The Viktor Wilt Show

Happy Monday. What up, Viktor Wilt. I hope it is a happy Monday. Hope it goes by fast. Hope it's a good day.

Alright. Last week, officially kicking off 2025. And one of the things I like to take a look at year after year are the top most played songs on Kay Bear each given year. 2024, I thought, was a pretty good pretty good year for new music. Lots of great new tracks came out.

Very excited for 2025. Let's let's do the top 10. Alright. I'm working on throwing together the list, and we'll probably post, like, the top 50 or something online, but it takes a little bit of time. So we'll just take a look at the top 10 most played tracks of 2024.

Did I say 2025 a minute ago? I probably did. Anyway, this list, Peaches and I had a prediction for the most played song of the year. We were actually a little bit off. We predicted that Bad Omens and Poppy with v a n, violence against nature, would be the song we played most.

It actually came in at number 4, which, again, I found kinda surprising. Now I do know that the songs in the top 3, we played a lot, but it's it's always interesting to see how it actually breaks down. Let's do it. Top 10. Most played song of 2024 on Kay Bear.

Number 10, baby metal electric call boy. Sad that the rest of the rock were radio world didn't pick up on that one. Give them, 5 years. Maybe in about 5 years, they'll be up on electric call boy and baby metal. You know, anything that sounds a little bit strange, little bit different, can't be going for that.

Actually, had a nice discussion on Facebook over the weekend with a bunch of different people about songs that grab your attention. We'll get into that here in a bit. But, let's get back to the top 10 tracks of 2024 here. Coming in at number 9, wage war and magnetic. That song actually did very, very well at radio.

Cool to see for wage war. Very successful. 2024. Coming in at number 8, bring me the horizon top ten statues that cried blood. At number 7, motionless and white sign of life.

Now I guess they must have worked that as a single last year. It's an older song. It's a couple years old, but, you know, labels do that. They'll push as many tracks from an album as possible to get some radio play, so I just forgot That was a single in 2024. At number 6, poppy with new way out.

Hopefully, she'll, you know, kick it up to the top of the radio charts with that one. I I don't know if she's gonna make it to number 1, but it'd be cool to see. Number 5 from Ash's Tanu barely breathing with against the current. Pretty cool track there. Good to see from Ash's Tanu killing it in 2024.

Alright. Number 4 I mentioned was bad omens and poppy with v a n. Coming in at number 3, most played songs on k Bear 2024. Bring me the horizon Kool Aid. Another track that scared rock radio.

Oh, so heavy. So crazy. There was an article with Jim Root from Slipknot floating around over the weekend where he was talking about metal and how metal elitist will be like, well, Slipknot's not metal. And he's like, yep. I get that when you compare it to Norwegian black metal or, you know, the extreme brutal death metal.

I mean, my kids would call Slipknot dad rock, but, yeah, it's just funny that in this day and age, something like Kool Aid from Bring Me the Horizon is still too heavy for radio. Coming in at number 2, nothing more if it doesn't hurt and the most played song of 2024 on k Bear, Sleep Theory Fallout. Congrats to Sleep Theory. You did it. You took home the gold, the k Bear gold.

Alright. There we go. There's the top 10. Eventually, I'll get the, like, top 50 or so posted online. But, I got a lot to do.

It's a full work week. Back to normal. Yay. Let's do some Lincoln Park real quick, and I'll be back in a second. Let's talk about what's going on next door at z 103 because it might help out Kay Bear listeners.

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Well, looking at a list here of things online that people say we should never have to pay for. This stuff should always be free. Alright. Well, let's fight for it. Let's fight for it at the beginning of the year because we've all spent enough dough.

I went grocery shopping over the weekend. I know how bad it is out there. Yikes. Okay. Something that should always be free according to the Internet.

Okay. Figuring out the amount of taxes you owe. Now you can do that for free. Right? I guess they're saying, like, the the IRS knows.

They know all your information. It should just be processed. K. Well, I think the reason that we have to go through a process of filing taxes is so, you know, some people can get all those write offs and things like that. You know, there's all kinds of little little ways to make the taxes go more in your favor.

Otherwise, you know, it would just be too fair to everyone. Alright. Well, anyway, I don't wanna think about taxes even though it's, it's on the way here. Parking at hospitals. There aren't hospitals that charge for parking, are there?

That's kind of messed up. You're making money. Alright. Come come on. We're talking about the medical field here.

I think hospitals are doing okay. I think. What? That doesn't happen around here. Right?

I have never seen paid parking at a hospital of all places. Alright. I fully agree. That should be 100% free. Okay.

Water. Well, I mean, I would say that simply everyone having access to water would be great. And certainly, as one of life's most basic necessities, free seems pretty good to me. Things are gonna be pretty tough though because a lot of people don't seem to really care about basic life necessities when they're looking at, you know, the population in general. Yeah.

Let's give people some water. Just clean drinking water. Toilets. Alright. This person says nothing worse than traveling than having to pay just to use the toilet.

It should be free. Only time I've ever paid to use a toilet, like, outright paid. There were places where it's like, hey. Toilets are for customers only, so you buy something. That does count as paying to use the toilet.

