The Viktor Wilt Show

Hello. Welcome to the Viktor Wilt Show. I didn't intend to start my day talking about toilets, but why not? Why not? It's national no.

Not even national. World Toilet Day. I tend to avoid talking about the wacky holidays of the day unless there's something like world toilet day or world cheeseburger day. The reason that there is a world toilet day is to actually raise awareness that 2,500,000,000 people worldwide do not have regular access to a toilet. You got friends that complain about things?

Next time somebody's complaining about something dumb, point out that 2,500,000,000 people worldwide do not have access to a toilet. Alright. Can you imagine? It'd be terrible. I hope you're grateful.

As we move on through the morning, I hope you think back to this moment time and time again. Anytime one of your first world problems is getting to you and realize, well, you know, I do have a toilet. I mean, I feel like a glutton here. I have 3 toilets in my house. 3.

That's pretty messed up that there are people 2,500,000,000 people worldwide that don't have access to a toilet, and I who live alone with 2 cats have 3 toilets. Shame upon me. I I would gladly, if I could transport one of my bathrooms to somewhere where somebody needed a toilet, I'd do it. Toilet donations. Yeah.

A lot of people don't realize a lot of people don't realize how it is for people around the world. Tons of people with no access to running water. I mean, that's way worse than no access to a toilet, but just try to be a little bit grateful for what you have this morning. You know, if you got going for your day, yeah, sit down in a nice war warm bathroom and do your business on your glorious toilet that 2,500,000,000 people worldwide wish they had access to yet alone, you know, owned. Anyway, happy world toilet day.

I don't know how you're supposed to celebrate it. I guess use 1. There you go. Yo. What's up?

It's Victor Wilt. Morning, and happy Tuesday to you. Hope it's going good so far. I was looking at a thread online, and I figured I'd talk about it. That's what I do on this show.

Look at stuff online. Yap. This thread is called, what did you see in someone's home that told you? Yep. They're rich.

All right. You should be able to tell before walking into their home. Right? Now in this day and age, if somebody's living in a mansion, like a straight up mansion, you know they've gotta be doing pretty well because a starter home I mean, that's out of reach for most of us. Alright?

I won the lotto by buying my house when I did. I mean, I'm not trying to brag here. I just got very lucky. If I was to try to buy my same house now, no. Wouldn't happen.

Alright? So what would it take for you to walk through someone's door and not at that point realize that they're rich? What would you have to see? Well, somebody in here said that their friend's dad had a T Rex skeleton in the hallway. Yeah.

That would probably be a pretty good sign. You know what? I hope doesn't happen with this list as I go through it. And I'm like, wait a minute. My friends have that.

They're not rich. How dare you, commenters? Alright. What other items do we have that you could see in someone's home that would tell you they're rich? A copy of architectural digest magazine with their house on the cover.

Yeah. Again, you would've, probably noticed the house on your way in, but that that's just one way to rub it in. Is it not? Look at my house on the cover of Architectural Digest Magazine. Do you know anybody else who has their their home on the cover?

No. Jeez. Alright. Let's see here. The couches aren't pushed up against a wall.

Alright. All of my couches are pushed against the wall. What a bum. What a bum I am with my couches against the wall. What else do we have here?

A Monet in their office. Okay. I wouldn't be able to identify that. If I saw a painting worth a $1,000,000 on the wall, I'm not gonna know. I'm just like, oh, that's pretty cute.

Or I might be like, well, that painting's pretty lame. I wouldn't put that up as a decoration. It's worth more than everything I own. That painting's dumb. It's not cool at all.

Lousy decoration. Let's see here. Alright. This is a long, long post here. A kid I was friends with in high school, his parents had a new custom house built, blah blah blah blah blah.

He used to go over swim in the pool. The thing that stood out was the new Steinway grand piano in the living room. Okay. This kid played piano, so he knew that, Steinway is apparently handmade in one of only 2 locations in the world. They're like the Rolls Royce of pianos.

Probably cost over a $100. Jeez. I can't imagine, buying anything aside from a home that costs that amount of money. Hundred grand. And I we probably got people listening driving a $100,000 truck.

You know? Hope those payments are fun. Not saying I wouldn't. Like, if I could afford I mean, you you gotta be sitting pretty well, right, to afford a $100 vehicle or you're just like you really need a truck and it's 2024. Man, the prices have got to be so stupid.

