The Viktor Wilt Show

Hi. It's the Viktor Wilt Show. It's Wednesday. It's early. We shall survive.

I don't know. I woke up this morning little bit later than usual. I don't know. I must have turned off an alarm instead of hitting snooze. Oh, well.

Oh, well. You know? It it is what it is. I didn't get to work late or anything, but I feel like I'm about 15 minutes behind how awake I should be right now to get rolling for the day. Then I decided to check my email.

I had made a post on Reddit yesterday about Gojira and my disappointment with rock radio for not giving him more love since the Olympics. And, I did mention in said post that we play lots of Gojira here. Well, if you've ever used Reddit you know how Reddit can be. What's this self promotion? This sounds like an ad for your radio station.

It's like, well, I guess it sort of is. Alright. Trying to let you Gojira fans know that we proudly support Gojira here. Yeah. Kinda simple as that.

Get the word out. Hey. Not all of rock radio sucks. I got down voted into oblivion. Oh, well.

One of these days, I'll figure out a good way to advertise, that we have a pretty good rock station that you can listen to worldwide free with the Kay Bear 1 zero one app. I guess I gotta go into places where radio fans hang out or something because the Internet can be just full of, you know, smug turds. Why would we listen to radio if I can listen to whatever I want on my streaming platform? I don't know because it's a different type of experience. You got me, Yapin', which, you know, I'm sure people will either take it or leave it.

Either gonna like it or hate it. But aside from that, I don't know. I've used many different streaming platforms, and I don't know. I I think that they just kind of, pummel you with the same stuff over and over, which, you know, we do with new music. But when you're getting pummeled over and over with songs you've heard, like, a million times since you were a teenager, I don't know.

I I just don't like the way that their, their shuffle play works. And most of the playlists out there, I don't know. They don't have a a good variety flow to them. I I just think people should give it a shot. Jeez.

But apparently, the Gojira subreddit, not the place to try to find new listeners. That's okay. I don't mind. I don't mind anyway. So that was my morning seeing that the Gojira fans don't like me and, wishing that I got more sleep, but whatever.

Feel free to promote Kay Bear anywhere you want. I just think people should check us out. I got down voted for saying that people would listen to radio if their local stations didn't suck, which I think that's a fair statement. Trying to help people out who have a crappy local rock station. Well, stream us.

We might not be local, but everyone is welcome in the Cave Bear Rock army. Right? Mhmm. So anyhow, I hope my, loyal listeners are doing good this morning. I'm doing okay.

Just, need to wake up a little bit more, just a little bit more, but we're halfway through the week. So maybe I can catch up on the weekend. We'll see. Alright. Gonna be back in just a minute with music and content and blah blah blah blah blah.

Holy cow. Already halfway through August. I don't like summer rocketing by. I am stoked to get to the end of the month, but crazy how fast time flies. Wild.

I mean, before we know it, we'll be hitting the presidential election, and it'll be over with. I was reading an article here about people being concerned that someone will be able to find out who they're voting for. The big question, according to this article, was coming from women who were wondering, can my husband find out who I'm voting for? Because I guess there's a lot of toolbag guys out there who gotta, you know, exhibit that control over their ladies and be like, here's who you need to vote for. And I guess at polling places, this is actually a problem where guys will wanna go into the booths so they can make sure their ladies vote in the right way.

Dudes, chill out. Alright? Chill out. Good news is, as I pointed out many times, voting is private. Alright?

There will be a record that you voted, but no record of who you voted for. Alright? So you can vote however you please, and your family, your friends, they'll have no idea who you vote for. So if you have a differing political opinion than your family or friends that maybe you're uncomfortable actually talking with them about, but you wanna do your civic duty and go out and vote independently how you feel like you should, you don't need to worry about it. Nobody can find out who you voted for unless you tell them.

So you can walk in that booth and vote for whoever you want. K? You don't need to feel pressure from other people. Hey. You need to vote this way.

This is the way you need to do it. Alright? This is this is America. Alright? And you can vote for whoever you please.

So, yeah, the answer to that question is no. And, also, nobody can hover over your shoulder and make sure you're voting the right way. And far as I know, it's also illegal for people to intimidate you at the polls. And there is a lot of talk about people monitoring polls and thing or, you know, stuff like that. Yeah.

Don't let people intimidate you. It's your vote. You can do whatever you want with it. Alright? I mean, it's kinda sad to me that there's people out there that have that kind of pressure being dumped on them by significant others.

Like, that doesn't sound like a good relationship to me. Make your you vote how I say. Alright. We got a caller calling here. Let's see what they want.

Kay Bear, you're live on the show. Please keep that in mind. Who's this? It's JD. Good morning.

Love you. Love your show. Hey, JD. What's up, man? Alright.

You know what? You you were talking about voting, and I had one thing to interject there. Mister Welch for city council. Mister Welch for city council. I don't know if the city council elections are happening right now, but the the day will come.

And then, that's the only I get that's the only thing that I care about. I get the big seat and I start affecting local policy as an every man because, you know, that's one thing my listeners know. I'm a normal dude just like you. Alright? And Just like me.

That's right. Ain't nobody got me tied up with any kind of political interests or things like that. Nope. Not you. Nope.

You're the guy. I am just an independent thinker and I am all down for doing whatever it takes for the best best living for the every man. I agree. You are that guy. We need you.

Oh, thanks. Counsel. Thanks, JD. I appreciate it, man. I I can I can hear the local city council shaking in their boots at the prospect of that even being a possibility someday?

Right? Then you could write a theme song for Idaho Falls City Council. A theme song. Now that would be pretty great. I yeah.

That's right. I'll bust out songs for each city in east Idaho. I'll make a whole east Idaho, rock and metal album with a theme for each city. You are the riff meister. That's right.

And I won't put any bad words in it, everybody. Alright. I'll make it classy. That's right. Classy enough for Josh over 97.

That's right. That's right. Well, thank you, JD. Thank you for the, the political endorsement. Alright.

You got it, man. You have a great day. You too, and thank you for, helping me dial in the electronics on my amp. It's, Crushing Faces. Is this is that thing's a monster.

It sounds beautiful. Oh, yeah. It's it's sounding really good. It's sounding so good for playing bass that I almost don't even wanna hook the axe effects up to it. I kinda wanna get myself something else to play my guitar ring through.

