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The Viktor Wilt Show daily recap! If you miss the show weekdays from 6A-10A MST, you've come to the right place.
Yo, what's happening? Uh, it looks like last night would've been a fun night to be in Pokey. The Ghost Adventures people were in town. I was, uh, scrolling f- social media today and saw about a million photos of people hanging out with Zak Bagans. I've always wanted to go to his, you know, museum in Vegas. Got all them, you know, haunted relics and things like the chair from the Conjuring movies. I guess they were down there checking out the Yellowstone Hotel. Uh, no word on, you know, obviously when that's gonna air or anything like that since
I don't think anybody knew they were coming beforehand. Somebody just spotted them, and boy, if any celebrity's in town, does word spread quickly around here. So, yeah, must have been, uh, cool for you folks that got to meet him. Congratulations. I hope it was fun, and look forward to seeing the Ghost Adventures episode featuring Pocatello, my hometown,
whenever that airs. Speaking of which, before we know it, I'm gonna have to ask him about it on Friday. Lieutenant Crane appearing on Family Feud with the fam. Think that's supposed to happen in January. I don't remember if he has an exact date or not, but, uh, we gotta throw together some kind of a viewing party for that. And he still, to this day, has not told me if they won. Yeah, very curious. But I know it'll be entertaining because his family is really funny
and [laughs] I don't know, just seeing Lieutenant Crane on Family Feud with his fam is gonna be so much fun. So I'll keep you posted on that. Uh, should be coming up here in a couple of months, and
other than that, uh, I'm just trying to get rolling here today. It's early. It's early, and I am a bit sleepy, as I would assume you are as well because of the time that it is. If not, oh, good for you. Um, I'll never be able to get myself up at this ridiculous hour and be feeling fantastic. It's just impossible for me. But appreciate you tuning in this morning. We should have lots of fun if I can find things to talk about, and I'll try to avoid starting any radio feuds or anything like that today. Well, [laughs] well, maybe. [laughs] Depends what happens on social media, you know? If, if I see anything that gets me going, feeling a little bit feisty, might get a little bit weird up in here. Last two shows, last two days' worth of shows, uh, got a little bit unhinged, so we shall see. [metal music] All right. That one woke me up a little bit. Era, Snowblood. Yo, it's Victor Wilt. Morning. [metal music] All right, let's see here. What to dig into? Scientific myths considered true by many? Sure, might learn something new today. You know, we all probably believe in something or other that's kind of dumb. I'm sure I do. I try to push myself off as being, you know, pretty smart. Not really. I'm willing to admit I'm just kind of dumb sometimes, engage in stupid behavior on this show. But
... I, I don't know what I was gonna say, but about. Still waking up here. Coffee ain't hitting yet. All right, scientific myths still considered true by many. All right, this person says, "I'm convinced that whoever is keeping the pee on a jellyfish sting myth alive just has [laughs] a bit of a kink." Um,
all right, somebody else commented in here that they can see where the myth comes from, 'cause I guess in areas where there are a lot of jellyfish, every public beach had a little box with, uh, vinegar, 'cause I guess something really acidic is, um, helpful in neutralizing some of the effects of jellyfish venom. Can also clean the wound up a bit. Um, and I guess pee could be acidic. Okay, I had always heard [laughs] that was what you're supposed to do. [laughs] But don't do it, I guess. Get that vinegar out. Um,
all right, this could be an interesting thread here. All right, if you touch a baby bird, the mother will reject it. Yep, I've, I've heard that about all kinds of animals. Like, if you touch the baby, the parents are just like, "Nope. No, it smells like a person, I'm done." Um, but I do recall reading that's ridiculous. So yeah, if you see a baby bird has fallen out of its nest and you can reach the nest, it might be helpful to put it back, 'kay? I mean, you would have to touch baby bird, which, eh, I'm, I'm not a bird guy. They're, they're kind of creepy. But, uh, [laughs] what? What? They got dinosaur feet, all right? They weird me out. I can't help it, okay? Uh, we've talked about this one before, that a lot of people still believe we only use 10% of our brains, and this has been completely debunked. Would be nice if we could activate other areas of our brain and do things like, uh, I don't know, shut a door from across the room with the power of your mind. There's probably something more [laughs] exciting you could do. I was just looking at the door. Yeah. Uh, let's see here. What else do we got? Uh, this person said they had a porcupine on the playground a few weeks ago, and half the school staff thought they could shoot their quills 10 feet away. Probably comes from cartoons back in the day, or maybe video games. What is it, uh, Sonic the Hedgehog, where porcupines will shoot the quills at you? I don't know. It ... I, I remember that from some video game.