The Viktor Wilt Show

Thursday. What's up? It's Viktor Wilt. Hello. Alright.

Let's get rolling here. Wish it was Friday. Tell you what. Ain't really feeling it. Well, let's see what we got to yap about.

I saw an article right when I got here about overrated foods that people are convinced they're just that others, I guess, are pretending to enjoy. Some of the things on here. Things I enjoy. So I I know from my perspective anyhow that there's no pretending. Alright.

Things like kombucha. Kombucha is delicious. Delicious. It's not for everybody but I absolutely love kombucha. Probably for whatever same crazy reason that I really enjoy another item on this list that this one I I wish I didn't really enjoy.

You know? Would have saved me a lot of trouble over the years. IPAs. That is something that, you know, it's not the greatest thing in the world to have a a real taste for because, yeah, it's so easy to to overdo it. You know?

What else is on this list that I I do think is enjoyable even though others apparently think people are pretending? Red Bull. Now it does have a specific flavor, and it's not my favorite energy drink, but Red Bull ain't bad. It ain't bad. Insanely spicy food.

I guess I'd say I'm not really into it, but I know people who are, like, that really dig insanely spicy food. You know, we've done some pretty hardcore spicy challenges, and that's what they were. Challenges. I like a little bit of spice for sure. I I do enjoy it.

My stomach doesn't seem to like it very much, so I don't go spicy too often, but I I know people who are very into insanely spicy food. Alright. Now there are some on here that I'm like, okay. Yeah. People gotta be pretending.

Right? Oysters, escargot, caviar. Alright. I've never tried them. So but I have had, like, fried oysters, but, you know, when people are slurping them down fresh out of the shell, looks so disgusting to me.

You know? Like blowing your nose in reverse. Nasty. But I haven't tried it, so I guess I can't really judge. But, yeah, isn't escargot snails?

I I will not try that. Caviar just doesn't sound good either. Now, you know, when you get some sushi and they have the little bits of caviar sprinkled on it, I don't know. It doesn't seem like you taste anything, so still can't judge, but I I could say for sure for sure that kombucha is good. Alright?

Wish I had one right now as a matter of fact. Sounds kind of refreshing. Anyway, we're gonna get through this day together. We're gonna knock it down, get one step closer to Friday, and tomorrow should be fun because we are launching our rocket Halloween playlist. Very excited to get the Halloween tunes going so it'd be a good time.

Alright. I'm gonna attempt to dig for content that isn't food related because I don't wanna end up having to run and get myself breakfast. No need to whip up an appetite yet. JD was wanting to hear some ACDC. There you go, buddy.

Morning. Welcome to the program, the Victor World Show, Thursday morning edition. Hopefully, a rocket on by edition. I'm ready to be back just chilling and relaxing at my house. Alright.

Looking through the old Reddit here. Somebody asked what's your best or worst don't meet your hero's story, and I expected to hear a bunch of stories about, you know, celebrities and heroes being dirtbags when people met them. But this is Reddit, and a lot of times people don't don't really pay attention to what the question was. So, these are all reasons to meet your hero stories that I've seen so far anyhow. I mean, I didn't dive deep into it.

But for example, one user responded, I met Weird Al and got starstruck and didn't know what to say to him. Finally blurted out. I know you probably hear this a lot, but I'm a huge fan. He smiled and responded, I do hear that a lot, but I've never heard it from you. Made my day.

Why would that be a don't meet your hero's story? Sound like Weird Al's a super nice dude. So cool that Weird Al is gonna be doing a show at the Mountain America Center next year. That is gonna be so fun. I am so stoked on that.

No way I'm gonna miss Weird Al live in Idaho Falls. So cool. What else do we have here? Anybody mentioning celebrities being jerks? No.

Not that I've seen so far. Somebody talked about going to see Penn and Teller in Vegas, which if you're ever in Vegas, wanna see a great show. Penn and Penn and Teller is fantastic. Awesome show. And this person mentioned in their post that, you know, they'll hang out after the show and meet the audience, which that alone it's like way cool.

They do it every single show. That's how I met Penn, myself, Penn and Teller. You know, it's fun when you get to talk to Teller because he doesn't speak. So, both of them, very nice fellas. This person, when they met Penn and Teller, they stayed after the show, got autographs and photos, and, Penn asked him, what'd you think of the show?

So the person says their stupid mouth just fired back. Your audience trick didn't work. He then asked my family. Did it work for you? And they all nodded.

Yeah. So without missing a beat, he turns to me and he said, well, there's the problem. You're an idiot. Getting personally insulted by Penn was the high point of that Vegas trip. Penn's a really funny guy.

And, again, super nice. I've met him a couple times, and, he he was always very nice. I bumped into him after a, stuttering John and Jackie the joke man comedy show in Vegas as well. And that that was really cool where I previously met him. Anyway anyway yeah.

