Yeah. It was a, uh, long evening, but I did get some things done. Hopefully, I can be as motivated to continue doing that kinda crap after work today. [sigh] But hey, if you get a good day in, you get a good day in on, uh, tasks that kinda suck to deal with. Chores, boo. All right. Might as well take a look at our Idaho election results, or East Idaho election results, 'cause that was the, uh, talk of the town yesterday. Now, unfortunately, a lot of these we, we didn't really g- get any results. We gotta vote again. Ugh. Nothing like putting up with another month of, uh, you know, endless debates and, you know, the political signs all over the place. They're gonna get frozen into the ground. People ain't gonna be able to get them out. They're gonna be up for months, ugh, until the, uh, spring thaw in May. You know how Idaho winter works. Uh, we're, we're almost there and then six months of it. But, uh, I was hoping that this post I was looking at would show the, uh, voter turnout. Hold on. I know that, uh, the Bonneville County page at least had it. Let's look. East Idaho election results. 'Cause I'm, uh, I mean, I'm just a little bit curious, uh, how, how things played out here. Does this one show the, um, voter turnout? They need to really talk about voter turnout 'cause it, it sucks so bad. All right? I guess it, i- at least Bonneville County. I seem to remember seeing that last night. And, uh ... Okay, we had, of registered voters in Bonneville County, 25% voter turnout. Now, I don't know what we generally end up with, but that sucks. 25%? Come on. Well, you got another opportunity coming up because, at least in Idaho Falls, there was not a mayor elected. Gonna have a runoff election next month. I believe it's the same thing in Pocatello. And then even in the, uh, one, one of the city council seats in Idaho Falls, there's going to be a runoff election there as well. But, uh, yeah. I guess most people are only like, really paying attention to the mayoral race, based on the posts that I see on social media. But, uh, Amon did get a, um, a- you know, a, a winner- Oh, he wasn't really running against anyone. Um, congratulations [laughs] on that one. Uh, runoff between Jeff Aldridge and Lisa Burdenshaw in Idaho Falls. Uh, this page does not have the Pocatello information up here. The, the, uh, the incumbent mayor in Pokey did get voted out. Uh, looks like they'll have a runoff election between Greg Cates and Mark Dahlquist. But, um, yeah, if you wanna check out all of the election results, you can get over to eastidahonews.com. They've got 'em all there. I mean, tons of different city council seats in various towns and cities across East Idaho. Um, tons of, uh, mayoral results and things like that. Uh, East Idaho News looks like they did a pretty good job covering the entire eastern part of the state. So, if you need to take a look at, you know, Arco or Bancroft or whatever, Soda Springs, they got all your results posted there. I'm certainly not gonna read through all of them because there were a lot of different races going on. Anyway, there we go. I wish I could say, "We're done with elections for a while," but no. Gonna be voting again in December with all these various, uh, runoff elections. So, let's see better voter turnout next time. 25%, it's not the worst I've seen, but I know we can do better than that. If you're a registered voter, it's simple. You just get down to the polls and vote. Come on now. Come in. All right. Let's roll into the seven o'clock hour. We'll do some Dayseeker and more and I'll be back and w- I'm, I'm done talking about the election. [heavy metal music] Little bit of Type O Negative on a Wednesday morning, wishing it was Friday morning, wishing I was sleeping. I'm sure you are as well.
Action!
All right. There's a weekend a-coming. Eventually. Are there any plans this weekend? I don't think there's anything going on this weekend. I don't know. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. I don't remember. All I know is that I am gonna have to get into the coffee. Yeah. All right. Let's see. Oh, here's an interesting question on Reddit. "How do you work from 8:00 to 5:00, have only weekends free and not feel like you're wasting your life?" Well, isn't that a bright and cheery question to start your day? [laughs] Um, I mean, I, I work 6:00 to 3:00 and only have the weekends free. Um, and it can get to feel like all I do is, uh, work, 'cause the weekend's not long enough. Here's what we do. We all stand up as one and we demand the four-day work week. Then we won't feel like we're wasting our life. It's amazing what that one extra day off can do for you. Ugh. I wish I, wish I had, uh, just massive piles of PTO. I would take like every Monday off till the end of time. But, that ain't happening anytime soon. Just gotta keep building it up. Ugh. Trust me. If I, if I could, I'd be sleeping still. All right. Let's see here. What are people saying for how to, uh, go ahead and work the five-day work week, 8:00 to 5:00, only have weekends free and not feel like you're wasting your life? Uh, do stuff in your free time? I, like, I don't know. Let's see.[rock music plays] Most people are just talking about, you know, be happy you have a job, uh, and then make the most out of the time you have. I can't believe there's this much discussion [laughs] on this question. Uh, most people are like, "No, I do feel like I'm wasting my life." [laughs]
All right, try to not feel that way. I know it's rough doing them, you know, nine-hour days with a lunch, five days a week. Tr- trust me, I know. And I have a, you know, for the most part, pretty fun job, at least the first four hours of it. Once I get done yapping at you and listening to music, and I have to go sit at my computer and, like, stare at charts and, yeah,
sit there and dole out work to other people and, uh, take phone calls and stare at more, you know, spreadsheets and just tinker with computer programs, [groans]
