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The Noon Hour Of Madness & Mayhem can be heard live on KBEAR 101 weekdays at 12pm MST. Viktor and Peaches talk about a wide variety of topics depending on the day and you never know what to expect!
The noon hour of madness and mayhem powered by Jalisco's, the podcast. What you got, Victor? What do I got? Content, fool. And good deals.
Okay. Did you see my post about the book I found at the thrift store? Yeah. I almost commented, oh, good for you. It was a screaming, screaming deal.
50¢. Now I have one other of that edition of books by author Peter Stroud. And I don't remember what I paid for it, but once in every great while, you'll see one pop up on eBay. Usually, they run about $100, One of those books. 50¢, peaches.
Very nice. So I had to brag it up on social. I was I was so excited. It was the best find, books wise, I've ever had at a thrift store. So I made a post about it, you know, on my various socials, and I tagged the author, Brian Keane.
And then last night, I was thinking about it. I'm like, k. Wait. Should I have tagged him? I just tagged an author, you know, very well known in the horror world and was like, look.
I found one of your limited edition books at a thrift store for 50¢. And I was like, is that degrading? So I was kinda nervous about that, but he actually commented on my, threads post and said, wow. What a steal. So I feel a little bit better.
Yeah. You know? I get that feeling. I I had the same sort of encounter with Harvey. Yeah.
I bought his book on Amazon for 99¢, and, I it was a Christmas gift to my dad. I had to nervously walk up to Harvey Levin's desk and be like, hey. My dad's a big fan of you on People's Court. Can you sign this book for him? And he's like, how much did you buy it for him?
I I don't I don't wanna say. And then he, like, pressed me on it too. You know? He's a lawyer, so he's like, how much did it cost you? I'm like, okay.
It was 99¢ on Amazon. My book's on Amazon? That was his reaction. Oh my gosh. It's like, yeah, you should probably be aware of that, aren't we?
Oh, how funny. How funny. Yeah. I'm just trying to imagine, like, if I put out a CD and somebody found it at the pawnshop, he posted it. Hey, Victor.
I found the doctor Seuss's dead CD. It was 50¢. Right. Like Anthony Kumiya, your your book was at the Dollar Tree, and there was multiple copies of it. Yeah.
I've thought about especially since he flies off the handle so easy, I've thought about antagonizing him Sure. And posting, you know, hey. Check out these 4 books I bought at the Dollar Store. Nobody else was buying them, so I figured just pick up the stock and hang on to it to when they're worth a little money on eBay. Still waiting.
But Brian Keane was very nice. Yeah. Thrift stores, man. Lot of good deals going on right now. You know, if you're looking to expand your library, I mean, like, 50 cent books, man, at at some of them.
That's that's the way to do it. Right. Yeah. I mean, you can go buy a brand new book for $25, or you could buy 50 of them for the same price. Yeah.
Go to, like, one of those high end bookstores not high end bookstores, but one of those well known bookstores. Yeah. Just the regular ones They're gonna they're gonna sing a new book. They're gonna sell you a hardcover for, like, $25. Yeah.
It's ridiculous. That's why I shop at, the bookshelf. That's why I don't read. Well, peaches, you should go to the bookshelf or go to any thrift store around, and you you'll find good stuff, man, for dirt cheap, and you might even find collectible item. I still cannot believe that I found that book at the thrift store.
Watch me find, like, some sort of rare Stephen King book that's signed by him or something. I'm like, Victor, is this worth anything? You freak out. I'm like, no. It's not worth anything.
I'll buy it from you for $2. No. I would totally give it to you. It was worth something. I wouldn't be that guy.
Well, we're gonna we're gonna talk about a woman's clothing, Victor. I guess. You know, some of these people who post in the Octane group are so dumb. You know? Like, it this is just a ridiculous question that I shouldn't be surprised.
It's the Internet. Shout out to Mark Jones asking this, very hard pressing question. Do you guys think you hate Emily Armstrong because she's not showing skin? Her stage attire is very conservative. She's letting her voice do the talking, so to speak.
Have you seen a single person making negative comments about Lincoln Park in the last couple months online mention anything about how Emily Armstrong is dressed? I've seen, you know, Chester Bennington's son upset because he doesn't think that, they should use that name. I've seen people upset at Emily Armstrong for other reasons we won't go into on the show here, but I haven't seen anything about her clothing. And, you know, we were talking off air about this. I tried to think about it.
Outside of, like, the butcher babies, what women in rock are scantily clad on stage? I mean, in this moment, she's got, you know, a variety of costumes, but I wouldn't say she's showing skin. I don't know. When I was at that show, kind of the overall picture of everything was what I focused on. I wasn't just like, oh, look.
Check it out. Yeah. What's she wearing? Band that I saw, Death by Romy, that opened up for, Crown the Empire? No.
Who was the headliner on that show? Yeah. I remember you talking about this. Both vocalists were wearing lingerie. Okay.
