Here we are, hump day, September 10th, 2025. I hope you are doing well. Yesterday, during the, uh, To Peach Their Own hour, during the 4:00 PM hour, I started to, like, lose my voice. Like, I wasn't feeling well Sunday night into Monday, and then had a pretty stuffy nose. Not stuffy, no, it was runny. Pretty runny nose, sore throat and all of that, but I've, I've recovered quickly. And it just sounds really bad. Like, yesterday, it, I could barely speak and I was hanging out with, uh, a few people, and I was like, "Sorry if I don't talk too much, I might just sit here and enjoy the other people talking for me." Because I, I, I talk for most of the d- most of the day too. It's like usually after work I'm pretty quiet 'cause I talk all the time, and it's just like, "Okay, well, if you want to hear me talk, you can always tune into the live show or my podcast, Peaches Pit Party." But yesterday, I physically could barely speak. But luckily, I sound a whole lot better today. I had my rest last night. On my lunch break, I took a brief nap. So yeah, there's that. If you want to get ahold of me, you can over at 208-535-1015. Now, I, I didn't know if I should talk about this or not. I just th-, I th-... This is breaking news. Um, there's a political influencer by the name of Charlie Kirk, and he talks about his honest views online. That's the most I'm gonna say about him. But he was at the Utah Valley, I think the Utah Valley College,
and he just got shot. And I don't... He's, it says he's in critical condition as of right now. I don't know necessarily if he's gonna be okay or not, but I'll definitely be keeping track of that online, though. TMZ broke the story like an hour ago, sent it to Victor right away. It's pretty, it's pretty wild. He was just at a whole rally, and some crazed dude went up and did that, you know? Nuts. Anyway, Peaches Pit Party, we'll be back here soon on K-Bear 101. So, Bad Omens must have been waiting for me to start my show in order to release their new song. They've, they've been teasing this for the past couple of days, called Impose. And, uh, literally, right as I started the show, I got the notification, I got an email I think. It said like, "Watch and stream Bad Omens, Impose." So, I just watched the, uh, a brief bit of the music video before jumping on air here.
And I can tell you right now, most people are probably gonna be like, "It's not heavy, it's not metal, it's not rock. It's just pop. Why is it so poppy?" I'm, I'm sure if I play it for It's So New, which I'm, I'm gonna try to at 5:00 PM tonight, I'm gonna get, like, "I thought the station changed. I thought I was listening to Z103 comments." You know, that type of thing. I'm gonna try to do a reaction video to it on our YouTube channel, K-Bear 101 RMG. Um, it's definitely experimental. It has a cool sound to it, I think. Bad Omens, you know, The Death of Peace of Mind, most of that album was more so, uh, experimental itself, and the first time I ever heard Concrete Jungle was back when, uh, Jolley and Noa of Bad Omens were in studio. And they, uh, they hung out with Phyllis at the time. And sure enough, it was a great, great time for them to be here, because it was right before they blew up [laughs]. And, uh, we can safely say we had Bad Omens in studio before they were huge like they are now. The Death of Peace of Mind, one of the greatest albums out there. Anyway, uh, ch- subscribe to our YouTube channel, K-Bear 101 RMG. It's Peaches Pit Party, now with Ghost (Satanized). I believe Victor this morning did back-to-back Mudvayne tracks to give away tickets to go see Mudvayne, Static-X, and Vended live at the Portneuf Health Trust Amphitheater on Friday, October 3rd. That is going to be one great show. I've always wanted to see Mudvayne live and Static-X. Uh, th- it's a pretty unique twist they have now with, uh, w- what's the guy's name now? I forgot. It's, it's this l- it was the lead singer of Dope, and now he puts on the Wayne Static robotic, like, mecha costume cool... It's a cool thing, and they always do, uh... They always seem like they h- they put on a great show. Vended, get to go see, uh, two sons of, uh, Slipknot perform on stage as well. Sl- uh, Mudvayne, Static-X, and Vended live at The Port, Friday, October 3rd. You can win tickets with us. If you hear back-to-back Mudvayne songs or Static-X songs, or even, uh, Vended songs, be caller 20 when you do, at 208-535-1015 in order to win tickets to that show. You know, the older I get, the more I cherish sleep. That I want to go