[upbeat music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast.
[upbeat music] K-Bear, how's it going?
Hi, um, I was just calling. I heard a commercial the other day that you guys were doing a Nintendo Switch 2 contest with, like, a little jingle sound, and I, I was just curious if that, um, had already happened.
Uh, we're doing that this week and next week, so you can keep listening for that Mario sounder. And, uh, if you hear it played, be caller number 20, we'll put you into the drawing for the Nintendo Switch, and you can also enter in any of our apps, uh, the K-Bear app, the Alt 101 app, or the Cannonball app. So, lot of different ways to get entries in there, and we're gonna draw a winner one week from Friday, thanks to Brent Gordon Law.
Awesome, cool. Thank you so much for that. Um, do I, uh, call this number, or is it the, um... I think I have the other one saved.
That- yeah, this one, 208-535-1015. You hear that sounder played, it's, it's very obvious. It's a Mario sounder. Uh, if you hear it played-
Mm-hmm
... be caller 20, and then you get an extra entry into the drawing. And if you're lucky enough to get through multiple times when we play the sounder, you get, you know, as many entries as you can get, being caller 20.
Oh, very cool. All right, well, thank you so much for, uh, answering that for me.
Abs-
I'll get one today.
Absolutely. Good luck to you.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Look at that, Peaches. Make the Switch with Brent Gordon Law running full steam ahead. Great prize package, and it's not just a Nintendo Switch. It's a Nintendo Switch 2 bundle.
I was reading something about how they're discontinuing the Xbox, but the source was a guy who hasn't worked at Microsoft since 2002.
Yeah.
So, uh, I was wondering where the future of gaming consoles are gonna go, 'cause I feel like right now, Nintendo and... Nintendo reigns supreme compared to, like, the Xbox, PS5. Nintendo all the way.
Yeah, I mean, Nintendo... What sold more, Switch or PS5?
Switch.
Switch?
Switch is the hands down... Let's see here, 'cause I, I was reading something, it's the most sold system ever.
Wow! I thought it was the PlayStation 2 that was the biggest selling console of all time.
Nintendo Switch has now sold over 155 million units worldwide-
Wow
... solidifying its position as Nintendo's most successful console to date.
Okay, what about the, uh, biggest selling console to date?
Let's see here.
The Nintendo Entertainment System from when I was a boy, Peach! No-
No, it's the Soulja Boy console.
[laughing]
Oh, it's very close. The PS2, over 160 million units.
And the Switch is right behind it.
Right behind it.
And that, it- that's crazy, 'cause the Switch is a much newer system.
The DS was 154 million units.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow! Crazy. So you're winning the most popular console on the market, the Nintendo Switch 2, if you're lucky, with Make the Switch with Brent Gordon Law.
You know what's behind the DS? The Game Boy Color.
Really?
119 million.
Wow.
Well, it says Game Boy/Game Boy Color.
Oh, good-
Are they combining the two?
See, that's not fair. That's not fair, 'cause I mean, Game Boy was a big deal when it came out. That was, that was the hot ticket, Peaches. I remember when I was a boy.
I had the lime green one back in the day.
Yeah.
I still got a Game Boy Color now. It's the transparent one.
Oh, nice. I had the, uh, regular old gray [laughing] Game Boy.
[laughing]
The original, OG. Never got a Game Boy Color.
But I'm sure your parents were like, "You know, this is a huge thing for little Victor-"
Let's get little Victor-
"... and gift it to him"
... some more video games, so he'll quit bothering us.
Exactly.
He'll sit there, and he'll keep to himself playing his little games. [laughing]
[laughing]
Just like you can if you win with Make the Switch with Brent Gordon Law. [upbeat music]
All right, it's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I am Peaches.
I'm Victor, and this is kind of an If You Break, Peaches, but I'm gonna do my best here to keep it [laughing] like, sane and, uh-
I'm not gonna add on any jokes-
... inoffensive
... that could be considered bad.
[laughing] Yes, you're gonna have to be careful with this one. Now, Peaches, do you think that animals can be racist?
Uh, sure.
Toward other animals.
Yeah.
Toward other animals.
I would think so.
You would think so? 'Cause I think my cats are racist- [laughing] ... toward other cats, Peaches.
Have you ever seen that video of that tortoise that starts, uh, ramming its head into the black tape, but as soon as the black tape's gone and it's a white shoe, it stops doing it?
