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And here we are, Wednesday, April 1st, AKA April Fools' Day. There's been a good amount of jokes so far today. Of course, the big mystery, is Trader Joe's coming to Idaho Falls? There's that banner that somebody put outside the old Grocery Outlet building. Somebody posted about it in the Life in Idaho Falls Facebook group, and then, well, people are now going up to the barcode on... or the QR code, I should say, on the banner itself, and, well, it takes you to the Trader Joe's website, but there's literally nothing being said on the website about Trader Joe's coming to East Idaho. But there are job postings on these kinda sketchy-looking websites like parttimejobs.com, where it says, "Part-time Trader Joe's crew member for Idaho Falls," and I think there was one for Pocatello as well. It would be absolutely awesome to have Trader Joe's finally come to the area. I'm still skeptical, obviously. There was a prank that Star from down the hall tried doing this morning. I, I saw it from the start. She put an old Krispy Kreme donut box in the break room. Not old-looking, just she must have had it held... She must have been holding onto it for this day in particular
because she emailed everybody saying, "Donuts in the break room to go along with your coffee and energy drink." I'm like, "Wait, it's April Fools' Day. I know there's something up here." So I went to the kitchen to, uh,
just put my yogurt in my bowl and everything, put the blueberries and granola in my bowl.
Didn't even touch the donut box. And then a short while later, Jeff comes down the hall and says, "Hey, did you guys, uh, eat any donuts from this box?" I'm like, "It's a veggie tray, isn't it, on the inside?" And then he admitted to it. Yeah, it's a veggie tray on the inside. So we opened it up and sure enough, there was celery, broccoli, peppers in there. I actually had a few, a few of those, quote-unquote, "donuts." Again, don't trust anything on April Fools' Day. It was on this day one year ago that I disguised myself as Brenda Pear, which should have been pretty obvious, but there were still a good amount of listeners that were like, "Wow, she sounds hot. Who is this new girl in the afternoon?" [laughs] I'm like, "It's me with the power of AI." [laughs] I have a little clip here from when my, uh, dad called into the show. I called him prior and said, "Hey, Dad, could you pretend you're talking to someone else, even though you're talking to me? And then I'll take my own voice file, put it through the AI again to disguise myself as Brenda Pear." And it sounded pretty authentic. Here it is right here for you.
What's funny is that Peach's dad is actually calling in right now. Kbear, how's it going?
Doing great. How about yourself?
Oh, I'm doing fantastic. Thanks to your son, I'm actually able to take over for the show for the day.
Oh, you have a great voice, Brenda. You know, you, you sound better than my son Brendan. You should take over his time slot. In fact, I always told him he had the voice for the midnight to 6:00 AM shift.
R- uh, really? He's that bad?
Well, yeah, but you know what? Don't tell him that. It's just between me and you, Brenda.
All right. All right. I'll keep my mouth shut. This is not going over the air.
Great. Good. So yeah, there, there's that audio for you. [laughs] Brenda Pear taking over Peach's Pit Party last year. My dad, a phenomenal actor himself. If you wanna get ahold of me, you can over at 208-535-1015. I was wanting to do something today, like I should have, uh, asked Victor, I'm like, "Hey, you know, maybe you should... Well, we gotta get Jade's approval first. Maybe we should switch shows. I'll take over the morning show for one day. He'll take over the afternoon show. He'll get to come in at 8:00. I'll come in at, like, 6:00, do the morning show." Be a fun little switcheroo. Wouldn't be mean to anybody.
Don't be that person that announces a pregnancy today, by the way. There were so many people that were trying to give lectures on Facebook like, "Don't be that person that announces a fake pregnancy on April Fools' Day." It's like I, I, I haven't seen a single one of those. I know that's looked down upon. I also see the same old tire- tired meme of, uh,
April Fools' Day no longer exists because we live in a world where we're all the fools or something like that. I don't know, but anyway, we'll continue here in just a few on Kbear 101. I remember when I first moved out here and I, uh, I started using the two-lane highway even more so that I would just treat it as if you could travel in either lane. I, I didn't realize that the left lane is the passing lane.
