The Viktor Wilt Show

Well, that was Pussiper with the Humbling River, but let's talk about the Humbling Hot Spring. Alright. You're gonna go hiking in Yellowstone. They have, like, maps and stuff with designated trails. And if you're in the areas where the, you know, Big Hot Springs are and such, they have boardwalks.

Like they're really easy to see. They're made out of wood and those are what you want to walk on. If you're gonna visit Yellowstone, you'd think it'd be common sense but how many stories do we do about Yellowstone tourists every year? Apparently, on Monday, a seventeen year old suffered significant thermal burns to his foot and ankle near a geyser in Yellowstone. He was out hiking, not on the designated trail.

And as we've seen often enough, his foot broke through the thin crust and just went into some water that was hot as crap and it can be very acidic. Like, there have been times when people fall in these hot springs. They're dead. Alright? You can just bust through the ground and disintegrate.

You know? I mean, it's a pretty metal way to go but if you if you don't go, you know, to that extreme then you end up with a foot that's just all messed up. It's all crappy. Alright? And I would imagine that if you like really burn the crap out of your foot and ankle, it sucks really bad.

You know? You could end up maybe having to get skin grafts. Might have happened to somebody I know recently. You know they take some of that dead person's skin and they have to graft it onto you and then you're like Frankenstein. You got, you got dead people feet.

You know? Which that's kind of metal too, but I bet it's unpleasant, but it's not very fun. So, yeah, if you're gonna go hiking in Yellowstone, stay on the designated trails and boardwalks. It's not that difficult. I've been there a lot of times, and maybe I'm just paranoid of, horrible foot burn injuries.

But, yeah, I don't get off and walk on the thin crust of the, thermal areas. You know, Yellowstone a very dangerous place. I have a really thick book at home called death in Yellowstone that outlines like all these different times people have died in Yellowstone. And that reminds me, I saw a really stupid way somebody died the other day. I'll I'll talk about it more later on the show.

You never know what kind of dangers lurk at home. I coulda had a a really embarrassing death the other day but, yeah, I'll I'll save that for later on the show. Anyway, East Idaho News has some, great tips on how to be safe at Yellowstone on this article about the kid, stepping into a, thermal pool. You know, like, walk on the boardwalk in trails. Don't touch thermal runoff.

Yeah. Like, oh, that thing looks neat. It might burn the crap out of you. K. That water's really pretty.

Don't jump in it. K. You ever played Red Dead part two? When you go to the Yellowstone area of Red Dead part two if you jump into the, hot springs, Arthur Morgan dies. K?

Alright. Anyway, just a typical summer day in Yellowstone, I guess. New stuff from In This Moment, featuring Kim Dracula as well, Heretic. That band is gonna be here. What what was it like?

October? I don't I don't remember the date. It's far enough out. Plenty of time to Google it. But, actually, maybe I should pull it up because I'm curious.

I can't even remember the lineup. Very sleepy this morning. Let's see. In this moment, Idaho Falls. Okay.

We've got, the funeral portrait dead. I thought there was someone else playing. I guess not. I've been losing my mind when it comes to shows recently. I swear that was a four band show.

Oh, wait. That's the, the Boise one. Peaches, didn't put that on our, our concert calendar. What's going on here? There had to be another band.

I swear, like, Dayseeker was playing. In this moment, Idaho Falls. What do we got? You gotta scroll past all the scalper things here. Okay.

October 10, Mountain America Center. Dun dun dun. It doesn't say on the Ticketmaster page who's on the bill. Okay. Dayseeker is on it.

Take that, Boise. We got a better lineup than you do. On it's on a Friday night. Perfect. Perfect.

So many good shows, and we've been getting a lot of shows that fall on weekends. How are we getting so lucky with the, tour routing? This is great. Alright. Anyway, what I was going to talk about was, like, I was hanging out with my lady last night and she mentioned that, Alaska was under a tsunami watch because of a big earthquake that happened in Russia.