But the only time I outright paid to use the toilet was in Mexico. I was at, some kind of a souvenir shop, and I don't remember. It was like a dollar or something. It was like, okay. I'll sure.

Here's here's the toilet dollar. Alright. Great. Yeah. You know, you gotta do what you gotta do.

You know? Don't wanna screw up your bladder or something by holding it in. The ambulance? Alright. Well, you don't wanna get me going all liberal here, k, and start talking about medical care.

I think medical care should be provided to everyone and shouldn't bankrupt you. But I'm a radical, so better move along from that one. Okay. Here's people repeating the same answers. Waters and toilet water and toilets, clean drinking water.

Please, if you use Reddit, just search and see if somebody is, you know, given the same response already. You know make scrolling through these lists a little bit easier okay now it's just people getting into I mean it's pretty much toilets and medical care over and over and over again a lot of people do not want to pay for a toilet I'll tell you what paying a buck to use a toilet somewhere even if you had to pay 5, sure. It might be frustrating, but it's gonna feel worth it when you're done. Welcome to the program, the Victor Will Show. Hello.

It's Monday. It's early. Weather. Should we look at that? Probably.

Might as well be aware if I'm gonna have to deal with the driveway again anytime soon. I shouldn't complain. I have a snowblower. Like, what's wrong with me? Nobody wanna hear that from me.

Yeah. Get out there with your snowblower. You're complaining. Hey. It's still a little bit of, effort, you know?

And I still have to shovel some stuff. Alright. Let's take a look here. Hey. I like the look of this.

I'm not seeing anything about snow. Just gonna be frigid cold. Nasty. Nasty. Not a very big fan of that.

But which would I rather have? More snow or cold? I guess I'll go, cold. Yeah. I've we're not gonna get above freezing for a while.

Okay. Now that I've got that complaining out of my way, let's take a look at the Internet complaining about toxic fan bases. Sure. We've talked a lot about toxic fan bases over the years here. Always curious what the most current, most toxic fan base would be according to other folks online.

K. We gotta get the, snarky, silly answer out of the way from Reddit. The most popular answer, cocomelon fans because they're babies. They're like, they throw tantrums and poo. You know?

Not throw it, but, you know, they poo in their diapers. Okay. Alright. Let's get along here. League of legends.

Now that's one of those games that I have never met anyone who plays it. You see all of the ads? There's bands putting out songs for it. It's clearly very popular but I have never met anyone who plays league of legends. Apparently, very toxic fan base.

Maybe that's why people don't play it. This person says they played one game in a pickup group, and that was enough for me. Alright. Well, I don't have a lot of interest in that game, so good to know. I'll avoid it as I have already been.

Chris Brown fans. Alright. I'm amazed Chris brown still has fans, though there are, you know, people who are fans of pretty toxic, not great people. So let's see here. Like okay the next answer here andrew tate's fan base yeah I would imagine they're pretty toxic because he's one of the most toxic individuals out there why that guy has fans I will never understand dudes these are not the type of people to look up to.

You are going to be sad and alone if this is who you strive to be. K? Plus, you know, listen to some podcasts about the guy. He's not a good dude. K?

Not a good dude. Gotta find yourself a new hero if these are the type of guys you're looking up to. Ugh, manfluencers. They're just so Ugh. I just don't get it.

Like, seeing Andrew Tate talk. I'm like, what a loser this guy is. Okay. Anyway, let's see. What else do we have here?

Tool fans. Alright. I don't know as a hardcore tool fan. Like, are we really toxic? Maybe annoying, but toxic?

I don't know. Well, it's on the list. I'm not one of those fans, though. I'm not one of those fans. Where's the bad omens fans?

I don't see any of that. Bad omens fans are way more toxic than tool fans. Come on, Kimmy. Or metal heads in general. Mister beast fans are mister beast fans now toxic.

I think they're mostly little kids. Right? Little kids are pretty toxic though in general like I've never been sicker in my life than when my kids were in school So I think kids are pretty toxic. They're just spreading all kinds of things around. Yeah Yeah.

No better chance of getting sick than if you've got children around. Let's see. Yeah. Where where's the Taylor Swift fans? We got tool fans high up on the list, but no Swifties.

Get out of here. Get out of here with that. Again, tool fans are nerds, but I don't think they're that toxic. Just annoying. Again, star wars fans are star wars fans toxic?

This is they literally hate and dog on each other for having different opinions on stuff. There's a group on Facebook called nontoxic star wars fans, and they will kick out anyone who's a jerk. I bet that's a boring group. There's a, Facebook post in the life in Idaho Falls Facebook group I'm gonna get into in a while. I I think without a little bit of descent, it's just kinda boring.

Now social media in general is pretty toxic. But, if it's all sunshine and rainbows, you know, that's no good. I I don't like people whining about useless things, complaining about things that aren't a problem when we've got people worldwide again with no fresh water. I don't wanna hear it, but a little bit of complaining online is is okay. A little bit.

You know? Just, I guess, depends on the topic. What's up, everybody? I'm just because it is Monday, and I'm feeling it. I'm feeling the lack of enthusiasm.

