The Viktor Wilt Show

Morning. Hey. What's up? It's Viktor Wilt. I'm so excited to be at work on a Monday morning.

I hope you're as excited for the day and week as I am. Another weekend that went by way too fast. This time, kind of my own fault, though. It was weird. It was weird.

Friday night, you know, I stayed up a little bit late. It was a little after midnight when I decided, okay, I'm gonna get myself into bed. I'd spend some time was it no. That wasn't even Friday night. I was gonna say working on my Christmas tree.

Anyhow, got to bed little after midnight and was like, alright. Saturday, I can sleep in a little. So, you know, one of the cats wakes me up at about, I don't know, 8. You know, it's typical of him. Today, he woke me up at 4, but anyhow, so I let him outside.

I'm like, alright. I'm gonna go back to bed. Wake up a while later. Glance over at my phone. Oh, I wonder what time it is.

It was almost 2 o'clock. I slept like 13 hours. It was crazy. That just does not ever happen for me. So Saturday was pretty much toast.

Pretty much wasted the whole day just sleeping. I, you know, guess I must have needed it. But, Saturday night started, putting lights on my Christmas tree. I ordered these kinda ridiculous Govee Christmas lights. I'll share some video once I get it all done.

You know, I don't have the, ornaments and that on it yet but as far as making a Christmas tree fun goes, I made the Christmas tree about as fun as it gets with these dumb lights. They were my one new Christmas decoration for the year, better lights for the tree, and they're definitely over the top. Very fun. Very my style. So I'm I'm satisfied with that even though how many people are gonna see these?

Probably not very many unless I share them on social. I will, you know, eventually get some visitors, but my plate of visitors for 2024 holiday season, much lighter than I would prefer. I like I I like everybody to be coming to visit and looking like a quiet holiday season. So I guess I'll just have to leave the Christmas tree up year round. Might as well.

My cat really likes the the tree, so there there's always that. But that was pretty much the extent of my weekend. Watched some, some x files, watched a really fun horror movie called, Abigail. It's a newer movie. I wanna say it was on prime.

I didn't know anything about this movie going in. It was just a really fun horror movie. I don't know what the reviews on it are like, but for just old school, fun horror with some comedic elements, I thought Abigail was great. So if you're looking for something fun to watch, maybe you don't wanna watch heartwarming Thanksgiving movies. Well, there could be some heartwarming, activity in Abigail.

Anyway, you should check it out. I I thought it was really fun. Also watched the original alien movie. It was really good. Need to knock all those down to get to the new one, Romulus, which I've been hearing good things about.

Alright. Anyway, we're rolling. Sort of awake. I hope you're doing good, and I'll do my best to give you a quality program today. Alright?

Cool. Okay. Let's take a look here at some big lies that everyone believed at the time. Brett on Reddit here. What's the biggest lie that everyone believed at the time?

Now when it comes to the internet, somebody on here could share a lie that's not a lie. I see it happen on Facebook daily. I mean, people believe some really stupid things. So I can't guarantee that everything that's being called a lie in this thread is actually a lie. Anymore?

Who knows? Who know? It's easy to find out the truth, people. But, you know, I beat that one to death. I give up.

Anyway, biggest lies that everyone believed at the time. The tongue chart thing that was caught that was taught in schools for a while. Now I believe this would be a chart that showed that different areas of your tongue, pick up different types of flavors. Now is that fake? I don't know the Internet says so.

Let's move along. I remember that. I remember being taught that certain areas of your tongue picked up like sour flavors or sweet. I guess that's made up. Guess that's made up.

Let's see. Chop onions and cook over low heat until fragrant and caramelized about 20 minutes. Whatever takes like an hour. Alright. Recipe instructions.

I don't know if that's something that everyone believes if you just happen to stumble across them. I I've never tried to caramelize onions. Okay. I'm probably the guy that just burns them like, well, it looks looks pretty caramelized to me. Look at it.

They're brown. It's amazing. Alright. What else do we have here for lies? That the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit was frivolous.

I think we've talked about this before. That hot coffee was really hot that that woman ended up suing McDonald's over. Like, I I think it gave her at least second, if not third degree burns. I mean, it was hot as crap. Like, it really burned her.

Let's see what else we have here. I'm I'm not gonna say that one on air. That's a kind of aisle that you eat spiders in your sleep. I do remember hearing that a lot growing up, Probably a lot of people that do believe that. You you don't eat spiders in your sleep.

K? Don't don't worry about that. Now it will people have to do it sometimes. Right? Can you imagine you wake up and you're like, what is that?

I don't know. Alright. I was gonna get real gross with a descriptive, thought about what it's like to eat a spider and wake up with it in your mouth, but it's kinda gross. So, I won't. I won't do that.

Alright? Anyway, people once believed that tomatoes were poisonous according to this as well. I'm like, okay. I don't I don't know if that's true, that everyone believed tomatoes were poisonous. I don't know.

Maybe times were different back then. So I just got a call from a listener with an update on tomatoes being poisonous. Now tomatoes, classified as members of the nightshade family, most of those are pretty poisonous. Most plants that are classified as deadly nightshade, but tomatoes, no. They're fine.

