The Viktor Wilt Show

So it's only been extra cold around here for what? Maybe a week? Maybe a week tops, But I'm already I'm just done. Done with winter. I'm ready to go on vacation.

Go somewhere nice. Somewhere warm. You know, throw the shorts on. That that'd be great, wouldn't it? Where should we go?

How about one of the scariest cities on earth? You ever been to a city labeled one of the scariest or most dangerous cities on earth? I have Tijuana. I liked Tijuana, and I never felt unsafe. Now, I didn't go wandering around on foot in the areas that I was told, like, don't go there.

But I wandered around by myself in, you know, lots of different, I guess, we could call them touristy areas. But also, you know, some areas that were just kinda normal neighborhood type areas. I I felt fine. Now I'm sure if you were a, you know, lone woman wandering around, it would it would probably be different. I don't know if I'd recommend that based on, you know, news I've read about, cartels and things like that.

I don't know. It it could get dangerous, but I don't know. I I thought the, the danger was a little overhyped in Tijuana. So let's see what the internet's saying about the scariest places people have ever been to. And I don't know.

This could get gruesome. K? Just a note. I know it's early, but it could get gruesome. Maybe if you're not into horror movies, you don't wanna hear this stuff because this is real.

Real life. Alright. We got a user saying Port Owl Prince. Where's that? South Africa?

Let let me look this up here. Not much of a geography, but, Haiti. So in Haiti, let's see here. Gotta get back to the the page I was on. Okay.

So a newly shot person on the sidewalk in the next day, a human finger in the garbage. Yeah. You don't wanna see fingers in the garbage. That might be a little bit unsettling. Have you ever seen a finger that's been chopped off, period?

I would imagine if you have, it was probably your own. Maybe you work in a, you know, wood shop or something. Well, I don't know. Using some heavy duty machinery, off comes the finger. Most people, I don't think, stumbling across fingers in the trash can.

Yeah. I think I'm gonna have to pass on, Haiti. If if there's dead bodies in the streets, that would be a little bit unsettling. Tijuana. Nice and clean.

I did not see I didn't It was like really clean. It was a pretty nice city. Okay. Rizzo. I I don't know if I said this right.

R I z h a o. Rizzo. China? Okay. Not scary so much like the others.

China is insanely safe, but extremely creepy. I felt like I was on a movie set. First off, it's a city of about 500,000, but it's built for a population of 10,000,000. But it's not like those ghost cities out west where there never was anyone. It seemed like it was actually a big city, but everyone just left suddenly.

The beaches were well maintained and empty. The buses ran frequently and were empty. The streets were lined with all the usual Chinese stuff and were empty. Went into a breakfast restaurant. Food was great, but we were the only customers and the staff seemed surprised to see us.

We asked for directions to the famous fish market. No one there could tell us where it was. It turned out to be about 750 meters away. It was massive and filled with vendors selling huge quantities of incredibly fresh fish. It was mostly empty.

Also, everything was open until the wee hours of the morning, if not 24 hours. This is unusual even in the biggest Chinese cities, let alone this abandoned town. That sounds awesome to me. That sound yeah. Like, rolling into a zombie apocalypse that just barely happened.

Everything's still all nice. Not dilapidated and decrepit like, The Last of Us or something like that, 28 days later. That'd be pretty cool. I think like, the last time I went to a rock radio well, no. Not the last time I went to a rock radio convention in Vegas, but the last time I went to the the February convention called Happens.

I got up really early. They were hosting it on, Fremont Street. So got up. Was like, alright. I'm gonna have some coffee and stuff, and I decided I'm gonna go out and walk on Fremont Street.

Nobody. 0 people on Fremont Street. It was like, you know, waking up in an apocalyptic Vegas that just barely happened. All of a sudden, everyone was gone. It was weird.

It was weird because, you know, you go to Fremont Street. Most times of the day, it's packed especially at nighttime, and they still have the big screen going and everything. I don't I I thought it was neat. Juarez, Mexico. I've heard that's not a very, safe place.

Let's see here. This person says I'm an Irish Mexican redhead. Went with my cousins to see my aunt and uncle. At the time, 2007, it was the most murderous city on earth. My family members were in a cartel.

There was a cartel war going on, had armed men around at all times, threw all the money in cars and opulence at their home. It was like being in prison. The tension in the air was thick. I was treated like a king, but that whole week, I was terrified. Different world.

Jeez. That that does sound pretty terrifying. Was told no matter what happens, do not call police. They work for the other guys. Was told if anything kicked off and anyone made it through the okay.

I'm not gonna finish that. Jeez. The person did say they haven't been back. I don't blame them. I don't blame them.

Let's see. Was in Saint Louis with my cousin and we crossed that bridge. East Saint Louis has got to be the most dangerous feeling place I've ever been. Street lights busted out at night. Everything run down and abandoned.

Bullet holes in the stop signs. We pulled up GPS and got out of there quick. Lots of comments, in this post talking about how scary east Saint Louis is. Yeah. I know when we've looked at the most dangerous cities lists, Saint Louis always pops up, and I've always found it kinda surprising.

Because, you know, when people start spouting off at the mouth about all these places with problems, they always seem to point at Chicago. Yeah. I don't know how many politicians I've heard talk about Chicago. But if you wanna take a look at crime rates, cities in the south, way worse. Way worse.

Like, you know, east Saint Louis, scary dangerous. Scary dangerous. If I have the choice of going to St. Louis or Chicago by myself and being, you know, stuck on the street on foot. Chicago any day based on my many years of morning show research.

Alright. West Memphis is so sketchy. Alright. West Memphis, probably pretty low on my vacation list as well. Another person men mentioning that, capital of Haiti here.

I wish Google Maps still told you when your path was through a high crime area. Yeah. That would be nice to know. You know? You're all of a sudden in that sketchy area of Vegas which I've walked through sketchy areas of Vegas.

Me and Lou Brutus went through, you know, a a pretty sketchy area of Vegas trying to help him find a Hunter s Thompson costume. Was I worried? No. No. I I I really wasn't.

