Hey, my people. Happy Black Friday. 'Sup? It's Victor Wiltz, I'm here. Don't wanna be either. I- I just gotta say, the last week sucked. It was not pleasant. Uh, I mean, I'm a... a lot better than I was, but I still feel like crap. Like, you gotta be kidding me, it's been a week. I do not recommend the flu, all right? Just brutalized me. Sucks. But I'll try to... I'll try to avoid whining about it too much today. Now, post-holiday, hopefully you've got the day off and are listening to this on demand later on, 'cause, uh, yeah, being at work this morning
sucks. Maybe you're out, uh, shopping. I was scrolling Facebook, saw plenty of imagery of people standing in lines out in the cold. Um, have fun. Don't get out of control. I mean, do a lot of people still actually leave their home to go Black Friday shopping? Well, Nate Eaton, uh, with the Black Friday line report, huge line at Al's. Uh, Lowe's has a line. Line is growing at Kohl's. Also saw lines outside of pretty much everywhere. I don't know, I guess it's an activity. It's something to do. I guarantee if I wasn't here, w- wouldn't be happening. I would be sleeping. Yeah. Ugh, so glad that the weekend approaches. Hopefully this weekend a lot more pleasant than, than last [laughs]. I won't even get into last weekend. Oh, ugh. Okay, I gotta go, uh, blow my nose, all right? I won't do it on air. That would be probably bothersome to some of you, um, so I'll avoid any of that, and, uh,
yeah, let's just get through this day. Let's get it over with. I'll find some content, we'll have some fun, hopefully. I don't know, wish me luck. I'm gonna start digging.
Bad Omens, you can catch 'em next year in Salt Lake City, playing the big Delta Center. Crazy to watch a band just, you know, go from little teeny band just a few years ago to Delta Center. It's wild. Congrats to 'em. Good on 'em. How are my peeps this morning? Hope you're doing good. I'm a little cruddy. I don't know. The flu's brutal, people. Washh yo' hands. Um, somebody posted in the Jackson Hole subreddit
that they were looking at, uh, celebrating their 21st birthday there, and they were asking for advice. And it's like, of all the places to go celebrate your 21st birthday, Jackson? Now, there's beautiful scenery, don't get me wrong, but aside from that, I don't know. The food's not that great. Everything's really expensive.
You know, I- I don't know, it just seems like an odd place for me. They did note, you know, like, I- hey, I'm not a big party or Vegas type person, all right? But Jackson, I, I don't know. What do you do? A little bit of, uh, shopping? You walk around, look at the overpriced tourist trap goods?
Again, it's a very pretty town, but,
I don't know, I would say, you know, find an Airbnb somewhere cheaper, and then maybe just explore the area in general. I- I don't know. I haven't been to Jackson in a while. Probably overdue to make a trip there and j- just check it out again. Maybe it'd be different this go around, but it's one of those places I always seem to, uh, strike out on having a great time. I don't know why. I don't know why. Probably because I don't have a lot of money [laughs]. I would imagine if you're loaded, it's not too shabby. Maybe that's why I couldn't find any good food. Just didn't wanna pay
[laughs]. But that, that seems to be that way in a lot of touristy towns. You know, if you want good food, you gotta go to a big city, or at least a bigger city. Ugh, you know, Thanksgiving last night, uh, Becca and I ended up just whipping up our own little Thanksgiving meal, and turned out good. My appetite has been just such garbage for the last week. Um, you know, I made myself the nice big Thanksgiving plate, got about halfway through it and was like, "Ugh." We didn't even get into the, the pie, uh, didn't even get into dessert. We were both like, "Let's just go to bed." Ugh. So, I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Mine, I mean, it wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. I got to hang out with my lady, so that was all right. Wow. But it's just been a brutal week, so
looking forward to a weekend
where hopefully I can accomplish something. We'll see. I've g- I've got- I have to. I pretty much have to. Gonna have to get way jacked up on coffee. Ugh, coffee made me feel unpleasant this morning [laughs]. But I'm here. I made it work. Great success. Now I just need to find something else to talk about. Um, I mean, can you tell the content desperation I'm talking about somebody's birthday post? That's where we're at today so far. Well, we'll, we'll keep digging. We'll keep digging.
[heavy metal music] Wish we were currently rolling toward about, uh, three o'clock right now, but
we'll get there eventually. Very quiet around here this morning. I don't think there are gonna be very many people in the office, which
that should be all right.
