The Viktor Wilt Show

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Speaker 1: what'd you got planned for the weekend? Uh, our plans are to go to Salt Lake City tomorrow, check out a comedy show. Should hopefully be good. Looks like the weather should be pretty decent. It was uh nice yesterday, a little bit uh chilly out there this morning. So uh give yourself a minute to defrost and such. Always find it funny every year when there's news articles that start popping up when it gets cold out. They're like, don't you know warm up your car, you just gotta get in and go. It's like no. Uh the windows are you know, iced over.

You can't see out of them. You have to wait for the defrost to work a little bit. Anyway, today we're looking at a high of about uh 58. Tomorrow's 60, so that's cool. And then uh gets cold on Saturday. Looks like the forecast has changed in the last day or so. Uh, because I thought we were gonna float around uh high 50s for the foreseeable future, but nope. Getting colder. So if you have anything you need to get done outside, get it done. I keep forgetting to disconnect the hose out front. Um, hopefully that has not created any issues. It's all I need. Some other kind of broken crap around my house.

And nothing worse than it being a broken pipe that leaks into the basement. Yeah, fantastic. Uh hopefully I'll remember to do that today. Maybe I'll set an alarm as soon as I'm done yapping.

Doubt it though, because I uh we'll we'll just forget to even make the reminder for set an alarm. Anyway, just trying to wake up here. Hope you got a good night's rest. Hope you're feeling positive and excited about the day. Uh hopefully there's some fun stuff to talk about today. You know, only just begun with the old news digging, so we shall see how it goes. But I appreciate you tuning in as always, and let's do our best to uh make this a good one and get this day done as quick as possible. Alright, this next song, for some reason I woke up with it in my head, so go figure it's gonna be the first one, one of the first ones we hear today.

Bad Wolves Jolene. So last night I was unexpectedly thrown into chore mode, had to move a bunch of crap from my garage out to the sidewalk, just getting rid of it, you know. There's a lot of people who enjoy doing crafty things.

Got all these stores that'll take old dressers and things like that and paint them, fix them up and resell them, make some good money. Uh so I was like, alright, somebody's gonna probably want this stuff. So we we dragged it out to the road and well, the last two songs I sat there and responded to about 10 million messages. Is this stuff still there?

Uh and well, it was when I left this morning. Good luck, everyone battling for the crap in my driveway. First come, first serve.

Alright, I think I've responded to every single message now. My goodness. And Jade was giving me grief for it last night, sent me some kind of text.

It was something to the effect of, you know, hey, uh, I'm too lazy to get rid of my own stuff, come get it. Well, if somebody wants it, it's free. You can't beat that price. And I have a truck, managed to get it cleaned out yesterday, finally. So if somebody does want the crap, great. If not, then I'll put it in the truck and deal with it. But yeah, it'd be much nicer if uh it just disappeared.

So, yeah. Look around on the uh Facebook marketplace for free stuff. There's probably a lot of free stuff on Facebook Marketplace, as a matter of fact. I don't often search for free things. I search for uh uh stuff that I can't afford, like guitars, or you know, occasionally books.

Sometimes some really good books pop up on marketplace. I probably shouldn't even think about that this morning, because uh yeah, budget's very low right now. But at least so far this morning. No issues. It's still early, but no issues this morning, no broken phones, no uh cat pee on the clothes. Uh my back hurts a little bit. Uh, you know, I could have got more sleep, but it so far just kind of an average day.

And hopefully it just continues that way. Just need a nice calm day. Alright. I I can rely on that hopefully at least for an hour until Jade shows up and gives me a bunch more work.

Uh anyhow, since uh I spent the two songs that just played, responding to people going, yeah, it was still out there when I left. Here's the address. Go get it. Uh I didn't bring up a whole lot of content yet, but that's alright. We've got the next break coming up in a few. And I'll do it then. Alright? We'll find something to talk about.

We'll have some fun today. Maybe. Maybe.

I don't know. My feed so far is still all like post-election uh madness. It's like, come on, guys. You know, it's It's been like a week. Okay, it's been over a week. Just just stop.

But that's that's the world we live in. So, anyhow, at least uh official uh GTA 6 preloading begins today. I know that uh I think it kind of unofficially kicked off a couple days ago because people have been downloading. I need to go in and decide what games am I going to delete to make room for Grand Theft Auto 6. I was looking through my PlayStation yesterday because the TV remote's missing.

Uh just losing stuff left and right. But uh looking through the games that were on there, and it's like, okay, well, I don't want to delete Red Dead, even though that's the biggest one. But then some of the others, it's like, well, I yeah, I want to play that.

Resident Evil 4 VR. Am I gonna get around to doing that? Probably not, so I could delete that. We bought uh God of War Ragnarok like a year ago. We gonna play that?

Probably not. That's another big one. Yeah, clue clearing out 200 gigs on a PlayStation 5 is a bit of a challenge. You'd think they could have made the hard drive a little bit bigger. And I know you can add additional hard drives and things like that, but back to money. Ain't got money for no PlayStation hard drive.

Uh. So delete games, it must be. Um, hope I don't have to delete Red Dead, though.

That's my uh peace and serenity. Almost played a little Red Dead yesterday. Almost.

But uh, no, instead it was uh chore time. So what'll happen today? I don't know, it's Thursday. Probably have tons of stuff I need to do around here. I guess I should get looking and figure out what's on the to-do list since uh I can't be farting around and being here all late tomorrow like I was last Friday. It's been some long work days as of late. No, I hurt my head today, apparently. Just got a headache all of a sudden. It's probably from stress.

So let's take a look at this thread. What's the best thing you've ever done for your mental health? What can I do to calm myself down? Uh less caffeine. Well, it's not waking me up anyway, so maybe that would help. Let's see what some other people have done to make their brains feel a little bit better.

Maybe there's something I can do from here in the studio. Trapped in this box yet again. It's alright. At least uh at least I'm working, I suppose. Just wish I was sleeping. But that's the usual. Sleep is probably a great thing for your mental health.

Getting a proper night's rest. Yeah, that'd be great. Alright, this person says deleting algorithmic social media apps from their phone permanently. Endless doom scrolling had wrecked my attention span and flooded my head with artificial comparison. Consuming outrage from strangers completely poisoned my daily mood.

