The Viktor Wilt Show

Morning! How's everybody doing?

Happy Monday, happy post Christmas. I hope you're doing well. I'm doing alright.

I'm doing okay. Alright, I need to figure out how to get these buttons to work again. It's not that I forgot how to do my job.

We've had some studio issues as of late and you know that one thing ain't working. That's alright. We'll survive. Just gotta get through Monday and roll into the new year 2026. Hopefully it'll be a good one. And yeah, I hope you had a great Christmas holiday. Mine went pretty well. Got it done.

God Christmas done. It was a little bit hectic toward the end with having to put things together. Sometimes having to put things together ends up being much more of a task than you anticipate. But got the job done, had a great time.

Just wish I would have got a little bit more rest over the weekend because I did not want to get up today and come to work, but I'm here. So we'll get through it together. And hopefully there is some fun stuff in the news for us to talk about to get this program rolling. And in the meantime, I'll work on figuring out a workaround for this button situation should hopefully be pretty doubted.

But I'll figure something out. Definitely looking forward to new music in 2025. We talked about some of the new albums coming next year last week, like Poppy, you'll be putting something new out in just a few weeks. So that's that's pretty exciting.

Anyway, morning to you or afternoon or evening whenever you happen to be listening to this show if you're catching it on demand. And what was I going to dig into here? Oh, people were asked online what's a harmless habit people judge way too much. Some of these things I didn't realize people were judged for them, because they do certainly seem pretty harmless. Like right at the top of the list, napping during the day. What somebody going to call you lazy? I wish I could. I must have some kind of guilt about this one, because I know when I'm going to lay down and take a nap. I'm like, I could be getting some things done today. I got a lot of crap I got to do around the house after work, not looking forward to it. I would much rather take a nap. Nothing wrong with taking yourself a nice nap. All right, do it if you can. But again, I should have done that yesterday. Did I? No. No, I sat around and played a little bit of red dead.

That's what I did. But I did go to bed at a reasonable time. So that was good. Still wish I could just take a nap though.

All right. Pretty much always fill that way on a Monday morning. Nothing sounds better than a nap.

Needing alone time. Do people judge that? Like yesterday, that was one of those days I'm like, no, I can't deal with people. I'm not going anywhere. Hiding at the house.

No public for me. Just, you know, maybe it was post holiday, just crash. But I just, yeah, no people. I think I'm still feeling that way today.

But that's also probably because it's Monday morning. Let's see here, continuing to enjoy things that you enjoyed as a child. Like what? Video games? Stuff like that? Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Well, I don't know. There's probably some things I could, you know, if I sat here and racked my brain, that I'd be like, nah, you shouldn't, you know, it's pretty cringe to still be doing that as an adult, but whatever. Teach their own. Going to the movie theater by yourself.

Another thing I didn't realize people were judged for. I have tried to go to the movie theater by myself. It doesn't work out for me.

All right. I end up just crashing out, falling asleep in the theater. It's embarrassing. So yeah, you can feel free to judge me if I go to the movie theater by myself, because I'll probably end up getting that nap in that I always refused to get in at home. I just realized I had a dream that the bosses got us hooked up somehow here with free movie tickets for every movie that came to theaters. I was like, that's pretty cool.

That was just a dream. I think I just take more money and I'll go to the movie theater myself. All right, spending time at home. People judge for that. There's no better place to be than home.

Seriously. If I have the choice pretty much of going anywhere or being at home, a lot of the time, most of the time, I'm going to be like, I'd rather just be at my house relaxing. Again, I didn't realize people were judged for these things like going out to eat by yourself. I don't know. That's one that I'm not personally into, but like Josh from Classy, he loves it.

Told me he loved it. Go to Texas Roadhouse and you get all the rolls to yourself. There are some good reasons to go out to eat by yourself. You know, hit up a Mexican restaurant, all the chips and salsa. It's all yours.

Heck yeah. Sleeping in late or going to bed late. I certainly don't judge that. If you can sleep in late, do it. Take advantage of it. Staying up late can be fun too. Only problem is, you know, you start waking up earlier than you'd like if you're in a, you know, what's the word I'm looking for here? When you're on a schedule, when you're in a routine of waking up early, I mean, mine's a forced routine. If you think I want to get up at five, you're crazy, but pulled it off, pulled it off today. Didn't want to, but here I am. Yeah, I don't think anyone should judge any of these things.

Most of these things you can do. Go for it. All right, we are going to take a break.

I'll see what other things I can dig up to yapp about and I'll be back in a minute. Well, it can be terrifying and just awful when you've got an animal that is missing. You might recall last year, at one point, my cat Lucy, she just disappeared for a couple days and she was little.

It was about this kind of weather outside, just freezing. And I was devastated, you know, ended up finding her in the neighbor's garage once I started going door to door. That's the proper way to find your animal. Put up some missing posts in the local groups, check with the local animal shelter, gonna make sure you've got your animals chipped. You can even get a like a tracking device you can put on them, like an Apple Air tag collar.