And I was like, alright. Yeah. I mean, if you look up old videos of Emily Armstrong, I mean, she's always just kinda dressed like a, you know, a grunge rocker. But that's also death by Romy's whole thing is to just wear that. That's what they like wearing.
Well, yeah. Like, put your baby. What the heck they're wearing on stage for the most part. I did laugh at the response. I think I talked about it with you off the air.
People love Courtney LaPlante, and people say she dresses like a librarian. Let's be real. People love Chester, and she ain't him. Courtney doesn't dress like a librarian. She usually has on, like, a whatever pants.
Kinda like a hippie or something. Hippie. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she's certainly not showing skin or anything like that.
And, I mean, I really tried to think about it, and most I well, even despite the fact I'm having trouble thinking up, rock and metal women who dress scantily clad on stage, I've yet to see anyone say, you know, if this band dressed a little skimpier, I would like them. I've never seen that statement online when people are complaining about bands. I feel bad. I I'm I'm wondering if this is gonna cause any issues with, IT. I looked up rock and metal woman who show off skin.
Oh, yeah. Jade's, like, got the alert popping up on his computer right now. Peach is doing over there? Let's see looking up in there. Perhaps I should take a look myself too.
I mean, back in the day, there were some of the the punk rocker chicks. That's what I'm looking at right now, the top hard rock metal front woman of all time, and I'm going down this list, and I really don't see many that are, you know, showing skin. That's such a gross way to put it. Showing skin. That's an old boomer way.
That is a boomer way to say it. Well, she was showing a little bit too much of a shin. You know? I I could almost spot her knees. Shame.
Victor, there was a there was a quite of a few disappointed people with their, Spotify wrapped yesterday. Disappointed? Quite their own fault. Quite a lot of people, no. No.
Disappointed in how the wrapped turned out. You know? Because in 2023, there was the whole, sandwich they showed you. There's been some cool things in the past they would show you. Oh, okay.
This year, Spotify fired a lot of people, a lot of their staff, and they they had AI predominantly take over the Raft. I didn't know that. And I didn't know either of that until I interviewed John last night as part of my new podcast that I'm starting. He was talking to me about how on the Raft, you can have 2 AI DJs discuss your wrapped results to you. Oh my gosh.
So I figured we might as well just pull this up here Yeah. And listen to what they think about my my Spotify Wrapped. AI DJs, 2 AI DJs, I believe. 1 is the usual DJ X that goes like, hi. I am DJX, and you like these artists.
Yeah. I've never even heard that. For you. How do you turn on the AI DJs? Just in settings?
It it should be right there. It just says beta DJ or you No. Where you find it. Yeah. I've never seen that.
Let me go to my wrap. Is there a way that I can You should be able to do it, on desktop, I would assume. Show all a trip through your year in music hosted by let's let's see what this one is first. Hey. What's up?
It's your DJ X. You know, you're actually joining me at a special time here. You may have seen Spotify rap recently dropped. Well, I'm jumping in on the fun. See, normally, I'd be playing you a mix of music you've been listening to and new stuff I want you to hear.
These days, though, with rap going on, I'm just going all in on your 2024 in music. I'll be here with different stuff every day, highlighting your personal listening stats from the year and playing all your top artists' top songs, guilty pleasures, global hits. You're gonna smile. You're gonna nod your head. You're gonna say, DJ x y, you calling me out like that.
It's Spotify Rap Week. Let's get into it now with some of your top songs of the year. So So the AI DJ won't even say the name of the artist or anything. Right? It sometimes does.
Okay. It'll go like, we got some Bad Omens on Dick or something like that. I I was curious because I was waiting to hear him say these brutal metal band names Right. And, disappointed that it didn't happen because I would imagine most people get that exact same message that you just got. Mhmm.
But I will say the AI DJ sounds better than a lot of actual DJs I've heard. There there's one in the area that goes, that was this is quite a lie. We can replace that person with DJX. Hey. You know, down the road when the AI gets even better, we're probably all doomed.
So you listeners enjoy me in peaches while you have us. I'm sure the, computer overlords are gonna give us the boot one of these days, but, hopefully, we're good to go for now. I'm trying to figure out how how to get to that wrapped AI podcast that John was telling me about because people were talking about that exact same thing on Twitter. Go to the wrapped feed on your Spotify homepage or head to spotify.com/wrappedai podcast. Okay.
Let's go to that. Alright. Try that out. Okay. Oh, I gotta scan the QR code.
Is that what I have to do? Why do they make this such a pay they want you to do it on your phone? I'm guessing. That's important. I'm not gonna play my phone into the microphone.
No. Well, you know, as is typical with the Internet Let me let me just making things difficult. Let me Google search Your Wrapped AI podcast. Yeah. Maybe it'll give you the link there.
Nope. Nope? Nothing wrong. Desktop. I don't wanna hear their stupid DJs anyway.
Fake DJs. I don't like it. Victor, since you're a, book guy, you read a lot of books and you, collect a lot of different books. Yeah. We were talking about my awesome score at the thrift store yesterday.
