The Viktor Wilt Show

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Good morning. Happy Tuesday to you. Okay. What do we got in the news? You know, been out the last three days.

Hopefully, that means enough stupid things have piled up for me to have content for the show today. I had a friend once that I went on a hike in Boise with. We went up to the top of some hill. I don't know. It's a Boise hike.

I don't remember what it was specifically, but, you know, we're out. It was nighttime. Let's go hike to the top of this hill we get to the top and I I could feel something watching me could feel something watching me what's going on here and then I spotted a coyote. Stalking us and I'm like dude dude there's a coyote. It's gonna attack us.

He's like dude coyotes don't attack people. Settle down victor. You have nothing to worry about. I'm like, alright. Alright.

I did not get attacked by a coyote that evening, but it could have happened. It's happening a lot in Bellevue, Washington. Yeah. Five attacks this month including a child bitten while playing in their yard. People are just out you know doing their thing and the coyotes they're on the rampage.

Pretty terrifying. Yeah? You ever been chased by a dog? What about a wild dog? Yeah.

They might look cute. Sorta. Coyotes. Yeah. Tell they're latched onto your leg.

Now nobody died or anything, but, the authorities are saying, you know, this behavior is unusual. Why is this happening now? I like the news article. You can read about all the attacks by clicking here. Get into the specifics.

Let's see. We had a child attacked, the one we mentioned. They're just hanging out in the front yard. A bus stop attack. Yeah.

09:45AM. Coyote went up to a group of children waiting at a bus stop and tried to bite them, ripping some clothing nearly getting away with a backpack then there was another incident where coyote stole a backpack they they really like these backpacks I'm guessing kids had a packed lunch inside right Or maybe the coyote had stolen a backpack in the past, found a delicious sandwich in it. I was like, I'm I'm gonna take every backpack I see. Alright. Got a guy bitten in his garage.

You know, he's just out doing some garage things. Bitten by a coyote, another woman just hanging on her patio. We got somebody calling who's been bit by a coyote. That'd be cool. Not saying it would be cool that you've been bitten by a coyote.

Alright. Some of these products I see people come up with, they just don't seem like a great idea to me. I don't think you should make vaping into a, like a game. Somebody made a vape, the Tamagotchi vape and your Tamagotchi will die. If you stop vaping.

What? Yeah, there was some kind of event called the stupid hackathon. And, this was at New York University. So I I would assume they made it as a goof. They're not actually going to start start mass marketing these, but, yeah, I'm looking at a picture of it here.

You've got the, Tamagotchi style virtual pet. Those of you who are younger might not know what a Tamagotchi is. It's like a little key chain video game type thing with a little pet, and you'd have to, you know, feed it and things like that to keep it alive. Apparently in 2025, you vape to keep it alive. This is something, I guess, people have talked about online and somebody decided, hey, I'm going to actually make it.

So they did. I'd really hope something like this doesn't end up being a mass marketing product. K? Nicotine is no good. Super addictive.

Isn't it, like, the the most addictive substance there is? Take it from me. Don't ever try it. Don't ever try it. Anyway, there's part of me that finds this funny, but at the same time, I'm like, no.

No. Somebody's gonna end up hooked on the nicotine, and I don't want anybody to have to suffer through that. Well, I guess at least people are being creative and having fun. Somebody's gonna mass market these. This is gonna be a bad deal.

Alright. Anyway, good morning. I'm here. I'm doing it live. Later on the show, I I had a listener call a few minutes ago and bring up Bigfoot calling.

And, I found a video I started watching, I'm reviewing it for content. It might be pretty funny to check out the world of, Bigfoot calling. That could be fun. Anything to avoid the regular old news. Right?

And, yeah, we'll get into the, Poppy Show recap later on as well. Still waiting on the Ibuprofen to kick in. I'm too old to be doing things like jumping the mosh pit. What an idiot. Just can't help myself.

I it it's something I started doing when I was young. And you wanna feel young, you know, so you jump in the pit and then you're hurt. Oh, my aching back. Anyway, we'll get into that later. Hey.

As the weather continues to improve, you might wanna be aware that the sun and heat can be pretty brutal on you. I was reading this article here where science or scientists are saying the impact of heat, can speed up aging at the molecular level and potentially impact people's long term health similar to the effect of smoking and drinking. Yeah. They looked at people 56 living across the country with very different heat experiences and people from the extremely hot parts of the country like Phoenix, looked biologically older by about fourteen months. Now what if you live in a place like Phoenix, but you, you know, are smart and you don't go outside when it's a 20 degrees?

I don't know. Is that just everybody or people who spend their time in the sun? Because, you know, there are some people who only spend the winter months. That's how you do it. Move to Phoenix for the winter, then get out during the summertime.

Anyway, if you're ever looking for an excuse to avoid the great outdoors oh, it's hot outside. It's hot outside. I gotta keep my youthful look going on here. Yeah, but dude, you've been chain smoking and drinking like crazy. I'm not going out in the heat.

Oh geez. Anyway, I mean the discomfort that I experience out in extreme heat is all I need to keep me from going out in it. So I'm not too worried about that one. Ugh. I could go for a little bit more heat around here, though.

When I was in Salt Lake, it was, like, high fifties. I was outside at night without a coat. Yeah. I know. Crazy.

