The Viktor Wilt Show

Might as well talk about the biggest rock story of the last 24 hours, that being the return of Linkin Park. Yeah. They, as we talked about yesterday, had this big event that happened at 4 o'clock yesterday. Turned out to be a live, show streaming online. You can check it out on YouTube, and you can check out the band performing with new singer, Emily Armstrong, who you may know from the band dead Sarah.

Now, you know, when you're trying to kick start or jump start a band of that caliber, it's going to be tough. You know, they're trying to and not necessarily replace, but trying to move on, continue doing the band without their legendary vocalist Chester Bennington. And no one is going to be able to walk in and just fill his shoes. So I I saw a lot of comments yesterday about, you know, oh, she ain't cutting it. This ain't it.

She ain't Chester, blah. I I'm I'm sure that at no point ever will she be Chester, but I thought that the new single they put out was really good. It's called the emptiness machine. You'll be hearing it throughout the show. I really need more caffeine in my life.

I'm having trouble waking up today. But, anyhow, the live video as you're watching it, one of the things that got my attention was, I mean, this was a real live performance. Like, the mix wasn't great. You didn't have a bunch of studio magic and backup vocal tracks going on. So, I mean, we got a pretty raw representation of her vocals.

And if you've ever watched bands perform on, YouTube with a a fan shot camera, shows don't necessarily sound that great. What up Josh Tyler? I come bearing gift. Gift? I come bearing gift.

What do you got for me? I have a pretty extensive, collection of CDs. Uh-huh. And I haven't really shown you this, but I've told you about this. Yes.

And I just so happen to have a still in the plastic sealed copy Woah. Of dead Sarah's CD. Holy cow, man. Yeah, dude. I was just talking about, Lincoln Park here.

Wow. It's got the FBI anti piracy warning and everything. And and the, the from the record label drill hole. Yes. The classic drill hole.

You know, don't you be taking these and reselling them. That's right. Radio people. Yeah. So that's a gift for you.

It's a gift for me. You can you can do what you will. Wow. All right I'll I will hang on to that. That's that's like a collectible.

I mean kinda. I'd say what did you think of the new single? Have you heard of it? You know I think I think she's great for 1. I think, I think there's a lot of mixed reviews.

I was I was looking at some stuff on Reddit, but I think the fact that she's not trying to be Chester Yeah. Is big. I think that's a forward progression for the band. Totally. And people were like, they should have changed their name and done a different thing.

I like that they're kinda still because they're still gonna be playing stuff from hybrid theory. Let's let's be real. Exactly. And so I'm cool with I'm cool with it. For 1, I think she sounds great.

For 2 I think she's boy can she scream. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. Did you watch any of the live performance?

I saw a few clips on TikTok and stuff but yeah it looked great. Yeah. And what I was pointing out in the, chat because Peaches was watching it live on Facebook was, you know, I mean, it was a pretty raw performance. For sure. You know, there wasn't a bunch of backup vocal tracks and studio magic.

I don't think a lot of people realize when you see a, like, professionally produced live band video, there's been a lot of, you know, tinkering been done behind the scenes to make that really, really bang. Even the, like, actual stage setup that they had was not typical Linkin Park. Yeah. Like, I really like how and and Shinoda, I mean, he he did not sound like Linkin Park sounded. Like, he himself was in a different place.

Yeah. So I think I think it's all good news for Linkin Park for the future. I think so too. And, you know, they've got a new album on the way. That's pretty exciting.

And, yeah, I thought they nailed it on the new single. They it's it's got some great melodies. It's, you know, it sounds like Linkin Park Yeah. Without Chester, basically. Yeah.

And I don't I don't know. The the vibe of the song and of the overall event, I thought was great. And for the most part, it seemed like the hardcore fans were were really into what they were saying. Before I left, you and I left work yesterday, you had mentioned there was a bit of a leak. And so you felt like that was for sure who it was going to be.

Yeah. When I I heard like a 7 second clip and, you know, you fire up a dead Sarah track. It's like, okay. That's gotta be her. Right.

