[instrumental music plays] The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem: The Podcast.
It's the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. What up, Peaches?
You wanna talk about, uh, some McDonald's news or do you wanna talk about, uh, the, the TikTok that I posted yesterday?
Uh, we can start with either.
Let's do McDonald's news first-
Okay
... 'cause I have the page pulled up. I didn't know this was real. I, I don't know how credible this is. It was posted by the New York Post.
Okay.
"McDonald's payment change confuses customers who may be paying more for a meal. Not sure how this is legal."
Okay. I'm pulling up the article here from the New York Post.
"Due to the US Treasury halting production on pennies nationwide, we will..." [stammers] It's blocked by the sun. I can't see the rest of this poster.
Okay, it says the chain's gonna be r- rounding change to the nearest five cents?
Yeah. So, "Here's what you need to know. Menu prices remain unchanged. Only your change will be rounded."
W- why don't they just change the menu prices so that, uh, in each state...
I know they were so quick to increase those prices when then made the b- the Big Mac burger meal, like, $10.
Yeah. W- I just don't see why they wouldn't just-
I-
... change the price of the meals so that it would come out even.
McDonald's-
Or, or odd, I should say
... is so bad. So ba-... I went there recently, got the Big Mac meal. It's the size of a hockey puck. That thing used to be huge.
Yeah, I-
And it tastes like cardboard.
I don't know, I picked up a couple double cheese and, uh, some fries recently. And-
You need to open the bun to see what's inside, like nothing's coming out.
[laughs]
Like, it's just... Like, is there anything in here?
And I, I was perfectly satisfied with my, you know, value shopping at McDonald's. I thought it was good. But the, the Big Mac, it's got too much bread. It's got an extra piece-
Every burger has too much bread. Have you seen their meat patties?
[laughs] That's why you get the, the double cheese, man. It's got the thin bun, but, uh-
That's why-
... a decent amount of meat.
That's why they ran out of pennies. They've been using them for the size comparison-
[laughs]
... for their meat patties.
Yeah, I, I mean, can a company require you to round up your change? I, I don't know if that's legal or not. And like you said, I mean, this... It's the New York Post so it's a legit publication, but-
Not sure if this is a-
... is it, is it real?
... if this is a real nationwide thing.
Yeah.
'Cause, uh, I saw everything about the, uh, AI taking over the drive through in some major cities, but not necessarily here.
Yeah.
And I would think it'd be hilarious if that happened here because there would be so many people on Life in Idaho Falls-
[laughs] Oh, jeez
... driving up... Could you imagine some dude-
[laughs]
... recording driving up to the drive through-
[laughs]
... with his phone out the window. He sees the A- AI, says, "Hey, is this a real person?" "Hi, welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?" "I, I want a real person. I'm outta here."
[laughs] Dude, Life in Idaho Falls would be completely outta control. I am disappointed recently with Life in Idaho Falls. I haven't seen a lot of, uh, chaos in there. The mods must not be allowing it or something. You know, you, you gotta go to the East Idaho News comment [laughs] section if you-
I also-
... wanna see chaos.
I also really hate those mods because I tried getting them here in the studio to join us for a local program, Traffic School Powered by The Advocates.
Yeah.
And they just didn't even respond.
Didn't even respond.
But they were so quick to respond to tell me my post was declined about the, uh, one time they were like, "Hey, do you like Victor Wiltz? Yes or no?"
Yeah, and I was totally fine with that 'cause I thought it would be hilarious to see the people trashing me 'cause it makes me laugh, like when the people send me those angry comments on my post and they're like, "You're a Marxist and I hope you lose your job!"
Right. Somebody must-
Yeah
... be asleep at the helm at Riverbend-
[laughs]
... for not getting rid of Victor.
And it's like, dude, I didn't even say anything horrible, like-
That's, that's horrible to wish for somebody's... somebody to lose their job.
Yeah.
I mean, there was one time where I made that whole parody joke on Reddit, but not on, not on Reddit, on the air here, and somebody on Reddit said, "Peaches needs to be replaced."
Yeah, why would you wish that somebody loses their job? Unless they're, they're like an actual horrible person.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we say like a dumb thing every once in a while or post something dumb, "I hope you lose your job."
Right.
That's pr- that's pretty messed up. Pretty messed up, so if you're gonna post that kinda stuff, please go post it in Life in Idaho Falls [laughs].
[laughs] I'm sure they'll decline it, though. That's the thing is-
I know, I, I-
... good old Barbara over there, i- ruling with an iron fist.