I'm just kind of, scanning these. Nobody nobody being a jerk as far as these celebrities go. Just people talking about meeting people who are awesome. Okay. Well, you can't always win when it comes to a Reddit post.

People just don't know how to pay attention to the question being asked. Well, I mentioned earlier that we're gonna be kicking off Halloween music tomorrow, which is awesome, But we already got rolling with the Halloween season because we got them screen tones going on, hooking it up with tickets to haunted attractions. Yeah. You wanna get out and check out the Lost Souls attractions in Shelley or maybe the haunted Mill in Teton? All you gotta do, listen for a scream tone.

When you hear it played, you you'll know what it is. It's pretty obvious. It sounds all scary, and then it says call now. When you hear that played, be caller number 13, and we'll hook you up with tickets to a haunted attraction. Thanks to our friends at Greasemonkey, Wackerley Subaru, and Wackerley Auto Center.

And we got the haunted meetup rolling again soon, so make sure to keep your ears open for details on that. Other ways to get free tickets to haunted attractions and join us at some of your favorites, such as the lost souls attractions and the haunted Bill and Teton. So playing screentones every day could happen at any time. If you hear one played, be caller number 13, and we'll let you have a pair of tickets to go check out a haunted attraction for yourself. We got some of the best in Idaho, and we're giving away free tickets throughout the entire month of October.

So listen for them scream tones. Get ready for the haunted meetup powered by Greasemonkey, Wackerly Subaru, and Wackerly Auto Center. Good luck to you on winning some free stuff. Alright. What's the Internet complaining about today?

Products that have gotten suspiciously bad according to the Internet. Let's see if I agree. Food quality at grocery stores. Has it gotten surprisingly bad? Are they talking like fresh produce?

This isn't anything relating to pricing. They're just saying quality. I don't know. All seems fine to me. So let's see what else we got going on here.

YouTube. They're talking about the ad situation. I will agree that, especially if watching YouTube on a smart TV, the commercial situation is definitely annoying. Alright? Because you tend to watch very short videos.

Imagine if every, like, 3 to 5 minutes, we busted out an, minute of ads. You know? After every song, you get a minute of ads. Wouldn't that be annoying? That's YouTube.

Alright. I think I could agree with that one. Let's see here. DiGiorno's pizza. I don't ever remember being very impressed with that to begin with.

This person claims it keeps getting smaller and worse tasting. I don't know. It's been a while since I had one, but, again, I was never very impressed with it to begin with. So, yeah, if you're gonna get a frozen pizza, gotta get that UNO brand, and you can rarely find it. Maybe at Walmart.

I will say if you fork over the dough to pay a little bit more for a frozen pizza, not Giorno. You gotta get, like, one of those $8 or $10 frozen pizzas. They're much better. But then at that point, you can just get a real pizza from, you know, an actual, to go pizza place. So I don't know.

But that UNO pizza, you want something at home that you're gonna yourself at some point? It is pretty good stuff. Or just fork over a buck 50, get a Totino's. Yeah. I think I'd rather have a dollar 50 Totino's than a $6 DiGiorno, but that's just me.

I don't know. I like Totino's. Reese's peanut butter cups. Now they do seem like they've gotten smaller. Right?

But that could just be when you're a kid, everything's bigger. Like, have you ever gone back to your elementary school? It's really weird. I've gone back to my elementary school. It's probably been a good 20 years or so.

I don't know. I don't even remember why I went in there, but I'm like, man, this place is tiny. This is weird. You remember you know, when you're a kid, everything seems so huge. But when you double in height and size, I I don't know.

It's it's kinda strange. So I don't know if Reese's have actually shrunk, but they do seem like they were bigger back in the day. I don't know. Halloween decorations? Nah.

It it's just depending on what you pay. There are quality Halloween decorations, but they're outside of my budget. Alright? I started, putting up some Halloween decorations last night, as a matter of fact. Yeah.

And I seem to have lost parts of them, so I I kinda bailed on the process. Need to go get some, like, tent stakes from Walmart or something, and I don't want things to blow away. But you can get better Halloween decorations than ever right now. I mean, you can get a 12 foot skeleton, but you're gonna have to pay for it. You're gonna have to pay a lot for it.

Yeah. Of course, there is cheap stuff available, but, hey, you can't say that decorations have just gotten worse. Now the pricing's gotten worse. Restaurants? I I don't know about that.

I've been to some great restaurants. Movies, there's still good movies coming out. I've watched a variety of good movies in the last year. Every year, there's good and bad movies. I wish they would stop doing so many remakes.

I will say that. You know? There I've read so many books that would make great movies that it just blows my mind Hollywood can't come up with anything new for the most part. Let's see here. This list goes on and on.

Video games? No. Video games are the best they've ever been. Alright? There are only a, you know, few each year that come out that are really good, but, you know, Alan Wake 2, you played that?