Set to be one of the largest ever recorded, looking like 8.8 magnitude. Quake is, tied for the sixth largest on record. So not only did Alaska have a tsunami warning yesterday, but the entire West Coast did. And now this wasn't the the big quake that I've talked about before, you know, like at the, Cascadia Subduction Zone that snaps. And then the West Coast of The US is gonna have major problems.

Yeah. This was, again, over near Russia. As I was getting ready to go to bed, I started reading some articles about this, and it was like the the the entire West Coast was under tsunami watch. So I called my daughter who we're going to visit next week. She lives in, Bellingham, Washington, which is up near the, Canadian border on the Washington Coast.

And, I'm like, hey. Hey. Because I googled Bellingham tsunami watch, and it's like, yes. Bellingham is under tsunami watch. Now I found out there's a difference between tsunami watch and tsunami warning.

Warning's like, warning. Watch is just like, be be be aware. You know, we could get a tsunami. So Bellingham's under tsunami watch, and I call my daughter. And she's like, why are you calling me so late?

I'm like, you're under tsunami watch. She's like, I'm bowling. I'm like, well, did you hear about this? Are they talking about it locally? She's like, yeah.

We're fine. Settle down. I'm like, are you near the water? Are you near the bay? Stay away from the water.

Stay at higher ground. You know? Just being a dad. I I don't think that, anywhere in The US got hit too bad by tsunami waves. Like, I think Northern California had a a little bit of action, but I I didn't even see any damage reported.

So so that's good. But, you know, just just be aware. You never know what mother mother nature's gonna do. You know? It's kinda crazy.

Yeah. Magnitude eight point eight earthquake just out of nowhere. It kinda creeps me out because of all those natural disaster documentaries that I watch. But yeah. You know, typical, she's not even a teenager.

She's 20 now. Typical kid. Like, dad, chill out. Let me bowl. Go to bed.

You know? Settle down. Like, alright. Alright. But I I don't think she was anywhere near, you know, the water or anything like that.

So kind of excited to get her moved from she lives in Ferndale, which is like how what would I say Ferndale compared to, something around here in relation to Bellingham? It would be like maybe like Rigby compared to Idaho Falls. You know, a little small town that's, like, real close. Probably even closer. But I don't know, you know, how low the elevation is in Ferndale.

I'm like, is Ferndale gonna be just covered with water? I'd anyway. She's fine. I checked the news this morning. Everybody's fine.

But, you know, if you're on the West Coast and you're in one of those tsunami escape route areas, pay attention to those signs. And if you're staying right down on the water, be tsunami aware. It could happen at any time. There could be like a 50 foot wave come rolling in and it ain't gonna be good. Alright.

Sorry. Let's let's roll into the 07:00 hour. Alright. Already almost seven. Show's going by quick.

I dig it. Ugh. I I just suddenly started just kinda crashing out. Like, oh, I need a nap. Then JD called all riled up.

Woke me up a little bit more. So At least it's Wednesday. Right? Halfway through the week. If I'm smart, I can actually catch up on rest this weekend.

Haven't been doing very good at that recently. Gonna give it my best shot. Got some busy times ahead, and I'm so forgetful. I don't know what my problem is, but I need to, like, put a calendar on my wall. You know, I made fun of peaches for putting a calendar on the wall here in the studio.

I'm like, dude, that's what Google calendar's for. Why do you have a physical calendar on the wall in here? That's a crappy decoration for our studio. But you know then I'm you know just thinking this morning and I remember oh yeah my brother's gonna come visit soon. And I'm like when's that?

When's that happening? It's like really soon in just a few weeks not prepared for this and you know I kind of feel bad is gonna come visit just like when my sister came and visited I'm not gonna have any pto I can really use because I gotta use it to go help my daughter move. Yeah. So I don't know what they're gonna do with all their time. Yeah.

I I know my brother has, you know, friends and stuff around here but my aunt and uncle, I'm like, what what are you guys gonna do when I'm just like working every day. You know? I don't know. Hopefully they have some kind of fun plans lined up. I should probably get a hold of them and figure these things out.

