The Viktor Wilt Show

Yo. It's the Viktor Wilt show, last day of July. How's it going? I hope pretty good. Hope it's going amazing.

Alright. Now I know I've talked a lot about Gojira recently but I just love they're getting all this attention. My social media feed just packed to the brim with Gojira and they just deserve it so much. All of this attention they're getting. I mean, he heard that track we started the show with.

They are so good. So good. I don't know. It's it's just awesome. Anyway Hello again, and welcome to the program today.

Hopefully, we've got a good show ahead. Hopefully, no aggravations coming your way or my way today. Let's talk about my aggravation yesterday afternoon. I got home. I was going to whip up some food and I was going to kick back and hang out with my lady and watch the x files.

A nice simple relaxing afternoon. So prior to sitting down and watching some x files and relaxing, I decided to let the cats go outside because they like to go outside. You know? And I was doing some dishes and things. You know?

You got Koopa, the big kitty, keeping an eye on the little one. I pop out every few minutes going, oh, what are you guys doing? She's being good. So got, a few chores wrapped up, and then I went outside and was like, alright, kitten. Time to come in the house.

Time to come in because I can't keep an eye on you. Wanna make sure you don't get up to anything you shouldn't. Like, climb the fence and get into the neighbor's yard or something. I go out to pick her up, and she gets, you know, the zoomies, runs over to the tree, jumps up on the side of it. I'm like, oh, look at the kittens on the tree.

I get my phone out. I'm filming. Like, get down from there. What are you doing? Get down from that tree.

So she goes up the tree aways to about the level I've seen my other cats go. Yeah. These are big trees. And cats, they'll they'll go up a tree a little ways. So I'm like, uh-huh.

Look at come on. Come down. Filming her. Then she starts going up further and I oh, jeez. So I shut the camera off and I'm trying to get her to come down, and she just keeps going higher and higher and higher.

She's only been outside a handful of times. Alright? If it was my big cat, you know, he's he's like 10 or something. I wouldn't have worried about it, but she doesn't have the skills. She's a baby.

She doesn't know how to climb backward down a tree. She got way up there, and, I mean, the branch she went up, there weren't many other little branches coming off of it. It was like a pretty much straight vertical thing. She went so high up in this tree and then she started freaking out. Just well, I don't know if I'd say freaking out but she's and I get the ladder out.

I've got a 16 foot ladder. K. I climb up the ladder, get as high up as I can safely go on said ladder, and I'm still maybe halfway to where she's at. Maybe. And I'm trying to get her to come to me.

I'm like, come on. And she'd, you know, start trying to sorta come down the branch, and she just wouldn't wouldn't go. She was she didn't get it because cats can't climb face down. They have to climb backward to get down. And I know that, you know, cats, they're they're pretty, tough.

You hear these stories of cats falling out of a tree or something falling at considerable distance and being fine but I was still horrified, you know, because the Internet, you get on there and it's like, well, sometimes cats stay in trees for many days. Don't worry about this. She'll come down. If she was, like, full grown, sure. She might get scooped up by, like, a hawk or something.

I've seen hawks in my neighborhood before. I'm not just gonna leave a kitten up in the I mean, she was in the top of the tree. Alright. Maybe not quite the top, but pretty close. Much closer to the top than the bottom.

So I couldn't just leave her out there so I'm hanging out outside and and I'm googling. What do what do you do if a kitten's stuck in a tree? And it's like, k. You know, you can wait patiently, see if they come down. You know?

Or if the cat is distressed, you know, you you should probably call somebody. And it's like, don't call the fire department. Call tree person. So I hit up 1 tree person. They're like, call the fire department.

So I called the fire department. They're closed. I mean, I would assume if it it's an emergency. 911 dispatches him, but I can't call 911. Help.

My kitten's in the tree. 911 help me. So I started calling like every tree person I could find on Google And I finally found a guy who would come over and, he's like, yeah. I've I've gotten many cats out of trees. So he comes over and, straps on, you know, his climbing gear, gets a backpack, straps it to his chest, and climbs up the tree.

Boom. Gets the kitten down. The end. And he he did it in, like, no time at all. And after she'd been up there just crying for hours, crying for hours.

So gotta give a shout out to Sorry. I'm waking up here. I believe it was Bacon's Tree Service. Yeah. Bacon's Tree Service.

The only tree person who could come out and get my cat out of the tree last night. And right after he got her out of the tree, it started, like, dumping rain and lightning and thunder for a few minutes. So I I would have been horrified if that was going on while she was in the tree. So thank you to Bacon's Tree Service for saving the day. It's very much appreciated.

And I I'm already planning on getting her fixed this week, which is gonna cost me a bunch of money. Then I gotta pay, you know, the the tree guy to get her out of the tree. Again, I I didn't mind. It was better than leaving her in the tree. I was willing to pay.

This is what you gotta deal with with pets sometimes. You gotta pay. But, oh, bad kitty. And then right before bed, I go to let Koopa in, and she Lucy, she just runs out the door. Zip.

Boom. If she would have ran up that tree a second time, that then I would have left her. I'm not calling the guy. I know you were here an hour ago. Can you come back out and get my cat out of the tree again?

That'd be so embarrassing. It was already embarrassing enough to call somebody to get the cat out of the tree, but I didn't know what to do. Again, not we got wild animals around here, big birds. I'm not gonna leave the kitten in the tree for days. Just can't happen.

So that was my evening. Hope yours was less stressful, and you you got to relax a bit because by the time that was done, it was like, oh, okay. Quickly eat something. Go to bed. Well, today's a new day.

It's a new day. Alright. I know some of you guys get mad when I talk about guys being dumb, but guys be dumb. They really do. I'm one of you.

I can be dumb, but some of you, man, really dumb sometimes. I was reading through all these stories online under a thread. What's the dumbest thing you've heard a single person say slash do that made you think, that's why they're single. And you just go What a moron why? Because this dude be dumb, I guess, is the only answer.

Are they watching the wrong influencers on YouTube? I've talked about that plenty of times before. You know, if you're watching these manly alpha influencers, you are not gonna get yourself a lady if if that's who you're looking toward for inspiration on how to how to be a dude. Alright? If you need advice, I I might be able to give you a little bit.

But the first tip, Don't go to alpha dudes for inspiration on how to run your life or you are never going to find yourself a quality lady. Alright? So let's read through some of these. They're really funny. Alright.

I was at a party where a man had been invited specifically to meet a woman who would be there. It was a setup, In other words, he asked her to play pool, a very innocent and pleasant way to get to know someone. Right? Yeah. You're playing pool.

It's a game. You can talk to someone while you play. You're looking at each other. Well, he immediately started to dominate the game, and he held nothing back, including taunting her when she made bad shots and just criticizing everything she did in general. Of course, he won and rubbed it in her face like he was a 12 year old.

Think, you know, in your face, loser. What an idiot. I mean, this would have been both funny and horrifying to watch happen as an outsider, but what is he thinking? Did he just not like her right out of the gate and was like, alright. I'm gonna blow this thing up.

And, these people were in their thirties. It was straight out of a sitcom or something. Everyone who saw it knew why he was and would remain sinkhole. Now I'm not saying, you know, just let somebody win a game or something. But, you know, if you're, like, really skilled at a game like pool, you can hold back a little bit if you're just trying to get to know somebody.

Okay? You don't need to take everything so seriously. It's just a game. Alright. Let's see.

What else do we have here? Friend of mine struggles with anxiety and just generally doesn't handle social situations well, so struggled with women for many years. Finally, got talking to a girl on a dating app and asked her out. He was taking her to lunch for the afternoon and asked if my wife and I would meet them afterward for drinks. When we met them for drinks, it turns out they grabbed McDonald's and drove around town to places from Craigslist.

So he could buy magic, the gathering cards. He wore sweat pants and flip flops. It was winter and snowy. He spent most of the time angrily ranting about how an upcoming minimum wage increase was going to kill the economy and close businesses, and he makes minimum wage. He never saw her again.

Yeah. Dudes, I I get comfort sweatpants. They're they're comfortable. But everything about this I mean, you gotta have the right lady if your activities for a first date are, you know, hit McDonald's, then drive all over the place buying magic the gathering cards from people on Craigslist while you're rocking the sweatpants and flip flops in the wintertime. Alright?

You're you're you're gonna seem like a weirdo unless you find the just that perfect someone who that's they show up wearing the same clothes by some freak just, you know, crazy alignment of of all of the, universes. And, yeah, it's probably not going to happen. Let's see here. Again, you you think back there, like, or was this guy trying to just blow this situation up Or is is he just a moron? I've met a lot of stupid guys.

K. So I'm guessing he might just be a moron. This thread's pretty out of control here that I'm reading on Reddit right now. Continuing on with what's the dumbest thing you've heard a single person say or do that made you think, ah, that's why they're single. You know, it's good to get the red flags just right up front.

You know, first date, get it out of the way, then you know, like, oh, okay. This person's person's weird. This person's a crazy person. They gotta go. Rather than finding out way down the line.

Oh, man. Yeah. Some of these guys, you just go, okay. Wow. Like, this one here, the person says friend dated a guy who took her cat to the shelter as a stray.

I shouldn't laugh. It's horrible. Like, you know, luckily, the cat was chipped, so the shelter called her to pick it up. She couldn't figure out how the cat got out, and the boyfriend's like, well, I don't know. I have no idea how a cat got outside.

Then it happened a second time. So she had the cameras checked for the person dropping the cat off at the shelter, and it was the boyfriend. Jeez. I'm sorry. You gotta be a real piece of crap to take your boyfriend or girlfriend's pet to the animal shelter.

Oh, I mean, thankfully it was chipped. That's so sad. So so terrifying. Jeez. There was another thread I saw.

It wasn't in this particular one, but it was another post where somebody it was in the cats subreddit. Of course, I follow the cats subreddit. I mean, come on now. This is me. We're talking about, some girl posted, am I overreacting by wanting to break up with my boyfriend?

Because he never felt sorry after stepping on my kitten's tail. And she's got pictures of the little kitten. It's a cute little kitten. And it's like, well, okay. I've stepped on a cat's tail many times.

If you have cats, you're going to step on their tail because they end up under your feet. And I always go, oh, sorry, kid. I'm sorry. You know, I hopefully, they know you're trying to make up for it. Who knows how their brains work?

