[instrumental music plays] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast.
Peaches!
We're well enough to do this show today. I'm glad.
Yeah, I'm so glad. Well, I'm out of time off, so
if I was unable to come to work today, I don't know what that means. Fired!
I, I was, uh-
Fired
... yeah, off for the most part last week.
Uh-
I just realized it's, you know, almost been a week since I've done something on the air. Well, no, Wednesday I was here.
Yeah, you were here on Wednesday.
But it wasn't that good of a show at all. It was just more so, "Hey, let me pre-record this as fast as possible in the cannonball studio."
Huh.
And then, yeah, once- once, uh-
[laughs]
... e- once Jade left, everybody else left after him, and, uh, it w- everyone was gone by, like, the time my show started.
Well, you know, my show must have been pretty good last week, 'cause I was checking, uh, you know, the podcast numbers. I had a ton of downloads yesterday [laughs].
Good for you, dude.
I'm guessing that it was like that one time where, you know, somebody was scraping all our accounts, but it looks like it was only my show. Uh, however-
Imagically, we have 10 listeners in, like, Latvia, out of all places.
We do have listeners in some weird places, when you look at the on-demand version of the show. Let's see if the noon hour had a crazy day. Nope, it was just my show yesterday. I don't know what the deal is. But, uh, our numbers for today are looking good, I think because we added everything back on, uh, YouTube. I think that's gonna help our overall numbers. Time to come back and crush Josh and Chantel. Now, I, I think, uh, that might have been a mistake, taking those off for a few months.
No, I think our YouTube channel looks sloppy, but I'm not gonna fight over this. I'm just like, "You know what? It's not my product. Not my thing."
The main page looks good.
Yeah, it looks dumb.
Just if you go to Videos, then you've got a million podcasts.
Yeah. The Videos is where I go.
See, I-
I, I never look at a channel's homepage.
Yeah.
I look at their playlists.
I go to the, the main page there.
I go to their videos and I look at their latest uploads.
Ah. Well, now you'll get to see our latest uploads pretty much every day, multiple podcasts. So, yeah, are we getting any, uh ... Yeah, we're getting some views on them, so that would explain, I, I would think, why we're getting a good boost in numbers, uh, today. So, that, that's good. That's good. So, yeah, if you are unaware, you can listen to this show, Peaches' show, my show, all our shows on demand everywhere podcasts can be found. I didn't make a separate Traffic School on YouTube, 'cause I always upload them on my show. So, if you wanna find Traffic School, you got to dig into my podcast.
Honestly, just put the cameras up and make it a video thing for ev- every Friday.
Yeah. That's a lot of work.
It's super easy to do so.
Takes a lot of work.
It does. It does take a lot of work, but you gotta-
I'm tired
... put in the effort.
Well-
It's modern day of radio.
Well, I'm sleepy. Too sleepy for that today, Peaches. No cameras on my face today.
What about like on Fridays? Like, Traffic School powered by the Advocates. You just-
Well, we-
... every Friday, turn on those lights, put on the cameras. That's about it.
This Friday we probably will, 'cause it sounds like, uh, we may have Ben from the Advocates coming by.
Who cares? I'm just saying, put the show on demand [laughs].
No. It's on demand already.
Yeah, video form is much better. No one's gonna sit there and watch a-
Who watches a video podcast?
I do.
You do?
Of course.
Yeah, I-
Tons are ... You wanna talk about crush and destroy, video podcasts [laughs].
Yeah, I, I don't watch video podcasts. I just turn them on and listen to them. I don't want ... You know what radio people look like?
Bad Friends', Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. Then you also have Theo Von's podcast, Joe Rogan's podcast is a video podcast.
Yeah, I've never watched any of those on video.
His numbers would ... Are astronomical-
Yeah
... compared to us.
Well, most people watch clips of Joe Rogan's show on video. I don't know if they sit and watch the whole thing.
I do if the-
Hell-
... guest is entertaining enough.
Yeah, I bet.
If they have ... If he has on so- some, like, stupid botanist, I'm like, "Who cares?" But if he has on, like, Adam Carolla, sure.
