The Viktor Wilt Show

Hey. What's happening? It's Viktor Wilt. Good morning. Welcome to Friday.

Finally. So pumped for the weekend. I just wanna get some sleep. I mean, I shouldn't complain. I got decent sleep last night, but it's just not enough.

Just not enough. At least I was productive. Got some chores done. You know, I gotta say, noticed this the last couple days when I got home from work and really noticed it when I was leaving for work this morning. It stinks in Idaho Falls.

What is going on? It's vile out there. I mean, I've seen a lot of speculation about this online as to what's causing it, and I'm not gonna start pointing fingers myself because I don't know. But I will tell you, it's disgusting, and something needs to be done. Alright?

I I don't know if we need to contact the city or the county. Yeah. We got tourists coming through here. Alright? We want them to stop, stay in our hotels, spend some money.

Now can you imagine? You you pull in. Alright. We're gonna get some dinner. Get out and just oh, what's that smell?

It's bad out there. Then they never come back. Never come back. I mean, are we trying to keep people from moving here? Is that what's going on?

Listen. I know that the traffic is frustrating. K? But we all suffer with the, unleashing of the stench in the air. So, whatever the end goal is here, I I don't think it's really a conspiracy to keep people from moving to Idaho Falls, but it it's bad.

It's like, you know, when Pocatello would get the inversion. Ugh. Nasty. Nasty. Come on.

We live in these areas where there's not a lot of people so we don't have to put up with whatever kind of smog that is. I think I'd rather, you know, deal with the the auto exhaust than whatever that nastiness is. Anyway, I just wanted to complain about the smell. It's nice to be inside right now. Jeez.

Anyway, hopefully, breathing whatever that is isn't, like, bad for you, but yikes. Somebody needs to do something about this. Okay. Complaining about smells done. Alright.

Let's take a trip to Florida. See what's been going on around there. I mean, I'm sure we've talked about Florida man recently, but seems like it's been a little bit. You can always rely on something pretty much straight out of GTA going down. I cannot wait for GTA 6 taking place in Florida.

It's gonna be fantastic. Okay. So we got a Florida man wants to play a prank on his girlfriend. So as he's leaving his house, he busts out a 6 inch bottle rocket, big one, and decides he's gonna fire this bottle rocket at his girlfriend. And then, I don't know, take off.

It it seems like a terrible prank. I mean, there's a lot of different kind of people out there, but I can't imagine any girlfriend who's gonna find it funny when you shoot a giant bottle rocket at her. You know? So, anyway, he lights the bottle rocket, rolls down his window, and then he's slowly driving by her. Then the rocket goes off, but it doesn't go out the the vehicle.

It just starts bouncing around inside of this guy's car, ends up in the worst spot it could possibly land and get stuck. That would be right between the guy's legs, and then it blows up because, yeah, it's one of those ones that would, you know, really explode in the sky. And the guy said you know, it it was so loud. He said it was more than deafening, more than disorienting. I couldn't see.

I couldn't hear. I couldn't walk. I thought I was dead. Massive explosion. You don't wanna be driving down the road and suddenly have an explosion in your vehicle.

I don't know what an explosion inside of a small space like a car would be like, but I bet it's really loud and really terrifying. So, anyways, the neighbors heard the explosion, rushed to the scene, and, they found the guy on fire. Well, yeah, a giant bottle rocket blew up in his lap. So they put him out, you know, he's burned all over the place, and the outlines of his sandals were still burned into his feet. Anyway, he's gonna be alright.

They took him to the hospital. He was treated for second degree burns, and then I guess he talked to the press, and they're like, you're gonna use fireworks in the future? He's like, what what do you think? No. No.

So, anyway, don't do that. Alright? Might seem like fun. Might seem like fun to shoot fireworks out of your vehicle, but all it takes is it going wrong one time. And, you know, aerial fireworks around here.

Illegal. Go to jail anyway. Glad the guy's alright, but jeez. Florida man. So most people think that what I do is a very fun job, and they're right.

It is pretty fun. But outside of doing the actual show, which the show, you know, it is a challenge. But outside of the show, this job can be very demanding. The things we do behind the scenes. I mean, I probably, honestly, do the jobs of, like, 13, 14 people if this was, you know, a decade of go ago in radio.