You know how they always say, like, don't go off the strip? Like, you know, just stay on the strip. The roads that are all around it, don't go on them. And I'm not saying you should. I'm just saying I have.

Didn't seem too bad. Speaking of Nevada, let's I haven't read this one. I ended up driving through this tiny town in the middle of Nevada that I assume used to be a mining town. Looked like a steady paycheck hadn't been seen in this town for 20 years and the houses were all dilapidated and the locals just looked just as worn out. Bullet holes and burn marks could be seen on pretty much every building.

The only reason I drove through the town instead of just sticking to the main road was to top up on gas, but I couldn't find anything, not even a small convenience store. Must have been heck for those folks, cons considering the closest town with an actual store and gas, was about 70 miles away. Gabs, Nevada. Let's pull this up on I've never even heard of Gabs, Nevada. Now Nevada itself can be unsettling to drive through because, I mean, that is a ugly, desolate desert in in many places.

Like, anybody who's gone to and from Reno from basically any direction knows what I'm talking about here. Alright. I'm gonna dump the the Google person here down right into the middle of gabs. It doesn't look that bad. Come on.

That's just a town in the middle of nowhere. I don't see any rundown buildings. I'm on the main road. I I'd wander around gabs. This looks like Arco or something.

This ain't bad. Where's the where's the bullet holes and some people exaggerate. Some people certainly exaggerate. Oh, that fence isn't freshly painted. Where where is this, by the way?

Let's, let's back it up here and find out where in Nevada Gabs is. Woah. It's in the middle of nowhere. Why on earth would you take that road? Where are you going?

The only I guess if you were going to the Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park or the Humboldt Toriabe National Forest. Like, there's really no landmark anywhere close to this that you would have heard of for me to point out where Gabs is. This person, I think, was asking to find the hills have eyes. I kinda wanna keep talking about the scariest places you could go. I don't know why I would consider, like, booking a trip to some of these places.

It just sounds interesting. I really wanna know. What's east Saint Louis really like? I keep seeing it pop up in this thread. Tons of people mentioning east Saint Louis.

You know, I hear about all these places worldwide that are supposed to be so terrifying. But as far as the Internet goes, maybe it's just because a lot of people have, you know, been to Saint Louis. I I don't know. But must be, pretty unsettling. Let's see what else we got here for the scariest places people have ever been.

Garberville in Humboldt County, California in the nineties. This was way before pot was legal. And as an outsider, you were absolutely looked at like you were a fed. Scariest town I've ever stopped in. They made a doc about the area.

It's called Murder Mountain. I've seen that documentary. I think it's on I wanna say Amazon Prime. If not, Hulu. It's a good documentary.

It's pretty interesting for sure. I've driven through Northern California a number of times and, I mean, it's beautiful up there. I I really liked it myself. That documentary definitely made it seem pretty sketch. Now in the comments here people are like, that documentary documentary is kind of ridiculous.

And well, now yeah. But just don't go in people's property and don't steal stuff. You'll be fine. Yeah. I've I've never been in an area in Northern California where I felt unsafe, but I also wasn't wandering around people's, you know, compounds.

You know, if you see a sign leading up into the woods, that's like no trespassing. Just don't go there. Alright? Same as around here. You you wouldn't wander onto a no trespassing area out in the middle of the woods here because you don't know who's there.

Crazy people with guns. Yeah. Alright. What else do we have here? Kingston, Jamaica.

They didn't give a lot of details. Let's find one where people give a, a story here. Man, come on, people. Don't just go this place. You gotta give me reasons it's scary.

Oh, there we go. Tijuana. Somebody popped up with that one. I lived there for 2 years as a runaway teen. This was over 30 years ago, but I'm fairly certain it hasn't gotten better.

I I bet it has. I bet it has. And, also, if you're living as a runaway teen, you're probably not, you know, living in the best areas. Right? Okay.

Yeah. All the comments here are like, I I was there recently. It's fine. We just went there with our family. Great food.

People are friendly. You know, sure, there's some sketchy areas, but they want that tourist money. They're fine with it. It oh, tons of people talking about how they really enjoyed Tijuana. Like I said, I thought it was great, but I'm also into, like, anywhere new.

If I haven't been there, it's always very interesting to me. At least I think so. I don't know. When I rolled into Reno, I don't think we even stopped. It was like, okay.

There's Reno. Let's keep going. Didn't get the urge to jump out and explore, which is kinda weird rolling through a, you know, decent sized city. I usually wanna check something out, but something about Reno, I'm like, meh. Don't care.

Let's keep going. Lumberton, North Carolina. Have you ever even heard of this place? Lumberton. Never had a visit where something weird didn't happen.

Let's say somebody else says I remember Lumberton standing out to me as a child driving to Myrtle Beach. It always seemed eerie and empty. Michael Jordan's dad was killed on the highway in Lumberton. Wow. That's pretty dark.

Is that the place where Blue Velvet is set? It was filming in Wilmington, North Carolina. Not sure where it takes place though. Somebody says yes. A lot of poverty, but I guess I never noticed the sketchiness.

Come on. Weird vibes? If you're gonna go, it's always seemed kinda weird. Where's Burley, Idaho on this list? Alright.

I know I throw a lot of jabs at Burley, Idaho, but I I feel like I have the right. I lived there and worked there. I worked there for a long time, and I couldn't stand living there. But that's a sketchy town. That's a sketchy place, and it it does have a weird vibe, at least to me.

Like rolling into a Stephen King town. Baghdad. I would assume Baghdad's scary. Gary, Indiana, I've heard is, not so great. I'm getting bummed out that people aren't giving stories.

Hollywood. Not scary in a physically dangerous sense, just eerie and unsettling. After seeing the walk of fame in the Hollywood sign, it just had this weird vibe overall. No. I would say that Hollywood's sketchy.

Yeah. Absolutely. The walk of fame? I've seen some crazy stuff on the walk of fame. It's not like in the movies.

No. It's pretty dirty. I like it. Yeah. Maybe that's the deal.

