The Viktor Wilt Show

Have you ever had somebody break something of yours? It's so aggravating, So frustrating. I've had people break my stuff before, and it's enraging. You know, I would never break somebody else's stuff just because I was frustrated, you know, throw a tantrum, break their stuff. That is just not cool.

Well, I just read a funny story online about somebody breaking somebody else's stuff and figured we'd dive in here. So we got a 38 year old man living with his wife and their seven year old son works as an engineer. Life is a senior supervisor at a law firm. He has always loved Lego since he was a kid. Says, sure, it's kind of childish, but makes him happy.

So has kept it a consistent hobby throughout his adult life. In 2024, he says I spent months building the Millennium Falcon with my son. It's me and my son's pride and joy, and I often show guests who come over. My wife doesn't really get the hype, but doesn't mind either. Well, yeah.

Why would she mind? Sure. It's nerdy, but ain't nothing wrong with being a bit nerdy, and it's a healthy hobby. K? Putting together Legos, there's way worse that your significant other could be up to, I suppose.

So then he says, in early March, my wife's parents came over for a week to spend time with us as I usually do with guests. I asked if they want to see my Lego collection. They agreed, and I showed both her father and my mother-in-law my Millennium Falcon. Her father was amazed at the time it took to build my sizable collection, but her mother said it was a waste of time. I should focus on being a real man and move up the corporate ladder.

What did he say he did for a living? Let's see here. He's he's an engineer. He's doing good. Chill it, lady.

So he laughed it off because she's old. That's what he says and figured she just held very old fashioned beliefs. So left the room. Nobody mentioned it for a few hours. But at dinner, her mother said out of nowhere, I should give up on all this Lego nonsense.

Enough with the Legos already. Jeez. Be a real man. We ignored this and moved on, but you could see in her expression that she was not happy. Nobody said anything about it for the rest of their stay and all seemed well the morning they left.

They left at 3AM to catch a flight and we waved them off. I went back to bed, but the next morning awoke to find my Millennium Falcon smashed to pieces with a note from my wife's mother calmly saying this was for my own good so I can be a real man and focus on what matters. Turns out she had quietly destroyed it in the night and left in the morning. How do you quietly destroy Legos? Now I have never taken Legos as far as I recall and just smashed them on something, but, you know, they're extremely hard plastic.

I would assume that makes some noise. What, did she take it apart one by one? That's not smashing. It's, disassembling. Right?

So this guy says he and his son were very upset, called her in the morning, but she refused to apologize and I said that she could not come back to my house until she apologized. My wife's not happy with this decision and I'm starting to wonder if I overreacted. Okay. This could go both ways. I do not think that somebody who wouldn't apologize for smashing your stuff should be allowed at your house.

I think the wife should understand this, but these are Legos. It's not broken. Again, it's disassembled. You know how hard it would be to break a lego it'd be really hard I mean how many people have stepped on a lego right who wins foot or lego yeah we know who wins every single time So, I think due to the fact that now he and his son could sit on down and put it together again, I think it's okay. It's not like a we'll say a guitar or something where if you smash a guitar, that guitar is ruined.

You can't put it back together again. It's like Humpty Dumpty, which, by the way, what a weird nursery rhyme that is. It's about somebody who fell off of a wall. Nobody ever said Humpty Dumpty was an egg, people. Yeah.

It's gruesome. But, anyway, I think the guy you know, he he's right in the middle here simply because it's legos. I mean, there's not very many things that you can, you know, smash, destroy that can be put back together in their exact same shape. Now maybe he lost a few Legos, someone under the couch. I don't know.

But I think in this situation, you gotta take a breather because, again, you can fix the item, and it's it's not gonna be flawed whatsoever. You're not even having to glue it back together. It's it's freaking Legos. So, anyway, maybe it made some of you feel better about some of your stuff that's been broken before because, yeah, that's aggravating. It's very annoying.

Every time I hear wolf mother, for whatever reason, I just get that urge to watch The Hangover. Probably overdue for a rewatching of that trilogy. You know, I need to find myself some good new comedies to watch. I saw that, there's a new a '24 movie coming out. And, you know, during the holidays, I actually signed up for the whatever the a twenty four plus membership thing was.

They had a deal going. It's like $5 a month. And the only reason I did it because, holy cow. I just completely brain farted. The only reason I did it was you got a discount on your order, and I was buying some Christmas gifts.

So I was like, okay. I'm I'm I'll sign up. I could always cancel. But it was $5 a month. And, the cool thing is, as a member, they put $5 in your account each month as well that you can eventually use in their store.

So it's kinda like a a savings plan if you're an a 24 fan. Like, I'd love to get a copy of the four k edition of, midsolemar. I think that'd be really cool or hereditary, or they have a lot of other cool stuff if you're into a twenty four movies. But, yeah, there's a a new movie coming out called friendship. And another thing that they do for you is they'll give you a ticket to the new movies that come out, you know, when they come out.

So they've got this new movie called friendship coming out. It's got that hilarious guy, Tim Robinson. He's got what what's the name of that show? It's so good. Hang on.

I didn't do a lot of research before this. Tim Robinson. His TV show is, I think you should leave. It's so funny. So funny if you haven't seen it.

Anyhow, he's in the movie along with, Paul Rudd, and it's getting pretty good reviews. So I got an email yesterday saying we've got your free ticket to go check this out. Is this movie gonna be playing in Idaho Falls? This is where we start having problems with living in a smaller town. Sometimes we don't get these movies.

Like, we didn't get Pink Floyd live at Pompeii. You know, I bought the, Blu ray. It was fantastic watching it at my house. It was probably better to watch at my house because I could turn the volume up to the level I enjoy. Movie theaters, when it comes to music, they don't ever seem to do that.

But, friendship movie, Idaho falls. Let's see if that's gonna be playing. Alright. Regal Edwards Grand Teton. Okay.

We gotta go to what? Friday? Movie release day. Alright. It's gonna be plain.

Maybe I'll go to a movie. I haven't been to the movie theater in, what, a couple years? That's crazy. But, anyway yeah. I don't know.

