[heavy metal music plays] Good morning, people. Welcome to the Victor Wilt Show. I hope your morning is going good so far. Mine's, it's all right. You know, not too shabby. [guitar strums] Could've gotten a little bit more sleep, but that's the ushe. Had a pretty good night. Got the kids in town and ended up heading to the mall. Hadn't been to the mall in a while. Doing a little bit of Christmas shopping, and that was all right. You know, I can only tolerate so much of the mall, but managed to get some cool things. So, so that was fun, and, you know, then ended up doing some late night running around. It was a bit unexpected, but that's okay. Mowed down some Taco Bell then went, "Oh, jeez, it's late. Time to go to bed." And here I am doing the show, making it through a Tuesday. We'll crush it down. We'll get it done. Let's see what we got going on online. Oh, yeah. Threads about sleeping, just what I wanna see when I would really enjoy sleeping right now.
"What's the most annoying sound in the world when you're trying to sleep?" Now, I'm a pretty heavy sleeper. I can sleep through a lot. I can fall asleep with noise going on. Sometimes I can fall asleep with the lights on. I mean, you put me in a dark room, it, it's almost over. I'll just fall asleep middle of the day. You know, movie theater? That's a dangerous ground for me. Well, let's see if, uh, I could sleep through what people are saying are annoying sounds when you're trying to sleep. Oh, jeez. Cat doing the about to vomit sound. That will get me out of bed, uh, m- faster than any alarm clock, that's for sure. No! [laughs] Please don't puke on the carpet. Told this story a little while back about, uh, you know, trying to doze off and next thing I know, Lucy's about to vomit. Jump up, try to get her out of the room as fast as possible and she just projectile vomits across the, the entire carpet at like 11:00 at night. Ugh. That was not good. Not good. Nothing worse than when you're just, you, like, you just wanna go to sleep [laughs] and then something like that happens. [imitates vomiting] Okay. Yeah, can't sleep through that sound. Oh, battery dying in a smoke detector. Doot. Doot. Ugh.
This thread might get really annoying. What could be worse than those?
All right, animals cleaning themselves. It, it, I guess it depends how loud. You know, it... The cat vomit sounds much worse. Mosquitoes buzzing. Yeah, uh, uh, what about if there's a fly in the room? Just flying around. Ah. It's the worst. It's like, "Can you just land, bro?" No, I'll, I'll get up and deal with the fly. Mosquitoes buzzing would be probably even worse 'cause I tend to have a bad reaction to mosquito bites. Thumping bass from loud music outside. See, I, I, I can tune that out. I can tune that out pretty good. I think it's because, uh, you know, my bedroom's next to my living room and if the sound system's on, there tends to be some bass. So I've learned how to, you know, just block that out and go to sleep. Oh, this person says when they work night shifts, leaf blowers were the worst. Uh, yeah, I, I could probably sleep through that. You know, shut the window and then... I don't know. I've, again, I can generally crash out pretty good unless it's the
[imitates vomiting] crickets. Um, last night I discovered that, I, I think it was my fault, I had left the little plastic lid... There's two portions of the plastic lid on the, uh, cricket cage
for the crickets that we feed the lizard, and
I think it had to have been me, but the little plastic lid was cracked just, like, a tiny bit, one corner, and a bunch of crickets got out [laughs]. And me and my daughters were catching crickets. Uh, I, I think we got a lot of 'em, but I told 'em I was gonna bring 'em the Shop-Vac just in case. Hopefully they weren't kept up by cricket sounds [laughs]. I'll have to take a look when I get home. All right. I'm, I'm done looking at articles or threads about sleeping 'cause it just reminds me of what I wish I was doing, so I'm gonna continue drinking caffeine, find some other crap to talk about, and, uh, we'll get this party... Well, we'll keep this party going. Again, we're gonna crush Tuesday. It's gonna be over fast. [heavy metal music plays] So yesterday, I read a story about a goose, like, beating the crap out of somebody at a park. And when I saw this next headline, I ended up being disappointed when I read the actual story. Let me read you the headline here. "Florida woman faces felony charge after throwing chicken during fight." Immediately, I assumed... This is a Florida woman. She threw a chicken at someone. So I had to know more. Well, apparently an argument broke out during dinner. Uh, the woman retrieved a kitchen knife, pointed it toward the victim, making contact with her hand without causing cuts, and then, you know, she ended up telling the cops when they showed up she'd been jumped, but they determined, you know, she was the aggressor. Uh,
