Well, unfortunately, I am here, which means I, uh, I didn't win the Powerball that was at $1.5 billion over the weekend. I believe somebody in Florida got the winning numbers. I don't have the, uh, sound bar all set up, otherwise it would've hit that person with the, "Oh, good for you." The reason why the sound board is not set up is because I am still in the Cannonball 101 studio. Uh, I don't know when exactly the K-Bear Studio will be back in commission. I don't know when it'll be out of order. Um, it was kinda weird showing up this morning with the, all the lights turned off in there. Uh, nothing's e- even on. And, well, Victor wasn't here this morning either, so I don't know where he's at. He always complains about no PTO, but then doesn't show up for work, you know? It's, uh, only, uh, three days before Christmas, though, so maybe he, uh, in his true Victor fashion, needs to buy, uh, Christmas presents. I know I still might need to buy, uh, one or two more. I only bought my dad, like... Well, I know he doesn't listen to this show, so I can say what I got him. I got him a book. He doesn't even read. I mean, he d- he's able to read, but he just doesn't read like me. Like, we're not fans of sitting down, opening up a book, and then just sitting there and reading a book, which is not a good thing, [laughs] not a thing to be proud about. Please, i- if you're wanting to read something, please do it. Reading is good for you. But my, uh... Me and my dad, both the same. My mom will sit there... I'm gonna call her out right now on the air. I know she definitely does not listen, but she'll sit down and read those books like The Cowboy Who Saved Me or, uh, My Love on the Ranch or something like that. I think it's w- well, who is it? Danielle Steel, that's one of her favorite authors. Nora something. Nora Roberts, is that her name? I don't know. 208-535-1015 would be the number to reach me, but the phone is, uh, yeah, in the other room. I'm in the Cannonball Studio, so if you want to get ahold of me, uh, y- I believe you can still leave a voicemail on the phone number, and then that'll get sent to my email and I can listen to it that way. Or if you want to, uh, reach out specifically to me, you can always reach out to me on Facebook, Instagram, et cetera. It's Peaches Pit Party on this fine Monday, December 22nd, 2025. I'm very excited for this week. I'm very excited for- for that I just get to work today, maybe a half day tomorrow if we're lucky, and then off for the rest of the week for a, uh, l- nice little, uh, Christmas break. Maybe Victor is getting a headstart on that, that's why he's out today, I don't know. Maybe he'll show up later. I'm recording this p- this, uh, first break of the afternoon show very early. I wanted to get this, uh, afternoon show done very early on in the day, so I'm recording this break at 8:18 AM. Yeah. I wanted to just be done with the afternoon show for the day so that way I can just work on other things here in this sauna known as the Cannonball 101 Studio. If you missed out on the, uh, whole Merry Axemas with The Advocates Injury Attorneys giveaway where Jennifer and her husband, Nathan, both won that signed guitar from Bad Omens, Hailstorm, Fall Out Boy, Sleep Theory, and Never Tell, we'll be launching another giveaway this Friday, the day after Christmas. Sort of like a, uh, post-Christmas gift, last minute gift exchange... No, no. Not exchange. Last minute gift giveaway type of thing. Yeah, y- y- you'll want to win this prize, I can tell you that much. Uh, make sure to download the K-Bear 101 app, have it on your phone so that way we can send you a push notification when it launches and what exactly you need to do in order to win this, uh, specific prize. I'll give you a hint right now, it involves a particular concert. That's it. Let's do some, uh, Turnstile, Never Enough on Peaches Pit Party on K-Bear 101. I was reading something here about this timeout box. I don't know how you say this, uh, this name of, uh, the city or the county that it's in or the t- the territory that it's in. Akwesasne, Akwesasne, is that how you say it? I don't know. A-K-W-E-S-A-S-N-E. The Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. Is that how you say it? Straddles the Ontario, Quebec, and New York State border. There's this, uh, school, St. Regis Mohawk School. That's pretty cool, I like the name of that one. Um, it's a kindergarten to grade five school on the US side. It's one of four schools in this, uh, particular school district. Anyway, the reason why I'm talking about this school and the reason why it's popping up in the news is because parents are outraged after photos circulate of this timeout box in the school. It's a little wooden box that is in the corner of the classroom. It's very just, uh, uh, it looks like an isolation chamber. You know every single time you watch