The Viktor Wilt Show

Welcome to the Viktor Wilt Show, the 2nd post Thanksgiving edition. I was in here on Friday, which I should have taken that day off. 4 day weekend would have been much nicer than a normal weekend, but it it was a pretty good weekend. I don't really have any complaints about it other than that it wasn't long enough. So, I did just learn something new, and, it kinda ties into my sleep last night.

I did not sleep well last night. Went to bed at a very good time. I was like, alright. Look at you. Good boy.

Go to bed nice and early. Toss and turn for who knows who knows how long. Took me forever to get to sleep. Then I woke up at some point in the middle of the night, and I was laying on my stomach, which is not a good idea if you're a CPAP sleeper. You know, you got this hard mask on your face, so it's just smashing into my pillow.

Yeah. Anyway, apparently, sleeping on your stomach, the key to success. Maybe that's what was going on. Subconsciously in my sleep, it's like flip over, dude. You need to be more successful in life.

Yeah. Some of the highest earner surveyed and some survey about, how do you sleep? Said they sleep in the free fall position on their stomachs with their arms up like they're skydiving. Tell Elon Musk sleeping, Just Superman out. What do that's that's a weird position.

I mean, I could understand, like, hands up kind of crossed over your head. What do you have your bed in the middle of the room? How do you stick your arms straight up anyway? Yeah. Apparently, people who sleep like that, natural risk takers, which could translate to success in their careers.

Yep. They say in this, article that in the last, month, best position to sleep in has skyrocketed in searches on Google by 250%. Thought I had boring Google searches. Bizarre Google searches. No.

Apparently, apparently, there's other people out there looking to kill time on the phone even more than me. Do you really get to pick what position you sleep in? Like, I I don't think you can just change it, can you? Like, if all of a sudden I decide I wanna sleep on my stomach, I just don't think that's gonna happen. What do I know?

Anyway, if you wanna be more successful, try it, I guess. Good luck, though. I mean, sleeping's hard enough as it is. Alright. It is Monday.

You know, we're coming out of a holiday weekend. Nobody excited to be getting rolling for the day and what you should probably do if you can is just call in sick and stay home. Watch some movies. Yeah. You know, it's cold outside.

Great time to be just cooped up on the couch watching something good. That was pretty much how I spent my weekend. You know, Thanksgiving, just kinda hung out at home. Didn't cook up anything extravagant and hung out with my lady watching movies and TV shows from afar. Let's get into Victor's post weekend movie review.

Well, or at least recommendations. What did I watch this weekend? The whale by Darren Aronofsky directed by Darren Aronofsky director of, requiem for a dream. But, no, almost said something completely incorrect. Anyway, the whale was a really good movie.

K? It's about a very large man who's, you know, kind of at the end of his days, and it was pretty depressing and bleak. Sad, but a really good movie. Might not be for everybody, but, I did really enjoy it even though it was very sad. Watched true romance, which is a a classic all star cast.

It was on Amazon Prime. Story about a a couple that's on the run from some bad guys. That's a very vague description of the movie without spoiling anything. It was really good too. What else did I watch this weekend?

We're all going to the world's fair. Now this is a it was labeled as horror. I don't know what I'd call this movie. It was from the director of I saw the TV glow, which if you've seen that, it it kinda had those vibes going on, though a very different story from that. It it was good.

It was good, but I had higher hopes for it. Kinda like I saw the TV glow. Now I respect both of these movies for what they are. They are certainly unique, have their own feel. But I don't know.

With all of the, the raving online about these particular films, I was expecting a little bit more. Though they they were good. Then watched, lots of x files and played a lot of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, which is also highly recommended. You know, they've got that GTA trilogy definitive edition, which at release was filled with bugs and people didn't really like it very much. I bought it, didn't play it much until they did a new update recently, which seems to have fixed a lot of the problems with the game.

So I would now put it in the the little box of must play if you've never played the old GTA games. They're still really good. Great stories. Do you have a skill? I hope you've got some kind of skill.

Like, I'd say I have skills in a handful of areas. Not very many, not very many. I would say I'm pretty good at slapping together a mass appeal radio station playlist. I said mass appeal. K.

Now I'm not trying to say I you know, keep everybody satisfied all the time because that's not possible. But mass appeal, pretty good. I can write riffs. I don't care what Jade says. I can write riffs.

I'm not gonna claim I'm unreasonably good at doing radio. No. I'm I'm okay. I'm ight at this right here. But those other things, I would say I'm unreasonably good at them.