It was great. Then I got back here, and it's all cold and rainy and wake up to snow. Fantastic. Careful on the roadways. Little bit slick out there.

Boy, the news sure seems to be all about asteroids striking Earth as of late. You know, it was a couple weeks there where they were throwing out new percentages. All this one in what was it? Twenty thirty two or something. I don't remember.

But this one, it it's got, like, a 1% chance, 2% chance, and then they're like, ah, yeah. Nothing's gonna happen. Well, now I just stumbled across a news article says city killer asteroid may be hurtling towards Earth right now, and we have no way to detect it. Space agency chiefs warn. Yeah.

The article starts off, humanity has only just recovered from the near miss of asteroid y r four, which threatened to blow a huge hole into Earth's crust. And now I don't know. There could be other asteroids out there lurking in our blind spot. I guess we don't have the technology to let us search all of the space between Earth and the sun because that sun's bright. Yeah.

You just can't see. Get too close, can't spot them asteroids. So they're working on some type of a cutting edge planet defense system that will boost our space vision. Now if they do discover an asteroid that's going to hit her, then what are they gonna do? And is it gonna be like that movie?

Don't Look Up. I bet it would be. That movie becomes more and more pertinent day by day. If you haven't seen it, it it's pretty good. I enjoyed it.

Watched it, a couple times, but yeah. I'm pretty positive you could see a meteor in the sky hurtling toward earth and people be like, man, I don't see it. Half of people out there probably. I don't see it. Whatever.

Fake news. So, anyway, I think this article is more about the fact that we don't have the technology to detect if something like this is hurtling toward earth. Not, hey, there's an asteroid we can't see and it's coming. I mean, it's good. I'd prefer the advanced technology to try to prevent all of humanity from being wiped out, so I'm all for this.

Stay tuned. I'm sure we'll have more asteroid news tomorrow. You know? One week, it's train derailments, then it's plane crashes. Now it's asteroids.

I'll try to find some other things to scare you. K? We'll keep this show frightening. Oh, hectic morning. What's up?

It's Victor Wilt. I hope you're doing good. I hope you're not in pain. I'm feeling a little bit of pain because I'm too old to mosh, but I don't know when to just stop. Just don't know when to say no.

I don't know. If you're not into moshing, you'll you'll never get it. But if it's a thing that you do, I don't know. You see a good pit going on and you just can't help but jump in. That's me.

Alright. Why do they turn that on? Let's, turn on this video about Bigfoot calling. I know I said I was gonna preview this video for content. It's from ESPN, so there shouldn't be any swearing.

Right? I don't know. I've got a dump button. Thank you to the listener who called and recommended we discuss Bigfoot Calling. We live in a world divided.

This video is five years old. K? It's not political. Between the believers and the doubters. The thing was standing at the crest of this hill or down into this valley, I could see eyes which I always say size of a mayonnaise jar cover red.

Big red eyes. And I have that big old bellow and I'm just I mean, you could feel it in your face, your chest. I've never in my life heard anything so deep tone. Oh. This.

It sound like me trying to do metal vocals at, 42. I I think Bigfoot calling sounds like loads of fun. Is a story for the believers. For as long as humans have roamed the woods, there have been reports of giants among us. It's pretty big.

Of the Himalayas to Harry and the Hendersons. Was it Bigfoot or a big hoax? That is a question that resonates deeply in the small Adirondack Mountain town of Whitehall, New York. Oh, wow. Usually, when we get into Bigfoot stories, they tend to come out of the Pacific Northwest.

So alright. Always down to find a new place to go, you know, search for them cryptozoological creatures. Back in August of nineteen seventy six, I was a police officer here in Whitehall. I'm looking at something that don't exist, and yet there is right in front of me. It's either a Bigfoot or Sasquatch, whatever you wanna call them.

I know what I saw. In the more than four decades since Gosselin's sighting, Whitehall has become a place of pilgrimage for the Sasquatch faithful. Yeah. They got the Sasquatch saloon. They've got, the country club with Bigfoot on the logo.

Alright. There is a country club I'd go hang out at, the Bigfoot themed country club. You know, usually, they're all highfalutin' and snooty. This place is gonna be packed with nerds. My kind of place.

There have been hundreds of sightings of Bigfoot in the Whitehall region. Back in the nineteen seventies, this was sort of a taboo subject, but now it seems like we've come full circle. We have a festival where we can embrace this phenomenon. Yeah. He's right.

We are living in different times where all kinds of crazy is just accepted by society. Alright. No no offense, Bigfoot people. I know we've got listeners who have seen Bigfoot. I've I've taken these calls before.

Or do we got any local Bigfoot callers? If so, I wanna hear your Bigfoot calls. The festival is headlined by a main event where contestants from all over the country don't just embrace Sasquatch, they call Sasquatch. The objective to summon your inner Sasquatch. The judge?

Does the Eastern Idaho State Fair do this? We need to get this going on at the fair. Bigfoot calling competition. Maybe we could do this as some type of a promo. Peaches, if you're listening, we're always trying to come up with good promo ideas.

Right now, we're doing the, you know, papa roach, papa scream weather report. Bigfoot calling for prizes. I think do we have any bands that have really big dudes that we could, you know, somehow tie this in together? Stay tuned. Alright.