a movie about people in prison, they get sent to what's called the hole, and it's like a little just den or a little one by one little cube thing? That's what this is. And pi- I guess pictures were sent to a parent at first, and then those got posted all on Facebook, or maybe it got posted on Facebook by somebody. Uh, no, it says here they were sent... They were posted... This person posted [laughs] the photos to Facebook after they were sent to her by a teacher who had recently resigned from the school. And you should see the inside of this thing. I- I'm sure you can look it up, I spelled out Akwesasne for you. Or you can just look up timeout box Canadian school or something, I don't know. But should pop up. But the inside of this thing, there's blue felt walls and there's, like, one little cushion floor. And there's no windows, no nothing. You're just stuck in there as a student.I feel like this maybe is a little harsh. You know, I would have been in there, in elementary school. I was a mean kid back then, mean, weird, dumb kid back in elementary school. Uh, my parents, my mom specifically, would be used to the principal being outside my classroom, waiting for her so she could talk to her about how bad I was that day. [sigh] Man, this timeout box, you put the biggest kid in the classroom in that thing. I don't think I'd be even a- be even able to fit in that thing back then. I- I don't know what they would do with me, they'd probably just kick me out of the school. I- it wasn't that bad, all right? It wasn't that bad. I think I would have behaved myself if there was that looming threat of being sent into this wooden box. [swoosh] We're reaching that weird time of the year. I know I've been saying that quite a lot, but especially this week and next week. This week, we got those, uh, two days where we're off for Christmas Eve and, of course, Christmas. But then the day after Christmas, some of us are still working. I'm not, I took the day off quite a long time ago. I requested the day off a long time ago because it will be my girlfriend's birthday and I'm gonna be spending time with her and her family and all of that. And plus, I just don't want to come back to work for one Friday and then leave again for the weekend. I know we're doing that weird thing for January 2nd for some reason. Like, we get New Year's Day off and not New Year's Eve. Very weird, right? Like, you'd- you'd much rather have New Year's Eve off so you could go party or something like that. I d- b- but, again, you could do that after your shift maybe. Uh, who knows? But e- everybody for the most part, not everybody, but most people have New Year's Day off. I- I- It's one of those weird days where things should be open instead of New Year's Eve, if that makes sense. I'm sure there are a lot of people who will disagree with me on this, but I- I just think that January 1st is really n- nothing special. It's just another day. It's the start of a new year, but cool, yay, woo hoo. Like, we- we stayed up till midnight and celebrated the turn from 2025 to 2026. And then, yeah, back to the normal grind, you know? But I'm not gonna complain about a- a day off. If we have New Year's Day off, I'm gonna take it, but January 2nd, again, why would I need to come back for a random Friday to then have the weekend off right after that? And- and most things will be closed still, like the radio prep is, in fact, closed today and also gonna be closed for, like, the rest of the year into January 5th, it seems like. It seems like that's the magical date where everything returns back to normal and I'm counting down the days for that. And pretty much right, yeah, right there in mid-January, I'll be heading home, very excited to just head home for a week, you know, get a nice break from Idaho overall. I need that break, like, every couple of months, otherwise I'll just go insane. Let's play some, uh, Daughtry, The Bottom, on Peaches pit party. It's K-Bear 101. [swoosh] So, the sports report that I usually get, I don't think I'm gonna get till next year, like I mentioned in that previous break. So the Shot Clock Sports Update might be a little weird. There was this Lions fan over the weekend, a Detroit Lions fan. They must have said something to DK Metcalf to really make him mad, in order for DK Metcalf to then punch him in the face. This Lions fan said, "I only called DK Metcalf his name before he swung at me." The Detroit Lions fan on the receiving end of a punch from Pittsburgh Steelers star DK Metcalf is speaking out and s- insisting he simply called the player by his full name before the incident, but DK is reportedly claiming something much worse was said. And I'm- I'm on DK's side. You know, fans, especially fans right there by the players, they'll want to say something to have that viral moment, and for you to get punched by one of the biggest