The Viktor Wilt Show

Little bit of Sleep Token to start the day. Hey, what's up? It's Victor Weld. Good morning. Welcome to Thursday. I hope you're well. I'm aight. Woke up at about 1:00 in the morning, and my stomach was just killing me, just killing me. I don't know, uh, it's probably the food I ate [laughs] right before bed. Spicy, uh, pizza rolls and

Chili Mac. [laughs] That, that does sound like a recipe for, uh, stomach problems, does it not? It was good. [laughs] It was really good, but, oh, it hurts. So I went and got some coffee. I'm gonna slowly, uh, chug that down

'cause I'm, I'm a little bit nervous about what it's gonna do to my guts. It, it still don't feel very good. Wish me luck on that. As I was scrolling through the internet, somebody started a thread, you know, people who have multiple pets, what's the drama amongst them right now?

All right. I got a lot of pets now. [laughs] My, my lady moved in

and, uh, she had more pets than me. So we are up to one dog and four cats. It's a zoo. Now, the cats, for the most part, are getting along pretty good. You know, that we, we leave 'em all out at the same time. There haven't been any major brawls or anything. But my cat, Lucy, and Millie the dog, for whatever reason, they just hate each other's guts. They just see each other and they are furious. They do not like each other's faces. I don't know how we're gonna work that out. Gonna have to, uh, get into the, I don't know, pets' subreddit and be like, "Okay, how do you get these two to, to get along?" Now, the, the cats, it's not like they're, like, hanging out and snuggling up together, but, you know, at least they can all be in the same room loose. I gotta put the cats on the very top of the cat tree if, uh, Millie's gonna be running around. What other, uh, drama are other people dealing with here?

All right. Uh, apparently we have one toy. It's whichever toy the other one has. I'm guessing this is a dog issue, and they say they have 27,000 toys. [laughs] You know, um,

I've never had a dog, but I have noticed with, uh, Millie and being around other dogs, I think dogs get jealous much easier than, uh, cats do. And so, if a- another dog has a toy, I would imagine, "I gotta have that toy. I've gotta have it." [laughs] Dogs are weird. Let's see. My oldest cat hates the younger cats. I, I mean, all, all my cats, th- they do, to a degree, hate each other, I think. Koopa and Lucy were being really nice to each other last night, though. I did see, uh, Lucy give Koopa... She, like, licked his head a couple times. And then he was being a pest last night. When I woke up in the middle of the night, you know, with the, uh, guts wrecked, he just starts yowling and yowling and making all this racket. Woke Becca up. Had to throw him out of the room. Ugh. It, it, it's nuts at my house right now with these, these pets. [laughs] All right. Let's see. My cat caught a bird. My son saved it. The dog caught it while it was recovering. My wife tried, tried to stop it, but the dog ate it. [laughs] All right. That's pet drama. Yeah, uh, cats, I'm, I'm amazed that, uh, the kid was able to get it away from the cat. Like, you know, if cats catch something, they go into this feral mode and they're all psychotic. Uh, very hard to get things away from 'em when they get in that state of mind. All right. Does having a school of 20 plus fish count? I guess. Let's see. The drama is some individuals are laying eggs this late in the season. Uh, okay. Is that drama? Sound like

gonna need another fish tank or bigger tank. What you gonna do? All right. Let's see. One of the cats has become territorial over the litter box. Oh. That would be a nightmare. It's guarding the litter box [laughs] from the other cats. Oh.

At least things are improving at my house. It was mayhem there for a while. It's starting to level off, but [laughs] for a bit, trying to get these animals adjusted to each other, it was crazy. It was nuts. But it's fun. It's fun. I'm enjoying it. I went from, uh, you know, like, zero activity whatsoever at my house, being, uh, bored and lonely, to, uh, endless activity all the time. You know, it, it's good to stay busy and good to have, uh, company, good to have things going on. I just need to go to bed earlier. I need to force myself to do it.

You know, it's hard when you have somebody to hang out with to go to bed. When I live by myself, it's like, "Well, I'm bored. I guess I will go to bed at 8:30 like I should." Ugh. I really need to, uh, bring a cot to the studio 'cause, you know, we play songs for, you know, maybe 10, 12 minutes in a row.

That's a lot of power naps I could be getting in. This desk, not very comfortable to s- to sleep on. No. I'm gonna get back to drinking this coffee. Hopefully, it, uh, works. Hopefully, it doesn't wreck my guts, and hopefully I can find some fun content to share with you today. Hope you're having an awesome day,

and I hope that, uh, you're all ready for the Halloween holiday. We're supposed to have a company costume party tomorrow, and I'm just so tired right now. I'm like, "I'm, I'm not even gonna put any effort into that." And I'm sure people are expecting me to dress up 'cause I'm one of the weird guys around here, but, ugh.I just don't want to deal with it. I mean, I guess nobody gets in till eight. I could bring some stuff with me and then get ready in here. Yeah. There's nobody really here right now. I could strip down in here. Nobody's going to know. Well, Josh and Chantelle down the hall might be a little disturbed. I'm just babbling, just thinking to myself, "I need more coffee." I'll be back.

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Sorry. No, I saw this post online where someone was asking, you know, am I being a jerk when I say we should get a fake Christmas tree this year and they go into the details of how, you know, it's this couple and they've got a baby on the way. It's going to be born late next month. Now, the, uh, the woman in the relationship loves Christmas,

very important to her to have a real Christmas tree. But this guy, he's like, well, you know, with the baby coming, I was like, why, why don't we just get a fake tree? We're going to be exhausted. You're going to be recovering from, uh, you know, giving birth

just seems a little bit easier. Um,

and she got mad. She got really mad. She says, "It'll ruin Christmas." And she doesn't want their baby's first Christmas to be ruined. Called him a Grinch and now giving him the silent treatment. Silent treatment is the worst. The worst. I, I don't know. May-, maybe not for everybody. Not trying to give my,

my girlfriend any tips either. [laughs] Don't do it. Don't give me the silent treatment. I hate that. But okay, let's talk about Christmas trees.

