#0353 - The Boise Rat Apocalypse Has Begun - 05/05/2026
Well here we go it's Tuesday what up everybody the Viktor Wilt program hi I'm here doing it live yay oh I was so comfortable this morning I know I know you don't want to hear it but I was oh just like cozy and snug as could be sleeping pretty decent and then here I am sitting back in this box yet again oh well how was your evening I hope it was uh pretty good mine was fairly productive we got all the flowers planted so hopefully they don't die plenty of other yard work that needs to be done but you know it it was productive so that's good still need to uh continue battling the laundry but you know get to that I think I'm gonna work on that today that crap probably need to restart the washer yeah aside from that uh I know there was some other crap that popped up last night I was gonna talk about but we'll we'll get to it later on the program after I pound some caffeine and see if I can remember some things seemed like something funny happened I don't know anyhow appreciate you tuning into the show today we should hopefully have plenty of fun ahead let the digging commence the content digging hey what's happening my people morning welcome to the Viktor Wilt show today all right it's Tuesday which it was later in the week but what do you do what do you do all right somebody asked online what's something people romanticize that's actually exhausting in real life hmm I mean all I can think about is something relating to sleep but what do people romanticize uh in that way I don't know just I see the word exhausting and I'm like oh it's nap time that's what you do when it's exhausting all right things people romanticize that are exhausting living in a small town and starting over it looks peaceful in movies no traffic everyone knows you slow mornings in reality it's everyone knowing your business no opportunities and driving 40 minutes for groceries that close at 6 p.m that's some real small town life right there yeah if it's 40 minute drive to pick up the groceries for the day no now a little too far out for me because I get the sudden urge to go to the grocery store I'll be like we really need this one thing and I live two minutes from the grocery store so it makes those trips really easy when it comes to making a decision as to whether or not I'm gonna go pick up some kind of item let's hear do people actually romanticize climbing the corporate ladder I know people want to make more money but the process it's no it's not fun that that sounds exhausting okay being an elementary school teacher that would definitely be exhausting I watched like 20 minutes at kindergarten cop recently oh that just watching that was exhausting it's not like it's a terrible movie but just trying to imagine being in a room with that many screaming kids uh horrifying let's see what else do we have here farming farming would have to be extremely exhausting extremely exhausting and stressful you know especially in this day and age let's see here visiting multiple european cities in one week or 10 days um yeah it's doable you know if you're a road trip or you can do it but you gotta have some downtime you don't want to spend all of your vacation time driving let's see here pregnancy well I I don't personally know um but I would imagine it's exhausting I know that once the baby's born it's definitely exhausting now for 18 years and even longer my kids are still driving me nuts hey hey hey now they're pretty good they're pretty good owning a house this person says that's just subscribing subscribing to a never-ending to-do list and you can't unsubscribe yeah you can you can sell it but um I don't know I'd say upkeep on a place your renting is almost the same the only thing that sucks is if something breaks you have to pay for it you got to deal with getting it fixed but I think owning a house is a pretty great I'm grateful I got lucky and bought what I did because it'd be pretty tough today that's for sure all right traveling for work I don't think anyone romanticizes that all right nothing like the commute or air travel can you imagine if you had to fly to every job you had to do oh geez a 12 year old was arrested attempting to make explosives hold on we got to pull this one up I just happened to see this right when I was getting ready to yap here all right where was this so it was a 12 year old kid who was posting about it online like check it out I'm making bombs um somebody called the local police department like this was this kid made a made a bomb I think this was in Hong Kong so anyway they sent out the interdepartmental counterterrorism unit and we arrested that 12 year old kid they're like we don't care how old you are making bombs is a very serious crime so he was doing it under a bridge directly beside a public sitting out area all right I don't know what's up with this kid's parents and you don't want to just judge but what are you doing where are you like your 12 year olds out under a bridge making bombs you are dropping the ball as a parent excuse me he's got to learn how he's got to get the supplies he's taking the time to post it to social