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[upbeat music] The first show of the new year, starting it off with Gray Haven, Burn a Miracle. Saw many different lists of the best albums of twenty twenty-five. I even put mine out there on our socials, also on our YouTube, Kbear one oh one RMG. I talked with the one, the only Metalbirb, who is a, uh, uh, a reactor on YouTube. He's also a streamer. He's a podcaster. Super awesome dude. He followed me on Instagram yesterday, which I was pleasantly surprised to see. Shout out to the one, the only Metalbirb. I talked with him about my favorite albums of last year. I can now say last year because it is now twenty twenty-six. Um, I saw Gray Haven on many of those lists. I am just now checking it out. Burn a Miracle, one of those tracks off of that album. I'm a little upset with myself for not keeping track of all of my picks from twenty twenty-five to put out there as a playlist for listeners to enjoy. I am going to stick with it this year. Really make sure that any song I play right here at two PM to kick off the afternoon show will get put on that playlist, and at the end of the year, I'll release it. I'll make sure it's public, so everyone can listen to it and enjoy my picks of twenty twenty-six. Uh, the office closed early today, right at two PM, so I'm doing this show through the magic of radio from the Klassy Nine-Seven studio. I'm pre-recording this entire thing as of ten forty-five this morning. Speaking of Klassy Nine-Seven, we launched a new giveaway. Uh, Ghost is going to be at the Delta Center on February tenth, and starting on Monday, the wonderful hosts of this, uh, of this, uh, studio that I'm in, Josh and Chantel... I'm in Josh's seat right now. Uh, Josh and Chantel, they are going to narrate or do some type of jingle with Ghost lyrics that I gave the both of them. Um, starting on Monday, listen out for those lyrics and then be caller twenty at two oh eight five three five one oh one five, to-- in order to win tickets to the show. It's the Skeletour World Tour. Victor already made fun of me for, uh, getting the tour name wrong in the promo. The Skeletour World Tour, not the Skeletal World Tour, the Skeletour World Tour, making its way to Salt Lake City, February tenth. That show is coming up close. Ghost at the Delta Center. If you don't want to try to win tickets with us, well, you can certainly buy them. Make sure to go to the proper ticketing website. You can find the show on our concert calendar, as well as many other shows for this year at riverbendme- mediagroup.com/calendar. Let me say that again, riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar. You can also find the shortcut to the concert calendar at Riverbend-- uh, not at Riverbend, [chuckles] at the Kbear one oh one app. It says Concert Calendar right there on the menu. Click on it. It'll take you directly to it. This entire show, uh, I'm not gonna be here, because, yeah, like I said, I'm pre-recording this as of, like, almost eleven AM this morning. So if you try to get ahold of me, I'm not in the studio. I'll see you on Monday. There will still be a full afternoon show, don't get me wrong. I'm just not here with you. [whooshing] As a kid, I would also say a teenager, um, I really wanted to go to New York City at some point in my life to go watch the iconic ball drop. Every year, thousands of people from around the world flock to New York City's Times Square to watch the iconic ball drop ring in the new year. The televised celebration, it looks amazing, right? There's confetti, there's cheers, there's people having a blast, but the reality for those packed into the crowd is far less glamorous. I was looking at this People article. There's hours-long waits. Um, you're shoulder to shoulder with everybody. There's strict security measures. There's limited access to food and bathrooms. I was looking here that people were waiting nineteen hours just to have their spot when the ball drops. You know, they're wearing diapers, 'cause there's no bathroom access. Wasn't it last year that I was talking about Ryan Seacrest, who I think hosts part of this thing? You know, it's called Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve or something like that, but Ryan Seacrest, and Anderson Cooper, and Andy Cohen all host it together. And Ryan Seacrest last year was like: "Yeah, there's hardly any restaurants open past midnight in New York City. What gives?" [chuckles] He has the easiest time, um, with the whole thing. I feel bad for those people who are sardined into the crowd, but then I shouldn't feel bad for them because, well, they decided to go to New York and be a part of the celebration. Las Vegas looked horrible as well. I saw pictures, screenshots of, uh, everybody by the Sphere, [chuckles] which was, uh... It looked like everyone was sardined all together. The worst part is, is that there was, uh, people- there were people who showed up to the Brooklyn Bridge expecting New Year's fireworks because fake Instagram pages from people who don't live in New York mixed it up with July Fourth. So nothing was happening at the Brooklyn Bridge. People had their phones out. They were ready. Nothing happened. [chuckles] And there was this whole thing online about how you should always double-check before visiting places while traveling, so there's that. At least I got to celebrate New Year's by being with my girlfriend at my own apartment. I was on Discord with all of my friends. She was scrapbooking. We're both having a great time. Right as it hit eleven fifty-nine, I'm like: "Hey, you know what? Let's go to my patio, stand