The Viktor Wilt Show

Hello. And happy Tuesday morning to you. I hope everything is going amazing. My internet browser already, you know, just trying to mock me a little bit this morning. It feels like came across an article.

What methods do you have for coping with anxiety? Like, I didn't even speak out loud that I've been having anxiety. How do you just know, computer? What's going on here? I'll tell you one method for not dealing with anxiety.

A bad route to take, and that would be start your day listening to a podcast about SeaWorld. And I enjoy this podcast called last podcast on the left. Their latest two episodes about SeaWorld. I don't know if you've seen the movie Blackfish. Having known how bothersome that movie was, you'd think I wouldn't start my day with a podcast that went into, just as much depth as the Blackfish documentary talking about, terrible things that have happened at sea world.

And, yeah. It made me very sad to start my day. So that is not a good way if you were feeling anxious to begin with to kick things off at, like, 5 AM. I don't recommend it. Now learning about SeaWorld, learning about orcas and dolphins and things like that, I think is good as a human being to do.

They're amazing creatures, super intelligent. But once you start diving into that world and the world of these type of, animals being in captivity, it's it's very bothersome. So don't do that. Instead, maybe we should take a look at the methods that the Internet recommends for coping with anxiety. Anxiety is a real deal.

Sorry to start your day talking about anxiety, but, that was my evening. It's a little it's better today, but every once in a while, something triggers that anxiety and it's quite the battle. If you haven't dealt with it, then, you know, lucky you. I'm not even gonna give it an, oh, good for you. I'm just gonna say you're very lucky.

Those of us who do deal with anxiety from time to time know what a struggle it can be. And, you know, I always recommend people get out and talk to somebody, get yourself some professional assistance on that type of thing, and it will help tremendously, but maybe there's some other simple things you can do. Cause it's not like you can just pop out and see the doc any second, any day. All right. Let's see what the internet says.

Cognitive restructuring. My favorite being looking for evidence of my worries slash thoughts being unlikely, incoherent, or incorrect. For example, thinking my friends hate me. What evidence do you have that could prove this? What evidence do I have to prove that they in fact do not?

If you can sit down when you're really anxious and actually analyze things that way, it will help you. It's gonna be a little bit of a challenge. Alright? When you're just wrecked with anxiety to try to think in a rational manner sometimes can be a little bit difficult, but it is doable. And, I I think looking at things in that way is probably a pretty good idea.

I'm going to try to remember that one. Look for the opposing evidence to your crazy thoughts, and you're likely going to find them. Another person recommended journaling. Journaling's something that I've always wanted to do for one reason. And one reason only because I can't remember anything.

And years down the road, it might be fun to be able to go back and be like, oh, wow. Yeah. I totally forgot about that day and this and that. But I I don't know. Never been able to actually sit down and do it.

And at this point, it's probably a little bit too late. Maybe it's not too late, but I ain't got a lot of time as it is. Alright. How am I supposed to sit around and watch useless YouTube videos if I'm doing something semi productive and journaling, you know, leaving something behind that maybe people down the road could read and get a little insight into my mind? Because I've got, you know, hundreds of hours of me yapping recorded, but you know, that's not deep thoughts.

I don't jump on the show here and give you extremely deep thoughts. No, I do try to give you some thoughts, but I'm not going to like delve into my entire political belief system or things like that. Cause you know, people get a little bit butthurt sometimes it's the wrong day and age to talk politics. I can say that for sure, based on how my Facebook feed seems to be getting crazier and crazier by the day. And it's so hard not to chime in sometimes when I see people saying certain things and be like, dude, are you, are you for real?

Come on. You're not utilizing, rational thought in ma before making these posts. You gotta dig a little bit deeper. You gotta really think about it here. All right.

What else do they got for recommendations to, you know, deal with anxiety, deep breathing. Okay. Yeah, sure. Sure. No.

And then they're like now analyze the problem, causing the anxiety, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. I know you're not supposed to just block things out and shove things down. That's the way that we do it. Right.

I've been trying to not do that, but, you know, sometimes it's the easy way out. Anyway, there looks like there is a lot of, good information in here. You know, doing things that are productive. That's going to make you feel a little bit better. I mean, any kind of hobby, really?

If I pick up my guitar and play it, I always feel a little bit better. It's that getting myself to pick up said guitar that can be the problem, but, hobbies very important and, somebody good to talk to. So I'm not gonna read through this whole thread, but, sometimes reading about other people having anxiety helps lighten things up a little bit. Alright? And don't don't worry.

It's not like it's that bad today or anything. It's just, you know, for a few days there. A little bit on edge, but I'm alright now. We're we're doing radio. We're having fun, and I got a great lineup of music coming your way.

So don't go anywhere. Burgers for breakfast. What? You're not down with a burger for breakfast? Come on now.

Live a little. I don't know where you can get a burger for breakfast right now. Maybe Jack in the Box. Everybody else slinging. Breakfast sandwiches.

I was reading about unhealthy burgers, which I I never like to read about because I like to pretend, oh, it's not that bad. You're just having another cheeseburger. It'll be alright, dude. I don't know. They're just so good.

Can't help myself. Cannot help myself. Well, if you were curious as far as major fast food chains go, what the unhealthiest fast food burger would be, sorry, 5 guys. Gotta chuck you under the bus. Yep.

Five guys packing a whopping 73% more saturated fat than any other fast food burger out there. Now is saturated fat a good way to start your day? Good way to get yourself some energy? I don't know. Just trying to find a decent excuse to have a burger for breakfast.

I had a breakfast sandwich yesterday, so I don't need one. Alright. I don't need a burger for breakfast. Probably need a a nice fruit cup, something like that. Now this article noted that 5 guys is also the worst for the fries, scoring the highest in unhealthiness.

Now is that a, per capita thing, or is that thing, or is that based on the amount of food you get? Because everybody knows, you know, you spend, like, $10 and you get a full bag of fries from 5 guys. What are what are some of the others that are, pretty bad for you here? Whataburger, Smash Burger, Carl's Junior. What are what are the ones that are good for you?

Maybe that's what we need to find out. Hey. Look at that coming in at the the healthiest. One of my favorites, as a matter of fact, Culver's. And then, you know, you got McDonald's right next to them and Burger King.

I think a lot of people would definitely think that 5 guys is a healthier burger than McDonald's, but not according to this list here. Is this list accurate? I don't know, but I'll promise you this. I wasn't paid to talk about it. I just saw cheeseburgers, news.

I clicked and decided to start reading. So, the rest kind of float around in the middle. Your Wendy's, your In N Out Burger, your Sonic, Dairy Queen. But, yeah, apparently, the the worst of the bunch, 5 guys and Whataburger and Smash Burger. And 5 guys looking at, some of the I don't know what these numbers mean.

The unhealthiness score. 5 guys kinda leaps ahead of everything else. Okay. Now wait. Are they they comparing a regular McDonald's cheeseburger to a regular 5 Guys cheeseburger?

You'd have to at least compare a quarter pounder. Alright? This is not it's not now looking fair because the McDonald's regular cheeseburger is like little kids' food. Alright? That there there is no comparison there.

Never mind. I'm gonna throw this article in the garbage. Let's talk grocery store dating. Yeah. You you lonely?

Need to find yourself a date? Well, apparently, the new thing is hooking up in the, grocery store. Yeah. It's the new hot spot for young singles. Now you gotta use food to signal that you're at the grocery store for more than just groceries.

And maybe if you are in the habit of putting a pineapple upside down in your cart and you're like, why is everybody bothering me? That's why. Apparently, an upside down pineapple is the new sign to other singles that you're not just there for groceries. This gets to be a little bit too complex for me because okay. Upside down pineapple, that's clearly abnormal.

You know, you see one of those in somebody's cart where the little kids should be sitting. You're gonna be like, why did they put the pineapple upside down? But then other items that people use to signal what they're they're looking for are things like a head of lettuce. Now a head of lettuce, does it have to be next to an upside down pineapple? Because a lot of people are going to have a head of lettuce in their cart.

