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Well, I just showed Victor the post of him with, uh, crazy eyebrows, the Ben Shabril upgrade.
[laughs] That looks ridiculous. Um, almost as ridiculous as he looks.
Yeah. Uh, for those who don't know, Ben Shapiro just popped up on, uh, his show, I believe. You know, he does his usual thing where he talks about everything politics and whatnot.
Yeah.
And he had these massive eyebrows that were at least three inches thick.
Dude, they're, they're crazy looking. And I thought it was, you know-
A spoof
... a Photoshop- [laughs]
Right, yeah
... or an AI thing.
Like what I just did to you.
Yeah. But apparently he just really looks that way. It-
I, I guess they've, they've been enhanced in some way, shape, or form recently.
I-
They didn't used to be that big.
No.
They were, they were still pretty big, but-
They were, but now they don't match his head.
No.
And I've, I've, you know, seen a bunch of people posting about this, but has he said anything about it?
I'm sure he hasn't.
You know, I ... He looks weird.
[laughs]
He looks so weird.
Should I Google search this real quick?
Let's see.
Has Ben Shapiro said anything about his eyebrows?
Yeah. Um, I mean, we've got some online tutorial for the Ben Sha- [laughs] Ben Shapiro eyebrows. [laughs] And lots of people asking, "What's going on with Ben Shapiro's eyebrows?"
Yeah, I see that. Um, I, I love how whenever something weird happens to somebody it goes, "Hey, they just broke the internet."
Yeah, yeah.
Ben Shapiro just broke the internet.
He broke it.
That started when, uh, Kim Kardashian did that, uh, magazine cover and she had her butt hanging out.
Oh. That was the first time somebody broke the internet?
That was, uh, 2018, I think.
Yeah. I ... I'm so confused 'cause everybody is talking about it.
Everybody's saying it's real. No, wait, wait, wait.
Hmm. Maybe there is some Photoshopping algorith- you know, or Photoshopping going on.
No, but it's a video of him talking, and it has those eyebrows.
But somebody said here on Reddit, well, this was a couple days ago, that they went to his most recent YouTube video and, uh, took a screenshot, and this is how it looks. And it-
Okay.
That, that-
Well, that's how, that's how he looks normally.
Yeah. So-
I-
... the picture going around, it looks like the-
They cloned him too, Victor.
Oh, he's a clone.
[laughs]
That's what it is. Just like Jim Carrey and everybody else, he's a clone. Huh. I don't know. I don't know if it's real now. I'm ... But if you haven't seen Ben Shapiro's eyebrows, you should look them up.
It's on our Instagram and also our Facebook, kbear101fm.
Because he, he looks ridiculous. And [laughs] let's see what, uh, this Yahoo article says from earlier today. Uh, nobody knows. Nobody ... This shouldn't be hard to figure out if this actually happened. So I, I don't know. I don't know, Peaches. It might be fake. Might be fake.
I, I do s- I do see a, a meme account here saying, "As Israel annexes more land in the Middle East, Ben's eyebrows annex more land on his face."
[laughs]
What is going on?
Well, fake or real-
Oh, it looks like it might be, uh, it might be fake.
Yeah.
Because the, his latest video on TikTok that I'm looking at, they look normal.
Okay.
He is normal.
All right. Well, that's a pretty funny ... [laughs]
[laughs] Ben Shapiro got gender affirming eyebrow enlargement. [laughs]
[laughs] I'm a real man who got ... I'm surprised they didn't give him a unibrow.
Uh, Ben Shapiro finally hits puberty in his 40s-
[laughs]
... as his eyebrows have hit a growth spurt. What else is there?
So fake or real, it's funny. Um, it, it looks so absurd that-
Oh, wait. There's somebody pointing out that his lips also look enhanced too.
Oh. So he got some filler.
'Cause he has no ... He basically has those paper cut lips.
Mm-hmm.