So Yeah. Well, talk to me later. I got stuff in storage you could probably use. Oh, okay. Well, sweet.

Thanks, JD. Alright, brother. Alright, man. You soon, man. Peace.

Peace. I think people should vote for JD too. If JD ever runs for office, that that's a dude. He'll he'll fix everything. JD knows how to fix it all, and he's definitely an every man.

So alright. Let's keep going with Greta Van Fleet. But again, remember, nobody can tell you how to vote. Nobody will know who you vote for. Don't be afraid of other people when it comes to exercising your right to vote.

You can do whatever you want. K? The booth is private. The end. New music from Seether, Judas Mind.

Oh, I was talking about earlier how the Gojira subreddit did not wanna hear my, hey, we play Gojira on Kayeber stuff. I'll tell you recently, because I'm all about promoting us. I want us to get new listeners. I want people to know there is an option for listening to a radio station that's not gonna be terrible. Some seater fans were posting on Reddit about how they don't hear Seether on the radio.

They don't hear the new Seether song on their local station. So I commented in that thread. Hey. Here's a great radio station, mine, where you can hear the new Seether single. You know who is nice to me?

The seether subreddit. Nicer than the Gojira subreddit. But as a long time metal head, I know that metal heads can be a bit elitist, and metalheads are also used to their local radio stations not giving them anything they'll they'll love. There ain't a lot of metal on the radio anywhere. You've heard me talk about that for years.

So I can get and understand the naysayers and the crankiness toward radio because I used to be one of those guys, like, rock radio. They don't play anything good. And so when I got my little claws in to the station was and was able to make some changes, first thing I did was like, alright. We're we're gonna add some lamb of god and some slayer. We're gonna kick it up a notch around here.

And then bit by bit over the years, got a little bit crazier and crazier, hence why you hear things like lorn ashore or, I don't know, slaughter to prevail or something. We just don't give a crap around here. We'll play whatever if people wanna hear it, but metal heads, try to settle down a little bit. Alright? Just because most things are a certain way doesn't mean all of them are.

Alright? And I am all down with the metal. I mean, I'll play something crushingly brutal next. Something that no other morning show on the planet would play. Alright?

Just to prove I could do whatever I want. I mean, you who listen all the time know this but other people may not. Maybe I could surprise them. We'll throw something real crazy on. K?

But shout out to the cedar fans for not going self promotion. Is this an ad? When it pretty much was when I said, hey, Listen to us. We play the new seeder single. I guess both were essentially ads, but you would think the metalheads would have been happy that I was bashing on radio a little bit, you know, trashing their local stations like they do.

But no. No. I guess it's kinda like you trash anybody's local anything. Even if they don't like it, they're like, well, that's my home. That's my home.

Sorry. I guess it's pat myself on the back day on the Victor Will show. We're talking radio. Got a call from a listener. I should have recorded the call, but I wasn't ready to go.

We were talking about song requests, and song requests are another thing that you would think would be a staple of radio. I mean, when I think back to being a kid, always thought it was awesome. I could call up the DJ, be like, hey. Would you play this song? And then they would.

I've talked to countless programmers that don't allow their DJs to play requests. They don't allow them to change the playlist at all. You know, we've got this software that we use to schedule things, and it lays things down really nice to where, you know, each song is going to be something very different. One song to the next, giving you a wide variety, ensuring that songs that played yesterday at this time don't play again and stuff like that. But one of the great things about doing a live radio show is you you can change things up on the fly if you're feeling something like I felt like playing some code orange, so I threw some on.

You know, I get a call from somebody who's wanting to hear something. I can play it. Why would you not ever play song requests? Why is a perfectly scientifically engineered playlist thrown together by a computer program? The end all.

Why not give your listeners some treats every now and again? I mean, it's crazy. I I played some 5 finger death punch for Jeff earlier today. And Jeff, he calls just about every morning. And Jeff, his favorite band is 5 finger death punch.

And he, you know, tends to wanna hear the new song from him. So I can't always play the new 5 finger death punch at the same time every morning because yeah. We you know, we try to keep that variety in, but I do try to, take care of Jeff as often as I can with a song request to start the day. I played a number of requests already today, and I'm gonna play another one in a minute. Caller I was just talking to wanting to hear some Lorna Shore to the hellfire.

Alright. We can do that because there are not actually rules on radio. Like, song requests cannot be played. You might have a boss somewhere in radio that I guess it is a rule. But as far as the business goes, the FCC goals, there there's not rules about level of heaviness that can be played on rock radio.

There's not rules about playing requests. There's not rules that say you can't play tracks from, you know, women back to back. There are all kinds of stupid rules that old school radio programmers follow that are not backed by any kind of actual data because I've asked for it. I'm like, show me the studies. You didn't really do these studies.

You can sit sit around and tell me, oh, it's been proven time and time again that you can't play new music in the morning or it'll drive listeners away. We play more new music in the morning than any rock station I know, and we have more listeners than most rock stations. I know even being in a small market. Alright? If you wanna talk about percentages, we crush pretty much everybody, but we have more listeners than a lot of stations in bigger markets.

And I play a lot of new music in the morning, and I play a lot of metal in the morning. Only supposed to play metal in the overnights. Feel bad for these other radio DJs that are told these are the rules and that we've done so much research over decades. Don't lie. You haven't done any research.

These are just things passed down from programmer to programmer as gospel radio gospel, but show me the actual data. Show me the actual data. Can't be done. Can't be done. So thank you again to the caller who, you know, just called to say that he simply appreciates that we play song requests.

Pretty much the most basic thing you can do in radio. So since we're talking so much about radio this morning, sorry to those of you who get bored with that kind of talk, but it's the biz I'm in. Let's talk about that dumpster of a company, Iheartmedia. You know, talking about how you know, there are things in radio staple things like song requests and then all these other rules and this and that that just ruined the listening experience. The reason that radio is that way is because of these companies that don't actually care about the listening experience that people like you get.

It's all about the bottom line for them. So they don't even care about the people who run the actual stations and don't see any value in a localized station. Companies like Iheart are dumping local on air personalities and programmers left and right. They'll have one person at the top who will program entire regions, and that's why rock stations and all all radio station. It's not just rock, but all radio stations in various formats seem to sound the same everywhere you go.

