Hello, people. Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Victor Wiltz Show. All right. Let's see. Got some things that aren't working in here, but at- at least I think I'm on air. Let me, uh, jump over to external one. Yeah, that seems to be working. But my music beds aren't. Ah. Oh, well. Oh, well. What do you do? You just yap and do a show, and, uh, maybe I can figure it out as I go along. Maybe, uh, there are other buttons I need to push. Hmm. That's all right. At least I'm not stuck in the cannonball studio. I hope you had a good day yesterday. I had a rough day yesterday. Came to work, was, was ready to go on a Monday, and then, uh, all of a sudden it was like, "Oh, geez, we got some stomach problems going on here, people." [imitates vomiting sounds] And
I just had to bail. And I drove all the way to work, got up for [laughs] the day, you know? Took a shower, got ready. And, uh, yeah, it was an unpleasant day. But
things seem to be a lot better today. So, sometimes I guess you just gotta take a nap. Anyway. Um, I'm gonna monkey with some buttons here and see if I can figure out a way to get the, uh, music beds and things working. And, uh, yeah, we'll take it from there. [rock music plays] Think I figured out a way that'll ... It'll do for getting some music on in the background while I'm yapping. Hope you're having a decent Tuesday so far. Hope that the, uh, holidays are coming together well for you. Uh, still got a lot to do myself. Uh. You know when you're
just not feeling good and can't get nothing done, it's very frustrating. Managed to force myself to do some chores last night, and that made me, uh, feel a little bit better about my own personal existence. But, oh, it's been, you know, just at times.
Little bit rough in the last month. You know, getting the flu. That, like, totally screwed everything up. Hopefully, rolling into the new year, everything's gonna be great. You know? Staying optimistic. Um, when I fired up Facebook this morning, I was recommended a group, Costco Uncensored. And I knew it would probably be one that I wanted to follow, even though I'm not a, uh, Costco shopper. I'm just too cheap to buy a m- a membership. Uh, it's ... I knew it was gonna be like one of these, uh, People of Walmart type groups. And I didn't realize it, but a very hot topic among Costco fanatics is how to properly use the gas station. People get really mad when people will pull in and then pull this, the hose around to the other side of their car. I guess Costco, being smart, has really long hoses so you can actually do this. It's designed that way on purpose. But people will take pictures of people and shame them for using [laughs] you know, you know, the gas pumps the way they were designed to be moved. 'Cause if you've ever gotten gas at Costco, it's always busy, so you'll see those open spots and be like, "Man, I wish my gas tank was on that side." Apparently it doesn't matter. But, oh, hundreds and hundreds of comments, people screaming at each other back and forth. Like, even if it annoys you, if it works, what's the problem, right? If you can pull in and you can make it work, what's wrong with pulling the gas pump around to the other side of your vehicle? [laughs] Well, it's gonna be fun to continue scrolling through this and see what kind of, uh, crazy stuff comes up. There was a guy with a little mini horse inside. Apparently that was his, uh, his service animal. [laughs] More posts about people fueling up. Oh my goodness. Oh, there's a Costco somewhere where they got $2 gas right now.
That ain't here. But hey, at least it's down, like, $0.10, right? Technically that means prices are lower [laughs], if it's down, like, $0.10. So, anyhow, you can look this group up if you're a, a Costco fanatic. Costco Uncensored. Uh, looks like a pretty popular group. Got a few 100,000 members. All right. I am going to continue to try to dig up crap to share with you. Now it's, uh, Tuesday, day before Christmas Eve. We've got the next couple days off here, so that's nice. Now just gotta crush down and power through this day. [rock music plays] Morning, people. I'm back, doing it live. The studio's thankfully, for the most part, working. Um, it, it's not perfect. I'm having to do things a little bit different here. But ... Ooh. I should probably be careful. [hip hop music plays] I left a particular, uh, dial on here that would not have been good had I pulled up some kind of inappropriate video. And I was browsing the internet. Not cool. Let's, uh, make sure we close that YouTube tab. Okay. Let's see here.
"What's something you've done your whole life only to realize recently that everyone else does it completely differently?" Maybe we could learn something new. A more efficient way to do something, huh? Be nice to get something productive out of this show. [laughs] Something positive.[techno music] All right. This person rinses out clean glasses and cups before using them. Found out not everyone does that. I think this is a habit you pick up at some point, 'cause I do it and I don't know why. Um, you know, every once in a while, like, the dishwasher, the dishes will come out smelling a little funny. You know, and so that could be part of it, but I've done this for a really long time and it's not like I, I live in a really dusty area or something. I don't know. Why? [laughs] A lot of people say and they smell cups before they use them. That could make sense too with the, you know, that smelly dishwasher thing. All right, what else do we got that people do only to realize other people don't do that? Dry themself off inside the shower so they don't get the bathroom floor all wet. Don't most people dry off in the shower? 'Cause yeah, oth- otherwise you do end up, uh, with water all over the place. Yesterday
when I was getting ready for the day, 'cause I did, I got ready for the day yesterday. I, like, didn't have the shower curtain set right and I got water all over the place. It was very frustrating. Yesterday morning did not go my way, hence why you ended up hearing best ofs. I made it here and was like, "I just can't do this." Just, ugh, started feeling nasty. Like, really, it, it's time to go home. Got a nice nap in, felt a little bit better, but... Is anybody else just kinda ready for the holidays to be done? Yeah. Holidays are stressful. Ugh, and exhausting. Hopefully a little bit of relaxation coming along with them. Uh, or at least getting to sleep, uh, at a reasonable time and sleeping in. Hard to do that during the holidays. You know? I don't know how that Santa guy does it. It's rough on people. All right, what else do we have here? So far I haven't learned, uh, anything new. [laughs] Let's see here.
