The Viktor Wilt Show

Wasn't even planning on talking about Puddle of Mudd, but let's dig in and see what Wes Scantlin did now. I just briefly saw that as I was traveling back from Salt Lake City the other day. Let's see here. Oh, great. Domestic violence.

Fantastic. You know, if there's anybody in Rock who seems to need some serious help, it's Wes Scantlin. I told the story before, the you know, how my sister went to LA, and she went to the rainbow bar per my recommendation, you know, looking for something to do. I was like, maybe you'll see some rock stars. And she calls me.

No, she texted me. Excuse me. And I was like, Hey, do you know any rock stars named Wes? And I can only think of two west Scantlin and West Borland of Limp Biscuit. Well, it turns out she happened to start chatting with west Scantlin and his crew.

They invited her to, you know, hang out with them at the bar, and they were great to her. You know? She had a fun time. They were really nice, and I'd kinda changed my tune on Wes Scantlin at that point because he he's been a mess for a while. But, looks like he's back to being a mess.

Yeah. I I hope the guy can get help. You know? I I would imagine this came from substance abuse. They did find, some kind of drugs on him.

And, yeah. You know, that's not cool to read. You know? Pretty messed up. So maybe a little time in the slammers, what a guy like him needs.

I don't know. Anyway, boo to you, West Scantlin. Come on, dude. Get it together. It's messed up.

Gotta knock down Thursday. Ugh. Ready to get home and chill a bit. Maybe do some chores. Ugh.

As the deadline for chores to be done approaches, I look around and go, it's not like I even need to do that much. Why is sweeping and mopping so off putting? It's not like it's that hard. And maybe it's the bucket of dirty water when you're done. I don't know.

Anyway, enough about chores. Look at what time it is. Who who's talking about chores at this hour? That's what's on my mind. Maybe I just need more coffee.

Gonna be pretty expensive, though. Yeah. Was just reading that coffee theft is surging in The US, and we're talking like truckloads of coffee beans. And we got, what, the mob? You know?

Just hijacking trucks as they roll into port. Holy cow. Yeah. So we pretty much have to import all of the coffee into America because we just don't have the climate to grow it. So we're talking, like, millions of bags of beans, like big, huge sacks.

And, yeah, up to dozens and dozens of thefts in the last year, full on truck thefts, something they said would only happen rarely in the past. I mean, we're talking armed robbery for coffee, but these guys took 500 bags of coffee, for example, in Brazil. That was about $230,000 in coffee. Brown gold. Holy cow.

Yeah. Don't steal coffee, people. K. You're gonna end up in jail. But, that that's not good news for me.

I'm a guy who needs my coffee. You know what time I come in here? I gotta wake myself up with a nice potent instant coffee shooter. And I thought instant coffee had gotten to be expensive enough. Ugh.

So annoying. Well, it's a good thing we're all making more money than ever. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Let's see if I can dig into something a little bit more positive than, hey. Do you hear what else is now more expensive than ever? So expensive that armed gangs are stealing truckloads of it. Ugh.

That's when you know it's bad. I was just looking at an email from Josh, and, he mentioned this to me last night that I should fill out my bracket for the company March Madness contest. This is, you know, just basically for fun within the building here. And I I was thinking about doing it because he's like, come on, dude. You don't really even need to know what's going on.

You just fill it out, and you never know. You might, you know, win win a prize. So I pulled up the bracket and looked at it. This is a lot to fill out. I mean, there's a lot of matchups here.

I don't even know exactly how many. Let's look at one side of it here. 1234567891011121314. So there's like 30 initial matchups you gotta decide who's gonna win that and then you fill all those out you can just keep going and going oh so exhausting he told me I could do it as a bit too You know? Hey.

Just have your listeners help you fill out your bracket, you know, and maybe you'll win a prize. I don't know what if it's a prize around here, it couldn't be that great. And I don't think this is coming from upper level management. This is just Josh and, you know, the other sports fanatics in the building going, yeah, this is fun. So anyway, I don't know now that I'm looking at it if I'm gonna fill out said bracket.

Yeah. Good luck to those who are doing a bit of gambling with the March madness. I watched an episode of, the John Oliver show last week tonight, couple days ago, about online gambling. Online gambling is pretty wild. I don't think it should be a thing.

