The Viktor Wilt Show

Howdy. Welcome to the Viktor World Show Thursday, July 25th. I want to throw out a thank you to all of the KBear Rock Army who attempted to help Peaches and I drive a post upward on Reddit yesterday. Ultimately, we lost the battle, but it was a good fight. Yesterday, I laughed the hardest I've laughed on air during the noon hour in ages.

And it wasn't even that funny. But for some reason, this absolutely pointless trolling of the Boise Subreddit had me just rolling yesterday. It it was the funniest thing in the world to me. If you wanna check out the post, it's still up. Now you've gotta go to the Boise subreddit sort by new, and just kinda scroll down or the easier way to find it, because we could always upvote it back up.

We could still do this. What you gotta do, go to the k Bear 101 Idaho rock and metal group on Facebook. I think the post is still pinned. It's called feeling disheartened as a California transplant in Boise. So last week, this is, like, been building to this point for about a week.

Last week, I was scrolling Reddit. I see this post in the Arizona subreddit. Somebody wanting to find some friends to hang out with because they were going to be visiting Kingman And I was like, that's a weird post just throwing out to strangers Hey I'm looking for somebody to hang out with. So we decided to throw peaches a birthday party, and we went to the Idaho falls, subreddit, and had chat GPT write up a big post about, hey. I'm celebrating my birthday.

We're gonna be at the pool at whatever hotel. Come on down. We'll have fun. Maybe I'll find that special someone. And that post, not a lot happened with it.

Alright. You know, there was a lot of happy birthday peaches messages, which was funny because it wasn't his birthday. His birthday is, like, next month. So then I was like, well, let's let's see what happens if you make that post in the Boise Subreddit and same post, throw it a birthday party. Gonna throw a birthday party at the budget inn, looking for friends.

And, didn't get quite the same response. I mean, a handful of happy birthdays, but not a lot of response. So yesterday, peaches has chat GPT write this post. Feeling disheartened as a California transplant in Boise. I I'm gonna start laughing if I read this, but here we go.

I'm reaching out because I had a tough experience recently and could really use some support. I moved here from California not too long ago and decided to host my 28th birthday party at a local budget in. Unfortunately, despite sending out invitations, nobody showed up. It was a pretty lonely and disheartening experience. I've already just getting rolling with this because there's no point to doing this just to see what kind of response would pop up in the Boise subreddit.

Nobody showed up to my birthday party. Okay. I would have hosted the party at my house, but I'm still new to Boise. And, honestly, I don't fully trust everyone here yet. So we had these bullet points yesterday we came up with.

Alright. California transplant. Nobody showed up to my birthday party. I didn't want to invite people to my house because I don't trust people And, you know, I've I'm really upset nobody showed up to my birthday party. Right.

I'm not sure what I expected, but it hurts to feel like an outsider sometimes. I've been trying to make friends and get involved in the community, but days like this make it tough. Has anyone else had similar experiences moving to Boise or any advice on how to navigate this feeling of isolation? And I'd tell you it was the battle of the up and down votes. I mean, Josh and peaches, and I looked at the stats on this post yesterday, and you can tell by the percentages.

And as we were like, logging into new accounts and giving extra upvotes, there had to be at least at least a 100, a 150, you know, people involved with or at least accounts involved with the up and down voting of this post. And every every comment on it, peaches would respond with a chat g p t response. So for example, now all of the uploaded posts at this point are referencing it being a troll post and a chat g p t. But it started off really funny, like, demented alpaca. I don't understand.

You held an event that was open to the public. Like, who did you expect to have show up? I'm sorry this was a bust, has to suck. Boise isn't always the easiest place to make new friends, blah blah blah blah blah. So Peaches responds with chat GPT.

Thank you for your perspective and understanding. It was definitely tough to have the event not turn out as expected. I appreciate your suggestions about the local meetup group and the game shops. Those sound like great ways to get involved and meet new people. And all of his responses sound like that.

And at a certain point, people start fighting with each other in the post as to whether or not this is a bot that is, you know, creating all the responses. And they were sort of right. It was chat GPT, but it was being controlled by peaches. We're just sitting here throwing comments out there. I mean, there's like a 100 comments on this thread and just reading through it makes me laugh so much.

Some people started to feel like jerks, so they went back and deleted their posts because they were being really mean. Oh, I just love it. If harmless trolling, nobody showed up to my birthday party, you know, and people still got mad, But, you know, it wasn't offensive. You know, it wasn't, you know, typical modern day trolling. It was just stupid.

And we sat here and we're entertained by it all day yesterday. Just watching the comments roll in. Anyway, go give it a read if you're bored. It's just really funny to me. I I don't know why But I I gotta thank the kay bear army for attempting to upvote it so it wouldn't get, pushed into the oblivion.

It it was a good run. It was a good run. I mean, like I said, there's 92 comments on this. So it was getting some action, but the people who did not like this post ultimately won the up versus down vote battle, which is unfortunate. So feel free to give it an up vote if, you happen to make your way there.

Alright. I was scrolling, Reddit, and I came across a discussion about something I had not seen. I had to find I listened to about 30 seconds of this and was like, okay. We're just gonna listen to this on air. There's apparently an artist out there calling themselves token grass, and what they do is bluegrass covers of Sleep Token songs.

And I'll admit, I like some quality bluegrass from time to time. You heard Billy Strings? Billy Strings rules. Billy Strings is awesome. You know, the only Toole show in the region I didn't go to last year was the Salt Lake City show, and Billy Strings got up on stage and ripped out a solo with Toole, during what song was it?

Might have been Jambi, which would have been amazing. Would have been amazing to see. Maybe it was the pot. I don't know. But either way, whoever token grass is, at least from the 30 seconds I heard, they did a fine job with this.

We're just gonna listen to the whole song. Token grass choke hold. When we were made, It was no accident. We were tangled up black branches in a flood. A sacred guardian.