However, there's another reason that Europeans feared the tomato for 100 of years, called it the poison apple. Apparently, wealthy people back in the late 1700, they used pewter plates, which were high in lead content. And because tomatoes are so acidic, if you'd put them on, you know, these pewter plates, the fruit would leach lead from the plate and a bunch of rich people got killed by lead poisoning and, you know, they didn't know it was the plates. They're like, tomatoes killing us all. So yeah.

You know, took a took a long time. Took a couple 100 years till people started whipping up pizza in Italy or something like that before people were like, oh, I guess, we should have used paper plates. Well, pays to not be fancy sometimes. I really wish I would have gone to the grocery store, like, super early yesterday morning. Made the mistake of going to the grocery store, Friday after work.

It was a nightmare. And this this week, every single day is gonna be even worse. All I really need is something to whip up for myself on thanksgiving. Yeah. Pretty basic trip to the grocery store that needs to be done.

But after that one trip on Friday, I'm just like, oh, please please let me avoid the store. So I hope you got all of your, shopping done. If you're going to whip up a big meal for your family, I gotta give you a virtual pat on the back. Good job. I know how much work it is to do a Thanksgiving meal.

I'm pretty grateful that I don't need to do one due to the amount of time and effort it takes. Thanksgiving day, hopefully, I'm just kind of, sleeping in a little bit. Long as I don't sleep in like I did on Saturday. Was absurd. Absolutely absurd.

Let's see here. By the way, if you are cooking up a Thanksgiving meal, and you're considering not making certain dishes, here are the ones people hate most. Coming in at number 1, cranberry sauce. Oh, go figure. The one that requires no effort.

People gotta complain about it. All you gotta do is dump it out of the can. Yeah. You know, something like bea, green bean casserole, which is also not very popular. Surprising, You might be going green bean casseroles.

Great. Not great to everybody. So if you wanna, you know, pass on something, that one, 2nd least popular Thanksgiving side, you can go ahead and just, scratch that. Don't put the effort in. You'll have, you know, some people complain.

Where's green bean casserole? And be like, why don't you cook it? Look at all this food I made. Nobody better be giving the Thanksgiving chef any kind of grief. Anyway, I think it was last year I said I was gonna do pizza for thanksgiving.

I think I might do it this year. Yeah. Just to really really mix it up a little bit. Some good old fashioned pizza and salad. Sound pretty good?

Alright. Anyway, too early to talk about food. I was gonna stop and get breakfast on my way here today. But I got running behind And thankfully, I didn't because now I'm not hungry. You know, I can go ahead and go.

Alright. Good job. You didn't mow down breakfast sandwiches. Give myself a pat on the back for a healthy eating decision, that being none. Just read a story about a car dealership.

This is not local. Don't worry. But what a nightmare for these people. Some people should not be in sales. So there's this guy named Christopher Schwartz, and he works at a car dealership in New Zealand.

So this couple was attempting to lease a vehicle. So they went and got everything all set up. They made a $15,000, payment of some sort. I don't know. Down payment, I guess.

Maybe they weren't leasing. Maybe they were actually financing the vehicle. Anyway, it doesn't matter. So they they paid this guy $15 and things never worked out. They never even got to drive the vehicle, waited like 3 months, and the vehicle still hadn't arrived.

So they're like, alright. Let's just go ahead and cancel that. Can we get a refund, please? So this guy, Schwartz, he kept refusing to refund them until confirming that the car couldn't be fixed. So time keeps going on, and they're like, no.

We just wanna cancel the order. Alright? So, apparently, the place he got the vehicle from, he did cancel that, got the $15,000. But instead of giving it back to the the couple, he just, you know, threw it in his own bank account. So they kept hitting him up like, dude, where's our $15,000?

And I guess he got annoyed with him, so he, started sending them pictures of, Dookie. Here, I got your car for you, and then they get these, disgusting pictures of poo. So, yeah, they had to, like, take him to court and things like that. And, I mean, this is still going on. It's just hit the news.

They've been at this for months months months. And, why did the news you know, if you're going to blur out the photos, you can still tell what the photo is. Alright? Blurring out a a picture of, you know, some dookie. It's you gotta blur it even for just don't even show the photos at all.

What's going on here, New Zealand Herald? It's nasty. You know, there's gotta be cheaper ways to get people to pay attention to you than buying a Cybertruck. This article I was reading said they found 50 Cybertruck owners who bought them because they were lonely and wanted people to pay attention to them. I mean, that's pretty expensive.

A 100 grand? I would imagine you could buy just a a cheap beater of a vehicle and then just paint it really weird. Alright? Go with that fluorescent neon pink. Alright?

And maybe slap, I don't know, some clever wording on the side. You'll get as much attention as a Cybertruck for a fraction of the price. I mean, they run, again, about a $100. That's that's a lot of dough to just get somebody to look at you. You'd have so much money left over for, I don't know, fun and activities.

Just getting a little bit more creative with the vehicle you already have. Alright? Now if you're just made of money, alright, whatever. But if that's the reason, I just want people to pay attention to me. Be more bold on social media.