And just because somebody has a head of lettuce doesn't look or mean necessarily that they're looking for a one night stand, a quick fling. But apparently, a head of lettuce indicates you're into something short term. Now if you're looking for something long term, you got, I would assume, again, the upside down pineapple and sitting next to it, a a bag of lentils. And then this article says, you know, another good way to let people know that, maybe you're looking for a date is to bump your cart into them. I don't think that's a very good tip.

Nobody's ever like, oh, when somebody smashes their cart into yours. It's like, excuse me. Sorry. And you try to get away as quickly as possible because it's all awkward. So I don't know if I recommend ramming people's carts.

The pineapple upside down seems pretty simple, and I don't know if this is going on around here, but maybe we can start it. Alright. For you lonely folks out there, give it a whirl. Let me know if it works. And next time I'm at the grocery store, I'm just gonna kinda keep my eyes out, see if there's anybody with an upside down pineapple wandering around.

I almost threw somebody under the bus. Be like, hey. I see what you're doing there, but maybe I'll wait till they show up. The other day, I was scrolling Reddit, and somebody had posted in the Idaho Falls subreddit a question asking, you know, hey. What are some things I need to know about Idaho Falls?

I'm thinking of moving there or maybe they are moving there for work and just wanted the heads up. And, you know, you had a lot of people chiming in with some of the basic things that you tend to hear around here. Oh, winter can be, you know, a little bit rough. But I think people always understate how lousy winter is. Like, you know, here here's a comment here.

It gets cold in the winter and it snows a lot. They they said cold is, crap. They actually said something else. Gets dark around 5 PM from late December to late February. The summers are great, though.

Alright? I I I don't think that's giving this person enough information, and it's certainly downplaying the weather issues we have around here. K? Winter around here goes from November to April. Alright?

I don't care what anybody says. We have 6 months of winter. We get about 3 months of summer, and then we have 3 months of of other. Right now, we're in other, and other's pretty good. I like other when it's floating around 70 degrees.

That that's pretty great to me, but, man, that's 6 months of winter. That is brutal. Brutal. And I commented saying that we have 6 months of winter, and, I believe I was downvoted into oblivion. Yeah.

I I was. Oh, maybe it's because I said we had a great local rock station. How dare somebody downvote that? Or maybe it's because I said people are friendly here. They are friendly here.

Jeez. What's wrong with my comment? How dare you, Idaho Falls subreddit? Well, you know what I what else I gotta say about Idaho winter? I wouldn't live here in the winter if I could afford it.

I'd be a snowbird. Peaches hate snow birds for some reason. Like, oh, why don't you just sit there and suffer it out during winter? You wanna live somewhere. You gotta deal with it.

No. No. If you can afford it, good for you. Get out of the place that sucks during certain times of the year. Like, if you're into skiing and snowboarding, you got it great around here.

Maybe you like snowmobiling. If you're me, there is I don't like anything about winter. Nothing. It's cold. We we get, sheet of ice that covers everything for 6 months.

It gets all dirty and gross. It's only pretty right when it comes down, then it turns gray, sludgy, and nasty. The roads are like you're driving on large boulders. Just everywhere you go. Ugh.

It's terrible. So if I could, I would certainly drive down south during those winter months, and I found a list here of the 5 best US cities for snowbirds. Alright. Well, I think I know where I'd go. I'd I'd go to Arizona.

You know? I I really like Arizona. So if I was going to be a snowbird, Arizona is where I would go during the winter months. But let let's see what pops up on this list. Naples, Florida, the number one place to go.

Why? Okay. They've got a decent temperature between 64 and 71, during the months between November and January. So, that's pretty good. Fort Myers, Florida coming in at number 2.

Alright, Vegas at number 3. Okay, I I ain't buying this list. There is no way that Vegas is a better place to be in the winter months than Phoenix. Alright. Now Phoenix isn't necessarily where I would go.

I think I might hunker down during the winter months in my overpriced home in, Sedona or something like that. Or maybe out outside of Phoenix. New River. Really out in the desert? I don't know.

I mean, it's one of the most miserable places ever during the summer months, but McAllen, Texas better than anywhere in Arizona? I doubt it. I doubt it. And I don't know much about Charleston, South Carolina, but they do have a picture of some colorful buildings and, I like when they paint buildings. Something other than beige or brown or white, like every building around here.

Little bit of color really livens things up. Shout out to whoever started, painting some murals in downtown Idaho Falls. I saw that in the news the other day. That's great. Anything we can do to color things up around here.

I know a bunch of murals have been going up in Pocatello. You know, Pokey, they're doing good with, like, this, multiyear return of the neon lights thing they've been doing. Let's add some color around here, people. Alright? We have to put up with that 6 months of dreary, horrible winter that's about to strike.

Nothing would make driving around when everything's gray than seeing a little bit of color. All of our buildings don't need to match the dreary winter landscape. K? Let's liven it up a bit. It's fun.

I'm telling you, when you arrive home and your house isn't boring, isn't just boring brown, it's gonna brighten your day a little bit. Who's calling me? Alright. Let's see if they're on topic. K Bear, you're live on the show.

Please keep that in mind. Who's this? Hey. It's Cowboy. Cowboy.

What's on your mind? So, you're talking about Arizona. Mhmm. You should next time you go, check out Payson, Arizona. Payson?

Yeah. P a y s o n. Now I may have driven through Payson. Let me bring it up on a map here, because I have done a It's it's halfway between Mesa and Flagstaff. It's like a mile high, Ponderosa Pines.

Ah, okay. I'm I'm looking at it on the map. I have not been to Payson, but that's an area I've wanted to visit. Just haven't had the time. You've got, some of those other, forest towns like strawberry, pine.

Pine. Yeah. Those are all good little towns to visit. Yeah. Dude, I I definitely need to make my way over to Pace, and that's a a road there that, route you can take from, So Mesa up to Flagstaff.

I've I've never gone that, route. So if you go to Strawberry and you go up above and it can go past the little ways, you'll find a road called the 300 Road. The 3 It'll take you it'll take you all the way across the movie on the rim and dump you off at, I can't remember the name of the lake on the opposite side. But you can follow that road. It'll follow the rim the whole way around.

Wow. That's pretty cool. I think And then if you get out you get out and check stuff out, there's, fossilized seashells and all sorts of crazy stuff. Nice. Alright.

The you said the road was the 300? Correct. 300. Alright. I'm gonna do some, research.

I should be making my way back down there sometime, probably, you know, early spring when I just can't take it around here anymore. So I don't know. It could still be kinda snowy and such in those areas, I'd assume, at that time of year. I know Flagstaff in February is usually still pretty nasty. So Every now and then, it'll get 3, maybe 4 feet of snow, but it's on a rare occasion.

Alright. Well, I appreciate the recommendation. I will definitely scope that area, man, because I I love Arizona. It's great. Yeah.

Me too. I just moved back 4 years ago from there. Oh, right on, man. Where were you living when you were down there? I started in Mesa because I was working for General Motors.

They had a desert food in there. Oh, right. And then I got and then I got introduced to Payson. And then I moved to Payson. I was commuting from Payson to the General Motors Desert Proving Grounds in East Mesa.

My. He just got too hot in the summertime. Yeah. It, it's pretty miserable down there during the summer. And, you know, people listening I I think a lot of people don't realize how diverse the, different areas of Arizona are.

Like Google, Payson, Arizona, and just bring up the photos. I think those photos might surprise people. You you can go from like Flagstaff is like you're in an island park, you know, and then an hour later, you're you're down in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, and it's it's all wild. So Yeah. It gets pretty crazy.

You can go as far as Tucson or Desert Desert to Flagstaff or, you know, and then go to go to, San Francisco Peaks and be 11,500 feet. I'm just he's there. Yeah. He's pretty crazy there. It's amazing.

Stuff to check out. Definitely. It's an amazing state. I've heard you talk about Jerome too as an on screen. Duh.

I I love Jerome. To go ahead and just take it with your dad. Sorry. There's a bunch of racket coming through. Sorry.

It's I drive truck and Pocatello and Yeah. It's a loader operator. All good. All good. Well, hey, man.

Appreciate the call today and hope you have a good one. Alright. Appreciate it. See you, man. Bye.

Bye. Yes. I am definitely a big fan of Arizona. It was a place that I didn't think I would like at all. I went down there to help my friend Joey the Hulk Loboto move back here.

