The Viktor Wilt Show

As I've been digging into my boring tedious computer work after the show each day, I've been really, really digging deep into the Nevermore catalog. That band, I mean, I hadn't forgot about them, but I forgot how good they were. You know, generally, when it comes to metal with some power metal influence, it's not usually my thing. Can only really think of a handful of artists that, you know, throw power metal type of elements into their songs, and I just love it. Nevermore, one of them.

The other, Devin Townsend. Yeah. You know, a lot of that power metal stuff, it all just kinda follows the same formula and things. And Nevermore, I really think they were ahead of their time. They had a modern musical sound, and Warrldayn, their vocalist, just nobody sounded like that guy.

So good. So that band, they're supposedly coming back in 2025. However, they are currently holding open auditions for a new singer and bassist, I guess. Founding bassist, Jim Shepherd, not welcomed back. So I would assume some kind of band drama going on there.

But how on earth are they going to replace Whirl Dane on vocals? I have no idea. No clue how anybody is going to be able to fill those shoes. But bands have pulled it off. I mean, Lincoln Park did it this year.

ACDC did it way back in the day. Tons of bands have done this. And as I thought about this a bit this morning, I think the only times I've really went, it's impossible. They shouldn't do it, are bands that, you know, when I was growing up, I really, really liked. You know, Lingnan Park is a fine band.

They're great. 1 of the all time most popular rock slash metal bands, but they were never really my thing. I mean, I like some of their songs, but I I was never big on them. Like, I was on, say, nevermore or the reactivated Pantera. Yeah.

I still if Pantera started making new music, I don't know how I'd feel about that. But I'm totally fine with Linkin Park, so why should I care? You know, let these guys get out and make some dough. Maybe there is somebody out there who can crush these nevermore songs vocally. I I don't know.

I'd be interested to see it. Kinda weird they'd announce we're coming back when they don't have the members, but whatever. You know? I guess it generated some buzz. If you want to audition, we got any, you know, prog metal vocalists out there that think they can hold it down.

Well, they've they've got a bunch of instructions on their social media pages. You gotta, show your chops on a few different Nevermore tracks and such, and I don't know. Wish you luck if you give it a go. You know, they're a great band, But, man, I never got to see him live with Whirl Dane. Seems like my band seems like we met Whirl Dane when we played at that, metal fest in San Bernardino.

Was never more on that show? I hate my terrible memory sometimes. And it you know, when you get all old like me, you know, when you get get up to that 40, 42 even, Memory gets a little bit hazy. But for some reason, I do recall meeting Worrall Dane at some point, but I don't know why because I don't recall seeing him perform live. I don't know.

That metal fest was kind of weird. Like, when testament started playing, they were one of the headliners. I think they did, like, a song, and then they just, you know, shut the band down, turned the lights on. It was very disappointing. Yo, Mountain America Center, if you're listening, come on.

I know Sleep Token has to be booking arenas in the US for 2025. Come out. Make this happen. That's what we need. East Idaho's 1st rock show of the year announced and something awesome like sleep token.

Wouldn't that be great? Hey, I've dreamed before and had those dreams come true. Remember when tool was here, Pepperidge farm. Remember it wasn't that long ago. What?

You know, we could use, more Maynard here in East Idaho as well. How about, throwing out an offer for that Sasanta tour with the perfect circle, pussy fur, and Primus. Nah. Alright. Anyway, I'll quit dreaming about that.

Maybe we dream about making money, being rich. I don't know why I read these things early in the day. What's a rich person thing that you would be totally into if you were rich? I might as well just go buy a lottery ticket. Yeah.

I wanna sit here and daydream about having money rather than reading through all the things you could do if you had money. Tailored clothes? Well, I don't know about that. The way that in the last year, the old weight has drastically shifted around. Tailored clothes, they're only good if you stay the same size.

I don't know. 2025. Slimmed down the dad bod a bit. Mhmm. Tailored clothes.

What are other rich people things? Is there anything in here that I would be like, yeah. Yeah. Totally. Oh, professional cleaners?

Chores suck, don't they? And, you know, I don't I don't think you have to be, like, totally rich to get somebody to come tidy up, but still outside of my budget. Still outside of my budget. Now, here we go. This is what I'm talking about.

A 2 story library with a fireplace, a wrought iron spiral staircase, and rolling ladders. I think that's at the top of my rich people list. A house with a 2 story library and more shelves than I could ever fill. I gotta figure out another shelf in my house. I should have had my daughter help me, move one up to the, upstairs guest bedroom.

That would have been nice because I've got this massive pile of books just sitting on the floor in my studio, and, that's inappropriate. You must properly display them. You know, I'm I'm not gonna continue on talking about rich people's stuff here. I mean, we might have a handful of wealthy folks listening. Give you a nice oh, good for you from K Bear.

Just always remember, my Venmo is really easy to figure out if if you just wanna throw away some of your rich people money. Alright. Anyway, I'm just kinda waking up at this point. It's still early. You wanna get ahold are are our phones working?

Hang on. Yesterday, the phones were not working and like an idiot. I mean, I didn't know they weren't working. Like, let's do a live call in bit, and then no one called, and I felt like a loser. And it turned out the phones weren't working.

So let's see here. Oh, they're still broken. Ah, well, I'm glad it's not Friday. I don't know what we do for traffic school powered by the advocates with no phones. Hopefully, by the end of the week, they get them fixed, but, you know, one of the benefits to doing my show is I do it live so I can put live callers on the air.

What are those things you take for granted? A lot of radio stations, they will not put a live caller on the air. I was actually taught when I first started, never put a live caller on the air. After a while, I was like, that's boring. Let me put a live caller on the air.