to bed earlier. I used to be that guy that would go to bed at like 9:00 PM and wake up at like 6:00, and my friends made fun of me for it back in the day. But then it somewhat changed recently. I think it st- it changed when I started living on my own. And I don't know, for some reason, I stayed up one night to like 2:00 in the morning playing Stardew Valley, 'cause I got hooked onto it. And it wa- there was a, there's been a couple nights as of late where I stayed up way too late, and I regret it. And I can't drink energy drinks anymore because of the whole AFib situation. I just don't want to. That stopped roughly two years ago now, shocking enough. I used to be that guy that would drink an energy drink first thing in the morning. Now no more. No more at a- no more caffeine at all, really. I hardly have it, which sucks because that's what most of us depend on for, to stay awake. Well, this one guy, this British man, I was reading about him, this Oliver Alvis guy. He hasn't slept in nearly two years, so he claims. He says he was a healthy, active man working as a train conductor. But then one night, uh, one sleepless night led to 21 months of sleepn- sleepless nights, and now he claims he's been stuck in this permanent state of alertness. He's tried everything possible to get to sleep and nothing has worked. He's even traveled the world to visit various doctors, hasn't found any relief. And this has taken a d- dev- devastating toll on him, leaving him barely able to walk, his vision's failing.Some experts believe he's experiencing a rare condition called paradoxical insomnia. At that point, do you just say, "Hey, can someone knock me out?" Will that offer him some relief?
Something like that? This paradoxical insomnia where a person is technically asleep, but their brain doesn't register it. That kind of sleep is so light, doesn't bring any rest or relief. Kind of crazy, right? There are some nights where I just can't fall asleep, and that's where that good old melatonin comes in, which I didn't really start using till, like, a couple months ago. I found out that if I have chocolate, like, way too late, it will be so difficult. Like, chocolate's my enemy now. Like, I have to eat chocolate
at, like, a timed window, where it's like, either 10:00 AM to
about 4:00, and that's, that's the cutoff for me. 4:00 or 5:00. 'Cause if I have any- anything with chocolate in it late at night, oh, I- I end up staying up late till, like, 1:00 in the morning. It sucks. I found that out because there was one night where I had, like, a whole bunch of chocolate chip cookie dough. The- the edible kind where you can... Th- the edible kind. The k- the kind that you can eat without having to bake it and worry about salmonella. You know, it's one of those. Like, I think it's the Pillsbury brand. You're, like, ready to eat raw. One of those. Had a bunch of those late one night, and sure enough,
my heart, my heart was going pretty fast, couldn't fall asleep. I can relate somewhat to this guy. Hopefully he finds some sort of relief. I don't know. At what point, like I mentioned, do you just consider, like, getting yourself knocked out? Or, like, I don't know, chloroform? No, I'm just messing. I'm just messing. So, that Phillies Karen character that I talked about, uh, yesterday? Yeah, yesterday. She's still at large and a trading card company is attempting to negotiate closure to this long-time national nightmare. Blowout Cards has offered the woman $5,000 in exchange for the baseball she stole from the little boy in the bleachers, with a catch though. She must sign it and inscribe, "I'm sorry." According to their website, the offer is official and the price is firm. Bill Belichick banning New England Patriot scouts from attending North Carolina practices seems even more petty when current's Pats head coach, Mike Vrabel, admitted that Belichick can come to the Pats complex anytime. Vrabel added that Belichick has already been back this year since he attended the Tom Brady statue unveiling last month. And Belichick's ban could end up really causing problems for North Carolina as the Pats decided to make a stink about it. Since North Carolina is a state institution, access to the practices for those who legitimately require it cannot be limited in a discriminatory fashion. So, if Belichick is going to ban that one team, he has to ban all of them. Peyton Manning really tried to get the world's best known Chicago Bears fan, Pope Leo XIV, to appear on the Manning cast where the, when the, the Bears opened