I, I would just use the left lane for travel. I would go the speed limit, and then somebody would do that stupid thing where it's like, "Hey, I'm gonna make the person in front of me drive faster by tailgating them." And so I would see someone tailgating me, and then I would motion my hand back to be like, "Back off, dude."
And then I would go in the right-hand lane, and then they would pass me and give me, like, this scowling look, or they would get in the right-hand lane, go around me, and they would just, you know, give me the middle finger type of thing. It wasn't until a few months after I moved out here, "Oh, yeah, that's for the... That's just to pass." But traveling in the right-hand lane can get kind of annoying because you have those semi-trucks that drive way slow, even though there is that new law coming out in exactly three months. Is it three months? May, June, July. July 1st is when they'll be, uh, they'll be able to drive 80 miles per hour just like the rest of us on the highway, which sounds incredibly dangerous. I- I've already talked about that on the show. You can listen to that break on the, uh, previous Peaches Pit Party episode of... Well, it's on demand. You can find it anywhere you get your podcasts, Spotify, Apple, et cetera. But I was reading here about how Colorado, um, their state patrol handed out more than 2,500 tickets to those bozo drivers who are aScourge to on humanity. A scourge on humanity. Um,
the ones who drive exclusively in the left lane. Their Colonel Matthew P-Packard—
Colonel Matthew Packard, Chief of the Colorado State Patrol, gave drivers a warning that should be trumpeted from the mountaintops. Even if you are driving the maximum legal speed limit, the left lane is not intended to be a permanent travel lane on roadways sixty-five miles per hour or greater. Adding, interfering with traffic flow is unsafe driving behavior.
I really hate weaving in and out of the right lane to get down to Salt Lake City or even Boise just because I get stuck behind a semi or I get stuck behind, you know, that dreadful old person behind the wheel that can barely see over the steering wheel. They're going fifteen below the speed limit, and then when you drive around them, they look at you like you're the problem. Oh, man. Old people driving. Don't get me started on that. Let's just play some Three Days Grace, Mayday, on KBEAR one-oh-one. [whooshing] Story of the year on KBEAR one-oh-one, Idaho's only, should I say, radio station, [rock music] rock station,
the best rock station on the planet, KBEAR one-oh-one. It's Peaches Pit Party. I'm playing the X-Files music because right after we finished recording the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, we talked a lot about the whole Trader Joe's thing going on. People are posting about it relentlessly on Facebook, talking about the banner that's outside the old Grocery Outlet building in Idaho Falls. It says, "Trader Joe's coming soon. Winter of twenty twenty-six." There's a QR code that takes you to the Trader Joe's website.
So
I decided, you know what? I'm gonna call their headquarters in Monrovia, California.
And well, our phones here in the studio, they don't do outside of East Idaho outgoing calls anymore for some reason. Another thing to look at, Jade. [laughs] 'Cause I've tried to call a few record reps on these phones, and all you get is a busy signal if you don't call somebody that's not—or if you don't call someone that's in w-with a two-oh-eight area code.
So I called their HQ on my cell phone, told the lady that answered right away. I was like, "Hey, there's this going on in Idaho Falls, Idaho, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." She says, "Hang on," puts me on hold for a very brief bit, and then it goes to the customer relations department, where then I told her the whole story.
And she says, "Nope, that's not the case at all, because, well, if you're gonna open up a—if we're about to open up a Trader Joe's, it'll pop up. A, the sign will come up right before they open." There's been a whole conversation about this I just had with Star and Colby from down the hall saying, "Well, it was already a grocery store not that long ago. All they have to do is just bring in the Trader Joe's products, and boom." And there's a bunch of people online saying that place is too small for a Trader Joe's. Josh and I already looked into this. Josh from Class of Ninety-Seven. We looked into this whole thing. The Boise location is thirteen thousand square feet. That old Grocery Outlet is sixteen thousand square feet, bigger than Boise.