Yeah, I haven't listened to his show in ages. I've given it a few shots and I, I last maybe like 10 minutes. I'm like, "All right, shut up, Joe. Don't wanna hear about COVID again. It's been five years. Shut up already." His show is ... It's just bad compared to what it used to be. Bad Friends is good. I, I like that show. But, you know, Theo Von's, "Hey, I'm a dumb guy. I'm playing stupid." I, I don't know. It's, it's hard for me to listen to that too. I like his standup, but I don't like his podcast, 'cause I know he's not actually dumb. So when he plays dumb, it kind of drives me crazy. So, it's not as bad ... What's that other show with a- Andrew Schultz? I don't know how people listen to that show.
Hmm. Yeah.
I forget what it's called. But, uh, I don't know. All these comedians just need to stop the politically based podcasts. Just be funny. That's why Rogan's show blew up big. It was funny, it was entertaining, it was fun. He'd bring in a bunch of weirdos. But I think he has just less access to weirdos, 'cause he's stuck in Texas, you know? So that's why he brings on these guests. These ... Yeah. Ugh.
Well, he's not stuck in Texas. He chose to leave Los Angeles and so did everybody else.
Yeah, but the entertainment world is based in LA and New York. You know, you wanna bring in some celebrities, you gotta be in LA.
Yeah, but nobody wants to live there.
It's one of the ... It's the second-biggest city in the country, Peaches [laughs].
Yeah, but tons of people have already left California.
Yeah, but i- is Californ- is LA growing or shrinking? Let's find out here. Is LA growing or shrinking?
'Cause it seems like we, uh, looked at this.
Well, I mean, if you look at, like, what Newsom's saying, it's all s- it's prospering. But if you look at what oth- other people are saying, it's, you know ...
Let's see. You know, during the pandemic it shrunk, little b- I mean, when you talk about LA shrinking though, it's so huge that, uh, [laughs] it, it, uh-
You need less and less people there. It's too ... There's too many.
Yeah. But in 2024, they gained 31,000 residents. So, yeah.[gentle music] It, you know, a little bit of a decline 'cause people were afraid of being in the big city during the pandemic. "Oh, we're all gonna die!" And then they all started moving here and, you know, Wyoming and Montana.
I don't think they specifically chose Idaho, all of them.
Not all of them.
Like, I can tell you that much.
A lot of them moved to, yeah, places like Texas, but, ugh.
Everyone here was thinking, like every Californian's like, "I'm going to Idaho." I didn't think Idaho Falls ... I didn't know Idaho Falls existed until 2019.
Yeah. No, uh, uh, we, we had our fair share, but people were moving everywhere. They were moving to, you know, Washington and Oregon, and I mean, we, you know, definitely see people from Montana complaining about it, but yeah. I, I think that, well, I read an article on the morning show today that moving in general the last year, nobody was doing it 'cause-
So much money.
Exactly. It's too expensive.
Houses are way too pricey.
Yeah. Yeah, you want people to move, gotta get these numbers down, [instrumental music] you know?
Even getting a U-Haul.
Oh, yeah.
Depending on where you get it, it's a lot of money.
Oh, yeah, especially if you're, you're gonna cross state lines and things like that, they, they jack them rates up.
To use one from, uh, California to Idaho was like two grand at the time.
That's crazy. That's nuts, man. Yeah, it's when you get a shipping container.
But somehow it's okay for somebody to drive a U-Haul box truck without a specialty license.
Yeah. No, anybody can do it.
You know, compared to someone who needs to be trained to drive a semi.
I mean, even when I went and, uh, rented a trailer, you know, they, they don't check to make sure you know what you're doing.
Right. So someone-
You know?
... could just ram a trailer into you? [laughs]
Yeah. You know, I think they ask, "Do you want extra insurance?" And I'm like, "No, I know how to pull a trailer. I'll be fine. It's just for a day." But, I mean you can-
Get some like timid 16-year-old kid driving a massive U-Haul down the su- down the sunny side, snow covering the road.
Yeah, you can walk into any motor home dealership or, uh, and you can buy a 30-foot camper, no training needed. [laughs] They just hook it up, "All right, have fun. You get..." You know, these giant tour buses, well, if, if you got the money-
Don't you need a specialty license to drive a giant tour bus?
I don't think so. I don't think so.
I thought it was like the n- uh, class, uh, A.