So you keep me sharp and test my worth in blood. Y'all got me in a choke hold. Beneath the stormy seas above the mountain I've seen my days unbroken thee if possible. I turn my walls to go to bring you home again. So show me that we're Jack cannot see even if it hurts me, even if I can't sleep.

Oh, and though we had doubt of our holy duty to be constant away. Y'all got me in a choke hold. Awesome. Totally killed it. Totally killed it.

Hold on here. Oh, somebody come calling to yell at me for playing country music. K Bear, you're live on the show. Keep that in mind. Who's this?

Hey, Victor. This is Mason. How's it going? Mason, I'm doing good. What's up, man?

I'm listening to your Dolce and grass that you just put on, your cover. Yes. What do you what do you think? I I like it. I've got another one for you to play.

It's by picking on series Kryptonite, but it's a bluegrass cover. It's picking on what? Picking on theories. On theories? Theories, s e r I e s.

Ah, picking on series. And, it it was, jeez. Kryptonite. Kryptonite. Alright.

That'd be good. Okay. I'm gonna pull this up and, give it a whirl. K. Thank you.

Alright. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Yeah. Bye.

Peace. Okay. We're gonna take quick break. After the break, we'll get back to scoping out more bluegrass covers of, rock tunes. We'll check out Kryptonite, and who knows what else is gonna happen on this show today?

I certainly didn't expect to find token grass, and you should check out the video as well. Token grass only had, like, 200 followers on YouTube. And I mean, I don't know if it's the same guy doing all the different parts, but full costume dressing up like, members of sleep token, got a stand up base. It it was a very well done video. I mean, I think they deserve some subscribers.

So, I will be subscribing and yeah. I like a little bit of good bluegrass, so we'll see what, what we got for a 3 doors down cover here in just a minute. Alright. I had a listener suggest we check out picking on series bluegrass tribute to 3 doors down Kryptonite. Now I may have heard this before.

There are some pretty decent bluegrass covers of rock songs out there. I know I've heard some Metallica back in the day that was pretty good, but you know what? We're just gonna go ahead and play this. Alright. I haven't listened to kryptonite in a while anyway.

So let's see how this goes. I took a walk around the world, eased my troubled mind. I left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time. I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon. I feel there's nothing I can do.

Yeah. Now watch the world float to the dark side of the moon. After all, I knew it had to be something to do with you. And I really don't mind what happens now and then, as long as you'll be my friend at the end. If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman?

If I'm alive and well, will you be there holding my hand? I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman light Kryptonite. You call me strong. You call me weak. But still your secrets, I will keep.

You took took granite all the time, but never let you down. You stumbled in and bumped your head. If not for me, then you'd be dead. I picked you up and put you back on solid ground. If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman?

If I'm alive, will you be there holding my hand? I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman Kryptonite. If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman? If I'm alive, will you be there holding my hand? I'll keep you by my side with my super human might trip tonight.

If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman? If I'm alive, then where will you be there holding my hand? I'll keep you by my side with my super human might Kryptonite. Alright. Picking on bluegrass.

Picking on 3 doors down. They did a pretty good job with that. Did a pretty good job with that. Thank you to the, caller who called and suggested that one. It's amazing how that format bluegrass can work so well.

Because like I said, I've heard Metallica songs that were really good. I think it was inner sandman, maybe something else. The sleep token song we heard earlier, choke hold. Token grass just killed it. Just killed it.

So anyway, good fun. If you wanna check out my favorite bluegrass, and the and the music is he's got some great songs. Some amazing songs. So Alright. We'll get back to rocking.

Alright. I know that was a heavy dose of bluegrass this morning, but it's alright. Coming up, we got electric call boy. You know, if you're listening to this show on demand, I recommend tuning in live every weekday morning, 6 to 10 AM, mountain time. You can find the show live at riverbendmediagroup dotcom because, yeah, we play Electric Call Boy on the radio.

We play Sleep Token on the radio. We have a good time around here. Alright. Let's talk about Internet outrage. It's relentless.

It never stops, and people just gotta complain about everything. I saw an article on east Idaho news about a new business opening in Rexburg, and it's a mocktail bar. Okay Boy, did people lose their minds about this? Oh my goodness Why can't they just open a regular bar? Well, for 1 it's Rex Burg.

K? If you've never been to Rexburg, it's a different kind of place. If you wanna go to the bar in Rexburg, I believe you go to what Applebee's. I think that's it. This is not surprising at all that in Rexburg, the college town, Rexburg, they would open a mocktail bar.

Now I'm looking at photos of it here. It looks like a regular old bar. Looks like any other bar you've been into. You got pool tables. You got video games and things.

The only difference is they don't serve booze. K? Now why not? Not not saying why why don't they serve booze, but why not open a bar in Rexburg that doesn't serve alcohol? It makes total sense to me if you've been to Rexburg and you understand that community.

Makes total sense. And have you ever been around people that are completely hammered when you're not one of them? You know, I would understand why people don't go to the bar unless they're gonna get hammered. Alright? I'm sure if you've been around me when I've been boozing it up, I am annoying.

I'm sure of it because the average person, when they've been pounding them down, they are annoying. Alright? So, like, I myself, I don't go to the bar very often because I'm trying to, you know, only on very special occasions have some drinks. Alright? So if I go to the bar, it's like, well, what else am I gonna do?

Maybe I need to go to the Rexburg mocktail bar because well, I guess I have a pool table at home. I'm kinda looking at this gun. Oh, yeah. That's why I don't go to the bar. I have everything that I could, enjoy at the bar at my house.

Alright. I can hear peaches off in the distance. Oh, good for you. I've got video games. I've got loud music.

I have a pool table. I do need to get a dart board though. I do need to get a dart board, then I'm all set. Then I'm all hooked up. Actually, a foosball table as well, but I got nowhere to put it.

I know. 1st world problems. Oh, I don't have any room for a foosball table. Anyway, I I don't see the problem with this at all. I think it's fine for there to be an establishment for people to go hang out.