Ah. You know, if I didn't have to post on behalf of the radio stations, if I didn't have to find content, share with you on the program. I think at this point I probably uh would delete all the social media apps, except maybe uh Reddit. Uh Facebook could definitely go.

I encounter way too much stupid on there every day. Um, the others I don't really use that much. Like I don't scroll Instagram. Maybe maybe every once in a while.

Certainly not scrolling Twitter. You want to talk about a toxic wasteland. Uh what else is there? Threads? Nobody uses that. So, yeah, I think it's uh pretty much Facebook. I could use a a lot less of uh that in my life. Yeah, my daughter, she deleted all of the uh social media apps off of her phone.

She seems to uh be pretty happy about that decision. But here I am looking at Facebook first thing this morning. Alright. And oh yeah, it didn't help my mental health.

Let's see here. Started saying no without explaining myself for 20 minutes. I don't need a whole PowerPoint presentation just to tell someone I don't want to go out. Easier said than done to just say no and uh be done with it.

Like when it came to chore time yesterday. Did I want to do that? No. No, I did not. Do I feel good about having done it? Not really. Cause uh it the crap's still sitting out there by my driveway.

But I am getting about 10 million messages. Is this stuff still there? Yes! Just go get it, please. Ugh. Next time Jade comes in, tells me to do some work, just tell him no. Yeah, that ain't gonna work. Take vitamin D. Uh, yeah, I should probably be better about vitamins. It is that time of year when uh the the skies start turning a lot more gray.

We get a lot more doom and gloom. And in the past, I've uh you know taken vitamin D daily, and it seemed to help me out. I mean, check with your doctor on that kind of thing. You might not need it. You don't want to overdo it. Stop drinking as much. I can attest to the fact that a hundred percent.

If you stop drinking, you'll have better mental health. Uh still fighting the battle. Still fighting the battle. It's hard. It's hard, you know.

But one day at a time, as they say, go to the gym and also start running. Yeah. Wish I had the time to do that. Oh, there's a go with sleep. Yeah.

Okay. That person's making me mad. Got a big fat list of all the things that I should actually be doing. Uh this person says, get a dog and walk daily. Well, a dog can also uh you know lead to a lot of uh mental health issues. Same with cats, yeah. You heard my what was it Monday morning meltdown about the cats? Yeah, one of them peed on my clothes. Ugh.

So annoying. And you know, the the dog's pretty good. She's just uh sometimes a little too energetic. It's like settle down. Alright, I'm exhausted. Uh mood stabilizers.

Blah blah blah. Okay, see, you know, talk to your doctor. Uh, if you're having mental health issues, there could be uh, you know, some chemical imbalances and things like that that may need corrected. Matter of fact, did I take my meds yesterday? I think I did.

Every day's blurring together. So, alright. I think I got one of those in my pocket. I'll I'll start I'll start the day with that. Uh, let's see.

Radical acceptance, accepting that my mistakes are in the past and I cannot change them, but I can learn and be better. Um, Alright. Cool. Uh, here's more people talking about medication and sleep. Uh that one's not in English.

Okay. Stop blaming everything else and took responsibility. My stress, it's because I overcommitted and was unorganized. Am I tired? It's because I went to bed too late.

Am I worn out? It's because I ate like crap last week. Okay, so I guess that's all my fault. I have been eating like crap. I have been uh not getting the proper amount of sleep. And And uh I I have been a little bit overwhelmed. Oh no, I think I need to lock myself in a room for like a week.

Just well, GTA 6 is coming out, but I have no PTO. So, never mind. Uh, this person says get a cat again, just like getting a dog.

There's the good and the bad. Okay. Cat, you have boxes of crap in your house. Alright. And they probably need cleaned out right now. Yeah.

But I do like the cats. Uh this person left their job and got some job they liked better. Yeah, if you don't hate your job. Or if you just need a job, period.

Hire East Idaho.com. Can check that one out. Uh, let's see here. Where's some other things? I if if people just keep saying sleep, I'm gonna get mad.

Okay. They said left applies to all situations in life. Don't avoid something, don't face it, communicate, then leave if it just doesn't align with your soul or values. Jade, don't bother me this morning. I I can't afford to just leave work.

Yeah. Seeing a psychiatrist. Maybe I should uh go back to my therapist. It's probably getting to be a good time. I I'm way off the list, though. I don't know if they'd let me back in.

Not a lot of uh room at a lot of these places, you know, due to the influx of population. Honestly, caring less about what other people think of me. I'm pretty good at that. You know, uh if if you don't like me, whatever. You know, I I try to be pretty good. Try to be a good person.

Try to be helpful to others. I if at this point you don't like me, whatever. You're probably not listening to the show if you don't like me. Well, I don't know.

I don't know. I do get calls occasionally from people who uh seem very mad at me, so I delete social media, cut out toxic family. Yeah, I don't really have any family left, so not much to cut out. I you know, I got a couple uh cousins and aunt and an uncle locally, but that's that's it. And they're not even really I mean, they're sort of local, they're not in the same city as me, but yeah, most of my family dead or they moved to the other side of the country.

So, at least I don't have to cut negative family members out. Look at this, I'm getting more messages from people. Is the stuff still here? Can somebody go get the crap out of my driveway so I can uh delete that post?

Uh let's see here. Stopped explaining myself to everyone and learned that it's okay if some people misunderstand me. My life got a lot more peaceful after that. You gave up?

No. Honestly, trying to explain yourself a lot of times just makes things worse. So, yeah, it's probably good advice. Just don't talk.

Yeah. Stop caring what others think. Delete your Facebook, get some sleep. Get sober, go to therapy, cut toxic people out.

Uh it's all stuff that sounds like it should be common sense, but again, easier said than done. Alright, I'm gonna work on my mental health by drinking more caffeine. It's not gonna help. No, I'll take my meds, take my meds and take a look at my to-do list.

Maybe getting my crap done at work and improve my mental health a little bit. Stumbled across a thread that I thought would be kinda just dumb, but it uh made me a bit nostalgic and uh reminded me of some kind of funny things, so figured we'd dive in. The thread is Millennials of Reddit! What did y'all casually do in the 2000s that seems hilariously unhinged now? And alright, how many of these things did I do? Even though I I don't consider myself a millennial, I'm on that uh border of millennial and uh Gen X. I think we call ourselves Xennials or Goonies.