I know. Stick in the mud, Victor Wilt. But if you've ever met anybody who has any kind of addiction, it you know, you met somebody with a gambling addiction I don't think you should be able to just fire up your phone and potentially lose all your money you know it's bad enough if you're gonna go blow all your cash by taking a trip to somewhere where you can gamble but you have to, like, go there. You know, you can't just be laying in a dark room depressed, you know, worried about your bills. I need to win some dough.

Oh, man. Again, you know, this is America, but well, alright. I'm not gonna get into Idaho politics. I I think there's, more important rights for our legislators to be fighting for than the ability to, gamble on your phone. So I I don't know.

Maybe they should take a look at some things here if we're talking freedom. Anyway, just gamble responsibly if you're gonna do so. Yeah. That that can end very badly. Alright.

You don't wanna lose it all over the rush of a potential win. Nah. Don't do it. Hate it when the buttons don't work. Very annoying.

I guess you know what song is coming up next. Okay. Wanted to talk about our story of the week of why you shouldn't go in natural waters. Alright. Got a scuba diver here.

Snorkeler, I should say. Nearly strangled to death by an octopus. Yeah. He's out, you know, doing his snorkeling, and he sees this octopus. So he uses a pole and he pokes at it.

Well, it didn't like that. So it shot a cloud of ink at him, then it latched onto his hands and then pulled itself around his neck and wrapped itself around his neck and face. And this guy, yeah, he wasn't scuba diving. He was snorkeling. So you got that tube sticking out of your head.

Yeah. He's trying to get to the surface. Took him, several minutes to get the octopus off of his head. Yeah, dude. No kidding.

Animals don't like to be messed with. K? They'll monkey with things in their natural environment. Good on social media for, you know, lashing out at this guy for disrupting the octopus habitat. Yeah.

Sometimes you gotta learn a tough lesson, almost get killed by an octopus. Now I gotta give thanks to the Daily Star for giving, you know, tips on what to do if an octopus latches onto you. Number one, try to fight off the shame of, wow, I'm an idiot. No. That wasn't one of their tips.

Now they're saying don't panic. That wastes oxygen, makes it harder to fight back, and then try to pry the tentacles off one by one. Okay. Yeah. This guy has eight tentacles wrapped around his head.

You've got two hands. K. And the octopus was holding on to his hands. So I I don't know. They said to a punch, punch the bulbous part of the octopus head just punch it yeah you ever try to punch something underwater I mean I guess it's better than not punching but poke it in the eyes how about just don't go in in natural waters?

You know? If risk of being attacked by an octopus is part of the deal, this guy's out. You know? Oh my goodness. So I mentioned over the weekend when I went to the weekend when I went to the show in Salt Lake City, you know, I got in the pit a few times.

Way too old to be doing that. It's just a stupid move at my age because, you know, you can hurt yourself basically. Apparently, what I need to do is walk backward more often because I didn't know if it's just I got older and my balance sucks now or the pit was just crazier than I thought it was. But every time I went into it, I got knocked down, hit the ground. And one of the times I hit the ground, hit my tailbone, and it still hurts.

Oh, ridiculous. Apparently, walking backward can help older people like me improve, balance and avoid falls. So, you know, when you're gearing up to get into the pit, maybe you got an upcoming show you're gonna attend. You might wanna get on that walking backward trend for a while. And, yeah, it's good exercise.

I don't know when the last time I walked backward was. I have to, give it a go, I guess. It sounds like a good way to fall down. I'd I'd trip over something, but apparently, that's what doctors say if you're looking to improve balance. So just wanted to let you know.

You may also be pumping your gas wrong. Now I don't know if this article is true, but there's this guy who claims to be a gas pumping expert, and he says you're getting ripped off when you fill up your gas tank. And here's what you need to do. You need to fill up it in the morning. Why'd my voice squeak?

What's wrong with me? 42. I was just talking about being old. Your voice does not crack at 42. Am I gonna be sounding like Jade Davis before I know it?

Anyway, fill up your gas first thing in the morning because gas expands when it's warm, and it becomes more dense when it's colder along with everything else. So if you get gas later in the day when it's all hot, the gas is gonna be expanded, and you're getting less gas. Okay. That's what this guy says. Again, I don't know if any of this is true, but I read these kind of things, and I know I'm gonna catch myself doing these stupid things at the pump.

Now for the last six months, we didn't really have to worry about that around here because as you know, it's always cold, so no gas expansion. But this one, sucks when it comes to dealing with gas out in the cold. Put the nozzle clip on the lowest setting. Yeah. You know when it's all windy outside, freezing, and you have to stand out there and wait.