Next thing I know, one of them swears, and then the company had to invest a bunch of money into, delay systems, which was great, which was great. Rather than get in tons of trouble, I was like, hey. I can't do radio like this, and they they got me the gear I need. So yeah. Sometimes, you you just got to, you know, do what feels right and then ask for forgiveness afterward.

Alright. Content digging has begun. I got the content shovel out. I'm gonna dig deep. Well, it's good to see I'm not the only one from the world of rock and metal who got into some pop jams in 2024.

Just saw some type of a red carpet interview with, Trent Reznor. I think it was from the Golden Globes or something like that. And they asked him what his song of the year was, and he surprisingly replied with Sabrina Carpenter, espresso. Alright. I think there were better pop songs myself in 2024, but that was definitely one of the biggest.

Funny enough, my daughter's boyfriend, he also apparently got into Sabrina Carpenter in 2024 as I think she was his top artist on Spotify wrapped, if I recall correct. Have to double check with Taryn on that. Always makes you feel a little bit better. Right? As the the metal guy.

Man, really digging these, Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa tunes. Isn't there something heavy I like? Now there was a lot of good metal that dropped in 2024. But I tell you what, man. We need some new music.

So boring at the beginning of the year. Nobody dropping anything. I was looking around YouTube today like, maybe there's some new videos I could scope out. Maybe I could make some content. Nothing.

I don't know. I could check out Morgan Wall and Smile, but it's too early to deal with Morgan Wallen. Alright. No offense to you, Morgan Wallen fans. I'm sure we have a few of them.

I just don't get it. Alright. If I'm gonna rock the country, gotta dig into Sturgill Simpson, something like that. Anyway, Yeah. Just, hoping hoping Friday we get some unexpected new music because the beginning of the year is just so dull.

You know, the weather sucks. It's all cold. It's gloomy. Be nice if we at least had some new jams. I guess Dax Riggs has his new album coming out here in a couple weeks, so that's gonna be great.

Very excited for that. But other than that, I don't know what's coming up soon, and I'm lacking patience. I was talking about rich people stuff earlier. Some people just got way too much money, like Mark Zuckerberg building his gigantic compound in Hawaii. Well, he insists that he's not building a doomsday bunker despite the fact that there have been a lot of reports of blasting and a 5,000 square foot underground space.

He's like, no. It's, you know, it's a a shelter, a a basement. It's not a doomsday shelter, just, a basement. 5000 square foot. That's a pretty large basement.

Alright? I don't know how big your home is. That would be about, twice as large as my entire house, and that's, just his basement. But it's not a doomsday bunker. Despite the fact that if you get on Reddit and go to the Kawaii subreddit, Kawaii is where he's building his, you know, compound, 24100 acres.

People there seem to seem to think it's a doomsday bunker. I've actually got a friend who lives in Kauai. Maybe I won't say his name. But, anyway, I was talking to him maybe a month or so ago, and he works in carpentry. So, you know, the place he works for, they're doing some of this work on, Zuckerberg's place.

Well, at least the place of business he works at is my homie is like, no. I ain't working on Zuckerberg's place. Props to him. Props to my homie for putting a foot down. Yeah.

People in Kauai do not seem to like Mark Zuckerberg very much, based on, you know, talking to my homie and looking at posts in the Kauai subreddit over time. There's a wired magazine article out about the compound and the secrecy around the construction. I don't know. Trapped on an island, is that the best place to be if you need a a doomsday bunker? Seems like you'd wanna be able to escape if your island gets taken over.

You know, the Hawaiian Islands are not very big. You're stuck if somebody takes that island over. I think I'd rather be, you know, in the the continental US where I could hit one of many roads and at least try to get out. I don't know. Anyway, Zuckerberg swears.

It's not. It's not a doomsday bunker. It's just a giant awesome basement. Whatever, dude. You'd think being on Kauai.

I mean, I guess, I don't know what the, top floor is like. Maybe, maybe it's, like, 20,000 square feet of, beach views. Alright. Anyway, that's what's in the, Hawaiian news. We got anybody listening from Hawaii?

I haven't checked the map today, so I don't know. If so, you know, enjoy your nice weather. It sucks here. Well, my phone's definitely listening to everything I say because now I'm getting pummeled with Mark Zuckerberg news. Oh, I guess it could be worse.

Hey. You know how Facebook kinda sucks? You know, not very fun to hang out on. Everyone just, you know, screaming and yelling at each other, misinformation running rampant. Well, Zuckerberg doing everything he can to make Facebook worse.

Alright. Going to, go ahead and get rid of fact checkers and recommend more political content. Just what we all want on social media, more political content. And okay. You know, as far as the fact checking thing goes, might as well get rid of it because people just don't believe reality.

So a lot of people, they see fact check, and to them, they think I don't know the illuminati is, pumping messages into their feed or something well, I guess at least it'll motivate me to stay off Facebook a little bit more. You know, I try to hit all the social platforms, see what's going on. If Facebook's gonna become more like Twitter, then alright. Back to Reddit, I go. Yeah.

He's, you know, saying that, oh, where where were some of the, stupid points I was going to read here? This is why you write out a list of bullet points, people. So you're not scanning an article live on air going, I know there was some stuff I wanted to talk about here, and it it just lost track. Yeah. Anyway, if they're going to increase the political content and also, you know, according to Zuckerberg, allow more bad stuff to get through.

Yeah. He says where there is less concern about the bias of our teams, these changes to our meta filters content would mean we're going to catch less bad stuff. Fantastic. So I'm assuming this will go beyond Facebook. I would imagine this will hit Instagram and threads as well.

If I wanted to fire up a a social platform and immediately start seeing, like, racist and misogynistic stuff, that's what Twitter's for. Because that's what happens when I open Twitter. I don't follow these pages. I guess Elon Musk has decided we need to promote this type of content. But, yeah, there's already a place where you can go and just get pummeled with that kind of garbage.