Holy-
When going up or down the stairs I always look at my feet. That's not a bad idea. Uh, I don't think a lot of people do that, but... Uh, it could kind of throw you off though and then you end up tripping over your feet. I, I don't know. I'm always afraid I'm gonna fall down the stairs. I need to install a, uh, handrail on one of my sets of stairs 'cause I have carpeted stairs. So if you're, like, in socks or something, it can be all slick. Let's see.
Folding toilet paper. Don't most people fold their toilet paper? Actually, I seem to remember having a discussion with somebody, like, do you crumple or do you fold? I, I think that most people fold, right? You would think. Uh, let's see here. Some people primarily face the shower head. Hm. All right, uh, I figure most people just kinda spin around. [laughs] Just rotate. Putting on their socks before their pants. The- This is a weird thread 'cause you start thinking about yourself. Um,
I think most of the time I probably do put on my socks before my pants. Uh, is that weird? [laughs] All right, I've, I've had enough of this stupid thread. This is a waste of time. I'll find better stuff for the show, I swear. I swear. Cut me some slack. I'm still tired. [rock music] Gotta do a little bit of Christmas music, huh? I mean, if you wanna hear Christmas music, the best thing to do would be to tune into Classy '97, of course, but I, I'll throw some rock Christmas stuff in here and there,
if I can find anything good. Like, I've had people send me some songs and such, and there are a small handful of decent rock Christmas songs, but for the most part, they are just not good, in my personal opinion. So I, I just can't bring myself to do it. I don't know what the, what the deal is with me, but that's just how it goes. Hope that your morning is going nice and going by quick. Mine's, uh, it's aight. I mean, obviously I think everybody's getting at that checked out point where you're like, "All right, we got the holidays to deal with. I don't wanna think about work. All I wanna do is get, get outta here." Ah. We got somebody calling. Guess we can see what they want.
Uh, K-Bear, you are live on the show, please keep that in mind. Uh, who, who's this?
This is JD.
JD, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas. Who cares about your personal opinion?
Hey, my personal opinion is the only one that matters.
Oh my gosh, here we go.
[laughs]
Here we go.
I bet I know what-
[laughs]
... Christmas song you want. [laughs]
Uh, how about, how about Misters For Christmas?
Ah! How did I know it was gonna be that? [laughs]
Uh, because that- that's, like, a good rocks- mis- Christmas rock song.
All right. I, I can throw that one on for you next, JD, and I hope you're-
All right.
Hope you're, uh, all ready for the holidays and you and the fam are doing good.
Yep, yep, yep, yep. We, we, uh, we are. I was gonna come over to the house and fix your blower, but I didn't get a chance Sunday, so-
Oh, that's-
... anyway, but-
That's okay. Uh, the, um, the weather's looking decent for now. Um-
Right
... I don't know if I talked about that on air.
What? That's-
You know, my brute strength-
[laughs]
... just ripping the pull cord out of the snowblower. I'm, I'm tough.
[laughs]
Oh, you... Oh, Victor, you're such an animal. Oh.
[laughs] That's right. You don't wanna mess with me.
Yeah.
Ruh! [laughs]
[laughs]
Uh, yeah. I, I don't know how easy it's gonna be to fix but, uh, you know, if you have free time during the holidays, you know, just-
Uh-
But I, I think-
... three times a-
I think we're good on the, uh, the weather front for a while.
Yeah. Free time and holidays don't go together.
That's true. That's very true.
That's true.
So ...
That's true. Anyway, and then there was another comment I wanted to make, but I can't make it on the air.
Okay. Well, you'll have to call me back after Mistress for Christmas and you can tell me about it.
Sounds good, my friend. I'll talk to you later then.
All right, dude, sounds good.
Uh, peace.
Peace. There you go everybody. JD, good Christmas friend helping out after I just broke my snowblower with my, uh, brute strength.
[music]
Holy crap! I think I already need more coffee. I mean, I had some earlier but, uh, I didn't measure it out the way I usually do, I was just in a hurry. Just poured some right out of the jar into a cup. I don't know, I might not have enough juice. Might not have had enough caffeine in it.
Just feeling beat. Ugh. All right, I'll stop complaining. Crazy Jay already giving me grief earlier for complaining about being tired. It's the holidays, you know? And I think it's the impending holiday that makes it like, "Oh, I just want to go to bed. I want to sleep and not think about it." But I got shopping to do. Did you get all your shopping done? I did not. Uh, it's my own fault. You know, I, I planned to do so,
and, uh, the last couple of days just didn't work out for me on the old shopping front. So hopefully gonna get some of that done this afternoon and evening. If you're out and about in the streets doing that shopping and you see me, feel free to say hello. I'll, I'll try to be friendly. [laughs] No, I'm in a decent mood. It's just that being completely mentally checked out for the holidays time of year. And I was looking at the, uh, work calendar, there's like hardly anybody here today. And then, pretty much everybody gone on Friday. My plan
was to work Friday
'cause I need to save my PTO. Need to save it for being able to do fun things. But, oh, the thought of having a five-day weekend, it's like should I just request it off? Should I just take it? [laughs] 'Cause I think I've got like, just a couple of days. Just a couple of days. I was looking at it recently. I don't know.