players in N- in the NFL right now? I mean, the- the fan could still sue if nothing was said. If there was, like, hate speech thrown out or something like that, then, I mean, who knows what exactly is going to happen with that. Sunday Night Football, a r- a rogue firework nearly rocks a person, shoots down on field. This, uh, rogue firework abandoned its assignment, went shooting towards the field, and appears the explosive nearly hit someone standing on the turf. According to eyewitnesses, the scary moment went down prior to the Baltimore Ravens home matchup against the Patriots as player introductions were underway. The, uh, pyrotechnic devices were supposed to shoot up to the sky. One had other plans, went straight to the grass. Oops. Yeah. And then, I believe, and, there's this really unfortunate news, there's really unfortunate, uh, news headline that I saw where this one, uh, NASCAR driver... What's his name again? Ah, I lost the article. I can't even figure out the guy's name. Well, another big article that happened, another big story that happened over the weekend is that Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul. Jake Paul had to get his, uh, jaw fixed. He ended up with a broken jaw. I watched the highlight over and over. I hate Jake Paul. I'm not that... I- I'm not ... [sigh] What's it called? I think Logan Paul is okay. I think he's, uh, awesome for wrestling in the ring, wrestling in WWE, and he does a great job with it, but Jake Paul just grinds my gears. I hate that dude. Really, I hate that dude. So it was nice to see Anthony Joshua just completely shatter his jaw. Is that bad to think? Yeah, it might be. Anyway, that does it for your Shot Clock Sports Update right here on K-Bear 101. [swoosh] Not exactly sure if Traffic School Powered by The Advocates will be happening this Friday, 'cause the, uh, K-Bear studio is completely out of commission. If you didn't hear last Friday, um, during the middle of the morning show, Victor was, uh, doing his break and then all of a sudden the board just died. So, yeah, I'm doing this show from the Cannonball 101 studio. There were a few people on Friday that were like, "Hey, man, why aren't you answering the phone? Are you trying to avoid me?" It's like, no. I- I've s- I said at the beginning part of the show I'm in the Cannonball 101 studio, and if you wanna get ahold of me, you can reach out to me on social media if you'd like or you can just-uh, wait till the studio's back up and running? I mean, I don't know. But somebody posted in the Life in Pocatello Facebook group that maybe it should go to, uh, Lieutenant Crane so that way he could, uh, pay attention to it. Uh, Charlie, she posted, "So when did we start running stoplights that aren't working and we're not treating it like a four-way stop? Just because the power is out doesn't mean you shouldn't stop at a stoplight. I wanna know when this law was passed." Any single time there's a, uh, four-way intersection, four- it becomes a four-way stop, right? When the lights aren't working, you are to treat it as a four-way stop. If they are working but are delayed and you have been at the red light for a consecutive nine minutes with no one else around you, you kinda... Y- you have to just basically be cautious [laughs] and go through it when it's safe. This Courtney lady, she, she s- thinks she has all the answers. I, I... We should definitely get the right answer from Lieutenant Crane whenever Traffic School is supposed to happen next. Maybe this Friday, maybe next, maybe the one after that. We'll keep you updated. Traffic School, powered by the advocates, normally every Friday at 8:45 on the Victor Wiltz Show. So my friend Zach, he has this toxic trait where he, uh, likes to start arguments for no reason at all. Like he'll just sit there and then ask you a, a question that he knows you'll react violently to or you'll, uh, kind of give this answer that he doesn't want to hear, and then he'll start going back and forth with you. It's... It's an awful, awful trait. And I, I don't usually answer dumb questions, so when he asks me stuff like that, I just stay quiet 'cause I just don't wanna argue with anybody. It's like, you can believe in what you wanna believe in and so on and so forth. If you wanna believe the Earth is flat, good for you, pal. I'll just think you're stupid, all right? [laughs] So, uh, last week or it might have been the week before, I asked the question, what, what soda tastes awful? And I've always, always talked about how Dr Pepper has the biggest cult following. It does. There are tons of people out there that act like they work for Dr Pepper and they think it's the best soda ever, right? They're almost as loud as the hydro homies to where they say, like, you know, "Oh, I don't drink soda. I drink water all the time 'cause I'm better than you," type of thing. So