And just from a, you know, state of career standpoint, some of the others that people were talking about, like Lizzie Hale or I don't know, a variety of other people. I'm like, the they're in their own, like, big bands that are you know, Dead Sarah never really exploded. Correct. You know? And they're not currently, like, on the rise.

Like, they bring me the horizon. Right. So just looking at, okay, For somebody to jump into something new, it seemed to make sense to me. That's true too. Yep.

But yeah. Very very cool stuff. I look forward to hearing more and well, jeez, Josh. Thank you for the You're welcome, dude. Very nice collectible present.

There you go. Alright. Well, you you tear it up over there. Yeah. Try to not get too wild.

It's a Friday. I know you you and Chantelle over there. You get crazy sometimes. We've already talked about the days of the year. So Woah.

I know. I know. Alright. Settle down. Settle down over there.

Thanks, Josh. Look at that. Josh Tyler bringing me a nice present. He knows I like a nice collectible. The dead Sarah album, very cool stuff.

Very cool still. Factory sealed. Alright. I know it might be satisfying, but you gotta quit picking your nose. Yep.

Yep. It's gonna lead to old timers. It's what I just read. And if it's online, it's true. No.

This isn't due to the actual nose picking, but well, I guess it sort of is. It's your dirty hands, you and your filthy fingers. Who knows what you're shoving up into your nose? Seriously. Your hands could be covered with all kinds of nasty germs that get transferred from the nose to the brain, causing inflammation of the brain and this over time damages brain cells leading to possible dementia.

I mean, it could also damage the lining of the, you know, the inside of your nose, and that's gonna just make it even easier for these microorganisms to enter your bloodstream, travel into your brain. So what are you supposed to do? You you gotta wash your hands before you pick your nose, I guess, or use a a tissue or something. I don't know. Blow really hard.

Blow really hard. And if, you know, you got one of those stubborn boogers that just won't come out, I don't know what to do because Alzheimer's would suck. It'd be terrible. And you know as you're starting to deal with that you look back and know man you know how many times I picked my nose why didn't somebody warn me well victor wilt I'm here to warn you I'm here to save the day so yeah And stop digging for gold. Alright?

Good luck with the, the old nose blow in front. It's that time of year. I hope it works out. How about we take a look at America's best small towns of 2024? You know, we're in the small town world around here, so maybe we'll have some Idaho show up.

I didn't even look at this list. You know me and my level of prep when it comes to my show. Sometimes bare minimum. Find an article and go, yeah. Sure.

That'll do. I see pictures of mountains. It's travelandleisure.com. It's gotta be legit. Alright.

America's best small towns of 2024. As for how they figured this out, I don't know. The person who made the article wrote this big, long intro here, and I'm not gonna read through all of that. We'll just trust that the team of experts who determined America's best small towns looks like 10 people will just hope they know what they're talking about. Best small beach town, Peia, Maui.

Alright. That's not really fair. Small beach town. You go with something from Hawaii. Obviously.

Alright. Well, I guess that lends a little bit of credence to the list being somewhat accurate if, because what what what do you got for a small beach town on the coast that's gonna be better than a beach town in Hawaii? I've never been to Hawaii, but I'll assume it's pretty nice. Hey. Best small mountain town, Island Park.

Yeah. Get ready, Island Park. Thanks to travelandleisure.com. About to be overloaded with people. Yeah.

Get out, do some fishing. Island Park is great. Really like it out there, and it's a town in the mountains. So I would say it does count as a small mountain town. Interesting out of all of the mountain towns in the us Highland park.

Pretty cool. I, I actually didn't expect Idaho to show up in the list, but that's cool. Best small lake town would be Harbor Springs, Michigan, Small town on the the banks of Lake Michigan. And the article says Harbor Springs barely qualifies as a radar blip even for lifelong Midwesterners, but I guess it's pretty great. Pretty great.

I I don't know. If I'm going on vacation, I think Michigan's kinda low on the list. But maybe I should go because I just scrolled a little bit further down, best small desert town. We've got Bisbee, Arizona, and I have not been to Bisbee. It's where Doug Stanhope lives.

You know, he he and his crew told me if I ever make it all the way down to Bisbee, hit him up. Maybe I'll have to do so one of these days. It is on my list of places I've gotta go. Bisbee, Arizona because I I love small towns in Arizona. I don't know what it is about Arizona.