Well, if you have a skill, there's a Reddit thread for you. What are you unreasonably good at? You can jump in there, pat yourself on the back, brag it up, but I'm curious to see what kind of things people would come out and publicly say I'm unreasonably good at blank and I have a feeling it's gonna be a lot of self deprecating stuff where they're actually beating up on themselves. Yeah. I'm really good at being a failure.

You know, that kind of stuff. But let's see. Maybe we'll see some interesting skills. Reading upside down or backward from the wrong side of the paper and deciphering the crazy handwriting of others. Oh, good for you.

Alright. You should be a teacher then. You know, if you're good at reading people's crappy handwriting, I'll hand in my assignment, and you can go ahead and decipher that. Alright? Alright.

That's an interesting skill. What else do we have here? I knew it. I knew that right out of the gate, even though it doesn't answer the question properly, we'd get a response like, my problem's kind of the opposite. I'm mediocre at everything and excel at nothing.

That should not be a popular response getting up votes because that doesn't say you're unreasonably good at anything. Answer the question right or no up votes for you. Here we go. Procrastination. Alright.

I can you be good at procrastinating? I mean, I think anybody who procrastinates is at the same level of skill and same level of ability when it comes to procrastination. All that means is you're putting off stuff. There is no, you know, various levels to that or are no various levels to that. Right?

Scratching a dog in a way where it does the leg thing. Alright. I I was hoping we'd get some real braggarts up in here. You know? I can play, you know, battle toads on the NES, start to finish and never die.

You know? Something like that. Oh, here someone says, Nintendo. Been playing Nintendo Entertainment Systems my whole life. I can beat Mega Man 3 in about 45 minutes without dying.

Wow. Okay. That that's a very hard game. So at least we're seeing somebody bragging about an actual skill here. I always know almost exactly what time it is.

Without looking at a watch or a clock Okay. To make a reasonable guess at what time it is, I I don't think that's a skill either but whatever. Whatever. Rock, paper, scissors. K.

Now that is actually a skill. This person says, I don't know why, but I have a very high win rate in that game. Jump on YouTube and watch some videos of how to win at rock, paper, scissors. You can kind of influence the person you're playing with to throw certain things. You could also I I don't know.

There's a lot of, like, body language and stuff that goes into rock, paper, scissors. Anyway, I do think that's a skill. This person may just not realize the subtle things they are doing or the other person is doing that's leading to them winning. Alright. Oh, good for you.

I'm good at remembering things. Alright. Whatever. You must be very proud of yourself trying to rub it into those of us who, you know, struggle a bit with remembering things. Whatever.

Time to leave this break. I don't like feeling insulted as I start this program. There are some truly garbage people out there. Just terrible human beings. And my stupid Facebook feed went ahead and reset.

Okay. There's the post. Idaho Falls animal shelter posted this yesterday, and this is just so gross. Alright. Here's the post.

We believe that a scam artist is contacting members of our community claiming to represent animal control. This person will claim that a lost pet of yours has been located, but that it has been injured and is in need of surgery. The person will then ask if you can meet with them to pay money toward the alleged surgery. If you receive a call or message similar to this, please contact the Idaho Falls Animal Shelter during our normal business hours or police dispatch so we can verify the validity of your call. This person may be using Facebook or similar outlets to acquire details about your lost animal in order to sound legitimate, so be aware of details you share about lost pets on social media.

You know, I see the lost pet posts all the time and, you know, it's it's very sad. You know, I empathize with anybody who is currently missing a pet, you know, their members of your family. It's very upsetting. So imagine your pet is lost and then you get a call from somebody who's like, hey. We have your pet.

It's been injured. It needs surgery. I mean, most people are gonna be like, oh, jeez. I can't believe you found my pet. Oh, and perhaps in a, you know, emotional state, not thinking clearly, you know, there are people who may meet up with this person, give them some dough.

So not only are they just lying, your pet's still missing. Then they steal money from you. They're working off your emotions. Oh, I hope they catch whoever's doing this. They need a brutal public shaming.

I mean, again, there are bad people all over, but this is just, oh, so disgusting. I read this, and I just got mad. Just got mad. It's like anybody who's scamming old people. Yeah.

Anybody who's ripping people off who are you know? Anybody who's taking advantage of people. Oh, I just can't stand it. So, anyway, that post is making the rounds from the Idaho Falls animal shelter. Just be aware.