media you're not even watching his social media page little timmy's out there just you know whipping up a pipe bomb I'm no big deal what's wrong with these people please keep an eye on your children all right be a parent my goodness all right I guess my kids weren't too bad so earlier I briefly mentioned you know it's nice to own a house because you can do whatever you want with it you don't have some landlord telling you yes or no you want to paint a room neon pink or the house itself it's yours you can do whatever you want don't have to put up with neighbors judging you or if they do you know you shrug it off it's not like living in an apartment complex where if you have a maybe art the clown doormat you're gonna upset your neighbors this guy online like hey I'm a horror fan me and my wife we love horror movies so they got an art the clown doormat from spirit halloween and they put it out on their front porch and it's been there for well a couple years at their apartment so a new family moved in and they got one kid that's like three to four years old and apparently the kid's scared of the doormat so the neighbors keep flipping it over when they when they get home don't touch my stuff don't touch my stuff I guess they had to talk with the neighbor about it like hey you know why are you monkeying with her doormat and it's like well our kid's really scared of it and it's like well tell your kid to man up it's a doormat it's a doormat it can't hurt you and it's gonna be a rough life for this child if you don't tell them right out of the gate doormat can't hurt you all right well just wanted to let you know you can do whatever you want to decorate your house like I've got neighbors that have one of those uh what like eight ten foot skeletons they just leave it up year round I think some neighbors find that in bad taste me I'm like cool we got a skeleton in the neighborhood it's another guy a few streets over got a giant werewolf in the lawn year round it's like all right cool why not if I had the money I'd have some ridiculous stuff up in my front yard year round but those things are expensive yeah can't afford you know eight foot skeleton not not in the budget this year all right everybody we're slowly making it through the day but we're gonna be able to do this we'll get her done I believe it was just last week peaches and I were talking on the noon hour of madness and mayhem and the subject of gredivan fleet came up and it was like what happened to those guys where did they go they just kind of vanished from the face of the planet well now they are stirring up the old speculation are they breaking up they put out this video it's got a bunch of footage from over the years you know kind of showing their growth getting up to playing the big arenas and then it ends with thanks for the wild ride love josh jake sam and daniel and so people especially in the fandom getting very concerned the band might be breaking up so I went to reddit where the super fans hang out started reading through the comments and there were people insisting no I heard a clip is something new at the end of that video and it looked like new footage looked like new images of the guys so I'm guessing it's much more likely this is height building for new music that is coming soon got a lot of new music coming soon motionless and white dropping a new track tomorrow that's exciting featuring Cory Taylor or at least that's what it really looks like they haven't officially announced it but saw somebody post a piece of artwork where the featured artist is not blurred out and it said Cory Taylor so should be pretty cool but yeah I'd be down to hear some music from Greta Van Fleet you know when they first came out pretty much in a really paying homage to Led Zeppelin but I think over time they they started coming into more of their own their last stout and a little bit more progressive kind of in the vein of Rush or something like that I thought it was pretty good so I hope they're not breaking up I hope they are going to be dropping some new stuff soon and if so I'm sure we'll play it here all right if I get any other updates on Greta Van Fleet I will let you know well I got to throw out a RIP to the knowledge fight podcast it's a great show but I guess with Alex Jones Info Wars being purchased by The Onion and he doesn't have a platform anymore they have nothing to do their show about knowledge fight they would basically go through and you know kind of critique and debunk episodes of the Alex Jones show and it was a really funny show it was really good but they announced yesterday you have Colin and Quits Colin and Quits gonna do something new bummer you know a lot of great podcasts that are like I mean it was a pretty big show too just going away like uh WTF with Mark Marin been missing that show a lot that's a top quality podcast I mean there are like thousands of previous episodes you can listen to so you know that's good but now what's going to be next last podcast on the left you better not be planning on going anywhere I don't know what I'm gonna listen to while I do chores you know need something to help get