And, first time I went there was like, what is going on? This place is crazy. This is not what I expected at all. And, you no. The caller mentioned Jerome.

That that's where Maynard from Toole lives. Jerome is a mountainside small, almost a ghost town, but I wouldn't call it a ghost town anymore because it's a it's a tourist town. Was once known as the wickedest town in the west. I've been watching that documentary on Netflix about Wyatt Earp and the, cowboy war. You you see a lot of these areas that I've driven through in Arizona pop up in that, and it's, it's really neat to learn about the history of what was going down there in the the days of the outlaw and stuff.

But, Jerome is a really cool city. It's, I I guess it's not a city. It's a town. About 30 minutes from Sedona, and Sedona is another one of my favorite places on the planet. I've always wanted to be able to afford a house in Sedona as my, you know, snowbird location, but go look at the real estate prices there.

That's like Arizona's Sun Valley. Alright? I don't think that's in the, Victor Wilt future until I win that lotto. Anyway, we'll be back in a few. Visit Arizona, everybody.

Go in February when this place has become the most miserable wasteland of gray and ice and sludge, and you just can't take it anymore. Drive down there. Go through Vegas, and you'll you'll have a great time. You know, it's kind of amazing the things that can bother you as you're a child, movies and entertainment and such. I posted on Facebook and perhaps other socials the other day a picture that kinda paid homage to the movie, The Brave Little Toaster.

This is gonna sound weird, and I don't even know why. But when I think back to the movie, The Brave Little Toaster, that movie made me uneasy when I was a kid. Something about it bothered me and gave me the creeps. I don't know why. I'd have to go back and rewatch it, I guess, but I don't have the desire to because I have a negative association with that movie.

And we've talked about other movies that bothered me when I was a child. Somewhat recently, I believe we had this discussion. All dogs go to heaven. Terrifying when I was a child. I've I remember just being horrified by that movie.

And those are movies to me that, you know, when I think about them, they're kids' movies. Why would they be so upsetting? I don't know. I'd have to go back and watch them again. Other movies that traumatized me as a child make sense.

Okay? Like Pet Sematary, which I just rewatched. That movie is a real legit horror movie. Alright? And to a young child who shouldn't have been watching it but somehow got their hands on it, makes sense for that one to give me the creeps.

K? Creep show. Parts of that gave me the creeps as well when I was a a little one. Yeah. I don't remember if it was part 1 or 2, but the the guy who wanted a ride, the hitchhiker, Ugh.

Nightmarish. There's a thread making the rounds on Reddit where people are talking about movies that traumatized them as children, and I was curious as to, you know, how I fare compared to these other people. Let's go to the phones. Kay Bear, do you have a movie that traumatized you as a child? Oh, dear.

Alright. No. I was phoning you about the weather and colorful buildings. Oh, geez. How how far back is our delay?

That was, like, 20 minutes 20 minutes ago, I was talking about that, Lauren. I I've been meaning to tell you that there's a glitch with the app, but it's actually very useful. Because I can push pause and listen to the new now as before in the afternoon. Okay. So you you may have paused and just you're a little ways behind.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'd moved on from that mine. But that's fine, Lauren.

What do you got for colorful buildings? And we'll get back to traumatic movies. Aren't you one of those people that with black 7 times a week? Yes. But there is like, today, I'm wearing a shirt that says portal to the cat dimension, and it is a black shirt, but it's a very colorful black shirt.

You know, it's got, purple and orange and red and, you know, it it's still colorful. Alright? Okay. Well, it just it caught me by surprise that you say you like things to look colorful when you wear black all the time. Oh, yeah.

Like, I've I've said it amazing. I'd said before, if anybody out there is into painting murals and you just need some good practice, you can come go crazy on my house. You know, I've I I would have no problem having a ridiculous full color, awesome mural covering the whole front of my house to really live in the things. But, you know, I, I can't afford to hire a top quality artist. It would have to be someone who just needs to practice and is looking Don't tempt me.

Yeah. You know, somebody who's just looking for a nice, canvas to practice on. So Like I said, don't tempt me. Maybe maybe I'll start practicing. Send me a sample of your art.

And good to hear from you, Lauren. Thank you, Victor. Alright. See you. Bye.

Bye. Alright. Yeah. Hopefully, our app is not on that big of a delay, and it is in fact just Lauren was pausing and fast forward and rewinding, things like that. But, no, I was curious what movies traumatized people on the Internet.

I was guessing we'd hear The Never Ending Story. Anybody my age, you saw that movie as a kid. It was a terrifying movie. It was very unsettling. That one definitely goes on the list of movies that were bothersome to me when I watched it.

Just a bad vibe. The whole movie as far as I can recall. Okay. Let's see what what movies online are bothering people or did bother them? Okay.

This one I think was after my time as a child, The Ring. Somebody said it messed them up. Couldn't sleep for days. Thinking they're gonna see people crawl out of their TV. The Ring was a pretty good show.

But, yeah, that that was long after the age at which I could be traumatized by a movie. Kay bear, you're live on the show. Keep that in mind. Who's this? This is Jay.

Crazy Jay. I would love to know what movies traumatized you as a child. Well, it was probably the original Dracula and original Frankenstein. Those old black and white movies? Saw them when I I saw them when I was, like, 8.

Yeah. Those those are pretty creepy. The hour rated ones. They were not the edited ones. Oh, okay.

You're talking the newer ones. Okay. Because I was like No. No. I'm talking about both the old black and white, Dracula and black and white inside in their original ones, they were rated r.

I guess I wasn't familiar with that. I I mean, I I watched all those when I was a kid too, but I don't remember there being r rated versions. I'll I'll edited. They were edited. Alright.

I'll I'll look into it, Jay, and see if I can get, r rated copies, and I'll have to check them out. And I've seen them again since I've been an adult, and, that made me love horror movies. That it scared me. It gave me nightmares. I loved it.

I I like when a movie gives me the creeps too, for sure. So well, thanks, Jay. Hope you have a made me love, that just made me love horror movies. My brother hates horror movies. He made me watch it just to scare me.

And then I ended up loving it. Nice. Well, good job on your brother, Jay. He got you into some good taste and good to hear from you, man. Alright.

Have a good one. Peace. Bye. K Bear. You are live on the show.

Keep that in mind. Who's this? Hey, this is John. How are you? John, I'm doing pretty good, man.

What you got for a movie that traumatized you as a child? Well, I don't know if it traumatized me, but it seriously freaked me out. Like I got some pretty scary dreams for a little bit as a kid. It's called the dark crystal. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. That I could see giving children nightmares for sure. Yeah. Super uncanny valley. Kind of the people in that show just weirded me out as a kid.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a weird one, man. Now didn't they Disney plus I rewatched it recently. I was just laughing at it because it's an older movie, obviously.

So you laugh at some of the animatronics or the puppets, but as a kid, it was scary. Well, yeah. It's like when people talk about jaws, jaws is kind of universally known as this, you know, horrifying movie that scared the crap out of everybody back in the day, you watch it now. And you're like, no. Yeah.

You know? Yep. But did you watch the newer version of the dark crystal they put out a few years ago? No, I didn't know that they did one. Yeah.

They did like a sequel to it or something. If I'm remembering correct. I'm I'm like 95% positive. It was really good. I I think it might have been on Netflix if I remember right.

But, Well, we'll have to look into that. Yeah. You should check it out, man. For sure. Yeah.

It should solve some unresolved things from my childhood or something. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Alright.

Or you'll bring them bring them right back up. Or that. Yeah. Let's hopefully not. Well, thanks, man.

Appreciate the call today. Yeah. No problem. Good luck with the show. Hey.

Thanks, man. Peace. Yep. Peace. K, Bear.

You are live on the Victor Will show. Keep that in mind. Who's this? This is Eli. Eli.

Movies that traumatized you as a kid. So it's weird, but stick with me. Dazed and confused. Oh, okay. That was not weird than I would expect to hear.

Explain. So there's the seeds in there with the paddles and the older kids getting the little kid. Okay. I was thoroughly convinced my sister was gonna get me. K.