[rock music] But yeah, they, they don't work in that way. And this next one, I swear, I swear I was taught this in s- in school, in like elementary school. I certainly heard it when I was young. And it doesn't make any sense. But that blood is blue until it comes in contact with oxygen. I really swear I heard that in school, and I, I think people believe it 'cause your veins are blue. But have you ever seen blue blood? Because if it stayed blue till it came in contact with oxygen, anytime you had your blood drawn, you'd have vials of blue blood. Which far as I can recall, no one has ever seen [laughs]. Where did I hear that when I was young? Uh, here's another one that actually I was, uh, discussing with a friend the other day. The more you shave your hair, the thicker it grows back. No, trust me. Uh, the sides of my face, the beard just does not grow in like [laughs] like on my chin. I've been shaving a long time. It's never come back any thicker, all right? Let's see. What else do we got for scientific facts that have been, you know, considered true by many but proven to be, uh, ridiculous? MSG is bad. Uh, MSG is a seasoning and ... I mean, you'll see a lot of, uh, packages of food or restaurants touting, you know, MSG free, and I, I've read up on this one. MSG, it's, it's just a seasoning. Um,
I do believe these people are correct in saying that, uh, you don't really need to worry about it. And I guess it's supposed to be pretty, pretty delicious. Can you buy it on Amazon? Let's take a look. Let's search for some MSG. All right. Oh, yeah. You can buy the crap out of it. Boy they, uh, charge a, uh, premium for it. Okay, they, they got some, some cheaper options. That must be the high quality MSG right there. All right.
Let's see here. Coffee dehydrates you. I guess it does not. It's a mild diuretic, but the fluid intake outweighs that effect 'cause, well, yeah, what, what about the kind of coffee I drink? Thick, black, instant coffee sludge. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, I, I might look more through this thread and if it continues to be interesting, I'll dive back in 'cause it's always like, uh, nice to learn something new. In the meantime, [laughs] I, I might have more coffee. I gotta wake myself up. All right, 6:43 AM. We'll be back. [rock music] I don't know how I stumble across these articles, but I'm sitting here reading about Japan's lowest rated toy train. [laughs] Some guy, since Christmas is coming up, decided, "I'm gonna check out the lowest rated items on Amazon Japan and see what we could find for kids for Christmas." Now-
[laughs]
[laughs] Okay, it was a reporter. I was like, is this just some parent? "What's the worst thing I can get my kids for Christmas?" [laughs] Please don't shop that way. Try to get your kids something cool. You don't even have to spend a lot of money. But, you know, try to not just search out the worst toys possible. Uh, this thing, it's about 15 bucks. It's a transparent gear train, and
I'm watching a video of it. I would put this in my home studio. Okay? It spins around in circles at extremely high speed and lights up basically like a, a disco party, and I guess bumps EDM music [laughs]. And it- they say it's ear-splittingly loud. Uh, and parents hate it because it moves too fast for the kids and it doesn't drive like a train. It spins in circles. I don't know. I think it's pretty cool, myself. Can you order this here? They ... Did they put a link for it anywhere here? Let's see here. No, this is just a, uh, link to another article about the lowest rated three-piece suit from Amazon Japan. And, uh, how, how bad's that? Well, it-
[laughs]
[laughs] I said three-piece suit. I guess there were only two pieces when they opened it up, and, uh,
I don't know. I mean, it, it doesn't look that bad to me, looking at the, the suit itself. Oh, it has a picture of a firetruck on the inside. There's a guy dressed up in it. I don't think it's that bad. You know? And that, the guy said it, uh, brought out a childlike exuberance in him when he threw it on. It's bright red. [laughs] Okay. Well, I don't know. We do have a white elephant gift party coming up here at work. Uh, I need to actually, uh, pick something up for that. Perhaps that's how I find what to get. The lowest rated items on, uh, Amazon. [laughs] Find something really stupid. I, I'm glad I looked at this article actually, 'cause I probably would have forgotten I need to do that. Well, thankfully, tomorrow's payday. [rock music] All right. Almost 7:00 already. Digging it. I can't wait for the work day to be done. Yay. Morning to you, or afternoon, or evening, whenever you may be listening to this on demand. It's the Victor Wilt Show. I guess over at Mount Rainier, America's deadliest volcano has entered an unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase. Now, I thought that Yellowstone would be America's deadliest volcano, but maybe because it's a super volcano, um, Mount Rainier i- is deadlier or b- b- I don't know. 'Cause it's just a volcano.