That's what I got for Lucy now. What you don't do is what this guy in Salt Lake did. And I'm guessing he was lying. I don't know if his dog was really missing or not, but he was trying to quote create a scene so police would help him find his dog. So at about 4am, he just started smashing car windows and breaking windows to multiple apartment complexes.

Caused damage to a water fountain, multiple vehicles, and other miscellaneous decorations and items throughout the lobby of one of these apartment complexes. Also had some can of opened fuel. I don't know, they said it was a blue can. I don't know what kind of fuel it was. Thankfully didn't start any kind of fires. But when they found the guy, initially he's like, I don't know why I did it.

All right, it's 4am. I'm guessing the guy was under the influence of something. You know, maybe a little bit angry. Or maybe he just really was missing his dog. But I, you're not going to be able to get the cops to help you find your dog. Like to begin with, I don't think they've got other things to do.

But certainly if you start smashing windows and breaking things and pouring some type of fuel on, it looks like stairwells. Yeah, they're not going to be very happy about that. They're not going to help you find your dog. So take the common sense route and these kind of things. Don't be like Jonah Singer of Salt Lake City, who is I would imagine still in jail.

What an idiot. All right. Hope your Monday's going good so far. You know, we're getting closer to the new year. Hope you've got some fun plans ahead.

Maybe I'll see if there's any fun events going on and let you know about them. But we'll continue on with this program. Let's crush Monday.

Let's get it over with quickly so we can get back to a holiday relaxation. Oh, speaking of bad omens, want to go see them for free? Of course you do. And we are hooking up tickets to see bad omens. Going to be hitting up the Delta Center in Salt Lake Sunday, February 22. Along with some other pretty cool bands, Beartooth and President. It's the Do You Feel Love Tour.

Tickets on sale now, but nothing beats going for free. So what you need to do is listen for the bad omen sounder. It's very obvious. You'll know it when you hear it. It tells you to call. So when you hear us play that, be caller number 20 at 208-535-1015 and we will hook you up with a pair tickets to Bad Omens, Beartooth and President live at the Delta Center again, February 22. Give it away to those tickets all week. So listen carefully for that sounder.

Be caller 20 and we'll hook you up. If you don't win, buy tickets because it'll be an awesome show. You know, it's really cool to see that bad omens has gotten to the point. They are playing the freaking Delta Center. Crazy that just a few years ago I was watching them open for Under Oath and Spirit Box at the Complex and we even had them in studio.

Now they are headlining the Delta Center. Very, very, very cool. So go see them.

They're awesome. You know that smell when you're walking through the fair and you can smell like the scones and just that carnival smell of delicious fair food. Do you think you could ever get sick of it? Well, apparently one community has because a Dunkin' Donuts factory has just been stinking up the neighborhood for months and months. Neighbors complaining of overwhelming donut smell in Massachusetts.

Yeah, the guys like my house smells like donuts all the time. It's distracting and it's heavy. I mean, it could be so much worse. You could live next to like a sewage treatment plant or something. Maybe, you know, animal processing facility. Donuts don't sound that bad to me. But I don't know, maybe any smell. You smell it for like months and months. Probably does get old.

But it could be so much worse. So yeah, they're calling on the local authorities to do some investigating. Worried about air quality surrounding the plant.

What if it was really dangerous? The donut smell. They just killed you dead. Killed by donut smell.

Well, again, there's a lot worse ways to go. Just drift off to sleep. The fresh smell of donuts pouring into your head. Now, I would imagine it would get pretty old. So hopefully they can get the problem figured out so that people can just go back to smelling. I don't know what dog crap in the neighborhood.

Local farms. So a lot of good stuff out to watch right now. Been making my way through the latest episodes of Stranger Things.

Got one more to go. And I'm enjoying them just fine. Seems like mixed reviews online, but I don't know. Seems fine enough to me.

I was enjoying them. Also been watching Welcome to Dairy, which is a prequel to the Stephen King story it. And they've just done an amazing job with this. If you're a Stephen King or horror fan, I think you'd really enjoy it. Pretty good stuff. I need to finish it. I think I've got like four or five episodes to go.

But relating to Stephen King and Stranger Things news, a few years ago, it was announced that the co-creators of Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers, they were going to be adapting the Stephen King story, the Talisman for Netflix. Well now, apparently that's been canceled. Lame.

That is so lame. You'd think with how many big Stephen King things happened this year that Netflix wouldn't have dropped this series. But I guess the Duffer Brothers are moving on to a different company, Paramount or something like that. And so I guess the Talisman, it's just kind of up for grabs to, you know, whoever wants to take the series on.

Hopefully somebody good will get their hands on it, you know, and make it into something awesome like Welcome to Dairy. The Talisman is one of my favorite Stephen King books. One of the most recent books I actually read. Need to get back to reading. Hoping to make that a goal for the new year. Time to set those New Year's resolutions.