But anyhow, I would imagine a lot of this is still gonna apply. Downloaded a single song off Limewire for three hours on the family computer, fully aware there was a 50% chance that it was a virus, and a 30% chance it was just some random crap. Um I of course would never have illegally downloaded music using something like Limewire or Napster and had those same type of experiences where yeah, you didn't end up getting what you were wanting to get, or destroying your computer. Yeah, just a normal day in the 2000s. Uh physically printing out it wasn't Google Maps, it was like map quest. Yeah, I remember that was like awesome. Yeah, before before the smartphone, before the GPS on your phone, printing out pieces of paper that had actual directions, could get that road atlas and chuck it in the garbage, and then the map quest directions were you know how your GPS can be wrong.

Yeah, that was always fun. Oh, let's see, spending a massive amount of time learning how to code HTML to make your MySpace profile pretty and to play music. Uh now you don't need to know how to do anything because well, Facebook took away our ability to uh personalize our pages so we can all look the same. Yeah, kinda like when you're shopping for houses on Zillow and everything's painted gray.

They took out all the color out of the world, they took it out of McDonald's, they took it out of everywhere. Oh, let's see. Publicly ranking your friends on MySpace. Yeah, you had your top friends list, and I mean, basically, whoever was in the number one spot, you were making it pretty clear, like this is my favorite friend, and you'd rank them out.

Oh, I remember that causing problems too. People get really mad if you weren't in the uh top front You took me out of your top friends, dude! It's a problem, man.

Well, you made me mad. So out of the top friends you go. Let's see, uh, people going out and partying in the middle of nowhere. Uh I would assume people still do that, don't they?

I don't know. I'm old. Try to get me to get out of the house. All I want to do is take a nap. Well, don't get to bed early enough.

And then on the weekend, what drive out to the middle of nowhere? Nah. Nah. Let's see here. What else did we have?

Go places with no plan on how to get home and taking rides from random people you met that night. Not me. I don't trust people.

And you shouldn't either. Always have a plan. There's always Uber, alright? And you know, most of the Uber drivers now have cameras inside their vehicles recording every second of every drive, so it seems relatively safe. Let's see here.

Uh ending up in the back of a random Honda Civic with heavy bass and people you don't know is a pretty common Saturday night. Um I don't know. I I I tended to hang out with uh with people I know, I think.

I don't know, that was a long time ago. But you don't see uh car stereos with pounding bass like you used to. I mean, even I had a thumping stereo at one point. What happened to the the speakers I had in my car?

I don't know. I mean, I maybe the stock systems are just good enough now, but no, I mean I you remember cars with crushing bass. You'd hear them coming from a mile away. Uh this person said getting lost, being on a road trip and having no idea where you were. I've had to stop for directions before.

That was uh pre-GPS. I have gotten lost. I got lost in the mountains of Utah. I've told that story uh a number of times. It was weird. Maybe I'll bust into that later on the show, but yeah, what I gotta remember when it comes to doing this show is now even if I've told this story a number of times, chances are a large amount of people have not heard these stories before because not everybody is listening four hours a day every day for ten years.

Alright. Let's see, buying software with a one-time transaction and then never interacting with that company ever again. Yeah, thanks, Adobe. I remember when we could get Photoshop and you just have it.

Remember those days? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Let's see here. I hate saying we built improvised combustible devices casually, but we absolutely did.

I I uh I I I had friends who played with fireworks. Bad idea. Bad idea. Uh I recall one of my friends having a firecracker go off in his hand one time.

It's nothing to uh play with. Let's see. This person says I grew up in a one-stop light town.

Sorry. They said my best friend and I would sneak out at 1 a.m., meet at that stoplight, wait for the only car in the county to start down the street, and then press the crosswalk button and run and hide. The only car on the road for 10 miles would have to stop at a random light at 1 a.m. Alright, good harmless fun. Somebody probably come after you with a gun for that now. I mean, geez, we had two ding-dong ditch stories in the last two days. So, yeah, anything that could uh potentially irritate people, I just wouldn't do it anymore.

Society has become way too unhinged. Double fist the OG four locos, bad idea. Bad idea. You know, I'm I'm generally opposed to the the government like banning things, but for loco, that stuff was was fairly dangerous.

However, now, you know, they might not have the caffeine in it, but the the sheer number of alcoholic beverages that are like super high alcohol content, it's out of control. You know, it wasn't like that back in the day. Back in the day, if you were buying like a bowl ice eight percenter, you know, people judged you for that. It's like, oh, that person has drinking problem.

Now people are pounding four locos that are like 14%, you know, just going completely off the rails. And there's no in between. It's like either weak, like, you know, just light beer, or super strong, you know, you're you're gonna turn into a maniac and you know, one beverage.

Need some in-between out there. Or just avoid booze completely is probably the best idea. You know, that's what I recommend.

Now, this person was on a two-hour flight and all he did was look out the window and nap. Get a book! Get a I I don't know how people would uh would be able to do it. You know, I I try to spend a few minutes sitting there doing nothing now, and I get crazy. We've all been spoiled with the uh lack of boredom due to doom scrolling on social media, and what a waste of time it is. Like, the amount of time I spend generally at work looking at social media. Back in the day when I had time in between, you know, stuff I had to do at work, I would read a book.

I think I was a lot mentally healthier then, but what do you do? What do you do? I mean, where do you think I'm finding this content? Social media. Holy crap, it's that time already.

I gotta find some freak news. You ever been into one of those bars where they've got a bunch of dollar bills hanging on the ceiling or the walls, and generally people sign them and things like that. I mean, how much of a bum do you gotta be to steal a like bunch of those? What are you gonna get? A few bucks. Uh, this was in California, I believe.

Oh, never mind. Where did I get California from? This was in Wisconsin. Uh this guy breaks into a bar in the middle of the night, snatches four or five dollars off the building, you know, off the roof, and leaves. Uh, and he's now been charged with burglary. Yeah, can you imagine going to jail for like four or five bucks? Dude. Like there have to be easier ways to get some money. Especially that's not even gonna get you a gallon of gas. Yeah?