People pay attention to the you know, you might not make any friends depending on, you know, how unhinged you are on Facebook, but I don't know. There there has to be, again, better ways to make friends and, draw the attention of others than dropping a 100 g's. But I ain't got that kind of money to spend, so who knows? Maybe it is the best way to get attention. I mean, it worked for a while.

I think people are kinda used to them now, though. Right? I don't know. Alright. I'm reading about a new technological innovation that, well, I'm not very impressed by.

I mean, I'm sure it's an impressive device, but still, this guy in Japan is working on the creation of what he is calling the human washing machine of the future. It's like an egg shaped pod that you climb in. And in about 15 minutes, it'll wash you clean. It'll fill with hot water, cover you with soap, I guess. They're gonna be showcasing this at the Osaka Expo.

I just wanna know why. Alright. This is gonna be a very expensive device for sure. And the whole wash and dry process takes about 15 minutes, and you just sit there. I would understand for maybe people who aren't able to, you know, wash themselves, people with certain medical conditions and things like that.

But this is just gonna be, you know, rich, lazy people who are picking this up. Right? How hard is it to get in the shower and just wash yourself? I mean, 15 minutes. If you have long hair, you use shampoo and conditioner.

You've got, I don't know, a variety of body treatments. 15 minutes is a pretty long shower, ain't it? Yep. Sorry. I get ready pretty fast in the morning.

I got places to be. I gotta be here, and I don't have hair. It's like a a 5 minute process. Alright? So, again, when I had longer hair, shampoo, and conditioner, maybe 10.

But, again, I didn't have to buy a big pot to do it a you know, just soap. Just hit up the grocery store and get some soap. Well, maybe if you just hate showers But you know, you need to be clean and you refuse to clean yourself You could ask for that from Santa. Alright. I don't know the price Probably out of Santa's budget.

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Yeah. An appalling health warning has been issued over what could actually be in fake perfumes. You know, kinda weird that they would use some of these items as filler, I guess, for their fake perfume. Human urine. Yeah.

That's gotta smell delicious. Where you joined the flag team peaches? What do you have going on here? Blackout curtains for the window. Oh, blackout curtains for the window, Is that wide enough?

Yeah. They can extend. Alright. Up to, like, 7 feet. Well, that's cool.

Cool. Yeah. See? Alright. Now the bosses just need to get us some lights in here.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not getting those. They're, a little bit pricey generally when it comes to, studio lighting.

Yeah. We need to take out these blinds here or we can actually put this in front of those blinds. I just put it in front of them. Yeah. Because the blinds will help depending on, you know, are those 100% blackout curtains?

I'm not sure. Well, if you hold them up in front of a light, can you see anything through them? Let's let's see. Yeah. Hold it up in front of, okay.

So you can kinda see through it. Okay. So they they those still be better than, the blinds. Anyhow, just doing some freak news. Peaches was talking about, fake perfume that contains a human urine.

Ah. So you might wanna be careful for your lady friends that you're gonna load up with perfume during the holiday season. Oh, yes. Yes. I totally have a lot of those.

Peaches and his his piles of ladies. That's right. Peaches, angels. Alright, peaches. Let's see if you know how to do any of these skills that everyone had in the past that are now becoming obsolete?

Probably not. Probably not. I'm, like, the least skilled person. Well, and as I glance through these, they're all things that they're not skills you need to have anymore really anyway, like reading a map. Do you know how to read a map?

I'm awful of directions. Okay. North, south, east, and west. If someone tells me to go south, I get mad. I'm like, dude, just tell me the way to go.

Don't don't tell me south. You you like the kind of directions where it's like turn right at the red house, blah blah blah. Okay. Yeah. I I can't stand that.

I'm like, give me give me the address, and I will use a map and figure out how to get there. Now I don't use a paper map anymore, but I did come from a time when there was no GPS. So we had to know how to use a map if we were going to go to, like, Salt Lake for a show. You pull out the Thomas guide. I had a big Atlas.

Atlas. Yeah. Big heavy duty Atlas. My parents used to print out the map quest directions. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. We do that too. That was great when that became a thing. Right. Because you I could only imagine.

Yeah. I didn't have to deal with the map anymore. Now, Peaches, how often are you, driving a manual transmission vehicle? Can't do it. Can do it?

I wish I could. Yeah. The first car I ever had was a manual, so I had to learn how to do it. I know how now. All I know is that Zoe one zero one episode where, one of the characters, I think Michael, was learning how to drive a stick shift.

And there was this older man, James Hahn, was the special, guest actor. You you probably saw him in, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The older guy Yeah.

And he would go stir the tuna, stop the grapes. And that's that's the whole thing of how to drive a manual transmission. Yeah. It just takes practice, and I was not good at it at first. And then I was like, alright.

I'm never driving any car that's not a manual. I really liked it. But as I got older, I'm like, nah. I'm lazy. I I don't wanna have to deal with this changing gears.

Yeah. My former best friend, Bobby, he had a the the 1972 Datsun 240 z. Mhmm. That was a manual transmission. He was supposed to show me, but never did.

Oh. Yeah. Well, it's it's good to know for that rare situation, that's probably never going to happen where you're stuck in an emergency needing to drive a manual. Right. But I would think in an emergency situation, you could probably wing it and figure it out.