This is the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem, and I'm Victor.
I'm Peaches.
All right, you mentioned you had some kind of a, a TikTok-
Yesterday-
... that I should, uh, check out or something?
Yesterday, I spent like two hours trying to figure out how to do these different animations on Adobe Premiere. Ended up giving up. I asked Maddie. Maddie didn't really know. She only really messes with After Effects and I didn't know what After Effects was. She had to explain that to me. Basically, I've been contemplating doing this series called Dumb Questions People Ask Me as a Radio DJ.
Okay.
And I was gonna, like, d- divide it into, like, five different videos, however many videos I could go and then be like, "Okay, that's, that's all the questions I get asked. Move on to something else."
Yeah.
And I was gonna do, like, dumb comments I get as a radio DJ, something like that, you know?
Okay.
But I kinda felt like it was too mean to post on our K-BEAR page-
[laughs]
... so I posted it on my own personal TikTok.
Uh-huh.
Just because we've been asked these questions so many times and people might genuinely want to know.
They probably do genuinely, uh, want to know.
Like, the one that I really hate is like, "Did you go to school for that?" Like, you know, you hear the tone. Like, "Did you go to school for that?" Like, it's not a hobby. It's a full-time job, you know?
Yeah. Yeah, and, uh, I mean-[laughs] I'm guessing they probably, legit, do wanna know.
But I also think they're asking because you could have gone to school for something, you know, more profound-
Oh [laughs]
... not something that's radio DJing. Like, "Did you really go to school for that, you idiot?"
[laughs]
Like, that's what I feel like they're asking me.
I mean, I didn't go to school for it, but many people do. Uh, did, did you go [laughs] to school for it?
I did.
Yeah.
Cal State Fullerton.
I knew you went to school, but I didn't know if it was for that.
Yeah, I went for a radio TV film major. They quickly changed it right as I applied to, like, cinema and television arts.
Ah.
So, my resume now, all I put is cinema and television arts with emphasis in radio.
Ah.
So, that way it picks up on, you know.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Gotcha. What are some of the other dumb questions you don't like when listeners ask?
"Can you give my son a birthday shout out? He turns 12."
Uh, see-
Nobody cares about your kid.
[laughs] See-
Like, I'm not gonna go on, on a platform where there's tons of listeners and I go, "Happy birthday to little Jerry."
Peaches, that's how you stay local. I would do it. I've given birthday shout outs. I know it's kinda old school radio, but I, I'd do it.
There's that one I- [laughs] I went through the whole list yesterday. Actually, I need to pull up my notes pad here.
Yeah. Well, the one that always annoys me is just, "W- will you stop playing blank song?"
That, that's another one-
Yeah
... I need to add to that list.
'Cause it's like, "No." [laughs]
Here, here we go.
"No, I won't."
"D- Do you put on a certain voice? Show me your radio voice."
Oh, "Show me your radio voice." Yeah, if you have a fake radio voice, you're doing it wrong. You know, talk like a normal human being. If you meet me and Peaches in public, we talk just like this.
That's why you saw the lead singer of Dead Poets Society say, "Hey, dude, you have like the most radio bleep voice of all time."
Yeah. You just have that voice.
[laughs] Right.
It's just ... It is what it is, so.
Oh, what else is there?
What other questions you got, Peaches?
"Are you, like, actually live? Are you pre-recorded, like-"
Do people actually ask that?
Yeah.
Oh. Hmm. Yeah, I, uh, I guess maybe I point out that I'm live so much and I screw up so much on air, people know I'm live [laughs].
I stutter on the air. It's okay. It happens.
Well, and, you know, if you hear somebody who's just absolutely perfect on the air, they probably pre-record.
Oh, absolutely.
If they never make mistakes-
100%.
Yeah, 'cause-
My favorite is when, like, a r- a radio DJ will go like, "We got so and so in studio. What's up, brother?" And then, it goes to, like, "Oh, hey. I'm doing good."
[laughs] Yeah.
It's so pre-
[laughs]
There's somebody in the area that does that. Name rhymes with daggy.
Mm. [laughs]
[laughs]
Um, here's another one. "Do you just sit there and, like, talk in between the songs? When do you know when to talk?"
[laughs] I guess, it's a decent question, but you should, should give them the simple answer, when the music stops [laughs], when the song's over.
I need these simple answers.
[laughs]
I need to, I need to do something like that too.
Yeah, when the song's done-
That's-
... that's when I talk.