I, I... For my answer for that question, I s- I did say Dr Pepper. I, I, I don't think it's all that great. I'm not a person who drinks it all the time. I, I've... I hardly ever drink it just because I don't like the taste of it. But you never meet anybody who's passionate about Dr Pepper as they are with another soda. Like you never meet someone who's like, "Man, I love Mug Root Beer. It's better than you," or, "It's better than your choice," that type of thing. So I mentioned that, uh, in the KBear 101 Idaho Rock and Metal Facebook group that Dr Pepper tastes awful to me. So then Zach yesterday... This h- I, I made this post all the way back on December 15th. It was yesterday that Zach goes, "So what's with all the Dr Pepper slander?" Like, "Well, I just don't like the taste of it. Doesn't mean my opinion's wrong." Everybody has their own opinion, that's why there's a wide variety of sodas. One of our friends is obsessed with Mountain Dew. You know, usually people who are like 16 are obsessed with Mountain Dew. I've always liked Mountain Dew Baja Blast. I think it's pretty good, but I don't have it as often. I try my best to avoid soda and not have it as much. My girlfriend likes to go on what she calls pop runs and will go grab a pop from one of those, uh, soda stands
and she'll, uh, wanna get the, the bucket of soda with coconut cream and all these different syrups added. So then I have to get one, because if I don't get one, then she won't get one and then she'll feel bad type of thing. I usually get, like, the 16-ounce Pepsi with cherry and coconut cream in it and it's good. I like Pepsi. I think Pepsi tastes great. I don't understand why people are hating on Pepsi. It's weird. It's just a soda. It's m- It's Pepsi versus Coke. It's always that. But then you have the Dr Pepper drinkers who are off to the side. You know that meme of the two very angry looking dragons and then there's the one silly dragon sticking its tongue out? I like to see Pepsi and Coke as the two serious dragons. These silly dragons, the Dr Pepper people. It, it's like... I, I... Someone put it really well, or somebody put it really well over the weekend, um, saying that Dr Pepper is like the Taylor Swift of sodas, to where if you insult it, the fans are going to come at you. Peaches Pit Party on KBear 101. I was, uh, looking at this story here
about how aquariums,
uh, not, not just in particular in East Idaho but around the country, aquariums... Large aquariums are hosting sleepovers for adults. Y- I, I don't think you can be a kid at one of these. You have to be like 21 or over, which I'm assuming there's, like, an open bar or something like that. I don't know. But is this supposed to sound fun to sleep over at an aquarium? I don't necessarily wanna shoot down every idea or every story that I hear or read, but I mean, come on, really. Y- you gotta think about it. You go to a large aquarium like the Monterey Aquarium, like one of the biggest out there. The check-in is at 8:30 PM, which is pretty late as it is, and then you leave in the morning. But what's the, what's the whole point? Like do you fall asleep right, right next to the fish? Is that what you're supposed to do? You're supposed to fall asleep next to the giant sea bass or maybe even the manta rays? Who knows? You know there, there's those, uh, touch tanks? You fall asleep next to those stingrays that you can touch, so you can just wake up in the morning and start touching them? Be like, "Good morning, stingray." Touch it with two fingers, rub it down its slimy back. Kinda weird, right? Are you supposed to sleep on the floor? Do they have air mattresses for everybody signing up for this? I could only imagine. I, I decide to do one of these things. Like I, I... For some re- I go back home to California. I go to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach
and we all just have to sleep on the floor in the giant main room.Yay, [laughs] w- I have to plug in my CPAP somewhere. They'll probably think I'm annoying, 'cause I gotta sleep by an outlet. I gotta specifically reserve that spot right next to the electrical outlet. Would they even allow me to sleep over at an aquarium if I have a CPAP machine, or would that scare the fish? I, I, I, I don't know. Here's Royal Bliss by my side on KBARO 101. [air whooshing] I'm so glad Sigourney Weaver and I could, uh, relate over this. Sigourney Weaver, the famous actress, I, I, I best know her as, uh, the warden from the movie Holes. I know most people know her from, is it the movie Alien? Is that it? I didn't realize how old she is. She looks great for, uh, 74 years old. Sigourney Weaver, shout out to her, one of the coolest, uh, woman out there. Is she 74? I thought I looked it up previously, not that... She's 76. She's been in the Avatar movies, the Alien movies, Ghostbusters. I mean, she's a well-known actress.