So who knows what will happen? I'm still convinced that they were trying to hide something from me. I wish I could play the call on the air here, but I would have had to told them prior to me talking to them, "Hey,
I'm intending to air this on the radio." 'Cause, you know, we gotta, we gotta follow FCC rules. You gotta tell them before and also ask for their permission afterwards.
So I just e-ended up calling them on my cell phone. But still, I'm still investigating. I told East Idaho News—this is not a joke, by the way. I'm not trying to pull a fast one here on you. No, I'm legitimately telling you this. I walked over and hung around till Nate Eaton made his way back from his lunch break. I then told him the news about the whole Trader Joe's thing, 'cause I'm so hoping... There's a tiny bit of me that hopes it's real. Obviously, I know w- the, the banner pops up on April First. I don't trust anything. Very similar to what happened earlier this morning when Star sent out that email saying, "Hey, there's free donuts in the break room." A Krispy Kreme box pops up, and I knew Star hadn't been to Krispy Kreme or Salt Lake City in quite some time, and I knew there would—if you opened up the box, there'd be vegetables in there. Sure enough, there was, so I grabbed some celery and carrots. I enjoyed the quote, unquote donuts. But if I do receive any update at all about the Trader Joe's banner,
I will certainly let you know. Or if you wanna let me know, two oh eight five three five one oh one five. [whooshing] Peaches Pit Party on KBEAR one-oh-one. You ever see an April Fools' Day prank and, well, you actually wish it was true? Well, I mean, besides the whole Trader Joe's thing, obviously. But I saw this post from the Salt Lake City International Airport. This is their official Facebook page. This is obviously—I wanna, I wanna say beforehand, obviously an April Fools' Day prank. I don't want somebody to think that I'm reporting fake news here. Salt Lake City International Airport is launching a pilot program introducing complimentary dirty soda at select water refill stations throughout the airport. The phased, uh, rollout will begin in Concourse B with plans to expand based on passenger feedback and demand. Travelers can customize their beverage with a variety of popular flavor add-ins and enjoy Salt Lake City's signature pebble ice. This initiative is part of the airport's ongoing efforts to enhance the customer experience while highlighting a beloved regional staple. [laughs] Passengers are encouraged to share their favorite combinations as the program evolves. Learn more here, and it's a, a link w—uh, a link to a YouTube video, which I'm assuming it's a Rickroll, right?
I wish this was true.
Imagine that. I mean, couldn't you see that being a total Utah thing?Why doesn't the Idaho Falls Regional Airport actually add this stuff? Why not? Huh? Seems like a great idea. Let's do some Rob Zombie here. I'm a rock 'n' roller on K-Bear one oh one. Again, that was fake news that I just talked about. The NFL is trying to boost the appeal of the long-running HBO series Hard Knocks. For the first time ever, the league has picked their Hard Knocks training camps two season, two seasons in advance. The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks will be covered this year, with New England Patriots covered in twenty twenty-seven. It's the first time that either team has appeared in the documentary series. I myself am a huge fan of the series Hard Knocks, can't wait to watch it. Haunted by the ghost of the twenty twelve Fail Mary game, the NFL has approved a new safety net policy to give the replay command center in New York unprecedented power to fix missed calls. With a potential referee lockout looming for twenty twenty-six, the league will now allow off-site officials to literally throw the flag from one thousand miles away, correcting clear and obvious penalties like roughing the passer that replacement refs might miss on the field. This new setup mi- uh, pretty much turns the New York headquarters into an all-seeing eye in the sky, ensuring that if we do end up with replacement refs, their mistakes won't decide the final score. Remember the seven-foot-nine Florida player? Uh, is it Olivier Riou? Is that how you say his name? I thought it was Oliver Riou, but no, there's an extra I in there. Olivier Riou. Last year, he became the tallest player to ever score in a college basketball game, but he was mostly stuck on the bench for th- this entire season. Well, now he's on the move. Riou announced that he's hitting the transfer potal, portal. Potal, portal, portal, in hopes of finding a team where he'll be able to play more and that will, uh, game plan for his height advantage. Again, a guy who's seven foot nine, a whole foot taller than me. It's ridiculous. I watched a YouTube video of a day in the life of O- of, uh, Olivier Riou. It's quite sad. I mean, I think I get all the tall jokes. This guy is getting every single person to take a picture with him, everything. Anyway, that does it for your Shot Clock Sports Update right here on K-Bear one oh one. K-Bear one oh one. Uh, all this week, we are giving away tickets to Hairball, which is the, uh, the tribute show. It's a pretty spectacular tribute show. They're bringing the Balls to the Wall Tour to the Mountain America Center Saturday, April fourth, coming up soon, as a matter of fact. Three more days. Full on eighties takeover for this. Fire, lights, spot on tributes to, to legends like Van Halen, Kiss, Queen, all in one night. Now, here's where it gets fun, because we're going full Aquanet with this thing. I learned what Aquanet was from our resident old radio DJ, the Justin Pierce of one oh five The Hawk.