I think it would be fine to open one of these, in every city in east Idaho. So, yeah. I mean, we have soda shops all over the place. Why not have a a soda shop you can hang out in? You know?

But, like, there are tons of bars around. You know, if you wanna go to a normal bar, you can go. Why does everybody have to freak out about everything? And again, especially when it's not surprising at all. If there is one place that there's going to be a mocktail bar opening up, it's Rexburg.

Nobody's surprised by this. So why why be rude about it? You know, I don't know. People just gotta fight about everything. You know, Peach has been trying to figure out a place to go meet friends.

He can't seem to get anybody to come to his birthday parties at the local hotels by the pool. He tried Idaho Falls. He tried Boise. Perhaps peaches need to throw a birthday party at the Rexburg mocktail bar. Okay.

What's the name of it? I just keep calling it the mocktail bar. Why can't I find the name of it? Oh, Fizz Riz. You know, it's for the young people.

I'm Riz, isn't that, charisma? I remember somebody telling me about Riz. I'm like, what does that mean? And kids laughed at me. So, anyway, they open at 5 PM, cater to the nighttime crowd.

You can go party party hard in Rexburg. Party hard. I I mean, I think this is a good thing. You can go to the bar, do all the bar stuff, and then you don't have to worry about a cab on the way home. You're just gonna be jacked up from all the caffeine.

Alright. Anyway, just try to let people enjoy their lives. Alright. We don't need to fight about everything. I mean, I I shouldn't be surprised.

If there's articles about Rexburg, people are going to, potentially lose their minds. Alright? Shout out to our listeners in Rexburg. I know we might poke fun sometimes at Rexburg because, again, it's a unique community. But I know we've got a lot of support in Rexburg.

So thank you for your support. Get out to, you know, enjoy yourself a party at the Fizz Riz. Peach's birthday party coming up soon. I was sitting here watching videos in the boomers being fooled subreddit. I wish that I would have had time to preview this one because I would have played the audio for you, but it's a woman losing her mind at KFC.

Very upset over their prices, and she's demanding of the cashier that they give her more items for the amount of money she's being charged because she just doesn't like the prices. Doesn't feel that what she is ordering is worth the amount they're asking. I didn't know you could barter when you walk into a fast food restaurant or any restaurant. And then the cashier, I can't believe it, offers to give her a 2 liter of the soda. I mean, that's something that this woman didn't deserve.

And the woman's still, like, no. That's not what I want. Peaches was just saying the other day that KFC was a really good value. You know, I haven't been in there in a long time because I worked at KFC when I was young and it's one of those places that I'm not a big fan of fried chicken anyway. I don't like I don't like bones in my food.

Okay. It's not a KFC thing. It's just in general. Like, if I have a steak I don't like the steak with the bone in there. I don't like pork chops if there's a bone in it.

Alright. I I just don't like bones in my food. K. I don't like chicken wings. K.

Give me them boneless wings. Yeah. I know they're chicken nuggets. K. I get it, but I don't care.

I don't want bones in my food. So, anyway, there was another post I saw on Reddit where people were asking about food that you've eaten so much that you just can't eat it anymore. I didn't eat a lot of KFC, but it was just a I wasn't a big fan of fried chicken to begin with. Then I worked there and yeah. Now I just don't feel like going there.

Alright? Ramen. I don't remember the last time I whipped up some ramen. I had way too much ramen when I first moved out on my own. It was all I could afford for food.

I I just can't do it. I'm not gonna fire up the ramen. Alright? SpaghettiOs? Sure.

Yeah. As a, 42 year old I will eat SpaghettiOs. Well, I know it's kind of ridiculous. It's not quality, but there's something about it. I just I'm down with it.

Alright? I know that might be weird. Is there kid food you'll eat? Maybe that's the the question we throw out there. Not what food are you sick of eating, but what kid's food would you still eat?

Now does craft macaroni and cheese count as kids food? I don't think it really does. Even though, you know, it's an easy thing to whip up for your kids. I'm still definitely down with that. SpaghettiOs definitely seems like kids food.

Trying to think of what other food applesauce? Is that a kid's food? I mean, I don't remember the last time I ate that, but I would. It's not bad. But I I wouldn't eat it out of the squeeze packet.

I would definitely feel childish doing that. Alright. Kids cuisine frozen meal. I don't think I'd do it. Even though I remember a while back watching a YouTube video where somebody was trying frozen meals.

You know, there's all these YouTube videos where they're like, alright. We're gonna try every, you know, chicken sandwich that's available. Somebody was trying frozen meals, and they had a kid's cuisine. And whoever the host was, I remember them being like, wow. This is really good.

It might have been like frozen mac and cheese meals and the kids cuisine, apparently, bomb. I I don't know. I think I'd feel a lot of shame. Well, and I don't have a microwave right now. I mean, I I have one.

But you as far as I know, you can't cook kids' cuisine in the oven. Maybe you can. I'm not gonna go buy any. Alright? It would be an embarrassment even though only my cats would know.

But what if it's really good? Like I said, I'd knock down some SpaghettiOs. I hope my my lady, if she's listening, isn't embarrassed. I probably say lots of embarrassing things on the show all the time. I'm glad that somebody will put up with me.

Alright. Don't be a Karen at KFC. K. You gotta pay for that mashed potatoes and gravy. It it couldn't be that expensive.

Right? It's mashed potatoes and gravy. I I don't know what the woman was losing her mind about, but, anyway, oh, we got somebody call in here. Let's go ahead and go to the phone, see what what do they want. K Bear, what's up?

So in honor of this dark and rainy day, do you think you could play the floods? Play the floods. Now Yeah. Is that a band? No.

The song by Pantera floods. Floods by Pantera. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Let me see if I could dig that up, man. Sweet. Thank you. Have a good one. Hey.

Thanks for listening to the show. Is it raining outside? My kitty, Koopa, he's outside. If it's really bad rain I I hadn't heard any rain. I mean, we've got a pretty soundproof room here, but well, sorry, little buddy.