it can be kinda brutal. But
you just gotta do your best to make the best of the afternoon. I think once I get more done around the house, I'll feel a lot better about things, [laughs] feel less like I'm wasting my life. But, you know, there's been a lot of stuff that needs to get done around the place. I feel pretty good about the, uh, progress I made yesterday. That should lead to additional progress, hopefully over the weekend, and, uh, maybe I'll be able to get that place
in, in line for when my kids come visit. That should be fun to see them. Get ready for the upcoming Christmas holiday. Ah, need to move the wall of sound. I don't know, I'm, uh, I'll try to get that done this weekend or something. If you haven't seen my wall of sound, I think I posted it on Facebook. It, it was a good idea at the time, but now it's like, okay, I gotta make the living room a little bit more of a, uh, cozy space, not, you know, bachelor pad jam room central. It's kinda chaotic in there. I feel like I'm babbling. Should we take a quick break and then, um- I'm trying to dig into the news, but it's all about, uh, politics and elections. And we already got the election talk out of the way with the fact that, hey, we get to go vote again. So, yeah, that, that's what we got. Um, I'm gonna take a break. I'm gonna... I don't know. I'm, I'm debating on the coffee thing. I don't wanna crawl out of my skin, but
I think I need to be a little bit more supercharged, so wish me luck. [rock music plays] Oddly Crew, welcome to the Victor Wiltz Show, and good morning and good day. Man, I thought yesterday and the day before were tough on content, but it, it's a rough one this morning. You know, uh, Halloween's over. Thanksgiving's not that fun to talk about. What? The- what's your favorite Thanksgiving movie? What's your favorite Thanksgiving food? When is Thanksgiving? Hold on, I'm, I'm- I should probably find this out. All right, the 27th. Okay. All right. That's a ways out. Plenty of time to plan ahead. [laughs] There you go. Your very informative break and question of the day. The 27th. Ugh, and oh, Black Friday sales. We can talk about that too. Um, hey, what's your favorite Black Friday sale? I think that a lot of places are already doing Black Friday sales. Black Friday doesn't really mean anything anymore. It's just another day. I think I was seeing Black Friday sales, like, a couple weeks ago. Yeah, I think pretty much anybody just trying to make money at this point. Buy stuff, please! Help! Well, gonna have to wait to get money out of my pocketbook. Gonna have to wait a little bit. Ah, holidays, man. Holidays are rough, especially in this day and age. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to stay positive. Maybe I need to put up my Christmas tree, get myself in the old holiday spirit. Put up at least one of the Christmas trees. I got a lot of Christmas trees around my house for some reason. Um, I went from one to three.
Now, the third one's my daughter's. I need to talk to her and ask her, "Do you really need to keep this? Do you know how much space this is gonna take up in my house, your Christmas tree in a bag, when I already got two other Christmas trees to deal with? Come on." That's, you know, the woes of being a dad with a little bit of storage space. She sent a ton of crap home with me from Washington. I need to go through it and figure out what parts are useful. Last night, as I was working around the house, I did find a dusty popcorn maker. It's a old-fashioned, like, whirly pop. It, uh, it's kind of fun. I figure the kids might enjoy making some whirly pop popcorn. But, uh, I was, you know, not being efficient with my multitasking, so it's all dirty. See? That's, that's what I've resorted to, telling you about the chores I did and stuff I found around my house. I also realized I collected a bunch of crap. I had pay stubs from one of my jobs when I was a teenager. I had these garbage bags just full of paperwork, and I kinda... You know, I went through them quickly and was like, "This stuff sucks. Into the garbage it goes. Uh, enough already. Why am I hanging onto the- these two gigantic bags of useless trash?" 'Cause, I'm, uh- I don't know. I thought I'd done pretty good at clearing out useless garbage during the last two years of, uh, living alone, but ap- apparently not. Stuff hides. Yeah, that's weird how s- I'm, I'm sure I've still got other stuff hiding out in my house that I, I'm gonna open up a box and go, "Well, what is this crap?" I guess wintertime's a good time for, uh, doing things around the house. So yeah, get that, uh, outside work done as quick as you can, people. Uh, one of the things you can do is drag your leaves out to the road, at least if you live in Idaho Falls. I'm considering it, but it's a lot of work. I, like...I gotta take everything from the back to the front yard, so I'll have to get the wheelbarrow out, shovel it in, take a trip to the road, dump it, blah, blah, blah, over and over. They have the leaf pickup schedule on the, uh, Idaho Falls or Bonneville County website. You should probably look at that. Otherwise, it's just gonna end up where it is right now, blown to the side of the yard under the trees. Ugh, man, I really need some caffeine. Why are chores the only thing on my mind? Chores! [lively music plays] Hold on. I'm, I'm getting heh my headphones. [thump] I've been being lazy, and they're ac- across the room, and just been sitting here yapping without them on. All right, I got them. There we go. All right, I can hear myself now. Okay, sorry, unprofessional. [rock music plays] But what else would you expect of this program, right? Read a weird news article a few minutes ago, that in Kentucky, they, I guess, were getting so many calls about the election, that they had to notify all voters that they were not able to vote in the New York City mayoral candidate [laughs] election. Um, I don't wanna pass judgment on Kentucky, okay? But I'm gonna pass judgment on Kentucky.