[laughs] At any random moment, you might hear the sound of a hairspray can and a hair dryer. Yeah, we're serious about that. The second you hear it, be caller fifteen at two oh eight five three five one oh one five, and those tickets, they're yours. Hairball Balls to the Wall Tour. I just love saying that. The Balls to the Wall Tour, coming to the Mountain America Center April fourth with K-Bear one oh one. Listen extra carefully. That sounder might be coming up here soon, as a matter of fact. Here's Vanna with Prey. All right, so I have something to admit here. I have always thought tumbleweeds were just something they put in, uh, movies, TV shows. I didn't think they were real because I grew up in Southern California, where they don't exist. And then when I moved out here, like the very first week I was out here, I saw a tumbleweed and was like, "Whoa. What?"
No, it wasn't even my first week, 'cause I, I moved out here during the winter. It wasn't until, uh, the snow cleared out, became springtime in twenty twenty-one. I was driving somewhere on the highway, maybe even around town, I think. But I, I da, I remember the first time ever seeing a tumbleweed. I was like, "Whoa,
these exist?" You know, they're relatively small. They're normal sized here, right?
Well, I'm reading this NPR article here about how tumbleweeds have taken over the High Plains. They thrive so well that they are part of the culture of the West, but this ample s- supply of blowing weeds can hurt the farm yields, wreak havoc on neighborhoods, and cause fire dangers.
Today, if you drive across, uh, western Kansas on a windy, windy day, you will often see not a lonely tumbleweed, but a swarm of them crossing the highway or congregating along a fence by the road. In western Kansas, it comes with the territory. In fact, people, people in town, if you ask people in town, they will tell stories with annoyance or amazement of tumbleweeds blocking their driveways or stacked against their homes.
Very interesting. The more you learn, the more you know. Tumbleweeds the size... Oh, the, let me see some of the pictures here. I see a giant pile of them.
That would suck to deal with something like that. You got a tumbleweed and a whole bunch of tumbleweeds blocking your driveway. I thought the snow was annoying. Tumbleweeds? You gotta worry... In Kansas, you gotta worry about tornadoes, tumbleweeds, and snow? Sounds like a horrible place. Peaches Pit Party right here on K-Bear one oh one. You ever notice how job interviews still ask questions like it's 1997? Can you explain this gap on your resume? Oh, yeah, absolutely. That was my, during my trying to stay mentally stable while the world was on fire era kind of thing, you know? I saw this article from CNBC talking about how you're supposed to answer that question, and apparently, apparently the key is to frame it positively. So basically lie, but make it sound productive. Like instead of saying, "I got laid off and stress ate my way through a bunch of different TV shows and just sat around my house on my fat butt all day," you say, "I took time to refocus, build resilience, and develop new skills. I learned to play the guitar. I can now play Wonder Wall. I brought my acoustic here. You wanna see?"Here's the thing, though they're not, uh, totally wrong. Employers don't actually care that you had a gap. They just want you-- They just want to know you didn't disappear into the woods and start, you know, communicating with squirrels, that kind of thing. If you did anything, helped family, picked up side work, work, learned something random on YouTube, that counts. And honestly, at this point, if a company doesn't understand that people have gaps, that's probably not somewhere you want to work anyway. But if you are trying to get back into something or just sick of explaining your life story to a hiring manager, let me make it real simple for you. You got to visit the newly redesigned hireeastidaho.com to find local jobs from local companies. This week's Hire East Idaho Job of the Week is a painter position with Streamline Services out of Rigby. If you've ever thought, "Hey, yeah, I could paint or at least learn without wrecking someone's house," they're hiring, and they'll train you. It's full-time, paying between fifteen and twenty-five bucks an hour, depending on experience. You just need to be reliable and have your own transportation around Idaho Falls and Rexburg. So to apply, call this number here that I'm about to say for you twice, 208-221-6059.