Come on now. Uh, and also, chances are if it the money's got some kind of writing all over it and such, uh, a lot of stores are gonna be like, no. No. I don't know if they can legally say no. I don't know what uh at what point a money uh a bill, I should say, a money. God, I'm an idiot.

Becomes uh defaced far enough that uh it's no longer legal tender, but yeah. Again, somebody get this guy a job. This one's weird. This guy had brain surgery, and now he sees his cat's eyes on people's faces, and he sees people's faces on his cat's face. Yeah, a rare condition that causes his brain to see swapped facial features. It sounds like nightmare fuel, right?

Jade walks in to bother me first thing in the morning, looks at me, and it's like you look like Koopa. You gotta get, dude. Give me the creeps. I'm having a mental breakdown. Um yeah, I I don't know if this guy has to deal with this 24-7, or if it just happens every now and again, but this has happened to other people before, and there's a very long word for it. Prosopometamorphosis or something like that. Pro-sopomatomorphosophia.

I I don't know. Anyway, that's weird, and it's a thing. I don't know, it might make life a little bit more exciting. If all the people were suddenly cat people. Uh, but then you might not like cats anymore, right? Because cats generally, unless they're like peeing on your clothes, uh, they're they're pretty likable.

But then if you're dealing with people who aggravate you and they look like a cat, you're gonna start to hold it against the other cats. Alright, what else do we have in the world of wacky news? A British Columbia nurse practitioner. Um I think she was uh offering up a suggestion to a patient on um how to feel better, and uh her suggestion was uh a different kind of prescription. Uh guess offering to give him a little bit of loving.

Um he apparently must have snitched on her because it's in the news. Uh yeah, if you're if you're a doctor, you know, it's not the not the best way to make your move. Hey, you're not feeling good. I got the fix. Jeez.

Uh, shouldn't be too surprised. Uh oh, and by the way, tomorrow is uh doomsday. Yes, back in the 60s, uh physicist Heinz von Forster in a highly cited science paper, predicted that the end of the world would be on November 13th, 2026, which is also Friday the 13th. I swear, if uh the world ends while I'm in Salt Lake City, and that's you know, that's where I go out. Salt Lake.

I'm gonna be furious, okay? Now, I like Salt Lake better than a number of big cities. Amazingly enough, it didn't used to be that way, but they've finally got the uh freeway system under control down there to where it isn't super aggravating to drive around.

Not like back when I was young. But still, nobody wants their last moments to be in Salt Lake of all places. So uh he thought that it was gonna be due to um overpopulation. Basically, there wouldn't even be room for people on the planet. But that was back when people were churning out a lot more kids.

We seem to be going in the different direction now. Well, yeah, no kidding. You know how expensive it is to have a kid? You know, just one.

I I don't know how you people would like 10 kids do it. How are you financially getting by? Alright. I've been to the grocery store.

I complained about it the other day, maybe a couple weeks ago. Went and did a normal grocery shopping trip. Got a not even an overloaded cart, but just a regular cart, and it was like 300 bucks. It's like, you gotta be kidding me.

Yeah, Even if you're buying in bulk, you know. Anyway, uh, I hope the world does not end tomorrow because Grand Theft Auto comes out in a week. One week from today, GTA 6 day. How frustrating would that be if the world ended tomorrow?

I swear. Any of these maniacs running governments around the country or around the world, I mean, decide to do something stupid. You want to see public backlash?

Yeah. Screw up GTA 6 day. Then you're really gonna see public uprising. Uh I saw another article saying that uh police are happy that Grand Theft Auto is coming out next week because they're like, yeah, it's probably gonna give us a little bit of a break. There's gonna be so many people just sitting at home playing GTA 6. They're like, yeah, should be a little bit less traffic.

You know, less problems to deal with. So if you're planning on taking the day off to play GTA 6, you could you should consider yourself a good person. Ugh, wish I could. Wish I could.

Nope. Not even not even gonna be able to take the day after off. And then I gotta work Saturday at the live broadcast for uh crack the code at the gun shop. I'm gonna be sitting there at the gun shop when I could be playing GTA 6.

It's okay, because I'll be hooking somebody up with Metallica tickets. And by the way, our phones are broken. So if you've been trying to call me and you're like, why is the line busy? Uh the phones are broken. So the hotline does not work. I don't know when we're gonna get it fixed.

But uh for now, Metallica back-to-back tracks on hold till the phones work because I can't take caller number 20 on a phone that does not uh ring. So if they're fixed today, we'll do two giveaways or two, we'll get two qualifiers. If it takes till next week, I guess we go hog wild. Talked a little bit about ding dong ditching earlier, and then I get this news article popping up.

I'm like, oh, this must be an old one. Irvine police warn of dangers linked to viral door kick challenge. Talked about the door kick challenge the other day. I thought that was old news, and teens had learned better.

Apparently not. Seriously, kids ringing somebody's doorbell and running away could get you shot. Kicking their door as hard as you can. You're putting yourself in some real risk of danger here.

All right. I can't believe that some of these online trends continue to just roll on and on. Like, I don't know. If I was a kid and I saw one news article about a stupid prank that got some other kid shot at or run over with a car, you're like, Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and not do that. I mean, we had our own local story about a ding-dong ditch gone awry involving the at the time sheriff of Blackfoot. Yeah, he ran outside with a gun. And it was uh wasn't even a normal ding dong ditch. They were just trying to celebrate Thanksgiving and hang up little turkeys on people's doors.

I'd just be afraid to ring anybody's doorbell in general, even if he didn't run away. Who knows? People are they're on edge, they're worried.

I see it all the time on social media. Some of the things that people are worried about crack me up. I I would love to get into specific subject matter that people are scared to death about right now. But yeah, we'd have to go a little bit political.

And I'm I don't have the uh mental capacity for that this morning. So you're welcome. You're welcome. You don't have to hear any of that from me. But holy cow, people are worried about some of the dumbest things imaginable. Uh all right, don't kick people's doors, okay? Don't ding dong ditch.

Just don't go in anyone's yard or anything, unless you're going to my house and taking that crap out of my driveway. Uh I hope some of it has disappeared by now. Uh, maybe I should check my cameras and see if anybody's been out there uh taking the stuff. I've gotten a billion messages about it.

Go get it, please. Highly underrated band right there. Make them suffer with the new track, Black Sheep. Go see them live if you ever get the chance. They are great.