I say just get the fake tree. All right. Do you want to bring a bunch of bugs into your house? Huh? You want bugs in your house? You know what lives in real trees? Bugs. Okay. Bugs. And they make a mess. The needles drop all over the place. They're a fire hazard. Ah, sure, they smell good, but bugs people. Ugh, bugs.

Real trees are supposed to stay outside. That's bright.

Now, this should be pretty interesting this year at my house because, um, you know, with my, my girlfriend moving in, we each have a Christmas tree. Actually, I have my daughter's Christmas tree, too. We could go like Christmas psychotic, put up three Christmas trees, but I think we are going to put up two Christmas trees because, like, she has a really nice, uh, like big traditional Christmas tree. And I mean, my tree is pretty nice too. But the set of lights I bought for it last year, they're, they're like, uh,

insane Govee lights that do all these designs and things like that. And, um, I don't know, it just seems like if we just put that tree up with no ornaments on it and throw it in like the dining room, have the Christmas light show going on in there, I think it'll look... I think it'll look pretty cool. You may have seen video of my tree last year on social media. The lighting, the lights are awesome. They're crazy. [laughs] Completely crazy. But putting up two fake trees now, that's a lot of work. Yeah, I do think that, uh, this guy's justification saying that, uh, an artificial tree is easier, I don't think that's correct. Dealing with the real tree is much easier because with the artificial tree you have to shape it. All right? If you want it to look good, you have to spend

years moving the branches around to make it look nice. You know, a real tree, you just... There you go. Bam! Real tree. It looks like a tree because it is a tree. Um, but I would just say you got a baby. What, you want it covered in little tree mites and things like that? [laughs] I don't... I think this guy is going to lose this battle. If your lady wants a real treat, just give her the real tree. But I will always be on the side of fake tree just because I don't like bugs. That reminds me, I need to put out some traps. Bought some new traps for the spiders that are starting to come inside. Yeah, it's that time of year.So, I got looking around to see if there were any updates on that spaceship that was supposed to, you know, pass by Earth yesterday, the mysterious object. Doesn't seem to be an update in sight about this. [whimsical music] Bummer. I was hoping we got some news, you know, alien spaceship passes by Earth, check it out, here's the images. No, not even, not even an update going, "Yeah, that was just a comet. Move on with your lives." No excitement in the news. Just things that... Well,

I guess it could be exciting to some, but it's kind of, uh, unnerving to me, probably because I recently listened to an entire podcast series about the, [laughs] the Manhattan Project. Apparently, we're gonna start testing nuclear weapons in the real world again. Oh, great.

Ugh, could world leaders just, like, settle down a little bit? We know they work. They worked back in the '40s, all right? [laughs] We don't need to be blowing them up, right? What if somebody... There was a, an incident, oh, when was it, during the Cold War, where this computer system, like, falsely detected that there was a,

like, a nuclear strike coming to the US, and,

you know, in that situation... I- I, I should've brought up the article. You know, this just popped into my head when I started thinking about nuclear warfare. But, the, the guy who was in charge of the system, for some reason... You know, the, the protocol was, "All right, launch," and he decided, "Uh, I don't know. I don't know," and he didn't, and it turned out to just be a, you know, some type of malfunction. Could've probably caused the, you know, destruction of the human race. This stuff makes me nervous. [laughs] You ever watch that Fallout TV series? Mm-hmm. I don't know, I just, I think if we know something works, we don't need to test [laughs] it. And where are they gonna test them? The middle of the desert, right? Probably. We got a lot of desert around here. I don't want, uh, eh, eh, eh. Stay away. No [laughs]. Uh, anyway, that i- that's what I found in the news. I, I started looking for aliens, and I find, oh, no. Start testing nuclear bombs again, yeah. Politicians are crazy, man. And it is worldwide. You know, can these guys just settle down a little bit? If you know something works, just me- let it be, let it be.

Well, hopefully, uh, we have a happy Halloween tomorrow [laughs]. Uh,

sorry to spread so much cheer on, l- you know, on a, a Thursday morning. Like I said, t- to some of you, that might be exciting. They used to have viewing parties in Vegas. People would watch the mushroom clouds from out in the desert. Um, yeah, I'd, I'd, I'd prefer that those things stay as far away from us as possible [laughs], even if they're just tests. Maybe they'll do it, like, underground, or... I'm, I'm... That makes me nervous, too. Somebody poisoned the water supply. Ugh. We're gonna have mutant people. All right. Um,

I'm gonna go find something cheerier to talk about, okay? [laughs]

Don't need to get myself feeling all sketchy on a Thursday morning.

Welcome to the age of stupidity. It's disturbing. Hail the rise of the idiots. It's mute, it's disgusting, it's stupid, and it has its negative points too. It's Freak News with Victor Wilt on KBAR 101.

Man, some people don't like Halloween. Party poopers. This guy in Seattle torched a family's Halloween display in the middle of the night, with the flames spreading dangerously close to their home. [laughs] Yeah, I- I guess one of the neighbors was just kinda hanging out, and they saw their cat looking out the window with big eyes, like, "Whoa, what's happening out there?"

