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The Viktor Wilt Show daily recap! If you miss the show weekdays from 6A-10A MST, you've come to the right place.
Yeah. Hey. How's it going? It's Viktor Wilt. Morning.
Wednesday, July 24th. This is the Viktor Wilt Show. I guess we'll kick it off with a little bit of video game talk. I was reading that, VR is on the rise, which is good. I thought it was kinda fizzling out.
You know, I'd read that the PlayStation VR 2 was an utter failure. Read that a while back. Was a disappointment because it's a great system. It's awesome. I need to play it more.
Now I think I've done my part in supporting the system. I bought it on release day. I bought games for it. I don't play it as often as I should, but that's video games in general. I don't know what my problem's been for the last couple months, but I just haven't been gaming.
I'm gonna get back to it. I'm gonna get back to it. Am I getting old? Am I turning into a boomer? Video games for kids.
Meh. Last time I gained, it was a great time. Played some Mario Kart with the kids and my lady. It was really fun. Then I went right back to not gaming.
Shame be upon me. Anyway, with the rise of virtual reality, people need to give themselves proper space when playing VR gaming. Alright? If you're gonna start doing a little bit of VR action, make sure to clear your surroundings. Alright?
Not only might you punch your TV and break your TV, but you could hurt yourself. There's people like breaking bones and things like that. You know? Tripping over stuff, smashing their face into things, spraining ankles, busting knees. Yeah.
You don't wanna break your stuff or yourself. K. So maybe you need a babysitter. Maybe you need someone to watch you be like, you're getting close to the TV. If somebody punched my TV, I'd be so mad.
Make sure to use those, wrist straps if you're you're playing VR or even the Wii. Alright? I've seen many a Nintendo Wii controller get chucked across the room because somebody wasn't using the wrist straps. Shame be upon them. Okay.
Anyway, I highly recommend VR gaming. It's awesome. It's it's so much fun. So cool. I really need to get back to, that Resident Evil 4.
I've got so many games I need to play. Oh, I just wanna kind of punch myself, but not my TV. Much rather punch myself. Speaking of games, there's, one of the rarest NES games of all time up for auction. It's the gold Nintendo world championship 1990 video game.
You know what's crazy? I have played this game. An actual copy because I went to the, Nintendo World Championships. It was awesome. My dad took me and my brother to this.
It was in Salt Lake 1990. I would have been 8 years old, and the game's a kinda special version of Mario Bros, Tetris, and Rad Racer. And, you know, it's, like, timed, and I think, like, on Mario, you had to get as many coins as possible. Tetris, as many points as possible. And Rad Racer, probably a point steal as well.
At the time that I went, I had played lots of Mario Bros. I was okay at Tetris, and I had never played Rad Racer. Needless to say, I did not do well in the Nintendo championships, but I did play the game. Wish I would've got one of the copies. Yeah.
10 years ago, one of these sold on eBay for a $100,000. So they're auctioning one off. It's gonna start at, $10. Okay. Let's let's see here.
You've got 24 days to bid on this game. K. Guess what the bidding's at right now for a Nintendo game? $130,000. $130,000.
Now if you're wondering how people got their hands on this game, I guess they just sent them out, as prizes to readers of Nintendo Power Magazine back in 1990. They only made 26 of them. Patrick King of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was one of the winners of this, And he was very smart. He hung on to it, and now he's slinging it and gonna make at least a $130. Holy cow.
I was a Nintendo power reader. I don't recall winning anything. But, again, I don't have much luck when it comes to winning stuff. Alright? I'm trying to think if I've I mean, I know I've won some kind of prizes.
Like, back in the day, a few radio call ins. You know, I've won some concert tickets before I worked at kay bear, but that's about it. Big prizes? Nah. Not that I can think of.
You would think of it was Not that I can think of. You would think if it was something exciting, I'd remember. Nope. So I might as well go buy a lottery ticket so I can lose again. Alright.
Anyway, sometimes hoard and stuff. It's not a bad thing. You know? I often wonder. You know, were there weird items I had when I was younger that might be worth tons of money, but I just gave them away?
Probably. Just wanted to let you know it's national tequila day. I don't recommend you celebrate that on a Wednesday. K. I mean, even the email I got about this says here's a great way to approach this topic on the radio.
What's your I had too much tequila story. Boo's culture is so weird, and trust me. I've been deep in that culture. All right. And you know, you wouldn't believe how much booze I drank and what happened to me.
Those are not stories to be, proud of. Alright? There's a reason that like special occasions only for me, you know It it's not really good stuff. It's not really good stuff, booze in general. But yeah.
Yeah. Maybe take national tequila day off. K? I'm certainly not gonna take the sad calls of what's your I had too much tequila story. Yeah?
We don't need to be bringing each other down here. Alright. Start creepy crawling. Get the anxiety up. It's Wednesday.
Alright. I I don't know why my email is filled up with, horrible topics. Got another one about this article. Who's in the New York Post? Stripper reveals the scary truth about cheating men at bachelor parties.
Let's ruin you ladies' days here. Alright? Yeah. This, this stripper claims that, I don't know where she works. I don't I don't know what, city this is in, but she claims that 80% of guys will cheat at their, bachelor party.
Now I've only been married one time. I don't think I had a bachelor party because I didn't see the the point. If I did, it was just me and the usual homies sitting at my house drinking a bunch of beer. Like, that that would have been the extent of it. I don't know.
I'm not, not big on the, strip club thing. It's just not my thing. And I'm not trying to virtue signal here. Alright? Listen.
You know, I've got nothing against, you ladies. You wanna work in that type of club, that's fine. You be you. I'm don't let people, you know, hold you down. You do what you wanna do.
And, guys, if you wanna go to that type of, club, that's that's fine as well. But don't cheat on your your lady. Alright? And vice versa, ladies. Don't cheat on your dudes.
Don't be a cheater. Cheating is not cool. Not cool. And it's weird how, you know, we're talking about booze cult culture. Let's talk about bachelor party culture.
It's weird how it's like, oh, it's the last hurrah. Time to get crazy. It's the la it's like, no. You're you're not single all of a sudden for 1 night. It's not an excuse to I don't know.
I guess if you have a certain type of relationship and your significant other's like, alright. Tonight's the night. You go out and do whatever you want. I I would think in most cases, that's not how it works. It's like that story we had a while back from the guy who was like, well, the slogan is what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
So he, like, you know, just went wild and his girlfriend was like, what's wrong with you? And he's like, but that's how it works in Vegas. No. I've been to Vegas many a time. You still need to behave yourself.
Alright? Don't be a piece of crap just because it's a certain day, a certain type of party, or you're in a certain place. Try to be a good human being. Life's not gonna work out for you very well if you're not good to the people around you who care about you most. Don't be a piece of crap.
Alright? I don't know if I buy the, 80% thing that this, you know, woman's throwing around but also I don't think I've been to any, like, bachelor parties at strip clubs or anything. Again, I'm not trying to virtue signal here. I'm I'm just thinking back, like I mean, all my friends have been married. I think if they threw a bachelor party, it's like again, I don't remember if I did, but if if they did, it was probably we sat around at their house drinking beer.