[Rock music playing]
Yeah, uh, been buzzing with activity nonstop for days, stoking fears that an eruption could come soon. And, uh, you know, if you've ever driven past Mount Rainier or been to it, uh, it's, it's pretty sweet. I mean, it, it's massive. It's massive. Now, they are saying if it does blow, it's not gonna be anything like super crazy. It's not gonna [laughs], you know, like blast lava into the sky, but it will unleash... Oh, what do they call 'em here? This article's pretty long.
I don't know, you know, uh, some type of a pyroclastic flow type thing. I, I don't remember the term that was in this article, but, uh, yeah, it's kind of like, uh, a wall of mud, not, not like a pyroclastic flow like Yellowstone would do, but, uh,
yeah, just fast moving mud flows that, uh, could tear across entire communities in minutes. I don't know what communities would be in danger, and th- they're not saying like, "Oh, it's, it's for sure gonna blow," but it could. It could. How close is that to, uh, where my daughter lives? I know we drove past it when, uh, we were in the Seattle area. Mount Rainier, let's look it up on the old map-a-roo here.
Yeah, show me on the map. I don't need a, a poster I could buy. Oh, it's, uh, it's south of Seattle. She'd probably be all right. She's up north near the Canadian border there, so
yeah, hopefully, uh, nothing that anybody needs to worry about, but
you know me, when it comes to a natural disaster news, I gotta dive in for whatever reason. Huh. All right, well, I'll keep you updated on that. You know, it's somewhat a regional feature for us here in the Pacific Northwest. At least it ain't Yellowstone, you know [laughs]? Ugh, what a, what a nightmare that would be if all of a sudden they were saying that. Maybe, maybe, certainly hope we don't see that in our lifetimes. All right, it's after 7:00. Let's keep partying. I'll be back in a minute. [rock music playing] Well, it looks like yesterday's episode of my show, the on-demand version, the podcast version, was pretty popular, getting a lot of views, or I guess I should say listens. Uh, it was titled I Declare Eternal Yuletide Dominance [laughs]. And if you were listening to the show yesterday morning, I, I got a little outta control. Got a little feisty about, uh, Christmas music, which is launching at 8:00 AM on Classy 97 on Friday. Had, uh, another local, and I guess a former radio person
just ragging it up that they're back programming some Christmas music, and I had to throw some jabs. You know me, every once in a while I throw some, you know, just cheap jabs for fun. And
another local radio personality, Brad Barlow,
well, he was acting like I was being mean on Facebook, 'cause, uh, you know, I w- I was poking a little bit of fun in the comments on a post made by the- one of the admins of the Life in Idaho Falls Facebook group. And he's like, "This Christmas, I'm gonna turn the other cheek." So g- settle down, Brad [laughs]. It's not like I was, like, being crazy. I put up a Snapchat video of me dressed up as Santa going, [laughs], "You're getting a lump of coal for Christmas." Uh, I mean, come on, can't we have fun in radio anymore [laughs]? I was not being mean, okay? Just being stupid and silly. But I do stand by my statements that, uh, Josh and I, the kings of Christmas in East Idaho. So make sure to tune in and get your, uh, Christmas action going on Friday morning on Classy97 at 8:00 AM. Speaking of Christmas, I saw that a limited number of tickets were released for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra show, which is going down tomorrow at the Mountain America Center. I've talked to a lot of rock people over the years about this particular show, and every single one of 'em has told me it's absolutely amazing. So let's see here. Let me pull up the old Ticketmaster tab here and see if those limited number of tickets are still available.