You know? Just kinda terrible about planning ahead sometimes. I gotta get it together. I need to make a checklist. I need to get a calendar.

I need to put, like, all the upcoming shows on it, and I I need a game plan. Try to, plot your life out, everybody. Don't be like me and just fly by the seat of your pants, then you wake up one day and like, oh, jeez. I gotta go out of town in a week. I got family coming.

I gotta get my house cleaned up. I I gotta do some stuff here. What was going on with me? Alright. Let's see.

I was trying to bring up something stupid to talk about aside from, you know, me being forgetful and, inefficient with planning my life. But some of the things I started reading through, I was like, woah. Okay. This could be funny. No.

We can't get into that. Like, one of the, threads on Reddit that I glanced at while I was, talking with JD is parents who've snooped through their teenager stuff. What's the weirdest thing you've ever come across? And it, at first, it was funny. Now, I mean well, actually, the whole thread was funny, but it started getting into things that I'm like, I can't talk about that on air.

But this one, we could. Someone says when I was 19, I came home from a night out with my girlfriends to my mother hysterical and crying, dramatically asking, how could you do this to me? She'd found a sandwich bag with an unknown substance in it and somehow came to the conclusion that it was heroin, and I had secretly turned into a drug addict. It was small bacon flavored dog treats for our chihuahua which I had portioned out so they wouldn't get stale. Yeah.

I don't know if I guess you would think that parents would be able to smell the bacon tree. Like, they'd give it a whiff. You know? You find a bag of stuff in your kid's room, and you'd smell it and be like, this smells like bacon. But I don't know.

I've I've never seen heroin. Maybe it smells like bacon. You'd be all baffled like, I can't believe this smells like bacon. That kid's gonna get it when they get home. But then, of course, after that, I start reading further in the thread and it it starts getting crazier.

Yeah. Just teenagers be gross. K. I guess we could do one more here. I went to my 10 year old daughter's school for parent teacher conferences and opened her locker to take a look inside.

There wasn't much in it, but lying in the bottom was a book from our local library about how to plan a wedding. Not a fun one with pictures of wedding dresses and stuff. It was called wedding rites, a complete guide to traditional vows, music ceremonies, blessings, and interfaith services. I was baffled, and her teachers and I had a good laugh about it. When I got home and asked her about it, she explained that she and her bestie were trying to marry their dogs to each other.

And then after that, it it all gets into stuff that I'm like, yeah. Even though that's funny, I can't talk about it on air. What up, people? It's me. It's Victor Wilt surviving.

Kinda like this kid I just read about. Now give the, official warning. This is potentially distressing content. Okay? But it all ended up fine.

This kid is hardcore, so I had to talk about it. This story took place in India. Two year old Govinda Kumar was playing in his home in a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar when he saw a a straight up cobra, three foot cobra. So this is a two year old. This is a toddler.

Sees a cobra, and he grabs it. Terrifying. Right? Cobras? Extremely venomous.

Be like a kid grabbing a rattlesnake or something. So the cobra lunges at the kid, coils itself around his little hands, and instead of going like I would, this kid, he pulled an Aussie on this snake. Alright? Put the snake's head in his mouth and bites down. Now, you know, this is a venomous snake so, you know, the kid like loses consciousness but he's fine now.

They got him to the hospital, got him all fixed up. That snake, dead. This two year old toddler. Toddler versus snake. Who do you think's gonna win?

Yeah. Yeah. Clearly not me versus the snake. Holy crap. Anyway, yeah, he's fine.

He's fine. It's funny. The, doctors were like, yeah. We usually deal with five to six snake bite cases every month during the rainy season. But this is the first time we've seen such a highly unusual case where a child has bitten and eaten part of the cobra.

Yeah. I mean, they they can kill you within, like, a few hours. You know? They're like, paralyze your respiratory muscles. This kid, again, paying homage to the great late Ozzy Osbourne, I think.

That's more hardcore than biting the head off a bat or a dove. You know? Straight up cobra. Cobras are scary looking. They got that.

I don't know even know how you describe the, the way that the skin flares up around their head. They're creepy looking. Ugh. Anyway, good on them. Good job, kid.