the season against the Minnesota Vikings. Manning said he had hand-wrote letters to Pope Leo and his executive assistant asking for the Chicago native to appear on the ESPN2 broadcast. Manning added, "Your Holiness, this is an open invitation. Come on the show anytime. It's you, it's Tiger Woods, it's Bradley Cooper, it's President Bush, it's Larry David. Y'all are our most wanted on that list for the Manning cast." The next time the Bears are on Monday Night Football is a week six matchup against the Washington Commanders. You know what? Why not do one more here? On Saturday, Mississippi State enjoyed an upset win over Arizona State fans at Davis Wade Stadium were so excited that they stormed the field as soon as the game was over. That, that turned out to be an expensive, uh, adventure. It triggered a $500,000 fine and made Mississippi State the first SEC school to get fined under the new field storming policy. All right, that does it for your Shot Clock Sports Update, right here on KBAR 101. So, I don't really know much about the whole Labubu thing. I feel like I'm too old now to be up with the trends of, like, the latest toys. Whatever the, uh, teenagers are collecting. Even though I'm only 29, [laughs] I still feel way old compared to, like, people like Maddy, who's 19. I'll have to ask her, 'cause she seems like the type that would collect Labubus. No offense to her. That wasn't supposed to be mean. I'm just thinking like, yeah, that she seems like the type that would have, like, one... Have like, a couple on like, her mini backpack of dinosaurs. 'Cause she likes eclectic things like that, or collecting little trinkets like that. Maddy, our marketing assistant from down the hallway. But there's this whole TikTok debate happening about whether owning one or many Labubus makes you undateable. Seems some people, especially men, see these, like, Labubu collectors as immature, easily influenced by trends, or even financially reckless
[laughs] since rare ones can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Have you seen those unboxing videos? I'm sure there's a lot of people right now they're like, "What are you saying? Labubu?" L-A-B-U-B-U. It's these weird looking monster toys that are key chains, I think? Some of them are key chains. I don't know. I- I've seen the unboxing videos of people just screaming their heads off, like how they just got a brown one and they start yelling because it's worth a lot of money. I don't know. What I have at my place, I have little collectibles and stuff, but I don't necessarily keep up with the trends. Like, I have these five or six Funko Pops
and they're still in their boxes, and I might actually give them to my friend who collects those 'cause I just don't see the point in having them. They just sit there on the top of my movie collection, but they were all gifts to me. Like, I never... I've never actually gone out and bought myself a Funko Pop. They've all been just gifted to me. It's like that fruitcake. It's the modern fruitcake. That's what they are. So, I thought this was pretty funny to talk about. What's a skill that's becoming useless faster than people realize? And the top answer I see here is hacky s- [laughs] hacky sack skills.It says, "I haven't seen anyone use those skills since the '90s." Which, I mean, I haven't really seen anybody play with a hacky sack in quite a long time. Someone said, "I know how to develop film and use a dark room now." Here's the thing. I, I just literally talked about this, funny enough, a couple of weeks ago. Uh, my, my old photography class at Ocean View High School, shout out to them. I like how it was called Ocean View, by the way, but you didn't see the ocean at all from the high school. It was just called Ocean View. Anyway, the, uh, photography class had a dark room. It was like one of the very few photography classes that had a full-on dark room. It had this cool, like, revolving door that as soon as you turned it towards the dark room, of course, it was pitch black. You couldn't really see anything. Students would have to go in there, develop their film on the... On their own. And it was a unique experience to learn how to actually do that. Putting the whole film paper in there, that sort of thing. My stupid butt, back in high school, decided to check to see if my picture turned out correctly by turning on the... My flashlight on my phone, and I immediately, immediately got yelled at by all the other people in that [laughs] dark room. Safe to say they hated me after that.
