a dark feel to it a bit. A little bit of a ice nine kills kind of vibe or something. Yeah.
I dig it. Yeah. I I really like there's there's so much good music coming out. It's been crazy. And, like, two minutes ago, I got sent a new song from Scars on Broadway, Darren Malakian's Oh, yeah.
You know, side project. They didn't put out anything in years. I tell you what, that rep wants me to play that song. They better line me up an interview with that guy. I have been trying to get an interview with that guy since I met him in Pokey when I was a teenager.
Was 97 when they rolled through? I think it was about '97, maybe. At the Roche Motel? Yeah. Yep.
I remember. Yeah. You know, he, like, showed me some riffs and stuff and, like, dude, next time you come through town, bring me one of your band CDs. And they never came back because they blew up huge. Yeah.
Next time they played, they were at the e center. Yeah. And, yeah, there was no talking to him ever again. But I I didn't forget. You need to listen to my songs.
That's what I'm gonna tell him if I get an interview. Listen, buddy. Twenty five years ago, you told me. Remember, Bears? You remember this?
You told me, and then you never came back. Just start the interview that way. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Welt Show. This program is a a production of Riverbend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbend media group dot com.