And one of those is definitely Do More Reading. Because it's good for the mind. It's relaxing.

And I have been sucking in that realm of, you know, good, healthy hobbies. So I'm going to have to finish up Black House, which is the sequel to the Talisman. And you know, if you're a Stephen King fan and a Talisman fan, at least Stephen King is writing Talisman 3. And I think he's about done with it.

So yeah, I was bummed to read this news. I figured after Stranger Things, then we'd have the Talisman coming. But I don't know. I don't know what, what there's going to be to look forward to. But I would imagine we got some good entertainment options coming our way in 2026.

So maybe I'll look up upcoming releases. See what we got. And I got a message from one of our listeners that earlier I said Happy Tuesday.

I guess I'm just being optimistic. The show is not pre-recorded. I'm here doing it live.

I'm just dumb. Today is sadly not Tuesday. Today would be Monday.

So thank you for the correction. I might have jumped on and said Happy Tuesday again. I don't know why it's in my head that it's Tuesday. Again, just dreaming apparently. Alright, I gotta get some freak news ready.

I'll be back in a few with that. Don't go anywhere. Got your Monday edition of Freak News. Sadly not Tuesday as I stated earlier.

It's early people. And just coming off a holiday break cut me a little bit of slack. Speaking of the holidays, got the Salvation Army out, you know, collecting coins and money and things like that. The bell ringers. Alright, if you're a Florida man, you should not get hammered before going on the job to be a Salvation Army bell ringer.

It's just guaranteed to come along with some problems. Alright, apparently this guy Steven Pavlik was hired to collect donations, but instead got wasted and started arguing with customers, disturbing them. That's what it that's what it says. Disturbing customers who pass by. So the manager of the stores like, hey dude, what's your problem? And the guy picked up the donation kettle tripod and tried to stab the man with it. Then he ran away and the authorities later found him at his house. Still hammered, took him to jail. I guess don't mess with the bell ringer.

Thankfully, no stories like that popping up around here. I think we've got some nice quality tame bell ringers, nothing to be worried about. And that's good.

Alright, what else here? The biggest story of 2025. What do you think it was? Well, according to Dave Berry, it was the drunk raccoon passed out in a liquor store bathroom. That was one that filled my entire social media feed one day.

And I think it was a story everybody was needing, right? We've had a lot of doom and gloom in 2025. Thankfully, toward the end of the year, got a raccoon, fell into a liquor store, started breaking bottles, drinking the booze, and then they found him passed out just on the floor in the bathroom. And people love this raccoon.

They just love it. So congrats on that raccoon making it as the biggest story of 2025. At least it was something good.

Another big story in 2025 was the three I slash Atlas potential alien spacecraft. It was just a comment. What if it would have been an alien spacecraft? Then it would have definitely been the biggest story of the year, right? But what would have happened?

They got articles floating around right now. Would we have been able to take on the alien visitors? Why do we immediately need to assume that they're going to be malicious? Well, probably because historically, when you see people show up, make their way into other countries and things like that, we have a lot of history on this planet of conflict. So if an alien spacecraft rolls into your yard, try to avoid just shooting at it.

Okay. Just kick back and hope for the best. But the gunfire, the fighting the aliens, it's just not necessary. They might come in peace. They might. Even if we're not familiar with that idea.

All right. I don't know if squatting is a major problem around here. People just moving into homes that are up for sale or something like that and the homeowners can't get them out.

A lot of times, like the cops will tell you, you need to deal with this in civil court. Well, in Oakland, they've got ASAP squad or removal. The guy started a service because I guess it's a major problem over there, probably due to the insane cost of housing in the San Francisco area. But this guy, he's just like a DIY eviction service and he shows up chases him out of the house with the ninja sword.

Then he'll manage to board up the place and live in there for a few days, making sure the squatters don't return and he's prepared. Yeah. Hey, he's, like I said, he's packing a sword and looking at the images from his website.

This guy looks tough. I don't know. Hey, you know, do you have some type of military or jujitsu experience looking for a new gig? The guys apparently making pretty good money. You know, his services are being used. But it seems like a legal gray area to me.

Seems like there's a potential there for and a major problems. But I guess we'll just keep you updated on further stories about that guy and his line of business because I'm sure we'll hear more eventually. Anyway, I hope that Monday's going good so far. Let's crush it down.

Get it over with Monday morning. Maybe you're listening to this on another day. If so, congratulations. Hope you made it through Monday. All good.

All right. Looks like mix 106 and Boise desperate for content. I'm guessing this has got to be a town square station down it. Let's scroll scroll to the bottom here. It's got to be.

Yeah. Town square radio. They don't really give a crap about what actually happens on the air. They just got their DJs trying to write viral articles on their websites. So they wrote this one called armpit of Idaho, tiny Idaho town victim of online backlash. And they start off by talking about some viral video for the town Wallace, which I've talked about Wallace.