I just think I need a good laugh. Need a good laugh. So I'm gonna have to watch The Hangover trilogy, and I'm gonna have to go see Friendship, I think. The, description of the movie, suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor as Craig's attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives. Alright.

And then the tagline says men shouldn't have friends. I don't know. Could be pretty good. There's some, you know, pretty exciting looking, a 24 stuff on the way. The what I'm looking forward to most is the new Ari Aster movie, Eddington.

Ari Aster, the director of Midsommar, Hereditary. Bo is afraid. Bo is afraid. I really enjoyed. A lot of people didn't like it.

It was pretty crazy. It was bonkers, but Ari Aster's awesome. And, you know, this would appear to be a western. I like myself, a nice modern western. It's got Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix.

I mean, who doesn't love Pedro Pascal? Right? Anyway, maybe I'm going to the movies this weekend. Got an extended weekend ahead. That'd be pretty fun.

It's the Victor Wilt Show. Little after 07:00 morning. Thank you for tuning in and listening. I hope your day goes great. Hope you find something fun to do this afternoon as well.

I was looking at a post here. How do you enjoy your life on the weekdays or workdays? And, boy, I could immediately, you know, get where they're coming from with that one. Things get feeling like Groundhog Day, don't they? At least for me.

I mean, I live alone. I got the cats, but I know that there's not gonna be any kind of surprise when I get home other than maybe Lucy has decided to drag the cat treats all over the house and make a mess. That that's about it. Other than that, I know I'm gonna get home. There's gonna be nobody there.

I'll probably sit down, fire up, like, YouTube to just try to chill for a moment. Next thing I know, it's bedtime. Feel like I've wasted my whole day. And then I'm here again, back pulling into this parking lot, sitting in front of these computers, yapping at you. Yeah.

You gotta find some hobbies, and I have lots of hobbies. My problem is a lack of motivation and I don't know how you break through it sometimes. Like, I I've been doing a little bit better. I've been trying to reach out to friends and things like that. You know, on the hobby front, the music front, it it's been kinda slow moving, but, working on some new things.

Got some new songs in the works. Been chatting with some people about teaming up that, we've never worked with before in the area, so that's pretty cool. But, yeah, my only hobby that I seem to be able to actually engage in is playing Red Dead. I can't even get myself to play a different video game. I have gotta break the cycle.

It's what I gotta do. Last night, I did make myself feel a little bit better by tidying up my house. Doing some chores. Nothing worse than feeling like it's Groundhog's Day day after day. But your house is getting a little bit messier bit by bit.

And then, you know, if you're feeling Groundhog's Day ish or down or whatever and your house is a mess, it's the worst. So, yeah, take a little bit of a tip from me if you deal with anxiety or depression. At least try to keep your house clean because that that makes a little bit of a difference. Then when you get home, you don't feel near as bad about sitting down and just playing Red Dead. Like, well, my chores are done and I can't mow the lawn because it's been raining.

Sorry to my neighbors. I know that as of this moment on my street, I have the trashiest looking lawn, but I haven't been home at a time when the grass is dry. Oh, you should see the backyard too. At least the neighbors don't see the backyard. It's a jungle.

Cats have been loving it. It's fantastic. But we were talking about, you know, putting in native plants and things instead of grass yesterday. I mean, my grass in the back's so long. There there could be snakes in the grass.

I I ain't going walking around back there till I push a lawnmower in front of me. I know that's kinda gruesome, but I'd I'd rather the lawnmower meet the snake than my foot. There's probably not snakes in my yard. I live in the middle of town, but I've seen, you know, rabbits and raccoons and, you know, a variety of critters back there. So who knows?

What does the Internet say for how to enjoy your life on the weekdays or workdays? Hobby. That that that's the only answer everybody's given. Okay. But what if you have a motivation problem?

What if you've got lots of hobbies but you just can't get yourself to do them? I literally sit right next to my guitar and don't turn it on I mean I do sometimes but geez there's like little basic tasks I could be doing oh yeah that reminds me I need to get a memory card to try to do one of the tasks I failed at over the weekend that would make my hobbies work a little bit better okay look at these guys so this is someone asking a question who's in a couple so I don't know. I think that, enjoying your life on the weekdays is gonna be a lot easier if you have someone else around. Yeah. At least, there's company.

Know what I'm talking about? Alright. This person has a rotation of activities, hiking, yoga class. They get the movie theater membership, see a movie at least once a week. I don't know.

I think I just need to get out of the house. I think that's part of it. Well, I'm I'm choosing to coop up. It's like winter's over. I don't need to live the cabin fever lifestyle.

Anyway, I hope you have fun this afternoon. I don't know if I'm gonna attempt to do anything different, but I'll at least think about it. Alright. Let's talk about summer reading. You know, earlier, we were talking about hobbies, my utter failure at most of my hobbies.

I guess I shouldn't call it utter failure. I have been, you know, doing little bits of things to get everything ready to be able to move forward in a productive manner. I've been building the wall and it's a cool wall. All right. A wall of sound, A brutal metal wall.

But another one of my hobbies is reading. And, boy, if there is a hobby I have failed utterly at for quite some time, it's just simply sitting back and reading. I blame the phone. The dreaded phone. I'm I know I'm addicted to the, the phone, to the Internet.

I'll admit it. And it's annoying. I've I've gotten a lot better about it. I don't quite aimlessly scroll as much as I used to, but reading is so good for your brain. And when you get doing it regularly, holy cow, it's good for the mind.

But it's gotten to be so hard because of, you know, the change in our attention span. I think I read yesterday that the attention span of the average person has gone down, like, from two almost three minutes to like forty five seconds in just a decade or so don't quote me on that because I don't remember the exact, you know, stats there but anyhow, I think it's one of those things you just really gotta sit down and force yourself to do every day. I was just talking with JD about the guitar playing hobby, and what he told me he does is he makes sure to at least have his guitar in his hands for ten minutes a day. Even if you're not playing it, you have it in your hands, keeps that familiarity, and that's gonna drive you to play it. If you have a guitar in your hands, you'll play it.