"How do you pick the music for the station?"
Oh, yeah. I've, I've been asked that and I ... It's simple, you play what's popular. Like, so easy.
Well, here's another one-
So easy
... going, going alongside that. "Can you play my cousin's song? He has like 43 monthly listeners on Spotify."
[laughs] Yeah.
"He's an up-and-comer. I think he sounds great."
[laughs]
No kidding. I would love for someone to suggest their cousin's music and say, "It sounds like garbage."
[laughs]
Please.
Just be honest.
Send us a message saying, "Our cousin, my cousin sucks, but he's nice to me and my family, so play his song."
We have a, uh, feature for, for crappy unknown music, Peaches.
[laughs]
It's called For Locals Only [laughs].
Oh, no.
And I feel fine saying that kind of thing, 'cause I'm in a local band, so I can, I can trash the local music scene. [laughs] Just playing, guys.
I-
You, you know I love all of you.
There, there's bound to be a few people that are like, "I heard through the grapevine that Victor was trashing on local bands."
[laughs]
'Cause there was that one time that one lady was still convinced that, like, you were leaving after that April Fools Day prank.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
There was that one dude that, like, that just randomly went on Facebook and started trashing on you. And she's all like, "I, I thought I heard, like, Victor L- was leaving."
[laughs]
What do you mean you heard? From who? I wanna know who, who's spreading word around town about this type of thing.
A lot of people talking crap about us, spreading rumors, Peaches.
Y- yeah. I'm, I'm-
We're very popular.
There's a lot of people though, that it's funny, when like, you stand behind a tall guy, I can hear things very well.
[laughs] 'Cause you're tall.
Yeah. No, but I can just hear things very well.
Mm-hmm.
I have great hearing, so, like, when somebody's in the, like, across the hall talking trash, I can hear it, right?
Yeah.
But like, even if you're behind me as a person, I can still hear you.
Yeah.
So, you can't just go behind me and go, "Man, this guy's too tall. I can't see around him."
[laughs] Look at this big oaf.
Yeah. Yeah, or like, like, I hear people go, "Oh, that's Peaches."
I hate tall people.
"That's Peaches right there."
[laughs]
It's like, "Then say hi."
[laughs]
This is the noon hour of madness and mayhem. It's Victor.
We're talking about my potential TikTok series of, uh, dumb questions or dumb comments we get as radio DJs. I might need to write some of these down here, because I wanna make sure I get this list correct.
It's a pretty good series, Peaches.
Yeah.
I, I think it could be pretty popular.
Dumb comments. Now, what are some dumb comments that I've gotten in the past? Oh, my favorite thing that used to happen when we did some remotes, when we'd hand out shirts and stuff, people would just walk up and go, "Oh, can I get one of these shirts?" And then we're supposed to ask them like, "Hey, do you listen to us?" They're, "Oh, no. I just don't listen to the radio."
[laughs]
And they would walk ... And it's like, "Why do you want a shirt?"
[laughs] They need clothes, Peaches.
That's, that's number one.
[laughs]
"I don't listen to the radio, I listen to Spotify."
Uh, my-
"I bet your mom prefers your brother over you."
Oh.
[laughs]
Yeah. Lately, you know, from time to time, I'll get somebody who will chime in and be like, you know, "Why don't you just stick to talking about music?"
Ooh, yeah. There you go.
You know, like I can't have any opinions on anything online except music whatsoever. And, uh, yeah. And note to those listeners, uh, I will respond with whatever your job is and tell you to only talk about that.
That, that's my favorite thing is the, uh, like, "I, I just don't listen to the radio 'cause I wanna pick my music. I listen to Pandora." And it's like, "Pandora chooses the music for you too, buddy."
Yeah. Yeah.
That's the old person Spotify.
[laughs]
Are you ... Is ... Are you that clueless you can't work Spotify?
[laughs] Did I tell you I started stirring it up a little bit with the singer of From Ashes to New last week or so?
I di- ... So, I, I heard you talking about it. I ... 'Cause I, um, I saw his comments. I didn't realize he was replying directly to you. Da-
Uh-
Danny Case?
... yeah, I don't think he ended up responding to me because at s- at some point, he deleted all of his posts on that topic.
Well, here's, here's the thing. I, I agree with him where you sh- if you are not an expert in politics, you shouldn't be, li- ... I mean, here's the thing, like, if you're on stage and you're not really a political band, and out of nowhere you come out this statement that, "Oh, we're under attack by our government," and stuff like that.