But you still the natural instinct to me is go, oh, sorry. So you know, like, if you I don't know. You bump into somebody's dog. You know, you happen to hit it with the door or something because it's hiding behind it or, you know, you oh, jeez. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I would say it's a major red flag if somebody stepped on a cat's tail and had no reaction. It was like, what? I would say you should dump that person. I think that's a sign of, like, a serial killer or something.

For real. I'm not joking here. If somebody stepped on one of my cat's tails and just acted like nothing happened, Like, get out of my house. What's wrong with you? You git.

You git. Oh, jeez. Let's see. What else do we have here in this thread about dumbest things you've heard a single person say or do. What I think we've talked about this kind of situation before.

Somebody brought their mom on their first date and asked her to order food for both of them. Don't bring your mom on your first date. Like, you you need to bring your significant other to meet your parents down the line in a different situation. So not the first date. K?

How stupid are you? That's weird. Alright. That's it's very strange. I I would be very, like, creeped out if I showed up.

I can't imagine, like, going on, I don't know, a normal, like, hey. Let's go meet up. I'm gonna go on a date. I don't know. I'm so lucky that things in my life worked out the way they did where just that perfect someone just happened to again, the alignment of the cosmos.

I don't know how this worked out. So weird. Alright. Anyway. Guys, maybe take a look at this thread.

Alright. If you're if you're out there, dudes, you're struggling picking up the ladies, go to ask Reddit and look at what's the dumbest thing you've heard a single person say or do and just start reading. K? You might get a little bit of insight that'll help you down the road in establishing a solid relationship. K?

If you look at any of these things and go, well, that sounds like something I would do. Correct that. K. Also, you you could think about potentially getting into, some counseling or therapy and get some good advice there as well. Well, here's a list for me.

The 21 weirdest items sold on Amazon that you'll still want. Alright. They better be really weird because I like weird stuff for the most part. Weird people? I don't know.

Okay. Weird things like an egg lamp. Yeah. I could go for this. Okay.

This is a lamp that's shaped like a chicken, and, it looks like it's about to pop an egg out, but that's the light bulb. You you can pretty much envision this in your head. It's pretty funny. Pretty funny. Alright.

Useless things you'll want. Hand or pants. These are like fingerless gloves that look like, tighty whities and you put them on your your hands. A Cooterman's hander pants. 100 of uses stylish for any occasion.

I mean k. This is a weird item, but I don't think I'd want it. I don't know. I it is so stupid. It's funny.

Google it up. You wanna see what I'm talking about? A hand or pants? So far, the egg lamp is the only thing that I'm like, yeah. Okay.

I could go for the the chicken, you know, pushing out a a light bulb lamp. Alright. Emotional support fries. This is just stuffed animal that's French fries. Yeah.

Not too excited about emotional support fries, but I'm not a stuffed animal guy either. So alright. I mean and I don't I don't think it's that weird. It it's kinda weird. The French fries have faces.

Alright? Instant underpants just add water. I think this is like I don't know. You you ever seen those little compressed washcloths? My kids used to like these when they're, you know, little.

You buy a compressed washcloth and you, like, put it in water and it expands and all of a sudden you've got, you know, this washcloth with I don't know Dora on it or something. I believe that's the case here. It's just a a compressed underwear. Alright. It's a funny gag gift, but not a must have.

So far, we're striking out. Alright? Weird items on Amazon that you'll still want. No. I don't need the instant underpants.

Alright? Alright. This is a squirrel finger puppet set. This would horrify my cats, so I think I do want this. You've got they're they're little things you put on your fingers.

One of them is a squirrel's head, and then you've got 4 squirrel arms for your other fingers. And it makes your hand look like a squirrel monster. How much is this? $6? K.

I I am going I shouldn't spend any money because my cat cost me a bunch of money yesterday to get it out of a tree as noted in the first break of the show today. If you missed the first break of the show, you're gonna have to go back and listen on demand to find out why my cat, my little kitten, cost me a bunch of money last night. $6 though. That that's that's a pretty good deal. Gear shift hoodie cover.

That would look kinda cool on my truck but it's not a must have. It's a little tiny hoodie that you put over your gear shift. Alright. If you know me, you know I like a hoodie for sure. But, I I don't need the new decoration for inside my truck.

I'd rather get an actual hoodie for myself. Alright. We've got the people of Walmart adult coloring book. You know, it it alright. It's fun, but not a must have for me.

Sunny the blobfish. It's just a weird looking thing. I don't know how to describe it. It's kinda creepy looking. I'd put that on the maybe list for me because of how strange it is.

Alright. I'm gonna maybe I'll put that in my save for later on Amazon. Sunny the blobfish. You should look that up. What else we got?

Lobster slippers. Not a must have. Pickle flavored toothpaste? No, thanks. Okay.

Now we're back to the chicken egg nightlight. So it's not full size chicken? Alright. $20. I don't I don't think it's a must have.

I'd rather have the squirrel finger puppets. It's only got a 4 star rating too. Looks looks kinda kinda cruddy. Yeah. I'm gonna go with, no on the chicken night light.

I thought it was a full size chicken that you put a regular light bulb in. That would have been pretty awesome to me. It's a small chicken. I mean, it's it's okay. Anything else here?

A mini wacky wavy inflatable arm flailing tube man. $30? You can get out of here. Get out of here with that. Yeah.

The this list, as is typical of Internet lists, not very good. Not very good. I've stopped even, telling you about the descriptions of some of these things here because as I scroll through them, I discovered that, less and less of them are weird items that I would still want. Yeah. Emergency goat noisemaker.

It's just a little thing you push the button and it makes goat sounds. $11, I mean, the price is decent. Not a must have. Not a must have, though. Breaking down another list on the Victor Will show.

That's right. List action coming your way. The 5 best video games of all time according to gamers. Oh, yeah? Really?

Alright. Supposedly, this website consulted 10 expert gaming and entertainment review websites to compile all of the results and bring the top 5 video games of all time your way as far as reviews from actual gamers go. We shall see what I think about this list. Alright. Coming in at number 5.

It's definitely one of the best video games of all time. Red Dead Redemption 2. You know I'm a fan of that. Certainly deserves to be on a list of the best video games of all time. In my opinion, it's the best video game of all time, as far as I'm concerned.

Now there are games that are really close to as good as Red Dead 2, but it's, for whatever reason, my favorite. I just love it. It's so good. Alright. Coming in at number 4, what do we got?

It's a great video game. Would I put it in my list of the top 5 video games of all time? I don't know. But it is a great video game, Super Mario 64. I mean, you also have to have been around when it came out.

It was revolutionary. Nobody had ever seen anything like this. I remember the first time I saw Mario 64 at Fred Meyer in Pocatello on one of those, you know, things they used to have where you could actually try video games live in the store. And I played a little bit of it and was like, oh my gosh. The future is now.

And I think it's fair to put Mario 64 on a list of the best video games of all time because it was such a game changer. What do we got at number 3? Okay. Ocarina of time. Not I figured that one would be on the list.

It's very, very highly revered, and it was a game changer in the world of Zelda and that type of game. I remember the first time you walk out into Hyrule field, you're like, oh my gosh. It's huge. And now it's you know, I've gone back and played it recently, and I think Mario 64 stands up over time better than Ocarina of time. I really think it does.

I I don't know. It's not a bad game by any means. But after playing breath of the wild, breath of the wild is way better than Ocarina of it's like it there's no comparison. Breath of the wild is a masterpiece. So I I don't know.

I mean, again, Ocarina of Time game changer at the time it came out, but what do we got at number 2? Tetris. It's legendary. It's legendary. It's an aggravating game for me.

I make bad decisions. It's a game I've never been very good at. I talked about going to the Nintendo championships in 1990 as an 8 year old and just bombing on Tetris. I did fine on Mario Bros. Bombed on Tetris.

And then Rad Racer, I'd never played that game. And so I certainly bombed on that. But Tetris I mean, that's super legendary. Would I put it on the best video games of all time? I mean, for me, personally, I I'm not good at it.

Like, I have Tetris in VR. I like the game. It's very satisfying when I'm doing well, but I'm so so dumb sometimes with the decisions I make in Tetris that for me personally, it wouldn't end up on the best video games of all time, but I could see why. You know, it it's tetra would I put it ahead of Red Dead or Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time? No.

No. No way. But I I put in a lot of hours on the classic Game Boy on Tetris. What's number 1? Oh, number 1, breath of the wild.

Okay. I think that like I said, that game definitely deserves to be on the list of the best video games of all time. It's certainly I I'm not super far into the latest Zelda game. I kind of fell off of the the gaming train for some reason. I'm hoping to get back to it.

What is the name of the newest Zelda game? Shout out to captain Zach who gave me a copy of it. Very nice of him. Very nice. I need to get back into playing it.

And it's on it's on par with breath of the wild, but there's something about breath of the wild that I it's one of those games you wish you could experience again for the first time. It's so good. It's a masterpiece. Any games now I'm surprised that grand theft auto 5 isn't on this list of the best video games of all time. I would put grand theft auto 5 ahead of ocarina of time and probably ahead of Mario 64 as well.

That's really the only game that comes to mind that I'm really surprised isn't on this top five list of the best video games of all time. But it I'm amazed. It's a pretty solid list as far as my gaming taste goes. And I know we've asked the question enough times online, what is the best video game of all time? But maybe I'll go ask it again in the Facebook group and see what kind of responses we get out of people.

Alright. Well, I need to play some video games. I really need to. I did play some video games with my kids over the weekend. Oh, jeez.

I was playing some PC games with them. I don't remember Oh, we were playing this game called roblox which I'd never played before. I've heard of it. And we played some kind of a fashion show thing where you dress your character up and then people vote. There there'll be, like, a theme, like, okay, darkness, and you dress your character up and you try to win the fashion show.

This is what I did with myself on the weekend. It was actually pretty fun, but I don't know. It was it was silly. Alright, fellow olds. I was looking at a list of unforgettable solo trips for people over 50.

Like, what how is there a trip specifically for people over 50? I think you should be able to enjoy a relaxing vacation at any age, but also why you gotta fly solo. What are these trips that you're gonna go do by yourself once you reach the the age 50? Let's find out. Embarking on a cruise down the Ganges River.

This article says that visiting the Ganges River is a rite of passage for any traveler. It's not exactly stress free to travel in India as a solo traveler, but, hey, dude. Don't worry about it. You just book a cruise like the Uniworld Golden Triangle Wellness cruise. That that does sound like an old person cruise, doesn't it?