He has nothing. But now in that latest video with the enhanced eyebrows-
[laughs]
... that, that was a distraction for his bigger lips.
Oh. [laughs]
Yeah.
That's why. He didn't want people to notice the Botox. [upbeat music] Okay.
It is the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I am Peaches.
I am Victor Wilt.
Uh, I wanted to talk more so about, uh, Jeff's post, loyal listener Jeff.
Yes.
He made a post, uh, that we were talking about off o- or we were talking about on Facebook Messenger.
I talked about it a little bit on the morning show today, and I hope I didn't upset Jeff. I was like, "Huh, what is up with Jeff posting this SiriusXM sucks?" [laughs]
Well, it goes back to the, uh, the, the, the voting poll in the Life In Idaho Falls Facebook group from a couple years ago.
Yeah, which K-Bear dominated-
Of course it did
... for favorite local radio station.
But-
We crushed it
... the, the moderator, the admin, the creator of that group, Barbara Summerhill, decided to vote for SiriusXM as-
She did
... her, uh, favorite station.
Boo.
And as a lady who's supposed to, uh, support local, she's not.
I agree, Peaches. I thoroughly agree.
But instead she gets bribed with lunch by some, uh-
[laughs]
... you know, conniving traitor type of-
Well, and you know what's great about that post being up right now is this morning, the very first thing I saw in my Facebook messages was a message from a listener named Colt who pointed out to me that the finalists for Idaho's Best have been announced, and the regional winners for East Idaho's Best Radio Station and Best Radio Show, [claps] once again-
I figured
... K-Bear and my show take that. So a- yet again voted the most popular in the region.
But regional.
And who knows? And who knows? Might take the state, 'cause I've, I've won the state before, and so has K-Bear.So who knows? You know, and it's all thanks to our loyal listeners.
Absolutely.
You know, even if they troll us a bit [laughs] in the Life In Idaho Falls group from time to time. But it was pretty funny, though.
It was funny reading those people's comments, you know, talking more so about, "I don't know anybody who listens to radio."
E- every time somebody talks about radio online, somebody will say that.
Yeah.
And it's like, do you see how many other people are talking about radio in the comments?
That was one of the, uh, many things I put on that meme of the fat, smelly dude that runs into me at any concert.
[laughs]
Um, they're, they're, they're always old. They always have a gray beard. They always smell like beer and ham, and they're always wearing a wife beater for some reason, too.
It's comfy at a show.
But, uh- [laughs]
[laughs]
Have you, have you worn one?
[laughs] Maybe back in the day.
Back in the day.
I... When I was skinny. I- I ain't gonna wear one now-
[laughs]
... 'cause then I'd look like pure white trash.
[laughs]
Um-
I'd inevitably spill on it. [laughs]
There, there was a c- There was a comment here that I put like, "Nobody listens to radio anymore,' said by a person who recognized a radio host by voice and face."
[laughs] That's right. [laughs]
Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, it's always funny to see those ignorant people just, you know, spew off their, their, their tirades about, "Me and my two friends listen to Spotify because it's convenient for ourselves. So f- for that reason, nobody listens to radio."
Yeah. You're giving all your money to, uh, you know, Olivia Rodrigo and, uh, Justin Bieber. Congratulations. [laughs]
Oh, that was another thing, too.
That's where your subscription money goes.
Uh, there's always people that say, like, you know, "Radio plays the same songs." But then I put that as a comment on this post, too. "I got tired of hearing the same songs, parentheses, while listening to algorithm loops."
[laughs] Dude, you wanna hear the same songs over and over? Yeah, try something like Spotify or Pandora.
Right?
I, I, I don't listen to playlists on there 'cause you get trapped in that loop. You know, if I wanna hear something specific, I will fire it up. Generally, I use it for podcast listening or, like, previewing audio for, you know, songs on the stations. But yeah, if, if I didn't make the playlist myself, which I ain't gonna sit around and really do that either, you know, j- I usually just wanna hear a certain song or a certain album, and I'll throw that on.