Let let's hear some more. A real life Sasquatch ear witness. It was just lion roar, but a lot louder. It's impossible. We can't do it as humans.

Of course, in the horror movies, when the creature comes to the festival, usually kills everybody. So let's hope that that doesn't happen. We're here to get closer to Sasquatch. No. No.

No. No. I just wanna walk through the fair and just hear that off in the distance. Yeah. Come on, dude.

Don't challenge me. There there are guys who can do a pretty low guttural scream. That's probably, the equivalent of a Bigfoot call that you're saying humans can't duplicate. You ever heard Alex Terrible's vocals? Nah.

What about Phil from Light Chapel? Pros. You know, if there's anybody in the world who could summon a Bigfoot, it's gotta be some kind of extreme metal band vocalist. Right? Okay.

Oh. There's a huge crowd. Huge crowd for this event. Come on. Give us your inner squash.

Oh, that poor kid. It's a little kidney. Put his mouth right on the microphone. That's why you always bring your own microphone to the Bigfoot calling event. K?

You got people screaming into a microphone. You got a lot of spit flying on that mic, then your little kid just puts his mouth right on the microphone. He's gonna get sick. Ugh. Or vice versa, some kid has put his mouth on the microphone, and now you're putting it up to your face.

Kids, you don't know where they've been. They can be pretty gross. I wanted to go from the diaphragm and really, really harness my inner squatch because I really think that it comes from within. Pretty good, dude. Pretty good.

Alright. Seeing it's something everybody can take part in. We some of those Bigfoot calls you were hearing, some were from men, some were from women. This is a great family friendly event. We need to make this a thing.

I know people think they're a Bigfoot around here. Yeah. Actually, that that was really, really, really good. We grew up here for past few days now doing some research in the area. I'm looking for a Sasquatch all the time.

Woo. Okay. And I know one of the preeminent Bigfoot experts is, in Pocatello. What what's his first name? It's Meldrum.

But anyway, I need to get some Bigfoot people up in here. I I think that'd be a pretty good time. Alright. Let's keep going. After nearly 40 calls That kid's fair.

Can be worthy Who's the best? The best Bigfoot call in Whitehall? Let's hear it. Okay. What do you got, doc?

Three. What's the highest number you got? I got another eight. Who's the winner? Okay.

First place winner is number 13. Okay. It was the woman who was just up. Alright. Well, good for her.

Congratulations. You know, taking home the trophy. And she's holding her little Bigfoot doll as she runs up to get a reward. Somebody out there, you're looking for something fun to do for an event in East Idaho. I think Bigfoot calling would be a blast.

Alright. Should we start with the gross story or something else to give you a couple minutes to, tune out if you don't wanna hear something gross? I don't know. I mean, it it it's pretty gross, but I'm gonna talk about it. Okay.

We'll talk about the gross story first. Get it out of the way. This headline, it's ridiculous. Woman who plan to sell human toes regurgitated by dogs avoids jail in Melbourne court sentencing So this woman was working at an animal shelter and, Okay. Apparently, this dog's owner had passed away You hear the horror stories about, you know, pets who get stuck in a house when their owner passes away and they well, they gotta eat to stay alive So this woman's working at an animal shelter and I guess a dog puked up some toes and then she tried to sell them I mean what would you do if all of a sudden your dog puked up some toes I mean put them in the garbage.

I call the authorities. I I don't think you'd get on Facebook market. Check it out. She researched online. Discovered she might be able to get as much as $400 for the toes, so she put them in a jar with formaldehyde.

And, yeah, Went about trying to sell them online. Was it Facebook market? The article doesn't say, but I see weird stuff in Facebook market all the time. Haven't seen any toes yet. I I really don't hope that I do, But, yeah.

I'd say if your dog pukes up some toes, call the cops. Alright? Because let's see. She could be facing up to two years in prison for trying to sling toes online. Yeah.

You don't wanna go to jail over over toes, especially dog puke toes. Okay. What else do we have here? Some Indiana man installed 17 turbos on his truck to make it 38,000 horsepower. Thankfully, he's alive.

The truck did end up bursting into flames, and it looks completely absurd, but they pulled it off, technically. You know, they got it to work, though it did end up again with the truck, bursting into flames and, it's barely running at this point. So, you might not wanna do that. K? It could end, tragically, but this is what people do for YouTube.

Anything they can do to get those likes. Guess I need to engage in more dangerous behavior if I wanna get the number of YouTube subscribe subscribers I would like to have. Why can't I say subscribers? What an idiot. Alright.

What else do we have here? Your boozy nightcap is disrupting your sleep. Yeah. I figured I'd give out a little bit of a health advice here. Don't drink before bed.

You're gonna sleep like crap. Everybody well, maybe not everybody. But the term nightcap, it's been around for a couple hundred years, And, it originally referred to the hats people wear at night. You know, if you were watching my livestream on TikTok of me playing Red Dead and playing poker at camp, you know, Strauss was wearing an actual nightcap. It looked ridiculous.

And, what I I don't know. I guess it helped keep you warm back in the day before we had, quality blankets. I don't know. But, anyway, then people decided, nah, nightcap now means slamming down whiskey before bed. It it's not a good idea.

K? I mean, it might help you actually fall asleep, but then you're just gonna, you know, feel awful the next day. Goes beyond hangover. It's disrupting your sleep, so don't do it. K?