So, you know, they run out there and start screaming at the arsonist. So, the guy, uh, apparently

set two fires, kicked down a coffin and dragged a Bob Ross skeleton into it, set Bob Ross on fire, then started grabbing little skeleton animals and throwing them in there as well. [laughs] And so the neighbor runs out, starts yelling at the guy, and a couple other neighbors, uh, came to the rescue with water and a fire extinguisher. The, uh, the guy's in jail, thankfully, but, uh, yeah, duh- so that's sad for the kids, right? You don't wanna wake up in the middle of the night right before Halloween and see [laughs] your display just burning to the ground. Also, you know, potentially your home. Like, I know some people get weirded out for some reason about Halloween, but settle down a little bit, all right? Stay home and watch Disney movies or something. You know, leave- leave people's property alone. All right, um, West Hollywood residents, they're- they're- they're very concerned and on edge after an uptick in coyote sightings. Okay, these are the West Hollywood Hills? Is that what's going on here? I hate to break it to you, but if you live in the hills, there are animals, even if you're in Los Angeles. [laughs] And the people are all surprised. They're like, "Yeah, th- these animals were acting kind of aggressive. They seem hungry and desperate." They're wild dogs, all right?

Coyotes do attack people from time to time, okay? I mean, any kind of wild animal could potentially mess you up, so

be on the lookout. If you live in the hills, there might be critters out there. Um, all right, I guess they, uh, were walking just right down the street, um. [laughs] Headed towards Santa Monica Boulevard. Been no reports of any injuries to humans or animals, but, uh, yeah, people are scared. They're very scared. I don't blame 'em. I've been stalked by a coyote before. It was in the hills of Boise. I'm like, "Dude, d- d- is there a dog following us?" My buddy Nick's like, "No, dude, you're- you're- you're losing your mind, dude. There's nothing out there." Then we had a, you know, a little bit of light, and I'm like, "Dude, that's a coyote." And, I mean, what if I was by myself? I bet it would've taken me out. Get killed by a coyote- coyote in the Boise Hills, that would be s- such a stupid way to go.

Uh, let's see what else we got here. Oh, you would think at this point after years of people using Zoom for various, you know, business-related things or court appearances, that people would know you're gonna be on camera and know how to frame themselves in the camera before they go live. But, uh, apparently a Detroit police officer, um, he- he showed up to a Zoom meeting wearing no pants. He had his, uh, uniform on, the- the top portion, [laughs] but he's just hanging out in his boxers and the judge is like, "Uh, dude, are you wearing pants?" And the officer's like, "No, sir." And so he, uh, moved his, uh, phone closer so [laughs] you couldn't see his bare legs sticking out. Try to be professional, people.You know, unless you're Bert Kreischer I guess who did a Zoom interview with Peaches without no shirt on but that is something he's just known for.

All right, no matter how good it might sound, I gotta let you know that eating spicy pizza rolls

along with chili mac right before bed, I'm gonna have to go with that's not a good idea, okay? Just take my word for it. I- it's just stomach pain, okay? Just pain. I'm not gonna

get all crazy here, but... Oh, how long has it been since I complained about my guts hurting? It's been a while. It's been a while. [laughs] It was bad enough to wake me up in the middle of the night, just, "Ah, the pain." Ugh. Doesn't like having to mow down Tums, 1:00 in the morning. Trying to find the Tums, middle of the night, cats yowling. Then try to get back to sleep. Oh. Definitely gotta try to get to bed a little bit earlier tonight. All right.

Hey, we got, uh, Peaches in the house.

Yeah.

What's up, Peaches?

Di- di- did that chair get switched out?

I switched it, uh, yesterday 'cause I wanted to try a different chair 'cause my back was hurting. So...

I was sitting there yesterday, I'm like, "Why are the armrests so close together? And why is the footrest, like, a toddler's height?"

Yes. I had to put the footrest that high to get it to actually, hopefully, not move. So, yeah, I just... Yeah. You, you know the chairs around here. Th- They're not great.

Right.

So, yeah. I'm dealing with all kinds of pain. I just was whining about pain a second ago, Peaches. Uh, have you ever ate, right before bed, spicy pizza rolls and chili mac?

No. [laughs]

I don't recommend it.

I know better.

I should know better, but it sounded delicious. So, I was like, "That's what I'm gonna do." And it was easy. And it was delicious. But, oh man, my stomach does not feel very nice. [laughs]

[laughs]

It hurts bad.

I can't have, like, anything dark chocolate way late into the night, because then I just stay up the whole time.

Yeah. I... Well, chili mac and spicy pizza rolls will keep you up as well, but that's just from pain.

What do you mean spicy pizza rolls? Do they make spicy ones?

Yeah. They were the, uh, like Stranger Things, uh, Hellfire.

Oh, Heckfire, dude. Whoa.

Heckfire, sorry.

Calm it down.

Heckfire spicy pepperoni pizza rolls.

Don't aggravate those people in the audience.

And I think I ate, you know, at least 15 of them. I don't know. With some ranch, you know? Oh-ho. It was good.

Not the ranch. Is that too spicy too?

[laughs] I should've gone for the... Well, and the mac and cheese, I think was a creamy jalapeno. Yeah. Along with some semi-spicy chili. So, it was stupid, dude. It was a stupid move.

And then, you had an extra spicy, uh, bloody, Bloody Mary. It was, uh... Yeah.

Nah. I- I don't like those, dude. Like, I know you don't drink, but people will drink like, uh, Clamato Budweiser. Clamato. I don't know how you say it. I- I- I don't know about... You would think, as a ketchup guy, I would like these tomato-based drinks, but no. Mm-mm. Ugh. Yuck. Not my, not my thing. It's just weird. So, maybe I need to try making them with ketchup.