Sure. You know, you'd the thing would jerk back and forth. You might give the passenger whiplash. Even, my friend Bobby, he stalled the car every single not every single time, but quite a lot. Yeah.

Yeah. It it happened to me a lot too. Generally on, like, hills, things like that. We were at stoplights and we were just We did. Did they still teach cursive handwriting when you were in school?

Back when I was in 3rd grade. Yeah. That was the whole thing with 3rd grade. It's like, alright, Brendan, you're gonna learn cursive and Okay. My favorite's the capital l to loop de loops.

Yeah. I I know my cursive. It's fun. I don't think it's a necessary skill. Like, they don't need to teach it.

Honestly, I think calligraphy would be a cool thing to learn just because of I'll I'll imagine those letters that you send to people like, woah. Look at his handwriting. Yeah. Instead of that chicken scratch I got going on. Right.

For sure. Let's see. Do you sew and mend your own clothes? Oh, no. You get holes in them?

You think I do that? Come on now. Now what what does this mean? Using paper napkins? Why why is that something that is a skill everyone had in the past?

Oh, I guess they okay. They were talking about people using cloth napkins in the path. Yeah. That's old school. Putting on your on your lap at a fancy restaurant?

I get I guess. Yeah. I don't know. Paper napkins seem, easier. You just throw them away.

I I always felt bad for, you know, whoever has to gather up the you know, like the waitress, the server. Gotta gather up your dirty napkins that you've been Yep. A 100 years ago, everybody was dressing like everything was an event. Like, if you were to go to, like, the simplest restaurant, you'd have to wear the suit or a dress Yeah. And have the the cloth napkin on you.

Glad we don't have to do that. The good old pinky. I don't wanna have to change my clothes to get food. A 3 piece suit. We get mad.

We're like, we have to dress up for the winter, like, to add on layers. I couldn't imagine having to put on, like, you know, the dress shirt, the vest, the tie. Yeah. I'm mad if I have to wear pants. Right.

Alright. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change. Back in a minute. Alright. Sounds like Peaches had an eventful weekend unlike mine.

Alright. What all went down this weekend, Peaches? He said he had drama with Christmas cards. Yeah. So I decided to create mine.

I came to here, used Photoshop. It's like 10 seconds to make it. Mhmm. Saved it onto my phone. Put, went to the tried figuring out where to print it.

Okay. There's Right. Yeah. Variety of places. I went to tried Staples.

They were kind of expensive. Okay. My mom says she uses Walmart for theirs. Okay. And so I checked Walmart.

They had a printing service which I didn't even know about. Yeah. Decided to upload my design and then go to print it. It was real cheap. It was like 40 copies for like $40.

It comes with envelopes and everything. Oh, that's not bad. And, so then I go to print it. I was like, oh, okay. Cool.

I got an email saying your order's processing. It should be done around 2:20 p. M. I get an email about like a 35, 40 minutes later saying your order was delayed. I'm like, uh-oh, okay.

What's going on with this now? So then I called the location, they're like, oh yeah, somebody sent in their wedding photos and there's 600 of them. So we're printing that first. Ah. So you had to wait for them to get done.

I'm like, oh, that's no big deal. Cool. Alright. Then my email says, okay, cool. Your order's ready.

Went to Walmart, looked at them, and Merry Christmas, Brendon Peach, and Happy New Year were all cut off at the very end. It said Happy New Yeah. Happy New Yeah. Alright. That's fine.

So then, so I I went so I checked I went out to my car, checked them, saw that, went back into the store, showed them the thing, and was like, hey, can I possibly get a reprint? And which apparently, like, they hardly ever do. It's just that the manager approved mine because he saw the mistake. Yeah. Makes sense.

So then he was like, well, our printer's kind of acting up. We're we're going to have to give you're going to have to give us some time to go through this, try to find out or figure out everything with this. But okay, that's fine. I'll just go So I went back home, ended up calling them. They said their entire printer was just dying.

Oh, jeez. And so Good time of year for that. Right. And I'm like, well, is there a way for me to transfer my order to the one on Utah instead of the one on 25th? They're like, oh, we we can't do anything because it's through the app and there's this whole process.

There's a whole bunch of, like, me calling different people and everything and I still don't have the Christmas cards today. I gotta call the lady said to call the manager early this morning to check to see. See this is why you this is why you just don't do Christmas cards. Oh, I shouldn't be hard. It's a humbug.

And when I was there initially, when I was first there for the Christmas cards, it took them forever to find my order. My name is right there on the front of the card. They put somebody else's name on the order. Oh, jeez. So they were, like, looking around.

And then it was no joke. It was like an n p c just froze. You should have seen that. I wish I took a picture. It was 3 of them just staring at the printer, not moving.

Just staring at it. And it's like, are you playing a game? Is this some practical jokers? Like, I was looking around for the cameras. I I give you a tip for next time you need to print something right around the corner from your house.

AlphaGraphics on Woodruff. Okay. Yeah. That's where I go because it's so close for 1 in a professional printing place. That's where I tend to get stuff printed up if I have, you know, like, my daughter's graduation announcements or whatever.