Quick heads up. You know, we were having some problems with the sign ups on our app for the, three eleven ticket giveaways we're doing. Just wanted to let everybody know. If you received an error that said, like, critical site error when you, you know, send in your submission, your submission went through. You're all good.

So don't worry about it. I mean, we got that error fixed yesterday among a whole bunch of other chaos going on around here. So it won't give you that error message anymore, but if you already signed up and did get that message, you're good to go. For the rest of you, if you wanna go see three eleven bad flower flower and sitting on Saturn on the August 16 at the Portnefelt Trust Amphitheatre, well, you gotta sign up in our app or just listen to me and Peaches yap on air. And at some point, we're gonna throw out the cue to call, give you a chance to win tickets on air, be caller number blah, and then you call and win.

So if you don't win, show's coming up quick, Saturday, August 16, 03:11 in Bad Flower. It'll be a fun time. It's always a fun time at the Port And Appell Trust Amphitheater. So hope to see you out at that show. And, yeah, I think I'll be back around.

Well, I don't know. The next couple weeks are just wild. Just wild. I'll probably wanna take a nap on that day. Yeah.

I'll just be happy to be getting back home. Bomb into a Washington, then my homie Nick's coming up for a day, gonna bomb to Bozeman. Well, at least I think. I better look into that Bozeman trip thing. Anyway, I'm I'm just blabbing.

I gotta find some freak news, so hang on. Something really loud must have just driven by outside. I was like, what's that noise? I've even got my headphones on. Anyway, what's up?

Let's do some freak news. Ugh. Getting kind of annoyed right now. Like, you know, I've got a little bit of pain in a lymph node. Makes me nervous.

I don't wanna be getting sick. Definitely got to, up on the vitamins. Oh, I've I've got some vitamins with me. Gonna have to take those. I don't know.

I guess better to get sick, this weekend than the next weekend. So if I'm gonna better get it out of the way, but it would still be annoying. You know? What if I, yeah, started feeling lousy and it's not the weekend? I mean, I hate to waste a weekend being sick, but, you know, I don't wanna have to use my PTO.

Alright. Anyway, sorry. I'm just, blabbering away here. Alright. Let's dig in.

Let's see here. I know I had a story about a woman getting attacked by a raccoon. That's, you know, kind of the whole story, but you know, I dig these animals fighting back. Animals are getting fed up with people. This woman just walked out of her house just letting her dogs out living in Massachusetts.

All of a sudden, raccoon comes flying out of nowhere and just, you know, attacks her face. I'm looking at her face here. You know, sometimes animals scratch you. I'd much rather get scratched by my cat than a raccoon, though. And I don't know if you gotta get, like, rabies shots in your in your stomach, something like that if a raccoon attacks you.

Also, it you know, they're big. They're they're kinda big, and they got little hands. Just be kinda unnerving. Okay. What else we got here?

Well, I guess it's time to give Arby's a free plug. Apparently, hot girls eat Arby's. That's the new ad campaign. They teamed up with, basketball star Sophie Cunningham. Peaches might be familiar with her.

He does that, sports feature, the, shot clock sports update at 3PM every day. I'm not a sports guy, so don't pay a lot of attention. But, yeah, apparently, she was spotted wearing a shirt that said hot girls eat Arby's. I don't know if it's quite as good as we got the meats but they'll still still never top you know my catchphrase brutal beef liquid cheese which that would be perfect for Arby's But hot girls eat Arby's. Alright.

You know, I'd that'll probably end up with with some dudes hanging out at Arby's trying to find themselves a lady. And you know what? Gotta like a lady who'd mow down a you know a cheeseburger or a beef and cheddar, right? You can buy these shirts for $20 too. It's a crop top so you can, look hot while wearing the fact that you, eat Arby's on your t shirt.

So that's going on. Let's see here. I got too many tabs open. There was one article I was reading well, sort of reading, scanning. Yep.