Never would have thought that there'd be something in my blood that, you know, just connects with Arizona, but I I love it down there. And, Bisbee kinda looks like Jerome, Arizona. You know, it's a mountainous town. Switchback roads and stuff. It looks really cool.

From everything I've heard about Bisbee, it's a great place to go check out. So this list, it it looked pretty good. Usually, these lists, I'm like, I don't know about this. Best small arts and culture town would be New Hope, Pennsylvania. Small town with just a few 1,000 residents, and it's on the edge of the Delaware River.

Looks, I don't know. It looks nice. Looks nice. Best small small food plus wine town would be Elk California. Never heard of it.

Never heard of Elk, California, but, it's in wine country. So you'd have to assume it's, probably pretty good for a small food plus wine town. I'll check it out. Best small plus wellness town small spa plus wellness town. Man, I can't talk today.

Ouray, Colorado, which is a place I want to visit. Never been there before. It kinda screams Sedona to me, but it's at a much higher elevation. Ouray is really cool. That's spelled, o u r a y, if you wanna check it out.

Looks beautiful there. Never been there. Need to go. And then small retirement town, we got Stewart, Florida. Stewart, Florida.

I mean, I we got listener Stewart. I like him. So didn't know he had his own town named after him down in the land of crazy, Stuart, Florida, where all the old people go. Stuart, there you go. You're looking for the place to retire?

Perfection. As you get older, I wanna let you know, you gotta get yourself some good shoes. People might make fun of my shoes because they look like mall walker shoes. But I tell you what? They're very comfortable.

And as an old guy, a nice walking shoe it's very important and you don't really realize how much of a difference quality shoes can make in your life till you try some you know stupid looking comfortable shoes like hokas. I'd buy them if I could afford them. I've had to, downgrade to Sketchers. Sketchers old people shoes. Hokas were great but yeah.

A little little bit out of my budget. I swear it's so weird the things that pop up on my internet feed due to my phone listening to me all the time. I was listening to a podcast called Knowledge Fight this morning, and one of the hosts was talking about how he just got some good quality shoes. And it was like his whole life, he had no idea how crappy his shoes were like you should see the shoes jade wears they're you know classic slip on vans now those shoes they've got a certain look to them sure they're great but they are not comfortable alright Bad for your back. And as an aching old man, you would think he would up his game and get some stupid shoes like mine.

Again, they look horrendous, but they're very comfortable. You know, you gotta look for a lightweight shoe with a low heel to toe drop. Yeah. I've got articles popping up about shoes now. Good traction, moisture wicking materials, and basically all the shoes that are recommended on this list are shoes I've tried and are outside of my budget.

Like Brooks men's Ghost Max. These shoes look stupid. They're I don't know. They look like, again, mall walker shoes. All of these do.

And these have, like, blue and green on them. I just like a nice black shoe, but that's my fashion style. Very goth. That's how I am. All black all the time with the clothing.

More Brooks shoes. Asics. Hey. These look like they're, affordable. I'm gonna have to remember that.

And then you've got the HOKA's, which are outrageous. A brand I've never heard of, Nortive. Nortive. These look like, hiking shoes. Well, pretty good deal as well.

Yeah. Nordive. If you're looking for hiking stuff, according to this list, they're great and they are pretty affordable compared to, you know, like I said, those other brands that I I do like. Hey. There we go.

Skechers popping up for the, you know, cheaper mall walker. Skechers. Anyway, these shoes, like I said, they all look stupid. They are not very fashionable as a metal guy, but I don't care anymore. It's all about that comfort.

So get yourself some light cushiony shoes. You know? Don't let your friends shame you. Alright? They're the ones walking around in pain.

It's their mistake. You know I love beaten up on the business that I'm in, the radio business. It's a dirty place. It could be a glorious world of sunshine and rainbows and amazing content. But for the most part, it's a big fat dumpster fire.

And there are a lot of great people in the biz, but there are some terrible people in the biz. And I've heard these kind of stories from artists in the rock and metal world. Laney Wilson's a country artist. You may know her from the TV show Yellowstone. She became one of the, ranch hand girls in I don't know.

