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[upbeat music] Yeah, we are here, Monday, January Fifth, twenty twenty-six. How are you doing? I am Peaches. Welcome in, I guess. Yeah. [laughing] I just woke up from a nap not that long ago. I, uh, decided to, uh, take a nap during my lunch break. Just felt like it was necessary. I stayed up wayyy too late last night. For some reason, my friends and I, we stay out too late, and we have these awesome conversations that should occur on la- l- just earlier, earlier on in the, uh, in the day, so that way I can go to bed, like, at wha- like, at ten PM or something. I don't know. If you wanna get a hold of me, you can, over at two oh eight, five three five, one oh one five. Uh, I'll probably give another pair away for Ghost, another pair of tickets to go see Ghost at the Delta Center, February tenth. Might do another ticket giveaway with our fun game. We, uh, gave away our first pair during the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. We played one of the lyrics of "Peacefield," and Mitch got it. He was caller twenty, got himself a pair of tickets to the show. The Skeletour World Tour, should be a fun time. Uh, I don't plan on going to that show, only because twelve days later, there's Bad Omens, Beartooth, and President live at the Delta Center as well. So many shows headed our way this year. It is looking stacked. I was just talking to my dad about that, too, talking about how twenty twenty-six is gonna be a year for a lot of different tours, and you, you really have to plan accordingly. You know, you really have to plan, "What, what band do I wanna drive three or four hours to go see?" I've already seen Ghost a couple of times, and I feel like, you know, if I were to go, I'd be like, "Okay, cool. That was neat," and then twelve days later, go to Bad Omens, that'd be a lot of money spent on gas, driving to Salt Lake City, within the span of what? Twelve days. Like I talked about earlier on in the show, how, um, in, in, in April, there's, uh... What, what was it again? Bill Murray, that whole tour, and then ten days later is Electric Callboy with Polaris and Sing Queen. Oh, man, I'm excited. I'm excited for this year. Twenty twenty-six is looking good, knocking on wood. [chuckles] Anyway, Peaches Pit Party will continue here in just a few on K-Bear 101. [whooshing sound] You know, being a bigger person, you gotta worry about what size bed you're gonna sleep on for the rest of your life. I've had a queen-sized bed, uh, since I was, like, uh, eight or nine, I think. My parents knew very early on that I was going to be a very big kid, so they, they, they got me a queen-sized bed very early. And now that I'm, you know, getting older, and pretty soon I would like to, uh, you know, be married and all of that, I would like to, uh, you know, have me and Aubrey have our own place. I was thinking, you know, maybe a queen-sized bed might be a little too small, and so we had this whole conversation not that long ago about possibly wanting a California king, which that's not necessarily all that much bigger. I think it's just 

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wider. No, the regular king. I- I'm always confused as to how big these mattresses are. "California king mattress size." I'm Google searching that right now. 

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Seventy-two inches wide by eighty-four inches long. It's six foot by seven foot. Six, seven? Uh, no, no, but, uh, a California king size is that big. A king size is seventy-six inches wide, eighty inches long. I don't know why they decide to make mattresses wider than they are taller. It's just very weird to me. And then I found out there's even bigger mattresses than that, I think. I, I don't know if this is one of those, like, "Hey, th- these are just mattresses we made up because it's the internet," or if this is a real thing, but I don't even know where you would get one. Like, do you just show up to a mattress store and ask for an Alaskan king? Do you ask for a Texas king? I'm seeing one right here, Texas king. It's eighty inches wide, ninety-eight inches long. Your bedroom is literally going to be a bed room. There's four pillows on that thing. Do we re- do we ne- really need that much room? I, I don't think so. Plus, trying to buy the sheets, the comforter, everything for it, you would have to get, like, specialty sheet sets, right? Nobody really thinks of that. They just think, like, "Oh, big bed? That must be nice. More room to sleep," you know? I feel like that would be too big, and that's even for big old me, right? Anyway, enough mattress talk. Let's play some I Prevail, "Violent Nature." [whooshing sound] Merch is a huge part of being in a band. You wanna have great merch, so you can 

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sell a whole lot of it to your listeners and make a whole bunch of money, right? That's how bands predominantly make most of their money is through merch sales, through album sales. If you really wanna give a band, um, your money, you, you buy the merch via the band's website. That's how you do it. I saw this post from r/metalcore: "Which band has the worst merch contrasted against how good their music is? In other words, the goal is to name a band with the best music while also having the worst merch possible." 