So, you know, it's not for everybody, and a lot of people can't handle it. Alright? It really is a very, very difficult job that's very stressful at times. And you you go home and your your brain just hurts after some days. That was me yesterday.

Anyway, I was looking at a list of fun professions that are actually awful if you've actually been in them or at least according to these commenters. Because, yeah, everybody wants a fun job, but maybe once you get into the midst of it, you're like, this actually sucks. Thankfully, that's not the case for me. I can handle the workload even though at times it's been extremely overwhelming. Okay.

We got, Grumble Buzz commenting anything that you enjoy is a recreational activity. I've discovered that if you try to monetize it, you won't enjoy doing it anymore for very long after that. Man, wouldn't that be a bummer? Like, I enjoy making online content. I actually recorded a YouTube video that I'm in the process of uploading this morning, reaction video to the new track from Shadows Fall, which I'm going to get on air here in just a few, really good.

So I enjoy making that content, my YouTube stuff, and any anything else online, not monetized or well, if you do get a payment, it's it's like nothing. It's, you know, couple bucks. But it's fun for me to make that stuff. I would I would be just horrified if I started making money doing that kind of thing, and then I'm like, oh, I don't like this because it's very similar to what I do on the radio show every day anyway, doing online content. So I don't know.

Don't I wouldn't just listen to Grumble Buzz. If you've got a hobby that you can monetize, you may be able to make that into a full time job eventually, and I bet it's, for most people, gonna be pretty sweet. Alright? I wonder what his hobby was. I wonder what he did.

Started making money and was like, I hate this. Alright. We got, Robo Cup 1 saying working on film sets is a lot of fun, but it comes at tremendous personal and health cost for below the line workers. Long hours, unpredictable employment, and a totally different way of life than most regular jobs. It will cost you your relationships outside of work and your health.

It is absolutely a lot of fun to work on these sets. I would never wanna do anything else but will it will absolutely ruin you. You would think working in film would be fun. I bet it's really stressful. And I've heard podcasts where actors will talk about working on movies, and they always seem to complain about the same thing, being stuck in the trailer all day.

Like, you're just kinda waiting around for your your shot to be filmed. So you might be sitting in a trailer for 6 hours doing nothing. To me, that don't sound too bad. I enjoy sitting around, but if you're, you know, a person who needs to be busy, I bet it would make you crazy. I mean, I can entertain myself with TV, my phone, or books, video games.

If I was a good actor, boy, that job's right up my alley. I don't mind part of my day being just sit there. Alright? Take a nap. That'd be great.

I mean, I guess takes me about an hour to wake up after a nap so I probably wouldn't wanna do that. Alright. Other jobs that sound fun but are awful, doggy day care. I would imagine that would be awful. You know, you get a whole bunch of dogs together.

They get crazy, and then that's a lot of waste to clean up, and I I could get more graphic with this, but I'm not going to. Let's see. My cousin's a professional gamer. He told me after a while it stops being fun and becomes endless grinding just to get an edge over the competitors. Can you imagine video games being ruined for you?

Oh, that would be terrible. That'd be the worst. Yeah. May maybe back to picking up on a hobby that you can do for a living. I don't know.

That would really suck to have the things you enjoy ruined. You know, like, I love playing guitar and writing songs. You hear a lot about how rough it is for bands in this day and age. Oh, man. Well, anyway, I might dig through this article, this post, see what other stuff we've gotten here, but I gotta get that video uploaded.

Alright. Everybody knows that cryptocurrency I mean, it's a risky business, right, to dump your money into. Now if you're really good at these kind of things, okay. But, you know, me, anytime to me, investing is sorta like gambling. Anytime I bought stocks, they tank.

Anytime I do anything and buy a lotto ticket, money in the garbage. So if you're gonna invest your money in crypto, you know, you might wanna start with some of the more solid cryptocurrencies that have been around for some time. You might not wanna just right out of the gate go and dump money. Dump a bunch of money into the hoktua girls meme coin. Yeah.