[laughs] Who are these idiots,
calling up the local elections office, "Why can't I find any information on where my polling place is in the New York City mayoral election?" 'Cause you live in Kentucky, which is another state. I mean, I gotta give a shout-out to East Idaho for not blowing up our l- a local election office with phone calls. "How do I vote ab- about this California proposition?"
Just bothering people trying to get their jobs done. Yeah, um... Oh, and I did get a call from somebody earlier who had a family member who was involved in one of the local political races here. 'Cause I was talking about election, uh, voter turnout, and I was like, "25% sucks." You know, of all registered voters, we only had 25% turnout in Bonneville County. I don't know about the other counties. I wasn't able to find that information. But the person who called me did say that generally it's between like 10 to 15%, so it actually was a pretty good increase in turnout. So I, I, I give y'all a [clapping] good job, good job on kicking the numbers up a little bit. But as I mentioned before, you know, we didn't really get, uh, winners in half the races in Idaho Falls. Pocatello and Idaho Falls both having runoff elections for mayor. So we got another month of elections. Let's see, in December, the best voter turnout we've ever seen for a local election. Wouldn't that be great? Y'all get out and vote for the president. Come on. Let's, let's get them local election numbers up because local elections, your vote means so much more. Sorry, you know if you're a long-time listener to this show, I think the electoral college is a bunch of garbage. I don't know why we don't just keep things simple and whoever gets the most votes wins. It would sure make me feel better about going out and voting 'cause I know, generally, how our state is going to vote on behalf of all voters. So it, it does kinda decrease voter enthusiasm. Anyway, local elections, based on how many people got out and voted, I mean, votes were very important yesterday, so... Keep in mind, you got a second chance coming up in about a month. I don't know the exact date, but... Yeah, props again for not being like Kentucky and [laughs] bothering the local elections office asking why you can't vote in elections in other states. Gotta move, all right? Gotta move yourself there if you wanna have your say. Sorry, I got the hiccups. I'm gonna dig up some freak news, try to cure my hiccups, [laughs] and I'll be back, all right? I hope everybody's having a great morning. [lively music plays] Okay, which horrific story do we begin with? All right, let's talk about [laughs] the zip-lining story. Might as well get the bad one out of the way. This is just terrible, just terrible. Have you ever been zip-lining? It can be really fun. I went to a zip-lining place [rock music plays] with the fam back in the day near Astoria, Oregon. And even though, ugh, jeez, did we have to hike relentlessly, it was pretty cool. And thankfully, none of us were swarmed by hornets while on a zip-line
and then, you know, just straight up killed. You know, this, this is sad. There was a, uh, father and son killed by a swarm of hornets
after being stung more than 100 times on a vacation zip-line. These were those, you know, giant Asian hornets. I think the ones they call, uh, murder hornets? So these guys were, uh... Oh, they're from Idaho?[rock music] I didn't notice that part. That's terrible. Anyway, they were living in Vietnam, and, uh, I guess decided to go do a little bit of z- ziplining, and yeah, horrific. Killed by hornets on a zipline. Ooh.
I don't even know what to say. I like ziplining, but that, uh, made me a little bit nervous. You, you, you never know if you're gonna just
go plowing through a, you know, swarm of something, and they can fly fast. It's not like ziplines move that quickly. Geez. Where were they from in Idaho? Does it say? I don't know. The article doesn't say, as far as I can tell. I hope they weren't local. I mean, I guess, it, uh, it doesn't matter. It's horrible either way, but yikes.
Okay. Let's move on to more pleasant things. We got a 93-year-old man reunited with his lost dog thanks to a trail of smelly socks. Yeah, apparently his dog had climbed the backyard wall to follow the owner to the grocery store. Guy didn't know, and so, you know, all of a sudden, his, his dog's gone. So he's like, "What am I gonna do?" And I remember when my cat Lucy was missing. You know, I got a lot of different tips on what to do, put some of your dirty laundry outside, put their litter box outside, things they can smell. Turned out she was, you know, trapped in the neighbor's garage, the house behind mine. But, uh, yeah, this guy ga- gathered up a bunch of dirty socks, and he just started spreading it. You know, he just made a trail
from, like, the store to his house, just stinky old socks. And dogs apparently know your stinky feet. And, uh, Sonny came home. You know, me- very happy story. So if you're ever missing a pet, you know, you can go with regular old laundry or
smelly socks. And this guy, he's like, "I'm not even gonna wash the socks. I'm gonna put them in a frame and hang them on the wall." "Grandpa, why do you [laughs] got some dirty, stinky looking socks hanging up on the wall?" "Well, let me tell you, son, about Sonny, my boy." That's, that's a happy story. Gotta love, uh, pets being reunited with their owners. Okay. Uh, you remember me talking about an increase in bear attacks in Japan? Lots of animals fighting back. Well, Japan had to send out the military to trap bears 'cause bears are just attacking people left and right in Japan.