[laughs]

You just water it down. [laughs]

That's disgusting.

[laughs]

Out of all the drinks, you're like, "I wanna drink ketchup."

Uh, I... That sounds horrible too today. I was, uh, nervous to drink coffee this morning, but it didn't hurt too bad. Didn't hurt too bad.

Do you need, like, extra fiber so you can just let it all out?

I- I don't th- think that's the issue. I think it was just the, uh, the food right before going to bed.

Yeah, but-

Which was a bad idea

... if you have se- sensitive stomach, I know.

I- I... And when's the last time you heard me complain about my guts? It's been a while. They've been doing pretty good.

Yeah, but you haven't been eating anything at all.

I've been eating tons, dude.

You were like, "Oh, I'm down to one meal a day." It's like-

No, that was, that was before-

... "Okay, will you starve yourself?"

That, that was before I got, uh, a girlfriend who cooks, like, you know, good family meals. Now, I've been eating too good. I should go back to one meal a day. Just that meal. [laughs] 'Cause I'm- I'm probably packing on the pounds eating too good. And now, we got Halloween coming up. There's gonna be candy around. Now, are you dressing up for the company Halloween costume contest?

I don't think so because I-... My prediction is that Maddie is gonna go all out, and that's the only person in the office. I feel like Josh and Chantel, they might do some little thing, but it's not gonna compete against Maddie's, like, full-on Founding Father outfit.

Yeah. I mean, Maddie's gonna be hard to beat. But Jade was bragging up his costume.

Oh, he's wearing one?

That's what he said. And he's like, "You just wait and see."

What is he? A d- decrepit old man?

That's what he dresses up as every day.

[laughs]

So, maybe he'll, uh, dress as a young person. [laughs]

Oh, whoa.

Maybe he'll dress up as an emo, his old self. I don't know.

Shaves off the beard?

I asked if he was gonna shave off his beard, and he said no.

Oh.

So, um, yeah, I don't know. I- I feel like I need to set a good example and take part, but I'm so lazy. Like, my motivation this morning... The last thing on Earth I wanna do is deal with ap- putting on a costume, so.

I was gonna be our former manager, but that's not gonna win the costume contest. And then, it just-

Well, you'd have to shave the beard.

No- no, I don't. He has one.

You know, it d-... I think he just has a, like, a, you know, Wild West handlebar mustache or something going on.

No, I saw a video of him recently.

Yeah, okay.

He has the full-on thing. But- but I think s- someone in the office would tell on him and be like, "Peaches is making fun of you as, uh-"

[laughs]

"... as you for Halloween." You know, it works both-

That's okay 'cause he- he's not the boss anymore. You can make fun of him.

[laughs]

[laughs]

Yeah, but he shows up from time to time. I don't want him to be like, "Hey, heard you're making fun of me."

Yeah. And he'd be like, "Oh, yeah. I was. You're not my boss anymore. I can say whatever I want." [laughs]

[laughs] Like, "I got two words for you."

[laughs] Uh, so yeah, I'm debatin'. I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I do have all my, uh, rocker chick clothes. The... But I'm not gonna shave the beard again, so I'd have to be the bearded lady.

[laughs]

I might have to dress as the bearded lady tomorrow-

Do it. It's funny

... and then do my makeup myself and make it look really trashy. 'Cause Maddie and Becca did my makeup last time, and it looked really good. This time it would look real bad, 'cause I don't know how to put on makeup.

Maddie told me yesterday she is sewing the jacket and everything.

Holy cow. Yeah. I mean, we might as well not count on winning-

You can't-

... the costume contest.

You can't compete against the theater kid.

Wh- who's determining who wins? Is it the GM? Kevin?

I think.

Okay.

Maybe he dresses up too.

I hope so. That'd be fun. 'Cause I don't think it would be fair if, like-

I think it might be an office voting thing.

An office voting thing, huh? Hopefully it's anonymous. You know?

Should I read the flyer, see if it's on there?

Yeah. Grab the flyer and bring it in here. Let's see what it says. I wanna know who's determining the winner of the, uh, Halloween costume contest. Nothing about rules and regulations?

It just says, "Enter if you dare. Three prizes." That's it.

It's rigged [laughs]. The costume contest is rigged [laughs]. All right. I, I'll, I'll do somethin'. I'll do somethin'. But it would be pretty funny to wear my rocker chick outfit around the office [laughs]. I really don't know if anybody else is gonna be doin'... I don't think Justin- Especially if Lieutenant Crane's gonna be here tomorrow.

Oh, yeah.

That would make-

You might scare him. Low key.

The only thing that-

Yeah. You might.

... I noticed looking back at the pictures is I need a corset to smash in my-

[laughs]

... my belly. 'Cause my fake boobs, they just, they didn't really stand out enough. You know? I worked real hard to stuff it with, like, a million socks [laughs].

[laughs]

A million socks in that bra. And it d- I just looked, you know, I don't know, they weren't as prominent as I would have liked them to be [laughs].

Yeah. I can't really be Howard Stern anymore because I have the full-on beard and everything, so-

Yeah. That's true.

Yeah. Don't wanna do that.

Um, you could be the Big Show. Just come in here in a leotard.

With a singlet [laughs]?

Yeah (laughs). That's right.

Well!

[laughs].

[laughs].

That'd be scarier than my costume. All right [laughs].

[laughs].

[laughs].

I come as Andre the Giant starting with, "Hi. I'm gonna take down Hulk Hogan."

[laughs]. There you go. Th- there's gotta be one of those available at the Spirit Halloween or something like that. Oh, that'd be frightening pieces.

