The Viktor Wilt Show

Morning. It's the Viktor Wilt Show on a snowy winter day about a week out from Christmas. Hope you've got all your Christmas stuff dealt with. I think I do. I mean, I'm still waiting on some items to show up that are just, I guess, gonna have to be late, which is aggravating.

Because I bet once I get myself over to the shipping store and send this box off that sit in my truck, which, you know, that's gonna happen early today, lunchtime, I'm sure the other item I'm waiting for will show up at my house the minute I send that package off. I gave it yesterday. I was like, oh, I know. I'll wait one more day. And now if I waited one more day and this package ends up getting there late, I'd be very upset, very upset all because I'm waiting around on this one silly item.

Oh, well. Oh, well. I'll just ship it off at another time. You do what you gotta do. Guess I could order that, other item that I talked about yesterday.

I've gotta wait around on this item. You know, gonna be sending out a late gift. Cut up it a notch and send out an extra late gift. Yeah? We'll see.

We'll see. Alright. Kind of a slow news day so far today. Nah. I was kinda surprised by that.

I don't know. It's probably just because it's a holiday week. But usually, by this time, I can at least find something stupid to talk about. I mean, there's plenty of stupid, but we're not gonna dive into politics this early. You know, I've just had to kinda stop looking at politics.

During the last year or so, lots of political podcasts, and I just can't take it anymore. Can't take it anymore. So I've been listening to, Mark Maron, and it's a a pretty relaxing show. You know, he's not like he used to be. He used to be a very angry man, and I think that's why I stopped listening to his show for a while.

I was like, what what happened to this guy? Calm down. He's so chill. And I guess I was still, young and frustrated, so I hadn't listened in a while. Now it's, like, perfect.

Like, oh, very relaxing. Oh, let's see. Gas prices in time for holiday spending spree decreasing. Yesterday, as I was driving around, I seemed to notice the gas was up about 10¢. So I find it really funny how every winter, we get these news articles.

You know, hey. Gas is cheaper. It always happens during winter. This is not breaking news. Check out how cheap gas is.

$3 a gallon. It's cheap. Okay. I'm not doing very good at, you know, not complaining and preventing aggravation on the show this morning. I'll I'll get it together.

I swear. I should've went to bed a little bit earlier last night. Little bit earlier. But like I mentioned at the beginning of the show, it felt like Friday night. I was having fun playing grand theft auto San Andreas, and, you know, time just kinda got away from me.

Anyway. Well, so far, show's a failure. So thank you for, participating participating by listening to my crap. I will improve things around here. Alright?

I promise. It's Victor Wilt. Morning. Alright. You cannot just act on impulse, people.

K? If some sometimes you get a sudden urge to do something or even if you get the sudden urge to say something. Think it through a little bit. Too many people out there open their mouths without, you know, thinking it through, say something that maybe they didn't intend to say. You gotta have some patience with your own behavior.

There was a guy in, of course, Florida, arrested after his Lyft driver turns around and sees the guy naked in the back seat. You know, when he got in the vehicle fully clothed. But then according to police, the guy told him, well, you know, I I felt something, so I took all my clothes off. Just because you feel something doesn't mean you need to strip on down to a whole lot of nothing. You're going to disturb your driver.

You know, I've tried to think about easy ways to make a little bit of extra dough. I could use just a little bit more cash. If I made a just a tiny bit more money, I'd be so much more comfortable. And if I had a car, I might consider something like Uber or Lyft. But then I read these stories and I go, no.

I don't have the patience for dealing with crazies. Alright? And if you're you're doing this kind of a service, you're picking up hammered people from the bar. You know, somebody might puke in your car. They smell bad or, you know, they're just rambling on.

I don't know. It just sounds nightmarish. So this story probably cemented the that's not gonna happen. I mean aside from the fact that I don't have a car. You know, I I don't think it's gonna be a very efficient job in my gas guzzling truck.

If I didn't use that thing for truck stuff, I would totally get rid of it, because it's so expensive to drive it around. But it's cheaper to drive it around than buy a car. So what do you do? You whine about not having a car and you sit back and don't make any extra dough, driving people around. So anyway, again, if you get the sudden urge to say something to somebody, think about it.

If you get the sudden urge, take all your clothes off. Really think about it. Come on, people. Hello and good morning. I don't know why, but I'm I'm having a real problem with content today.