I kinda like, you know, just dirty places, I guess, because the lock of fame is definitely, dirty. Alright. It's cool, though. I mean, I don't know. I guess just I like LA, so I like it well enough.

It's not like Vegas where I'm like, okay. I've been here 2 days. Get me out immediately. Vegas Vegas is so weird because when I roll in, I'm so happy. Like, alright.

It's good to be back. And then after 2 nights, it's like I've I've had it with the sounds of, slot machines and the flashing lights and all the people. I think it's the slot machine sounds. They're relentless. Ping ping ping ping ping.

You know, and if you, like, wanna go get some coffee or something, it's like the longest walk ever from your room. Like, how big is this casino? This is ridiculous. Alright. I don't know if we're gonna continue this topic or not but, you know, it's it's getting me going today.

So we'll be back in a minute. Well, I was scrolling through the Internet here trying to find something else to talk about aside from dangerous scary places. And I stumbled across one that apparently people are worried about, but I don't think they should be. And that is the gathering of the juggalos. Why why would that be scary?

What do they got going on this this year here? I have never been to the gathering of the Juggalos but, if I had the opportunity, I might go. You know, I have met countless juggalos in my day. I mean I've had Twisted in studio multiple times and hosted their shows. You know, got out and introduced them on stage.

Twisted a couple of the nicest guys ever. You know, they're they're great. Peach has had them in studio as well. You know, they're they're like juggalo royalty. I think that, juggalos are misunderstood.

I know that some of you listening right now are juggalos. Don't you lie. Don't you lie, and it's fine. You like to paint your face like a clown and, you know, just get a little bit ridiculous? Yeah.

I mean, it's just a a big festival show. Right? Well, there's full on documentaries about the gathering of the juggalos. And what's funny is I I found this post where someone was asking for a tour guide for the gathering of the juggalos. I found it in the Doug Stanhope subreddit for some strange reason.

Anyone have an in with the juggalos? We wanna do the gathering of the juggalos this August. Oh, did Doug Stanhope himself post it? Okay. So maybe I should shoot him a message.

Hey, dude. Here. Reach out to Twisted's people. He said they invited me 10 years ago, and I couldn't do it. Like Ukraine and slab city, we don't wanna do it without a tour guide, so to speak.

Okay. I could see Stanhope. You know, he's he's an older guy going, alright. We wanna make sure we we hit all the funniest spots at this festival, Meet up with the the craziest people. Oh, okay.

Okay. Good. If Stanhope's gonna go to the gathering of the juggalos, there there you go. That that that shows the the the type of people who might be hanging out there. If you've ever hung out with, Doug Stanhope, he's he's pretty fun.

He's pretty ridiculous. I don't know. He is getting older, so he's probably toned it down quite a bit. Happens to all of us as we get older, but Stanhope's crew, man. Some of the most fun I've ever had on a night on the town was hanging out with Doug Stanhope and friends.

He was talking about booking a, I'm glad I started talking about Doug Stanhope actually because he was talking about wanting to book some Idaho dates. I need to shoot his, his manager a message with some, venue suggestions since hurricanes, AKA the pepper tree, where he always did shows is no longer in existence. But, okay. That makes a little more sense. I'm like, why is a random Stanhope fan asking for a tour guide for the gathering of the juggalos?

Yeah. I'd totally go. I'd totally go. Just because I know the juggalos, they're fun. Those twisted shells I went to.

Great vibes. I didn't back in the day, I think that the juggalos were listed by, like, the FBI or something as a gang. It's like, no, these are just nerds, just like metal heads, just nerds. Alright. Poppy and new way out.

You know, hopefully poppy can break into the top 10 on the rock radio charts. Come on. Come on, fellow radio people. What are you doing? Play more poppy.

This is ridiculous. Anyhow, if you wanna find out what's going on on the rock radio charts, got a show for you every Sunday night, 8 to 10 PM with my homie Cutter, the cutting edge countdown, counting down the top 21 tracks in rock radio. Guaranteed to hear some songs we aren't playing because I don't care what's on the radio charts. It makes no difference to me if a song is number 1 on the rock radio charts. If it's not a hit that doesn't fit, it can get.

Oh, look at that. I'm gonna start rapping. Just joking. No hip hop career in my future. Welcome to the Victor Will Chill.

A little after 7 o'clock. I hope you're doing good. Looking through the news for content. Just getting annoyed. What is going on with our state representatives?

You know, we just had a big election. All of these people got themselves reelected or elected for the first time based on the letter next to their name. And there were a lot of promises. Lot of promises floating around. You know, people around here are struggling.

Alright? I I hate to bring it up, but it's a fact. The cost of living here has gone through the roof in the last 4 years. It's it's crazy, you know, when you take a look at housing prices. I was talking to a friend in LA, last week, checking in on him, you know, with the fires and everything going on.

So you yep. It's like, you better get ready. There's gonna be a lot more people leaving LA after this. It's just gotten to be, you know, too dangerous and expensive. And he was asking me, you know, like, what's a starter home cost there?

And it blew his mind when I told him what they're currently running for because it's the guy I've talked to about it, you know, a decade ago. Could we work on fixing problems rather than pandering to the base? Every single East Idaho news article I see pop up about the legislature. They are working on things that are not they're not issues. They're not problems.

Alright? I mean, at bare minimum, how about we focus on the potholes in the roads? Yeah. Remember how everybody's like, yeah. We're gonna get the cost of groceries down.

Well, they don't seem to be working on that. K? Just working on taking more rights away from the average Idahoan. You know? Just doing it Doing everything they can to keep us down.

It It's just so ridiculous to me that these people keep getting elected over and over and over again. You know, I joke on air about running for office, but if I ever got fired from radio, I think I probably would. We need some normal people in these positions. Normal people that don't have an agenda. That understand, you know, the struggle of an average person.

I doubt any of these people have ever had to live off of ramen. Alright? Like I have. K? Yeah.

They ever, struggled to, you know, keep a roof over their head. Worried that they may may not be able to feed their children. These are the issues we should be focusing on. Our terrible education standards in this state. I mean, we can't even get people to vote, you know, to to build new schools and things here.