yeah, she had thrown just a piece of chicken at the, uh, other woman's face, which started the argument. Now-[heavy metal music] The article says they don't know if it was raw or cooked chicken, but I'm disappointed that it wasn't an actual chicken. You know? What a bunch of bull crap. Oh, I thought Josh was gonna come in here. Just walked by. Where you going, buddy? [heavy metal music] What's he doing out there? What's he building out there? I don't know. Hopefully he's not going to retrieve a chicken. I don't know. Maybe he's in a bad mood this morning. Things getting crazy over at Classy 97? You know, [laughs] the, the Christmas music has started to cook their brains. You never know. [rock music] Still a little frustrated it's only Tuesday, but whatever. We'll crush it down. We'll get through it. And I don't know what's going on down the hall, but Classy is making a bunch of racket. All right? I don't know if they're having guests in the studio or something, but the door to the lobby is, you know, right outside my studio. And over and over and over again, just bam, bam, bam, bam, door opening and closing. And I've had a number of DJs who work at K-BEAR over the years that would get frustrated when people slam the door. And I'm like, "Just settle down. It's just the door shutting. Okay? Don't get all frustrated about it. It's just a door closing." But this morning, I'm just like, when it was over and over and over again. And there's, like, nobody here. I'm like, "What are you guys doing?" All these people walking by. But I think it was just Josh and Chantel over and over again. I don't know what they're doing. I suppose I could wander down there and check it out, but they stopped with their, uh, racket. There was all kinds of just noise happening out there. [laughs] D- do I need some more coffee or something? More caffeine? Like, "Meh, get off my lawn. Meh, stop making so much noise. Meh." Ugh. Just sometimes, you know, sometimes I'm down with as much noise as possible. Extremely loud music, just blasting racket. Other times, like, just give me some silence. And apparently this morning is silent time needed in the Victor Wilt, uh, world. [laughs] Which is funny 'cause I'm sitting in a studio listening to music. But the, uh... [knocks on desk] That's not a good, uh, door slamming sound, me tapping the mic. Just getting to me a little bit. Maybe I'll go down there and give them a talking to. [laughs] Ugh. Hope nothing's eating at your nerves this morning. I, I think I probably just, yeah, need more caffeine and more sleep. The same complaints I have every day. Went to bed too late.
Someday I'll learn my lesson. Someday. 'Cause when it comes to sleep, ah, sometimes there's never enough. [rock music] So, I just shared a video on the K-bear... Well, in the K-Bear 101 Idaho Rock and Metal Group of a bear that showed up at a Tennessee Christmas parade. Pretty bizarre. People don't seem to be fazed by the bear at all. They're just standing around like, "Okay, there's a pretty large black bear just walking the streets."
Even if it's a black bear, you should stay away from it. Okay? I was just watching a video
from a circus in, I believe, China, where they had a black bear riding one of those hoverboard things. You know? And apparently, bears don't like to ride hoverboards, 'cause eventually the bear gets fed up and [laughs] just, bam, tackles the trainer to the ground and, you know, just starts clawing and biting the crap out of him in front of terrified audience. [laughs] Um,
yeah, the trainer afterward, you know, s- claimed he wasn't hurt and that the bear that he had raised from the time it was little didn't mean to hurt him. It was just going for a bag of carrots that he had on him. I mean, I don't know. It looked like he was going for your face. [laughs] Looked like he did not enjoy riding, you know, the electric scooters and then finally hoverboard. So,
you know, I just gotta say, uh, I love another instance of animals fighting back against people. [laughs] Sorry, I'm not a big fan of the circus. You know? I don't think bears are supposed to ride hoverboards, and, uh... Yeah, didn't Siegfried & Roy say something similar when, you know, one of those two got attacked by a tiger? Like, "No, he was trying to save me." Um,
don't monkey with wild animals. Okay? Even if you've, uh, trained them, they're still wild animals. And when they snap, th- they can really mess you up. My cat can really mess me up, and he is a domesticated nor, nor... well, sort of normal cat. He's got a little bit of mental issues. [laughs] He's got some anxiety. I did put a anti-anxiety collar on him yesterday at the, uh, suggestion of my daughter. I forgot I even had any of those, but, uh, we'll see if it helps him out any. Uh, she gave him a catnip toy as well, and he seemed to enjoy that. Hasn't attacked me recently, but he's done it before, so I can't imagine if he was, uh, you know, the size of a bear. Would- wouldn't be good, even though I've trained him to, uh, know what the word treats means, things like that. So,
just b- be bear aware everybody, okay? And don't try to make them ride hoverboards. It's not cute. It might seem entertaining, but
what... Well, I don't know. What's more entertaining? [laughs] Bear riding a hoverboard or a bear snapping from riding a hoverboard and attacking a trainer at the circus? Um,
depends, uh, what type of entertainment you're into, I guess.