I'm digging. Just not really finding anything. I see people online asking their fellow fans if their favorite band is one of the best bands of all time. That's that's what I've stumbled across. Somebody in the Black Sabbath subreddit.

Is it fair to say Black Sabbath is in the top 5 bands of all time? I have a feeling that you're going to get some yes answers in a subreddit dedicated to that band. What you need to do is go to the music subreddit and then ask that question and you can get in some some fights with people oh speaking of getting in fights with people I did attempt to aggravate the radio community again yesterday in the radio peeps group on Facebook I made a post I don't know, a week or so ago that got a bunch of people frustrated with my thoughts about promoting shows on your radio station and going to shows and, like, getting on stage and introducing the band when you don't actually support that band by playing them on your radio station. People didn't like my my comments there. So I was like, alright.

Let's, stir it up again. And so I jumped in yesterday and started critiquing radio stations that take new songs and they play them in the middle of the night only and then act like they're supporting the bands. Like, woah. We're playing them. Yeah.

When barely anybody's listening, can you imagine if we had songs that we only played at 2 in the morning? That's actually how it is on pretty much every radio station. It's weird to me. Like, if you're willing to play a song, just play it when people are gonna hear it, and you wouldn't believe the justifications that people use to try to say this behavior is okay. You know, a lot of them will end up getting things, you know, hookups and stuff like that because they're supporting the band.

No. You you should be ashamed of yourselves. That's what I say. You should feel bad for playing songs in the middle of the night. Alright?

Yeah. Will it show up as a a play on the radio charts? Sure. I I wonder how many bands out there know how many radio stations are only playing their music in the middle of the night. It's disgusting.

It's like just as a person who is friends with many musicians who has made music myself, the way that radio treats bands is just disgusting at times. Like this guy, Will, he commented, I'm not in the business of benefiting artists. I'm in the business of playing hits. Yeah. What time are you playing the hits?

Will? The middle of the night? That when you're playing the hits, buddy? I don't know. I don't know why I do these things.

Starter arguments on Facebook. It's like any other Facebook argument. I think people set out to try to change people's minds. And I work in a pretty disgusting industry. I mean, as far as how it, you know, how it can work at times.

I I guess I've just got too much musician in me because the entitlement of radio programmers, like, the bands owe them something. It just makes me wanna vomit. You know? What would you do, music stations, if you didn't have any bands to play? You should be grateful and, treat them respectfully and play their music when people are gonna hear it.

Oh, sorry. Just gets me fired up. I'm not in the business of benefiting artists. No wonder artists don't like radio. Radio people don't understand that a lot of bands really don't like radio, and they don't for a lot of reasons.

This has gotta be one of them. Oh, it's great that so and so's playing as well. Yeah. Do you think their management tells them the other actually only playing you in the middle of the night? No.

I bet they don't because they want the artist to be nice to radio. Oh, it's such a stupid biz. Anyway, that was that. Let's see if I could find actual content for this show. Wish me luck.

If you're having troubles in the, I don't know, I guess, having a baby department, go talk to a doctor, and they've got a variety of things they can do for couples trying to have a baby. Don't engage in strange rituals because you might end up dead. Now there was a guy in India who took part in what this article calls a superstitious ritual to fulfill his wish of becoming a father. And apparently, this ritual involved swallowing a live chick, a live little chicken, baby chicken. So this guy died.

Alright. He suffocated trying to swallow a live baby chicken. Guess who didn't die? The baby chicken. This is another example of, animals fighting back as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah. We got the, orcas attacking people. You know, all all kinds of animals fighting back against us stupid people. Well, yeah. I guess his, ritual didn't work out.

You know, I don't wanna poke fun at the dead but, I mean, dude. He ended up at the hospital you he ended up at the place where they could have helped him with this whole baby problem to begin with now I don't know if he didn't have a girlfriend or what you know I mean step 1 for having a baby is you got to have somebody willing to hook up with you maybe that was his problem the article doesn't say the article just says he choked and choked on a chicken okay, and sorry that's rude he's a dead man Sorry. Shouldn't laugh. Anyway, I just wanna let you know another friendly reminder that there are experts in pretty much any field you could imagine swinging and talk to a doctor. Alright.

Go find some, you know, magic ritual online and go, I'm gonna give that a whirl. Alright. There's a lot of bad information online. Let's go talk to a doc. Alright.