Cl- uh, let's find out. Do you need a special license in Idaho to drive a motor home? I don't think you do.
Uh, let's see. RV-
Well, let's say like you don't need a specialty license in Idaho to drive a motor home, but what if like there's another state that does need a specialty license to drive one of those-
Let's see.
... and you get pulled over?
Some states do, but, uh, yeah, not here. Um-
So if you get pulled over with an Idaho license to drive a, or just an Idaho regular license-
Yeah, you're fine
... and you're getting pulled over somewhere else, like in another state where that's illegal?
Yeah, you'd have to, uh,
you know, in places like Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, New Mexico, um, if, if you're- if you have a huge, huge vehicle, which I'll have to ask Lieutenant Crane about that, but I don't think that it's a motor home. You know, as far as a motor home goes, if it's an RV, no, but if it was a 18-wheeler, yes. So, you get the biggest motor home you want, [laughs] fresh out of getting your driver's license for the first time-
Yeah, no, thank you.
[laughs] Yeah.
I already had that 16-year-old teenager ram into my car last winter.
Yeah.
I can't imagine if he did that with a motor home. [laughs]
I mean, I think they-
Just completely kills me.
I think they should require special training for it, but, uh-
Yeah, it's i- You gotta turn that thing, it's, yeah, it's too much.
It took me a bit to learn how to pull a camper, you know, 'cause I had a pre- I think I had a 28-foot camper. It was big.
Yeah.
And, uh, it takes some learning, but apparently you just get out on the road [laughs] and learn.
It's not like you learn how to sw- It's not like a, the skill where you have to learn how to swim, you just start swimming. You, you can't really just start driving the, you know, the, the giant trailer behind you. You gotta maybe weave through some cones or something.
I didn't, I just hit the road. [laughs] I just got out on the road.
Yeah, but you get lucky.
Yeah. I mean, I think that's what most people do around here. I mean, I've, I, I tried to, uh, monkey around a little bit, you know, 'cause when you back up you have to turn different than you'd think. You know, I, I practiced a bit.
And plus there's a lot more openness or open road out here versus-
Yeah, can you imagine trying to learn how to pull a RV in Connecticut?
Uh, no.
[laughs] It'd be terrible. The roads are all narrow, they were built back, you know, bef- when people were driving horse-drawn carts down the road.
Uh, i- imagine Hawaii.
Yeah.
There's these windy island roads and [laughs]-
Well, and why-
... mountainous terrain
... why would you even want an RV in Hawaii? It, you can only go so far. It's like an hour and there's no more.
Yeah.
There's nowhere else to go. [laughs]
You gotta take it on a ferry and-
Exactly
... take it back to the mainland.
"I will boat this back to the US." Can you imagine how much that'd cost?
Not back to the US, but back to the mainland.
I gu- it's different islands.
It's a part of the US.
I, w- yeah, you know what I mean, mainland US. Yeah, you know? I, I don't think I could live in Hawaii. I'd get, uh, stir crazy. I gotta, I gotta have some space.
I mean, it's not that small, but it's...
It's small enough, though.
Yeah.
I mean, w- what's the Big Island? How long to drive from one end of Hawaiian Island-
[laughs] Listeners are loving this giant long break-
... uh, you know, there... Okay
... at the beginning part of this noon hour of madness and mayhem, aren't they?
It's Monday. Uh, you can drive a full circle around the Big Island in about six hours. So-
That's longer than I expected.
Yeah, that's to do the whole loop around the whole island.
That shows you how big that island is, though.
So if you wanna-
It's not Catalina.
So if you wanna drive across it, I bet it's just a couple hours, you know, then you're done. You're out of, you're out of drive.
Yeah.
You turn around and go, it's like driving to, you know, the Utah border. But I mean, it would be a nice scenery. You're, you're in a tropical island-
Yeah
... I guess. But probably a lot of traffic, too, 'cause-
That's gotta be horrible
... everybody's stuck there. You're just stuck on an island. I don't know.[instrumental music] Anyway, people, we hope you're enjoying this show so far.
[laughs]
It's, it's gonna get better and better. [instrumental music]
Heck yeah.
So Peach, as you mentioned off-air, you were listening to the Sirius XM Holiday Station, and you weren't very impressed by it.