[instrumental music] All right, where shall we begin with today's freak news? The worst drivers in America? Sure. Um, crazy enough, it's not Utah. No, North Dakota, the worst drivers in the country. But let's, let's talk about the top 10.
Looks like a number of 'em do happen to be right here in our vicinity. Uh, number two is actually New Jersey,
but then we go to number three, and Utah does have the third-worst drivers in America according to some kind of study I found online. Is it true? Who knows? But we all can't stand you Utah drivers around here, so I've gotta throw you under the bus. '08 Idaho's number seven. [laughs] Eh, we got some bad drivers around here. We do! I see it all the time, people driving like idiots. But we're not as bad as Washington. I'm sure you've heard me complain about driving through the Seattle area. Uh, it sucks. It's aggravating. One of the worst, uh, amounts of traffic in the entire country, but also terrible drivers. You might be surprised that, uh, uh, Seattle or Washington itself even beat out California. Yeah, California coming in at number nine, known for terrible drivers. No, only number nine. And Montana comes in at number 10. [laughs] The, the only states anywhere close to us that are not one of the worst places, uh, apparently to drive in the country would be Oregon and, uh, Wyoming. Wyoming likely because there's nobody there. [laughs] It's pretty empty. Uh, let's see here.
Stuart has been trying to send me links on Facebook, and for some reason if it's a link to an outside story, uh, Facebook just crashes on me. So I saw the image in his, uh, message of this antique pistol, but I wasn't able to bring up the story. Happened to find it elsewhere. A guy robbed a liquor store with an antique gun. All right, if somebody pulled out a... What, what kind of gun is this? I mean, it's from the, the 1800s. I don't know. Employees describe it as an old-timey musket. Um, you know, even if it looks like a, a gun that probably can't fire 'cause it's so old, I'd, I'd still probably hand over the dough. Thankfully, with all the crazy stuff that went down in Burley when I worked there, the store got robbed a few different times, but it was, like, an overnight break-in. Thankfully, I never had somebody point a gun in my face, which for Burley is pretty dang amazing. So, this seems like the type of story that could happen in Burley, somebody bringing in an antique pistol, give me all the money in the register. And like, "Dude, come on. There, there's not that much in here anyway. I don't need this grief." Which is worse though, having somebody literally rip the wall off the store you work in in the middle of the night during the winter, and then you have to sit there and freeze while they build a temporary wall, or somebody pointing a musket in your face? I don't know. They both sound pretty aggravating. Uh, what else do we have here? Scams. Got more scams, and
I just wonder how people fall for these things. Like, you gotta talk to the old people in your life and h- help 'em out a bit. Thankfully, a bank teller s- you know, saved a woman from blowing thousands of dollars after notice- noticing signs of a scam. This woman was contacted over the phone. They said she missed jury duty and needed to pay a cash bond to avoid getting arrested. So what they told her to do was go to her bank, withdraw cash, and deposit it into a Bitcoin ATM. I have a feeling that if the court system is demanding money from me for real, you're probably gonna go pay that at the courthouse, kay? If somebody asks you to, you know [laughs], convert your savings into gold bars and meet them in an alley somewhere and hand it to 'em, or wire it to 'em, you know, stick it in a Bitcoin ATM, you might wanna call the courthouse and check on your records, kay? See if you have a warrant out for your arrest or if you missed jury duty. Yeah, she got to the, the bank, tried to get [laughs] thousands of dollars out,
and, uh, she's on the phone at the same time with the scammer, and the teller slid her a note saying, "You're being scammed," and wouldn't let her finish the transaction. So at that point, the woman hung up the phone and called the sheriff's office. Thankfully, this bank teller was looking out for he- you know [laughs]. That's when you know you got a good bank, you know? A lot of workers out there, be like, "Okay, you wanna just take your money out? Sure, just wha- whatever." Please leave. Leave me alone. I'm just trying to get through my workday. Nicely done by that bank teller. But yeah, talk to the old people in your life. These scams are going on all the time. You know, if Brad Pitt messages 'em and is like, "I'm in love with you. Please send me money. I need it real bad," you might wanna tell him it's probably not real. All right, it's a little after 8:00. Hopefully plenty more coming up on the show. It's been a tough news day but we're making it through. We'll see how it goes. [instrumental music] I don't know if you're familiar with Rick Beato. He runs a YouTube channel just talking about all things music, and he recently put out a video asking, you know, "Where are all the rock and metal bands?" And, you know, "Is, is rock and metal dead?" You know, basically was the gist of this. And-