Because they're really when it comes down to the people with the actual programming power nationwide, there's only a handful of people who really have a say in things as far as what people are getting over the air. And these terrible companies like Iheartmedia, time and time again, just show their true colors by wiping out people left and right. Right now, Iheartmedia going through a bloodbath of what they call reduction in force, you know, rather than mass firings. Reduction in force. It's a nice buzzword, buzz phrase that sounds better in the news.

It's kinda like how the radio press when people get fired, they say they exited the company. Here's the article in front of me. Iheartmedia layoffs continue into new week. So they're they're layoffs as well. Don't wanna call them mass firings.

Layoffs or reduction in force. Doctor Darius Summers exits as afternoon host at hip hop 97.9wjlb Detroit. He's been there since 2016, 8 year run. You know, not a crazy long run, but 8 years at a job. It's quite a bit.

And he didn't exit. Like, you know what, guys? I'm done for the day. Time to go home. I'm gonna exit the building now.

It's like, no. He was, forcefully removed from the building. He was fired. Why do they call it exiting? I've never seen this in any other industry where so and so has exited.

No. No. You you guys fired him. K? You fired an afternoon host, and you're gonna replace him with probably nobody or a syndicated program in Detroit, a major market.

Gossip. Greg Hill has exited nights at 96 point 7 Kiss FM in Austin, Texas. He didn't exit. You fired him. Alright?

Lewis Kaplan departs as senior vice president of programming for Fort Myers, Florida after 22 years with the company. Departs. He's departed. Yo. I just take it off.

No. You you fired him. Alright? You fired him. And if I was to read through everybody that Iheart's fired in the last few days, this would be a really long break.

And these are long time people, like the guy who I just talked about, 22 year run with the company. We can save money. Get rid of them. No. Why not allow these people to He probably wasn't programming locally anyway, even as the senior vice president of programming for Fort Myers.

I'm sure there's someone above him going, here's your playlist. Implement. And sadly, that's the excuse they use when they fire these long time employees like, well, we got somebody above them who will, you know, just go ahead and take care of things anyway. We'll just put the exact same playlist on all of our station. We'll just name them all the same.

Why have any, unique personality or flavor to any of these? Doug Kramer departs mornings mornings And I'm glad And I'm glad and fine with jumping on air and saying Iheartmedia is a dumpster of a radio company. Same with Odysee. I wouldn't work for him. So I'm not worried about it.

What what are they gonna do? Not hire me? Oh, no. I don't get to work at a station with no job security. Oh, woe is me.

I it's sad because radio people have a passion for it. So there are people who are like, well, I guess I'm I'm willing to pull the trigger here, and I'm I'm gonna give it a shot. I know it's an incredible gamble for my family. I'm gonna move all the way across the country to work for Iheart, and then inevitably yeah. The day always comes where they get the boot.

It's a real saying in radio that you haven't worked in radio till you've been fired. What other kind of job is there a saying like that that you haven't really worked in the biz till you've been fired for no reason? It's pathetic. It's pathetic. And they wonder why the industry just keeps getting smaller and smaller and smaller because they don't care about what happens on air.

They only care about money. It's all they care about. And as long as they can keep the investors happy by slashing budgets and making it appear like they're making dough, they don't really care. Most of these guys are gonna retire. They're making bank, these CEOs at the top.

They don't care about what they do to the people underneath. It's a horrible business, the radio biz. There are good companies out there, but the big ones, some of them are just trash like Iheartmedia. Odyssey is another terrible one. And I'm sure soon enough I'll be trashing some other company because they all go through their phases where they just start wiping people out who have, you know, been longtime loyal employees to their companies.

Yeah. You suck, Iheart, and your stations are garbage too. I mean, we looked at KBPI Denver last week. Playlist is a joke, and they wonder why their ratings are complete garbage. Why nobody's listening in Denver.

Alright. Denver is a market. Pacific northwest ish market. Y'all been to maybe not y'all. Many have been to shows at Red Rocks.

They got a very similar audience to what we would have around here. I am confident that if I was to roll into Denver and completely rehaul a rock station there, we could crush every rock, classic rock, alternative, whatever station in that city. Yeah. I'll say it with confidence because I know it. It's kinda like talking about k rock in LA.

Legendary call letters and a dumpster station being destroyed by odyssey. Give me those call letters and let me completely revamp the station. We will crush k l o s, crush everybody else in town in The Rock, classic rock and alternative formats. I've been to LA. I've been to shows in LA.

LA is the center of the planet as far as the rock music world is concerned. It's the center of the world, and their their radio representation for that is just garbage. The opportunities as a radio station in a market like LA to be out in the scene doing crazy things that you could be at a show every night hanging out with up and coming bands and big bands, engaging with bands. It's the 2nd largest metropolitan area in the country, and they do nothing with their stations because they don't care. They don't care.

Anyway, long winded rant. I'll try to move on to stupid news like Florida man or something next. But I I just see these emails rolling in about Iheartmediacuts. They've been they've been at this for about a week, and it just makes me sad for my my fellow radio people who work for so long. Senior vice president of programming in Salt Lake, Jeff McCartney.

Fired after 26 years in the market and his stations. It's not like they're doing terrible or anything like that. 26 years. You're a you're a line on the, you're a line item on the budget. Nothing more to these companies.

Iheart sucks. Grateful to work where I do. We'll be back. Got a call from a listener with a question that I may have thought about at some point or other and then went, who who knows and moved along with my life. But that question was, why is it that in the west, radio stations start with the letter k and in the east, the call letters start with the letter w?

No idea. So we googled it up, and, apparently, this goes back to the early 1900. I I did a little more digging, caller, to try to find out why this was implemented by the government. But the reasons that w and k were chosen was because they were, simple letters to identify in Morse code, dot dash dash for w, dash dot dash for the k. And originally, when they started assigning call letters to radio stations, they just assigned them.

Like, nowadays, radio stations will try to, you know, come up with call letters that make sense for the station. Like, I talked about KROQ, k r o q. It used to be a rock station, and those are some great call letters. Around here, we have down the hall, KLCE, classy. Kthk, the hawk.

Hours don't make any sense. KCVI, I don't know. But, again, the rock station's usually the black sheep at the building, so they probably just say, you know, just give us whatever callers are available. We don't wanna waste a bunch of time trying to get something that would, sound good and make sense on air. So KCVI is available.