Yeah, they, they, they got a few seats. Be careful of the, the pink ones. Those are the, those, uh, reseller tickets, scalper tickets. Yeah, keep an eye on those because I would imagine when scalpers start panicking, like they always do, they might end up being, uh, pretty cheap tomorrow. But there are some tickets available. Um, I mean, I'm not gonna call 'em cheap from what I'm seeing here. But should be an amazing show. Again, I've heard from everyone who has seen Trans-Siberian Orchs- Orchestra live, that
it's just amazing. Kinda looks like, I don't know [laughs], if Tool did a Christmas show or something, lasers and fire and, you know, crazy lights. I will be there getting in the holiday spirit because Josh and I are the kings of Christmas here in East Idaho [laughs].
And I'm e- excited for everybody to be able to tune in and check out our Christmas lineup on Classy, kicking off Friday at 8:00 AM. Ah, who'd a thunk it, right? Victor Wilt
being the, uh, you know, the lead on Christmas music in East Idaho. Never would've thought that in my life, but that, that's my job nowadays.... programming music on a b- billion radio stations. But, you know, I'm, I'm good at what I do. I'm the best, the best. Take that. [laughs] But settle down, Brad. Acting like I'm, you know, just completely out of control or something. It's like, "Dude, just being dumb, usual me. Come on, let's have some fun." [rock music] Congrats to that band, Pierce the Veil, going gold with that song right there, So Far, So Fake. Very cool. What's up? It's Victor Wilt. Let's talk about something that is not very cool, and that's this nightmare fuel I was looking at
from, uh, Malaysia. Family's just hanging out, doing their thing when all of a sudden a, uh, 5... Let's see. How, how long was this thing?
I don't know, but it's gigantic. A 120-pound python
suddenly falls through the bathroom ceiling. Ugh.
You know, we gotta worry about
some critters around here. There are monsters out in the woods like bears and mountain lions, but they tend to stay in the woods. We don't have 120-pound snakes potentially crawling up into the attic. Oh, jeez.
So yeah, yeah, i- t- they're okay. Everybody's fine. They called some type of animal rescue place and they came over and got it, but can you imagine if that was an issue you had to deal with potentially? I mean, we did have that house in Rexburg that was, uh, packed with snakes, like thousands and thousands of snakes, the Rexburg snake house. [laughs] But they, they were little. [laughs] I, I don't know, I think the thousands would be worse though. The people who lived there said it sounded like the walls were slithering. Ugh. [laughs] I mean, I got bugs living in my house now. Uh, they, they live in a cage. It's not like an infestation. I am a cricket farmer now. But [laughs] thousands of snakes in the wall? Ugh, it's making me feel creepy crawly. All right, let's close that tab. I don't need to look at that. I'm gonna have nightmares. I've been having a lot of nightmares recently. I don't need to have, uh, snakes in the ceiling dreams. Hopefully my brain is not storing that one, because it seems like [laughs] anything I talk about lately turns into some kind of a nightmare that I have. Ridiculous. [rock music] Ugh, could this week be over with already, huh? Wouldn't that be great? [rock music] All right. I was looking at a post about Thanksgiving here.