The hawk cryptocurrency. Well, this launched yesterday and, boy, are people furious with the hoktua girl. You know, she had kinda made it past the point where people were making fun of her. She's doing her little podcast. I'm sure making plenty of money, but, you know, sometimes it's not enough money.

Now people are alleging all kinds of things. You know, some are accusing her of running a pump and dump scheme. She's like, that's not true. Everything's above board. But when this launched, it skyrocketed in value and then, like, within 2 hours had dropped, like, 95%.

So pretty much everybody who bought in, I guess, not doing so well on the, financial end. Jeez. Yeah. Why not just stick with doing the podcast and all these other things you're doing to make money? I mean, look at up some of the other influencers who have monkeyed around with cryptocurrency, they've made their fans really mad.

Really mad. And if you've got fans, you don't wanna make them mad. You wanna keep them around. So what a stupid move. Well, but again, some people they they just wanna make dough.

Just wanna make dough. And I'm sure she's afraid that her celebrity's only going to last so long. Yeah. So I get it. Try to make as much as you can while you can, but, yeah, there's probably better ways to go about it because, like I said, she seemed like she was doing okay as far as the, you know, Internet vibe toward her in the last, I don't know, couple weeks.

But, yeah, this might be might be the end. Might be the end. And, I mean, some people are saying they're gonna sue her. Jeez. Well, good luck.

I hate when I read stuff on the Internet, and it makes me sad. It's always stuff with, you know, pets. I'm such a sap. I just read this post on Reddit. You know, I'm trying to find content for the radio show.

I follow a subreddit called cat advice. Of course, I do. Why? I don't know. I think I'm, at this point, pretty knowledgeable in, taking care of cats.

Alright. I don't need to follow this subreddit, but I do. And then I see posts like this and I'm like, oh, the poor little kitty. Oh, I'm such a wuss. Okay.

Let's read this post here. How do I make my cat understand I'm not abandoning him? For starters, me and my wife have 2 cats and a dog. I did not grow up with cats at all and got my dog for my aunt because her dog had puppies and no one else wanted her. Aw.

Now, the 2 cats both were rescues. The female was a stray and the male was surrendered to the shelter after his former owners moved away and couldn't bring him. I I it just makes me so sad. My little little kitten, Lucy, every day that I get home, she hears the big garage door open, and she's waiting inside the house at the door she knows I'm going to come through. And I pick her up and give her a big hug, and she's so happy I'm home.

Okay. Anyway, recently, me and my wife started packing to move because I got a job offer out of state. We are bringing all of the animals with us, but my male cat keeps burying his face in anything he can like he's hiding from the world. I don't know a lot about cats, but I know how to tell when they're sad. I don't know how to let him know we're not abandoning him.

Poor little kitty. You know, my cats, if I get the suitcase out, they well, at least Koopa. The kitten learned what the suitcase was when I went to Vegas in Phoenix, but Koopa sees the suitcase out. He gets very frustrated. He knows what it means.

Yeah. The first comment, cats have good memories. He probably remembers his last family packing up like this and then he was sent to the shelter. He'll probably be worried until the move happened. You wouldn't believe how much crap like this I read.

And I don't know why because, again, it just makes me sad for the little kitties or the little puppies. Anyway, take care of your animals. Treat them good. I just wanna go home now and go it's okay, Lucy. You're a good girl.

I'm sorry I have to go to work every day. Cooper don't care. He's used to it now. He's old. But I bet if I started packing up the house, he'd freak.

He would freak. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change. Let's talk about treasure. You know, I like a good treasure hunt. Well, guy named John Collins Black, who's a Bitcoin millionaire, has launched a Bitcoin treasure hunt across the US, 5 hidden treasure chests, each containing rare and valuable items worth over $2,000,000 in total.

He put out a new book called There's Treasure Inside, which has all the clues to help treasure hunters uncover these hidden treasures. So they've got things like rare Pokemon cards, shipwreck bounty, sports memorabilia, gold, precious metals. There's a 96 karat emerald, Wilma Rudolph's Olympic gold medal, and all all kinds of stuff. So I guess you gotta buy the book to, you know, find out how to find the treasure. Just what I need, more books.