I don't think if somebody owns a $100,000 truck, that indicates that they're rich, actually. No. That just means you you bought a newer truck. Wonder what Josh paid for his new, newish Tundra. Again, won the lottery when I bought my truck.

Bought it about, 10 years ago. Yeah. Don't think I'd be buying a truck nowadays. I can't even afford to buy myself a a cheap, like, Geo Metro to be able to get by on, you know, the current gas prices. No full street address.

Just the name of their house. Please ship this to me, Victor Wilt's house. Postman knows where it is. My goodness. Alright.

Well, anyway, I don't wanna hear about these people and all their money. It's too early for that. Getting paid tomorrow, and it's all gonna go to bills. Unfortunately, no t rex skeleton in my future. Maybe I'll make some of you dudes feel a little bit better about things.

You got friends that are criticizing your masculinity, saying you're not manly enough? Well, just because your friends are into something doesn't mean you need to be. So traditionally masculine things, you don't have to be interested in them. And, these are things online that dudes say, yeah. This might be a a typically manly thing, but I'm just not into it.

Let's see, see how unmanly these dudes are. Okay. Right at the top, I don't generally wear high heels or powdered wigs. Wait. How traditional are we talk?

Okay. Yeah. Back in the day, you ever seen those pictures of, George Washington? Yo. Look at those shoes.

Look at those shoes and that, hair. Those are wigs. Mhmm. Alright. That's pretty funny.

Okay. Strip clubs. I will openly admit not really into that kind of thing. I don't know. Expensive?

I'm not really into bars to begin with at this point in my life. So, yeah, a a more expensive bar? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, to each their own, into that kind of thing, whatever.

But, yeah, one of the very last places I could imagine suggesting going to with one of my friends would be that type of place. I don't know. I guess I'm just old. You know? I've got everything that you could possibly look for in a bar at my house.

I've got, you know, music. I got a pool table. I'm I'm set. I'm set. Just hang out at my house.

Let's see. Multiple boomers have bragged about never changing a diaper. Is it unmanly to take care of your children? I don't know if I brag about it. Yeah.

I'm so manly. I just don't pay attention to my children at all. I'm I'm, you know, fifties dad. That's right. Let's bring it back.

What's wrong with people? Let's see here. Proving my masculinity. Is is proving your masculinity a thing that dudes are into? I guess so.

I'm gonna go fight that guy. I know I've pointed out many times before getting in fights is totally stupid. People can end up dead. One wrong hit to the head. Somebody ends up dead.

You're just out trying to prove you're a man, getting a fight with somebody. Next thing you know, many years in jail. Yeah. Not worth it, dudes. Not worth it.

Hang out at home. Hiding emotion. That one that one's tough, ain't it? Something about being a dude and stuffing down those feelings. Just stuffing them down.

Yeah. You don't have to do that. It's probably good to talk to somebody. Get it out of your system. It all builds up in there.

You're gonna go crazy. You know, take it from somebody who goes and talks to somebody. Yeah. Don't let things build up inside of you, dude. It's okay to get to get help and to talk to somebody.

Alright? Let's see. What else do we have? A lot of stuff about competition and fighting here. Okay.

And now everybody's just repeating themselves sports. Okay. I'm not really into sports. That's fine. I mean, is there anybody out there who has a guy friend who's not into sports?

You know, you're not a real man because you don't watch football. Probably, but I don't know. There's south park exists. If I have the option, 1 or the other football or south park, easy choice, easy choice. Dudes, just be yourselves.

All right. Just be yourselves. You know, there's people out there who are gonna like it for who you are. And, again, some of these, you know, dumb, madly behaviors, they're just gonna get you in trouble. So keep that in mind.

Man, people, they get into some weird stuff when it comes to changing their appearance. You don't gotta go all out sometimes. There's a new surgery called keratopigmentation. And what this is all about is changing your eye color costs about $12,000, and they put dye into the cornea of your eyes to change your eye color. And doctor's like, don't do it.

You could get an infection. You could have vision problems. Yeah. It, I guess, carries serious risks for vision loss and other complications like light sensitivity. And, you know, I mentioned infections.

Nobody want an infected eye. People have been changing their eye color for decades with contact lenses. Hey. You put them in. Your eyes are a different color for a while.