Well, you need to also make sure you wait even longer by putting the nozzle clip on the slowest setting. Says to fill it up fast or fill it up slow because the faster you're pumping the gas, the more of it is turning into vapor. Alright? Don't wait till your tank's empty to get gas. Dang it.

Because I've I've got a bad habit of that. Oh, the the gas light's on. I guess I'll finally go out into the cold to fill up my gas tank. This guy's saying gas evaporates as it comes into contact with air. So if you're driving around with an empty tank, it's evaporating quicker and quicker the lower it gets.

Is that true? Is any of this true? Do we got any scientist guys listening? Far as I know, this guy could just be a TikToker that's, TikToking out his butt. You know?

All right. Never fuel your tank when a tank truck is present. All right. Fine. Yeah.

They say, I guess it, could result in dirt and debris in your gas tank. And a lot of people are agreeing with them in the comments like yeah this is totally true all right well I guess I'll give it a shot now that the weather's nice I could wait on the lowest nozzle setting. Ugh, so annoying. Let's see. Another study suggests social media contributes to mental health issues and delusion.

They don't need to do a study to to get this result. All you have to do is look at social media. And you know that social media contributes to mental health issues and delusion. I won't get into details, but I see all the evidence I need anytime I fire up social media. Alright.

Let's go to the phones here. Oh, Ben. You know? Come on. I know I waited just a second to pick up your call, but I did wanna talk with you.

We might have had a gas expert. You know? Like I said, some type of a scientist on the phone, but they ain't got patience for me. Yeah. I don't even need to read this article about, the damage social media does to people's brains.

I'm so glad that fat checking's gone. Isn't that great? Looking at the type of, nonsense that's just running rampant right now. It's so crazy. And nobody questions anything.

Nobody questions anything I mean I was raised to question everything all right maybe this is that person calling back k bear you're live on the show keep that in mind who's this It's JD. JD. You're you're kind of a an engine expert. What do you think about those gas tips? I think Mythbusters disproved most of them.

Oh, I didn't know if they, did a episode about that. I'll have to dig it up because I like that show. I I mean, what the guy is saying is true, but at the end of the day, the meters on the pump still, you know, account for that stuff. So And I doesn't matter if the gas expands or contracts, you know, if it's more density, denser or not when it's cold or hot, neither on the pump's gonna account for it when it goes into your tank. Alright.

That's why I said, I don't know. I'm just reporting what, the news is reporting here. So And and then, you know, when they mix the gas blends, put them in the big gas tank for us to purchase at high prices. There's different blends for summer and winter that also, you know, keeps, what I wanna say, you know, evaporation down. Oh.

Yada yada yada. That that would make sense. So Keeps keeps it more stable. Alright. Blah blah.

Well, cool. Thank you for the info, JD, my resident vehicle expert. Oh, you're a resident weirdo. Alright, man. Hey, dude.

Hope you have a good week, man. You too, buddy. Talk to you soon. Alright? Right on.

Peace. Alright. Peace. Alright. So there's JD calling, Mythbusters action on that guy.

Alright. Well, are we gonna ever get to the bottom of it, find the truth? Doubt it. Doubt it. But at least I questioned it.

Right? I think a lot of people in this day and age would see that and go, oh, it's fact. I saw it on TikTok. It's gotta be true. It was in my Facebook feed.

Everything there is legit. Please. You know? Like we were taught when we were young back in the nineties, question authority. Question authority.

What happened to that mentality? Nobody doing it anymore. Time to dive into some karaoke madness. Yeah. Karaoke night.

It it can get a little bit wild, and some people are very passionate about karaoke. Like this guy, Aaron Jablonski. Alright. Does it say where this was? Oh, of course, Florida.

Anyway, this guy showed up to his favorite Florida bar ready for some karaoke action, found out the karaoke machine was broken. So what did Aaron Jablonski do at the overtime sports bar at about 02:30AM? Well, they whipped a gun out, fired off around, pointed it at another patron, screaming and yelling. That's not gonna get him to, fix the karaoke machine at 02:30AM, man. Holy cow.

Yeah. You never know what you're gonna see at karaoke night. You might see me screaming and yelling some metal songs, Or if you're in Florida yeah. I guess Florida not a place to go out on karaoke night. You know, somebody getting impatient that they haven't been called up to do their favorite song.

They just can't wait to get up there and bust out inner sandman. Next thing you know, Jablonsky's got the pistol out. I wonder what his go to karaoke song is. You know, you wonder what the, gun wielding maniac would have sang at karaoke night. Anyway, you know, just, try to be rational if you're out at karaoke night.