I, I just first saw her in, in the movie Holes. The movie Holes is awesome. [laughs] Like, nobody should be ashamed for liking the movie Holes. People should be ashamed for liking the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. And I was laughing at what Sigourney Weaver said. I don't know why this popped up. If she said it recently, who knows? But Sigourney Weaver says she's, "Never been able to get through 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don't, uh, smoke a certain thing, you know?" She says, "I get about halfway through and then that's it. I'll try again next year." 2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie for people who wanna act like they're pretentious cinema fanatics. They don't even call them movies, they call them, uh, they, they call th- they call it the cinema, or they say like, "Oh, I watched this movie on 38-millimeter film, ugh."
Like, to me,
I, I don't care. Like Oppenheimer, when that came out, oh, you gotta see it in IMAX to really experience the entire thing.
That movie looked so boring to me. I don't care if I sound like just, you know, the dumbest guy on the planet for saying that. Oppenheimer, it's a three-hour long movie, right? About a bomb. Uh, it's [laughs] yeah, there it is, three hours. "During World War II, Lieutenant General Leslie Groves Jr. appoints a physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, to work on the top secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work, uh, comes to fruition on July 16th, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history." It doesn't sound all that appealing. Three, uh, three-hour long movie about a bomb going off? Woo hoo, yeah. Like [laughs], I, I, I don't know, I feel like some of these directors, they take it way too seriously. I, I, I don't know. I just want a good movie. I just want something that has a great story, it's not elongated for no reason. It's not shot in a special way to where you're like, "Ooh, look at the, uh, the, what, what is it? The, uh... Look at this camera angle. It's set up a certain way to where it's all symmetrical." I'm, who cares? Just tell me a good story, that's it. [air whooshing] I know I've already talked about Traffic School, powered by the advocates, and I believe the subject matter was already talked about as well. Is it legal to put Christmas lights on your car in Idaho? East Idaho News put out the, uh, article, here's what the law says about that whole thing. East Idaho News sa- uh, talked with the, uh, Boise Police Communications Manager Hayley Williams. According to Hayley, putting Christmas lights on your car should be fine as long as they don't create a risk for other drivers. But you know for a fact people are going to be distracted. The reason why I'm talking about this is because one of my Facebook friends posted re- a couple days ago that they saw this car that I, I also saw on Sunnyside when I was driving to work, or driving away from work one night. Where this car is... This car's just covered in Christmas lights all over the thing. It's very distracting. I turned my head to look at it, and I'm driving on one of the busiest roads in Idaho Falls, Sunnyside Road. I'm shocked this person hasn't gotten in legal trouble for it. Maybe they have and they just
keep doing what they're doing, you know? People have that type of money where they can just get a ticket and be like, "You know what? Who cares? It's the Christmas season." [laughs] Uh, that's, it's very distracting. You know, people are already distracted as it is by police cars pulling people over on the side of the highway, to where they all slow down. And you're wondering like, "Why is everyone slowing down on the highway?" Then you look to the right, oh, it's a cop pulling somebody over. They just wanna drive slow- slowly because they wanna stare. Like, no, move, move along with your day. Come on, get out of the way if you're gonna drive [laughs] slow. Oh man, yeah, so I guess, uh, Christmas lights, they are, they are okay if they're not distracting to others, if that makes sense. Um, we'll have to get a good answer from, uh, Lieutenant Crane, uh, but I think since the next Traffic School episode, i- i- if we're lucky, is going to be the day after Christmas. By then, Christmas lights, yeah, they don't necessarily matter. Uh, but we can always get the answer, uh, for next year. You can also listen to previous episodes of Traffic School powered by The Advocates available on demand wherever you get your podcasts. [air whooshing] There's been this sort of back and forth my girlfriend and I have been having because she wants to have a white Christmas every single time. I couldn't care less. I, I would much rather have nicer weather. Like, I grew up [laughs] where, when Ch- where Christmas could be 70 plus degrees, and I think that's the reason why I have a differing opinion. She grew up here, so she wants to have that snow fall. I think it's quite dumb to think, "Hey, let, let's have a snow storm," or like, "Let's have some snow on Christmas."So that way