We'll see. Right now I'm just struggling to dig up freak news, so wish me luck on that. You, you would think where I have not checked the news since Friday, there's gotta be something happening that would be fun for the show. So far it's striking out though. But I got, uh, 10 minutes or so. I'm a pro, I can find some stuff. We'll make it work. We'll make it work somehow. So I will be back in a minute with that freak news for you. All right? Bye.
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I was just reading an article about this, uh, whiny YouTuber. Like, she's done pretty well for many, many years and apparently now having a, a little bit, uh, less viewership action than she's used to. She's like, "What's happening? What is happening?" Now, she made herself famous by doing like you-, um, makeup tutorials and then showing off all of her money. And, you know, I d- I don't think right now people really wanna sit around and, uh, watch rich people show off how much money they have. Things have gotten to be a little bit more difficult for the average person in the recent, uh, you know, few years. I always thought it was weird people wanted to watch rich people content back in the day anyway. Like, "Oh, good for you. That's awesome that you have a Lamborghini or whatever." But, uh, you know, today when you walk into the grocery store and you're like, "What is happening? Ah!" Um, I think the last thing I want to do is watch guys, you know, showing off their, uh, Rolexes and things like that on social media. Though that was never really my thing anyway. Um, I tend to watch, uh, just weird crap. Really looking forward to the next few episodes of Stranger Things. Becca and I did catch up on those and, uh, they're, they're pretty good. I'm excited to see how they're gonna wrap this show up. And then we've been watching, uh, Welcome to Derry, which is excellent. I've, I'm pretty surprised by it, to be honest. Um, and I wonder how much insight or, you know, advice Stephen King gave about that show 'cause th- they, they've done a pretty fine job with it. And good morning, Pages.
Good morning.
How's it going today?
Oh, it's better today now that the studio's up and running.
Ah, you're telling me. Yeah. Uh, I, I was in here for about, uh, 10 minutes yesterday morning and, uh, I wasn't feeling well. So I walk in, I was like, "Oh yeah, the studio's broken." And then I walked into the Cannonball studio, started to get going, started getting like the cold sweats and was like, "Okay, I'm, I'm outta here."
Don't you love that sauna?
Mm-hmm. Well, and it, it wasn't even a sauna in there yet, but I just started feeling so gross. I was like, "Okay, everything's broken. They're gonna be working in the studio all day. Not gonna be able to get anything done."
Right.
"Just forget it." And I went home and I went back to sleep and it was very, v- very nice. Very nice. So ...
The on-air sign still does not work outside, so ...
Oh. I didn't notice that. Uh, the button bar is not working right now, just so you're aware. I've been running music beds out of, uh, Windows Media Player.
Oh, I don't care.
So, yeah.Yeah, that's what I've been doing. Today, it's just power through the day, you know? Office is closing early.
A- are we?
Mm-hmm.
We got the official word?
Got the official word.
All right.
So, we'll get that noon done.
Right now.
You know? [laughs]
Honestly, we can if you want to.
W- we could start working on it.
Just-
'Cause the sooner we get that done, the sooner, uh, I can scoot.
There's no studio for me to be at, [laughs] so...
Oh yeah, you, you kinda need this studio to work.
I need to be in the studio with you, I guess, today. [laughs]
Okay. All right. Well, we'll do that. We'll get that out of the way, and then, uh, then you'll have the studio to be able to work. [laughs] All right. That's the plan, everybody. It's mayhem around here all day. We'll be back. [instrumental music plays] And Peaches is crushing down the breakfast of champions for the noon hour of madness and mayhem. What is the breakfast of champions?
Uh, Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough.
Uh, is it the kind you're supposed to eat?
Mm-hmm.
Okay. 'Cause I know that some of 'em, you know, they're like, "Don't eat without cooking."
Let me see what you got. Hold up, is it the tube?
[laughs] No.
Oh, okay. It's that stuff. All right.
Okay, so-
'Cause that'd be funny if you had the big tube and you were like... You know?
[laughs] Have you seen the bit of the d- they eat that?
To be able to eat it the long way?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Have you seen the one girl who eats it? She'll... She dips it in milk and then just takes a big bite of it like it's a bratwurst.
[laughs] I have not.
It's so gross.
[laughs] And cookie dough's good, but... Yeah, that, the, that imagery just doesn't sound very good. That's how you ruin cookie dough. [laughs] Well, uh, I'm glad you're enjoying the breakfast of champions for the noon hour of madness and mayhem. There's a lot of treats floating around right now.
Yeah, I'm not a fan.
You're not a fan?
I'm supposed to cut these out.
Yeah, it's hard. I mean, we just had Star bring us some more. What'd she say it was, freeze-dried Heath bars?
I thought she said freeze-dried big hunks.
Maybe it was big hunks.
What if she came in with the freeze-dried Werther's Originals? How mad would you be? No, no, no, no, no. How... Freeze-dried Bit-O-Honey, that's what you don't like.
Oh. It might be better, though. 'Cause then it might just disintegrate in your mouth. It's not like... Do you re- you remember you gave me that, uh, Tootsie Roll bar?
Yeah, the assorted fruit.
Oh.
The assorted fruit bars.
That thing was brutal. Like, do you like chewing? [laughs]
My girlfriend's dad loves those, uh, they bought... We bought, like, five bags of that thing for, uh, for him.
Holy cow, yeah.
Yeah.
See, I, uh, it was too much, man. The chewing. I just couldn't take it.
He also likes the... I'll, I'll show you a picture, now that you mention it. Did I delete the picture? No, it's still there. These things.
What is that?
This giant tin of hard candy. I believe they're called Washburns.
Dude, what's up with old people and hard candy?
The original hard candy mix since 1856.