Maybe I'll be able to get some of that, uh, boring, tedious work done that I need to do. Just go hide in my office
and listen to country music. So close. So close to being done with that. Oh, I'm so excited. Anyway,
it's, uh, post-Thanksgiving here, and, uh, my girlfriend and I started watching the new episodes of Stranger Things. Didn't make it very far. You know, just haven't been feeling good, so it was like ear- early bedtime last night. And
I was, uh, scrolling Facebook, saw a post from Variety talking about the, uh, one of the creators of the show putting out a video encouraging people to set up their TV properly before watching the new episodes. "Get rid of your garbage settings." Yeah, you know what TruMotion is? It sucks is what it is. [laughs] Um, nothing drives me crazier than staying in a hotel and they've got the TV set up that way. You know? It's... They call it the soap opera effect. Makes everything look like it runs all smooth and things. And when you're walking through a grocery store, a department store, and you see TVs displayed, you know, they generally have these settings cranked way up and it looks kind of impressive if you're watching like a wildlife documentary or something, but when you're trying to watch a movie, it looks terrible. And tons of hotels, they'll have this set up that way and you can't turn it off, and it just drives me nuts. So it's cool to see that he's trying to get people to fix their TV settings. A lot of TVs, when you bring them home, they've just got all this crap turned on by default. And so you might have like a, you know, grandma or something, you go to her house and the TV just looks like crap. And you're like, "Grandma, come on, please. Give me that remote. Let me fix your TV." You should watch his little video and, uh, turn off all these settings on your TV, TruMotion and these like... Uh, what- what are some of the other things that he mentions here? Um, ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. ♪ I don't know why I can't find that now, but basically like edge enhancers and super resolution, dynamic contrast. Yeah, you can find a guide online for your particular TV model with recommended settings. Uh, I highly recommend you do this. All right? The only time you're gonna want some like TruMotion kind of stuff or, you know, a s- super fast, uh, motion is maybe playing video games. Like yeah, if you got sports mode on your TV, y- you, you shouldn't be watching movies with that setting. Looks like crap. Okay? It's why your TV doesn't look like when you see a movie in the movie theater, these garbage settings. So that's pretty cool that, uh, Ross Duffer posted that information, 'cause nobody should have to suffer for watching TV with, with bad settings. Fix your TV! Wash your hands! All right, I'm so glad that it's almost 7:00. One hour down. Let's keep going. [heavy metal music] Is it really only 7:00? [sobs] All right, I'll stop whining. Stop my boo-hooing. I just don't wanna be here, you know? Come on. Who wants to be at work the day after Thanksgiving? You might be doing it right now. Already talked to a few folks that were on their way. Hope it goes by quick today. And if you're out and about shopping, I hope that's going good too. Uh, I should probably, you know, get paid to do some shopping, take a look around online, see if there's any deals, get my kids some crap, try to get that over with. [laughs] And I realize, oh yeah, they're gonna be here in like a week. Um, maybe I better get a little prepared for Christmas. But since they live out of state
and I'm gonna send most of their crap to their house anyway, so what do I need to worry about? They don't need to have something to open at my house, do they? Was really hoping I'd have my, uh, Christmas tree up and stuff like that by now. Sometimes you just gotta go, "Oh, well." You know? Oh, well. I'm just trying to get by. All right? Trying to survive a week of the flu. Uh, and then there's like nothing going on in the news. Nothing to talk about. I'm sitting here scrolling everything. I guess people, uh, took time off from creating mayhem to, I guess, have a nice, happy Thanksgiving. Hopefully you did. I hope it went good. But yeah, um, if you're out and about shopping, I, I would assume it's not gonna be that big a deal. I don't think Black Friday is as chaotic and insane as it used to be. But still, exercise caution. There could be maniacs out there. There are maniacs out there. I don't know what's happened in the last maybe five years, but things have definitely changed. It l- at least it seems that way for me. Like almost any time, if I go downtown, somebody will try to start some crap with me, like for no reason. Could be the middle of the day. I'm like, "What did I do? I'm just walking here. Can you stop being a maniac?" So hopefully it's, uh, you know, pretty chill out on the streets today. Uh, there were a lot of lines. We talked about them earlier. So, you know, there, there are people out and about, but
man, tell you, it's one of those activities I just never quite understood. And I've been out on Black Friday a few times and I'm like, "This sucks. What's going on?" I don't wanna see these people, but some people really like to shop, I guess. Ugh, I've been thinking about shopping, just like I mentioned, for Christmas stuff the last few days. You know you're feeling cruddy when you can't scroll on your phone. Like [laughs] -[rock music] I don't really recall taking a look at much on social media in the last week. There were a couple times I tried to get in a few arguments online, but, you know, that was about it. [laughs] You know, just the norm for me. It's not a good hobby. You know, just arguing with people online, but it's fun. I don't know. I need to find something better to do with my life. All right, maybe I'll, maybe I'll take a look around, see if I can get the kids some crap. Ugh. [rock music] What is up? Happy Friday. Welcome to the Victor Wiltz Show, and, uh, sorry you're awake right now. Shouldn't have to be the day after Thanksgiving. Should be sleeping. Sleeping and relaxing, or I guess shopping. And I did attempt to do a little bit of Black Friday shopping during the last few songs. I know one of the things that one of my daughters wanted for Christmas, so I was like, "All right, maybe I can find a deal on something." Of course, I did. Was like, "Cool. Handled." And then, you know, I started looking for something to talk about. Popped back over, and this is the worst part about Black Friday shopping. All of a sudden, cart updates. It's like, "Sorry, that item is no longer available." It's like, but that's what I wanted.