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Maybe I need to move. How about moving abroad? Let's get out of here. Let's get these 5 countries will pay you to move there. Just the kind of article I need.

Not really. I glanced through it. You know, you you gotta, like, refurbish these old places if you wanna take advantage of these, you know, sweet incentives to move to places like Spain. Now I don't know a lot about Spain. I'd like to visit Spain.

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Right? Sort of. I've got a computer in front of me. Hey, Spain. How about a rock radio guy?

Will you pay me $16? I don't know if $16 is gonna cover relocation to Spain. It'll help. It would help. I mean, it's free money.

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I wanna start a podcast. How about that? What can I do with my computer? Chile. Pretty nice down there.

Super hot. I don't know a lot about their weather. How about Ireland? Now what you gotta do if you wanna move to Ireland is you gotta renovate derelict properties. Alright.

So you got these old rundown houses. They'll give you some money about, well, up to $88,000 in funding to renovate these, you know, rundown properties. But you do still need to follow normal immigration policies, which I don't know what those are. Ireland definitely looks nice. Now I don't know much about the weather there either.

Do they deal with, frigid winters and snow? I don't know. But I like the the rolling green hills and the, ocean views. Things like that. Look pretty nice.

Japan, another place you could, get paid to move there. They're, again, like Ireland trying to fix up these, you know, these old places. Italy's doing the same thing. I'm just not handy enough for this. Can't somebody pay me to move somewhere just because they want Victor Wilt there somewhere with nice weather?

Well, I guess for now, I'll just be grateful that I got my snowblower up and running over the weekend. Okay. What else do we have here? Scientists claim eating a hot dog could shorten your life by more than half an hour. Alright.

How many hot dogs have I eaten? That's a lot of hot dog. I have shaved many hours off my life. Yeah. Ultra processed foods.

I guess they're really narrowing things down, letting you know exactly how minutes how many minutes that's going to shorten your life expectancy. I don't know. Half hour for a hot dog? Is that worth it? It depends on the hot dog.

I mean, let's say you're at Disneyland, and you have the opportunity to have one of those Disneyland corn dogs. Yeah. That's worth a half hour of life, I'd say. An hour for 2 of them? Sure.

Alright. What else do we have here? Animals fighting back. This one's a weird one though. You know, usually when bears kill people, they maul them.

You know? Get them claws out the teeth. It's gruesome. I mean, I'm sure this was gruesome and a rip to this guy. Virginia Hunter, Lester Harvey, a bear fell out of a tree on him.

Guy was just standing at the bottom of the tree. I don't know if he knew the bear was in the tree, but Is this a new sweeper for cannonball 101? Cannonball. Alright. Not nice.

You know, he's he's dead. That's the second time today I've joked about somebody dying. I'm sorry. Just, that's how my sense of humor works sometime. And again, I'm a fan of the animals fighting back.

People treat animals horribly. So, you know, I think it's time for the orcas to start smashing up boats. Sorry. You know, even if you're just an innocent, you know, cruiser. I'm out on the ocean just cruising.

I don't I don't have a giant spear on the front of my boat. Well, sorry. Sometimes, you know, people ruin it for everyone. No more going out on a boat in the ocean. The orcas have had it.

They're fed up. And apparently, we're not even gonna be able to wander the woods anymore because we have bears cannonballing from trees smashing people. The bear is fine. Bear is fine. Anyway, rip to that guy.

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I've done this many times, and it sucks. I've had friends who've done it, and it sucks. Give yourself that buffer day if you're going on vacation. It's just too brutal. Alright.

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Here it goes. Showing you. You can do whatever you want on the radio. You can go ice 9 kills into queen. There aren't rules as far as what songs you can play in what order despite what these folks like to try to tell me in Facebook radio arguments.

Speaking of Facebook arguments, I actually shared this one yesterday on the KhabAir Facebook page. It was a post somebody made in the Life in Idaho Falls Facebook group. They're a delivery driver. And the gist of it is they're asking people to try to be courteous during the holiday season. I don't know if you're aware of this, but people can be real dirtbags.

Alright? Can you imagine being a delivery driver right now here in East Idaho during the Christmas season? 1000 and 1,000 and thousands of packages, some of them very heavy, and, you're you're dealing with treacherous conditions, you know, driveways that you might fall down. And then everybody's blowing up the phone lines. Hey.