Generally, when you think of places to go on vacation, you wouldn't think, I wanna go to Afghanistan just because it you know, it sounds like it might not be a very safe place. But this guy from Dover, England, he decided to go, got up close and personal with the Taliban, and he says the eight day trip was the best experience of his life. But this guy is also one of these dudes who goes to places nobody wants to go to like North Korea. Yeah. Let's go to North Korea.

Have you ever watched any tour tourism videos from North Korea? Looks like it'd be just kinda creepy to me. You know? It's it's a weird place. It's a weird place.

So I don't know if you're one of those folks that's into just checking out locations that most people don't wanna go. Apparently, Afghanistan can be pretty sweet. I don't know. I think I'd hit the Oregon Coast to myself. Afghanistan just, you know, sound kinda hot too.

You know? Like, sorry to my daughter in Phoenix, but I I ain't coming to visit you right now. I'm going north. Going northwest. I wonder what the weather's like on the Washington Coast.

It's gotta be a little bit cooler than here. Right? Oh, yeah. Looking at a high today of 77 by next week mid sixties. It's gonna be great.

Okay. Sorry. I don't mean to brag. Would you buy an $80 popcorn bucket? You gotta be a pretty big fan of a movie to drop $80 on a, popcorn bucket.

Guess there's a, popcorn bucket shaped like, Marvel's planet devouring villain, Calactus. And, they were selling them at the Chinese theater in LA. Set a Guinness World Record for being the most expensive popcorn bucket, I guess. It's it's big too. $80 though.

I mean, I did buy a ghost popcorn bucket at the ghost movie, but it I don't know. It was like $10 or something, and now it sits on my counter and generally I put candy in it, but I've been trying to not eat a bunch of candy. Gotta slim it down a bit. Alright. So, anyway, it's weird that popcorn buckets have become such a popular item.

Like if you hit up, you know, regal cinemas, they've got all kinds of different popcorn buckets. I wish I could have got the dune one. You know, the dune one, I think is what kicked off the popcorn bucket craze. People thought it was funny looking. I mean, it looked like a sandworm's mouth.

If you haven't seen Dune, I don't know. People either love or hate the Dune movies. I really think they're really cool. Why did I say really so many times? I've got them on four k Blu ray.

That's right. Watching the highest quality imaginable. They're really good. It's like star wars for, you know, extra big nerds. And actually, Star Wars, like, ripped off Dune.

So if you like Star Wars, you might like Dune. It's just extra strange. K? I don't know how to describe it, but it's weird and it's dark and it's good. Gonna have to give Dune a a good rewatch.

Maybe I'll have some popcorn to go with it in the ghost popcorn bucket. But, yeah, I'm not gonna drop $80 on the, the giant marble head. You know? Gotta save my dough for other crap. Other useless crap.

Hey. I wanted to let you know. You can change your name if you want to. You can call yourself whatever you want. Did you know that?

Yeah. I know somebody who just decided one day I'm gonna just call myself by something different and they introduce themselves with a fake name every single day. That person is me. I was reading a post online where, I think this is a woman. Yeah.

She decided to change her name because she said her first name has always been a boy's name, and she's gotten bullied and ridiculed for it quite a bit. Now her parents insist that it's a universal name, but she's like, no. It isn't. The the thing that frustrates me about the post, she doesn't say the name. I wanna know what the name was.

You know? Because maybe it is universal. Alright? Like, I know this guy. He's got a girl's name.

You may have heard him on my show before. His name's Jade. And he even changed his last name, but didn't change his first name. Anyway, it's beside the point. Reading through the post here, you know, I I believe this person is an adult and just decided, you know, I'm gonna change my name, and her parents just lost their mind.

Lost their mind. They're like crying. They're freaking out. It's not that big a deal. Alright?

Now, she legally changed it. K? I have not yet legally changed my name because I'm guessing it's a total pain. Alright? So if you wanna call yourself by a different name, just tell everybody that's your name.

Alright? You won't be able to sign any documents. You know, if you need to go pick up a prescription or something, you gotta give them your real name. You know, your driver's license is gonna say your real name, all your cards, but who cares? You can just, tell people this is my name now.