Right. Okay. I've got those done there. AlphaGraphics' pretty good. They do a good job.

Price is, good as well. So Okay. There you go. There's your free plug, alpha. You're welcome.

I might have to use them to for this Christmas card situation. Yeah. You might wanna cancel your order at this point. They'll get you taken care of. Now you also mentioned that you watched a terrible movie over the weekend, and I'm very curious what it was.

It's this movie with Mel Gibson called On the Line. Okay. I haven't even heard of this. He plays a radio DJ. Oh, jeez.

He's overnights on this LA radio station and he's known as the guy who speaks the truth and he's like Oh, jeez. A no holds barred type of talk show. Okay. And they really don't understand the con the concept of radio because the dude is cussing live on the air saying the f bomb, s bomb, everything. The whole plot of the movie is that some guy is taking his family hostage.

And he has to like take care of the situation while doing his radio show because they're like he's like, don't you dare leave the studio. Otherwise, your family's gonna get killed. This whole thing What? And That sounds absurd. The ending is just like, I'm not gonna spoil it at all, but the ending is just like, dude, I just wasted this much time for this piece of garbage.

Wow. What was it called again? On the Line. On the Line. Okay.

So it's a newer movie. Yeah. It came out like 2 years ago. Okay. Now I will tell you, Peaches, that in the middle of the night, the FCC rules get a little bit weird.

Yeah. But you can't. I don't know as a personality if you could again, it would come down to if you had members of your community really raising a ruckus. But, after I wanna say it's after 10 PM that different material can be aired. Like, I've had friends that worked in college radio, and for their overnight shows, they were able to play music with profanity, in the middle of the night.

Now I don't think our company would allow that. Not at all. But you I'd have to Google this, but I know that the FCC regulations on content change after a certain point in time. But even the DJs on the college stations, you know, their PDs or whatever wouldn't let them personally swear. I think it's kind of a gray area.

But what you're describing, a commercial station in LA middle of the night, I doubt they'd have anybody dropping just f bombs left and right. Yeah. You should see it. Like, he's driving on a very empty street to the station. There's nobody in the parking lot.

It's the that's already fake enough as it is. Then he gets run into the building because there's key codes and key cards and stuff that he had to use. And then there's a guy that infiltrates the building somehow and goes, I I have come back. It's been 2000 years. Like he's the complete loony guy.

Okay. And they Mel's like telling him to leave. It's a whole weird stupid movie. And it's so old fashioned when it comes to radio too because it shows the, the boss behind the desk in her big office and she's, like, well, your ratings are flat. Look at this piece of paper.

You've hit a plateau. And it's, like, what? Well, Well, I like watching radio movies, but this one doesn't sound, too good. And they hired some guy from England to be like the other dude in the studio running the board while he just talks. And then the girl For the overnight guy.

The girl who's the producer, There's a producer for the overnight. For the overnight guy. Because he's he's been doing it for 40 years. He's a world renowned DJ apparently. Oh, jeez.

So then the way that she would like get calls on the air is that she would somehow hit a button on her laptop and hit the guy on the air Okay. Or to get the listener on the air. And it's, like, how does that control the whole thing if she's doing that via laptop and it's a touchscreen? Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, they could have phone systems that route through, I I know that, nicer phone systems than ours, you do control them with the computer. And they also had a text line popping up, and it was just funny to see. Well, you know, that could be sort of accurate because some of those old timers never learned how to run the board or anything like that. So it wouldn't surprise me that there'd be a 40 year radio veteran in overnights that they did bring in a producer. For some reason, let's waste all this money on a guy who doesn't know how to use the gear rather than just fire him and hire somebody new who's younger.

It it was funny too because they were taking or Bell was taking the elevator up to the floor where the studios were and they're playing the stations. They're playing one of the stations in the elevator. Okay. And the previous DJ performs like, you're gonna love this amazing totally awesome cool song. And he just says that on the air.

That's how I'm gonna start introing every song. Every every cool song. Just say that. This one's totally awesome and sweet and cute. And and the the previous DJ, like, he he he was saying all this kind stuff about Mel's character who's named Elvis for some reason.

You know, DJs like stupid fake names. I think it was like Elvis like Mooney or something like that. Like, that's his name in the movie. Sounds like a radio name. He was like, we got Mel with or we got Elvis with the the awesome voice that will seduce you or something like that.

Oh. And then And it's Mel Gibson. The previous dude that comes out and goes, you're a piece of garbage, Elvis. They start insulting each other. They're fighting off the air.

Alright. Bring it to the air, guys. Come on. Alright. On the line.

I watched a couple movies this weekend. I watched Abigail, which was excellent. Alright. It was really fun. Just a fun horror movie.

And then, watched, the original Alien, and that was pretty good. Other than that, lots of X Files and, working on my Christmas, decorations a little bit. I put the lights on my tree. Oh, cool. And I uploaded a video of that to Instagram so people could see, the the basic setup of my Christmas tree lights.

They're kind of absurd. So it it was fun, but ready for the holiday week. Tell you what, peaches. Ready for a pizza Thursday. Pizza Thursday.