I just come in a rag to look like Fezzik from Princess Bride, his character.

Yeah. You could do that. You could do that. That's a little-

"Move!"

It's a little less frightening [laughs] than-

"Anybody want a peanut?"

[laughs].

[laughs].

Jared Dines. You might know him from YouTube coverin' this as Halloween. What up? It's Victor Welt. And a friendly reminder, tomorrow is Halloween day, so we're of course gonna be goin' all out with the Halloween tunes thanks to our friends at Juice City Vapor. Yeah. Kickin' off at midnight tonight. Nothin' but spooky rock and metal tracks. The ultimate soundtrack for your Halloween holiday. It's gonna be awesome. Very excited about it. And, uh, yeah. I'm gonna probably have to dress up at work tomorrow it sounds like, so try to get myself motivated to get everything together this evening. Oh, and I guess if you wanna start your Halloween holiday a little bit early, I'm, I'm gonna swing by and hang out at the Bisco Trunk or Treat this afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 just 'cause I wanna get out there and, uh, get in the Halloween spirit. 'Cause this morning I am not feeling the Halloween spirit. I'm feeling the spirit of, uh, spicy pizza rolls and a chili mac that's just destroying my guts.

You know? Uh, thank whoever created Tums, 'cause they're helpful [laughs].

Anyway, I hope you tune in tomorrow. Check it out. It's gonna be awesome. Nothin' but Halloween tracks comin' your way. I'm sure we'll be hearing, uh, plenty from this band.Well, good morning. Little after 9:00, welcome to the Victor Wilt Show. You know, just scrolling, looking for content to talk about, and as usual, social media kinda disturbing me a little bit. Could we all just try to be a little bit empathetic of others? Huh?

You know, if you are in a situation where you're financially stable, you're able to afford food and things like that, you should be, you know, grateful and not, uh, critical of other people who, for all kinds of different reasons, may need some type of assistance. Peaches, I'm getting a little, little tiny bit political here right now.

All right, you go for it.

I just wanna talk about-

You Marxist.

Ah, you know, that's what somebody called me the other day.

Nice.

But, uh, yeah, just people on social media right now who are posting like, "What's up with these people needing SNAP benefits? Why don't you just get a job?" It's like,

do you have no understanding that people need assistance from time to time for all kinds of different reasons? And also, most people who are getting benefits are working. They are working. Peaches, back in the day, I was working two different jobs, and, uh, my, you know, wife at the time was going to school, and we had two kids. I was, again, working two jobs. This was before the pandemic and the crazy increases that have happened in the prices for like rent, gas, food, and everything. You know, we were on assistance for a bit, food benefits, and you know, eventually after years and years of working and this and that, and you know, going to school, were able to get ourselves in a position where, you know, we no longer needed that. But we were able to, you know, give our kids decent meals, and you know, we were out contributing to the community, working hard. There, there are people... Like, you could be making like six figures right now and have s- you know, some kind of a terrible accident or something like that, and you're no longer able to work. Or, like in our business, Peaches, you just get fired for no reason.

Right. Yeah.

You know, happens in radio all the time. There are so many different reasons that somebody could be getting benefits, and so the... it just drive me crazy when I see people, you know, punching down on people who they have no idea what their situation is. You know, you, again, you should just be very grateful if you're in a situation that you can afford groceries right now, you know? That, that you're, you're able to do that on your own. 'Cause I've been poor, Peaches. I've lived on ramen. It sucks, all right? And you know, I'm, I'm not gonna question anybody

as to their reasons for needing benefits, but I've known a lot of people who've had a sudden, you know, unexpected life event that completely changed their lives. And I think people should be able to eat, Peaches, and we shouldn't judge people who are, you know, getting assistance from the government for, for whatever reason. Be grateful that your life's great, sit down and shut up about it, 'cause it, it, it's just, it's rude. It's just rude, and I don't... I don't know why everybody's gotta fight about everything. You know?

It, it's-

I'm sure it's really scary right now for a lot of people that, uh, they're, they're looking at potentially not having, uh, you know, food as of, uh, Saturday.

Right. Yeah, yeah.

You know? Just makes me mad. Should I take this call? I better not-

Uh, good luck.

I better not have to yell at somebody. All right. Hey, Bear.

Hi, this is Danny.

Hey, you're live on the show. Please keep that in mind. Who's this?

This is Danny.

Hi, Danny. What's up? What's on your mind?

So with the public assistance, so Trump has changed it to where if you make $2800 a month, you don't qualify, because my husband just lost his job 'cause he has a heart condition.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, I am the only one working and I make too much money, and our bills are right at the tip-top of my wage. So, uh, he, they made it to where you have to be extremely poor to get benefits these days.

Yeah, and I, I don't even know what the, uh, qualifications are myself. I haven't looked into that. All, all I just am trying to say is for people to try to be a little bit more understanding, not critical of others, you know? 'Cause I'm sure people who are struggling, the last thing they need to see is somebody cutting them down, calling them bums, you know, telling them to get a job. Go out and try to find a really good-paying job right now. I was just reading an article about mass layoffs coming at, uh, major corporations.

Oh, yeah.

Amazon's laying off tons of people.

30,000 plus, yeah.

Yeah, it, it's not just as easy as just, "Oh, go out and get a great-paying job." It's not, it's not that simple.

No.

It's not that simple, but it's also not that simple to get benefits these days, because $2800 a month is just barely people's rent these days.

Oh, yeah.

So, and if you make more than $2800 a month, then they will not qualify you. You won't even get insurance.