You're gonna have to wait a while. Enjoy the floods. Will we ever have flying cars? My guess is if we ever do, it won't be for a really long time, and it's it's not a technology issue. I'm sure we could have flying cars today.

Boom. Look how many different flying crafts we have. Flying cars is certainly not out of our technological ability. No. It's because people are too stupid.

Alright? We cannot handle vehicles on the roads. Alright? I read the news. I drive around.

I mean, pretty much every day now on my way home, I see some type of accident. I mean, I know we're in the middle of the 100 deadliest days of driving, so there are always more accidents during this time of year than any other time of the year. But still, can you imagine people flying around? Flying around in cars. The irresponsibility and stupidity of people is why we will never have flying cars.

K? Imagine if all of a sudden everyone. Yeah could just lift off. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.

Oh, we got a caller here. They better be on topic. K k Mary line on the show. Please turn down whatever I'm coming out of in the background there. Who's this?

Hey. This is Zach. How's it going, man? Zach, I'm doing pretty good. What's up, man?

Hey. Just letting you know we already have flying cars. Well, I mean, I know they've made a few of them, but it it's not like they're rolling out and not you can't just jump in a car and go fly. You're gonna get, arrested. You know?

You you they're not like they're not legal. You know, they Yeah. They're they're really, really expensive. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, if humanity was responsible enough and we could figure out how to make this work so that peep you know, there were lanes in the sky and all of that. I mean, there would have been flying cars a long time ago, but I I can't imagine it happening anytime soon because people are too irresponsible. You know? Oh, yeah. I see another motorcycle crash yesterday.

Yeah. The those ones are the worst ones to see. I I hope that the driver was okay. I mean, just be on the lookout for people around you, everybody. Again, we're in the middle of the deadliest time of year.

Don't wanna see anybody hurt on the roads. Please be cautious. So Oh, yeah. Craziness. Well, yeah, we we do technically have, f line cars, but it's not I guess that not regular.

That that's a good point. I, you know, I should've stated they exist, but, as far as people being able to actually use them, I I can't imagine it happening anytime soon. There would be just way way too many accidents. So Oh, that'd be that'd be insane. Yeah.

Oh, I mean, dude. Yeah. We got enough to worry about on our on our regular roads. People crashing into people's houses, drunk drivers up in the sky. Oh, jeez.

Oh, that would be crazy. Yeah. It'd it'd be nuts. I I I can't the reason I brought this up was there's a new Jetson's law, paving the way for flying cars in Minnesota. And, I've been on the roads in Minnesota.

People over there, they're just as terrible at driving as everywhere else. So I don't think that, flying cars in Minnesota are is a great idea. So Robert, can you imagine texting and flying? Oh, texting and flying. Exactly.

People are not responsible enough for this type of technology. Have a good day, brother. You too, Zach. Good to hear from you, man. Peace.

Yeah. Bye. Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm sure that people want there to be flying cars because obviously straight shot path to where you go, you the way you think of this in your mind is, oh, it's gonna be so convenient. I'll just be able to go boom from here to there.

No. There will be lanes in the sky. Oh, just a nightmare for all. Really? It as much as it sounds great, it would be a nightmare for all if we had flying cars.

Because if there's a car accident in the sky that then transfers to the ground and causes a different type of act. You have, again, cars crashing it's it's not a technology thing. Straight up logistics here. It's it's not rational. When I was a boy when I was a young boy, I dreamed of the flying cars.

Yeah. Yeah. At least we got VR. I'm I'm happy with that. We got VR.

Freak news powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change. What's up? It's Victor Webb. Alright. Let's roll.

Okay. If you rob a bank Watched a good documentary about a bank robber recently on Netflix, by the way. I think it was called how to rob a bank. Recommend it if you're looking for a quick watch. What you probably don't wanna do is post photos of yourself with that stolen cash where you can see the serial numbers and stuff like that.

Look at all my money. Yeah. You know? Might look cool for the gram, for the Instagram, but you're gonna go to jail. Yeah.

If you're suspected of robbing a bank, probably don't want pictures of yourself holding up large piles of money on your socials. Alright? Also, don't rob a bank. Get a job, you bum. Get a job like the rest of us.

Alright? I wake up at 4:45 every day. You can get up too. I'm sure there are jobs in where was this? LA.

I know the cost of living is really high there, but still but still. Okay. What else we got going on here? Alright. A Death Valley tourist hospitalized after burning feet on sand dunes hotter than 123 degrees.

Somebody was walking through Death Valley barefoot. You know, I don't wanna see anybody get hurt, but you've seen the Darwin Awards online. Right? Where somebody does something stupid and they end up, you know, winning the Darwin award. It means, you know, they're dead.

I'm sorry. But if you're stupid enough to go out wandering death valley barefoot, I think you deserve 3rd degree burns on your feet because you're a moron. And this guy was 42 years old. Should have known better. Come on.

You step out of your vehicle, and it's a 123 degrees. You should know to get back in your car and get out of there. Okay. I guess he had flip flops on it first, but still even flip flops in in a 123 degree weather. The desert.

There's like scorpions and stuff out there, aren't there? I don't I don't know about death valley. But when I think of the desert, I think about horrible creatures, snakes, scorpions, spiders. Flip flops are not desert where? Cactus?

You got a lot of cactus around? Cacti? It'll hurt if you step on a cactus with your flip flops. Alright? You got the the sides of your feet all exposed?

Yeah. I'm guessing his flip flop melted off. Okay. Who wants to go walk a sand dune in a 120 degree weather? Yikes.

Well, anyway, I mean, he burned the crap out of his feet, but he he's gonna be alright, I think. Don't think he lost a foot or anything like that. Anyway, don't don't do that. K? Don't don't do that.

What else do we have here? Okay. We're we were talking about the Darwin Awards and people dying. Let's stay on the topic of death. We got people who use their last words to troll everyone.

