The Viktor Wilt Show

My headphones all the way over there. Guess because I didn't grab them when I first walked in. Alright. Hang on. Getting settled here.

It's early. Okay. There we go. I can hear myself in the cans. Hi.

Welcome to the program, the Victor Will Chill. Okay. I was looking through a post online about items people purchased as adults because you didn't get to have it as a child. And, I got thinking about this and my parents were pretty dang nice. When I think back most of the stuff that I like, oh, I really want it.

I really want it. They somehow figured out a way to make these kind of things happen. I don't know how like the Nintendo 64, the year it dropped, it was as is typical with Nintendo, almost impossible to get your hands on one. Somehow my parents got one. It it was awesome.

The only thing I can really think of from when I was a kid that I wanted that I never got well, maybe maybe I could think of 2 things. You know, those power wheels, little cars that you can drive around as a small child. I always wanted one of those, but I think I was probably too big for them by the time they came out anyway. Then we ended up getting one for, for my girls, and the thing was a piece of garbage. Like, I would never buy one again.

It was junk. I was so disappointed. Anyway, the other item I could think of that I would have wanted as a kid was the my pet monster. Have you ever seen one of these? Goo Google it up.

It was like sorta like a stuffed animal. I mean, I guess it was a stuffed animal, but it was all weird looking, a blue monster with a big gross nose and horns and, you know, teeth and stuff is they were pretty awesome. They were pretty awesome, but I never got one. Haven't bought one as an adult, though. I don't need more stuffed animals around.

My kids have, you know, bags and bags of stuffed animals just taking up space in my basement because they didn't wanna bring them with them when they moved out. Well, let's see what other items, other folks always wanted as a kid, so they bought it, you know, once they were out on their own. Alright. A metal detector. I always wanted one as a kid but my dad said I'd use it a handful of times then it would sit and collect dust forever.

I bought myself one, and it turns out my dad was right. Sometimes they are. That's that's one thing about being an adult. You've learned what items will end up sitting around collecting dust and, yeah. That's why I bought items that essentially are designed to sit around and collect dust, man.

I don't feel about feel bad about it. You know, my book collection, that's a that's a great purchase if you're into buying things that you don't wanna end up having to use, like my guitars. I I use them. I use them just not enough. Let's see.

I bought an ice cream cake for no reason once. Hey. That's one of the joys of being an adult. You wanna mow down some ice cream? You can.

Now it could also be a curse, but still, I mean, it's ice cream. Some of these are kinda sad. Like, this kid said he, you know, buys his asthma medication because his mom said he was faking his asthma attacks. Jeez. Take the word of your doctor when it comes to your children's health.

K? I wasn't denied it as a child, but we never had a recliner going up, and I always thought of them as a status symbol or sign of making it or being an adult. So when I made it, sort of, I got a recliner. Now I'm a successful functioning reclining adult. We didn't have a recliner at my house when I was a kid either, and, I mean, I only got one because it matched the couch.

Holy cow. I could never go without a recliner again. I am a straight up dad. I I sit in that recliner. I might fall asleep watching TV.

It's the best. As I sat here multitasking, I'm doing a lot of stuff all at once. Working on some, commercials for next week, trying to find things to talk about, and, I got a text message from my girlfriend. And this was actually before work. Alright.

This tells me about this fly that's driving her crazy at home. I'm like, well, that sucks. You know, I hope I hope I hope it doesn't give you too much grief. I I don't remember what I responded earlier, but at some point, she let me know she killed the fly, and I was like, alright, well, way to get the job done. And then she, as I was, sitting here ripping commercials and things, you know, I looked back through my messages and I'd gotten a few of them about how I say very funny things sometimes.

You know? Like, go champ. Way way to get the job done. Way to go, sport. You get that fly.

It's like, am I just, you know, an uncontrollable dad with the things I say? It's kind of embarrassing. So, anyway, I I guess I I think she still likes me, but, she's poking a lot of fun this morning. So we'll see. Like, I don't wanna sound like a dad.

She's like, you are a dad. Like, okay. I guess you're right. I I could've thrown out a way to do your job, but, I don't know if it's anyone's job necessarily to kill a fly. So, anyway, big gross flies.

Nothing worse than one just buzzing around the house, driving you crazy. It's not even the time of year for that. You know? Anyway, if you didn't check out the, Riverbend Media Group fly that was living in the Hawk studio, you could go check out the 105 the Hawk YouTube page because we we did have a pet around here for a bit made for some funny videos with Justin. It's weird the things you forget or potentially the things you just don't remember correctly.