And speaking of making them suffer. Let's talk about your family and Thanksgiving. When is Thanksgiving?

Time is just rocketing by so fast. Let's see here. Thanksgiving.

Google AI has to think about it real hard, apparently. Uh, November 26th. Ah, well, at least on the the weekend after GTA 6 comes out. I think I should get a three-day weekend. Do we get Black Friday off?

I can't remember. Probably not. Anyway. Um, Thanksgiving's going down on the 26th. And I just want to let you know, it's okay to change things up when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner.

Alright. You can try doing something different than the regular old turkey. I was reading this article about uh new Thanksgiving recipes, and I started getting uh frustrated immediately because I'm like the how does cooking a turkey in a different way make it a different food?

It doesn't. And they said that uh what you should do is roast the turkey on a preheated pizza stone to avoid the dreaded task of flipping the piping hot bird midway through the cooking process. Alright, I've cooked the turkey numerous times.

I have never flipped a turkey over in the middle of the process. And also, you have to have it in a pan that collects all all the juices. A pizza stone is not gonna cut it. You're gonna have to have a very large pan underneath that's larger than the pizza stone to collect all it.

That sounds like a hassle to me. And it's still turkey. You want to try a different Thanksgiving recipe? Pizza!

Who's whoever who out there don't want pizza, right? How about a nice cheeseburger Thanksgiving dinner? You never know, it might still be semi-nice out by the time Thanksgiving rolls around. You might be able to bust out the barbecue grill and just have a barbecue for Thanksgiving. Yeah, here's another just crazy new Thanksgiving idea. Salt and pepper roast turkey.

Don't you season your turkey in some way? I don't know. Maybe not.

It just doesn't seem like a bold change to me. Oh, how about this one? You put cheese in your stuffing.

That actually sounds like it wouldn't be too bad. But it's still stuffing. Alright. You want to mix it up on Thanksgiving. You gotta go totally bold and different. All of the Thanksgiving staples out the window. I mean, who likes cooking a turkey?

It's one of the most annoying things to have to deal with. Alright. I'd say buying one of those little turkey breasts that's just ready to go. That's great. It's easy, it doesn't take all day. You're not dealing with this gigantic bird. You don't have all the uh the neck in there and this and that and the gizzards and things to deal with. Even if you just chuck them in the garbage, just buy yourself a can of gravy.

It'll be fine. Oh, this sounds delicious. Vegan mushroom coconut vegetable pot pie.

Alright, that's different. I guess if you have vegans in your family, sure. You know, but they have uh vegan turkey too, so the fake meat's gotten to be pretty good. Though I think it's fallen off in pop popularity. You don't seem to see as much of it in the stores. Is fake meat now cheaper than regular meat? Because, like, you know, I've had myself a beyond burger before. Not bad. Just kind of tastes like the burgers you get at school or the drive-in or the gas station. Yeah.

It's fine. But at what what are we at? Eight bucks a pound for beef or something. I don't even look at the beef anymore at the grocery store because I get mad.

Maybe I need to look at the beyond meat, the impossible meat. Is it cheaper? Or did that go up as well?

Uh, everything went up. See, uh, roasted vegetables with Korean inspired magic sauce. That sounds kind of tasty. Yeah, just want to let you know, you can get as wild as you want on Thanksgiving, okay? You don't like cooking a turkey because it's a hassle?

Don't do it. Cook something else. Mac and cheese.

I don't know. Hot dogs. Do whatever you can on a budget. That's what you gotta do in 2026 for Thanksgiving.

Budget friendly Thanksgiving meal. And uh I do keep getting messages from people on Facebook asking me to get some of the Ice Nine Kills Christmas tracks. I'm working on it.

Um you know, Ice Nine Kills uses some bad language from time to time, so I'm hoping the label will send me some edits and things like that. But uh, yeah. Too early to talk about Christmas as well. Ugh. Holiday season, man. It's it's stressful. I was reading another article that uh basically said everyone is financially stressed right now. Made me feel a tiny bit better because the only person I hear complain about it is me, because I'm talking in an empty box by myself. And most people, when you're hanging out with friends, you're not like, hey, how the finances doing, buddy?

You enjoying it? Uh anyway, um. I don't know. I had a point to wrap this up, but I lost it.

It's gone. Maybe I knew maybe I do need that caffeine I talked about earlier. Ugh. Here's another good reason to just shave your heads, dudes.

I was reading this story about a guy who had to go to the hospital after drying his hair too vigorously with a towel. I'm looking at a picture of him, too. He doesn't have long hair.

He's a regular old short guy haircut. Apparently, he was in a hurry, had to get to work. So he took you know, quick shower, and then he was trying to dry his messy hair, and the towel snagged at the back of his head, and he yanked at it and heard a crack in his neck. But he's like, I I gotta get to work.

I gotta go. So he managed to get to work, and then the pain was getting worse and worse throughout the day. So it got to the point that it was so severe, he's like, I could feel my my head throbbing with my own heartbeat. And then he was he was like balling by the time he got to the hospital. He thought he'd given himself whiplash, but doctors uh I guess diagnosed him with a trapped nerve and were like, here's some ibuprofen, go home. And so he did. Said he got home and just burst into tears because he was in so much pain. Uh, and he learned the main thing is to not rush. It's not worth sacrificing your health to get to work on time. Or, bro, just shave your head, dude. Yeah. Ain't no towel getting tangled up in my hair.

Mm-hmm. Um, what an embarrassing thing to have to make international news for. I hurt myself drying my hair, and I just kept crying.

Uh-huh. I I guess there's more embarrassing ways to hurt yourself. As we've discussed over the years, but I'm glad he's doing better now.

Glad that ibuprofen helped with the pain a little bit. Oh man, I'm having a little bit of fun watching some uh some mania in Facebook comments this morning. And I mean, this is totally separate from that, but there's there's mania happening everywhere. Have you seen the video of this idiot who showed up to a uh like cat adoption event? It was uh in Seattle, and it's called Sea Meow. You know, because Seattle meow convention, and it was all about uh, you know, helping raise uh awareness of pets needing homes and you know, celebrating cats. So, as you see at many conventions and things, like if you were to go to any kind of Comic Con type thing, you know, you got people dressed up in costumes, and they had had a uh cat costume contest. So you have people dressed up like cats. This guy shows up and he thinks it's a furry convention and is destroying America, and he's losing his mind, he's screaming and yelling, and they're like, dude, like we're we're we're trying to help cats get adopted here.