I don't know. Oh, you know, you could take the, India's Golden Triangle and the Sacred Ganges cruise starting. Yeah. The cheapest package, $7,900. I guess you do have to have that boomer money to be able to take that cruise.

Jeez. I guess I'm back to, driving to Vegas. Yeah. Scratch that one off my list till I win the lottery. Alright.

What else do we got here? Ride a train through the Canadian Rockies. Okay. I have taken a look at train journeys before. I don't know why the thought of this appeals to me in some way.

But for some reason, there's something maybe it's because I've never been on a train ride. It'd probably be like if you've never flown, you'd be like, wow. Flying on an airplane would be so cute. And then you do it once and you're like, oh, what an aggravation. So uncomfortable.

And a train ride takes a long time. I mean, these these train journeys, it's like days days. You stop in little towns and sleep in hotels and stuff, so that's great, but I don't it does seem like you could kick back on a train and just read a book and relax. I don't know. It sounds relaxing to me.

There are some pretty cool train rides you can take as well through some really cool areas. They have these trains that they'll have, like, glass encased cars so you can just see all around you, and you're on these, train tracks that go through areas where there are no roads or anything. You're, like, going through the mountains and stuff. Okay. Let's see what the rocky mountaineer costs.

I bet it's not cheap. This is, again, gonna have to be one of these boomer vacations. Alright. Let's say we wanna wanna travel in 2024, and we'll go United States, and let's do 4 to 6 nights. That's, okay.

We'll go the cheapest one. 1 to 3 nights. Oh, that's rail only. So this is just to be on the train. No hotel.

And you can go to Moab, Denver, Grand Junction, Vegas, or Salt Lake. I guess we'll go Moab because I don't know. It seemed like the the environment around it would be cooler. Alright. Apply.

Show me. Show me the money. How much it gonna cost to put me on a 2 day Denver to Moab train? Jeez. Minimum.

Minimum of $1700. That's just to sit on the train for 2 days. Alright. No hotel. Does it include food?

Anything? Oh, no. It doesn't say anything about food. That's just to sit on the train because it says price for gas, 1700 to 23100. So maybe if you want food, you throw in another, you know, $500 and they'll give you a sandwich.

Jeez. Oh, yeah. Optional add ons. No. Okay.

It does include 2 breakfasts and one lunch. That's it? I don't know. A train ride probably out for me. Not gonna be able to afford a train ride.

Need that boomer money. What other what other vacations are they recommending for solo old travelers? Go to Croatia. Experience Makupichu. That that that'd be cool.

I would like to go there. Explore the best of Egypt by boat. Cruise the Nile. I really wanna visit Egypt but it's it's not safe. No.

It's not good. It's one of the places I've wanted to visit most, but it just sounds like a bit of a nightmare. Yeah. Okay. Here's the Victor Wilt vacation.

Go catspotting in Istanbul. Yeah. Apparently, there's just cats everywhere. Alright. They've got a picture of 2 cats all snuggled up by the ocean.

How nice. Alright. Yeah. I don't know. I think it'd be funner to travel with somebody than just traveling solo at 50 And I hope at 50.

I'm I am traveling but, yeah, not alone. It sounds sad. To each their own, though. You know? I mean, if you are alone, might as well travel for sure.

Get out of town. Better than sitting around the house watching YouTube. Trying to get the cat to get out of the tree. K Bear. How's it going?

Oh, it's going. If you wanna do some cool little, like, short line railroad trips, the Durango Silverton Railway out of Durango, Colorado has got a nice little ride. You ride up through the canyon past purgatory, and then they bring you back on a bus, or you can pay for the round trip ticket. It's only a day adventure. And then there's the Cumbres and Toltec, which is out of Antonito, Colorado down into New Mexico where you go back and forth through there, and that's an old steam engine trip as well that's a lot of fun.

Alright. You're actually the second person who called me about the, Durango train, but the other one, I hadn't heard of, well and I hadn't heard of the Durango one either, but the, the price on the Durango one looked pretty good. I've got this, Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad website up as well, and I'm gonna bookmark that because these both, look pretty cool and the the price is right. Yeah. And if you when you catch the Coomberson Poltek, if you catch it out of Antonito, Colorado, you can stay in, Pago I think it's, no, it's not Pagosa.

What's the credit is it? I can't remember what city it is. You can stay there, but there's a little town in between there called Manassa. And if you follow boxing, there was a guy known as the Manassa Mahler, Jack Dempsey. That's where he's from.

Woah. It's a little itty bitty town, and one of my friends who lives there, her mom runs the museum dedicated to him. Oh, nice. Right on, man. Well, I have to, note that if I'm able to take this trip sometime.

I'll I'll have to stop and check out the museum for sure. It's Pagosa Springs, you stop there. They've got, hot springs there that are really great. A lot of people love them. There's different elements in the water unlike lava, so it it affects your body a little differently.

It's just a great trip all the way across there. And then Wolf Creek Pass, you just take your time going over it. It is gorgeous. Way cooler. Is.

Way cooler. And it's just, you know I mean, yeah, you're driving, but don't be in a hurry. Just take your time and you get there, and and you just enjoy the view because it's just gorgeous all through there. Way cool. Just gorgeous views.

Well, heck yeah. So Really appreciate the recommendations. I'm gonna note these things because, yeah, a a train ride through the mountains, it does sound like something that would be really neat. So Yeah. And then, you know, you can take the Coomberson Toltec down and take the the Enchanted Circle tour in New Mexico, which takes you to Talos, Angel Fire, Eagles Nest that are also ski resorts in the wintertime.

That, man, it's just gorgeous up there. It really is. Well, cool, man. It blows people's minds that a high elevation desert at, you know, 7,000 feet can be so beautiful, and it is. It really is.

Oh, yeah. I mean, in New Mexico, like, Taos, you mentioned. I mean, those are areas I've wanted to visit, so that makes for a pretty good excuse. You know? Oh, yeah.

And in Taos, some of the earthships, the the homes that people built out of whatever's hanging around and stuff, there's a couple of them that you can go and tour as well. Oh, nice. Right on. And there's there's a killer restaurant in Taos, and it's called the Blue Door or Azul something. I can't remember the the name of it, but it's been there for, like, 80 years, and the food is amazing.

Alright. The blue door. I'll do some, googling on that. I'm finding websites, the secret of Taos blue doors. So I I don't blue doors must be a thing there, but, I have to try to find that particular restaurant.

Great to know. Yeah. Right on, man. Well man. Take it easy.

Hey. You too, man. Appreciate all of the info, and, you have yourself a great day, man. Oh, yeah. Driving down to the VA clinic in Pocatello and then coming back, listening to your show the whole time.

Well, thanks for listening, man. Hope everything goes well today. Yep. Right on. See you later.

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Shout out to all the people who called to tell me about various train rides that you could take train trips that are not 1,000 of dollars. Alright? I have noted the Durango train, the Durango in Silverton, narrow gauge railroad museum tour, America's railroad, durangotrain.com. Looks pretty cool. Take the High Line Express for between $57.89.

Now that's what I'm talking about. Alright? Wanna take the steam train to Durango? $100. Alright?

Not bad. I don't know about the cowboy poetry train, though. Howdy. Wanna read you some sad poems about my horse. And they they got a picture here of some cowboys on a train with a guitar.

I I shouldn't judge. Cowboys can write good poems too. Another train that, listener told me about was the Cambres and Toltec train. And this looks pretty cool too. I didn't look up the prices, but, well, let's click on book your trip.

See if it gives me some, some rough, rough estimates here. Alright. I'm not gonna collect that many times. Either way, the full details of that call that I had with, the last guy who told me about the Combrace and Toltec train, that'll be on the on demand version of the show. I recorded that call in the wrong place, and I can't play it back for you while I'm also recording this current moment in time for the on demand podcast version of the show.

So I guess that's bonus content, a phone call. Alright. I don't know why, but I've been just stuck in these the 5 best lists. I guess it's sort of news. Right?

The top 5 ice creams, according to experts. Do you wanna know? Do you wanna know? Come on. Who doesn't like ice cream?

Coming in at number 5, Jenny's splendid ice cream. Never heard of it. Oh, you can order it online. It's, not easily found. Okay.

Is this gonna be a list of ice creams that we just can't get anywhere? I haven't looked at any of these lists either, so they could be straight garbage. But I just pulled up a bunch of lists. It's the the top five countdown for freak news on the Victor World Show. Coming in at number 4, Ben and Jerry's.

Number 3, telemuck. Would I put Tillamook ahead of Ben and Jerry's? I might. Tillamook ice cream's really good. Ben and Jerry's, though, you know, they pack it with additional stuff like cookies and I mean, it's extremely gluttonous, but I think the ice cream itself, Tillamook might be better.

You know, we got somebody calling? What do they want? They better be on topic, or I will shame them. K, Bear. You're please turn down your radio.

You're live on the show. Who's this? Sorry, dude. My bad. It's Austin.

Hey, Austin. What's up? Doing pretty good, man. What's happening? I was calling about the train ride in Durango to Silverton.

We just did that last month, me and my family. Yeah. Is it pretty cool? It was pretty sweet. The train had washed out, like, halfway up, so we couldn't do the full trip because there's a flash flood through that canyon, through Moab and everything, like, the night before.

Oh, man. But, yeah, no. It was a pretty sweet ride. Really good. Really fun trip from here to, through Utah all the way to, through Moab and Colorado.

Then you can hit Arches National Park on the way too if you're into the the big rocks. Oh, heck yeah, man. I've I've only been through Arches, like, a quick drive showed up when they were about to close. So they didn't make me pay to get in, but they're like, hey. You know, you gotta leave in, like, a half hour or so.

Have fun. Yeah. It's it's yeah. It's a lot of fun. We we were there for probably probably 2 or 3 hours.

We had little kids, so we decided to run around, get their energy out on the long car ride, and then we hop back in and headed, towards Moab. Nice. So on the train ride, did you just drive up aways and then go in reverse to get back down? They actually have a big old turnaround at a halfway point. I thought what it's called.

Some some can, but they they put the train like a loop and then back it up. So if you're sitting on the left side going up, it could be you'll be see on the right side coming down. Oh, cool. You'll see the other half of the ride that you didn't see on the way up there. Nice.

And it yeah. I mean, it looks like a great value. I had multiple people call and tell me about that. So I think I'm gonna have to add it to the the bucket list because, again, the price is right for me. Yep.