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Some of the responses in here, the, one of, one of them is, uh, the band that I played for my Pick of the Day earlier today, Northlane. I'm looking at some of the, the, the, the designs here. It's, it's not all that bad, all right? I think I saw a whole clip or something, a whole conversation about this, I should say, on the Garza podcast, you know, Garza of Suicide Silence. He just recently announced his indefinite hiatus from the band, and his podcast really is, uh, taking off. Um, him and a bunch of other dudes were talking about the worst merch designs, and they just all agreed Pantera has some of the worst merch you will ever see.... It's very generic. It's not necessarily bad. It's just like, "Okay, do, do I really need a, a camo shirt with Pantera just very blandly on it?" Let's look at some of these other ones here. What is this? "Long cries and late night car rides." What band is this? Mayday Parade. The front is awesome, but who would want to represent a shirt that says, "Long cries?" Your fan base is not 12 anymore. [laughing] "I enjoy them on occasion. Here's a different answer, but I will forever refuse to wear something that says alpha wolf on it, no matter how good the design is." Yeah, for me, I can't wear a, a shirt that has just any bad language on it. I mean, my shirt is already as big as it is. You know, it's like a three XL T. They don't really sell band T-shirts in that size. I usually just get a three XL. S- most bands don't even sell a three XL. The, the biggest size they go up to is two XL, and the last thing that I need to have is some giant F-bomb on my shirt, and I wear that to a concert. Some listener sees me, and they get a little upset that Peaches is a public figure wearing, you know, explicit language, that type of thing. Plus, it's also... It just seems trashy to me. I mean, you can definitely wear it if you want to. Just for me, not so much. I mean, I don't really care, but I see one [chuckles] right here, actually. "Any band merch that's made for edgelords." What a great way to put it. "We are nothing. Bleep your lives, Whitechapel. You're all worthless." Whitechapel, most of their merch is great. I don't know. I've never seen that shirt. When did they release this horrible [chuckles] T-shirt? Must have been a whole long time ago. Someone was asking the question, "People who live alone, what's something you do that would horrify a guest?" And the top answer says, "I don't close the bathroom door." A- and that's something I, I don't do. I don't close the bathroom door whatsoever because, yeah, I live alone, but I also have to put into consideration that I have my computer against a particular wall in my second bedroom to where the bathroom is in the background. So if I turn my webcam on, which I usually do when I'm, when I'm in Discord, or I'm just trying to test out maybe something with OBS, something like that, I have the camera on. It's, it's the worst when I have my camera on in the Discord call. I've got to be very careful. I always make sure that if I go to use the restroom with my computer on, I double-check to see if my webcam even has those, uh, has those blue, those blue lights on either side of the camera. If it's turned on, I shut the door. Even if I- even if it's turned off, I shut the door anyway 'cause I'm still paranoid that one of these days, that I'm gonna be in that Discord call, and I'm gonna be like, "Hey, uh, guys, I need to use the restroom. I'll be right back," and I'll walk to the other side of the hallway there, go about my business. I'll leave the door open because usually I can, and then sure enough, all my friends are screaming their heads off. I can't hear them because they're coming through my gaming headphones, and I'm just going about my business. They're, they're continuing on. They're taking screenshots, putting it-- putting those horrible pictures in the general chat. I come back. I'm all horrified. You know, my pants are down. [chuckles] I'm on the toilet. They just zoom in and take screenshots the entire time. Let's, uh, let's move past this, huh? I don't want that idea going in, going into, uh, anybody's head, including my own. Pictures like that. Anyway, Ice Nine Kills, The Laugh Track on Peaches' Pit Party. About a month ago, football coach Lane Kiffin left Ole Miss to become the head coach of rival LSU, abandoning his team before Ole Miss started their playoff run. Ole Miss responded by winning their first two playoff games and will play the semifinal on Thursday against Miami. In the final seconds of their second playoff victory, Ole Miss fans in the stands, they had some choice words for their former coach, chanting, of course, "Bleep Lane Kiffin." Even though he's now a hated enemy of Ole Miss, he's still collecting a five hundred thousand dollar bonus for the victory. If Ole Miss wins on Thursday, the total jumps to seven hundred and fifty thousand, and if they win it all at the College Football Playoff National Championship on January 19th, Kiffin will walk away with a cool million. How about that? Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has officially been named Sports Illustrated's twenty twenty-five Sportsperson of the Year following a historic run with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He's twenty-seven years old. He pulled off a rare clean sweep, winning the regular season MVP, the scoring title, and Finals MVP, while leading the Thunder to their first-ever NBA championship. He's the first Canadian to win the honor outright since Wayne Gretzky in 1982, cementing his, uh, status as a global icon with a fresh, nearly three hundred million dollar contract, contract extension to match. Troy Aikman has been hired by the Miami Dolphins as a consultant to help the team find a new general manager. Normally, this would be considered a conflict of interest, especially since Aikman has been in the broadcast booth, offering supposedly unbiased commentary for the past twenty-five years. But helping the Dolphins find a new GM is hardly any conflict of interest, considering Fox commentator Tom Brady is actually an owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. That does it for your Shot Clock Sports Update, right here on KBEAR one oh one. Here's one of the funniest things I've, uh, seen so far. It's not a prank call or someone on TikTok. In Heber City, Utah, police, uh, decided to try out some AI software to write their police reports for them. The theory was simple: Let the computer do the mundane typing, so real humans can do real police stuff. Usually, for my podcasts, I like to just have ChatGPT read the transcript, and then I say, "Hey, give me a title based off of what we talked about. Give me a description," all of that stuff, and it does the mundane stuff for me, and yeah, of course, it messes things up. You've got to read that crap, you know? The AI for this, uh, police department apparently watched way too many Disney- way too much Disney as a kid. It generated a report where it claimed an officer had, and I quote, "transformed into a frog, leaving the squad car behind."...The sergeant on the scene had to publicly clarify, no, the cop did not turn into a frog. The goofy mistake came because the AI picked up audio from Disney's The Princess and the Frog playing [chuckles] in the background on the body cam. [laughing] So now they've got police departments learning a very important lesson. If you're going to let a machine draft your official documents, somebody still has to read them before they go out. There's a story coming out of northern Colorado that's got everyone sort of talking over there. A woman who was out on the, uh, Crosier— I don't know how you say it, C-R-O-S-I-E-R, Crosier Mountain Trail. She was by herself. Well, she was found dead on New Year's Day. What a way to ring in the new year! Wildlife officials believe a mountain lion might be to blame. That's, uh, significant because fatal mountain lion attacks in Colorado haven't happened since the late nineteen nineties. It's about a twenty-seven-year age gap, or twenty-seven-year gap, not age. Hiker saw the big cat near her body and scared it off by chucking rocks at it, which I thought that was pretty funny. They just see a mountain lion by some woman, start chucking pebbles at it. You know, what if the mountain lion decided to attack? Those people are throwing rocks at it, you know? One of the people there was a physician, but by the time they reached her, um, she didn't have a pulse. Wildlife officials tracked down and euthanized two lions in the area, but it's very weird that they would just do that 'cause it, it's a wild mountain lion. They would just go out to the area and just be like, "All right, this animal, acting normal..." Oh, not necessarily normal, but it's a wild mountain lion! Stay away from it. Apparently, that's standard protocol when an animal is suspected of attacking a person, and they're checking them now to figure out if one or both were involved. People out there, uh, see mountain lions fairly often. Colorado's mountains are loaded with them, but them actually attacking someone is extremely rare. Officials say there have only been twenty-eight mountain lion attacks in the state since nineteen ninety. Could you imagine that? You're a part of that statistic. Th- that'd be horrible. I mean, couldn't they tell this lady if she had scratch marks on her or if she was just, you know, maybe she had a heart attack or something? Who knows? Hiking's grueling. Maybe she died of exhaustion. They would probably have to examine the body, I assume. I just, I just find it funny that people were like, uh... The people were, just