Go away. And And you can go to their website and read all the details of the event. Um, this guy, he was one of the guys who uh I believe did it say he was uh arrested on January 6th? You know, what I don't know. Uh let's see. What was his case on January 6th? Uh civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. So okay, so he is one of the guys who attacked the cops.

And uh apparently, if you're doing that in the name of politics, you know, you can just uh get released out into the public to drive people crazy who are just trying to, you know, get some cats homes. What a maniac, man. Watch the video. The video's embarrassing to watch.

And I saw a supercut video about this guy on YouTube. He's been a turd for a while. So, yeah, before you get out and uh just raise a ruckus in public because somebody's wearing a costume, realize that uh not everybody who's dressed up as an animal is out uh, you know, at an adult only eventing their own business.

Uh generally, if you're holding it at a convention center open to everyone in the public, and there's clearly marked signs talking about pet adoption and things like that. Uh maybe do a little bit of research before your tantrum. But this guy's also the type of guy who would go attack police. Um, you know, in the in the name of some type of a uh supposed political protest. So I I don't know if he got arrested or anything, but he he tried to post online bragging about how he you know.

He's exposed this event. Um, just note to the local animal shelters. People have gotten to be so crazy.

If you're doing a pet adoption event, you you should probably discourage people from wearing costumes, because there are real maniacs out there. All right, like this idiot. So like I said, the video is both funny and cringy and embarrassing.

It's it's all over the place. But yeah. One little uh click on the website, buddy, could have saved you a lot of uh national embarrassment. Anyhow, um hope the kiddies at home are doing good. And to everybody who keeps messaging me about the stuff I posted on Facebook Market, I don't know what's in my driveway because I'm not home. Uh just go get the stuff, okay? Just go get it. Go look. It It's sitting out there right by the sidewalk.

You can easily pull up, it's a big cul-de-sac, load up and go. Alright. I'm gonna be back in uh just a minute. Oh, the buttons didn't work. Is it done?

Is the button just not gonna work? It was kind of fun. As Dio was singing, get away, gotta get away, get away. I was watching a video of a polar bear chase a man. Heheheheh.

G Glad we don't have to deal with those problems around here. Uh the post was there are only five animals considered human hunters in the world, and polar bears are one of them. So you've got this guy clearly in a very cold place, and it's right in the middle of town, and this giant polar bear is chasing him.

He runs, jumps on a snowmobile, and takes off he got away. Um what are the other animals that are uh human hunters? Crocodiles, tigers, lions, and leopards.

Okay. So um mountain lions don't fall under that, I guess. They tend to avoid people. We don't have crocodiles around here, thankfully, nor tigers or lions. Now that Liger Town has been gone for a couple decades or so, and leopards, um where do leopards generally live?

I I don't know. But uh I I don't think I'd want to be chased by any of them. But I have seen a grizzly bear rip apart a deer, and it was uh terrifying. So I think I'm gonna go with if I was gonna be chased by any of them, maybe a crocodile.

I know they can move fairly quick, but probably not as fast as the others. So yeah, yet another reason to avoid uh some of those northern areas or wherever polar bears are at. Ugh. Makes me feel about a little bit better about aggravations I have to deal with throughout the day.

Okay. Oh, there's a hornet, the hornet in the house. I'll take it over a grizzly bear outside or a polar bear. I guess grizzlies, not human hunters. Well.

they They eat people. Anyway, I'll be back. Another show crushed for the day, but I'll be back with more at noon. I don't know if I'll be joined by somebody today or not.

No clue what's going on. Just gotta maybe maybe I'll work on cleaning up and rearranging my office. Since everybody else around here seems to be spending tons of time doing arts and crafts and pranks and this and that. Maybe I'll go get the key to my office since Jade changed the locks on the door a couple weeks ago.

They have not been changed back yet, and I locked myself out of there, and maybe I'll tidy the place up a bit, and then uh you know, figure out if I can make room for a napping spot in there or a place to kick back and read a good book and pretend I'm being productive. I was scrolling the internet and somebody asked, what do y'all consider to be red flag books? I follow this subreddit called Bookshelves Detective, and people will post pictures of bookshelves and be like, all right, you know, I just started dating this person. Uh this is their bookshelf.

What do you think? And every time I look at one of those photos, I I don't really comment it, but if they don't have Stephen King on their shelves, to me, that's a red flag. Alright, if there is zero Stephen King books on the shelf, red flag. Well, let's talk about uh specific books being on the shelf that are red flags.

I'm trying to think of some, and I'm drawing a blank. So I mean, I would imagine if someone took a picture of my bookshelves, uh, if it was uh one of the Stephen King shelves, they'd go, okay, this person is obviously a maniac, Stephen King collector, because I have almost two bookshelves. I bet if I put all the paperbacks on uh on the uh second shelf, I could do two full six-foot bookshelves full of Stephen King books, because I like to uh purchase the collectible editions when affordable, uh, and alternate versions of covers and things like that.

I'm a nerd, a real nerd. Um, but if they looked at my other shelves, they might see horrific uh splatter punk horror from authors like uh Edward Lee and such, and they might go, okay, this guy, he's a freak show. Uh I would think my bookshelves could potentially be a red flag, uh, depending on what type of person you are. Um, but let's see what the internet says they consider to be red flag books, and if I have any of these, and if I agree. All of those self-help books that are so popular among the podcast bros. 48 Laws of Power, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Atomic Habits. Um, I am not familiar with any of those books, but uh if they are popular among the manosphere, I would say red flag books, ladies.

Okay. I w- I would say if you have a bookshelf that's like nothing but classics or textbooks or like history books, if there's you know, nothing fun on the bookshelf, that's a red flag to me. That's someone who's either like really boring or they're just trying to look smart by having the books. I have a lot of historical books and uh a lot of nonfiction, but you know that that's not the bulk of my collection. Uh, what are what other books are people saying here?

Well, that's more podcast bro stuff, Jordan Peterson books. Oh, here's somebody. Zero fiction. I don't trust anyone who doesn't read fiction.