And I'm not gonna get into the specifics of what they seem to be focused on, But it's a waste of time and money. These are things that they try to do over and over again and it gets escalated because it these things never go anywhere. They're just wasting tax dollars and pandering. It's all a show. It's all a show.

It's like how every election. Oh, they're gonna take her guns away. Yeah. I've heard that my entire life. My entire life.

And I used to sell guns. I sold guns. Alright. I'm one of those Yeah. You hear peaches call call me that phrase.

One of those libs. I guess I'm an Idaho lib. Yeah. I I'm fine with everybody having guns because it it's in the constitution. They're not gonna take our guns away.

K. They're not. But that's how they get people to vote for him and other fear mongering issues. Fix the problems around it. I I'm sorry.

I've been doing my best to avoid talking about politics since the election. But when I see our state reps just wasting time, when we've got serious problems in this state affecting average people, Focus on that. Get it together. Can we have some normal people run for office, please? Normal, rational human beings.

Alright. Anyway, it's out of my system now. My apologies to people who don't like hearing me ramble about this stuff, but this is just it's so stupid. It's relentlessly stupid, what I see happening. Fix or at least work on fixing real problems.

My goodness. Welcome to the Victor World Show Wednesday, January 15th. Good morning, and thank you as always for your company. Hey. Our phone lines are working again.

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Check out the pet of the week under features at eastidahonews.com. Let's see who the current pet of the week is. We've got Chico. Alright. Chico is what what kind of dog is Chico here?

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Let's begin with freaking news. Okay. First, we talked about this recently. Doesn't affect us here, but we got people listening all over. Not only the country, but the world if you're planning on heading into Manhattan.

They've got this new toll, and, it's working. They were aiming to reduce congestion and also raise a little bit of dough. Yeah. About 43,000 fewer cars a day rolling into Manhattan. And much as people are hating having to pay up to $9 to enter that area of the city, people are also like, well, this is kinda great.

Yeah. Less traffic, quieter streets. Traffic patterns are changing. This ain't too bad. I'm how long will it last, though?

In a right now, we're probably in the protest phase where people are like, fine. I ain't going. Give it a little bit. Give it a little it's winter. You know, the worst time to visit New York City.

What about when it gets nice out again? We'll see. We'll see. Anyway, I'm not trying to give, you know, people around here any ideas. Tolls on seventeenth Street or Hit Road or Sunnyside during certain times of the day.

I mean, I wouldn't pay it, but it would be nice to, you know, see some of our roadways, Yellowstone and Pokey, you know, maybe tone down a little bit. Be great. Since, you know, a lot of the citizens seem to think we don't need to do road construction. For road construction, trust me. I get irritated about road construction.

When the intersection of Woodruff and 17th was shut down for how long was that? Like, a year? I'm probably exaggerating, but it was a long time that I had to take an alternate route to work, and I complained about it on air all the time. But now it works a lot better. You know?

I mean, there are still others that, I just don't drive through because they're so annoying, but, you know, give it a little bit of time. Alright. Let's see. A Japanese coalition is selling the world's first toilet paper made from used diapers. Okay.

I'm sure there is a way for them to recycle diapers, clean the the icky out. I don't know, though. They're they're brightly colored packages. Environmentally friendly, they are recycling, but I don't know. Would you wanna tell your guests or have them know when they walk into your house like, that that's recycled diaper toilet paper.

Enjoy. It's just one of those things that I don't know. Maybe after you just kinda get used to it, it's just normal. You you forget or just block out of your mind. You know, wiping with used diapers.

The toilet paper is wiped. Okay? It looks clean. It's not you know, these brown rolls of paper. Anyway, maybe we'll see this come to America eventually.

I don't know. It just makes me laugh. Used diaper toilet paper. Okay. Finally, there was a boy in Michigan.

Drove about a 100 miles in a stolen SUV. This kid was 12 years old. 100 miles. He must be a gray driver. This was in the middle of the night.

You know, deputies were alerted that this vehicle had been stolen. They're looking for a red 2000 Chevy Blazer. Shouldn't be too hard to spot. Right? 100 miles.

100 miles. And then they they just pulled him over. He pulled over like a normal human being. Anyway, I guess yeah. You kids, you shouldn't be stealing vehicles, but, most of the time you see these stories, they, you know, they wreck or they're driving erratically.

Are the authorities gonna use this as a means of, trying to ban, you know, certain video games or something? Do we have games out there where obeying traffic laws, are a benefit? I mean, they sound like boring video games. Yeah. That's why grand theft auto is fun.

Just fly through the streets. See? It's these games that try to teach you how to be good on the road. Those are the problem. Gonna help these kids get away with the crimes.

Alright. Freak news every weekday morning, 7:45 AM ish right here on Kay Bear. It's going on, peaches. I I got an email saying that Google's deleting one of our emails. I just barely saw that email too, but I hadn't been able to open it up.

I would assume forward it to Jade and see what the problem is. Let's see here. Okay. Well, that's an email address I'm not even familiar with. So, yeah, just just forward it to Jade.

I'll do the same. Let's let's blow up his email. There you go, Jade. Fix it. Deal with this.

I just said here you go. Any other exciting emails coming your way, Peaches, or exciting information this morning? New country tracks. New country tracks. Kip Moore.

Kip Moore putting out some new music. Yeah. You had me sign you had me sign up for that play MPE's website, and then it was like, you're like, don't do metal. Do country, rock, and another genre. Now I'm getting, like, nonstop country updates of, like, oh, Cody Jinx dropped a new track called The Working Man.

I do have a, Kip Moore email myself. Well, they they didn't even have a metal option. They did. On play MP. Metal?

I told them, like, should I choose metal? And you're like, no. Go for country. That's exactly what you told me. Well, yeah.

Because you, you know, we're we're helping out with, finding music for other stations sometimes. So, I mean, no metal ever gets released on Play MP. I was thinking of the same thing. I I think I'm the better search for new metal tracks. Yeah.