I mean, how terrible. You're just trying to find your lost pet, and you got people out trying to steal money from you. What? Scum. Alright.

Well, I guess there's gotta be something in the Monday news to make me mad every Monday. Man, disgusting people. Anyway, just be aware. It's Monday. Boo.

But we've entered the holiday season. That's fun. Right? Christmas is coming. You can do some some shopping today, Cyber Monday.

I took a quick glance. Looks like all the same deals that have been around for the last couple weeks still rolling, but today might be the last day. So, yeah, get your get your shopping done. I think I've got most of mine done. You know, there's there's not a lot of people left for me to shop for these days.

So, yeah, makes it sort of easy. You know, you just gotta figure out what what to give people. Anyhow, I was scrolling through a post on Reddit, of course, about disturbing books. We've looked at these threads before, and I was trying to see if another movie I watched over the weekend, if the book that the movie was based on is in this list. Turns out, I'm an idiot.

This movie I watched over the weekend, I must have just saw it on a list of disturbing films. I thought it was based on a book, but it isn't. Movie called we need to talk about Kevin. I believe I watched it on, Prime, I think. I don't know.

It's on one of the streaming services. Might have been Hulu. But, anyway, this movie, it was, pretty messed up. Was pretty messed up. Pretty dark.

It was not as depressing as the whale, but it was just, you know, dark and kinda gross. I don't know if I'd recommend it or not. I mean, it if you're into disturbing films, maybe. It might be worth a watch. And, you know, where I had seen this movie on a list of the most disturbing movies ever, I'll admit I was expecting it to be way worse.

There were some pretty bad parts, but I mean, I've seen way worse as far as movies go. It it was bad, but I don't know. I I don't think it would pop into my head as one of the most disturbing movies of all time having seen it now. Alright? But I don't know.

Anyway, just throwing that out there. If you need something to brighten up the holiday season, disturbing movies and or books, you know, could work. Anyway, just letting you know that's out there. Alright? I'm not gonna go through the list of disturbing books because we've already done that many times before, and it it's always the same books.

You know, you've you've got a variety of books by Cormac McCarthy. You've got the, you know, The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum, blah blah blah. Anyway, did I watch anything that was fun and, like, uplifting over the weekend? I don't know. Lot of dark material.

I enjoyed it. Listener Lauren posted in the k Bear 101 Idaho rock and metal group, Pick between 2 bands or post 2 bands and let people choose which one is better. Fun post that you can take part in if you haven't joined the k Bear 101 Idaho rock and metal group. Well, what are you doing? You know?

Come on. Join the group. Take part in the fun. Let's go through some of these. Let me cast my judgment on 2 bands and pick one that is better because my taste.

Obviously, the end all when it comes to these questions. So alright. Starting at the top, Amy asked sleep token and Bad Omens. Sorry, Bad Omens fans. Victor Wilt's gonna go with sleep token all the way on that one.

Alright. Peach has asked me this on the show Friday. I think is that when this post was made? November 30th? That might have been Friday.

I don't know. Anyway, I remember Peach is asking me, Motionless in White or Ice 9 kills? And I had to give it to Motionless in White simply because of their support of the station and how nice they have been over the years. Musically, they're probably pretty even for me. I've got some Motionless and White songs that I really like.

Some Ice Nine Kills songs that I really like. But, you know, personality. Ice I've got, Motionless and White taking it home. Keanu asking, Hoobastank or The Beatles? What kind of question is that?

Hoobastank all the way. No. Just kidding. Just kidding. Who on earth?

Alright. Let's look at the replies. There gotta be some people who went with, Hoobastank. Stewart. Stewart going with Hoobastank.

Get out of here, Stewart. Come on, man. Alright. What do we got here? Overkill or Metallica from Eddie?

Gotta go Metallica. And that's that's my answer to that one. Stewart asking, TOOL or Sleep Token? TOOL. Much as I like Sleep Token, they ain't TOOL.

I mean, there are very few bands I'd put up on the same level as TOOL. Sleep Token gotta churn out at least one more amazing album before they they get on that list. Well, I guess I I would put acid bath on a list that I'd put up there with Tool, but they only dropped 2 albums. So I don't know. That that might be a nostalgia thing.

Led Zeppelin or ACDC? Oh, that's a tough one. Now, I'm not a massive fan of either band. I really don't know who I'd pick on that one. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's move along. Bad flower or Beartooth. I'll go Beartooth. Eagles or Boston?