had the audacity to see a mountain lion near a body, and they just start chucking rocks at it. Like, what if the mountain lion charged at them? Who knows, really? I mean, would they try to fight it then? I've always wondered: Who has canceled the most concerts ever in their career? Obviously, I would think it's some band that's been around for a long time. Maybe that amount has just stacked up over the years. But no, um, the answer, it seems to be Morrissey, which I should have thought of because Morrissey is such a, uh, n- not controversial artist. There's just, i- i- if he plans a tour, you don't know if you actually are going to be able to watch Morrissey on stage. Very similar to Oasis. I feel like Oasis is a close, uh, second when it comes to this. [chuckles] Uh, Morrissey's touring over the past decade, uh, decade-plus, has been marked by a steady accumulation of concert cancellations and postponements to the point that it's almost expected anytime he announces a new leg of shows. But is that really a fair criticism? This is what Consequence wrote: "In light of his most recent string of concert cancellations, which he attributed to an adverse reaction to a prescription medic- medication, we took a deep dive into Moz's touring history. According to the publicly available data from the Morrissey fan site, Morrissey Solo, the singer has toured every year since twenty twelve, announcing a total of six hundred and thirty-nine concerts. Of those, he has played four hundred and forty-nine shows, with one hundred and eleven canceled and one hundred postponed dates, a seventy percent completion rating. His most challenging years came in twenty thirteen, when he played just sixteen of sixty-four shows. Twenty sixteen, he did twenty-nine of forty-six. Just last year, he did thirty-six out of sixty-eight." Jeez! "His cancellations and postponements have been blamed on a range of factors, including illness, exhaustion, logistical complications. He once was even sidelined due to toxic food poisoning after eating a bowl of penne pasta and tomato." [chuckles] Just, just give up. I would just say just retire. I feel like Morrissey probably has a good amount of money, right? Let me check. Morrissey net worth. 

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What, what... It will not tell me. He's worth fifty million dollars. Yeah, just, just ride off into the sunset, okay? You're, you're, you're done. Hey, if your New Year's resolution is to maybe find a new job... Let's say you're at your current workplace. You're extremely unhappy. Your boss is a jerk. You're like, "I want out of here." Well, I have a place for you, Hire East Idaho. Hire East Idaho is here to help. It's free for job seekers, and new jobs are added all the time. This week's Hire East Idaho Job of the Week is with Portneuf Health. They're wanting to hire a full-time registered nurse for the night shift in Pocatello, but candidates must be a graduate of an accredited nursing program, hold current Idaho Registered Nurse license. You know, they're not gonna s- they're not just gonna hire anybody, and obtain BLS and ACLS certifications as required. You can apply for this job and check out way more opportunities at the newly redesigned hireeastidaho.com. You know, the job market itself, not necessarily the best, but hireeastidaho.com can certainly help you apply and certainly help you just find something new in twenty twenty-six. Again, hireeastidaho.com. There's a university outside of Paris that you're not gonna find on the average college tour brochure, and it's not because it's secretive. It's because it literally trains spies.... a professor there openly admitted he often doesn't even know the real names of some of his students. That's not a plot twist in some, like, movie. No, that's an actual class at Sciences Po Saint-Germain. I don't know how you say this. [chuckles] I'm sure you say it with a much better, uh, French accent. I just cannot do that to save my life. The, the program wasn't dreamed up by Hollywood either. French authorities asked the school to build a curriculum to train future intelligence officers, and keep current ones, uh, sharp, after the country's, uh, security recruitment push following major terror attacks in 2015. This is pretty cool. Classes mix traditional students in their early 20s with seasoned operatives in their 30s to 50s. They study everything from tracking organized crime to understanding modern threats, like political violence, cyber espionage. It sounded a whole lot cooler when I was, uh... when I just saw the headline, where it says, "The French university where spies train." I just immediately thought of Agent Cody Banks. Why is that the only spy movie that I can think of? I mean, obviously, there's 007, wh- clearly. I don't think I ever- I've ever seen any single 007 movie. I have