[instrumental music plays] You gotta be crazy to think that rock and metal is just dead in 2025. I think this was the biggest year for rock music that I can think of in the entire time I've worked at K-Bear. You know, you have some bands blowin' up huge, and these are newer bands. There were not a lot of bands that went to playing huge arenas, you know, during, I don't know, the mid-2005 to 2015 years. Not a lot of huge superstar acts that came, came outta nowhere since, you know, the late '90s, early 2000s. And I mean, in the last like just couple of years alone, you have bands like Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Ghost, movin' into these huge arenas. Sleep Token's entire tour was sold out. In 2025, you know, they're, they're gonna be moving into massive, massive venues. Bad Omens playing the Delta Center. I, uh, I saw 'em a couple years ago at The Union, you know? Saw 'em open for Underoath and Spiritbox just a couple years before that, and we had 'em in the studio. Now, they're headlining the Delta Center. And today, I saw that the New York Times announced their list of the best songs of 2025. Not best rock songs, just best songs. Wasn't even gonna really glance at it, but it turns out whoever wrote the article decided that Sleep Token's Caramel is the best song of 2025. They put it ahead of songs by, like, you know, Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Bieber, and you know, all these huge, massive pop stars. Put it ahead of songs by Jelly Roll and, you know, other country superstars. That's pretty wild to me. That's pretty crazy to me that Sleep To- 'cause, you know, the, the first half of that song's pretty dang mellow. But at the end, you know, if you listen to what's going on in the background, it's like straight up black metal. So, I was gonna check out the entire list at the New York Times website, see what some of the particular tracks that they beat out were, but it's one of these, you know, oh, you gotta sign up and give us your email and blah, blah, bl- I'm, I'm, I'm not gonna do it, all right? I get enough junk in my email as it is. You know, just, just kind of note to the news,
if, if you have those kind of restrictions on your website,
you're just gonna go elsewhere to find the information, you know? So I, I just did some Googling and
found other places where I could read a little bit more about it, but they were all rock and metal sites, so they didn't break down the full list. They were just talking about how cool it was that Sleep Token was at the top. But
I s- I've said it for years and I'll say it again, there will be a time when rock and metal is the biggest genre in the world again. Some of you may be too young to remember
the late '90s when... You know, Woodstock? It was like the biggest concert event of the year. The headliners were Limp Bizkit, Korn, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now, you look at things like Coachella and stuff like that, it's, it's a bunch of pop and hip hop acts. Uh, that's gonna turn around. It's gonna turn around and... You know, with some of these newer bands, maybe they're not everybody's cup of tea,
but they're driving the genres forward, so you should be, you should be happy for the su- the success of bands like Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Ghost, et cetera. They're, they're doing great things for the formats, and I, I think it's pretty awesome that [laughs] the New York Times
would pick a Sleep Token track as its best song of the year. A- now, it's not my favorite song on the album. I think there are better songs than that, but it's definitely a big hit song. So, yeah. Very, very cool. Very, very cool stuff. [instrumental music plays] Morning, Peaches.
Good morning.
It's apparently concert announcement day, huh?
The months of March and May, e- everybody's wallet is going to deplete.
Yes. Uh, pretty much any band you could imagine coming to Salt Lake City, it would appear.
Yeah, and Boise too.
And Boise. But, uh, what, what shows did you post today? We had, uh, Dethklok with Amon Amarth.
Yes.
Uh-
I'm not go- I'm not... Uh, yeah, I'm gonna try to say the tour. The Amonklok Conquest.
[laughs] Very nice.
The... I, I messed up saying it and said some bad word like, right by Andrea's office over there.
Ah.
I was telling Jeff about the tours. [laughs]
[laughs] And then you just showed me Bloody Wood. Um...
With, uh, The Pretty Wild, Ladronas, and, uh, Encore. For Encore.
Nice, and it seemed like there was something else that was announced this morning too.
Oh, there was, uh, Slaughter to Prevail, Whitechapel, and Atilla.
That's right. That, that one... That's a pretty good lineup. Oh yeah, dude. I, I might have to go check that one out. Too many shows, man. Too many good shows coming up. You know, we need to win that lotto to be able to afford the hotel rooms.
Oh, I know. It's-
Too old, too old to drive back.