Spelling and thinking about what word to type next on this thread of what's a skill becoming useless faster than people realize now? I'm so used to typing online and having that little red line appear if I spelt the word wrong, that even when I write on a piece of paper, I sor- I, I stupidly sometimes wait for that red line to appear and then go, "Oh, wait. Yeah. It's not going to." Basic navigation like reading a map. Yeah. Jade has made fun of me in the past for looking up directions to literally everywhere that's happened to me. Yeah. A lot of these skills, slowly disappearing. Slowly disapp- Are there any others on here? What's tree cutting? Like lumberjack stuff. Machines doing the job have actually made it safer for workers and reduced the number of deaths caused by accidents in the profession. Well, I feel like that's better, right? [laughs] Like, you want people to be safe. Are there any, like, lumberjacks out there saying, "Hey, we used to have it much harder compared to now. You, you new people are wusses"? Okay. I heard Victor talk about this specific thing on the morning show, and I was going through all the different types of replies for this question: What are you 100% sure is true, even though you can't prove it? And one of the, one of the answers here says, "Squirrels are addicted to the adrenaline high they get from running in front of cars." I, I, again, just talked about this with somebody that I know. I was like, "Deer are quite stupid." Because every single time... So, me and my girlfriend, we sometimes will go hang out at her parent's place. And we'll go
to... Like, she lives elsewhere. I live in Idaho Falls. And we'll go, like, our separate ways. And always when she... Like, we'll call each other for the ride back to both of our, both of our homes. And she'll always talk about how deer just decide to jump out in front of her car. And she jokingly said, like, th- the deer plot and wait for her. But I also feel like deer almost secretly dare each other to jump out in front of cars, and then jump... Uh, try to wait till the last possible second to then jump out of the way, and just try to scare the human driving the car. That type of thing [laughs]. So, on this thread of what are you 100% sure is true, even though you can't prove it? Someone said, "There's one road a block from my house that Google Maps has never, ever recognized as a viable way to travel, despite it being the obvious solution to anyone in our neighborhood who needs to move out in that direction. I suspect a Google sub founder lives in the area and pulled some strings to reduce traffic on that street." I got to tell you, trying to drive back on Holmes at five o'clock... Trying to travel overall in Idaho Falls absolutely sucks. E- When, when I'm off at five, it takes like half an hour to get back to my place, 'cause I feel like every dumb driver that's ever existed always drives on Holmes at 5:00 PM, 'cause I watch people from... The, the ones that are in front of me, especially. They'll
text and call while driving, and they'll take forever. They'll drive like 15 below the speed limit. Sometimes I make it obvious that I'm, like, irritated, so I'll just, like, intentionally make sure they know that, like, they're driving slow, so I'll be like extra loud and, you know, turning down a different street to go around them. That type of thing.
I, I do like this thread a lot. Wh- what are you, uh... What are you 100% sure is true, even though you can't prove it?
S- s- there was something else here about, like, about signals. Yeah, let's ju- let's just move on here. Let's move on to some great, great, uh... A great Bill Murray track. More Than Hate on K-Bear 101. There's that ice cream brand called Van Leeuwen that, uh, always puts out outlandish flavors. And they've teamed up with Carnival Cruise Lines to create a sunscreen-flavored ice cream.