Residents warned, "Don't go near the woods. Stay inside. Bears are killing people." Yeah, there have been, um,
100 bear attacks with 12 people killed across Japan since April. And, uh, most of them were in this, um, area called Akita, so that's where they had to send out the military. It- it- the- I'm telling you, the animals are fed up with people if you have to have the army fighting bears. I mean, I guess they're not fighting them. They're caging them up and dragging them to other places to attack other people, but yeah, lots and lots of bear attacks going on in Japan. The animals are fed up. And then I was reading about this guy who's all fed up with his tattoo. He got this giant chest tattoo, like covers his whole torso,
and he, he got it about two years ago, but now he's, like, losing his mind. He's like, "I hate it. I've, I've completely ruined my life. I'm consciously anxious, and I feel dirty 'cause I know the tattoos are under my clothes." Um,
like some of the commenters have said, um,
you know, you might wanna just talk to a therapist. You shouldn't feel dirty 'cause of a tattoo. Like, you know, some of the tattoos I have, I got them when I was 18, and they're probably not the same type of tattoos I would get now, but they remind me of a different time. You know, um, I'd like to get them touched up and added on to and things like that, but as we all know, or maybe we don't all know, tattoos are expensive. Geez. Very expensive. Otherwise, I'd be covered with them. I mean, the matching Ozzy tattoos that my girlfriend and daughter and I got, even those, you know, they took, like, 15 minutes. Price was steep. Price was steep. So, yeah, I hope this guy can get some help. A lot of people, I guess, um,
get a little bit of tattoo regret going on. Says about one in four people regret at least one of their tattoos. Well, here you go. You can, uh, cover it up. Could always get a different tattoo or, I mean, they could, like, laser them off or something. That sounds unpleasant, but, y- you know, just, uh, I don't know. Just try to think back at the time you got it and focus on the good times. There was a time that you really wanted that tattoo. Focus on the good. I mean, it's probably hard if it's on your forehead or something. You might need the laser removal option if
you got, like, SABMUD tattooed across your chest like Beavis. Sorry, you have to have watched the latest episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head to know what I'm talking about, but. [laughs] I hope this guy can, you know, get some, get some mental assistance on it. Nobody needs to be feeling bad for their tattoos.
All right. It's already after 8:00. I'm loving that. Gotta take some ibuprofen, though. I don't know if I slept bad or maybe it was too much lifting crap last night, but my neck and back hurt. So I need caffeine, I need ibuprofen, I need all kinds of stuff, nap.
[rock music] I'll get working on some of that. I don't think Jade's let, gonna let me get away with the nap, but I can at least, uh, you know, pop some ibuprofen, try to deal with the pain. All right. Nine Inch Nails coming up. [rock music] Oh, no. Did you hear they found needles in Halloween candy? Look at me. Uh, just the other day I was like, "Oh, people finding needles and poison in the Halloween candy? That's an urban legend." Well, I was wrong 'cause in Rockville, Maryland police were warning everybody, "Uh, check all your candy. We've got multiple reports of needles being found in Haribo gummy bears."
Well then, police being police, they did an investigation.
Turns out
this was just some kid doing a prank. All right? "Mom, look! Oh my goodness. I found needles in my gummy bears!" It was a nine-year-old kid. [laughs] Sweet prank. He, like, put the whole town [laughs] in- into chaos. [laughs] Yeah. Um,
teach your kids that, uh, some pranks aren't good. You don't need to create hysteria. "Peaches, needles in the candy!" Uh, yeah. Did you see this article about the kid who tried to pull a prank?
I did. Yeah.
Nine year old. [laughs] What nine-year-old gets these ideas? "I'm gonna prank my parents." [laughs] K- the kid's, uh, going to have some problems later on, I think.
Honestly, at nine I would think of something like this, but I wouldn't do it.
Well, yeah. [laughs] Yeah. I mean, creating hy- public hysteria is definitely fun though, Peaches. You know? Scaring every parent in town. "Help!" [laughs]
Imagine, like, you're so excited to dive into your Halloween candy. Then the helicopter parent, that mom just comes running in. "No, no, no. I need to check every one first. Those are red, so open them all up."
"Get the magnets out." [laughs]
"Get the magnets." [laughs]
"Where's my high-powered magnet when I need it?" [laughs]
It reminds me of that subreddit, Untrustworthy Pop Tart.
Uh-
Where people say, like, things are planted in places, but everyone's like, "No, it ... Stop it."
I haven't seen un-
Stop with the gaslight.
I haven't seen Untrustworthy Pop Tart.
There was a person that was like, "There's a whole dead frog in my ice cream!"