Can you feel lack of enthusiasm? I don't know, but I sure am. What's up, peeps? If you wanna get a hold of me, 208-535-1015, the number to call, And I'm here doing it live. Doing a live radio show, which is why if you ever listen to my show on demand and you're like, man, this guy sucks.

I do it live. Alright? You get all the flubs. Most of the podcasts floating around there. There's a lot of editing going on in those things.

You can hear it. If you listen closely, you know, all of my favorite podcasts, lots of editing going on. You can really make yourself sound pretty good with some proper editing, but I don't do any of that with the, you know, recapped version of my show. I just put it up there in all its painful glory. Yeah.

We've got a lot of different podcasts out there. If you haven't checked them out, you should. Yeah. You can find them everywhere podcasts can be found. The Victor Will Show, Traffic School, Peach's Pet Party, our artist interrogations podcast where we interview artists.

Yeah. The noon hour of madness and mayhem. We're just gonna keep launching new podcasts, I guess. But you should scope them out. And just if you're listening to the shows, or at least my show, keep in mind, I do it live.

K? So it ain't gonna be perfect. I mean, those of you who listen on the radio know that. You know, I'm a I'm a disaster from time to time. I'm a mess, and some shows are certainly much better than others.

Today, it's going okay. It's going okay. But, anyhow, there was some other point I was gonna make to this. Back to failing live on air, there was a point. What is it?

I don't know. So we'll leave it as check out our on demand content. Follow us on all the socials. You know, we're on all of them. Well, maybe not all of them.

There are so many out there now. I don't know. But we're on, you know, Instagram, Facebook. Sadly, x. I just can't get on x anymore.

I don't know what's going on there, but I jump on there, and I'm like, this is a cesspool. I can't read this kind of we're still on there. I post from time to time. But, what other socials are there? There's tons of them.

Just look for k Bear. We're probably on there. Follow us. Check out our YouTube channel and all that. I need to make some videos.

Need to make some YouTube content. Been sucking. Hopefully, we get some new music. I could do those easy, reaction videos and things like that or something. Alright.

Do you have any complaints about Kay Bear? 208-535-1015, the number to call. We'll do it live. Alright? Don't be scared.

I'm pretty friendly. K? No other radio station on the planet gonna take on air live complaints about the station. So here's your opportunity. Open lines the entire show for complaints.

I bring this up because there was a complaint about Kay Bear in the life in Idaho Falls group over the weekend. And most radio stations would do a number of things if they saw in a big local group a complaint about their station. One thing they might do is ignore it. Pretend it doesn't exist. The other thing they might do is panic a little bit.

Oh, jeez. No. They're saying bad things about us. What are we gonna do? Me.

I liked the post, and then I dove in and started talking with everybody. Now so Craig posted, there's country pop on k Bear now 2. 1st z 103 now this. Stop it. It's bad for you.

Country pop belongs on country stations where everything is brown and made of leather with weird hats. Alright. So I jumped in. I'm like, alright. Craig, what song are you talking about?

And it turns out it was, Bill Murray, the end. Now Bill Murray is not an artist for everybody. All right. Bill Murray kind of weird. And there is some country elements in there, but also I programmed the music on 105, the hawk, the best country station in east Idaho.

We'll get to some of the others here in a bit. There is a huge difference between Bill Murray and pop country. Alright. Let's, let's pull up some samples here. I wanna show you elements of the Bill Murray song that guaranteed.

If if there was this type of instrumentation, no country station would ever play a song with distorted guitar riffs. Now definitely a poppy tune. But, Johnny Frank, the front man of Bill Murray. Alright? You know, he comes from bands like attack attack.

And, again, listen to that riffage. K? Off time progressive, gente style riffs with some, you know, pop flavor thrown in. That is not pop country. K.

You wanna hear pop country? Let's pull up some Morgan Wallen, and we'll hear some pop country. What's his new song called? I think it's called smile. Let's see if we've, got that one in the system here.

Not sure if Justin's put that in yet. Didn't look like it. Alright. Well, we'll just, do some other kind of Morgan Wallen here. Love somebody.

That sounds poppy. They're jumping. K. Alright. Now, again, Bill Murray, definitely poppy, but I wouldn't classify it as pop country.

Now there are a couple different ways I could program kay bear. I could be like most other rock stations around the country and just put in stuff that essentially all sounds the same and is nice and safe background music because there's this disillusion in the rock radio programming world that rock radio, if you program it right, every business in town's apparently gonna play it. Yeah. We could be an at work radio station. I hate to break it to everyone out there in rock programming, but rock is not going to be what you hear at the dentist office even if every song is pretty mellow with no screaming and blah blah blah.

It's just not gonna happen. K? Get over that. Move on. Program for the audience.

The average rock fan. So I like to throw stuff in that gets people's attention, that makes people, you know, do a double take. You know? What what is this? What has happened?

You know, we did it with tons of bands over the years that now years later rock radio is starting to come around to like poppy, electric call boy, sleep token. New sounds are good. They're a good thing. And music that gets people's attention and gets them asking questions is a good thing. So this post popping up, most people would panic or ignore it.