Game's amazing. Go back and play some, you know, old school NES and then play through Alan Wake 2. Alright. And tell me video games have got worse. No way.

No way. Appliances? Maybe. Maybe. I've had some bad luck with newer appliances.

Thankfully, the ones I've got now seem to be pretty good. Quality of furniture. Again, I think that just comes down to what you're gonna pay. Fast food, I I don't think fast food has changed much, at least from my experience. Maybe it's gotten a little bit smaller.

I don't know. Well, apparently, everything's gotten worse. You know, depending on where you look online, everything's gotten worse. We're living in the worst times ever, which I've said many a time is completely incorrect. We are living in the best times ever.

I know a lot of people don't wanna hear that, and I know there are problems. Obviously, inflation sucks. You know, the price of stuff, housing and food, the price of that is terrible. But outside of that, if you, you know, take a realistic look at everything, I would much rather be living now than at any other time in history. That's just me.

Maybe some people disagree, but despite any issues that I've got, any problems I'm dealing with, yeah, give me right now over any time in the past. That that that's just my opinion. Anyway, everything's gone to crap. Even though I can't afford it right now, now, I'd love to take a little road trip, go somewhere just because I haven't really done so in quite a while. An actual road trip.

Yeah. I mean, I have no idea aside from, like, Salt Lake or Boise. It'd be nice to be able to take a nice long drive, but it just ain't happening with these gas prices. Found a list of the top fall travel destinations in each state. Alright.

Well, maybe there's something close I could go do. Maybe something fun here in Idaho. Where is the top fall travel destination in Idaho? Well, apparently, Sun Valley. Yeah.

They say it's very nice in autumn and that, the resorts are slightly lower in price, during this time of year. So, I mean, they are close to the Sawtooths, so that that's cool. I haven't been to Sun Valley in, I don't know, 20 plus years. It's been a long time. Maybe I should go there.

I don't know. I again, even to drive to Sun Valley, it's gonna eat up a lot of my my budget. I don't know. I think I'm sticking around here for a while. Salt Lake it is.

I yeah. I know Sun Valley is not much further than Salt Lake, but does Sun Valley have any killer rock shows going on? I don't think so. This list might be inaccurate because they do say that the best place to go in Utah at this time of year is Provo. Provo is never the best place to visit at at at any time of year.

Alright? Provo, you drive through. Who stops in Provo other than people who live there to go to school? Provo? You gotta be kidding me.

That's ridiculous. You're gonna go to Utah. Go to, like, Moab or something. Southern Utah where it's a little bit more interesting. I don't know.

Or even, like, Park City? Salt Lake is better than Provo. At least there's something to do. Arizona. Visit Phoenix.

No. It's still not a good time to visit Phoenix. What do what do we got for temps in Phoenix? My daughter was complaining about it just the other day. I guess they had another heat wave roll in.

Right now as we speak, it's 81 degrees in Phoenix. It's still dark outside. Today, they're looking at a high of a 109. No. Yeah.

Maybe late fall, like the end of November. Then Phoenix is gonna be at just about perfect, but but not right now. Okay. I'm sure if you punch in Wyoming, it's gonna say Yellowstone. Right?

Because what what else is there to see in Wyoming anyway aside from, Yellowstone? Maybe they'll put Jackson because it's an actual town. I bet that's what they're gonna have here. Hang on. Hang on.

I gotta jump all this is one slide at a time. It's very annoying. Oh, they did put Yellowstone. Yeah. Okay.

Because Yellowstone would certainly be better to visit right now than Jackson. Yellowstone's probably about perfect right now. Tourism's at a lower point. Everybody's back to work and school. Lot more animals out.

You got the, leaves changing color. I really wanna go to Yellowstone. I haven't been there in many years, but that's an all day driving thing that's a lot of gas especially since you're driving uphill for a good chunk of it well alright I guess sun valley it is yeah I think I'll find some good shows. Go to Salt Lake. Lorna Shore is coming up in about a month.

I think I'm gonna have to go see Lorna Shore and Whitechapel. I gotta get that figured out. Anyway, if you're looking for something fun to do, riverbendmediagroup.com. There you go. We got a good list.

Our event calendar. You could find all kinds of different shows and community events and yeah. You don't have to go very far, so go check it out. I've talked about this movie a number of times over the years. I'm a huge fan of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park.

And the first movie they ever did was called cannibal the musical. It is a great movie, and I believe it is still available on YouTube. The only problem is it's such bad quality, not, you know, the movie itself, but the actual quality of what has been available to to watch, which is very frustrating because it's so good. Well, great news as a limited edition remastered Blu ray is going to be coming out soon and is available for preorder@refusefilms.com. Looks like this company must be associated with, Troma.

