{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Viktor Wilt Show","title":"#0309 - Tool Might Play The Sphere So I’m Selling Organs I Haven’t Grown Yet - 02/16/2025","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2479,"description":"This episode opens with Barack Obama casually lobbing a conversational grenade about aliens and then immediately performing the political equivalent of crawling back into the hedge like Homer Simpson. Viktor clocks in on a national holiday like a cursed lighthouse keeper while the rest of civilization enjoys Presidents Day, and the vibe is immediately “man duct-taped to a microphone while history liquefies.” We demand UFO footage, we receive vibes, and the caffeine hasn’t even started arguing with his intestines yet.Then HOPE arrives wearing a band tee: Tool might drop a new album in 2027 and maybe play the Sphere, which would cost approximately one kidney, your childhood dog’s ghost, and the concept of rent. Viktor enters the spiritual plane of “I will never financially recover from this but I must witness it.” Gratitude to Stuart. We cling to rumors like raccoons on a floating pizza box.Hard pivot: scientists have built fart-snitching underwear. Thirty-two a day is normal, they say, which means everyone is a brass section and society has simply agreed not to discuss it. Somewhere a grant proposal is high-fiving itself. Viktor is unconvinced. The stomach has opinions. Coffee looms like a risky treaty negotiation.At the Olympic Games they had to beg people not to boo politicians, which of course activates the ancient human reflex: boo harder. Meanwhile a landlord is furious that a Raising Cane's smells like chicken. Incredible discovery. Next up: water, wet. Building ventilation, optional. Civilization remains undefeated.But wait. AI slithers in wearing Hollywood’s face. Deepfake fight clips, synthetic cinema, reality running on dial-up while lies download in 4K. A radio host named David Green says Google stole his voice and suddenly Viktor is staring into the abyss of 300 hours of archived yapping thinking, “oh no, I am infinitely cloneable.” Gen Z is buying blockers to stop touching the glowing rectangle; Viktor’s method is migraines, which is less Silicon...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/b_rSbP-Fodsz9DfcFuAQ1C3nEabANC9ZvFydFbQVLrU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMzI0/ZWMyZTgzNGU5NzQ1/OGI2MjQxNWY2MzE3/YWI4Yy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}