That's 208-221-6059. And for more opportunities, just go to hireeastidaho.com. Hire East Idaho, connecting people with opportunity. Always free for job seekers, and there's new stuff added all the time. All right? Let's do The Pretty Reckless now. When I Wake Up on Peach's Pit Party. Ice Nine Kills, The American Nightmare on Peach's Pit Party. [upbeat rock music] Whoa, music bed's way too loud. All right, turn that down. Turn that down. Uh, speaking of music,
mayonnaise is now officially a musical instrument.
According to this, to this thing from Bleeding Cool, Hellmann's worked with actual researchers, like real educated people, and officially got mayo classified as an instrument. This is not like, you know, some sort of joke. Literally studied it and said, "Well, if you squeeze it, slap it, and make noise with it, technically that's music." Okay, cool. So what's next? Like,
you're gonna say like me slapping somebody upside the head is also an instrument, too? I'm sure they only did this because of SpongeBob. Is mayonnaise an instrument? You know, Patrick Star, shout out to him. He made it happen. Bill Fagerbakke, who I believe is from Idaho, the voice of Patrick Star, made it happen. Congratulations. Mayo now an official instrument. Well, I think it's just fantastic that the subreddit that I usually go to for the weird news stories for April Fool's Day, they switched over to Not the Onion, now a food subreddit for people with onion allergies. I was wondering why exactly these different articles were popping up, like boiled potatoes, Swedish pickled herring and mustard sauce without red onions or chives.
Salt cake recipe, [laughs] faux onion soup.
Oh, boy. Chicken with forty cloves of garlic.
But I still love how people are still sharing news stories,
even though somebody shared a article that was from over a year ago about the Houston man that sued Whataburger for allegedly putting onions on his burger. Oh, no, I see.
'Cause they're going out with the... Okay, never mind. Intellectual humor. I understand it now.
Anything else in this, uh, subreddit that I should talk about? Wire bags of Big Mac sauce washing up along the Bay of Fundy.
Is this a legitimate story here? Oh, yeah, it was posted yesterday. Empty bags of Big Mac and McChicken sauce have been washing up along the Bay of Fundy recently, and local residents are not loving it. Karen Jenner frequently walks along the shoreline to pick up garbage, helps clean the beaches.
She has been picking up garbage for eight years but started finding the bags about two years ago. So far, she has found dozens of the bags washed up between Harbourville and Halls Harbour NS. Okay, well,
what if she finds out that McDonald's just dumping everything? Just dumping all their stuff? Oh, this is a lame news story to talk about. I mean, who cares? People litter all the time. You tell people not to litter, of course they're gonna do so. I feel bad for chucking my fruit out the window. When I was driving to Boise last weekend, I was eating those, uh, white donut nectarines. Have you seen these things? They, they're shaped like donuts, but they're actually nectarines. You can get them at Costco. My girlfriend and I bought like two, two of those packages. We might need to go back there today and go get some more before they sell out. Those things are delicious, man. I was eating one of those, and I got to the pit, and I'm like, "Well, I don't want to throw this wet f-fruit center in my car trash can and have it stay there until I empty my trash can when I need to fill up on gas." So I just rolled down my window, chucked it outside. Fruit is biodegradable, all right?