me through that boring crap so RIP to knowledge fight if you're uh interested check it out I don't know it's not necessarily for everybody and maybe it's not pertinent now that Info Wars is gone but it's a it's a good show I'm gonna have to check out some of the videos making the rounds from Tim Haydacker the comedian who took over the the Info Wars space I saw a video of him holding the glass saying this is real human blood I would imagine the videos are pretty ridiculous so maybe I'll get around to watching those today but first I gotta dig up some freak news all right guys getting out of here I'm headed headed to Korea well they got the uh the nap competition taking place yeah Sol's Han River nap competition looking at photos here of people taking a nap tons of them gotta be hundreds it's kind of laying out in the city park relaxing sleeping looks great could we have a nap competition around here where's Jade I bet I could die do pretty well in a nap competition here in the building I think my office floor is somewhat clean all right not really headed to Korea but boy seeing these people just laying down sleeping away it's torture it's torture all right what else we got here um okay how do we work around this one here it's funny because there are certain scientific terms that I know would make jade uncomfortable if I said them on air so instead we have to talk in a childish manner um a man pulled a French police car through Yorkshire with his with his manhood while he was on fire it ain't a bizarre challenge um yeah he had a tow rope hooked it up to you know what he said you know it did hurt quite a bit but everything's fine afterward so he's trying to raise awareness of men's mental health issues um do you have mental health issues if you light yourself on fire and pull a police car in that manner I'd say you're not you know completely normal but men's mental health issues are important all right if you're struggling go talk to a therapist all right they can help you out nothing to be embarrassed about you know prevent you from being out on the streets hooking up to lieutenant cranes cruiser pulling that thing through our parking lot on Friday morning now we don't need that let's see here oh if you want to visit New Orleans now islands but do it you know in the next 50 years or so recent study shows that the entirety of New Orleans could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of the century uh due to climate issues ongoing sea level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana so yeah they're basically saying the city is going to be underwater um I do want to visit New Orleans because that's uh that's a red dead thing sand and need yeah say It's a model, or a recreation of late 1800s New Orleans. Oh man, now I just want to not only take a nap, engage in the nap competition, I want to play some Red Dead and then take a nap. Oh, I need to play that Resident Evil though. Oh, stupid chores preventing me from having fun. Alright, what else is going on here? I'm sure YouTuber just recreated the original Star Wars with cardboard.
And they say it's awesome. Let's see. I'm jumping ahead in here. Wow, this guy did go all out in recreating Star Wars. However, this video is only 50 minutes long.
What did you leave out? This must have taken forever. Holy cow. Alright.
There's someone to make me feel like a slacker. If you want to find this video online, go on YouTube and search for I recreated Star Wars out of cardboard. I'm not going to sit here and watch the whole 52 minute video, but again, they put a lot of effort into this.
So props to them. Way to get something done. Speaking of that, I better get some things done around here. Multitasking time.
About to begin. Players of Fun Headline, the Rat Apocalypse forcing residents in a Northwestern state to catch vermin with their bare hands. What Northwestern state might that be?
Of course it's us. Looks like it's a Boise problem though. Yeah, these guys, Doug Perry and his wife Barbara, just plagued by the sound of rats scurrying around their homes as they tried to sleep.
It's bad enough. You hear the cats walking upstairs. You're like, what's up there? What is that up there?
Oh, it's a cat. Imagine just hearing that in the walls and things like that. Yeah, becoming a major problem in Boise. This couple saying, my wife was going crazy. It's been a long drawn out process to try to get these things out of our house. They're using glue traps, set up a ring camera in the kitchen to try to catch them. Guy ended up having to just catch them with his own hands. Because apparently there's nothing that the authorities or anybody can do. Yeah, get that ring alert going off on your phone.
Oh, just running and grab it with your hands. Oh, disgusting. So anyway, yeah, they say that people across Ada and the Treasure Valley area are being terrorized by the beasts with the population of Norway and roof rats growing to apocalyptic levels. Norway are the same species as the ones in New York City. Boise is infested with rats peaches. Yeah, what a dump. Let's see if they can beat Chicago and New York for ratty a city in America.