What a bunch of bullcrap. So, I went to another website, and hopefully, uh, won't have the same thing happen. See, the good thing about a lot of Black Friday deals, especially on things like electronics, it's the same sales everywhere. So, well, if you strike out at one place, just- just check another. Uh, at least I don't have to physically go out to the stores right now. Not feeling that. I don't want to be around anybody, except, uh, my lady. That's it. Oh, my house sounds so good. Sounds so good right now. So happy that it's Friday. Hopefully, by Monday, I'll be, uh, in tip-top shape and less whiny. But yeah, this sickness just been brutal. Just kicking my butt, and I mean, I feel a million times better than I did,
but still just kinda cruddy. You know? This chest discomfort, ugh! Had it! All right. Luckily, I got most of my work done that needs to be done around here on Wednesday. Ah, get ahead of the game to make today easier, and... Now, I'm just like, "Oh, yeah, that was useless." It's not like I'm finding any content to talk about anyway. Sorry that today's show kinda sucks so far. I intend to make it better. I- I promise. All right? I'll keep trying. In the meantime, for those of you who enjoy listening to music, it's your lucky day, 'cause I ain't got crap. [rock music] Happy post-Thanksgiving. Thanks for hanging out with me. Sorry you have to be awake right now. Mkay. Started trying to dig up some freak news. Not a lot of mayhem post-Thanksgiving yet. I guess today's Black Friday, so we gotta wait. Maybe we get a couple stories for the beginning of the week. For some reason, I keep getting directed to, uh, real estate listings. I- I don't, I don't know why. Why is that newsworthy? Why is that coming from a weird news site? This one, perhaps because they've got this-
this house for sale in Santa Cruz right on the ocean for 30 grand. I'm like, "30 grand? That ain't bad." Anytime you see a deal like that, there's gotta be a catch. Looks like the catch on this one is that it's for a 55 plus community. Still seems like
really cheap. Oh, you have to pay for the lot space. Holy crap. $6,502 a month. No wonder the- the house itself is [laughs] 30 grand. [laughs] 65 hundred a month? I mean okay, you're paying for that, uh, pretty much right on the ocean view, but it's also right on the highway, so th- that would kinda suck. Okay. Yeah, always a catch [laughs]. Man, can you imagine being able to afford
a mortgage of 65 hundred a month? I mean, what- what kind of house would that get you? I don't even know. Mortgage, 65 hundred, house, price. Let's see.
Get you about a... Let's see. Ugh, the- the- the computer is just not cooperating with me. [laughs] Uh,
okay, forget it. Who cares? I mean, it's not like we're... W- why do I even look? Why- why do I need to know?
65 hundred a month? Yeah, right. All right, get me out of here. Um, I'll be back with some actual freak news [laughs]. I don't think it's the time to be shopping for housing. Ugh. Good luck to anybody out there doing that kind of thing right now. I would assume, based on the comments I see on social media, that still sucks around here. [rock music] All right. What could we dig up today? Lots of unpleasant stuff in the news, so that was fun to read through when your, you know, brain's a little bit off. Nothing like reading through the horrors of the world, but don't worry, I found some stuff. I mean, this one could have been horrible. A boulder the size of a small car crashes into an SUV driving near Leavenworth, Washington. Uh, if you've never been to Leavenworth, my lady and I drove through there, I don't know, a couple of months ago on our way back from Bellingham, and, uh, it's- it's like a- a German town just in the middle of the mountains. It's really cool. Thankfully, we didn't get hit by a boulder the sm- the size of a small car. That- that would've sucked, but, uh...[heavy metal music] Yeah, looking at a picture of the vehicle that was hit, the SUV. I mean, it's mangled, but everybody was okay. I guess, uh, a kid had a few scratches, but that's about it. Like, okay, maybe not scratches. There were some stitches needed, but... Yeah, yeah, th- that, that would be a
crappy road trip. I mean, Leavenworth is not the worst place to have to stop and I guess [laughs] wait for a, a rental. But I bet that, uh, hotels there are pretty expensive. Uh, seem- seemed like that kinda town where you're, you're gonna pay to stay there. Really cool, though. If you're ever driving to Bellingham, you can avoid the whole mess of driving through the nightmare that is the region near Seattle and just go through Leavenworth. It's much faster. You know, according to Google, it's not going to be, but I guarantee it 'cause w- without question, anytime you drive through the Seattle area on the freeway, you are going to be stopped for a long time. I've, I've never driven through that area
and not had a problem. It's a nightmare. But okay, I, I shouldn't complain. I didn't get hit by a boulder. You might get hit by a boulder going the, uh, Leavenworth route, but I, I'd say it's possible on the, uh, Seattle route too. Okay. Let's see here. Did you take a fart walk yesterday? Doctors recommended after indulging in a big Thanksgiving meal that you take yourself a nice fart walk. It's the highly scientific term for a walk you take for about, uh, 10 to 15 minutes after you eat a big meal, and then, uh, y- you just walk around and fart. So, I don't know what the weather was like outside yesterday evening. Did my best to avoid going outside, aside from, uh, when I went to, uh, WinCo yesterday morning. Wow, a lot of people like me. Last minute Thanksgiving shopping, apparently. Uh, but it might've been a good night for a fart walk. I don't know. I didn't go outside. Uh, let's see. What else do we got here? The company, Yamada, to sell a human washing machine. Uh, it's like a giant capsule you encase yourself in, and I guess you just lay there, and it just cleans you. Now, it says it's gonna cost about ¥60 million. How much is that in US dollars? In US dollar? [keys clack] Okay, about $41,000. Okay? Not too bad if you just can't get in the shower and scrub yourself. [laughs] It does say it provides relaxing visuals and music. Um, I don't know. Some people got too much money.