So recently, you know, been playing a lot of video games. Alright. Yeah. I could do something more productive with my time, but I just haven't been in the mood. Alright.

The basics have been staying done. Alright. I'm getting my chores accomplished, my bills paid, but there's been a lot of video game action going on. And I recently started playing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, the definitive edition that came out for the PS 4, I don't know, a couple years ago. A while back, It was all messed up when it first came out, and so I bought it.

It was like, this sucks. Didn't play it, but they fixed it recently. Did a whole bunch of upgrades, and now it's playing great. So I've been having a blast playing San Andreas. Now I swear that I made it all the way through San Andreas back in the day.

And I know I have a terrible memory, but I don't know if I actually did play through the the whole game because, you know, the map on it is so huge. I don't remember there being a San Francisco in the game. I don't remember there being a Vegas in the game. I just thought it was all basically in the same area but smaller as GTA 5. So now at the point I'm at in the game, I'm like, I don't remember any of this.

I don't think I ever actually played through the whole game, but I swear I did. So weird. So weird. I'm gonna have to go back and play Vice City because that's another one that I swear I played all the way through, but I bet I didn't. I might not have played all the way through GTA 3 for all I know.

I don't know, man. It's just weird how your memory can distort over time, and you can build these potentially completely false memories. It's crazy. Anyway, I mean, it's been fun. It's been fun.

I highly recommend if you're a GTA fan, you pick up the definitive edition now that they've fixed it. It's very nostalgic, very nostalgic and very good. I don't know. I've only been playing San Andreas. So GTA 3 and Vice City, are they up to snuff with San Andreas?

I don't know. But it's been very enjoyable. So Christmas is coming. If you've got a video game fan in your household and, you know, they're old enough for that kind of content, I'd say it's a pretty good gift idea. So you remember yesterday, we talked about this company, Yes Madam, who supposedly fired a bunch of people because they were stressed at work.

I mean, this blew up all over the place. I even saw a very popular radio page on Instagram. We'll call it, crappy radio jock. Saw that page share this and a video that was attached going into the fact that you could be fired for being stressed at work, which is kind of unnerving. I now this turned out to be what this company, s Madam, is claiming is a PR stunt.

Right? They put out an additional press release saying, we sincerely apologize for any distress caused by recent social media posts suggesting we dismissed employees for being stressed. Let us be clear. We would never take such an inhuman step. Our team is like family, and their dedication, hard work, and passion are the foundations of our successes.

Said they wanted to highlight the serious issue of workplace stress. And to those who shared angry comments or voiced strong opinions, we say thank you. And then they're supposedly implementing all these things in their workplace for stressed employees, like 6 de stress paid leaves annually to take time for their mental health, a complimentary, yes, madam, spa session at home, and then they're gonna have, I don't know, I guess, massages and spa sessions right at the workplace. Oh, yeah. It's kickback.

Relax. My back hurts. Jade, get the therapist in here. Now they could just be lying. They could be like, oh, jeez.

We faced a lot of backlash here. Let's, claim it was, a stunt because it's a weird one. I mean, it did get attention, and it did get people talking about workplace stress, but the implementation was just kinda weird. So I don't know. Can you be fired for being stressed at work?

It's a great question. I mean, I think in Idaho, you can be fired for whatever reason, that right to work thing, but I don't know. I've never heard of anyone being fired because, like, he's all in this kind of high strung. Seems a little bit stressed out. Let's get rid of them.

I mean, a deep breath before the workday is always a good thing. K? Because, you know, when people are on edge at work, that affects everybody else. So, yeah, take a walk or something. Take a chill pill.

Relax. Alright. Well, anyway, glad to hear that a bunch of people didn't get fired for being stressed, but, also, you probably given the, radio industry some ideas. Yes, madam. So maybe knock that off.

We've talked about bad baby names before. Well, apparently, some of those kids that were named after Game of Thrones characters back in the day, but now they're getting old enough to realize where their names came from and getting kind of fed up with people picking on them because of their wacky names. There was some girl posted on social in the last few days. I don't know for sure if her name is Khaleesi or Daenerys, but it's 1 or 1 or the other. Am I right?

And she's getting bullied at school because of her wacky name. Said when she was younger, she liked it because, yeah, nobody else was named that in her circle. But now, I mean, there's a lot of ways that if you've seen the entire Game of Thrones series, you could throw some pretty mean insults at somebody who is named Daenerys or Khaleesi. Alright? That that character had some arcs in her story that, you know, were a little bit dark, little bit disturbing, little bit gross.

