The Viktor Wilt Show

You know, I should have started the show with Gojira. That's what I should have done. Dropped the ball completely as today is the day of the Olympics opening ceremony. And crazy enough, Gojira is going to be performing at this. According to NBC, 1,000,000,000 people could tune in for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.

And, yeah, NBC dropping the ball as well. They've probably never heard of Gojira, but they're talking about, oh, potential performers. The official musical pool performers remain unconfirmed, but Lady Gaga and Celine Dionor in Paris, It's been confirmed that Gojira is gonna be performing the mighty Gojira. That should be, you know, international news. And man, can you imagine if 1,000,000,000 people watched Gojira open up the Olympics.

It's awesome. They're doing some kind of collaborative original performance with opera singer, Marina Biotti. So I don't know if they're gonna go hard. Alright. I don't know if they're gonna come out and bust out into something like stranded, for example, but, it's gonna be really cool because it's Gojira.

You you can't go wrong when you're talking about Gojira. I'm sure it's gonna be epic. They're one of the best progressive metal bands out there. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do. They they better have distorted guitars.

Alright. I I shouldn't complain. No matter what, it will be Gojira opening the Olympic ceremony. That's pretty awesome. I mean, it does look like Lady Gaga is going to be performing probably Celine Dion.

What what a lineup. Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, go Jira. Alright? You just can't go wrong. It's amazing.

So, anyway, I'm sure by tomorrow, video will be floating around of that. I'm looking forward to seeing that. I I'm not really into the Olympics. I don't know. I it it's just not exciting to me, but I hope it brings the world together.

Right? Because, you know, we could use a little bit of, unity right now. Oh, man. Anyway, welcome to Friday. Hope your morning's going good so far.

I might. I got no complaints yet. I mean, I I you know me. I could. I could always find something to complain about, but I'm not gonna.

Gonna keep it positive because I'm excited to roll into the weekend. Oh, and if you wanna see me this weekend, come see me at the farmer's market tomorrow morning. I'll be there. The Idaho Falls Farmers Market, 9 AM to noon. Be hanging out with my homie, Josh, from Classy 90 7.

It's gonna be a great time. I don't know if I'll have any swag or what, but I'll probably have some k Bear stickers, things like that. Come on out. Say hello. Get yourself some farmer's market goodies.

Yeah. Load up on some corn dogs or delicious fruits and vegetables or they got all kinds of stuff there, You know, over a 130 vendors. You'll wanna come check it out if you haven't seen it yet. The weather tomorrow well, actually, I haven't looked today. All week, the weatherman been teasing me with very nice temperatures for tomorrow.

And if I've gotta be outside, that's what I need in my life. Alright. Yesterday, they were saying 80, but now they're saying 83. That's still not gonna be too bad in the morning for the hours I will be out and about. And they've kinda downgraded their predictions for the coming week as well.

Talking mid to high eighties. I'll take that over these mid nineties to triple digits we've been dealing with. Ugh. Had enough of that. Could be worse, though.

Could be in Boise. Oh, and by the way, the Boise subreddit figured out who Peaches was. So we had to put a stop to Peaches' birthday celebrations even though it got really funny yesterday. And, boy, did people get toxic when they figured out that Peaches was a radio DJ. Yeah.

Like, immediately, it was a flip and people you know how the Internet can be. It it wasn't even that big of a deal. A stupid trolling of the Boise subreddit. Hey. We're throwing a birthday party, man.

Boy, did people get mean when they found out it it was just a radio DJ joking around. This has to be some kind of a viral marketing stunt. Like, no. We're just dumb. We're just dumb and easily entertained.

Simple as that. But that that's hard to compute for some people that you could just be that stupid that you would throw a fake birthday party for no reason whatsoever. Nope. No purpose. No attempt to gain new listeners.

Just being dumb. It's how we roll. Always fun to, trash on Texas. Right? Sorry to our listeners from Texas.

I know we've got some of you. Just playing. It's not my fault that there's this article making the rounds about the 10 states with the worst quality of life here in America, and coming out at number 1 would be the lone star state itself, Texas. In case you were curious, no. Idaho did not end up on the list of the 10 worst states for quality of life.

If you wanna know what the 10 are, I will tell you what they are right now. Coming in at number 10, one of my favorite states, Arizona. You know, seeing that one on the list, I was actually surprised that Idaho didn't end up on the list as well because we tend to deal with some of these the same weaknesses that Arizona does, but I'm not gonna get into all of that. We'll just say that, very very similar as far as the, reasons Arizona ended up on this list. Coming in at number 9, Kansas.

8, Louisiana. Sorry, Nollins. You know, I would imagine that, crime and perhaps weather because I didn't read the article. You know me. If I can avoid reading the article and just make assumptions.

You know, I'm an irresponsible broadcaster, and that's what I do. But yeah. You know? What what do you hear about Louisiana? Hurricanes and misery.