Pizza Thursday. That. Yeah. Alright. Have you put your Christmas tree up yet?

I don't know. Some of you have. Some people say, can't do that till after Thanksgiving. I say just do it whenever you have time, whenever you feel like you can get it done, whenever you're feeling motivated because it's a process. Alright.

I put my tree itself up, and I put the lights on it. I've not put the ornaments on because my motivation has been just crushingly low as of late. But, you know, it's one of the nice things about having a fake tree. You can just put it up whenever you want and I've talked about real trees before. It's been a number of years since I had one.

They're messy, and there's something about bringing bugs into my house that I just can't do it. Though scientists say, you know, like, these bugs, they're nothing you need to worry about, the kind of bugs that are on your tree. There was an article making the rounds. Do you wash your Christmas tree before you bring it inside? You know, some people are saying you you need to do it.

You might have hitchhikers on your tree. Yeah. It's a this is a living plant. Alright? Bugs live on Christmas trees.

Even if Eric Benson of Clemson University is like, hey. These are not serious pests. It's not like they're bed bugs or anything like that. They're just little beetles. I don't know.

I I'd say at least, strap that thing down to the roof of your vehicle and drive around at high speed. Yeah. What kind of bugs are on Christmas trees? Aphids, praying mantis, stink bugs, spiders, the spotted lanternfly? I don't know.

I don't think washing your tree's going to do much. I think you'd be better off grabbing a high powered leaf blower, just mowing that thing down outside. Yeah. Look at it. Yeah.

Do you see eggs all over your tree? Scrape them off. Anyway or just take the route I'd take and get a fake tree. If you wanna see my tree, I did post a video on Instagram showing my my fun Christmas lights. I I'm I'm very happy with my Christmas tree lights this year.

I like it very colorful. They've been just plain white and classy for many years, and I needed something stupid. So go check those out. The Govee Christmas tree lights. Pretty awesome.

Hey. Turns out I have been doing my weekends right. You don't gotta do a whole bunch of crap every weekend. All those things that you wanted to do during the week as far as chores and this and that go. No.

Treat your weekend like a vacation, and you will be one of the happiest people out there. That's what a happiness expert says. Treat your weekends like a vacation. Yeah. Do as little as possible.

I just feel good because, yeah, for so long, it seemed like every weekend was go go go go go. And lately, if I can, spending a lot of time just hanging out with the cats, sitting on my recliner, watching TV, playing video games, and it it's been really nice. It's been really nice. And, yeah, I might feel a little guilt at times. Like, you know, there's that project in the basement.

You could clean up the, you know, the storage room down there and arrange it better. Boring. Why do that one? I've got Grand Theft Auto San Andreas that's been calling my name. Yeah.

You played that game recently? It's not too bad. It still feels like a, you know, pretty old game, but it it's good. It's good. I've been having fun playing it.

You know, I get a little bit frustrated with some of the missions, especially being as early on in the game as I am, but, yeah, weekends as vacations. I'm I'm going to just make that my mantra. Alright. Got another vacation coming up here in a few days. Gonna be wonderful.

Yeah. A staycation at home. Sorry. I shouldn't even be thinking about such things because, apparently, my home is so cozy that at this point in life now, I can just sleep and sleep and sleep. Saturday, I slept 13 hours.

It was amazing other than wasting the whole day. I mean, it it wasn't, like, great. I didn't feel super refreshed. I was just amazed that it happened. Yeah.

You sleep past noon at my age. You're like, what's happening? Something wrong? Am I getting sick? Oh, oh, just needed rest.

I guess it was a nice vacation. All right. Let's talk about Thanksgiving etiquette. I think we all know when it comes to Thanksgiving, you wanna avoid politics and religious discussion. Right?

But what other rules are they? I didn't know there were other rules. But apparently, there was holiday etiquette, traditional holiday etiquette that now people say you don't have to follow which anytime some classy rules get thrown out the door. I'm I'm a fan. I'm a fan.

But I don't know what these things are gonna be. So let's take a look and, you know, see if these were things that your family ever followed. Formal assigned seating. Alright. Maybe at your house, like, your dad gets the seat at the end of the table.

But aside from I mean, assigned seating, this is your spot. Seems unnecessary to me. I've never heard of that being a thing, but alright. The kids' table, also something that, I guess we don't need to have anymore? I think we do need to have it.

That's just my opinion. Leave it to one particular area for kids to completely destroy. Right? Yeah. And they're loud.

Put them all together in another room. It's it's best. You know? Okay. You probably wanna keep an eye on them if they're eating food with bones in it.

But Yeah. Kids' table, I think that's a tradition that can stay. Using fine china. I'm I'm amazed that people even still have any, you know. I've got plates that are real plates and I'm like, alright.

These plates from the seventies, we're getting classy tonight. If I bust out the ceramic plates, certainly not fine China. I mean, if you have fine China, do you ever wanna eat off of it anyway? It might get scratched or something. Oh.

Holiday dress codes. Boo. I don't like any kind of dress code. Tell you what, if you were having a Thanksgiving meal and you're like, dude, you gotta wear a suit, guess who ain't showing up to your holiday party? This guy right here.

