The Viktor Wilt Show

Morning. All right. Looking at a list here of plea- uh, places, excuse me, that people say they will never visit again. [instrumental music plays] Hell, you might be plotting a vacation. Good for you. Congrats. But if it's to one of these places, maybe you don't wanna go. Yeah. Always good to know places that people regret visiting and lots of people talking about Egypt. Now, I've always wanted to visit Egypt. Check out the pyramids, you know, the old tombs and things like that. But I have read many, many times that it kinda sucks visiting Egypt, which is very disappointing. Lots of scams going on. Uh, you know, the locals apparently [laughs] just trying to scam you everywhere you go. Uh, this one person says that their 19-year-old daughter was literally dragged into a shop and they tried to lock the door so they could get her to buy stuff. Um, people trying to charge them money to enter a public road, even in the non-tourist areas, even in their fancy hotel. Yeah. Yeah, lots and lots of comments [laughs] about Egypt. So

cool as checking out the pyramids might appear, I don't know, it might not be the place to go. Let's see. Somebody's saying, uh, Dubai, which, um,

yeah, let's see. This person says, "I hated Vegas and Dubai. Dubai seems like it would be Vegas on crack. I only flew into Dubai for a layover." Um, "Rich people unashamed of their inhumanity and nothing to do." Sounds boring. Okay. Oh, somebody says, "Phoenix?" Oh, just because of the summer weather. [laughs] Yeah, I mean, uh, you could just stay indoors. That's wintertime in Phoenix, the summer. You know, I, I don't recommend visiting Phoenix in, uh, summertime. Probably pretty nice there right now, though. Yeah. Phoenix in, like, February, March, it's great once the, uh, desert starts blooming and things like that. It's really pretty. I like Phoenix a lot. All right. Here's some... I knew Vegas would pop up on the list. They say they don't like gambling and the other attractions there just aren't made for them. I, I'd visit Vegas again. I don't know what it is, the, the flashing lights, people-watching. I don't gamble either. Um, but I, I enjoyed my time there. Last time I was there, though, it had gotten to be really, really ridiculous expensive. So, yeah, if you can keep an eye out and they got some good hotel deals, something like that, I mean, you can have a fun time. They have good shows, but yeah, you're gonna spend money. Vegas is a, a place for the rich now. Florida. Uh, people [laughs] just kinda noting the locals and, uh, Florida man. Uh, let's see. This person says that, "Daytona was miserable and disgusting." [laughs] Like, "Only in America is driving a car on a beach an attraction. Went to a flea market and it was just, uh, plastic garbage, golf carts, and, uh, firearms." Sounds about like what I'd expect for Florida.

See, "Chernobyl, when I went, there was radiation. Now, there is radiation and minefields." Uh, minefields, huh? Yeah. I don't think I'd wanna navigate that. And Chernobyl seems like it'd be pretty, uh, pretty creepy and bleak. You wanna learn more about Chernobyl, watch that HBO series. It, it was wild. It was pretty intense. All right, uh, India, United May- Arab Emirates, Marseille, France.

Um, sound, sound like a lot of people don't like dealing with the locals in places. Well, well, if we're talking d- you know, don't visit a place 'cause you don't wanna deal with the locals, I think you, if you're a long-time listener, probably know what's at the top of my list. That would be Burley. [laughs] Sorry, Burley. Sorry. Some... There's some weird locals there, though. It's unlike any other town I have ever been to. Very Stephen King story-esque. All right.

We're rolling on a Monday. I'm gonna see what else I can find to yap about. Back in a minute. [rock music plays] Gonna be very interesting to see what type of venues Sleep Token does on their next run of shows. You know they're gonna be back out on the road after selling out the entire country. Uh, every single arena show packed to the brim. It was an amazing show. The ticket situation, kinda ridiculous. So, hopefully, one of these days, something can be done a- about the concert industry in general when it comes to, uh, ticketing. It's just gotten completely insane and it happened so fast, so. Yeah, I, I don't know. You hate to have to see, like, the government get involved or something, but Ticketmaster, they, they got some crazy stuff going on. It's just absurd trying to pick up tickets to a show anymore. Except perhaps locally. I mean, I don't think we've had a major, like, scalpers-buy-all-the-tickets situation around here since, I don't know, maybe Tool or maybe some of the country shows. But what was I reading about Nine Inch Nails the other day?