I think it was great to see this post pop up in the Life in Idaho Falls group with people going, what is going on on K Bear with Bill Murray? Because it gets people talking and it gave me the opportunity to dive in and discuss these things with people. It's great, great promotion for the radio station. And then, like, for example, you know, Jeff. Jeff chimes in, goes, alright.

Post with no source. What's the song? And I'm like, hey. It's Bill Murray. And he's like, oh, woah.

Cool. I didn't know song? And I'm like, hey. It's Bill Murray. And he's like, oh, woah.

Cool. I didn't know you guys play Bill Murray. You know? He's from Attack Attack. You know?

He stems from the same branches as Beartooth and Of Mice and Men. All originated from the same band. Didn't know you play him. That is cool. Great opportunity to get the attention of somebody who maybe hasn't tuned in in a bit or something like that.

Then people start throwing in requests and, a lot of great discussion. Now I did find it funny that, you know, Jeff Roper chimed in with a. It's like, dude, you wanna talk to me about programming? Don't even go there, Jeff. Alright?

Play in the most generic country playlist ever on Kewpie and speeding up the songs so that artists like Morgan Wallen sound like chipmunks. Your station sucks, bro. Come on. Get out of here and talk to me in your real voice. Alright?

But, yeah, I think it was a great discussion, and I got no problem with people complaining about the radio station online because I like being able to talk to people about things. And so I think the thread was a success, and I wanna give a thanks to Craig for making that post. So, yeah, we will continue to challenge you with tunes that, you know, maybe are a little bit divisive because I don't want our station to be boring musically. It's really easy to just play vanilla music that's not going to turn any heads. But that's why people don't listen to radio.

It's not interesting for the most part. So if we can at least make it interesting with the music to make up for, you know, my show and its lack of interesting content, I'm gonna do that. So what kind of weird music am I gonna put in in 2025? Freak news is powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change. Alright.

Quickly, I was wondering what was going on. I thought it was very strange that I could throw out the open invitation for complaints and get no calls. Apparently, we're having phone problems right after that break. Josh from classy swung by. He's like, are you having problems with your phones?

What? I don't know. I guess nobody's called me today. That is kinda weird. Come to think of it.

Usually a bunch of calls by now. So I tried calling the hotline from my cell phone and, yeah, we're having phone problems. So Jade should be here any minute. Hopefully it's an easy fix, but, Yeah. I was starting to go.

Alright. Everybody's really does hate my show. They don't even wanna let me know they hate it. All right. Let's see here.

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Apparently, one of these got stuck in a roundabout several minutes just looping around. So I don't know if it's legal to do so in Phoenix as it is here. I mean, it's annoying to just go round and round and round. But, yeah, I'm sure that made for a funny moment for the people sitting, trying to get themselves into said roundabout, just watching this person in the back seat going round and round and round. Alright.

What else do we have here? Sorry. I was troubleshooting phones with Josh, and, yeah, I was in the middle of digging up content when all that went down. So sorry. Alright.

I guess we could dive into a question from ask Reddit. Again, I'll I'm sure we've got plenty of dumb news built up from the weekend. I just didn't get to it yet. Alright. Here's a post on askreddit.

Men, how direct do women have to be when they are interested in you? Alright. I'm guessing this is about, 50% one type of answer, 50% another because guys are dumb. Alright? I think we might need to make a shift to it pretty much has to be the ladies asking the dudes out because, there's too many dudes that are out there just doing dumb things, and they've made it, probably uncomfortable for a lot of guys to, you know, hit up on the ladies.

Alright? I don't know what's up with these guys sending out, you know, what kind of photos to just people at random. I've never understood that one. It doesn't seem like it would be an effective way to pick up somebody. But, yeah.

I mean, this isn't a problem I need to worry about, but boy, I mean, even if, somebody was being very direct with me, like if I got a Facebook message or something, like, hey, Victor. How's it going? I'd be like, I I think your profile got hacked. I think your profile got hacked. What's going on here?

So, yeah. I I think most guys in this day and age are probably a lot more shy about things than they would normally be. And, you know, because you don't wanna appear like some kind of weirdo creep or something. Right? So, yeah, ladies, you're gonna have to up your game.

You're gonna have to let the dudes know. Alright? And dudes knock off the the creepy behavior. K? It's not it's not getting you anywhere.

Alright? Just stop that. Poppy, have you had enough? From the new album Negative Spaces, I really think that, might be my top album of 2024. Been listening to it a lot.

There's some really good songs on it. I wouldn't give it a every song is great. You know, there's some filler in there, but I'd say since I disagree, probably has the most good songs on a poppy album, since that album. It was a good year for music, though. Really good year for music.

So, yeah, dig into some new stuff and check it out. Alright. What else is going on here? I I keep seeing this one post get shared by people locally, and I'm like, come on, guys. Come on.

You don't really think that. Right? I I try to not get political here, but some people are really optimistic, and I I don't know. I keep seeing this post go around that's like, coming in 2025. In 2 weeks, 99¢ gallon of gas.

I'm sorry people, but I I I don't think that's gonna happen. Last time I went to the grocery store, which was over the weekend, it seemed like prices had increased. So, I don't know. My my optimism for things getting cheaper in 2025, just personally, it's pretty low. Alright?