[laughs]
And it's a whole frog frozen in something. [laughs]
I'm gonna have to pull that subreddit up. Let's see what this person wants. Oh, they hung up. They hung up. All right. Well, we'll, uh, scope out Untrustworthy Pop Tart here in a minute. Right now, I think we need some Ice Nine Kills. [rock music] All right. I found something that might be good for the somewhat outdoor enthusiast, but maybe you don't like the outdoors that much. You know, someone potentially like me. Now, I like the outdoors during the nice times of the year, but we're entering into that time of year where I start to hate it. I don't like snow. I don't like cold. And yeah, I know. "Why don't you move, bro?" Why don't you find me a high paying job somewhere nice? I'll, I'll leave. All right? You find me a job where I'm making bank doing radio in, I don't know
... Where- where's it really nice year round? San Diego? Yeah, there's a lot of people there. I'll go, but you gotta find me that job. What I'm looking at here is a new device that they're building. Where is this? In Australia. And it's basically like a giant hamster wheel. Like, we're talking giant. And
it just continuously fills with artificial snow
so you can go skiing without having to go down a mountain. Yeah, it's kinda like, [laughs] you know, just surfing, but on skis inside of a giant wheel. And, you know, you don't have to worry about running into a tree or anything like that. You don't have to sit on the lift, just freeze your way up to the top. Again, potentially hit a tree on your way down.
You just sit there and go. [laughs] It looks kinda silly to me. But I don't know, it's kinda fun and it's indoors too, so it might not be too miserable. You don't have to worry about all of a sudden it starts dumping snow, blizzard kicking up. Just a, you know, frigid wind coming through, whipping that snow across your face, getting sunburned. 'Cause people get sunburned when they're out skiing. Yeah. Snow reflects light. So if it's a bright day, not only are you freezing, but you're also getting scorched at the same time. Give me the indoor hamster wheel, the snow tunnel. Um, I mean, it says they're building it. I don't think it's, uh, open. Yeah, it's supposed to open in 2027, most likely in Australia with the location to be announced next year. I could see these things, uh, coming to the US. You're just burning electricity. They opened one in Phoenix. Phoenix would probably be the type of place they would do this, yeah? 'Cause otherwise you gotta drive all the way to Flagstaff. Ugh, Flagstaff sucks during the winter. Note to anybody who wants to drive to Phoenix, don't take the route through Flagstaff, like, ever. Yeah, it might seem more s- more scenic. It takes a million times longer if it's during winter. Uh, the conditions can be treacherous. Just go through Vegas. Go through Vegas. I would say stop and get a cheap hotel, but Vegas is extremely overpriced. Maybe it'll get, uh ...[rock music] Get back to how it used to be soon 'cause, man, are there a lot of YouTube videos popping up about how Vegas is dying. Um, l- lower them prices, maybe people will come visit. You know, when circus-circus costs the same as a luxury hotel in most cities, y- you're probably not gonna wanna go hang, you know? How about getting rid of those stupid schemy resort fees? All right, 8:45, wish it was, uh, 2:45, but I'll take it. We'll be back in a minute. [rock music] The house, what up, foo?
Just coming to bug you and give you more work.
You're always coming to give me more work. And I've, I sent you an email yesterday that showed where I'm at with some work.
[laughs]
Did any, [laughs] has there been any progress on that? I doubt it. [laughs]
[laughs] Because you've been handing it up, "Should have been done months ago."
Uh, well, honestly-
[laughs]
... [laughs] I should have probably just done it by myself [laughs] from the beginning.
No offense to anybody, but there are many, over many years to blame for this. [laughs] And, uh, f- I just, I mean, you and me during the pandemic, how many radio stations we rebuild by ourselves?
Five?
Five.
[laughs]
In the matter of, of, of a few months, all right?
You think about two or three?
Sometimes you just can't get other people involved in a project. [laughs] Sometimes that derails things. You know, sometimes teamwork-
[laughs]
... is no good. [laughs]
Sometimes the I needs to be implemented into the team.
[laughs] Exactly.
Me, myself and I.
Come to think of it, maybe I should just deal with it myself. [laughs] 'Cause I really don't want there to be another round.
Well, there probably will be.
Oh! [laughs]
You know how this is gonna go.
I know. [laughs]
You're gonna implement it, you're gonna listen to it, and then they'll be like, "That doesn't fit in the mix."
[sighs] D- you should be able to delegate.
[laughs]
That's what I was always told, "Delegate these tasks." [laughs] No. [laughs] Ah. Well...
You haven't found my little nugget of joy I left you yet.
Well, now you're looking over there. I haven't found it. Let's see, I'm looking around here. Uh, I, I don't see anything new, dude.
Hm?
Uh, do I need to, like, stand up-
[laughs]
... and search the studio, or should 2021-
No, when, when you find it, you will know. Right there it's gonna go, "Ah! Ah!"
Oh, boy.
It's gonna be great.
Yeah. Uh, can I see it from where I'm at?
Maybe.