[laughs]
[laughs] It's... Ugh, just late. Late driving back after a show. Plus, you know, depending on the time of year, it could be terrible driving conditions.
It helps to have a significant other that has a car and you can be like, "Hey, could you drive us over there?"
Yeah.
"I'll pay you in gas," quote unquote. And then you just-
Yeah, there you go.
"Oh, I don't have any money on me. Maybe next time."
Oh, that reminds me. I was gonna tell the dudes who, uh, are struggling with finding a significant other, they should move to Latvia, Peaches.
Sure.
Yeah. They have a, uh, a shortage of men there 'cause apparently in Latvia, dudes don't live very long. They all smoke and eat terrible and die young, so there's a, a shortage of men to the point where they've started a new industry. It's basically, you know, a handyman, but they're, they just call 'em a, you know, hourly husbands.
I did see something... I d- I thought I saw this yesterday and I thought it was more so like a-[rock music] ... towards something we couldn't talk about on the air?
Yeah, that's what you would think!
But-
But no, it's to come over and, like, fix broken appliances and this and that.
Oh, that's cool.
But, yeah, apparently there's, like, you know, almost two women for every man.
Nice.
So, yeah. [laughs]
Very nice!
If you're struggling in the dating scene, just gotta get over to Latvia!
Yeah, become one of those dudes that all of a sudden goes, "This is my Latvian wife." You know, what's it- what's it called? Passport boyfriend?
Yeah, I don't- I don't know. It's probably tougher in this day and age, but-
'Cause like, there's a lot of passport bros.
Passport- [laughs]
That's what- that's what they're called. They fly over to these, uh, European countries 'cause they're sick of the women here in the US.
I think I watched a Papa Meat video about that.
Yeah.
Yeah. He, you know, th- those guys are pretty cringe, for sure. [laughs] Kinda seem like a bunch of dirt bags.
Sure.
Passport bros.
No kidding.
But yeah! You know, if you wanna go find yourself a lady, Latvia is apparently where it's at. All you gotta do is just n- not die, you know? Don't smoke and try to eat decent, and then, you know, you'll probably have a pretty good life there.
I- I was telling people yesterday to go to Siberia because, you know, there's- there's the whole, "Where's the snow?" crowd. I'm like, "Go to Yakutsk, Si- uh, Siberia where it's -35 degrees right now. It can reach as low as -84."
Yeah, move to the Midwest! It sucks every year there! Tons of snow and it's freezing cold. If you love it, move there. Uh, as far as I'm concerned, this weather can continue all the way 'til March.
[laughs] Yeah.
You know?
Thank you.
I'm totally down.
I don't care if it's windy.
Yeah. [laughs]
That's just fine with me.
You know, uh, we don't-
But-
... have to have a white Christmas, all right?
It's a high of 50, low of like 35, 40, oh!
Oh, yeah, dude!
Perfect!
Yeah, it- it was great getting up and coming to work today, aside from the wind. I mean, it- it was blowing out there pretty good, but you know, inside my vehicle it was nice. You just roll the windows up. Wind's not a problem, so. All right. I don't know what we're gonna talk about next. It's been a s- a slow news day, lots of digging-
I saw-
... but we'll find something.
I saw In-N-Out, uh, got rid of the number 67 in their, uh, system.
What is ... Why are people so
just whiny about everything? Uh, just like, the more you let something like 6-7 bother you, the more kids are gonna do it. People get so worked up over the dumbest things. Like, who cares? And people have been laughing at other numbers for many, many years, PJ! [laughs]
Well, In-N-Out doesn't have the number 69.
I know! It- which is ridiculous.
Now it goes 66, 68, 70.
Ugh!
Why was six afraid of seven?
[laughs] Well, 'cause 7, 8, 9!
7, 8, 9! [laughs]
[laughs] Ugh. All right, well, uh, the- n- In-N-Out just went down a notch in my book.
Why?
Because!
Th- th- can you imagine you were working there? You have to wear the stupid uniform, the paper hats, i- and- and then you go, "Order number 67," and then you get some stupid kid in the back of the restaurant doing the dance on the chair?
[laughs] That's just-
And you get that all day every day. They're screaming their heads off. Kids are already annoying as it is-
Hey, if you-
... but the- the second you trigger a meme in their head, "6-7!" [laughs] Uh, th-
Hey, dude. You know-
Throw the burger at them.
If having to yell out numbers is part of your job, just do it. It's like when hotels don't have a 13th floor. Everybody knows what the 14th floor is. It's the 13th floor. They just don't put it, uh, you know-
[laughs]
... they don't number it that way.