[Music] There was an article something about them, uh, struggling with ticket sales,

but, uh, now I'm not, uh, really seeing that. I know that when Jade and I looked at the ticket situation for the upcoming Nine Inch Nails shows, they were absurd. They were ridiculous. Certainly, a "wait 'til the last minute to get your tickets for the show" situation. It was bad. It was bad.

But that could end up being pretty good, right, if, uh, Nine Inch Nails tickets end up being really cheap close to day of show 'cause scalpers bought them all up? Gonna be at the Delta Center, uh, early next year. I think it was in March, 'cause I think it was Ghost in February, but I can't remember. Not right now. I'm still trying to wake up, which is crazy 'cause I got lots of sleep last night. I embarrassingly just crashed out on the couch middle of the afternoon.

I don't know. It was a long weekend. You know how Friday I was like, "Yeah, you know, I'm gonna just relax all weekend and watch horror movies?" None of that happened. [laughs] The weekend just blazed by in the blink of an eye, didn't get enough rest, and here we are on Monday and I'm complaining like usual. So, I hope your morning's going, uh, better than mine. It's not horrible. It's not horrible, but, I don't know, just a little bit off today. A little bit off. Anyhow, there is so much just bleak, depressing crap on the internet today. [music plays] Like, I guess avoid looking at the internet here on a Monday morning 'cause I- I don't know if it's the- the pages I'm going to or what, but stuff's making me depressed. [laughs] Oh well, oh well. We'll power through Monday. We'll get through it somehow. Yeah. Anyway, anyway, anyhow, I'll be back in a second, 'kay? I will find some crap to talk about, but I'm not gonna share with you the bleakness that's just been, uh, infecting my computer screen here. I don't know. People having a bad weekend or what? Jeez. Gotta be something fun that happened. [music plays] Monday, boo. It's all right. It's moving by at a decent pace. Just, you know, really hope that, uh, your Monday goes by quick as well. Hopefully it ain't too shabby. What are we looking at for weather this week? Let's take a look there, see if there's any time to try to get anything done around the house since... I'm such an idiot. I, you know, worked on my backyard with my girlfriend a few days ago. Got a lot done. Got all the patio furniture put away and stuff, but I didn't put away the- the cushions for the chairs 'cause I wanted them to dry out a bit, and on Friday prior to the show, I was gonna put them away but I forgot. So, of course, they got just soaked over the weekend

and, ugh. Just really hoping we got, uh, at least one dry day ahead. Looks like, uh, today and tomorrow, hopefully. Little bit of a chance of rain tomorrow, then Wednesday and Thursday, ugh, looking chilly and rainy. I just hope it stays sorta nice for Halloween, you know? Halloween when it's like really, really cold and just crappy, that sucks. Uh, by the way, if you still for some reason have plants growing, uh, freeze warnings in effect, blah, blah, blah.

So, be careful of that. Um, and I think this week the only fun stuff we have going on are continuing on with our haunted passport giveaways. These are awesome. They get you into four different haunted attractions. The, uh, Lost Souls in Shelley, Haunted Mill in Teton, Slaughter's Realm in Blackfoot, and Idaho's Haunted Hospital in St. Anthony. Yeah, I hooked these up thanks to our friends at Wackerley Auto Center and Minuteman Service. All you gotta do is listen for the scream tone. If you hear us play the scream tone, you're gonna wanna be caller number 13 and you'll win two haunted passports that get you into all of those attractions. So, where Halloween is rapidly approaching, we need to start getting those out there so you have plenty of time to use them all up. Perfect for a k- you know, creepy date night or something.

Or just, you know, take a friend. Get out and enjoy 'em. So, listen for the scream tone and be caller number 13. If you're lucky, you win, and we're hooking up tickets to, uh, the Lost Souls here and there. I got some, uh, corn maze tickets, so try to get those out to you. [music plays] Well, hello, morning people. The Victor Wilt Show: Monday edition. Yay for Monday, right? Yeah. [laughs] I am doing my best to stay positive and motivated today. Some Mondays, extra tough. Gonna probably have to go get myself a second cup of coffee