outside in the cold for a minute, and take a selfie right, right as it hits midnight." That's what we did. We, we got some, uh, lottery scratchers. We scratched those off. We spent $5 on lottery scratchers. We won six, so we won a whole dollar. What a way to kick off twenty twenty-six. [chuckles] Let's continue this show here with Pierce the Veil, So Far, So Fake. [whooshing] In case you were unaware, the US government keeps a running tally of emergency room visits involving foreign objects.... buried inside that data is a category that never fails to astonish: items removed from people's butts. Yeah. Yeah, that's a real thing. The Consumer Product Safety Commission maintains the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a massive anonymous database that tracks why Americans show up to the ER. That includes cases when- where someone arrives, uh, sheepish, uncomfortable, very aware that gravity is not a valid explanation. Every year, doctors log what they find. Every year, the list gets longer. So yeah, there's a list here of some of the worst items found in people's butts, according to the US government. A full shampoo bottle, listed twice, once blamed on boredom. [chuckles] A baseball, documented with the explanation... Uh, to- I can't even go further into this, I don't think, right? This is too much of a Jade Pucker Alert break. A corn cob holder, a wine stopper, a turkey baster. If you want the full article, if you want the full list, vice.com put out the entire thing. Go look at it there. [whooshing sound] Now, see, this is why you should not believe everything you see online. Uh, I was on Instagram, mindlessly scrolling reels a couple days ago, when I saw this one where the prop boulder of the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, um, the prop boulder that weighs about four hundred pounds, it was knocked to the ground. It fell off the track. It's a giant prop boulder. It- after it moved off its track, it started rolling towards the audience members. So a heroic worker stopped the boulder before it reached the spectators. The reason why I say you should not believe everything you see on the internet is because this reel said it happened at Universal Studios, but this AP article here says it happened at Disney World in Florida, which makes sense. It was at Disney's Hollywood Studios park at Disney World. One of the workers just purposely put himself in the way. Imagine getting hit by a four-hundred-pound boulder, and it was bouncing with a whole lot of momentum towards the, uh, towards the, uh, spectators. Now, Disney, uh, on Wednesday, would not disclose the worker's injuries, citing privacy reasons, but I, I'm assuming that this worker is probably gonna get all of his medical bills paid off, probably get, uh, some type of great bonus, a huge thank you from one of the executives at Disney. I'm hoping they give him some type of bonus. That would be terrible. Gets his face smashed in, a few broken ribs, a broken leg, maybe. I mean, this is a four-hundred-pound giant boulder made out of rubber bouncing off of you at a pretty gr- crazy speed. One of the attraction's, uh, scheduled shows was also canceled the day after the accident, or not even the day after the accident. I think it was right after the accident they canceled the show. Could you imagine? They try to keep that private. [chuckles] People are trying to find out why the show was canceled. They, they can't openly say, "Yeah, one of our workers was hit by a prop boulder, so we had to cancel the show." "Oh, okay, thanks!" I, I wish places like Disney and other big companies would be more truthful in that sense. Like, they would say that to you, like, "Hey, yeah, somebody was hit by a boulder. We're gonna cancel the show." That would cause someone to be like, "Oh, okay. Yeah, [chuckles] that's a good reason to cancel the entire thing." [whooshing sound] I was taking a look at our concert calendar available to you at riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar. The first show listed on there for this year is January 19th, the Ford Idaho Center Arena, uh, The Offspring with Bad Religion, one of many shows listed for the new year on our concert calendar. Make sure to go check that out. Buy your tickets for any show coming, uh, coming our way this year. I feel like 2026 is gonna be stacked, not only with great new music, but also a whole lot of shows. I mean, March, April, and May look beyond packed. I, I have this first-world problem, where I, I wanna go see Slaughter to Prevail, Whitechapel, and Attila one night in Salt Lake City, and then the next night, there's, uh, Lamb of God, Kublai Khan, Sanguisuga Bog, and Fit for an Autopsy, which would make for a heavy, heavy two days, and I don't think I could last that long at two different shows. When I go to heavy shows, and there's four bands on the lineup, by the time the third band comes on, I'm like, "Okay, that's enough of this. I'm tired of standing here hearing, [imitates heavy metal music] you know, the whole time." [chuckles] But, uh, who knows? It's a, that's a, that's a funny problem to have, right? Again, check out the concert calendar, always available to you at riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar. It's the new year, and I already messed up. I completely lost track of time. I looked and was like, "Oh, I, uh, completely forgot to do the, uh, Shot Clock Sports Update right at the top of the three PM hour." Instead, I talked about our concert calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar. Uh, let's take a look at what's happening in sports. Anthony Joshua, you know, he