It season 3. I don't remember, but she's in that show. And, anyhow, there's a radio page I follow on Instagram. We'll call it crappy radio jock. It's called something else.

You can figure it out. But, she was recently interviewed by another radio station and was talking about the early days when she went in to show a programmer some music. And radio programmers can be the most ignorant, just turds when it comes to music. That's why we have these, you know, time edits on songs where they will chop big chunks out of the song. They'll take the screaming vocals out of rock and metal tracks.

You've got programmers out there who legitimately think they know better than the artists who write the songs, what listeners wanna hear, and will tell artists to change their songs. It's crazy. But aside from that, they can just be rude. And, I shouldn't be surprised by these kind of things. But every time I hear an interview like this where a radio person has been just terrible to an artist, it makes me crazy.

Like, you wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for the music and the artists that you're throwing out there to your audience. So even if they're an up and comer and they're new, you never know who you might be dealing with. Laney Wilson's now a major country superstar, and I guarantee this Nashville radio host who she left unnamed, guarantee she's not ever going on that person's station again. There have been a number of artists I met over the years that it's like, man, I should have kept in better touch with that artist. Like, my homies in Boise at 100.3 the x, Great friends with the band Dead Sarah, one of the stations that champion that band the most.

You'll wake up yesterday. All of a sudden, the front person from Dead Sarah is the new singer for Linkin Park. Great connection for your radio station to have. Anyhow, let's check out this little snippet, from Laney Wilson talking about dealing with a country radio programmer. Man, this guy's a turd.

Went to this one radio station. We walk in. You know, I got my guitar on my back. We're about to go in there. We're about to play him some music.

And, of course, you know, he made us wait in the foyer for about 45 minutes to show us who's boss. Yeah. There are radio guys who will do that. You got a guest here. I mean, I can't stand letting somebody wait in the lobby for, like, 2 minutes.

You know, we got the rednecks swinging by to drop off donuts or something. I'm like, oh, jeez. I'm supposed to be on air. I still run out there. Hey.

What up, dude? Thank you so much for the treats. You know, if we've got an artist coming into studio, I ain't leaving him in the lobby for even a minute. It's like getting here, relax, hang out. We don't have to get started, but, yeah, you don't need to be sitting out in the foyer.

Alright? It's ridiculous. Oh, yeah. You know? Then we go up to his room and, and he said, you should've just left your guitar in the car.

No. I don't want you to play for me. And I'm like, I'm a fight this man at some point. We're gonna fight. We're gonna wide up.

He said, I wanna hear what it sounds like through my computer speakers. And I said, okay. Fair enough. If you have the opportunity to see an artist perform acoustic right in front of you, always take it. You might have your mind blown.

I've had artists in this studio doing acoustic stuff, and I was so glad that I had them play acoustic because you get a completely different version of tracks and you get to really see I mean, if somebody can sit in a room with no, processing, anything like that, and just belt out a song and blow your mind with no effects or anything like that, that's how you get a perspective on the talent of an artist. Recorded material is one thing, but this guy, what what a moron. That's what's gonna be played on the radio. That's fine. So he cranks it up.

This is my first thing. It was called dirty looks, And he plays it through his, like, 1995 computer speaker. So it literally sounds like this. Like, you can't understand a dang word. Yeah.

I'm gonna, test out your song on my phone. I wanna I wanna see how it sounds on my telephone here or my laptop speakers. No radio guy bringing the quality monitor speakers out on the road. It sounded like, you know, she met up with this guy, at a hotel for interviews, which I've done that before. But, yeah, you don't bring your home, you know, $500 monitor speakers in when you're out on the road.

Alright? If anything, you got headphones. This guy with his cruddy computer speakers, what anyway. He listens to it twice and then he leans up out of his, you know, big old relaxing looking chair. He said, Laney, you're just not good.

This is from a a no music talent radio hack. You're no good. How dare you say that to an artist? You know, we'll get brand new young teenager local bands that send us songs. And obviously, most of the time.