Yeah, it doesn't come with SPF, but it's packed with coconut cream, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, sea salt. Basically, the essence of a beach day in a pint. They tried getting as close as they could without making it like
actual sunscreen, you know? It's a playful marketing campaign to fight off the end of summer scaries. "In protest of summer ending, they decided to eat the sunscreen," is what they put. I think we've tried... Yeah, we have tried the Van Leeuwen mac & cheese. Uh, no. W- wasn't there like a mustard one? Did we try the mac & cheese? I don't know. We've tried so many dumb things on the air for people's entertainment.We had the, uh, pizza one. I r- I remember that. That one was not good. I think it had, like, tomatoes in it. And I think the only reason why they do this type of thing is because of people like me who talk about it and bring people's attention to it. 'Cause it- it made the radio prep, so obviously there's gonna be radio stations across the country talking about this. I just so happened to
come across it and was like, "Yeah, I'm a fat guy who enjoys ice cream." Would I enjoy this? Maybe. Coconut cream, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, and sea salt. Doesn't sound too bad. I do have to tell you, though, ever since Victor told me about the Biscoff Cookie Butter Ice Cream Bars, I have no- no- not looked back whatsoever. Those things are the best ice cream bars I have ever tried. I plan on getting another box of those tonight, as a matter of fact. We talked about this question on the noon hour of madness and mayhem. You're stuck eating only two meals forever. Which two are you going with? I surprised Victor with my answer 'cause I said, "Tortellini with Alfredo Sauce." I- that's what... It's one of my favorite dinners to have. I don't know why, I just love tortellini. Of course, it's the most ex- it's one of the more expensive pastas. You know, it's like six bucks for a pound of it. Meanwhile, everything else is like 99 cents for a pound in one of those cardboard boxes. Tortellini has to come in one of those specialty containers, you know? It's not necessarily the same if you get the frozen kind at Walmart, like if you get the Great Value brand. But I'll still eat it. If I really want to have tortellini and I want to be cheap, I'll go for that and go for the store... the store-bought Alfredo sauce. Even though
finally learned how to make my own Alfredo sauce, and that honestly is so, so much better. I hate to be the person that goes, "Homemade," on this type of thing, but it's true. It's true. So I'm looking at the comments here for, "You're stuck eating only two meals forever. Which two are you going with?" You can be specific as you want. Like, my dad just commented saying, "Tacos and cheeseburgers." He's a type two diabetic. I don't think that's gonna go well for him.
Especially, uh, w- where's he getting the tacos from? Where's he getting the cheeseburgers from? I want specifics. Robin was very specific with her answer. "Taco Bell number seven meal, and my mama's pot roast." Okay. Taco Bell menu. What's the number seven meal? Shall we look this up? Uh, there's probably a lot of people right now that are like, "Why would you wa- Why is this deejay looking up combo meals on the air and not playing the music that I wanna hear?" They're not even numbered on the, uh, Taco Bell website. I just went to the combinations page. They're just... Yeah. Yeah, I'm not, not gonna count. Probably breakfast and dinner. Wow, what a terrible answer that one is. You're stuck eating only two meals forever. Which two are you going with? Let me know your answer. 208-535-1015 for To Peach Their Own. A major shout out to listener Randy. Uh, I just saw this post he made on Facebook saying, "Hey, Victor Wilt tagged Victor." Hey, Victor, and I- I'll be listening to, uh, you and Peaches even though I'll be, uh, moving to my new place in Illinois. Shout out to him. You can download the free K-Bear 101 app, listen to us from anywhere. There's a lot of people worldwide, as a matter of fact, that tune in via the K-Bear 101 app, and pretty soon we'll be launching two new giveaways that you might want to, uh, have the app on your phone for. Hence... Uh, I mean, the reason why is because, well, we send out push notifications when we launch giveaways, and we want you to know what we do around here so you can win prizes, you can enjoy our entertainment. You can hate-listen to us, I don't care. [laughs] Just... I'm just kidding, I do care. Make sure to download the free K-Bear 101 app. Never miss anything we do around here. Wow, I'm so irritated right now. I'm very irritated. I had this listener call in right after I asked the question, recorded his call, and then my stupid fat finger just completely hit the cancel button, which deleted his recording. I went to go hit Control Z to undo that, it just ended up undoing a thing on the previous call that was saved. Oh. Shout out to that loyal listener. I've heard his voice before. I don't think I've ever gotten his name. I'm so sorry. I wanted to play his answer on the air for today's To Peach Their Own question. In case you're just now tuning in, what two foods... If you could only eat two foods for the rest of your life, which ones are you choosing? And he said,