was injured in a major car accident that killed two other people. The driver of that car was charged in that fatal crash. Uh, the driver allegedly responsible for that crash that injured Anthony Joshua, killed two of his trainers, has been charged. Uh, I don't know how you say his name, Adeniyi Mabashilagi. I can't... For- forget it. Never mind. Uh, Alex Earle. What's this? What am I looking at here? Oh, apparently, Tom Brady is dating a girl, like, half his age. Go figure. Um, what else is happening here? I mean, is there really nothing happening in sports that's worth talking about? I saw, like, three different articles talking [chuckles] about Tom Brady's relationship, and there's even analysis of Tom Brady and Alex Earle at a party, showing Tom Brady here and Alex Earle there. I, I, I wish John Madden was still alive so he could do coverage of this entire thing, like, "Tom Brady was at this corner of the room, while Alex Earle was at this other corner. They met here right in the middle." Like, that, that'd be so funny. By the way-... Speaking of John Madden, I was kind of like, eh, skeptical. I was skeptical of Nicolas Cage playing the role of John Madden in his upcoming biopic, but after looking at what Nicolas Cage looks like as John Madden, I'm convinced now. I feel like it's gonna be pretty good. I feel like Nicolas Cage might put on a great John Madden voice. [laughing] I, I, I would love to see that movie. I'm not exactly happy that Hollywood keeps putting out these biopics, these, uh, these remakes as well, but John Madden is an interesting fellow, and there really seems to be nothing else going on, so I'm glad I just, uh, kind of briefly looked over or briefly skipped the Shot Clock Sports Update for today. I'm sure it'll be back in full force on Monday, when I, I get finally my proper sports recap sheet, instead of scouring TMZ Sports for the latest in sports. I got some Mudvayne here for you now, "Sticks and Stones" on KBEAR 101. [whooshing sound] You ever come across something and you go, "Man! I should have thought of that one"? You know the guy that created the 10-hour loop of a fireplace on YouTube? Back in, uh, back at home, my, uh, family does this thing every Christmas, where on one specific TV channel, there's this thing called the Yule Log. I believe it's on KTLA, and as we're opening our presents, we have the Yule Log on the TV. It's a fake fireplace, obviously, on the TV, and they play the Christmas music station in Los Angeles called Coast 103.5. There's that. Well, the guy who has the available 10-hour loop of a fireplace on YouTube, he has reportedly earned $1 million from it. It's the only upload on the channel. It's... I believe the channel is just called Fireplace 10 Hours, and it has over 156 million views. Again, why didn't I think of that? It's like the pet rock idea. You know, a pet rock, one of the dumbest ideas, but also made that guy a fortune. Man, I'm upset! [whooshing sound] Was it, uh, yesterday that MTV completely just stopped their 24-hour music channels? They ended their final broadcast with "Video Killed the Radio Star," the very first video broadcasted by MTV on August 1st, 1981. There was a lot of people in that Reddit thread going, "Yeah, I stopped watching decades ago," which is probably why they decided to, you know, end the whole thing. There was a lot of talk over the weekend also that I wanted to talk about on the show here today, uh, about the old water tower. I mean, clearly back when that was announced, th- they, they announced that a new water tower was coming in, people were losing their minds. And now, since the, uh, city of Idaho Falls said officially on Monday that the demolition of the Idaho Falls water tower will happen, tons of people have been posting how much they're going to miss the water tower in Idaho Falls, how they so badly want it to stay, how they're gonna try to handcuff themselves to the old water tower so they don't tear it down. There were so many people having arguments about a stinking water tower on Facebook, that it was overall just ridiculous. I mean, it's an- I get it, it's an old water tower, but it, it is also an historic landmark. I mean, when I think of Idaho Falls, I think of the falls with the water tower in the background, also the temple right there in the downtown area. But the new water tower, uh, clearly the, the new water tower works. Logistically, the old water tower can't stay up. Uh, I think I was reading somewhere it would cost, like, $4 million to try to restore that thing or something like that. I don't know! But overall, it's going away. Uh, complaining on Facebook is never gonna change anything, let alone saving the old water tower. Let's play some Windwalkers. Here's "Hereditary" on KBEAR 101. [whooshing sound] Now, this is awful. The new year got off to an anticlimactic start for hundreds of people in Birmingham who were tricked into attending a non-existent New Year's Eve fireworks display again. Yeah, it happened last year. Crowds gathered in the city's Centenary Square. Is that how you say it? Centenary? Hoping to catch a glimpse of a pyrotechnics display [chuckles] to welcome in 2026. They were left disappointed, however, after they discovered no display would be taking place. They had all fallen victim to false news spread online. A- again, a similar incident happened last year, when thousands of people gathered in the city center after claims online promised a just spectacular display with food vendors, performances, all of that stuff. It goes back to that phrase, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." We talked about that