If you've never watched any Troma movies, trauma movies are completely insane. They're not for everyone, but I love trauma movies. Cannibal the musical, a trauma film. And if you're wondering, like, what's a trauma film? Go watch the toxic avenger.

There you go. The, quintessential Troma movie. But, yeah, Hannibal the musical is just so fun. So fun. It's if you're a fan of South Park and you've never seen this movie, it's got all of that stuff about South Park that people love.

The over the top humor, great songs. I mean, it is a musical. I mean, I even have a song from that movie in our system here called Spadoinkle Day. You wanna hear it? Listen to this.

It's only, like, a minute long. The sky is blue and all the leaves are green. The sun's as with my girl. She's my best friend in the whole world. Set our goals high with eyes full of hope as we aim for the I should listen to that song every morning.

Puts a smile on your face, does it not? You gotta check out cannibal the musical. $37 to preorder the special limited edition Blu Ray. I really shouldn't drop $37 on anything right now, but I I kinda really want that. It's just so good.

Anyhow, look it up on YouTube. Watch the movie. It's it's quite absurd. It's very ridiculous. Just read an article that is not surprising whatsoever.

You know, we're in an election year, so lots of election talk. Majority of Americans favor moving away from the electoral college. Yeah. No kidding. What a novel idea.

There may have been a time when the electoral college did what it was supposed to do, but all that the electoral college has resulted in is our elections being determined by, like, 7 states, which is why you don't see Trump. You don't see Harris anywhere outside of places like Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and whatever other swing states there are. Wisconsin. Yeah. You think they're gonna come visit Idaho?

No. Absolutely not because they don't need to. Trump does not need to set foot in Idaho. You know, he's pretty much got that one in the bag, and that's how it is for most states. Like, do you think Harris is visiting California?

No. Doesn't need to. No presidential democratic candidate gonna go campaign in California. They don't need to, and that's all because of the electoral college. Will we ever move away from it?

Doubt it. It's kinda like the daylight saving time thing. Politicians endlessly promising, hey. We're gonna get rid of this because everyone hates it. It's harmful.

We'll get ready. The time changes coming up in about a month. But, yeah. Endless promises to get rid of that. Have they ever?

No. Just endless pandering and grandstanding. Can't imagine a big change like that happening to the electoral college. And it's on both sides that people feel we should get rid of it because, yeah, it should not come down to a handful of states to determine our election. This is the only election we have anywhere in the country where it's not just okay.

Who got all the votes? You know? But, anyhow, the will of the people not generally followed when it comes to things like this. Even though Yeah. I mean, a big majority of people are, like, this is this is dumb.

We need to change things up. You know, I I would love to see even though it's annoying to listen to presidential political advertising on east Idaho radio. I know it's annoying, but all of those advertising dollars, you know, you got people contributing to these campaigns. All of those advertising dollars go into the swing states. Yeah.

We could spread that money around a little bit. It would help out communities like here in East Idaho, our local TV stations, our local radio stations, but nobody didn't see a cent of that. No. Gotta dump all of that into Arizona. So, anyway, just throwing it out there.

The obvious that most people think that system is stupid, but, yeah, I think we're gonna be stuck with it probably forever because no. Oh, change. No. We we don't know. Change is scary.

Change is scary. Anyway, don't forget to register to vote. Get out and vote. It is important. I saw some people naysaying online.

My vote doesn't matter. No. Your vote does matter. If you want change to happen, you gotta get out and vote. No matter what state you live in, change never happens if you don't get out and voice or let your voice be heard.

Whatever. You know? So, register a vote. Vote.gov. We're, like, 40 some odd days out from the election, and you're gonna wanna take part.

Let's see record turnout. You know, it's crazy the amount of people that don't vote. Like, so many eligible voters that just don't do it. Why? I don't know.

There probably a variety of reasons. One of which is I don't feel like my vote matters because of the electoral college. Well, then you gotta fight that system. Gotta get out and vote. Alright?

You want change to happen? It's up to you. Vote.gov. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change. We're diving in here.

Note to local city councils. Do not give the general public access to screen sharing in the middle of your city council meetings. Up in British Columbia, I guess they would allow the public to, you know, jump on Zoom and make some kind of points during city council meetings without having to be there in person. And, of course, somebody in the community decided, alright. I'm gonna disrupt this city council meeting a bit and, all of a sudden, adult material, broadcasting for all to see in the community, and, they're very upset about this.

Said, we deeply regret the inappropriate behavior that occurred and distress it may have caused. I guess they call this, zoom bombing. You know, somebody taking advantage of the the situation there to upset people, basically. Yeah. Just in case any of our local city council people are considering this type of thing, I I should probably pop into a city council meeting every once in a while, see what these people are up to.

But if I could do it from home with Zoom, be a little more convenient. My my house is pretty comfortable, pretty cozy. So, anyway yeah. Don't do that. Oh, let's see.