I mean, these are not up to the level of what we play during normal daytime hours. You know, these local bands that are brand new up and comers, They don't have the budget for these major label studio recordings with, producers and, extremely talented engineers. They're doing their thing locally. I would never tell a local band you're no good unless it was Jade's band. You know, obviously, if we're talking about Jade, I'm gonna I'm gonna trash it always.

But I also have done songs with Jade, so I've recorded music with Jade. I feel like I can trash him all day every day. But to tell anybody, even if they are terrible, even if they are terrible, people can stick with things. You know, practice, continue to hone their craft, and they might come out of the other end and end up being one of the most mind blowing artists of all time. But one turd, one radio guy who's like, you're no good.

You could destroy somebody's music career if they I mean, this guy's a Nashville radio, programmer. To say that to an artist who's try it's a good thing that here, we'll listen to the end of this. She says, you know, that just makes me want it even more. Oh my god. I knew you would be shocked.

And, and he said, I hope you don't get real upset when you leave here and and start crying and stuff. That's what he told me. And then I Don't cry. I hope on your way out, you don't cry. You're no get I I would love to know who this guy is.

I leaned across his desk, and I said, so and so, out of the 10 years I've been in Nashville, you telling me that ain't shit. Period. Yeah. If anything, it just makes me want it that much worse. That's right.

Good honor. Yeah. Screw these guys. Radio programmers, the last people you should listen to about the quality of your music. You know, if a band sends me a song and they wanna know my thoughts, I will give them honest thoughts.

Like, hey. You know, the the production could be better. You know, the I think the symbols are a little loud or I would never be like, you guys suck. Don't ever send me music again. Give up.

No. You try to encourage art, but there are, you know, too many people out there who just like to poo poo on people because they can. Yeah. And these guys are an example of why bands don't wanna come do radio interviews because this is what you deal with a lot of times. Terrible.

Anyway, rant over. We'll do freak news in a minute. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey, voted Idaho's best oil change. Alright. If your girlfriend dumps you, move on with your life.

K? Don't be a creep. Get over it. Many fish in the sea. You'll find someone new.

Don't be this guy. Don't deliver yourself to your ex girlfriend's home in a box. If she doesn't want you around, she's not going to be excited when she opens the box and there you are. Yeah. And you'll end up going to jail for stalking.

What a weirdo. What a weirdo. The guy popped out of the box with a gun as well. Yeah. That's not gonna end good.

Alright. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. He's in jail. But what a creep. What a creep freak.

I mean, when she tried to lift up the box, you'd think she'd be like, okay. I'm pretty sure I felt the whatever's in here move. I'm out of here. This could be a raccoon, but it's it feels pretty heavy. I think this is that idiot I dumped.

Jeez. But what else do we have here? Creepy meat? Zombie meat? If you wanna see video of this, just Google zombie meat.

I guess the Internet's going crazy about this. Got a piece of meat that looks like it's walking off of the plate and then diving off a table to the floor. There are certain types of meat if you put salt on them, they'll start twitching. Yeah. It's just basic science.

But it it does look creepy and weird. I don't think I would want to eat meat that appears to be walking. And that's as a guy who and I'm the king of beef. Alright? I like myself a a nice steak or cheeseburger, but not if they started moving around.

Alright. It it'd just be unsettling even if I know it was just the salt causing this to happen. How about a a dental horror story? I didn't like this one. Man has 23 teeth extracted and 12 implants done on the same day.

Dies shortly after. This was in China. Alright. I had 8 teeth pulled in one setting, but they did not do any implants. Maybe that's why I lived.

But I'll I'll tell you. Having 8 teeth extracted all at once, that sucks. I can't imagine 23. And then 12 implants? Aside from any chance of infection and things like that, the stress of the event, it's gonna turn all of your hair white.

And yet you probably do face a risk of simply death by shock. Jeez. Anyway, spread out your treatments. Alright? I waited a little while after getting 8 teeth pulled before I got around to getting the screws put in my jaw.

Alright? That was a few weeks later. Oh, man. Glad I got that over with. By the way, if you're gonna visit, New York City and you go to, like, Central Park, the bathrooms are dirty.