That's the cheap way to do it. Yeah. And safe. You're you're at home. You You don't have to worry about, getting a ride or anything like that.
Anyway, the ultimate message of this break is don't be a piece of crap. K? Be a good human being. Don't be a dirtbag. Alright?
Your behavior at times can really affect other people. So try to think about other people. You know? Be good to those around you who are good to you. Jeez.
Okay. We've got some folks out there who are having trouble navigating our concert calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com. So I guess it's lesson time. We have launched a new event calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com that you can go check out. Alright?
Easiest way I'd say to find it is go to the music section. Go to the k Bear page, and then click on the link for concerts and events. Now when this pops up, you've got a lot of different options here. K? If I need to make a tutorial video, I'll do so but hopefully you can understand this just through my voice.
Alright. You'll see choose an event category or choose an event type. Now you can whittle it down to, under event category, the community calendar which is going to show you things happening in our community. Like, you know, this summer camp for youth with disabilities or the July adoption challenge, blah blah blah. So those would be under community calendar.
Then you also have concert, comedy, or live event. Now if you'd like to break it down even further, on the other side, you've got choose an event type. Alright. You'll see where it says concert and it's got all kinds of different concerts. Now, if you don't wanna see the car shows and thing, you just wanna see the rock and metal shows.
Go to concert slash rock, click on it, and boom. There you go. There's all of your live rock and metal shows with none of the other community stuff in there. Had multiple people in the Kay Bear 101 Idaho rock and metal group having problems navigating this. So okay.
Let's start it back over again. You go to the calendar. K? Under choose an event category or choose an event type, you whittle it down. The end.
It's kinda like a roundabout. Click. Click. The end. Concert, rock.
Now you may have friends and family that just wanna know what's going on in the community. That's that's why we launched this calendar. It's a better calendar with a lot more to it. Alright? You just gotta sometimes play around with things.
Do a little bit of digging. So, again, choose an event type, concert slash rock. There's all your rock shows, and you don't have to worry about any of that other stuff. But me personally, I think it's nice to know every single event that's happening in the region in case maybe you got kids and you need to bring them somewhere to burn off some energy. You know?
Sometimes you know, maybe the, King Buzzo and Trevor Dunn show is not the family event you've been looking for. Maybe you just need, picnic in the park or something. Alright? There you go. That's how it works.
If you have any further questions, feel free to call me. Alright? I'll help you. Alright. I'm gonna have to carefully walk the fine line on this one.
So let's talk about music and politics. I I don't think this will be that big of a deal. I saw a radio programmer today saying no to artists. If you want your music played on the radio, stay out of politics. It's a big world.
Blah blah blah. And I thought this was really weird coming from a a radio programmer because this is a guy like me who works in multiple formats. I know he works in rock as well as like a a top 40 format. I'm not sure if he does more than the 2. But, you know, I program music in 12 formats.
If you count Christmas and 4th July, we kick it up to, like, 14. I don't know. It's just endless. Every format imaginable. I'm programming it.
And if you were to blacklist artists who delved into politics, for one thing, the country music format would almost cease to exist because that format is the most political of any radio format, any type of music for sure. And some of the artists in country, I mean, extremely outspoken with their political beliefs, and they put them right into songs. Not just like, okay. I'm gonna tweet something. Here's what I think.
I mean, the songs are extremely politics driven. In the rock format, it's also the same. Tons of artists that, you know, a big part of their identity is how they lean politically. And so this guy who's saying, you know, if we you want your songs played on the radio, don't do any political stuff. I'm, like, okay.
On your rock station, are you now stopping? You know? Are you now gonna stop playing rage against the machine, system up and down, stained, kid rock? I mean, the list if you wanna start naming bands that get into politics, all that remains I mean, even big bands like Metallica have made fairly strong political statements. Alright?
I don't buy that this particular programmer or any of these other people who are commenting are being genuine in their statement that they don't think artists who, dive into politics should be allowed to be on the radio. I think they're talking about specific political beliefs and a specific format that being top 40 radio. If you're out of the loop, there's, you know, some changes going on in the upcoming presidential election, and there have been some artists in the top 40 world who have come out in support of the democratic candidate. This happens every election. Like, you can find celebrities who are supporting Trump.
You can find celebrities who are supporting Harris. The end. And there's kind of some viral stuff going on with this artist, Charlie xcx. You know, we play some of her songs on z103. They're, you know, pop dance tunes, whatever.
It's not like she came out and said anything offensive. She just, it it's like young people meme stuff, that I don't even quite cat video cat video for those of you who like cat videos. But people are losing their minds about this. How dare she? I'm like, have you paid attention to anything happening in rock or country music?
In the history of rock and country music? What do you mean artists can't talk about political stuff? Again, country music would cease to exist if they started blacklisting artists who talk about politics. Alright? I mean, that Jason Aldean song, you know that guy who grew up in a big city and then pandered to his audience with that terrible try that in a small town song?
Has no clue what it's like to actually live in a small town. I've lived in a small town. K? That song is ridiculous. It went to number 1 on country radio, and it was as political as it gets.
So I I ain't buying it, this outrage. It's just selective outrage. And I you know, no matter what side you're on, you should be able to express your political opinion as an artist. Alright? I it drives me nuts when people like stick to what you're good at.
Like, okay. You know what? You're wearing a Jason Aldean shirt. I mean, seriously sorry. You know?
No matter what side you're on, I'm not gonna stop playing bands on the radio because they fall in a particular political direction. Like, some of them, they annoy me. They annoy the crap out of me. But unless they're being, like, straight up hateful, you know, they're advocating violence or, you know I don't know. They they gotta really cross the line for me to go.
I'm not gonna play that artist. Even if I disagree with them and it makes me cringe out, I'll I'll still play it. Alright? Because this is America. And freedom of speech, that's supposed to be important to a lot of people.
But one thing I've noticed is if it's a different opinion, then people all of a sudden have a a different thought on freedom of speech. Alright. Again, if you are spreading violence, you know, if you're encouraging, like, hate and discrimination and things like that Yeah. Okay. Let's talk about how to be a good human being and types of, you know, language and such that I I think is inappropriate.
But simply, I support this side. Get over it. Alright. Just get over it and move along. I mean, if if people could just talk these things out rather than lashing out I I saw a very offensive article about this whole Charlie XCX thing.
CNN said how this off putting color shaded the Internet and beyond and it's this green color. How is that off put That is the typo negative green if I've ever seen it. I've got a hoodie that's got that green all over it. How dare they shame this typo negative green? Alright.
Let's talk about Bigfoot. Yeah. Been watching a lot of X Files recently, so anything in that realm, I just gotta talk about it on the radio. Bigfoot Rendezvous. Happens every couple years.
Going down Friday Saturday at the Westwood Mall in Pocatello. That's right. Something happening at the Westwood Mall in Pokey. Might as well go. It's gonna be in the hallway next to Outer Limits.