So it ended up being a terrible name for a child. Yeah. And some parents are just whack. Just whack. There's this family that somebody was talking about online.

They named all their kids weird names. They have a Khaleesi, but they also have a Wednesday. Now Wednesday, it's not a terrible I I don't know. I don't know where I stand on that one. It's a day of the week.

It is a terrible name. Alright. How about Indie with the middle name Anna? Indy wouldn't be too bad on its own, but Indy, Anna, blank. Like, seriously.

Why? And then they named their final kid 11. Yeah. 11. Couldn't even go with, you know, l.

If you're gonna name aft name your child after a character in Stranger Things, 11, name them a number. I was reading another article earlier about how Elon Musk brought his kid out, you know, for a photo op to show. Hey. Look. I hang out with my children, and it's that kid with the I can't remember the name because it's a bunch of letters and numbers.

Like, stop this. K? Just give your kids a normal name. Alright? They're going to be bullied in school.

They're the ones who have to put up with this. You wanna name something wacky? Get a dog. Freak news, powered by Grease Monkey, voted Idaho's best oil change. Alright.

Let's go. If anyone wants to offer me some money to stay off of my phone for 8 hours, I can do it. I know I have the ability. A woman won $1,380 in China after successfully completing a public challenge that tested participants' ability to stay away from their smartphones for 8 hours. So you went into a store, you hang out, and, you just had to kinda lay there, just, you know, sit there and meditate, I guess.

$1,380. You could probably get me to do it for 8 hours is a long time to lay there 500 anybody want to want to give me some dough to just sit there and not use my phone I'd do it Why they did this, little competition? I guess to raise awareness about smartphone addiction. Okay. Well, if everybody got paid to not use their phone, I bet, that that would change a little bit.

Speaking of getting paid, I gotta figure out how to get hired by Taylor Swift. Yeah. On her recent tour, she gave out $197,000,000 in bonuses to cast and crew on the tour. $197,000,000. Yeah.

Took about 10% of the tour's overall gross profit and put it back into bonuses for team members. So much as I may, you know, make a little bit of commentary about my thought about her music, you know, not being very exciting to me from time to time, does seem like she's a pretty great boss. Yeah. I don't know how much that amounted to per person but it's gotta be pretty good if she's given out a $197,000,000. So anyway, if anybody sees the indeed.com listing for Taylor Swift tour support or something sorry.

I need the money. I need that money. What else do we have going on here for free canoes powered by Grease Monkey? Oh, airplane mode? Supposedly not a scam.

You know when you're on an airplane they're like everybody needs to put their phones in airplane mode and you're like why? Is the plane gonna crash if I don't? Well, there's an article I read where a pilot breaks it down and explains it and says you know, if everybody on the plane didn't put their phone into airport air didn't put their phone into airplane mode, we would have issues with phones trying to connect towers from time to time. And if everybody on the plane suddenly has their phones trying to connect to the towers, could interfere with our radio communications. It's not gonna crash the plane, but it could make things difficult for the pilots.

So you do need to put your phone in airplane mode. I I just assumed it was a way to keep people from trying to use their phones or something which I guess essentially it is. But, yeah. If you've ever been a naysayer, been like, they're doing this to us for no reason. No.

They've got they've got good reason behind it. So just wanted to let you know. I don't know why I was just reading this article that I was reading because it's not anything I'm going to have to deal with anytime soon. The 6 stages of cleaning out, selling your parents' house. Alright.

This is sort of dark subject matter. Might be unpleasant for some, but, you know, family members pass on. I've been through it with both of my parents. I've had to clean their places out, and it's a it's a weird process because as you're going through things, it's hard to differentiate between, alright, am I just feeling sentimental or do I really want or need this stuff? You know?

So for me, most of the things in my mom's house, it was like, Jake and Manda, you you can take it all. Take because I've got most of the things I need. You know? And so this article here, it's getting me thinking about my own house, which I've tried to clean out most of the things that I don't need. Get it down to the essentials.

You know, there there was a lot of stuff around that place that in the last year, I was like, do you really need it? And I'm gonna have to continue doing this because there's no sense hoarding things. And it's easy to do. Trust me. I'm a typical dude.

I got the big, you know, plastic container with 10,000,000,000 cables in it. I've got stacks and stacks of, burnt CDs and DVDs that, like I mean, I don't even have a computer with a disk drive anymore. What am I gonna do with them? Well, there might be something important on them. There could be things that you need to get rid of before your kids have to deal with them.