I mean, I guess if you have the opportunity, if you know your time is about about to come, you probably wanna try to be as clever as possible so you go out with some good last words. Like, apparently, the guy who played Dumbledore in the first couple Harry Potter movies, Richard Harris, before he passed away, he was, living it up at this hotel, this Savoy Hotel in London. And, as they took him out and were taking him to the hospital, they carried him out on a stretcher and he was passing a bunch of people who were checking in. And he's like, it was the food. Pretty funny.

Pretty funny. That hotel's gotta love that guy. Yeah. I wonder how well the hotel restaurant did that that day. That's pretty funny.

What else do we have here? Oh, something about the guy who wrote the play an enemy of the people, which I saw in New York with my lady, who's awesome. Who's so cool. If you ever get a chance, go see a Broadway show. I mean, it it was it was kinda wild.

So anyway, the article says this summer, the hit play in New York has been an enemy of the people starring Succession's Jeremy Strong about a doctor who discovers an infection is about to set off a disease outbreak and then business owners conspire to silence him for fear of how the response how much the response might cost. Though set in a village sometime long ago, the play is very obviously a commentary about recent events that includes the title. It was written in 18/82, however. That there's a funny part they mention in here where the doctor after, you know, the whole town shuns him and shuts him out, and it ruins his life all because, you know, they they wanna save money rather than care about the health of the people living there. He's, like, fine.

I'm gonna go somewhere where no one suffers these kind of issues. America. And it's all funny, but that was actually in the original play. Well, anyway, I guess when the author was, bedridden and about to pass, his nurse walked in into his room. He's like, hey.

You're getting better. And he's like, on the contrary. And then he died. If if you could have a good laugh when it comes to death, you should definitely, go for it. Alright?

Like, I hope that when I pass somehow that funeral situation could be made kind of fun. Alright? Like, there's that ghost song. I've I've I've always said you gotta make sure kids that you play that one because it'll horrify people, who are at the funeral. Don't you forget about dying.

Don't you forget about your friend death. Don't you forget that you will die. I mean it's the the ultimate funeral song. Come on. So note that.

Alright. It's gotta happen at my funeral. What else do we got? Doc Holliday. Legendary, legendary he wasn't an outlaw.

Right? He wasn't a, I don't know. It's been a while since I watched that movie, Tombstone. Need to get back on the western binge. Yeah.

Well, anyway, Doc Holliday was always told he's gonna die with his boots on. That's what happened to the, the outlaws back in the old west. And, I guess he got tuberculosis, and he was looking down at his feet as he was dying, and he was like, you know, because he didn't have his boots on. He's like, oh, this is funny. Then he died.

Alright. Anyway, there you go. There's your freak news powered by Greasemonkey. Nice and cheery and chipper. So during freak news, we talked about these guys who robbed a bank and then posted a bunch of pictures on Instagram of themselves holding up the money.

Yeah. Look at that money. Look at that. You know? They got busted because the police could read these serial numbers in the photos.

Oh, there's the stolen doll. There are a lot of dumb criminals online. I was just reading about these 2 guys in Louisville, Kentucky who were busted on drug trafficking charges. They were selling, marijuana products from a Louisville warehouse. I would assume then that, in Kentucky, marijuana is illegal.

Well, they found out about these guys because they were running a TikTok page where they were just showing, hey. Check it out. Here's how we make all of our edible products and things like that. I mean, hold on. Let's find out here.

Was this a they didn't have proper licenses, Or is it just straight up illegal in Kentucky? Like here. Kentucky marijuana laws. Alright. Let's see.

Met medical. Okay. So, yeah, you definitely have to have some some strict licenses. It's not like, you know, many states where you just walk into a store. You gotta get a doctor's prescription, blah blah blah.

So these guys are running a TikTok channel. Like, check it out. Look what we're up to. Hey. Hey.

And then, yeah, they go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Why are people so concerned about getting likes on social media? Like if it's going to get you thrown in jail, there has to be a better way to go about making online content. You know?

Like, what it was the first time that the one dude posted a video, like, check it out. People really like our videos, man. Might might as well just post your address. Hey. Speaking of which, you know I talked about I think it was earlier this week.

Scrolling Facebook marketplace and looking for and finding weird items. Like, you never know what's gonna pop up on Facebook market. It's it's very very wild at times. And I don't know why when I'm bored, I will scroll Facebook market. But, I mean, we even did it as a break on air.

I found, you know, alien skull and all kinds of stuff. Like, let let's see if we what my feed is showing me right now. Okay. We got campers, wood, books. You know, I've I've talked about microwaves on air, so now I'm getting microwaves.

The other day, I was scrolling Facebook Marketplace. And speaking of okay. Either sting operations or idiots online. Some somebody was selling magic mushrooms. It was hilarious.

It's like, don't message me on Facebook. Go to Instagram. I'm like, okay. This is either one of those, like, hey, you want a TV? Yeah.

Come on down and pick up your free TV, and you have a warrant for your arrest. It's either one of those type of situations or just like these idiots who are posting TikTok videos. Check out our illegal operation or, hey, look at all this money I got from robbing the bank. People do anything for a little bit of, Internet attention. This is I mean, I guess it's making the job easy for people like my homie, lieutenant Crane, but it just blows my mind what you see online sometimes.

People just blatantly breaking the law. I've seen it on my Facebook feed, local people, posting videos where they're blatantly breaking the law. Like, alright. Well, you know, more power to you. I guess you want to go to jail, but, jeez.

Anyway, gives it gives me something to talk about on the radio. So there we go. Another breakdown. Alright. Why are people so anti fun?

Come on. Add a little bit of color to the landscape. Looking at a art installation. I think this is in the UK. Yeah.

It's somewhere in the UK. So there's a 50 foot tall okay. Sorry. 50 foot long by 40 foot tall creation by renowned Chinese artist, Yu Minjun. And it's a pink inflatable man and people are just losing their minds about this.