You take them out. You can get a prescription for them from a doctor. Be all fine. No worried about all of a sudden no eyes not being able to see, and the price is right. You know, I don't know what the price of, contacts to change your eye color are, but I know they ain't $12,000 because I've seen people my age and, right here in East Idaho that have used contact lenses to change their eye color.

And I I don't think they forked over 12 g's for said contact lenses. So I I recommend that route. You know, just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should. And putting dye into your eyes, I don't know. It just sounds like a bad idea, you know, at least to this guy.

I'm sure you've heard me complain about air travel. It's one of those things I do. Nothing worse than flight delays. But I guess if you're going to have a flight delayed, if you can blame it on dozens of cute little hamsters, that ain't too bad, is it? Well, I don't know.

It depends if you were grounded for days stuck in Portugal. Yeah. Apparently, a Portuguese airplane was stranded on an airport airport runway for about 4 days after a 130 hamsters broke free from their cages. And it just they were everywhere. I guess what was going on is they were transporting these animals, Obviously, I guess.

Even if they didn't intend to, they were transporting them. There were a 130 of them loose on a plane. But, no, they were in carriers at the beginning. But then as hamsters do, they chewed through whatever kind of, baggage they were being, stowed in, and then they just started running amok, running amok. Now hamsters are pretty cute.

They're not as disturbing as, like, if you had a plane with a 130 rats on it, people would be very upset, but they were worried, you know, the hamsters could chew through electrical wiring, things like that. And the last thing you need is all of a sudden the power going out on an airplane because a hamster chewed through it when you're at, like, 30,000 feet. So, anyway, it took, I guess, about 4 days to round up all of them, and they didn't even run up or round up all of them. There were still 16 they never really found. I mean, 16 hamsters could do a lot of damage, so if you're taking a flight from Portugal anytime soon, dude, just be aware.

All it takes is one hamster to unleash pure mayhem when it comes to electrical wiring and that kind of thing or just, you know, unruly passengers. Some people see a hamster, you know, screaming, running down the aisle. Could just be bad news. I don't think this will make as good of a movie as Snakes on a Plane, though. I mean, that movie's a classic.

Hamsters on a plane. Just not quite scary enough even if it's probably more dangerous because snakes don't chew up everything like a hamster. Freak news is powered by Greasemonkey, voted Idaho's best oil change. I am Victor Welt. Let's roll.

Alright. Looks like a church in the UK. They were having some trouble figuring out how to bring people in. I guess, attendance had been down, and they got thinking, well, maybe we need to make things a little bit more exciting. So they set up a wrestling ring in the middle of the what what do you call that room where everybody gathers, where the congregation sits?

Why can't I think of that word? Okay. It doesn't matter. Anyway, they set up a ring in there, and they're doing, professional wrestle matches throughout the sermon. It doesn't make any sense to me, but I don't know.

Sometimes you gotta combine a little bit of entertainment with, the gospel, and I don't know. It's one way to get your message across. Like, for example, they had David Starkiller Birch, taking on Angel. And, they come out and they're, you know, doing their spiel because, you know, you you can't have a pro wrestling match without the wrestlers calling each other. How does fighting work out in church?

You think you're holier than me? Let's see. What did he say? Oh, wow. Okay.

So this guy, he kinda comes in, and he's playing the bad guy. So this your savior? These people have no god. The star killer is now your god. Wouldn't that be weird?

You're sitting in church and you got this guy wearing tights, screaming and yelling, and I don't know. I guess then the, the baby face, that's what they call the, good guy in a wrestling match, comes out to take on the heel, Starkiller, and then they, you know, battle it out, and I don't know. It does sound like an interesting way to get across the messages found in the bible. Any local churches that are looking for ways to increase attendance? I I guess you could give pro wrestling a shot.

I thought the old fashioned way of just having a rock band play or something might work a little better, but whatever. Alright. What else do we have here? From Freak News powered by Greasemonkey. Oh, bad parenting?

It's always fun to talk about. Right? Imagine you're at the laundromat and your kid loses a bag of potato chips. What are you gonna do? You know, hit the vending machine, buy another bag of chips.

No. You stuff your kid in the dryer. Jeez. Yeah. These 3 adults after a kid lost a bag of potato chips, stuffed them into a laundromat dryer, and locked them in there.

Eventually, the cop showed up, arrested all the adults. Kid was visibly shaking and crying. Well, yeah. I'd imagine getting stuffed into a dryer at any age is going to be terrifying. And, jeez, man, it's just a bag of chips.