You know what? Thinking back because of that movie, I think that paddling in school, like, came back because of that movie. And I don't remember ever seeing anyone actually get paddled, but I remember a lot of people in high school packing paddles in their cars and being like, yeah, this is your initiation. And, you know, I, I think that the schools even like gave out, I seem to remember Pokey High sending out, a message, like, you know, you will be suspended if you're paddling people or hazing students. But I remember one of my friends had a paddle that was made out of the arm of a couch, like one of those old couches with with the yeah.

Yeah. And somehow make about it. It was crazy. Yeah. Somehow I ended up with it.

We drove around with it in my car forever, but, I mean, we never paddled anybody with it, but we had it. And I it was there. Yeah. Yeah. That one got me.

Yeah. I could see that. That, that movie did make people terrified of the first few days of high school. Yeah. So Alright.

Sir, thanks. Let me chime in. Hey. Thanks for calling and listening to the show. Have a good one today.

Take care. Peace. K Bear, you are live on the Victor Will show. Keep that in mind. Who's this?

Bryce? Bryce movie that traumatized you as a kid. Arachnophobia. Oh. Yeah.

That was my little sister's least favorite movie of all time. I see they're making a sequel, which should be cool. And there was a recent spider movie that came out that I was hearing a lot about. I can't remember what it was called now, but, what's that? It was called sting Sting, s c I n d.

I don't know if it was Sting. It was within the last year, but it was supposed to be pretty good. But, yeah, arachnophobia, I I'm not a big fan of spiders. So that movie, it was unsettling to me as well. I had a hard time taking a shower after that one.

Nothing nothing worse than when you're trying to wake up for the day, you're half alert, and all of a sudden a giant spider goes out running across your feet. I I hate that. Right. I hate that too. Happened to me, a couple mornings ago.

I'm like, oh, jeez. A hobo? I'm not sure what it was, but I it ended up getting, scooped up and thrown into the toilet, very quickly. So And that's what I do too. I'm afraid they're gonna crawl back up the drain of my shower.

Yeah. Yeah. It's much if I find 1 in the tub, I'll wash it down the drain and I'll wash it down the drain for a long time. Take an extra 5 minutes. You know, just sitting there, you know, ruining life for polar bears so I can wash a spider down the drain, just, you know, just wasting water.

But, you know, it happens. It does. Right on, man. Well, appreciate it today. Yeah.

Have a good day. You too. Peace. Peace. Alright.

Movies that traumatized you as kids. This is a this is a pretty good topic. I was really curious what the, Internet was going to say. Flying monkeys in the wizard of Oz. I don't something about the wizard of Oz, I remember bothering me.

I don't remember exactly what it was when I was younger, though. Somebody said scary movie. Not scream, but scary scary movies are comedy. I don't know. I guess if you were really young, maybe there's some scenes in it that if, you know, if you're a little little kid, sure, but scary movie's funny.

It's fun. Fire in the sky. There you go. You wanna get, worried about being abducted by aliens? Watch fire in the sky and then go hang out in the woods for a few nights.

Yeah. Alright. Anyway, I guess I better get ready for some freak news powered by grease monkey voted Idaho's best oil change. We could, we could return to this topic in a while though, because I'm I'm liking it. I would love to hear what movies traumatized you or scared you as a child, and I do wanna see what the Internet says.

So, I'll throw one out real quick that I, accidentally traumatized my own children with when they were pretty little. I thought it would be fun to show them the movie Mars attacks because that's a funny movie. Right? I guess it's pretty pretty horrifying to to small children when the aliens show up and just start start disintegrating people. My kids did not like that.

So that was a lesson learned that they they were, horrified by The Goonies too because there's that scene where, you know, the mom's like, cut your tongue out or something. I don't remember what she says. I should remember having seen that movie a 1000000 times, but, yeah. Sorry, kids. I didn't mean to scare you.

I thought those movies would be fun. Freak news powered by Grease Monkey, voted Idaho's best oil change. Howdy, inspector Welt. Alright. Let us begin here with maybe a tip for lieutenant Crane and his homies.

I don't know if they're having any trouble busting drivers for doing things like not yielding to pedestrians, but this is a pretty funny way to catch some people in the act. Halloween's right around the corner. You know those inflatable costumes where you can, you know, put the costume on, and then it it blows up, and it makes it look like you're riding a horse or a dinosaur. Well, this one makes the officer look like he's riding a chicken wearing sunglasses. And, yeah, he just hangs out at intersections, waits for drivers who cut him off and won't let him make his way across as a pedestrian, and then bam busted.

You can get a fine of up to $400. Alright? So, I mean, the amount of money they could make in Pocatello on 5th street, they could just rake in the cash because even though everybody driving down that road knows that the college students are just going to barrel out into traffic. Well, actually, maybe that's why people drive this way where, you know, there will be a student just walking out into the road and they almost get hit because people are just so fed up driving down that road. They've stopped looking.

Please be cautious traveling down 5th Street. People will come out from behind cars and just walk in front of you. I know their college age and should know better, should look both ways, but they don't. They just barrel out into traffic. Be careful.

But if you're a cop, might be a good spot to go bust some people. There you go. What else do we have here for freaking news powered by Greasemonkey? A guy claimed he was swimming in Loch Ness and felt Nessie bump up against him. Dude, I hate to break it to you, but in lakes, in natural bodies of water, there are things.

K? They're not necessarily sea beasts. They're not necessarily the Loch Ness Monster. Could've been a log. Could've been a fish.

Shocked man feels Nessie brush up against him. A daredevil left terrified as he swam across the deepest part of Scotland's legendary Loch Ness. Something came up from the depths, and it rubbed right up against me. Dude, if you're in natural water, you're going to touch things. K?

And a dinosaur down there. What am I going to do? Where was this guy from? He was from Australia. Come on, dude.

You're from Australia. You should know. Monsters. K? Definitely much more to be scared of back at home than in Loch Ness, but whatever.

I've never been to Loch Ness, and I haven't swam in it, so I guess I shouldn't judge. Finally, let's see. Florida man arrested for illegally keeping monsters, alligators, slider turtles on his property. So what? If they just wander onto your property, you're fine, but if you put up a fence, you're no good.

I guess he had 2 gators in his backyard pool. Florida man. Dude. Those are those are dinosaurs, bro. They do the barrel roll.

They're like a chomp down on your arm and just rip it right off, dude. What's going on here? I don't know. It's Florida, man. By the way, speaking of Florida, man, today is the, I believe, 11 year anniversary of grand theft auto 5.

GTA 6. When we gonna get some new information? Come on. Give us a new trailer. Something.

It's been almost a year. It yeah. It's been almost a year since we got any new info on grand theft auto 6, which has taken full, taken place in the Florida version of the GTA world. It's gonna be wild. Florida man GTA style, I cannot wait.

Let's go to the phones. K Bear, what's up? Hey, man. Hey, sir. Are we still calling about a movie that traumatizes the kids?

Sure. What do you got? Oh, man. Ice age, actually. Ice age?

You know, like yeah, man. Like, I had a neighbor that looked like Sid the Sloth, and I was scared of him. I know. I know. He was looking back, he's a little messed up because it's not his fault.

You know, his eyes are spaced out like that, but yeah, man. Scary. It's amazing. The associations that can end up giving you the creeps. That's pretty funny, dude.

Yeah, man. Oh, yeah. That's all I got. Hey. Appreciate the call today and, hope you have a good rest of the week.

Hey, you 2 kisses. See you, man. Yep. All right. Ice age, ice age, an unexpected response for a movie that would give you the creeps as a kid.

I mean, all dogs go to heaven, like I said, and the brave little toaster. I, and those movies made me uneasy. So who am I to judge? Kay bear, you are live on the Victor world show. Who's this?

This is Jeremy. How are you? I'm doing pretty great, man. What movie traumatized you as a child? Poltergeist.

Oh. Waiting too many sleepless nights. Yeah, dude. Okay. That one definitely scared me a lot as a kid.

I remember watching that and being very, very horrified. That that's a pretty good response. And isn't that movie rated like PG? Yeah. And also, like, real human skeletons used, which definitely didn't help us as a kid.

Yeah. Yeah. They really did use real dead people in that scene where there's, you know, the bodies coming up out of the ground. Pretty wild. Pretty wild.

So good, good response, man. I'm with you on that. That movie certainly was, bothersome as a youth. Okay, man. Hey.