I would like to visit Louisiana, though. Missouri coming in at number 7. I think you're gonna notice most of these places are down south. Tennessee at number 6. Arkansas at number 5.

Oklahoma, 4. Alabama, 3. Indiana, 2. And number 1, the worst place in America as far as quality of life according to one article I found on the Internet, Texas. And I actually found another thing about Texas that don't sound very good to me.

Alright. Where did that article go about the worms? Hold on here. I I had it right in front of me about these horrifying worms in Texas that, they're like poisonous worms. What what is going on here?

How did I lose it? Aw, man. It was a great article about I'm just gonna find a new one. Okay. Hold on.

Poisonous worms, Texas. I thought I had all my tabs lined up perfectly. Alright. We're gonna talk about hammerhead flatworms, toxic invasive worms adding to potential problems plaguing Houston due to excessive rainfall. The areas all around Houston.

Now these can grow up to 15 inches long. They secrete chemicals through their skin that can be dangerous to humans and pets. They carry parasites. And if you try to kill them, you chop them in half. They don't die.

You just now have 2 worms. You chop them into 4. Now you have 4 poisonous worms. They're what do you do to eradicate them? I don't know.

But as rivers and streams overflow due to to torrential rain and thunderstorms, Now they're just all over people's yards, and, you know, people like to walk barefoot. Yeah. The hammerhead flatworm prefers hot humid climates and usually spend their time under shrubs and out of the sun. So, you know, you're trying to stay out of the sun. You go for a walk in the forest where there's trees.

And there you go. Toxic flatworms. Disgusting. Okay. It says, you can kill them with, citrus oil and salt.

Sounds like a gross way, you know, the salt thing to to take them out. Yeah. This is a problem. Yet another reason to not move to Texas. Let's talk about eating food the wrong way.

Just saw a post on Reddit about this. I mean, how do you eat food the wrong way? I guess we gotta go through some of the responses, and I will judge whether or not this is wrong. Alright I prefer chocolate chip cookies without chocolate chips now we've got 2 thoughts on this. Does that mean you just make cookies without chocolate chips and you're you're just making cookies?

Because they're not chocolate chip cookies if they don't have chocolate chips in them. They're just cookies. Right? Or do you pick the chocolate chips out like I do when I end up with pizza or a burger and they put something on it I don't want? And I just, you know, pick it up and put it to the side.

Is that what you do with your chocolate chips? You're a freak show if you do that. That is eating food wrong. Alright. It's good to see an accurate response on Reddit.

That is eating food the wrong way if you pick the chocolate chips out. Let's see. My preferred way to eat bananas is when they're green to the point most people wouldn't enjoy them. To me, they're just less sweet and have a better texture. I I wouldn't say that's eating food wrong.

I mean, I don't get it, but to each their own. Alright? You want a banana that's not ripe? Okay. Whatever.

I wouldn't prefer have a banana that way, but I wouldn't say that's eating food wrong. If you eat the banana peel, you're eating the food wrong. K? That would be eating the food wrong. Alright.

Let's see here. When I eat pizza, I take all the toppings off and put them in a pile, then eat the crust and the nice soft stuff that has a bit of sauce on it. When I'm all done, I eat the toppings with a fork. That's bizarre. I mean, it's it's a way to eat food.

It's weird. I don't understand it. That's borderline wrong. I mean, some people will say eating pizza with a fork at all is wrong. Now depending on how dirty I want my hands to get or how greasy the pizza is, I might eat pizza with a fork.

I'll admit it. Alright? And whatever. Come on now. Cut me some slack.

It's really greasy. I don't know. Just don't feel like Or if it's the type of pizza that it's all floppy. I I don't know. Sometimes fork just seems easier.

Give me a give me a little bit of a break on this one. Is that eating food the wrong way? Could be. Alright. I eat Kit Kats by biting the chocolate edges off.

Then when it's just the wafer layers left, I eat it layer by layer. Now that sounds like, I mean, you're really, really just bit by bit enjoying your Kit Kat. Is it wrong? I I don't know. It sounds very time consuming.

But, again, I'm one of those guys who I would just take a bite out of the Kit Kat. Like, you got the 4 Kit Kats stuck together, and I wouldn't even break them off. I'd just ah, because it makes people crazy. People think you gotta break the Kit Kat apart and eat it one one little stick at a time. No.

Don't do it like the, fun size that's 2 Kit Kats side by side. I eat a Kit Kat fast. Cold hot dogs without a bun equals perfect snack. K. That's eating food wrong.

Alright. Yeah. They're cooked. They're generally precooked. We've had cold hot dog pie on the noon hour before.

K? It it was not good. Cold hot dogs, no. I'm gonna go with that's eating food wrong. K?

That is eating food wrong. I chop all my salads using scissors and then use a spoon to eat them. So much tidier. There has to be an easier way to do this. Why don't you just buy the, I guess, shredded lettuce like you get for tacos?