You know what the giant UFO crashing into the building? Perfect place to hold the Bigfoot rendezvous. Looks like it's being thrown together by Brandon Tennant who's a great guy. Gotta give a shout out to Brandon Tennant, for a variety of reasons. I if he's still in the t shirt biz, made a lot of my band t shirts back in the day, but just great guy.
Great guy. And whether or not you believe in Bigfoot because you've heard me talk about Bigfoot. I have not ever seen a Bigfoot, and I'm pretty skeptical on Bigfoot. But would I go to the Bigfoot rendezvous and hang out with a bunch of weirdos who wanna talk Bigfoot? You know it because I like weirdos.
Yeah. Should be, couple hundred people there. They've got a lot of guest speakers, Bigfoot experts, like, you know, Jeff Meldrum. We've talked about him on the show before. He's a ISU professor.
Considered a world renowned expert on Bigfoot. There's gonna be a lot of vendors, and it should just be a lot of fun. Yeah. They've had, you know, hundreds of people show up to this. And, again, it sounds like a fun time.
Everybody, you know, knows about Bigfoot. Right? Major pop culture, topic. You've got stories going back 100 of years about Bigfoot like creatures. I I think it'd be a pretty good time.
So that's, again, Friday Saturday at the Westwood Mall in Pocatello. Let's see. Who else is gonna be here? Another group, YouTubers Squatch America. A YouTube group that travels around the country investigating Bigfoot stories and sites.
Polka you know, we've got Bigfoot stories from around this area. If I've done Bigfoot as a topic, I always get calls from people with Bigfoot stories. So, you know, if if you're into Bigfoot, you know, cryptozoology, any of that, you might as well go check this out. I bet it'd be pretty fun. I don't maybe I'll make my way down as well.
If you wanna get more information, you wanna pick up tickets, go to sasquatchprints.com. Sasquatchprintslikeprints.com, and go check out the Bigfoot Rendezvous. I sorry. I say Bigfoot event. I gotta I gotta spread the word.
And, again, it's something happening at the Westwood Mall. How often does something happen at the Westwood Mall in Pokey? Pretty rare. This will be fun. So sasquatch prints.com.
You can get some nice Bigfoot shirts there as well. Let's dive into some entertainment news. Just general entertainment news. Why not? Alright.
We got Snoop Dogg set to carry the Olympic torch. That's right. It's so funny to me when I think back to the early nineties when Snoop Dogg put out his first album, the title of which I am uncomfortable to say on air. I used to have a t shirt with that album cover on it as well. It's a great album.
But back when that album made its debut, oh, man, was Snoop Dogg about the biggest scourge on the planet there could be. Destroying the youth? What is happening? Now everybody loves Snoop Dogg. Right?
Do they do they not? I'm sure not everybody. But Snoop Dogg rolling down the street with the Olympic torch. Yeah. Anyway.
Cool. Alright. Now what? Snoop will be carrying it during the penultimate leg of its journey where it will traverse through the Parisian suburb of Saint Denis. I I thought that was only in Red Dead.
That's a real place. Saint Denis, you know, s a I n t d e n I s, Saint Denis. It's what they call New Orleans in, in red dead. It is a real place in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. I had no idea.
And Snoop gonna be running through there, running through Saint Denis with the Olympic torch. That's pretty cool. Alright. What else do we got for entertainment, I'm all the time. Well, so do I.
I get it. See, Keanu Reeves says I'm 59, so I'm thinking about death all the time. I'm young old. That's sort of that's what I feel like. I'm young old.
Says hopefully it's not crippling, but hopefully it's Sensitizes us to an appreciation of the breath we have and the relationships we have the potential to have. Alright. Yeah. You know, that's right. You gotta, you know, make the most of it.
I agree. Doesn't mean I'm not, bothered by the fact that at some point, just boom. It's gonna switch off like that moment when you're asleep and there's asleep and there's just nothing going on. That's what I think it's like. And I don't know.
I I don't think it's gonna be that big a deal to me personally when I go because it just it just it's gonna be that big a deal to me personally when I go because it just it it flips off. But the thought of it, it's like it's very aggravating. I got stuff I wanna do and stuff I wanna see. Alright? Well, at least Keanu suffers through the same kind of, brain activity as me.
Yeah. Anyway, he's got a new book out called The Book of Elsewhere, and it follows an immortal warrior struggling to understand why he cannot die. I'd give it a shot for a while. I mean, I'm sure eventually you'd be like, alright. I've had enough.
I've had enough of this planet, and maybe I'll get to that point eventually. But right now, it's like, no. Not near enough time left. The days are going by way too quickly. You remember when you were young, minutes would just creep by at school?
Like, I wish that time would go I love that the workday goes by fast, but I wish the time would just creep by like that, like, back in the day. What else do we have for any other entertainment news that's of importance? Let's see. No. I don't think so.
I don't think so. Not that I can see here. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey voted Idaho's best oil change. Here we go. Cemetery for sale, $1,000,000.
A 27 acre cemetery in the heart of Philadelphia. Once in a lifetime opportunity to own the historic Mount Vernon Cemetery. Looks like whoever does own this place has done a horrible job taking care of it. It's all overgrown and cruddy looking. Like, I don't know.
Seems kinda disrespectful to those buried in this cemetery. I mean, looking at some of these headstones, they're very old and some of them very elaborate. I mean, it's it's a pretty cool looking cemetery aside from the fact that it looks like ancient ruins. Now also, I don't know what you're supposed to do with it when you when you own it. Why isn't the city taking over the Well, you know, Pennsylvania, I think there's some, you know, economic things going on there.
It's one of the, cheapest housing markets in the country, Pennsylvania. I don't know about Philadelphia in general, but, yeah. What what are you supposed to do with it? I don't think it could, like, build a house or something on it, which I don't know. I know I'm kinda strange.
But if you could, like, guarantee that there was a certain area where there were no graves, I do think it'd be a pretty cool yard, No? You gotta not be worried about ghosts and things like that. And then, you know, you're doing some good by doing yard work because you're, you know, paying respect to the deceased, keeping this place looking nice. But, yeah, I think you'd also have to allow people to come wander around in your yard because it's a it's a cemetery. You can't really, like, private property.
No trespassing. At least, I don't think so. Anyway, $1,000,000 if you're in the market for a cemetery in Philadelphia. Hit up Zillow and look for it. An Australian surfer's leg washed up on shore after being attacked by a shark.
Australia, sharks, surfing. No. You should know better. Alright? I mean, going into water in Australia, it's almost a guarantee as far as I'm concerned that you're going to have your leg ripped off by something.
It's Australia. The land of hideous beasts. Hey, that's my leg over there. Yeah. There's my leg.
Cool. Now, if your leg gets ripped off by a shark, can they reattach it? Let's see here. The guy's in stable condition. They're assessing surgery options.
So maybe sometimes they can put your leg back on, but I'm I'm guessing the guy's gonna end up with a prosthetic. Just just guessing. I mean, a shark ripped his leg off. Who knows how long it was in the water? And what a what a jerk of a shark.
If you're gonna rip somebody's leg off, at least eat eat that egg leg. Jeez. I don't know what why I couldn't say leg and went with egg. But, anyway, eat the leg shark. Come on.