That's what you call me. Some people won't do it. You know? Like, I go by, like, four different names. Alright?

Aside from all the names that, you know, people like Jade and Josh call me that are just rude. But, yeah, if if you've got a kid or something and they're like, hey. I wanna call myself something different. Alright. Just let them.

You know? It's not the end of the world. Some some people, get a little bit worked up about these kind of things. But there's no law that says you can't call yourself by a different name. Sorry.

Allergies or something. Usually, I'm good at, turning the mic off if I'm gonna cough. It's kinda like, how I've talked about marriage. You can just say I'm married. There's no law that says you can't, you know, call your girlfriend your wife.

There's no, what are you what are they gonna do? What's anybody gonna do? Type but you don't have a legal document. So that's what I'm gonna call this person. What are you gonna do about it?

Nothing. You can't do anything. So yeah, seeing that, somebody would cry about this, like, settle down. It's just it's just a name. It's okay.

It's okay. Yeah. You might name your kid kid something, but like if one of my daughters is like, I decide I'm gonna go buy blank. But, oh, okay. That might be hard to get used to, but but I'll I'll get used to it eventually.

Sure. It's it's your life. Do what you want. Alright? Yep.

Some people get mad if their kids get, like, tattoos or piercings and things. Let people be people. It's their body. You know? Settle down.

Anyway, you be you. Alright? You be you. What up, people? How's it going?

08:42AM. That's old school radio stuff right there because nobody had a clock apparently. Hi. What was I looking at here? One of these things that, you know, kind of annoys me even though it's good advice.

To stay sharper while aging, get active, challenge your brain, and eat healthy. Yeah. I I know. I know, Internet. You don't need to rub it in.

Try. Try. I I mean, definitely eaten better recently than I was for quite a while there. You know? The winter months were rough.

I try to challenge my brain every morning by trying to find content, share with you, and, like, talk to you about and stuff and not sound like a complete moron. Getting active. Been kinda sucking on that one. I don't know. Relaxing's so good.

I'll work on that too. Work on that too. That would be a good idea. Okay. Let's close that.

I'm getting too many reminders about, you know, healthy decisions. My Reddit feed is trying to punish me today, apparently as I look for just whatever to babble on to you about. But at least I'm not working in a 130 degree greenhouse like this person online is like, am I a jerk for leaving work out early without telling anyone because it was over a 130 degrees? No. You're gonna die if you hang out in those kind of temperatures.

Alright? Google sweat lodge deaths. Alright? If you're working in those kind of conditions, you're going to die. You have to leave.

And, like, it doesn't have to be hot in a greenhouse, does it? Like, you can put ventilation in. You know, like the plants are not going to die if they're not getting a 130 degree humid temperatures. I don't know. Maybe if you're growing a particular type of thing.

I don't know. I'm not a gardener. Alright. I don't run a greenhouse, but I tell you what, I mean, if it gets up to, like, I don't know, 75 degrees, I'm like, oh, hot. So hot.

Got the AEC, blasting in here right now. Sorry for those of you who, have to work out in the, you know, hot conditions we're experiencing as of late. What are we looking at for weather in the next couple days anyhow? Because we got that show go going down in Pokey, dropkick Murphy's, Friday night. Is it gonna be a scorcher?

Not the the biggest fan of hanging out in the sun. When I went to that, last podcast on the left show in Salt Lake, you know, a couple weeks ago, It was hot. It was an outdoor amphitheater, and it was in direct sunlight. What when they built this particular venue, I don't know what they were thinking. The Sandy Amphitheater.

I'm not talking about the Poke Amphitheater. The Pokey Amphitheater is designed, you know, so, like, at least for the artists, you're not gonna be scorched by the sun as it travels through the sky on a hot summer day. The Sandy Amphitheater, I felt terrible for the artist. It's like the, outdoor amphitheater at Nampa, the Idaho Center, the outdoor portion. Man, I went to, mayhem fest with Jade one year.

