{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Viktor Wilt Show","title":"#0416 - A Bat Tried To Crawl Into Her Mouth - 08/31/2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2969,"description":"Monday begins with Viktor Wilt staring directly into the abyss of another workweek and discovering that the abyss apparently has a three-day weekend coming up. After spending Saturday at the Idaho Falls Farmers Market collecting donations for the Idaho Food Bank and handing out tickets to the zoo and Museum of Idaho, Viktor somehow makes it through customer appreciation night with the legendary Stiff Richard crew before arriving at the horrifying realization that Sunday evening exists primarily to remind working adults that Monday is coming to kill their happiness. With Peaches out for the week, Viktor briefly entertains the possibility that he might actually accomplish things without someone constantly informing him about every email in existence, but instead immediately starts thinking about video games, bills, chores, cleaning his garage, and the crushing inevitability of adulthood. The morning's first philosophical crisis arrives via the question: if you woke up in the body of the last video game character you played, how screwed would your life be? Viktor was last playing Red Dead Redemption 2 as John Marston, which means his hypothetical new existence involves approximately zero modern plumbing, an aggressively high probability of getting shot, and absolutely no chance of quietly enjoying a three-day weekend. Other people volunteer their doomed gaming incarnations, including characters from Factorio, Stray, Baldur's Gate 3, The Last of Us, and Luigi, proving once again that apparently humanity's preferred Monday morning activity is imagining itself being murdered in fictional universes.\nThe episode then takes a hard left into UFO territory, because apparently a blurry object in a photograph of the moon is now being presented as “100% proof” of alien life. Viktor examines the alleged evidence and reaches the extremely scientific conclusion of: absolutely not impressed. The photograph contains a mysterious shape in the background, but there is no spacecraft,...","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}