{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Noon Hour Of Madness & Mayhem","title":"Ep. 253 - The Manifesto Of Peaches: A Disturbing Reflection - 08/26/2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":929,"description":"This episode of The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem begins with Peaches apparently deciding that the only appropriate way to handle a midlife crisis is to simultaneously sell his possessions, stage his apartment like a soulless luxury hotel listing, write an enormous philosophical autobiography about his summer, listen to sad music while doing it, and somehow turn Facebook Marketplace into his personal digital archaeological dig. Peaches has apparently entered his “I must explain my existence to the internet” era, complete with a reflective essay that begins with the energy of a man staring dramatically out a rain-covered window while a piano plays in the background. Meanwhile, the rest of the show immediately subjects this emotional literary masterpiece to the ancient and sacred law of TLDR. The gang discusses Facebook’s absurd character limit, attention spans, the supposed three-second window needed to hook someone, and the possibility of turning Peaches’ essay into a dramatic televised reading where someone in a suit solemnly announces, “Peaches did this.” The entire emotional journey is then abruptly murdered by Facebook Marketplace.\nAnd Facebook Marketplace is not merely a website in this episode. It is a portal. A cursed dimensional doorway into the strangest objects ever owned by mankind. One person gets bland paintings, a salt lamp, a vacuum and an acoustic guitar. The other gets dinosaur lamps, bizarre toilets apparently detonated by military-grade plumbing explosives, cosmetology mannequins with creepy wig-covered heads, leather trench coats, pendulums and other artifacts that look like they were removed from the basement of a haunted Victorian orphanage. The Marketplace algorithm has apparently decided that these people do not deserve normal household goods. It wants them to see the weirdest garbage Idaho has to offer. The discussion of driving a pickup truck to Pocatello just to retrieve two books somehow evolves into an existential debate about...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pddw3CQT_FQTLlgnjY3YGxnaLaMD5nXwmfH_yhQVx6g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iOGVj/OTM4ZmZmY2JkYjY3/YWM0NDdiYmM1YWZi/MmE1Ni5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}