Just Google pink inflatable man and it will come up. And imagine that this was just on the grass outside of a school somewhere around here. It's a, image of the artist like a, self portrait and he's hunched down on all fours on top of a ball. And he's got this crazy look on his face. Artist calls it a smile.

People in the community are like, it looks like he's constipated. Either way, who cares? I guess you can see this thing from miles away. I'm all for it. Okay?

It's ludicrous. And, I mean, come on. It's not like it's gonna be there forever. But people are just like, you call this art? Well, I'll tell you who calls it art.

This guy right here, Victor Wilt. I call it art. And I'm looking at the rest of the buildings around. You know, typical UK. Very boring.

You know, just kinda got that UK look to things. You know, you're not you're not gonna see some brightly colored anything except this, giant man. This thing's great. This thing's great. The locals are like, this doesn't fit our historic town of Ruthen.

It doesn't lie. It doesn't fit. I personally don't like it. I find it quite off putting. I mean, come on.

It's distracting drivers. They're used to being bored around here. Come on. Liven things up a bit. I give permission for this artist to bring it over here to the US, set it up somewhere in Idaho Falls.

You you can use my front yard. It's probably not big enough. I'm sure there's gotta be somebody with a plot of land who'd be willing to, you know, set this thing up. Alright. Let's add a little bit of excitement around here.

Anyway, Google it up and look at it. It's it's pretty funny looking, and I fully approve of this type of thing popping up in pretty much every town. Pink inflatable man. Look it up. And let let me know what you think.

Maybe it's maybe it's not for everybody, but I think it would be fantastic to be driving down the freeway and just see that on the side of I 15. Well, if you haven't checked it out yet, the ghost concert film right here, right now is available on veeps.com for, I think, about the next week and a half. You can rent it for I think it's $20 and you can watch it as many times as you want for 2 days. It's a fantastic concert film. If you're a ghost fan and you haven't seen it, highly recommend it.

I think I'm gonna have to, rent it so I could watch it on my crushing sound system at home because even though it was amazing in the theater, it wasn't loud enough for my taste. So, yeah, I gotta crank it up at home, and I think I'm gonna have to hit up beeps and do so. But today, Ghost just dropped the music video for Mariana Cross. It's an animated Scooby Doo esque video that appeared in the film. I really loved this part of the movie, and they did a great job with this video.

Apparently, they are following it up with a new video for the future as a foreign land, that new ghost song that was debuted at the end of the movie. This debut of the future as a foreign land music video is happening at 10 AM our time. So we're just over an hour away from that music video debut. So if you're a ghost fan and you wanna check that out, potentially by the time you're listening to this, if you're listening on demand, the video will be out there. But if you're rocking live with me, 10 AM mountain time, the future is a foreign land, new video from Ghost.

But in the meantime, I highly recommend you go check out the video for Mariana Cross. It's really fun. I love it. It's Victor Wilt. Hi.

How are you doing? I hope wonderful. Hope you're amazing. This time of day, lately, has been getting a little bit rough for me because I come out on fire just tearing it up for the first few hours of the show. And then, you know, inevitably, you start running out of content.

You know, it's it's tough doing a live new fresh radio show every day. I'll I'll admit it because, you know, I can either go and hopefully deliver, give you a quality entertainment experience, or just fail. Just fail utterly. And I suppose that I could go back and repeat content, you know, or redo content that I did earlier on the show, but I try to keep the entire thing fresh because our shows are available on demand. You can get the Victor Wilt Show.

Everywhere podcast can be found. So if you aren't up listening to the show at 6 AM every day, you can go back and catch the whole thing. And I do all kinds of different stories and I wanna make sure the people who are listening on demand get a quality show. You know? I don't edit it.

You know, I just basically throw together all the times where I talk throughout the show and boom. There you go. There's the Victor Wilt Show podcast edition. And it's a weird subject matter as of late. Radios versus podcasting.

I listen to a lot of podcasts I have for many years. I actually did a podcast. Jeez, like, 13 years ago. Decided once I got a full time radio job, I didn't have the time for that. So started doing the radio show.

But, anyway, now that our shows are available on demand, you know, I still listen to a lot of podcasts, and you will hear podcasters criticize radio. And I understand there's reasons to criticize a lot of radio. Most radio hosts are not really doing a show. They just kinda jump on between the songs and talk real quick. Don't really throw any thoughts out there.

It's just kind of that was this is type of radio. Here that song was this? Cool. Yeah. Here's some brief news on him and now here you go.

Here's another. And I try to find content and, deliver you some type of entertainment experience whether it's great or not. But, again, it's live. It's live and whether I do a great job or whether I suck, I put it up online. And when I hear podcasters, like, radio.

There was one recently where the host was talking about local radio shows putting their their shows up as podcasts and how, you know, somehow that they're better than us because they sit down once a week and churn out an edited hour of content. I do at least an hour every day, at least. Some days, it's an hour and a half. On my show alone, sometimes it's 2. And then we do a good 20, 30 minutes on the noon hour.

And we don't have the luxury. If if I could sit down and edit every show if I had to put out 1 hour of content a week and it was edited and polished up holy that would be so easy. That'd be so easy to deliver just a monster show. Sorry. Just when I hear even podcasts I like.

Like, last podcast on the left, I'll hear him poke fun at radio. And, again, a lot of radio shows deserve it because they're not trying. I really try every day that I come in here to, you know, dig in deep, give you something that hopefully you can connect with me on or give you a few laughs or that you'll find interesting. But when I when I hear, you know, podcasters act like, oh, you know what we do so much harder than radio. No.

No. Doing a polished edited show that you sit down and you chop out all your little flubs, all your ums and ahs. Oh, you screw up a story. You start over. You delete it.

Just go watch videos of of podcasts. They're they're like watching YouTube videos. You know, Jerky cuts where you see the, you know, position of their heads move in an instant. I don't know. I just I I think that radio and podcasting should be able to work in unison and work together, but they I don't know.

