The Viktor Wilt Show

Yo. Welcome to the Viktor Wilt show. If you haven't gone outside yet, if you don't have to, just don't. Yeah. Call in sick.

Stay home. I mean, you might have to do so for, like, a week because it's not looking good moving forward, but it is frigid and awful out there. Oh, you know, shout out to anybody who has to work outside. I appreciate what you do. And I'm so grateful that you'll put up with me whining about the cold when I'm sitting in this nice box.

You know? Again, shout out to anybody who's having to work out in this weather. I was looking at East Idaho News. They got some tips on how to save on energy while staying warm. Let's have a look here.

See what they've got. Oh, we might have somebody calling who hasn't seen my message online about us being off air. Let's talk to him. It's not like we got content today anyway. K Bear, you are live on the show.

Who's this? This is JD. JD. Wow. I'm guessing you might be calling to tell me about, on air issues.

Well, the issue is you're not on air. That is correct. Yes. You know, we got some, weather related issues going on. And, So do I.

I'm old. I I feel that, man. I feel that. So, right now, the only way to listen is on the app and, until we can get somebody up on the mountain, which I would imagine won't happen till it's light out. I'm sure.

Yeah. Apple only. Sorry, JD. That's alright. That's alright.

I'll be using the app here shortly when I get to work. Phew. Let's go. You try to stay warm? I will.

How cold was it at your house this morning? My my truck on the way here said 1. The Internet said minus 1. Wind chill minus 13. So Yeah.

I'm I'm at minus 5 Oh. Without the wind chill. Man. Yeah. Here in Shelley.

It's it's brutal out there. So, Yeah. The the remote on the wife's Cadillac needed to be warmed up before it would work. Oh, wow. Terrible.

Well, I hope that, you and your lady can stay warm today, man. And, yeah, hit me up in a in a bit here. Just trying to find stuff to talk about that is not related to, screaming and yelling at each other about politics. So Yeah. I was gonna say don't talk about yesterday.

Yeah. Well, yeah, that's, that's all of the internet. And so I'm, yeah. It's dumb. I'm digging, but we'll see what I could find.

You, all of the usual sources for information. It's all that. And, I I think everybody's had enough, politics in the last year. Hopefully, I could find something stupid from Florida or something going on. I don't know.

There you go, buddy. Well, thanks, Jay. Man. See you, man. Stay warm, buddy.

You too. Bye. Peace. So, yes, again, cold out. It may be so cold that your remote start is not working.

I am not looking forward to seeing my next power bill. That's for sure. Because I've had the the kids around in recent weeks and, you know, gotta keep them warm. Right? I don't like to keep my house cold, but, that bill, I know it's gonna be brutal.

So back to this article from East Idaho News. Maybe they got some tips for me that'll help me save some money and you. Set your thermostat to 68 when you're home and awake. Lower it at night. Just had JD on the line.

He helped me install some thermostats in my house that I was able to, put a little timer on. Yeah. I've got electric heat in my house, which totally sucks. I mean, it works. It keeps you warm, but it's expensive.

So, yeah, you know, it's very nice to have those type of things so you can adjust things a little bit. Had to tell my daughter, by the way, when you wake up, turn the heat up because I have it set to not be very nice when I'm not home. Let's see. Close your window coverings at night. I tried to tell her that as well.

No. I'm lying. I didn't tell her. I just thought about it. She she likes to, let the, the light in, and I put these nice thick curtains in the room to, yeah, try to help keep it warm.

And, you know, then you can sleep as late as you want too because it's like pitch black in there. This is all common sense, ain't it? Seal leaks around doors or windows. Now wash clothes in cold water and clean the lint filter yeah I mean I guess that'll save you a tiny bit unplug appliances and electronics when not in use that one I probably should do your TV you know it eats up a tiny bit of electricity if it's just plugged in and I have TVs all over the house. All right.

Well, anyway, I'm just wishing you luck on your upcoming electric bill, but if you wanna find out ways to save dough, you can always check out eastidahoneews.com. They try to give some tips to help us out here in the, frigid arctic in which we're stuck for now. Could be worse though. It's worse in the Midwest. Yeah.