[laughs]
I'm gonna walk out of the concert 'cause I just don't ... I didn't come here for that.
[laughs] I ... But my opinion is, it's your stage and you should be able to do whatever you want.
Like, there was this-
Even if I ... And that's what I told them. I'm like, "Even though I might disagree with, uh, an artist," and I named a few. I was like, "It's still their right to get out on stage and s- say their dumb crap. It's their stage."
I, I am a fan of those who just stay out of politics overall. Like, Kobe never really went into the whole thing. LeBron though, did a whole speech about how he's being attacked and how everyth- and this whole thing. It's like, dude, you're a multi-billionaire.
[laughs] Oh.
Like, you're not getting attacked. Same with like the whole Colin Kaepernick thing, you know? The whole, that was a whole train wreck.
Like, uh, I don't know. I, I think people should be able to say whatever they want, but that, that's just me. You know, I'm, I'm fine going to a show and the band doesn't say anything. But if they did, like, you know how I thought Skillet derailed their own show by going on a rant?
Th- that's a prime example of what I'm talking about here.
You know? But-
But you can't say like, "Oh, they wanna cancel me. Now, here's Awaken Alive. Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh."
[laughs] I ... Yeah, I thought it was kinda silly 'cause I don't think anybody's trying to cancel Skillet. But
it's his stage. You know, it just seemed, seemed like it derailed the show a little bit, and that, that could happen with most bands, I think. But, you know, he ... And he never responded to my, uh, comment about, you know, "Okay, we'll just never go see Dropkick Murphys ever again, or Rage Against ..." He, he-
But those are-
... said something about, you know, if you're a political band, it's okay, and I, I don't think there's any difference.
But even then, most people just ... Uh, politics divides everybody.
It's true.
And I, I avoid it entirely because I don't wanna, like, alienate a pa- a part of my audience and that type of thing. Or, I like to make fun of everyone equally.
I agree. I agree. I made a political comment earlier about old fogeys in government, and I made sure I threw both recent presidents under the bus.
Oh, there was a hilarious picture that I saw. I think I sent it to you. Or, it shows Mitch McConnell-
[laughs]
... and then it showed some lady in a wheelchair. And it said, "Both of these two should be on Hot Ones immediately, trying those hot wings."
[laughs]
Uh, that would be ... If we saw President Trump on, on Hot Ones or ... It'd be h- ... Uh, I'd, I'd find it fun. Put, put Bernie Sanders on there too [laughs].
Bernie Sanders on Hot Ones would be hilarious, man.
I feel like he would do it.
I think, yeah.
As long as the guy, you know, asked him some interesting questions.
Sean Evans does.
He, he's all right. He's all right.
I would say he's a great interviewer.
I don't know if I'd call him a great interviewer.
Well, the worst interviewers-
He just asks questions. He doesn't, you know ... It, it's, it's like how we say you shouldn't do interviews.
Well-
Just having a list of questions.
H- Howard Stern's touted as one of the, quote, best interviewers of all time. And he'll just repeat things that have been put out there in the past that his team has brought to him.
Yeah.
Like, "Oh yeah, back in 1984, this celebrity did this. You should re- bring up that story with them to see if they bring up any other hidden details."
Ah.
Type of thing.
Hmm. Well, I mean, I guess he has gotten good content out of people. Uh, did, did they ever say if he got his contract in a re-up?
Of course he's still there.
Okay.
And-
I hadn't heard any updates since his big publicity stunt.
Well, they did the big prank with Andy Cohen and then he just said, "Yeah, I'm still here. I'm never gonna retire now because if I do, they have won." That type of thing.
Oh, geez. No, you're old. Okay?
Right. Yeah.
Back to old people.
Don Imus. He's tur- he's turned into Don Imus.
Yeah. Like, just enjoy your billions and
leave some room for some new people.
He's barely doing a show. He's on the air three days a week, if, if that, and he's not even in studio. He, he went into stut- he [laughs] went into the studio to interview Jennifer Lopez, out of all people. One of the worst divas out there. She's historically known as the most, uh, what's it called? The worst to work with, uh, really mean to everybody.
Hmm.
But he showed up in studio, and he, they did this whole interview about how, "Oh, I was never really loved by any man." You've been through five marriages.
[laughs]
You're the problem, J.Lo.
This is the noon hour of madness and mayhem, and Peaches got something.
Are you familiar with the radio station KNAC, K-N-A-C?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I saw something pop up about 'em relaunching.