There's gotta be some kind of a divide for everything nowadays. And I I don't know. I just gotta give a shout out to my radio friends who jump on air and do a live show every day and can fall on their face. And if you fail right now, I mean, I'm live on the radio and maybe this break sucks. But if I fail, I fall on my face, and that's all I get.

I can't just hide it from everybody. Alright? When you unleash an hour podcast a week, you have all week to take out every little thing from that show that you didn't like and make yourself sound wonderful. Trust me. I wish I could do that.

And there are radio shows who do this. I know of radio people who would record their show, edit it, and then play it back on air and pretend they were live. Yeah. Yeah. I won't throw those people under the bus, but I know who we are, and I've seen him do it.

Trust me. It would make thing boy. I'd feel a lot more confident when I go back and listen to my content if I cleaned every little bit of it up. But it's a it's a big challenge to put yourself out there, go live, and be willing to look like an idiot and suck and, you know, flub words and say, you know, way too many times or, Anyway shout out to my radio people who are doing it live. It is it is not easy and I guarantee that it is easier to churn out a 1 hour edited podcast every week than it is to churn out one hour of quality live radio every day.

Alright? It's nothing against the people who do podcasts. I, again, love podcasts. Generally, when I'm not working, that's what I'm listening to. You know?

I've I've been listening to a a great one that my lady recommended. What was it called again here? A tradition of violence. It was pretty wild. Pretty wild.

But, again, I I don't I don't wanna discount podcasting. K? A lot of podcasts, like last podcast on the left, another of my favorites. Tons and tons of research. They spend time writing jokes.

They really fill the show out. It's very, you know, heavily produced, and, a lot of preparation goes into it. But, you know, Anyway, I I I'll just end this break now. I just wanna give props to radio people because I think they take a lot of flack, and they shouldn't. It's a stressful job, and it's very challenging if if you're doing it live.

You know? There ain't no taking it back. Like, how long did I just talk right now, and how much of it was enjoyable? I don't know, but that's what you get because it's live. I was just looking through Reddit.

Of course. I mean, sorry. What? Do you want me to go to CNN or Fox to find crap to talk about? No.

No. We go through Reddit around here. If I could find something fun on Facebook, I'd go for that. But there's just no content. Not today.

I looked, but somebody was asking on Reddit. You know, what's the most messed up thing you've ever forgiven someone for? And I don't have any specific examples of this, but I wanted to talk about forgiving people. I wanted to let you know you don't have to forgive people. I think I've said this on air before, But people are always encouraged to forgive and forget and blah blah blah.

But sometimes people can they can really do you wrong, and you don't you don't have to forgive them. Now there have been people in my life that have infuriated me, that I would said I would never forgive them for what they've done. And maybe over time, I think inside of my own mind, I have forgiven them because I I don't know. I I don't wanna be carrying around weight of being furious with somebody. Doesn't make me feel good.

But those people did I tell them I'd forgiven? No. I didn't see any need to reopen that field of communication. Yeah. I think it might be good for you to forgive people when you can, you know, if you can bring yourself to do it.

But again, I don't think you have to actually come out and let them know. I think this is more of a a self care kind of thing to clear out your own mind because any type of anxiety and weight you're carrying that you can get rid of is going to make your your day to day existence better. So either way, I'm not saying you need to forgive anybody because you don't. And there may be people that I will never forget. I will never forgive, and that's fine.

Nobody convinced me that I need to do anything. It's your life. Alright? Maybe somebody's done you wrong enough. You don't need to forgive them.

But just want to reiterate it might be good. Might be good. But also, you don't really need to tell them. Sometimes it's not good to draw people back into your life. So sometimes they'll have dreams about it.

People that I haven't talked to in many many years. They show up and, you know, you wake up feeling kind of weird, like, should I hit that person up and tell him, you know, or I guess I forgive you. But but then, you know, no. Because it that could be weird too. I don't know.

Existence. Existence is weird. I'm outraged. Peaches is mad. He's angry.

I'm tired of airlines discriminating tall people. Well, peaches I mean, come on. Every time you fly, they stick you in the emergency row, don't they? They look at you and they're like, go to the emergency row. Not even close.

No? No. I get stuck in, like, the last flight I was on, there was a I was on a window seat. That was fun. I was in a window seat.

Which is worse? The window seat or the middle seat? I don't think they'll ever stick me in the middle. I there there must be some sort of notepad they have on that that they have on all the people that fly. I don't know.

Because I feel like every time, I I don't get placed in the middle. It's always the aisle or the window. Yeah. I don't get placed by the window too often myself either. I think people, like, pay extra to get seated by the window because they wanna be able to look out.

Room. And, you know, generally, when I'm on the plane because once you get up above the clouds, it's really bright. And I'm usually, like, shut the window. I don't want that window open. Yeah.

I feel bad because when I I opened it up and the sun just went right into some dude's eyes and I closed it real fast and went sorry and then just Yeah. Continued watching my movie. Because generally at the time of day I'm traveling, it seems like it's early. So the sun's right at that angle that it's just blasting through, and it's just so bright. So bright.

So, anyway, Southwest Airlines gonna eliminate the ability to just walk on and pick whatever seat you want. That was kinda what they were known for. Right? It was the best because the one time I did fly with Southwest, there wasn't like what Allegiant does with the whole, like, oh, you know, get the military on board first, then the premium credit card members, then section 1 through I think that's how all airlines are though. Is it?

Yeah. And then yeah. But then, you know, Southwest literally, I saw some lady just pick up the mic and go, get on the plane now. Like, go go, couple. Just rushing everybody.

Yeah. That's why, like, lately, when I've flown, I've, for whatever reason, always ended up on American. So I signed up for an American Airlines account, and that places you, like, a few tiers up above the people at the bottom. So you you still get to get on the plane a little bit early. You're you're still not the priority boarding where you're gonna go on the first.

Now because I'm a Allegiant credit card member right now. I just got this, credit card earlier this year. And that lets you board early? Yeah. And then you also get a free drink.