I would love it. I will be grateful if all of a sudden we see a mess just drop in the price of everything, but I again, a a bit cynical on that. Based on the last number of years and the constant increase in the price of everything, this guy, again, not very optimistic about things getting cheaper. So, yeah, not gonna be spending any dough anytime soon. Gotta catch up after the holidays.

Save all my money. Only thing I'm gonna spend dough on is getting out of town and seeing shows. I think I gotta go to the poppy show in Salt Lake, which is in, is it March? April? If you wanna find out about shows, we've got a great resource for you.

The concert calendar. The event calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com. You should go give it a look. Sort it by event type, concert slash rock. Check out all of the great rock and metal shows coming up.

I mean, so many shows have been announced for Boise, Salt Lake, and other areas. We need some announced here. Mountain America Center. Come on. Lots of country shows announced for next year.

This year, I guess it is now. How about some rock and metal shows? I'm sure we'll hear something soon, but I'm impatient. Severely lacking in patience. So alright.

Anyway, what's happening with Peach is, peaches about some of our technical issues. So my promise to find content again delayed. Oh, it's a Monday show, and it's live. I wish you could, you know, call and join me because then we could probably make things better. A little bit of call in action sometimes fixes everything.

Can't rely on the phones today. Alright. Anyway, I'm gonna try to fix some stuff. I'll be back in a second. Alright?

Thanks for tuning in and hanging with me today. I hope your Monday is going good so far. Hope it goes by fast. Howdy and welcome to the show. Alright.

Phone lines are still screwed up, which is so annoying. I was really looking forward today to discussing complaints about Kay Bear. I've been getting a lot of messages from people like, dude, I tried calling with complaints, which is so funny that I'm like, yeah. Call with them. I wanna hear your complaints.

But our phone lines aren't working. So sadly, even though I could tie it all together with a nice, neat little bow with the, you know, complaint thread we had in the Life in Idaho Falls group. Just can't happen, I guess. Can't do my show how I want on a Monday. It's just to be expected.

It's Monday. Things aren't gonna work properly. It's a full work week. We'll have to do all our meetings and stuff this week. Oh, well.

You know, if we could at least get some new music, that would be great. Hate this time of year because nothing's happening in the music business. Note to bands, as I said a few weeks ago. If you wanna get some attention on your stuff, mid December to mid January, the ultimate time to release music because nobody else is doing anything. Well, anyway, their vacation is now done.

Right? I hope so. Music industry gets a great holiday break. It's about 3 weeks. I got a couple days so I I shouldn't complain.

But, anyway, I don't know where else I was gonna go with this. I'm just mad that the phones don't work. Well, maybe maybe if we play a few more songs, Jade will get them fixed. If not, I guess, you know, I could dive into the news, talk about, you know, there was a guy in Pate. Tried to, blow up a train, apparently.

Can we stop trying to blow things up? You know? Come on. We've had enough train derailing stories in the last year. Enough people trying to blow things up in the last couple weeks.

Idaho dudes, knock it off. Alright. We don't need to be in the news for being crazy. K? Every time Idaho makes national news, it's for something insane.

No IEDs on trains. No. No. Not even a firecracker. Alright?

Keep the pennies off the tracks, bros. What is wrong with people? Maniacs, man. Motionless and White and the sign of life. That band working on new music should be dropping a new album in 2025, which is great.

Looking forward to that. Now I just need to, find something to entertain myself with in the meantime. Watch the rest of squid game season 2 on I think it was Friday night, if I remember correctly. Seeing a lot of, you know, divisive comments about squid game season 2. I thought it was good.

Now I've read a few articles about this. I don't wanna spoil anything, but the creator of the show or creators said that, you know, this current season, it was originally intended to be 1 big long season, but they have split it into 2. So we essentially got the first half of what was supposed to be one big season, and then the rest is coming at some point this year. Don't have to wait too long. So a lot of people were upset that, you know, it ended where it did.

But simple reason for that was according to the show creators, it was a good stopping point. And having read the articles, I see why they say that. I think I'm doing pretty good at avoiding, spoilers here. The other complaints I'm seeing about it are the usual when it comes to newer content. I don't know why people gotta just cry about everything.

Squid game went woke. Oh my gosh. Everybody else is burnt on hearing that phrase as me. It's gotten so old. What up, peaches?

Did you watch all of squid game season 2? What's going on with your mic? Why isn't it working? I finished it the 1st weekend, Victor. That was weird.

Is it now on? Now it's on. It was on. Yeah. I didn't change anything, but you talked into it and then nothing.

So what did you think about, squid game season 2 without spoilers? I think it ended way too early. I I think they could have elaborated more, but I think the creators more so now saying, you know what? Season 1 was such a success. We didn't see that coming.

Now let's have season 2 and season 3 and elongate that process to make the most money possible. Well, what I read about season 2 was that it was originally supposed to be 1 season, what, is coming with season 3. That's what we talked about. Yeah. So long.

Right. You know, because I think, what was it, 7 episodes? Only 7. Season 2? Yeah.