It's a cool little town in northern Idaho. And they go from just mentioning this Wallace video into well, the reverse is happening. And one Idaho town is on the receiving end of a lot of online backlash and they're showing screenshots from I guess these must be Instagram comments, Instagram or Facebook. They don't link to the post so I can't see what where this originated from. But I can see that it says they were like 28 replies. Okay, I mean, these are these are getting a lot of clicks. Some of them.

One of them has 827 likes. And that would be the one saying Pocatello is the armpit of Idaho. All right, I've got to throw my support behind Pocatello. There are much worse places in Idaho than Pocatello and Pocatello.

I got to say it's not that bad. It's my hometown. You've got access to tons of nature, like five minute drive up into the hills.

You're out in the woods and it's it's beautiful up there during certain times of the year. Got city Crete, you know, got cherry springs. What one person on here said Pocatello is turning into Compton. All right, I've driven through Compton.

I've never stopped. But I don't think that that comparison is very accurate. Okay, I haven't spent as much time in Pocate as I have back in the day and recently. But also it's spelled P O K Y. If you're trying to talk about Pocate, you can always spot a transplant by spelling it P O K I E. What is up peaches? We're saying Pocatello is the next Compton.

Is that what you're saying? That's what apparently people online are saying. Mix 106 out of Boise made this article about Pocatello just under fire online because they found some thread where people were trash talking Pocate. Yeah. For as I know, I hadn't seen that Pocate was currently under attack online because this is the first I've heard about this. Yeah, same here. Now, somebody did mention the construction that's been going on for like two years. That is annoying. But that's called an upgrade. That's very Compton.

Very Compton upgrading the freeway system to make it better. Yes, it takes forever. And that is annoying.

But come on, come on now. There are worse places in Idaho. And they call it a tiny town. Now, if you were to say Burley is the next Compton of Idaho, then I would agree with that. That's what I figured if they were talking about the tiny town that's an armpit of Idaho, it's Burley. That or mountain home.

No, I'm kidding. Mountain home is a dump, too. It is a dump. But nowhere in Idaho is close to Compton.

No. And mountain home is the worst named town in Idaho as well, because there's nothing mountainous about it. It's just the desert. It's it sucks if you've been through mountain home. You just keep going.

It's like Burley. What if I asked AI, what are the worst cities in Idaho? Well, I bet because AI just scours the Internet. This article, you know, which popped upon my feed, is going to have an impact on that. It'll probably name Pocatello, thanks to, you know, these high polluters and Boise, you know, desperate for content coming up with this article here.

No, it says here, according to the recent crime statistics, these cities in Idaho have some of the most some of the highest violent and or property crime rates per capita. Okay, let me guess, Caldwell. That's number three.

That's number three. What do we got for Burley? Burley's not on the list. Burley's not on the list.

Okay, I got to know who else is on the list. Garden City is number one. Garden City, where my homie Nick lives. Garden City is basically, you know, like the Chubbock of Boise.

Highest violent crime rate in the state, high property crime rates. Okay. Rupert number two. Okay, that's essentially Burley. Rupert is essentially Burley.

They're like right by each other. Rupert's a dump too. Sorry to everybody listening in that area. You can move.

You can. Caldwell. Yeah, I figured Caldwell would pop up.

What others we got? Twin Falls. Okay, another Magic Valley dump. Twin Falls. Then Idaho Falls. Idaho Falls.

Wow, dare they? Then Nampa. Okay.

Then Pocatello. If you don't like it, get out. I don't know. Garden City isn't a place you generally hear about being that great. I've been there many times because again, my you know, my homie Nick lives there. It's close to downtown Boise. I'm you know, I don't know if there's anything of note in Garden City, but it feels you know, just as safe as it's Idaho, you know, the worst places in Idaho are still nothing compared to like St. Louis. Compton still isn't all that bad anymore. No, how it used to be, but it's still Compton.

Yeah. Inglewood is horrible. Some most parts of downtown L.A. are downright awful.

But but any place here in Idaho is nowhere close to that. But we looked up the most dangerous cities in the U.S. tons of time. And it's always like, yeah, Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, top the list every time.

Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore. Yeah. Yeah. They're all cities that went way far away from here. And they're none of the like big cities that you always see named like L.A., New York or Chicago.

No, Memphis, St. Louis, Detroit, way worse. Well, in those places, there's no Facebook group dedicated to calling out the homeless people or like tagging, you know, tagging homeless people, like tagging on the walls. Oh, okay. Not tagging homeless people. I was like, who's doing that? There's like one homeless person spotted by the Friendship Garden. All of a sudden, like, you know, there's people posting pictures of that person all over life and I don't know if all's saying, get rid of this guy. What? That's horrible. They're down on their luck. And yeah, there are homeless people around here, everybody. Jeez.

Try to. Do you think they are loving it? You know, are they in the crime logs? Yeah.