I have one sitting next to me at all times. So maybe I need to, just force myself to read ten minutes a day. Ten minutes is not much. The reason I brought up reading was a Chicago newspaper printed a summer reading list. And, apparently, they just went to Google AI to figure out some books to recommend for people, and none of the books actually exist.

They gave out a big list of awesome summer reads and not a single one of them was real. This is the state of the world we're in and this is why people have problems with the news. Alright? AI should be a tool you can use to assist you in things, but you gotta check your work. K?

I have seen some of the dumbest things getting shared around on social media that were AI created that people believe, and nobody ever looks into anything. Like, I saw one a while back, you know, so and so saved a child from a burning building, and I'm like, what? That would be national news. That would be all over the news everywhere. There's no way that person saved somebody from a burning building.

It had, like, 20,000 likes. You know, you Google it, and it's like, no. Well, no. That's fake. But 20,000 people I mean, hundreds and hundreds of comments.

That's so amazing. He's so good. It's like the it's an AI generated picture that doesn't even look real anyway. So you you would hope that the advances in technology would make us smarter. I thought the Internet was gonna make society better when I was a teenager.

I was like, this is fantastic. The internet has definitely made people way stupider. Absolutely. Without any question, people are way dumber. Thanks to the internet.

And the internet is so amazing. The the things that could be accomplished. Thanks to the Internet. The news can't even slap together a list of summer books for people to read anymore because they're so lazy and just apparently buy into anything they find on the Internet as well. Yeah.

We're talking about you, the Chicago Sun Times. That's pathetic. That is pathetic. I mean, I spout off on this show, but I try to at least look into things and make sure if I'm gonna tell you about something that it's actually real. You know?

Even if you don't like my take on it, I try to make sure that the story itself is legit. So anyway, don't go to the Chicago sun times for your summer reading list. Why can't I find these book? You're arguing with people at Barnes and Noble. I saw already in the news.

I know these books are real. Yeah. Boy, Karens and AI. That's a bad combo. Alright.

You wanna help us do some good for the community? Well, we've got Memorial Day weekend coming up. And the week following, we decided to team up with our sister stations in the building, Class C, Z 103105, The Hawk. And we're gonna get out after Memorial Day, and we're gonna help clean up the cemeteries. You know, a variety of cemeteries here in East Idaho, and we'd love to have you there as well.

K Bear teaming up with Teton Auto Credit for the memorial cleanup. I am gonna be at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Idaho Falls. Peaches will be at Fielding Memorial in Idaho Falls. This is gonna happen Monday, June 2 at 8AM, and we're gonna be helping the crew over at the cemetery's cleanup and take care of the tributes left behind, for those heroes who served our country. If you got some time, I was talking with a couple listeners yesterday who planned on coming out.

Shout out Scott and, the other person. I'm sorry. I can't remember your name. Sorry. But, yeah.

We're just gonna do what we can to show some respect and give back and do some cleanup. Now if you're in a different area, like, say, Rexburg, One Zero Five the Hawk's gonna be out at the Rexburg Cemetery with Teton Volkswagen. Classy's gonna be at the Blackfoot Cemetery with Teton Honda. Z one zero three is gonna be at the Shelley Cemetery with Teton Honda. So, there's gonna be somewhere close by if you'd like to swing out and just help us out because, you know, we wanna do something good.

So I hope you enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. I hope you have some fun. Then a week later, Monday, June 2, if you'd like to join us, we would love to have you. You know, tacos are really good. Right?

Nobody hates tacos. It's kinda like pizza. If you hate pizza, you're a weirdo. Alright? If you hate tacos, I gotta question you.

But if you roll up to a taco place and they're closed, you gotta go somewhere else. You gotta go make your own tacos. I know that there are not as many grocery stores open twenty four hours anymore, but Winco's open. Get yourself some meat, get yourself some taco seasoning, tortilla, whatever you need. Make your own tacos.

Don't smash the Del Taco window after they tell you, sorry. We're closed. We don't have tacos. Probably not the first time this has happened, but, where was this? Oh, of course, Florida.

Shouldn't be surprised at all. You know, pull into a Del Taco middle of the night. I want tacos. And then, yeah, it starts smashing the window in when they're like, sorry, buddy. We have no more tacos right now.

Let's see here. Oh, we talked about the sinkhole in Butte, Montana to the north. I think it was about a couple weeks ago. Oh, they just found another one. Town's about to cave in apparently.

They had one that opened right on the middle of, a street Broadway. This one, thankfully, not on a road, but Buttes built on, like, 10,000 miles of underground mines and tunnels. Over time, we because we do live in an area with a lot of, you know, earthquake activity. It's gonna get to be a mess in Butte, isn't it? I'd be a little bit nervous living on top of a town that or living in a town that's on top of a bunch of mine shafts.

You know, 10,000 miles of them. Well, good luck, Butte. And bring back the the giant elk, Butte. Come on. We talked about that yesterday.

Bring back the 60 foot elk. You know, if the town's gonna cave in, there might as well be something to watch fall into the hole that's gonna be fun to see. You know? Buildings are sort of exciting, but alright. I'm not trying to say it'd be exciting if Butte fell into the earth.

K? I have nothing against Butte, Montana. It's just fine. You know, I just stumbled across an article that, it's a local ish story. A ban on chasing and striking Wyoming's wildlife with snowmobiles rejected again.

K. For one, I didn't know that there were psychopaths out there running wildlife over with snowmobiles. K. That did not occur to me. But two, if this is a problem, why I mean, there there's nobody that I see saying, this is great.

We have seen in the last many months that elected officials in states can apparently do whatever they want. They could very easily put in a law that you can't drive your snowmobile like, you know, Michael Myers. I don't know. He kills people, not animals. But this this is just crazy.

Why why couldn't we put a law in play? You wanna hunt? Hunt. K. You can't spotlight animals with your, you know, your truck while you're out rolling around the wood.