Talking to my brother the other day, and it does not sound fun in Minneapolis. Yuck. Alright. Let's take a quick break here and I feel like the show's getting a little bit a little bit more on track. It hasn't been very good today.

They can't all be winners. Alright. Shout out to listener Stewart for sending me something to talk about. Even found it on Reddit. It's few days old.

It's probably why it ain't, you know, like everything else on social media today. What couldn't you believe you had to explain to another adult? These should be pretty good because as we all know, there are some dumb people out there. Alright. I'm a paramedic and ran a call on a young man who was trying to join the military and was doing a lot of running.

He lost consciousness and admitted he hadn't had much water over the last few days. No problem. It happens often. I gave him some IV fluids. He got a workup and was on his way.

3 days later, we responded to him again for the same reason. I asked him, why wouldn't you drink water after passing out for the first time? And he told me that he thought because I gave him IV fluids, he'd never have to drink water again. Now for a couple days, he was convinced he'd never have to drink water again because I gave him fluids through his vein. We had a very long educational conversation about hydration.

I hope the kid made it. You you gotta wonder about parenting when you read things like that. I mean, the need for, water. Is that not common sense? I don't know.

Alright. What else do we have here? Not me, but my stepdad was a chaplain in the navy. He saw a young marine that had done the marriage ceremony for 2 years earlier. I'm reading this verbatim, so forgive me.

He asked if they were planning on having kids. The young man got a sad look and said, we have kissed and kissed, but no kids. He thought the guy was joking at first, but then suddenly, realized, no. He wasn't. So he took the young man aside saying to him, you do realize you have to do more, don't you, and explain the process.

The guy looked horrified, but he ran into him a few months later and the marine proudly told him his wife was pregnant. Again, with the parenting thing. You gotta talk to your kids about some things sometimes. Alright? Again, these things that you just think are common sense and you just kinda pick up on in life, some people are very sheltered.

Alright. Pickles are in fact cucumbers that have been pickled. I I wouldn't be surprised that there would be people who were unaware pickles were cucumbers. I'm not gonna judge too much on that one here. Now what else do we have?

Alright. Having to explain to a journeyman how to read a tape measure. Yeah. That's disappointing. I work in bail bonds.

I've had to explain several times. One must go to court even if they feel they are innocent. Wouldn't that be great? Nah. I'm innocent.

I ain't I ain't gonna go deal with this. Let's see that they didn't drive through Idaho on their way from Ohio to Colorado. What were they thinking of, Iowa or something like that? The states do seem to get mixed up a little bit. Okay.

Some of these are funny, but I better not say them on air. That what they were thinking and feeling wasn't what other people were thinking and feeling. I think a lot of people need that explained to them. I've gotten a few Facebook arguments about that recently. You realize where you live, Victor?

This is how it is. No. Not really. It's that way for you. Not everyone thinks like you.

A large portion of people don't. Man, I I wish that sometimes I was on uncensored radio because some of these are are really funny. I'll just say I only use vegetable oil for cooking. Don't use it for, other other things that, that there's no way to work around that one. If you're 20 minutes late to work every day, perhaps starting your commute 20 minutes earlier might resolve this.

Yeah. Should be common sense, but yeah. What what time do you get to work? Mhmm. Might just be rough.

It's that crawling out of bed, not the commute. Hey. I just read that venting does not help you when you're angry. Yeah. Might feel good, but, no, it's not gonna help you.

Neither does smashing stuff, yelling at friends, I'm guessing lashing out on social media. Yeah. Doesn't make you feel any better. Stop it. What are you supposed to do?

I haven't watched this video. I would assume since it's from the BBC, it's fine. Watch. I fire it up and it's got somebody just screaming profanity. For studies on anger, they found basically no evidence that venting helps reduce anger.

So there is a common myth that venting anger is a productive way of dealing with anger. Expressing anger feels good in the moment, but in the long run, it makes you more angry and more aggressive. No worries. Just go for a jog or run instead. That'll help.

Except there's actually very little evidence that that's any help either. In fact, jogging may even make things worse. So what's going on? Hey. You know, if I've been looking for a reason to feel good about my lack of exercise there we go.