Well, hanging out on YouTube, I guess. YouTube and Reddit it is. Hey. Just, heads up if you've been trying to call me. Phone lines are still down.

Sorry. I know it sucks, but eventually, they'll get fixed. If you wanna get a hold of me, I guess shoot me an email, victor@riverbendmediagroup.com, or, I don't know, a Facebook message, something. Got bad news for JD and other ACDC fans. If you had a dream of visiting the child, the childhood home of Malcolm and Angus Young, well, they tore it down on accident.

Jeez. That developer has now become the scourge of, Sydney, Australia. Yeah. I guess they bought, you know, multiple properties, you know, kind of a, just one big lot on which was this home that, the 2 brothers formed ACDC in. It had been listed on the national trust list of historic homes back in 2013.

It's a tourist attraction in Sydney, but I guess the previous owner didn't bother to mention it. And I don't know if these guys just didn't read any associated documents or what, but we're sorry. We're so sorry. We didn't mean to, we're trying to salvage materials from the site. We'll create a special save, a special space.

Maybe we'll make a cafe or a bar where we can make money off of ACDC fans. I'm sure it'll pay off for them. Alright. It's Australia. Yeah.

Unexpected mayhem's just part of the deal there. So, you know, house accidentally getting toward it. And that it's kinda minor for Australian news. And I the place was probably infested with snakes and giant spiders. You know?

Australia? I don't know. Still just not a tourist destination for this guy. Even if I wanted to see the ACDC house, which, well, now we can't. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change.

What's happening in Victor Wilt? Let's go. Alright. First off, got a story about a couple that retired early, started traveling the world. Oh, good for you.

The rest of the headline, we're not planning to leave money for our 6 kids. Good on them. Right? I hope I can leave my kids something. I hope so.

I know I got stuff to leave them. Alright? Stope I can hook them up pretty good. They're doing really good for themselves, so much better than I was at their age. So, yeah, maybe I should just keep everything for myself.

No. They said, you know, we raised them till 25, invested in their 1st 25 years, gave them a strong foundation to build their own futures. Now we're just gonna, well, live on the road and spend all our dough having a great time. Alright. You you could be a worse parent.

Yeah. You could be this guy. This was the former chairman of the Bank of China. He allegedly convinced his son to break up with his fiancee, and then he stole her. Started, dating her and married her apparently.

That's not very cool. Alright? You know, son, I don't think she's the one for you. You know, you got your whole life ahead of you. Get rid of her, dude.

There are some lousy parents out there. There's a lot of other news stories about this guy. He seems like he's not a really good dude in general, so shouldn't be too surprising, but, man, how how some people can be so terrible to their own children? Just kinda baffling to me. What else do we have here?

Monkey in a 2 2 escaped from a home in, in Saint Louis, and the sheriff's office says the capture was bananas. Then they gave the monkey back. I don't think people should be allowed to have monkeys as pets. I know that might be controversial. I thought it was America.

Freedom. You watch that show chimp crazy on Max? Yeah. After you watch that, it's like, no. People shouldn't have monkeys.

And monkeys, you know, they might rip your face off too. Alright? It's like the people with tigers and things. Just don't think we should really really allow that kind of thing. Alright?

Anyway, we'll get you the update from Saint Louis when now this monkey does something extra crazy. These people owning monkey stories, they never end well. Never end well. If you haven't seen chimp crazy, watch it. It's it's unhinged.

It's like tiger king. That kind of show where, you know, you can't help but watch, but you're also disgusted with the people throughout the entire program. And, in case you were wondering when to take down your holiday decorations, NPR put out a full article letting you know when the best time to take down your holiday decorations is. How about whenever you feel like it? Why is there a news article about this?

I mean, they point out the obvious. If your real Christmas tree is turning brown and the needles are falling on the ground, it's a major fire hazard. Get rid of it. But aside from that, I mean, all they really had to say was, hey. Do you feel taking down your Christmas trip, you know, decoration?

Go for it. Get rid of them. Throw them in the garbage if you feel like it. It's your stuff. I've still got my holiday decorations up because my, my daughter, my older daughter's coming to visit, this weekend.

So had to keep the tree up since I put those ridiculous govy lights on it so she can see my full fledged setup. I need to make a video with my living room setup now. She bought me lights that hook on the back of my giant TV. My living room is seriously like, a disco tech. It's how how old is that phrase?

That's before my time. No. It's it's like a raging party in there if I want it to be. It's absurd. I think I'm gonna make, a riff video.

Here's some riffs and look at my living room lit up like the circus. Pretty fun. Pretty fun. But if you're a long time listener, you know, strobe lights have started to kinda mess with me because I'm all, you know, in my forties old. And so they yeah.

They mess with my brain. So I can't even fully enjoy the ridiculousness I can pull off in my living room nowadays. It's very sad. It's very sad. Alright.

Freak news powered by Grease Monkey voted Idaho's best oil change. Leave your decorations up all year for all I care, then you don't have to put them up next year. It's the Victor Welt Show. We've got peaches in the house. What's up, peaches?

That's right. I woke up at 5:30 this morning. Ready to go. Good for you. I woke up at, you know, 445, and I was not ready to go.

Get on that treadmill. That so? Oh, this guy wanna call me fat, though. That's what I'm telling myself every morning too. Mister can't take a joke.

Wanna start slinging some stuff on. No. I can take jokes. It's when you, like, when I come into the studio and then everyone's quiet and gives me some stupid face and then when I leave the studio, all of a sudden the whole breaks about me implicitly. That's when I go, okay, behind the back.

Behind the back, Peaches, you can't do something on the public airwaves that's behind someone's back. You can't. No. You can't. Most people are not tuning in.