Play MP is primarily country. Mhmm. You know? If you wanna find new metal tracks, you gotta, you know, get the emails direct from the dudes. You know?

You know what, guys? Definitely. Rob, Muncy. Shout out. Shout out to those guys hooking up the metal that radio won't play.

Nah. That's the only way to get new metal tracks or, you know, purchase them. Right. Go on iTunes and purchase them. Exactly.

That's right. Or, yeah. That's the I was just thinking, like, maybe your old if you already had them, you can just switch them over. Yeah. Yeah.

If you have a copy, you know, then then you could do it that way. Sure. Anyway, wish I could find some exciting new rock tracks. Looks like, Ozzy and Billy Morrison are putting out another new song later this week. I did see I did see that.

The follow-up to crack cocaine. Did you see my, my pick for you for the middle morning wake up call this morning? No. No. I I Did you just play it and not Mhmm.

Realize it? Yeah. I did. I had to put it in the new architects for you. Oh, I've actually been, working on trying to get a copy of that and didn't even know it was in our system, so I haven't heard it yet.

You played it on the air. Didn't you hear it? No. I was focused on other things when I got in, and, I I missed my break because I was distracted. So I jumped on after that and played some Lauren Ashore.

Oh, gotcha. Yeah. Now I guess I'll have to sneak in more songs to see if you're paying attention. Yeah. Sneaking like Cotton eyed Joe or something.

I'm still, you know, getting my full mental facilities back here apparently. But since I do wanna hear that song, I'm gonna play it after the break so I can check it out. There's, like, 2 breakdowns. There's a guitar solo. Sam's lows are incredible.

I saw people in the architect subreddit saying it was the best song since doomsday. I gotta say, like, Whiplash is my favorite so far. That's my now second favorite, Black Hole, and then 3rd would have to be seen, red, 4th curse. Right on. Now, Doomsday was one of the first ones I heard that I was like, wow.

This is a great song, and us and Octane, the only ones that played it. You gotta watch the music video too. It's pretty fun. Alright. I'll to check the video out for sure.

Is it just a live performance or does it have something else going on? No. It's a giant black hole. It sucks the whole band into the ocean. Yes.

Because those guys tend to do live performance videos, which, you know, those are fine, but they're just not very, like, exciting. Oh, no. This is high quality production right now. Alright. That's why I told you to do a reaction video to it.

Well, you know, shout out to those bands on Epitaph Records who are making lots of money. I'm not I would imagine that's helping bands like Architects to have a little bit more dough. Nobody's dethroning Electric Call Boy, though, when it comes to music videos. Not yet. And they got a new song coming out, what, the 24th?

24th, elevator operator. Elevator operator. I bet that's gonna be pretty good. About time we start seeing some new music. You know, I cannot believe Ozzy is still putting out new songs.

Do you think it's just AI Ozzy? Because we've heard AI Ozzy that sounds as real as it gets. That would be the biggest plot twist. You find out it's been it's been Sharon, like, planning AI Ozzie this entire time. He's like, you know what?

I'm still making the money. Let's do it. Like, because Ozzie, if you see any interviews with him from the last year, he's in really rough shape. Well, he's speaking better. He's off the drugs.

Yeah. A little bit, but he's still That podcast is hilarious. I I've I've tried to listen to it, but He seems like such a nice dude because his kids will bring up stuff to him, and and he'll like it, but then Sharon will be against it. Yeah. Like, Sharon is, not a nice lady.

No. You know? So she's kind of off putting to me. Ozzy seems pretty nice. His kids seem nice too.

But just some of the the horror stories over the years about how Sharon, you know, did awful things to other musicians and things like that. Even unnecessarily, like, with, Iron Maiden at Ozzfest. You know? She's just Oh, yeah. She can be a not nice lady.

Isn't his daughter married to a member of Slipknot? Yeah. She Paul? I think Sid Wilson. Sid Wilson.

Close enough. And then I saw recently Jack Osborne bought a ranch up in Northern Idaho. Oh. So, oh, good for him. Northern Idaho.

Oh, good for you. Northern Idaho. Yeah. It's it's such a weird place because it's really nice, but there are some people up there that are not very nice as well. I I I don't think I could could deal with with Northern Idaho.

It's a nice place to drive through and visit. Lake Coeur d'Alene, I mean, it's just beautiful. Yeah. My dad's least favorite brother lives up there. So His least favorite brother, Dachshund.

Goddamn peach. Yeah. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. He looks a lot like Meat Loaf.

But it's good to see Ozzy, you know, doing pretty decent. And, you know, as far as I know, I mean, Ozzy's never had, like, too horrible of things come out about him, has he? You know what? As time goes on, it really sucks how, you know, celebrities or musicians, whatever that you look up to, this bad stuff starts coming out about him. Like, an author I've really enjoyed over the years, Neil Gaiman.

Boy, man. There there was an article that came out about him a few months ago, and I I think it kind of flew under the radar. But this last one, I I couldn't even finish reading through it. Yeah. What a, allegedly horrible person.

You know? Sucks when you yeah. You like, what you just said, you idolize these celebrities. Like, I I love Shaq. Love John Cena.

I'm waiting for, unfortunately, that time where, like, we'll try canceling either of them or something. Yeah. Like, I think back in the day, Ozzy and Sharon had some, like like, bad fights that there were I I think Ozzy was not a good human being, but seems like they made it work and, I just did the t the Today in Music History Mhmm. Where it was Ozzy's legendary, you know, the bat gets thrown on the stage. He takes a bite out of it thinking it's fake.

It's not. Yeah. That that is a legendary story, but, man, it it is so disappointing. That's why I'm telling people, don't ever get a band tattoo. Don't get a tattoo from your favorite band because you never know Right.

Yeah. What might happen down the line. One of my childhood friends has the Metallica, the weird symbol on the shoulder, the Avenge Sevenfold death bat, the 3 11 You know, so far those bands are okay. So far. But what if What if, like, Avenge Sevenfold pulls what a Hock 2 what the Hock 2 girl did and, you know, does a pump and dump type scam.