It still seems like eating it with a fork would work better. How small are they chopping up their salad? I mean, there's certain types of salad. You go with with the spoon, potato salad, coleslaw. I guess if they're chopping it up to coleslaw size but why why use scissors?

Why not put the lettuce in a food processor or blender? Yeah. Scissors seemed like way too much work. I'm not gonna call this eating food wrong because whatever, But the effort you're putting in is wrong. K?

There's only so much time in the day. Bit by bit chopping up lettuce with scissors? It's absurd. I like savory French toast. Keep the sugar and syrup.

I want mine with black pepper. Again, weird? I don't know. It's wrong. It's it's just weird.

It's like my little sister and she might be listening to this on demand, maybe even live. When she was a kid, one of her favorite snacks was toast with peanut butter and garlic powder. And it took until I was adult an adult to understand this because she says it's still good. But she's like, well, you know, have you ever had Thai food with the, you know, there's a lot of garlic and they put peanuts or peanut sauce in it. So I get it's kinda like Thai toast.

Like, okay. Alright. That makes sense to me. Now, when I was a kid, I'm like, how did you come up with this? And what is the deal?

It's the weirdest thing to me ever. Tell I I don't know. I think maybe Manda should have been some kind of a chef because I I don't know where she got that from. How does a kid come up with that? She's just bored one day in the kitchen, like, alright.

I might have some toast with peanut butter. And what's this you know, let's look at the spices. Let's go with garlic. I it's really weird. I I I wonder if she remembers how how that came to be.

Was it, like, a joke and I made it for her one time? Or, like, this will be funny, and then she loved it. I don't know. I have no idea. So I would go with that's not eating food wrong.

It's it's different, but yeah. Have yourself a nice, pad Thai. It's got peanut butter, essentially, peanuts, and garlic. It it tends to work well together. I eat burgers and hot dogs with a fork and knife.

Now okay. Now that seems wrong to me. And unless it's one of those burgers that's just gigantic and just falls apart. Yeah, you might have to bust out the fork. But I I think that's weirder than eating pizza with a fork.

I eat the meat out of a burger first then have a tomato onion sandwich. Get out of here. That's eating food wrong. That is eating food wrong. I don't know.

I I would eat a burger patty without all the rest. So I'm a liar. Let's take a look at some questions being posed on the Internet and some of the answers, and I'll let you know if I think these answers are good or if I think they're lousy answers. Let's take a look and see what we got here. Which profession attracts the worst kinds of people?

I'm sure you can guess what profession would come first to my mind. I'm very curious if that's gonna be the top answer, and no. It isn't. Right now, the top voted answer is nursing. People say nursing attracts the best and the worst.

Some of each extreme. Alright. I I don't really know people working in nursing. If you work in nursing and wanna call and comment on this, if you think this is accurate, 208-535-10 15. That's not the one I would have guessed.

Let's check the second answer. 2nd most popular answer. Alright. I'm gonna stay out of that one. Alright.

3rd therapist? Really? Alright. If the person who posted this said, I am a therapist, somewhere around 99% of therapists are cool, smart, compassionate people who are in the work for the right reasons. The other 1% are some of the most toxic, sanctimonious, ego driven.

I don't know. Why can't I think of a a different word for this profanity they're using? Oh, we'll just say BS artists. They see themselves as the holder of the keys to knowledge. Alright.

I wouldn't have guessed therapist as one of the top answers on here. Sales? What? Okay. Now listen.

I ain't buying that. I I work with a lot of salespeople, and maybe it's radio sales or just, pretty legit cool people. Now, like, we've got great salespeople here. Speaking of which, if you're looking to advertise on k Bear, hit up our awesome sales team. The entire crew rules.

I I'm, like, extremely grateful to work with the entire team I've got here in the building. I was actually talking with one of our salespeople yesterday about how awesome this place is to work at. Like, the the best place in radio to work at. I I don't know. I think I I got too spoiled here.

I don't know if I'd wanna work at another radio place. I'd really be doomed if I had to figure out a different radio job. I think I might move into sales or something because radio is not fun at a lot of other places. I've talked to radio DJs, radio programmers. If you don't actually get to program, if you're just, an implementer, how stupid and boring would that be?

Alright. Come on. When are we gonna get to politicians as the profession that attracts the worst kinds of people? Come on. These are, you know, so many of them.

People who just wanna control others, they have a lust for power. They don't truly yeah. And it's not all of them. It's not all of them. So many.

So many. They're liars. Just straight up liars. Okay. What else are people saying here?

Influencers. Yeah. This is the year of the, influencers being shut down. Holy cow. I haven't got into a lot of that on air because, you know, it's for the most part, these influencers that get shut down, getting canceled, it's gross.