So they probably have about 14. So it's kinda like with, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul. They there's probably some financial opportunity to split up a season like that. But I read an article without any spoilers where they were talking about why they stopped it right where they did and it makes sense to me. Now I'm wondering as you're the music director, you know, the guy who plays Thanos in that show.

Yes. He's a real life rapper. He's a real life rapper? And he's actually very good at it. What?

Yeah. Really? I just thought he was an actor. Number 7 in the show, a real life musician, more so like a trap artist type thing. Okay.

Wondering if these guys are gonna blow up so much because of the show that we'll have to start playing them on Z, you know. Well, the Thanos character, I mean, very hateable. A very hateable character. He did a great acting job. He was a lot of fun.

My favorite thing is the round and round song and they're like spinning on the on the other side. They he had I think the funniest lines in the, season definitely came from him. Yeah. For sure. At first, I was like, this guy's the baddie because in season 1, the bad guy I don't know.

He was just like a a good bad guy. I don't remember season 1's bad guy. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, I mean, the the bad guy that was part of the the game Yeah.

Anyhow. Don't spoil it. That well, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna I I haven't spoiled anything about even season 1. Apparently, like that guy who plays, the main character.

I forgot his name. I I don't know his real name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But he was, like, sexiest man in, like, 1999 or whatever. Like, here they showed him. All the girls now are, like, flocking to him because of the, like, the young pictures of him. Yeah. Okay.

So what you're saying is put up old pictures of yourself on social media. Sure. Yeah. You know, if you're trying to pick up the ladies. Don't you hate that?

Like, look at how much better you look compared to now. Well, I mean, what radio DJs do is one of 2 things. They'll leave up the old photo or they put up the cartoon version of themselves. It's true. You know, when there's a cartoon version of the DJ They gained a lot of weight.

They're either old or have yes. Grown a little bit. I know I saw a picture of me the other day. I'm like, god, my beard is looking pretty gray. Yeah.

But that's that's not as bad as being, like, overweight after, like, a certain amount of time. Yeah. But I meant that too. You've got both of them. You're not you're not that bad.

Not that yeah. It could be worse. Yeah. It could be worse. Worse, but it could be a lot better.

Yeah. I was in my basement the other day when I filmed that video with the, with Koopa losing his mind. Right. Yeah. Like, love the video.

He hates when I'm in the basement. If I go down there, he'll follow me down and just starts just yowling. Like, why are you down here? I love that one guy that was, like, ghosts are coming through the window. Start praying now.

Could be. My basement's haunted and Koopa knows it. But I walked down there, I look at the treadmill. I'm, like, alright. Look at that.

Alright. I'm gonna film videos of the cats instead of the Hey. If you've been trying to call me, my apologies. Phone's broken. Jade's working on it.

He's been in the engineering room for the last hour since he got here, so I'm sure he's trying to fix it. Sucks, though. Monday's a great day for crowd work. That's the radio equivalent of the comedy world just taking callers because it's, yeah, easier to have a conversation than try to dig up content. I wish I could do it the lazy way today.

Oh, well. I'll keep trying. I guess we could look at rules in society that everyone agree are pointless, but we all still follow. Alright. Sure.

It's content. Clicking, I have read and agree to the terms and conditions. Okay. Who's reading it? One of these days, I should sit down and read it.

South Park made an episode about that one time called human sentai pad. And, yeah. One of these days, somebody gonna slip in something real crazy. And next thing you know, oh, it's gonna be really gross. Alright.

Let's see here. Is inviting all of your relatives to your wedding a rule in society? Some relatives don't even care if you're getting married, but will be offended if you don't invite them. Okay. I guess.

I would say only invite people to your wedding that you want there. Keep it a small, you know, thing if you can. The more people, the more food you gotta buy. It's expensive. Saying we should get together sometime with no intention of ever doing so.

Is it a rule that you, you know, say, hey. We should hang. I don't think you should say that to people if you don't really wanna hang out with them. I don't say that very often to people. I've got a handful of people that I like hanging out with.

And when I tell them, yeah. Let's let's hang out sometime. I mean it. Yeah. Don't say it to people you wouldn't wanna hang out with.

That's just messed up. Alright. Let's see. So far, these don't feel like rules, but whatever. When you go to a bank and have to snake through the ropes even when no one else is in line, I tried going around once and the teller told me not to.

Probably has something to do with security measures or something. Like the airport. You know, when you go to the Idaho Falls Airport for example. It's great. Best place to travel out of because there's like no lines.

And the security, you still gotta go through the big long snaky line. I'm sure if you try to go under the rope, you're gonna get tackled by TSA. Might get tased or something. Alright. Alright.

I guess that's an unspoken rule. Let's see. What else do we have here? Overworking yourself. This thread did not go the direction I anticipated.

None of these feel like rules that everyone agrees are pointless, but they do them anyway. Not everyone is overworking themselves to death. If you are, stop. You gotta get a different job. All right?

Don't overwork yourself. Get lots of rest. You know, have fun when you can. I don't know. There's some people that working is their thing.

Not this guy. Alright. I've been enjoying lots of time playing video games and watching TV. And, I I justified that multiple times last week by I am helping out the entertainment industry, all the fruits of their labor. I'm doing my part.