Some people have to deal with some aggravating people showing up at their place on Thanksgiving. I hope you don't have to. [laughs] Yeah. It should be a wonderful time with family and friends, but some friends, well, and family members can be a pain. This person, this woman posted, "Am I a jerk for telling my husband his friend can come to Thanksgiving, but I'm not dealing with his crap?" She says, "My husband has this friend, Craig. First time we invited him over for a holiday was Thanksgiving a few years ago. Said he wanted to wash his hands before dinner, but he didn't use the bathroom so he went to the kitchen, and then proceeded to complain about how the sink was full of dishes and why hadn't I cleaned them yet, despite the fact I'd made an entire Thanksgiving meal. My husband said he's probably joking, don't take it personally." So then they invited him again, and, um, he wanted to bring a pie but they're like, "We gotta, we got a bunch of desserts, so you wanna bring some rolls." And he showed up about, uh, two hours late when they were already done eating, and he did bring rolls, but
[laughs] he also brought a pie. [laughs] So then he again goes to wash his hands like, "Why is there all these dishes in here?" And then he says that her food's nowhere near as good as his girlfriend's food. It had been sitting there for two hours as well, and was probably cold. And so when he was leaving, she's like, "Don't forget your pie." [laughs] And he's like, "Why don't you keep it?" [laughs] And now her husband wants to invite him again. Yeah, um,
if I was her, I'd tell husband, "No. Kick rocks." Or else he, he could at least tell the dude like, "Hey, don't make condescending remarks to my lady," you know? Yeah, if, if, if someone's treating your partner like crap all the time, you can't really expect to have them around. And th- the guy sounds like he wouldn't be very fun at Thanksgiving anyway. No, f- again, it should be a good time for all, so... You don't gotta feel obligated to bring everybody to your Thanksgiving dinner, okay? Whether they're family or not, if somebody's just a pain, you know they're gonna, I don't know, start a political argument or something like that. If they're, y- you know it's gonna just be drama, just tell 'em, "No, no. No thanks." You don't even have to give them an, an explanation, just be like, "No."
And then if they need one, I mean, I guess you could tell them, "R- remember all those times you were a piece of crap? No, you're not coming. Not welcome at our meal. We're gonna have a good time, fool." [laughs] "Why are there all these dishes?" Ugh. You know, sometimes you don't have enough time to get all the chores done, okay? It is what it is. [rock music] So a couple of weeks ago, Peaches and I were talking about AI music on the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. We've been having a lot of fun with that lately as well. And we predicted that probably within six months, a year, a song would hit number one. You know, you'd have a big hit AI song and-[rock music] There was this country song that we p-... I think we played it on the noon hour, if not on my show, that hit number one on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart. Now, I've looked into this particular song. Again, we talked about it, and... This is a particular chart, k? Again, the Billboard Country Di- Digital Song Sales chart. So, it's not like this hit number one on Billboard, like people were streaming it like crazy or anything like that. It sold 3,000 copies and that hit number one, and it cost $1 [laughs] to- to buy a song on iTunes. So, theoretically, I don't... I- I- I would assume that the rock songs chart
[laughs] is even easier to reach number one. But for about $3,000, if you have a song and you got the budget for it, you could just buy your song, you know, few thousand times, spend a few thousand bucks and hit number one on the Digital Song Sales chart for a particular format. But the fact that this happened, it's been all over the news, and now they got country music stars reacting to this AI generated song being number one. And one of the guys they talked to was, uh, Jason Aldean, and he's like, "Yeah, well, AI can't play a live show."
How many of, uh, Jason Aldean's songs did he actually write himself? 'Cause I remember when that, that song, Try That in a Small Town, came out. The, uh... Part of the funny thing about it, aside from him not being from a small town or understanding that small towns are pretty corrupt and crazy. Like, anybody who's grown up in a small town knows small towns are nuts, k? Go, go live in, uh, Burley for a while, k? [laughs] Uh, he, he didn't w- write the song, right? If I recall correct? Yeah. So, why would you even ask a country artist who generally doesn't write their own music their opinion on AI songs?
[laughs] Yeah, it, it, it's pretty prevalent in most music formats
that you got a handful of songwriters who write for all kinds of different people. But, you know, with the AI songs we've thrown together recently, uh, it's, it's gonna be really rough for human artists to continue to break through. You are going to have to put out spectacular stuff with a very unique sound, 'cause, I mean, churning out country AI songs? We've done it for fun, and they sound, at this point, you know, the technology's gotten so good, they sound straight up legit, just as good [laughs] as, uh, some of the biggest country songs in the world. Country's a very formulaic, uh, music format. You know, uh, uh, a lot of it sounds and is structured the exact same. Pop music, same deal. Yeah, I think we're entering interesting times where...