It's it's a fun time. The only thing going to Silverton, we never made it. Like like you said, the jack washed out. But, the halfway point they did get get us on, after going so slow up and down, I think it actually worked out better with the kids because they would have been really restless coming all the way back from Silverton on a slow train ride. Oh, yeah.

I'd I'd bet. I'd bet. Yeah. For sure. No.

It worked out pretty good for us either way. Alright, man. Well, thanks for the info and tips, and, yeah. I'm gonna have to make my way down there. Give it a whirl.

Yeah. I had to get in before you switch subjects. So All good, man. I appreciate it. Yeah.

No problem. Okay. Cool. I'll talk to you later. Peace.

Bye. Yeah. We must be rolling on a pretty decent delay still. I don't know. Jade's not here this week, so I can't exactly check-in and see where the delay is at.

Because I was talking about ice cream, but we were on trains earlier. So you are totally fine, Austin. We're totally cool. Alright. I gotta see what ice cream's better than Tillamook.

I shouldn't be thinking about ice cream this morning. We have some Farr's ice cream in the fridge here. Shout out to Farr's. They like to bring us delicious cordials and ice cream. One of my favorite gluttonous snacks is you take Farr's ice cream and then you smash up a Farr's cordial in it.

I still don't know why they don't make cordial ice cream. It's been my main suggestion to Fars. Like, you gotta make cordial ice cream. It'd be it'd be just a game changer in the ice cream world. I don't know why I'm using the phrase game changer so much today, but you can make your own, so it doesn't really matter.

But the 4 the Fars cordials are in my if we're talking top 5 stuff, far as cordials in my top 5, I guess you'd call it a candy bar. Sure. You know, it's shaped like a a ball but it's still I'm gonna call it a candy bar. Depending on the day, it could be my favorite. Okay.

What's better than Tillamook? Okay. This stuff is good. Talenti gelato. It is really good.

That stuff in the little see through container. I was talking with my girlfriend about that stuff just the other day. Haagen Dazs at number 1. I don't know about that. I don't know.

I mean, it's fine. It's good. Maybe it's been too long since I had some No. See, I don't need to be going and buying ice cream to go, is Haagen Dazs better than Tillamook? Let's give it a whirl.

I can't imagine Haagen Dazs being better than Ben and Jerry's. Or especially Talenti. I mean, they're showing a picture here of Talenti Gelato Caramel Cookie Crunch. Good Lord. That sounds insane.

That is right up my alley. I'm not going to the grocery store today. They got a lot of top five lists here. This is kind of, kinda crazy. Why do I have so many of these open?

Top 5 roller coasters, top 5 beginner guitars, top 5 fantasy movies of all time, top 5 sound bars. I'll have to keep digging into this. I just wanna get on a train and eat ice cream, read a good book, maybe play some video games. I'd wear headphones. Don't worry.

I'm not gonna be that guy on the train playing my switch with no headphones. Alright. Be back in a minute. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey. I know it wasn't really freak news.

I mean, to me, it is freak news that you could take an awesome train ride for potentially, like, $60. And it's freak news to me that somebody would think Haagen Dazs is better than all of those other ice creams we named. So I I think it worked. The top five countdown continues. I don't know why I'm reading these articles because anytime you find a list online, you look at it and you go, well, I disagree with this list.

This list is garbage. This list is not accurate. Yeah. It's just some random list. Like, I was looking at the one about sound bars.

Top 5 sound bars. And when I bought the sound bar for my living room, I did extensive research before I picked the one I picked, and it wasn't on the list of the top 5 soundbars. Yet, when I went to some of the articles they linked, it was on there. So it's like no. You guys ain't gonna convince me that a Roku soundbar is better than what I've got in my living room.

The Samsung q990. It's a beast. It's a beast of surround sound glory. Anyway, top 5 best pizza chains according to Foodies. Alright.

So these are chain restaurants. Alright. Pizza restaurants that are available pretty much everywhere. Let's count them down. Number 5, Papa John's.

Number 4, mellow mushroom. Where is that? There are apparently a 170 locations in the US. Now looking at the pizza that they have a picture of it, it looks good. Sure.

But I have never heard of this restaurant in my in my life. Mellow Mushroom? Okay. Let's keep going here. Number 3, pizza hut.

Number 2, California pizza kitchen, which I've only seen for sale in the grocery stores. Then number foodies say Domino's is best. Well, that's a hot take. Now I I mean, I'm not saying Domino's is bad. Pizza is not ever bad.

Alright? I think I talked about pizza yesterday because I talk about pizza a lot because pizza's good. Yeah. You buy yourself a dollar 50 Totino's. You're gonna try to tell me that's bad?

There's better pizza without question. But who doesn't like Totino's? Don't lie. Shut up. You do too.

It's not bad. Maybe it's not the best, but it you ain't gonna tell me if you're hungry and someone's like, you want some Totinos? That you're gonna be like, no. I don't eat that trash pizza. Totinos sound them pretty good.

Domino's sound them pretty good. I I will admit that due to the, location, lately, Pizza Hut has been winning. They're right by my house. I can, like, order a pizza I can be eating pizza in 15 minutes if I order takeout from, Pizza Hut. Domino's is only a little bit further away, but Pizza Hut's like just bam bam.

And if you order in that app, you can get some good deals. Should I give away a Pizza Hut secret on air? I don't know if they'll get mad. I mean, Pizza Hut running ads? Maybe they should.

I'm giving I'm giving out tips here on how to get yourself now all the pizza places, if you shop through the app, they have a good deal. But let me let me tell you a little tip here on how to get yourself a fantastic deal on a stuffed crust. Alright. They always have a deal for a one topping stuff stuffed crust in the app for, like, I don't know, $14 or something like that. Don't quote me on these prices.

K? Just follow my instructions on how to get a better stuffed crust for a cheaper price. So in the app again, go to the deals and they'll have, you know, the stuffed crust deal. Ignore that. Go to the 3 topping large, which is a pretty good deal to begin with.

And then you can select stuffed crust and it's, like, $2 more, but it would be cheaper to get a 3 topping, large stuffed crust and, you know, you add the stuffed crust as an option when you select your crust than it would be to get the 1 topping stuffed crust pizza. I know. I'm giving away secrets here. But who wouldn't want 3 toppings instead of 1 for a cheaper price? And then what you do if you're, like, you know, you live alone like me, you can make a multi day meal out of this because stuffed crust fills you up because you'll actually eat the crust.

You don't throw it in the garbage. You know? It's good. You get, you know, the pizza with half 3 toppings and then the other half 3 different toppings. And it doesn't cost you anymore.

So you basically got a 6 topping pizza for an incredible value. Now they're gonna take that deal away. Gonna take that option out. Don't do it. Come on.

Let me enjoy my I gotta do what I gotta do to get by at a reasonable price, Pizza Hut. But, again, all the pizza places have pretty good deals if you you shop in the app. So Domino's doesn't have stuffed crust. I think that's the the only thing that, they're they're lacking over there. Lacking on that stuffed crust, Domino's.

I think even Papa John's has a stuffed crust. What's the deal, Domino's? All you gotta do is put cheese sticks in the crust. It's not difficult. Alright.

I think I gave myself heartburn talking about pizza. Like, all of a sudden, my stomach's bothering me. Need to take some tons. Alright. Well, I guess I I just eliminated pizza from the food options for today.

There you go. You you just learned something new. If you wanna keep yourself from eating pizza, apparently, talk about it for about 5 minutes straight. We may have just come across one of the most ridiculous phone scams or at least one of the most ridiculous things a person has done while being phone scammed that I've ever seen. I mean, maybe, thankfully, I didn't actually see it, but the phone scammer did.

We've got a phone scammer tricking a Mayfield Heights, Ohio woman into undressing on FaceTime. Take your clothes off. Okay. Imagine that your bank calls you, supposedly. You think it's your bank.

Alright? And they're like, oh, your account's been compromised. You need to immediately move your funds to another bank account. Let's give you that account number. Please transfer this.

You know Get on your computer and transfer the funds to this other account. This is the bank who actually does these kind of transfers for you when you go to the bank if you wanted to move money around. Right out of the gate that should be a red flag but people, you know, they get in a panic. Oh, my money's gonna disappear. My money?

No. I can't lose all my money. So this woman transfers the money from one account to the other, and the scammer then goes and withdraws $6,000. This 6 grand this woman has, deposited. Then the scammer calls her on FaceTime.

Like, listen. It's, so and so from your bank. At this point, they're just messing with her, and they're like, alright. Listen. What you need to do, because we need to verify your account, is we need a full body scan.

Take all your clothes off and spin around. And the woman did it. Then the scammer starts laughing. Look at she's naked spinning around. I have you ever had your bank tell you even when you're there in person listen, to verify your identity, we need a full body scan.

Even when you get a full body scan at the airport, they don't make you take your clothes off. I would think that take your clothes off for the camera would be a red flag but apparently not. And now this woman, you know, she's out her money. You know, the cops are trying to figure it out, but they're striking out. She's out 6 grand, and she was dancing around naked for a stranger on her on FaceTime.

Oh, I just I just wonder what's going on sometimes. Like, you know, you gotta talk to your old people. K? I'm just making the assumption this is an old person, and that's maybe that's wrong of me. Does the article say how old this person is?

It just says a woman. Alright? And this this kind of stuff happens to grandpa as well, so don't don't you be like, hey. Yeah. Alright.

Anyway, talk to to the olds in your life and let them know about phone scams. And if somebody calls asking for money or to move things around, transfer your funds to a different don't no. Go down to your bank. Walk in the door. Don't be doing major financial transactions over your phone due to a phone call you've received.

K? Please talk to your old people. Alright? Help them out. I was just talking with my homie Jay Miller about guitars.

His son has started to play guitar, getting really into it. So, yeah, we just got in guitar discussion, and I was telling him how down in my basement now, I've got these 2 blank spots on my wall. My daughter came and visited. And last time she was out, she was asking me about an electric guitar. And I have I wouldn't say I have a lot of guitars because I know people who have more guitars than me.

I'd say I have a a decent number. I don't know exactly how many because I'd have to just count around in my head, you know, the spots on the wall. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Then I get 2 upstairs. 3 upstairs.

4. Counting basses. We'll say I have around 10. 10 guitars. Minus 2 because I gave my daughter a bass and an electric guitar.