when everybody's trying to drive around and go to these different houses to celebrate the holiday, let's make driving that much worse for that family, especially when they're all in the car with a whole bunch of gifts. That's what I think. Like, if I want, if I'm wanting to drive around and go to these different places, like I'm expected to go to my girlfriend's parent's house on Christmas. I don't wanna drive all the way to where they live with a whole bunch of snow on the ground. Especially where they live, I'm not gonna disclose where they live, but it's not, it's not a place where the roads get plowed at all. So it'll be like an icy, it'll be an icy mess trying to get to their place. At least for this week, the weather... Okay, I know this is unpopular to say, I'm liking this weather. High of, like, 45, low of 34, and it's just rainy. There's been a lot of people saying it doesn't feel like Christmas, including me, just because of the weather, I think. Or maybe because, like, I don't know. I'm just thinking so far ahead every single week that I'm like, "Oh, it's Christmas? Cool, thanks." That or I'm just getting older. I don't know. I think it's because I am getting older. I'm getting close to 30. My Christmas list wasn't the best this year. It was more so just like, "Hey, can I get a couple T-shirts?" 'Cause my closet is not looking good. I talked about it on the show last week how I had to throw away all my old 2XL shirts. Now, I'm, I'm requesting my parents, uh, or Santa to, uh, give me, uh, three XL T-shirts. I feel like that's my ideal size, because even if I did lose a whole bunch of weight, those, those, uh, shirts would still look the best on me 'cause of the length and everything. We're talking about my shirts on the air. Forget it. Let's just move on here. [laughs] I heard someone say that Primus... Oh, I just started to sound like one of those people where I see something on the internet and then I, uh, basically repeat it by saying, "I heard someone say..." There's plenty of people that have, have said that same joke about Ghost saying, "I heard someone say, uh, Ghost is like Scooby-Doo chase music." I, I didn't hear anybody say anything. I saw a Reel on Instagram where some guy was, uh, reading a YouTube comment about Primus saying that Primus sounds like three dudes trying to play three different songs at the same time and a homeless guy just sings over the top of it. And that's the best way to describe Primus, really. I wanted to talk about right now, that was besides the point. I don't know why I mentioned that. [laughs] I just, I started off with that whole joke because we just came out of that Primus song, My Name Is Mud. And the whole point of this break was to talk about hireeastidaho.com. This week's Hire East Idaho Job of the Week is a detailer shop hand at... Is it Torrie's & Sons? Or is it Torres & Sons in Idaho Falls? Torres & Sons in Idaho Falls. This job includes washing and detailing trucks and trailers inside and out, keeping the shop clean, learning to change tires. Helping out with anything that is needed in the shop. No experience necessary. Willing to train 40 hours a week, 15, uh, $15 per hour starting. Monday through Friday with weekends off. Apply for this job if you're interested and check out more opportunities at the newly redesigned hireeastidaho.com, connecting people with opportunity, free for job seekers, and new jobs are added all the time. I know that right now is a tough time for a lot of people, especially with those who want to make a change in their career. Uh, I have talked to a lot of people coming out of college who want to get a job but they've applied everywhere and nothing seems to be working for them. Definitely check out hireeastidaho.com. [whoosh] All right, well I'm sure you've heard me talk about the Giving Machine. If you haven't heard me talk about this, well, I'm gonna talk about it now. The Giving Machine, it's not like a regular vending machine. Instead of snacks or candy, you're donating something that truly matters like a year of school for a girl, or prenatal care for a new mom, a beehive for a family, meals for seniors who need a hand. You gets, you get it, right? That's the Giving Machine, a bold way to give both locally and globally. It's in the Grand Teton Mall. It is going to be there to, 'til New Year's Day. You visit the machine, choose one or more items to give, you can give multiple, swipe your card. It doesn't take cash, only credit, debit, or mobile payments. And you can rest easy knowing that 100% of your donation goes directly to the charity you select. Again, it's at the Grand Teton Mall in Idaho Falls, going to be there 'til January 1st. If you wanna learn, wanna learn more about this, go to givingmachineeastidaho.org, or you can simply click on The Giving Machine right now in the KBear 101 app. It's Peaches Pit Party, now with Dorothy Bones on KBear 101. [whoosh] It is Peaches Pit Party on KBear 101. I saw this very interesting question on AskReddit, "What sport do you think would be extinct within 50 years?"