That's not a fair answer. [laughs]
[laughs] It's like what we do for, uh, uh, What's In The Box or a Secret Sound. [laughs] Here's your clue, it's somewhere in this picture. [laughs]
Somewhere in this picture? Okay.
Well, I'm giving you a, a, an example, not a 2021-
Oh, oh, okay.
... 2024.
Okay, okay. I was like, "What, what's hiding in a picture?" Dude, now I'm gonna have to turn the lights on and look around.
[laughs] Yeah, you all paranoid.
What'd you... What's he building in here?
[laughs] What's he building in there?
[laughs]
What is that?
My back hurts though, I don't wanna stand up and walk around. [laughs]
It's actually just a ploy to get you to exercise 'cause you're fat.
Hey.
[laughs]
I, last night I went up and down the stairs a lot of times.
[laughs] So, like, twice?
No. Many more than that.
[laughs]
I did a lot of work around my house yesterday. I got that storage room in the basement, and I need to actually use it to store stuff. And it had been, you know, filled with random things-
[sniffs]
... that were just kinda thrown all over the floor.
[laughs]
So I decided to go through... Dude, I found paychecks from Convergys in a garbage bag in there.
[laughs]
And I worked at Convergys when I was, like, 19 years old. [laughs]
That's why, that's why I cleared my desk out a couple weeks ago-
[laughs]
... when I found a contract from, what, 2005 or something in there?
Yeah. I had these two big garbage bags full of paperwork. I'm like, "What is all this stuff?" [laughs] So I just sat down on the floor and started pulling stuff out. Like, "What is..." I found, like, um, I think once I had bought a filing cabinet, and it had some random things in it. So I found these, like, letters. I haven't opened 'em yet, I left them on the living room floor. Letters from who knows who to who knows-
[laughs]
Uh, uh, they were from, like, another state. I was like, "Wonder what kind of crazy stuff's in these. I'll save those." But then the rest was, like, yeah, paperwork from when I was, like, 18.
[laughs]
Like, "Why do I have this?"
[laughs]
This was from, like, in Pocatello, many, many moves ago from when I lived in my first apartment. [laughs] Like, I thought I was doing good with not being a hoarder anymore, but all of it in the garbage. I was like, "Yeah!"
[laughs]
Trucks full of cardboard. I'm ready to go to the dump. Is the dump open back up yet? The transfer station?
I don't know.
It was supposed to be closed for, like, a week. Went there one day, they're like, "Nah, you gotta go to the hatch pit."
There's probably a phone number or a website you can look up that information from.
Um, yeah, probably. [laughs]
[laughs]
And then when you go to the hatch pit and you have cardboard, they're like, "Well, how much cardboard do you have?" I'm like, "Look at that pile of junk over there. Who cares? It's cardboard." What if I had sticks, you wouldn't give me any grief? [laughs] Let me get rid of this cardboard since the dumps closed. And why don't they, why do they got such weird names for the dumps in Idaho Falls? Why can't you just call it the landfill or the dump?
[laughs]
You know?
[laughs] I don't know, man.
It's the transfer station for you to transfer your miscellaneous junk-
[laughs]
... your miscellaneous garbage. It's the dump. And the hatch pit's the dump too. Why's it called the hatch pit? When I first moved to Idaho Falls, I was like, "Where's the landfill?"
Wait, ask ChatGPT.
Ooh.
Why is, why is a hatch pit called a hatch pit and not a dump?
All right, let's find out. Chat G- G- G-
GPT. What does it say here?
Why is a hatch pit-
What, what is the all-knowing AI know?
... not called a landfill? Probably 'cause they don't fill it in. I don't know.
[heavy metal music] Good question. The difference between a hatch pit and a landfill mostly comes down to scale, purpose, and design. Hatch pit, sometimes called a burial pit, trench pit, or refuse pit, is a small localized hole or pit dug to dispose of a limited amount of waste, often organic or specific waste like animal remains. [laughs]
[laughs]
What did the... I mean, I was trudging around there. I'm stepping in death.
You gotta fence Cemetery out there.
[laughs]
[laughs] Know where you're going next Halloween. [laughs]
[laughs] Oh, my gosh. "Sometimes dead is better." [laughs]
[laughs]
Get outta here. Animal waste, and it's usually not engineered, lined, or meant for long-term use, where a landfill, yeah, they're, you know, they might make it into a nice park someday.
Or neighborhood.
[laughs] Okay, now why... Let me, uh, use the same question with, why is a transfer station? I'm guessing 'cause they take the trash to the dump, to the landfill. They transfer it, right?
Yeah. O-
They got that-
That'd be my guess.
They got that guy in the s- you know, the tractor who's just mowing down garbage all day. Oh, that would be a-
Imag-
You know, shout out to whoever does that job.
Yeah, that's a terrible job.
Dude, 'cause-
It smells so bad. [laughs]
Inside of that building, oh, during the summer when it's all hot.
Oh. [laughs]
You step out and you're like, ooh. I mean, it's a good way to keep the traffic moving in that place.
Mm-hmm.