There's much worse they could do. That's true. I know, but you could scam people out of tons of money. But even my most favorite bands of all time, I don't think I'd ever risk a tattoo because when I was young, I was a hardcore Marilyn Manson fan and, really liked some of the band's imagery. I mean, I thought it would make for cool tattoos, the little lightning bolt symbol.

So glad I didn't get one of those. So glad. And, I've I've given a shout out many a time to Stephen King for continuously being a good human being. Thank you. I mean, I I would have 100 or something of books that I would have to just get rid of.

That's a that's like half of my decorating scheme in my house is Stephen King books. So thank you, Stephen King, for not being a dirtbag, horrible human being like allegedly Neil Gaiman is. There's your, title for the podcast. I get yeah. We'll we'll see.

I've been, dumping, like, you know, you threw together the, chat g p t thing where you dump the script in the transcript, and it'll write up a silly little, you know, synopsis of the show. Yeah. So I've been doing that combined with the, time stamping, which, you know, it takes more time, but it has come up with some pretty funny, like, really hokey lines for the podcast description. So I think I'm gonna keep doing it that way. Yesterday, it decided that, what I had to say about Elon Musk having people, play video games for him to raise his ranking and That's right.

Diablo and stuff. Yeah. It chat g p t seemed to really enjoy that. That was my my favorite title so far that it came up with recently is the Fawns versus Fire Happy Days are on Hold. Alright.

Taking the thought out of it. We've only got so much time to get things done around here. So Yeah. Yeah. It's very helpful.

Well, let's see. I was reading a post about somebody who had an incident at Costco. Not here. K? Not here.

But I guess if you're ordering a hot dog, they make you take a number to wait in line? I don't have a Costco membership, so I'm only vaguely familiar with the operations at Costco when it comes to getting a hot dog or a piece of pizza. But I don't know if the you have to take a number here. But at least oh, no. They they weren't even talking about getting a hot dog.

Sorry. They used the word deli. And, you know, I'm an idiot, and I scan articles rather than reading start to finish. This isn't even an article. It's a post.

Man, I'm a moron. Thank you for listening to a program hosted by an idiot. Anyway, they were in line to get their contact lenses, and I guess you have to take a number in line. And their number was 66 6. Oh, no.

The person at the counter was very bothered by this. Not the person who was getting the contact. So, like, oh, that's kinda funny, and the guy's like, no. It's not. Can you pick a different number?

I don't want the bad luck that'll come with accepting that. People get really weird with numbers. You know how hotels don't have a 13th floor? Woo hoo. The 14th floor is the 13th floor, everybody.

So if you're on the 14th floor, I hate to break it to you, but you were on the 13th floor. You know, you can go ahead and put your head in the sand and, you know, pretend that reality doesn't exist. But I just find it funny when people get weird about numbers like that. When I worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Pocatello as a teenager, the address at the time for KFC was 666 Yellowstone. No.

No. We would get people calling us, do you guys deliver chicken? Alright. What? No.

This is KFC. This ain't Pizza Hut. Sorry. And they're like, well, I'm not stepping foot through those doors. Like, this is a part of a grid on the street, and that's just what the number is.

It's not it's not evil chicken. K? Colonel Sanders. He's got that hair to hide his horns. Didn't I read at one point that somebody, like, reexamine some old documents and it turned out that the true number of the beast was 616?

Let me look this up here. Number of the beast, 6 16. Alright. Let's see. There's a Wikipedia article about the number 616.

They say, while 666 is called the number of the beast in most manuscripts of revelations, in a fragment of the papyrus 115, it gives the number as 616. So, yeah, that was, Papyrus 115, the earliest known version of that part of the Book of Revelation discussing the number of the beast, giving it as 616. So at some point, they changed it to 666. So I tell you what. There's an entire area code in Michigan, 616.

6. That's the one you need to be worried about. Oh my goodness. It's 9:16 AM right now. How weird's that?

That's almost 616. And these are just numbers everybody. You can't let numbers freak you out. K? People get very scared of, strange things sometimes.

Again, it's just a number. Don't be an evil person and you should be okay. Alright? Just be a good human being. But, you know, without that number, we wouldn't have all those exorcist movies and fun stuff like that.

So I guess we have to have a scary number. Just find it, a little bit silly. A little bit silly that people would get, that worried about it that they would, I mean, why not just take the number out at Costco if you're worried about your cashier not wanting to give people their contact lenses when that number pops up? You know, like Peach has said at In N Out Burger, there are certain numbers, you know, that are kinda naughty numbers between 6870 that, you just can't get that number when you're at In N Out Burger. It's like, if there's any more appropriate place to be able to get that order number, it's In N Out Burger.

Get it? You know what I'm saying? Alright. I I know that was kind of mean of me to throw on, you know, some just straight noise industrial. Sometimes I don't know.

I get a little bit weird. So thank you. Thank you. Hope you enjoy. I'm just stoked.

I'm very excited for 9 inch nails to be coming back. I was talking with my daughter last night about 9 inch nails. You know, she's gotten to be a pretty big fan, But she's like, I don't know about going to a live show because I'm really only into the downward spiral. And I'm like, alright. You gotta expand.

You're listening. You gotta at least dig into the fragile. You know, I jump back and forth. One day, the fragile's my favorite. Next day, downward spiral.

But 9 Inch Nails has some, in my opinion, very underrated albums. Like hesitation marks. That is an excellent album. It's great. It's great.

Same with the year 0 fantastic album. Man, I'm just pumped. Just pumped for their return. So, anyhow, soon as we get some tour dates announced, I will let you know. Also, a happy birthday to Adam Jones, legendary guitarist of tool.

At least according to the Internet, it's his birthday today. And I would say my favorite guitarist of all time. I like his riffs. I don't know. Something about the notes he chooses to pick.

I dig it. Maybe it's because I, have a knack for figuring out how to play them too. They're not too hard. So easy rhythm playing. I I like that kind of stuff.

So I can feel like Look at me. I can play somebody else's riff. Really good at playing my own riffs but other people's riffs? Not so much. Alright.