'cause, uh, motivation at an all-time low. I hope you're not feeling that way. Hope you have a productive day. Gonna work on, uh, turning mine around. Think part of it's the, uh, content issue today. I've usually got a lot of different places I can go to find things to, uh, share with you on this program, and like I said, today

is just getting a little bit dark as far as everything that's popping up on my feed. Maybe it's just my, uh, mind state. I don't know, but, ugh. Yuck. All right, um,

you could always just go to eastidahonews.com and check out pages like It's Worth Mentioning-[rock music] Uh, Rhett threw together a video over there about famous cabins in Jackson featured in a Hollywood Western filmed by the, or in the 1950s. And I guess he went and, uh, checked them out, talked with local researcher Samantha Ford, dove into the history of the cabins, the film in which they were featured, and why Jackson was selected as the production site. I'm kind of surprised that, uh, Jackson isn't used in more movies. You know, it's very, uh, picturesque, very scenic. I mean, even, uh, The Last of Us, part of the, uh, both games

takes place in Jackson, but I believe they film in Canada, so they like built a replica of Jackson.

I, I don't know. I mean, I guess

shutting down a tourist town to, you know, record

and produce a movie or TV show, it's probably pretty expensive and difficult. Probably easier to just build [laughs] a replica of Jackson. But it was pretty impressive in the, uh, second season of The Last of Us. So, not sure when the third season is supposed to happen. If you haven't watched that show, they did a pretty dang good job adapting the b- uh, the games to the screen. Better than I expected, 'cause I've seen some bad adaptations in my day. Yeah, hopefully Mike Flanagan is still working on The Dark Tower by Stephen King. It's the only time I've ever had any hope for that series being adapted, was when Mike Flanagan came on board to, to work on that. But, I think he's working on other things right now. Like, he's got another Carrie coming out, which, I mean, don't we have enough versions of the story Carrie? Maybe he'll do it good, though. Maybe he'll do it like really, really well. I don't know. It's a great book, if you haven't ever read it. I really need g- need to get back to reading. Maybe I'll try to do some reading tonight. I don't know. Gotta get, get my act together. Do some chores. Boring. Ugh! Anyway, I'm sure I'll be able to find some freak news. At least I hope. I'm gonna get digging. That's coming up in about 10 minutes, so you just hang on, I'll be right back. [rock music] I think I criticized the Sleep Token set list, you know, a bit before going to the show. Gotta say I was wrong. It was a great set. Made me really appreciate the newer songs better. Wish they would've played that song, though. I don't know. When you like so many songs from a band, you're probably never gonna be satisfied with the set list. It's like going to see Tool. [laughs] You know? I'm always like, "What, why didn't they play Lateralus? Huh? Come on." But they always, you know, they always crush it. Anyway, talked a bit earlier about, uh, concert tickets being expensive. You know, everything's expensive. So, vacationing might not be a thing for everybody right now. I know it's gonna be a bit before I can afford to go on a vacation, but hopefully can start getting ahead soon. I was looking at this cntraveler.com list of the top hotels in the world, and apparently the, the best one is in, uh, San Francisco, or at least the San Francisco area. The Lodge at Bottega Bay. Now, I don't know, I, I... Is this the, uh, San Francisco Bay area?

They don't even have any pictures of the hotel, just the, uh, people sitting outside on... I mean, it sorta looks like a beach, but it kinda looks like a muddy swamp. I don't know. Doesn't look that great to me. Then they got the Ritz-Carlton in New York coming in at number two. The Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee at number three. Now, I don't know if you've ever been to Milwaukee. I've been there once. I was not too impressed with, uh, Milwaukee as a city. I, it wasn't, there wasn't anything like particularly wrong with it. I was just kinda underwhelmed. But

apparently they got a great hotel, if you wanna go visit Milwaukee. The Thompson Nashville at number four. Lots of US hotels, then they start uh, you know, getting out here, going to Istanbul and all kinds of places.

I had a different page opened here on this same website where, you know, readers of this site had voted on the best cities in, uh, in America, and now I can't find it again, which is, uh, annoying. [laughs] 'Cause I wanted to look at what people are saying are the best cities in America. W- where did that page go? I will tell you that I remember the number one city,