earlier on in the show, about how people were tricked by these fake Instagram accounts, by people who don't even live in New York, saying, "Hey, make sure to go to the Brooklyn Bridge on New Year's Eve, 'cause they'll have an awesome fireworks display." Nothing happened. Gotta, gotta check your information. You gotta check what's real, what's fake, all right? You gotta fact-check, as Victor would put it. You gotta fact-check, especially if you're going on vacation. You gotta make sure you get every minute detail correct. [whooshing sound] I was reading here about this, uh, California man. He says he has reached his breaking point after months of failed attempts to remove a massive bear living beneath his home. I think this bear weighs in at about 550 pounds. It's occupying his crawlspace. Uh, Kenneth Johnson, he's the man, he's now threatening legal action against the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, claiming negligence and emotional distress after the state allegedly stopped intervening in the situation [chuckles] involving the bear. He's like, "Please get rid of it," and they're like, "Uh, we kinda gave up. We don't know how to." It's, it's been going on for quite some time. It's a tagged bear. He says they've dealt with it before. They chose not to euthanize it, and now it's back, and it's just gonna keep on going back to that crawlspace. I mean, you might as well claim it as your own now, right? Try feeding it. Put a collar around it. I mean, heck, that would be the best security system. Forget having the whole ADT set up. Forget having alarms. You just have a bear living beneath your house.... and you don't even, like, warn others. You don't have the beware of bear sign. You just let that thing sit there. Somebody tries to break in, next thing they, they hear is, like, some loud bear growl, and the bear comes from outside the crawlspace, and bears can move fast! The bear can take care of any intruder. There you go. N- we gotta give it a good name, too. I don't know what to name this bear. You have to, uh... What would be a funny name? Uh, d- I was thinking Teddy. That's a stupid or dumb or unoriginal name. I need to think of something here for- forget it. Let's just move on. Peaches Pit Party will continue [chuckles] here in just a few. [whooshing sound] Again, this is one of those things where you wonder what exactly they were going to do with the product. You hear people steal dumb things all the time. 40,000 oysters, lobster as well, worth $400,000, and a cache of crab meat, all were stolen in separate incidences within weeks of each other in New England. The first seafood vanished back in late November. Authorities suspect someone stole 14 cages full of oysters from an aquaculture site. Many of the oysters were full-grown, ready to- fr- ready for sale. Together with the cages, were worth $20,000. Uh, lobster that was destined for Costco 

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and then what was the, what was the other thing on there? The, uh, the crab meat. Yeah. What were you gonna do? You were gonna sell it, or were you gonna try to just steal the inventory so you can start up your food truck, your seafood food truck? I wonder how many different lobster food trucks there are in Maine. There has to be a good amount, right? There was a lobster food truck... Actually, one of those lobster food trucks that came to, uh, Idaho Falls one time, and they charged me, like, 30 bucks for three tacos the size of, like, half-dollar pieces. It was such a rip-off. It was those three tacos, plus fries with some lobster meat on top. But yeah, it was like- it was a crazy expensive dinner. I was kicking myself for even buying it. I saw it advertised on, uh, on Facebook as an event. Like, this lobster truck was coming to the, to the area right by the Grocery Outlet. I showed up, was the only person there, and now, now I know why. Because they, they probably saw the menu prices and were just like, "Yeah, no thanks. We'll go somewhere [chuckles] else and get a much cheaper din- dinner for, like, a quarter of the price." [whooshing sound] You've heard me talk about this many times on the air, how people think radio DJs just sit here and talk between the songs, and that's literally it. Well, no, there's tons of other stuff that we do behind the scenes that would melt people's minds, really. Uh, what's a job that sounds cool but is actually a nightmare? I see some of the comments here. The top one says, "Chef." Being a chef's a tough work, a tough job, a passion job until you're working 14-hour shifts, weekends, holidays. Your body is wrecked. You're r- running around the kitchen, sweating your butt off. You're wearing that stupid hat. You know, a baker also on this list, the second one on this list. People get into it because they love baking. Then you find out that your, uh, shift starts at 2:00 AM or earlier. One way to kill your love for baking is to have to do it for 40 hours a week and make the exact same things over and over [chuckles] and over again. Flight attendant. It's cool that you can fly from one country to the other, but in reality, you have no personal life when you work in this job. Some, uh, w- what's it called? My girlfriend's, uh, brother-in-law, he's a doctor, and I was just recently talking with him about annoying questions that I get asked. I can't imagine what he gets asked on a regular basis. You know, people that just go up to him and be like, "Hey, does this look normal to you?" And they show the [chuckles] he- they show him some crazy thing wrong with their body. It's like, he doesn't wanna see that. 