Might be fun to try out though. [laughs] It, it looks pretty absurd. I don't know. Again, you can do it the old-fashioned way. It's not like it's that hard to take a shower, but if you got the dough, [laughs] you gotta spend it somehow, right? You know, and, uh, big fat oh good for you if you can afford the human washing machine. Okay. Uh, let's see here. I guess we'll save the rest of this for the next time I start yapping. That was an okay freak news, right? You know? Hmm. Man, glad it's Friday. We'll be back in a minute. [heavy metal music] Happy Friday, everybody. You doing good? I hope so. It's the Victor Wiltz Show, hanging out, trying to get through the day. If you're out shopping, good luck. I don't know if it's pure mayhem or what. Looked like a bunch of lines out earlier. You know, it's Black Friday. Good day to maybe find a deal. I was working on that a little bit, and then I realized I'm a bad dad.
I didn't have my daughter's new address in Bellingham, and I should 'cause I've been there. But apparently, I didn't save it in my phone anywhere, so had to message her, "Uh, what's your address?" [laughs] It's like, "You, you should know this, Dad." What the heck? Well, anyway, if you're doing a little bit of shopping, found an article here about marketing tricks to not fall for this holiday season. Well, they're always trying to get that money outta you. Like if you see a flash deal, exercise a little bit of caution. Now, I know that the Honey, um, what do you call it? Add-on? Is... It's not an add-on. It's an extension that you can put on to, like, uh, Google Chrome. I know it's kinda controversial, but it does have this cool feature where you can track the price history of items.
So you could take a look at an item that's on sale and find out, oh, it's actually more expensive now than it was a few days ago, 'cause they'll change the original price, make it look like it was higher. Y- you know, they create this sense of urgency to get you to buy now. Again, the Honey app, I, I don't know why it's controversial. I've just seen a number of, uh, YouTube videos where people were trashing it. At least for the price tracking, I think it's a great thing to have this time of year, 'cause [laughs] yeah, you might be getting ripped off with the big sale. So, you know, just 'cause something says the original price is blank and now it's this, it may have never been the original price of whatever they're saying it is. And that, that's another way to trick you into thinking you're getting a really good deal. Like, "Holy cow, that thing's like 75% off." Yeah, it was never that price to begin with. So, just be careful of that kind of thing and try to shop logically. Take a little bit of time, have some patience as you're looking at deals. Uh, you can also shop around. Like, if you're in the store, you can fire up your phone. Everybody has a smartphone. Check some prices elsewhere.[heavy metal music] ... and, you know, every dollar. Every dollar counts in this day and age. If you can save yourself five bucks, that kinda stuff adds up quick. It's amazing how, you know, $5 a day. Imagine what that adds up to at the end of the month, you know? Sorry, I'm just,
uh, feeling extra thrifty this holiday season. So, I've successfully purchased one Christmas present. [laughs] And it was an aggravation 'cause it was one of these, uh, "Oh, you know, gotta get the deal now." Add it to the cart, and then it, like I mentioned earlier, it just disappeared out of the cart. I had to find somewhere else to get it. But
generally with, uh, electronic steals, you can find them the same price, uh, everywhere at this time of year. So, good luck to you on your shopping activities today. I will may- maybe I'll get back to it, uh, once I figure out where my daughter lives. I'm a bad dad. [heavy metal music] I was just reading about a kid who... Well, i- it could have ended up worse. You know, you, you step onto somebody's private property? Sometimes people are crazy. This kid was fishing in a pond in Florida, and, well, he just ended up getting arrested. Oh no, wait, the homeowner did attack him. Okay. [laughs] I was like, you know, a little bit of trespassing. Why is this in the news? Yeah, apparently the Florida Man did get upset, grabbed him around his neck and hit his knee, causing him to fall to the ground. Then he threw the boy's fishing pole into the pond. "Get away from my pond!" Dude, I don't know why you'd go fishing in a pond in Florida anyway. You know what's in those ponds? Alligators. Okay? How many stories have we done about somebody or their dog getting dragged into a pond in Florida? It...