Sure. We'll take it. But, yeah, west of the Mississippi, all stations start with a k. East w, and, it apparently was just a government decision with supposedly, at least from what I'm reading here, some kind of tie into making it easy to deal with with, Morse code as radio, you know, as a communication device available in emergency situations, I would imagine back in the day, especially, perhaps, I don't know, when they were out in the middle of a boat and needed to get some information out to radio stations or something. You know?

Do do do do. Guess I made it easier. I don't know. But, yeah, interesting question there. Interesting question there.

And since we're talking about radio, trashing on companies like Iheart who have no care for their on air talent, wipe them out left and right, destroying the industry more and more one day at a time. I gotta point out that, part of the major problem is that they don't see value in people like me who jump on air and give you some kind of a show and talk with you and engage with you and do things like put a caller live on the air. Somebody's calling right now. I really hope they're on topic. K Bear, you are live on the show.

Please keep that in mind. Who's this? This is Joe. Joe, what's on your mind, dude? I was just listening to you talk about the radio stations and, made me curious about z 103.

Z is KFTZ, So it's got a z in it. That makes sense. Got it. You know, Cannonball is k n b l, Cannonball. So yeah.

Interesting. I mean, I'm sure if they could've, they would've wanted kzz, but I'm guessing it's, it was already used at that point. Yeah. Alright then. Thank you.

Yeah. No problem, man. Appreciate the call today. Alright. We'll see you later.

Peace. In case you were curious, kZZ is an AM station broadcasting, news talk format to Bullhead City, Arizona. Oh, boy. I bet that's a fun station to listen to right now. AM news talk in an election year.

Yikes. That's, actually one of the formats where the personalities are important. It's very funny to me how study after study will be done year after year after year, but radio management doesn't pay any attention. There's a study called the, Jacob's Media tech survey. They do this every year, and they reach out to, like, 30,000 radio listeners nationwide, people who, you know, listen to radio.

Not the people who are gonna go, nah. I only listen to my Spotify playlist. No. These are radio listeners, and they wanna find out why people listen to the radio. You would probably guess that one of the reasons people listen to radio is it's convenient and free.

Those are a couple of the top reasons. You jump in your car. It's there. You don't have to, program your phone in, Bluetooth it. Go find a new playlist because the playlist you've been listening to, it's, you know, it's always the same.

Yeah. Easy to listen to in the car, and it's free. But as far as content goes, the main reason that people listen to the radio are the DJs, hosts, and shows. This study is done year after year, and this has been the response from people who listen to radio for ages. And it makes total sense.

Common sense would tell you that the hosts would be, especially in 2024, the main reason that people listen. Because if you don't care about the hosts, you're not going to listen because there are a million places to get music. Now music is a a big reason that people listen. You know? They wanna hear their favorite songs and artists, but the hosts and that connection that people feel with the hosts is the main reason that people choose to listen to something like what you're listening to right now instead of just firing up Pandora.

You know, you there you go. Music, no yapping. I don't have to hear Victor's crap. I don't have to hear an hour and a half of talk about radio. But does radio management pay any attention to that?

No. No. Just make sure that you scientifically throw together those playlists of music that's censored and people could hear anywhere. Yeah. Do you think if the hosts weren't important, people would put up with chopped up songs?

I mean, you can fire up TikTok and hear uncensored music and uncensored content. You gotta really like the hosts on radio to listen to, you know, censored content and censored music. I I just don't understand why this isn't a light bulb going off over radio management heads nationwide. Hey. Maybe we should hire more people to jump on the radio and talk unique personalities.

Why not even I know radio people don't like it, but why not just hire a bunch of, popular, TikTok people? Well, they're probably making more money making online content. If they're successful there than they could ever imagine making in radio. It's not a business that you get into to make money. You gotta love it.

Alright? It's not the eighties anymore. Man, you ever wanna torture yourself as a radio person? Go read some of those threads on Facebook from the guys in their sixties seventies talking about the old days of the biz and the kind of money they made. Holy crap.

That would have been great. That would have been wonderful. Oh, and quickly before we get back to, getting ready for freak news and stuff and more music, I gotta throw an apology to Texas. I've been trashing on Texas a lot lately, and, usually, we have a lot of people listening in Texas. Those numbers are looking pretty sad today when I look at the map.

I'm sorry, Texas. I guess they're not listening, so they're not gonna hear it, but I didn't mean to trash on you so bad. I appreciate those who listen to us from Texas. It they're just you know? A lot of bad stuff in the news about life in Texas.

It just doesn't sound great, but I'll I'll try to be nicer to Texas. I'll get back to trashing Utah. Alright? Because Utah people and we got a bunch of people listening in Utah right now. You're cool with me trashing on Utah because it's Utah.

Right? Nobody's gonna care. You know where you're at. No. I appreciate everybody who's listening to us in Utah instead of listening to the other Kay Bear, which, again, we have no association with.

No relation. K. K. We have nothing to do with Kay Bear in Utah. But, make sure to let your friends know we are much better than them.

Shout out to everybody listening worldwide as well. Our listeners in, Germany, Romania, Brazil, South America, Mexico, Everywhere else, Colombia. It's really fun to look at the map. Just gotta make that map, spread. We need more people worldwide.

Alright. Anyhow, I did mention I gotta get ready for some freak news powered by Greasy Monkey. So I'll dig up some dumb news and quit talking about radio. Thanks for listening to my app in today. Y'all are the best.

Alright. We don't have these around here. Waymos. These are like taxis, but they don't have drivers, driverless vehicles. I guess they've been driving people a little bit crazy in San Francisco.

Why they honk at each other? I do not know, but Waymo cars just all night long rolling around the hood just honk honk. Oh, jeez. How irritating would that be? I'm so spoiled living here in East Idaho because live in a nice quiet neighborhood.

And, generally, if I hear somebody driving by, they're, like, on my street, and it's noticeable. I'm like, oh, there's noise outside. Yeah. Props to those of you living on busy roads and being willing to tolerate my first world problem. Someone's in my cul de sac.

Yeah. I'm that guy. Who's in the neighborhood? Who's here? Luckily, I haven't turned into the old guy yet who sits on the front porch with my arms crossed, really judging everyone who's in the neighborhood.

Give it a few years. Give it a few years. But, thankfully, when they're driving by, they're not just honking repeatedly. I I would lose my mind if there was endless honking going on outside. When I stayed at my daughter's house in Phoenix, her apartment, you know, they live on a busy road for now till Friday.