It's gross the, you know, behaviors they engage in. So yeah. Influencer. I think that influencers are definitely people who are craving attention and a lot of them would do anything for subscriptions and views. So, yeah, influencer does seem like it would bring in a lot of toxic people as far as a profession goes.

Drywallers. What? Oh, person says I feel safe saying this on Reddit because they don't know how to use computers. How dare you? I'm sure there are plenty of drywallers that know how to use computers.

You know? And you know what? If your drywaller doesn't know how to, you know, do math and things like that, you're gonna have a bad time. Don't be giving drywallers some grief. I'm putting up some nice straight, well hung drywall, making your place look good.

How dare you? Alright. What other questions are being posed on ready? I I got a lot of them. Got a lot of them.

What's a name that sounds normal for a kid to have, but weird for an adult? Just think someday congress may be full of Braden's and Kayleys. It's true. But by then, it won't seem weird. I don't know.

My one of my nicknames as an adult seems weird to me. Very few people call me it, and it doesn't feel weird when they call me it. I'm talking about my nickname for my real name. My name situation's really weird though because my fake name feels as real now as my real name. I've been using the fake name for so long, and so many people only know me by that and only call me by that that it certainly feel it almost feels more weird when someone calls me by my real name.

Actually, it does. It does feel more weird when someone calls me by my real name now than the fake name. Is that that's kinda crazy. But a lot of people change their names. It's not that big of a deal.

I mean, we've talked about country artists who use a fake name. A lot of politicians use a fake name. I didn't know this one, but I I saw yesterday you know, we've got the presidential election going on. That guy JD Vance, he's changed his name, like, 3 times. I I think it's the for the reason that, country artist changed their name.

What was his real name? Because, you know, he he wants to play off that he's, you know, this, southern guy. And if, you know, you wanna be a country artist, you gotta have a southern sounding name. So a lot of these country artists will like Jason Aldean. I don't remember what his real name was, but it it didn't sound very country.

And that that's kind of for this well, the reason I came up with a fake name was a a variety of reasons. One, my real name is so generic that if you try to Google it, you will never find me personally. You'll find a lot of other peep there's so many people with the same name as my real name. It is. Might as well be Joe Smith.

You know, it might as well be be that. Something like super plain. But, anyway, so I I wanted a name that nobody else had because I wanted to be a rock and roll star, and I wanted you to be able to Google me. That's actually pretty much the main reason just so I had a very unique name. And now if you Google me, you will find me.

There ain't nobody else out there as far as I'm aware using this the same name as me. It's a good fake name, and it sounded more I don't I don't know. I had more of a rock and roll feel to it than my real name. Very generic, my real name. Be a good name for a politician, my real name.

But when I run for office, I gotta use the fake name though because I gotta use the, the local celebrity angle. You know? So stay tuned for that. One of these days. Alright.

Anyway, we were talking about names, and I got a listener here I'd like to put on air. Kay Bear, what's up? This is Tate. Tate, why are you feeling distraught, Tate? Found out that is not your real name.

Because you found out it's not my real name? Yeah. All this time, years years, I was like, that's a cool name. Yeah. Usually, if a name seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Yeah. My real name is very different from my fake name. Are you not you're not telling anybody your real name? I think I've said what it is on air before, but Have you? I I think so.

Or listeners have called me by because, you know, there's plenty of people who know what my real name is. I don't know. Maybe I'll talk about it in a few. Okay. I like to keep it secret because it's so generic.

Nobody will ever be able to track me down. It's great. Right? Yeah. Exactly.

Because I was just trying to look it up. Oh, oh, yeah. I wonder if you can Google it. I've I haven't tried that. Put the Victor Wilt's real name.

Nothing came up. Let's see here. What is Victor Wilt's real name? Maybe maybe I just wasn't Yeah. I mean, I I don't think I'm a big enough, celebrity.

I'm a, you know, like a d lister. I'm sure it, you know, if I, for some reason, got really popular outside of east Idaho, then then it would be everywhere. But Right. Well, hopefully I'll tell you my first name. My first name is Robert.

Ro oh, I I was thinking that actually. Yeah. Most people that know me call me Bob. Bob? Okay.

That's that's crazy. When I was a kid, it was Bobby. So a lot of, you know, the people who knew me since I was a little kid, that's what they call me. Yeah. And then my last name is super generic as well.

Super generic. Smith. It's not Smith, but it's one of those kind of things. It's one of those so generic. Robert Williams.

That's actually my middle name. Well, I'm just guessing it left right now. That that's that's seriously, that's my middle name, William. So, yeah. That's crazy.

That's pretty funny. That's all I had. That's how generic my name is that it's you can guess what it is. Yeah. Yeah.

It's usually pretty generic. Yeah. Right on, man. Well, sorry to ruin your sorry to ruin your day. It's a terrible Friday.

Right. I appreciate you listening for so long, though, man. I appreciate that. No problem. Yeah.