What are you talking about most people are not tuning in? Like in the morning, I'm not tuning in to your show. I'm going like, oh, what's he saying? I'm just, you know. Yes.

You are. It it was on in the Cannonball studio. Yeah. Yeah. You were listening to the show.

It's background noise when I'm trying to do other stuff. Oh, you're calling me background noise, fool? I'm not saying you are background noise. There's plenty of other things out there that are background noise. Yeah.

No. No. I I don't think that saying something on the radio could ever be considered behind someone's back, especially when they're right there, 10 feet away. But, again, I if I didn't hit that button or if I, you know, had the background noise on heard you guys talk about something that I talked about on air. What do you mean I what?

You were the one who talked about all that stuff on air. So there's no I brought it up once and that was it. And then I didn't said times. I didn't make any jokes about it, anything like that. Multiple times.

You even encourage encouraged me to make an advocate spot about it. Implicitly, it'd be funny. Yeah. But I I told you to. Not make a whole break behind my back and make it funny.

Oh my gosh. No. Especially when Jade, you know, is extra quiet over there in the corner. Doesn't say anything to me, but then comes over here and starts opening his mouth about me. Man.

That's when I go, okay. For someone who, you know, critiques people's sensitivity, you are the most sensitive dude I am. Well, I'm saying if you're gonna talk it, talk to my face, not behind my back. That's what I'm saying. Peaches, on air is not behind your back.

Facebook or on microphones, you know, do it to me in person. Sure. And I'm doing it right now. But, again, on air is not behind your back, especially when you can hear us through the wall. No.

I can't. Yeah. You can. I could not hear any part of that break through the wall. Well Especially if I have music playing or anything like that.

Alright. Well, I just assume you're you're listening or that if you talk about something on air, you don't care. Now, if you're gonna bring it up on air, it's fair game. Fair game. That's all on you.

If you hadn't have barged into my show and brought it to everyone's attention, it would have never been talked about. You were just on air at the time and I was, you know Yeah. Asking for your help because it was a dire situation. A dire situation? It was.

Yeah. It was not a dire situation. You were stuck in the parking lot. Yeah. If you were stuck, you know, in the middle of sunny side I call it a dire situation, so it is a dire situation.

No. If I call it that, then yes, it is. No. It's not. It is.

That is You can disagree with me all you want, but when I say it is, then it is. I would say if your car's on fire in the parking lot, it's a dire situation, but I'm sure you'd make fun of me for that too. Well, it would depend. It would depend, you know, on how it ended up on fire. You know, if, I'm trying to think of a dumb way you could light your own car on fire, but nothing's coming to mind.

It's easier to figure out dumb ways to end up in a snow drift. No? Come on, Peach. It's not a dire situation. It's just a dire situation.

Yeah. Everyone around here has been stuck in the snow at some point, Peaches. It's not dire. But then you don't make jokes about it. If it if it's so common that you wouldn't make jokes about it.

Simple as that. Why wouldn't I make I if Jade got stuck in the snow in the parking lot, I'd make fun of him. If our boss Bill got stuck in the parking lot in the snow, I would make fun of him. No. You wouldn't.

Yes. I would. No. You wouldn't say it to his face. That's for sure.

Yes. I would. No. You would not. Absolutely.

I absolutely would. Right? Hey. Bill. You would go like, miss hi, mister boss.

Boss man. What can I do for you today? I'm like, I gotta tell you. You're the biggest butt kisser I've ever I've ever seen. What are you talking about?

Hi, sir. How high can I jump for you today? That's that's exactly what you're saying. You know, I'm older than you. I've learned, you know, what battles to fight and what battles to not fight.

Well, why why wouldn't I be nice to the bosses? I wouldn't say not be nice. I'm just saying you're just, you know, you make it extra obvious. You're trying to, like, you know because I do it. Oh, sir.

Because I do it. I don't call them sir. When's the last time you heard me go hello, sir, to Jade? Not to Jade. Or to Bill.

I've never called him sir. That's not in my vocabulary. I would totally make fun of Bill if he got stuck in a snow drift. Alright. But he knows how to drive in the snow.

You know? I've been out here for 4 years, Victor. I know. You think you would have learned by now how to drive in the snow? One little mistake.

And then out of out of all the things that have happened to you and your truck compared to me Like what? All that stuff. The the towing and income. All that stuff. That wasn't my truck.

There was a whole bunch of stuff that's related to you. I could have made tons of jokes, but I never did. Go for it. I I'm not sensitive. Instead of making jokes about you sleeping in on Friday, I just, you know, did it when you were in here.

Didn't go on the air and say no. No. I was driving in that day. Hadn't said a word on air about being late. And I tuned into traffic But who was also the first one to hang on.

Don't go over the top of me. Who was also the first one to drive over to your place and see if you're okay? Well, I Me. I called you. I but that's I appreciate that.

But you and Lieutenant Crane were talking about it on air before I said, hey, Peaches. It's okay to talk about me being late on air. And did I boo hoo about it? But is that You're talking behind my back about me being late for my job. From the car thing too?

Yes. It is. Yeah. Just you sleeping. That's it.

Sure. Getting stuck in a pile of snow is not dire. That's that's totally, you know, to me acceptable to make fun of. It's stuck in a drift and you weren't in a dangerous situation. You weren't blocking traffic.

You weren't preventing people from getting in the parking lot. You were in a spot you could have sat there for weeks. It would have caused no disruption to anybody except you. I'm just saying peach. I think you get to be a little too sensitive.

You go ahead and make jokes about me about whatever you want. Jade made jokes about my dead dad on air the next day, and I laughed peaches. No. Because, you know, I, I'm not really bothered by people making jokes about me. You call me whatever you want.