Does it just get hard to chew a Snickers when you get old, so you're like, "I'll just let it dissolve. That's how I eat candy now."
Well, it, it would also be worse, I think, to crunch on these candies.
You would think.
Imagine being a kid back when [laughs] this c- candy was first invented, and you're like, "Oh, sweet. A b- a box of hard candy."
Exactly.
[laughs]
"This is the best thing I've ever experienced in life."
"Oh, Mother, thank you." [laughs]
[laughs] Oh my goodness. It would've sucked to be a kid back in the day. Um, for our next break, I wanna talk about an episode of a podcast I've been listening to, uh, but it'll, it'll take a little bit of time, so... You know we're on a crunch here.
Okay.
'Cause we, uh, we gotta jump back on the other show.
What, what if your... [laughs] What if your dad was just working in the, the coal mine, and he comes home and he just beats you up 'cause- [laughs]
[laughs]
... he just hates his life?
I, I think it... But it can get even worse.
Oh, yeah.
If we're gonna talk about jobs they used to make kids do back in the day. And-
Oh, yeah. I bet it was like bring your son to work day every day for that poor kid.
[laughs] Dude, this, this... I, I'm gonna have to avoid the grisly details, but, uh, my mind was blown by this particular episode of Last Podcast on the Left. [laughs]
All right.
So, we'll talk about that in a minute. Hope everybody's having a great Tuesday. We're getting ready for Christmas, so we're gonna talk about [laughs] just horrible things. [laughs] We'll be back in a few. Okay, now the button bar in the voice tracker's working. It just doesn't work, uh, in the board. Or I mean, uh, on the actual button bar. [instrumental music plays] It's the Victor Wilt show. We got Peaches in the house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
'Cause, well, [laughs] we're experiencing technical difficulties around here. Making it a little bit more challenging for us to get things done, but-
Which is why we should all have our own offices.
Uh, we, we should. We should.
That way I have a place to go to and not bother you during this whole show.
Well, now you're stuck, uh, hanging out on my program. Let's see if, uh, if this works here. I'll turn record mode off and we'll try this. Yeah. [instrumental music plays] Okay. So if you have the voice tracker open, you can play music beds outta that. Because-
Okay. Yeah.
[laughs] I just don't... Well, and now it's still recording in there. We don't wanna do that.
I'm sure it's gonna stop. Yep, there it goes.
Ah, it is.
Okay.
You would think if you had record mode off and you push the button... It's, it's just automatically recording.
Yeah. We... It's, it's just broken.
[laughs]
No music beds for us.
I, I'm making it work.
You ready to hear me breathe?
Yeah, listen to Peach's breath. Listen to his breath.
Wanna hear me chew on cookie dough?
You should. You might as well eat the-
Eh
... breakfast of champions while doing the show.
I'm full.
Uh, I've been full for three days, 'cause I haven't really been feeling great. I tried this morning. Breakfast burrito. Got about half of it down. You know, that's better than nothing, but appetite just not been good.
Back when I had that whole sickness, yeah, I didn't eat for a good portion of the time. I bought soup and pasta, and ate two bites of it and went, "Yeah, I'm good."
Yeah, it sucks, dude. Maybe I'll slim down for the, uh, new year, though.
You should do what, uh, what I just saw in a YouTube Short from a TV show. I forgot... I don't know what TV show it's from, but this, uh, model had a tapeworm that he's purposely put in- put in hims- inside of himself.
Ugh.
And he went down from, like, a size 34 waist to 31 or something like that.
Yeah, but then you gotta get the tapeworm out.
Well, yeah. The tapeworm ended up being, like, six to seven feet long and they had to-
[laughs] System of a Down has a song. It says, "Pull the tapeworm outta," and then I'm not gonna finish-
[laughs]
... the words [laughs]. I was listening to that the other day. Classic album, Toxicity. It's great. So, um, yeah, don't eat tapeworms to lose weight, everybody. Um, I don't know. Aren't you supposed to just do it the old fashion way, exercise?
Yeah.
I mean, it's-
You would think, right?
It's unpleasant.
There are so many middle-aged people that are like, "Oh, I don't have time to exercise. Let me just inject myself, but then I talk poorly of the COVID vaccine."
[laughs] Uh, don't-
Where's the logic?
Don't be getting political there, Peaches, but-
Well, I'm just saying, like, you inject some random weight loss drug into you, but-
Well, you know, if it gets you skinny and good look... Well-
Well, you never know what could happen down the line.
I know. I... Like, I could use a few less pounds, but I don't think I'm gonna go about doing so by stabbing myself in the gut with a, a needle. That sounds horrible.
And Ozempic's... If it's recommended to you by a doctor, that's one thing.
Yeah.
But if you're just like, "I wanna lose weight. Let me get this from Costco."
[laughs] Can you buy it? It just... You have to have a doctor's recommendation, right?
Heck if I know.
Yeah, I don't know either.
I haven't come close to buying that crap [laughs].
[laughs]
I know the, the Woody Show in LA, all of them are on that thing. Mangino, the, the Ozempic, the different names. I don't know, I don't know. I can't keep track.
Yeah? Are they slimming down?
No, they look the same.
[laughs] It's not working?
They're that fat. Well, one of, one of them is, uh, a whole lot skinnier now, but he exercised his butt off.
Ah, yeah, that seems to be the classic way to do it. Yeah, w-
Well, you can't just take it and then think you're gonna have results.
It's just mowing down cheeseburgers-
Yeah
... and sticking yourself in the gut
[laughs]?
[laughs]
"Give me some more pizza."