I, I just don't get it. I would not go near water in Florida
for, for any reason. I don't know. Maybe if I was on a boat. I might be able to handle it if I was on a boat, but just walking up to the edge of the water? You seen how fast a gator walks? Nah. I think I'd rather get beat up by a homeowner than attacked by a gator, all right? He'll rip your arm right off. You ever watch that Florida Man show on HBO? Looks like they got a new season coming soon. When does that come out? That show's pretty enjoyable. Florida Man, HBO. Lot of shows out right now. Need to finish up the new episodes of Stranger Things. Seem to be starting out pretty, pretty good, pretty strong. But, uh, didn't make it very far in that show over the last couple days. It's just been a little bit rough. Little bit rough. Lot of flu going around. Wash your hands, fools. Florida Man, HBO. Again, the first season's available now. Highly recommend that you check that out if you're looking for something silly to watch. You know, it's a good time of year to watch funny stuff. Last night we watched, uh, Scary Movie 2, the classic Scary Movie 2. It's got that great scene where the guy's shown how to make a, uh, a Thanksgiving turkey properly. [laughs] Oh, it was so funny. That movie is way more unhinged than I remembered. Okay, Season 2, Episode 1 premiers
today. All right, cool. Well, I've got a number of episodes of South Park to catch up on, got Stranger Things, got a bunch of movies I wanna watch, and now a new episode of It's Florida Man on HBO today. Great! Great. That show is a lot of fun. So, yeah. Will it involve a gator? Possibly. You never know when it comes to Florida Man, but... Oh, can't wait to get home, sit on that couch. Oh! I do gotta try to get some things done this weekend, though. I, I, like, have to. Just must be done. Fam's gonna be here soon. So soon! Crazy. Well, good luck to all on whatever you gotta do this weekend. You know, may- maybe I'll have a tree up in time for Christmas. [heavy metal music] All right, we're gonna try this. I'm relying on you to help this program. Lieutenant Crane is out today 'cause like, you know, most rational people, he's got the day off post-Thanksgiving. Me? I'm a crazy person. I'm at work. So instead of doing Traffic School Powered by The Advocates, we're gonna do Ask Me Almost Anything Powered by The Advocates. What do you wanna ask me? Anything within reason. Let's try to keep it fun, you know? But I don't know, i- it could be curious about
my favorite movies or bands or... I don't know. You listen to this show. Has there ever been something you wanted to ask me? I know we got a lot of people who listen to the show and they don't ever call, which is fine, but maybe give it a, a first-time call. 208-535-1015, and ask me a question. I'm hoping we can, uh, have a successful feature here on a Friday morning post-Thanksgiving. I don't know, you might have turkey brain going on. Might be a little bit toast from yesterday, but help me with this show by calling and asking me questions for Ask Me Almost Anything Powered by The Advocates. We're gonna kick it off right after the break, so you got, oh, looks like about three minutes to figure out what you'd like to question me about, and then we'll do it live. 208-535-1015. It's Ask Me Almost Anything Powered by The Advocates. Please, please call the show. [laughs] And let's chat it up. It's fun! I like talking to listeners, especially ones I've never talked to before.
Come on, it's not that scary. It's just radio. I jump on and fail every day. You been listening to this show this morning? Not my best.... so let's make the rest of it pretty good. Again, that number to call is going to be 208-535-1015. Sit and ponder on it for a few minutes, and then give me a call, and we'll get rolling. All right, I'm gonna be right back. [rock music] All right, it's the Victor Wilt Show. Hello, my people, and happy Black Friday. We're entering into the Christmas season officially. Try to not be a Scrooge. [rock music] Try to not ruin people's holidays. You know, don't be a turd. Don't be like this guy. He broke into somebody's apartment and unwrapped all of their Christmas gifts. Shame! This was in Bangor, Maine. Eh, home of, uh, Stephen King, or at least former home. It's where his big, cool house is that everybody goes and takes a selfie in front of. Yeah, he's just, uh, sleeping on their couch when the family walked in, and then they find out he opened all their Christmas presents. What a Scrooge! What a Grinch! And he doesn't look like the kinda guy you wanna find sleeping in your house. I mean, j- just looking at his face, mm-mm, mm-mm. I mean, generally, you don't wanna walk into your house and find anybody there, all right? I think if you break into somebody's house, and you just like hang out, you know, without their knowledge, you're a creep and a weirdo.
So don't do that, okay? Don't be a freak show. And there are a lot of stupid items making the rounds for sale for Black Friday, like, okay, Croc shoes. I've never tried them. They just don't seem like something I'm gonna like, okay? But if you love Crocs and you love Xbox, you can get Xbox Crocs for the value price of $80. They are Crocs that kinda look like an Xbox controller. Um, maybe not for everybody, but do you have an Xbox fanatic in your life who also loves Crocs? Then I have found you the greatest gift of all time. I'm glad this wasn't on one of my daughter's shopping lists 'cause had I seen this, I would've been like, "No." Okay? Uh-uh. [music stops] Not gonna spend 80 bucks on stupid Crocs. You get your mom or someone else to, to do that. Can't bring myself to do it. [laughs] I probably shouldn't talk about, uh, what I've been purchasing. My kids do enjoy listening to The Victor Wilt Show On Demand everywhere podcasts can be found. Yeah, just search for it. Spotify, Apple Music, whatever. We got somebody calling? They wanna say, "I love Crocs"? I don't know, we- we'll see. Oh yeah, I was gonna do Ask Me Almost Anything. Sorry, when Lieutenant Crane ain't here, I forget about these things. Uh, K-Bear-
[laughs]
... you're live on the show.
Good morning, Victor. How are you?
[laughs] I'm doing pretty good. Just forgetting how to do-
Oh, yeah
... my show, you know? It's, it's been a long week.
Are you having a rough Friday?
Absolutely, but, you know-
[laughs]
... I only have to suffer through about one more hour of this show, so that-
That's not bad. That's not bad.
And the noon hour-
So-
... with Peach. I think Peaches is in today, but I haven't seen him yet, so maybe he's not.
Huh.
I don't know.
So I got a question for you.
Okay.
Did you ever find your ID?
I did find my ID. It was-
Where was it?
It was, in fact, in my truck where we determined it was very likely to be since I had gone to the bank, and, uh, I had just chucked it into the cup holder, so.
[laughs]
So I did not lose my identification. I'm, I'm, I'm good to go. If I get pulled over by the cops, hopefully they don't hassle me too bad.
[laughs]
So that was a reasonable-
So-
... question for Ask Me Almost Anything powered by The Advocates, which we are now doing, everybody. I completely forgot to kick it off. I was staring at these stupid Crocs.
[laughs] So I have a couple more things for you.
Okay.
Ask Victor Anything, first concert you ever went to?