Boy, is she spoiled. I loaded her up on gear. Like, she better be so grateful. No. It's stuff I didn't use.

I gave her a bass amp. I gave her, a mixing board that was basically brand new. Gave her a nice microphone, like, a a nice microphone. Great mic for, broadcast or recording vocals. Gave her a, like, set of bass guitar and electric guitar.

I gave her my old, guitar multi effects pedal, the one that I used at all of my live shows back in the day. And I think I threw in some other stuff as well. But now I got these 2 blank spots on the wall in my basement and part of what I've been trying to do over the last year is decorate my house. It it was feeling very empty and it was a mess and, you know, when you're trying to get your life back together, something about having the house looking nice. And I'll tell you, when there were 5 electric guitars hanging on the wall on the basement and now there are 3 and then there's just empty spots, It makes me kind of crazy and I cannot be buying any more stuff.

Alright? I had to replace appliances at my house. I got this expensive kitten who keeps costing me more and more money because she goes up the tree and won't come down, and I gotta call the tree guy to come get the kitten out of the tree. I already talked about it early this morning. Listen to it on the on demand version version of the show.

But it's gonna make me crazy seeing empty spots on the wall. And, obviously, I could buy cheap guitar. Like, you could find on Facebook market a $50 guitar. But I'm not buying them just for decoration. I'd want to be able to play them.

And you gotta spend a little bit of dough on a guitar if you wanna get yourself a decent one. You don't have to spend tons of money. Don't let anybody convince you that. You could get yourself a nice used guitar for a few $100 that's top quality. And here's how you pick a guitar.

Don't just order 1 online. Don't read a bunch of reviews and go, alright. That's what I want. And then order it online. You need to try the guitar.

K? There is no best guitar brand. There is no best guitar style. You know, best guitar shape. The way you pick a guitar is you get it in your hands and play it.

The guitar that feels right in your hands is the guitar you want. Like, I pulled up the list from Guitar World. What are the best guitar brands? Coming in at number 1, Fender. Now my amplifier is a Fender amp.

My 300 watts of beastly tube power is a Fender amp. I've played some Fender guitars. They're great. But I've never played one that I had to have. That I was like, I have gotta have this guitar.

Gotta have it. Now the number 2 brand they've got on here, I would love to get a guitar from Gibson. I would love a Gibson guitar. They play great. They sound great.

They are awesome. They feel good in your hands, but I don't have enough money. Alright. Gibson, very expensive guitars. Very expensive.

They're great, but I can't justify that because you know what? My ESP, I like it, just as much as any Gibson I played. And that, Devin Townsend guitar that I bought, the the framus, that feels like a Gibson guitar in your hand. I I like that better than any Gibson I played. I'd still wanna get a Gibson, but I don't have enough money.

See, PRS at number 3? Sure. They're alright. And you always see them as one of the best guitar brands, but I've played a lot of PRS guitars. I've played Jades.

I've played Brad's. I've played them at the store. I don't know. They I've just never picked one up that felt like I've gotta have this in my hands. Now a cheaper guitar, which they, they do make higher end, but you can get yourself a great deal on an Ibanez.

Ibanez is one of my favorite brands. They feel great in my hands. A lot of people would trash on Ibanez. I I think they're great guitars. My first guitar was an Ibanez, and my second guitar was an Ibanez.

My acoustic guitar is an Ibanez. I haven't bought an Ibanez in a long time. And one of the guitars I gave my do actually, I gave her 2 2 Ibanez. We gave her an Ibanez bass and an Ibanez electric. My nice Ibanez electric guitar.

She's so spoiled. ESP. ESP coming in at number 5. Great guitars that I never thought I would want till I put one in my hands at the no limit guitar company. I I love no limit guitar company.

I just I can't walk in there too often because every time I do, I go into that guitar room, and I find a guitar that I want. And I, you know, don't play my guitars enough as it is. Great guitar shop, though. Shout out to Rule, and he's the man. But, oh, it's torturous going in there because I I know there's gonna be something that I want and I I cannot be doing it.

Gotta deal with paying off that washer and dryer, and I do actually use that. So I can't justify buying another guitar that I probably won't play enough when I still need to pay off the washer and dryer. I was just reading that about half of Americans under 50 don't think they'll have kids, and most of them say they don't want to. And that's not a problem. You know, there's been a lot of discussion in the news recently about people who don't have kids.

Not gonna get into it. I will just say there's nothing wrong with deciding to not have kids. And, also, a lot of people want to have kids and can't, so I think you're, kind of a piece of garbage if you chain people who don't have kids. You don't know why they don't have kids. Back off.

Also, it's very expensive. I am pretty grateful that my kids are grown up and living on their own because holy cow. To have little ones in this day and age, I mean, you know how expensive groceries are now. Right? I cannot imagine.

What are diapers costing? They've gotta be crazy, crazy expensive because they weren't cheap back in the day. Let's let's go to Amazon, I guess. I could've went to Walmart, but let let's look at diapers. Just okay.

Bestseller Pampers, A 168 pack. $55. I mean, it's been so long since I bought diapers. I'm like, is that a bad deal? Is that a good deal?

I don't remember. Here's a 32 pack, $10. I mean, that doesn't seem horrible, I guess. But okay. How many diapers does a baby go through in a day?

A few? I guess that does add up fast, don't it? Okay. Anyway, the article, which I only kinda skimmed here, just talks about the reasons that people are not having children. And one of the main reasons is that they're extremely expensive.

Like, I've got a kitten. K? I got a kitten in my house. I'm not gonna say how much money I spent yesterday to have somebody come get her out of the tree in my backyard. And I don't want any shame like, dude, she would've just come back down.

She wasn't coming back down. K? And I could not get her my she was way up there. This is a big tree. She was really, really high up in the tree.

And I didn't know what to do. She's a baby. So I had a guy come get her out of the tree, and, it it cost me. K? I gotta get her fixed this week.

That's gonna cost me. A kitten is not even comparable to the price of a baby. Alright? Very expensive children. So I totally get it.

I think, you know, it's really kind of a bummer if there are people who would like to have kids, but the reason they won't is because it's too expensive. That's something we gotta figure out what to do as a society because, I mean, I'm I'm really glad that I have have my girls. They're the most amazing little people. But again, I'm so glad that they they were, you know, growing up when things were more affordable. I don't know how people would get by, you know, in a in a lot of these situation.

What about those people who have lots of kids? I only had 2. That was very expensive. Again, I could barely afford a kitten. Those 2 cats eating me out of house and home.

Actually, if she'd stay out of the tree, it wouldn't be so bad. She's grounded. Literally not allowed to go up into trees. She is grounded and she can't go outside. Stinker.

Okay. Anyway, don't feel bad. Don't feel bad if you are choosing to not have children. K? There's nothing wrong with that.

I want people shame you. It's kinda like, oh, you need to get married. No. You don't. You can just say you're married.

You don't have to do the legal end of things if you don't want to. There's financial reasons and such that it's good to do so, but don't let anybody bully into doing anything. Alright? It's your life. Alright.

What is going on in Texas? Jeez. 103 earthquakes in 1 week in West Texas. Yeah, they've declared a state of emergency. That would have to be annoying.

Yeah. You get one earthquake. It's like, okay. This is annoying. Then you get another, like, alright.

Enough already. Just boom. Boom. And they just keep getting larger and larger and larger. No.

Texas, it's just not the place to be, is it? When is the last time you read good news about Texas? At the beginning of the pandemic, everybody raving about Texas. Everybody wanted to move to Texas. Texas is the best place on earth.

I can't imagine how many people are just furious with Joe Rogan after moving to Texas because that was his his spiel forever there. I'm leaving LA. LA sucks. I'm moving to Texas where, you know, it's sunshine and rainbows and unicorns and You know, just glitter falls from the sky. It's amazing.

It's Texas. And now you got, you know, winters that are horrible, pipes bursting, your house getting flooded, heat waves, no power for a week, earthquake hundreds of earthquakes. Oh, man. It just sounds like a terrible place. It sounds awful.

Like, there are a lot of places in the US I would not wanna move, but Texas is now at the top of the list. Plus yesterday, I was, engaging in a tiny bit of argue not not arguing, but, tiny bit of discourse on Facebook. Yeah. Because we we have people who don't pay attention to the news till all of a sudden they walk in the library, and they're like, why is the library requiring me to show my ID? I'm 25 years old.

And they're just playing it safe. You know, they don't know what kind of trouble they're gonna get into. Someone under 18 happens to walk in here the Stephen King book, so they're checking everybody's ID. Pay attention to the news. Pay attention to who you're voting for.

And I pointed out that there there are these websites that our politicians have used. I've talked about this before where they they talk about freedom rankings. But our, our governor, Little, he was touting stats from this website. You know, hey, Idaho showing up blah blah blah on the freedom rankings at such and such website, but he didn't talk about the personal freedom rankings. Idaho's at number 49 in the nation.

The only place with less personal freedom than Idaho in the US according to this website that, again, politicians tout to, you know, make it look like I don't know whatever particular topic they are currently discussing is going well. The only place worse for personal freedom in the US than Idaho, Texas. Texas. They're again what what is the the last good thing you've heard about Texas? I haven't heard anything in the news in ages.

That's like, wow. That's great. That's awesome. Texas sound wonderful. The most aggravating bit of travel I had in the last couple years being at the Dallas airport.

Place is a dump. Sorry. I shouldn't say that. It's not nice, but it ugh, it was like, I don't know. Just it was uncomfortable in there.

It was, very overcrowded. Like, I don't know what was going on with the hallways in that place. It's like, this is a it's a massive airport. It's massive. The Dallas Fort Worth Airport.

How about making things a little bit wider? You know, everything's bigger in Texas except the hallways in the airport where there's all these people. Yeah. Like, oh, I'm gonna get COVID. I'm in Texas.

Alright. Anyway, good luck to the people of Texas. Making me feel a lot better about being here. And we gotta put up with a horrible winter, but everything else I mean, it ain't too shabby. I'll I'll deal with snow over all these horrible things I read about places like Texas.

It's the Victor Wilt Show. I was looking through Reddit. I know. I know. It's all I do.

It's all I do to find content. Well, if I go to the news sites, then all of a sudden, we just do nothing but politics and political talk in general. Nobody want to hear that. Right? I mean, it would be fun.

I will admit. If I could have just like one day where I just go wild. Just go wild on politics. A lot of listeners around here wouldn't like my views, but it would be fun. It'd be so fun.