You're struggling with booze there's help out there and I recommend you get it because you'll feel a lot better if you're not boozing it up all the time you know gotta make that a rarity Alright. Anyway so we went from, dog regurgitated toes to health advice. That's what you get on the Victor Wilt Show. Well, good morning, peaches. Good morning.

How are you doing? My my, lower right back is killing me. I'm killing me since yesterday. I'm in a little bit of pain myself, Peaches. I'm in a it's better than it was yesterday, but I I'll probably be messed up for a few days because I I'm just old, and I don't know how to say no to the mosh pit.

For some reason, my body says, ew. Artificial sweeteners? Let's ruin him. And then yeah. I had some, the fast food restaurant that rhymes with Barbies gave me a Diet Coke, and I stupidly drank it.

And Oh. Yeah. Messed up my nerve endings now. Well, sorry, Peaches. Hope that clears up soon.

And, yeah, hope the back gets feeling better. It's feeling better today. Slightly better. Not not great. Good.

Well, I was out yesterday because Sunday went to the poppy show in Salt Lake which was awesome. It was so good, man. Good. So fun. And I mean, it was one of the wildest crowds I'd been in in a long time.

Like, the last one I could think of even close, Electric Callboy. Right. That's that's what I was thinking too. But it was in a much bigger venue and I mean, she did a wall of death in the middle of the show. The the moshing was insane.

Did you see my video where I dropped my phone? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah cracked? Nope.

Good. Amazingly, I dove to the floor to get it before it got stomped on. But, yeah. There were times when all of a sudden the entire floor would be a pit. You know, I was I was up pretty close when I was taking that video and just all of a sudden the whole crowd's a pit.

It was it was crazy. And I kept getting encouraged to get into the pit by, you know, Ben from the advocates and all the people in the crowd. Ben standing off to the side. Ben went in the pit. Okay.

I was about to say he's probably he seems like one of those types that would just be on the side going, hey, get in there. No. No. He he was he was up in the, chaos with me for the for the whole show. It was fun.

But, I don't know if my balance is just off from getting old or the pit was just that violent. I went into it multiple times and every time I got knocked down, like, hit the floor. And there was the final time I jumped into the pit, I landed on my tailbone, and it hurt. Yeah. Like, I knew that was not good.

I knew I was gonna be messed up. So after that, I decided, okay. I'm just gonna stay out of the pit. Just stay up front, watch the show, and have a good time. And then toward the end, it was during the last song, this guy walks up to me and Ben.

We actually lifted up a lot of crowd surfers. There was tons of crowd surfing going on. So this guy walks up to us and he wants to crowd surf. So we go to lift him up, and then the crowd shifts again with the, full pit thing. And so, I mean, tons of us just go crashing to the floor.

Me and Ben and we're all you know, everybody's trying to help each other up. Like, okay. Well, that that ain't happening because the guy, he didn't look that big, you know. But he was heavy. He was heavy.

He was like dead weight. Then all of a sudden, he shows back up again. He's like, come on, guys. Lift me up. And I like WWE this guy.

You know, just boom. And, oh, dude, I I felt it in my shoulder. You full on lifted them up the wrong way and messed yourself up. Yeah. So I've got my tailbone's a mess, and then now also my shoulder.

So I've just been hobbling around since the show. Well, I know in WWE, they jump. Like, the opponent will jump and kind of go with you. And that's what you do as a crowd surfer. Yeah.

That's what you're supposed to do. This guy didn't get it. So he came back to us after the show to tell us thanks for lifting him up. And I'm like, well, okay, dude. I'm gonna be complaining about you on the radio on Tuesday.

What's your name? And it was easy to remember as a Red Dead guy. His name was Gavin. Has anybody seen Gavin? Anybody seen my friend Gavin?

Yeah. We've we found him, unfortunately. Screw you, Gavin. You suck, Gavin. I thought he said his name was gonna be Lenny or something.

Lenny? Lenny, I think I think I'm too. No. It was Gavin. Nigel's been looking for him, and, unfortunately, me and Ben found him.

So You said the interview went, you good. Well, it was kind of a odd situation. You know, they brought me in. We go in this, little tiny production room that had, like, one fluorescent bulb over the top of us. Yeah.

I don't think I've ever interviewed an artist at the complex. I've never been back there. I was trying to with Will Ramos, but then he ran to the bus and No. He couldn't get him. Yeah.

Yeah. Last time I did an interview there, we did it outside just on a table, but we're in a little production room, and, we just kept getting interrupted. Like, somebody would knock on the door, or at one point, there was a forklift just running outside of the door. So, I've been editing the interview this morning, and I I'm gonna throw in a little part in the middle of it. It goes, Right here, we were being interrupted by a forklift because it definitely threw the conversation off every time we were interrupted.

So I felt like the interview was a complete disaster after I was done with it. But listening back to it, it was it was better than I thought it was. So I'm I'm gonna air it here in a few. I think I've got it edited up enough that I can, play it coming up after this little break we're gonna take. No.

But it was it was a great show. And, Salt Lake's crowd, I was nervous about doing the stage announcement. Shout out to listener Vortex who got video. Ben was trying to take video and his phone was malfunctioning, so I didn't think we had video. No.