If I, do something stupid in my truck, feel free to make fun of me. I don't mind. I'm not going to. Because I'm not gonna I would either do it over there off the mic in front of you in front of to your in your office. Might as well Not in the studio with another person just blatantly going, hey, this guy's an idiot.

You know, this type of thing. I didn't call you an idiot. Just a bad driver. We can do a whole bunch of stuff and I can guarantee you outdo you in anything. Outdo me in anything?

Sure. Alright. What do you what do you want to, where what do you wanna do to go head to head? What kind of battle? We gotta do crazy figure 8.

Crazy figure 8s? We gotta do that for sure. Okay. Well, we already know you're a bad driver, so it's on. I'm I'm down.

I'm down. And, yeah, I've I've made fun of myself for being stuck in the mud, getting slammed into by other drivers in front of a crowd of 1,000 of people. Just sitting there being an embarrassment, and I didn't have to talk about it on air, but I've talked about it tons of times. Because it Who cares? Stuck in the mud, snuck in the stuck in the snow?

You're alive. You know? It wasn't on fire. It's all good, buddy. Just gotta calm down, peaches.

Have not be so sensitive. It will all be okay. Do you need a hug? No. I'm okay.

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It seems kinda kinda weird to be like imagine if I were to say, like, hey, show me your belly. Like, that's a little weird, isn't it? I'm glad Cady's the one doing it over there. I don't know who came up with it, but it's been going on on Z for years. For years?

Yeah. And, pretty popular. Apparently, the ladies like to, send in the because they they get photo shoots peaches. Right. Alright.

I've handled the whole baby bump promotion multiple years in a row. And, I mean, they go all out with these fancy photo shoots and things like that. I mean, I'm glad I don't have to deal with that promotion any anymore because it's tons of work, but, gives them the opportunity to win a bunch of really expensive stuff. You should say that louder for Katie to hear you. Be like, oh, I'm so glad we don't have to deal with the I m z 103 baby bump.

Yeah. Well, it's a lot of work. You know? Props to her for getting it done. You know, Josh knows how it goes.

Jade, it is a ton of work to get the, gallery up, ensure that everybody's, you know, submissions were sent in properly. And Katie's put flyers everywhere. Yeah. Just to spread the word about it. Exactly.

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Is it the end of the week or has it been extended? I think it is the end of the week. For now, you know, sometimes they extend it. But the easiest way to access is to go through our apps and Yeah. And just it takes you right to the page.

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Best horror of 2024. Wondering how many of these I've seen and, how I feel these rankings lay out. Also, a great place to find new movies to watch. So this is from, Dread It. Dread It's best movies of 2024 as voted on by, users.

Alright. Oh, wow. They went 25. Count down the top 25. Well, let's mow through it.

You want me to name 25 things? Red rooms. Haven't heard of it. Have to check it out. Maxine, I've been wanting to see these next 3.

I don't know if I've heard of these either. Stop motion, blink twice. Okay. Immaculate? Did I start watching that and turn it off?

I don't remember. It seems like I did. I think I saw that pop up on, like, Hulu or something. Alright. We've also got It's What's Inside, Love Lies Bleeding, Lisa Frankenstein, Cuckoo, Exuma, Mad S.

I must not actually be a horror fan because none of those are ringing a bell, and I have not seen them. Now as we get into the, you know, top 14 here, these are movies I've heard of. So at least that makes me feel a little bit better out about myself. In a violent nature, I have not seen this movie. All I know is that I saw it continuously referenced for having the best gore scene of any horror movie in 2024.

And, you know, when they've got a really creative death scene, I'm certainly down to check it out. So one of these days, I'll get around to watching that. Number 13, Abigail. Watched this recently. It was so fun.

It was a great movie. It was a blast. You know? A vampire film. I don't know how to describe it other than it was fun, and I highly recommend checking it out.

Number 12, I saw the TV glow. I watched that as well. I don't know. To me, it wasn't a horror movie. And, I mean, it was it was good.

I appreciated the the art of the film. You know, it's an a 24 movie. But, I will admit that with all the hype around it, I was a little bit let down. But, I mean, some people, it's, like, the best movie of the year. So, you know, might wanna give it a shot.

Shame on me, but I have not seen Terrifier 3 coming in at number 11 on the best horror movies of 2024 according to Dread It. I do wanna see Terrifier 3. I thought part 2 was a lot of fun. It got the, hype around it due to how gory it was, and it was certainly gory. I thought it was really funny.

I was really surprised there wasn't more emphasis on the humor in the articles that surrounded Terrifier 2. So I would assume Terrifier 3 is pretty funny. My only problem with Terrifier 2 was it was way too long. It was, like, 2 and a half hours. Heretic at number 10, I really wanna see this movie, another a 24 movie.

Have not seen it yet. I I think you gotta still pay a fairly decent price to watch it on streaming. The First Omen, saw that. It was good. Strange Darling, have not seen that.

We'll have to check it out. Long legs, I thought was a little bit overrated, but it was it was still pretty good. They got that at number 7. And this one surprised me. Number 6, Smile 2.

Now I thought the first Smile movie was okay. 2nd one was way better than the first one, and it was another really fun movie, I thought. It it was really good. Number 5, Oddity. I've scrolled past this on streaming so many times, and I thought they were just, like, pushing it extra hard for some reason.

You know? We gotta advertise this one. I guess it must be pretty good if it's coming in at number 5 on this list. Number 4, alien Romulus. Need to get around to watching that.

It's on the list. It's on the to do list. Just haven't got to it yet. Late night with the devil at number 3, that was a wonderful horror movie. Great 2024 horror.

Another one that I'd call fun, but, yeah, it it was really good. Really good. And then the top 2, I have not seen yet. Nosferatu, which I think is only in theaters right now. And then the substance, which I don't know why I haven't got around to watching that.