Peaches. What's up? Hold on. I just tortured the listeners with some drony, sludgy, kinda repetitive 9 inch nails because I I don't know. I'm a jerk.

Yeah. I looked up at the, the the monitor in the Cannonball studio and went, what on earth is that? That's Victor on his deep cut type of, You said deep cut when I was in the hallway, and I was, like, let's play a really deep cut. That's what I was coming in here to ask you about, like, what what would qualify as a deep cut if I'm trying to find For me? Like, late nineties, early 2000s, like, alternative classics.

Emo included punk, indie maybe. See, to me, deep cut means almost no one has heard it. Like, deep cuts are the ones that only the fans are gonna know. Then maybe we should do it like forgotten tracks. That's what I'd probably do because it to me, a deep cut, that wouldn't have made that wouldn't have been played on the radio ever.

Yeah. Well yeah. Like, if we're talking, 9 inch nails deep cuts, there you go. Burning bright. Something that, many 9 inch nails fans may not have ever heard.

You know? Something like that from one of their, lesser popular albums and probably said that badly. But, Yeah. Like, for example, I don't know, if we were gonna play a deep cut from I don't know. Name a band.

Name a band that we're looking for a deep cut from. Oh, I mean, on the spot here. Yeah. Just pick a band. How about your favorite band TOOL?

TOOL. Do we need a deep cut from them? If we wanna go deep cuts from TOOL, I would say you needed to pull something from the Salival album, which was a, live slash cover song album, and you might be able to bust out something like Tool's cover of Led Zeppelin's no quarter or something like that or, Merkaba, you know, a song that most people have not heard. That's that's what I'd go for tool because that's an official release, not a bootleg or anything, but you can't, even get saliva on Spotify. It's not available.

So Interesting. Well Yeah. It's it if if you've got a copy of the saliva album, hang on to it because it's worth dough. I used to have it, and I don't know what happened to it. Somebody took it from me.

Somebody stole it from me. And it was worth some dough. I think I have the case for it, but that that's it. The actual album itself because it came in, like, a kinda big fancy box. It was it was really cute.

They really sucker their fans out of money, don't they? Now we're spending ammo. Thing that we did that we talked about. Remember that? No.

I really want one. Do they still have them for sale on the Tool website? I mean, Tool is the greediest band I know. Well, besides ice 9 kills. Ice 9 kills.

No. Tool Tool's worse. Tool's way worse. As far as, just taking every cent from fans that they possibly can. I mean, let's see.

They've got new arrivals in their store. Got the lateralis lateralis red nerve endings line zip hoodie. $90. For a hoodie. For a hoodie.

I mean, it is cool. Look at it. Look what it looks like on on the outside and inside. It's cool. That I don't know.

I I don't I don't know how I feel about that. I would wear it. I would wear it for you. Going on there. So here's what it looks like when you've got it zipped up, But if you open it, pretty sweet.

$90 for a tool hoodie. That's actually better than I expected. Here we go, peaches. You can go out snipe hunting wearing the lateralis camo. Oh, this is the woman's full zip put it.

So for you ladies that enjoy hunting and tool, you can wear tool camo. Yeah. I heard something about, like, Cupid Con was getting in trouble for something they did. They had they had a camo merch line come out recently, and I forgot. Our mutual friend, Andy Matter, was talking about it on stream.

I meant to look it up. Yeah. Why why would camo make somebody mad? I mean, that's what the military wears. Camo They're accusing people of stolen valor when they're wearing the Kubla Con merch.

Anybody can wear, you know, camo. Let's see. Here's an article about him collaborating on a digital camo, long sleeve button up. I don't see any anger. Well, that's good.

I mean, I've seen Kubla Khan, you know, have some political controversy, but that's about it. You know, I I don't know what the deal with the, camo is. How about some TOOL camo shorts? $55. Oh, what is that?

Is that a towel? This is a yoga mat. $80. $80 TOOL yoga mat. Yeah.

They have everything. They have everything. Here's another. The 10000 days TOOL yoga mat, $80. Where is they there's no way they sold out of those stupid skulls.

Right? They probably just stopped selling them. Let's see here. Let's go through all the accessories. I mean, okay.

Here's a a beer glass, regular old beer glass, $25. Alright. I I used to get beer glasses for free when I ran the, tobacco shop. You know, we sold beer. They bring us beer glasses.

There it is. Okay. So here's an unsigned this is the smaller fetus skull available for $500, still available for purchase. But I want the big one, the big full size one. Oh, you're right.

They do have everything. They have a throw pillow? Throw pillow. You know? And it depends.

I guess they must have multiple sizes anywhere from 30 to $70. But it's like, who's gonna want that on their couch? You know, there's gonna be, like, that one dude in the relationship that wants the tool throw pillow on the couch. The girls are like, no. Get rid of this.

They are sold out of the big life-sized sculpture skull. Look. They had a tool enema blue man apron. It's an apron. Can you imagine showing up to the gym and you have the tool gym bag?

There is a gym bag. I see it. Yeah. It's sold out too. Right.

It was that popular. Who's who's showing up to the gym with a tool gym bag? Some tool? Is some tool? Yeah.

Some tool is the one who would jump with a tool gym bag. I paid $300 for this. Oh, the tool frames rocks glass set. So if you wanna drink your whiskey, but really classy, 4 glasses, $100. I I love TOOL.

Happy birthday, Adam Jones. But, man, look at for little Lucy, a 10000 days padded pet harness. And you've got the pet leash. So the harness is $35 and you can get this is literally, just a leash that says 2 on it. $20.

It's like a so absurd. $55 to deck Lucy out in something that, she's just gonna fall over when you put it on her and lay there like You you gotta interview one of the members of Tool and just ask, like, who's coming up with these merch ideas? It's gotta be all of them. It's gotta be Maynard for the most part. Right?

Like, what items have we not released? I mean, they got beanies, hats. They got dog tags, socks. They've got look at the wrench cassette USB drive. Hey.

It's on sale. $10. That's actually kind of a cool item. That's the cheapest tool merch I've ever seen. Is is that a USB, like what what what what is it?