I feel like he's the type of guy that doesn't know how to work it. He would record himself the whole time. No. Ben knows how to use his phone. What about his son, Mason?

He should have been up right up there in front. Mason was hiding in the back with Joey, me and Ben. The the well, Joey's older than me, but the old guys, we were the ones getting crazy. I'm just wondering if you can lift someone in the, for to crowd surf. It's Joey.

Yeah. We needed Joey. We needed the Hulk. But he we got separated, and I knew we wouldn't be able to find each other because it was just so insane. But did you find out how tall Poppy is?

She is she taller than you? She's about my height. So she's the same height. I figured. Yeah.

I mean, I didn't, like, see if she was wearing tall shoes. I didn't ask her for a picture because she wasn't, like, in her stage clothes. You know, she was just I almost didn't recognize her when she first walked in because she was wearing glasses, just dressed totally normal. And then I'm like, oh, woah. Hey.

Because I kept having people come in and out of the room and then all of a sudden she was there. But, she was super nice. The crowd was great. We didn't get the very beginning of the stage announcement when I came out, you know. What up, Salt Lake City?

But good response for K Bear. I did hear yeah. There was a lot of cheers. Yeah. I was very happy to hear that.

I was worried you're gonna be like, what's up, Salt Lake? And then, get off the stage. Yeah. That type of thing. No.

I I do think that it helped pump the show up, but it was also one of the most awkward stage announcements I ever I've ever done because they're like, okay. Meet at the sound booth, 07:50. Like, alright. I get there, and I've got the wrong tour manager. They didn't have a mic ready on stage.

So, you know, they're rushing to get one set up and then the tour managers are just gone and I'm waiting for somebody to tell me go. You know, because you don't wanna just go up there. You've you've done this. Yeah. You have somebody who tells you go.

We we we've luckily we've been very lucky with the previous experiences of, hey. You know, go up now. Zachary's guy was amazing. So I didn't want to just go up, and they were expecting me to just go up. So I find the tour manager.

I'm like, is this now turning into a hard intro? Because Kumo ninety nine is going on in, like, a minute. And then one tour manager is like, dude, you need to get up there right there. So then I just booked it from the back of the venue, run up on stage. I'm feeling completely frazzled, but I somehow nailed it.

You nailed it. I I feel like I would have been arguing with the tour manager, then the word would have gotten back to Jade, and Jade would have had a meeting with me. You're acting pretty negative at the Poppy Show. Someone told me that you were arguing with the tour manager. Yeah.

Now the tour managers were great. It was just a little bit of miscommunication, but I I thought I was gonna butcher that. And, you know, you look out, and the complex looks a lot bigger from the stage. It was a big crowd, and it was packed. So I just did my thing, and it it went really good.

So That's cool. Hopefully, we've got some people, you know, picking up the Cabare app, tuning into the show, and, scoping things out. But, But, it was it was an amazing show. Had a great time. We asked for stage time for the Papa Roach show.

Mhmm. So I'm wondering if that's still a thing, if we can still do that because that's coming up on April 3. And that's in Salt Lake? That's at the Maverick Center. So if you wanna talk about a big crowd Yeah.

That's gonna be at least 12,000 people. I hope you get the stage time. You know, we might as well start taking over Salt Lake City. You know? Get them listening to a proper rock station.

So, yeah, it it was fun. And, after this break, I'm going to air my interview with Poppy. So hang on, everybody. I'm Poppy. This is Victor Wilt.

Thank you for joining us. Kind of funny. I've done hundreds of interviews. And for some reason, this one, I got a little bit nervous about it. It.

Oh, well, don't be nervous. Well, I'll do my best. Okay. Let's do it. No.

It should go well. Tour just kicked off a few days ago. How's everything going so far? It's pretty exciting. I haven't done my own headline tour in many years, and I'm happy to be back.

Well, I was really excited when the tour was announced because the last few tours you did were opening slots. And, you know, being such a huge fan was stoked to be able to come out and hear a full set. And you just dropped this awesome new album, Negative Spaces. So I would imagine we'll hear a few songs from that tonight. Yeah.

Absolutely. Very exciting to perform new songs. Well, you did a killer job on Jimmy Kimmel the other night with the the current single getting pushed to radio. What are some of your favorite songs off this new album? My favorite song is probably Vital or Center's Falling Out.

Centers falling out is excellent. Very brutal. Very brutal. And, that one, I would imagine, is pretty fun to perform live. Yes.

That one's up there for sure. Yeah. Twenty twenty four, you know, as a Poppy fan was awesome. How was 2024 for you with all of the different things that happened starting right at the beginning of the year with violence against nature with Bad Omens, one of the biggest rock slash metal tracks of the year? Last year was quite exciting, and I feel like it took me on a lot of winding adventures.

I got to go to Europe and America many times. We passed through, in the summer and got to go to the Grammys at the beginning of this year for a song that was nominated with Knock Loose. And I feel like the adventures are just beginning. Very excited to see whatever's going down in 2025 because, yeah, you know, the Bad Omens track you collaborated on was just great. Suffocate with Knocked Loose.

I mean, that's probably the best metal track of 2024, and it was so cool to see the two artists nominated for a Grammy. You know, I was bummed you didn't win, but, I mean, how is anybody gonna take out Gojira with that Olympics performance? Gojira is excellent, so they're very deserving. Oh, yeah. I don't know how many times I watched that video from the Olympics.