Congrats to Taryn and Matt buying their first house. So proud. So proud. But they live on a busy road right now, and you do kinda get used to the just you know, kinda becomes like having a fan on in the background, but I didn't realize how quiet my neighborhood was till I spent a week at Terrence Place in Phoenix. Okay.

Anyway, moving along here. If garbage blows off a vehicle as you're driving down the road and it, you know, smacks into your car or something, don't shoot the other driver. That's just a bit of an overreaction as far as I'm concerned. Happened in Indianapolis road rage shooting that injured an 18 year old. Yeah.

I guess he just had a piece of garbage that blew out of his truck. So guy follows him and then just, blasts him down at a gas station. Jeez. And he also had a pregnant passenger with him. Yeah.

Unnecessary. It's annoying. Take it from someone who just had to get my windshield replaced. That's annoying. Alright?

A rock gets kicked up, chips the windshield. Next thing you know, big crack, and I gotta spend money to get a new windshield. Did I chase down the 18 wheeler that kicked up the rock? No. I went, dang it.

That's life. And moved along. People are crazy. That's why I always encourage people or discourage people, I should say, from engaging with other drivers who have the potential to be aggressive. You don't know what type of lunatic you're gonna be dealing with.

There are people who just shoot people over garbage. Alright? You flip somebody off or something and, you know, start road raging at them, chasing them, somebody might shoot you. K? Turn the other cheek, take a deep breath, and go about your day.

Settle down, people. Let's see. We've got a rock star buying a Michigan Vineyard and Winery. Now this is not weird news, right, that a rock star would have a bunch of money and buy a vineyard or winery, some type of fancy property. What I found freak news about this article was the first sentence.

After performing a concert in Grand Rapids, One Republic guitarist, Zach Filkins, took a drive to visit some nearby wineries. Since when is One Republic a rock band? That's what I wanna know. Just because there are guitars on stage does not mean a band is a rock band. Alright.

We're back to talking about radio now. It's been all day today, but let's talk about experiences I had at the Rock Radio Convention in Vegas many times. Back in the day, there was a major push to get Imagine Dragons all over rock radio, And a lot of us were saying Imagine Dragons does not fit on active rock radio. Imagine Dragons, I wouldn't even call them a rock band. And the argument was always, look.

Here's a picture. There's guitars on stage. To which I would respond by holding up a picture of Garth Brooks. Look at him. He's got a guitar.

You could pull up pictures of M and M's live show. You know what you're gonna see on stage? Guitars. Have you looked at Taylor Swift's live show? Any images from that?

Guitars. Yeah. One one republic is not a rock band, but congrats to him on his new purchase. You know? Here's a big pat on the back for all your dough.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, though. I don't know. I've never been there. Maybe I shouldn't judge. Alright.

Finally, if you were wanting to take part in the Naked in a Cave event in upstate New York, it's the final year. The final year. It's your final chance to take part in Naked in a Cave. Now what this event is is you go into cave naked. Alright.

I just wanna let you all know if you really wanna engage in a nudity event of sorts, you could just go to a nude resort and not have to be in a cave. Alright? I guess if you're really into caves, sure. But to me, if you were going to take a vacation that revolved around being naked, you can go to a variety of nude resorts where there's, like, a pool and, relaxing places to sit. Not bats and bugs, rocks and darkness and other cave stuff.

Alright? $85. But they do include one glass of beer and a souvenir robe. I don't know about a mass exodus into a cave with a bunch of other naked people. It sound like some type of a cult activity, but, you know, to each their own.

Maybe you're really into caves. Think I'd stick with an Arizona desert resort myself, but you be you. Bring me the horizon top ten statues that cried blood. Where do we find that list online? I'd like to check it out.

Anyhow, welcome to the program, the Victor Wiltshire. It's rolling along nicely, about halfway done. If you have any song requests or anything like that, we talked a lot about radio, and we did talk about song requests earlier. We are a radio station that actually plays song requests, so you can call me at any time if you have one, and I'll do my best to play it for you. 208-535-1015.

Another thing we talked about really early on the show today is something I'm gonna get back into again here. This viral question online. Can my husband find out who I am voting for? This this blew up online because, apparently, it's a major concern for many people. And I've talked about this, not specifically this question, but this subject before.

Nobody is going to know who you vote for. I know in an election year, there's a lot of energy going on, a lot of frustration, a lot of worry, and a lot of chatter. And you're gonna have people around you telling you their thoughts on who you should vote for. And I could imagine there are aggressive people out there going, you're gonna vote for this person. The article said that there are many situations where you'll have a spouse who wants to go to the booth with their spouse to make sure they're voting for the right person.

Now they're not allowed to do this. The voting booth is private. But I just wanna remind you, no one will know who you vote for. So don't let people pressure you into making a decision you don't personally feel like making. You can vote for whoever you want when you get up to that booth.

You can tell all your family and friends, of course, I'm voting for so and so. We're all on the same page here. But when you're in that booth, that's your time. That's your right, and you can mark down whoever you please, and no one will ever find out unless you tell them. Alright?

So don't be intimidated by people. You you be you. Alright? The only thing that will be recognized is that you as a person did vote. That's all that's noted.

I've I've voted many times. And when you get done, they're always like, Victor Wilt has voted, except they say my real name. And then I leave, and that's all that's noted. They don't, you know, they don't mark down. He picked this one.

He picked this one. You you walk up and you put your ballot in the little thing. It sucks it in there, and then it's gone. It's gone, and nobody around you will have any idea what your ultimate decision was. So don't stress it.

Vote how you feel is best for your view of the world and the future you want. Yeah. Don't be intimidated by people. K? Your spouse will not find out who you vote for.

K? I guess unless you take a picture of the ballot and you're like, yeah. You wanna tell me what to do? I do what I want. It might, you know, cause an argument, but you could do it.

I think. Is it legal to take a picture of your ballot? I don't know. What is up, Jay Davis? Meh.

Meh. Come on. Meh. Come on. It's Wednesday.

It's bright and early. Come on, man. Hey. Put on a happy face. At least, from what I saw, it's not supposed to rain today, so we'll have a dry hump day.

A dry hump day. Very nice. Very nice. Unless the weatherman changed his mind, which this is Idaho. It could snow in, like, 5 minutes.