I can't wait to read that list. Yeah, yeah. I mean, they've got this map here and it's got a red area marked where we've got the rat apocalypse happening. And yeah, it's the entirety of Boise and the good. Rats.
Should I call the X and Boise? Can you guys play rats for me over and over again? Come on.
All right. And then they'll probably do like a concert ticket giveaway involved. They met lessen for rats. Listen for rats and win a free exterminator.
Come to your home and take care of your rat problem. So that'd be a timely giveaway. I feel like that'd be pretty good.
Yeah, that is a good idea. They got rat problems. Play rats by ghost. Be caller number 20. Win an extermination, you know, service. Big J just comes to your house with one of those giant things. Big J is just the cage. He's just catching rats. You want to run your house? Run and run.
So yeah, if you've been thinking about moving to Boise, oh, good for you and have fun dealing with the rats over there. That's that's gross, man. Nasty. Howdy, welcome to the show. What's up, everybody? Tuesday treating you good? I hope so. Sorry that it isn't Friday. OK. Let's see. A Seattle artist held a funeral for a long closed Taco Bell.
OK, well, again, some people have more time on their hands than me. So this is a location that had been closed for more than three decades. Place must have been a dump. Well, anyway, the artist with the funeral complete with bagpipes, a crying contest and a 21 bell salute brought in people from all over Seattle with flowers and tokens of condolences. Formal attire required.
You can check out photos and such of this happening online. I mean, it has been gone for 30 years, but I guess a goodbye. Better late than never. Um, yeah, I would have meant there's got to be another Taco Bell in Seattle. But it's kind of amazing. A building would just sit unoccupied in Seattle for 30 years. Well, people must have really loved that Taco Bell location. I mean, Taco Bell's good.
Don't get me wrong. Oh, Jade, I had a little bit of PTSD last night. Yeah. Yeah, went out to eat with the Beckett and Emory. And we went to I'm not going to throw them under the bus, but we went to a local fast food place. And, you know, they wanted to eat there. I'm like, all right, I guess we'll sit down and eat in here. You know, yeah.
I guess anywhere. I just am not a fast food person. Well, I know you're not a fast food person, but it's one of the better fast. It's a little call it high end fast food.
So we go in and sit down. It wasn't even very busy. It was so loud in there. So loud.
You remember when we went to crack a barrel? There was a reason why that one was so loud. We were still experiencing a concert from the night before. Yeah, but it was mostly you. It was still louder than it needed to be.
Right. So we're luckily, but unluckly, somebody punched me real hard. Unless some some jerk in a in a hotel hallway.
So I threw up from getting punched so hard. That way I released some demons and then you didn't. Who would do such a thing? Oh, maybe I might be looking at that jerk right now.
What kind of maniac would hit their boss? Boss, we're buds, man. Buds. Oh, yeah, homies.
So, yeah, we're just sitting there and it's like. Jerk. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. It was so loud. It's like, guys, you can turn it down a little bit.
It's quite it's quiet enough in here. You could just yell the order out. You don't even need to do it through the speakers.
No, what's the fun in that? Like those cracker barrel speakers, they were louder than the PA at the concert. We went to the night before. Yeah, this was outperformed under oath. I think that was the under oath show.
Yeah, this was way on par with cracker barrel. But they were this was inside. They wasn't speakers outside ripping your head off. It was inside.
And so it was relentless order after order. Oh, geez. I was I was getting mad, but the food was good. It hurt my brain so bad.
I'm like, get me out of here. Maybe that's what they were trying to do. Yeah, younger people working there.
Like, how are we going to get these customers to leave? Let's be really, really annoying. I've heard his morning show. Let's just do what he does. He really, really annoying. Yeah, but I'm not overmodulated and too loud. Come on. Oh, maybe. Follow that microphone.