That movie must be amazing because every list has the substance at number 1 for the best horror movie of 2024. So gotta watch that soon ASAP. Anyway, there you go. You're looking for some good stuff? Get in the horror subreddit, and, you can pull that list back up.

But, from the ones I've seen, I think I would recommend most Abigail, Smile 2, Late Night with the Devil. Yeah. I I think I'd go with those from that list, but there were a lot I haven't seen. Somebody have to give you an update on that as I catch up on things. Love watching movies.

Hopefully, I can fit in some good watching time this evening. Do your job. Why don't you do your job, engineer? You wanna know what my job? You wanna you wanna try and do my job?

Yeah. I'll do your job. No. I don't wanna do your job. My job.

I went to the top of mountain yesterday. Oh, that sounds terrible. It's cold outside, Jay. There's a lot of snow at the top of that mountain too. And I bet it's even colder up there.

Windy? No. It was actually really nice. Really? Yeah.

Alright. Well, I I just wanna thank you for, you know, the hard work getting our phones fixed. That's not my job. That's the phone company's job. Yeah.

Note to listeners. I don't have the phone off the hook. I'm not deliberately ignoring you. We're we're just having some major phone problems. Well, we're not.

The phone company is. The phone company is having problems. Working. Yeah. We can call each other.

Yeah. Unfortunately, I can get phone calls from Jade telling me do this, do that, do your job. You know? Everything that's on this end of that I need to be responsible for is working. And then, you know, what's weird is, people start kinda losing their minds.

They're like, is everything okay? I had multiple reps call my cell phone yesterday. Is everything okay? Like, I guess, they might have assumed it's the beginning of the year in radio. All of a sudden, my office line doesn't work anymore.

No. You're one of the only guys who will actually play our stuff. That's a good joke to play on people. It's kind of funny. Kind of funny.

I've gotten multiple messages about it. So, you know how nervous you are? And then you should push our channel more. That's right, mister label rep guy. Why why don't you, you know, go shake down media base for us or something?

Yeah. Yeah? Come on. Do your job. Go kick a couple of these, promoters around.

Yeah. All of them. All of them. So, anyhow, you know, if you're trying to reach us, shoot me an email, victor@kbear.fm or all No social medias. We we do have Facebook Messenger, Instagram Messenger.

Email's probably your best bet because I have all notifications turned off because I don't wanna make myself crazy. Like, I better say his name loud so he knows I'm talking about him. Pages. He has I think he gets too many notifications. You know?

That would make me insane if I had notifications. Every one of mine turned off, even my email because I get over a 1000 emails a week. Yeah. I don't I don't even know how many emails I get a week. Let's see.

In my inbox, unopened emails, I have 192,284. You got me beat. I think I'm at let's see. That it's counting. I'm at about 76,000.

Alright. Yeah. I went through a while back and deleted the ones that had attachments, and I would've tried to free up a little bit of space. But if I wouldn't, every once in a while, need to dig up an email from 10 years ago. Mhmm.

Right? And then I'm like, oh, I'm so glad I had this. And then, yeah, I make people very crazy when they see like, Josh, he keeps his inbox clean. I don't know how he does that. That's way too much time.

Yeah. He he, like, you know, has a bad panic attack when he sees a 192,000 unopened emails. So, listeners, email us, shoot us a message or call. That pile of 192 that's unopened. Now I tend to look at those because it'll have a little thing pop up that, you know, it's like a direct email or, you know, it was sent directly to you where most of the crap I get is, hey.

Check out this terrible song that nobody wants to hear. It's garbage. Here's an ad that needs to play. Here's notification on the channel went off air. Yeah.

I get all those too. Here's the Riverbend Media Group website site lockout because somebody's trying to hack your stuff. I can't believe Josh spends all the time to clear those out. What a maniac. He's a psycho, dude.

Right. I think you gotta be a real weirdo to be that obsessed with that. Big boss man does the same thing. He's gotta get as many emails as you and me. Yeah.

How does he keep up on it? That's all he does. That Bill, why don't you do your job? He just said I would not make fun of Bill on it. Oh.

We didn't believe it. Bill a lot. Yeah. What are you, stupid? What are you?

Stupid do your job. I don't remember. Oh, it was, Peach has said I would not laugh at Bill in his face if he got stuck in a snow drift in front of the station. I was like, dude, I would totally laugh and be like, hey. Nice driving.

Yeah. Like, come on. Oh, Bill, you know, we're just playing. Right? You know, we're just joking around.

Deaches, were you in here, I don't know, about week or 2 ago when I was talking about those guys who were growing pot in New York with bat guano and it killed them? No. I I wasn't in here for that. Oh, there's a lot of for some reason bat guano stories popping up in my news. Bat poop.

Oh, I was about to ask what is that? That would be a terrible band. I'm sure there's a band out there called bat guano or at least guano. If not, jeez, local bands. Guano band.

I shouldn't have said terrible. I should have said that. Yeah. There's guano. There's the guano apes.

There's a lot of lot of bands using that name out there. What genre would you think they'd play? I think I feel like they'd be like speed, you know, like the hardcore with the the weird instrument involved, like the flute. Maybe a punk rock band? Yeah.

I can see punk band. So, anyway, I was reading this article about orange dwarf cave crocodiles. Woah. Alright. So these are crocodiles that have been found living in a cave and, they feast on crickets and bats, and they've turned into little orange dwarf crocodiles because they swim around in the guano and I guess like the acidity or something of it.

It, basically bleaches their skin and turns it from that dark green to this in a really disturbing looking orange color. That's cool. Imagine you're boating through an ocean of bat dookie in a cave and these little gators I I guess they're not gators. They're crocodiles. I don't think they would attack you, would they?