Probably Eagles. Yeah. I think so. Tool or Iron Maiden's gonna be Tool. Corn or red hot chili peppers?

I'll give you the surprising answer. I would probably go, Chili Peppers in that battle. Oh, come on, Randy. Pink Floyd versus Yoko Ono. Get out of here with that.

Can't beat Yoko Ono for for anything music related. Ozzy versus Pink Floyd. Oh. That's real tough. Real tough.

I think I gotta go Pink Floyd. Oh, I I don't know. I don't know, though. That's a depending on the day kinda thing. Slayer or Pantera?

Another tough one. But I think for the songs themselves, I gotta go Pantera. Yeah. Judas Priest or Motley Crue? I'm gonna go with The Crew.

G and R or Metallica? Gotta go Metallica. Yeah. Anyway, this is a fun post. You should go take part in it.

I'd be curious to know what your answers are. Oh, we got somebody calling. See what they want. K Bear, you are live on the show. Please keep that in mind.

Who's this? This is Eli. Eli, what's up, dude? I I was gonna say you can't pick anybody over Yoko Ona, man. Even the Beatles couldn't beat her.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she's obviously the greatest musical, talent that anyone in the history of humanity has ever seen. So yeah. No no question.

No questions at all. Alright. Glad that we could agree. I'd I'd hate to have to get in in an argument about that one. So Not a Ryotov.

No. No. Alright, man. Hope you have a good one. You, sir.

Peace. There you go. No one. No one can take out Yoko Ono. No way.

Freak news powered by Grease Monkey voted Idaho's best oil change. It's the Victor Will show. Let's go. Alright. The word of the year from the Oxford University Press, brain rot.

Well, that's 2 words, but whatever. I guess it's a phrase of the year. Gonna be showing up in the dictionary. Brain rot, the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Now most people are throwing brain rot around in regard to, like, how gen z talks using weird phrases and some of the dumb content they watch online.

But I think brain rot's affected a lot of people in 2024, so that's a really a perfect phrase for 2024 when I look back on the year. Just brain rot. Very appropriate. It's got the Victor Wilt stamp of approval. Alright.

What else is going on in the news today? An AI tool promises precise prediction of the day you'll die. Oh, that sounds great. Do you wanna know? Well, for $40 a year, you can pick up the death clock on your phone.

You punch in all of your exercise habits, sleep schedules, stress levels, diet, and it'll let you know when you're gonna go. Yeah. That's the last tool on earth that I'm ever gonna tinker around with because even if it was wrong, I'd be paranoid to the end of time. I don't know. It might help you turn some health habits around.

Might scare the crap out of you. You're like, oh, jeez. I got I gotta get my life together. What's wrong with me? Maybe I will pick it up.

Might motivate me to get on that treadmill in my basement. I'm working on the treadmill motivation, by the way. I did, you know, buy that really cheap TV that I mentioned, and, I I I mounted it above the treadmill over the weekend. So I think that might motivate me a little bit, you know, because I have something I can watch while I I I think I'll start out just walking. Just a a nice walk.

Alright. Anyway, the death clock apps out there for you morbid folks who really wanna make yourself crazy. Let's see. Most Black Friday shoppers bag their deals online this year. Not a big surprise there.

With record spending. Well, some people would say that's because the economy is booming. Some would say that's because everything's more expensive. Probably a little bit of both. I mean, obviously, with the price of goods and services being what they are nowadays, you're gonna spend more than you did a few years ago.

You know, even if you buy half the stuff. So that's not, well, you know, it's not really freak news. Finally, what else do we have here? Sitting in the middle seat of an airplane is the best seat. No.

It's not. I don't care what advantages there are. Being crammed between 2 people is not not the best place to be unless you're one of those people where you just like being in people's space bubbles. This article says ethically, you're entitled to both armrests. Oh, yeah?

Why can't airplanes just give each seat 2 armrests? You know? Oh, yeah. Because they gotta cram as many people in the plane as possible. They point out, oh, you can look out the window and you can look into the aisle.

No. There's people in your way. You don't wanna be the guy in the middle leaning over the person next to you trying to look out the window. It's like get out of my space. What are you doing?

Get away from me. Oh, you may find the person you'll marry that way. Yeah. You're gonna get stuck on a plane and all of a sudden find romance with that person you're crammed in next to. I think the odds of that happening are pretty low.