I was not wanting to listen to it, just my girlfriend's dad turned it on.
Mm-hmm.
And it was just the same old usual Christmas songs.
Yeah, that's what you get when it comes to Christmas, for the most part.
It- their imaging just only plays snippets of Christmas songs, and then it goes, "Home for the holidays. Sirius XM Holiday," or whatever, and then it plays more snippets, and then goes to the next song.
You don't need to play the snippets, you're already playing the songs.
Yeah. Like, you, you don't somebody hyped up to listen to that song and then play the next song that's not that song.
I've never understood radio throwing those kinda things in. You know, little, little montages of songs, and then they don't end up playing the song. Like, we play this sometimes. You've heard it a million times, we play it sometimes. But now we're not gonna play it. So it- it's just weird. It's just old radio crap. Well, I just stumbled across an article. "Is Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime Simply Horrible?" Now you know I'm a big Beatles fan, right? I do think that song is garbage. [laughs] Are you familiar with it?
Uh, yeah.
Here, here, put your headphones on.
No, I, I, I know what it is.
It's go- [singing]
Yeah, I already don't like the intro.
Yeah. No, it's ...
No, I never, I never liked this, uh, particular track, 'cause it sound- People have always had that conspiracy theory that it's like, oh, he's, he's experimented with wit- witchcraft.
Could be.
And then somebody walks in and they go, "Simply having a wonderful Christmastime."
[laughs] Don't worry about it. Nothing to see here.
Yeah, yeah.
We're just simply having a wonderful Christmastime.
But like, the moon is bright.
Yeah. [laughs]
So like, it's like that for, like, the whole setting. And that's enough.
Yeah.
Simply having-
I was listening to a little Beatles over the weekend, and-
... a wonderful Christmastime.
Like, even some Paul McCartney solo, like Band on the Run is a really good song.
Simply having a wonderful Christmastime.
But this song, it's, it's just weird. And the, the synth that goes ... [singing] Sometimes it gets, like, off-time and it's kinda jarring.
You know what?
Might be a witchcraft song.
I, I listened to that stupid John Lennon War Is Over Christmas crap.
I, I'm not a big fan of that one either.
It, it's awful. John Lennon seems like the most insufferable celebrity.
[laughs]
Him and Yoko Ono both. Yoko Ono killed the Beatles because nobody could stand to be around John and her at the same time. They were the, uh, Cynthia and Ariana Grande before that became a thing, you know?
Yeah, now why is everybody hating on them right now? I, I haven't been, you know, I've been sick.
Because they're awful.
'Cause they're awful? [laughs]
'Cause the, The Wicked Two press run. You know how ev- every celebrity, when they do a major motion picture, they have to go on these different, like, uh, these, all these different interviews-
Yeah
... to promote their movie. And, uh, w- their... Have you seen any of their interviews?
No.
It's awful. They, they will sit there and cry and hold hands and-
[imitates crying]
... and if anybody says anything remotely weird to Ariana, then Cynthia's all over them, and it's like, she's like they're, she's her weird protector. Papa Meat made a whole cartoon of the two.
I, I haven't watched it yet. Is it pretty good?
Uh, it, uh, it's y- what you'd expect.
It, okay.
Yeah.
It's a Papa Meat cartoon. [laughs]
Yeah, i- it's making fun of two celebrities who you have no idea if they even eat anything at all, 'cause they're so skinny.
They are both looking pretty thin.
Yeah.
That's for sure. And you know, it's the time of year to eat.
There was a picture of Amy Winehouse that I saw, like, towards the end of her life, you know, she was suffering through and all that?
Yeah, she wasn't looking pretty good towards the end.
And it said, like, she was cast [laughs], cast for Wicked.
Oh, geez. Not nice. Not nice. [laughs] [instrumental music] So Peaches, have you been watching the new Stranger Things episode?
Not at all.
Not at all, huh? Okay. You've seen all the other seasons, right?
Yes.
Okay. I've watched about an episode and a half, I think? I, I'm just kinda surprised as I scrolled Reddit here. People are really hating on these new episodes, and I'm kinda wondering why, 'cause they seem like run-of-the-mill Stranger Things to me. What, what happened? Are people just angry?
Uh, yeah.