It wasn't even Doritos. These were just potato chips. Not even, like, you know, good chips. Yikes. Alright.

Well, at least they're in jail now. Hopefully, that kid mentally recovers. My goodness. Let's see. About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media.

Well, that explains a lot. Alright. Listen. I know it's challenging to figure out where to go for news nowadays. I was actually talking with somebody about this yesterday.

I don't know what is going to happen as far as people being able to get information moving forward. As far as humanity goes, people get their news from too many different places. And when you're talking about people like influencers, online personalities you know, clearly, they're going to have some bias in their reporting. Alright? We all know that, like, the major news networks, the 247 news networks like Fox, CNN, MSNBC, they all appear to, you know, lean a certain direction and cater to a certain audience.

I think when you get into the world of influencers, it's much more honed in. Because, you know, throughout, say, the election cycle watching, you know, the major news networks, it blew my mind. All of the stories that all three of them, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, so many different stories that they all avoided completely that were all over all kinds of other news sources online. I I really don't think that those three particular news sources actually lean as heavy into the direction that they say they do. Like, I don't think that MSNBC and CNN are far left news.

Alright? I I watch and read enough news to know that they went ahead and, avoided tons and tons of different stuff during the election and same with Fox. Same deal there. But you get down to influencers. Like, you know, Fox, for example.

Fox got in a lot of trouble in recent years, had to pay a lot of money out for giving out misinformation on the air. Influencers don't have to worry about that. And so if you're getting your news from some kind of an online personality, I'd really like to encourage you to, you know, look into the sources of some of the things they say. I've pointed out a number of them on air before because there are podcasts that I enjoy listening to or ones that I used to enjoy listening to. And I've heard the hosts on these shows say outlandish things that I've tried to okay.

I gotta look this up. This sounds completely insane. This this is true, and you get looking around and they're and, oh, okay. They heard that somewhere or they read that on, you know, Twitter or Facebook. And there is zero source for these things getting spread.

But when these people have millions and millions of followers and they confidently say, hey, this happened, people are going to believe them. Most people don't take the time to look into sources and, you know, fact check information that they get online. And that's how people end up believing crazy things. So if you're one of the 20% who regularly gets your your news from social media influencers, podcasters, blah, blah, blah. Do a little bit of research into the things they say that sound, you know, potentially unbelievable Because a lot of times, they're just spouting off stuff they heard like, you know, well, Peaches told me blah blah blah.

I can't just jump on air and start spreading things as fact because Peaches said it. Alright? Jade told me blank. Okay. Well, where did he hear it?

I'm not gonna jump on air, but I've got 100% solid information because Jade told me it was fact. Anyway, we're doomed. We're doomed moving forward because, the news is never gonna recover from this. Can you imagine there ever being a nice solid single news source that everybody believes? No.

People don't believe facts anymore. So yeah. Anyway, getting carried away. Let's move on. I was looking at an article here called 6 will Ferrell money grab commercials ranked by shamelessness.

I guess cracked.com decided it was a good time to throw will Ferrell under the bus and shame him for taking money to do commercials? How many of these 6 commercials would Victor Wilt, me, appear in for money? These must be some terrible products, right, if they're going to publicly shame Will Ferrell for doing these commercials. Alright. Let's dive in.

First up, General Motors. They did a Super Bowl ad in 2021, promoting their new electric vehicles. I would certainly be in just about any car ad. Trying to think if there are any any vehicles that I would not do an ad for. I mean, it would be embarrassing if I did a motorcycle ad because I haven't ever, like, grabbed the handlebars and driven a motorcycle myself.

I know. I know. What's wrong with you, dude? Not very manly to not having ever driven a motorcycle. Well, I just haven't.

Alright? But for a commercial with a a fat payday, I'd figure it out. I'd hopefully not look too embarrassing. So, yeah, so far, I'm absolutely in line with Will Ferrell. I'd take the money for an EV ad.

Alright. Next up, Old Milwaukee. Alright. That's a not good beer. K?

Old Milwaukee, that's like, bottom of the barrel. Apparently, they had a Super Bowl ad back in the day and Will Ferrell was in that as well. For the money. For the money, would I do it? I probably would.

Pretend to like terrible beer. This is great. You should buy it. All of these ads, these are Super Bowl ads. I bet Will got paid pretty good to do them.

