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[upbeat music] New from Arch Enemy, "To the Last Breath." Also, their first track with their, uh, new lead singer. I believe her name is Alissa Hart. Angela stepped away from the band. There was all these rumors that Angela was going to return, but then she, uh... Well, she said, "Hey, sorry, I'm, I'm not a part of Arch Enemy still. I, I'm gonna be continuing to do whatever I'm doing." And so this girl got revealed today, and I liked that track. Hence why I played it for Peach's Pick of the Day. Always starting off my show with a song that I want to play for you. It is, uh, pre-Friday, February 19th, 2026. Uh, hope you're doing well. If you wanna get a hold of me, you can, over at 208-535-1015. You ever realize how fast something goes from, "This means you made it in life," to, "Why do I still own this?" I saw this question online: What was a luxury item 20 years ago that's basically worthless today? And man, this, this list is just a graveyard of technology we all thought would last forever. Like, let's start with portable GPS units. You remember those? The little robot voice judging every decision you made. You'd miss one turn, and it w- it would go, "Recalculating," in the most disappointed tone possible. My parents used to get really mad, 'cause I would talk in the car to them, and they'd be like, "Shh, shh, shh, we need to hear the directions." And then my dad would miss a turn, blame it all on me. Now, your phone does that for free, while also telling you where to get tacos and warning you about cops. Isn't it weird how there's speed checks on, on your phone? Like, there's a speed check on, on Maps. There's, there's a speed check on Waze. Like, there shouldn't be. If you're breaking the law, y- you need to get punished, right? Plasma TVs, another one here for what was a luxury item 20 years ago that's basically worthless today. Back then, if someone had a plasma TV, you'd walk into their house like you were entering NASA. Everybody stood around watching regular cable like it was a cinematic experience. Now, you can buy a bigger, better TV at Walmart for the price of, like, yeah, you know, two pizzas. [laughing] It's, it's very cheap for TVs. That might have been a little over-exaggeration, but, I mean, still, TVs are the only thing that's gotten cheaper over time. Digital cameras used to be a personality trait. Somebody always had one at parties, taking 147 photos nobody would ever upload because they were trapped in a memory card the size of a Cheez-It. Now, our phones take photos so sharp they reveal things about your face you didn't, like, emotionally prepare for, right? BlackBerries, those were the phones of the future. TiVo, definitely. This might be my question for, uh, To Peach Their Own. Well, I feel like we've covered all the basics here. Also, the six-CD changer in your car, that was, like, the- one of the biggest things ever. Al- also, the iPod, which I, I have seen those posts popping up as of late, saying to bring the iPod back just 'cause you can listen to music. You know, if you wanted to gift your kid an iPod, you, you still... I mean, I wish they still made those things, so you can just be like, "Hey, load up your favorite music on this thing. Put on your favorite albums." Uh, w- it'd be cool, right? Carrying a thousand songs in your pocket felt like science fiction back then. Anyway, if you wanna get a hold of me, you can, over at 208-535-1015. Peach's Pit Party will return here in just a few on KBEAR 101. [whooshing sound] Have you ever sent that "You up?" text at, like, 2:00 in the morning, trying to see if somebody else is awake, so you could potentially, you know, link up with them, right? This woman went viral because a guy who ghosted her six months ago randomly texted her on a Friday night with the most predictable message possible. That is, "You up, question mark?" You know, six months of silence, no replies, nothing, then suddenly he acts like the conversation was just paused for a snack break, right? She decides to respond, says, "Yeah, come over." He asks for the address. Instead of sending hers, she pulls a random house listing off of Zillow and sends that. The guy drives over there, texts her, saying he's outside. She puts her phone on silent, goes to sleep. Wakes up the next morning to 40 missed calls, a bunch of voicemails. I'm sure those were full of, uh, vulgar language. I wish she sh- uh, shared those. And I, I wish I could play the audio of that. A bunch of texts as well. She, she smiles after seeing that, blocks him, moves on with her day. The internet, fully on her side, calling it revenge, karma, justice, all that. Here's the thing, though: ghosting someone, already a bad move. Everybody's experienced it at some point. It's annoying, it's confusing, it makes you feel like you i- imagined an entire interaction. But sending a late-night "You up?" half a year later, like nothing happened, is a level of confidence I honestly can't wrap my head around. Really, I can't. Like, just [laughing] just pause the whole thing. "Hey, you up?" I used to be that guy back in, uh, late high school, early college, where maybe, like, once or twice, I think once or twice, I was sent that text message. I think it was by my senior-year prom date. She texted me, "You up?" And I was the guy back then that would go to bed at 8:00 p.m., wake up at 6:00 a.m. I was a complete loser. Still am, but I had a, I had a proper bedtime back then. So I would wake up to that text and be like: "Yeah, I'm up now. What's going on?" And then she wouldn't reply. [laughing] That's, uh, that, that's