We were watching the band hell yeah play and Vinnie Paul, you know, big dude, legendary drummer from Pantera. He's up there indirect sunlight, just crushing it on the drums. We were in the back in the shade in a tree, and I just wanted to die. It it was so hot. I don't know how Vinnie Paul made it through that set.

Note to, stage organizers. You don't point the stage into the sun. Alright. It sucks for everybody. It's not looking too bad.

It's looking like a 89 for the high on Friday in Pokey, partly cloudy. That sounds pretty good for an outdoor show. So dropkick Murphy's, bad religion. It's It's gonna be a great time. I I saw a recent clip of drop kick Murphy's playing live.

Stewart sent it to me. I forwarded it to my lady. I'm like, oh boy. If this is the same setup they're gonna do in pokey, there's gotta be some people that are gonna get mad. Yeah.

Made me laugh. Made me laugh. Punk bands, man. They they don't give a crap. They don't give a crap.

So pretty excited for that show. As long as I don't get sick, I'm getting very concerned about this sore lymph node. And then again, I start reading these horror stories on Reddit about people with health problems. I, you know, I I get myself all worked up. Like, what if something terrible is happening to me?

What if something really bad is happening to me? Settle down, dude. Settle down. You're doing okay. I think.

Alright. Anyway, hope to see you at the show. Friday night should be fun. I will be there unless I'm getting down with the sickness. I don't feel sick.

I just, you know, sore lymph node. That usually means something's going on. Something's going on. Or I slept weird or something. I I don't know.

Alright. I'll I'll quit babbling. I got some great news, everybody, especially for you, Ben, from the advocates if you're listening. It's tarantula mating season. Yeah.

We're looking at a map of states where hordes of tarantulas are gonna be out and about. Thankfully, Idaho isn't one of them. But basically the entire rest of the Western And Southwestern US could see a lot of tarantulas out all over the place. Yeah. Just wanted to let you know.

If you wanna see them, what you gotta do is you go out at night with a black light flashlight and shine it around, and then you never sleep again. Yeah. My daughter lives in Phoenix as I've mentioned many times and supposedly, you know, tarantulas all over the place down there. I've never seen them. In all the times I've been to Phoenix, never seen a tarantula, but also kinda psychos going out into the desert at night.

You know? There's scorpions. There's all kinds of stuff out there. I don't even like going outside here at night because you don't know what kind of creeps are out and about. Peaches goes and walks around the river at night.

You know? Sorry, Peaches. I want you to get mad. You're not a creep. Not a creep even if you're weird.

But yeah. Yeah. Tarantula mating season. Apparently, there are tarantulas in, Washington and Oregon as well, but that would be in the desert areas of those states. You know the crappy areas of Oregon and Washington that you wonder why people live there?

Those areas that they're like, you know, come on. Make Idaho part of us. It's like, no. You you guys just stay over there. K?

We don't need to be dumping more taxes into, you know, somewhere that's not that good. Give us some of that coastal action. Then maybe we'll consider it. Haven't heard much about the, the greater Idaho, you know, what was it called? The greater Idaho coalition or something?

Let's let's Google it up here. Greater Idaho coalition. Join the movement. No. Yeah.

It's funny. Like, all the worst parts of Oregon are like, yeah. We're down. Please make us part of Idaho. Now can can we just have some of the good parts?

K? Come on now. Come on now. Anyway, I don't think that'll ever happen, but what? You want the areas of Oregon with tarantulas?

No. We don't need that. Alright? Got enough critters around here as it is. I'll stick with bears and mountain lions.

I wanna deal with tarantulas. I I know they could eventually naturally migrate, but they're gonna hit Boise first. Alright? So we should be good to go. It's cold over here.

It's cold. It's not tarantula country. If there's anything good to be said about the terrible winters we have to endure and all that garbage snow, We don't have to put up with tarantulas, but there are big spiders around here. I've seen them. I've seen some gnarly spiders, you know, in like the foothills of Pocatello.