It's coming back as an internet radio station, from what it seems like. Streaming once again on knac.com starting Halloween night.
Now, they did have some call, or some, some frequency numbers on there. Like-
Did they? Oh, yeah. 96.9, 94.9, 99.7 HD3.
And didn't it say they were doing it somewhere near, like, Sacramento or something?
Probably. I'm just glad to see another rock station pop up again.
Yeah.
I'm glad to see, like, the legendary call letters come back.
Yeah, I was reading through whatever post, and they were talking about, you know, the playlist, and, you know. I, I wasn't very impressed by-
Oh, yeah. I mean it's, it's-
... what they were throwing out there
... something though.
But-
Like, it's not gonna be anything crazy.
I wonder if it, if it's gonna be in LA. 'Cause LA needs a rock station.
If it is, I mean, K-Rock is screwed. KLOS is definitely screwed. But KLOS is more so like, uh, more classic rock.
All right.
And what, what else is there?
Let's see.
I mean, there's K-Rock, there's Alt 98.7 that's, like, just sissy alternative all day every day.[laughs] That should be their tagline. [laughs]
Says it's gonna be covering the I-15 corridor from Southern California to Las Vegas.
All right, so it's-
Um-
... Southern California.
That's what it says, but it- it's serving more than 40,000 square miles of the Mojave Desert. Um-
Just where you wanna listen to pure rock.
That's right.
Sand everywhere.
Yeah.
Are you on your way to Vegas to do some stupid things?
[laughs]
KNAC.
I mean, they say it's gonna be a mix of modern and classic metal, so it should be interesting. Um, uh, we'll have to check it out. We'll have to fire it up when they start streaming again, uh, 'cause that's Halloween. I mean, listeners, you should be listening to us on Halloween, obviously, 'cause we're doing nothing but, uh, Halloween tunes thanks to our friends at Juicity Vapor.
I'm very excited for Friday 'cause we got new Electric Callboy on the way. We got a whole bunch of new stuff on the way.
Yeah, dude. It's gonna-
Uh-
... be a great day. Okay, here's the specifics, Peaches, 'cause y- you probably know some of these areas better. Uh, 96.9 is gonna be KNAC-FM, and that's gonna be in Lenwood, Barstow, and Victorville area. Then they're gonna have another station-
That's pretty far east.
Yeah, then they're gonna have another station on in the Baker, California area. I don't know where Baker, California is. And then, um-
[laughs]
... Mountain Pass, California and Las Vegas, Nevada, on an HD3. But it looks, it looks like they're pretty much trying to get people to, uh, you know, listen to it online.
So here's the map.
Okay.
This is where I grew up, right here.
Yeah.
In between Long Beach and Huntington Beach. Up here-
Oh, geez
... is Barstow.
That's wa- that's way out there.
And Victorville's right there.
Yeah, that's way out there.
Yeah, Baker's like halfway to Vegas as you can see.
Okay, so you're not gonna actually be able b- able to pick it up in Southern California.
No, no, i-... Tha- tha- that's what I'm saying, like, you're on your way to the desert. Like, that was my drive. I stopped in Victorville before heading towards Nevada 'cause there's nothing.
Yeah.
I- I had to use the restroom before we made the whole giant drive from Southern California to Idaho Falls, and there literally is nothing, just sand everywhere.
Yeah.
Then all of a sudden Vegas pops up-
Yeah
... out of nowhere.
Last time I drove through Victorville, that was when the traffic started getting bad.
Mm-hmm.
And then I got annoyed all the way to the coast.
That's where, uh, McDonald's had their doors closed. I had to use the restroom, so I went to the side of the building and-
Oh
... yeah.
Hm, hm, sometimes you do what you gotta do.
The golden arches.
Yeah, um, it's gonna be interesting to see how metal this station is. I mean, they're- they're talking about how they're gonna play Metallica, Pantera, Alice in Chains, Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Five Finger Death Punch. Uh, sounds so far like an active rock station, kinda like us, but w- w- we'll have to see. We'll have to see. You think they're gonna play Chili Peppers?
Yeah.
[laughs] Probably.
I- I- I- I think- I think they're gonna do what, like, Eddie Trunk does, and goes, "All righty, ready? Here's Tesla."
[laughs]
"Here's some Stryper."
[laughs] Here's some real heavy-
Yeah, yeah
... stuff.
It's like you get that sexy lady voice [laughs] that says like, "KNAC," and it goes right into like, uh, Iron Maiden, like, "Ooh."
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