how bad it was. [whooshing sound] I don't know who needs to hear this, but if your phone rings now, there's about a 60% chance it's not a human being with good intentions. Unless it's from either 208-535-1015 or my, uh, personal office phone, telling you that you won tickets with a giveaway or something like that, any other, like, call that comes out of nowhere-...From a random number, usually it's somebody asking for somebody else, that type of thing. I get these calls constantly from area codes that look like Southern California numbers. Same tactic every time. It pops up, and you think, "Oh, maybe I know someone there." You answer, say hello, and there's just silence. Three seconds goes by, then a beep, then suddenly someone acts like they just picked up their phone and goes, "Hello, is this Janet Martinez?" Every time, they ask me for Janet Martinez. I've had the same cell phone number since middle school, since, uh, s- the, uh, sixth grade. I think that was, like, 2007 [chuckles] or maybe even 2006. So I've had my phone number for 20 years. Did Janet Martinez have it before me? What's making these people call for Janet Martinez 20 years later, you know? I, I, I always wanna know what part of my voice screams Janet Martinez. I've started responding, "Do I sound like a Janet Martinez to you?" And then they immediately hang up, like I'm the weird one in this situation. Sometimes they don't even bother talking. They just call, hear you say hello, and then disconnect, which feels less like a scam and more like just harassment from, uh, whatever company they're a part of, whatever terrible scam they're a part of. Turns out there's a reason for all of that. A lot of these calls are just checking if your number is active. If you answer, well, [chuckles] like me, congratulations, you've been promoted to the "this person might fall for something later" list. And here's the part that surprised me: almost a quarter of Americans have actually lost money to scams in the last three years, which is very, very sad. Average loss, around two hundred and fifty bucks, but some people are getting hit for thousands, and only about a third ever see that money again. So yeah, people joke about who falls for this stuff, but these scammers are basically running psychological experiments all day. They only need a tiny percentage of people to respond for it to work. At this point, I don't understand unknown numbers anymore, unless they leave... I don't answer, I should say. I don't answer unknown numbers anymore unless they leave a voicemail. If it's important, they'll figure it out. If not, it's probably, you know, somebody trying to reach out for Janet Martinez again on my phone, which just makes me aggravated. [whooshing] There are stories where you read the headline once and immediately assume it's from The Onion or the Babylon Bee, usually, like, a parody website of some sort, and then somehow you find out it's, it's-- you find out it's real, and then somehow it gets worse the more you learn about it. This couple in Australia had their house broken into. Masked guys come in while they're asleep, steal random stuff, come back again later, and take off with their Lexus. Already a nightmare situation. They call the police, the couple does, twice. Nobody shows up. Weeks go by, and the first official thing they receive in the mail isn't an update about catching the thieves, it's a fine over six thousand dollars, not because of anything they did, but because the person who stole their car was caught on a traffic camera not wearing a seatbelt, and since the car is, of course, registered to them, the system automatically sent the ticket to the owners. So just think about that sequence for a second. Your house gets invaded, your car gets stolen, police don't show up. A camera works perfectly, though, immediately to bill you for the criminal's [chuckles] safety violation. That's the part that fries people's brains, that technology works flawlessly when money is involved, but somehow can't help locate the guy actually committing the crime. Th- this feels like, I don't know, n- nobody, nobody involved is sitting there thinking, "Yeah, this makes sense," but the system just keeps moving anyway because a computer checked a box somewhere. Uh, I feel bad for this poor couple. They're basically saying the same thing everyone else is thinking: "How can cameras identify a seatbelt violation instantly, but not help stop the stolen vehicle driving down the highway?" You almost feel bad laughing at it, but it's one of those situations where the logic is so backwards, your brain doesn't know what else what to do. [chuckles] So if you're having a bad day, just re- just remember this poor couple. Let's play some Rob Zombie. I'm a rock 'n' roller. [whooshing] I did mention this previously. Why not bring it up again? You gotta give the Texas Rangers the award for the best giveaway for the upcoming season. It's a replica of a Nolan Ryan jersey covered in his blood. Not his actual blood, but just, you know... Like, it looks like what, what it looked like back when he played that game back in 1990 when Ryan got hit in the lip by a Bo Jackson ground ball, and he bled all over his jersey. Ryan ended up pitching seven innings before he got six stitches to seal up the cut. The quote, unquote, "bloodstained Ryan jersey" will be handed out May 29th. Rangers Director of Promotions and Ballpark Entertainment, Zach Geist, says, uh, said he's never spent so much time on a giveaway item. "Designating blood is not in my repertoire of things that I have done in the past," is what he