Oh, yeah. It's because I was angry. And I've the BBC told me it's not gonna make me feel better. I think jogging is is a good activity. I was reading another article about, you know, exercise and things.

And I'm like, oh, it's too early for this. Too early for, you know, how old you are, buddy. You need to get it together. Anger is an emotion that is associated with high physiological arousal, which means that your heart rate is increasing. Your blood pressure is up.

Your breathing rate is up. And when you're doing activities that have these same effects on your body, you are feeding the anger. You're putting more wood on the fire. So what should we do? Well, put simply, calming techniques.

Basically, anything that reduces physiological arousal can be worth trying. Things like meditation, mindfulness, yoga, or even just taking a time out or counting to 10. And interestingly, not all physical exercise had the same effect. Not all forms of physical activity is bad when it comes to anger. According to our meta analysis, ball sports and physical education classes are actually good when it comes to anger.

PE always made me mad. I I just not the athletic type. I, you know, it's not my build. It's not natural. Just thinking about PE makes me mad.

And we think that that is because they introduce an aspect of play, which induces positive emotions such as happiness and joy. There's also a social aspect to it, so you're interacting with other people. Yeah. I don't know. When I think back, I don't remember a lot of playing.

I remember, time to run the mile. Yeah. Let's do that. Awful. You're getting positive feedback from your coach maybe, and we think that jogging has a negative effect because it's more monotone.

It's more boring for many people. It's a repetitive movement. What if you jog with headphones in listening to some good stuff? You know? So it's not as boring.

And so you have time to ruminate on your anger and really think about your anger, and that might make you more angry. The findings were a So don't run while angry and listening to, like, political content. Are gonna be consistent across countries, cultures, genders, races, even between those in prison or not. Essentially, venting anger as a way of coping with it is more likely to wind you up than cool you down, so it doesn't seem like the best strategy. Just Hence why you haven't seen any posts from me on social media in the last little bit other than just pictures of kittens.

That's right. Because that online venting, it's just bringing you down. So just a friendly reminder. Don't do that. Wanna remind y'all that if you haven't seen it, you should watch the documentary series on I think it's max called chimp crazy because maybe it'll prevent you from getting a monkey as a pet.

Alright. They attack people. They're wild animals. This was down in, Alabama. Local barista attacked and bitten by monkey that jumped into drive thru window.

Yeah. You're just trying to sling coffee. It's 8:30 AM. And next thing you know, you got a monkey, you know, trying to rip your face off. Alright?

I don't know if it's legal in Alabama to have a monkey as a pet. I think you should have at bare minimum some kind of special training required and also be required to keep it at home. You know, like, if you got a dog that attacks somebody, you gotta, you know, deal with it. What about this this person with their monkey? Yeah.

I had some rough days working fast food, working the drive through, but thankfully, not ever attacked through the drive through by, you know, someone that wants to rip your face off. So, yeah, please please avoid these kind of pets. Get yourself a little puppy or a kitten. A hamster? I don't know.

Rabbit. There's a lot of pets you can get that, you know, hopefully won't rip your face off. Alright. What else do we have here? Oh, this might be a moneymaker for somebody around here.

Let's talk about cow gallstones, peaches. They brought us donuts. I'm trying to talk about growing stuff and eating donuts. I had to make sure I had to make sure you knew about these. Alright.

Well, thank you. Donuts are always good. Yeah. Apparently, cattle gallstones, one of the most treasured ingredients in, traditional Chinese medicine used to treat strokes and things like that. But, again, who discovered that?

It's like a lot of weird things that people use to try to deal with ailments like rhinoceros horn and things like that. Yeah. Who's concocting these weird bruise to Oh, no. Battle these diseases? I mean, it's a good thing because, I mean, apparently, it helps.

I mean, I don't know if it actually helps, but people are making a lot of money. Apparently, 1 ounce of, cow I guess it's a hardened bile. That's a great band name. Hardened Bile. Yeah.

$5,800. Dude, that that's a lot for a little tiny bit of, Hardened Cow Bile. Alright. I'm going to Katie's farm. That's what I was gonna say.