Some might think they just want to be homeless and don't have to pay anything. Yeah. Right now, when it's what, 13 degrees outside?

Oh, it's freezing out there. Sounds great. Yeah. I'd love to be living down by the river right now. That'd be wonderful, right?

Take a nice dip. Yeah. Why don't you. That's messed up with people are posting pictures of homeless people in life and Idaho Falls.

I've seen a couple in the past, not recently, but I've seen a couple in the past before. It's, it's just awful. But what's this person got to say? This is a risky time to take call. Can't bear your live on the show.

Keep that in mind. Who's this? So that homeless guy that you guys are talking about, the reason that blew up so much on Facebook is because he was over there doing hardcore drugs. Okay. Yep. He, you know, he was leaving needles everywhere there.

That's, that's why everybody was upset about him specifically. Why didn't they call the authorities? The authorities won't do anything. It was an election year this year. Nobody wants to touch anything like that because they're worried they'll lose votes. I thought that hand in hand with the city multiple times because if you go look at uh, over behind the dog park, there's a whole homeless camp back there and they throw mattresses in the river. They throw everything in the river and it destroys our town. And I've tried bringing that up to them before I even told them I'd help clean it up if they dropped off a dumpster, but they wouldn't do anything about it.

And their exact words to me were, it is an election year. We do not want to touch this. I don't know. I don't, I don't know.

I'll have to look more into this. Cause I haven't heard about any of this. It does seem like if there was a danger to the public and there's, you know, needles all over the place and things like that. Uh, in Idaho, it seems like the type of place that they'd go try to fix up the problem, but then also you, you have to have a place for these people to go.

You know, we also need to take a look at Monrock. They did the same exact thing there. You still can't go out on any of those islands out there without stumbling across a used needle. They're everywhere out there.

I go fishing out there all the time and I haven't fished that spot in five years because of it. Huh. Yeah. I don't, where is Monrock? It's where they shoot off the fireworks.

Oh, they, it used to be called Monrock when I was growing up. Okay. With the little cabin. No, no, no, no, that's keepers landing. Yeah. That's keepers island.

I'm talking over where they currently shoot off the fireworks. Oh, yeah. Okay. I don't know what you're talking about there, but that's also private property.

Right. Well, no, it's all a giant park. Parks are public property. Well, Snake River landing. I don't know if that's considered a public park.

I'd have to look into that, but I know there are areas down there where there's no trespassing signs and things like that. So, but again, I don't get out much. So, yeah, you got to down the red dead redemption. I know, dude, when it's 13 degrees, I'm riding the horse through the digital desert pretending it's hot. I crank up that heat. I'm like, hey, man, I can't, I can't say anything because I've put about 50 hours into the red dead redemption to play through in the last week.

Heck, yeah, I put in a couple of hours yesterday. It was very nice. So, well, better enough, we'll have yourself a wonderful morning, Victor, and tell peaches I said hi.

Absolutely, man. I hope you have a great day. You too. Peace.

All right, peaches. Well, I still say, I don't know, maybe that led to some action, but I don't know about the public shaming of people. It just seems like, you know, it's not helpful. There's been multiple times, I think homeless dudes have been posted in that group. Yeah, I've seen people post to people at like Walmart. Well, there's also one behind the library.

That was the big one. I was thinking about the one guy behind the library that was just sleeping there and someone took a picture and posted it. This is like, you know, you don't know the situation that got somebody there. So they probably don't need a public shaming. Now, if they are in it, you know, endangering the community, let's get some done about it. But I don't know how posting in the life of night old falls is going to help the problem. I can contact the authorities. We can do it as a publicity stunt.

A publicity. Peeps go sleep in the snow. Yeah, I'll go sleep out there. Caber blanket. So that they just see Caber one on one real big in a blanket. Oh, but then the company would get yelled at for not paying their employees enough money to be.

Hey, maybe you're on to something. Peeps, I can't afford a house. Times are rough for you listening.

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Doesn't matter if it's early, late, midday. Just suck seeing your face. Yuck. That's what I say when you walk in.

Just yuck. So you say it every time you see yourself in the mirror too. That's true. That's true. No lie there. How was your holiday weekend?

No, you already told me. You sounded wonderful. Yeah, I wish I could do it every week. Oh, man. I did get a couple of good nights of sleep, though, or I didn't get out of bed until noon, which never happens. I did get to sleep in a couple days, but the one day I wanted to was today.

Right. I just woke up over and over all night. It was aggravating. Like I couldn't get comfortable. My back started hurting like why? Why when I'm rolling into a Monday?

This how it has to be so stupid. Right. But could have been worse. Could have been your weekend. And then we had some snow thrown in the mix too.

And everybody complained and forever. Where's the snow? Where's the snow?

Well, I hope you're liking it now. It's cold as crap outside. It sucks. Seven degrees when I walked in this morning.

Oh, yeah. When I went out because my garage is filled up with stuff. That's the first year I haven't been here. Your fault. I know.