And I gotta say, when there's a line, you don't have to worry too bad 'cause everyone's getting outta there as fast as possible. [laughs]
[laughs] Smells like a band van.
Yeah, oh, I, uh, it really does.
[laughs]
Now, I think the last time I mentioned being frustrated that the transfer station was closed, someone said I could drive, like, out to Bone or something, and there's a landfill out there, and I'm like-
Eh.
"Dude, I'm not driving cardboard boxes to Bone." I-
I have a memory of that. Is that one still active?
I don't know, man. I don't go out there.
Right at the top of the hill?
I don't know, dude, 'cause I didn't drive out there. I just left the cardboard in the truck.
The one on Pokey's, like, up in a, up in a mountain.
Yeah, it is up in the mountain. Yeah, and I know around town they have those big green dumpsters that, you know, you can put your cardboard in. But then you have to sit there and break down every single box. [laughs]
[laughs] And you're too lazy for that.
And slide it into the little slot. [laughs]
That's, that's what kids are good for, because they love tearing apart boxes.
I ain't got them around. [laughs]
[laughs] You wanna borrow a couple? [laughs]
I just fill up... And sometimes boxes are hard to break down, like, you know, if you got a box that a guitar came in.
I got two boys are really good at it. They'll make more cardboard than there was cardboard to start with. You-
Are they-
You're welcome to have them.
Are they in school right now?
[laughs] Yep.
My, my truck is packed with cardboard right now.
[laughs]
If they wanna come break down boxes so I can go over to Community Park and, one by one, slowly slip my boxes into the dumpster. They could make those slots a little bit bigger.
Yep.
Come on, they're just gonna take it to the transfer station and flatten it anyway, you know? [laughs] What, are they recycling that stuff? I don't know.
Maybe.
I, I don't know.
This has been a good Trash Talk Wednesday.
Trash Talk W- You guys like talking garbage, you're tuned into the right show. [laughs]
[laughs]
So, yeah, yeah, lots of, uh, boxes up and down the stairs. I gotta exercise, Jade. Take-
Were the boxes full or just empty?
Of course they were empty. [laughs]
You just a lazy sack.
I took a few boxes that had stuff up and down the stairs.
[laughs]
And some of them had books in them, and you know what it's like to move boxes of books.
Oh, that's why I don't move them.
[laughs] You just throw them away?
[laughs] If or when you ask for help, I'm like, "I'll haul anything. Where's the pillows?"
[laughs]
"That's what I'll haul."
You get the boys to move them.
There's no hauling no books, no couches, no shelving-
Oh, man
... no appliances.
I know, I, I don't know why I decided to collect books.
No heavy comforters, no beds.
Oh, moving beds can be the worst.
[laughs]
Or if you have one of those adjustable frames, you ever tried to move one of those? [laughs]
Yeah. [laughs]
Geez. [laughs] That sucks. [laughs]
A couch with a Hide-a-bed.
And-
A sectional couch with a Hide-a-bed.
Oh, [laughs] geez. [laughs]
Sometimes those little corner sections are the worst, too.
[laughs]
Trying to get them around things. [laughs]
That is so awful. Moving sucks. [laughs] Uh, anybody who's gonna be moving soon, don't call me or Jade for help.
No. [laughs] Unless you want Victor's boxes. [laughs]
Well, actually, if you need some boxes, I've got them in the back of my truck. Please come get them them, [laughs] so I don't have to go to the stinky transfer station or the apparently full of, uh,
dead animals hatch pit. [laughs]
[laughs]
I didn't see a dead animal pile when I was there. [laughs] I saw sticks-
That's what that guy in the thing is doing, he's just rolling over them and putting
them there.
[laughs] Just flattening piles of animal corpses at the hatch pit. [laughs] What do you do for paycheck? [laughs]
I make soup.
I listen to bones-
I make soup
and stew.
[laughs] I love the sounds of bones crunching beneath my tractor. [laughs]
Good Lord.
[laughs] All right, everybody. [laughs] And there's your Trash Talk Wednesday. Back with more tunes in a second.
Also got sidetracked by, uh, the Hello Kitty Cafe truck is gonna make its way to Salt Lake City this weekend. I'm gonna be in Salt Lake City this weekend.
Well, we know-
Hello Kitty.
We know where Peaches is- What does that sell? Just snacks?
I don't know. [laughs]
Some kind of a...
It just popped up on my feed. Did you see that video of, uh, Morgan Freeman? You know, the Jennifer Hudson show, they do this thing called the Spirit Tunnel, and you're supposed to dance down the middle.
I haven't seen this.
Like, they basically clap and snap to this made-up song about you, and they try to hype you up, right?
Okay.
That's why it's called the Spirit Tunnel, but you're supposed to dance down the middle of it.
Okay.
'Cause Simon Cowell was already made fun of because he didn't know what to do, but also, like, his hands looked kinda different, but at the same time, he went through that major accident where he almost died.
[rock music playing] So, um, his body's probably still pretty messed up from the whole thing.
Yeah.