There's there's a lot of regulations when it comes to hunting. Why on earth can you just mow down animals with a snowmobile in Wyoming? That's that's disturbing I don't know just to me I've watched a lot of true crime and it seemed like people who just brutally kill animals they got problems so so bizarre. But, yeah, I'm I'm gonna use this opportunity to once again complain about daylight saving time. Alright?

If we can ban truck nuts, something nobody asked for, everybody wants there to be an end put to the time change. It can be done. It's been proven in the last four months that the legislature can do anything they want no matter how crazy or how unwanted. You know, they're talking about selling public lands. Did you see that article at eastidahonews.com yesterday?

Nobody wants that. Nobody in Idaho want okay. Maybe, like, the smallest handful of people who I don't know. Maybe you're involved in the the mining industry or something. Nobody wants it, and they still do it.

Everybody wants the time change to be done away with. Just do it. Do at least one thing that everybody wants. Okay. Sorry.

Don't run over animals with snowmobiles. That grosses me out. What's wrong with you people? Alright. Anything else we have here?

Now I'll dig into some of this other freak news throughout the rest of the program. That snowmobile article just got me mad. I like animals. K? I'm not anti hunting.

I come from a a long line of, of hunters and, ranchers and cowboys, and I'm I'm totally fine with it, but they they're not just woo hoo. Fire up the snowmobiles. Let's go mow down some coyotes or something. What that is so bizarre. Alright.

I think we got peaches coming in in a second to do a little bit of cue the outrage. Before we get to that, I failed to record the call properly, but I was talking with the listener about the last story I did about people mowing down animals in Wyoming with snowmobiles and how lawmakers won't make that illegal. And the the caller pointed out like, okay. Well, what if it's a a farmer trying to protect their livestock, you know, from coyotes and okay. Understandable.

But isn't it just easier to use a rifle? You know, you can do it from far away. You're not happy to me, chasing an animal and mowing it down with a snowmobile. I I think that's psychotic behavior. I think there's something wrong.

It just don't seem normal to me. So anyway, yeah. I could understand people trying to protect their livestock but do it in a rational way. Sometimes the old fashioned and most humane way, you know, a properly placed, you know, rifle shot is how you deal with animals that are attacking your livestock. Alright.

Anyway, I thought peaches was gonna come in and do some QV outrage. Maybe we'll do it, here in a few. What else can I talk about in the meantime? Why money and power affects male self esteem. Sure.

We could dive into this because, I've I've been in a position before where, you know, my significant other makes more money than me. Apparently, that's a major problem for some dudes. You know, they feel shame and blah blah blah. I tell you what. If I could have been a stay at home dad, heck, yes.

That'd have been great. That would have been fantastic. I would much rather have been hanging out with my kids than going to work. But, you know, what if you have a significant other that, like, shames you for it? You loser.

I make more money than you. You're supposed to be the man. It's like the, mom who smashed the, the Legos that we talked about earlier on the show. The grandmother, I should say, smashed the, her son in law's Lego Millennium Falcon because, you know, that's childish and he needs to be a real man. Dudes, it's okay if your lady makes some more money than you.

It's fine. Unless, again, she belittles you for it. Then, you know, she's probably not very nice. Maybe don't keep her around. I mean, it's gotta be fairly common that in a relationship, you know, the woman's making more money than the man.

You know, every everybody's got the job they end up getting into. Sometimes you get lucky. You end up in a career and move upward and you end up making pretty good dough. Like, you should both just be happy. You're like, heck.

Yeah. We're we're doing good. This is fantastic. But but, you know, guys have gotten kind of weird. Guys have gotten kind of weird with this whole, oh, I need to be super manly thing.

Like being a stay at home dad doesn't mean you're like less of a man yeah, not at all and I I don't know I just try to make anybody out there who's been bullied or belittled because they don't make as much money as their lady or whatever feel a little bit better because there's nothing wrong with it. You know, the the expectations of how relationships are supposed to be that are placed on society from the time you're really little. You gotta realize that that that stuff is not reality. That's just Disney movies and things like that. You can live your life however you want.

Alright? As long as just be a good person. That's all it really comes down to. Be a good person. Be good to other people, and everything's everything's good.

Yeah, don't don't worry about other people's expectations. All right. Just focus on being a good human being and Being happy in the relationships you have in your life and happy with the friends you have around you Yeah Stop watching YouTube. I think that's part of the problem. Maybe switch up the podcast you're listening to.

Get a little bit different perspective. Yeah. They interviewed a bunch of guys in here who are just like, oh, I feel terrible. Yeah. It's okay, dudes.

Be happy for your lady. That's all that's the end of this conversation. You should be like, awesome. You're successful. Way to go.

Way to go, my lady. All right. Beat yourself up. And if your friends are like, dude, your wife makes more money than you. Well, they're probably losers kick them to the curb, too.

Yeah, they should be happy for you as well. You got a successful woman All right. Anyway, this is a long article. I ain't gonna read through it. But I've been in a spot, like I said, where, you know, my significant other made more money than me and alright.

We have more money to pay bills. Cool. I certainly wasn't beating myself up about being able to pay bills. That's a good thing. And when it all burns down, where are you gonna go?

Well, I just found a house for sale. It's out in the Arizona Desert. Like some town called Wilcox. Where is this? Hold on.

Seems like I might have driven by this town before, but I'm not sure. It's a small town about 3,000 people. Pull it up here. Zoom out. Oh, okay.

No. I have not been there. That is out in the middle of nowhere. Looks like it's, East Of Tucson. Okay.

Well, anyway, let's talk about this house because it's kinda interesting. It's a good value. Get yourself 40 acres that they say might as well be 400, two hundred and 20 five thousand. You get the house, the property, and a free bulldozer. Yeah.

Okay. This is a house that was built over natural rock formations. So, like, inside the house, like, half of the ground is just rocks. Alright? I don't know if you've been in the desert, the Arizona Desert.