Let's hit up Katie next door. You know, radio people are always looking for a nice side gig. Yeah. Side hustled more than ever. Yeah.

I I don't know how you get your hands on this. The cows just kinda they hack it up or what? You choke them. I I don't think it's good to go. Farm and go put a cow in a headlock.

Well, here's a a big tray of it. Oh, it's a like a delicacy, like a food. No. No. They just use it in medicine.

I'm Why why did I get hungry looking at that? I'm like, oh, calamari. Yeah. I was gonna say I don't think it likely tastes very good. I don't think it's yeah.

Let's stick with the donuts, peaches. Let's stick with the donuts there. What else do we have here? I don't know if it's illegal here, but I did wanna throw out the, reminder that it's, like, hideously cold outside. If you have pets, bring them inside.

I guess in places like Pennsylvania, it is illegal. I think it should be illegal. It too. It definitely should. Leave your dog, you know, tied up outside in this kind of weather.

It it's horrible out there. You know how there's, like, that video of all those people from the south getting mad about seat belts and cars? I feel like there's gonna be a few people that get You you don't remember that? The old video of people Oh, all from back in the day. Or turning into a communist country.

Yeah. Yeah. Back in the day, seat belts. That was, like, you know, the masks. Who who's going to defend leaving your pet outside?

I mean, besides, like, a husky. That's, like, the only breed that I know that thrives in these types of temperatures. Yeah. I But if you leave your beagle out there, it's you know what a beagle popsicle No. No.

They got that short fur. Right. They're all small and cute. I used to have a beagle. Big boy named Rover.

Judith has a beagle, Little Oona. He was the best best dog ever. They do seem like pretty good dogs at least, from my experience. Her dog's like totally chill. They they are.

You know, super nice And she said it was out of control when I was there. I'm, like, that's out of control. This should this should do the when it's mellow. They should do the signature howl? No.

Very quiet dog. I think it's like do the howl rovers. Very quiet dog. Yeah. A little bit of, like, grunting and stuff, but that's about it.

Yeah. Just Yeah. Love beagles. So, yeah, please bring your pets in. It's it's frigid cold outside, and it's not gonna get any nicer for a bit.

But, yeah, just getting into my truck in my garage, this is a first world problem. Oh, it's cold in my truck in my garage. I mean, usually, about halfway to work, my heat's working in my truck, but not the last couple days. It's about right when I get here. Oh, I can feel a little bit of warmth, and then I gotta run-in from outside, you know.

So any anyhow, everybody, be safe. Bundle up. Take care of your pets. And maybe on Friday, I'll find out the legality of that here in Idaho because, it it gets very cold here. You know, yesterday, colder than Antarctica.

That's how lousy it was. Well, you don't only have the, the dog, the pet thing being outside, but you also have I guess there's a huge problem with seventeenth Street being closed. People are cutting through that Walmart there. Yeah. I haven't been over to the to that area.

So I saw that, like, they temporarily opened first street and people are nervous about the bridge or something. So I'm just not going over to that region right now. Right. Just try to avoid what whatever is going on because I saw lots of complaints. It was like when they closed down that intersection and none of us used it.

And all the businesses there were sad that no customers were coming in. It's like, well, if you close down an entire intersection, I'm not going over there. Yeah. No. No.

And that was right on my path to work. That was so annoying. Yeah. That was. First world problem again.

I know. Oh, I've gotta take a different route. I gotta take a detour. Oh. An already small town.

This is not like LA. This is Idaho Falls. It's gonna take me 11 minutes to get to work instead of 8. Oh, I can't believe I used to do, like, an hour and a half to get to TMZ. Yeah.

I know. We we've got it rough around here, man, with those commutes. But at least we didn't have snow. True. Yeah.

To anybody who's having to go over the past today, those of you who work in Jackson and stuff, please be cautious. It's it's gotta be pretty nasty up there. Is Jade going up the mountain? I hope so because we're not on air. But I also hope not because I wanna have a dead OM, you know.

Well, if anyone's gonna, you know Take one for the team. Take one for the that's right. Jade, we need to be on air, Jade Davis. Yeah. You can pick us up on the app, everybody, which I'm assuming you're already doing if you're listening.