Let me look that up before I even say anything else. Nectarines, are they biodegradable?
Let me see here. Yes, nectarines are biodegradable. As a natural stone fruit, both the flesh and the pit will break down over time, though they behave differently in a compost pile.
It's safe, all right?
I didn't litter, okay? [laughs] I was basically like throwing what was already in the dirt before back into the dirt, I think. As a guy who's played video games since I was seven, eight years old, my very first, uh, system was the GameCube. I know, I know, I'm a young one. Was born in ninety-six. I was gifted the GameCube by my parents. The very first two video games that I ever had were Crash Bandicoot and The Wrath of Cortex. I think that was the official title. And the other one was SSX Tricky, a snowboarding game, which was so much fun. I wish I could
properly know how to work an emulator on my PC so I could go back and visit some of those games from way back when, 'cause trying to buy a GameCube and those GameCube games now would be absolutely awful. But I came across this question. Gamers thirty plus. You know, I turn thirty later this year. What's something from the old days of gaming that younger players would not understand? Like buying a game based on only the box art.I think I, uh, rented a few games from Blockbuster because of that. I would see some of these, uh, titles. I would see some of these box arts. Box art. Boxes art? I don't know. Box arts. I would see the box and be like, "Hmm, that seems interesting. Sure, let's go with that." [upbeat music] "Getting game de- demos from gaming magazines. Getting game demos with your pizza." Never went through that. It's a tad bit older than me. "The amount of stuff you got inside the box with your game: instructions, lore, artwork, physical keys to in-game puzzles, even a blank page for notes, cheat codes." I just remember the instructions being on the inside. That's all I remember. Seeing some... May- maybe a code later down the line, but I really hate how everything's just so digital now, really, I do. I hate to sound old school and analog and all that, but I really wish that everything was just back to being physical and you could own the game. You could, you know, keep it forever.
Oh, man, that sucks. "Having to switch through like six different floppy disks one by one to install a game." Never had to go through that, thankfully. I was hearing Josh from Classy 97 that brings up a similar subject. Josh from Classy was talking about how the young people in radio have it easy, 'cause back in the day you used to have to change carts and all of that.
Do, do actual work instead of just using the, the computer in here. This magical thing called next gen that's just downright awesome. Technology's great in, in, in most ways. Technology is awesome. Makes things a whole lot easier. Let's play some Foo Fighters right now. Your favorite toy on K-Bear 101. [whooshing sound] All right, here we go. Today's what the headline. [upbeat music] A zoo in Albuquerque. I always found that name to be quite fun. Albuquerque. It was supposed to open this week, but they had to hit pause because one of the elephants said, "You know what? I'll see myself out." This, [laughs] this happened at ABQ BioPark. This 52-year-old Asian elephant named Alice just casually broke out of her enclosure. She went for a walk. They found her just strolling down a public walkway like she was late for brunch. And I love how officials are like, "Don't worry, the public was never in danger," because, well, you know, nothing says safe environments like, oh, all of a sudden there's an elephant in front of me, and who knows what could happen? A free-range elephant. Yeah, el- elephants are rather smart, okay? As long as you don't hurt the elephant, I think you should be fine, right?
Well, I'm not a safari guide. I'm not a zookeeper. I just know elephants are extremely smart, and if you abuse them, they're gonna unleash wrath on you. There was that one story about that one lady who died because she was trampled by her pet elephant or something like that. I remem- I remember this from a long time ago. She was trampled, and she was killed by the elephant, and then the elephant showed up to her funeral and trampled her then, too, at her own funeral. Imagine attending that funeral, and just out of nowhere, this elephant comes out of nowhere, starts stepping on the person. Oh,
it's the most metal thing, but it's also... It's awful at the same time. [laughs] That's today's what the headline right here on K-Bear 101.
[upbeat music] Thanks for listening to Peaches Pit Party, the podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please share, subscribe and rate the podcast. Peaches Pit Party is hosted by me, Peaches, AKA Brendan Peach, and is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information or to contact the show, visit riverbendmediagroup.com. Until next time, Peach out.