I know. It's the first year I haven't been able to park in the garage in a few years. And when you walk outside, it's very aggravating. You don't realize how nice it is to be able to park in the garage till all of a sudden you can't and there's snow.

I was very frustrated. And my did I tell you I broke my snowblower? Yeah. With my brute strength.

Right. Maybe did you break it again? Because I thought it wasn't working properly before. Well, it wasn't working properly before. And then I was tinkering with it some more and I was trying to get it to start.

You have no man skills. Why are you tinkering? JD showed me how to tinker with it a few times. So I'm like, I can figure this out. No, you can't. But I went and I'm just trying to start it and I just ripped the pole cord right out of it with my brutal strength.

So yeah, probably just old. I mean, that's why my back was hurt and I shoveled. Shoveling when you are out of shape. I just looked at the forecast and realized it's going to be 40 this week.

So I'm not going to show. See, it seemed like when I checked it, it looked like it was going to be cold as crap all week. I hate how the weather man, like, did you get any kind of notice we were going to get snow when it dumped?

No, me either. It was supposed to be the night the next night or something. Yeah, didn't hear anything about it. All right, I guess by the end of the week.

Yeah, it's looking a lot better than the last time I looked at it. Oh, but they're talking about snow on Thursday and Friday. It's going to be warm, but snow. Gross. Nasty. Yeah, close that tab.

I don't want to look at it. Anyway, those of you who've been complaining, you got your crappy weather, the streets are all, you know, you drive down them and it's like. Love it. So beautiful. It is. Could be worse. Oh, man, I was reading about what coming the way of the Midwest, the polar vortex.

Oh, I didn't see that. It is all flooding in Washington and then California had some. There's actually water in the rivers in California, which.

Like doesn't have it. Yeah, there's never water in the river beds of California. Yeah, I saw Bill Manspeaker posting photos from the LA River, which is, you know, always empty.

So enjoy. It could be worse. Everybody could be sitting in Minneapolis or something like that. Hope my family's doing okay over there.

That would suck. Well, Jade, I hope that you have a better day today. And I guess we're just back to business. So yeah, I got more work for you. I'm sure you do.

But don't don't you realize I got some country music to listen to coming up on a year. Almost there. It's so close, so close. All right, we'll be back. Hey, there, your caller number 19. Is that good or bad?

Bad. You want to be caller number 20. Good luck on the next one.

Thank you. Hey, there, what's up? How much is waiting for a store to open?

Waiting for a store to open. And I guess listening for the bad omen sounder as well. That's right. Yep. Well, who's this? This is Neil. Neil.

Yeah. Neil, congratulations. Your caller number 20. Oh, nice. Got a pair of tickets for the bad omens. Jeez, Beartooth and President's show going down February 22nd.

Hang on the line so I can get your information. Who's your favorite radio station, man? J-Bear, what a one. Well, hello, peaches. Hello. Nothing much.

Nothing much. Fantastic. Well, I hope that everything's going great for you on this fine Monday. I called it a Tuesday earlier. Got corrected, of course, by a listener and was like, man, I wish it was Tuesday. I listened to Aubrey's mom and I thought there was a winner for the Powerball in Florida that one day. So I announced there was a winner. And of course, that was when the Cabo studio was broken. And so Jade, Jeff and Logan were in here yelling. I sit on the throne of lies.

This whole thing. But somebody in Arkansas won the 1.8 billion. Is it Arkansas or one of those one of those AR or A states down there in the south?

Ah, one of those. Bomber, when are they doing the drawing for the Idaho Lottery raffle? Have they already done that? I have no clue. Let's find out because that's like your easiest shot at winning a million dollars. Oh, they're doing it tonight. Doing it tonight. Now the tickets are sold out. So sorry.

I don't know if you if you didn't get into win. Two people will win. Well, technically a million dollars, but then the government takes like half of it. But 500 K that wouldn't be too bad.

No, no, no. I could pay off the house. Any debt might be able to get myself a car save on some gas over our Christmas break. There was that story that came out where the guys sold his business for a huge chunk of money and then gave each of his employees a huge bonus of four hundred and forty three thousand dollars each. That would change pretty much anybody's life. Well, they were saying they paid off their mortgages.

They put it all in the savings for their kids for college and all this stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

If only all billionaires could just sell a little bit and help out their employees. Right. That'd be great. Oh, yeah.

That would be great. Us peaches, we got to win the one million dollar Idaho lottery raffle. We had we had a raffle for a box of meats at our company Christmas party. That's what we had. And as usual, I won nothing. I won nothing.

But everybody here who makes like the most money. Yeah. Becca got me some. Well, Santa got me some lottery tickets for Christmas. And there was like a couple of five dollar tickets, I think, and a two dollar and a one dollar out of all those tickets. I did win one dollar. Oh, I was going to say one dollar.