You have a good one today. You too. Bye. Peace. What's happening, Peaches?

Hey. Good morning. Yeah. We we did this topic a little while back, but it came up again. Movies that traumatized you as a kid.

Some of those, like, Scooby Doo, and, like, the, zombie island movies. Zombie Island. Or, like, the cyber chit no. There was one, like, after the movie special, they had an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog that you could watch afterwards. And it was just a bonus add on and it was the scariest one.

Everybody I'm so glad everyone my age says the same thing. It's this guy it's like this ghost that haunts Eustace because Eustace took a slab. Uh-huh. And he's out there in the the in the field just waving back and forth. He goes, return the slob.

And he's the creepiest dude ever. You gotta pull it up. It's the it I'll have to check that one out of my curse. It's just this whole thing. Yeah.

There were a lot of movies that scared me when I was a kid. I, you know, mentioned earlier Pet Sematary, Creep Show. Caller just mentioned Poltergeist. That was another pretty good one. Here.

But then silly ones like we talked about a while back, all dogs go to heaven. That movie horrified me as a kid. The land before time. I didn't like that one very much. The beginning of lion king.

You know, the beginning of lion king did not bother me as bad as those other movies. You know, it it was sad, but it wasn't what I would call traumatizing, I guess. I I don't I and I was kinda older by the time lion king came out. When when did you get out 96. Let's see here.

94. 94. So I would have been 12. By that point, you know, I think the Disney movies weren't upsetting me. I was minus I was minus 2.

You were minus 2 at that point. Toy Story came out the year I was born. Did Toy Story, horrify you? No. It's a good movie.

Alright. I remember Jurassic Park traumatizing my brother, but he was pretty he was pretty little when Jurassic Park came out, and we took him to I might have been the drive in theater. Let's see. I'm sure you antagonized him with that type of thing too. Like, you got a plastic dinosaur put it in his room.

So it came out 93, so Jake would have been 8 ish, about 8 years old. And, you know, at that point in time, I mean, the special effects in that movie were, like, the best in the world. It still looks great. It still looks good. Say CGI now looks better.

There's a lot of movies out there that suck. Yeah, dude. I mean, the the t rex in that movie and the raptors, Very horrifying. The raptors are terrifying because they're fast and they can just eat you. Yeah.

And I I don't think they're even based on real dinosaurs. They're not. They're not. They're just added for dramatic effect. Like like every Hollywood movie.

K Bear, you're live on the Victor World show. Who's this? This is Mac. Mac, what you got for a movie that traumatized you as a youth? Well, what, what got me, I was about 3, 3a half, 4 years old, maybe.

And we watched jaws. Okay. And then, and then the day after that, we floated the Boise River. Okay. Yeah.

You don't know. So my mom jumped out of her tube, and I lost it. Yeah. We we talked about jaws earlier, how it's one that back in the day was just, you know, the technology was amazing. It was horrifying.

And now you go back and watch it, and it's like, yeah. You know? And now you can visit the real life, Jaws robot at Universal Studios, the one they used in the movie. Really? Mhmm.

I I think that was shut down when I was there. Yeah. They, they it swims up to the your, tram and throws water at you. Yeah. That that wasn't active when I was there, unfortunately.

They should probably move that giant Hasselhoff boat they made for SpongeBob next to it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Make it extra fun. You've seen that.

Right, Victor? Mhmm. The giant Hasselhoff boat? Yeah. It's it's terrifying.

It is. Yeah. It's pretty freaky. I would have them in my backyard. If I was him Dude, if if I had all the money in the world, I would have the dumbest yard ever.

It would be filled with stupid, superyacht. Sure. But the, a friend of mine, friend of mine and I came up with an idea that if we ever hit Powerball, we're gonna go buy a massive super yacht and get a barge to tow behind it. And that's gonna be like the total redneck yard. Like, we're gonna have nothing but car parts in there.

There's gonna be like a rough busted slab of concrete. Part of it's gonna have like a little bit of a yard and like a house have, like, a houseboat on another barge that's got a garage that just houses your riding lawnmower. And then from there, you, you know, back the barges together and just move that over so you can mow the one section, and you always do it in, like, the most expensive marinas on the planet just to make all those rich people just as aggravated as possible. Oh, yeah, man. It's gotta be a such a fine line between wanting to be completely irresponsible and trying to hold on to your money when you win the lotto.

You know, that's why isn't it like 99% of lotto winners go bankrupt? It's a it's a really good match. Almost, almost every one of them that has always come out publicly always ends up failing for the most part, but the ones that keep their stuff secret, their personal information, they usually tend to do well because they put it into a, trust and stuff like that. Yeah. You'd have to keep it totally quiet.

Otherwise, every single person you know is gonna come to you with a sob story or a business idea. No. And people you don't know. Honestly, I honestly would tell you, I would not do that. It's just to me, it's just weird to ask people for money.

Yeah. I I couldn't ask people for money either. Like I'm your I'm your 7th cousin 12 times removed. Can I have money? Yep.

There if all of a sudden Victor Wilt just disappears, there might be a lot of wind. I'll just be like, he didn't. He finally did it, and that's about it. And I shouldn't have talked about all my favorite places, you know, over all these years because people may be able to track me down. Luckily, my real name is so generic.

No matter what town I move to, there's gotta be more than one of me. You can hide in my parents' house for a little bit and then make your way where wherever you need to go. That's a good idea. Well, how how do we know all those locations you've been talking about are just decoys? That's yeah.

No, you know, I might be thinking many steps ahead. I mean, come on, growing up, watching the X Files. I know to trust no one. Exactly. And, oh, I've been watching the X Files lately.

It's so good. So good. That's a show that, did not give me the creeps as a kid because I didn't watch it. The, The family episode, that one out of like season 1, I think it was a freak of the week episode. Yeah.

I watched that one recently, man, with like, it's like the Hills have eyes. Yeah. A little, Texas chainsaw massacre ish. Yeah, it was, it was pretty wild, man. Well, I appreciate the cold day.

Yeah. You have a good one. You too, man. Yeah. Nineties TV was crazy.

It was crazy. Like, the x files would definitely be rated mature now. K Bear, you're live on the Victor Will show. Who's this? Hey, Victor.

This is Shane. Shane, what you what you got for a show that or movie that traumatized you as a youth? Critters. Critters. Dude, I hadn't thought about that one in a while.

That was creepy, man. I mean, anytime you see something scary on a movie cover coming out of a toilet, they Yeah. The beady the beady little red eyes looking at you through the window. Yeah. Yeah.

Dude, I'm with you, man. Definitely terrible. What about that one movie with Mel Gibson? Is it called Signs? Is that is that the one?

Signs? The alien that walks by on the street. Yeah. Signs had a pretty Signs was another one too. That had a pretty couple good chilling scenes.

That was again another one that I was a little older for, so it wouldn't be a traumatic youth movie for me, but it it was good. What does that one kid say to the to the I think I think Critters, I think I was probably maybe 5, 6. I mean, Critters was an 80 1986 film. And, I was minus 10. Oh, wait.

Maybe I'm thinking of a different I've got the, cover for Critters up, and I definitely remember seeing that. What was the movie where the it had the thing crawling out of the toilet on the, Scooby toiler, Victor. On the, was it Chud? I think so. I can't remember.

ChUD. That's got somebody coming out of the sewer. Ghoulies. That sound right? Ghoulies.

That's that's the one that had the creepy little green thing coming out of the toilet. Ghoulies rated PG 13. The eighties were very different. Well, jaws was PG. Yeah.

So, all right, man. Good. Good call. Yeah. You have a good day.

You too, man. Peace. Good bye. K, Barry, you're live on the Victor Will show. Who's this?

Hi. This is Karen. I just wanted to call and say tremors terrified me. Tremors. You know, that's a that's a Tremors.

That's a classic now. And, it's a bit of a horror comedy, but I could see that if you were pretty little being terrifying, especially if you live anywhere near a desert, which we do here in East Idaho. Yeah. Yeah. That's the kind of thing you could see going down out near the site.

Doctor. For sure. The devil's orchard. That's right. Doctor.