Is Bangor the worst seaside town? Alright. You planning on taking a trip to Is this It's the UK. People in Bangor in the Welsh seaside city are upset that they were voted the worst seaside city, Bangor. Yeah.
They describe it as drab and run down. Well, I'm looking at some photos of it here. Now maybe they're just trying to to sell it as being, you know, not too shabby. It looks alright. It looks alright to me.
I mean, I've been to some drab and rundown cities. Alright? You ever driven through Nevada? Yeah. Get out in the middle of nowhere, Nevada.
You'll see drab and run down. I mean, there's there's a lot of drab and rundown all over the west. Well, so this place don't look too bad. I guess if you're the worst seaside town, that's probably not very bad. People who live there settle down.
Alright? You're a seaside town being the worst. That's like, you know, being the worst tool song. Alright? It's still a tool song.
Alright? You're in a seaside town. Chill. But if you're living in a seaside town, I don't know about going whale watching. I, in the past, thought whale watching would have been cool.
Not after watching this whale jump on a boat. Horrifying. Yikes. Are are you baiting me here, Peaches? A what?
Because every time you walk in, I go, speaking of blank, it's Peaches. Oh. But I'm doing a story about whale watching, so that would have been pretty messed up. Would you go whale watching, Peaches? Did you see that video of the boat getting jumped on by a whale?
Yeah. I've done it before. It's, it's fun. That was back before the whales were going, hey, let's, let's capsize people. Animals are fed up with people, man.
I mean, I've seen As it should be. I've seen the orcas attacking boats, but this is a whale, like a big whale. And I bet it's a little bit crazy seeing a beast of that size when you're out in the middle of the ocean. Because being out on a boat in the ocean's already uncomfortable. You're already like, you know, you wanna you wanna spew because it you know, the the waves and such.
There's that video that terrifies me every time it pops up of the guy kayaking, and then there's a lady kayaking, and then there's a lady speaking, like, she's screaming something in Spanish, but then she takes the camera and puts it under the water. And there's a whale shark trying to eat, krill off the surface, right below the kayak. Oh. And you just see the giant mouth, krill off the surface right below the kayak. And you can see the giant mouth open up.
And it's bigger than the kayak and the guy can together. It's terrifying. That was just horrible. I mean, I think it would be really neat to see a whale in person, one of these giant whales, but but that video of it jumping on the I didn't say it. Anyway, check out the video online.
I hope the people on the boat were okay. I mean, this is a whale versus boat. A small boat too. It wasn't like a cruise ship. This was just a look like Forrest Gump's boat, you know?
Out there shrimp boat. When we went whale watching, there was, that he he turned the motor off and you don't hear anything. Just the middle of the ocean. All you just hear is the water and that's it. It's Scares.
Terrifying. Yeah. That would be terrifying. Yeah. Yeah.
Did you see whales? You heard one go with, like, the the blow hole? Yeah. And then we just looked and, yeah, we we see the tip of the top of one just go right next to us. Was it pretty big?
Oh, yeah, yeah. Both were always cute. I I can't imagine seeing a blue whale. Yeah. But the the world's biggest mammal It'd be it's scary.
Scary, man. Because you don't realize how big some animals are till you see them in person? Oh, yeah. Like moose, for example. Rhinos too.
I was gonna go with moose. Moose are frightening when you see them. They're huge. And there's a, the aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach has a, giant life-sized model of a whale hanging up in their their lobby. Oh, nice.
And it's it covers the whole top. Wow. My biggest fear as a kid is that thing falling on me. Every time I would every time I walk close, I'd run. So you'd see this giant kid just run across the lobby.
Well, welcome to, work, Peaches. Thank you. I hope you're ready to do your job. Oh, yeah. I got a lot of, prepping to do.
I know because, yeah, you're gonna be gone for a week. Yeah. So I was already looking at Friday's weather. It's gonna be windy. So Uh-oh.
Uh-oh. Flight problems. Yeah. That's A lot of turb there's turbulence. There's gonna be peach's problems if that flight gets over.
That's what I'm gonna say. Alright. Freak news powered by Greasemonkey. We'll be back. Alright.
Peaches and I were talking about something off air, and I forgot to find something to talk about on air. So Peaches, saving the day. What you got, Peaches? Oh, nothing much. I figured we'd just sit here.
Oh, jeez. Come on. You said you had something. I could've, looked something up quickly. But now I I can I just I lost it?
That's okay. That's okay, peaches. I've I've I'm sure I've got something here. People are putting OxiClean on Billy Mays' grave. Well, I'm glad they're keeping it clean.
You know, I talk about this cemetery that was for sale a few minutes ago in Philadelphia, and the the place is a dump. I'm like, why hasn't the city been keeping up on this thing? And then if you buy it, what what are you supposed to do? Just be the caretaker? Spend a $1,000,000, and now you have a job that nobody's paying you to do?
Right. You know? But alright. Peaches, if you could buy a cemetery and had room on the grounds decorations. They're under the ground.
Yeah. They're under the ground. And they've got all yard decorations. Stones in the way and everything. I mean, it would be kind of a pain because you you couldn't just mow.
You'd have to get the weed eater out and go around hundreds of graves. Imagine telling the dog to go outside and use the restroom. How bad is that pain? Think you could have it would be disrespectful to have a dog if a cemetery is your yard. But I don't know.
People like animals a lot. They they do, but I think you've gotta become a a hamster person or something. Oh, those guys. Luckily, right there at the cemetery, they die fast. Oh, jeez, peaches.
I mean, I would say you could go with cats, but if you let your cats outside, they're inevitably going to go to the bathroom outside. So, you know, that's just as bad as a dog unless you have an inside only cat. And, I mean, if you've got a cat in your yard as a cemetery, seems like you've gotta let the cats run around the cemetery. You gotta have all black cats. All black cats.
Make it creepy. Exactly. I don't know. It's a $1,000,000 for this cemetery. So it's it's outside of my budget.
But I think I would have cemetery yard. You know, when you build a creepy house on the grounds, the only problem I can see aside from maintenance due to having to use the weed eater all the time is, you can't close it off like I talked about. You you're gonna have to let people in because they probably have ancestors. Like, my great great grandfather's buried there. My yard.
Yeah. But see Get out of my yard. Stay off my property. If I lived in a house on a cemetery, I've been walking around my boxers. I don't want people walking around seeing their, I'm I'm here to see you, grandma.
What is that? You know, that type of thing. Well, see, I'm all pale anyway, generally. So, you know, I think this idea of wandering around in your boxers in the yard, that just makes the cemetery yard even more fun. Because then people you do it at nighttime.
But see, I mess with people too. I just want more feet and just run around. Oh. Oh, I would definitely be, playing through a little I'd hide little speakers all over the place. That I was gonna go to, the little speakers.
Hi. This is your grandma. Just playing creepy sounds. Oh, okay. I was gonna imitate their voice and then, you know, I'm okay.
No. Yeah. No. You'd you'd have to make it creepy so that people didn't wanna come hang out in your yard anymore, like, you know, I know grandpa's buried there, but I don't go to that place no more. Something's something's going on.