It was just so good. They're so great. And the theatrics and it all. Oh, yeah. So you've collaborated with a lot of artists over the years.

What are what are some of your dream collabs if you could, you know, make a song with anybody? I would say Andre three thousand. That would be pretty sweet. And with your diverse catalog, I could definitely see that happening. I like his flute album.

I don't know if I've heard that one. It's wonderful. Any other good, newer album recommendations I should dig into? I program, 12 different radio stations, so I'm always on the lookout for anything out of the box. Certainly.

I could probably just send you things I've been listening to recently. I'd be down for sure. You know, and aside from all the new music you put out, we can get back to negative spaces in a minute. I wanted to talk to you about Improbably Poppy. Mhmm.

The YouTube well, you put it out a few months ago on Veeps, and it started popping up on YouTube, which I'll admit surprised me because some of the content's so wild. How do you sell that to some of your fans who haven't dove in and checked it out? Because they're really missing out if they haven't checked out that series. It's one of the most insane things I've ever seen. It was so funny, so crazy.

Thank you. I would just say you start and then you work your way backwards and then forwards again. It's definitely a multiple watch kinda thing. Some of the scenes just had me rolling. The guy trying to figure out what cake had human remains in it.

Mhmm. I love our detective scene. That was one of my favorites. That was excellent. I think that that was in the first episode.

Or I'm not sure the order, but I do remember it was one of my favorites to film. It it had to be a lot of fun. It it was just so funny and kind of a, you know, throwback to when I first found out about you, which was when you were primarily doing YouTube stuff back in the day. It was funny. The first time I heard your music, I saw the video for x, some website metal injection or somebody who was like, check out the bloody new Poppy video.

So fired it up, didn't know what to expect. You go from this, you know, straight metal into, like, a psychedelic Beatles thing with the, the cult vibes in the video, kinda like Midsommar before that movie had even come out. And I was all excited to go home and tell my daughters about it because, you know, I'm always trying to turn them on to good new music. And they're, you know, like, dad, we know Poppy. Okay?

We've already we've watched Poppy for years on YouTube. So I love that. They were ahead. They were ahead. They they turned me on to a lot of good music.

My daughter went to the, Tyler, the creator show in Phoenix a couple nights ago. And it's another artist she turned me on to. Yeah. He's excellent as well. So good.

So good. So, yeah, my daughters, Taryn and Maddie, huge fans. They wanted me to tell you hi. Hello. And, my my girlfriend too, when I reconnected with her, we were talking music, and she had gone to see you just prior to that in, like, Hartford or, New Haven.

She lives in Connecticut. I'm uniting the family. Yeah. So I was like, oh my gosh. Alright.

This is this is a sign. This is great. Because, yeah, once I saw that video for x, I got way into your stuff, not too long after scary mass came out, another just excellent song. And then the I disagree album came out, and that that concrete video, I I was just hooked by that song. Thank you.

So We play that tonight. Oh, I I can't wait to hear it live. You know, talking to, Jacobo at Sumerian over the years, I was at a radio convention with him in Vegas. I don't know. But it was around just after I disagree came out, and, you know, he was telling me how how far ahead of the game we were because I played that album start to finish on my morning show.

Oh, wow. Thanks. I've done that with a few of of your albums. So Thank you. Definitely the first rock station playing you.

That's what I heard. Well So thank you for that. Absolutely. Huge fans, and we definitely play more poppy than anybody else at this point. Thank you so much.

But it's it's been great to see with New Way Out finally getting some of that radio love you deserve. Thanks. How how did, you know, the writing process with Jordan Fish work for that album? Well, I was in between a couple tours, but we wrote New Way Out together as the first song. We had two days together and we said, let's see what happens.

And we came out with that song. And then I went away on tour for almost two months, and then we resumed. And we finished the record. Well, it it turned out great. Thank you.

And, you know, being a fan of Bring Me to Horizon, I assumed we'd hear a little bit of, you know, Jordan's influence in there. But the album really has a little bit of of everything that I would come to expect from Poppy, you know, even right toward the middle of the album. You get into a crystalized and, pop it up. And, it's just such a fun song. The, live version you did of that when you also covered Sabrina Carpenter, it was just excellent.

Thank you so much. Yeah. I think Jordan Fish as a producer, he's very inspired by many different genres as am I, and that's what we really connected on. It was a great, great combination, I think, that the the two of you working together put out probably my favorite album since I disagree. I liked all this stuff in between, but Thank you.

It's just really cool to be able to sit here and talk to you because I know you don't do a lot of interviews. Yeah. Thanks for sitting here and talking to me. Absolutely. At this point, we were briefly interrupted by a forklift outside of the room that we were doing this interview in, so, things went a little bit off kilter.

Forklifts are kinda metal. I don't know. They they lift heavy stuff. Well, I guess while we wait for the forklift, we could talk about, cats, you know. That's the longest forklift.

Yeah. I know that, you post a lot of stuff about your cat, Pi. Yeah. It was his day the other day. Yeah.

Pi day. Do you have him on tour with you like he sometimes do? He's not here right now. He's at home. Ah.