If the zero point zero button. I was amazed. A dollar. I don't even turn those in. They just sit there. That's what she was saying.

She did with them. If they're dollar winners, I'm like, gather them all up. Let's bring them in and get like 20 bucks. 20 bucks is 20 bucks.

So yeah, if you have a lottery ticket sitting around with a dollar and you just don't want them and I'll take a dollar at a time. Every bit helps in this day and age. You know, just trying to pay the electric bill with this. This freeze and weather going on. Oh, it was cold this morning. I keep turning those heaters on and this is you actually turn the heat on. Well, Aubrey, of course, you know, she wants me to turn those turn them on, but then she'll leave them on in the room and I go back in there and turn them off. I'm like, new rule. Anytime you walk into a room, you can turn the heater on.

But anytime you walk out and you're done in there, turn it off. Peach is just year after year. No heat during the winter. Just freezing at home. We're getting a sealant for like for my door. Yeah.

From a patio doors to just because it's the whole building's crappy and when comes right through the cold air comes right through. Oh, that's great. That's fantastic. And like this weather coming into your house.

But the one thing they love to increase is that rent. Of course. Every single month. Of course. You know, landlord got to make that money.

Oh, yeah. Even though they bought the places back when they were cheap. And the landlord has over 300 buildings. So what? It's not like they're hemorrhaging for money. Yeah.

And too busy, you know, to get out there and get some things fixed. I knew for a fact that when they painted the building all white, that the rent was going to go up because they made it look a little bit nicer outside. You know, so when you drive by, you go, yeah, maybe I'd want to rent an overpriced apartment there. Place looks pretty well kept.

I do see a lot of those buildings around town, though. A lot worse than mine. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's worse.

There's worse than yours. For sure. Two thousand a month for a one bedroom, one bathroom and a what are the names like the ivory the ivory apartment building who has cafe lighting over the playground. That's right. That's how you know it's fancy. And also you get a whole gym, which is one treadmill and two five pound dumbbells.

Oh, dude. That's where you get access. Also access to the clubhouse where there's a broken foosball table and some peen pond that nobody ever wants to play.

One table for board games for you and your friends. That's right, dude. Those are amenities.

Totally covered parking. Forget it. We don't you don't need that. You need a swimming pool.

It's only open half the year. Well, good luck to all you gamblers out there. I did pick up a lottery raffle ticket. I'm sure it'll be like every year. Money thrown away, but you somebody wins this one.

At least it's not quite like Powerball. Logan was telling me our IT guy. He was telling me about this app called the call sheet. And I thought he said call sheet. Oh, yeah, it's call sheet K.A .L. S.I .S.H .I. And the lady who started the start of the whole app.

She is now the youngest billionaire ever. Is it it's that gambling app where you can gamble on anything you can gamble on? I saw one of the questions. It was like, how many measles cases will there be in Florida by 2060? Well, since I always lose when I gamble, I'm not even going to look at it. That apps not at my alley. I mean, sports betting is a huge part of it. But yeah, the political ones are funny.

Like who is Trump going to appoint for this position? Yeah, yeah. Maybe you'd be good at that. Who knows? Well, OK, I'm not even going to comment. You just know for politics, overall, the dumbest decision possible.

That's the favorable one. Exactly. So, you know, throughout random guesses, I don't know, some Fox News commentator was put him in charge of the military or something like that. Oh, wait, that's that's what actually happened. Should have bet on it.

We're playing cards against humanity with Aubrey siblings. Well, that must have been interesting. Yeah, it was very interesting. A few of them can't read the cards. And so one of them said something careful, something about A.I. Gore. Oh, A.I. Gore.

Didn't know who Al Gore was. These kids these days. A.I. Gore. A.I. Gore.

That's a good band or song named maybe A.I. Gore. I'm sure. Write songs about Man Bear Pig and things like that. I did see this one lady on Twitter that was complaining about all these different bands that was using that were using A.I. at some point.

And she's like, congratulations, catch your breath. Just add it to my list because they announced a Japanese tour. But they used A.I. for the poster. It's very obviously A.I. And all the people that are all anti A.I.

are screaming their heads off in the comment section. Yeah, at this point, you just got to like move on. Don't get mad about it.

It's just what it is. You're going to cancel every band. I mean, her list had Ice Nine Kills, Electric Call Boy, Bring Me the Horizon, Limp Biscuit.

The list goes on. Because it's not like the band sit down and, you know, have the time to hire individual artists. And, you know, they have a team and then the team hired somebody. End up that person uses A.I. It goes through all these channels, you know. So by the time the band finds out about it, it's already been out there. Yeah, Electric Call Boy just used it as a joke to be like, yeah, we didn't have time to get Santa hats on ourselves. So we just used A.I. for it.

The people get mad. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, I mean, we used a fake A.I. host on Jank Show. Rock, Roxy Romance. Yeah, that's her name.