I, I don't know what they're gonna do with live shows, but you're gonna have hit, huge AI... I guess you'd call them artists. I don't, I don't know. I don't know what to tell those of you who, who make music. I make music myself and I'm... I need to get back to it. I just, I gotta fix my computer and, uh, I don't know, get my motivation together.
But, uh, yeah, just good luck to, uh, all you mu- musicians out there. Entering into rough times. You better really work on that, uh, unique and mind-blowing [laughs] angle to your music, and... Ah, it's just crazy with how time-consuming it is. You know, I've, I've spent, with some of my songs, years crafting them. You know, I'll have this, you know, set of riffs, and they get set aside, and then you finally find that one little thing that hooks 'em together. When you can do it in five seconds with an AI prompt, I don't know. Anyhow, I gotta dig up some freak news. So, I'm gonna get on that. We'll be back here in a few.
[rock music] Well, in freak news, Brad Royle is listening to the show. He sent me a message to, uh, critique our processing. So, Jade, if you're listening, Brad don't like it. [laughs] I've been telling Jade we need to sit down and monkey with that, but Brad, we've been very busy around here, okay? Settle down, buddy. At least Brad wasn't messaging me to say I was being mean. Like, you know, Brad Barlow commented on Facebook yesterday in the Life In Idaho Falls Facebook group. Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
Settle down, Brad. Both Brads, settle down. All right, what do we got for freak news? Kind of a light freak news day. Um, let's see. A woman wanted to get some pizza. She really wanted it. And, you know, when you really want pizza, you gotta get there quick. And she's a Florida woman, she was just speeding. It was 107 miles an hour. I guess a misdemeanor in Florida. [laughs] Well, I guess it shouldn't really be a felony, speeding. I mean, it was 107 in a 55. L- a little quick, but what are you gonna do when you want pizza, right? Pizza's sounding, uh, kinda good.
All right, little early for pizza. What, what else do we have here? This guy in Rockford, Illinois was arrested after waving a rifle from his car. Said he thought that women liked these things.
All right, ladies? You see a maniac driving down the road waving a rifle out his, uh, SUV? Are you like, "Oh, yeah.[rock music] "Get over here, buddy. Come on." [laughs] Yeah, he, uh, [laughs], drove past another vehicle full of women and was like... Uh, the- I- I'd like to read the exact comment, but it seems like something Jade would go, "You shouldn't have said that." Basically, you know, he said he wanted to get it on with the female occupants of the vehicle, [laughs] and he thought that having a firearm would increase his chances of success. Um, well, he did get aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, since he's had four prior weapons offense convictions in the past. [laughs] Gonna get lots of- lots of action where you're headed, buddy. Yeah, I'm- I'm pretty sure that guys like, uh, people waving around guns more than women. But I- I don't know, I'm not a lady. Let's see. A school has banned the singing of K-pop Demon Hunter songs in the UK. No singing, meh, 'cause some members of the community are deeply uncomfortable with references to demons. Uh, it didn't even occur to me, and it should've, that the name of that show would probably bother people. Even though they're demon hunters, right? I- I haven't seen this show. This movie? It's a movie, right?
But it has the word "demon" in it. Some people are gonna lose their minds. [laughs] No singing. Just let the kids sing. It's like when I went to a, uh, particular, uh, bar in Pocatello, back when, I think it, you know, just a little over 21, and we were just having fun, you know? And I started, uh, dancing, which, you know, uh, obviously that's gonna be disturbing to people, 'cause it's me, dancing. It's not a good- not a good look. I'm not very good at it. But
I almost got kicked out of the place for dancing. And I was like, "W- w- what's the problem?" They're like, "Well, you're distracting people from the other dancers." I'm like, "Really? Really?" I'm pretty sure they're gonna keep looking the other direction, okay? [laughs] Nobody getting excited about this fool dancing. So... I bet we're gonna have this pop up in E- East Idaho. If I could think of one place where schools are gonna be like, "No singing these songs that have references to demons." Uh,
seems like something that, yeah, again, could happen around here. I mean, you can't even go to the library without busting out your ID if you wanna check out a Stephen King book, so... [laughs] People are so weird, so weird. Anyway, it's a little after 8:00. JD called, really wanted to hear some AC/DC, so I got that coming up. And whatever other kinda crap I- I dig up, you know, from the internet. We'll, we'll see what we could find. It's a tough news day today, as you can tell. [rock music] It's a light news day. What am I supposed to do, make up the news? I could. Could probably fire up ChatGPT, be like, "Make me up a fake news article about, uh, something crazy happening in East Idaho," and then it would. Let's see what it comes up with, actually. [laughs] I'm curious. "Write me a fake news article about something crazy happening in East Idaho." All right, ChatGPT is thinking. It looks like it's thinking hard. All right, here we go.