Yeah. That was in the news. Investigation of New York City Park bathrooms finds alarming rate of litter and unsanitary condition yeah. No kidding. Alright.

If you go to a public park bath room in any big city, it's going to be bad. That's, like, only in emergency situations do you wanna go use the bathroom at a city park in a major city. Like, I'd I'd have to be it it would have to be one of those moments where there's no other option. No other option. So yeah.

I I would assume you could've guessed that, but people get paid doing investigate all kinds of things. So maybe you didn't know. You're welcome. You're welcome. Yeah.

Use the bathroom at the hotel. This is gonna drive people crazy around here. I've always heard of this as being a California stop. I found an article about how a rolling stop is safer for cyclists, and here's why. But I didn't read any of the article.

Because at the top, it says, of course, a rolling Idaho stop is safer for cyclists. Here's why. This was an article out of, Oregon. There was a recent study from the Oregon State University College of Engineering, which concluded roads aren't any more dangerous when cyclists are allowed to roll through stop signs than if they were. Yes.

Rolling through a stop sign, you know, not coming to a complete stop. Have you not always heard that called a California stop? I think they even called it that in driver's ed back in the back in the old days when I was in driver's ed, like, 20 years ago or something. It was longer than 20. Holy cow.

Yeah. Idaho stop. I just had to throw it out there. Come on, Oregon. You know, the article goes on.

What is an Idaho stop? An Idaho stop, otherwise known as a stop as yield law. And I I guess this only applies to bicycles. And the Idaho stop nickname came from a rolling stop law passed in 1982, the year I was born in Idaho, but it only allows bicyclists to, treat stop signs as yield signs. So maybe if you're in a a car, then it's a California stop.

But I still think people ain't gonna be very happy to hear there's anything known as an Idaho stop. Anyway, said throw it out there. I don't know if this is Oregon teaming up with California and fighting back, but this is a thing. I read it. Not sure what we've got going on for weather in the next couple days.

But if it does get hot, if you live in an area that has an HOA, be careful giving your neighbors a little bit of free water. HOA might come try to shut you down, hook you up with some kind of a fine. You'd think in a place like Phoenix, h o a would give you a pass when you're trying to help people stay cool. You know? They they went through a record breaking heat wave.

You know? So just put up a sign out front. Hey. Free cold water. And, yeah.

They've just been racking up fines because they're not storing these items out of view. It's a cooler. It's just a cooler with water in it. Man, HOAs can be so annoying. I've never lived in a place with an HOA, but I know that I would end up in trouble.

I'd put some kind of stupid decoration outside or, you know, I'd be having too much fun playing Grand Theft Auto, and I wouldn't mow my lawn for, like, 3 weeks. And, yeah, it's just guaranteed to end up being a nightmare scenario for me. So I gotta live, HOA free. But, yeah. You know, hopefully, his neighbors will come together and be like, yo, listen.

This guy's helping out people here. Phoenix is a little bit rough right now with the temps. Okay? It's just a cooler. God.

Anyway, hope you don't have to put up with that kind of garbage from your neighbors. I wanted to let all you dudes know. I saw a clip from the news, and I was completely unaware of this. But if you drink a milkshake with a straw, apparently, that's not very manly. Now I don't know how you're supposed to drink a milkshake without a straw.

What? Just tip the cup back? I have never seen anyone consume a milkshake without a straw unless it was, like, what they call a milkshake, and it's really thick, like an Arctic Circle milkshake, and you eat it with a spoon. Just letting you know, dudes. I see you with a milkshake with a straw in it.

Passing judgment. It's funny seeing a 24 hour news host say these kind of things because, I mean, you you be you and do what you wanna do, but, I mean, this is a guy who his job requires that he is, you know, completely covered in makeup. So, you know, you're looking nice and pretty on the news, buddy, Telling people that you're not manly if you have a milkshake with a straw. This this is what happens on the news nowadays. What kind of weird timeline are we living in?

Well, maybe we just need to look past these current times and look to the future. Let's talk about Christmas, everybody. Is it too early to talk about Christmas? No. This is kinda cool, though.