How much would it cost for it wouldn't cost much at all for me to do an old Milwaukee ad. I would do it for dirt cheap. I need every cent I can get. Guarantee I'd be a a cheaper personality than Will Ferrell as far as that budget goes. Alright.

Then, they're giving him grief for being in an Ipod commercial. What's wrong with an Ipod? This was back in 2002 when these were newer items. It's a fun new piece of musical technology. I'd absolutely be in a commercial for that even if I think that Steve Jobs was a jerk and, not a very good human being.

Still being an Apple commercial. Give me the money. Oh, the gap. I mean, I don't tend to dress that way, but, yeah, put me in whatever clothes you want. I'll take the money.

Nothing wrong with Will Ferrell being in that ad. I thought that these were gonna be for, like, you know, products that have some kind of really negative association with them. Like Old Spice here. That's another one. They're like, how dare he?

How dare Will Ferrell be in an Old Spice commercial? Yeah. That's the kind of aftershave my dad used when I was a kid. And, actually, I think that's the brand of, deodorant that I tend to buy. So, yeah, I'd absolutely give me that money.

And then PayPal shirt, give me money, PayPal. What's wrong with any of these commercials? I don't think Will Ferrell should feel bad for being in any of these. It's not like alright. I'm not even gonna give examples.

Thought of some really horrific examples. Will Ferrell was advertising blank. Yeah. Then I'd get it, but these are just regular old products. Alright?

So if anybody out there wants somebody to sell your product, I'm your guy. I'm your guy. Cheaper than Will Ferrell too. Guarantee it. Everybody loves a critic.

Right? No. Not really. Just look at the comment section of any review of anything, and you'll see that, you know, people don't generally like critics very much. Because as far as reviewing entertainment goes, it's all subjective.

It's all personal opinion. There's a lot of entertainment that I like that other people are not fans of at all. You know, one of my favorite bands, Toole. I don't know how many times I've been roasted for that online by the Khabar army. Toole's not for all of you.

I mean, just goes to show that many of you are wrong. But, yeah, you you can't just rely on somebody's opinion as being just gold because of who they are. Like Roger Ebert, for example, movie critic. Found a list of 3 terrible comedies that he thought were great. And right out of the gate, I'm like, really?

Home Alone 3? I think I saw this movie. I'm pretty sure I did. I think my kids wanted to watch it after watching the classics, home alone 1 and 2, which are, you know, 2 of the best Christmas movies of all time. Home alone might be the best Christmas movie.

I know I throw gremlins out there, but overall, I think Home Alone's probably better. But Home Alone 3. I don't recall that being good. Alright. I don't recall it being horrible.

But who watches Home Alone 3? Roger Ebert. That's who. He also loved Paul Blart Mall Cop. Now, this one I did watch.

I know for sure. Watched it with the kids. And I don't remember it being, like, terrible. But I know that kinda universally people didn't like that movie. So what comedies did Roger Ebert not like?

If he thinks that, home alone 3 and Paul Blart Mall Cop were fantastic comedies, I'd be very curious what comedies he thought were terrible. He also really loved land of the lost. I know I watched that. I don't remember it being too bad. We were talking about Will Ferrell earlier, you know, the guy who will do a commercial for anything.

I don't remember Land of the Lost being terrible, but I guess it was nominated for a whole bunch of Razzies, which are nominations for awards for things like the worst movie of the year, worst prequel, worst remake, worst rip off or sequel, worst actor. Just the worst of the worst, and I guess it was nominated for, like, all of them. Yeah. I I really don't remember it being that terrible, but it just goes to show that, you know, Robert Roger Ebert, you can't just bank on his opinion on things. Alright?

You can't bank on anybody's opinion on things. I mean, you could interview your favorite artist and be like, okay. What's the greatest album of all time? And they're gonna say something and what? You're crazy.

You're crazy. Yeah. No matter who the person is, when it comes down to opinion on things, nobody except Victor Wilt is right about, everything when it comes to good taste in entertainment. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry. That's my secret, cat.

I'm always angry. And we're queuing the outrage. Hell, let's talk about that song, bad omens and poppy, v a n. Congrats to both artists winning rock sounds song of the year award for the Rock Sound Awards 2024. Rock Sound's a website.

I guess they put out a magazine as well. And boy are bad omens fans butt hurt about the cover of this magazine. Because on the front, you've got Noah from Bad Omens standing with Poppy, and that's all. Where are the rest of the guys? Where's the rest of bad omens?