Yeah! Gotta be able to kick back and just have a fun read. Not everything needs to be informative, all right. Yeah, pick up some Edward Lee. It's as far from educational as possible. Uh Edward Lee is so fun to read.

Let's see what else we got here. If someone has just two or three really popular books and then a set of the Harry Potter books, I'm going to assume they haven't read since they were a youth. Um or Ayn Rand paired with economic self-help books. Yeah. Um Harry Potter. Those books were so great. I I really enjoyed them. Um, I read I want to say the final three as they were released. Uh, they're they're really good books.

Much better than the movies. But man, did J.K. Rowling, the author, turn out to be a real turd, you know? So now I'm like, uh, when I see the Harry Potter books on my shelf, I'm just kind of like, ugh. Always sucks when you know, a celebrity of some sort that you like turns out to be a dirt bag.

You know? Like, he hasn't been convicted in court, but Marilyn Manson, I was a huge fan growing up. And I don't know, when you got like endless accusations coming at you like that, and having read his uh autobiography, I kind of go, uh Marilyn Manson's he seems like he could potentially be bad guy. So yeah, I I find it difficult, even though I love a lot of those old Marilyn Manson albums.

Uh I I find it difficult to throw them on. Uh let's see here. You've got uh Mein Kampf, that's the book Hitler wrote. Um, if that's the only book on somebody's shelf, I would say that's a major red flag. Now, if somebody's got a giant collection of historical uh nonfiction, and that's in there. I mean, I don't care to read it because I don't care to know uh Hitler's written thoughts.

I got a lot more enjoyable things I could read, but okay, let's see. Turner Diaries. What are Turner Diaries? I know I'd heard of this, but uh what are the Turner Diaries? Um, it's more Nazi stuff, okay. Yeah.

Uh Nazi books, got a large collection of those. Uh I'm gonna go with red flag on that one. Alright, where did my other list go here? What the heck? I just had that page opened up. Red flag books. Okay. Ayn Rand, blah, blah, blah.

Could I I really wish people online could not post the same things as everybody else. Book talk slop. Alright, I don't know. You ladies want to read romance novels, that's fine.

You know, uh It's better than some of the other stuff. This person said meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Uh, if they don't have other philosophy books, oh okay, so it's another manosphere thing.

Yeah. This person says they don't consider any singular book a red flag. You know, like they mentioned if someone say had one Jordan Peterson book or Mine Conf, but if they have an entire shelf of them, then okay.

Uh all right, that people just keep read uh posting the same things over and over. My red flag, like I said, is any bookshelf. Unless they have multiple shelves.

If a person has books and they do not own at least one Stephen King book, red flag. That's how I'm gonna end the show today. I gotta finish reading the uh Dean Coons book I started that I promised Beck I would read so I can get into the new Stephen King book. Though I think I gotta read the whole Dark Tower series and the Talisman series over again before I dive into that. And GTA 6 is coming out, so how do you think my uh my reading's gonna be in the next uh few months?

Probably uh, you know, a little bit lower level than it should be. So, folks, it's the noon hour of madness and mayhem with me, Victor Wilt. Yeah, kind of busy around here today, so no kill host, but I'll I'll try.

Okay, I'll try. There is madness and mayhem out on the streets, not here that I'm aware of, but computer parts ain't gonna be getting any cheaper anytime soon. Thank you, data centers, and thank you, uh I don't know, the mob, whatever thieves are uh just ramming escort cars and hitting trucks, stealing uh, you know, GPUs. Yeah, I guess uh the latest heist. Uh oh, they got NVIDIA for 11.4 million dollars in GPUs. That was a truckload of equipment on its way from Oakland to Texas.

No arrests announced so far. Six pallets. That was it.

Six pallets, eleven point four million dollars. It's the new copper GPUs, and I'm just so happy that my computer at home is working again. I don't know what happened and why it started to just cooperate. I'm probably jinxing it right now. I shouldn't have said anything, because You know, it it's not not a good time to be buying a computer.

That's for sure. But uh, yeah, they they probably shouldn't even share these stories. Uh if people are making that kind of money selling these things on the black market, who Or Or maybe, you know, since I'm looking at a picture here of a NVIDIA 18 wheeler with the giant logo on the side. You know, maybe transport them a little more discreetly. What If you had a truck loaded up with gold bars, would you put the words gold bars inside?

Uh on On the sides and the back and everywhere where everyone could see it. No. Alright, NVIDIA, we get it.

You want to advertise while driving down the road. You don't need to. You're making enough money. Sorry, I think I had my microphone turned up too loud on that last break.

So when I start yelling, it sounds extra loud. It's my bad. Uh what else is going on in the world? Okay, earlier on the show, I talked about, well, earlier on the morning show, I should say. You know, we've had a number of ding dong ditch incidents in the last couple days.

Also, uh kicking the door trend incidents. People are still doing the haircut in the middle of the street thing. I thought this one would have passed, but no. Got another three teens injured after pulling the TikTok haircut in the middle of the road stunt. Why?

Why? And it was again at nighttime. They got a chair from a nearby restaurant, put it in the center of the road, and then one of them starts cutting the other one's hair while the third one goes ahead and films. And uh they were all hit by a truck. And then they got arrested. So not only hit by a truck, but uh but arrested as well. And I don't even know if they got the footage up on TikTok. Because that footage would probably go viral. You know, I mean, and they need some some money.

They need uh money for medical bills, they need money for legal defense. Talk to your kids, people. All right. Sitting in the middle of the road at night in a chair, it should be common sense to not do that. But kids are dumb, and they'll do anything for the likes.

Anything for them, thumbs up, or whatever TikTok's got hearts or something. Anyway, talk to your kids, okay? No ding dong ditch, no kicking doors, no haircuts in the street, no tide pods.

Like, if you could uh potentially die from it. Apparently, the kids need to be like just thoroughly instructed on this issue. All right, maybe this is why the birth rates are going down.

The you know, the cosmos is infecting the minds of the children and making them dumber. Um, no, I don't want to see anybody get hurt. So talk to your kids. All right, everybody. Let's wrap this program up with a nice list from Rolling Stone magazine. Let's get the wacky music going. Because Rolling Stoneless are always the worst. This list, the 200 greatest rock songs of the 21st century so far.