Right? Just frozen in the ice. You walked up. Ready to do your job, Jade, and kick him. Yeah.

Yeah. I if he comes to me asking for assistance, I I might have to, start start the bile, going back to the cow thing to start Yeah. I think I'm feeling ill because the weather Yeah. Precisely. I know.

I forgot my allergy meds the last few days and I'm really hoping that that's, the issues I'm dealing with today. Feeling a little bit off. I took that I took those 2 antihistamines to, you know, battle my allergies and you saw that one. I'm not gonna give you those. I know the only antihistamine I have with me is, Benadryl style.

So I I'd be I'm antihistamine I have with me is, Benadryl style. So I'd I'd be It's not It's a great day to take a nap too. It's a perfect day to take a nap. I had the heater on. It was so nice and warm in my bed.

It was. I didn't go to the gym this morning. I'm like, it's fine. I woke up. It's, like, 4:30.

I couldn't fall back asleep. Then my alarm hits at 5:30. I I don't wanna get up when it's negative 14 or whatever. No. Nobody wants to get up right now.

So it's alright wants to get up right now. So it's alright, everybody. We'll power through it. We're gonna get through this together. Hey.

I heard that one in a bit. Crowbot Golden. What's up? It's Victor Wilt. Welcome to the program today.

If you're listening, I assume you gotta be listening online. So thank you for tuning in from wherever you're at. We're having some weather related issues. It's gotta be terrible cold up on the mountain where the old transmitter is, so wishing luck to our team on getting that fixed. Thank you, listeners, for your patience.

Sucks out there. It's nasty. Nasty. And kinda sucks in here because it is a terrible content day. And I'm I'm not gonna continue to keep people riled up.

If you wanna deal with people being riled up, just fire up Facebook. Yeah. Scroll through it. Talk about, cesspool of just anger and yelling. That's Facebook today.

What should I talk about? Why gigantic bags are popular and here to stay? I don't know. I guess this is a fashion thing. Gigantic bags for, ladies to carry their stuff in.

I would assume so you could carry lots of stuff. Right? Because nobody wants to carry a gigantic bag. It's a matter of you know, you gotta have access to all your things. That's why I like having lots of pockets, you know, to keep my stuff nice and handy.

I mean, some of these bags are pretty ridiculously gigantic. See see what I'm resorting to here to get through this show? Looking at BBC articles about totes. Yeah. Well, anyway, there's a full article on why they're popular.

It has to be stuff. That's it. Right? Stuff. Otherwise, you get a smaller bag.

I mean, have you ever had to carry a large bag of stuff around? When I went to the marine corps educator's workshop down in San Diego and learned about the marines, you know, we got to strap on the packs that they have to carry. It sucked. They were so heavy. I I would definitely much rather have a smaller bag.

And some of these are very expensive. Gigantic bag from, of course, Balenciaga, 3 g's. 3 grand. Does it at least look stupid like some of their other you know, is it does it look like a Doritos bag or something like that? Alright.

Anyway, I swear I'm trying to find better content than, hey. Large bags are popular. But like I said, it's tough. I mean, it could be really easy. I could make it really easy.

I could light up the funds, but I'll avoid controversy today for now. She's not feeling up to it. Alright. How old are you? Are you, Werther's original old?

Alright. Well, I might have a new snack for you to give to the grandkids, Jade. This sounds so grody to me. Progreso soup drops. Yeah.

Like, cough drops, but they taste like chicken soup. I mean, if you really wanted to go this route, couldn't you just buy one of those little bouillon cubes and, you know, just mow down that? Yeah. Apparently, each Progreso individually wrapped candy as they're calling You you can't call something that tastes like chicken broth, egg noodles, and parsley candy. Alright.

Candy, it's universally sweet. Right? It is not chicken soup. There was just because you make it in a little hard, you know, cough drop shaped thing, nobody calls cough drops candy either. And sometimes they are kinda sweet.

Those, cherry ones? Oh, I don't like cough drops either. Which would I rather have? A, chicken soup, lozenge, or a cough drop? I guess it would depend how lousy I felt.