You know, like, I get-
I mean, there's tons of dumb people on the internet now. I mean, there always has been, but now they're even louder than ever.
Like, I get that the kids are older, you know, they're not really kids anymore, but you gotta suspend-
Who cares about that?
... disbelief a little bit, you know? Just-
But the, the, people loved the Harry Potter movies. You saw those guys, those kids go from, you know, young, little kids to full-on adults.
Yeah. Yeah, and people, tho- those movies, like you said, are beloved.
Yeah.
Beloved. So I'm, yeah, I was just kinda wondering what's going on. They have, I mean, I haven't made it through all of them.
Well, I know it was weird. Millie Bobby Brown, like, did this whole, like, "Oh, David Harbour harassed me." And then-
But then she said he didn't.
But then, yeah, she was at a premier with him.
Yeah, and they were talking about how, you know, they have the best working relationship, blah, blah, blah, and so I don't know what was going on with that. Maybe that didn't help things either, 'cause it got people riled up tow- toward the show-
Well, she seems like a-
... before it even aired.
Speaking of insufferable, she seems very-
She might be.
The next J.Lo.
Could be. Didn't she just get married to Jon Bon Jovi's son?
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Yeah. And they adopted a kid together.
Okay. Yeah. I mean, I don't know where I was gonna go with that. I'm just-
That's the most LA thing to do. [laughs] Like, just-
[laughs]
... just let's adopt a kid, make ourselves look good in the spotlight.
Well, those kids do need homes, Peaches.
They do, but it's not like... Imagine being that kid that's chosen for Jon Bon Jovi and Mi- uh, with Jake Bongiovi and Millie Bobby Brown.
Does he make music like his dad?
I don't know.
What, yeah, what does he do? He just is a celebrity last name?
Sure.
[laughs]
It's not even Bon Jovi, it's Bongiovi.
Bongiovi. Yeah, I know, it's kinda weird, but I, I guess Bon Jovi sounds better than Bongiovi. Sound like, you know, someone who will drag you down to the back room at a casino when you-
Does-
... you know, have been cheating at the games and put your head in a vice.
Does that mean m- she's Millie Bob- M- Millie Bobby Bongiovi?
Millie Bobby Brown Bongiovi. [laughs]
Yeah.
That's a lot of names.
Wow.
[laughs]
Millie Bobby Bongiovi.
Like, that's enough B's-
Like you're casting a spell.
[laughs]
I'm gonna make a little Harry Potter thing.
<< Simply having a wonderful Christmas >> She's hanging out with Paul McCartney, engaging in-
[laughs]
... Christmas witchcraft rituals.
Yeah. [laughs]
[laughs] All H- well, Stranger Things is evil, right? Isn't that, uh, a thing?
Uh, I don't know. Maybe.
I would assume it is. I mean, if Harry Potter was evil, you would think Stranger Things has gotta be. They're pulling in some kinda demons from other dimensions.
I did, I did like seeing the different, uh, posts made about the, uh, radio station in Hawkins.
[laughs] Oh, the radio world right now, all they can talk about is this online station. Have you listened to any of that?
No.
Me either. 'Cause they, they said they make it sound like an '80s radio station. Like, why would you wanna listen to that? That's gonna sound terrible. Like, they processed it to sound like the '80s. One thing I did get a kick out of in Stranger Things, the first episode of the new season, is they were showing 'em do like old school radio, running sounds off of carts and things like that.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, it w- it was fun to watch and I'm just like, man, I am so glad we don't have to do radio like that. It would've sucked so bad to work in radio in the '80s. The pay was way better. You know, people were making bank in radio.
Yeah, but I feel like everybody in town is tuned into you. Like, right now, people are like halfway paying attention. Back then, everybody was tuned into you.
Yeah, 'cause, you know, your entertainment options were so thin.
Yeah.
You had three TV channels, they all sucked. And, or you had the radio, and you might hear some rock and roll music and Wolfman Jack, or, I, I don't know. If you were lucky, you could get Howard Stern, but we didn't have that around here. Nobody Airs Stern-
Oh, I can only imagine-
... in east Idaho
... what that would've been like.
Yeah. It w- it would've been great.