No, I haven't seen that. [laughing]
[laughing]
Okay, so you've been to my house, but I don't... Have you met all four cats?
Uh, I think the last time that I was there, mo- like, the dog was outside.
Uh-huh.
The, the cats were locked up in some room.
Oh, okay.
I thought you guys were-
Yeah
... planning for, like, an anti-allergy entrance for me or something like that.
No, we were just... Uh, I figured then they wouldn't run outside while we were moving crap.
Right. Okay-
Yeah
... that's what it was.
Okay, so we have four cats and a dog. The dog is a white and black labradoodle.
I, I, I have seen Milo.
Or, well, n- uh, not a labradoodle. That sounds wrong. It's a bernedoodle.
Gotcha.
Okay. Then we've got Jess... Or, or, sorry, Chris, the long-haired black and white cat. Uh, Millie, the, uh, bernedoodle, is black and white as well. We've got Jess, who's like a calico; Lucy, who's a calico; and then Koopa, that's just all black. Okay, Lucy and Jess have formed a gang. They now like each other. They, you know, they get- they got the matching fur. All right? They're both calico, and they gang up together, and they're mean to the other cats. All right? They've pretty much taken over my bedroom. They're like, "This is our space." But they'll tolerate Koopa. But the other two an- like, Koopa, Lucy, and Jess, the all-black cat and the two calicos, any of the other animals that have any kind of white fur, they hate their guts so bad. [laughing]
I wanna make so many jokes right now.
[laughing] Well, I told you we gotta be careful on this one, but-
I just love how the two calicos and the all-black cat make a gang with each other. [laughing]
They do. [laughing] Okay, but Koopa's not really part of the gang.
They took over your turf, dude.
Yeah.
They took over the bedroom. [laughing]
They c- they tolerate Koopa, but he's not part of the gang.... like, they, they've clearly got their own little gang going, and they'll put up with Koopa, but the other animals, they just, they ain't having it. They ain't having it at all, and I- it's just so weird, because personality-wise, like, you would think that Lucy would be the nice, timid one. She's now pretty much the boss of the house. Like, Koopa don't mess with her. Nobody messes with her. [laughs]
I, I-
Like, they're all terrified of Lucy.
I looked up, "Are all black cats and calicos racist?" [laughing]
[laughing] Okay.
No, black cats and calicos, c- calico cats cannot be racist.
[laughing]
Racism is a human social construct based on prejudice, discrimination, or, uh, antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group.
Okay, well then, w- what is it when animals don't like other colored animals? [laughing] Is there a word for animal racism? 'Cause it's ridiculous. We're trying to get them all to get along, and, like, Chris, the black and white cat, she is just nice and timid. She's all, "Meow, meow," and like, she... I don't know why they hate her guts so bad, and Koopa hates her, too.
All right, so I looked up... I looked up the whole question that you told me to look up, and then it says- [laughing]
[laughing]
... "Posted in R/ExplainLikeImFive,"
[laughing]
"Do animals express discrimination/racism based on the color of fur/skin?"
Okay.
Um-
Discrimination, maybe that was a better word.
Uh, somebody said, "I used to live in an apartment complex with a balcony out back that overlooked a small man-made pond. All throughout the warm months, several dozen ducks made the pond their home. I used to smoke cigarettes, and I would always take one out back, always take one out back on the balcony. There were at least 15 to 16 baby ducks that lived in the pond with their parents. All of them were light brown/yellow, and somewhat black, and somewhat black. One of the baby ducks was all white, and he was treated horribly by the other ducks."
[laughing]
"Anytime he tried to join them or eat with them, they would bite him and exclude him from the pack.
[laughing]
I'm fairly certain he died because of their abuse."
Oh, no! [laughing]
"It was so sad watching him swim by himself.
Oh.
Coming home from work one day, I looked out back and saw his body lying in the-
Oh-
... thick reeds."
That's terrible.
"He had died."
That is terrible. [laughing]
"I'm not sure if this was an anomaly or if it actually has scientific proof. It always struck me as odd."
I just... Yeah, it's been so weird at my house, 'cause, yeah, we've got the gang of calicos, Koopa that's sort of part of the gang, and then you got the black and white animals that everyone else is just mean to them.
[laughing]
And I don't understand it.