Oh, yeah. Yesterday, I was talking about the weekend forecast and because the Farmers Almanac was talking about here's your entire winter prediction for how the weather's gonna be. Crap. It's gonna be winter. Yeah.

It's gonna be winter. Wow. It's gonna be winter. Cold and snow. So I mentioned that, you know, if you look and watch the weather forecast on a day to day basis, 5 days out, that is always very different when it's tomorrow.

Or 5 minutes from now. Or 5 minutes from now. There was a couple times this this week already where it was like, no rain, and then monsoon. Tornado warning yesterday. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't recall hearing that. Friar. So, weather's looking really great today. High of 78, but maybe a little bit of rain.

I'm just glad it's a little bit cooler. It was it was kinda brutal there for a bit. I'm enjoying saving some dough on my electrical bills by not having to run the AC 247. Jeez. I need to save money for cool stuff like this auction I saw online, Jade.

I don't know if I could put this into the company budget, but you know I'm a book collector. Right? I just found the most ultimate book for sale of all time. Have you seen the Evil Dead movies? Oh, yeah.

Okay. You know the Necronomicon book with a face on it that looks like it's made out of skin? Yep. The actual one they used in Evil Dead part 2 is up for auction right now. Opening bid, it's only $40,000.

Can you hit up the boss man for me, please? You want a glass of band boss man for $40 right now? No. I want you to go ask him for $40 right now. Just tell him it would be How long do they know?

But No. As a, you know, employee thank you or something like that, I I need this book, Jaden. You know what he's gonna say? Bye, Stephen. He probably will say that, but I I figured it would be worth a try because I think I need this.

Alright. Rich listeners. I know we got some of you out there. Come on. Minimum of $40.

It could be a lot more than that. Oh, current bidding's at $50. Never mind. Okay. So $50.

All you gotta do is go bid $50,001. And he might that's a good deal for something that I'll put on the bookshelf and look at and go, that's cool. And then eventually lose in a house fire. Oh, could my worst nightmare is what you just said. That's why all my most valuable books are really close to where if I have to run out of the house, I can Forget the family photos, all that.

Yeah. No. Who needs that? Dogs, cats. Well, the dogs and cats, you open the door.

They'll run right out. Right? You know. You would hope. You would hope.

I I would go cats then books. Guitars. Well, actually, it should all be covered by should be covered by insurance. A snack. Snack's important.

Then then wife and kids. A snack's important. The kids are already out. We're just playing. Yeah.

Come on, people. Come on now. Settle down. Settle down. Let's peaches, just come in here already.

He's just creeping outside the door. Peaches. What do you want, Peaches? Peaches, I need $50,001. You think I have it?

Yes. I think you do. Give me $50,001 so I can buy the Necronomicon book from Evil Dead part 2. The actual book used in the movie. You might as well just start a GoFundMe.

I wonder if that would work. People don't tend to like GoFundMe's if you're trying to buy something fun. Well, then you have chat gpt generate a script about how you went through a tragedy and you need this book. I I want you to need the book to bring back something dead. Yeah.

Exactly. You're dead, cat. Bring back oh, no. I was gonna say something even worse. You probably were, Peaches, but that might work.

Yeah. You you never know what kind of crazies you deal with online. There are some really crazy people who have lots of money, lots of dough, and they're completely unhinged, so we might be able to convince them. You don't think I could convince the boss man though, $50,001? Nah.

That's a bargain. I wanna witness this. We're gonna we're gonna video this and watch him just tear you to pieces. Alright. Peaches, will you go down the hall and ask the big boss man if he will buy me the Evil Dead 2 Necronomicon book for, I mean, it could end up being more, but right now, if he bids $50,001, he'd be the leading bidder.

I'll be like that messenger in 300 that gets kicked into the pit. That's me. Probably. Alright. Which would be worse?

Imagine you're working at a store of any sort. Somebody comes in to rob you. It's not gonna be pleasant no matter what because getting robbed sucks. Alright? Would you rather them pull a gun on you or pull out a syringe filled with their own blood and say, I'm gonna stick you with this if you don't give me the money.

Alright. Gun, definitely scary. Nobody wants a gun pointed at them. Horrifying. Quick end, though.

What could be in that syringe as far as tainted blood goes? There's a lot of different things that could be in somebody's blood that you don't wanna end up getting into your system. Long, slow, terrible death. Anyway, this happened in Boston. Yeah.

25 year old man threatened to stab a CVS employee with a syringe filled with his own blood. He ended up fleeing the store with arms full of paper towels and cashews. Wow. That's worth an armed robbery charge. I got myself some cashews and paper towels.

You're that guy in jail. What you in for, man? I I don't know if it would have been appropriate to say the ultimate punch line there. It almost came out, but I figured jade would get mad. You know?

Well, I'll tell you what I'm in for. He pulls the cashews out of his pocket. You know, d's. Sometimes I hate working in radio because that's a perfectly acceptable joke to me, and it's only Jade I worry about. Anyway, yeah.

Thankfully, the guy, he's he's busted. He's in jail. And he says, I gave this stuff back. Well, you also had a needle full of your own blood. K?

Nobody wants your old paper towels back. K? They don't know what you've been doing with those paper towels. What kind of, biological waste you're cleaning up? Uh-uh.

Nor the nuts. Keep them. Keep them at this point. Yeah. I mean, I think, ultimately, I'd I'd prefer the guy with the syringe because you could just do a swift kick, maybe take it out of his hand.

If he tried to squirt the blood, you know, you just gotta close your eyes and your mouth and hope that somehow none of it gets in your system. Bullets are scary. Alright. Bullets start flying not good. Anyway, that guy really likes nuts.

He's a huge fan. What up, peaches? Hey. How's it going? Oh, it's going alright.

You know, just trying to get some things done. And the longer that certain things go on, the more annoyed I get by them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Takes a lot to get me, like, really annoyed, but it's getting there. Yesterday, I was looking up old movie clips for cannonballing, trying to spice up the imaging over there. Mhmm. And, one of the I was looking up on YouTube, best eighties movies quotes. Alright.

One of which was Robin Williams with good morning, Vietnam. So is that, I guess, essentially where that was ripped off from? I guess so. Is there bad language in it? No.