"In what experts are alread-" Again, this is fake news, okay? [laughs] "In what experts are already calling the most Idaho thing to ever Idaho, residents across Bonneville, Jefferson, and Madison Counties awoke Wednesday to discover that an enormous, perfectly circular, 200-foot-wide potato ring had appeared overnight in an open field outside Rigby, and is somehow hovering exactly four feet off the ground. According to stunned onlookers, the floating potato ring emits a faint humming noise, like a choir of microwaves warming up leftovers, and periodically releases a soft mist that smells suspiciously like loaded baked potatoes." [laughs] This is so dumb. Obviously it would go with the potato route. All right, it continues, "Local authorities immediately established a perimeter, but that didn't stop dozens of curious East Idahoans from showing up with lawn chairs, smartphones, and in one case, a fully operational deep fryer." Holy cow, this is a long article. I'm not gonna read the whole thing. [laughs] Should just start doing this every single break. Just make up fake Idaho news. But, okay, let's see what, if I tell it to not be potato related. "Make another one but with nothing to do with potatoes." All right, let's see what it comes up with here. All right. "Residents of Ammon, Idaho are still trying to make sense of the sky stampede that swept across the region Tuesday morning, after more than 300 domesticated alpacas escaped a local 4H demonstration and somehow ended up paragliding over the city." [laughs] AI is so weird. How- how did it come up with that one? "According to officials, the incident began when members of the Ammon County Youth Agricultural Showcase attempted to debut an experimental alpaca adventure course, which reportedly involved a small hill, a wind machine, and several brightly colored training parachutes. The event was meant to demonstrate gentle confidence-building exercises. Instead, it resulted in what many are now calling the Great Alpaca Airlift of 2025." And then it just goes on and on and on. [laughs]
[heavy metal music] So if you haven't been on Facebook today, the hottest topic in East Idaho seems to be that Zak Bagans and the Ghost Hunters crew are in Pocatello, or at least they were last night, checking out the Yellowstone Hotel.
It reminded me that I saw a ghost the other day, just the other day. You may have heard me over the years saying, "No, I don't, I don't know if I believe in ghosts." But Jade, his wife, Becca, and I, we were walking around downtown Salt Lake City
and we walked past this parking garage, and then just from within the parking garage out comes this woman
at high speed walking quick. And
face was pale white. She was wearing clothes from like the 1800s or something like that. Now, there was a, some type of event happening like a, uh, I- I don't know if it was a- a play. She might've like been part of the cast, but she sure looked like a ghost. And I told them, I'm like, "That was a real ghost!" Need to send Zak Bagans down to just downtown Salt Lake to wander around. You never know what you're gonna see. Generally, it's, you know, just maybe a- the occasional raving lunatic or something like that, but she... I thought she was a ghost. And then she disappeared. She just disappeared, vanished. [laughs]
Anyway, looking forward to seeing, you know, Pocatello on Ghost Hunters. Lot of supposed haunted places in Pocatello. They can hit up, uh, Pocatello High. There's a few weird things I've seen there, kinda like in the, uh, Winchester Mystery House. There's a few closets in some of the classrooms in Pokey High with stairs that go nowhere. Woo-hoo! No! What does it mean? Uh, they remodeled? Or is it something much more sinister? I- I don't know. I was lucky to be able to tour some of the sealed-off areas of Pocatello High when I was a student there for my video production class. Like, we wanted to go see these- these places, like the, you know, balcony that's closed off in the auditorium, the old projection room. Uh, there's a room above the balcony that, uh, or above the auditorium itself, that, uh, you know, there was a bunch of old like garbage in there and stuff. Apparently, students used to sneak up there and get wild drinking old cans of soda. We went under the auditorium. That was, uh, kinda creepy. It's just a, you know, giant concrete area, and there were some weird bugs in there. [growls] [laughs] I need to go on one of those ghost tours in Idaho Falls or Pocatello during the Halloween season. I've never been on any of those tours, but some of those basements in those old town,
you know, uh, uh, buildings in Pokey, th- they, they're definitely creepy. We got these tunnels running all over the place and things like that.