Let's see. The need to buy an expensive engagement ring to demonstrate your love. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's probably a waste. Get something that means something.

That's all all that matters. It doesn't have to be expensive. It needs to be meaningful. Meaningful people. Okay.

I've had it with this thread. Jade, please fix my phones. It's not like I had a question I was gonna ask everybody anyway other than please call with your complaints about Kay Bear. Can't believe that I was all excited to do complaints about Kay Bear this morning. Get no calls, get disappointed, and it's because the lines are broken and then I still, at this point, can't take complaints.

As I scrolled Facebook yesterday, as a matter of fact, well, I saw a post from 93 x in Minneapolis, and it was a post breaking down their supposed most popular songs of 2024 as voted on by listeners. And I don't believe it. I don't believe that these are actually the most popular songs as voted on by their listeners for a variety of reasons. 1, based on some of the comments that are on the post. But, 2, because I'm in radio.

K? And I know what the biggest songs of the year were. I know what bands are super popular. I'm sorry. But Green Day Dilemma was on no radio station, the most requested, the most voted for song in 2024.

And that's what they've got number 1 on their list. Green Day Dilemma. Are we even still playing that? Do we have it in rotation? Hold on.

Let me pull it up here. Hang on. So I wanna see the the last time we played it. The song is so unmemorable. I don't even remember.

Yeah. I guess we are still playing it a little bit, but it's not what I would call a big hit song. Alright? Big hit songs of 2024. You had tracks from bring me the horizon, bad omens, breaking Benjamin, green day dilemma.

You know, just kind of one of those forgettable songs. So breaking down their top 12, they've got falling in reverse at number 12, all my life. I could see that getting a decent number of requests. It was a very popular song, but, also, I think it was popular outside of maybe the traditional calling in reverse fan base because it featured jelly roll. You know, we we didn't get a lot of requests for it.

We still play it, and I would call it a big hit. But, number 11, nothing more angel song. Well, that was not the big nothing more hit of, 2024. I would imagine if they were getting requests for nothing more songs, they weren't for that one. K?

I would imagine that oh, what was the name of the, If It Doesn't Hurt? I think that was their their big one of the year. Breaking Benjamin number 10, awake, and I could see that getting a lot of requests as with number 9, Bring Me the Horizon, top 10 statues that cried blood. But I also think Bring Me the Horizon had more popular songs than that back in 2024. Kool Aid, there you go.

There's their big one. Kool Aid, the end. The radio was afraid of that song. Bad Omens with Poppy. Yeah.

Popular track. Linkin Park. Sure. Godsmack Truth. Do you remember that one?

Not a hit. And they've got it as their 6th most popular song with their listeners. I doubt it. K? I highly doubt it.

I think this is just a list of their most played songs of the year. Five finger death punch, this is the way. Jeff requested that a lot on K Bear. Some 41 land mines. Sorry, guys.

I I'm not buying that that was the number 4 most requested song of the year on that station. And even though I love Wage War, I think they're a great band. And Magnetic was one of our most played songs of the year because, you know, I wanna see up and comers get some good radio support. Magnetic? I don't remember getting a lot of requests for that here, and it wasn't what I would call a big hit.

They've got much better songs. K. The emptiness machine, Lincoln Park. Number 2. Sure.

Very popular. Huge song. Probably the biggest rock song. No. Not even probably.

The biggest rock song of 2024. However, it's divisive. So I would imagine in year end pulling I I don't know. I could see that one showing up as number 1. But Green Day Dilemma beating it out?

No. No. That's not reality. Alright? So I went in and commented on the post, and I don't do this very often.

Like, I wouldn't do it to Octane because they're my homies, and they actually do a better job than most rock stations. I still think we're better than Octane. But on the 93 x post, I did comment, yo. Y'all can feel free to check out Kaybair if you want things, a bit heavier as far as your radio listening goes. You know, if you listeners ever see people complaining about their local station, feel free to give us a plug.

Get some people listening there. What's happening, peaches? Nothing. It's cold in here. It feels good.

Yeah. I've had to turn the AC on for, like, 5 minutes then I turn it off. I'm just back and forth. I cannot get comfortable today. Well, you know, the the over the past couple of days, I've gone to the gym twice a day.

Oh, good for you. Look at this guy. And, Must be very proud of yourself. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I'm exercising. Let me publicly shame everybody who hasn't been I'm peaches. I'm just doing this myself. You can do whatever. You can look like, you know, that guy from Austin Powers that can't say on the air.

That's a hilarious character, by the way. It is. It's get in my belly. Maybe put that in your imaging and get even bigger. You know, why don't we have that in imaging?

As a matter of fact, it seems like we did back in the day. Get in my bed. I'm sure we've gone through literally everything. Probably. Probably.

So I don't know. I was just scrolling here trying to find content. You know, I had a a great topic, listener complaints, and then our phones are broken. I started off the show. I'm like, alright.

It's listener complaint day. I'm like, man, the listener's suck today. Nobody's calling me till I started getting the Facebook messages. Hey, dude. How many people are calling?

The phone's been busy for hours. That's awful. Just talking bad about the listeners that came and called back. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I know. That's a good day. Let's just sit here and trash everybody today. Wanna ride outside? I was looking at a list here of things that Gen z thinks are cool about old people.