Not the good morning, Vietnam part. I wanna hear it. I'm I'm assuming it's like a It does have a lot of lot of o's in it. He does scream in the same sense as you know who. K.

Why is there music Good morning, Vietnam. Hey. This is It's not as obnoxious, though. So it must have been, I'm guessing, that the wolf man saw that classic radio clip. I was like, alright.

I'm gonna take this, and I'm going to make it completely over the top and absurd every single day. Because it's called the wolf, and you have to go, ow. You know, that type of thing. But even before that, even before he was the wolf man, he was, you know, something else. Still did that same thing.

So I'm guessing it was a goof, but then it was something that was decided to happen every single day until the end of time. Sometimes you gotta bail on a bit, everybody. I think there's a somewhat of a somewhat of booger sugar involved with the good, you know, the extra pep in his step in the morning. On Good Morning Vietnam? That one.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, I suppose you could put that clip, but It's not gonna make any sense if it plays all day every day. Sure.

I mean, I was gonna say you could play it into tracks from, like, you know, Creedence or something, but it might not make as much sense going into Smash Mouth All Star. Yeah. It's a great war song. Smash Mouth All Star? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, it makes me think of nothing but war. When I went to, Universal Studios, they showed us the set of that music video. They still have the set for that music video? Yeah.

They have it as part of the tram tour. Is it something that's been used in many music videos then, I'd assume? I think so. I think it's like a just a setup street that people can use. Okay.

Yeah. The the Universal street tour was pretty cool or the the tram tour. Oh, the tram tour was fantastic. Wasn't, Crazy Jay from sales wanting to go to Universal? He was talking about it.

And, Taryn, when she went a few months ago, they, like, paid extra or something. Yeah. Got to do, like, the the VIP tram tour type thing. Mine is well. Cool.

Yeah. Well, you can walk around. The Halloween horror nights is by far the best thing because they drop you off in the middle of The Walking Dead set, and then you have to walk around while people are trying to attack you. Nice. Yeah.

Does sound like a lot of fun. My friends, Dan and Jen are going to I don't think it's Universal's. It doesn't the other big amusement park do something? Not Berry Farm. Just not Scary Farm.

Yeah. I worked there and that one's not the it's not it's not better than Universal Studios, but it is still fun. I'd have to look back at the message. I they invited me, and I was like, well, money, time off. Oh, man.

You would have a great time. I'd be so mad if you, went there without me, you know? Well, you know, chances are if I'm going out of town, I'm going to 1 of 3 play well, 1 of 4 places. I'd probably be going to Washington, Arizona, Minnesota, or Connecticut. Those are kinda I've only got so much PTO, but it's already a challenge.

Like, I haven't been to Minnesota in many, many years. Yeah. You gotta go see your family. I do, but, you know, it's kinda more important to see the the kids. You know?

Sorry, Jake, man. Oh, oh, oh. Sorry to my brother and sister. It's just, you know, the kids, I gotta prioritize them. And, I'm overdue to go see Maddie in Washington, but now Taryn's buying a house in Arizona.

So it kinda seems like I need to you know, Taryn's got a place I can crash. Hopefully, it cools down by the time you get there. Yeah. I I do not want you passing out from a heat exhaustion. Well, that's you know, it's Arizona winter right now, so you just go Winter.

Hide inside. Yeah. Don't you mean summer? No. It's Arizona winter because it's when everybody just stays inside, doesn't go out.

You you know, it's their version of winter because winter there is like heaven. You know. You go there in, January. Yeah. Perfect in Phoenix.

I remember doing a, going through a basketball tournament in high school in Palm Springs. Oh. And the the basketball gym had this huge AC unit to keep that gym cool as an ice cube. There are places where it's almost illogical for a society to exist. Palm Springs, Phoenix.

It's like Sam Kinison, what he said about the, like, you live in the desert. Like, the whole the whole pit. Phoenix looking at a it's a cooler day today. A high of a 108. So not too bad.

Not too bad, actually. It's not too bad. Over there in the desert area. Could be much worse. Alright.

Friday night, if they decide to move some things at night and they do it at about 3 AM, they'd get down to a low of 90 to do some moving. And you said her boyfriend, Matt, is from that area? No. Some of his family is. Oh, so he decided to move there.

Yeah. Good. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, I like Phoenix a lot.

As far as big cities go, it's probably my favorite big city. Because there there might be more fun things to do in LA or New York. There's more happening. But Phoenix has infrastructure down. Traveling around in Phoenix is so so much more enjoyable than pretty much any other big city.

Vegas and Phoenix, if you're trying to get around, you're not generally gonna get stopped on the freeway and be stuck for hours on end. When you when you're dealing with rush hour in Phoenix, it's kinda crazy. You're like, wow. This is as bad as it gets. Like, I've been stuck on the freeway in Phoenix, and it's usually there was a major accident or something like that.

They got it figured out. You yelled you can't park there as you're passing by the accident. Yeah. I like to be a jerk like that. Strapping young lad with detox.

Devin Townsend rumored to be putting out a heavy album next. That's what he was saying in a recent interview. And when Devin Townsend promises heavy, he's not one of those band guys that comes out and goes, yeah, man. This is our heaviest record ever. He don't care about that kind of hype.

If he's saying he's gonna make a crushing record, it's going to absolutely crush. Because, like, he talked about his album empath being, you know, super experimental. This and that. He didn't mention it had some of the most crushing modern Devin Townsend moments of any of his material after strapping young lad. So very exciting if you're into that kind of thing.

I would assume since you listen to Kay Bear, you like crushing music because we we play it. But anyhow, if you're listening locally and you're looking for something fun to do tomorrow, you should get out and check out some free live music. Yeah. Free live music going down at the waterfront over there, Snake River Landing. It's a great time with the Live United concert series.

They do fundraisers each week. This week, they've got our homies, our k Bear homies, 2 AM logic playing. Go see a free rock band tomorrow night at the waterfront. And, also, if you bring along the family, you can make cards to brighten the day of those in hospice care and those receiving Meals on Wheels food delivery. So they'll be making cards for people who are going through rough times.

Great way to help out some folks in our community while seeing my dogs, 2 AM logic performing live at the waterfront. There's, of course, gonna be, you know, food and vendors and things. It's it's a great time. And the waterfront is a beautiful venue. So if you haven't been over to check it out before, perfect excuse to go see a free live show and do something nice for people in our community.