Are there any trees in this, cemetery? Yeah. You wanna see it? Let me bring it back up. I just feel like, get out.
Yeah. There's trees. It's all overgrown and crappy, which is why I found it kinda weird. I'm like, who owns this and why aren't they required by the city to keep up on it? I I I guess cemeteries are private property, but it looks it looks pretty nice.
Alright. Mount Vernon Cemetery. That's what it's called. Here we go. Right.
Check it out, Peaches. So look. It's got this big awesome arched gate. I like that a lot. Okay.
Yeah. I mean, that's that's really cool. But then, as you go in, it's clear that, you know, look at it. They haven't been taking care of it at all. Yeah.
And those are, like, really cool old graves. Is it a well? It looks like a well from here. I can't tell what that is on top of there. Cemetery because you have to go way deep underground to get water.
Yeah. I don't think it's a well. I think that's a a tombstone. But I mean, look at that. There there's some really awesome tombstones in here, and you can tell they're, like, really old, but it's just not maintained at all.
Like, what's the point of this cone right here? That must be a a sinkhole. You fall in and it's like, you know, out of that movie Poltergeist. There's just bones all over the place. It could be a sprinkler, though.
Could be a sprinkler because everything is pretty green. I'll give it that. But I I don't even wanna know what kind of plants these are. Like, look at that. That's probably all graves underneath all of those plants, and you just have no idea what's there.
That's a great way to prank, like, one of your friend's kids that comes over. Hey. There's buried treasure in the backyard. Go dig it. There you go.
Next thing you know, they're finding skeletons. I found a head. No. That's big. Patriots.
You must have known I was going to call you in here. Oh, no. I was wondering if you had any updates on your Boise birthday party. No. Just those, three comments.
Shame on Boise. I was trying to find the post, and I, couldn't even find it here. You know, I gotta say, Idaho Falls, much friendlier than Boise. No up somebody downvoted your post because every post starts with an upvote. That's right.
You're at 0 upvotes. Celebrating my 28th birthday in Boise, let's show Idaho Falls what's up. Hey, Boise friends. I'm Brendan, and I'm super excited to celebrate my 28th birthday in this amazing city. For years, I've heard so much about how great Idaho Falls and East Idaho is compared to Boise, but I'm here to see it for myself.
And what better way to experience Boise's hospitality than by throwing a birthday party at the Budget Inn. I'm inviting all of you Boise Indians to join me for a fun filled evening. Let's show everyone why Boise is the place to be. Whether you're a long time resident or new to the city, your presence would mean the world to me. Love music, good vibes, and maybe even a surprise or 2.
Let's make this a birthday to remember. Can't wait to celebrate with you all and prove that Boise is where the party's at. Feel free to comment or message me if you have any questions. And you had one person said, meh. That's the comment I was about to talk about.
Yeah. I don't know what that person's name was. And then he had, happy 28th. You may wanna say today or specify a date. And then another person saying happy birthday.
Does budget in actually permit this? No fireworks capiche. Let's see. Will it show It shows 4, but it says 4, but there's no no fourth comment. Somebody must have got downvoted.
Let's see, controversial if we sort by that. Somebody must have deleted 1. It's all all I can guess. We sort by new. Yeah.
Even in my, email, it doesn't it's not popping up. Alright. Maybe they, yeah, deleted it. They said something really rude and deleted it. So Idaho Falls went in the friendly I told you, Boise, bunch of smug turds.
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Not friendly at all. They're they've had you didn't even say I moved here from California.
You didn't even say that. Because then you maybe that's what you should have done. I'll post another post in there today talking about how Californians are now ruling because What you should do is do a follow-up post and be like, I'm really sad that no one turned out for my birthday. Uh-huh. Is it because I moved here from California?
And just keep it short and simple like that. House and I took it away from some Idahoans. I sold my house in, what's a really expensive area of California? Let's go with, like, Laguna Hills. I sold my house in Laguna Hills, and I was able to buy a really nice house with some acreage here in the hills of Boise.
Is that why people wouldn't come to my party? I I would have thrown the party at my house, but I don't know you people. That's why I went with the budget. Alright. Trolling the Boise subreddit does make me happy.
Yeah. And I've got friends who live in Boise, and I like Boise. I've had plenty of good times there. But something about the Boise subreddit and the people in there, they just seem so smug, and I think a lot of them are, you know, those Idaho transplants who move here and then go, we don't want more people here. Because it's not the people who were born and raised here who behave that way.
It's people who moved here, like, you know, 10 years ago. While I was talking about it, I'm like, why is everybody all of a sudden so anti tourist? You know, like, Barcelona, you got Canada going crazy, you have, Paris. I I think it's just, you know, most places have experienced growth, and, I don't know. People are just not nice to each other anymore.
Right. You can blame 2020 for that, I think. I think so. Because the the yeah. The mass exodus of California, as much as people don't wanna say that happened, it did.
Yeah. They lost a few 100000 people. New York as well. Yeah. And, I mean, people keep making more people.
Right. Alright? There are more people being born than people dying. So this is going to be an issue as long as the population keeps increasing. Mhmm.
Places are going to grow. There's too many already. And also, you know, people can't afford to live in California. They can't afford housing. What are you supposed to do?
Imagine that you're living in California and you're making $20 an hour. You were there, peaches. Mhmm. What are you gonna do if you wanna get yourself a place to live making $20 an hour? You're not.
You're gonna live at home if you can or you're going to move somewhere where you can hopefully afford a place to live. I know one person who's a manager at at, In N Out making about, like, $90,000 a year. That's what you make if you're, like, a 3rd manager, which is crazy. Which is like pretty up high level. That's not high.
That's tire, but it's not like the first manager, store, you know, store manager or divisional manager makes like half a1000000 a year. It's crazy. But even $90 a year Is a lot. It I mean, it's a lot of money, but in LA, it's probably not. It gets you a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment.
That's what gets you. Yeah. Exactly. So, yeah, if you're making $20 an hour, you you have to move. You have to go somewhere else.
That's why my friend Zack's moving to, Tennessee. He's becoming one of those people over there at the California transplant. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Tennessee is not very happy with it it it's everywhere, though.
It's it's everywhere. They blame, you know, New York. They blame Texas. But you don't see anybody blaming New York around here? I think we're too far away.
No. And I've met a lot of people from that area who did move here. My neighbors who I I don't know if they're renting out their house right now. I haven't met the people who are living there, but the neighbors who did live there for quite a while were from New York. I know I know there's plenty plenty of peep and then we also have people moving in from, Utah, Washington or because Washington and Oregon.
It's the same deal. I would. Some of my favorite places are in, Oregon, but the housing, it's crazy. I I don't know how anybody's living there. Well, that's why I I don't know how we're gonna have the 20 28 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Because it's like you're already gonna have a you already have a ton of people living there. I can imagine 100 of thousands of worldwide fans coming to one area. Oh, doesn't sound fun. Sound like traffic. They they did the Olympics in Salt Lake many years ago and, It's 2032 now that just got announced.