all the, the, all the, uh, stories in one book, in the classic James Bond book. I got that one. Agent Cody Banks, what a, what a nostalgic movie that is. From... What, what year is that one from? Agent Cody Banks, from 2003. Wow, 23 years ago. [whooshing sound] I have mentioned it many times on the show that any single time I book a flight to just fly back home, or basically fly anywhere, these sto- these types of stories pop up. Here's a piece of news that sounds like something out of a sci-fi thriller. Experts are warning that the junk we've left orbiting Earth could eventually become more than a headache for satellites. It might start intersecting airplanes in flight. It's not a guaranteed disaster, but the chances are growing as we send up more and more stuff into space. Every week, bits of old satellites, empty rocket stages, and other debris fall back towards Earth. Most of it burn up in the atmosphere. It just burns up right there, right? But some chunks can survive long enough to reach the altitudes where jets cruise. Researchers estimate that as air traffic and orbital activity both keep increasing, the odds of a commercial flight being struck by space debris could rise to roughly one chance in 1,000 by 2030. That doesn't sound like much, but when you think about thousands of flights in the sky at any given moment, it's no longer just theoretical. Imagine that. You're just casually flying. Next thing you know, your air- the airplane that you're in gets hit by a, a satellite falling out of the sky. That's how you know you have horrible, horrible luck. Uh, it's, it's something that... Oh, man, I, I'm, I'm already anxious as it is for this trip. I want everything to go so well. I'm always anxious for every trip going back home, and, uh, now that I'm leaving during the wintertime, I'm worried that it- the flight's gonna be altered in some way by the weather, and now I have to worry about falling satellites out of the sky. [whooshing sound] Today's What the Headline takes us to Pennsylvania, where a woman found herself in court over an incident that absolutely did not involve her stealing beer but definitely involved the, uh, beer fridge. Her name's Crystal Gauss. She walked into a convenience store last spring. This happened quite a long time ago, but it's now in court, you know? She went straight into the walk-in beer cooler, the beer cave, moved a few cases out of the way, and then made a decision that ruined everyone's appetite. Store employees caught it on surveillance, which is information nobody needed, but, you know, here we are. I'm trying my best to work my way around it. I'm, uh, I'm hoping you know what I'm talking about when I say, like, she did something that ruined everybody's appetite. Here's the part that makes it even wilder. Crystal Gauss works as the director of food and nutrition for a local school district. That job title did not age well [chuckles] after the story dropped. She was charged with disorderly conduct for creating what the court described as a hazardous and physically offensive condition. That's the most polite way I've ever heard someone describe a crime. She took a plea deal, paid $75 in fines, $80 in restitution, and she's officially banned from returning to the store. No jail time, but probably a lifetime ban from ever being trusted near a refrigerated aisle again. That's today's What the Headline right here on KBEAR 101. [whooshing sound] Mickey Rourke, now in the news for a reason nobody really expects from a guy who's been in a ton of huge movies. He's dealing with a possible eviction in L.A. because he's behind on rent. We're talking almost 60 grand. That's how bad it is. Apparently, his friends helped, uh, set up a GoFundMe with his blessing to try and keep him in the place, and yeah, it's, it's weird seeing a Hollywood name attached to a fundraiser like that. But it's also one of those reminders that not every actor from back in the day is, uh, sitting on a vault of cash somewhere. From what's out there, the rent on this place jumped, things piled up, and now it turned into a very real problem. Fans have already started donating, and I looked at it actually, and it's at, it's, it's sitting at $84,000 roughly, out of a total $100,000 goal, which is great. Awesome, right? It's still kind of jarring to hear about someone who once carried movies, though, now stressing about the same stuff everyone else does: housing, bills, timing. He looks rough. I'm hoping some family member out there can help him or something. It's not dramatic. It's not scandalous. It's just life catching up in a very public way. You know, fame fades, rent doesn't. I feel bad for the poor guy 'cause it's also almost, like, embarrassing, you know? But I'm glad that the, the goal is almost reached. Almost there. [upbeat 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.