Yeah. The guy was inspired by that treasure hunt created by Forrest Fenn, which I was really obsessed with for a while. I swear I knew where it was. I just never had the time to drive drive all the way to Northern Wyoming, see if I was right, and then somebody found it and never said where it was. So annoying.

Anyway, the book's again called There's Treasure Inside, and I might have to pick it up because I need money. I need money. And treasure hunt's a fun way to get money. It's much better than work. You know?

Much better than a job. Alright. What else do we got here? Speaking of money, if you were in California recently, bought a mega millions ticket specifically in Encino, California. Well, somebody won a $197,000,000, but they haven't claimed it.

Nah. It's gonna expire, tomorrow. They have till tomorrow to claim their $197,000,000 winnings. Oh my goodness. Can you imagine you find it 2 days after you're supposed to have claimed it?

Oh, man. Rough day for somebody in the Encino area. That's that's wild. They're gonna be treasure hunting before we know it. Finally, if you were in Wisconsin recently and you brought a dead relative with you to the movie theater, they would like you to come pick up the urn that you left at classic cinemas in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Alright? Somebody left it there mid September. You would think somebody would have noticed at this point, but maybe their family member's like, I just wanna be permanently residing at my favorite place, classic cinemas. Alright. Take me to see terrifier 3 and leave my ashes there.

Alright. Well, you know, hopefully, they, you know, can track down whoever's family member this is. I mean, I honestly could understand something like this happening. I had my dad's ashes in my truck for, like, a couple years. Just drive around with them.

I I just had them in there in case, like, oh, this would be a good place to spread some ashes. But I started, you know, getting worried, like, okay. What if I don't know. Somebody steals my truck. I I don't know.

I took them out, put them in a nice urn. They're on display for all to see who come visit my home. Alright. Let's move along. Roll into this 8 o'clock hour.

Plenty of show coming up. We got traffic school in about 45 minutes. If you have any questions for myself and lieutenant Crane, save them. Do it live traffic school powered by the advocates at 8:45. Well, as we all know, the cost of goods and services has went up a little bit and anything you can do to save money.

You know, you might wanna take a look at it. Are you paying too much for toilet paper? Well, hey. Grow your own. Grow your own teepee.

I'm not talking about growing trees, turning them into soft paper. No. You just need the, Plectranthus barbatus plant. Got some big leaves here, and I guess they are, soft. They have a soft texture and emit a minty lemony fragrance, so, you know, they're also scented.

And they interviewed this guy, Benjamin in, Kenya. He's been growing this stuff since 1985. You're like, you know, the only time I pick up tp is if I've picked all the leaves. These are the best. So I don't know if this plant, Plectranthus barbatus, will grow in the US.

I don't know what type of climate you need but I mean every little bit you can do to save some dough. Gotta do what you gotta do. Can you flush the leaves down the toilet? These do seem like they would clog your toilet. Like, you know, the flushable wipes that you're not really supposed to flush.

I think you're gonna need an outhouse if you wanna use these kind of leaves as teepee. But, you know, save some dough. Save some dough. Literally go green with your toilet paper. I don't wanna know if you actually do this.

Alright? You can keep it to yourself, but glad I could help you save, you know, a few bucks. Well, I guess we're gonna continue talking about growing your own toilet paper because I got an update from listener Brandon posted on my post about traffic school that, well, this is not related to traffic school, but I just wanna say horticulturist here. And Plectranthus is a genus in the mint family. How do you say this word?

Lamayase? I don't know. So you're gonna feel a tingle in your nether regions, I can imagine some people may find that refreshing. You like that, body wash you can buy that's, like, blue and has you know, it's for if you get get a sunburn or something like that. It's kinda refreshing and also kinda bothersome at the same time.

Okay. Anyway, back to his post here. I can imagine some people may find that refreshing. Another plant that does grow well in our region, lamb's ear, stachyis bizantia bizentina. Jeez.

Why even try to say these words? Is covered in very soft hairs and would be better in my opinion, but it's also in the men family. That article I had about the, Plectranthus Barbatus, it did say that those leaves are covered in tiny hairs as well, making them nice and soft. But, yeah, I don't know about the mintiness aspect. You know?