Anyway, if you have a haunted, uh, haunted building and you want me to come check it out sometime, I need content and I'll show up.
All right, I'm gonna get back to trying to find content. But yeah, keep you posted if I get any updates on when Ghost Hunters are, you know, or when Pocatello is going to be featured on Ghost Hunters. And then don't forget in January, Lieutenant Crane is going to be on Family Feud. I believe it's January. Try to remember to double-check with him on that. Friday during Traffic School, powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. And I, I thought we were homies, but he won't even... He's sworn to secrecy, won't tell me whether or not they won or anything like that. Guarantee it'll be funny, though, 'cause he and his family, they're- they're really funny. So I can't wait to see that. And if he did not give me a plug on Family Feud, we're not friends anymore. [heavy metal music] All right, people, it's the Victor Wilt Show. Hello. Welcome.
Was reading this story about this guy who froze his late wife, cryogenically froze her. This was in China. And, uh, I guess she passed away back in 2017, and she became China's first cryogenically preserved person. And now I guess a bunch of people on social media are really mad at him 'cause this 57-year-old guy,
a few years later, started dating someone else. Um, [laughs] I think that should be okay, right? You know, he lived alone for like three years. He's all lonely, and he finally, you know, happened to meet somebody and was like, "All right. Let's, uh, let's hang." Man, social media is brutal. The guy's wife died, okay? What... I don't know what the, you know, diff- or what difference it would make that she was cryogenically frozen, but cut the guy some slack. [laughs] I shouldn't be surprised, though. I've seen some of the comments people made on posts from like East Idaho News when somebody died from COVID. People post and they'll laugh, react, [laughs] you know? Calling it fake news. Like, jeez, that's a local member of our community. What is wrong with you people? Oh. Well, anyway, I hope, I hope this guy can shut down his Facebook for a bit and, or whatever social media he's using, and try to enjoy his day. Ah, Lord. [dramatic music] How do you steal a driveway? [laughs] I'm guessing there'll be an update to this story. But
this woman was trying to sell her home,
so she gets a realtor, you know, does all the necessary stuff to get the place ready to sell. And apparently while she's out of town, she gets a call from the realtor and is like, "So when are you gonna finish up the driveway?" She's like, "Well, yeah, it had a couple cracks in it, but w- we're not gonna redo it." And the realtor's like, "Oh, maybe we're at the wrong house, 'cause this place doesn't have a driveway." Where was this story?
Wherever Local 3 News is. Eh, gonna be hard to figure that one out by that. But yeah, apparently someone came and stole the driveway. What I assume happened is somebody [laughs] in the neighborhood
was going to have their driveway ripped out, 'cause it happened in the middle of the day. You know, you had multiple vehicles show up,
dump truck, backhoe. [laughs] And I'm guessing somebody gave the- the wrong address and somebody just came and ripped out her driveway. I don't think it was stolen, but it makes a better news headline to say a woman's driveway was stolen. [laughs] "It's gone." And they're hoping people can, uh, reach out and, you know, try to get some answers here, 'cause gonna cost her about, jeez, 12 grand to put in a new driveway. All right, if that's what it costs to put in a new driveway, I guess I'm putting up the cracks in mine for a long time. [laughs] 'Cause, you know, I'm paying that? No. Who's got the dough for that? Jeez! [dramatic music] Thank you again for tuning in to the Victor Wilt Show. This program's a production of Riverbend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbendmediagroup.com.