[laughs]
It would've been great. Every time I'd go visit Minnesota, I'd be like, "All right, I can listen to Howard Stern," and it was fun. But around here, yeah, i- it was very typical, uh, '80s radio, and I, I don't know. Radio people get so nostalgic about the old days, and it's like, it, it wasn't that good, you know? Maybe it's just because radio sucks so bad now in general, you know, for the most part, but ...
Well, the old people, uh, are the, are to blame for that.
That's true.
Like, they're the ones in charge.
Ooh. Well, at least iHeart isn't gonna use AI people. That's what they say.
They say that now.
That's what they say now. And I guarantee that at least half of their commercials they're airing are AI people.
Well, Teddy Swims, I think just threw his career in the toilet 'cause he just said like, "Oh yeah, I use AI. It's a beautiful tool for my music."
Do you know how many artists are using AI? Tons.
But that's what I'm saying, like-
Yeah
... he's openly admitted it now.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, tha- that was a bold move. Bold move, but I bet tons of artists are using AI, 'cause i- i- it eliminates, uh, so much of the, uh, the writing process. Like, he was talking about using it to help out with lyrics and things like that. Writing lyrics sucks. It takes a long time. You gotta really think your way through it, unless you're Daft Punk. You know?
[laughs]
Everybody else-
Going back to that.
Everybody else has to put real effort into writing their [laughs] lyrics. They don't just find four words and go, "Good enough, 'One More Time.' [laughs] 'Around the World.' That's great. It's a hit. Pun- punch that in 100 times." Uh, by the way, our Noon Hour of Madness amaze- mayhem song, it's a big hit, you know, on- amongst, uh, at least two Daft Punk fans that I know, Becca and her daughter. They find it very catchy [laughs], and th- they'll just rock it, which is, is so funny. It's pretty catchy.
Have they synced the, uh, Christmas lights up to it yet from the tree?
Oh, we should. We should. I did get my, uh, Christmas tree that can be synced to lights running last night.
Sync that song. Put Jade Davis Smells-
Jade Davis Smells-
... in q- in the queue too, yeah.
It's another big hit. Yeah.
Jade Davis Smells.
We're coming for you, Daft Punk.
So Peaches, did you do any Black Friday or, uh, Small Business Saturday or any Christmas shopping this weekend?
No, not at all.
None at all. I bought a few things. You know, Fat Kid Deals helps out a little bit. You can find some stuff on there, mindless shopping. Be like, "Oh yeah, my brother might like that."
I haven't touched, touched, uh, Twitter in such a long time now.
Uh, me either, but I remembered Fat Kid Deals [laughs] and was like, that, that, that might be an option for figuring out some things. I, I, you know, when you came over to help me move crap around my house yesterday, a couple speakers I mentioned 'cause I wanna shampoo my smelly, you know, living room from those horrible cats. Um, I saw that, you know, I was gonna go rent one of those like industrial size, you know, carpet cleaners. You know, like the Rug Doctor or the-
Yeah
... Bissell.
Right.
Well, they had a sale going online where you can buy one of those giant machines and then you just keep it, but it'd still be a few hundred bucks, and I'm like, do I just do that instead of renting one? 'Cause what if you end up having to rent it more than once? Then you're already like a third of the way to, uh, buying the machine, and, you know, those are quality machines. I don't know what to do. What do I do?
Might as well just buy it, if you wanna p- have carpet in your house for the rest of your life.
Yeah, I mean, I got carpet everywhere, so you know, having a high quality machine... The only problem is, it's still a bunch of money.
Luckily, I don't plan on ever having carpet or pets, so that's good. [laughs]
Ah, that's what you say now.
No. No, Aubrey hates pets too.
She hates pets too?
Oh yeah.
Okay. You know, you gotta find people that you have something in common with, so tha- that's good Peaches, 'cause pets are a pain. I'm a cricket farmer now. Last night, I get woke up by Becca at midnight, and did I tell you this earlier?
No.
On the morning show?
No, not at all.