Wow. Yeah, and a- a- again, I hadn't looked into the current, uh, you know, guidelines and such. I just wish people could be better to each other, you know? It, it, nobody knows anybody's situation, and to just throw out blanket statements about people being lazy and this and that. Like, if, if you ain't hunting for a job right now, you don't know what it's like. I know a lot of people who are looking for jobs right now, and it's not easy.

It's not. It's, it's, it's very difficult. And if you do find a job, it's not anything that... You need two incomes these days to, to, like, support a household.

Oh, okay.

It ain't like just one parent can work.

And-

I mean, both parents have to work.

Absolutely. And, uh, I mean, uh, you know, my kids are both, you know, uh, adults. They've moved out. And over the last couple years, I mean, ev- every time I go buy groceries just for myself, I'm like, "I can't imagine how people trying to raise kids are, are doing it right now," especially with, you know, the way rent and, uh, housing prices have increased. I, I just wish people could be a little more empathetic to others. It, it's, it's frustrating.

Yeah, well, like I say, if the world had more kindness and less judgment, we'd go a long way.

Absolutely. And I'm really sorry to hear about what happened to your husband, and I hope he's, uh, doing okay.

Yeah, he's all right. We're dealing with it. You know? I'm, I think I've always been the tough one, but then again, I've had nine children, so you gotta be tougher.

[laughs]

[laughs]

I, I think the, that the ladies are always the tougher ones. [laughs]

Yeah, we just... We just pretend we're soft out in public. [laughs]

[laughs] I spent all mor- all morning whining about my stomach ache, so yeah. [laughs]

[laughs] Oh, no. I have a husband just like you. It's okay. [laughs]

[laughs] Well, I appreciate the call, and, uh, you know, hopefully, things, you know, for, for everybody start, start getting better.

Yeah.

So-

For everybody listening out there, be kind. You ain't gotta be a jerk.

Yeah, be kind. Uh, it, it goes a long way, and it makes your own day better if you are kind. You know? If you're just, uh, spreading-

Absolutely

... negativity, you're feeding on your own negativity all day long.

According to Jay's rules, I have to disagree, so I'm gonna start spreading negativity.

[laughs] Peaches is gonna be negative now. [laughs]

[laughs]

Well, I hope you guys have a wonderful day.

You, too.

You, too.

Thanks.

All right, bye.

There you go. Be a good human. That's my message for today, Peaches. And my guts hurt. [laughs] 'Cause we-

From eating too much.

[laughs] Well, I-

You're flexing on those people that can't eat, so-

Oh, no. [laughs]

[laughs]

How, how dare you? [laughs]

Get in my belly. [laughs]

[laughs] Jeez.

I've got a newer employee, Logan, hanging out in here with me, and I'm showing him how to run the board and NexGen. Loads and loads of fun. So, the rest of the show could get a little bit wacky. Things could get broken. We'll find out. You know, you know me. I don't care if the show goes off the rails. But, uh, yeah, wanna quickly remind you that you're running out of time to get signed up for Make the Switch with Brent Gordon Law. We're giving away a Nintendo Switch 2 bundle, and we're going to draw a winner for that tomorrow. I believe Peaches is cutting off entries at 8:00 AM tomorrow, so if you haven't entered in the KBear101 app, the Alt101 app, or the Cannonball app, you should do it right now. You can enter once per app, and that's gonna get you the best odds of winning. Only once per app. We'll delete any additional entries, but you can also get additional entries. If you hear the Make the Switch sounder played, be caller number 13, and we'll chuck an extra entry into the drawing for you. Should be doing that tomorrow, I don't know, around 10:00 AM or something. But yeah, if you haven't yet entered, get in on it, 'cause time change is coming up this weekend, which sucks. So, we're trying to make it a little bit better by hooking up a Nintendo Switch. You'll get an extra hour of gaming after the Halloween holiday. Thanks again to Brent Gordon Law for teaming up with us on that one. And we should probably play a little bit more music and so I can chuck Logan on the board here. Back in a few.

So, we have Peaches. She's being done talking. Smack the rec button, turn the mic off, and let's get you, uh, back in the mix here. [instrumental music plays] All right, so we're back with Peaches. We're on stage plan. If we're going into commercial, I usually hit the button within a reasonable delay and, uh, we'll head back to that when we get to commercial. Is that how you do it? Um, okay. Macing floor block. Generally, when you come into the studio, everything's gonna be live action, so that if somebody happened to move before,

um, they wouldn't accidentally take the mix on the air. We just play some audio commercials or whatever we've been working on over the air on the mixer. So, um,

NexGen, when it's, uh, not open, I

don't know why-

I think it's just me. It's just me.

... you want to make sure that your master is set to mono. That will do that. I've kind of built out my mix stage the way I like it to be. Everybody sets their stuff just a bit different. Most importantly, it does have outputs for when it does go past five. It's got your clock for the full day. [laughs] And then I'm gonna put, I'm gonna put me to this other side. You're gonna put me on mic three.

Another thing on the, these buttons up here. Program one will go out live over the air. Program two goes to the prod recorder

or NexGen recorder. So, I'm currently recording the show in Audition. Three is just a preview channel, and four sends audio to the listening post. So, uh-

I got it.

... there you go.

Before I hit that.

Hit the red button, go up a level.

Okay.

See which song's back. There's my play button, which

is gonna be mic three.

I gotta grab this button right here to select it.

Yep. And then your mic is going to go up behind this side of the mic right there.

Is that for me to push or do you need help with it?

What is up, people? Okay, we're training Logan, Logan to turn our headphones up. Can you hear yourself at all or hear me at all?

Uh, no.