Anyway, I was gonna tell you you could go buy them at progressosoupdrops.com, but they're they're out right now. They say to check back next Thursday at 9 AM EST if you've just gotta have this. Just letting you know what's out there. I I don't know. Everybody's into different kinds of snacks.

Just doesn't sound, that great to me, but there are worse snacks. Sirstromming. Bugs, all kinds of alright. I mean, we we've eaten much worse on the noon hour of madness and mayhem. It it would be a cake day if we were doing soup drops.

So, anyway, if I happen to catch them when they're on sale, I'll order some as a goof, but, yeah, I'm I'm not gonna set an alarm for Thursday. Stellar Incubus. Wasn't trying to, like, call the day stellar. It's, been a challenging program today between the off air transmitter and the news in general. Hell, Florida man should be back at it before we know it.

You know? Florida man can only stay quiet for so long. So get on it, Florida man. Come on. Give me something dumb to talk about.

I mean, we could potentially talk about something smart. I don't know. I was briefly reading through a post online about the creepiest displays of intelligence you've seen by another human. I don't know if this is gonna be good or not, but I figured we could check it out. Let's see.

This user said, I knew a lady who counted pills in a pharmacy basically her entire life. One time, she looked at a container of Ibuprofen that was supposed to have a 100 pills in it and said it looked off. She recounted and it had 99. Woah. Alright.

That is kinda weird. That that looks a little bit off. One little pill out of a 100. Alright. I I don't know if that's a sign of intelligence or, you know, kind of sad.

You know, when you think about life accomplishments, you know, toward the end of your days, being able to glance at a bottle of Ibuprofen and tell if one's missing. I don't know if that's the kind of skill I'm, you know, aiming for. Let's see here. Someone said their algebra teacher had the textbook memorized. We were doing some work in class by ourselves struggling with the problem.

What page and what problem number? He asked and then proceeded to write the problem out on the board without referencing the book the book. That's, again, kind of painful to hear. You know? Like, of all the things, you could memorize something that's as useless to most people as algebra.

Oh, that's just an awful, awful point in existence. Let's see. Some guy who worked retail was able to memorize customers' credit card numbers. That that's not that amazing. That's 16 digits.

What up, peaches? Just talking about creepy displays of intelligence. People doing weird stuff. Like, the woman who looked at a bottle of Ibuprofen, supposed to have a 100 pills, and she's like, oh, it looks off. And it only had 99.

I just think this is people who have, worked too much. You know? Like, if you've got an algebra textbook memorized, you've gotta find a new hobby. Or they have, like, a certain superpower. Maybe.

You know what I mean? Maybe. You know, they talk about people with photographic memory. We all know that's not me. I don't remember what I talked about 5 minutes ago on this show.

Quick. What'd you have for dinner last night? Oh, Hibachi. That's that's why you know it because it's different from all the rest. Yeah.

It was really good. I will say that I was a little bothered by the fact that their website prices did not match what I paid when I went and picked up the order. Did you oh, you picked up the order. Yeah. You didn't eat at the restaurant.

No. Because then I would've noticed beforehand, you know, looking at the menu. So if you run a restaurant, please update your website. I could see you being that guy who walks in there and goes, hey. Your prices on your website are off.

I just I want them at this price or I'm not getting my food. I just paid it, and I still even gave them a $5 tip. Well Good. So Way to be a normal person. No.

I should have complained. I should have raised a ruckus. I want you to knock a couple dollars off each item. I think there are now. I think there are some fake Karens out there who only do it to get the discounts.

Probably. That's all that's the only reason why. Yeah. And then there are some who just, you know, have the public tirades like, you know, the one at Dairy Queen. Yeah.

That that was a good one. But, yeah, I was willing to pay. I wanted the, sushi, you know, and it was good. But, yes. Anyone running anything where you're selling something, make sure your prices online are listed accurately.

K? Come on. Is that that much to ask? Anyway, what else do we have here? I think you also dipped your sushi in ketchup, didn't you?

I did not. I did. You did that one time. You're in your office. I swear you did.

That is not true. I swear I saw you do it. Peaches hallucinating. I took a bunch of Benadryl and I swear I saw you mowing down sushi with ketchup, man. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Welt Show.

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