"Steak, potatoes, that type of meal, and pizza, homemade pizza." We talked about making your own pizza from scratch, which seems like a whole lotta work. I mean, kudos to you. If you like doing that type of thing, he said he had a recipe from his grandma, which sounds amazing. Make sure to keep those, uh, recipes from your grandparents. Even if it's a bad recipe. Like, if everyone hates it for some reason, just keep it around, you know? It... Those family recipes. Now, my mom... Okay, I don't wanna... I don't want to insult her, but she hardly ever cooked, and my family hardly ever cooks now. Like, they, they are always out eating. They made a joke the last time I was at their house
saying that the reason why the oven looks so good is because it's never used. And I myself, I love to cook. I love to try new things, make m- make, uh, some great meals. My girlfriend, she, uh, made a, uh, one of her favorite... I think it's called like chicken... Oh, I forgot the name of it that she had, but it was like the... It was chicken with cream cheese, vegetables, wrapped in Pillsbury dough, and had gravy on top. It was delicious, with rice pilaf and broccoli. Now I'm getting hungry. All right. Maybe I shouldn't ask the fo- the food questions 'cause then it just makes me really, really hungry and want to, want to get out of here for, for dinner. But anyway, if you have a answer for today's To Peach Their Own question, if you can only eat two foods for the rest of your life, let me know at 208-535-1015. Let's, uh, continue the show here with some Chavelle on K-Bear 101. Should I continue with the what? The headline music or should I pause it and do... Oh, where, where is it at? Oh, the X-Files.There we go. For those that are gonna be listening to the podcast version of this show, if you've ever listened to the Peaches Pit Party Podcast before, there are no music beds because of, uh, issues with that. Like, you can't play them. Otherwise, your whole podcast gets removed from places like Spotify, and I don't want that. So, for the podcast version of my show, you'll always hear just me talking to you, which is kinda creepy 'cause it's ... You can hear me breathing. Apologies if you hear my breath or weird noises. [laughs] But anyway, nearly a year after New Jersey residents panicked over apparent mystery drones in the night sky, they're now concerned about loud mystery booms. People in northern New Jersey, they were startled by this unexplained loud boom Sunday night. It was the second boom in less than a week. Police have received multiple calls, calls about what sounded like an explosion. But so far, there have been no explanation for it. While other possibilities have been ruled out, officials have no evidence of a meteor, have found no damage anywhere. They've also ruled out any weather-related, as there were no reports of any thunderstorms in the area. So for now, it's just a mystery with no clear answer, and it's always, always kinda irritating but funny at the same time. Anytime you go on Facebook, you go to the Life in Idaho Falls Facebook group, there's always that one person, "What was that loud boom I just heard?" Everyone's trolling them in the comments, saying it was them sitting down, breaking the toilet, something like that, you know? You, you're never gonna get a, you're never gonna get a clear answer if you post it on Facebook. No matter how many times you ask that same question, "What was that loud boom?" you're never gonna get somebody who just says the right thing, ever. [graphics whoosh] I just realized, while we had this, uh ... We have this pile of papers here to the left of me. Uh, Victor is going to be at the Chubbuck Walmart this, uh, Friday, the 12th, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM to talk about Idaho Preferred Month. September is Idaho Preferred Month, a time to celebrate Idaho's a- agricultural abundance. There's a lotta stuff here. Know your farmer, choose local, better quality of life, celebrate Idaho's bounty.
Yeah, show up and get some Idaho, Idaho produce, I'm assuming. Now, I think I had to do something like that. Back when I was on 105 The Hawk in the afternoons, I did a remote like that, where I went to the, I think, that exact Walmart, and there was a lady there that, uh, used to be on Radio Disney. I, I f- ... I, I almost forgot about her till I saw the papers here and just thought about the whole thing in my head. I'm like, "Wait a minute, I did something like that." Oh yeah, there was that lady. She used to work for Radio Disney. She hopped on the air with me. And you can tell she had that broadcasting experience because she, all of a sudden, switched to this voice that was very, very Disney. You know, you know the, you know the Disney sound when you hear it. It's cartoony. It's friendly. It, it has that signature sound to it. I, I just remember that. Hopefully, she's there with Victor. That would be funny. But yeah, Chubbuck Walmart, this Friday the 12th, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Go see Victor. He'll be there celebrating Idaho Preferred Month. [graphics whoosh] K-Bear, what's going on?