Alright. See you later, man. See you, man. Yeah. Kind of funny.

Years ago, after the you know, current GM had been working here for this might have been a couple years. Might have been a while. We were going through, all this boring budgeting stuff for the radio station, and we've got all these documents showing, you know, where all these different, finances go and things like that, and we were seeing ways we could you know? Okay. Do we need this and that?

Blah blah blah. And we come across a line item for an employee. And, GM's like who is this? Who is this person on the k Bear payroll? And I'm like, that's me.

What? I bet there are a lot of people in the building who don't even right now. I'm I'm sure the newer employees, but there might be some people who've been around here for quite a while who don't realize that yeah. My my real name is completely different from the name I use on air. A lot of radio DJs use fake names.

Lots of them. Lou Brutus. I'm gonna throw him under the bus. It's not his real name. Oh.

Oh. So sorry, Lou. Don't you guys tell Lou that I said I'm not gonna tell you what his real name is. I do know what it is, but it's not Lou Brutus. Yeah.

Pretty crazy, Peach's real name is not Peach's. We've talked about Peach's name plenty of times, and he posts in the Kay Bear group under his real name. Jade Davis. Not his real name. Now maybe part of it's real.

Which part do you think's the fake part of Jade's name? The first or last name? Okay. I'm trying to think. Let's go around the building.

I don't think anyone here uses their real name. Nah. I'm gonna throw everybody in the building under the bus for using fake names. Some of them might use part real names. I don't wanna tell you who.

Some of them use, a fake, last name. Some of them use completely fake names. Let's see. You know, the weekend shows we've got on k Bear, Cutter. It's not his real name.

I know I can't believe that that's not his real name. A lot of people, I'm trying to think I mean, there's gotta be people who do use their real names. Let's see in this market. I mean, there's some that use their real names, some that don't, some that don't. Like, a lot of the country DJs use a fake name because they wanna sound more country.

You know? Gotta have a country sounding name. Yeah. Anyway, anyway, sorry that, I may have bummed some of you out by revealing. My name is Bob.

But, again, it feels feels weird when people call me by that now, unless you're one of my good friends. Like, there will be people who find out what my real name is that are not people I've known since I was young. And when they call me by my real name, I'm like, hey. You know what? Call me Victor.

Alright? I know you know what my real name is, but you don't need to call me by it. Alright? You're not in the exclusive club that gets to use that name. Let's go to the phones.

K, Barry. You're live on the show. Keep that in mind. Who's this? This is Brandon.

Is that your real name? Yes. It is. Okay. Just checking.

What's up, Brandon? I think I think I might have found Lou Brutus' real name. You know, that's something that could be on the Internet, I would assume, because Lou Brutus is a nationally syndicated radio DJ. Hold on. Let me Google and see if I I can pull it up.

Mario's brother. Now what I'm seeing on here is not what I know Lou Bertis's name to be. That's pretty funny. I think that's Luigi. Yeah.

I don't think that Lou's name is Luigi. What? His last okay. That that's not his name. I think that Lou I think that Lou went in and edited his own Wikipedia to say his name was Luigi Vercati Brutus.

That is Yeah. No way. No. I I've sent Lou mail and had to address it to him, and he's I I have his information for my resume and that it does I didn't put down Luigi Mercote Brutus. That's really funny though.

That's really funny. That's a that's Italian. If he was from Italy, I would believe it. And I don't believe that Lou I I don't know if he's he is he if he's Italian. I mean, he's from, I think, New Jersey, but Uh-huh.

That's really funny. That's what I need to do is come up with something. I don't think there's a Wikipedia page for me, but, if there ever is one, I'm gonna have to put my real name as something completely ridiculous like that. Luigi Vercati Brutus. It's never too it's never too late to start your own.

Yeah. I mean, Lou could have lied to me about what his real name is, but I would think if he was gonna lie, he would have used that one because the real name that I know is much more boring than Luigi Vercante Brutus. Was it Stewart? I'm not gonna say. I'll throw my own real name out there, but, you know, Lou Lou apparently wanna keep that under under wraps if he's throwing Luigi.

Luigi. Mhmm. It's me. It's Luigi. That's that's great.

Oh, it it makes sense. What is Lou short for? Luigi? Yeah. Yeah.

But it could be short for a variety of other things as well. You know? Uh-huh. Louisiana. Well, Louisiana or, like Lewis or there's a there's a variety of things.

So I Luigi is not the one I would have thought when I when I see Lou. So anyway If if Lou was short for Louis and that was his real name, I don't think I can look at Lou Brutus the same anymore. Why? Why? Because his real name's Lewis.

I I don't it's Lou with 2 more letters. True. I mean, I'm not saying I'm not saying that's his real name. I just when you said Luigi I mean, because it could be a completely different first name like like mine. You know, nothing similar at all to my real name.

Exactly. That's funny though. Good job Lou on the Wikipedia front. Yeah. Luigi.