I agree with a 100%. I, yeah, the first time I seen it, I was like maybe 5 or 6 and I wouldn't go outside. You know, I do parents still let I guess I talked about how I let my kids watch, Mars attacks and it scared them and traumatized them. But the the movies we got to watch back in the late eighties, when we were kids, they were crazy. I don't know why I made the stupid decision of watching Nightmare on Elm Street as a kid, but I didn't wanna lay in my bed.

I just like slipped on the floor. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Or, Pet Cemetery. I remember watching Pet Cemetery and that one that one destroyed me as a kid too.

That that movie scared me for years. That was one of the first ones I talked about today was pet cemetery. And I rewatched it, a couple weeks ago and it, it, it holds up pretty well. You know, for an eighties horror movie, it's, it's still really good. So Yep.

Yep. But it was horrifying. That sister Zelda, that was what scared me the most. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, appreciate the call today. Hope you have a good one. Yep. You too.

Thanks. Peace. Kay Bear, you're live on the Victor Will show. We're talking traumatic movies. What what you got?

So my neighbor was terrified of Chucky, and I was in a thrift store and I find this 3 foot Chucky doll. It was gold. I set it on her porch. I knocked on the door. She opened the door and punted that thing clear across the street.

It was awesome. Now was it an actual Chucky doll or was it one of those my buddy dolls that Chucky was based on? It was the real deal. I when I found that, I I had to have it. Oh, yeah.

I I I paid $30. Yeah. Dude, that's it. That that had to happen. That's a good price on a Chucky doll.

I'd been to the Halloween store many years, and they always have the Chucky dolls, but they're just so far out of my budget. I can't bring myself to do it. I'm guessing, like, 70. No. I think they're, I mean, they're over a $100 for a nice Chucky doll.

Okay. I'd I'd have to go to spirit Halloween and see what they got, but right on, man. That's pretty funny. Good. Good move.

Oh, I I would've paid $300. Yeah. That's awesome. For a legit Chucky doll? Yeah, man.

I mean, that that would be great to have for sure. So Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Terrified her. She's been out for a door for 2 weeks.

Oh, too funny. Well, appreciate it, man. Hope you have a good one today. Alright. Peace.

Let's have a good one, man. You too. It. Had a listener call with arachnophobia earlier, and I remembered around Halloween. You know, those little plastic spiders that were rings?

Do do you they they were like just a plastic spider, but you could wear them as a ring? Oh, I think so. So I had one of those and I put the ring part between my fingers. So I looked like I was holding a spider and I put my hands together like this. And my sister was probably 5.

Oh, man. And she's so horrified of spiders. And I went, Manda, look what I got. And she oh, my mom was so mad. See, I'm glad.

She screamed and cried and was so terrified. My mom was just pissed. I'm so glad I was the older sibling that didn't have the, the older sibling to then pick on or for me to be picked on. Yeah. That's sort of thing because my sister, she's not really afraid of anything.

She's the one that wants to go on the haunted places. Yeah. I used to tell my sister Freddy Krueger was in her closet. That that was rude. Jeez.

That was very rude. Kay Barry, you're live on the Victor Wilt Show. Keep that in mind. Who's this? Hey.

It's Zach. How are you doing? Zach doing really well. What you got for a movie that traumatized you as a youth? So same as I said last time, man, the black cauldron.

Oh, the black cauldron. That's right. Yeah. That movie's that can be very unsettling for sure. Oh, yeah.

It's a good one. And it's one of those Disney movies you just don't hear much about. Like, I I I need to check and see if it's on Disney plus. I know this stuff on Disney plus. It's pretty crazy what they have on there.

Yeah. It's not all like, sunshine and rainbows on Disney plus. No. They've all dogs go to heaven. I think.

No, it doesn't get any scarier than that. Well, thanks, man. Appreciate the call. Have a good one. Peace.

This is a hot topic here. The lines have been lit up for like a half hour. No, this is, this is Kaye on a hot topic. Oh, hot topic. You know, you might be able to find a Chucky t shirt at least.

Sure. Kaye bear. You're live on the show. Who's this? This is Sean and Pocatello.

Sean and Pokey. What you got for a movie that traumatized you as a youth? So I was the youngest of 5 growing up. And so I got introduced to the lost boys at about 9 years old. Oh, yeah, dude.

The lost boys. One of my all time favorite movies. What's weird about the lost boys is I watched it when I was very young too. Must have been 8 or 9. And that movie did not traumatize me for some reason.

For the longest time, I wouldn't eat the rice after I saw the maggot, the rice turned into maggot. That scene is pretty nasty. I refuse to eat rice. Yeah. The lost boys is great.

It's another one I rewatched recently. It still stands up. It's really fun. And I've I've got that lost boys poster. First thing you see when you walk into my basement.

So Oh, yeah. Cool. Right on, man. Have a good one. You bet.

Later. Alright. One more call. K Bear, you're live on the show. Keep that in mind.

Who's this? This is Brandon. Brandon, what you got for a movie that traumatized you as a child? Jeepers Creepers. Okay.

How old are you, Brandon? I am 31 years old. Okay. Yeah. Jeepers creepers would have been one that came after, you know, I was already a little bit older.

I actually watched a YouTube video the other day about the event that inspired Jeepers creepers. And, that was that was pretty unsettling. It, you know? Yeah. It it, it took me a while to be okay going outside at night at all because you know where we live in a rural area.

Yeah. And, at that time we were living kind of kinda north of town and kinda out in the sticks a little bit. And so it it definitely freaked me out. A friend of mine then said, hey, man. My older brother just got the second one, you know, when it came out.

And I was like, no. I'm not touching out 10 foot pole. He invites me over to his house anyway. And he's like, hey, I just put in, he'd named a different movie. I can't remember what it was.

Then he forced me to sit there and watch deeper creepers too even though he knew I was terrified of the first one. Yeah. I could imagine if you Oh. You know, live out in, like, Springfield or Aberdeen Oh, god. And then you're watching Yeah.

Jeepers creepers at that. It is very reminiscent of, rural areas of east Idaho, for sure. He just And then and then we took a trip out to craters of the moon for a school trip and we were coming back in the dark. Oh, god. That.

We came back to the craters of the moon in the dark recently, and we thought there was a 20 foot ghost in the road. So That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, nice.

Yeah. Is that signs, and, shit. I can't remember the name of the other one, but signs was the only one that got me too. It was, it was one of those go outside and look up and make sure that there's nothing standing on the roofs. I'd not in the field, you know.

Yeah. The way they was, the way they did the aliens in signs was, was pretty creepy for sure. I just thought of another one. The it's not a movie. The TV show Goosebumps when they had the Yeah.

When the girl put on the Halloween mask and it wouldn't come off. Yeah. I was terrified of those rubber masks for a little while there. I love that show Goosebumps. The Goosebumps books were those were my favorite when I was a kid.

The weirdest episode is when the the plant the the dad becomes like a plant. Yeah. He's a scientist and there's 2 dads. Yeah. And and, like, at the end, like, I think the real one dies and, like, the new one is the the plant dad.

Yes. Stay out of the basement is that story. I gave my kids Goosebumps is what got me out of, got me away from being scared of of stuff on TV and in books. So, yeah, I love Goosebumps. Yeah.

It must've helped me too because I I still got a really big Goosebumps collection. I bought a bunch for my kids, and they ended up leaving them at my house when they moved out. But the I I gave them book 1, stay out of the basement, the plant story peaches, and my kids were scared to go into the basement of my own house after that. Because that was where I would like What's your plant dad? I've well, and I was You should've walked out of the basement with, like, just die green.

I should've. I should've. Terrified the basement was where I hung out, like, doing, you know, working on, riffs and stuff like that. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, they they wanted nothing to do with the basement. Well, appreciate the call, man. Yeah, man. Yeah.

You guys have a good one. You too. Alright. I've hung Fun chats. Fun chats.

You're mad? Yeah. Trivium bullet for my Valentine announced that tour. Not coming to Salt Lake City or Boise. Well, you're gonna have to road trip it to I don't know.

To Denver. Denver. Well, hey. You know, Denver is supposed to be pretty great, peaches. Is it at, Red Rocks or where are they holding the show?

Denver, it is the Fillmore Auditorium. The Fillmore Auditorium. Okay. Alright. I've I've heard of that venue.