Because they they only want the crickets and the the bats. Well, I don't I don't know, peaches. I mean, in Florida, they have things to eat, but they still rip arms off you. Yeah. I'm not that type of white where I'm gonna go walk up to a wild animal and be like, oh, look at my little baby.

No. I'm just gonna be like, oh, that's cool from a distance. I wouldn't go anywhere near a gator or crocodile. They're they're way too disturbing looking. Oh, the death roll freaks me out.

Like, watching the I I watched this video of this one crocodile doing the death roll to another crocodile just ripped his whole arm off. And I'm, like, sitting there shivering, like, I I did not wanna see that ever again. Did you, ever get around to watching that It's Florida man show? No. I don't have Max.

Oh, okay. I was using my my friend's account. Gotcha. But, yeah. He doesn't use it anymore either.

So Okay. Yeah. There's a pretty good episode about a guy who, you know, had an arm ripped off by a gator, you know, Florida guy who I'm I'm guessing based on his, demeanor and appearance, might have been under the influence of who knows what. Oh, you ever wanna, like, never swim again? Watch that movie Soul Surfer about that one girl who lost an arm due to a shark?

Well That's that's and she went back to surfing. Like, how big of an idiot are you? There was an article recently about an another guy who was a surfer that got attacked by a shark. I can't remember if he lost any limbs, but then he went back to it too. Got attacked at the same beach.

The next guest on my podcast that I'm starting up is Pete, and Pete's legally blind Mhmm. And he's a surfer. And it's like, dude, how how can you be a surfer and blind? I'm gonna ask him about that. Yeah.

Because I guess, like, he gets told when a wave is coming by his girlfriend on the sand and, like, he has his phone in the back of his wet suit or something like that in a waterproof pouch and it's on high vibrate and it'll vibrate when he's about to go into a wave. Well And this guy couldn't see a shark coming. You would have to tell him. Right? Be like, hey, there's a shark right by you.

Don't freak out or something like that. You would assume. You would have to do something. It's there's so many questions I have for this guy. But I also I'm afraid to ask him that because I don't wanna be like, hey, so you're blind.

Can I ask you all these questions about your disability or do you wanna talk radio here? Yeah. Well, you know, I I would assume he's expecting some questions about that because I've I've heard about Pete's process for how he actually records his voice work. Right. And I think that would be really interesting for people to see.

Well, he also He's a one man show, you know, running his, his VO business and, recording everything himself. Supposedly, he has, like, this little circular thing that he can stick his head into and it's soundproof on the inside and he can cut commercials anywhere. Mhmm. Yeah. Well And so I'm thinking if he cut a like a movie trailer or like a world class movie trailer on the beach in that little bubble thing, that's crazy how you can do that now.

Yeah. Dude, technology is great nowadays. It it's the best time to be alive. I don't care what anybody says. I would much rather be alive now than any other previous decade.

Oh. Yeah. You can imagine. Good. Living with anxiety in, like, 1920.

Like, oh, my lover didn't send me letters. What's going on? Are they cheating? Yeah. Exactly.

You just have to sit there and wait for weeks. You have to put on your best suit to go to the grocery store, you stink. Well, and back in those days, if you had, you know, things like anxiety or depression, they just put you you know, they put you in an insane asylum. You know, they put you in a padded room. Imagine, like, watching the triangle the the triangle waste fire happen in person and they expect to go to work the next day?

Exactly. Well, people complain a lot about this day and age, but, we've got it pretty good, people. Always try and focus on the good things because, it would have sucked to live back in the day. I don't care what anybody says. Say so, like, the seventies through, like, the nineties, maybe even early 2000?

Yeah. I was alive in the nineties and early 2000. Now is better. Now is better. We have better medical technology.

Sure. Things are more expensive, but, you know, I'm I'm just talking about, like, the world as a whole. Entertainment's better. Everything's better. My only gripe with the world today is there's too many people.

Way too many people. Well, that's If I could be Thanos, I would. Peachy's peaches, I'd kill half the planet by myself. I'm messing up. Alright.

Linkin Park, peaches, appearing at the top of pretty much all lists of the best rock songs of 2024. What were your favorite rock songs of 2024? We've talked about albums, but I'm thinking individual songs. Am I allowed to include metal too? Of course.

I mean, Nothing More's album as a whole, one of my favorites of the year. But I got I like Down With the Down in the River from that album. I like Blame It on the Drugs on that album. I also like Boundaries and Tire, Death is a Little More album which is fantastic. Very crushingly heavy.

Very cool. Suffocate, I I liked it in the beginning because I still mind don't mind it but when you hear it a lot, like, when we sit here every day and, you know, play Cave Bear, it's like, okay. I'm I'm a little over it now. I still like that one. I'm I'm I'm enjoying it but it's not it's not like, you know, I'm not hating it but Yeah.

And that tends to happen with any of the newer songs because we hear them more than anybody. Sure. Yeah. So we get sick of them before anybody else. That's why I find it funny when people are like, oh, K Bear never plays this artist.

I'm like, well, you had to listen to this specific time, this day Yeah. And you would have heard him. Yeah. Like, we do play that artist. I've heard him multiple times on my show this week but I listen to at least 4 hours of the show every single day.

And then I go, oh, wait. Someone can be in their car for 5 minutes, hear that of K Bear, hear that little portion of K Bear and go, that's the whole station. Yeah. I mean, when we've got, I mean, on a weekly basis, I'd have to pull it up here to see how many songs we played in the last week. Mhmm.

But it's probably more than people would expect. Let's actually let's take a look at it. Let's see how many not, you know, overall spins during the week, but how many different songs we played in the last 7 days. Babble on for a minute, Peaches, while I log in here. Okay.