It might as well be a tarantula. So, oh, well, anyway, just letting you know if you're road tripping somewhere or to stay inside at night, if you're in the desert, nothing like, coming across thousands of tarantulas, nightmare fuel. You know, people take huckleberry very seriously. Like, have you ever asked somebody, hey, where can I go pick huckleberries? Yeah.

They won't tell you. They're like, no. No. It's my my secret spot. You can't.

You can't touch my huckleberries. I'm amazed Peaches was able to find, like, a dozen. Well, it's not only people who know where huckleberries are that take them very seriously. Apparently, the government does as well. You hear about the big huckleberry bust in Missoula, a coordinated effort between the, Boundary County Sheriff's office, the US Forest Service, US Border Patrol, and the Kootenai tribe of Idaho law enforcement.

Yeah. They they busted them, busted these suspected commercial pickers that had over a 100 gallons of illegal illegally harvested huckleberries. Only that was hard to say. Yeah. Serious serious issue here.

I wanna see the oh, they do have a picture. K. You know how when the when the cops make a big bust, they'd be like check it out. Look at all this stuff. They put it on a table.

They do have pictures of all the berries. They're like, check it out. We got them. We got them. Well, yeah.

You know? People gonna be jacking up the price of huckleberries. What are we gonna do for our, you know, favorite, you know, tourist trap items at the various convenience stores that you find along the highway? Who's gonna be making, you know, that quality jam and such if we got all these criminals coming in and picking the berries. Well, anyway, they they busted them.

Alright? So you don't gotta worry. Doing the big work. No. I'm I would imagine that, if this is a serious business, like, when you'd hear about, you know, grow operations busted in the forest in California, they're like, don't go in these areas.

Are these berry pickers, like, heavily armed? Is it the cartel? Is that why, you know, we had to send a bunch of, like, state police down to the border? Berry pickers coming our way, stealing our huckleberries. I don't know.

But, again, they they got them. They got them, so we're alright. You know? Just didn't really expect to see Huckleberry bust on my, news bingo card. So, you know, that that happened.

Man, today's show flew by. Hopefully, the rest of the day does as well. And before I go, I was reading an article from the Idaho State Journal about all the murals going up around Pokey. Shout out to Pokey for livening things up a bit. Yeah.

Sorry, but we need to make it more colorful around here. You know, before we know it, winter's gonna be here. And then all we've got is a landscape of, like, gray and brown and tan. We need murals people. Every city in East Idaho.

Got a boring wall. You know, do you own a business and you got some boring, you know, just dull wall? Hire somebody to paint something cool on it. You know? Because driving around out here in the wintertime it's so bleak.

So bleak because everyone paints their houses the same colors Like drive through a new subdivision, every house white or tan. It's okay to give your house, you know, a nice red or blue every once in a while. You know? Maybe neon green. It's your house.

You can do what you want. You You know, unless you live in an HOA and then they like to keep it boring. So, you know, I'm sorry. But at least in, certain areas of town where we've got like, you know, old warehouses and things. I saw an awesome, mural go up in Phoenix on the side of this, you know, I I don't know if you'd call it a skyscraper.

A very tall building. Looked great. Looked great. Color livens things up, brings people some joy. Pokey's killing it.

Last time I drove through Pokey, I'm like, this is awesome because there is just so much color popping up everywhere. So Idaho Falls, where you at? What are you afraid? No. We we need to keep it like the olden days.

No. No. Let's color it up a bit. Let's add some fun. So, yeah, shout out to Pokey for all the different things they're doing.

Nice job by my hometown. I'm Victor Wilton. I'm gonna get out of here. Yesterday, there was a lot going around or a lot going on around here, and I apologize that I did not provide a noon hour of madness and mayhem show. We had plenty of madness and mayhem going on.

It it just couldn't happen. But, hopefully, today, I will be doing one. I don't know who's gonna join me on it if it'll just be me or what, but I'm gonna give you some kind of show, I think. That's the plan as of right now. So unless we have complete meltdown in the next two hours, it should be happening.

Anyway, I appreciate you listening to the show today. Hope you have an awesome rest of the day, and I'll be back in a bit. Alright? Peace. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt Show.

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