Why aren't they on the magazine cover? Noah's the star. I hate to break it to everybody, but Noah is the star, and that's why he's on the front of the magazine. Alright. And it's just a magazine cover.

Right? No. People are losing their mind about this. Here here's a thread, for example, from Reddit about bad omens and poppy that was posted 11 hours ago. Sumerian Records needs to find a new way to help Poppy.

It's getting tiring to see Poppy with every band but her own. There's nothing wrong with her collaborating with other bands, but whoever's behind their decision just needs to know when to move on. Poppy just dropped a new album, and it's been heavily promoted by Sumerian Records. They gave her the biggest push on rock radio that they ever have. Settle down.

What are you talking about? This song, VAN, was one of the most popular rock songs of 2024. Bad omens dropped the you know, what word I'm looking for here is but but, you know, an expanded version of their last album that had some bonus tracks on it. The most popular of those songs without question was v a n, bad omens and poppy violence against nature. So, obviously, where that is the most popular song, it's going to get the year end recognition on any best of lists.

I really think that when it comes to the bad omen fan base, there are a lot of people in that fan base that don't like seeing Noah hanging out with poppy. They're jealous. That's what it comes to. He's hanging out with the girl. How dare he?

You can just look through comment sections on bad omens, you know, subjects or posts anywhere online, and you'll see the the people who are a little bit obsessed with Noah. Alright. Let's get back into this post here. About the misunderstanding about the other band members not being on the magazine. I don't blame the fans at all.

I think Rock Sound should have been more specific and said poppy and Noah to avoid the misunderstanding. Guarantee, if you look around online, you will find pictures of Noah with the words bad omens underneath. He's a front man. That's just how it goes. Okay?

When you see articles about Toole, you might see just Maynard on the cover. I know. I can't believe it either. Limb Bizkit, you might see only Fred Durst. Bad omens fans once again taking the crown for most toxic fan base.

I mean, there are so many different articles on here where these fans are just hating on poppy for putting out a really popular song with Bad Omens. You should be grateful. They won, you know, an award. The song got tons of airplay on radio all over the world. And Poppy and Bad Omens are on the same label.

They're on the same label. So, obviously, the label is going to promote both of them. I don't know. I'm gonna bail out on reading the rest of this stupid post because it's just so bad. It's just so bad.

And people are chiming in with agreement. It's like, no. Just let them get their accolades and shut up. We got peaches in the house. It's been stopping by about every 5 minutes to tell me about a new show that's been announced in the region.

So peaches might as well do your concert update right now. I I saved that for the beginning part of my show. Okay. Thank Nope. Nope.

You're bringing the content in here. If you're gonna drag it in, we're gonna talk about it. Shows that you wanna go to. Sorry. I know.

I want you to be like, oh, they they came to the area. I should have went. Yeah. I, I say that often enough just because there's too many shows. You know?

You can't go to all of them. I'm already planning my, stop in Salt Lake City next year for, pale faced Swiss with, stray from the path and nasty. That'll be a good show. Where where's that one gonna be? Metro Music Hall.

Oh, nice. First time going there. Metro Music Hall is a good venue. You just popped by and told me that Poppy is going to be at the complex March 16th. Yep.

That's a Sunday, as you found out. That's the only bad part is that it's a Sunday. It says Poppy with special guests. We don't know who's gonna be opening up for her. Yeah.

I hope she brings somebody good. Bad almonds. I Come on. I don't think they'd be opening for her. Yeah.

I don't know who to expect. You know, Poppy has a wide variety of music, so she could bring, like, you know, indie artists, pop artists. Yeah. Who knows? I'm hoping it's some good up and coming rock band, so that that would be great.

There's that one, and then there's, napalm death in the Melvins. Gonna be at the, is it the Metro Music Hall? Yeah. The Metro Music Hall May 29th as well. Okay.

May 29th. That's the last show in our concert calendar at rubenmediogroup.com. Thursday night. Oh. You can take an extended weekend.

Now, I was planning it out for you because Sunday, March 16th is the Poppy Show. Yeah. You can go to Salt Lake City Friday, go see Counterparts, Pain of Truth, Malevolence at the Depot. Okay, that'd be good. Then have a free Saturday.

And then Sunday, we'll see Poppy. Who knows? By then, there could be a Saturday show announced. There could be? Just do 3 shows.