Do you really need 200 to begin with? But let's find out. I'm gonna go down to the top 40, and then we will go from there. Uh, I don't know if I'm gonna name all 40 of these, but I'm very curious to see what kind of garbage Rolling Stone picks as you know the the greatest rock songs of the 21st century so far. Actually, right out of the gate, number 40. I'm like, okay, I'm kind of uh kind of blown away by this pick. Slayer disciple.

Um yeah, it's a it's a decent Slayer song, and well, most of Slayer's classic stuff came before the year 2000, so I I'm blown away they put Slayer on the list. The things could get weird here. Then there's an artist called Phoenix.

Uh, I don't remember them. We've got uh Bob Dylan, honest with me. You're really a Bob Dylan song from the 2000s is one of the uh top 40 best rock songs of the 21st century. Okay, I haven't heard it, but I'm doubting it. Arcade Fire Rebellion.

Uh, I I think I've heard that, uh, but I don't know. Queens of the Stone Age, no one knows. Uh, it's a good song. That's one of my all-time favorite bands. It is not one of my favorite Queens of the Stone Age songs, but it's probably because I've heard it uh 10 billion times. I'm fine with it being in the top 40 on this list. Uh, MGMT, time to pretend. Are they a rock band?

I don't know them very well. Okay, they got Chopsui at number 34. I thought that would be higher on the list.

It's one of the most popular and biggest streamed rock or metal songs of the 2000s and since. What are they gonna put above Chopsui? Here we go. Here's Rolling Stone at its finest. Taylor Swift, all too well. 10 minute version.

You have gotta be kidding me. You're gonna put a Taylor Swift song. Above System of I mean, putting a Taylor Swift song, period, on the best rock songs of the 21st century is insanity. But above System of a Down, give me a break.

We got Slater Kenny, alright. They're alright. You know, I I wouldn't put them above System of a Down, but it's Rolling Stone.

MJ Lenderman, I'm not familiar with him. Broken Social Scene, same thing. Modest Mouse, not my jam.

Lana Del Rey. You wanna call that a rock song? Just because it has a uh a bad word, it has a B word in the title. That makes it a rock song. Give me a break. Bruce Springsteen at number 27 with The Rising.

Uh, sorry, Bruce. I don't think you put out any songs in the 2000s that were one of the best rock songs of the 21st century. Uh, we got the hives at 26, Jimmy Eat World, the middle at 25, K. It's a popular song. Not really my jam, but definitely not better than System of a Down.

Cold play yellow. I I I guess technically it's an alt song. It I I would not put it in my top 100 songs of this uh this time period. David Blowy, David Bowie Black Star. Okay, now I've been talking trash in a lot of these older artists, but the Black Star album by David Bowie was pretty dang amazing. It was good, and the videos were weird for all the songs from that album. So I I still wouldn't put it above system of a down, but that's fine.

You too, beautiful day. Get out of here. Get out of here with that. Geese? Isn't geese that new band that was being called like a total industry plant? I haven't really listened to them, so I I can't judge the song, but I guarantee it's no chopsue. Fallout Boy, sugar we're going down. It ain't no system of a down. Mitsuki. I wouldn't call Mitsuki Uh a rock artist.

So, no. TV on the radio. Yeah, another just not really my jam.

LC LCD sound system. I wouldn't call that a rock band. Okay, My Chemical Romance, welcome to the Black Parade. Even though it sounds like a Christmas song, and uh I'm not huge into my chemical romance. I think it is a pretty legendary track.

Um I I suppose I'm fine with it being high up on the list. It is not better than System of a Down, but I'm I'm okay with that. Uh Franz Ferdinand, take me out. I I thought that was another pop artist.

Rylo Kylie. Never heard of them. Um Lucy Dakis.

Never heard of her either. But it says breakup songs don't come much grander than this six and a half minute epic. Well, it says the rock and roll intensity ratchets up.

I don't know, maybe I'll check it out. Paramour, that's what you get. Not better than System of a Down. Foo Fighters Times Like These. Is that their most popular song?

I don't know. But um, I'm still more of a system of a down guy. All right, what do we got for the top 10 best rock songs of the 21st century? Wilco, Impossible Germany.

Um I don't know if I've heard that song. I know I've heard Wilco, they're another alt band. I'm still siding with System of a Down.

Chopsui should have been top 10 so far. RK Arctic Monkeys, I bet you look good on the dance floor. There have gotta be uh plenty more songs from the 2000s better better than these.

Okay, Jay-Z, 99 Problems. Is that a rock song? That a rock song? You you heard that song?

99 Problems? That is not a rock song. What else are we gonna get in here? The Strokes Last Night at number seven. Alright, not into the strokes.

Phoebe Bridgers. She's closer to uh like country than rock. But I haven't I don't know if I've heard that song. Radiohead, the national anthem. That's a good song. It's a good song.

I don't think it would be on this list if it wasn't in um that TV show Ozark. Is that what I'm thinking of? No. That was a different song. Anyway, I'm I like Radiohead. That's fine. Oh, Olivia Rodrigo, good for you. Now I have played Olivia Rodrigo songs on K-Bear, yes, but I did not play Good For You. Okay.

Not rocking enough. The Killer's Mr. Brightside, number three. I'm not liking this list. What's the number two? The White Stripes Seven Asian Army? Second best rock song since 2000. Mm-hmm.

No. And coming in at number one, the Yeah, yeah, yeah. with maps. How do you go from Slayer at 40, System of Down at 38 to the Yeah, yeah, yeah? at number one. Oh yeah, it's Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone sucks.

Um I should know this. Um but I'll check out some of these songs. Maybe maybe they're good. I don't know. I'm probably got some of you listening ripping your hair out going, Victor, you don't know anything about music.

I listened real rock. All right. Well, there you have it.

Another terrible Rolling Stone list. Perfect go perfect way to end a subpar noon hour of madness and mayhem. Now I'm gonna go deal with a car battery, and then I'll be back to uh hopefully rearrange my office and make it uh you know workable again. I hope you have a great rest of the day.

Enjoy the tunage. Um you're not gonna hear the yay yes. I mean, you might hear the white stripes, but uh Heh heh heh he. Rolling Stone, man. Rolling Stone.

Jay-Z was on the list. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilch Show. This program's a production of River Bend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at Riverbend Media Group.com.