as voted on by, you know, subscribers to this magazine and website, the number one city was Chicago. Yeah. Kinda, I, I was kinda surprised too. Kinda surprised as well. But I've never been to Chicago. You know, talking to people who have been to Chicago, everybody's told me it's great. You know, I, sorry, I don't talk to politicians. You know? [laughs] Kinda like how my, my friends in Portland are like, "It's still pretty great here." You know, every big city's gonna have its issues and sketchy areas, but, uh, yeah. I've always really wanted to go to Chicago. One of my best radio friends, Elwood, programs Will Rock in Chicago, and I don't know, he loves it there. I wouldn't wanna live there simply based on Midwestern winter weather. If I'm gonna move, ever, out of Idaho, I am moving somewhere where I don't put up with winter. Like, maybe that's why I'm feeling a little bit, little bit off today. You know, had frost on the truck when I got moving this morning. It's getting cold. I had to turn the heat on in the house. I hate that time of year.[rock music plays] ... 'cause I know what's coming. [laughs] Sorry, I'll try not to talk about it. Nobody wanna hear about winter right now, except handful of you maniacs who like doing things like skiing and snowboarding or sledding. When I was putting stuff away, uh, in the shed, I did see my little stack of sleds and was like, "Ugh, sledding? Ah, let's just go climb up and down a snow heap, and just keep going up and down in the snow." I know, I'm, you know, cr- cranky and, "If you don't like it, you could move somewhere else." It's not that simple. You gotta get a job. And it's expensive, and radio jobs pretty much everywhere aside from here, well, they tend to suck. Um, you know, condolences to my friends at iHeart Media who were recently let go. It's that time of year, the holiday season, when radio just starts giving people the boot. Well, a lot of times for no reason. It's a rough biz. Rough biz. Holy crap, at least the morning show's going by quick. Then I just gotta get through the Monday meeting. Then I can hide in my office and work on, uh... Oh yeah, I got a d- I got some tedious work ahead. Oh, it's gonna be country music week for me. It's okay. I'm gonna be stoked when it's, uh, all wrapped up and I can, uh, debut everything that, uh, we've been working on. [rock music plays] Okay, let's take a look at this thread here. "Am I jerk for telling my friend she's not edgy? She's just mean and that's why no one invites her out anymore." [rock music plays] All right. Let's see what kind of bad friends we got going on here. All right, the poster says, "I'm 23 female, and my friend, 24, let's call her Riley, we've been friends since college. She's always been kind of dramatic but lately, it's been next level. Like, full on yelling in restaurants, crying over guys she went on two dates with, stealing scenes over nothing. Last week, we were at a bar and she threw a drink at a guy because he didn't text her back. Just straight up threw it. Everyone went silent. Security came over. It was a whole thing. So after we got outside, I pulled her aside and was like, 'You can't keep doing this. You're embarrassing yourself. It's not cute anymore. It's not main character energy. It's messy. People are laughing at you, not with you.' She looked at me like I slapped her. Said I was a bad friend. That I should support her no matter what, said, 'I'm not gonna sit back and let her act like a clown and then cry when people pull away.' She stormed off. One of our mutual friends said I could've been more gentle, she's going through a lot. I get it, but like, at what point does being a supportive friend mean enabling chaos?" All right. I've had some friends like this.

Dump 'em. That's right. [laughs] Ah, if somebody just raises a ruckus every time you go out... Again, the endless drama. You don't need drama in your life. If anybody is creating just endless drama in your life and being rude, being mean to you, causing problems with other people, dump 'em. Kick 'em to the curb. You don't need that, you know, negativity getting bashed into your head every single day. Life is challenging enough

with, you know, good people around you, 'cause life is a challenge. But if you're surrounded by turds, oh, it, it just gets to be so much worse. And from my experience, people who are just kinda horrible to you, take advantage of you, they're gonna end up doing something really messed up to you. Okay? Can't be trusted. Dump 'em. There we go.

Oh, this situation just sounds so annoying. So annoying. Nothing worse than people who are just aggravated and take it out on everybody else, even if she is having a bad time. Everybody has a bad time, okay? And a lot of people have a really bad time. That's why when you hear me complain about most things, I make sure to point out it's a First World problem and I'm kind of an idiot for complaining about it when, yeah, people are going through some really terrible things, so... Yeah. Get the negativity out of your life. You know, if somebody's a, a black cloud hanging over your friend group or your relationship, just give 'em the boot. Be done with it. Nobody needs to put up with that kind of crap. So there's my advice for you. Yeah. Cast out the turds. [rock music plays] Well, good morning, Peaches.

Good morning.

How was the rest of your weekend?

It was great. Just hung out, played a whole lot of video games yesterday, played, uh, Sunken Lands.

Haven't heard of that one.

Uh, it just came out not that long ago. It's in the early release stages, but-

Right on

... also bought Red Dead Redemption 2, on sale for $15 for the PC.