Even if it has happened before, I'm not gonna go with that as a benefit to sitting in the middle seat. K? Middle seat sucks. Everybody knows it. I don't know.

There have been situations where airlines have given people prizes for being in that seat, but, again, rare. Oh, better dance around this one carefully. Let's do some cue the outrage. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry. That's my secret, cat.

I'm always angry. Alright. It's like a lot of people losing their minds today. Over the weekend, president Biden pardoned his son for all of his crimes, and people are very upset about this. Alright.

Here's my take. Maybe we shouldn't give one person the power to just wipe out people's crimes. Now I don't care what side you're on. Why can a president just, you know, go ahead and put the pass on crimes committed by members of his family or his friends and all presidents do this. You know, Trump pardoned a bunch of criminals, So big surprise that another president would pardon criminals.

Maybe we should take away the ability to do that. But, unfortunately, just a few months ago, the supreme court ruled that a president can basically do whatever they want. So I have a feeling that, sleazy behavior by presidents is going to increase moving forward. Yeah. When you know, you can just do whatever you want and face no repercussions for it.

That tends to change people's behavior. You know, if if a president is at the end of their term and gonna make a bunch of, changes, you know, implement a bunch of new things, why pardon somebody? Why not do something that's gonna benefit everybody? You know, change some laws or something. Do something that will help the whole of the country.

But now, now, now you know what? I can't stand politicians. You know? Endless promises that never come to fruition except for ones that don't seem to benefit anybody. And yeah, again, it doesn't matter out which side they're on.

They just don't seem to pay attention to what the average person needs. You know, it's all about them, all about them. So anyway, but we don't like this kind of behavior. We could start voting in some new people or something. I don't know.

Maybe when there were rulings passed down that says a president can do whatever they want. Maybe the public should stand up and go, no. I don't think that's a good idea, but they'll just open the floodgates for these guys to just cut loose and just get wild. So, anyway yeah. I wish people would get mad when either side did something they don't like, but people don't.

You know, if it benefits their side, they're all happy about it. But the minute the other side does it's like, no. You need to stand up to sleazy behavior from all of them. Alright? But, no.

I'm I'm, like, done with politics at this point. The public is never going to vote for their own best interest and never gonna stand up to behavior from both sides. You know, if we were really wanna get rid of corrupt behavior by politicians, you have to take down all of them that are engaged in corrupt behavior, not just the other side. That's how they keep getting away with this stuff. They've got us divided.

But, oh, well, just wait and see what's to come. I you know, only the voters can be blamed at this point. We talk about collecting things from time to time on this show. As you may know, if you listen regularly, I collect books. Yeah.

Got a a lot of books that I thoroughly enjoy, and, I like them as decorations. I think they look nice sitting on the old shelf there. Where are all my my music beds? Why is everything a lot of whack here? Alright.

Anyway, sorry. I'm tinkering with things in the background here. If you collect things, I hate to break it to you, but they might not be worth keeping. At least according to this article from Explored Planet. I think the folks at Explored Planet might just be trying to encourage people to sell these things so they can buy them, hang on to them till down the road when they are worth money.

I don't know. Maybe these things just aren't going to be worth anything ever, but I don't know. You never know. Don't let an online article tell you that your collection is worthless. It might not be.

But if you collect any of these items, you might wanna do a little research on them and maybe some of them you can clear out some space and get rid of. Those Beanie Babies. I remember when Beanie Babies were supposed to be a financial investment. All down the road, these are gonna be worth bank. Jump on eBay and, take a look at Beanie Babies.

You can find some pretty cheap ones. So there are probably a handful, like anything. You know? You take a look at anything. There's CDs that are worth tons of money.

You know, they mentioned vinyl on here. There are vinyl records that are worth some money, but and then not a lot of it. Alright? Not not a lot of them are worth bank. The majority, probably not worth much, but I could see down the road vinyl exploding in value.

That's just me. I don't know. It's very popular right now. So anything that people get nostalgic about, to me down the road, could end up being worth some dough, but I don't know. Right now right now, apparently not.

Norman Rockwell collector plates. Alright. I had some Norman Rockwell mugs, little coffee mugs. I had about 20 of them been sitting in my cupboard forever because I'm like, well, these might be worth some money. Looked them up on eBay.

It was like, nah, no To the thrift store, they go. And, yeah, maybe if I had sold every single one of them, packaged them up, shipped them out, maybe I could have made, like, 40, $50. Maybe. It did too much work. Too much work to the thrift store.