I did see that. All weekend. I I saw Killswitch engage. I'm like, oh, that'd be cool for Victor but then I realized it's Boise. Yeah.

I mean You could do a road trip. Now you could spend Friday in Salt Boise, then back to Salt Lake City and go on a little tour. Me and Ben did Sleep Token in Boise one night Right. And then Bad Omens the next night. You met me in Salt Lake City for Bad Omens.

Yeah. And that was that was too much driving. Yeah. I can only imagine. Because it was it's about 5 hours from Boise to Salt Lake, I think.

But you're you're with one of the best possible people just in case anything happens to that vehicle or you inside. Yeah. You're you're hanging out with the advocates. You're good to go for sure. But, yeah.

I was well, and I think it wouldn't have been as rough, but I got sick, and I was starting to feel not good You were wobbling. On the Salt Lake Drive. I turned around and you're back there wobbling back forth. I can't tell them. And I wasn't wasted everybody.

I'm kidding. No. No. You were sick. I was just sick.

I've seen Victor wasted before. That's a completely different thing. Yeah. I'm not much of a wobbler. I can stay on my toes.

You're just more social and more happy is what you were. Yeah. Hey, all my friends. Everybody's my friend. You're more huggy and touchy there.

Give me a huggy, biggles. Alright. So lots of great shows coming up. If you wanna find out about all of them, hit up the new event calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar and find out about all of them. You can select event type, rock show or concert slash rock.

Mhmm. And that'll give you all the rock and metal shows that your heart could ever desire. Well, if you wanna find the Post Malone show that just got announced. Ew. The Big Butt Stadium Tour that was just announced.

You can find that on The Rock or not Rock, the country or pop calendar, not The Rock calendar. Yeah. It was Post Malone and the jelly roll, ain't it? And Sierra Fair. So I think it's more so the country type of show.

It sounds like a country show. But it's a rice eccles stadium, so it's gonna be a big one. Alright. So I I know we've got fans listening that would be into that show. So you could always view all concerts on the event calendar and check out everything.

I just Find out about your favorite country artists. My Chemical Romance announced a second date for Dodger Stadium because they sold so many tickets for that first show. Yeah. I saw some people complaining about, ticket prices for that one. Concert ticket pricing.

Yeah. It didn't look like, My Chemical Romance passed on the dynamic ticket pricing. So, again, blame the bands, everybody. I'm gonna always remind you, when it comes to ticket prices, the bands have a say in this kind of thing. Don't just put all the blame on terrible organizations like Ticketmaster.

Sometimes, you also gotta blame the bands that you like. So Definitely. And then there was a video there's a video popping up of Gerard Way going, this is the last time we'll play Black Parade forever. Oh, yeah. And it's a big lie.

Yeah. Come on. Kinda like, Slayer, we're never playing any shows again. Paul Stanley just said kiss could reunite again. Of course.

Yeah. Never listen to a band that says they're done. Alright. Never. Earlier on the show, I talked about this article I read that said that 20% of people rely on social media influencers for all of their news.

I didn't read further into that article, and I I figure I'd better talk about this a little bit more because you young people, what a disappointment you are. No. Apparently, 37% of people between the ages of 18/29 go to social media influencers for their news. 37%. Over a 3rd.

Alright. Listen. You cannot just rely on somebody saying something and then take it as fact. Alright? Social media influencers are not bound by any type of, you know, ethics or FCC regulations.

Like if I jump on air and I start spreading information that I heard, I heard it and it could be detrimental to public health. I could be, you know, for certain fired, but you know, the, the radio group could also get fined a ton of money. Social media influencers don't have to worry about that. They can jump on and say anything, whether or not it's true. And there's not gonna be any kind of repercussion aside from maybe a little bit of social media outrage.

K. I've pointed out before instances where I was listening to a podcast or saw a clip and was like, is that true? That sounds kinda crazy. Start doing a little bit of, Googling and doing some research and find absolutely norse no source for that information. No proof whatsoever.

Just, you know, try for the best. What am I, what am I trying to say here? Trying to say any more coffee for your own intelligence sake. Do a little bit of fact checking when it comes to your favorite podcast. I listen to lots of podcasts, but I'm not just gonna take anybody at face value just because I like them.

K? Anybody can jump online and say anything. I would highly encourage you to spend the amount of time I do looking through the news. It's painful, but you can generally find a consensus between all the different news sources out there because they all put their own spin on things. They're all trying to you know, make their particular audience happy.