Nice. Nice. I played a tiny bit of Red Dead this weekend but, uh... Yeah, ended up being a busier weekend than I expected. You know, did some, uh, some yard work when it wasn't raining and, uh... Yeah, I was gonna sit down and watch movies, and I, I don't even know what happened but we just never ended up sitting down and watching any movies, so-

I showed Aubrey the 2017 IT and she didn't like it.

Didn't like it, huh?

She, she didn't like the, the bully, um, uh, ending the dad, you know?

Yeah.

The, the whole thing. She just-

There, there were some brutal s- brutal scenes.

Sh- she thought Pennywise would be more fun, not just-

Oh

... a terror.

Uh, he is a monster.

Right. That's what I explained to her.

That, uh, goes after children.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We'll have to watch IT Chapter Two.

Oh, you didn't even watch Chapter Two?

No, we watched the first one to kind of see how she felt-

Okay

... about it. 'Cause, uh-

Nice

... she doesn't wanna see any of the, like, the truly scary movies.[instrumental rock music] No, no, we can't have a Halloween horror movie marathon and only watch like Casper the Friendly Ghost and-

Y- yeah. [laughs] That doesn't sound great.

... and Scooby-Doo goes to Fright Island.

[laughs] Yeah. I'm, I'm trying to think of horror movies that are not... Is it the brutal stuff that she doesn't like or just scary in general?

I think she doesn't like the, the, the brutal.

Hmm.

The blood, gore, all that stuff. Like, if I showed her Terrifier, I'm sure she'd walk out.

Yeah. Try Together. [laughs] It's not really gory, but it's gross.

Have we logged into, uh, is it, is that on HBO Max?

Uh, I'm not sure. I think I watched it on demand, if I recall correctly.

You can rent weapons and we were about to, but it was 10 bucks to do so.

10, huh? Yeah. I, um, I think I've still got, 'cause I didn't finish it, the copy that I rented, but I do wanna finish that movie soon. You know, it was, it was definitely getting interesting and, you know, we were looking at the, uh, top horror movies of 2025 last week and a lot of them I hadn't heard of 'em. You know, the really highly rated Rotten Tomatoes movies. So, gonna have to dig into some of that. Maybe now that the, uh, concert mayhem has basically completed.

Oh yeah. I'm happy about that.

You know?

I'm happy and sad at the same time about that.

Yeah. I'm happy because, you know, I like to have the occasional beverage at the show and those are always very expensive. So when you have lots of shows in a row, that adds up and then I start getting all paranoid. "I'm broke! What am I gonna do?"

[laughs]

"I don't have any money. Oh!"

You know, you know, I feel, I feel bad when artists sometimes will just give me a T-shirt.

Yeah.

And I'm like, "Please don't do that." I just wanted a picture with Lee and he was like, "Oh, what size are you?" Gave me one.

Uh, he gave Becca one too.

Yeah.

Very nice guy.

Super s- nice guy.

Lee from the funeral portrait.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. That wa- that was a fun show. Um, I guess there is one more show coming up. This Friday night I'm gonna be hosting a show with a couple of local metal bands at The Heart. So, that's, uh, should be an interesting one.

Yeah.

[laughs] I'm, I'm excited. It's a bit of a costume party.

I'm hoping to make it to that. W- I wanna see how that all turns out for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I gotta figure out, uh, an outfit this week but I haven't had time to go to the, uh, thrift store.

Maddi did say she wants to dress you all up like one of the performers.

Yeah, she said she'd help out-

Yeah

... with the makeup. So, you know, between her and Becca, I should be good to go. Good.

Victoria Wilt.

Victoria Rose.

Victoria Rose.

[laughs]

I knew a girl named that in high school.

The last time I, uh, you know, dressed up, uh, for Halloween, um, in, uh, lady's clothes, boy did I look hideous. I had a blue wig and, um-

I can-

... I just don't look good dressed up that way.

I can only imagine now if you uploaded a picture of yourself like that.

Oh, I'm sure pe- like back then, nobody cared. You know, it wasn't an issue 'cause it's Halloween, it's fun.

This is why I don't listen to K-Bear. [laughs]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Victor's dressing up as a lady in the mornings.

It's like, it's Halloween.

They got this big fat guy in the afternoon named Peaches.