Salt Lake again? Yeah. No. They're gonna start doing all this construction. I think Nobody even watches the Olympics.
Well, look that up. I I did see something this morning about the Salt Lake City got announced for, Salt Lake Olympics. Or something. I don't know if it was summer or winter. 20 30 at least it's 10 years down the road.
But I man, Salt Lake just barely got to being in a state where you can travel through it and it's not aggravating. All of my life, Salt Lake was endless road construction that seemed like it was never gonna get done. But it feels like Pocatello. Oh, but do you think Pocatello is bad? I mean, seriously, Peaches.
My whole life My whole life, Salt Lake. And now you can travel through there and it's not bad. Now they're gonna bring in the Olympics. Nobody even cares about the Olympics. Oh, it's the 2034 Winter Olympics.
So Yeah. It's not nearly as big as the Summer Olympics, but that's still Still, they're gonna have to build. They're gonna have to do some building. And I know it's gonna lead to aggravation for everybody else for this event that you know, I I get it. It's supposed to bring the world together and blah blah blah, but it doesn't.
Everybody hates each other, and do it somewhere else, not near me. Alright? Who even watches the Olympics? Not me. Nobody anymore.
Used to, but I don't really care. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Alright. 2,000 people showed up and erupted into jubilation.
Well, you saw what happened with the, the hockey team. They had their 1st flight practice game and all of a sudden, thing. Yeah. That's a the thing. Yeah.
That's a lot more people than showed up to go, yay, the Olympics are coming. Well, do you see what's happening in Paris? They there's just so many unsold tickets for the Olympics. It's crazy. Well, yeah.
Because people don't care like they used to. It just requires all of these places to do endless amounts of construction. It cost these communities tons of money. And then after the Olympics, all of these places are useless. You know, what's what good is a bobsled run?
What good is that gonna do the people of Utah to have a bobsled run? Nothing. Hey, look at. We built a giant ski jump on the side of a mountain. Right.
You can't use it, but it's there and it's just gonna fall into disrepair. Maybe they'll rebuild the stuff from the last time. Maybe they've got a plan so they don't have to inconvenience everybody. Anytime I see something like this, I just think of the inconvenience. But you know, Rebecca, the people here for the Olympics just to, like, you know, be be away from it but be close to it at the same time.
People will come stay here. I'm sure the local hotels are like, yeah. Time to jack up our rates. We're gonna have tons of people rolling in. In about 10 years of such jack up our rates now.
Can you imagine what hotels will cost in 10 years to begin with? Oh. I I just hope we all riot. That's what I'm hoping. I hope we just go after the businesses.
No riots. Don't listen to PJs. I'm just saying, like, they they go after, like, the big businesses, like, the corporations and such, you know, and just Well, until people realize that, you know, right now, corporate price gouging is the problem and it's not politicians to blame Exactly. We're never gonna fix anything. But people have been trained to point their fingers at the wrong people.
I just saw some ad saying about how the 5 layer burrito was 89ยข when it first started. Now it's at $5.69. That's why you gotta use the app. Gotta use that app, man. Save yourself some dough for sure.
I I think that, Taco Bell's got, as far as fast food, the best value. Yeah. But you gotta use the app. You're right. Yeah.
You know, even, you know, I've seen people endlessly complaining about McDonald's prices. Just don't go. Or use the app, people. There's so many better options. I don't want to use a newfangled technology.
I'm you saw it. I got a quarter pounder the other day. It was like $3. Well, there's a lot of people that don't know how to work things, you know that. It's easy.
You fire up the app and when you get to the drive through, you read them a code. You're like 1435 and they're like, alright. Here you go. A sweet deal. We're gonna get that one boomer who's like, well, I don't have no smartphone.
I have a flip phone. That's all I need. Well, then sucks to suck. That's how that goes. Get with the times.
Use the app. Now I've I've got a variety of fast food apps because I will not go spend money on fast food unless I could get a deal because it regular price is expensive. Yeah. But you can get cheap deals. Cheap deals.
Like the Taco Bell $7 box. You get, like, what, 4 items and a drink. It's an incredible value. I saw KFC. You got 2 pieces of chicken, a biscuit, and a side, and a drink for $5.
Yeah. That's a great deal. Exactly. You know, people got it, you know, look around for the deals. And then also, enough complaining does lead to, places changing things up.
Like, you're seeing all the $5 deals. I'm not I started that because the whole viral thing of, like, hey, your Big Mac meal costs $18. Yeah. And the last time let let's look at the McDonald's app. Last time I looked at it, it was, like, buy 1 Big Mac, get one free.
Well, the the the menu's terrible looking with that screen when you go up to the drive thru. It's like there's the the the dollar meal the dollar menu is like real tiny on the right hand side. That's because there's nothing on it. Yeah. Exactly.
Alright. Let's see what kinda I'm not trying to give McDonald's free plugs, but I just wanna point out to people, there are deals. Okay. So you could get 40% off any quarter pounder. So that's, any type.
Like, if you wanna double, you wanna, you know, get one with bacon, whatever you want. 40% off. That makes it not a bad deal. $2 breakfast sandwich. That looks like the sausage McMuffin with egg.
Alright. $1 any size fry. My biggest thing with drive thrus now is I wonder when exactly it became acceptable to start doing the whole, hey, pull forward and wait 15 minutes. Because it's always been that way. Yeah.
But not and more recently, it's been it's been, like, almost every time. Yeah. But it's still fast. Would you rather sit at the window and hold up the line? No.
You you know? I'm the main character. It's my world. That's right. I don't care about all these other NPCs.
Alright. I haven't looked at this list yet, but I figure it might be good because a lot of us have old people in our lives, and we wanna keep them from, getting ripped off. Right? 12 scary scams seniors need to watch out for. This article is trying to aggravate people.
I could tell. Because it starts off boomers beware. Unfortunately, the older we become, the more vulnerable we are. Alright. Impersonating a government are all these just, you know, you're gonna get a phone call or a text message from someone pretending to be someone else and then they're gonna ask you for money.
I bet that's what all of these are gonna be. Impersonating a government office. Yes. Give us all of your personal information. You owe back taxes.
Give us money or we'll throw you in jail. Government's not gonna call you asking for money. Okay? Alright. Alright.
Asking for fake donations. Now that one, that one seems like something that a lot more people could fall for. I'm surprised that there's not more scammers doing that one like, hey. We've got this group of kids that are suffering. Please help them.
Set up a fake website. Go to this website and look at it. See. And then they just, you know, gather a bunch of money. You know, it's unfortunate, but anytime you get a phone call and somebody's asking for money.
I think at this point in time, just don't give them money. Don't do it. Are you gonna get a phone call? You won the lottery. Don't believe that.
Verifying an Amazon order. Please give us your bank account information, your credit card number to verify. Yeah. You you've gotta call outbound on anything relating to finances nowadays. Alright?
Or walk into the local office. K? If they're asking for my I'm not even gonna continue going through this list. If someone's asking you for money, over the phone, they call you and start asking you for dough. Even if it's like a family member, they could have their voice, you know, recreated with AI.