And he's unsexy. Even the crappy radio jock was mad at us till we were like, dude, we're trying to show how ridiculous it is. Well, I do. I do agree that, you know, most radio stations are not doing it as a joke.

No, that's what you're trying to fight. Yeah, they're trying to fool people into thinking it's a real person. And we clearly with romantic dedications and it's all like stop and go. It's very A.I.

like it should be obvious that it's a joke, but some people don't get it. Yeah, me and Josh on last week, we were talking about A.I. taking over imaging for radio stations, Chad GPT. Oh, everyone's using the same script. Give me fun slogans for this radio station. Yeah.

So I was trying to figure out ways to make ours way different. And well, you might hear some dumb stuff in the future. That's all I can say. I can't wait. Well, people, we're going to take a break. We'll be back. Just hang on.

All right. some newer lamb of God right there. Pretty funny news in the lamb of God world over the weekend as well. This is why you should always check the band's website. If you're looking at concert dates, apparently StubHub kind of screwed up. And they had an event that was going on in South Carolina called Behold the Lamb of God. Now, during the Christmas season, you should always be leery of any events that have the words Lamb of God in them, because chances are they are not going to be a live show with Lamb of God. But StubHub used the picture of the band, Lamb of God as well. So therefore it looked pretty legit and a lot of Lamb of God fans got really excited, picked themselves up some tickets and instead got treated to a nice, mellow Christmas presentation by Christian songwriter and author Andrew Peterson. So all the other websites had it listed.

Correct. But StubHub, they just threw up a pic of Randy Bly and Co. And I guess some fans were very disappointed when they didn't get to listen to crushing brutal metal and maybe get out in the pit and instead had to sit back and listen to Christmas classics. Now, they did give people refunds under their fan protect guarantee. So that's good. But yeah, if it's Christmas time and you see something called Lamb of God, like I think we have a local event that happens around Christmas time here every year that is called something like that. And we always just kind of laugh when you see the articles pop up because I Oh, check it out. Lamb of God.

But everybody knows like, no, it's not that. So go to bands websites. All right. Not a lot of bands touring during the holiday season. So yeah, just something to keep in mind. If it ain't Trans-Siberian Orchestra, you might not be getting the show you're expecting. Well, just like concert tickets and concert listings. Another thing you should always check and be aware of is that you know what you're drinking.

OK. I was reading a story about a guy who was at an airport in Japan and he was looking for a bottle of water. Now they had some Korean bottles of clear liquid. I'm glad I answered that one here.

I would guess it's water, but I don't read Korean and either did this traveler. So went ahead and purchased it. It was cheap. Seemed like, you know, about the price water would be. And then he took a big swig and it turned out to be soju, which is a horrible booze. Like years ago, Jade visited China and he brought back soju because it was so nasty.

And when he's like, this is funny. Try this horrible drink. And the guy's like, I don't think I'm going to be able to drink it.

Korean water is supposed to taste like this. Let me drink some more. No, I don't think he drank some more.

He just posted about it on Instagram and this isn't the first time this has happened to travelers. Because again, looking at the bottle, it has like a water droplet on it. I mean, I guess they're figuring out ways to sell it. But water is probably more popular than soju. You know, maybe that's why they put the droplet on there. Having trouble with them sales because again, disgusting.

Absolutely horrible. So just be careful in your international travels. You never know what you you might swig down.

You know, you don't want to buy one of these for your kids or something. Here, have some water. Get arrested.

You know, shamed publicly. All right, officially made it through Monday's show. I hope your morning is going all right. Hope it goes by quick and that you got a good day ahead. I still got more radio to do though.

Peaches and I'll do the noon hour of madness and mayhem. So don't you worry about that. We'll be back for that right now.

Got to get ready for the Monday meeting. Oh, could be worse though. You know, I wasn't out walking in the park and got hit by an airplane. You might remember this story from a couple of months ago. A deaf woman was walking her dog in the park and apparently some small, custom made aircraft had to do an emergency landing. So they go to, you know, land on this path in a park and just mow this lady down. Well, she's going to be all right. Yeah, I think at the time we originally did this story, she was pretty seriously injured. I mean, she got hit by a plane. I can't imagine that's generally, you know, just some minor scratches and bruises. Now she had like a broken spine, broken pelvis.

Plenty of cuts. Her dog was fine. Dog was fine, but. Can you imagine never wanting to go to the park again? You're looking over your shoulder everywhere you go, because what are the chances of getting hit by an airplane?

You know, gotta be pretty slim. All right, even though my back hurts, at least I didn't get hit by a plane. All right. All survive. And even though I'm tired, at least I didn't get hit by a plane.

All survive. Maybe sneak in a nap later. We'll see. Sounds so good. But instead, I'm going to go to the Monday meeting.

Yay. Wish me luck, people. All right, I'll be back at noon. You have a great rest of your day, and I'll leave you with some new avenged sevenfold. All right, appreciate y'all. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Will Show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbendmediagroup.com.