And it would be easy because there's so much content. No. Instead, I gotta dig deep into Reddit looking at the gen z subreddit. For some reason, Reddit has been feeding me gen z posts all the time. I don't know why.

And then I start reading them, and so I'm sure I get more of them. Like this one. How many of you are actively quitting social media and living a better life? This was posted on Reddit. Is Reddit not a social media site?

I mean, I I thought Reddit was classified as social media. Let's see. Is Reddit social media? How Reddit stacks up against social media peers. Social media platform, Reddit's blah blah blah blah blah.

Yeah. So Reddit is social media. So if you're posting on Reddit hey. How many of you are actively quitting social media? 0 who are responding to this post on Reddit, the social media website.

Has gen z always been pretty active on Reddit or is this a new thing? I thought it was just like old nerds. Old nerds like me. Pretty soon, it's gonna be all riz this and, you know, all these terms I don't understand. Reddit's ruined.

It is a good site to get news. I'll I'll give you that. I I, for the most part, can find content there. I just wonder why I'm just getting loaded with gen z stuff. You know, in a lot of lists.

We already talked about enough lists. As I was digging, it's like, okay. That's scariest movies of all time. Yeah. Who cares?

I did find a link to an article about a a woman in Maryland bought 25 lottery tickets with the same numbers on them and won about $600,000. K. I guarantee that this person is not coming out ahead. If you buy lottery tickets and you put the same numbers on them and you buy 25 of them at a time, sure, if you actually win, you're going to win big. But how many years has this person been buying 25 lottery tickets at a time and losing?

You know, you have a much better odds of winning if you buy 25 tickets and they all have different numbers. Right? I would think so. Why can't I have a why can't I win on one lottery ticket? Oh, yeah.

I don't buy them very often. Alright. Let's check the Powerball numbers. Shout out to Dave at the Idaho lottery who never comes by anymore. Dave, what's your problem, bro?

Thought we were homies. I haven't seen Dave probably, like, pre pandemic or something. He's he's just gone. Maybe he doesn't work there anymore. I don't know.

154,000,000 on Powerball. Alright. But Mega Millions tickets are cheaper. So let's see what we got for Mega Millions. 3 158,000,000 with the drawing on Friday.

I might as well try. Right? Might as well try. What about Lotto America? See, that's the one that you got the better odds.

I don't ever buy that one either but you know most people don't because it's a lower jackpot. Still 6,000,000. I could go for that even when they chop it in half and you give the government half from your your auto winnings. Better odds of winning. Don't know if it's quite, you know, retirement money not not have to work don't know if it's quite, you know, retirement money not not have to work anymore, but maybe.

I don't think 1,000,000 would cut it anymore, but 3 might. Invested in crypto. Right? No. Just kidding.

I was just reading about the wedding b list. Something I've never heard of before, but I guess somebody was really offended by this. This woman received an invitation or what she thought was an invitation to a friend's wedding in the mail. But instead, she was invited to tune in to the livestream. And I guess this was a fairly big wedding.

But still, I'm I'm thinking about this. What if he had the option? Like yeah. Yeah. I I promise I'll check out the live stream of it.

Sorry. You've heard me talk about weddings before. Generally, most weddings, very boring. They are. Well, I think you could make them fun.

Just most people don't. They take it too seriously. Like, oh, it needs to be the most special ceremony of all time and nice and quiet and peaceful and I don't know. I I could see, you know, you're walking into a wedding. And you've got, a little bit of the the pre party going on.

Got the tunes cranked up. I don't know. Get yourself some 9 inch nails blasting throughout whatever room you're gonna get hitched in. You got some good food. Yeah.

Get somebody to, you know, go ahead and do the, the actual ceremony who's not a total dolard. Make it a little bit more exciting. So if you've got the option great great option. I've been to a few weddings that were alright. My friend Charlie he had this, kinda medieval themed wedding.

It was at the park in Lava Hot Springs. I was in the wedding as well and I I had to wear like some kind of a stupid shirt. No offense, Charlie. It was fun. Your wedding was great.

Because it was different. It, you know, had some unique things going on. There's the legendary picture of me and Dan Ditto. You know, we're both on a, a little rocking horse at the children's playground. It pops up on Facebook to this day fairly often.

See? You need some memorable moments like that. An event that's not taken too seriously. Alright? So, anyhow, this woman, she says her feelings were hurt.

I mean, I guess if they were, like, really good friends and they're like, yeah. You know, we invited all these other people to the actual ceremony, but, you know, what if they just know? You're like, you you might enjoy the live stream more. And then you could be like, yeah. I swear I watched the live stream.

I promise. I don't know. Might wanna throw that out there as an option for people. It's not too hard to livestream either. You can do it from your phone.

Just put a phone on a tripod. Boom. There you go. Livestream. It's not gonna be the world's best quality, but, you know, it's a wedding.

Think people are gonna care that much? No. I am not trying to trash on weddings. Again, earlier on the show, I mentioned there are good reasons to get married. I'm not anti marriage by any means.

I just think that most most weddings kind of suck. They're not fun. And I think if you're gonna throw a party, make it fun. Alright? Better tunes, please.

You know, you you can walk down the aisle to whatever you want. Did you know that? You can. There aren't rules. Alright?

Well, as the morning show host here for the last decade, I'm sure you've I'm sure you've heard me talk about sleep before. The lack of it that I deal with from time to time. I just found some type of a guide. Perfect your sleep. Tools for optimizing sleep.

Sleep is the absolute foundation of your mental health, your physical health, and your performance in all endeavors. So here's what you need to do to perfect your sleep and let's see how many of these things I do. Alright. Number 1. Says waking and okay.

So it kinda breaks down your whole day. So waking and until 3 hours after waking. Within 30 to 60 minutes after you wake up, view sunlight. Okay. I I can't do that.

There is no sun. I suppose I could put one of those, sun lamps, you know, in my bedroom or bathroom or something, and that would be sort of like viewing sunlight. I mean, don't, like, look at the sun. You know? Don't, stare into the sun.

It's bad for your eyes. Like, just, I don't know, see sunlight from from an angle. Look at look at it on the wall or something. I don't know. Alright.

You also need to increase your body temperature. 1 to 3 minutes of a cold shower will release adrenaline and epinephrine. It will increase your core body temper. You wanna wake up and immediately take a cold shower? I already can't be in the sun.

That sounds horrible. 1 to 3 minutes. I mean, it'll wake you up, and then do a little bit of exercise. Yeah. I've thought about that in the morning, but, I mean, it's it's 445.

It just seems like, I don't know, too early for that. Drink caffeine. Okay. That one I do, But they say you should wait and drink the caffeine 90 minutes or 2 hours after waking so you don't feel the need to drink more in the afternoon I mean, I'm feeling the need to drink more right now. Usually, I have my because I mean, I suppose I could wake because I mean, I suppose I could wait No.

Actually, I'd have to wake up even earlier. Because I have gotta have coffee before I do the morning show. Like, if you tune in at 6 AM I've talked about this recently on the show. Sometimes, the 6 o'clock hour can be one of the best hours of the show because I've got all the content in the world. Usually, the worst hour of the show is the 9 o'clock hour because I've used up all the content, and I should probably circle back to what I did earlier on the show and just redo it for the people who, you know, weren't listening at 6 AM.

But, yeah. I gotta have coffee to be able to do a killer show for the people listening at 6. I don't wanna just come in and be like, I'm tired so we're just gonna listen to music. K? Start the show at 7.

I haven't had my coffee yet. Also, let's see. Breakfast or fasting. Alright. I I don't generally eat breakfast because I I don't feel like having breakfast at 5 AM.

K? Every once in a while, I'll have a snack during the morning show, but for the most part, I have a lunch at 10 AM and then I have dinner at, like, 4 or 5. The end. Okay. It's okay to nap and then it says you shouldn't exercise too late in the afternoon.

Also, don't have caffeine after 4 and continue view viewing sunlight. Then at night, turn the lights off. Yeah. No kidding. Take a hot bath.

Cool down your room and don't drink any booze. Well, yeah. Obviously, if you wake up at the time I do, nothing is going to make 6 AM at work worse than booze the night before. That's That'd be a horrible day at work. I've I've done it back in the day.

Even if it's like 1 or 2. It's amazing what that'll do to you. You gotta be to work at 6 AM. It sucks. It sucks.

Also, take vitamins. Train yourself to be a nose breather while you're sleeping. Use medical tape to tape your mouth shut while you sleep. Alright. This this list is kinda wild here at times.

Tape your mouth shut? I mean, even my sleep doctor never recommended that one. You know, they're like, here. Here's a CPAP. And if you hang have your mouth hanging open, you're not gonna snore, bro.

Here's a full face mask. Be consistent with sleep times and waking times. Well, my cats do their best to make that happen. But I still you know, when the weekend rolls around, I try to sleep as late as I can, and I try to stay up as late as I can too. I'm terrible with keeping my sleep schedule regular.

I'm horrible with it, but I don't wanna go to bed early. I only do it because I have to. Alright, everybody. I'm gonna get out of here. I'll be back for the noon hour of madness of mayhem powered by Heliscos.

I don't know. Yesterday, I tried to do ask me almost anything. Didn't get a lot of questions. I mean, we had a few. We had a few.

So I don't know. I like doing that when it's when I'm the only one here because it gets somebody else on the show. You. You, the listener. So maybe we'll give it a whirl today.

Otherwise, I don't know. I'll find something. But, yeah, I'll probably dump whatever I do on the noon hour onto the podcast edition of my show for today as well since it's gonna be probably just me. I don't know. Josh Tyler's back in the house today.

We'll see what he's up to. Y'all have a good oh, jeez. I said y'all. I saw in the gen z subreddit. It's cringe to say y'all.

And at some point, I started saying y'all years ago because I thought it was funny. So whatever, Gen z. I'll say y'all all I want, and y'all can shut up about it. If you wanna call me, 208-535-1015, the number to call for some ask me almost anything action. In the meantime, let's go to the phones.

K Bear, what's up? Not much, Victor. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. Who's this?

This is Dan. Dan, what you got for a question for me today? Would you ever consider painting your entire house in a substance that just absorbs light so at night, your house just shines bright like glow in the dark. You know? Yeah.

I think I'd do that. Why not? Why not? Because, I I don't know. Would my house be a weird, like, light green color during the day, or could it be, like, straight black and then it glows at night?