Yeah. It's like it looks like a cassette, but you flip it out, and it's got the USB there. You know? And it's got 64 gigs of capacity, which is not very much. $10 though.

$10. You can buy 2 of them and just walk around with the dual cassette. Yeah, dude. I mean, you'd be very hip. Imagine, like, getting let go on radio and you have to take all your stuff on the tool, the USB drive.

So before I go, been looking through this article that's just popping up everywhere, and it's titled TikTok is a crappy music delivery platform or music discovery platform, and we can stop pretending otherwise. Sorry. I was censoring the title. They used a different word than crappy, and then, you know, I was looking at that. It screwed me up.

Anyway, a crappy music discovery platform, and we can stop pretending otherwise. Why a ban won't be so bad for the music industry? Alright. As someone who recently started scrolling TikTok after Josh from Classy showed me it's a great place to find enter entertaining content, I do think the best content, video wise being creative, that I've seen is on TikTok. I've never found new music on TikTok.

Alright. Maybe people have, but, like, my TikTok feed is pretty much, you know, half pretty funny videos and then half somebody trying to sell me some crap. Like, Timu style, like, junk. Is that what TikTok's like for everybody else? I don't know.

But it's a lot of garbage. A lot of products being sold. Like, I saw a video pop up the other day reviewing the TikTok guitar. And this, you know, guitar influencer is raving about this $100 guitar that comes with a mini amplifier. I think it had, like, extra strings, a strap.

It had, like, everything. And okay. You can find yourself a decent guitar for a few $100, and you could find a guitar that might be good to put up as a decoration for a $100. It's not gonna play good. And it he's like, we're testing it out.

And at the end of the video, it just ended. There was no actual playing on the guitar, but you could buy a guitar for a $100. And I need to let Jade know about this because okay. Those are the kind of guitars we need to take to get signed by bands and things like that because that's how you make a guitar like that worth something. You make it useful in some way.

You get a band to sign it, you hang it on the wall so it looks cool. You know? Like, hey. Check it out. Like, this was signed by so and so.

Anyway, this happens with all websites. Alright. Young people who are worried about, TikTok disappearing. The more I've thought about this, I don't think it's a big deal if it does get banned. Like, there's just gonna be something else that pops up because I I'm pretty sure TikTok used to be better.

I don't think it used to be a storefront. When I first used it, I don't remember being pummeled with a bunch of garbage products. And maybe there's some good ones. Maybe there are some good ones. But wasn't it back in the day just a lip syncing platform?

It was called something else and then, like, it turned into TikTok Musically. Is that right? My kids used to use it. And I was like, people are watching lip syncing videos. What why?

And I'm old. You know? I'm outside of the demographic. K? Not the target audience.

So, anyway, there used to be a website called Myspace. You may have heard of it. It was great. I thought it was a fantastic social media platform. Lots of fun features.

You could design your page. You could force people to listen to whatever music you liked by putting a profile song. It was great, and then they ruined it. You know, they they just straight up ruined it. Hey.

We need to make more money. Let's go ahead and, pummel your home page with ads. Let's, make it more inefficient, and then it just failed and everybody moved to Facebook, another platform that has become garbage. It just happens with all of them. They have a term for it that I wish I could say on air.

We'll call it encrappification. And, again, they used a different word. Yay. You burn through capital to build an audience. The whole time bending over backward to keep the experience great.

Then after you get a formidable market share, you cut costs, make the product worse, and rake in the dough. That's the name of the game when it comes to these social platforms. And and websites in general. Back in the day, there was a great website called Digg, d I g g. It was basically Reddit.

It was it operated the same exact way. I thought it was fantastic. Then they just dumped the entire platform the way it worked and, like, turned it into, if I recall correct, just kind of a normal news website. And And it's like, you guys had a good thing going. Guess where everybody went?

Reddit, which was the, at the time, crappier version of Digg, at least in my own humble opinion. I liked Digg. Reddit, I'm sure, is much worse now than it used to be. So if you're worried about TikTok, I'm sure there's a follow-up platform that's waiting. And since I'm always behind the times on everything, like, I knew about YouTube when it was new.

Did I do anything to build a following on there and, you know, create videos and content and could have maybe made something like a lot of these people who started using it when it was new. No. No. I didn't. I just sat there and scrolled dig or Myspace.

I don't know. But, yeah, if there's a a brand new super popular platform that drops, that would give someone like me the opportunity to dive in from the ground floor. So sure. Get alright. I like I said, like TikTok as far as the content goes.

I think that, you know, I don't like my data potentially being at risk. You know, there are some things they need to fix. But, you know, reading through this article, I think they banned tick tock and like India and guess what happened? Yeah, pretty much nothing people just started using something else and I don't see a lot of new music on tick tock so I don't I don't think tick tock's the go to place for people to find music anymore. And it's where people go to find a $100 guitar with an amp or, you know, hey.

Did you see this brand new cat toy? Check it out. Yeah. We know you like cats because that's all you post about. Look at this new cat toy.

It's great. Haven't got on TikTok in a few days. I bet they've got, all kinds of videos on tracking devices for your pets ready to go for me. So anyway yeah. Go ahead and ban it.

I don't care. Because I've seen so many websites come and go. I remember one from back way back in the day. What was it called? Was it Arcadium?

That sounds right. Let me see. Arcadium website. This was like a social media platform. Wow.

I oh, here's an article. What happened to the Arcadium website, and will it be back? That was 4 years ago. I'm pretty sure this has been gone for, like, a long time. We're talking sometime in the nineties.

But I remember it, and I assume that, you know, they ruined it somehow, and everybody stopped using it. Alright. I'm gonna get out of here, everybody. I'll see you at noon for the noon hour of madness and mayhem powered by Jalisco's, hanging out with peaches, and, appreciate you tuning in today and every day. I hope you have a a great time with whatever you've got going on on this Wednesday.

And I hope that the work week, whatever that is for you, goes by quickly and you have some relaxation coming your way. Alright. I'm gonna get out of here. See you in a few. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Welt show.

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