The first concert I will count as a, an actual concert would have been Ozzfest 1997 in Las Vegas. Talk about an amazing first show. It's probably why I got hooked on concerts, 'cause the lineup was Black Sabbath, Ozzy solo, Marilyn Manson, Pantera, Type O Negative, uh, Neurosis. I think Coal Chamber was there, Powerman 5000. It was an amazing lineup, and it was so fun. Now technic-
Wow.
... technically, the first concert I went to was the Ninja Turtles at the Mini Dome in Pokey, but-
[laughs]
... I, I don't think... I'm guessing they were not really playing their instruments, so I don't know if it counts.
Okay. So around Halloween, I was listening to Hard Drive, and Lou was interviewing a band that I'd never heard of, and he played one of their songs that I really kinda liked. And I was wondering if you could play that for me.
I'll do my best. What's the band and the song?
The band is Dead Sugar, and the song's called Grudge.
Dead Sugar, Grudge. Okay, I'm gonna make a note of this since we're in the middle of the Ask Me Almost Anything feature. Dead Sugar, Grudge.
Okay.
And, uh, I'll see if we've got it or if I can get a copy.
Sounds good, Victor. Appreciate it.
All right.
You have a good rest of your Friday.
Hey, you too, man. Good to hear from you, and, uh, enjoy your weekend.
Will do. You too.
Right on. Peace.
Bye.
All right. So it's Ask Me Almost Anything powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. If you'd like to take part, give me a call. That number to call is 208-535-1015. And let's just have some fun with it. You know, it's a post-holiday day. Uh, not a lot going on in the news, so why don't we chat it up? Again, some of you have never called the show before. Maybe you got something you wanna ask me. Let's, let's have a good time. 208-535-1015. K-Bear, you are live on Ask Me Almost Anything powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. Who's this?
This is JD.
JD, what do you wanna know, buddy?
Well, first off, thanks for The Advocates and those guys for sponsoring you. Uh, you know, it's just simply awesome that they would pay to let you rant and rave on the radio like they do. I think that's awesome.
They're, they're the best, the best.
I know. Yeah, Ben's a great guy.
Absolutely.
Uh, will we ever get to see
the great Victor Wilt front a band again?
Okay. I really want to get the band going again. I was thinking about this, like, pr- probably just last night as I was looking at all my gear that I need to move back upstairs. Um, I've been a bad band member, and I haven't got- gotten ahold of my guys in a bit. We did have a couple, uh, good jam sessions a number of months ago. Life got kinda crazy, and, uh, I need to reach out to them and get together 'cause, uh, we have a lot of songs we need to record, you know, probably at least an album or two worth of material. And, uh, I think we could put on a pretty fun live show, uh, especially if we had you running the sound and lights.
[laughs] Thank you for that. Thank you for that. Well, I- I know that, uh, the demise of Mr. Hamilton kinda killed Dr. Seuss, which was unfortunate. But, uh, you know-
Yeah.
Um, y- yeah.
Yeah, I don't think we could do Dr. Seuss, uh, without Joe.
No.
It's... Y- we need his onstage antics and mayhem and, uh, his unique way of just, uh, making his guitar just feed back 'cause he didn't give a crap, and, uh, the, the chaos.
Yeah.
The chaos was part of the show, and you can't have that chaos without the most chaotic member of the band, so.
Right, right. Yeah.
Yeah.
It's almost, you know... It was, it kinda... There were similarities, you know, for me, for a, you know, a Bill Mansberger show-
Yeah.
Or Greenjello- Greenjello show. Just, you know, uh, total you don't know what's coming next and that's what makes it great.
Oh, yeah. I mean, if you were showing up to watch Dr. Seuss expecting, like, musical perfection, no, it- it was just, it was chaos. The songs were good. The songs are good [laughs], but, you know?
I- I'll give you that, yes.
But-
They are.
But, yes, um, you know, I would... I've never used my Axe-Fx at a live show. And, um-
Oh, my.
I would love to 'cause it sounds so good. So...
Yeah, yes.
Yeah. Uh, hopefully-
Mm-hmm
...hopefully I will get back to it. I gotta kinda get my house in order, get the studio set back up, fix my computer, and then actually call my bandmates and be like, "Hey, guys, do you wanna come hang out?" [laughs]
Yeah. Well, well, my opinion is you need to quit parking in your garage, clean out the space there. Move all that stuff out there. And, you know, get a little space heater or something out there when you're gonna jam. A moo- duet out there 'cause, uh, that's, that's the best room in your house is the garage for a studio to play.
Yeah, you know, and we always jammed in, uh, you know, rough spaces. And so maybe where I've set it up all cushy, maybe that's, uh, aversive to the, uh, the creation [laughs] environment. I don't know. But-
Yeah, if I can s- if I can sit down in my lazy chair on my butt and play, then, uh, I get lazy playing-
Uh, yes
... you know?
And, uh, I... Uh, Becca and I almost jammed the other night, and then we both were tired, so we didn't. But at least I got her there encouraging me to do some kind of jamming and pick up my guitar, so.
And, and me too almost every day, ya ding.
I know. I- I'll, I'll pick it up this weekend, I promise. I'll play some crushing riffage.
There you go.
All right.
I, I promise.
That was my Ask Victor Almost Anything.
All right. Well, thank you for participating, JD. I hope you have a great weekend.
Yeah, play the song I wanna hear, buddy. Talk to you soon.
I will. I'll get it going for you.