Okay. The button on the very bottom right of the board, that would be the headphone controller. Go ahead and just turn it a little bit. Give me a little bit more. Little bit more. Yeah. There we go. Okay, so that's how you turn the headphones up. Now, uh, I would like you to play me a music bed. So, the button bar on the right monitor, for next gen there, I guess there's just one that says Sports Center 'cause I hadn't loaded my, uh, own button bar yet. Go ahead and click that, and then pot number eight on the board, turn that audio up to, oh, about m- minus 20. Something like that. We should hear it coming in here. What's going on? Oh, that one is not in program one, so go ahead and hit progr- that one button, you know where you got the four yellow buttons together? There we go.

[laughs]

So that's making the audio go live over the air. So we got Logan, new employee in the studio here, learning how to run a live show. Logan, tell me a little bit about yourself. Where are you from?

Uh, I'm from here, from Idaho Falls, born and raised.

Born and raised? [laughs]

Well, born in Provo, moved here, so I say that, but...

All right. How long ago did you move here?

I've been here since I was like six, so-

All right, I guess you count as local then.

Yeah.

So, right on. And, uh, what is your official position here at Riverbend?

Uh, digital developer/IT associate.

Very nice, very nice. So, um, you know, I'm Victor, I know we've, uh, briefly met a few times. Do the morning show here on KBAR, and, uh, we're currently in the middle of you, you heard me talking about the Make the Switch Giveaway, but we're also doing a bunch of Halloween music. So if you have any friends looking for a good soundtrack tomorrow, it's gonna be nothing but creepy rock and metal tunes. What kind of music are you into?

Everything. I, uh, I grew up with, uh, my older brother that was really into rock and metal, and so I grew up with that, and the other side of my family is all country music, and so I listen to that, and hip hop and-

All right.

Anything that pops up, I listen to, so...

Got to give me some favorite artists. We'll start with, uh, rock and metal. What you got?

Uh, favorite band, and it's kinda, I guess more so just 'cause nostalgia, uh, was, uh, Disturbed.

Disturbed? Very nice.

Yeah.

Very nice. You ever seen them live?

I have not.

They put on a great show, man. If you ever get the chance to go, uh, pretty incredible. Pretty incredible. Lots of fire, you know, as you would expect with Inside The Fire and such. All right, uh, what are... All right, country. Give me some artists, 'cause I do know my country music programming the music on the Hawk.

Uh, Kenny Chesney, uh, Luke Combs.

All right, all right.

Yeah.

A lot of the, uh, staple acts over there.

Yeah.

All right, what about hip hop?

Uh, hip hop is, I'd say like my favorite probably is, I like, I like Kendrick.

Kendrick? Well, he's, uh, one, one of the most talented out there, man. He's got some, uh, some great tracks and, uh, I, I, I like that he's willing to throw some jabs as well, you know? I think we need more beef in music.

Yeah. [laughs]

You don't see a lot of that anymore.

Definitely.

Go ahead and fire Sports Center again there.

There we go. This is the music that, uh, Peaches uses for his, uh, Shot Clock Sports Update. I don't watch sports, so, um, Peaches does all of our sports information, 'cause I, I wouldn't have any clue what was going on. Was hanging out with that John from Grease Monkey yesterday. He was talking about, uh, some of the baseball games going on, and I'm like, "Yeah, mm, I have no idea what's going on."

[laughs]

I think... Are, are we... Do you watch sports?

I do, yeah.

Okay. Is the World Series happening or is it like playoffs or what's happening right now?

It's World Series right now, and they just had, uh, game five last night.

Oh, gee, okay, so, uh, what are the current standings?

Uh, the Blue Jays are up three to one on the Dodgers.

Three to one.

Yeah.

Ah, Peaches and our GM, they must be, uh, very upset about that, but-

Oh.

John, John was, uh, from Toronto, lived there for a while, so he, he was very happy with what was going on there, but, um, I won't pick sides 'cause, well, if it was just Peaches, obviously, but, you know, got to keep the, the GM happy, so-

Right.

Go Dodgers.

[laughs]

[laughs] Okay, so there you go. You learned how to turn the mics on, how to run a music bed, how to make sure that things are going live over the air by being in program one. Now all you got to do is go ahead and hit that green button 'cause I'm done yapping.

Er. All right, so we're

back in program one. We've got Sports Center on the board. Uh, we've also got Rock and Roll too. So that's pretty much always live, right, because you got 100 people listening in. These, uh, these buttons here, this is your level of gain. So let's say you want to turn it up to 10. Okay, like 10.

Okay.

Now

when you are live, anything above that, like one, those will never be able to program speakers because they're already audio sources. So they'll always be too loud. They'll always be louder than whatever you're trying to get out. But if you're doing a recording or something like that, then you may have a dead board. Um, but even with a dead board, you still want to pull an audio level. I just... Even though this board's dead because somebody said Program One, it should still be there. That is for the body only. That is, that is for the body only. So this, this cap, this cap only. I always make sure it's out.

Okay.

So this is why, and this also does Program One, and it comes with this

... the entrance to the 3D audio space, right? Uh,

so we have two speakers here, and they're both on the master. The master is going to be the music bed.

Okay.

So the guest house is going to be the left one, which is the left one over here. And then I'm just going to plug this into... Okay, this one is going to... This will go to the master. These speakers are going to face like towards the master or whatever, because we have a lot of different ones. I think I'll have to talk about it later. [laughs] I can't remember anything about that. But this fill three actually gets two seconds. So we use that, and then when that runs out, we go

to number one. How's that? Good? All right. Generally three, but whoever has like an extra go

just pops on here. Now, there are... Depending upon the lodge, like us we're a 10-40 spread. That's

where we would generally dock, but

if that's what happens, it happens. We don't control it. So, that's how it goes. Okay. About a 10 second pause there.