Yeah, like, I don't know what, what happened, but Halloween used to be a lot more fun. Now there's outrage about all kinds of different costumes. I'm sure this year there are gonna be some costumes that infuriate people. I won't get into my speculation on what those will be, but-

I did see a whole thing about how a display, um, got people upset and I don't know why this was in- uh, integrated into the display. I don't really wanna go into details of it, but-

Yeah, yeah. No-

... uh, I was like, "Don't make your Halloween decorations political in any way, shape or form."

Yeah. Yeah, it's me- it's supposed to fun for kids. You don't need to get a message out.

Right.

Okay? Just have fun for Halloween.

Looking at you, Kathy Griffin.

[laughs] Oh, let's see. Halloween outrage. What have we had so far? Let's see. The i- the one you're... I'm assuming the one that you're mentioning is the one that pops up first.

Right.

But, uh, Fortnite sparks outrage over controversial Doja Cat post ahead of Halloween 2025 event.

Not Doja Cat.

Um, yeah. I mean, Fortnite is a kid's game. Looks like a certain item may have been, uh, included and, uh, I'm assuming you can use it as a weapon kind of like in, uh, Saints Row? You know what I'm talking about? I'm, I'm not gonna say what type of item, but-

I lo- I loved that bat back in the day. That was so cool to me.

Yeah. Oh, if that happened nowadays, as you, as you see, endless outrage. Um-

I think it was Saints Row 3 where you could like hook onto them and then launch them in the air. [laughs]

[laughs]

Was, was that sort of thing?

Didn't people are digging up old Halloween costumes, like look at this celebrity 20 years ago and the way they dressed for Halloween. Well, back in the day, people didn't get bent out of shape about every single little thing.

Uh, you know how many parents out there have dressed up as, you know, not appropriate mo- in, in not appropriate costumes now type thing?

Yeah. And I mean, it, it appears that there are a lot of political Halloween displays out right now. Um-

I think a lot of people just go to those stupid trunk or treat events. And then what's like, what if like y- the p- person hates your costume? Are they just gonna shut the trunk in front of you? No candy. [laughs]

I, I think that people would be nice to kids at trunk or treats if- [laughs]

Slam the trunk and drive away. [laughs]

Yeah, if you're not gonna be nice to all the kids, stay home, turn the lights off and don't take part in Halloween.

I love how that's the phrase now. "Uh, no porch light on for me this year."

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know if I'll be home. I was thinking about putting out a bowl full of, uh, packets of ramen. And there you go kids.

You do that.

Enjoy.

I'm gonna, you're gonna see me in the ring camera walking up to your front door and just taking-

[laughs]

... like one or two.

Hey, you're too big!

Thanks, Victor. [laughs]

You're not a kid. You can't have the ramen.

[laughs]

[laughs] Ramen's a pretty affordable, uh, Halloween treat. You know, kids love ramen. I, I am not a fan. I ate too much of it when I was, uh-[instrumental music] ... you know, young and poor. So, I even see those packets, I'm like, "Ugh."

I hand out, uh, caramel f- uh, covered onions.

Caramel covered onions.

Get them with that trick.

That's a- that's always a nice one too.

Ha ha.

Uh, and you of course have to put razor blades in 'em. No, don't do that people.

Put the Razor's Edge from AC/DC in every single treat.

Far as I know, razors have never been discovered in Halloween candy. I think it's, uh-

Okay, we're gonna get that one listener, "Yeah, dude, my cousin once removed or twice removed, uh, found razors in his kids' candy." [laughs]

Yeah, it's a persistent, uh, urban legend, but actual confirmed cases are extremely rare. And these have pretty much always been some kind of a family member, you know, trying to mess up their- their own family. 'Cause sometimes families, uh, you know, you can have some terrible members of your family.

Oh, yeah.

So, yeah. Why people still fear needles in Halloween candy though there is no evidence of any deaths or injuries from contaminated Halloween candy. Why are people still afraid of it? Because of persistent rumors and persistent lies being spread, which I can only imagine in this day and age is way worse, 'cause the amount of misinformation and just made up stuff that's out there is... It's crazy. It's crazy. So, I would still check your kids' candy, but

I- I don't think you need to worry too much. Generally, it's in sealed packages, name brand. Should be okay. But, I know there have been a handful of incident... Well, I don't know. Again, I'm seeing a lot of, you know, the- the- these are rumors and conspiracies and things like that. So, I don't know. But I'm- I'm anxious to see what costumes make people mad this Halloween season. Hope... I- I swear if somebody gets mad

because on Halloween or for a Halloween show I'm considering dressing up as a hideous woman. You know? To me, it would just be hilarious. Hilarious.