All right. Thanks, man. Bye.
Thanks, man. Peace.
Again, the number to call to ask me almost anything is 208-535-1015. You know, you're a long-time listener. I'm sure there's something you're curious about. Why not ask me? Call me up right now. Let's do it live. 208-535-1015. Let's see here. Whoa. Okay. My homie Dan's dad asked me... [laughs] This is a, like, a question for maybe Lieutenant Crane. I certainly don't have an answer, and I don't know if it's true. But it says that, "The effluent from liquified cremations goes into sewage systems. Why is this process legal in Idaho?" Maybe if I copy and paste this into ChatGPT [laughs], we can get some kind of a response. Let's see what ChatGPT says. All right, it's searching. It's thinking. And, uh... Okay, good question. Wow, it's got a long response here. Ugh. Looks kinda boring.
Says that, "Idaho officially recognizes alkaline hydro- hydrolysis as a legal method of final disposition of human remains. And, uh, the regulations governing funeral establishments and crematories in Idaho explicitly include alkaline hydrolysis retorts under their licensing and sa- sanitary safety requirements." Long as they meet these requirements, they can do it. Uh, "This reduces human remains to bone fragments, and a liquid byproduct after the process
is described as a sterile solution of amino acids, peptides, sugars, but not recognizable flesh or blood." And so they said, "Yeah, fine. Fine, just put it in the toilet." I [laughs], I don't know.[rock music] Um, not all states feel this way, but, uh, Idaho, I guess, is cool with it, um, provided it's done under the proper conditions. And, uh, yeah, maybe ... It might depend on each individual city as well. So that's a great question, Mike. Thank you. [laughs] Nikki asked, "What is this?" And, uh, it says, "Billy Corgi. It's an animated corgi with a Billy Corgan head." That's what I think that is. Um, yeah. [laughs] Let's see if we got, uh, any other questions that have popped up online. Again, I'd prefer you call and do these questions live at 208-535-1015. Yeah, Facebook refresh is not cooperating with me. Thing is a piece of junk. That's Facebook for you, piece of junk. What, what the heck? I wanna see these responses. Why's it gotta be such garbage? This is why I need you to call, 208-535-1015 for Ask Me Almost Anything, powered by The Advocates. We don't really have a lot of time left with it. I, I don't know how we ate up so much of this so far, but, uh,
yeah. I don't see ... Okay, I finally got the window back up and I don't see any new questions, so
... You know, we could always just play JD's song, and then we'll just move along, but I think it's fun when you guys call and ask me random questions.
All right, final call. [laughs] Yes. I knew it would kind of be this way. Most people are off work or they're currently in the middle of some store
dealing with, you know, the, the chaos of Black Friday shopping. All right, let's see. I w- ... "If you want." Not if, if. I don't know how to spell.
Oh my goodness. There's a lot of songs that start with the letter I. If, there we go. If
you
... Why are there s- ... Okay, we got a caller. Thank God. That's okay. It'll give me time to scroll to that song. K-Bear, you are live on Ask Me Almost Anything, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Hi, this is Jayden.
Jayden, what's up? What do you wanna know?
All right, I got a question. What is the most underrated Thanksgiving food in your opinion?
Underrated?
Underrated.
All right. That's, that's actually a pretty good question 'cause, you know, a lot of people ... Like, Peaches and I were recently talking about Thanksgiving, and a lot of people, uh, uh, apparently don't like Thanksgiving food. Um, you know, I saw a lot of hate going on for turkey, and I, I think it's good. Uh, turkey might be underrated as a Thanksgiving food 'cause a lot of people theme just ... seem to think it sucks. Um, what do I like to have, like, every Thanksgiving? I mean, nobody's gonna say deviled eggs are underrated. Nobody's gonna say pie is underrated. Uh-
No. No way.
I mean, I like myself a good salad, and I think that's an item that most people don't think about for Thanksgiving. I didn't have any yesterday. But, uh, maybe the rolls. Good old rolls. I, I bought this, uh, package of some kind of Texas Roadhouse rolls at Winco. It was like a frozen thing that you just s- you know, stick in the oven in the pan it comes in. Those were pretty good, and I think rolls are underrated. You know, it's b- it's bread. It all ... It just sounds boring, but, you know?
It, it's a staple.
Yeah.
And it goes good with the potatoes.
That's true, man. That's true. And maybe you, you don't ever hear people raving about mashed potatoes, do you? They're, they're good. Um, I don't know. What, what would you say?
I would say probably the stuffing.
Stuffing can be pretty underrated too, and it's good.
I know some people are pretty picky.
Yeah, my girlfriend made a, a really good batch of stuffing last night. We, uh, we threw together Thanksgiving at the last minute. It, uh, ended up working out. I had to cook a turkey breast in the Instant Pot 'cause I didn't have any turkey that wasn't frozen, but I ... It turned out, uh, pretty good. You know, it was kind of more like a roast, but, um, it wa- it was tasty with some gravy, and, uh, yeah. You know, you do what you gotta do to get by.
That's for sure. Yeah, no, that's perfect.
So, yeah, we made it work, and it wa- it was nice.
Yeah, as long as you're doing something. Get everybody together, have a little meal.
Yeah, I mean, nobody wanted to come by my house 'cause I've been, uh, down with the sickness. Um, so-
Okay.