You just you've you've gotta call them direct. Call their cell phone. Be like, did you just call me? Ask them for dough? Okay.
Alright. I'm pretty sure it's really you. Come over to my house. I'll hand you the cash. Just don't allow the old people in your life to give money to people that call them, under any circumstance.
I just say no more. No more. Alright. There you go. There's my save old people from scams talk.
I I hope it was, educational. Probably not. Well, if you were wondering, the best city in the world is apparently London. Alright. There you go.
You're welcome. I'm glad I could share this information with you. London, the best city in the world according to Travel and Leisure. Why? They said it's the best place to live, work, and visit.
I mean, it's just the best. Let's see. They base it on, livability, lovability, and prosperity. They got multiple subcategories relating to a city's ability to attract talent, visitors, and or businesses. And they've got great education, culture, and then, yes, again, overall livability and lovability.
Tourists spend a lot of money there. I I would certainly like to visit London. I don't know if I've really heard people rant and rave about how great London is. I mean, you got that annoying royal family there. Look at our look at our castle grounds.
We're the royal family. Sorry. Kings and queens and princes and princesses and all that is so silly to me that I just cannot take it seriously. Alright? But I'd certainly be down to go visit London.
Okay. They've got the rankings of the world's best cities. So London, number 1. It's the best. It's the best.
What what else do we got though? As far as great cities. Number 2, Paris with its filthy river. The river Seine filled with dookie and pollution. I would want to visit Paris.
It looks like it would be pretty cool. Alright. I have heard that it smells like, you know, pee in the streets, but that's you know, you could say that about Vegas and New York too. Right? I didn't notice that when I was in New York, though.
No. I I didn't tend to smell that. Smelled like, other things. Let's see. What else do we got here?
The best cities in the world. Number 3, New York. Yeah. I liked New York. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.
It it had a vibe had a vibe to it going on. And it was clearly you know, like, in Manhattan, it was a place designed of you're you're supposed supposed to be on the streets on your feet, and, I I liked that. I thought it was pretty cool. Lots of, you know, every different type of person you could imagine. Lots cool stuff to see.
It was great. The traffic I we got lucky. We didn't get stuck in it too bad. I could tell at times it would probably be the most aggravating place on earth to drive through because I saw people in the other direction backed up for many, many miles, and I'm not a big fan of sitting in the car. I like to get where I'm going, but I did like New York.
I thought it was a pretty great city. Tokyo at number 4, I would like to visit there. So are these just, hey. We're gonna name all the biggest cities in the world. They're all the best.
I didn't make this list, by the way. K? I'm just reporting. I am now at world's best cities.com. So you know it's as legit as it's gonna get.
Tokyo rated number 1 for restaurants and shopping. What was New York? Number 1 for Google Trends? Alright. Listen.
That that doesn't really apply. Okay? New York's always being talked about online. What else do we got here for great? The best city, Singapore.
Singapore has a cool futuristic look to it. That's all I really know about it. I think they filmed west world season, like, season 2, maybe? Maybe it was season 3. I don't know.
It's it's got a look to it that I appreciate because it's all futuristic and, you know, yeah. That. It looks neat. Don't know much about it otherwise. Dubai coming in at number 6.
Just look like a big city. I don't know a lot about Dubai. Alright? They call it the Vegas of Arabia. That's what the Internet says here.
That's what world's best cities dot com says. Alright. It's crammed with never ending malls, ski parks, dancing fountains, fantasy theme parks, and Disneyfied water playgrounds. Alright. Sounds fun.
San Francisco at number 7, a city that I have only driven past. Haven't really spent any time actually hanging out in San Francisco, so it's on the list. Places I gotta go kick it. Barcelona at number 8, but we've heard about the way people are treating tourists there. You're gonna have a bad time.
Amsterdam would be cool to visit coming in at number 9. The best cities. And then Seoul in, South Korea coming in at number 10, the best. Oh, this list just goes on and on. Well, I need to I need to win the lotto so I can just live on vacation.
I haven't visited very many of these places. New York was is that the only one I've been to on the list so far? I think so. And this website, man, they go into detail. They'll tell you all about these places.
I could sit here and read. Just read paragraphs to you about the places that are the best. Rome, obviously, would be pretty cool. Prague, Madrid, Spain, Berlin, LA coming in at number 15. I like LA.
You know, I think it gets a bad rap, but I think LA is great. It's it's like New York. It's got a vibe to it. Now it's not quite as fun to walk around in. There are certain areas, like, you can go down to Hollywood Boulevard, and it's all sketchy and crazy.
It's not what you'd expect at all. There's a bunch of weirdos and freaks. It's kinda dirty. But it's again, it's it's got a vibe to it. And driving around, LA, I I do like it even though the traffic's a nightmare.
I I don't know what it is. Something Probably because I played so much Grand Theft Auto 5 that I just like LA because of that. I don't know. And I do like the coast. I do like, earlier we talked about seaside cities.
I like the, coast. Never been to Chicago. Never been to Washington DC. Never been to Beijing, Istanbul, Dublin. I need to get out more.
Vienna, Milan, Toronto. Come on. Show me a city. I've been I I went to LA. Oh, Boston.
I have technically been to Boston. Spent a day there. Didn't get to see, you know, tons of it, but Boston was pretty sweet. I like Boston. That concert venue I went to was top notch right next to, the baseball field that I can't remember the name of right now.
Legendary baseball field. Fenway. Is that right? I think so. Anyway.
Alright. There you go. There's a bunch of great cities. Go buy a lottery ticket. Maybe you can visit them.
Pages. What? I am gonna be at the farmer's market on Saturday. I'm gonna be at Parkway Drive. That's right.
It's a Victor Wilt's meet and greet. You wanna meet a Oh, okay. Local celebrity. Yeah. You used to have a whole bunch of people there, and you claim the farmer's market is overall a Victor Wilt meet and greet.
Yeah. You're kinda like Paris Hilton from back in the day. Just making appearances. Random places. Well, I've noticed that every time I am personally at the farmer's market Mhmm.
Thousands of people show up. It's crazy. Like last weekend, I felt bad for Katie and Justin. They hardly had anybody there. What?
Yeah. Really? There was, not not too many people. Even Katie on the video was like, today's the good day to come out to the farmer's market. There's not too many people out here.
You know, it's probably because it was like a 100 degrees. That's true. You get the slow people, but then you also get the people with the dogs, and the dogs are walking around. And dogs are great and all, but when you put them around a whole bunch of people and food, even the dogs would probably get, you know, anxious and stuff. Yeah.
I I do think for major public, situations like that, it's probably better for the dog to leave at home. What's worse? Bringing your baby everywhere, like, the library or bringing your dog onto the into the store? Well, and see, if you have a baby, you don't wanna bring them out on a 100 degree day. It's bad for the baby.
Well, with the dogs Baby can't the dog's paws are on the concrete. That's true. It's bad for both of them. But babies, they can't go like, help. It's hot.
This sucks. Oh. Because they can't talk. That'd be great. They're uneducated.
4 year old kid. I hate this. Well, see, 4 year olds are a little more educated, but babies, they don't know anything. They're kinda dumb. They haven't learned yet.