So just a note to any local businesses. Turn the speakers down inside. It's too loud. I'm too old. It hurts my brain. So. I'm a brain.
Just can't take it. Your teenage self would be so disappointed in you. Oh, I know. What types of music you listen to now and.
I know. Being too loud. Becca has this portable speaker and she'll be like, she blasts that thing when she does chores like just cranks it up. And if you're in the other room, it's fine. But like you walk into that kitchen. It's like, how's your head not just exploding in here? Why is it so loud?
It was always like in the morning, right when I wake up and I'm like, oh, like I'm going to go sit in the room for a while. It's too loud for me. I'm joining you on this too loud. You know, my movie room theater. I built it so it could be pretty loud and actually sound good. And now I barely even turn the thing on like it's so loud.
I know. My living room. Let's take it down.
No, I'll put on the script on the bottom. The closed captions so I could read the words because I can't hear it. It's too loud if I need to turn it off so I can hear it. Got a great sound system. Turn it down.
No, just watch it on mute and I'll just read the captions. So I was looking around online and apparently live nations doing their big summer of live or whatever it's called. Yeah, summer of live ticket sale.
They're pumping up their thirty dollar tickets. You go to, you know, their website and you start looking through them. And it's like, wow, this could be pretty amazing. Search for venues near Idaho Falls and, you know, like 20 or so come up to like, cool. What are we going to be able to go check out? So I clicked on the Mountain America Center.
Go to that page. It's like, OK, well, they've only got two participating shows that would be the Goo Goo Dolls and Lindsey Sterling. But then you go to the page and I don't see no thirty dollar tickets.
How is that a participating show? If there are no thirty dollar tickets. So I got looking around further and like, OK, well, let's try the Utah First Credit Union Amphitheater, formerly known as Usana. OK, lots of shows coming to that venue.
Let's see here. Evanescence. Do they have thirty dollar tickets? This one, there it is. Thirty dollar tickets. Lawn tickets.
All right, I'm sorry, but the lawn at Usana. I just can't do it. It just sounds way too bad.
Back there on the lawn, the sound is garbage. But they got some other tickets for like forty nine bucks for that show. Are there any shows?
With thirty dollar tickets that like are good seats. OK, let's try Sepultura at the depot. The depot is like a GA venue, right?
Oh, my gosh, no thirty dollar tickets. Why do you have it listed as a participating show then? Huh? And. And OK, what about Kitty at the depot? Can we at least get some thirty dollar tickets for Kitty? OK, they do have those.
There you go. So if you want to take advantage of this thirty dollar ticket sale, you're going to have to do a lot of looking around. You might get like a poppy at the Union.
Thirty dollar tickets. Drum roll. No, no. Sixty dollar tickets only for poppy.
All right. Well, I guess I'm just going to have to try to win tickets from Salt Lake Radio. All right, we've got our first bear attack of the season up in Yellowstone. Now they're wasting no time. Nice weather came a bit early.
Bring on the two runs. Now, I don't know if these people were engaged in stupid decisions. They were hiking near Mystic Falls Trail. Near Old Faithful and unclear what type of injuries the hikers sustained or what led to the incident. But two people were injured by multiple bears. Last time this happened was back in September.
Now, nobody's been killed in a while, so that's good. But just be aware if you're planning on hitting up Yellowstone this weekend, they've got a lot of trails closed while they, you know, investigate this incident. You can find the list of those trails at East Idaho News dot com.
But some areas are open like the Midway Geyser Basin, the Grand Prismatic Overlook Trail and others. All right, if you see a bear, don't go near it. Don't try to take a selfie.
If you're going to Yellowstone, pack bear spray. All right. I'm going to wrestle it. Bears eat people. All right.
They'll rip your legs off. I'll take one down. All right. You should fight a bear, peaches. If Alex Terrible can do it, peaches can do it. That's right. If I if I have to battle a bird scooter, I can battle a bear.