Woah. Woah. Awesome. The v I peach on the plane. Yeah.

I I've never flown a Legion. I've been meaning to give it a try. But last time I was going to fly to Phoenix, it was ultimately cheaper to fly American because you have to pay extra to bring a carry on on Allegiant. Right? They they they nickel and dime you for a lot of things.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, you can bring ones like, your CPAP bag. Like, that would be your one item that My personal item. Your personal item.

But if you wanna bring a suitcase with actual clothes, you gotta pay, what, like, $70 or something? It's, like, 90 now. 90? Yeah. And is that each direction?

Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, it was cheaper to go American. I don't know. My daughter is moving, so I might attempt to fly because sometimes you do catch moving.

Taryn. Oh. She, she and her boyfriend if if it all I mean, I think they close on it in, like, 3 weeks. They bought a house. Oh, wow.

Good for them. Yeah. Pretty crazy. Those those kids my kids are somehow so much better than I was at their age. Because you taught them.

They learned from the worst. Yeah. That's right. They're like, alright. Look at all the bad decisions dad made.

Just don't do any of that, and we'll turn out good. Right. There you go. I always try to be honest with my kids. Like, don't be like I was when I was your age.

You can live a much better life. That's what my dad taught me with, eating poorly. Look at me now. Eating fast food every day. Yeah.

I don't know how they're doing on the eating front, but as far as being a responsible young person, they're doing a great job. I'm I'm real proud of, proud of the kids for, you know, being able to buy a house. That's I know you said Darren was favorite. Come on now. Now get out of here.

Don't say that. You're gonna make Maddie feel that and it's it's She is not She mostly knows. I'm just joking. I hope Maddie knows it, but you never know. What if she's, self conscious and thinks that you're being, like, legit?

Look, I'm self conscious and I can easily say my sister is my definitely my parents favorite over me. Well Definitely. See, I I don't think my parents had a favorite and I definitely don't. Like, each one of my kids is very unique. So there's, you know, really cool things about each of them.

You know, Maddie's the musician. Terrence the, like, computer nerd. And they're they both got little things about him that are a lot like him. The separation of Victor. It's like the both of them combined is Victor.

And they both moved as far apart as possible to make it impossible for me to go visit, and they it was funny. They were talking about, hey. We should all try to meet up somewhere in the middle. And I'm like, bring up a map and, you know, punch in Bellingham to Phoenix. And you know where the middle is?

It's right here. There's nowhere else to go. What? You you guys wanna go to? Utah or something like that?

No. No. It'd be like Boise. I'm like, you guys wanna meet up in Boise? If you're gonna be that close, come here where there's a free place to stay.

I know, like, Saint George is the middle city for Idaho Falls to Seal Beach. Is that? Yeah. Yeah. Middle between here and Phoenix is probably Page, Arizona maybe?

Maybe Saint George? I don't know. I generally try to try to power power down and go to, like, Vegas. You know? Isn't it weird that, like, airlines, they differentiate with the airports too?

Like, I won't fly to LAX. I won't fly to Long Beach. I go to Santa Ana because it's the cheapest. Yeah. And then to to go from New York, I talked about this in the show yesterday, to go from Idaho Falls to New York, it's like $800.

But to go from Salt Lake City to New York, it's like 200. Well, and it all depends on timing, really. We might as well give out some travel advice. Like, I flew to Hartford, Connecticut a while back and, Go see Baba Bui. No.

I didn't go see Howard Stern's producer with some of the ladies. Come on. But, I was looking at flights from Idaho Falls to Hartford, Idaho Falls to Boston, Idaho Falls to New York, also Salt Lake to those places as well. And you can generally get a little bit cheaper of a flight from Salt Lake to any of those places, but if you time it right, you know, maybe you'd pay a $100 more to fly out Idaho Falls, but you gotta factor in a lot of reasons to not go to Salt Lake. That's from Idaho Falls, 3 hours driving time from Pocatello 2.

Then you have to pay to park your vehicle for if you're gone a week, that's about another $100. So you have your time, your gas to get down to Salt Lake, and your parking. What about a It's not worth it to me. I would never I I hate flying out of Salt Lake. What about the Salt Lake Express, the big bus?

That still cost you, what, $50 each direction? It's not 20. I don't know. Let's let's look at it here. Because because 50 is like a whole tank of gas, really, for express.

At least my car, you know, not for the lifted truck drivers. But Yeah. For my truck, it would cost me a lot of money to go to, Salt Lake and back because it's about a tank each direction. Right. And it tanks about $80.

So, Salt Lake Express. I mean, Salt Lake Express is a a good service for sure. I'm not poo pooing on it. I'm just alright. Let's say you go from Shaka's preferred pickup to Salt Lake Airport.

I don't know. It does it make a difference what day you go? Here, we'll just pick a Friday. 1 adult. It's probably more crowded on a Friday.

Oh, I should've clicked round trip. So one way, Peaches, the cheapest is $64. Jeez. Alright. Yeah.

So, again, I would always rather fly out of Idaho Falls. Plus, Idaho Falls airport, you can get there about an hour early. Yeah. You're fine. And you're still gonna be sitting around twiddling your thumbs.

Going through security takes, like, 2 minutes. It's awesome. Less than that. It's not that fast. Yeah.

Going through Salt Salt Lake is one of the most annoying airports anywhere. Dallas is the worst, far as I know. JFK is the worst one I've ever dealt with. I haven't flown out of that one. It's a maze to get out of there.

But, Hartford's airport was great. It was very similar to Idaho Falls. A little bit bigger. You know, it was a little bit bigger for sure, but very fast. It was busy.

It was packed and still through security, like, 10 minutes. Got there an hour early. Well, that's why I like Southwest because it's not like, you know, the boarding process is make 30 minutes, like, hey, get on the plane. And now they get rid of that. Yeah.

Because of dummies. Well, yeah. People ruin things for everybody else. It's just kinda how it goes. Now you can't, can't have anything nice because people ruin it.

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