There's a lot of critters out there. Let's talk about the downsides. Current owner regularly pulls rattlesnakes out of the bathroom. Regularly. Not even just, you know, a regular old snake, but rattlesnakes.

Yeah. Can you imagine? Walking in, you wake up. Oh, I gotta get ready for the day. I gotta get out there and start bulldozing stuff.

And next thing you know, greeted by a rattlesnake to start your day. Yeah. A prospective, new owner got attacked by bees from a hive in the wall. Not only do you have to deal with the rattlesnakes, but, you know, the bees. Just buzzing around your head.

Already dealt with three rattlesnakes today. I hate living in this desert. Alright. Let's get back to reading about this house here. I mean, I like the view because I like the desert.

I don't know what it is about just big empty desert. Like have you ever driven through the, Navajo nation, northern Arizona? It's wild out there. There's just nothing. Just empty space.

Anyway, sorry. I was daydreaming about being on a road trip. So, they're having trouble selling this place. So if you're interested, if you really wanna just get out there and you're willing to put up with bees and rattlesnakes and there have to be weirdos out there. K?

I mean, to live in this kind of area of the desert, I don't know. I think you gotta be a little bit strange. So, look it up for yourself. Wilcox, Sidewinder Ranch is the name of the place. And, I mean, the the the house, it looks kinda cool.

I'll admit that. But bees in the walls, it's just not my jam. So if you're a long time listener, I'm sure you know we have a metal show that airs Saturday nights 10PM till 2AM jank show, the heaviest show in radio. One of the bands you'll hear on there from time to time is Kriptopsy, legendary metal band. And it looks like they're going to be reissuing their 1994 debut album, Blasphemy Made Flesh.

And the bonus material is what's getting me excited here. They've got a new track that's gonna appear on this album, a little bit of a medley, and they're bringing in a bunch of guest musicians to appear on it, like Shadow of Intent vocalist Ben Durer, Stabbing vocalist, Bridget Lynch, Undeath vocalist, Alexander Sazen, Carcosa vocalist, Johnny. Oh, I don't know how to say that last name. We won't even try. Other vocalists and then Billy Strings gonna be ripping out some solos.

Now I've talked about Billy Strings on this show before. Billy Strings rules. Billy Strings is so good. I've got a plan just like Dutch from Red Dead. Okay.

Sorry. I got a plan to, hopefully go see Billy Strings with my homie Nick in August in Bozeman. But if you're not familiar with Billy Strings, generally known for his bluegrass music, but this guy is one of the best guitarists out there today. I really hope I can line up an interview with him. Because the first time I heard Billy Strings, my homie Nick sent me the song home, the title track from his his album home.

And, you know, it's definitely got some bluegrass picking on it, but it more sounded like, you know, Opeth meets bluegrass. This song blew my mind. I wouldn't call it a Bluegrass song. I mean, it it's like prog rock or something, and it was so good. Like, what what is up with this guy?

So I started, you know, diving deeper. You gotta check out Billy Strings. I might even play one maybe I'll play that song home on the show because I I don't think it's out of place on kay bear. We're weird. And, again, it's not gonna sound like a country song.

You know, there might be a little bit of twang in the vocals. You're gonna hear some banjo, but it sounds like an OPAT song and lots of lots of ripping going on. You know, kind of a mystical vibe. So good. So good.

So I am way excited. When's this supposed to come out here? Oh, they they don't have a date on it, unfortunately. Oh, June 18. I had to scroll way down.

So June 18, that'll be here before we know it. And, I would imagine that track will definitely be going on to jank show. So, yeah, maybe on the show today, if I can get a copy of that track home, I'll I'll show you some Billy Strings because he's just so good. So good. And, I mean, you're rock fans.

You know, rock and metal fans listening to this show, which means you like ripping guitar playing. I don't know how anybody who's into guitar playing couldn't, at least appreciate what Billy Strings has going on. I was so bummed that I missed when he did a solo during Jambi with Toole in Salt Lake A Couple Years ago. That would have been so sick to see. So congrats to everyone who got to go see Toole in Salt Lake.

I know most people around here just saw him in Idaho Falls, but some people went to the Salt Lake show too and got to see that epic solo. Very jealous. Anyway, there's some metal news. Back in a minute. 10,000,000,000 tabs open and not a dang thing of use for me to talk with you about.

I think Peaches and I are gonna save the cue the outrage for the noon hour of madness of mayhem today so I can talk with him about it. Peaches may concede their fans mad by interviewing a member of the band. That's it. Threw together a very nice video interview. And apparently, that wasn't the way they wanted the interview to go.

People will complain about anything nowadays. Whine. Oh, you didn't ask my question. We'll get into all of it later but I think a lot of people don't understand what makes a good interview. K?

Asking a bunch of random questions and just, you know, no flow to things is not how you do a good interview. You wanna sit down and just have a conversation with somebody. Sometimes you don't get to ask them what you want to because it doesn't fit in the conversation good. You know why the most popular podcasts in the world are popular? Because they have conversations, and people like being a fly on the wall during a conversation.

Simple as that. Alright. Let's see here. I I really can't believe that I have no tabs of use open. You know, I was looking at questions on Reddit.

We've done this question before. How how many times do these questions need to be posted? What's a movie that disturbed you so much you'd never watch it again? We've talked about disturbing movies. I like disturbing movies.

I'm always, you know, trying to get myself to watch disturbing movies, but I've been too, anxious. And then another question popped up on Reddit that I thought was pretty funny. What is universally or sorry. What is more universally appreciated than boobs? What do you think the answers were?

There's nothing more universally appreciated. Alright. That was the whole thread. I have, talked about that subject before on this program as well, boobs. Because every once in a while, somebody will be in the news raising a ruckus, you know, about boobs.

And you're like, you're a liar. You're not really offended by boobs. Shut up. Nobody believes you. You're virtue signaling.

Nobody's buying it. Stop lying. Shut up. Anyway, I'm gonna keep digging. I'm gonna open more tabs, and at least one of them will be good.