Let's say you have a grand piano. Grand piano. I was reading in this article that, you know, your your parents or somebody, you know, or maybe you, maybe you've got a grand piano worth tens of 1,000 of dollars. You know, what's gonna happen when you try to sell that. You're not gonna be able to sell it.

How many pianos do we got on the local Facebook marketplace? Let's take a look here. I've never shopped for a piano because I don't have a room for 1. I mean, I've got an organ in my basement closet that I still need to just get out of my house. It's so heavy.

I can't get it out of there. There was a guy who about a year ago offered to come get it out for me. Sorry if you're listening again that I never got back to you. It's still there. Taking up space.

I've got an old oven in my garage just sitting there. Yeah. I mean, holy cow. I am seeing a pile of pianos on Facebook market and most I mean, not most, but a good amount of them, people are like, just come get it free. Just take it away, please.

Please come get this piano. Then you've got I mean, there's a lot of pianos up for grabs. If you've ever wanted a piano, looks like the old Facebook market's the place to go. I'm not seeing any grand pianos. But if you own one, you should get rid of it if you're getting old.

Alright? Unless you play on it every day because your kids are gonna have a heck of a time trying to figure out what to do with that. So anyway, this article, it could be helpful to people. It's called, the 6 stages of cleaning out. It's at Slate.

If you're dealing with clearing out a family member's home, it might be a good read because it goes through the different stages that you're gonna feel the the sentimentality. Like, oh, you know, I remember when we were young, mom used these dishes every Christmas. Do you need to find China? You're not gonna be able to sell it. So is it just taking up space?

Maybe you should get rid of it. Maybe you should get rid of it. Anyway, read through the steps there. And when it comes to, cleaning out the parents' house, don't just take every little thing. You're gonna end up with just boxes of crap sitting in storage or in your garage.

Try to only take the things you're gonna gonna use. So anyway, sorry. Again, it's not a subject a lot of people like to think about, but where I've been through it, I I don't know. I'm I'm comfy talking about it. It's Victor Welt hanging out with Tyler.

How's your morning going, man? Not too bad. Not too bad. Well, we're gonna get you running the board so you can be my new show producer. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I figured give you more work since Jade doesn't keep you very busy, does he? I'm okay without a little bit more work. But Alright. Cool.

I'll just kick back. I'll sit on the other side, then I I I can just yap and not have to do anything else. Permission to take your job. Let's do it. Sure.

I could sleep in then. And do do you like waking up super early? Yeah. I wake up at 5. You wake up at 5.

That's pretty much when I get up. Yeah. Not too bad. Why do you do that if you don't have to? To go to the gym.

Yeah. Oh, okay. So work, you get a little too tired to go to the gym, so you gotta get up early. And Man, you're really making me feel lazy. Yeah.

I got a, you know, treadmill in my basement. Boy, you should see the dust on that thing. Anyway, question I posted on the KayBear group on Facebook earlier was, was there any items that you bought as an adult because you didn't get to have them as a child? Anything like that, Tyler? I buy a lot of Legos now as an adult.

Lot of Legos? Because I didn't get a lot of them as a kid. Well and, you know, probably easier to afford Legos as an adult. And they're getting more expensive. So They're crazy.

Yeah. Stunts. One of our listeners, Zach, he posted the same thing, Legos in the, in the group there. I tried to think about it. And I mean, most of the stuff that I've bought in it as an adult, you know, I I don't think it was anything I wanted as a kid.

Do you remember? I don't know how how old are you? 28. 28. So you might not remember this thing, stuffed animal like thing called a my pet monster.

Do you remember that thing? It was like blue, a blue monster stuffed animal. It had, like, big teeth and horns. No. A little too specific for me.

I don't know. It was awesome. Here, I'll let me pull up a picture here because this for Victor Wilt as a child was, like, the perfect toy. And I don't know. My I'm not complaining because my parents got me everything else I needed, but, look at this thing.

This thing is sweet. Can you imagine? Can you imagine having that to snuggle up with at bedtime? So you bought that for yourself? No.

I haven't. Oh, I haven't. I thought about it, but they're, they're pretty expensive. What do they get? What are they going for on eBay here?

Well, hey. Hey. There's one for 15.50. Looks kinda beat up. One in good shape, $530.

Yep. Yeah. You know, I mean, with all the other options for things you could buy for $530, I don't think I I could commit unless I won the lotto, You know? PlayStation 5 or stuffed animal. It it's Hard decision to make.

Hard decision to make. Grand theft auto or stuffed animal. Yeah. I don't know. So anyway, listeners, if you haven't, left your comment, I'd be curious to know what items you purchased as an adult that you wish you could have had as a kid.

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