I'm talking about straight black, but I think when the sun hits it, it just might cook your house. You know, that's what I always heard, but my house is essentially painted black. And prior to that, it was like a beige color. I've really noticed no difference. I also worked in a business that we painted like, you know, jet black.

No trees around it, anything like that. Sun beat down on it all day. I don't think it made much difference as far as the temperature inside. I think that's I think we got a little bit of myth, urban legend going on in there, but I'd have to get a a scientist involved to find out for sure. Yeah.

I don't know if it's like going in the dark zone. I think you're probably getting a clear coat if you ever did something like that. Yeah. I think it'd be cool. Sure.

You know, I'm I'm all down with making my house and yard as wacky as possible. I just don't have the money to do so. Yep. Yeah. I could see that.

Yeah. If I had all the dough in the world, my house would look really dumb. I'd have somebody paint the whole front of it in a giant mural. So Very much. So yeah.

Yeah. I'd be down. What about you? Would you do that? You know, probably not just because it's like a giant light bulb in the middle of the night.

Well, you know, if inside you've got those blackout curtains, then you're only bothering the neighbors. So That'd be fantastic. Absolutely, man. Well, I appreciate that question today. Oh, you're welcome.

Thank you. Hey. Thanks, Dan. I hope you have a great rest of the week, man. You too, man.

Thank you. Right on. See you. 208-535-1015, the number to call for ask me almost anything. K Bear, you're live on the noon hour of madness and mayhem.

Who's this? Hey. How are you doing? This is Anthony. Anthony.

I'm I'm great, man. Yourself? Oh, not so bad. Just heading back to work. Right.

Oh, man. So you you got a question for the program today? Yeah. I was wondering if, you could spell candy with, two letters. If I could spell candy with 2 letters spell candy with 2 letters.

Is this gonna be some kind of an inappropriate joke, sir, that's gonna get you in trouble? Absolutely not. Candy with 2 letters. I know this is something with 2 letters. I know I'm gonna end up, like, punching myself or something when you tell me how to do this because this is obviously some some kind of a riddle or, you know, I'm I'm guessing potentially inappropriate joke, but we'll go with, we'll go with the riddle.

I have no idea. Anthony, what what do you got? I see and y. C and alright. Alright.

Jesus. Hair. I I had stumped me for, like, 10 minutes. My wife had me. Yeah.

That, that should have been pretty obvious. It should have. But I don't think people tune in and listen to me for intelligent responses. So I appreciate it, brother. Hey.

Thanks, man. Appreciate the call and the question today. Alright. Later, man. Bye.

C and y. Mhmm. 208-535-1015 is the number to call for. Ask me almost anything. Those of you who were calling and hung up while I was on that call, like, you know, I I could put you on hold, but, I don't like to do it.

Okay. Now the lines are all lit back up. Thank you for your patience. K Bear, you're live on Ask Me Almost Anything. Who's this?

This is Dass. And what's your question for the show? If you weren't a radio DJ, what other genres do you have? I wanna be a rock and roll star. I don't know.

That's another, roll the dice and you're, you're very like, I feel like I kind of won a job lotto because not a lot of people are able to do what I do and it actually, you know, be what you can do for your normal job. I mean, I would probably attempt to do what I do, but online, you know, I'd, like YouTube videos, Twitch, podcasting. And if I couldn't do anything that's even similar to what I do here, man, I I think I'd wanna be a tour guide somewhere. You need to go with that one? Yeah.

Like, I've always said, if I could drive the trolley in Sedona, you know, because if you're driving the jeeps up in the mountains, you're you know, that that seems like it's gonna hurt your back eventually. It's all these bumpy roads. I think if you're just driving the old people around on the trolley and, you know, you just tell them about the landmark, check that out there. Look at that. You know?

Then I think I I could handle that kind of job, and you get the big tips from the rich tourists. So Exactly. Yeah. Maybe, like a, a tour guide in Jackson. Yeah.

You probably make some bank make some bank. So, yeah, I think that as soon as I get fired from radio, which, you know, it seems like it happens to everybody in radio, anybody who needs a tour guide, I'm I'm your guy. Exactly. So there you go, man. Hey.

Good question. Good question. I don't think that one's come up on the air before, least that I recall. Alrighty. Hey, man.

Have a good one. You too. Peace. K Bear, you're live on ask me almost anything. Who's this?

R Dizzle. R Dizzle. Well, welcome to the noon hour of madness and AM, R Dizzle. What you got for me? What is your opinion on Airsoft, and would you ever go?

On Airsoft? Yeah. Like, kinda like LARPing, but you use BB guns. Okay. Right now okay.

I'm familiar with Airsoft guns, but, explain to me what air softing would be. I know you said it's like, it's like LARPing, so, you know, a little bit of, are you pretending to be in the military and you, like, shoot your friends? How how does it work? Yep. Pretty much.

So as you can imagine, bunch of nerdy kids dressed up. There's even some guys that have real military night vision, and you play at night. Oh, wow. Like $10,000 sets of night vision. Jeez.

Yeah. That's pretty cool. So yeah. There's actually a page. You should look it up.

That's called East Idaho Airsoft. East Idaho Airsoft. Let me Google this up here. I mean, okay. I've never been shot with an Airsoft gun.

Does it hurt? If you're if you're all dressed up, it doesn't. But if you're in a t shirt, we we've actually had BBs, enter somebody's body, like, get stuck under their skin. Yeah. See, that's what I I'm kind of a wuss, and I would be concerned that it would hurt, and I'd look like a a weakling amongst the the crew.

I found the website. There there's, like, there's 8 year old kids that go and play, so I think it'd be alright. Oh, so I'd be even more embarrassed when an 8 year old kid shot me. And I'm like, oh. Oh, oh, it hurts.

Yeah. There's there's actually one running around with, like, a, like, a, a mini gun. It has, like, 4 barrels, and it shoots really fast. And now you gotta watch out for him. Yeah.

I'm I'm scoping out some of the pics of, at least one of the crews on the, website here on the make friends, tab. So looks like, some serious business. Those are pretty cool looking airsoft guns. I don't know. I mean, it looks like a good time to me.

I've I've never done that, but I I would think it would be pretty fun. So Yeah. Well, if you're open to new things, August 17th at the, haunted hospital in Saint Anthony, they're doing a, a game inside the haunted hospital. It's gonna be really creepy and dark and Well, that sounds really cool. Gonna be fun.

So You said August 17th? August 17th started at 4 PM. Alright. And, let's see. And you can find all the details on that Facebook page, East Idaho Airsoft.

Oh, okay. I was on the main website. So Oh, okay. Well Yeah. Used to date.

I was gonna say you guys need to update the event calendar on the, main website there. Yeah. But, cool, man. Yeah. If I can make it out that way, I do get out to Saint Anthony from time to time.

It's a Saturday night. Sounds like fun. So Yeah. I I mean, I ain't got no gear. Do you guys if you show up to an event, is there ways for people to rent gear?

Things like that. Oh, yes. There's gear rentals. They you can pick what gun you want. This and that.

It's it's pretty sweet. Alright, man. Well, cool. It's it's it's $10 to get in, and I think it's, like, 20 for a rental. Okay.

That that ain't too bad at all. So Yeah. So Alright. Yep. R Dizzle.

Sounds pretty sweet. And, Oh, sizzle. I appreciate you calling and letting me know, man. I I I didn't know we had these kind of, groups around here. So that that's pretty cool.

I didn't either. I just I made a promise to a kid that I worked with. He was going on a mission and I said you know what? Because I was kind of tired of him asking me. I was like you know what?

I'll go with you before you leave. And I have spent probably over $2,000 on it now. So Well, it must be a pretty good time. And, like, I mean, one time way back in the day, I did some paintball and that was really fun too. I mean, I'm not very, what's the word I'm looking for here?

Athletic. I've I've, you know, when it comes to the running and hiding, I'm very clumsy. I got mowed down, but it was fun. Well, good thing about good thing about Airsoft is you can always buy a sniper and lay down in the weeds and just pick some kids off. Yeah.

Maybe that's my job. I I I'm the guy up in the hills. Yeah. Exactly. Alright, man.

Very cool. Well, thanks for all the info and, anybody else listening, East Idaho Airsoft. If you're looking for something fun to do, it sounds like a great time, man. Well, thanks for chatting with me. Anytime.

That's, you know, what this feature's all about. So I appreciate you calling in. Anytime. Right on, man. Have a good rest of the week.

You too. Bye bye. Peace. Alright. See?

Look at that. Look at that variety of topics we discussed on a little bit of ask me almost anything. I'd love to keep it going throughout the hour. Like I said, I've got content if need be, but if y'all wanna con oh, I said y'all again. I'm trying to get myself out of saying y'all because I I read that gen z don't like it.

Anyway, if y'all wanna continue doing this feature, call me after the next song, and we'll do some more more questions. Alright? Because I think it's fun. I like talking with my peeps, my K Bear Rock Army. Alright.

Caller, remind me your name again. It's Dan. Dan. Maybe I didn't even ask when I first picked up the phone. I don't know.

Oh, you're good, man. So Dan called because I I don't know. Did you notice that from a picture or from a video we posted online or something? I think it was a video, but it was, when you are drawing names out of a a box. Gotcha.

So, Dan, about a year ago or so, made Peaches a magnetic wallet. And now what is this made out? Is this gator? It's actually kahylehide, gator imprint. Okay.

Kalhide with a gator imprint. Okay. And then it's got these eyes on it. It's a cool red color. And I mean, I don't remember how this all played out, but Peaches was showing it to me.

I slapped it on the, the mic stand because it magnetized on there, and I just think it looks like a really cool mic stand addition. So if anybody has seen this red thing with an eye on it in any of our videos or photos we've posted from in the studio, Dan, you did an awesome job with that, man. This thing's way cool. I didn't know where Peach has got it. So it's, it's cool to talk to the guy who made it.

Right on. Yeah. That was a fun piece to me. Yeah. Hopefully, he doesn't decide to take it home because I think it looks best on the microphone.

Like I told you, then it's not in a pocket getting all scuffed up. You know, it's got these sweet, glass eyes and, yeah. It just looks cool. Thank you. I appreciate that.

Yeah. So do you do that kind of thing, just for fun? Do you do you make other stuff? You know? I do.

I do wallets, nice sheets, gun holsters. Okay. Nice. Well, very cool, man. Very cool.