It's gotta be. Right? Hang on. Electric Callboy, arrow of love, and good news, Electric Callboy fans, band's got a new track coming on Friday called Reverie. Very excited for that.

Anytime new Electric Callboy is on the way. This is a good day. Plus, it's Friday. Rolling into the three day Memorial Day weekend. Cannot wait.

Cannot wait. You know, with the Memorial Day holiday coming up, make sure to be responsible. Make good decisions. You know, I don't want anybody to get in any trouble, injure themselves or others. I was reading a story about a Florida mail person.

US postal service employee, Caitlin Dye, arrested on April 12. So she's out doing her mail route. K? Just delivering mail and apparently stumbles across a house party. Alright.

If you're supposed to be out delivering mail, it might look fun to join in on the festivities if you stumble across a house party. But then you're gonna end up driving the wrong way in traffic. You're all hammered. You're chucking solo cups out of the mail truck. That's exactly what happened.

Driving the wrong way on on a one way road, swerving in and out of their lane, and, chucking plastic cups out of the vehicle. Again, a house party can be fun, but come on, lady. It's 1PM. Get it together. You ask them if you can come back after you've delivered all the mail.

Now she claimed she just had a couple shots. But, I mean, she was a mess. She was a mess. And they asked her about the cup she was throwing out of the vehicle and she's like, well, it was just water I was trying to swish around in my mouth to not smell like alcohol. I hate to break it to you, but if you're drinking booze, you're gonna smell like booze.

K? Smells stick to you. It's like if you're trying to, you know, cover up that you've been smoking cigarettes. I'm sorry. You're not gonna be able to cover it up.

It's gonna stick to you. K? Well, I'm glad no one was hurt, but just another example of behavior to not engage in coming up this weekend. Be responsible. You're partying.

You know? Get yourself a designated driver. Call an Uber. You know, whatever you need to do. You don't wanna end up hurting somebody or end up in jail.

That is no way to spend the Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day weekend's all about getting out, camping, setting up, and then just getting dumped on with rain for three days because the weatherman always says it's gonna be good, and it never is. I'm hoping it is this weekend simply because I need to mow my lawn. I'm not going camping. No.

I'm camping on my couch. That's where I'm camping. Alright. We got peaches in the house. What's happening, homie?

Oh, happy hump day. At least at least I think it's a happy hump day. I I hope so. I don't know. You're making people mad online.

I'm making everyone mad for some reason. It's like, what did I do? I don't know. You're just stirring it up, dude. Yeah.

Apparently. Let's cue the outrage. Now might be a really good time for you to get angry. That's my secret, cat. I'm always angry.

Peaches, how dare you interview somebody? How dare you? Shame. Shame. Just walk down the street with your head down.

I'm blaming you partially because you tell me all the time to share my interviews everywhere in the Yes. Fan clubs online. From now on, screw all of them. Yeah. Generally, fans are happy to see interviews with their favorite artist pop up.

I've shared interviews I've done with lots of bands with, their subreddits, their Facebook groups, and I can't recall any situation where people reacted in the same way that the Seether subreddit has reacted to you. Well, the Dayseeker, fan club the Dayseeker fan club, they were all very, like, happy. Rory did an interview. They're all like, oh, thank you so much for sharing this. Appreciate it.

Totally. We're excited for the new album Rory's gonna put out there. I I do the same thing with Dale from Seether. And well, first of all, I said I was interviewing Dale. Could you guys give me questions in the r slash Seether subreddit?

Yes. I've I've got your first post up, you know, asking if anybody had any questions. You said, hey. I'm coming up with questions to ask Dale prior to the show tonight in Idaho Falls. I did see there was a lot of criticism about their set list being the same.

I'm gonna incorporate that into the interview. Anything else you guys would like me to ask? And then, they start commenting, you know, asking about, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of a couple albums. You know, does the band still plan on releasing a box set, a reissue, blah blah blah. You know, pretty basic questions, I guess.

And the thing about an interview is, you know, we mentioned this when you were in a few minutes ago. An interview is a, is a conversation. Yes. You know, sometimes you're not going to be able to get to certain questions that you want to ask because the conversation doesn't go in that direction. You don't wanna awkwardly just stop in the middle of what you guys are talking about and change the subject drastically.

Right. There there was a whole flow to how I was talking with Dale. Dale was a funny guy, lighthearted, the whole thing. We're just talking for fifteen minutes. That was the maximum time I was given.

Yeah. The tour manager standing right there kind of overseeing the entire thing. In the middle of Dale talking about, I don't know, Idaho fishing, fun things like that, I wasn't gonna be like, so why haven't you guys changed the set list in so many years and all of a sudden just completely ruined the tone of the whole entire interview? Yeah. Well, I will say the the one critique I'd give you is that in your initial post, you told the fans that you intended to ask about the set list.

So, you know, you didn't go, hey. What's a bunch of questions? And then not answer you know, not ask their questions. You did you did tell them. But I'm not gonna be like some loser on the Internet and break down a six paragraph long comment about how, like, I I will plan to incorporate these questions.

Doesn't mean I'm gonna ask them blatantly or do anything like that. Yeah. I mean If the conversation goes one way, I was gonna make some whole post in there about how, like, if they were ever interview any member of Seether, they would probably just, you know you know, get all scared and terrified and ask some stupid question like, do you like music? Well, yeah, that that's my only critique is that you did tell them you were gonna ask about the set list thing, which when I think about, you know, being in an interview, you don't generally try to ask questions with a negative connotation. Right.

You know? So, you know, even if, like, you hadn't said that, for fans to expect you to ask that is crazy. You know, it could you you're not gonna go into a room with somebody and just start beating up on them. You know? That's Unless you're Jade.

Even Jade, he he wouldn't do it in an interview situation. You know, I've seen him make snarky remarks to bands before, but that's just hanging out, not in a recorded interview that's going to go out to the Internet. So you posted your interview, and then these whiny fan dude, I can't believe it. I mean, I have never seen this kind of reaction to an interview. And I've posted interviews to, subreddits and groups for bands that are known to have somewhat toxic fan bases like Ghost or Falling in Reverse.