A cat found a grenade in a home's basement. These people moved into a home and doing a little bit of renovating, and their cat started knocking something around in the basement. They, you know, go go see what it's doing and, turned out to be a hand grenade. A live grenade. So, yeah, police had to set that off in a controlled environment.

Oh, hell. I worry about my cats getting into things. Yesterday, I get home. Koopa, the side of his head's all swollen up. I'm like, oh, jeez.

What is wrong with him? What happened? Did he get stung by a bee? So I take him over to the vet. No.

He's just a brawler. Got in some fight at some point, and he had an abscess in his face. So, anyway, yeah, he did he didn't get into anything poisonous or anything, thankfully, but could have been worse. Could have been a hand grenade. You don't want your cat swatting that around your basement.

Why did our house explode? Ugh. Cats, man. They'll play with anything. If you meditate for 20 seconds a day, it's good for you.

Just wanted to let you know. 20 seconds. It's about as much, meditation as I can tolerate. I've tried meditation. My brain's just too crazy.

Try to focus on those breaths. Mind gets a wander and the circus erupts. I might be able to pull off 20 seconds. I could do that while Songer's playing. I could do that at work.

20 seconds. Just wanted to let you know if you're feeling stressed, at least give that a go. Finally in freak news, there's a giant baby puppet that appeared in the middle of a town in the UK. It's a, 27 foot tall figure called Lily, and it is insane looking. I love it, but the public does not.

They describe it as freaky and unsettling. One person called it the ugliest baby they've ever seen. I mean, it is pretty ugly, but that's what makes it awesome. You should see this thing. It's scary looking.

Would like something that, comes to life in a horror movie. It's an art installation. You know, could we get something like this set up around here? I never see any weird art pop up around here in east Idaho. We need the giant baby.

Go Google this thing up. Giant baby puppet. Go to the news. I wanna see it in action, like, talking and stuff because clearly looking at it, the mouth moves and stuff like that. This thing's a nightmare.

But nightmare fuel's kinda good. You know? Liven things up a little bit. Alright. Local artists, it's on you.

Come on. Make my day. Freak news powered by Grease Monkey, voted Idaho's best oil change. We shall return. One of the very best things about Idaho is that about 63% of the state is public land.

It's land that can be used by all for things like recreation, camping, hunting, things like that. 63% of the state. I believe Idaho has the most public land of any state in the country. And every election cycle, you got these people coming out trying to implement new laws so that they can sell our public lands to the highest bidder. Peaches, it's a bunch of garbage.

I'm fed up with it. You would think that people would, pay attention to these kind of things. You know, you're you're newer to the state. Did you know? I've been here for almost 4 years.

You're still newer to the state. You're still a California transplant. You're still a noob, but did you know, 63% of the state is public land that can be used by all 63%. No. I didn't know that.

No. Well, hopefully we can keep it that way. I just saw an article about, Utah reviving its public land grab scheme. And, when we've got our neighbors to the south trying to pull these shenanigans, Idaho tends to kinda try to follow in Utah's footsteps. So it makes me very, very concerned and nervous.

Even though the, crap talk has always been extremely high for Utah, they still wanna follow what Utah does. Yeah. Yeah. Or or make things worse. Mhmm.

So I just wanna encourage everybody to really pay attention, look into the, views and positions of candidates you're voting for. And I I mean, it can be quite the deep dive to try to figure out what kind of policies are actually looking to be implemented by people. It's not like there's just one convenient website where you can go to and here's what these people here's all of their views. Know, you gotta, like, sit there and watch boring interviews with politicians. Well, actually, there was something that I got in the mail yesterday, because I registered to vote here in Idaho.

Mhmm. And then I get that piece of paper that was, like, wait, do you not live in Orange County anymore? And I had to fill it out and say no. Interesting. And then I got this voter guide.

Yeah. It's like a kinda like a little mini newspaper. Yeah. I got that too. I haven't read it.

It tells me what what each thing is about, like prop 1, arguments for, arguments against it. What about the, candidates themselves? I didn't go that far into it. I just saw it, but that's that's cool. I think Victor would like that.

So Yeah. I got one of those too. It's cool that they're sending those out, encouraging people to get out and vote and to read. That's the hard part, getting people to open it up and read it. I did that.

Saw a billboard that says don't California Kate Idaho. I don't want that. I wanna vote no. Yes. Please research.

Don't base how you vote on billboards or memes. Alright? You got you gotta do some actual research, and I know it's boring and it takes time, but that pamphlet alone, like you said, I opened it up and saw that they were talking about the propositions and thing, seemed to break things down pretty good. I just assumed with how many different candidates there are throughout the state. Yeah.

It's was unlikely they got into that in that pamphlet, but I do need to read the rest of it. So I wonder if everybody got one of those in East Idaho. It's it's pretty cool. I I like did. I like seeing that there is a heavy push for people to get out and vote, because year after year, you know, voter turnout just sucks everywhere.