Oh, please do it. We'll take a picture together.

Well, I'm gonna, 'cause why not? You know? I- it's a- a cheap costume. You know, I- I can make, uh- make a party out of it, you know? All right, here you go ladies, make me up. And I- I think it'd be funny. I think it'd be funny 'cause I'll look terrible. Terrible. Get myself a nice wig, cover up this bald head. Do I have to shave the beard?

What- what col- What color hair would you go with?

Uh, I think it depends on the dress. [laughs]

Would you go with the- with- with the- the black hair, kinda like

[laughs]

... your skull from back in the day?

You know, I- I think if I went like, uh, you know, a- a- a dirty goth or dirty rocker chick, that'd be pretty cool.

I think maybe you could get some- enough makeup on your face to cover the whole goatee.

You know, I-

And make it look like you have a giant chin.

I think maybe if I, um, you know, trimmed it real short-

Uh-huh

... and then y- you use like a- a glue stick to press it down real tight, then you can paint over it.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

That's gonna look weird.

Yeah. But I don't know. Maybe I'll just get real psycho and shave it off.

If you-

I haven't done that for many, many years.

Well, wow.

But I've got an ugly chin that kinda sticks out, so that would make me look even more terrible. But, oh, that's what I'm considering. So, I'll be hanging out at The Heart Friday night. Got some great local metal bands playing. It'll be lots of fun. Hope you'll come out. I'll share that poster on my Facebook page again this week. But yeah, looks like it should be a pretty good time. So, after that, kinda radio silence on local shows.

Right, yeah.

Aside from like, what, Trans-Siberian Orchestra coming up, which that- that would be pretty fun.

I think my last show of the year is gonna be in Salt Lake City, Fame On Fire, Set It Off.

Ah.

Pretty wild.

Me and Jade were talking about maybe going and seeing Thrice next month, but kinda depends on the weather, you know? If it's, uh, if it's dumping snow and the roads are garbage, mm, I don't know about that. I don't like it. Not a fan, Peaches.

Right.

Not a fan of being out when it sucks. So, check out our, uh, event calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com and you can find out about shows coming to the area. I better play these ads for our loyal sponsors. Listen to them.

... Saturday events, seeing if people are still gonna be celebrating, to determine whether or not I do another full day of Halloween music on the day after Halloween. We'll just have to see there. All right. What's going on online? All right, "Am I a jerk for not letting my boyfriend's emotional support ex stay with us for a week?"

[laughs] What? What... Okay. Who out- who out there, you're gonna have your ex come stay with you and your current relationship for a week? Let's- let's read through this and see what the justification is. "I, a 30 female, live with my boyfriend, 31 male, and we've been together for two years. His ex, Leila, broke up with him four years ago and they remained friends. I've always been not thrilled but respectful of their friendship. Now Leila is going through a divorce and asked if she could stay with us for a week, saying she just needs to be around people who love her. I immediately said I'm uncomfortable with that and that she should stay with family or a female friend. My boyfriend said I'm being threatened by nothing and that it's not like that. I don't think anything is shady or shady is happening, but I just don't want someone he used to be with staying in my home while I'm there. Or worse, if I have to travel for work midweek, he told me I'm being cold and selfish. Now I'm wondering if I'm overreacting. Am I being a jerk?" No!

[Rock music playing]

Not at all. Like... Okay, you listening right now, your significant other wants their ex to come stay at your house for a week. W- who on earth would think that's a reasonable request? Maybe, uh, if there are some rare situations where, I don't know, everybody's really good friends, and it, I don't know, wasn't a serious thing or something. I- I don't know, but I know I would be like, "Heck no! Absolutely not!" That's a crazy request to me. Who wants to put up with somebody else's ex? You know, there's a reason they're an ex. They might be a total turd, you know? I mean, think about your exes. You want- you wanna deal with them? Who would want their ex to come stay for a week? Even if you get along... Like, I- I don't know. Seems like she's gotta have somebody else she can hang out with or something. Head out! Make some new friends. Get a hotel room. I don't know, but... Yeah, I'm gonna go with a- a "heck no" on that one. Yikes! Ugh, I can only imagine. [laughs] And what's an emotional support ex? That sounds kind of, uh, I don't know, bothersome to me. Your- Your current partner should be your emotional support, all right?