Let's not ruin it for everybody. What place I mean, even in Florida would have karaoke at 02:30AM. That's pretty wild. I could see maybe Vegas, but anyway, glad I've never had that type of incident occur at karaoke night I've been to. Just lots of lousy singing.

You know, what you expect of karaoke night. Hey. What's up? Jay Davis and Peaches are in the house here. You know, these guys are pestering me, Jay, to fill out my bracket.

You don't know nothing about sports balls. I know. But it's you you probably have as good a chance as anybody at winning because it it's just gambling, essentially. You know, you're just guessing. Right?

I mean, having a little knowledge about the teams would probably help. But So you gotta guess who, gets the the touchdowns in the sports balls? Yeah. Like, whoever can put the ball in the hoop. You know?

I I really wanna see Jade dribble and shoot a jump shot. Jade? You know, he was a skinny tall dude. He'd probably make a pretty good, basketball player back in the day before he got all broken like we both are now. Oh, my aching back.

Right. My peaches are starting to feel that too. Yeah. No. Getting the old man backache.

I got that terrible hip. You know? Dude. Yeah. I I remember telling you a few years ago.

Just give it a few years, peaches. You're gonna start seeing what where we're coming from here. Something about getting close to 30. All these weird things start happening to you. And it's almost instant the moment you turn 30.

That's what happened to my friend, Matt, right as he turned 30. He can't he can't drink the alcohol like he used to anything. Yeah. And then when you get to 40, it's even worse. Yeah.

Then it starts getting real weird. I am not looking forward to 50. Tell you what. Yikes. And then my dad turned 60 later this year, and I'm like, I wanna All good for him.

If I make it to 60, I'll be pretty stoked. So that's my only thing about getting older is, like, I I did it. I made it. Yay. Looks like Yoda.

I'm getting there. I'm getting there bit by bit. A little bit more wrinkly. Turd called me an old man yesterday. Well, I'm walking by the, server room, and I see somebody hunched down working on something.

And, you know, I see the guys who are normally working in there, maybe Dave, Tyler, Jade, but it didn't look like Jade. It just looked like there was some little old man hunched down over. And and I kinda I walked by and then I came back and was like, oh, it's you. Did you have, like, been down to look at something? But I was working on the the Hawk server in there and He was just kinda hunched down and and, could It's right at the bottom of the rack.

I can't Couldn't see the beard. Because Tyler and Dave are, like, four feet tall. Jade's, you know, he has to duck down. Yeah. So he just looked like this little old man in there working on our stuff, and I'm like, oh, they must have, a specialist in.

We must have some real problems going on. No. When they bring in the old tech whiz. Is that what you thought? Yeah.

Yeah. Because I've seen a a variety of people in that room over the years. Just thought, okay. Well, I didn't know we had somebody coming in today to fix something. Jerk face over here.

So, Peaches showed me on this website, you can fill this thing out just by clicking. The only thing I gotta figure out is if there's, some way to print it. You should see one of the players for Florida, named Oliver Roo or something like that. Oliver Roo? Yeah.

Alright. Is it just a big guy, Peaches? He's seven foot nine. He's a foot taller than me. That's absurd.

That's absurd. Terrible way to live. And he looks normal too. Like, he's not, like, you know He's not like you. Right.

Yeah. Exactly. Well, Americans kinda have a reputation for being bad tourists. You hear about it online. People from other countries.

Oh, these people driving me nuts. Just read a pretty funny story about, couple of American tourists who tried to dodge a fare in Ireland. They took a ride in a horse and carriage. Well, in the carriage portion, obviously. Anyway and then they tried to book it and not pay.

Well, the driver was not putting up with that. This was Saint Patrick's Day weekend. So he jumps out of the carriage, chases him down, and they end up kinda backed into a fence, and he just starts beating him with a stick. Pay. Crack.

Pay. Crack. Pay. Pay me now. They paid him.

They gave him money as they should have to begin with, but they said they ended up giving him giving him a little bit extra as yeah. You probably should. I'm not saying you should do this. You could probably go to jail for beating somebody with a stick, but I don't know. It it doesn't say that the guy was arrested.

Just said he got paid. I don't know if I'd try this in The US, but, you know, times are tough. People got, you know, bills to pay trying to get by. I know if somebody you know screwed me out of a hundred bucks a hundred bucks goes a long ways I need every penny I can get and I'd I'd be chasing somebody down beating them with a stick too you know you sell somebody something That'll be $100, please. I'm not paying you.