Let's go ahead and talk about things and then have people post about me in the Life of Idaho Falls Facebook group. Please take Peaches out of context and, complain about it. That could be a whole bit with our audience. If you guys wanna take me out of context and put me in that group, go for it. I like us being talked about in the Life in Idaho Falls group because, hopefully, it encourages some people to tune in who have never heard the station before.

Feel free to talk about us in the Life in Pocatello, the Life in Rexburg group. Talk about us in all of them. There's a black foot one that I can't say the name of on the air, but there's a funny black foot. They've got a profanity in it, Oh, yeah. Oh.

Naughty naughty. It's what you use for, the word complaining. Oh, okay. I I've Complaining Blackfoot. I'm I'm a member of that group as a matter of fact.

It's a great group. I'll I'll I love all the local groups. I think they're fantastic, especially the one that Starr pointed out yesterday, the I Hate Life in Rexburg. That one's pretty fun. That one is pretty fun for sure.

Okay. So as far as scannable songs from the music industry in the last week, why don't it go down further? Oh, there we go. It had it, like, froze up at 500 and had to think for a bit here. Okay.

In just the last week, we played 792 trackable songs. So there are some that aren't gonna get scanned, like, you know, local music and stuff like that, you know, certain brand new songs or, like, really underground band. But I'd say on average during the week, 800 different songs. And now let's pull up another radio station just because I'm curious. Let's go with, what's another New Roc station?

Oh, I was trashing on 93 x in Minneapolis yesterday. You can't trash them, Victor, because someone's gonna make a post about them in your, post about, you and their Facebook group. That's fine. They're an Iheart station. Iheartradio sucks.

Iheartmedia is garbage, and, they they just fired a bunch of people yesterday. They're they're just horrible people. Okay. Kxxr? Is that right?

Come on. There we go. Kxxr Minneapolis show all. Just curious if they play close to the same number of songs in a week as we do. Alright.

Here we go. We are loading. Alright, peaches. If you had to guess, let me make sure I've got Is it really that low? Now I've got all of them at Okay.

If you had to guess, how many different songs do you think KXXR played in the last 7 days? Last 7 days? Last 7 days. We played 792 different songs. Some of them, you know, more than once.

Oh, okay. So we're guessing different songs. Different songs. I'm gonna guess 326. Well, you're a little bit under 397.

Wow. So just for example, we play twice as many different songs as KXXR. Let's check out my homies at KUPD in Phoenix. They're in great station. Great station, but I'm sure we still play a lot more songs.

Don't take me out of context now. Don't say, you know, Peaches says KUPD sucks. Maybe we should impeach him. I just heard it. I'm gonna pull the clip.

Pull the clip. Yeah. Peaches the KUPD sucks. It came out of his mouth. Victor Victor eventually says down with the government on the chamber soundboard.

Alright. KUPD. Let's take a look. I know they have a really tight playlist, so I bet it let's see if they beat, KXXR. They do.

Alright. It's froze up at 500 again. Iheart sucks so bad. 392 songs. I mean, compared to 796 from us.

KUPD is 614. Wow. Yeah. 3 of them That's good. That's great.

That's really good for a big market radio station, but most big market stations you know, it's funny because a lot of those programmers and DJs, they'll when I get in arguments with them, be like, well, dude, when you move into the big leagues, you know, it's like, dude, just because you're in a big market, we do the same thing. It's the exact same thing. I would say if you move to the big leagues, it's it's not even the big leagues. It's just micro management leagues. Oh, yeah.

Like, how how many times is your PD gonna sit you down and say, you shouldn't be talking about this on the air. You should you should just really say keyword cash to win a $1,000 or something like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Totally.

So anyhow, we do, have a a nice variety. I I actually would be surprised to see if any station plays as many different songs as us. Let's see what, our homies at Octane are doing because they don't, they don't even have, you know, the same kind of commercial load. I have to say I I'm I'm I'm fully convinced Jose Mangan might be a little bit of a psychopath or he's just not on social media at all really because I can't imagine the amount of grief that guy gets and then yet he's still like the golden retriever that he is. Like he's he's happy all the time, he's smiling, you know, he's talking about it, he's hanging out with us, however many rock stars.

But there's still so many people in the comment section saying he's a waste of time, he's a loser, All this whole thing. Probably just doesn't read it or, you know, just doesn't let it bother him. You know? After all, he's the guy who's been hosting all these concerts for 25 plus years. He's doing great.

I think he's doing just fine. Octane, 686 songs. So, yeah, they're they're doing pretty well over there too. And they're primarily a new music station. So, you know, they they do play some older stuff, but not much.

They leave it to, what, turbo? What about a 95 Will Rock? Wilrock. Let's scope let's scope Wilrock. They're supposed to be a great rock station.

They are. Shout out to my homie Elwood, the program director of Wilrock. I haven't listened to them all that much. I've heard non stop great things. I'm guessing they have a I'm gonna predict a pretty no.

I don't know. It's hard to say with Elwood. I'm guessing they got a tight playlist, though. Oof. Uh-oh.

Real tight. Real tight. Uh-oh. Not looking good? Not looking good.

Come on. Come on, Elwood. You know, this is what happened when you've got, like you talked about. I'm sure it's an upper management type of situation there. So, yeah, big market doesn't mean better radio for sure.

That's one of the main problems with rock radio. They really do play the same crap over and over and over and don't have much variety. I think you gotta have, like, 800 songs a week. You know? I mean, they're that's about if you look at it, generally, you play between 10 and 12 songs an hour.

So Sorry. I'm too busy reading the thread about, like, the whole, post that was made in life in Idaho Falls. Someone, said it definitely doesn't fall under the common sense category when it comes to getting back in the water after you had a limp limb pulled off. Fair. If you were to rip limb from limb, why would you go back?

Yeah. Exactly. You know? Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group to contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbendmediagroup.com.