They went, if you're in the market for some Norman Rockwell mugs, they may still be at the youth ranch next to Winco. They might be. I don't know for sure. PEZ dispensers, Pandora charms, newer Star Wars toys. Alright.

I'm glad to see that royal family memorabilia, not worth collecting. You know what I think about the royal family. Waste of time. Let's see. Newer comic book stamps.

Now there's gotta be some stamps worth some dough. This article says it's like finding a needle in a haystack though. Same with pogs. You got your pod collection. Not worth anything.

Antique silverware, porcelain dolls, model train sets, Barbies, vintage adult magazines, precious moments. Man, they got a lot of stuff that people collect that they're like, it's not worth collecting. Baseball cards, Funko figurines, Hummel figures. Some of this stuff has to be worth money. Don't just get rid of your stuff because of this article.

Do some online research. You know, if you've ever watched that antiques roadshow, you know, you might have something sitting around your house that's worth some money. You might. And it could be a collectible pog. I don't know.

I'm not well versed in the world of collectible pogs, but yeah. Children's books. You wanna tell me some first edition, cat in the hat or something ain't worth money? I don't think so, explored planet. I know everybody loves hearing about new sicknesses making the rounds.

So, yeah, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share with you the details on a new one. Well, I don't know. Maybe it's been around a while. I'd never heard of it. What do we got?

Multiple? Multiple strange viruses making the rounds? Now, currently, the problems with these are happening in, like, African countries. Alright? Marburg, Empox, and Orapush.

These are the name of the viruses spreading in 17 countries. One of them makes you bleed from your eyes. Yeah. Oh, sorry, kids. I don't mean to scare you first thing on a Monday morning, but I mean, come on.

I see that bleeding eyes is something that's breaking out in places like Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia. Bleeding eyes. That's South America, not, Africa. Sorry. The African countries were like, Uganda, the Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, etcetera.

But they Yeah. Yeah. There's places where, you know, we've got, terrible stuff happening in South Africa as well. Cuba and the Dominican Republic getting close to here. Can you imagine just bleeding from the eyes?

I mean, it starts off not great. It's got an incubation period of 2 to 21 days. This Marburg disease starts off, you know, with fever, headaches, muscle aches and pains. And then, like, 3 days in, stomach starts getting real bad. Start getting, you know, vomitous.

Starting to have a little bit of that diarrhea. And then from day 5, that's when the blood comes out. Just starts pouring from everywhere. Bleeding from your eyes and other places. And then you get confused and irritable.

Well, yeah, if you got blood pouring out of your eyes, I'm sure you'd be confused. Oh, inflammation in areas that you dudes do not wanna have inflammation. Okay. Just letting you know in case you were planning on, I don't know, heading to Brazil or something. Gotta be careful.

You know? I don't know how you prevent these things. Hand sanitizer? I don't know. Stay home.

That's what I do. I can't afford to go to Brazil. So, anyway, when you wake up in the morning and check your eyes, if it looks like you, you know, you're crying red tears, you might wanna get to the dock. So I was reading through a post online where people were talking about what show they watch when they can't find anything else. What show is that for you?

Everybody's got at least 1 or 2. I've got, South Park. That's an easy go to if I can't find anything to watch. Always puts a smile on my face. But another show that's a go to for, like, if I just need something on in the background or, you know, I'm trying to go to bed and I want something on to, you know, tone down the circus inside of my head, distract from it a little bit.

Mysteries at the museum. You ever seen this show? I think it's on, Max, if I remember right. Now this is a show where you got the host, comes out, and he's like, alright. Today, we're headed to blank.

Like, alright. We'll say he's headed to Idaho Falls. Alright? So I'm Don Wildman. We're heading to Idaho Falls today where, as you can see here, we have the river, you know, and they'll show, like, the waterfall.

And then they go, but down the road, there's another place that flows with information or something like that. Some kind of a hacky joke. The museum of Idaho, blah, blah, blah. And then they'll bring up some kind of item at the museum. And I'd say 50% of the time, it's not even the actual item related to the historical story they're going to tell, but it, you know, is close to it or something.

Like, just last night, I was watching this show and they were talking about the guy who created the steel guitar was a guy in, Hawaii back in either the late 1800 or early 19 forties. So this guy makes the steel guitar, which nowadays you tend to hear mostly in, like, country music, also known as a lap guitar. And when he created this, the problem with it was it wasn't very loud. You know, if you were doing a live performance, you were doing it for, like, 5 people sitting right next to you. So down the line, some other guy who really enjoyed the steel guitar created the pickup, which every electric guitar today has.