You got it on the rep. He won't let anybody find it out. That's good. Alright. Have to let him know about that one.

I I'm gonna ask him about it the next time he comes and hangs out here. I'll be like because so I would. Lou, we found out what your real name is. Luigi. Luigi.

Oh, man. Well, pretty good news. Appreciate the call. Hope you have a good weekend. You too, Victor.

Peace. Peace. Oh, man. That that's too good. Luigi.

I'm an advocate like the advocates injury attorneys. No. I'm an advocate for using whatever name you want. You're born with a name you're not very fond of. You can call yourself whatever you'd like or just for fun.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Alright? So when I'm talking about other people using fake names, it's not a criticism. K? But a lot of people do it, and I don't think a lot of people realize how many people are using fake names.

Like radio DJs, I'm sure you get it when you hear some very silly names. Like, you know, we talk about our homies in Boise. Big j, do you think that his parents named him that? No. K?

And I think he throws his real name out there plenty. So it'd be fine if I mention what it is. But I'm not gonna just in case because he goes by big j on the radio, so we'll leave it at that. But politicians, lots of politicians use fake names. You know, earlier I talked about, you know, current vice presidential candidate JD Vance.

Real name, James Donald Bowman. You know, it's a sound very regal. So if you're trying to appeal to, it's like I've mentioned with the, country artists who give themselves a very country sounding name. You know, you wanna endear yourself to the place you're you're trying to run for office in and he's, you know, running down south. So J.

D. Banks. It it's got much more of a southern ring than James Donald Bowman. And I think that's why a lot of people change their name. Like me, I change my name to have a little bit more of a rock and roll sound to it and not be just generic like politician name.

I have a great name for for a politician if, I run for office. What do we got for other fake politician names? Alright. You know Mitch McConnell? You know that guy.

His real name. Addison. I'm Addison McConnell. Mitch is a lot more like down to earth. Yeah.

I don't know. It it just seemed like somebody had be a little bit more comfortable talking to, like, just a normal dude, Mitch, compared to Addison. That's a Addison's a weird name to me. Alright. Who What else do we have here?

Okay. This guy was in the new This is funny. And don't you guys get mad at me and be like, he's going all political. It's not my fault that most of these people on this list I pulled up of politicians real names seem to be coming from one side of the aisle here. But this guy was in the news the other day actually, trying to pass legislation, I believe, about people, like, not being able to change their name and use fake names.

Like, I think in school, like, kids and stuff gotta go by your legal name. But his real name is Raphael. He likes to be called Ted, though. Ted Cruz. Rafael.

Yeah. I mean, you wanna endear yourself to people in Texas. Yeah. You can't be running for offices. Rafael what's his full real name?

Rafael Cruz? Is that hold on. It's real funny when you find out people's real names sometime. Alright. Let's see.

Hold on. Let me get my music going here again. I guess his dad was also named Rafael. Ted Cruz Real name. Is it just oh, Rafael Edward Cruz.

I I don't know. Ted. Call me Ted. It's just way more down to earth. Yep.

People understand psychology. You're running for office. You wanna sound more down to earth and you wanna try to connect with your audience. Alright? Nikki Haley's real name is how do you even pronounce it?

N I m r a t a nimrat Nimrata? That's that's an interesting one. Bill de Blasio. Is he he's not like New York mayor or something? Warren.

Why would you? Warren's not bad. Why would you go from Warren to Bill? You know? I mean, Warren's pretty normal.

Mitt Romney's real name is Willard. I guess Willard Romney sounds kind of old. Doesn't it? Sound like an old guy? I mean, he is an old guy.

But who Willard Rondley? It it's yeah. You know, it's, again, not down to earth. Mitt's a weird name. I'll admit that.

I'll admit that. Man, I'm hilarious. But, Mitt does sound more more down to to earth than, Willard. Who else do we got here? Gerald Ford.

He was actually Leslie. Well, Leslie can be a girl's name. So, yeah, you know, you wanna be a nice manly politician. Gotta go. I'm Gerald.

Alright, Gerald. Whatever. Jeb Bush, again, trying to endear himself to his constituents. His real name is John. What's wrong with John Bush?

Oh, yeah. That name was already used. Singer Anthrax. He's a legend. That's right, Jeb.

You step aside. You be Jeb. You leave John Bush to the rockers. Alright. I tried to find a list of, radio DJ's real names and they keep that stuff under wraps.

But I'll tell you, most radio DJs are using fake names. Alright. And a majority of country artists are using fake names too. We've talked about that before. I wish I could find, more politicians using fake names.

But a lot of these that I'm finding, they're they're, like, overseas and, you know, this is America. Who cares what's going on with overseas politics? Am I right? Mhmm. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change.

Alright. This article's kinda scaring me. Old books can be loaded with poison. And we're not just talking the content, actual poison. This article says some collectors love the thrill.