Hey. Where's my package? It was supposed to be here. Blah blah blah blah blah. And holy cow.

Some of the responses to this person who they put it very nicely. They were like me where if I made the post I'd be like stop being a piece of crap. You know, I'm trying to do my job. Get off my back. No.

They were very polite about it and people still attacked them in the comments. Well, you know, this is the job you picked. Okay. You know, the fact that you've got to deliver packages in frigid temperatures with, treacherous conditions, that's what you signed on for. You didn't sign on for having to deal with people being jerks.

Alright? I I don't think that any job, you should have to just accept people treating you like garbage. That's why I point out be nice to your fast food workers. Alright? A lot of people look down on fast food jobs.

That's an entry level blah blah blah. Okay. You know what, bro, who works in a cubicle, why don't you go stand on your feet for 8 hours straight dealing with, these type of folks in the drive through because you took, you know, 30 seconds too long to get your cheeseburger. Yeah. Why why don't you go stand for 8 hours and deal with what an average fast food worker does?

Alright? Treat people nice, especially during the holidays. Holidays are rough times for people. And we got somebody calling. They wanna fight?

They wanna fight? Hi. You're live on the show. Please keep that in mind. Who's this?

Hey. It's Zach. How are you doing, Victor? I'm doing alright. What's up?

Hey. So just saying, man, what you're talking about there is exactly why I love the post office policies. Right? So I used to work for the post office. I don't anymore.

But their policy is if their guy cannot get up to your front door to deliver your mail, you don't get it. Yeah. I know that, in my neighborhood, if my mailbox is, like, blocked, you know, if somebody's parked in front of it or There's a block of snow. Yeah. Piles of snow.

You know, you gotta clear that out that the the mail won't get delivered. And I've seen people lose their minds about that. I think a lot of people don't know it's the law. You need to shovel the sidewalk as well. So Oh, yeah.

You're liable for if somebody slips on your sidewalk. Yeah. Even though you don't own it, you're responsible for it. It's kinda strange. So, yeah, I need to get out with the shovel, immediately after work because my, sidewalk has not been dealt with.

Oh, that's beautiful, though, to see people lose their minds over not getting a package even though their driveway looks like crap. Alright. Well, hopefully, I can beat the mailman today because my driveway I I could have fired up the snowblower this morning at, 5 AM, but I don't know. I I don't think my neighbors would like that. It's loud.

Alright. We'll do it. Well, okay. The truth is I didn't want to. I'm lazy.

It was 5 AM. Get out there in the cold. It's a giant machine. Push it around, then I'd, you know, just rake of gas. Yeah.

Yeah. True. Alright, man. Well, appreciate the call, and yes, everybody. Please be courteous to others.

Don't be a dirtbag. Shuffle your sidewalk. Shuffle your sidewalk in your driveway. Be nice to your delivery, man. If you're unhappy, I I I don't know.

You know, get yourself some ice cream. There you go. Have a good day, Victor. You too, man. Peace.

Sup, peaches? Were you talking about the posts on life in Idaho Falls? I'm missing my package. Where is it at? I posted the I shared it in the Kay Bear group.

I did see that. Yeah. The one just, from a delivery driver asking people to try to be courteous. Right. You know?

Nope. Nope. Can't do that. No. That's your job.

My second cousin once removed, I'm waiting for their package to show up and it's not. It's at somebody else's house. I'm gonna complain on Facebook. Well, and ultimately alright. If a gift is late, I was actually talking to Judith about this today because, we're both shipping each other gifts.

It's getting Isn't that sweet? It's getting close to the last minute. Having someone there to ship you presents, Your parents just shipped you a bunch of presents. I'm talking about a significant other. Okay?

Well, no one else shipped me anything, peaches. My yours is on the way. I literally just got the email saying your order has, shipped. See? And I haven't got you anything yet.

Actually That's your fault. I did get you a foam cheeseburger. Yes. Nice. That was an early Christmas gift.

I love that thing. But I just wanted to let people know, like, if your gifts show up late, it's okay, and you can do Christmas another day. People get so crazy about we gotta do it on this day. That's the official day. I already did Christmas with my kids.

Oh, see. I'm I'm waiting till the 25th. I can't. Yeah. My my Christmas Christmas with my kids is over.