Get. What other holiday traditions are unnecessary? Holiday cards. I was talking with Peaches earlier about his Christmas cards. You know a guy who does not send out Christmas cards?

Me. But for two main reasons. I'm cheap and I'm lazy. Alright. I struggle enough with just, you know, getting the essentials handled for the holidays.

Okay. Who must I get some gifts for? Who am I forgetting? Oh, jeez. Yeah.

I we're a month away from Christmas. I gotta get cracking. Holy cow. Alright. Decorating timelines.

We already talked about that. Don't put your decorations up till after Thanksgiving. Yeah. Well, whatever. They're only gonna be up for a month.

Put your decorations up as early as you want. Takes a lot of lot of work. Might as well have them up for a little while. That was why I considered not putting up any decorations. But figured my kids would get mad if I didn't put up the Christmas tree, so it's up.

Alright. I mean, if there are any traditions that you're like, you know what? This is just not applicable. Traditions can go. Alright?

A lot of people hang on to traditions way, way too long. Sometimes, it's just time to put an end to it. So if you feel like putting an end to a holiday tradition in your family, You go for it. You be you. Let the old boomers get mad.

Peach has just posted a pretty funny meme. It's a picture of me sitting in the Talk To A studio, with his announcement that I will be on the talk to a podcast. Nice Photoshop job, Peaches. I would be on that show. Sure.

Why not? I'd I'd be on just about anything that a lot of people are listening to. I'd be happy to be a guest on many shows that I hate. Anyway, I've never actually listened to or watched any of the talk to a podcast. Just doesn't seem like my kind of thing.

Lately, it's been listening to, WTF pod with Marc Maron, which is an old favorite of mine. Got back into it after I decided I just can't take any more news. Just can't do any more news, podcasts. I need just celebrity interviews and conspiracy theories and, ghosts and UFOs and stuff like that. So WTF with Marc Maron and, last podcast on the left it is for the foreseeable future until I become a guest on the talk to a podcast.

So, anybody knows Haley Welch, you hit her up, let her know. I'd be happy to be a guest anytime. Sure. Holiday travel tips. Come on.

How difficult is it? Yeah. You know? Traveling during the holidays, it could be stressful. So you can make it easier on yourself with things like a checklist.

That's gonna save the day. That'll get rid of all the holiday anxiety. A nice checklist. It is satisfying to mark things off of a checklist. You know, I've got lots of to do notes in my office.

And when I can crumple up one of those pieces of paper and throw it in the garbage, feels great. But don't know if it fixes holiday stress. I don't know. May maybe. It's a start.

But then another thing they recommend is bringing headphones so you can listen to calming music when you're at the airport. Yeah. Just blasting that Lorna Shore. I need to calm down. Alright.

I mean, headphones, I I guess that could help. They also recommend you stay hydrated, which is easy to do at the airport. You know, just buy yourself a $10 bottle of water. I swear, man. If if I could recommend anything for ensuring good travel.

Back to that checklist. Make that before you leave and make sure you pack everything that you need. When I went to Vegas last month, I thought I had every item I needed. The one thing I forgot to pack, toothpaste. Alright?

Now I could have walked a mile or so to get myself toothpaste from a gift shop somewhere, but I just wanted to brush my teeth. So I went to the Circus Circus gift shop where most things appeared to be a reasonable price. Guess how much a tube of toothpaste cost me? Yeah. $10.

The same amount as a bottle of water at the airport. Make sure to bring your toothpaste. That's my travel recommendation. How about this? Travel at another time.

Forget the holiday travel. Your family, they'd be happy to see you anytime. It doesn't have to be during the holiday season. Like my older daughter, I don't think she's gonna be able to make it out here for Christmas. You know, it's a bummer, but, oh, well, if I get to see her in January, what's the problem?

Alright. It'll be just fine. Maybe consider that. Save money because holiday travel's expensive. Don't travel during the holidays.

And then, you know, you don't have to deal with any of these holiday related travel issues. Travel at another time. I know I'm a genius. You're welcome. Alright.

When I first saw this article, I did kinda wanna throw the guy under the bus. Oh, poor me. I didn't have a tray on my first class flight. Yeah. You know, the the crappy trays that you get your your Biscoff cookies and your half a can of soda with too much ice?

You know, the little tray you get to put that on? Well, I guess there was one seat on a flight from Dallas to Detroit in 1st class where the tray was broken, and this guy was very upset about it. He did pay a lot of money for that seat. I, again, at first was just gonna be like, oh, boohoo. But then I thought about it.

What if I decided I'm going to spend the outrageous amounts of money necessary to get myself a 1st class seat on an airplane. I've never flown 1st class. Alright? Because it's outrageous. It's so expensive.

But let's say I did decide I'm going to spoil myself and I'm gonna get a 1st class c. I would probably be online complaining if I didn't have a tray as well. This is some businessman. He's like, I work on my laptop the entire flight. I pay for the in flight Wi Fi and everything.

Alright. He had work to get done. You know, having a nice tray to put your laptop on, I'm sure, is handy. And he did pay for that seat. So I don't know.