Someb- somebody commented saying, "The white duckling was actually a huge jerk." [laughing]
[laughing] Maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. Jess and Millie, they're both jerks, and we just don't see it.
Do you know what's funny is that... I'm, I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause I've been seeing this at my girlfriend's parents' house. They have this fish tank, right?
Mm-hmm.
There's four angelfish. Two are, like, orange and white. The other two are straight black.
Okay.
And th- they both have their own little... You know, black on the left, white and orange on the right, and they're just-
How weird!
... and they're on either side of the tank.
[laughing]
If one of them even, even goes halfway across, one of, the other one will come by [laughing] and just bite them.
[laughing]
And, and then immediately go like, "Hey, go back to your..." I found out angelfish are majorly territorial.
Wow, okay. I didn't know that. Well, I was just curious, Peaches, if you'd heard, and you apparently have heard of situations like this with the fish.
I know Rover, my former beagle, had a very specific type. He loved Australian shepherds.
Australian shepherds?
He loved them, yeah.
Loved them?
I got a little excited at the dog park.
Okay. [laughing]
Boy or girl.
Oh. [laughing]
He... [laughing]
Okay, Peaches, that's enough.
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It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I am Peaches.
I'm Victor Wilt. And, Peaches, I'm sure you know all these different conspiracy theory shows on TV, like, what is it? Inside Skinwalker Ranch.
Oh, yeah.
Ever heard of that one?
My, uh, my beard barber was talking to me about how he dove deep into a bunch of different, uh, different files, different, uh, conspiracy theories, if you will.
Yeah.
He was talking about how, like, uh, like, Michael Jackson may not be dead. You know, there's a whole-
Mm-hmm
... thing that maybe Charlie Kirk is just hiding in this place called Valhalla on an island somewhere.
I've seen a variety of, uh... There was one going around, Jeffrey Epstein was alive in Italy or something. They saw some guy with a beard, and they're like, "Oh, it's him!" But-
Most old Italian men would look like that guy, to be quite honest. [laughing]
[laughing] Well, last night I was flipping through, uh, I don't know, Netflix or Hulu or something, and I came across Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
Oh.
I'm like, "Okay, what's this?" So I fired it up, you know, for about five minutes before I bailed. But, you know, they go into, "We've been researching the Skinwalker Ranch for decades, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But maybe the secret of Skinwalker Ranch can be found elsewhere!" And it's just a show where they basically gave up on Skinwalker Ranch, from what I can tell, and now they're just [laughing] exploring other weird places and, you know, just tacking on to the name. It's like, if you didn't find anything there, what does it have to do with Skinwalker Ranch? Start a new show. Just bail on the other show, you know? I don't know, I just thought it was strange that they'd [laughing] call a show Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, and then, and then it just, from what I could tell, has nothing to do with Skinwalker Ranch. I don't know.
It got you to watch.
It... For five minutes-
Sure
... before I was like, "This seems like a stupid concept. Just call it Weird Places or whatever." [laughing] But I guess, I don't know, branding does... It got me to click on it.
Yeah, see?
All right, I guess it's good branding.
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Wrapping up the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, I am Peaches.
I'm Victor Wilt.
And I can tell you right now, Aubrey has turned into one of those people that's like, "Do not touch me," at the-
[laughing]
... at rock concerts.
[laughing] Oh, yeah.
She, uh, was talking to me about how the pit, of course, formed kind of r- kind of close to us.
Mm-hmm.
Um, her brother was up in the suite area, and he was like, "God, the, the pit is, was so close to you guys." It's like, yeah, it's, it's formed by me before.
Yeah.
It's happened. You just stand there and push people, and that's about it.
Yeah.
But, uh, you know, Aubrey says [chuckles] that she's not really into the whole rock and metal, of course, rock and metal genres.
Yeah.
And so she was saying how it's kind of stupid that people mosh [laughing] and push each other.
[laughing]
But-...the overall thing, I think that's worse. By the way, also going back to that thing that we were talking about, where, um, that metal, that Metal Roundup podcast was saying small women are the biggest problems when it comes to, uh, concerts-
Yeah.
-where they're pushing people out of the way and pushing their way to the front.
Yeah.
Sure enough, there was a small lady- [laughing] -that went from the barricade to probably go grab a beer or something like that. So she's pushing everybody out of her way.
[laughing]
And I mean, full-on just shoving people.