I gotta tell you, my attention span's horrible.
Uh, mine's pretty bad, too.
Try, trying to listen to full songs. I'm like, "Okay, next."
[laughs]
"Okay, next."
Oh, I know. I've been with you in a vehicle before.
[laughs]
I'm like, "Patches, just play a whole song already. Geez."
[laughs] Well, you, you say your attention span's bad, but you still listen to Tool.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can listen to a 13-minute Tool song, no problem. I'll probably do it, uh, here in a few while I work on some boring crap.
Like, uh, sorting the Cenk Show songs.
[laughs] That, that's on my agenda today. [laughs]
I know. Another program that people supposedly don't listen to.
Yeah. Oh, there's a metal on radio. Yeah.
Yeah. What is this, 1996?
Yeah. Saturday night, 10:00 PM till 2:00 AM. We'll have it nice and fresh for this week. I just gotta get cracking.
Nice and fresh like, uh, a certain person's eyebrows-
[laughs]
... that we're gonna talk about here in just a few-
That's right
... on the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. [upbeat music] Well, Victor, you know what? You know that Facebook group All Things in Idaho?
Uh, I think so. There's so many of them, but...
It has fewer members than the Life in Idaho Falls Facebook group.
Okay. Did you recently post in this group, or did-
I commented.
Okay. I might have also talked about this on the morning show.
Oh, I'm sorry. I, I-
[laughs] That's okay, Peaches, 'cause some people ain't awake at that time of day, and they might not have heard what I had to, uh, say about this. Is this about the Smokey the Bear image?
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
Okay. Okay. So somebody posted what looks like, like you said, an AI image of, uh, Smokey the Bear standing next to a sign that... What did it say? "Only you can prevent Idaho from becoming California, Seattle, or Portland."
Yeah. Yeah, and it's funny 'cause "from becoming" doesn't have a space in between the two words.
Yeah.
I can tell it's definitely somebody wr- put this through ChatGPT, and then they had the audacity to put a link saying, "You can order this amazing T-shirt, hoodie, cap, mug, and more from here."
[laughs] Boy, it's amazing.
crazyt-shirt.shop/best-tees-shirts. [laughs]
Hmm. Sounds high quality.
Yeah.
So yeah. Uh, like you said, I think, for one, it's rude 'cause you don't know why people are here to begin with, but then I started talking about the people who are moving here, okay? 'Cause we've been hearing about this since I was a little kid, "The Californians are all gonna move in and turn Idaho into California."
You, you've heard that back w- since you were a little kid?
Mm-hmm. Oh, dude. Yeah, it's always been a thing. But especially during... You know, it got crazy during the pandemic when, you know, people started selling the "We're full" hats and all that stuff.
Oh, that's, that's the stupidest thing on the planet.
And yes, it sucks that our, uh, cost of living's gone way up, you know, uh, housing and such, but that's happened in most places since the pandemic. You know, the only places where housing's still affordable are horrible places in the Midwest or, like, Pennsylvania, you know, West Virginia. But I've seen plenty of different articles, and then also just from my first-person experience, the people from California who are moving here just because they want to move to Idaho are not liberals, all right?
Your messaging's fallen on deaf ears-
I know
... because people will still continue to support or to s- like, say, "Hey, you're wrong. This is what I believe 'cause I was told this by my ello, fe- fellow c- my other fellow conservative neighbor," or something like that.
Yeah. Like-
And then they'll spew it online.
I would just like to meet one of these, you know, blue-haired Portlanders that moved to, um, Rexburg [laughs] and is, you know, running for city council. I ain't seen it. I've seen zero evidence of liberals trying to move here and turn Idaho blue. Idaho is the reddest it's ever been, all right? That it's ever been, and it is because of all the people moving in here. It got to be way more red. So you, you don't need to worry. We're not all of a sudden gonna... I don't know. I was trying to think of, uh, benefits to, uh, places like that.