[laughs]

So every two to three songs, depending on how much I talk, everything just dumps on out. In next gen we use that plus

because the 3D audio space is only about 20 seconds long. So if you don't hear anything else, all of it dumps onto that plus 15 second song. So sometimes I've got to jump, jump out, because you got to exit the speaker here in order to get to the next song. So it does take a little bit

longer. But anyway, so now we're going to... Now there is some noise happening. Let's talk over it. Let's go ahead and make the mics live.

All right.

I was like, is, is there something happening? But that was a very quiet outro from, what was that, Escape the Fate? I think so, yeah.

All right. You should, should be able to see on that next gen-

Yep

... screen the previous song that had played and go ahead and give me a music bed, Logan. All right. So, Logan, uh, you said you were born and raised here. How old are you?

Uh, 24.

24. All right. So, uh, you ever, like, got, uh, kids or anything like that?

Yeah, I have a daughter.

Right on. How old?

Uh, she's a year and a half.

Year and a half. So you're getting lots of rest?

Yeah, tons of it. [laughs]

[laughs] Uh, always interesting to think back to those days. My kids are all old. They've like moved out. I, I had kids pretty young too, so they, they've, uh, moved on, moved... One of them moved to Phoenix, the other one to, uh, Bellingham, Washington. And, uh, I became an empty nester like overnight, just bam. Uh, it, it was kind of crazy. But now I'm back to, uh... I have a, a quite a zoo at my house. Do you have any pets?

Uh, yeah, I have a German shepherd.

A German shepherd? Okay, so you got a big dog. All right. I've got, uh... It's not mine, it's my girlfriend's dog, it's a Bern doodle. I don't know if you've seen that kind of dog before. I don't... I, I didn't know much about dogs because I'm a cat guy.

Yeah.

So I had two cats. She had two cats. So now we're up to, uh, one dog, four cats, and it's pure mayhem. And, um,

I sort of recommend it because it's kind of fun, but also, I don't know, if, if, you've got a baby, imagine that times like, like the mayhem and poo and pee times like a million. And, and they all hate each other. It's, it's, it's been interesting for sure, to try to make that adjustment. Yeah.

Yeah.

Y- you're thinking about getting more pets or is one, the one dog good enough for you?

Right now it's good enough. I think eventually we'll have to get another one to occupy her because she, she's not a big fan of our daughter, so... [laughs]

She, she doesn't like to bait? Dogs get jealous.

Yep.

Yeah. Like, if I pick up a cat in front of my girlfriend's dog, she gets furious, gets furious. And, uh, sometimes I like to mess with her and, uh, meow at her. She, she hates that. She hates that so much. Kind of fun to mess with dogs though.

Yeah.

They're very different than cats. Cats, th- they... You know, as long as you're feeding them, they kind of have their own, uh, world they live in and they're just like, "Screw you."

Yeah.

But, yeah, a dog, th- they will be endlessly, uh, entertained by whatever stupid thing you do. So... All right, man. Just trying to get to know you a little bit here. Um,

I don't know. What, what time is it? [laughs]

Uh, it's 10:00 AM.

Oh, all right.

I thought not.

Perfect. Perfect time to end the program. So everybody don't forget to sign up for Make The Switch. Don't forget to listen to K-Bear all day tomorrow. Worked very hard on the playlist, it's going to be lots of fun. And, uh, do you feel like you learned anything today, Logan? [laughs]

Yeah. [laughs] Yeah.

Okay.

Yep.

All right. It w- I wasn't, uh, planning a training session. Jade likes to just throw these things at me, so this m- It might have been a little bit more scattered than I, I usually do things.

It's all right.

But all right. We are doing a fine job. Welcome to the company. I hope everyone's being good to you. I hope Jade's not being a turd. Yeah. He, he's not like walking into your office and farting it up yet, is he?

Not yet.

Well, get ready for it.

Okay. [laughs]

It's what he starts doing to people.

Okay.

And, uh, he has vile farts. Uh, I don't know what's wrong with his diet, but th- the guy has got problems.

Yeah.

And he won't go get it checked out.

[laughs]

It's like, you know, he's so small there shouldn't be that much room for that much gas.

Right.

Toxic.

[laughs]

He's a toxic boss. [laughs]

[laughs]

And he won't even hook me up with a good chair, this piece of crap. All right. We're going to get out of here. Peaches and I will be back at noon for the noon hour of madness and mayhem. Thank you for helping me out with the show, Logan. And, um, yeah, feel free to stop by anytime. If you're ever looking for me, my office is that one on the corner there, so I can keep an eye on all these, you know, trouble making DJs down here who are up, you know, slacking and up to no good. So, that's where I'm at.

Awesome.

All right, man.

Thank you.

All right, everybody. We'll be back. More music coming up. Peace.

Green button. There we go.

That's what I thought it was. I didn't hear it ready.

Yep. They usually go green button then mics.

Okay. So press on, press on, no.

Nope. Oh, no. Any, uh, questions?

Not really. I'm just curious about like how it works.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Really, it's just a bit... You know, make sure your game audio works first off before you even start doing anything else. And then once you're making those changes, then you can start thinking about your mixing. Okay? So, uh, in 4th gen these buttons also work as sources back to front. So, I could, you know, like right now I'm listening to my microphone, but if I plug this in, then that button will switch so that instead of the mix going from left to right, it goes from right to left. So here are your mid... Your mics and microphones for you to choose from and how it's going to sound. So, press done. Press done.