[laughing]
So there was that. But then the worst kind of people have to be the drunken older dudes. And I don't know if it's because we're radio DJs, and we do a show or what it is, but because people walk up to me, and of course, they see me as the big guy, so they start-
Yeah
... excessively hitting me in the back-
[laughing]
-as hard as they can.
Hey, big fella!
Right, exactly.
We're gonna- [laughing]
Did you play football at one point? Like, that type of thing.
[laughing]
FJ, down the hall-
Yeah
... brought a friend named Chris. He was cool to talk to, uh, until he got a little too aggressive.
[laughing]
And, uh, he was starting to do that same old joke I hear everywhere: "Let's get on your shoulders for a better view!"
[laughing]
And so he says that not only once, but twice, three times, four times, fi- He, he said it basically every five minutes between Beartooth and Ba- or between President and B- uh, Beartooth. Finally, when Beartooth is going on the stage-
[laughing]
... I'm trying to record for a very, a, a cool moment, just to have Beartooth-
Yeah.
I'm, I'm trying to record 'cause obviously, my concert videos are going through the roof on our social media pages-
Yeah
... at KBEAR 101 FM, if people want to see them. But he starts screaming directly in my ear.
[laughing]
Uh, "Peaches, let me get on your shoulders!"
[laughing]
I turn around, and I, I yelled explicitly, "Shut the... up, a-and leave me alone!"
[laughing]
And i-it, it was the loud- it was louder than the band, [laughing] I feel like.
[laughing] Oh, that's too funny, Peaches.
And I feel bad because I, I was just, like, trying to record and work, and I-- that same old, like, o- drunk older guy w- running up and smacking you. "Peaches, we love you!" type of thing.
Oh, yeah.
You're like, "You got the best seat in the house. You're taller than everybody."
The, the, the only way to tolerate drunk people is to be one of them. [chuckles]
You have to be.
I'm sure that I'm intolerable and annoying when I've had too much. [laughing]
[laughing]
And I know when I'm around people, and I'm sober, and they're hammered, I'm like, "Ugh!"
Again, there was nothing-
"Just stop!"
There was nothing wrong with him whatsoever. He was just acting like a, you know, a fun fan or whatever.
[laughing]
But at the same time, I'm like: "Dude, just leave me alone, please." [chuckles]
Yeah, yeah. If you're gonna, you know, get hammered, try to not be annoying. [laughing] You might not even realize you're being annoying, but, you know, uh, be respectful of other people's space, and, uh, leave the tall guys alone. They're not gonna put you on, on their shoulders.
The, the worst is w- uh, 'cause, yeah, uh, when, if you try putting anybody on your shoulders, the, the stupidest thing the security does is they'll flash a flashlight right in your face.
Yeah.
So they'll blind you, you could go off-balance, and then the person on your shoulders could just fall right off.
That's right, and if you're the tall guy, that's a long way to fall.
Yeah.
Yeah, and just crack your head on the concrete.
So people, the, the security needs to come up with a better way to
m- to handle that.
Well, flashlight to the face does get your attention, I guess.
But also, like, it could blind them, and next thing you know, that person on the top has a broken neck 'cause they fell backw- they fell-
Yeah
... backwards and off, and that type of thing.
Mm-hmm. That's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
I still remember the one time at the Disturbed, Three Days Grace, and Sevendust in Boise, these guys about my age, probably slightly older, they're all wearing matching Hawaiian shirts or something like that. They're like, "Peaches, anybody else from KBEAR here?" I go, "No," and they just turn around and walk away.
[laughing]
Like, was I not good enough? [chuckles] Like...
[chuckles] "Sorry, Peaches, we're looking for Victor."
Yeah, we're looking for the fun guys.
[laughing]
Jade and Victor, the two old dudes.
[laughing]
[chuckles] Who else did you expect? Like-
[laughing]
... you want little Maddie?
[chuckles]
She, she's fun at shows.
She is!
You can, you can toss her up on top of the crowd. She'll crowd surf the entire way.
Yeah, she'll get in the pit.
Yeah.
You know.
No, Maddie's gotten knocked on her butt a whole bunch. I, I, I've seen her [chuckles] get hip-checked by guys my size-
[laughing]
... in the pit. I feel bad, but shes- gets right back up.
Well, last time I got in a pit, I got knocked down multiple times, and it hurt, so [chuckles] I think I'm too old for that. [upbeat music]
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