I mean, I did get them a couple other things for when they get to the house. I've got some stocking stuffers and a couple other gifts. But I don't trust those people that can't wait till 25th to open up anything. They have to, like, they're, like, staring at the tree, like, shaking. Like, they have they're having, like, you know, the addiction to opening the presents.

No. I mean, for me, it was just I shipped the items and Maddie could tell what every single one was because they arrived in boxes that said what they were. So I'm, like, well, open it. And then, you know, Taryn I was like, well, your sister already knows all her gifts. Let's just get on FaceTime and open your gifts.

You know? So it's it it was fine. Well, 25th is now, like, just a normal day for you guys. Well Like, there's no gift opening. There's nothing.

It's just wake up. Okay. Yay. Yeah. I mean, I live by myself.

Like, I don't know if I had kids still living there. It'd be different. No. I mean, like, for them too. Well, yeah.

They they live on their own. Right. So They're in other states. And, I'm waiting till 25th. I got those boxes below the tree.

I'm like, oh, sweet. Well, you know, your parents are probably are you gonna get on and, like, FaceTime with them to open gifts? Yeah. See, we we did the same thing, but I don't know. They're they're gonna have plenty of other things going on on Christmas itself.

You know, it's like, I talked about it on that podcast I did. During the month of December when the kids did live with me, I started letting them open gifts at the beginning of the month because, otherwise, you know, if you just save it all till Christmas, they open this big pile of stuff, and then most of it just sits there. You know? They they pick the one thing. Okay.

I want a monkey with this today. You spread it out throughout the month. You get to appreciate each individual gift and have some time to, you know, dig into it. Right. So, yeah.

I've I've done that for years. I just can't do that too. My my mom's sister was the weird one where she had to, like, open something up before Christmas, and my mom hated that. And I she I think I got what she has. Nah.

Yeah. Like, we can all just wait. Yeah. To me, it's like, you know, we don't have to follow the, the same traditions as everybody else. And I thought it worked out way better to start giving them gifts early because I think they you know, it made the month of December way more fun Mhmm.

Because they were getting gifts throughout the month rather than the big build up one day. Poof. Okay. It's all over. You know?

It was a celebration of the season for 30 days rather than 1. And I thought it worked out great. So this year, it just ended up different because of the fact that Maddie knew what her stuff was. Mhmm. So, otherwise, I would have made him wait at least a little while.

But yeah. I have a a couple gifts under my tree. That's about it. For you? For the kids.

Oh. For the kids. And I have Judas' big box of stuff that I gotta ship at lunchtime. You know? Nice.

I'm hoping that my lunchtime, which is really early, is a good time to go to the store to, ship things. You talking about, like, the UPS store or UPS or post office. I haven't decided which. Yeah. I think UPS might get it there a little bit quicker, but it costs That's a lot.

It. Costs a lot more. I I bought my friend his Christmas gift. That was so stupid last year. I bought it and shipped it to me and then was like, okay.

Wait a minute. I can't put this in my backpack. I gotta ship it to them. Yes. It was, like, $90 total.

Yeah. That sounds about right. That's why I think I'm gonna probably hit the post office. Right. Plus, I like supporting the post office.

You know? And, I like the staff. Support America. Support America. No.

No. I I like the post office. So, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. That's that's it. Alright.

We'll be back in a minute. I just love how people will throw a negative comment in any chance they get on anything online. I was looking at the Idaho Falls subreddit, and somebody posted a video that they said was on the front page of Reddit, which I I didn't see. It's a video called Santa loves everyone, and he got these now I don't wanna give the wrong label out. Some of these folks I've seen at, local shows.

Not gonna call them out by name, but kind of a gothic look, rock and roll look, punk look. Again, I'm probably labeling these folks incorrectly, and I'm sorry. But, anyway, they all went to the mall and saw Santa, you know, with the, the full on goth look going on. And it's a, you know, a nice, fun video. But in the comments there, shouldn't these videos or posts have to have something to do with Idaho Falls?

Okay. If a video gets posted that has, you know, people in it that make social media content, it should occur to you that perhaps if somebody posted it in the Idaho Falls subreddit, it was a local video. You would think. Right? You would think.