I got sticks in my garage, people. I I need to start keeping a stick in my truck. We got the bad joke stick here in the studio. That one would really hurt. Right?

It's a a little mini baseball bat. That's right. Don't you try to take my money? Alright. Anyway, no.

Don't hit people with sticks. K? Don't do it. Be careful out there. A little bit slick.

Don't want you to have to call the advocates. Oh, and by the way, if you ever do call the advocates, make sure to let them know you heard about the advocates for me. You know? It, helps me out. So, yeah, let them know.

Heard it on k bear. You know? I know most people probably just assume it was hurt on k bear because, you know, we love the advocates, but just throwing that reminder out there. Okay what do we got in the news here what do you think that a guy who has a mugshot where he's wearing a t shirt that says I never argue was arrested for No, it's not a trick question. Of course, it was for arguing.

Yeah. Violent argument, with his, well, I don't know if it was his girlfriend, with a female acquaintance. Of course, it's a Florida man. And this is why you should never wear stupid shirts. You know, if you wear a stupid shirt, it seems like there's a good chance you're gonna end up for some reason getting arrested and ending up with a mugshot that every media source around the country is going to be talking about.

Like the people who had the bag that said bag of drugs and it was packed with drugs. You're gonna be on the news And you don't want to be on national news for something dumb. You know? Think about your children. Not only the fact that you're gonna end up potentially in jail, not be able to take care of them, But, no, you're you're an embarrassment to them.

You don't wanna be a national embarrassment to your children. So not only think about your behavior, but think about your clothes. Well, I was hanging out in here talking with Peaches, and Maddie, one of our fellow staff members came by. Apparently stayed up really late playing Red Dead Redemption two, and I'm always down to chat Red Dead. So, you know, she was telling me she's doing the challenges, which is what I've been doing when I play the game among other, you know, collecting item things and all of the boring, nerdy stuff you can do if you don't wanna play the story missions.

So she was currently stuck on a challenge she didn't think she could do as Arthur. And being the nerd I know or the the nerd I am, I was like, there's a secret. There's a secret you can do. So, gave her some tips. Apparently, if you need red dead tips, I'm a pretty good go to guy.

She was unaware of the red dead redemption two map, which I mean, if you wanna be a completionist in the game, you wanna get a %, you gotta have the red dead two map. It'll save you so much time. You can, fire it up on a PC at rdr2map.com. But I like having the app on my phone so that I, you know, don't have to pull up a computer next to me and dot I think if you sign up on their website you can even, track your progress and mark things off as you go so I know we're coming out of winter and it might be time to get outside but if you're not an outside person and you wanna hang out in your house, I I know that you can waste at least two thousand hours of your life playing Red Dead Redemption two. Mhmm.

And I don't judge you. Absolutely not. Because then I have to look at myself. So there you go. If you ever need any red dead tips, call me up.

About time for more coffee, people. Hope you're feeling nice and pumped for the day. You know today it sucks outside. Be cautious, but the weather will improve, supposedly. It's looking pretty good for next week.

Just gotta hope, the old weatherman is correct. Yeah. Can't really believe the weatherman a week out. All right. I stumbled across a post on Reddit in the Idaho subreddit.

It's titled Gem State Comic Con. Is anyone else going to comic con in May this year? This will be my fourth year going. Last year was pretty crowded, and there was a really bad smell. Not really selling me on going and checking this thing out.

I guess it's in Boise. You know, good good to hear we still have these going on. Gem state comic con. They're gonna have the guy who played, Darth Maul in the Star Wars prequels, the girl who played Ginny Weasley. I guess, she's not a girl anymore.

The woman who played Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, guy who's been in guard Guardians of the Galaxy named Sean Gunn, you know, a variety of nerdy celebrities if you wanna go meet him. You know, the guy who played, what's the guy's was his name Brian in Clerks? One of the, Clerks. Could be kind of fun, but beware it might smell, I guess, according to, somebody on Reddit. Just, a funny way to I don't know if they're trying to prevent people from going because they ask, is anybody going?

And they said, I this will be my fourth time. It smelled, but I'm all about it. Please shower before going to big events. K? Concerts, comic cons.

Just clean yourself up a bit. K? Take a nice shower. It'll make you feel good too. Like, I I don't know how people go without.

I'm uncomfortable if I don't take a shower every day. You know? So stay clean, people. Make the Comic Con experience good for others. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt Show.

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