Still can't believe that. So people are going to see the new Wicked movie, the new remake of Wicked. I saw this. And they're going they're going to buy the book too. And they don't like the content in that book, apparently.
Well, there are some people making jokes saying, what? There's no singing in the book? What's going on here? Yeah. I guess the book's kinda wild.
Went till they discover it and the book that book. You know? And I still we've talked about it lots of times on this show. I highly recommend it as a read. You know, it's a book that's over a 1000 pages.
One page of the book that everybody loses their minds about, it you know, you just mow through that part, and it's I don't know. My favorite theme, just books that are completely different from the movie. I sent this as a meme to somebody. I did the the original book for Shrek is a whole lot worse than the actual movie. Well, a lot of these, classic children's stories are very dark and messed up, and they they tone them down.
You know? If you're gonna put out a musical, you know, obviously, if there's crazy stuff in the book, you're gonna take that out because you want kids to be able to go and see it. So, you know, again, this falls on the parents here. If your kids wanna read a book, you should do a little bit of research if you're unsure as to what it's about. You know, everybody knows the original wizard of Oz.
Well, don't say that because now you're gonna help those people that, you know, wanna get the they wanna restrict books at the library. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Get your card checked or get yourself, yet to be ID'd.
Can you imagine that there was kids using fake IDs to go to the library? I wanted to check out pride and prejudice. So Yeah. Yeah. Used an old baseball card.
Yeah. They're they're slinging fake IDs at school, and everyone's, you know, not using them like they did back in the day to go buy, you know, beer and smokes and stuff that, you know, is harmful to them. Something even worse, they're going to the library. Speaking of books, peaches, you know, k Bear listener, Liliana Longoria, she put out her book today, brought me by. Well, I've actually got 2 copies.
We could talk nerdy book collector stuff. This is an ARC, an advanced reader's copy. They send them out to, you know, bookstores and people to, preview and review the book, prior to publication. So they're they're very, collectible. And then she also hooked up just a a regular copy of, the book and signed them both.
I like how she wrapped, one of the copies. Look how classy that is. It's like a Christmas present. Yeah. Yeah.
So, you know, we talk a lot about supporting local art, local bands. If you wanna pick up a good book for somebody for the holidays, Liliana Longoria, l I l I a n a l0ngoria. Her book's called Between Roses and Evergreens, and I have not read it. I told her I wanted an ARC. I'm like, but I'm sorry.
I don't have enough, like, time to sit down and read and, like, do a proper review. I'm just dirty collector. Can I have an ARC? And she was nice enough to hook it up. So You should ask her and be like, hey.
Can I just do the audiobook for you? Well, what if I don't have the right voice for it? I actually did, sort of audition to do an audiobook for a a horror guy one time named, Shane Mackenzie. He writes, you know, disgusting, vile, really brutal horror, and I I thought it would have been a blast. And I don't remember what happened because he was all down for it, sent me a signed copy of the book just since I was gonna do the thing, and then, yeah, it never ended up happening.
But it would have been fun, you know, just saying all these terrible things. Right. Yeah. That would be the most fun, and I think doing any video game character would be the most fun. One of the, you know, best times I had was at the Flipside Lounge when I did that, open mic night and was reading sections of the big head by Edward Lee to the crowd.
Yeah. It was a blast. It was a total blast. You could make that a bit in October. Something like, Victor reads an excerpt from one of his favorite horror novels, and we could do that on the air every periodically.
Like, oh, Victor reads a little bit of, The Girl Next Door from Jack Ketchum. Yeah. But, see, the the sections I'd wanna read, Peaches But it would be hilarious because we would bleep it out. Bleep the And, oh, here's a beep beep, beep, and she beep. Yeah.
That's that's true. That's what you would have to do. Like, all of those pages I read out of the big head, that is not appropriate for broadcast fairways. Oh, I do kinda wanna read the original Shrek just because it seems horrible. Well, dude, this Wicked book, for example, that you mentioned, I'd never heard of this.
Had no idea. Due to the backlash and outrage, I read the news articles about what happens in the book, and I was like, this sounds crazy. I wanna read the book now. I guarantee that's gonna be happening with tons and tons of kids. Yeah.
If you me and Peaches say it all the time. If you don't want your kids looking into, certain books or movies or listening to certain music, don't ever mention it, or else say it's your favorite. Be like, oh, this is my favorite. The wicked book is the best book of all time, and you should read it. Your kids never will.
I've tried to get my kids to read the dark tower by Stephen King for years. Have they read one page? No. But they read all kinds of other stuff, just not things that I say are cool. So that's that's your lesson, parents.
You know, anything you you kids, you've gotta check out my favorite movie, Alien Romulus. 9 year old, they then they won't wanna watch it. The noon hour of madness and mayhem powered by Haliscos is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information, oh, wow. It swallowed my spit wrong while I was still talking.
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