"I'm not getting that COVID jab. Here's a double cheeseburger."
[laughs]
"Yeah, I'm gonna stick myself in the gut again. Get me some pizza."
[laughs]
[laughs] "Get me that ice cream." [laughs] Well, I hope everybody has, um, you know, a fun rest of your morning. Did you get all your Christmas crap done?
What Christmas crap?
I don't know. You have to buy for some people, don't you?
Oh, yeah, no. I got all my presents.
Yeah, I have not.
I thought you meant for here. I thought you meant, like,all the work I had to do. I'm like, "Dude, I'm in here with you trying to-"
You're... Yeah. Uh, well, we're, we're working. We're multitasking. We're doing two shows at once.
And you're here on Friday, so I don't need to worry about the weekend.
Uh, yeah. Yeah, well, I'll be here on Friday. That's the plan anyway.
Oh, boy.
I mean-
All right. Well, I'll ge- I'll try to get the, uh, cutting edge countdown with Cutter today then.
[laughs] Oh, 'cause you're not in Friday?
No.
Okay.
After today, I'm done for the rest of the week and won't be back 'til Monday.
I mean, I can remote in and load the count... Didn't you do the countdown the other day?
I did the countdown for last weekend.
Oh, okay. 'Cause he had the New Year's one done.
Yeah. Well, it says that it's there.
Yeah.
Sometimes I'll have th- that, that, like, one waiting, but it's... There's nothing inside that folder.
Oh, empty folder.
Yeah.
Okay. Well, take a look at it. Keep me posted. Like I say, I mean, my PTO is so low that I should come to work Friday, but the thought of a five-day weekend. You know how good that sounds? It sounds amazing.
Well, it's my, uh, girlfriend's birthday on Friday, so I had to take the day off.
Ah, well, I hope you guys have some fun. That sucks to have your birthday the day after Christmas. That's not very cool.
Uh, I feel like with my family, w- we would've done, like, presents for two days.
See, I would just be like, "No, I'm gonna celebrate my birthday in June." You know, like, sure, my real birthday's here, but I don't want it to be right next to Christmas.
I know some people that were born on Christmas.
That would be even worse.
Yeah.
Yeah. I would definitely be celebrating my birthday six months down the road. Summertime, much better time to celebrate a birthday anyway.
My br- my birthday sucks.
When's yours? August?
August 29th. It was always, like, the first day of school for some people. It was always-
Oh
... the, uh, uh, what's it called? The, uh, time where people were getting prepared for school if it wasn't time for school. Like, it was just an awful time [laughs].
That does suck.
And we would have these sleepovers, and then the next day they would be like, "All right, we gotta go to school supply shopping [laughs]. Let's run to Staples."
Oh! Yeah, that's terrible. See, sometimes my birthday would be the last day of school, and that was the best birthday present. Like, "Yeah, you get..." Or talking to yourself. "You get," and you run home, and no school the next day. It was awesome.
You think my dad would learn, 'cause his is, uh, September 2nd. So, he could've, uh, avoided having a son that, you know, was born in such a terrible time of the year.
[laughs] Well, I don't know how, how much they were, you know, timing things, Peaches. You have to really think about that [laughs].
I wonder if they knew, like, they're gonna have a giant son [laughs].
[laughs] Probably not [laughs].
Well, they, like... Well, there's relatives on both sides that are close to my height.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Okay, then it's a good possibility. Like, I've, I've got a really tall uncle, which I think, you know... So, it's not too surprising. My brother is, uh, pretty tall.
I feel like y- y- you've, you've told me that everyone has that one Uncle Bob, but I feel like everyone also has that one tall uncle for no reason.
Yeah, I got a cou-
Like, where did he come from?
I got a couple of tall uncles. They're, they're tall. I did not get any of those genes. No [laughs].
Y- your brother too. Jacob's massive.
He's, he's big. Yeah.
Huh?
Yeah, but he'd slimmed down quite a bit the last time he was here.
Oh, good.
I was like, "You're making me look bad, Jake. Are you on Ozempic?" [laughs]
[laughs] He's the guy injecting himself eating pizza.
[laughs] Dang it, Jake. Dang it. This is the noon hour of madness and mayhem. I'm Victor.
I'm Peaches.
All right, so Peaches, I've been listening to this episode of Last Podcast on the Left about the horrors of chimney sweeping. And this is a subject I never would've thought much about at all. I mean, I have a chimney at my house. I don't use the fireplace, so I've never had it checked out. Never, you know, intended to light a fire in it. Did not invite a chimney sweep over. But this episode, they're talking about chimney sweeps from, like, you know, 150 to 200 years ago. And do you know who the chimney sweeps were? Children, Peaches. They were all children [laughs].
Well, then Mary Poppins ruined it, because they had a DVD. I'm not gonna say his name, but he was a chimney sweep in that movie and he wasn't a kid.
[rock music] No. Yeah, and you think about chimney sweeps as these jolly fellas kicking their heels and jumping around-
DGT
... singing songs. The world of chimney sweeps is one of the most horrific worlds I could have ever possibly imagined, 'cause again, it was like kids that they'd put into the chimneys. You'd have the master sweep, that's the guy in charge. But he'd find like orphan children, and just take them in. And I mean, I would love to get into the grizzly details of everything
that has happened in this podcast so far, but it's Christmastime [laughs] and-
You've been a bad boy. Let's shove you up the chimney.
Dude. Now, chimneys, like in big houses and things, sometimes they like take multiple paths and things like that. Uh, there's- there's a lot of people that got stuck in chimneys, or the master sweep would, uh,
you know, make them get to work before the chimney had cooled down. Um...