Now as a book collector, I have never heard that old books may be packed with poison. So this article talks about this woman, Sarah Mentock. I guess she began book collecting in the 19 nineties. And she spotted this book called Lord of the Isles, A narrative poem set in 14th century Scotland. The book, I mean, it's a cool looking book.

It's like a really bright green. It's got, you know, it's an it's an older book. It's got the, like, engraved design, with gold and red and blue. It's cloth bound. So she's like, this is awesome.

I'm I gotta have this, and she put it on the bookshelf. And, well, apparently, as she went about her decades of book collecting, she learned about the University of Delaware's Poison Book Project, which aimed to identify books still in circulation that had been produced using toxic pigments. Did I say that word okay? Pigments? No, I did not.

But we're talking like lead, chromium, mercury, arsenic. And it's usually books with dazzling green colors. So if you've got any old books that are, bright green, you might have a toxic book. She sent this book to the the university in Delaware, and they're like, congratulations. You have the most toxic book we've found yet.

Oh, jeez. You're just sitting there with a book covered in arsenic sitting in your living room? I don't think I have any bright green books, but I'm gonna have to go look. Yikes. Alright.

What else do we have going on in freaking news powered by Greasemonkey? A man in Ireland, Cork, Ireland, is accused of walking naked along the road, carrying a machete while walking his dog. And, apparently, the only thing he's being charged with is possession of a knife. I guess they do things a little bit differently over in Ireland there. I would imagine you do that here.

You're gonna have a bad time. And they're just like, man, it's a knife. It's a machete. Alright. You see a naked man walking a dog down the road with a machete.

I mean, you obviously wanna keep your dog and your naked self safe, but come on. Come on, man. Yeah. He's just walking along the footpath on the old Mallow Road in the direction of the railway bridge, and then he, went into his house. Then he came back out with clothes on, and then they showed up and they're like, hey.

How dare you walk around with a knife? Well yeah. I I think it would be the opposite in the US. I think you could walk down the street with a machete and you're gonna be just fine. I mean, you can walk down the street with a, you know, a rifle in many areas.

But if you're naked, you're gonna be on a list. That's where you're gonna be. See a guy punched a grizzly bear in the face. He he was just out, bicycling, and all of a sudden he comes across a grizzly and her 2 cubs. Horrifying.

Not good. You're not gonna like that. You're gonna have a bad day. Grizzly bear charged him, knocked him down. He put the bike between himself and the bear which oh, I bet never been so glad to have your bicycle smashed down on top of you is this moment.

And then he punched the bear right in the face. Bam. And, it actually worked. The bear got off of him. So you know what?

If a bear ever attacks you, you know, I'm not saying you should punch animals but if you get attacked by a bear you gotta do whatever you gotta do. Punch that bear right in the face. It may or may not work but it's better to try than just sit there and get ripped apart. You ever seen a grizzly ripping apart something? It's crazy.

It's brutal. I know I've mentioned before that I I saw a grizzly ripping apart a deer at Yellowstone. I knew it was it was wild. Like, oh, that is horrifying. Never been so scared of a bear in my life.

I I mean, you you watch documentaries, it's one thing. But when you see something in person and you see the power, like, yikes. By the way, New York City reeks of, garbage right now. So if you're planning to visit New York City, they're saying New York City always smells like hot garbage in the summer, but this year is even worse according to gothamist.com. I found this stat interesting.

Every day, £44,000,000 of trash are placed out for collection in New York City. £44,000,000 of garbage. That's a lot of garbage. Anyway, just interesting stats on a Friday morning. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey.

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Well, things ended up going well for this guy who found out he won a $1,000,000, but it took a while to get to that point. This guy walks into a gas station in Tennessee, buys a couple lottery tickets, a couple scratchers. And I don't know if you're aware of this, but you don't have to scratch off the whole ticket and play the game. This is the most boring way to gamble I've ever heard, but I've seen people do this. You just scratch off the bottom of a lottery ticket, and the employee can scan it and tell you if it's a winner or not.

Like, you don't have to sit there and go through the whole bingo game. Now just scratch off the bottom, find the the barcode, and then they scan it and, like, okay. Because that's how the cashiers determine whether it's a winner or not. Otherwise, you'd not really be having to sit at the register forever while people are playing the lottery. You know, if the cashier had to scan the thing themselves, look over everything.

Well, I think it's a winner. No. That'd be very inefficient. So this guy walks in, buys a couple of $20 scratch off lottery tickets, scratches off the barcodes, like, alright. Just tell me if I won.

I just need to know. One of them was worth $40. So the, cashier gives the guy $40 and he's like, oh, the other one's a loser. Throws it in the garbage. Yeah.

It wasn't a loser. It was $1,000,000. It was a $1,000,000 winner. So the employee who had thrown it in the garbage, he waits till the end of his shift, and then decides to go down to the state lottery office and claim his $1,000,000. But he found out they don't just hand it over.