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I think when you're a doctor, though, you have to, like... You know, you, you are there to help people, g- give people care, that sort of thing. But come on, you don't just run up to a random doctor and [chuckles] be like, "Hey, what does it- how- does this look fine to you?" You, like, lift up your, your pant leg, or you pull down your pants even worse. What's a job that sounds cool but is actually a nightmare? Travel sounds glamorous until you re- oh, this is just another flight attendant. Another flight attendant, [chuckles] uh, comment here. Veterinarian, you think it's all cute and cuddly, but instead, it's just 

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extremely mad owners, sick, dying creatures all day long. I can't imagine the stuff you'd see as a veterinarian. How many pets... Uh, just going, like, to the whole doctor thing again. How many pets and people you see just, you know, die? Oh, uh, b- I'm, I'm, I'm now glad that I'm a radio DJ. I'm glad [chuckles] that I went through this thread. I would much rather worry about tedious stuff here than have to deal with anything as terrible as that. [whooshing sound] You've heard me talk about this before if you've listened to the show. Nine Inch Nails is going to be at the Delta Center March 13th. Victor was talking about his, uh, first-world problems, trying to see all these different shows, and I was thinking about it. I'm having this big inner debate whether I should go see Nothing More with Catch Your Breath that same night at the Union Event Center. But still, like, Nine Inch Nails is one of those once-in-a-lifetime shows. You know, they're towards the end of their career. How old is Trent Reznor now? He has to be, like, the same age as my parents. Trent Reznor, 60 years old, May 17th, 1965. Literally the same age as my parents. Now, what I- uh, if I don't see them now, I won't be able to see them, I don't think, again for a short while, right? I w- I don't think so. But Nothing More, they're relatively young. I feel like I can wait even more to see those guys. Uh, it's, it's a dumb first-world problem. I know. So many shows are stacked up this year, or st- already stacking up this year. It's looking ridiculous for Salt Lake City especially. Make sure to check out the concert calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar. I would love to see this next band live. I don't know if they're ever gonna come close to the area again, 'cause all they, all they do are a bunch of different stadium shows. The Foo Fighters. Here's Asking for a Friend on KBEAR 101. [whooshing sound] I don't think the, uh, intro is still working for this, so yeah, th- this is today's What the Headline. Once again, a Florida man in the news accused of walking into a meat market completely naked, except for a face covering, and robbing it. Coby Litch- La- Latchry Watkins allegedly entered BJ's Meat Market December 23rd, so it happened still in 2025. I guess he was trying to get his very late entry into the best of Florida Man stories for the year. Busted into the cash box, made off with more than $1,000 before fleeing the scene, all while wearing nothing but a mask. Empl- employees told officers he held something wrapped in cloth that they thought was a weapon. Officers tracked him down, took him for a medical evaluation, then booked him on charges, a whole bunch of different ones. Uh, no one was hurt. Yeah, that's [chuckles] today's What the Headline: naked Florida man. Once again, another just stereotypical day in Florida. I wonder what Florida residents actually think. Like, do they see this stuff on the regular, or is it just so covered in the news, but then you go to Florida, and nothing like this happens? I mean, my friend Matt is from Naples, Florida, and he's literally, literally in Florida right now on vacation. Maybe I should ask him, like, "Hey, did you see any cool crimes? Did you, by chance, see this guy? Was this guy in Naples?" Doesn't tell me where he was at. Oh, Lake City. Duh. Yeah. BJ's Meat Market in Lake City. I have no idea where that's at. Hopefully, it's close to Naples, and all of a sudden, my friend Matt comes up to me and goes, "Yeah, by the way, I saw this naked man just rob a meat market." That's today's What the Headline [chuckles] right here on KBEAR 101. [upbeat music] Thanks for listening to Peaches Pit Party, the podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please share, subscribe, and rate the podcast. Peaches Pit Party is hosted by me, Peaches, AKA Brendan Peach, and is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information or to contact the show, visit riverbendmediagroup.com. Until next time, Peach out! [upbeat music]