But they go from Vancouver to Seattle to San Francisco to Wheatland, California at Hard Rock Live. What is Wheatland? I'm assuming that the Hard Rock Live must be, like, a cool venue or something like that. I've never even heard of Wheatland, California. Then then they go to Reno, then Denver, then Vegas, and then they go to YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California.

Okay. Alright. Well So April of next year, I might need to go back home. Go see those pants. Feel free to do it even sooner, peaches.

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Let's talk about collectibles. Anybody out there into collecting? Well, you never know what's sitting around that might be worth some bank. I'm pretty sure as far as stuff I got from my parents or grandparents, etcetera, I don't think I got anything of any extreme value. Alright?

I got some neat items that look fun on the shelf or whatever. They're weird. Doubt they're worth any dough, but you might have stuff sitting around your place that's worth a lot of money. Maybe you've got, you know, a parent's old filing cabinet you haven't dug through. You should see what's in there.

Somebody recently found a rare signed copy of the US constitution in a filing cabinet. Now it's not the, obviously, like, the constitution. It was one of the ones that they threw together before signing the actual legit one, and there were only, like, 8 of them made or something like that. So they're putting this up for auction. Minimum bidding starting at, like, a $1,000,000.

Alright? Now I would doubt you have anything that rare sitting around, but you never know. You never know. And the other day, I was thinking about collectibles because I collect books, and I've got a few books that I'm sure are worth some dough. And down the line, could be worth lots of money, you know, probably long after I have passed on, which is why my book collection is just something I'm going to pass on to my my kids.

But I got thinking about it, and I'm pretty well versed in the world of collectible books, especially specific genres or a specific genre. When it comes to collectible books, I I know my stuff pretty well in the realm of horror and especially Stephen King. Like, if I'm bored, what I'll do is fire up eBay, sort eBay by auctions ending soonest, punch in Stephen King, and I just kinda scroll. I can tell just by book covers, like, k, is this even worth looking at? And, so for me, it's, you know, it's easy to know what's on my own shelf, what it's worth, and if you wanted to sell it, what you need to do.

But I was thinking about this for the sake of my kids. What a nightmare I've created for them down the road. Because without that knowledge, I need to, like, write them up some kind of big, long document. Okay. Here's some books.

Here's the ones that are worth the most, but since I'm probably gone at this point, here's how you figure out how much they're worth. And we'll just talk about collectibles in general, because I see people selling stuff on Facebook marketplace often enough. You know, I scroll through there as well. Hoping that every once in a while, maybe a great deal will pop up on a guitar or something. Maybe I've found a few collectible books on Facebook market.

But the thing with Facebook market and eBay and other sites like that is a lot of times people's prices for items are all over the place. Sometimes they're right on point. Sometimes they're a bargain, which, you know, any collector loves to see. And other times you're like, you are out of your mind. Are you people crazy?

So what you need to do if you've got a collectible item you wanna sell and you want to actually sell it, you need to go to eBay and you need to look at sold items. It doesn't default to this. You've gotta do your search and then go into the filters and go to sold items and take a look at what things are actually selling for. Because you can put an item for sale on eBay or Facebook market price at any price you want. Like, I don't know.

Looking around in here, I've got a there's a signed black cherry poster. Black stone cherry. Excuse me. I won't put it up for sale for $3,000 I don't think anybody's going to buy it. Maybe there might be a big Blackstone cherry fan out there that would pay it.

That's another thing though. The ultimate value of an item is whatever people are willing to pay for it. Like talking Stephen King's books. There is a book called the Bachman books, which is not a rare book. There are tons of copies out there of this book.

You can find it at thrift stores and things like that for like a dollar often enough. I mean, I've had multiple copies of this book and they got a little beat up, so I threw them away. Shouldn't have because for whatever reason right now, people are paying crazy amounts for crappy beat up copies of the Bachman books. They're not worth that, but they are because people are willing to pay it. I don't know if they'll hold that value in the long term.

Maybe. Maybe they'll just keep going up and up. But, yeah. You got a copy of the Bachman books. Wanna make a $100?

Put it on eBay. You'll sell it. Guaranteed. I've got a copy of it, but I'm not gonna sell it. You know?

It because again, it if the value does keep increasing, you know, I'd I'd hate to kick myself for selling it. The most valuable book I ever had, I sold. And it wasn't at the time the most valuable book I had. It was actually a story that was in the Bachman books, a story called rage. And I had a 1st edition paperback that that I got for dirt cheap.

Got it dirt cheap on eBay many, many years ago, 15, some odd years ago. I really wanted this guitar from no limit guitar company, the, Brett Kelleher Sparrow Hawk ESP. I really wanted this guitar and I didn't have any money. So I decided I'm gonna sell my copy of rage And I paid, like, $80 for it when I bought it. I sold it for over $400 and thought I was getting pretty good deal.

Yeah. Tell the Bachman books blew up as a collectible item. Now if you look at Rage, yeah, I probably could've sold it for, like, $1,000. But I still feel good for something that cost me $80. I ultimately well, with the money I got out of that and some other Dell, I was able to get myself a nice guitar.

So it it's fine. I'd rather have the guitar than the book, but it still bothers me that I sold it. So anyway, there's collectible talk for you. Collectible talk on the Victor World Show. Look around your house, find some stuff, make some money.

And again, you can price out anything for any price you want. You could put up a Beanie Baby, a Funko Pop, whatever on Facebook market and be like, hey. This is rare. It's worth $50. Somebody might buy it.

If somebody wants something that it's, you know, that it's the eye of the beholder, whatever it's worth to you or, you know, to the person purchasing, that's its true value. So alright. Anyway, I'm gonna go look for my copy of the constitution hiding in the floorboards of my house. I'll be back. Bands always tend to put out their music in these cycles that they make sense from a business standpoint, but from an exposure standpoint, I gotta give you band some tips.

Alright? You wanna get some music out there and really get some attention on it. You gotta drop that stuff in the later part of the year. Like for example, we've done a most played songs of blank year many times here on cabaret. And without question, the songs that get the most play are not songs that came out later in the year.

They're songs that came out at the end of last year or the beginning of the year. It's just kinda common sense. Right? They have a lot more opportunity to get played out. So if you wanna rack up as an artist, one of those spots on the end of the year radio charts, you wanna put out a big single, like, mid December because then radio's not gonna start playing it till January.

Then they're gonna beat it to death all year long. But what's weird is we don't get a lot of songs in the final quarter of the year. Now this week's been really good or the last couple. We had new music from Linkin Park, new music from spirit box. I know ice nine kills has some new music on the way.

But just watch as we get into November, December, everything just shuts down and there is not a lot of new music that comes out. So if you're a band and you're fighting to get radio airplay, putting something out toward the end of the year is the best time to get it out there. And, you know, if you wanna get a song on the radio, there are things you have to do that most bands don't hear about. Local bands, if you ever want advice on the music business, how to get your music out to, radio stations and things like that and actually get airplay, I'll let you know where you need to spend your money. What up, peaches?

Hey. Nothing much. Right on. I'm watching, Batman 1966 out of context in the Cannonball studio because I'm using all those lines for imaging for both Kbear and Cannonball. Oh, good for you.

Hey. Speaking of Batman, Christian Bale. That's right. Yeah. No.

I was just, I don't know. I totally forgot what I was talking about. About music spending money in the music business news on the radio. We're entering into that dead time of year where songs don't come out and just trying to encourage bands to drop music during the winter months cause that's when nobody's putting anything out. They tend to put it out in the spring right before the tour, hype up the tour, hype up the album release, and it's, you know, an endless cycle.

If you wanna get some actual attention on your music, do it when the pool's low. Yeah? When nobody else is doing anything. But I was also letting local bands know, you know, if you wanna get your music on the radio, like, outside of here we're a, like, moral radio station. You know, if if you wanna actually get your your song on the radio in most places, you have to hire a promoter to get it out there.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, and pay them to to get your music out to people. And if you're lucky, you know, you'll pay a bunch of money and then the promoter will get a radio station to play it in the middle of the night when no one's listening. It it pretty much sucks to be a band if you're not Linkin Park level for sure.