I just wanna tell you what two foods I would eat for the rest of my life.
Oh yeah, wh- which ones? Which ones?
I would have, uh, shepherd's pie
and chicken-fried steak.
Oh.
Again, I shouldn't ask these food questions 'cause it just makes me hungry.
[laughs]
It just makes me wanna go eat my ... go, go home right now and go eat. So, like, I have this left- ... I have this leftover pizza. I went to Righteous Slice in Rexburg. It was very good, very, very, very good.
Yeah, we got some, uh, pizza delivered.
Oh.
Clear. Uh, I can't believe they deliver out where we live, but we got some delivered last night. But yeah, I would say chicken-fried steak and, uh, shepherd's pie, forever and ever.
You ever have that, like, middle-of-the-day thing where, like, you look forward to leftovers from the night before, where you're just like, "Okay, I can't wait for my, my workday to be over with so I can go home and feast on whatever's left," you know?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, yeah. [laughs]
I do. I think about that all the time. It's so good. [graphics whoosh]
All right. So, why not talk about this specific thing? What's a cheat code you discovered in real life that actually works? And the top answer with, like, 10,000 upvotes says, "Speak to your maintenance people. Say hi, they know everything." And I, I, I gotta admit. I've been, uh, not mean to my maintenance person. The maintenance person has been mean to me. I've talked about that story many times on the air. I'm sure you can find it on the, uh, Peaches Pit Party Podcast. I'll briefly summarize it here. That one morning a couple winters back, I think it was 2022 when this happened, I woke up in the middle of the night just freezing. It was a m- ... It was much colder in my place than it usually is. Usually, I hardly have the heater on 'cause I don't wanna have the bill go sky-high.
But this one was unbearable. And I'm like, "What on Earth is causing that?" Well, I got out of my, uh, bedroom, saw my front door had swung open. And sure enough, my front door would not close because there was nothing keeping it hooked to the l- ... Like, the lock did not help. And so, I called the maintenance guy. No, I texted the maintenance guy, put in the maintenance request.
And then I get told that nothing can happen till Monday, and this is like Friday into Saturday morning. And I'm like, "Well, there's no way I'm gonna be at my apartment all weekend guarding my place, making sure no one just casually walks in 'cause the front door can't close." I have this temporary barrier. I had this giant record player that I s- that has wheels below it. So, I slid it behind the front door as like a, you know, a nice little blockade, really. Wasn't the best 'cause someone could still open... The front door could still open. Someone could still open if they really wanted to push 'cause it had wheels. Sure enough, the maintenance guy shows up after me persistently texting him like, "Please come on over and fix the front door." Sure enough, finally shows up all irritated, installs a dead bolt right then and there. It's like, "Dude, come on. You could've just done that." At least he did it though, and now it's been fine ever since, knocking on wood. All right, what else is on here for, "What's a cheat code you discovered in real life that actually works?" "Compliment people in minor ways." Don't make it weird. Just l- ... Just if someone is wearing something they clearly went to some extra, went to some effort to pick out, and if you genuinely like it, then tell them. I, I do that from time to time. I say, "Hey, sick shoes," or "Sick shirt." I do that to Josh from Class of '97 all the time. He, he was wearing a nice button-down today. I'm like, "Hey, dude. Sick shirt. Looks cool. Look tight, yo." You know? Whenever I'm tired and my inner negative voice comes out, I've started announcing to myself, "Oh, look. The, uh, the jerk is here," and it shuts it up and I have a much nicer internal dialogue. All right, I guess I gotta do that. Just start... If I ever start talking bad about myself, just start screaming that at the top of my lungs.
Seems like it would work. [instrumental music]
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