But Morgan Freeman just went down [laughs] the Spirit Tunnel or whatever, and he just looks confused and everyone's like, "Is he okay?" The dude is 88 years old.
Yeah, he's up there.
He's almost 90.
What? Okay, now you've just got me confused on what this Hello Kitty thing is.
Can we get back to that?
What's it called? Yeah.
The Hello Kitty Café?
Hello Kitty Café. I don't give a crap about the Spirit Tunnel, I wanna know what they sell in the Hello Kitty Café and truck.
Hello Kitty Café Truck, hello Riverton and Salt Lake City, the #hellokittycafetruck is coming to Mountain View Village on Saturday, November 8th.
It looks like they sell ice cream, that's what I'm guessing here. Ice cream, so treats, which is appropriate if it's like Hello Kitty.
Would've been funny if they'd just sold giant turkey legs or whatever.
[laughs] Just with m- mystery meat?
Yeah, mystery meat, yeah.
[laughs]
Fried kitty.
Yeah, I knew it had to be treats, you know, 'cause th- that's what cats like, and it's the Hel- Hello Kitty. It's just, it's a pink truck, right? Pink van?
That's pretty much it.
Gonna roll in? Okay. Well, that's kind of, kind of exciting. Um, all right, so we know what Peaches gonna be up to. He already hit the Post Malone, uh-
Raising Cane's?
Raising Cane's.
Yeah, went there.
I wanted to say Culver's for some reason [laughs].
I wish.
I'm like, "It's not Culver's. It starts with C."
Did you take those, uh, guitar picks home?
Uh, yeah, I did take the, uh, Post Malone guitar picks home as a matter of fact. They're, uh, sitting in the little container that they were in.
Yeah, it really sucks when most places close on Sunday around this area, especially in Utah, because, uh, we're trying our best to plan all the stores that are down there. Um, but when you have to be at the venue at 3:00 PM for an interview-
Mm-hmm
... and then there's like that weird window where you don't necessarily want to wait at the venue the entire time until doors open like at 6:30-
Yeah.
You, you, you just kinda have to go around and rush places, and then come back.
What venue, what venue you guys going to?
The Complex.
All right. Jade and I went to the German restaurant. Uh, it's like the German deli.
Okay.
And, uh, it, it was pretty good. That's where I bought a bunch of German candies and things for Becca. Uh, they had this box that had a bunch of kittens on it. And I was like-
Oh, right
... "What is this?"
Yes.
And I was like, "Candy made of kittens!" So I had to buy it. Uh, it was just chocolate, but, uh, they, they have some good sandwiches there and things. Jade says the best Reuben in the world, so might be a-
I think we missed, uh, we missed the heavy metal shop last time, so we might go there.
All right.
Uh, uh, Aubrey's huge into scrapbooking, same with Maddie, so we might go to that Mom and Me Scrapbooking Store.
Oh boy, Peaches.
Yeah?
You're gonna have- just party hard in Salt Lake [laughs].
Well, what can I say? You know, it's, uh, I'm Bert Kreischer Junior.
[laughs]
Big belly and party hard.
Well, holy crap, the show's over. Um, thank you again for contributing that amazing song to the show, Peaches.
Yeah, I was making another one, but then I got rudely interrupted by some, uh, recording in the Cannonball Studio.
That's okay, we can check it out later on. I don't know if that one will be appropriate for air or not, but.
No, it, it won't. [clears throat]
But, uh, yeah, the, the one about the ballad of Jade, I'm gonna have to just, uh, import it into my show, because the break with us listening to it, I failed to record it, so. But I, I've gotta include the song, so maybe we'll end today's show, as far as the on-demand version goes with... What, what was it called?
Uh, Skin and Solder-
Skin and Solder
... The Ballad of Jade Davis.
The Ballad of Jade Davis. So, those of you listening to the show on demand, here it is for your enjoyment. The rest of you, bye. [guitar music plays]
[instrumental music plays] Knees started moaning, bones creaking like wood. Straighten my beard, just like I always would. Looked in the mirror, that old man stared back. So I dyed my hair darker, tryna hide the cracks. The fire took my beard,
left my pride in the ash. Guess you can't outrun age or outright a crash.
My side-by-side's gone, my back's still in pain.
I'm 40 years young, but I feel twice that again.
I ain't eaten nothin'
since last July.
Doctors say I'm fine, but I think they lie. Every joint snaps like popcorn in oil. My youth is a crop that's long since spoiled. Fire took my beard, singed off my grace. Now I'm smoking regrets
with a sunburned face.
Got a body that's brittle,
and a will that's thin. But I'll still straighten this beard
'til the bitter end. Sometimes I dream I'm back in my prime.
Hair dark and thick, no ache in my spine.
Then I wake up smelling burned gasoline.
And I laugh at the fool that I used to be.
The fire took my beard, but it lit a new song. 'Bout a man who's been old
his whole life long.
If you see old Jake, give him a cheer. He's the skinniest cowboy
that ever burned his gear. Yeah, the fire took my beard.
But it didn't take me. [outro music plays]