Like, does that look like the Grand Teton Mall? I really think it does, but I'm gonna go ahead and just get negative anyway. I know that looks like the Santa I saw at the mall just the other day, but Man. Why? I'm just awaiting the day I could find any kind of article where somebody isn't ripping into it.

You know, you could have an article pop up. They've cured cancer. Well, they didn't cure it in time for blah blah blah. I've got all these medical like, can you just be grateful for the world moving forward? There's all kinds of things I've, you know, paid for that then down the line, all of a sudden they're cheaper or whatever.

I don't know. Just so so exhausted by the constant negativity. And I just think it's gonna get worse. Sadly, man. I don't know if if my job didn't involve finding out what's going on in the world.

I think I might take a social media breather for a while. Just check out completely because I know that, not listening to, like, political podcasts, that's helped my mental health a little bit in the last few months. Well, let's see. About the last month that I've switched over to listening to something a little bit little bit chiller. Anyway, good job.

Good job on the video content going viral on Reddit. Locals who went and saw Santa. Anyway, we'll be back. Slow news day. I guess we're gonna dive into conspiracy theories.

Now these are supposedly conspiracy theories that even skeptics believe. Alright? So they gotta be true. Alright. As a skeptic, let's see if I believe these conspiracy theories.

Alright. Toothpaste companies show more toothpaste than necessary on toothbrushes on TV commercials. Yeah. They wanna make you think you need more of it in each brush, thus taking away your money faster. Alright.

That sounds like it makes sense to me, actually. Because aren't you supposed to use, like, a pea sized amount? But if you watch any commercial with toothpaste, they're just, you know, piles of it all over the toothbrush. I don't know. I think extra toothpaste is just kind of satisfying.

But if it's unnecessary, yeah, they're trying to take our money. Alright. Let's see what else we have here. So far, one for 1. I'm buying the conspiracy.

Alright. Buildings are deliberately created to be ugly so that they don't get heritage status and the owners can knock it down later. I mean, modern buildings are certainly boring and ugly compared to, you know, some of those buildings from, like, the early 1900 or or even earlier. You know, with the real ornate woodwork and just something going on that makes them visually appealing, not just a, you know, boring white box. I just figured that, it was because people are, you know, more boring nowadays or something.

You know, look at how everybody decorates. Live, laugh, love. Could be. Could be. Nah.

I'm not buying into that one. I think people just have bad taste nowadays. And it would also be really expensive to build a home That's, you know, got statues and stuff built in, you know, gargoyles built into this side. Alright. You you may have heard this one.

Mattress stores being money laundering fronts because there's mattress stores everywhere. How often do you buy a mattress? You know? Not super often. I bought a mattress in the last year because I needed one for a a guest bedroom.

I can't imagine buying one anytime soon. But, yeah, you'll see them, like, right in a row. You get on, hit road in Idaho Falls. There's, what, like, 4 mattress stores right in the same block. It's a conspiracy.

I don't know. People just say that mattresses have a very high markup, so they don't really need to sell very many of them to make some some good money. Let's see. What else do we have here? The measuring lines on your detergent container are way more than you actually need, so you use it faster and buy more detergent, kinda like the, toothpaste thing.

And, actually, I've read that this is true that, most people are using way more laundry detergent than they need to. So it's probably I I could buy into this one. They want you to use up the soap faster so you can pay those outrageous amounts for your your laundry detergent. That that that could make sense to me. Oh, back to conspiracy music.

Wheel of Fortune gets contestants just as smart as Jeopardy, but weed out the smart ones and choose folks with average IQ. I mean, I I'm sure that people just as smart as jeopardy contestants, you know, will try to get on Wheel of Fortune. But I think on Wheel of Fortune, you gotta have a little bit more personality than on jeopardy. Jeopardy, you know, you got the nerds. People don't expect them to be that entertaining.

Wheel of fortune. Yeah. You need a little bit of personality going on. I would love to be on wheel of fortune because I am good at that game. You know, you would think with my terrible memory, I'd do awful, but, you know, you fire up a Wheel of Fortune video game.

I've got a strategy for it and everything. Put me on Wheel of Fortune. I need money. I need dough. Alright.

That one, I I I could buy into that conspiracy theory. Let's see here. CSI Television shows purposely overplay the forensic capabilities of various law enforcement departments to help project an image of total competence. No. I think that they just do that because they gotta be able to make it through the show.