You know? Got those Fishman Fluence pickups in it. Blah blah blah. So they were able to amplify the steel guitar and this led to the electric guitar being created. And the image that they showed from some museum in, like, I don't know, Kansas or No.

Maybe it was it was in Hawaii. An early electric guitar. It wasn't a steel guitar. It was just a weird looking electric guitar. So really had almost nothing to do with the steel guitar.

You know, that that's what you'd think they'd put in the in the show. Here's one of the first steel guitars created by the guy who made them. No. That that's the thing with mysteries at the museum. You know, they just slap together something.

Nah. It doesn't really need to make a lot of sense and you get a little bit of history. And it's a pretty fun show. I don't know why I like it so much. Kinda hokey but it's a pretty good go to if you're looking to just throw something on in the background.

All these others that people are naming online, I I haven't heard of these. Or I should say I haven't seen them. I've heard of How It's Made, but I haven't seen it. How It's Made sounds just like mysteries at the museum almost, except it's gonna show making stuff. You know?

Ever wondered how this was made? Check it out. Here's how they make it. Forensic Files? Never watched that.

Might have to check it out, I guess. Bob's Burgers? That's in that South Park bucket. That's a that's a good go to for something to throw on if you just can't think of anything else to watch. It's always sunny.

That's really good too, but I just got done knocking down the entire series. I'm surprised surprised to see no South Park because South Park's a show you can just jump into any episode. You know, somebody put Breaking Bad on here but, you know, if you're gonna watch Breaking Bad, you just gotta start at the beginning. Watch the whole thing. You need a show that you can just jump in at any random point, and, you know, it'll be fine.

I guess I'm the only weirdo out there watching, Mysteries at the Museum. I don't see that on the list. It's a great show. Really is. Anyway, if you're bored, give it a shot.

It's probably not for everybody, but it's kinda fun. Always a sad time of year in radio. You know, we talk about it each year. Right before Thanksgiving, Christmas, it's when everybody starts getting fired in the biz. Well, I just read a bummer story.

Stephen King's radio stations, all of them, to shut down and sign off for good at the end of the month. Now their radio group was called the Zone Corporation. They had 4 no. 3 stations, w z o n, w k I t, and w z l o. You had, Stephen King's rock station.

You had retro radio and then an alternative station, and I guess business just wasn't going very good. Stephen King been just kinda keeping him afloat himself for many, many years. And I mean, he's getting pretty old. He's, like let's see. 77.

77 years old. He's, like, yeah. I'm gonna try to get my business affairs in better order. How about relaxing for a bit? The guy's putting out a new book here in a I think a month or so.

I mean, he churns out multiple books a year. Now I hope that I'm a fraction as motivated in life. Like, you know, tomorrow as Stephen King is today. And I can't. Well, okay.

It's his job. If I did have 8 hours a day to sit at home and work on creative projects. Oh, who are you kidding, dude? You're gonna sit around and play video games. Yeah.

That's what you're gonna do. You're a slacker, Victor. You're a slacker. Well, anyway, rip to yet another rock station. I mean, they were more of a classic rock station, but still, anytime any kind of rock station goes, it's sad.

So another one bites the dust. Well, far as I know, we're good to go. Haven't got the word that we're shutting down at the end of the month. I'm I'm I shouldn't even say that. I shouldn't even say that.

I don't wanna jinx anything. Anyway, wish me luck. Let's talk about stupid people. Yeah. Anything I can do to make myself feel better about myself on a Monday?

What was your I'm dating an idiot moment? This should have some good responses. We've all been around stupid people. Right? Can you imagine being in a relationship with somebody stupid?

I mean, I might be the dumb one in the relationship. So, I'm probably not one to say much, but at least I'm not as dumb as these people so far. So far, I've only read a couple comments. We might get right into something here that I go, oh, wait. That's not how it is?

Alright. This person posted, I told him I had to leave in 1.5 hours. He told me that was oddly specific, and I should have just rounded up to 2 hours instead of 1 hour and 50 minutes. So I clarified I'd need to leave in 1 hour and 30 minutes, and he says that's actually 1.3 hours. What an idiot.

Alright. Alright. You know, math's not for everybody. But I do know what 1.5 hours means, so I'm feeling okay. Let's see.