What about, like, you know, the octane test drive? That's like the the place that most of these newer bands wanna go. From what I know of the staff at Octane, I find them to be very good moral people. That's the staff at Octane. As for what happens at the higher levels, and, like, from what I said, as far as I know, everyone at Octane are legit, honest, moral people.

I've hung out with them. Other radio stations to get a song featured in a new music feature, I wouldn't be surprised that there are radio stations with some shenanigans going on. You know? Oh, why don't you buy some advertising or something like that? Mhmm.

The music business is a horrific, shady, terrible business. 100%. You know, no matter what area of it you're in as, you know, the the promotion end is nasty. The label end's nasty. The radio end is nasty.

Streaming end is nasty. Trying to get yourself on, like, Spotify playlist and things like that. Very corrupt, the music business. Speaking of corrupt, welcome Jay Davis to the studio, everybody. How's it going?

What did you come in here to tell me to do now? Just wait. Just wait. It's raining outside. I don't have to go out there.

Right? Yeah. You do. No. I'm busy.

Fresh out of the the COVID sickness. I I can't go outside. Colder air helps. No. It's bad.

It'll give you moist air. It'll be give you turb tuberculosis. I can't go out there. What are you complaining about now? Oh, I was just talking about, how dumb it is that bands don't put out songs in the winter months when nobody else is releasing anything.

And then how if you're in out a tour and support it as soon as you release it. Yeah. Yeah. But that's what every other band is doing too, and that's why nobody hears your new songs. Or like during COVID?

During COVID, nobody put out anything. It was crazy. Should have been the perfect time for a bunch of up and coming new bands. Yeah. Everybody was just sitting at home doing nothing.

They're just sitting on their phones. Would have been our perfect time. Like everything else, we are bad at timing and miss it all. Yeah. We were we were working on music stuff here.

Bitcoin and YouTube and Don't remind me of all the things we failed at. We talked about it, and then we just never did it. I know. I know. I I get lots of great ideas.

15 years later, finally doing it. I know. And I was on the front page of Stitcher 15 years ago doing a podcast from Paige. Had no idea what I was doing, and the show was terrible and they were promoting it because there were no podcasts. I'd probably be making 1,000,000 of dollars now if I'd stuck with it.

Instead, I'm sitting here making dollars. Waking up early. What's wrong with me? Millions of pennies. 1,000,000 to pennies, said Brad.

Nah. A 1,000,000 pennies would still be a lot of money. Yeah. I would. What is a 1,000,000 pennies?

Is that about a 100 grand? 10 grand? Oh, you're gonna ask me to do math? You're the math guy. Yeah.

But I wanna do How much are 1,000,000 pennies? I I think that's $10,000. Yeah. Still a lot. But if it was 1,000,000 of pennies.

That's true. Millions. I mean, I'd still take a 1,000,000 pennies. Oh, I would too. $10?

If you don't need $10, you're too rich. You need to get out and give me $10. You need to get out and start a podcast. That's right. Hey, everybody.

Jay Davis in the house. Boo. Damn it. No. Just kidding.

I thought you were gonna go boo. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Exactly.

Boo to Jay Davis. So what's up with you, buddy? How's Tuesday treating you? Oh, it's fantastic. Yeah.

Sounds wonderful. Sounds wonderful. Thankfully, you haven't, given me any extra work that I wasn't aware of yet. You you may be nervous when I first walked in. I told you about a few things and guess what?

Now you gotta do them all. You gotta figure out all the stuff I just told you about. I'm still trying to figure out other things around here. I got a I got quite the list of things that need to be done and fixed ASAP. Like, where are we?

2 weeks from October? Ugh. Don't tell me. Yeah. Realizing K Bear turns into the Halloween music station in 2 weeks.

Gary, That's not ready. That's not ready to go at all. Oh, at least years past has a lot of it done already. It's true. You just need to look for some new stuff.

I yeah. I need to fine tune and fix the clocks and I did put in a lot of new music last year. So it's sitting pretty nice, but it's the fact that, oh, I better get that done like right this second. And then next thing you know it, Christmas, Jade. Christmas.

Now I I have heard when classy 97 will become the Christmas music station. I will not drop that information to the listeners, but I will say that becomes another, oh, jeez. I gotta get this done. They need to spread out Halloween and Christmas a little bit more. What do you think they need to do?

Put them all back to back to back. Halloween Let's move it to all within the same week. Okay. Wait. I just came up with the best idea.

This year, we do something completely different here at Riverbend Media Group. In October, Kay Bear becomes the Christmas music station. Then sometime close to Christmas, Classy just unleashes the Kay Bear Halloween library. What do you think? You think they'd like that?

Oh, yeah. For sure. Now I've been begging year after year to put kidnap the Sandy Claws into the classy Christmas music. Has that changed yet this year, Jade? No.

No? Gosh. Come on. We're trying to have some fun here. This is radio.

There's no fun to be had. Well, that's why I'm trying to change things. Bring a little bit of change. Doing in there, having fun? Remember when our one of our bosses said that?

Yeah. Like, it was a bad thing? They're supposed to be Looks like they're having fun in there. You better have it talking to them. Just don't wanna pay attention when I'm in here in the morning ever, Jade.

I swear I'm just grouchy and not having a good time ever. There was definitely this lull in radio management and, like, people on air that all the fun was had in the eighties, early nineties. Yeah. And then it just went Well, thank you. Until, like, the last Last few years?

6, 5 years. Yeah. 8 years maybe. Well, I remember one of the first things that, you know, I was told as an on air personality. Told by my boss was people don't listen to you.

Thanks, Howie Rock. Thanks for building up my confidence. People don't tune in to listen to you, but that's because he was told that by somebody else. Yep. You know?

All they wanna hear is the music. That's right. It's like, well, what am I here for? If I can click play and not say nothing. Oh, please do.

Okay. Sounds good. Thank you for being here. Alright. I know we've talked a bit about the potential return of Warped Tour.

Multiple sources saying Warped Tour should be coming back or very likely will be coming back in 2025. Gonna be overseen by Live Nation with involvement by founder Kevin Lyman. And I've seen a lot of people talking about, oh, Live Nation's gonna ruin it. Now was Live Nation involved in warp tour before? Let's look up some, Warped Tour posters here because I just can't imagine that Live Nation was not involved with Warped Tour in in those later years.

They're involved with everything. They got their little claws into everything, but, kind of hard to read these posters with my old man eyes. I'll admit I'm not seeing a Live Nation logo on any of them. It just seems really surprising to me that a, you know, tour of that magnitude play in the venues they were playing, that there would not be some type of Live Nation involvement. Not surprised at all that they would be involved if there is another go around simply because, yes, Live Nation has their claws in everything.

You know, it's being discussed by a variety of, like, government officials and things trying to, you know, reduce the stranglehold that Live Nation and Ticketmaster have on the music business, the touring music industry, but I don't know. I don't have a lot of faith in these things seeing major changes. K? Pearl Jam went after Ticketmaster decades ago. Things have not improved since, And now you've got things like dynamic ticket pricing that artists are involved with as well.

You have platinum seating at shows. The good seats, they charge a lot more for them. It's not as simple as here's a flat ticket rate. Hey. You show up early.

If you're one of the first in line, you get some good tickets to a show. No. It's how much money do you got? How rich are you? That's how much you're gonna enjoy the show.

And again, the topic came up with Oasis recently with dynamic ticket pricing. If you see dynamic ticket pricing happening at a show, the bands are aware of it and are involved in benefiting from it. So, you know, as aggravated as Live Nation and Ticketmaster make me, bands that play innocent also make me very annoyed. You know, go ahead and just you know, you can be open with this. We're adults.

All you gotta say is, hey. We know we have fans that are willing to pay this much money. Why would we not take that money? I mean, I I don't know what I'd do in their boat either. I guess it would probably depend how much money I am making.

But from what I see when it comes to really wealthy people, I mean, how many of them go, ah, that's good enough, and then they retire? Doesn't seem to happen very much, does it? They just work and work work. Keep making money money money money money and then they die and then their family squanders their riches. These, like, terrible kids who didn't have to experience the real world.

Squander the riches. Oh, well, that's what you get for working and working and work. That person who made all those riches should have taken a decade off from work and spent that money maybe on overpriced tickets to, you know, a sweet music festival. Get yourself that VIP box. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt show.

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