Always still very nice. You know, great interview, blah blah blah. Occasionally, you'll see, you know, one snide remark. But this whole thread on the Seether subreddit, these guys are just trashing you, just being horrible. Right.

I I don't it it's weird, Dave. I think there's a reason why Sean didn't wanna do the interview in the first place. I now see why. I also see, see, like, maybe he just wants to do the whole tour and not say much to people, to be quite honest. Maybe.

Maybe that's why he hides in the shadows because he knows the fan base just sucks. Yeah. And they're like, dude, got several solid questions. Didn't use a single one. I don't even know why he asked.

Well, here's the thing. It's nice to have those questions ready. But if it's not, you know, natural to get to them, you're not going to ask them. That's not how an interview works. If I was doing a Joe Rogan style in-depth conversation or something like you know, you see those breakdown videos, from different people who interview artists and they go real deep real deep about their, the subject matter.

I would then ask something like that. Yeah. If you had an hour. But we've talked about it before. I hate ten minute interviews.

Me too. I hate fifteen minute interviews because, you know, you can't even start to build, you know, any kind of camaraderie with the person that you're interviewing. So, you know, you you just gotta kind of, get what you can in, try to hit the basic stuff. And I'm sorry. I haven't watched your interview yet.

I've been meaning to. But sounds like you guys just had a nice conversation. You were talking about fishing, things like that. Or something he's actually into? Yes.

His hobbies, his interests, getting people to know more about him as a human being. I mean, you can find all of the other information on Wikipedia and things like that. Why ask a bunch of questions that have already been asked or questions that are combative? You know, that's just stupid. It's more so just like the Reddit critiquers wanted their, wanted to use me as some sort of voice for them, but, you know, I instead did my own thing and Yeah.

Threw it out there on a YouTube channel. Yeah. And they're like, oh, we haven't seen an on camera interview with any of these guys for so many years. You just got one. Right.

You just got one. And that's the reason why they're probably not gonna do another one afterwards. Probably not because you know that, you know, somebody in their crew is looking at the subreddit. Of course, some time. But, I mean, asking if a box set's gonna be released.

Right. Boring. Nobody cares. That's a boring question. You know?

Maybe asking about more new music coming soon. Sure. But are they gonna rerelease and do a twentieth anniversary? Blah blah. That's not a good question in the midst of a conversation unless you're talking about like, he's like, hey.

You know, we've got a lot of plans for some of our previous releases. Then you go, oh, you know, okay. Hey. Look. This is what you've been working on recently.

Cool. Let's dive in. You don't just randomly throw that out there. Right. And to me for me, asking a question like, are you guys working on new music?

So that way I can, you know, potentially tell, the press, you know, of what you guys are up to and kind of, you know, get credit for it. Like, I don't like those types of questions. Yeah. If if somehow, some way, like, there's a a way for me to get it in there, sure. But if the I kinda wanna build that friendship with them during that interview to where they just reveal that info to me.

Yeah. Exactly. You want them to reveal the information. K? You're not gonna get anywhere.

Just and as an artist, asking them about all of their old stuff and reissues and things like that, that that's not gonna get them excited to talk about or to talk with you. You know, these people are like, these were brilliant questions. Yeah. It's like, no. They weren't.

Brilliant? No. And they're like downvoting your response where, hey. I only had ten minutes with the guy, and it would have been a huge bummer to just out of nowhere go, why haven't you guys changed the set list in so many years? And they're downvoting you for that.

Those questions weren't brilliant. They you know, if there was an opportunity for them, sure. But that's not how a conversation works. And I saw one guy say, let's see. This wasn't really an interview.

It was a chat. That's what an interview is. No kidding. K? You know, an interview where somebody sits down with a piece of paper that has a bunch of questions, and they just go, okay.

Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Okay. Blah blah. And they're just asking questions and getting answered. That's a horrible interview.

You're a bad interviewer if you do that. That is not how you do a proper interview. You have a conversation, and you can try to steer a conversation into certain directions. There's ways to do that. But why would you steer it to are you guys gonna change the settlement stuff tonight?

You know? Right. It's just gonna be stupid. Even the Howard Stern would ask that type of question, like, what would you guys do? Like, the all this stuff, but he wouldn't, like, blatantly just, you know, shout these questions that Redditors gave him.

No. He he he wants to ask the questions that he wants the answers too. Exactly. Yeah. He's the interviewer, and he generally sat down with people for an hour or so.

Exactly. You can't do much in ten minutes. Ten minutes is nothing. Yeah. And then just an overall, like, hey, we're excited for the show.

What did you do with the what, like, what have you done all these years to prepare for a tour? Things like that. You can't really do much. Yeah. And you don't wanna ask the same things that everybody's already asked.

Mhmm. So I talked about how, like, I first heard fake it on Burnout Paradise back in 02/2008. What what like, you know, it's pretty cool to have your song in a video game. Video games don't really have that soundtrack like they used to. Yeah.

There you go. That's that's a fun, not common question. Yeah. I mean, I have poked at a lot of fan bases, you know, Bad Omens, Sleep Tokens, saying they have terrible fan bases online. I think I poked my my my jolly interview in the Bad Omens subreddit, and they were all like, oh, thank you so much.

Appreciate it. Yeah. Dude, I've never seen anything like this. I think Seether's fans on Seether's online fans now hold the title for the worst online fan base by by far. I'm gonna post this in r slash metalcore and be like, hey, r slash Seether just sucks.

Their fans are awful. I feel bad for the band, and we'll see how that goes. Well, you know, then you might get trashed because Seether's definitely not metal metalcore. Yeah. But still people, like, are reminiscent of that band.

Have you tried posting it in the, Facebook group for Seether? I tried. Yeah. I mean, Seether reposted my story with the YouTube link. Okay.

Yeah. I'm just curious if there's a difference between how these fans responded on Reddit and, the way people respond on Facebook. And I've asked, listeners, hey. Give me some questions. I think a a rational human being understands you might not get to their question.