Go hang out with 2 AM logic. They're good dudes. And, that's a free rock show. The waterfront, Snake River Landing, tomorrow night, 6 to 9 PM. Go check it.

Look. My head's gonna explode. Man, some days some days just trying to line up simple things. Simple things. I don't know.

Just can't have everything just work out easy, I guess. Anyway, hi. Hey, everybody. How's it going? Welcome to the program, the Victor Wilt Show.

I don't even remember what I was going to talk about because I just got in this I had stayed out of this email thread. This email mayhem we've been dealing with for a few weeks. And I finally just lost my patience. Like, alright. I'm I'm diving in.

And I figured this is easy thing to deal with. Not gonna get into the details here. I know this is vague booking on the air, but my goodness. Hi, peaches. Hi.

Please don't tell me you walked in here to go. Did you see what you just got back? What what if I was, You are testing my limits today by letting me know every second I get one of those new emails. I'm not trying to make you mad. I'm just trying to You're not the one making me mad.

Situation dealt with. Oh, he didn't get a new email back? No. I just walked in here because I heard you screaming about emails. Well, yeah.

I just don't understand why people can't just do their job and make something simple easy. Why is this so difficult? I feel like I'm adding fuel to the fire with what I just submitted on the, cannonball computer. It does it involve these same people? No.

It involve the same company. Okay. Well, as long as it's not these same specific people. No. Probably not because depending on which region you're dealing with, one is much easier than the other.

You know? I just it boggles my mind how difficult things have to be made sometimes. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

These are simple things. Simple things. But anyway And we could help out so much with this particular situation. I know. I know.

But there's a lot of things in the world that baffle me, peaches. And decisions that people make, sometimes I'm just left stumped. I think the only time I've ever seen you so incredibly upset or even upset at all was when there was a particular situation involving a venue. And, that right there was probably the the most mad I've ever seen. Well, that was one of the most mad times I've been in recent times.

There are a lot of things that make me angry that I am pretty good about holding down deep and going take a deep breath. It's not worth getting yourself worked up. But when it comes to work stuff, that can get me a little little fiery at times. Yeah. And if you wanna, like, put me on public blast on Facebook with a bunch of lies, that will make me about as mad as I can get.

I might I might post something. You know? Well, if you do Will likes to skin dogs or something like that. Nah. Jicky is fair.

Which, crazy enough, something outlandish like that would be should be more believable than the ridiculous lies that were spread about me online couple years ago. I still stand by if anybody who believed those statements, if you remember them, if you believed them, you're a moron. Right. Alright? To the end.

Yeah. No. I can't I can't imagine going against you because you're one of the nicest people around. Well, thanks, Peach. Because I do try to be pretty and I'm not dealing with people who are being rude.

I'm just dealing with people. A bunch of morons. Then they're not being morons either. They're just making things difficult for no reason. Right.

It's like we're trying to do something on expert difficulty for no reason whatsoever. Yeah. Like the one of the sim something we've done a 1000000 times. Like, I have anyway, listeners, I know we're, again, vague booking on the air. Vague booking.

I like that. What? Hey. I see I see you're wearing your tool shirt, though. Did you like the, the notebook and the VIP theme, the laminate that, the listener brought?

That was very nice. I will use that little notepad to write my screed. You don't all work and no play. Make Victor crazy. Just page after page.

It's your death note. You just write people's names inside a tool notebook. And didn't it come with a tool bookmark? It it came with a tool pen, I think. I I think there was a bookmark you gave me too or something.

No. It was a laminate. It was a laminate. Yeah. Looks like it'll be a good bookmark.

I got the tool, fanny pack. Yeah. Which you've been wanting a fanny pack. I already have one too. It's I brought it with me.

Oh. Oh, okay. Well, then you can spiral out when you wear the tool on, I guess, Peaches. Sure. Oh.

What's that famous tool lyric that there's one that people are referencing all the time online now. It's I'm drawing a blank now. Well, they have a lot of famous lyrics, Peaches We do. Since they are a bigger band. I'm thinking of some lyrics right now in my head from some of their lesser notes.

I I wish we could play, pale faced Swiss for the particular situation we're going through. One of our listeners was actually very happy you're frustrated. He posted in the KA Bear group, about how, like, you played Strapping Me on Ladd out of frustration. He's like, can we play prom next? Can we just go all heavy for the rest of the program?

Yeah. I I think there will be some heavier music, throughout the rest of the show because it it feels good to play heavy music when you're mad. It calms you down. This is something I've explained many times over the years. Aggressive music is soothing.

It doesn't make you even madder. Can I put it in request too? I guess. Left to suffer disappointment. Left to suffer disappointment.

Yeah. Okay. I'll play that for you next, Peaches. Those of you listening on demand, if you wanna hear the music portion of the show, you have to listen live every weekday morning, 6 AM to 10 AM to I think I was just fired up today. There's been some things, giving me anxiety recently.

And so when I got here so oh, I one of the first emails I saw We we got we got a great email actually, 3 minutes ago. We actually not I'm not making I'm not saying great sarcastically. It's actually a great email. K. Hold on.

Let me let me look at it here. Is this gonna call me down? Yeah. K. Let me see here.

K. That that one's great. See. That's They make you more mad. That's only one of them.

She didn't address the other one. And, also, according to the website, you've mentioned it to me that it does not include what she says it includes. It does not. If you go So I'm going to go take a screenshot of that and send that over. We have the snipping tool on the computer.

Why is this so hard? Why? Alright. Sorry, listeners. I know you have no idea what we're talking.

I'll tell you this, listeners. What we're dealing with right now is all for you. It's for you. That's what makes me real mad. Trying to do something awesome for our listeners that should be easy.

Yeah. Easy. Exactly. Well, we got a lot of stuff coming up in, September October for the for the listeners too that I'm Yeah. And all that currently working on.

Yeah. All that's a piece of cake. There was no difficulty. Yeah. And that's not even, like, around here.

That's like, why is this so hard? Well, there's there's one for around here. I guess you're right. Yeah. I guess you're right.

There's at least one for around here. That's something. Alright. Anyway, I'm gonna send more emails. I'll be back, and I'll try to find some content that isn't just me yelling about stuff that I'm not saying what I did.

I'll make sure to play my song too. I'll I'll play your song, Peach. It'll help you out. Alright. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Welt Show.

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