Someone said, "I don't think NASCAR is going anywhere, but local short track racing has been in a rough spot. Tons of tracks have been sold simply because they are worth more, uh, as housing developments than race tracks." Drag racing too, 'cause how much louder is it than other motor sports? So many tracks that have been, uh, that had been open for 50-plus years are now gone. Well, I mean, yeah, that could be one of them. I'm, I'm trying to figure out what exactly my answer would be. I, I was hoping it would be maybe soccer. [laughs] 'Cause I'm the biggest soccer hater. I keep talking about how dumb soccer is. Uh, there, there are people out there who will rip on basketball, but they're a huge fan of soccer. And the whole... Uh, like, like you sit through 90 minutes of a bunch of dudes kicking the ball back and forth, and then the game ends up being one to nothing. Like, how dumb is that? At least with basketball, you got tall guys dribbling the ball. I mean, all sports are kind of silly, uh, if you really, if you really think about it. I mean, like basketball, you got a bunch of tall dudes dribbling the ball up and down a court. They score, like, 120 points or whatever. It's a lot of points.Going back to this question, what sport do you think will be extinct in 50 years? Bullfighting. It's the clearest example. Each generation supports it less. It directly clashes with current values regarding animal welfare and now depends heavily on subsidies and local tradition. In many countries and regions, it is banned or declining. And someone replied saying, "It won't be missed. It's just animal torture." Yeah, I agree. Someone else said, "I was surprised to hear in a conversation at the gym that racquetball is in decline. I used to play often in college, but that was 20 years ago." That was coming from a racquetball enthusiast who had just played a session. I mean, pickleball is now the newest craze, and I don't know when exactly that one will go extinct. I just know for a fact that there's this, uh, tennis ball, uh, tennis court, uh, facility right by my parent's place. And it's really funny if you look at the sign of it
'cause it says old ranch, tennis courts, and then real tiny next to it, "And pickleball," because they want people to know, hey, pickleball's here. And there's like a six-month waiting list to play pickleball there. Six months. Imagine signing up half a y- half a year early
just to play some dang pickleball. I think there's only one time I played pickleball. I might need to learn how to do it again just to see if it's actually that fun or if it's just something that old people, old rich people really wanna do. [graphics whoosh] They cut down a bunch of trees in this town in British Columbia, and instead of removing the stumps, they just left them. Not temporarily, not we'll get to it later. Just straight up said that's what the street looks like now.
