{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Viktor Wilt Show","title":"NHOMAM - Real Men Punch Bears, Hate Beets, And Never Go To Therapy - 08/12/2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1023,"description":"This episode of The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem begins with the sort of conversation that should immediately cause a responsible adult to unplug the studio equipment and escort everyone outside: what exactly makes a man a “real man”? Apparently the answer involves manscaping, donating your body hair to the cranial baldness crisis, wandering through neighborhoods at 11 p.m. while listening to aggressively angry metal, and eventually confronting the possibility that the bushes are alive and actively hunting you. Peaches explains that his late-night cardio adventure has devolved into a full-scale psychological warfare operation against himself, complete with suspiciously moving grass, noises in the darkness, hypervigilant glances over his shoulder, and Wage War blasting through his headphones while he sprints uphill toward what he assumes will be either physical fitness or cardiac arrest. The discussion then escalates, naturally, into the assertion that REAL MEN go into the wilderness alone and fistfight bears. Guns are apparently insufficiently masculine. The preferred method is simply to enter the woods, locate an enormous carnivorous mammal, and beat it to death with your bare hands like some sort of Idaho cryptid with unresolved emotional issues. \nFrom there, the show wanders directly into the subject of therapy after the crew starts discussing Phil Labonte of All That Remains and his reported position that therapy is for women. The resulting conversation is essentially a satirical field guide to everything men apparently SHOULD do instead of talking about their feelings: punch pillows, yell, go fishing, go hiking, hunt things, scream into the void, and bury every emotional problem approximately fourteen miles underground until the resulting pressure turns you into a human-shaped volcano. The funniest part is that everyone recognizes the obvious flaw: if men refuse to discuss their problems, they don't magically disappear. They just sit inside you until you...","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}