But he was out with me in the summer for a couple of days. He he seems to like home a lot lately. We have a lot of windows now. So Nice. To look out those and see the birds.

Yeah. My my two are getting, very excited now that in Idaho, it's starting to warm up a little bit. Yes. Because they're primarily inside cats, but, you know, in and out of the yard. And I think I remember years ago, you had some kind of a scare with your cat with, like, it swallowed it hair tie or something like that.

Yeah. That did happen. Ugh. Yeah. He's he, is a little bit too adventurous sometimes, and he likes to taste test everything.

Hair ties. I I had to take, my cat Kuba in for a, hair tie incident one time as well. Mhmm. Thankfully, he just did his business and cleared things up. But, Yeah.

They're very, special creatures. He couldn't survive without me. I know that. I have a little kitten. She's about 10 old, and she disappeared for a couple days, during a really bad winter weekend.

And, it was just a disaster. Just a total disaster. That's sad. But, did the door to door thing, found her in a garage, and, she's been very happy to be at home recently. So I'm glad she's okay.

Yeah. Anyhow, tonight, the complex in Salt Lake City, Poppy with Kumho ninety nine. Anything you wanna say about the opening act? I wasn't familiar with them prior to the show. I would say to check out Kumho ninety nine.

I've been a fan of their music for quite some time, and we have some mutual friends in Los Angeles. I think they're really spectacular. Their music is really fun, and I think they're great performers. Well, from what I've seen online, it looks like, it's gonna be a fun show tonight. Absolutely.

You know, Salt Lake partying on a Sunday is a good time. So Yeah. They're out of church. They're ready for a poppy show. That's right.

That's right. And hopefully, we should have a good amount of people coming down from Idaho. I know listeners were pretty pumped on the show. And Great. Yeah.

Hopefully, we can get you up, you know, since you're blowing up, you know, get you up to our arena before we know it. And, you know Just right here. Tear down East Idaho. Heck, yeah. So any exclusive, twenty twenty five stuff you can tell me about, or is it all secret for now?

Lots of touring, lots of shows, and music. Alright. Are you gonna do any more in Probably Poppy? I hope to. That is on the wish list.

Awesome. I will definitely check it out. I've watched it, multiple times. It Oh, thank you. It's just so unhinged and crazy that, yeah, I'd love to see more of that.

It was really cool to, see you get back to putting out some of that weird content, doing the almost Borat style stuff where you were the fortune teller in the booth. And, yeah, it was just so cool. Thank you. Thanks for watching. Absolutely.

And, again, Negative Spaces, if, you know, anybody listening hasn't picked that album up yet, my favorite album of 2024. Thank you. For sure. It means a lot. Just so good.

I can't wait to hear many of those songs tonight. Great. You have a great night tonight. We will. Brought a few friends that are also fanatics.

So, yeah, we're we're gonna have fun, and thank you again for giving me the opportunity to meet you and chat with you. Thank you for talking. Have a great day. You too. Too.

Welcome to the program, the Victor Will Chill, Tuesday edition. Definitely feeling like a Monday, and Jade's got me overloaded with work. Oh, it's gonna be one of those days today. Forget catching up. Wish me luck on just getting the basics done.

My goodness. Alright. If you were planning on heading to New York, watch out for giant parasite carrying snails. Looking at a picture of a police officer holding one of these hideous things. I mean, it's gigantic, for a snail.

Like, I don't know, bigger than the palm of her hand. It's grody looking. The invasive giant African land snail discovered within Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Yeah. They're they're warning people.

This thing can give you, meningitis. Yeah. Packin' parasites, an infection of the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord, and it can kill you dead. They don't even know how it got there. Well, I'm guessing some idiot brought it in a suitcase.

How many stories have we talked about over the years where people load up invasive species in other countries and try to bring them into the country? They get away with it sometimes. And now look. Now look what you're doing to Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Yeah.

You got the kids out there. Kids see a giant snail. They're gonna think it's cool. Look. Look at it.

Look. Mom. Look what I found. And then your kids, you know, packing parasites. It's no good.

Well, that's why I try to not go outside very often. You never know what kind of creatures are floating about. I must be getting real old because these pants, they look appealing to me. These are sweat pant jeans. Yeah.

They look like jeans, but they're nice, cozy sweatpants. Now the problem is they're kind of expensive. They got this pair of Nordstrom, two hundred bucks. Sorry, I ain't buying sweatpants for $200. Okay.

Now here we go. You can buy mid rise ultra soft baggy jeans from the Gap for, well, it says from $35 Trying to open the window, it, won't let me. So I'm guessing it's not true but, yeah, you know as I packed on the pounds during the winter months some of my jeans have gotten to be pretty uncomfortable. I need some nice stretchy sweat pant jeans. $50 on Amazon.

There you go. Oh my goodness. That's when you know you're getting old. You know? It's all about that comfort.

It's why I wear the stupid shoes I wear. I know they they don't look cool at all. Skechers? Yeah. They're lame.

Total nerd. But they are so, so comfy. Yeah. Gotta do a little bit of hoofing it around. Maybe you're wandering Salt Lake City waiting for a show to happen.

You need comfy shoes. So pretty soon, be rocking the, sweat pant jeans, Sketcher shoes with the thick soles that make me a tiny bit taller. I need to find something to make me feel young. I feel really old today with my aching back. Oh, don't mosh, people.