When you think of things you're entitled to on an airplane, is the tray part of it? Because, I mean, you you usually only use the tray for those brief moments when you got the crappy snacks and drinks. Right? How's this guy supposed to eat his Shake Shack burger that we talked about last week that first class passengers on Delta flights are gonna be getting? How's he supposed to eat that with no tray?

Oh, yeah. You don't need a tray. I don't know. I I guess you gotta go back and look through your, contract for your ticket, see what it actually entitles you to. I'm guessing just a seat, not necessarily any of the other in flight.

I don't even know if I'd call that a benefit, those cruddy trays, but whatever. I I don't know. I'm kind of in the middle on this one. Hearing people sitting in 1st class whining about anything is annoying, but at the same time, where are you supposed to put your, you know, bag of peanuts? I don't know.

It's the Victor World Show with Peaches bringing content. Yeah. Did you you checked our Twitter recently, haven't you? I mean, recently, but Did you see the video I reposted from AEW on Saturday? No.

I don't think so. What was the video? The Costco guys, big AJ, big Justice. Big AJ actually wrestled. I think he is a legitimate wrestler.

He was a wrestler beforehand, before he became TikTok famous for saying, we're Costco guys, you know. We're Costco dudes. And, yeah, he did a great match and he had Big Big Just as his son hit a spear on another wrestler and then who who ended up coming out was the Rizzler. Coming out to the ring was this, you know, the Rizzler, the 3 foot 11 kid. Yeah.

And The Big Show, now known as Paul Wyatt because they can't use Big Show Big Show on AEW. So he's holding the Rizzler's hand, walking out to the ring, and I reposted the entrance. Alright. I see I see the video here of, him coming out. Yeah.

And then look at him. Oh, look at him next to Big Show. He's hitting the wrist face in front of the camera. I swear, man. Some of these Internet celebrities You saw the picture of those 2 together.

Right? Yeah. And the the the announcer in that video is, like, standing at 3 foot and 11 and a half inches tall, the Rizzler. And the whole crowd went nuts. Like, everybody was extremely happy to see this kid.

You know, and I don't even know how this kid blew up online. Like, until you started talking about the Rizzler Yeah. I'd never heard of him. The Rizzler. It's such a thing.

You know, I knew about the we're Costco guy. Is the Rizzler one of the Costco guys? He's like the son's friend or he's like a family friend of theirs. Okay. But he's not related to them in any way.

He just pops up because he's like this adorable little kid and he all of a sudden he just became a meme, you know, with like the Rizzlers named his 4 favorite albums and it shows something he would obviously not listen to and I wonder how it's gonna be for that kid in, like, 2 years. Things don't tend to end well for a lot of these, memed celebrities. Like, the Star Wars kid from back in the day, I don't think life went that great for the Star Wars kid. He, like, have a really tragic ending? He might have.

I don't remember for sure, but I don't remember it being good. And, you know, a a lot of these, you know, Internet celebrities that just a picture of them blows up, You know, they end up look like trying to hide from society. Well, that guy's very, obvious looking, that kid. Yeah. Like, you can tell it's the Rizzler from across the room.

Let's see. Star Wars kid. I don't know if we want to know how things ended for the Star Wars kid. Okay. He he's okay, I think.

He's just had some bad times with bullying, and stuff like that. But Well, I know. He's he's alright. There's plenty of TV shows that mimicked that video too of the Star Wars guy. Oh, yeah.

I mean and that was, like, way back in the day that that video went viral. Right. Wasn't he, like, recording that on a private camera and then someone I think uploaded it for him on the Internet? I think he was recording it at school using the school's equipment. Oh.

And then somebody found the video, thought it was funny and uploaded. Because I the first time I heard about it, I was watching Ned's Declassified on Nickelodeon and they had a very similar thing where one of the characters, filmed something very similar to him swinging a broom around pretending it's a lightsaber and sure enough it went all across the school. He's getting made fun of. He's sad about it or something like that. Oh, dude.

I'm sure there's videos of me as a kid that I'd be so embarrassed if they got uploaded online. There's a me too. Me me being a brat when I was, like, 4 years old and my parents. Nobody wants to see that. Yeah.

Don't upload your kids' videos online. Hang on to them for down the road. You know, you can give them to them, but even if your kids are real funny, don't upload the videos online because you might you could ruin their life. You could ruin their life, or they could strike it rich like Hailey Welch and be doing, the talk to a podcast that Victor Wilt wants to be a guest on. Be sure to send your messages to talk to her.

I I'll be on the show. I I wonder if she would actually get a message of what she would do. Like, who's Victor Wilt? Yeah. She I mean, I'm sure somebody else is handling every end of that.

The whole podcast is terrible. Booking. I haven't listened to it. I assumed it just wasn't gonna be very very up my alley. Everyone's talking over one another.

They're not broadcast they're not they don't have the broadcast personality to them. Like, they don't know what to do sometimes, so somebody will have to, like, help progress the conversation. And I'm sure it's even edited. So that's pretty bad if Yeah. Well, that's why they need me on the show.

Sure. You know, spice it up. Bring a little professionalism. I want you to yell at the hawk to a girl. Don't barrel over the top of me.

Don't barrel over top of me. I'll ride it, man. We'll move on. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Welt Show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group.

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