Lady Shylock posted when he asked my grandmother if she'd ever had children. Maybe he was putting the moves on grandma. I don't I don't know. Or maybe he's just dumb. Maybe he was nervous.

Alright. Nervous and asked a stupid question just trying to make small talk. Yeah. It does come across pretty dumb. Let's see.

This person's significant other said there's no way the Earth spins once a day. If it spun that fast, we would all fly off. Multiple levels of, misunderstanding going on in that one there. Let's see. She seemed to be confused about the difference between flamingos and penguins, but insisted they weren't real because she'd grown up in Alaska and never seen any.

Yeah. I don't think that either of those birds are native to Alaska. You know, I could, I guess, understand if you've never seen either of these mixing them up. I I I don't know. These are adults.

You should know the difference between a penguin and a flamingo. I'm I'm just trying to be nice here. And not knowing what animals live in the area you live in. Okay. But you can't just go, I think they don't exist because I've never seen one.

If there are pictures and video, etcetera, you know, there's pretty good evidence. Alright? There's a lot of things you could choose to believe that you gotta just believe but not when it comes to penguins. All right? Let's see.

I was having bad cramps and I took an ad bill. My ex told me I shouldn't take them because it's a gazebo. That's the same error made in the story It, as a matter of fact. I believe the word he was looking for was placebo, but I think Advil Ibuprofen is also not a placebo. Pretty positive that it works.

What kind of bird is a ham? Not everybody's a cook. How do oil companies know where to build gas stations? I guess she thought there were, you know, these pipes running all over the place with gas just yet, maybe some people don't know that gas is delivered. I don't know if that makes you a moron.

Let's read one more here. She had a new telescope and thought it would be really cute to check out the stars after a date one night. I don't remember the full conversation at but at some point, I joked about us being stuck together on this giant ball in space. She looked through the telescope again and said, so you believe that, And I just stared at her blankly because I was afraid of that question going any further. Now do you think she didn't understand what he was saying?

Do you think she's a flat earther? I I don't know myself here. Wait. The Romans are from Rome? Alright.

No. I'm I'm gonna feel a little bit better about myself because, I I know I do and say stupid things. If you listen to this show regularly, you know that. But I know the Earth's round. Alright.

Don't call me and argue, flat earthers. Alright. It's too early for arguments even if the show is almost done. Man, those guys put on a great show last year. I guess it's still this year at the Mountain America Center dropkick Murphy's.

And, you know, we don't play a ton of dropkick Murphy's here, but we do play them. Therefore, I, you know, thought it was perfectly acceptable for us to give away tickets to the show back when it happened. It makes me a little bit crazy when I see radio stations do giveaways for shows for artists they don't support. You're not getting freebies from the band or the promoter. Acting like they support the bands by talking about them but they don't give them any airplay.

See it all the time. I see rock stations giving away tickets to shows for bands they don't support, and I see country radio stations doing it all the time. Happens around here. Country artist Ian Munzick came through a while back. There is only one radio station in the market that plays Ian Munzick.

105 the hawk down the hall. Well, the Mountain America Center announced a new country show today. Cody Jinx. Cody Jinx, legit country artist. Gonna be at the Mountain America Center.

What was the date on that? Let's see. June 27th, plenty of time to plan, but all of the country stations in town are giving away tickets and talking about the show. I know for a fact that the only station you're gonna hear Cody Jinx well, there's 2 of them. 105 the hawk and 105 outlaw.

That's where you're gonna hear Cody Jinx. We've done ticket giveaways for Cody Jinx before. I personally met Cody Jinx. Been to a couple shows. Great dude.

Great band. And, again, the only radio station in East Idaho. I mean, Cody Jinx, actually. The Hawks probably the only commercial country station in the entire country playing Cody Jinx outside of maybe the middle of the night. So, anyway, I just want you to let your family and friends know.

If they're Cody Jinx fans and they're listening to, like, you know, the wolf or Kewpie, tell them to get it together. You wanna hear a station with a legit country playlist that plays all of the most popular artists right now? I know you're listening to the rock station, but this just drives me nuts. It even though I am the rock guy, it makes me as crazy when I see country radio stations do this is when I see rock stations do it. So yeah.

Down with those other stations. They suck. Come on. You wanna give away tickets to a show? Play the artist.

Alright? Show him some real support. Play him during the day when your listeners can hear him. Anyway, I better end the show with another band that you're not gonna hear on another rock station because they're all week. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt show.

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