All right. Anybody got a bear? Well, Yellowstone does. There you go. Just take a trip with Aubrey.
Roll on in. Her last name is Bear. It is Bear. So you got peach and bear. Yeah.
You guys are weirdos, man. And once we get married, should we bear peach? Is that what she's going to do?
No, she's probably not going to do that. How funny. You guys both have kind of weird last names with me and Beck. Most generic last names of all time. Yeah, we have the weird last name crew when it's me, Aubrey, Maddie and also Maddie's a girlfriend too, because it's like peach bear kid towers.
Yeah. Me, it's just the same names as 10 billion other people. So all right, we should have Jade join us for with his real last name too. Jade's last name.
Yeah. The same as Johnny Knoxville. I think they're related. You think so?
I think there's somehow distant cousins or something. Is that Johnny Knoxville's real last name? Yeah.
What? If you actually look at Johnny Knoxville's real name, it's kind of crazy that I don't look at him the same anymore. Philip John Clap. Yeah. What? P.J .C. P.J .C.
Well, yeah, I'd never heard that before. Jade, get your cousin to come hang out. Come on, man. Come on.
We need the press. All right, everybody. It's a little after nine. I think it's about time for some more caffeine. We'll be back. How's everybody doing on a Tuesday?
Is it really only Tuesday? Not a very big fan of that. Yuck.
OK. Let's see. We talked about people getting attacked by bears already. Who's the other thing I was going to bring up on this show? What the heck?
I totally forgot. Let's see. You can step into the revolution at this new Idaho Falls exhibit. Sure. Let's check this out. The Museum of Idaho has a new exhibit coming to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
And it's going to stick around through the end of the year. Upstairs in the Masonic Gallery includes revolutionary war era artifacts, reproductions and objects from local collectors. I guess according to the managing director of the museum, this exhibit not only focuses on the semi quintennial of the Declaration of Independence, but also explores how the foundational documents still shape the US today.
I think that's a good thing. People should learn about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, all that good stuff. So should be a pretty sweet exhibit at the museum. If you've never been to the Museum of Idaho, it's really cool.
And I highly recommend it. So, yeah, is this exhibit open now? I'm guessing it must be because. I mean, they got pictures from it and such here. Let's go all the way to the bottom of the article there. Okay, it doesn't say anything about it not being open.
So I don't know. Call the museum if that's something of interest to you. I believe you can go check it out now.
And if that's not available, check out the other exhibits because the museum's a good time. It's pretty, pretty good. All right, I'm going to be right back. Well, good morning, peaches. Good morning. It is a good morning. Good morning. Any morning that we get to announce a concert is a great morning, peaches. Makes Tuesdays just that much better. Heck, yeah.
So coming to the Mountain America Center in Idaho Falls on September 23rd, we've got a few bands that I think people are going to like to see. Do you want to go ahead and read them or do you want me to? Starting off, we got Return to Dust. Return to Dust opening up the show. And then the co-headlining Dead Seven Tour featuring Seven Dust and Theory of a Deadman. Should have been called like the Dust Might Tour, the Dust Bowl Tour, something like that. You know, with the way the weather's been, we might be facing a Dust Bowl sometimes. Oh, great.
So Seven Dust, Theory of a Deadman, Return to Dust, September 23rd at the Mountain America Center. And we are giving away tickets all week before they go on sale Friday. So all you got to do is listen for me or peaches to be like, hey, you call now.
Then you be caller 20 and you win tickets to the show. Should we do a pair right now or? Should we wait? Let's make people wait. Okay. Let's make people wait.
Yeah, you wait patiently. By the way, you can get in on the presale on Thursday with code AllCapsPepper, P-E-P-P-E-R. And I did note that on our social media pages. So you can check that out if you forget the code and get ready for the show. Seven Dust, Theory of a Deadman, Return to Dust, September 23rd. It's always so nice seeing our logo at the top of the concert page.
It is. So thank you to the promoter for getting the job done right. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt Show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbendmediagroup.com.