They're uneducated. And they said they don't know how to talk. Is that how you told is that what you told your daughters? Yeah. You guys kids are kinda dumb.
Yeah. All babies dumb. You know, until you can tell me, how you're doing. Back when my babies were babies, we were able to check out the Lord of the Ring. It's true.
That maybe that's the problem. You're not letting kids read anymore. It's making our babies dumb. How about we just full on give them the hardest book possible right as they Da Vinci Code. That's not a hard book, peaches.
Maricelli's Frankenstein, outdated language. Shakespeare. There you go. Oh, geez. No.
We already did that in high schools. Please, the score lit letter. Yeah. No. Thanks.
Yeah. We had to read some terrible books in high school, which is why I always brought my own books that now I would I wonder what the situation is with, bringing your own books to school. Oh. Because it see That's like bringing those something that is special. Yeah.
No. I don't know. Because you can't go to the library and get the books I used to read in class. Because I would read, like I said, Stephen King, Clive Barker. There was one time I got kicked out of class for a book that I had.
I won't say what the book is. Here. I'm gonna turn the mics off, and I'm gonna tell you what the book was. Okay. Okay.
So that's what the book was. Okay. That makes sense. But it shouldn't because, ultimately, all that book is is kind of it's got a name that scares people. That's that's exactly what came into my head is that just the title alone.
The title scares people. Uh-huh. But, if you actually read it, it it just talks about, like, being a good person, being good to others. It it's really stupid that it's called that because it's ultimately, there's, like, nothing evil in it or anything. Most people who follow that way are incredibly nice.
True. True. It's very it's very weird how they're like that's but then the other way is like, they're mean, they're uptight. Again, it's it's horrible branding, really. And I think they do it just to try to antagonize people.
Which is good. You know, like, there's a lot of really bad branding that I see people do that kinda blows my mind. Like, okay. Bernie Sanders. You know, he was on the Joe Rogan show years ago.
Joe Rogan talked about how much he loved Bernie Sanders. Most of Joe Rogan's crowd now, you know, would like, run-in terror at the name Bernie Sanders. But Bernie Sanders scares people because he calls himself a democratic socialist. It sounds really scary. That that sounds just like some Tumblr girl's bio.
Like, why would you call yourself that? Right. It's not good branding for what you're trying. If your message is, hey, I want people to get, you know, everyone should have access to medical care and, be able to go to college. What?
Like, I'm a socialist. People don't like that word, so don't use it, you know. So, anyway, what what were we talking about at the beginning of this? I got off I got off track here. We're going back to, like, the the books and the We were talking about book oh, getting kicked out of class.
So I had this book, and I brought it to which is makes it even more appropriate. I brought it to mythology class. And, you know, because mythology class, you learn about, all kinds of different ancient beliefs. There's a whole class dedicated to that? Yeah.
It was awesome. Because freshman year, that was for the, AP English students. You would get that in a semester, and they would just shove all the different names of the gods and goddesses down your throat and, like, you gotta memorize these all. So people were panicking. Yeah.
It was an awesome class. I you know, I'm I'm really interested in ancient history and things like that. So, I really enjoyed it, but I brought that book to class. Right? And it was sitting on my desk and the teacher blew a gasket.
She completely lost her mind and kicked me out of class, sent me to the principal and, I mean, I didn't get in any trouble or anything because the principal was like, come on. Really? It wasn't the first time I'd been sent to the principal's office for something that I couldn't get in trouble for, but Right. Back to just trying to antagonize people. Clearly, the reason I was walking around with that book at school was to antagonize people who would see it and get upset.
And by the way, it wasn't, there are actual bad books. The Anarchist Cookbook. Yeah. It wasn't like that or it wasn't like books written by these horrible people from in the past. Okay.
Because I'm wondering what books are running through people's minds. The thing is, like, one of those books that you you have to read in history class, especially the AP history classes, it involves a particular symbol and it's on the cover of that book and you're carrying that around. Yeah. It's not that book. People are just gonna assume, hey.
Yeah. It's not that book either because I know what book you're talking about there. The book I was carrying around was kinda like the Necronomicon. Alright? It's something in that realm.
I prefer Necro Gobicon. Yeah. I prefer Necro Gobicon myself. But, the principle is just, like, you know this is gonna make people mad. And I'm, like, well, I just wanna read it.
I'm, like, I I really am curious what's in it. I bought it at the mall, you know? What what did you have to read your senior year? Do you do you remember that at all? No.
Because I I was a horrible, student and I wouldn't do what I was told. And I would bring my own books and read those. I probably didn't read whatever we were supposed to. My first high school was like The Crucible, Scarlet Letter. That was for the AP classes though, the Scarlet Letter.
Okay. And Carrie ran a letter with them. It was just a stupid I remember us having to do that, too. Yeah. It's the dumbest thing.
And then I went to a different high school. I transferred my junior year and I was watching my friends having to read the Scarlet Letter. Meanwhile, my senior year at this new high school, you can tell how dumb it was, we had to read Huckleberry Finn. That was a terrible book. That's like a junior high book.
It's a horrible book. Now, I I have the book. I haven't read it since I was a teenager. So I hate the accent. I just I cannot stand the, because it's written in an accent?
Yeah. And it's supposed to be a comedy and I just don't find it funny. Well, what I found with books that are written in an accent is you gotta read them out loud. Well, then you sound stupid. But it's funny.
Can you imagine pulling up the book in the middle of, like, the middle of a park? The duck swam across the lake, you know, that type of thing. No. There's a book by this author named Edward Lee that I brought to open mic night once at the Flipside Lounge. It's called the Big Head.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I read from it, to a a crowded bar of people.
I had, an email notification not too long ago from Goodreads, or not Goodreads, it was a book buying website. It's the same website I bought, The Girl Next Door. Yeah. That you told me to avoid reading. It came back in stock, the big head.
And I was like, maybe I should buy this one too. K. Now the big head Read it on the plane. K. Now the big head is is kinda like the evil dead or something.
It's it's definitely horror comedy, but completely gross. Like, the girl next door is bothersome and upsetting and disturbing. The big head is just gross. It's so gross that it's funny, and it's written in southern accent. So reading it at open mic night, people were going wild because, I mean, I I could not even even go anywhere near any of the content in that book on air.
Fantastic if you just pulled out that book on your next stage announcement, especially with Luke Brutus. The the ice nine kills show. Right before ice nine kills goes on stage. You guys like her book. That's I would like to ask him, like, okay.
You guys are into horror movies, but let's talk horror novels. Let's talk about name 3 horror novels. Name 3 horror name 3 horror writers that are not Stephen King, Dean Koontz, or Clive Barker. I'm sure I'm sure Spencer Charnas would know his stuff. I wanna know if they read Edward Lee.
I think I think it's only Spencer. That's the thing I got from Patrick when he was in here is that it's mostly just Spencer who re reads the books, watches the movies, all that stuff. I have got to line up an interview with Spencer and talk horror because, I mean Good luck. Movies are one thing, but He hates doing these interviews. Well, that's because he's always interviewed by, hey.
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