I I think it's sweet and it has not moved from this microphone since the day that Peach has had it in here. So right on. So thanks, man, for your contribution to making our studio look sweet. Very welcome. Right on, Dan.

We have a good rest of the week, man. Y'all too. Peace. K Bear, you are live on ask me almost anything on the noon hour of badness and mayhem. Who's this?

Hey, crazy Carl, Victor. How are you doing, man? Crazy Carl. I'm doing good, man. What did you call the plug today?

Dude, I oh, that's a drag races, man. I'm sorry about that, dude. No. What what just 300 people. It was absolutely awesome.

Just Oh, good. A little bit of adrenaline. Oh, it was great. So on that note, what would it take to get you and sergeant Crane in high heels and do a drag race and live stream it? Yeah.

We sorta talked about that, didn't we? We did. On Trapp's School? A little bit. You know, I think it probably wouldn't take too much.

We'd have to find the shoes, which I don't know what his feet are like, but, you know, I I'd need some, you know, my feet are wide, so I'd need some very strange high heels. But, you know, for a good cause and or or just for fun, I I would think he'd be down to do it. So Right. Yeah. We just have to kinda line it up and make it have I mean, I don't know if I'd won a race against lieutenant Crane, though.

He's, you know, he he runs the figure 8 races and he's a police officer. I think he probably has better racing skills than me. Little little advantage going there. Right? Right.

I think he would have to have the, you know, like stripper style high heels that are really tall to kind of give me an advantage. Maybe I just wear flats, you know? Give him the Jean Simmons boots. Yeah. And I just wear kinda, you know, regular ladies shoes.

Right. Right. Yeah. On another note, I think you guys should go BB shooting and see who's a better shot. Oh, you know, go go out and shoot BBs and see who's a better shot, me or a lieutenant with the state police.

Now it's been a while since I went out shooting. I've I've always done pretty good. I mean, but I I would imagine versus a state cop. Again, I'm gonna lose. Can we go me and lieutenant me and lieutenant Crane?

Who can make a better riff? Come on. I'll take them off. Yeah. Hey.

Go go 2 for 3, Mary. Yeah. We need to have the me versus Crane Olympics of some sort where there are quick. There are various fields that each of us are good in, and maybe, you know, one of us somehow surprises the other and takes them out in something that they thought for sure they would win in. Oh, that would be awesome.

That would be incredible. We need to make a list, man. No doubt. Yeah. You know, maybe, we get a thread going on the Kay Bear Group on Facebook.

What would be Oh, yeah. You know, some some good events in the Victor Wilt versus Lieutenant Crane Olympic games and see see what listeners can come up with. Oh, with the Olympics, that'd be perfect timing. Yeah. It's a good time.

Yeah. It's, topical right now. Right. Right. Right.

No doubt. No doubt. So alright. Alright. Well, hey.

Thanks for your time, Victor. You guys have a good week, man. You too, crazy Carl. Good to hear from you, man. You too, man.

Peace. Bye. Let's talk about people getting duped by the Internet. I didn't even see this one yesterday, But there was apparently some kind of article making the rounds or I don't know if it was a meme that a truck had overturned in Casper, Wyoming, spilling 100 of deadly king cobras all over the roadway, and then they just got loose. Now this was not real news.

And every article that I bring up here trying to find out what happened is, like, please subscribe. Give us $3 a month. Like, I'm not subscribing to some rando Wyoming newspaper in the middle of nowhere. I don't care. Alright.

Thank you to Times Now World about the accident on I 25 in Casper, Wyoming releasing 100 of King Cobras. Truth behind viral post. Okay. It was a Facebook post shared by Casper Planet. Post claimed that the incident occurred around 6 AM on Monday when a semi truck carrying king cobras from a research lab in Colorado to another in Montana overturned.

And, people started panicking about this. You know, even my friend, Justin Pierce from 105 the hockey's like, alright. How long does it take a king cobra to get from Casper, Wyoming to here? How fast do they travel? The post was shared over 17,000 times within 5 hours and it was just made up.

Just made up. Alright. Casper Planet, as noted in its Facebook bio, is a satire account. It's not real. And this is the problem with the world we're living in now.

I complain about it on the morning show often enough. People will believe anything they see online. I was eating lunch a little while ago because I have my lunch early. And I just fired up YouTube, you know. Usually, I work while I'm having lunch but today I was slacking.

I was actually having a lunch break. So I was watching a little bit of YouTube, and I guess no. It was show prep. I was still working because I'm talking about it right now. If you listen to my morning show, you have possibly heard me mention Joe Rogan before.

I used to love listening to the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. I started listening to it in, like, 2013 or something a long time ago. And maybe it was even before that because, actually, I think I was doing a just kind of an underground thing. It's about the beginning of the know, it was just kind of an underground thing. It was about the beginning of the pandemic.

He really blew up and then he moved to Texas and the pandemic cooked his brain. And I don't know if it's just hanging around a bunch of rich people in Texas and making a $100,000,000 a year But Joe Rogan is not the Joe Rogan he used to be. And it's very disappointing as a fan of what that show was, what it has turned into. And it gets to be so aggravating to watch sometimes because he's turned into this old boomer who will believe anything that he sees online. Well, I was happy to see this video from his show, a few days ago.

What was the name of I can't remember the name of the guest. Let me, fire up the Joe Rogan subreddit here. But anyway, Joe's got his assistant. I don't know what you call it. Producer.

Whatever. Jamie. Who will occasionally jump in and in a fact check, Joe, which is really, really good because I have heard Joe Rogan in the past 4 years spread some information that I'm like, dude, come on. Where where are you hearing this? And how can you spread it to all of your listeners as if it's fact?

You gotta look these things up, man. Because people take what he says at face value. He's the most popular podcaster in the world. Alright? He, okay, you know how people watch, like, the news?

They'll watch those 24 hour news channels that are terrible like, you know, Fox and CNN garbage channels. Anyway, Joe Rogan has way more people listening to him than probably all of the 24 hour news networks combined. So when he's on there just spouting stuff off that you're going wait. What? What are you talking about, man?

It's good to see that he's got Jamie fact checking him. There was a video from yeah. It was the other day when he had this guy Michael Malice on. And Joe kept bringing up all kinds of different crazy things and both the guest, Michael Malice, who I'm I'm not really sure who he is, but both him and Jamie were, like, dude, Joe, what what are you talking about, man? Like, that sounds that sounds ridiculous.

That sounds crazy. And so they were just fact checking him. Like, the whole show. There's I wanna say, like, a 15 minute video of all of these different things where Joe's just like, I can't believe I'm getting fooled by the Internet again. And it just goes to show when you get trapped in a bubble of information, it could be the people he follows on social media, maybe whatever accounts he's viewing on Instagram and Twitter.

It could be the people he's hanging out with. When you get stuck in an information loop, you get cut off from reality, which is why I always encourage people to look at a news story from a lot of different perspectives. If you see something that sounds kinda crazy, go look up that same story on Google News. Go to Google and punch the basics of that story into the search and go to news and see the way that story is being presented by a variety of news sources. And you can probably figure out, you know, where the truth lies in this thing because 24 hour news networks, their entire goal, it seems anymore, is to keep people so engaged through outrage.

They they're not concerned about actually informing people anymore. They're entertainment, and they wanna keep you tuned in. And one of the best ways keep you tuned in as well as engaged, like, posting on their social media pages and sharing their stories is by misconstruing the news or just straight up making it up to keep people completely outraged and driving more people to go check out these news sources. It's wild. It's wild.

But, unfortunately, most people find their one news source and they're like, that's that's where I get my news. That is my place, and they don't they don't look outside of that. And so if if you've got yourself and your your friends and your family and you're all tune you know, getting all your information from just this one place and you're all feeding it to each other and then your social media which also just sits there and feeds you what you wanna see. Like, if you click like on an article on Facebook, it's going or a certain type of post, It's gonna give you more of that. If you're on YouTube and you watch a video, go back to your home page.

All of a sudden, you're gonna have 10 videos about that same subject and from the same perspective. All social media and all news wants to keep you coming back for more. So they feed you more of what they know you like. Alright? And it it's hard to break it because because I've tried to break my YouTube algorithm to show me the other perspective because I've got a certain perspective on things.

I've I lean in a certain direction when it comes to things like politics and such, but I want to know how the other side is presenting stuff. So I will attempt to break my YouTube feed and get it to show me other stuff. It's really hard because it it keeps track of what you watch and how long you watch it. You know, if you watch a few minute you know, few seconds of a video, YouTube knows you don't want more of that. If you sit down and watch the full thing, yeah, they'll they'll just load your feed up with that.

So it's just something to keep in mind that your social media feed is literally feeding you the delicious snacks that your mind craves most. And people don't like being confronted with different viewpoints and, you know, potentially having a political belief system, for example, tinkered with or potentially, chipped away at. It's much easier to just, you know, consume the morsels that you're used to sucking down. So just try. Try to get yourself as much perspective as possible when it comes to any type of issue because you'll end up like Joe, like Rogan where your feed is pumping you so so full of misinformation that I mean, as someone who has listened to Rogen show for well over a decade, some of the stuff I saw I am buying into in that video that's in his subreddit, it was painful for me because he's not an idiot I mean he can do some dumb things just like me but he's not an idiot.

And that's that's what I think a lot of people have difficulty understanding is, you know, really, really smart people can get duped into believing ludicrous things when you're just pummeled with it and the other pieces of information never come your way. And I think that's what's going on with with Joe Rogan. Like I say, it was as a fan of his, painful. It was super painful to watch. And now I'm I'm not the same type of fan I was.

His show is not what it used to be. I I don't really listen to it anymore. It's I've. If you still got people talking about COVID and how rough the pan oh, remember all the you know, how it was with the masks and it's like, dude, enough. It's 2024.

Stop. Yeah. So I I just can't listen to that, you know. And also, if you're trying to listen to somebody who makes a $100,000,000 a year complain about how rough it is, it it's tough for me. It it's tough for me to and that's just from the Spotify job.

Yeah. Probably making a lot more than a 100 mil a year. Oh, but the world's all coming down. Yeah. Maybe shut down that social media feed for a bit.

Alright. I know I just talked for a long time. It's one of those days today. Some days, I talk a lot. So I will not talk for the rest of the show.

K? I'm out of here. The noon hour of madness and mayhem powered by Jalisco's. I think I need a Chipotle burrito now. Gotta refuel.

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