Well, I know chimneys, they... If you were to try to go down one, they're not the same size all the way down. They're not the same width all the way down. They get a whole lot skinnier.
Yeah, and that's why they had little kids do it.
Yeah.
'Cause they were s- [laughs] small folk.
As soon as you said children, that made sense.
[laughs] Yeah. And they'd just be climbing in there, scraping the- the soot off of the walls and things like that.
I'm glad I was like that. I'd be- I'd be- I'd be safe back then.
Yeah, you're not a... You're not the type of kid they're gonna put in a- a chimney. Me, when I was little, I might have been a chimney sweep.
Oh, yeah?
And little more.
What do you mean when you were little? [laughs] You are now. [laughs]
I'm not that little anymore. I'm not chimney sweep size anymore.
Well, wide, but like... [laughs]
[laughs] I- I bet there's some horrific documentaries on YouTube about chimney sweeps. [laughs] It- it's a... You- you know me when I'm not feeling good, how I like to watch stuff about, "Okay, life could be worse." That's why I've been listening to the Life of the Chimney Sweep. [laughs] Like-
Do you think-
... okay, you're not feeling well, but you know what? You're not a... You're not eight years old stuck in a chimney. Yeah.
Do you think it was like a pesky problem back then to find an expired chimney sweep in your- in your chimney?
Uh-
Like, "Oh, not again. There- there's another one."
Uh, well, it... What they had to do is call the chimney builders over, 'cause they- they generally know when someone was, uh, stuck. But it takes a while to break a chimney, 'ca- you can't just get them out. You have to break the chimney. And so, yeah, uh, it didn't end very good.
[sighs]
It didn't end very good.
It's like that scene in Gremlins.
Yeah.
The one girl loses her dad and they find him in the chimney. [laughs]
It's exactly like that. [laughs]
[laughs]
Just keeping it bright and cheery, everybody. [laughs] When you have a massive man-
I just... I- I just randomly thought of something too. You know- [laughs]
Be careful, Peaches.
No, no, no, no, no, not- not- not on this subject. I just thought like, you know, Jade has that long beard and everything. W- w-
Dude, Jade would have made an excellent chimney sweep.
If- if we Photoshopped him into the, uh... [laughs] into like a 1849 picture of gold miners-
[laughs]
... he would blend right in. [laughs]
[laughs] [rock music] So recently, Peaches, we talked about our favorite albums of the year and how I don't have one. Um... [laughs] I don't know why. But I found an article about the most anticipated rock and metal albums of 2026.
I just passed that on Facebook right now from Loudwire.
Yeah. Figured that might be good to take a look at.
It showed Rob Zombie on the cover.
[coughs]
And, uh, I gotta say, all of his songs sound the same. Insert random Halloween movie clip here.
[laughs]
Let me repeat the same lyric over and over and over again.
[laughs] I like the new Rob Zombie songs.
Dude. Okay. Before we talk about this list, did you listen to the new Megadeth, Let There Be Shred, that latest single?
Uh, no, but you told me it... You were not very impressed by it.
If you read the lyrics, it's definitely ChatGPT generated.
Okay, let's pull it up here. What-
It's 100%... Uh, I- I know for a fact somebody is- is writing lyrics for Dave [laughs] for this final album or something. [laughs]
[laughs] All right. Let There Be Shred.
Yeah.
Let's see.
And read- read the first lyric or so. It's hilarious. It's like a cookie cutter ChatGPT typical Megadeth song.
Okay. "The stage has been lit. Get up on your feet. Heads start to pound. Everyone get off your seat. My fingers spontaneously combust into flames. Destroying pretenders, only ashes remain." [laughs] That does sound like ChatGPT lyrics, 'cause we've had ChatGPT write a lot of lyrics. And like the- the flow right there is a little bit off 'cause it'll force, you know, syllables in to make it worse or make it work. All right. What's the chorus? "On the day I was born, a guitar in my hands. The earth started rumbling, a thunderous command. To bash and to thrash, to bang my head. To smash my guitar [laughs] and let there be shred." [laughs] It could be Megadeth lyrics, Peaches.
So-
Dave could have wrote them.
... I just had ChatGPT give me a stereotypical Megadeth song.
Okay.
"Systematic extinction- extinction. Trust nobody. Politicians smiling with a loaded gun. Handshake deals with- while the sirens run. Truth is buried six feet deep. Signed in ink you didn't read."
See, that sounds kind of better than Let There Be Shred. [laughs]
"Eyes on screens. Your freedom sold. Fear is the currency they hold. March in line. Obey the lie. Question nothing. Lie if comply."
[laughs]
"Trust no one, not even me. Truth is just a commodity. Enemies wear friendly faces. Counting bodies, counting bases. End game written in debris. This is your democracy." That's definitely a... Oh, i- insert guitar solo after that.
Oh, yeah, you gotta have insert guitar solo for Megadeth songs.
But Let There Be Shred, oh my... It- it's... I was talking to another friend of mine about that whole thing. [rock music] And yeah, it's- it's been such a letdown with this latest album. [laughs] It's gonna- it's gonna be one of the worst things ever.
The- the lyrics have been pretty bad, like for all the songs.[laughs]
The tipping point, I've reached my tipping point.
[laughs]
I'm like, "Okay, Dave, what-what's that gonna be like? You just gonna get a plane?"
[laughs]
Just imagine him, "Ugh, ugh, I can't get this self-checkout to work."
[laughs] All right, maybe we'll do the anticipated albums list in a minute [laughs].