So I get woke up at midnight, I'm, I was already sleeping bad. She's in a panic because they can't find the lizard, the gecko, and I'm like, "Well, there's no way it got out of the cage. It's a big glass terrarium. It can't climb the sides. The lid's secure. What do you mean it's gone?" And it had... it's so small it crawled under the paper towels under the bottom and you couldn't tell that it was underneath them. It was just hiding under paper towels, and they were both freaking out. You know, you got a crying kid, "My lizard's gone." I'm like, "It's gotta be in here." So I start moving things around, and, uh, lo and behold, move the paper towel. There it is. And I'm like, "All right, I gotta go back to bed." The- and then I got Kupa in the room and he's just trying to sit on my head and yowling. I'm like...[instrumental music plays] When does it end with these animals, Peaches? It's mayhem.
When they die.
I guess, but then you somehow end up with another one. I went from one cat, about a year and a half ago-
Yeah, I, I remember. You were contemplating that second one.
Yeah. Went from one cat to now-
Poor Koopa.
... four... Oh, and he ha- yeah.
'Cause poor friendship's not enough for you, you're like, "I need to get a m- just a kitten."
Yeah. Well, I wanted him to have a friend, 'cause he seemed bored and he was getting really an- antsy. Like, when I'd get home from work, he wouldn't leave me alone, so I was like, "He needs some entertainment." So I got him Lucy. Now, there's cats everywhere, and a dog, and a lizard, and crickets. So you never know, Peaches. Maybe Aubrey told you she doesn't like pets. Does her family have pets?
No.
No?
They sh- they grew up with like, the da- the dad does not want a pet in the house whatsoever.
Okay. You-
And there's some drama with, uh, the, the whole pet thing.
Hmm.
'Cause, uh, her younger brother, Aubrey's younger brother has a dog now, and the mom has somewhat allowed the dog to be in the house, and that-
Ah
... was a huge fight between the parents. But-
I, I'll, I'll bet. Yeah.
Yeah, Aubrey, every time she sees a dog, she'll go, "Ew. Like, I don't want, I don't want anything to do with that."
I remember when, uh, you know, family would bring over a dog. Um, I was like, "Ugh." And they all have giant dogs. Thankfully, Becca's dog is not giant. It's about as big as I could tolerate. It's not small, but it's not... It's not like a big, black lab or something that crashes through your house. [laughs]
[laughs]
You know, they hit you with their tail and it hurts. You're like, "What? Ow! Ah!"
[laughs]
Just whip you with the... Their tail's like an arm, you know? You're just getting punched by a dog, so... Enjoy the holiday season, everybody, [laughs] with people dragging their pets into your house. Uh, what do you miss the-
Well, don't be that person, that drags their dog into somebody else's house, like, at Thanksgiving.
That's what people do when they have dogs. 'Cause you can't leave a dog alone for too long.
What do you mean?
I don't know, I mean-
You can p- you can leave a dog at the house on Thanksgiving, and be like, "Okay, we'll be back in a few hours."
That's what kennels are for. You put it in the kennel so it won't rip your couch to shreds, or eat the whole roll of toilet paper, or-
Or if it's a properly trained dog, it'll just sleep in the... You know, wake up when you're back.
I'm pretty sure you gotta put them in a kennel. Dogs-
No, Rover was fine.
Dogs... Yeah.
Daphne was also fine, too. She slept for the most part, but-
Wouldn't rip your house apart when you're-
No
... when you guys were gone, huh?
No.
Mm-hmm, yeah, I don't, I don't trust most dogs. They make a mess, you know? And if they're gonna take a big dump, you want them to do it [laughs] in a contained environment. Makes it easier to clean. All right, hope that, uh, talk helped, you know, stir your appetite, everyone, for lunchtime. Um, I'm gonna have to keep drinking coffee, Peaches. I felt like I was gonna fall asleep in the studio earlier.
Well, it's hot in the studio. It's like a sauna in here.
I, I can't regulate it.
J- j- Josh keeps messing with the, the overall temperature of the building.
Well, tell him to stop messing with it.
'Cause he's, he's like, "It's freezing in the classy studio." I'm like, "Dude, you're wearing a thin golf shirt."
Yeah, put on a hoodie. Yeah, it's winter.
And so we're wearing hoodies, and yeah, it's like a sauna in this whole building now.
Hmm.
So I had to turn the AC on.
Do you have the vent closed? Oh, yeah, you should close the vent. That'll help. That'll help it out in here. We're gonna close vents, we're gonna cool this place down. Uh, bye. The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information or to contact the show, visit riverbendmediagroup.com.