Don't mosh if you're my age. It's just too old. Spiritbox and perfect soul. That's a band you could see live soon, I believe. When are they coming to Salt Lake?

Hang on here. They put on a great show. Peaches, You got things memorized from time to time when spirit box is gonna be in Salt Lake City? In May. That would be correct.

May 3 at, where's the show gonna be? The complex, I think. Let's see here. Yep. At the complex, my favorite Salt Lake City venue.

Very cool. Alright. So Did you see the show that just got announced? Sorry to interrupt you. Are you talking about three eleven at the port?

Mhmm. Yes, Peaches. That's very exciting. Three eleven and Bad Flower appearing at the port. Did you just, post about it?

Yeah. I posted it everywhere. Just saying excited for the whole show even though I'm not the biggest three eleven fan. I'll I'll sit I'll stand there and watch them perform. Oh, Peaches, we know what you'll be up to.

We know. No. I'm not. Can't afford it. I'm I feel the amber.

What's the date on that show? A Saturday, August 16. Okay. Plenty of time to plan ahead. And, you know, people been saying, when we gonna get some rock shows at the amphitheater?

Well, we've got two. Show your support. Shut up on Facebook. That's right. Buy your ticket.

Go to the show. You better be at both of them. Dropkick Murphy's and three eleven. Alright? And with all those people asking for years, more rock shows at the port.

There you go. And those are two big bands. You know, it's it's gonna be a great time. So I mean, we got Joe Bonamasa. We got drop Yeah.

That's a rock, Joe. I forgot about Joe Bonameza. There's somebody complaining with, you know, of course, no profile picture on Facebook talking about, when we get some good old fashioned rock and roll in Pocatello. It's like, it's right there. They're commenting on the post of all the different shows coming to the the amphitheater.

I'm like, you see Dropkick Murphy's in Bad Religion. You see Joe Bonhamesa, now three eleven in Bad Flower. Well, and even the artists they announced, I don't know if it was yesterday, Stephen Wilson Junior. Mhmm. He's he's kinda like I I'd call him, like, Southern Rock or something.

Darius Rucker, Hootie and the Blowfish. He could he could He might come out and do some Hootie songs. Who knows? So lots of good shows getting announced for around here. And, if you like shows coming our way, go to as many of them as you can.

And you never know, we might do some giveaways on 03:11. You'll have to just stay tuned. Right now, you know, we're doing Papa Roach giveaways. Have you had somebody scream the weather? Because yesterday, I think his name was Kimbrell?

Kimbrell. Yeah. He walked outside of work and screamed at the top of his lungs. That's still in the Voxpro if you wanted to listen to that at some point. I will have to check it out.

Yeah. He full on it said it's windy and rainy and as loud as possible and he got himself a pair of tickets for the show. Alright. How many pairs are we doing a day? We're doing, one each day.

Okay. One pair. I wanted to check with you on that before I took a call. But Well, tomorrow, we're gonna have a very off day. Yes.

So you might as well just do two. Well, maybe I'll do one and you do one later. Okay. Yeah. So I don't know if I'm doing the oh, yeah.

I am. Because I was thinking for some reason with this whole thing going on all the way to this this thing that's gonna be chaos. But, I don't think that'll affect, your ability today to do a giveaway. Well Tomorrow's gonna be more sketchy. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I think we have to we'll have to prepare for tomorrow today. Well, then we should probably go for caller number 15 right now at (208) 535-1015. If you want tickets to pop a roach, rise against, and under roast.

What day, Victor? It's in April. What's the date on it? April 3. April third.

I knew it was gonna be quick. That would be at, I don't know. It's a gas station. Is it at the Maverick Center? There you go.

Dude, I'm I'm kinda tired and sore and all. That's why I'm kinda giving you hints. Although, you're 42. So old. (208) 535-1015.

Caller number 15, you have to call and give us your extreme weather report for today. We need to know what's going on with the weather outside. You can't just be caller 15. You have to scream out the weather. If you don't do it, we're gonna go to caller 16.

That's right. You lose. That's right. So we'll be back in just a moment with our potential winner. Hang on.

K Bear, what's up? Hi. How are you? I'm awesome. Who's this?

This is Lisa. Lisa. Alright, Lisa. You are Can you turn your radio down in the background? Okay, Lisa.

Excuse me. Called a music bed, Lisa. Jeez. Role reversal, I think Lisa's in the Lisa's in the right mood to give us an extreme weather report. Lisa seems all nice and sweet.

Next thing you know, she just hits you with something like that. Turn the music off. You gotta watch me sometimes. You just never you know, the older you get as Victor is aware, the the things that just come out of thy mouth. Okay.

Well, I don't know. Alright, Lisa. Since you're caller number 15, you need to give us an extreme weather report. Okay, guys. What in the freak is up with this weather?

It is snowing and blowing, and it just totally sucks. Where in the world is summer? Is it coming anytime soon? It had better be. I think that was pretty good.

That sounds pretty good, Lisa. Alright. Lisa won tickets to pop around. Yeah. Oh, good for you.

Well, hang on the line a minute, Lisa, so we can get your information. Who is the greatest radio station of all time? K Bear one zero one. Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt show. This program is a production of Riverbend Media Group.

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