... it was just the two of us. It was, uh, you know, our first Thanksgiving together, and it was kinda weird 'cause there was no one else around. But we, uh, we made the best of it, and I think we had a really good time.
Nice. I would tend to agree. It was a good Thanksgiving this year.
Good. I'm glad to hear it, man. So
... But, yeah, got plenty of leftovers, that's for sure. I know what I'll be eating the next couple days.
Ooh, that's the best part about Thanksgiving.
That's true. That's true. So ... And I got two full pies, so I can eat like a real pig.
That's the best part though, for sure, and it lasts-
[laughs]
... a good long while. You don't gotta worry about cooking.
Heck yeah.
Get it all done in one go.
Yeah, I, uh ... The, the more I can, uh, avoid chores, the better, 'cause I got about a billion of 'em to do. [laughs] So, appreciate the call, man.
Of course. You're very welcome. Have a great rest of your day.
You too. Peace.
Bye. Goodbye.
Oh, not this. This is not a official caller. How dare you? I thought I was doing good with two calls. Hello?
Hello? Come on. Join the show. I know you're there.I know you're there. Ah, whatever. Okay. Well, um, I'll quickly refresh the window here. People are liking the fact that I asked if anyone had any questions for Ask Me Almost Anything, but they're not asking questions. So, I guess you know what that means. It means JD gets his song request, and then we'll be back with more stuff. [rock music] It's the Victor Wilt Show. Hi, everybody. Happy post-Thanksgiving. Happy Black Friday. I hope you're having a good one. Okay, which of these should I dive into here?
Cheese contaminations. Um, I don't know if this is happening in our area, but Boar's Head Pecorino Romano cheese. Yeah, you might have some problems with that. So, I don't know if you've purchased any Boar's Head items recently. You might wanna look that. You don't wanna get listeria. Doesn't sound very good. All right, we've got the Beef Jerky Bandit who was bagged by police, trying to jack some beef jerky from a Circle K store. Uh, when approached by police, he's like, "You're not gonna believe this. You're gonna think I'm crazy, but there is an AI intelligence speaker in my neck."
And I guess it was telling him, you know, "Take that jerky, man. Come on, take the jerky."
Uh, no evidence that he actually had an AI, you know, intelligence speaker in his neck telling him what to do. And it's not the first time he's been arrested, so I don't think they're gonna go for, for that excuse, buddy. All right, anything else here?
I know I had something else open. [laughs] Meta shut down an internal study that linked Facebook use to worse mental health. Uh, do they even need to do a study? No kidding. Guarantee that scrolling Facebook is not good for your mental health. [laughs] I've been trying to avoid it this last week just 'cause my brain couldn't h- help, uh, handle staring at my phone. JD sent me some weird video yesterday. I started watching like five seconds. I'm like, "Oh, my brain can't take it. Ah." Get around to watching that eventually, J- uh, JD. But yeah, uh,
Facebook showing a
little bit of
data
showing harm, especially to, uh, teenage users. So, you should just stay off of it. You know, not to mention it's making me dumber, all right? I see a lot of really dumb garbage on Facebook every single day. I saw some today. Just like, do, do people not know how to just look this stuff up? Anywhos,
I'll keep digging up crap to share with you, okay? I know I had other tabs that I was gonna talk about, but maybe I looked at Facebook too long this morning, and that's why my brain is mush. So instead, we'll play more tunes. [rock music] Looking through the news, reading about the, uh, five pitiful... Not pitiful, pivotal... They could be pitiful. Pivotal brain phra- phases that you go through in life, and it, it is a bad day for me to be reading a medical article when I can't even talk. But yeah, apparently you don't really get into adulthood until about, about 32. Now, prior to that, you're still in that a- adolescent mindset. And, you know, when you go from that to the adulthood mind, mind stage, I guess that's major, uh, changes in brain chemistry and see things like that, um, aligning with a plateau of intelligence and personality. Mkay. I definitely feel like I'm still in the adolescent state of mind from time to time. Don't feel that... Well, okay, I guess I feel different than I did at about 30 for sure. I'm old. [laughs] But at least I don't have to worry about, uh, kicking into the early aging part of the brain, and that's, uh, at about 66. And then if you can make it up to, uh, 83, you get the final stage, late aging. All right, still doing good. I'm barely into adulthood. Yay. Um, I didn't read this whole article to see, you know, what kind of striking changes actually happen at these moments in life, but
yeah, I seem to remember Tool writing a... Or at least Tool's webmaster writing an article about Saturn ascending. You know, they talk about it in that song, The Grudge, and it's supposed to be these major changes that happen to your brain and how it operates, and, you know, what's important in life and it happening. I think they said at like 33. I don't know, man. Tool's website, man. You can read some weird stuff, man.
I'm gonna be back... Well, I, I don't know if I'm even gonna be back. It's like time for the show to be over, so probably not gonna talk anymore. And then I gotta figure out what to do for noon 'cause I, I don't think Peaches is here. I haven't seen him. He always comes in and bothers me, so yeah. I'll have to go look around. There might not be anybody in the office as far as I know. [laughs] Just me hanging out here, the sole guy who ran outta PTO 'cause of the flu, couldn't take today off. Give myself a nice four-day weekend. That would've been great. Oh, well. We're about halfway through the day. Just gotta knock down the rest. I'll talk to y'all in a bit. Thanks for kicking it with me and listening to the show. [rock music]
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