But if you look at all the different news sources, you can generally find, like, okay. Here's where the story really lies. Just because somebody is a major broadcaster does not mean you can just believe anything they say. Just Google it. Like, for example, the biggest podcast in the world, I've talked about this show a lot because I used to be a big fan of it, the Joe Rogan podcast.

Just Google Jamie fact checks Joe Rogan. Alright? Look at how many instances there are of the producer of the show jumping in going, Joe, that's not true. If only he did it every time Joe was just spreading something he read on Twitter. You know, it's these things affect the world.

So do not rely on social media info you know, with all the hate influencers take and how disgusted people seem to be by the fact that you could be an influencer as a job, you wouldn't think people would just believe everything that comes out of an influencer's mouth. And there are people that spread completely crazy things online that are 100% just made up. Well, hey, he he had a piece of paper. He read it off of a piece of paper. He had a document.

Think for yourself, question authority. You know, as a parent, you should really take a look at what your kids are bringing to school for show and tell because, I don't know, they might have rooted around in your stuff and brought something inappropriate. It's not the first time something like this has happened, but, generally, it's not an explosive that gets brought into show and tell at school. School evacuated in the UK after and they don't say what it was. They just say that it was an explosive device, a historic explosive device.

So what? Like an old an old hand grenade? An old landmine? I guess we'll never know. But they had to call in the disposal team, take the historic incendiary device, I don't know, somewhere else and blow it up.

Parents are all terrified. Again, who's keeping these kind of things around to begin with? Let alone accessible by small children. Alright. If if you got grenades laying around your house, you should you should probably get rid of those.

Come on. You you don't really need them. Alright? You don't need the explosives. Get rid of those pipe bombs.

K? Your kids might bring them to school. We go check it out. This is what my dad makes in the basement. I went out to my dad's shop in the garage.

Anyhow, I I figured I'd show you what he's up to. Yikes. Yeah. Generally, when kids, you know, show up to show and tell with something they took from their parents, it's like a crack pipe or something. Well, check it out.

My mom loves this. Still dangerous, but, you know, on a completely different level than an old stick of dynamite or something. Holy cow. Well, anyway, everything ended up alright, but hey, parents. How about you?

You know, like, be parents. By request, the new one from Lincoln Park 2 faced or one of the new ones. And, yeah, we're a real radio station. We play requests. You can call with them and I might play your song.

I'll never understand why at some point, most radio stations stop doing that. You know, it's one of the things I liked most as a kid Call up the radio station. Hey. You wanna play this song? Then I'd record it onto a cassette.

Yeah. You remember those days? I'm old, but I don't know. It's a really simple, fun way to do something nice for your listeners. If they really wanna hear a song, you could, you know, throw it on.

Sometimes you folks have some good requests like that one right there, brand new from Lincoln Park, 2 faced. So anyway, just something to keep in mind. We do live radio here. You can reach us in the studio every day at 208-535-1015 to just say hello or request a song or whatever, or maybe join us for something like traffic school, a live call in program. I got called crazy for putting people live on the air recently.

Like, it's radio. You know that a big part of it is, the listeners and the callers. You know, like you put them on the show. Most people prerecord their callers in a, oh, we gotta have perfect calls. I gotta edit the calls.

No. It's just, kick back and keep it real. So I'm generally always here doing it live weekday morning, 6 AM to 10 AM and grateful for your support. Grateful for you listening to this program. And like I said yesterday, you know, if you see us out in public, say hello.

Alright. I bumped into a listener at Winco the other day, and she was very excited to meet me. Said some very nice things, and I shared her post on social media. And a lot of people chimed in saying, yeah. I see it, Winco.

I just oh, don't have the nerve to come up and say hello or whatever. You you can always feel free to say hi to me. Alright? I'm I'm a friendly guy, and I enjoy getting to meet the people who listen to the show. So don't be shy if you see me at the store.

You can say hi. I mean, you don't have to, but if you're thinking about it and would like to, perfectly fine. Bumped into a guy at Albertsons the other day. I ran to get some lunch. He stopped me in the parking lot.

You know, just wanted to say some nice things and feel that kind of stuff. It does make my day. So, yeah, call me. Say hello to me. I'm all down with the interaction, k?

Don't be shy. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Welt Show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbendmediagroup.com.