Mhmm. You know? But these these fans in this see their subreddit, wow. I I do find it funny that they're like, we'll just have to wait till next time Sean or Dale doesn't ask me, and ask me something on Reddit. You know, the the whole thing.

AMA asking almost anything? Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, they're they're just gonna get bombarded with those stupid questions. So I don't think they'll be doing that on Reddit anytime soon.

I think Sean and Dale are, like, done with that place. I can see why. Holy cow. The big question on everyone's mind is when we are is when are we getting the deluxe edition of Surf Passim so far? Do you think that's the biggest question amongst all cedar fans when we're gonna get a deluxe edition of a certain album?

Only like, you know, hardcore nerdy collectors care about deluxe editions of anything. K. Be like me raising a ruckus. Why hasn't Stephen King addressed the possibility of another signed reissue? Why is he talking about this new book he's putting out?

Why doesn't he be it it's just ludicrous. These these people are awful. I couldn't believe it when you told Jen, will you tell me sometimes, Peaches, that people are freaking out online? And then I go and I'm like, okay. Peaches exaggerating a little.

This one, you underplayed. You totally underplayed this. These people are lunatics. So yeah. The official new holders of the crown, worst online fan base in rock.

See their fans. I'll have Chad g p t generate an image. Do you think I should make a post like that? Yeah. Put like the worst online fan base and just put in there, like, you guys are absolute scumbags and, like, this whole thing.

You you gotta make it funny. It's gotta be funny. No if you call them scumbags, but, it could be a crazy person. One of them and just be like, you're a bunch of losers for for I mean, I think they're crazy people, but I I wouldn't, you know, poke at them by calling them, like, scumbags and stuff, peaches. Yeah.

You gotta make them funny. Can't be fake. I'm I'll be the I'll be the real peaches online. If you're gonna troll, you have to be funny. Nobody likes a troll that's not funny.

Then you're just, you know, a jerk. You know? And and it's gonna make it make it look like they won. Now you gotta keep that humor up, dude. You get a a picture of Sean holding up the crown.

Get AI to make it. He's holding out the crown. You're right. A big trophy, you know, something like that. Worse on my fan base.

But I can't I can't incorporate Sean into it. He'll probably not like that, you know. That's true. So I'll just put that picture with no text to be like, here you guys go. Hope you enjoy.

Or, like, get a get something that yeah. A trophy and just put the little thing on it, worst online fan base 2025, and just post it in the subreddit. Holy cow. Show end by quick. I ain't complaining.

Hopefully, the rest of the day goes by quick. I mean, if I could just get paid to do eight hours of show a day and then go home, I'd be pretty down for that. Nah. I mean, digging up enough content would be a bit of a challenge, but I know the day would go by way quicker than sitting in my computer doing data entry. Yeah.

I've got a boring day ahead. I hope yours isn't boring. I hope it's really good. Hope it's wonderful. Hope everybody's feeling nice.

And, I appreciate you tuning into the show as always. Before I go, I guess we'll dive into this final post here. I was looking at it on Reddit. Be aware, not every party is a party. So this guy says, my wife got invited to a party at her coworker's house.

I reluctantly went because the only person I would know was my wife. So right out of the gate, you got a guy who, to me, appears to be a stick in the mud. It's okay to meet new people. It's good to meet new people. You might make new friends.

Yeah. You ever see me at a concert, walking around, talking to people? It's because I like meeting people. It's good for you to socialize. So, anyway, I reluctantly went because the only person I would know is my wife.

This is a relatively new job for her and wanted to be able to meet and mingle with her coworkers outside of work. Her understanding of it all was we didn't need to bring anything but ourselves. Great. Great. You show up to a party.

They got everything. So he says, we show up and seems like a lively party, pool with a bar area, music playing. They had a margarita machine and a ton of food. My wife got to talking, so I excused myself to grab a drink. The margarita machine was calling my name, so I filled my cup and grabbed my wife a margarita.

I went back to my wife, started drinking, and realized there wasn't any tequila in it. That's when I noticed no alcohol being around. I hate to break it to you people, but some people have sober parties. Yeah. I've been to plenty of parties and celebrations.

No booze in sight. Shouldn't be that weird. Alright? So the guy says the host was tending to the machine and I asked if there was any tequila. She looks at me confused and then says there is no tequila.

And I said, oh, I thought this was a party. She takes offense at that and says it is. It's just a dry one. I awkwardly left it at that. I poured my drink out and grabbed some water.

This guy, I love this little party. Dumps the drink out, get some water. Host asks if there's something wrong with it. I said I wasn't interested in drinking straight sugar. This guy is not not a fun guy to hang out with.

You can have fun at a sober party. Alright? Again, I've been to a lot of them. It's fine. It's called and that's that's a good way to find out if you really like hanging out with somebody.

You're gonna get to know somebody much better if you talk to them sober than all hammered. So anyway, he walked back to his wife, kept to himself. So then he's pouting. I kept to myself and ate some food for the few hours we were there and it made it back to my wife that I was a jerk to the host. Caused a minor argument between us.

Was I, though? Was I a jerk for expecting tequila in the margaritas? Now okay. I have never heard of anyone drinking margarita mix with with no booze in it. Is that a thing?

I've heard of many nonalcoholic beverages, but I've not ever heard of, you know, just the margarita machine with the mix and the ice. That that does sound kinda strange to me. You You know, why not just get some Coca Cola and, you know, Doctor Pepper? Have a have a wide selection of sodas. I if I saw a margarita machine, I'd assume it's margaritas.

And I don't think you can call it margaritas if they don't have tequila in them. But still, at that point, you just go, oh. Oh, okay. It's alright. I just thought I I just expected tequila.

No big deal. Let me slam this sugar water. Yeah. Because come on. Having some, you know, sugary beverage, that ain't a bad thing.

Alright, everybody. I think I'm gonna mosey on over to my office and start doing boring, tedious work. Wish me luck, but I'll be back for the noon hour of madness of may impeaches and I'll have some fun. I hope you have a great day. I truly do.

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