I think, a lot of my friends who are younger, like the younger brother of my, close friend, he will not vote at all. You can't persuade him to do so. He's like, he's not he's not gonna make a difference to 1 person. It does make a difference, though. Because, you know, if every single person that felt that way went out and voted And then there's another friend of mine in California that said, like, oh, we're screwed either way.

So we're not I'm not gonna vote for either one of them. I am one of those people who would say it's important to vote for the lesser of 2 evils if you feel that way. If you feel like all the options suck, pick the least worst. Alright? You know, you you gotta.

You gotta get out and vote because too many people feel that way that, oh, my vote doesn't matter. I'm just one person, and that adds up. You know, that spirals. One person hears another person say that, and they're like, oh, yeah. They're right.

My vote doesn't matter. No. If everybody just turned it around, got out and vote, that that's how you make change happen. But, anyway, as someone who's very passionate about our public lands, I'm, you know, love living in a place where I can go for a drive. Drive out to the middle of the woods, and I'm not gonna encounter gates and fences because it's all been sold off to rich people and privatized.

You know, that's one of the things that makes Idaho great. Other states where public lands have been sold off, you can't go camping anywhere. You can't, if you're a hunter, you can't get out and hunt. There's nowhere to go fish. Nowhere to just go view the beautiful outdoors.

Anyway, just do some research into your candidates, the things they stand for. Look into all the different, propositions that are gonna be on the ballot. Educate yourself, and I'm gonna just say it until the election. Your vote does matter. Don't let anybody convince you otherwise.

Change can happen, but you gotta get out and you gotta vote. Alright. I know some people get butt hurt when you talk about COVID, but I'm gonna talk about it for just a second. Alright. So settle down.

Just wanted to let everybody know that free COVID tests are once again available from the government. You can go to covidtest.gov and order a 4 pack. Now here's why I recommend that you get these tests. I had COVID 2 weeks ago, and it sucked. It was terrible.

And I discovered that's what it was because I had a home test, took it, and was like, oh, great. Here's where I screwed up. Had I immediately called up my doctor, I could've got a prescription for paxlovid right when I was, you know, getting hit the worst by COVID, and I could have gotten feeling better so much quicker with that prescription. I waited days and days and days, and when I was still just feeling horrible, I finally went to the doc, got rolling on that, and then I got feeling good really fast. So that's why I recommend you get these tests since there is medication available now if you get COVID.

Man, taking that medication makes such a difference. I was just kicking myself so bad. The doctor himself is like, why didn't you come in after you found out that you, you know, tested positive? I'm like, well, it didn't seem that bad at the time, and then it just kept getting worse. So, covid test dot gov, if you wanna get yourself some free tests.

And if you do test positive when you're sick, get to your doctor immediately. You know? It isn't the initial stages of 2020 anymore. They do have medications that can make you feel a lot better, get back to work, and, you know, nothing worse than sitting there suffering through a terrible sickness. So that's all.

Hopefully, nobody butthurt at me for talking about it. I know people get a little sensitive when it comes to that topic, but just trying to help you. Alright. As someone who just barely went through it, it sucks. Yeah.

Just, you know, might as well put yourself in a position that you can get a little bit of relief. Come on. If you're gonna start a political argument online, don't disable the comments. That's no fun. I was scrolling through the life in Idaho Falls group on Facebook, you know, just seeing if there's anything interesting local to talk about.

And, of course, being that we're 40 some odd days away from the election, There's a lot of different things for people to vote on. People are talking about things in there. And then once people start, you know, throwing an opposing viewpoint, all of a sudden, the comments no. I'm gonna turn comments off on my post. Weak sauce.

You're gonna start it. Gotta let the discussion happen. That's the point of the post. If you wanna make a statement, give other people the opportunity to tell you you're wrong. Like, for example, I put out a little video on the Kay Bear Facebook page a couple days ago of me listening to a little bit of the latest Lincoln Park song.

For some reason, this video has started going viral, and there are a lot of naysayers. People are not happy with the new Lincoln Park vocalist. Emily Armstrong, better name? I think so. Anyway, I didn't shut down the comments.

Alright. People wanna voice their opinion on the new Lincoln Park music. That's fine with me. Even if I disagree, I think the new Lincoln Park songs are pretty good. That's my personal opinion.

They're pretty good, but it's an open forum. Sure. You wanna comment on my video? That's fine. I just think it's weak sauce.

I think people need to have these discussions when it comes to politics and hear the opposing viewpoints. That's part of the problem. People get stuck in the echo chamber. They watch one news source or they only click like on certain things on social media, and then all they're fed is stuff that correlates that particular viewpoint. It's a problem.