Like, oh, okay. So they do a vetting process, and they found out, oh, you work at the store that sold the ticket. So then they reviewed the in store surveillance video and they saw the whole thing play out. So this guy is being charged with theft. And now another guy got a phone call.

Hey, guess what? You actually won a $1,000,000. Wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that be great to just get a phone call you've won a $1,000,000? If I got a phone call that I'd won $5, I'd be I'd be pretty stoked on it.

So I can't imagine if I got a call that I'd won a 1,000,000. Now you know the government's gonna take half of it in taxes, but still, $500? $500. Can't even imagine. Can't even imagine.

Again, $5, I'm stoked. So, anyway, glad it all played out well in the end. But let that be a a lesson to those of you slinging them lotto tickets. If you think you're gonna get away with it, stealing those winners, you're gonna get caught. You're gonna be busted.

So you behave yourself. Got a call from Stuart. Let's do that call first, and then we'll go from there. Alright? K Bear, what's up?

Hey. So I wanted to talk to you about the Olympics in Salt Lake. Alright. Sure. Part of the cool reason about picking Salt Lake was they've maintained all of their Olympic facilities from the previous Olympics.

And they even use, it's the home of the US Olympics Ski Team, So they reuse all the stuff year after year, they train there. Oh, okay. All the ski jumps and everything, And like the ice rink that they used for hockey, used for something, I can't remember, but they they repurposed it all. So it hasn't been like other cities that they've just built and trashed and just left everything to decay. Alright.

Alright. Well, then I'll turn around my opinion about being annoyed about the Olympics coming to Salt Lake, because if they have maintained those facilities, hopefully, yeah, it's not gonna become an inconvenience to those of us who need to travel. I mean, I'm sure we'll see an influx of people into our region, which tourism's going to be There there will be more construction and stuff, but I don't think it should be as bad around as the first time. Alright, ma'am. Well, appreciate that info, Stuart.

I hadn't read that. I just assumed it was like everywhere else where they just let this stuff, decay and go to waste. And then, yeah, now all of a sudden In fact, you can you can go to the ski jumps. There's, like, a whole tourism center there that you can go check out and everything. I I went down there once, but, yeah, it's pretty cool.

Alright. I'll admit to my ignorance, and I will, pull back on my comments about how annoyed I was. And, you you know me, I fly off the handle for no reason sometimes. So Oh, no. I get it.

And, you know, for the vast majority of countries, that's what they've done. It's trashed their cities and their economy and stuff, but, you know, they actually did something smart down there. Alright. Well, cool. And, I mean, we got 10 years to get ready.

So, yeah. Oh, yeah. Should be plenty of time. Well, good to hear from you, Stuart. Hope you have a a killer weekend, man.

Yeah. You too. Right on, dude. Peace. Alright.

So you know me. I just start flying off the handle sometimes without doing any kind of research, and I should know being from this region that they had maintained these facilities in Utah, but it, I didn't know. I didn't know. And right after Stewart called, I was scrolling the Internet and I brought up an well, I happened to stumble across an article where the governor of Utah was talking about how Utah is uniquely positioned as the state looking forward to hosting their 2nd Winter Olympics because he he talks about how they don't need to build new venues for the games. They have been, you know, putting money aside to keep these in great shape over the years.

And that now their only plans would to be overhauling areas of downtown, to kind of showcase Salt Lake City and enhance it for the rest of the world that we'll be visiting as well as watching on, you know, TV and things like that, the Internet and such. So they wanna remodel the Delta Center, which, you know, they were probably going to do anyway now that they're bringing in Arizona's hockey team, or maybe they've already done so. Also overhauling the blocks east of the arena by cutting into the salt palace convention center and turning that into a walkable plaza. This would connect the western edge of salt lake's proposed main street promenade as well. So this could actually just ultimately make Salt Lake a better place to walk around in downtown because it I mean, it's not like it's bad.

It's just I don't know. It's not one of my favorite places to walk around because the blocks are ridiculously massive now, like, if if you bring up a random city on a map and you're like, okay. We gotta walk 5 blocks to get to a place that doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Salt Lake, you only make the mistake once of going, alright. It's 5 blocks to that restaurant.

Let's just walk. It's only 5 blocks. They're like, where's the next block? That I've never been to a city with blocks that ludicrous. But, yeah.

So I I don't know. I'm all down from sprucing up downtown Salt Lake. The one thing I would request, please put some like, man, I need some food, and we always tend to stay in downtown. And you ain't finding food anywhere. There's just everything's closed.

You know, they they got bars, but it's like, I I don't want liquid. I want food. I want a snack. Please help a brother out with a snack. Alright.

So seemed like all good news on the Utah Olympic games, and I'm sorry for being a naysayer, being a cranky. Alright? Being a grumpster. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt show. This program's a production of river.

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