I'm glad they removed the stump. So, I, I was a little irritated with my apartment building. Not my specific apartment building, but the one next to mine. The one I get to look at every single time I leave my apartment. They took down a tree that wo- that's been there for quite some time. It was a relatively big tree. I'm assuming they took it out because it was going to uproot the building or maybe the wind knocked it over. I don't know. I just came back from work one day and that whole tree was gone. And that building is not necessarily the best. The building next to mine looks like a before picture, and my building looks like after. The one bo- the one over there kinda is junky looking. It looks ghetto. Looks very bad. And so, when they cut down that tree, I, I now get to see inside the, that person's apartment from their, uh, kitchen window. It doesn't look good at all. But luckily, they removed the stump. So, they, they didn't remove these stumps in this particular town because it was, uh, it's too expensive, which is the most relatable answer of all time. So, now you've got these sad little stumps lining the street, but then someone, and I love that we don't know who, decided to decorate the stumps for Christmas. Lights, ornaments, the whole thing. But then there are some people who are like, "Well, this looks terrible." It's like, well, the tree stumps as a whole look awful. Just get rid of the tree stumps. Why'd you knock down the trees and then say, "Well, it's too expensive to remove the stumps for them"? Kind of a Genius of the Day qualifier here, which you can hear sometimes. Weekday mornings, uh, at 6:45 on the Victor Wilt Show. [graphics whoosh] A group of people held a mock funeral for the penny at the Lincoln Memorial. An actual funeral for a coin no one likes, no one uses, no one wants to admit they still have in their car cup holder. They brought a casket. They dressed up like Abraham Lincoln. They stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to say goodbye to something we all pretend isn't in our, uh, our pockets right now. Well, I shouldn't say our pockets. Well, maybe they are just, you know, eh, lying around on the ground somewhere by you, I guess. [laughs] The penny costs more to make than it's worth, so they stopped producing it, which means instead of quietly letting it disappear like a normal society, we decided to give it the most dramatic send-off possible, which I, I, I, I think we should have done. And then now we're seeing restaurants say, "Hey, pay with exact change 'cause there are no pennies." I don't know. It's a, it's a weird, weird thing to dive into. I just thought it was pretty funny that there was a whole funeral for the penny. All right? That is, that's today's What the Headline right here on K-Bear 101. [graphics whoosh] They, they just put the pope on Vogue's Best Dressed of 2025 list. Actual Pope Leo XIV. They got fashion icons on this list. They got all around celebrities on this list. Vogue says is his outfits, Pope Leo, they say his outfits this year were extremely fashionable. Not a musician, not an Oscar winner, not a billionaire tech bro, the pope. And they didn't pick him because he suddenly started rocking sneakers and hoodies. They highlighted his, uh, his, uh, his vestments. The red satin cape, the gold embroidered stole, the whole traditional get-up and called it "one of the standout looks of the year." Uh, no kidding. No one else is going to dress like the pope, I don't think. It's interesting because it's basically the opposite of what the last guy did. Pope Francis was famous for keeping it simple, almost plain. Vogue even talked about how Leo's looks are a departure from that, from that humble style.
So, you've got the leader of the Catholic Church, the guy literally dressed to proclaim something bigger than himself getting spotlight. Spotlight love alongside pop stars and Hollywood stars and everyone else who usually dominates these fashion lists. I just thought it was funny to talk about. I mean, there's really hardly anything to talk about today. Hardly anything to talk about this week. Next week is going to suck too. Oh, I'm not looking forward to that 'cause it's just gonna be a whole bunch of these, like... A, a whole bunch of digging overall is what I should say. So, yeah. Anyway, you wanna play some Linkin Park? Let's do it. Here's Up From The Bottom on Peach's Pit Party. [graphics whoosh] We are in fact three days away from Christmas and, well, you can easily gift someone you love or maybe even yourself. I mean, you're supposed to love yourself, right? You can go to our concert calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar and maybe buy a pair of tickets for you and a friend to go to an awesome show next year. There are so many shows already announced for 2026, like Three Days Grace with I Prevail and The Funeral Portraits next year in November. I believe it's November 14th at the Ford Idaho Center Arena. Just one of the many shows that is already announced for next year and I'm really looking forward to it. I gotta figure out what shows I, I ideally wanna go to. Riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar. [instrumental music] Thanks for listening to Peaches Pit Party, the podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please share, subscribe, and rate the podcast. Peaches Pit Party is hosted by me, Peaches, AKA Brendan Peach, and is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information or to contact the show, visit riverbendmediagroup.com. Until next time, peach out.