And as our resident Zoomer, I figured you could tell me these are true. You're Gen z to me, peaches. Look at look at Maddie. Look at Melissa. Look at Emma.

Yeah. You guys all know Katie. Same age. Katie's younger than me. I I I lump you in with him.

You're a Zoomer. You're a k Bearz Zoomer. So, apparently, this Gen zer says, I think it's great that older generations are able to I haven't seen that on pop up yet, but it's gotta be in there. But that, older people are able to strike up conversation and keep it going. Definitely.

Yeah. Yeah. But I think that's just because you've been on the planet longer and, you know well, here's something You just start start to lose all care and you'll babble on incessantly just like me on this show. Well, here's something. If you're a young person and you're wondering why you can't start a conversation, it's because you haven't talked to anybody and you're on that darn iPad the entire morning.

Those kids with their iPads. Those kids with their talking screens. These flip phones. Yeah. I I will say if all you do is text, it's gotta be a little bit awkward to actually try to talk to somebody.

But You know, I'm like an old person on my phone. I barely text and I just call people. I know. I'm like, peaches, why didn't you text me this? Because this really necessary as an actual phone call.

I just wanted to hear your voice. Oh, man. Apparently, young people are jealous that old people had places to hang out. And I'm thinking back like You got rid of them. What are you talking about?

Like, The Gen Zers don't wanna go anywhere. Look look at the shopping mall for example. See and that's where I'm too afraid. I'm I'm overstimulated. I walk into Hot Topic.

There's too many people. I mean, our mall is pretty popular, but I don't know. When I was a kid, I guess there was the mall, but aside from that, what else what places are they talking about? Go to the local diner and you sit at the booth and take up space. Yeah.

Okay. When I think back, my friends in high school would wanna go to Denny's in the middle of the night. And I'm like, why? But look look at like if you go to like You can go drink coffee and hang. What's that one place?

Is it Johnny Rockets? Whatever the fifties diner is? Imagine sitting at like a table like that and taking up space during dinner time. You know the series like Seinfeld, you know, when they're eating at the booth there. Normal restaurants, they're gonna say get out.

We need to have another customer come in and give us money. Yeah. You guys have been here, like, about 3 hours. We're tired of refilling your coffee. Get.

Go to maybe Starbucks? There's thousands of Starbucks. Are those not hang out spots? Like Yeah. I'm just gonna tell young people, you're not missing out on anything.

Any of the places we were hanging out, like the mall, it The bowling alley. Go to the bowling alley. It's still there. The bowling alley is still there. You can go.

You know, we don't have arcades anymore. Well, I guess the mall has sort of an arcade, but arcades have kinda shifted to, you know, kinda like sideshow win prizes for the most part. Not a lot of actual video games, which does make sense because the games you can play at home are now better which when I was a kid, arcade games were, like, leaps ahead of what you could play on consoles at home. Like, even if they released the game like Pac man on the Atari. It sucked on the Atari, but the arcade game was great.

No kidding. Street fighter, way better on the arcade than what it originally dropped. NBA Jam. That's a classic. I actually tried to play some NBA Jam a while back.

That game doesn't really hold up as well anymore. There's a recent one I was playing called the On Fire Edition. On Fire Edition. You can push other players and such. You can elbow them.

I think that's all NBA Jams. Well, I wish you could do that in real life. Oh, it would make basketball a little bit more exciting. Let's see here. Back in the day, old people knew how to sew and they could fix their Well, I I think people even more so nowadays know how to sew and crochet like your daughter Maddie, for example.

I think that I know plenty of girls that know how to do that type of thing. I wish I had a skill like that. Yeah. I think that type of activity is way more popular than when I was a kid. Mhmm.

You know, I mean, crafty type things. People love Hobby Lobby. You know, even though I've read that they deal in stolen artifacts and things like that. They love it. Who would dude, if if when I was a kid, someone's like, let's go to the craft store.

What? What's wrong? You would've called them names you can't say nowadays. Let's see. People thought beanie babies were cool.

There are still stuffed animals, everybody. Go to build a bear. Alright. This parent thought that the wall phone at their grandparents' house was awesome. Wow.

It wasn't awesome. Actually okay. If they took the angle of the only way people could get a hold of you is if you were at home, that was great. It was nice to be able to you know, you leave your house. You're off grid.

You're nobody gonna find you. You don't do whatever you want. But then you can go missing. Well, you could go missing. And, you know, when you get stranded, it's way better to have a cell phone.

And then you can share your location with everybody. I can literally pull up the Snapchat map and look at where people are at currently. Which is creepy. The only people I share my location with is the the girls because they they have that app, Life 360 Yeah. I think it's called.

Right. And they're like, this is fun, you know? And it's nice to be able to know where they're at, I guess. Well, it makes sense because they're your daughters. But I wouldn't share it with the general public.

Here's where I am in case you're curious. Oh, come on. You wanna share with me? Oh, Victor's at the mall again. Oh, he's in his living room.

Yeah. I I swear, Peaches, I'm out shopping. Don't call me. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group.

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