Could we enhance that image, please? You can't have a mystery that can't be solved even on the X Files. They figure it out eventually. Alright? Let's see here.

Netflix marketing team releases memes about shows to get give off the appearance that everyone is watching said show. Since people have FOMO, fear of missing out, they watch the shows to understand the memes. No. I I I think that's just marketing. I don't know if they're trying to give off the appearance that everyone's watching.

They're just trying to get the word out about shows so people will tune in. Yeah. I think the Paul McCartney conspiracy was invented by The Beatles just to mess with people. Okay. I don't think that the Beatles invented the Paul McCartney, is dead meme.

I I not mean conspiracy. I think that once some radio DJ threw it out there as a conspiracy, then they rolled with it, you know, and started putting hidden messages on the conspiracy, then they rolled with it, you know, and started putting hidden messages in just having fun. You know, I don't think that they outright came up with this idea. I think they just went with the flow. That's my best guess.

And there's some good documentaries out there about the Paul is dead conspiracy. They're very fun. Yeah. There there's a lot of clues showing that Paul McCartney was replaced by a look alike. These are kind of fun.

I might continue on with these in a few. In the meantime, I'm gonna I'm gonna take a break. Alright. Back in a minute. The only band I know that I've ever heard do a proper Soundgarden cover.

7 Dust right there, the day I tried to live. There's just too few vocalists that can pull it off. But LaJean, man, I mean, he's he's just got that right soul for the voice. So good. So good.

7 Dust, one of the most underrated bands in rock, I think I'd have to say. Alright. I'm gonna take a quick break from conspiracy action, and let's talk about idiots in the media. I was looking at a website called rock celebrities.net, and they've got a new article out titled Les Claypool hints at possible new Primus drummer fans are not happy. I was like, oh, interesting.

You know, Primus kind of threw out the open call for drummer auditions after Tim Alexander just unexpectedly and abruptly left the band. So there are a lot of videos on YouTube of people auditioning and things like that, and Les posted a video on Instagram saying, I think we found our guy. And you've got Billy Strings sitting down at the drum kit. Billy Strings, a renowned guitar player. He's just so good.

You know, we don't play Billy Strings on k Bear because it doesn't really fit. But Billy Strings is amazing. I'm a big fan. I really wish I would've got to see him play with Toole, come out and bust out a guitar solo with Toole in Salt Lake last time they came through the area, but missed out on that. I I had the better end of the deal, though.

Got to see Toole with my lady in Boise. So that was awesome. But, anyway, so Billy String sits down and says, here's my audition to play for Primus. And then he, you know, just starts playing the drums terribly. Alright.

It's obviously a joke video. Now the fans in the comments are saying things like, Billy Strings sucks. He sucks, so maybe a good fit. Whoever wrote this article does not know how Primus works. Every Primus fan knows that Primus sucks.

Their official website, I don't know if it still is, but it used to be primusucks.com. Let's find out. No. No. Come on, Primus.

That that was a fun website. Fun fun domain name. So, anyway, the fans in the comments are just leaving very clear comments made by Primus fans. Yeah. Before you write an article about a band, if if you're seeing one particular word in the comments over and over like, wow.

I can't believe how many people are saying everything about this band sucks and Billy String sucks and his drumming sucks so he'd be a good fit. These comments just don't make any sense. Yeah. Little bit of research. It's not gonna take much to figure out that, oh, Primus sucks is just a thing.

Yep. Just Google Primus sucks. You're gonna find countless videos of the crowd chanting it. Come on, guys. My back hurts.

Your back hurts? Well, stop being so old. Well, it's just what happens, man. Yeah. It is.

What what did you do? Pick up the pillow? I don't know. I just exist. Walked.

The last time I'm was picking up a pillow. This one is just fine. I'm here. I got out of bed. Yeah.

I'm feeling, you know, pretty decent other than last night after our company party, you know, I get home, and there's something about, okay, big Christmas celebration. We all get together. I got home, and I'm like, alright. It's Friday night. No.

It's Monday. Yeah. Sat down in front of the TV. I'm gonna I'm gonna play some video games. And then I looked down at my phone.

All of a sudden, it's like 9:15. I was like, no. This ain't right. It can't be Monday night. Need to tell the boss man Friday nights for those kind of things.

You don't wanna go back to work after that. No. No. I think we should be off this whole week as far as I'm concerned. Come on.

