[upbeat music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast.
Victor, why don't you go ahead and shake that ladder? [laughing] Give it a nice kick.
So the same thing goes to a ladder. So it goes through the ceiling-
[laughing]
-over to the other wall, through the wall.
There's some old skeleton-
So we gotta dig into the other ceiling to see what else is happening.
You know, the way you were hobbling around last week, I don't think you should be climbing a ladder at all.
I do what I want!
[laughing] Jade's in here ripping the ceiling apart. He's got the lights on, and as far as I can tell, he's failed to fix anything. [laughing]
[laughing]
Keep trying, buddy. [laughing]
Wait.
Look at... Yeah, that light's on out there, ain't it? [laughing]
We're fixing it.
Doing a good job.
Josh is here, too, from Class of '97.
That's right.
Yeah.
I, I had this question pulled up: What's the most overrated video game of all time?
Oh, the most overrated video game of all time?
Red Dead.
I honestly-
You git!
Well, what's funny is-
You-
-I sorted the answers by controversial-
And the-
... top response is Red Dead Redemption 2.
For a, for a controversial answer?
This guy says, "Rockstar has great writers, but they don't know how to make a video game."
Oh, sh- get... You git.
Come on. [laughing]
You get out of here.
I wonder what this guy's favorite video game is. Probably some anime crap or something.
Probably. Sort by just, uh, best or top.
I, I did, but it's just people commenting on other people's comments.
Well, there's gotta be a top comment.
Okay, well, the top comment literally says... I'll, I'll read it to you.
What, like Call of Duty?
Yeah, no, it says, "I have a feeling most replies are gonna be games that are fairly criticized every year. COD, EA Sports games." That's literally [laughing] the top comment.
Okay, yeah, 'cause those games, no good.
Oh, look, we gotta wander over here now.
Clickety-clackety-
Clickety-clack
... skeletons walking around. Clickety-clack.
Well, I'll, I'll get out of the way here. [laughing]
Oh, yeah, it's plugged in right there, see?
Now Josh is climbing under the desk. [laughing]
Okay.
Jade is right behind me. I might just fart.
You should rip one, Peaches.
[laughing]
Rip one right now. A horrific one. Yeah, what would you say is an overrated game? Okay, Minecraft.
Okay.
That'd probably be a controversial answer. I don't get it, all right?
You don't get nothing because you're an egghead.
Josh just hit his head on the counter. [laughing]
I, I was gonna say, was that Josh hitting his head?
You're going-
I'm okay
... up in dark places.
[laughing] Keep trying to fix that light. [laughing]
I'm not gonna fix nothing-
I-
... until I fire you!
Oh. [laughing]
[laughing]
You git!
Then, then the new guy get all the new stuff.
Uh, that wouldn't surprise me at all. He does. He just got a new board. [laughing]
I, I would have to say-
You're still the new guy.
Because he's smarter.
It... Whoa!
Maybe in s- maybe in some ways. [laughing]
I could have learned to do it!
He can't be too smart. He just hit his head on the counter. [laughing]
Yeah, he doesn't get-
Hey, you're gonna eat your words when I get the next new one, and you build it yourself.
Oh, yeah.
Ah!
That one-
It's on record.
That one shouldn't be too hard. [laughing]
Um, I would have to say, you know the Super Smash Bros video games?
Okay.
I hate those.
I could go with you on that. Um, subpar fighting games.
Yeah.
You know, play some Mortal Kombat. Jeez.
Soulcalibur is even fun, too.
Back in my day, we played Street Fighter II.
Back in my day, we just fought in the street.
[laughing] That's right. Back in my day, we pushed someone over on a ladder for fun. [laughing]
[laughing]
That's what we did.
Why don't you go do that right now? Open the door and just give Jade a good push.
Oh, yeah.
What's in the box? Oh, it's Jade's body. [laughing]
[laughing] You wanna see how fast Jade can enter the server room away from the door? [laughing]
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Well, as we're doing this noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, obviously, uh, Jade and Josh thought now would be the perfect time to start doing some construction around here.
Yeah, they're gonna- they're trying to fix the light outside the studio that says, "On air."
Oh.
I wonder if they tried a new light bulb. [laughing] You know? How many idiots does it take to change a light bulb?
[laughing]
Apparently, more than two. [laughing]
I wish we were on camera at all times, but I can only imagine if we had cameras all set up in here, those would break, and then it would take, like, two to four business weeks for those to be fixed.