You know, your ex needs emotional support? Go find some support then! Move on! All right? Move on. People shouldn't have to deal with their exes. Like, ugh. Again, there's a reason they're your ex. You don't wanna be around 'em. So, staying in your home? Yikes. Hopefully people are giving the, uh, proper response, like, "That's ridiculous [laughs] and not normal." Like, "Is your boyfriend smoking crack? What's going on here?" Weird questions online. Should be common sense. If your partner wants to bring their ex over to stay for a week, dump 'em! There you go. I know I encourage a lot of dumping on this show, but... Just get yourself in a good relationship. Don't let people walk all over you. Dump 'em, and then tell 'em if they're bothering you, "Stop it, or I'm gonna block your number. Not gonna put up with your crap." All right, I'm gonna try to find some more crap to talk about, and, uh, finish off this second cup of coffee that doesn't seem to be doing anything to me. Fantastic. Uh, we'll be back.

[Rock music playing]

Ah! Monday. Thankfully, almost through this show. Then I gotta go to the meeting, and then I gotta sit at my computer and dive into the country music world all day. Second cup of coffee didn't do anything. Fantastic. Not gonna try for a third. That sounds just like, uh, creepy crawling right out of my skin. So, I hope you're feeling rested and replenished. Ready to crush this day down. [yawns] Sorry. Sorry. Think I need to stand up or something. All right. Guess we could see if anything exciting is happening in the Life in Idaho Falls Facebook group. It got kinda boring over there. Seemed like all the, uh, the drama's gone and stuff. And the drama was what made it great. Now we just have people asking questions they can find out on Google. Like, "Hey, any recommendations for jewelers? Jewelers?" Yeah. Google. There you go.

Search for "jewelry". It's not that difficult. Look at some reviews. All right, people, uh, having trouble getting their meat processed.

Google! I mean, how many of these questions can simply be answered with a quick Google? You know? So, this person says, "I'm in search of a computer person who does a knowledgeable in fixing my problems... Or who is knowledgeable [laughs] in fixing my problems on two laptops. The first one is no longer supported by Windows sev- uh, 11, and I need all information transferred to the new one and set up the new one. I also need prices." You also need to learn how to use Google, is what you need to do. Now, I'll generally try something and then if I'm really screwing it up, I, you know, call JD or something. "Get over here and help me, dude." 'Cause one of these days I'm gonna get my microwave set up where it needs to be, but

just been tough. Tough work.

All right.

We got a couple Halloween tracks every hour, thanks to our friends at Juicity Vapor. It's K-Bear's Rockin' Halloween with Weird Al. [Rock music playing] Where has the day gone so far? Apparently the same place that the weekend went, 'cause I pretty much blinked and the weekend was over. Very frustrating. I mean, I'm sure suddenly just, uh, crashing out and taking a nap in the middle of Sunday afternoon didn't help it go by any slower, but... Oh, if only I could crash out in this studio sometimes and take a nap. Feeling it this morning. Gonna have to go to bed at, like, 8:00 PM or something. S- Oh! So unnatural. So unnatural.

Kinda like a lot of the news I read. You know, what was this deal? Did we talk about this guy who did a prank and got jailed for six months? You know, you see a lot of prank videos online, and I'm thinking the majority of them are staged, as, you know-

[Music] If you're doing real pranks

that could really upset people, you will end up in jail. So this guy

was pulling fake syringe attacks on people. He shows up wearing a mask. He's got gloves on. And then does he just, just stick them? Says he pretends to inject people with an empty syringe.

I mean, if you stick a needle into somebody, that has to be battery. Let's see. What'd they charge him with? Violence with a weapon that did not result in incapacity for work. All right, this is, uh, in France. Also given a three-year ban on owning or carrying a weapon, and fined about, uh,

about $3,000. He said he was in his own world and didn't know anything. "I had the very bad idea of doing these pranks by imi- imitating what I saw on the internet." Yeah.

Don't repeat the behavior of people on the internet. They ... [laughs] You can get into trouble. And if you're sticking needles into people, even if it- they're not packed with any kind of substance, to me, that's a, that's a stabbing, right? Ugh. How irritating would it be if you're all, you know, concerned and paranoid? [Music] People are just dumb. Dumb and awful. So anyway, he, he got six months in jail for that one. That'll teach him. I'm sure we won't have any other dumb pranks pop up on the internet. No. Never.

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