I know you got my back on this one. You just won't say it. You want it you want it off. It off for me, but you have to stay here and work. I know.

I got all this stuff I gotta do. Right. Gotta listen to about the 700 pop songs with Katie Lee. Dive into z103. It's not as rough as others, you know?

I've I've got the tier of stations that I prefer deal with. Z is pretty high up. I I like dealing with z. There's some good pop songs, you know? What would 18 year old self say to you?

Oh, man. 18 year old Victor would be like, dude, what happened to you? What happened to you? Number number 1 Oh, washout. Number 1 song of the year, Dua Lipa.

What's wrong with you? Yeah. I I'm still into the crushing brutal metal. You know, I just like something that's got a a nice hook to it. Something you can shake your booty to?

I do like shaking my booty. Listeners don't get to see what happens while I'm doing the show. There's a lot of booty shaking going on in this room every single day. Have you seen the the Trolls movies? I've I've seen at least one of them.

You are kind of a troll, so all I'm envisioning is you just hopping that booty. Hey, man. I've been Shaking your rump. I've been starting to embrace my inner troll again as of late. I noticed.

Yeah. I you were one of the first recipients of me being an Internet troll back in the day, and it it was always fun. But then I got older. I'm like, that's, you know, kinda immature. And then I was like, who cares?

Now you're regressing like Benjamin Button. Exactly. I'm just going back to it. Hey, radio people. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

I literally said that that post yesterday. If you do blank, you should be ashamed. And, I chose something that pretty much everyone in radio does and It's very shady. It is shady. You know, it's it's it's lousy, and it's the one guy who's like, I am not about supporting artists.

And then you're in the wrong business. Like, did you run a music channel, and you don't think radio should support artists? You don't have radio without artists. Yeah. It's a music channel.

What are you doing, dude? You wouldn't have anything to do if it wasn't for the artist. You are making money and getting attention off the artists you play. What I like about that is, all the old radio guys that say and have that stance when you look at them. They all have that same similar type of They do.

They have a certain look. And you're like, oh, I don't even know I don't even have to hear what you're gonna say because I already know what it's gonna be. Yeah. You can just look at the picture. They're all, you know, old.

Yeah. Try real hard not to judge people on their appearance but there's there's a certain group that are always like that in radio. Yeah. You can read a radio program or book by its cover. You know?

And they got that certain look that I sit in my office all day with my nice button down hole. Picked up an instrument and played. Yeah. Running a rock station. Ugh.

The rock station ones are the worst, you know, that don't support artists. It it makes me just crazy. Just crazy. And sadly, I mean, there's not a lot of rock guys who do understand, you know, like songwriting and the the effort required. That's why they'd chop somebody's songs up.

Nothing more insulting. And when they do it when it's not in time. Dude. That one's that one's really tough. Yeah.

When I think back to Tool's last album and that one edit I heard of fear inoculum Oh. And it's like I even tried to help. This isn't 44. What do I do? Let's just cut it here.

Dude, and I I tried to help even though I am adamantly against chopping chunks of songs out. I still sent the time stamps and, like, cut it right here and here and then piece it together because you chopped it in the middle of a riff. It it's jarring Yeah. To listen to. Nothing.

Didn't even go back and fix it. No. Like, why did I take the time to try to help? Oh, that particular person's band isn't tool. You know what it is.

Lips of an angel. What's the name? Something more was in that. Granted, the Hinder guys are nice. They're nice guys.

Yes. We went bowling with them. They were very nice. That song makes me kinda cringe, but they they are and we're playing their new song. It's in the rotation.

You know? We we support Hinder. But yeah. And you're kind of encouraging. I mean, I don't know.

Is there any other boss in radio who would encourage staff to continue antagonizing everyone else in the industry? Hey. I didn't I didn't encourage. I was asked. So, how's that going?

Wait. You did go, give that post a like, Jade. I saw Jade Davis likes this post. Because Facebook's real. Yeah.

That one got less action than, the one I did last week. I I thought this one, I'd get people a little bit more angry, but I think they were ashamed of themselves, so they didn't have anything to say. Oh, so fun. So fun. Jade, do you like songs?

Speaking of writing songs, have you ever tried to write songs with kitchen utensils? Kitchen utensils? Like spoons? Like spoons, man? Like spoons, it can't be done.

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