Well-
[laughs]
And what's funny is, like, some of these comments in this group were pretty funny. It said stuff like, "What? You want Idaho to become better actually?" Like-
[laughs] Yeah, yeah. There's-- Like, you know, people are always talking about, "Ah, everyone hates California and they wanna leave, and blah, blah, blah." Why is it the most populated state in the country?
Well, I can tell you back in 2020 I hated it because of the, the restrictions, all that stuff, but also I really badly wanted to start my adult career and not work fast food anymore.
Yeah, I don't blame you.
I absolutely despised it, so I was applying everywhere. In 2020 I applied to, like, 450 jobs.
Yeah, I mean, it, it is very expensive to live there. And, you know, I mean, we had the same kind of restrictions going on here, Peaches. You know, we had mask mandates. What, what people don't remember either is that the pandemic happened in 2020. That's, that's when the lockdown happened, in 2020. And, um,
if you wanna, you know, fire up, uh, Wikipedia, you can see who was in charge in 2020. [laughs] You can see who put America on lockdown. Now, lockdowns kept going into the next administration, but both sides are to blame when it comes to pandemic lockdowns and mask things and all that kind of stuff. Like-
God, that was the worst thing ever. I, I'm, I'm-
It did?
... I'm never going back to that again. I'd rather go to solitary confinement-
[laughs]
... than ever go work at In-N-Out again and be on mask duty-
[laughs]
... and tell people at the front door to not-- to please put on a mask, and then have some dude, like, scream at me.
Oh, yeah. And it happened here, you know, 'cause we had mask mandates here. And it-- I just find it so funny that people seem to have forgotten w- who put those in place. [laughs]
And Susie brought up a crazy point. She says, "Idaho likes being poor, rating very low on education-
[laughs]
... lowest wages, but paying prices as high as Seattle. Uh, LOL, make it make sense. It's easier to lay around and be a mat, I guess."
Well, you know, I pointed it out a few ti- I'm, I mean, I know somebody's gonna call and be like, "These guys are being all liberal." No, okay, one, I pointed out we don't have a bunch of liberals moving here.
I'm not liberal in the slightest.
No, Peaches is-
Victor knows that
... Peaches is not liberal, trust me. I've talked to him and we've screamed and yelled at each other off-air plenty of times.
[laughs]
Uh,
now I lost tr- my, my train of thought of where I was gonna go with this. Ah, dang it.
I, I see another comment here: "Almost too late. The California cancer is creeping east."
No, like, guys-
The California cancer
... but I thought the East Coast is just as bad as California. [laughs] Coastal areas and big cities tend to lean blue. It's just how it is, and more rural areas tend to lean red. So yeah, and also the one that gets me crazy is when I see people like, "Ain't gonna take away my freedoms here in Idaho."
If you look up which states have the least personal freedom, the only state worse than us is Texas. All right? We are at the bottom of the heap. There's a lot of business freedom here, but when it comes to personal freedoms, you know, they're, they're always trying to take away more of our rights here in Idaho, just us as people, not-
You're telling me I have to be 18 plus to get a book at the library?
I-- Certain books, yes, Peaches, and, uh-
Well, not those types of books.
It-
I'm talking, like, just, like, Huckleberry Finn.
Ah. And, and, and I, I would like to get into the latest right that they, uh, are working on taking away from us instead of doing something like, you know, getting-
Big-
... rid of daylight savings time.
I was about to say, uh, fixing the time change.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, but I'm, I'm not gonna get into it 'cause it just- nobody listens. They don't pay attention. They don't care.
A lot of people listen to K-Bear, but then they, uh, when we s- when we talk about stuff like this, that's when they say, "Shut up and play the music."
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And you know what? Uh, we don't, we don't have to always shut up and play the music, but I've seen endless complaining about our state leaders, and, uh, I, I mean, for the last year. And you know they're gonna vote 'em all back in again in, you know, six months when we have the fall, you know, elections.