said, "So trying to find the right blood color and the right printing options [chuckles] to make it look authentic was very tough." I gotta give him a shout-out, I mean, for coming, coming up with something very, very cool. That'd be awesome to hang up. The best NBA players think that Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets is the best player in the game. That's from a new poll of players taking part in the, in this, uh, past weekend's All-Star festivities. Those players also believe that dealing with player injuries and participation in the games is the biggest issue facing the league, and that former player Jeff Teague has the best NBA-focused podcast, and almost all the players polled like the new All-Star Game format of two US teams and one international squad in a round-robin tournament. All Major League Baseball teams are currently at spring training, getting ready for the season. Some minor league teams are also getting ready by getting their promotions in place. There has been a fun trend by many teams to trot out alternate identities for certain games. Here's a rundown of some of the best new team names some clubs will be goofing off with this summer. The Akron RubberDucks will become the Akron Cream Stick Donuts, the Reading Fightin Phils will become the Reading Iced Coffees. Okay, that one's all right. The Altoona Curve will become the Altoona Mud Turtles, and the Bowling Green Hot Rods will become the Bowling Green White Squirrels. The rest are just kind of like, eh.... You know, that's about it. That does it for your Shot Clock Sports Update, right here on KBEAR 101. Of course, Limp Bizkit right there on Peaches Pit Party. Fred Durst, speaking of Limp Bizkit, just volunteered himself to be the, uh, singer on a potential new Van Halen album. Apparently, Alex Van Halen has been working on unreleased material Eddie left behind, and they're looking for someone to handle vocals because, you know, David Lee Roth, not necessarily the greatest anymore, and I think Sammy Hagar is, like, eighty, eighty years old. So Durst basically said he would be interested if the opportunity came up. That said, nothing confirmed yet. He just threw his name into the mix, but rock fans immediately lost their minds because the idea of Limp Bizkit's frontman singing Van Halen songs is either fascinating or something horrible, depending on who you ask. And now I can't decide if I want this to happen or absolutely, uh, never happen. [whooshing sound] There's a wild court case happening in Austria right now. A guy's on trial because prosecutors say he basically left his girlfriend to die while they were climbing the country's highest mountain. They got stuck near the summit in bad conditions. She became too exhausted to continue, and he left her there overnight while he went for help. She later died from exposure. She's gone! The argument now is whether this was a tragic mountain accident or, like, criminal negligence. Prosecutors say he ignored chances to call for rescue, didn't signal a helicopter that flew overhead, and even put his phone on silent while authorities were trying to reach him. His, uh, lawyer says he did what he could and was trying to survive and get help himself. I doubt it. When you put your phone on silent, that's a pretty big red flag, don't you think? So the whole trial basically comes down to one uncomfortable question: at what point does a bad decision in a dangerous situation become a crime? Because climbing a mountain already comes with risk. Like, it's one of the dumbest things you can do, in my opinion. If you wanna do it, go for it, but I truly see no interest whatsoever-- I truly have no interest whatsoever in climbing Mount Everest, out of all places, or even climbing, like, a tiny mountain. [chuckles] You know, people always ask that question, "Beach or mountains?" Even though I hate the ocean, I'll, I'll choose beach every time. But people in this case are debating whether the more experienced person becomes legally responsible if things go wrong. Yikes! I, I don't know how I feel about this. I mean, I feel, I feel like, like, again, with the whole putting your phone on silent thing, pretty big red flag. I think he just wanted to move on to another girl. Check his messages. I'm sure there's a backup in there, a side piece, if you will. [whooshing sound] William Shatner, yes, Captain Kirk himself, he is making a heavy metal album. He's teamed up with a stacked lineup that includes Zakk Wylde, Henry Rollins, a bunch of other metal names, and the record is supposed to mix, uh, classic metal covers with new, original tracks. The whole thing apparently started after he did a, uh, spoken word guest spot on a metal project, decided to go all in. You know, he's ninety-four years old, by the way. So somewhere this year, we might legitimately get a brand-new metal album featuring Captain Kirk, backed by some of the, uh, the most legendary metal and rock musicians e-ever. [chuckles] Which is the, either the strangest idea ever or exactly the kind of chaos rock music was built for, you know? [chuckles] I, I, I feel like we would have to play a track or two off of this album once it finally comes out. I, I remember when people freaked out about, uh, Christopher Lee, was it him? When he dropped a, a metal Christmas album or something like that. Was that the case? I think so. It was a metal album of some sort, another one. I feel like William Shatner just saw that and said, "You know what? I'm ninety-four. Why not?" I mean, ninety-four years old! That's insane. That's crazy. Good for him. Here's, well, here's, uh, Volbeat, "Demonic