People are not exposed to various sources of information and various viewpoints on all of the different issues facing people today. Discussion is good. You know, you're you're never going to expand your your viewpoints and potentially change your thought process as you grow older if you don't expose yourself to other types of information. So, yeah, don't be weak. Don't shut down comments on your your political posts because you don't like, you know, what people are saying in response.

Gone now. What are you afraid of? It's okay to get information out there. Anyway, the the rest of the life in Idaho Falls group is pretty much the usual. Anybody know the best place to get a haircut?

Hey. You know? Anybody know where I could buy a good taco? So I don't know. If I find anything else of interest, I'll let you know.

But I I was just disappointed. I I like reading the comments. I like seeing people fight online. It's fun. And I was very disappointed that that post, it it was just cut off.

You know? Come on. Let people argue. I just found another Facebook post where you might think they'd possibly turn the comments off but did not. It was a post from Las Vegas rock station KOMP comp.

And, I guess Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day had some negative things to say about Las Vegas. He essentially called Las Vegas a dump, and Las Vegas rock station's very upset now with Billy Joe Armstrong. You ever you ever been to Vegas, Peaches? I can't remember. Long time ago, back when I was, like, 8 years old.

I've been wanting to go. I was supposed to go back in 2020. That trip didn't happen. Vegas in 2020 probably wouldn't have been very fun. I actually was in Vegas in February of 2020, and, that was the first time I got COVID.

Was in Vegas at the Rock Radio Convention right when COVID we were talking about it. Like, oh, there's this pandemic thing happening, and then I get home and I'm sick for a week. And I was like, I probably drink too much beer and, like, why can't I breathe very good? I don't know. I've never had a hangover like this.

So Billy Joe Armstrong, I guess, at a live show, said something about Vegas being a dump. He's upset that the I think it's the Oakland A's are moving to Vegas. Is that correct? Yeah. Oakland A's, their their fan base in Oakland is terrible.

They're not even showing up up to the games. Like, a 1000 people or even less will show up to games Oh, wow. For a 20,000 person stadium. Yeah. And Oakland itself, man, it makes Vegas look like a looks like a Atlantis, I would say.

I've never been to Oakland, so, I'm I'm not sure what it's like there. But, so KOMP and some other rock stations have pulled Green Day out of their playlist. We ain't playing Green Day anymore. If you want a card Oh, yeah. I own a dump.

And, the comment section on their post because it's it's going a bit viral. Pretty interesting for sure. I don't know how many locals are actually commenting because you've got half the people like, yeah. Screw them. I don't like them anyway.

And the rest going, oh, poor Green Day. What are they gonna do without you guys? Exactly. But, yeah, they they didn't turn the, the comments off. So they're they're letting it run wild.

They gotta give them props for that. Trying to think if a band trashed Idaho if I would pull their music from the playlist. Trying to think if there's any stupid reasons I could pull a band from our playlist just for fun. Well, there's a particular artist that I was told that I, genuinely really like the this band. I was told their lead singer is a royal pain in the butt when it comes to interviews.

And I'm like, you know what? Maybe I should remove this music out of the library. And I know over the years I've made threats to move remove artists from the playlist, but I I can't remember why. Like, one, there is an artist I've removed from our playlist. Oh, I know which one you're talking about.

Because they were rude to one of our staff. Yes. Yeah. But I I don't think I'd play them anyway because their songs aren't very popular. But aside from that, I'm like, I don't know.

If somebody badmouthed Idaho, it would depend what angle they took whether or not I would, dump them from the playlist. So I'll do anything to get us some, some press. Anything to get us a little bit of online action. Can't be that way, though. We can't be, like, desperate for attention.

I know. That's why we'd need a good excuse. So if there's any bands out there Well, didn't MGK say something about, like, I have the Wi Fi codes in Blackfoot, Idaho? I think something like that. Here on z, we could be like, you're out of here.

How dare you say you have the Wi Fi codes? I don't know. You don't see people, trash Idaho too much aside from people who live here. Yeah. I did see it.

I did see a Billy Crystal and Henry Winkler in Idaho right now. I I bet there's some negative comments on that post because it was, the 2 of them at, Jimmy Kimmel. Is that right? His he owns I I can't remember which, lodge in Swan Valley. He doesn't really make appearances like Henry Winkler does.

Henry Winkler is one of those celebrities that you can't hate him. You really can't. No. How could you? It's funny though because him and Tom Hanks have a giant feud.

What? Yeah. A real feud? Yeah. Like, Tom Hanks does not Henry Winkler for some reason.

Interesting. Because those are both 2 guys you think of as being, like, the nicest. Yeah. That was talked about in The Howard Stern Show years ago. Okay.

It's the South Fork Lodge. That's what, Jimmy Kimmel owns if you've, driven past it in Swan Valley. I mean, it's it's beautiful. Can we, go up to his property and say, hey, up here on our radio show? You know, let's see how much it costs to rent a room at the South Fork Lodge.