Yeah, Sherry's going crazy in this comment section here.
Bunch of hypocrites.
"Maybe someday Idaho will actually have schools that rank higher, but until then the state simply continues the redneck small-minded syndrome." [laughs]
[laughs] Well, they are cutting, uh, school budgets. Uh, you know, they, again, you know, they're working on all, all kinds of stuff that nobody wants and nobody cares about.
But, but Victor, 48th is not 50th. [laughs]
[laughs] Okay, so we could be worse. Thanks for existing, Texas.
Wrapping up the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. Victor, give me your best, uh-
Slayer! Slayer!
There you go.
Did we just have some Slayer?
Played South of Heaven.
Very nice. Very nice. So, uh, speaking of south, [laughs] this is a terrible transition.
[laughs]
I gotta go to Arizona, Peaches. Now, I've talked about my love for the Verde Valley before, the area where Maynard lives, Sedona, Jerome-
But, but-
... Cottonwood
... as we learned yesterday, all you gotta listen for is, uh, NWA being blasted-
[laughs]
... at full volume-
From-
... and Maynard will drive by in his convertible.
[laughs] No, he drives a pickup truck.
Oh, even better.
You know? He's living out in the desert. He's driving a pickup truck getting the job done.
I was gonna say, a bald guy with a convertible is just asking for a horrible, horrible thing to happen.
Yeah. No, the-
Burning your scalp
... like, in Sedona you might see a convertible, but Cottonwood, probably not.
Oh, yeah.
Cottonwood's very, uh, very Wild West. But I've gone to a number of Maynard's, uh, businesses. Like, he used to have the Puscifer store in Jerome. It's moved to Cottonwood. Uh, and he had this highfalutin, uh, restaurant in Cottonwood that was, like, a, a, a pasta restaurant. "We make all our pasta in-house," you know, that type of thing. I am happy to see that at the new Puscifer store they have the Queen Bee Cafe, and you can buy a burger. You can buy a burger that Maynard approves. He gave it his stamp of approval. And now-
I was trying to see if Maynard was Italian to be able to be that type of guy. Um, his great-grandfather was a winemaker in Northern Italy.
Yes.
So, okay, so he is-
Yeah.
Gotcha.
So he's continuing the family tradition with the wine. But yeah, dude, they've got, uh, you know, burger. They've got, uh, hot dogs, grilled cheese, and then of course you can get your, uh, fancy wines and stuff with it. [laughs] And I'm like, all right, finally a place that's not super pretentious, uh, that you can go get some food. And it's, like, normal restaurant pricing too. Like, you know, comes with the fries, the, the burger, 15 bucks.
So it's not like Tool's merch.
Yeah, it's-- [laughs]
[laughs]
That's what I was like, "Oh, great, how much are they gonna charge for a Maynard burger?"
Just like every, uh, millennial burger spot, uh, 25 bucks to $30 for a burger with no side.
Ex- exactly.
Do you want some handcrafted root beer?
[laughs]
That's $8 for a small.
Oh, hold on. Let's look at the drinks now 'cause I wonder if they have some kind of, uh... They have-
Dude, do you want Cajun fries? That's an extra $12. 16 if you want cheese fries.
Yeah, I mean-
We'll put that little flag in the middle of your burger too.
Dude, the-- Not too bad. I mean, freshly squeezed lemonade for $3.
I mean, even if you wanna get yourself, uh-
I don't care if it's freshly squeezed.
[laughs]
Stop putting that in the description.
[laughs]
It, it should just say lemonade. Boom.
[laughs]
I don't care if it's handmade, hand-tossed, cage-free, all this crap.
[laughs] Hey, fresh-squeezed tastes better, Peaches.
I can't wait for the, uh, the, the, the real food people to come after me saying that.
[laughs]
Peaches is eating poison.
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