That's true, and I think at this point, it would appear they gave up, 'cause they took the ladder, and they left. So they can't fix a light bulb. That's how pudding-head those two are.
Why don't they fix, uh, NexGen freezing all the time?
[laughing] Yeah, or, uh, VoxPro, you know?
I was loading in Best of Bits yesterday, and of course, NexGen freezes up. Uh, P- Pierce the Veil starts repeating itself over and over.
No, I saw a listener s- uh, say something about you playing the extended version of the song.
Yeah, yeah.
Yes, um, that, that has happened to me before, too.
But it d- it doesn't happen at iHeart.
Oh, it's 'cause they have real engineers- [laughing]
[laughing] That's what I was setting you up for?
[laughing]
They're not even out there anymore, I don't think. I think they went down the hole.
Oh, don't worry, they'll, they'll be hearing it, 'cause they're gonna be working on changing that light bulb, I'm guessing, all day.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Peaches Pit Party's about to be a... Well, it might be entertaining now, 'cause you said it was a slow news day. It's a slow- it was a slow news day yesterday.
Oh, yeah.
It was awful.
It was bad today, and then, uh, you know, I was trying to do that stupid top 50 list, and Facebook-
[laughing]
... made me so mad.
Maybe I should have you do the, uh, top 50 countdown-
Oh!
-for my show instead.
Geez.
Let's hear your best Casey Kasem.
All right, everybody, it's the K-Bear 101 Top 50 of 2025 countdown. And then I go into the Casey Kasem throwing a tantrum mode. [laughing]
[upbeat music] Victor, I just mentioned to you that my apartment complex is going to do a temporary power outage tomorrow from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., luckily, when I start my shift here, so I don't have to worry about it as much-
Nice
... compared to other people who are unemployed or just work later on in the day.
The elderly, who might freeze to death.
Right.
[laughing] Yeah, it's cold outside.
That's... The, the, the, the older people get... I, I understand why, like, they have their house set at 82 degrees. My dad is becoming one of those old men, when it's like, it's 60 degrees out, "Oh, it's freezing in here!"
[laughing]
It's like, "Your, your glass bones and paper skin, Dad." [laughing] Like, there's nothing on you.
[laughing]
But, um, I was... You, you mentioned the whole power outage thing, or, uh, we were talking about that.... and then I thought about the Amish real quick, and then I remem- remember there's a show popping up on TLC, the leering channel, not The Learning Channel, the leering channel. A listener made that, made that joke yesterday, and I wanted to see if you would get it.
Nope, right over my head.
Okay, never mind.
Yeah. [laughs]
But, uh, uh, this, uh, new show is called Suddenly Amish, where people were like, "You know what? I don't like regular life anymore. I'm gonna become Amish." And they think it's, like, some sort of fun life.
Dude, yeah, why don't you just go live in the woods, you know? Why don't you be survivor man?
Henry David Thoreau, go out there and build a house. [chuckles]
That's right, just build a cabin in the woods. See how long you last till you turn into Ted Kaczynski. [laughing]
[laughs] What if you, what if you actually build a house in the middle of, uh, public land? Is that illegal?
I would assume it's illegal-
Okay
... uh, to build on public land. I mean, I don't know if there's a time limit on how long you could camp in a spot. Probably.
But what if you built, like, a, a nice wooden cabin? Like, I've seen those YouTube videos of, of dudes going out to the woods, building a random house, but I'm sure they own that land.
You would think.
Maybe.
Or they're just lying. I mean, most of those YouTube videos where people are building stuff are a scam.
Oh, really?
You know, like, you know, the kid who d- you know, digs a swimming pool out of the, you know, mud and clay.
I thought there was, like, two, like, two guys that just do that.
Yeah, yeah. No, but then you can see, like, the excavator marks in the background [laughing]-
Oh
... and things like that. It's a, that's a sc- most of those are a scam, for sure. You can watch, uh, videos of those debunked online.
Oh, I was gonna say, maybe you should be that guy in the comments just saying, "This is all fake!"
[laughing]
"You're, you're a phony."
[laughing]
You're like the guy from Family Guy.
That's what I'm gonna-
"You big phony!"
... That's what I'm gonna start doing to pass the time, just calling everything phony.
Yeah, might as well.
Fake.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, it's what everybody else does. The news, every- you know, might as well just start trashing YouTubers.
I mean, there's that, uh, meme going around where you just comment, "AI slop," on somebody's baby photo.
[laughing]
[laughing] Why not do that?
That's hilarious. I'm gonna do that, Peaches. [upbeat music]
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