Macaulay Culkin will be at a viewing of Home Alone in Connecticut in December. Yeah. Apparently, gonna have a moderated, q and a session. And, yeah, you can get behind the scenes stories, insights with Kevin McCallister himself, Macaulay Culkin. You know, when I was a kid, Home Alone was, at one point, my favorite movie, and I definitely wanted to meet Macaulay Culkin.

I bet he'd be pretty cool. I bet he'd be pretty cool. But, yeah, I don't know how much this is gonna cost, and you gotta go to Connecticut. I mean, I was looking at the map. My my lady's house is within driving distance of this.

I don't know if she's in much into home alone, though. I have to find out. Might be a fun trip, though. Tickets on sale next week. Wonder how much they're gonna be.

I bet they're gonna be outrageous. But it is in a strange location, Wallingford, Connecticut. I mean, it's kind of in the middle of nowhere, so maybe it would be easy enough to get some tickets. I'd go. I'd go.

I love Home Alone. It's a Christmas classic. It's probably the best Christmas movie, isn't it? I don't know. If not, you know, you gotta go with Gremlins.

I mean, there's really not much better of a Christmas movie than Gremlins. Though, this year, we are getting Terrifier 3. So Terrifier 3 could become the new all time Christmas favorite of Victor Wilt. I'll let you know when that movie, you know, drops. I gotta go check it out then.

But I guess for now, I'll stick with Home Alone and Gremlins, the top of my list. Now there's a band that needs to put out some new music. They haven't for a number of years, and in the past few years have blown up into being one of the, like, biggest bands from that era. I think deaf tones right now are probably more popular than they've ever been because young people love deaf tones. You get on TikTok, you're gonna see all kinds of deaf tones material.

So Chino and the the homies get on it. Put out some new tunes. Now is the time. It's a great time for rock. And, you you know, if we can get these bands that young people are digging to keep churning things out, it's how we take back over, make rock the biggest format in the world once again.

We gotta do something about the popularity of country music. Alright? It's getting to be way too popular. This could be a terrible break, but I have to check out this article and see what the point is. Eleven things you should be doing to make a better BLT.

How many things could you possibly improve on in the making of a BLT? Okay. You got a handful of ingredients, bacon, lettuce, tomato. Maybe you throw a little mayo on there right and then bread how could there be 11 things choose the right ingredients step number 1 bacon lettuce tomato That's what you put on there. Right?

Maybe they're saying, you know, get the, good quality ones. Get yourself a nice, organically grown tomato. Yeah. I guess they're, you know, literally telling you to find a good tomato. What does this mean?

Embrace mise enplace, m I s e n p l a c e. Like, just staying organized? Staying organized is not going to make your sandwich that much better, and the organization of a BLT is very simple. Bacon, lettuce, tomato. Beyond that, how organized do you need to be?

You know, if you've got your tomatoes neatly stacked on a plate next to the sandwich, that's not gonna make the sandwich taste better. Now this step okay. Cook the bacon to a perfect crispy level. Alright. Yeah.

If your bacon's like, chewing on a brick, your BLT is gonna suck. Alright. Cut the bacon right. I can't believe this is a real article. Remove moisture from tomatoes?

What? So it says nothing ruins a sandwich faster than a watery tomato. So yeah. I guess you slice them and then you lay them on a paper towel and then you put them on the bread. Okay.

Alright. I guess that could make sense. Choose good bread. Oh, really? Assemble in the right order.

Does it make a difference? You're gonna take a bite and all of the ingredients are going to be in your mouth. Let's see. They say, if you put the lettuce and tomatoes on top of the bacon, they slip around in the mayonnaise. And slippage is no good in a BLT.

So you need to go bread, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, nestled in the folds of greenery topped with bacon, and then a little bit more mayo. And then they tell you to think beyond bacon, lettuce, and tomato. But what if you wanna make a classic BLT, there you go. Three ingredients, the end. And putting it on a plate that looks nice does not make the sandwich taste better.

Also, the sides, you know, having a bag of potato chips with it, it's not gonna make a BLT taste, but this article did not improve a BLT aside from cook the bacon right and maybe getting the excess moisture out of the tomatoes. Can you tell it's been a long week and it's Friday? I need a sandwich. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt show. This program's a production of river.

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