And then, and then the second single's, "I Don't Care."
[laughs]
Peaches, did you see this article about a timeout box-
Yes
... in an elementary school? [laughs]
I talked about it yesterday. I was like, "I wouldn't have been able to fit back in that-"
[laughs] No.
"... in that thing back in the day."
I- it's pretty small. So-
Did you see the inside?
Uh, yes, and that's, uh, kinda horrific. Like, they could've at least painted the walls white on the inside to make it a little bit brighter. It's black.
And here I thought kids were getting, taking it easy, or getting it easy f- from, uh, from its teachers in school and all of that.
That's what you always hear. Back in my day, my teacher would bust my knuckles with a ruler.
I'm telling you, if, if, if some teacher were to try to hit me with anything, I would've thrown hands.
[laughs] So, they do have, like, a pad on the ground, which looks like one of those pads you'd have in PE class.
Yeah, like if you were to climb the rope, it'd be something you land on.
Yeah.
Which I'm glad we never [laughs] had to climb the rope.
Oh.
I would've been horrible. [laughs]
Well, dude, we didn't have to do that either, thankfully, 'cause yeah, I-
I think kids would've died.
It wouldn't have worked.
They would've landed on their neck or something.
Uh, yeah, I mean, 'cause the rope, at least from what you see in, like, movies and stuff, it went really high up, you know?
It'd go to the roof of the, the whole gymnasium.
Oh, you get that rope burn on your hands-
Oh
... when you start sliding down the rope.
I remember when I was a kid and I, uh, I tried sliding down the pole they had on the, uh, playground.
[laughs]
And I, and I just jumped [laughs]. So, I jumped like a whole, like, seven feet off the ground.
Holy cow. Wow. Yeah, this, uh, I've, I've told this story on air about when I got, uh, locked in the supply room-
Yeah
... at my elementary school-
It made me think of that
... for, like, the whole day. I mean, at least it wasn't this bad. Now, I can't do the, "Back in my day, they'd lock us in the supply room." Uh, at least there was a window in there.
I'm sure there's no kid that's gonna be like, "I'm gonna destroy this thing," from, like, you know, they, they just, you know?
Yeah, 'cause, I mean, it, it doesn't look like it's extremely well cons- constructed. It's a, it's a box made out of wood, and I don't know if that's a, if it's a padded wall, or it's painted, but it's black.
I compared, I compared it to the, uh, you know, like, in every single jail movie, they're like, "You're going to the hole." And then they [laughs] put you in a little, tiny chamber?
Yeah, it does, yeah.
[laughs]
That is what it looks like, and I can't tell from any of the angles if it's, like, just dark in there, or if the top is open. You know, 'cause they, they don't show the top of the box, but they do show a smiling kid, who, uh [laughs], I guess the box was in his classroom, and he told his dad he'd been put in it, and that now the parents are, uh, very upset about this. I mean, they should be. My mom didn't believe me when I told her they left me in the supply room all day, you know? All because I, I was talking in the hall on the way to a field trip. Kid, you know, you're excited, you're going on a field trip. Sh- I had the grouchiest teacher. I won't say her name, 'cause she might have family members or something around here.
I was gonna say, she might be dead now.
She probably is, 'cause she was old back then.
All right, let's play good riddance after this. [laughs]
Good riddance, I'll be having the time of your life [laughs] being just mean to kids. Ugh.
Don't you hate that? Like, you meet a teacher that's just mean to kids. You're like, "What are you doing here?"
Yeah, like, "Why are you a teacher?"
Yeah.
"You hate children."
We used to have one named, uh, Ms. James. I, I won't go into how, what we used to call her, because, uh, she used to have this little, you know, you know when, like, older people and their neck starts to sag?
O- okay, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, don't say it.
Yeah, yeah, so, uh-
[laughs]
... Ms. James, she was a mean lady. She would tell the kids to shut up. Like, none of the kids liked her. And I'm, I'm wondering if she knew about that. If, if parents came up to her and said, "Yeah, our kid does not like you. Multiple kids don't like you."
I'm sure the mean teachers know that they're mean and that kids don't like them. They've gotta, right? 'Cause, you, you know when you're a mean person, and I can only imagine if you're just mean to kids all the time. But-
But it could also be, like, blatantly ignorant.
I guess. I guess. There are some, you know, ignorant, dumb people out there, but-
That are the, like, "Well, it's good for them."
[laughs] That's right, we're gonna make them tough.
Yeah.
All right, gotta toughen them up a bit. Like, later on the noon hour, we're talking about chimney sweeps. Uh, one of the things that I didn't mention on the chimney sweep thing was, you know, to toughen these, uh, kids up that they would make clean the chimneys, 'cause they were small. They'd, like, help them build calluses up on their arms and knees by, like, basically burning the skin off. Eh, you know, 'cause gotta make them tough. They called it padding them.
Yeah, okay.
It's messed up, dude.
Yeah.
It's messed up!
I, I, I think about it, and I'm, I'm so glad I'm around this time.
Yeah!
Like, in this, this, uh, what's it called? Like, these years.
Exactly. Anytime people complain about, well, I wish it was more like back in the day. Like-
And-
... no, you don't.
Me and my dad used to have arguments about whether I would get shot in the old Western days, 'cause I would just run my mouth everywhere.
[laughs] Probably.
Some, some outlaw would be like, "Hey, get that guy." [laughs]
Yeah, back in the day, like, somebody just think you're cheating at a game of cards. And you, you didn't even have to be.
Better yet-
Pow!