Oh, this is not like his estate. This is just like No. It's a it's like a hotel. Oh, gotcha. You know?

But I've I've seen other pictures online where there'll be a bunch of celebrities there hanging out. I would assume they've got, you know, times blocked out where general public doesn't rent rooms and, you know, we're gonna have a celebrity getaway weekend. And I know there are lots of people who don't like Jimmy Kimmel, you know. I'm one of them. Why don't you like Jimmy Kimmel?

He turned his show way too political. He used to have fun with it. Like, he would like do the whole, like, I ate my kids Halloween candy. This is their reaction. They still do that.

He still does it, but at the same time, the overall content of the show has turned so political and it's just, like, okay, dude. We get it. Yeah. I I like Jimmy Kimmel a lot. For a little while there, all he did was cry in every monologue.

Crying? Yeah. He was like, my my son has a heart problem and he can't get the treatment and then some something like that. What? Okay.

I didn't hear anything about that. Like a solid week. He was just crying every show. If you wanna book, you have to, contact them with ideal dates and group size. It's not as simple as, you know, okay.

I wanna go, rent a room. Hey, Lou. Come on out here again so we can we can, somehow get our way into that lodge. Yeah. Lou's our only celebrity friend.

We need him out here so we can go stay at the, South Fork Lodge and maybe bump into some celebrities. Every time Henry Winkler's around, I'm like, why don't you come hang out? But I've I've given up. I even texted you that picture that, Nikki 6 posted saying hashtag id oh, up in Idaho. And it was the Deer and the Moose and the Buffalo?

Yeah. No. But it was just the hashtag up in Idaho. That was it. And it was a old photo of him fishy.

Yeah. Nikki Sixx is living in Jackson Hole, which is you know, we're we're their official rock station. I claim it. Even though, you know, I know the signal's a bit rough, we're still Jackson Hole's official rock station. So any rock artists I think Gene Simmons has a home there too, don't he?

Oh, we don't want we don't want him in studio. I'd I'd get Gene Simmons in even though he's completely insufferable. If I had the opportunity to have him in here, I I would have him in even though he is so annoying. But, Nikki 6, I'd love to have him on the show. That'd be great.

But does he give us any love? No. No. No. He probably doesn't even know.

Probably not. So those of you listening in Jackson, if you bump into Nikki 6, tell him how sad and disappointed we are here at Kay Bear 101 that he has never stopped by to hang out with us. We play tons of Motley Crue. We play 6 AM. Come on.

Come on now. Anyway, the first local somewhat local celebrity that comes by, we'll give you a Kay Bear t shirt. What? We got a sticker for you. What happens to any more Kay Bear t shirts?

We have some smalls, don't we? I think so. Maybe some mediums. Maybe. Yeah.

So we need, small celebrities. Because we, man, are you here? Whoops. I was listening on the wrong channel. My bad.

My bad. Sorry for that extra moment of dead air. Anyway, before I get out of here, wanted to let you know if you're into gaming or just great television, they just dropped the trailer for the last of us, the second season, which will be airing on HBO Max sometime in 2025. I was hoping they'd have a date. You know?

Here's when it's gonna happen. But it was cool to check out the trailer, and it really makes me wanna run through both The Last of Us part 1 and part 2 again on the PlayStation because they are such good games. Part 2, one of the bar none best video games of all time. It's so good, and I'm really excited to see what they do with the TV show in the second season. If you haven't checked out season 1, you can stream that on Max, and I highly recommend it.

It's really, really good. It's not just your run of the mill zombie type show. Got a great story, a great ending, and then it just gets even better as you roll into part 2. So, if you're looking for something to do this weekend, binge The Last of Us. Yeah.

And I I just may fire it up on the PlayStation again, but I need to get that remastered version. The the new one, The Last of Us part 1, they put out, I don't know, a year or 2 ago. I've got the old version, but, you know, it's kinda like with Grand Theft Auto. I can't help myself. Oh, there's an even better version available.

Let me buy that game for the 3rd time. And then they just put out the last of us part 2 remastered for PlayStation 5. I I think I can get some kind of a cheap upgrade for that one if I remember right from the PlayStation online store. But part 1 still looks like it's like a full price 60, $70 game. Ridiculous.

So I don't know. Maybe I'll just watch the TV show. It's a cheaper route. I already have HBO Max. So, yeah, go check out the trailer if you've already seen season 1, but highly recommended binge watching for the weekend.

Nothing better than kicking back, relaxing, chilling on the couch, watching some good stuff. Alright. I'm gonna get on out of here. Me and peaches will be back at noon for the noon hour of madness mayhem. As always, thank you so much for your support listening to the show every day.

You are the best listeners on the planet. You're my favorite listeners. Anyway. Yeah. You're the best.

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