Depression" on Peaches Pit Party. [whooshing sound] Peaches Pit Party right here on KBEAR 101. This investment firm is trying to convince people that a toilet company is secretly an AI stock, and, yeah, it sounds ridiculous at first. They're talking about TOTO, the company famous for those high-end bidet toilets. They're kind of like the Lamborghini of toilets. But the reason investors are suddenly paying attention is because TOTO also makes ultra-precise ceramic components used in semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the machines that help produce memory ch-- the memory chips used for AI systems. So the argument is basically everyone thinks they sell bathrooms, but a big part of their profit actually comes from supplying parts tied to the AI chip boom. Which means somewhere out there, the future of artificial intelligence might partially depend on the same company that makes luxury toilets. [whooshing sound] You know, if you're about to do a live broadcast, maybe the worst decision you can make is to start drinking. You know? Maybe have, like, one drink. Still, that's a bad idea. You want yourself entirely focused. You wanna be entirely ready to go, right? This Australian TV sports reporter had to [chuckles] apologize after going viral during a live Winter Olympics report because she was noticeably slurring her words on air. She later admitted, "Yeah, I had a drink beforehand on an empty stomach while dealing with cold weather and high altitude," and said she completely misjudged the situation. The clip blew up online. Her co-hosts and even Australia's prime minister backed her up, basically saying, "Mistakes happen," and moving on, which I think is pretty cool, right? So, yeah, live TV at the Olympics apparently comes with pressure, jet lag, and maybe skipping dinner is a, uh, bad strategy. [whooshing sound] The internet is arguing right now because an etiquette expert showed what he says is the proper way to shower, and people are absolutely not having it. I'm kind of over the whole thing of people trying to tell you the proper way to do things, and then there are so many others to say, "Hey, that's wrong. You should do it my way." This etiquette coach basically said you should fully wash yourself in a specific order, starting with your face, working downward, because otherwise, you're just spreading dirt and soap residue around your body.... and the reaction online has been immediate chaos. People, people feel personally attacked by the idea that they've apparently been showering wrong their entire lives. Some people are defending their routine like it's a family tradition type of thing. Others are saying there is no universe where showering needs r- rules of etiquette, rules or etiquette involved at all, which honestly might be the funniest part. We've, we've reached a point where even showers have experts telling us there's a correct technique, like I just mentioned. At the end of the day, if you're clean and nobody around you is complaining, you're probably doing [chuckles] just fine. But somewhere online right now, strangers are passionately debating soap strategy, all right? There's somebody who's kind of mad that somebody was trying to tell them how to shower, so they're angrily going, "No, I'm gonna conditioner first. I'll show them!" Luckily, since I'm bald, I don't need shampoo and conditioner. It's rather nice to save money that way. Subtle flex right there, I know. [whooshing sound] Today's What the Headline proves sometimes people make the police work incredibly easy. A 25-year-old dude in Montana got arrested after deputies say, uh, he drove drunk to the courthouse and the sheriff's office to pay off an open container ticket. So he shows up, waits for help, and the sheriff notices he looks impaired. They ask if he drove there, [chuckles] and apparently he says yes, like that wasn't going to be the next question. Deputies say he had, uh, admitted to having a couple drinks and smoking earlier, failed a breath test a- at about three times the legal limit, and just to really complete the story, they found another open container sitting in his car. So he arrived to take care of one charge, left with an aggravated DUI and another open container violation. The sheriff's office even posted afterward, basically saying, "As a reminder, if you show up here intoxicated, wanted, or driving illegally, you will in fact be arrested." Again, it's always bad when the police department makes a social media post making fun of for how stupid you are. [whooshing sound] I genuinely don't understand how this keeps happening. This Amazon driver, uh, he followed GPS directions, literally drove a van straight onto a mudflat that filled with water, got the vehicle stuck. This wasn't even a road. It's a six-mile walking path out into an, uh, estuary that locals literally call one of the most dangerous footpaths in Britain. And I know people blame GPS every time, but at some point, your eyes have to get involved in the decision-making process. Like, if your phone says, "Keep going," and what you see is open water, maybe we pause. Maybe we [chuckles] reassess. Maybe we don't trust the rectangle in our hand more than reality. The driver was okay. Coast Guard helped out. Amazon had to get a farmer to pull the van back out, which means somewhere there's a delivery marked running late because someone trusted technology a little too much. I use GPS everywhere, too, but if it suddenly tells me to drive into the Snake River, that's where I decide I'm allowed to disagree. [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.