Alright. I almost got into, you know, a kinda gross pondering of this, but I'm not gonna do it. I'll I'll let you just have that float around in your head there. But wanna give a big thanks to Brandon. Let niece Idaho know.

You know, if toilet paper is just too much for you, it's gotten to be outrageous. You need to grow lamb's ear. Just, you know, bushes of it all over your yard. But you're gonna have to dig a hole to throw the, leaves in when you're done. Again, I don't think most toilet systems are gonna be able to handle that.

One leaf at a time, it's a lot of wasted water. Alright. Let's talk about old rock stars who are out of touch and whiny and just can't stop saying rock is dead. Yeah. Gene Simmons said that again recently, but he's said that about a 1000000 times and, you know, I'm sorry, but Gene's an idiot.

Rock is not dead. Rock is in probably the best place I've seen it in since the early 2000. It's really on the rise. You are seeing so many bands elevated to arena status. You've got legacy acts coming back on the scene like Linkin Park.

Rock's killing it right now. We have great new bands putting out awesome music. What is he talking about? Dave Ellifson of Megadeth. Unless you're an established band, Well, kids are, you know, they're into Facebook and Tesla.

Okay, dude. I don't think kids are that into Facebook, Dave. I Think they're hanging out on a different place called, TikTok where bands like Ghost blew up and gained tons and tons of young fans when their songs gained popularity on that platform. Happened with Sleep Token. Happened with Bad Omens.

And you have pop stars putting out rock tinged tracks. You know, Lady Gaga put out that industrial esque track disease. Olivia Rodrigo putting out rock song. There's a lot of songs that we put on z 103 that are, like, straight up rocking. Linkin Park is on top 40 radio.

K? I don't think we've had rock bands on top 40 radio since, like, Nickelback and Creed. Alright? Dave, just because. You see bands like Megadeth opening up for 5 finger death punch, another arena band, doesn't mean Rock's dead.

Alright? I hate to break it to you, but everything goes in cycles and, you know, you guys just aren't what you were in the eighties. Settle down. It doesn't mean that everybody sucks. Kids don't like rock music.

Being a rock star is not cool anymore. No. Every everything's going great for rock. Alright? I've been out to shows.

I've talked to fans. Rock is in the best place it's been in ages. So I I don't know. I guess these news websites need something to report on, and boomers whining about the old days. Well, I guess it makes for an article.

Now might be a really good time for you to get angry. That's my secret, cat. I'm always angry. We've been getting a lot of these lately. Cue the outrage.

Alright. Let's talk about Gojira. How could anyone get mad at Gojira? Right? They're one of the best modern metal bands.

All super nice dudes. They crush and kill it. They put on the amazing performance at the Olympics. Well, here's how Gojira makes people mad. Frontman of Gojira, Joe, well, he put out a video with PETA talking about veganism.

And boy, does some people lose their minds when they see that somebody's vegan? Oh, no. How dare stick to your music, bro, when you stick to your music and not talk about anything. One thing I've learned about any kind of message, if it's a message that people don't agree with, that's when they don't wanna hear artists or celebrities talk about it. When it's a message they agree with, they're all for celebrities, artists talking about these subjects.

Like, get over it. Alright? What what's wrong with Joe deciding he's gonna go vegan? And, also, why is this a surprise to anybody? And I think he's been vegan for quite a while.

This is the band that put out a song called flying whales. Alright? How many of their songs are about the environment? Is this really that surprising, this information? I just you know, some of the things people get upset about.

It it just blows my mind. If somebody doesn't wanna eat animal products, okay. Like, I've got friends that are vegan. I've gone with them to vegan restaurants, and it was fine. I even had a, you know, multitude of fake burgers.

And you know what? They were good. They were good. You know? It it's 2024.

K? Plant based products are becoming a lot more popular and a lot more prevalent, and it's okay. Alright? It's okay to, I don't know, just be yourself. Jeez.

So, anyway, just wanted to let you know, the Internet's very upset at somebody's eating choices. People are, like, screaming and yelling in the comments about somebody's choice for the way they wanna eat. Mind your own business. Jeez. Go get a cheeseburger, enjoy it, and let other people have the Beyond Burger.

Is this that big a deal? No. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt Show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbendmediagroup.com.