... you get some lady who's good at math. Witch! [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Ugh, no, nobody wanted to actually be living in the past. It'd be terrible. All right, all-
Keeping it bright and cheery on this, uh, Christmas Eve eve.
[laughs] I know, the, the noon hour so far, well, I guess it wasn't all dark content. Just the chimney sweep story, but ...
We can make it dark. We talked about a timeout box, or was that now?
Oh, yeah, that was dark.
[laughs]
A timeout box that's like a little prison cell-
[laughs]
... for children. Yeah, I guess that is pretty dark. [rock music plays] So, Peaches and I were talking about the new Megadeth album coming out in 2026, which of course is on Loudwire's list of the most anticipated metal and rock albums of the year.
I'm in the grocery store.
[laughs]
There's a lady in my way.[laughs] I've reached my tipping point.
I mean, I guess, you know, if you're a metal site, you have to put Megadeth on there.
No, you don't.
I mean, I-I haven't talked to anybody who's like, "I can't wait for the new Megadeth album." But-
Instead it's like-
... I'm sure they're out there
... all right, old Dave, let's see what you still have.
[laughs]
Nothing? Okay.
Well, what- what else do we got coming out? Well, a- a number of thrash albums. Uh, Exodus, Anthrax, Death Angel, and Overkill. I'd say, out of all those bands, [laughs] I'd probably be the most stoked to maybe check out Death Angel. They were here with, uh, I think it was Death Angel, here with, uh, Anthrax.
They all have the same name.
At the infamous show.
Morbid Angel Death Angel: The Angel Tour.
[laughs] Uh, let's see. Alter Bridge coming out with new music, and supposedly Creed.
So, uh, Creed, that'll probably be a pretty big deal-
Oh
... if they put some new music.
Mark Tremonti, the workhorse.
It's all he does is-
Having to do work for Alter Bridge and Creed.
And he does Tremonti.
Yeah. [laughs]
His own thing.
And he does, uh, Frank Sinatra covers and-
Yeah, he just-
... all that
... goes nonstop.
Yeah.
Um, let's see. Poppy's got her new album coming out.
That's gonna be very early on next year, January 23rd.
Yeah.
Empty Hands.
I mean, I am excited to check it out. I like-
<< Unravel. >>
I liked [laughs] the last album.
[laughs]
But I am getting... I don't know, it seems like the songs are getting a little bit predictable with Jordan Fish producing them. You know what's, you know, there's gonna be a breakdown right here, and here's the bridge.
Well, I know for a fact people are feeling the same way that you are, because, uh, somebody was... Somebody had a picture of Jordan Fish recently, I don't know if it was Architects or I don't know who it was, but everyone in the comments was going, "No, please, no."
[laughs]
"Get that guy away."
Well, it... I mean, he knows how to write hit songs, but very formulaic. He's got a certain way of doing things.
Give me Will Putney.
I mean, 'cause... When he, uh, left Bring Me the Horizon, exited, was fired, whatever, um, people were nervous about how the new songs were gonna be, and I thought the new songs were way better than stuff they'd put out for a long time.
The whole album's great.
Oh, yeah. Fantastic. Uh, let's see here. Of Sulfur, they're dropping a new album on January 16.
All their songs are gonna be the same.
[laughs] That's true.
Don't tell Ricky I said that.
[laughs]
That guy's pretty scary-looking.
Oh, Puscifer's new album coming out February 6th.
Yeah, I'd never heard anything about the, uh, potential ticket giveaway for that show.
Yeah. Uh, hmm, maybe we need to fire off an email about that.
'Cause I got a- I got approved for two others right away.
Yeah, and you'll find out who they are soon, everybody, soon.
Uh, a ticket giveaway's gonna be launching
Friday.
On Friday?
Mm-hmm.
All right, I think I know which one.
Yeah, I already have the sounder made, so...
All right.
Sounds pretty good.
Cool. Well, I can't wait to check that out and give away some tickets. I know, I know which shows we've got tickets to so far, and I know they're all shows people would want to go to, so that's fun.
I w- I did see, um, Consequence's list of th- of the best albums of 2025, and they had Testament: Parabellum at number one.
I saw that.
Yeah, it was a different choice.
And, uh, I haven't listened to the whole New Testament album, so I might have to check it out. Uh, lot of bands rumored to be working on new music, but they don't have any kind of official release dates. I mean, like, we know Bad Omens has a new album coming.
Bullet from a Valentine.
Mm-hmm.
I know they're gonna be working on something. Um, you know who didn't release their full album? Starset.
Oh, yeah, that's right. They didn't, did they? Hmm.
They just released about, like, six tracks off of it, but-
Loudwire has Electric Callboy on this list.
Yeah, yeah. I can see that. 'Cause of the tour next year.
Yeah, exactly.
Pretty much any band touring next year, most of them I should say, are gonna be releasing new stuff.
We've got, uh, Five Finger Death Punch, Fear Factory.
Five Finger Death Punch hasn't released anything in quite a long time. I mean, the- they've been releasing those remixes of their old songs, which I don't necessarily count as new.
Yeah. Last album, uh, 2022, and I can't believe it's been this long for this band, but Gojira hasn't dropped new music since 2021, so they're long overdue.
You know, I'm kinda glad that they haven't, because I was really get- really getting sick and tired of Amazonia.
[laughs]
The boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.
[laughs] Uh, Ice Nine Kills, we know they've been putting out some new music. Uh, Motionless in White, they haven't put anything out since 2022. Lot of these bands, I didn't realize how much they've been slacking. Papa Roach, 2022, Shinedown, 2022. W- what have everybody been up to?
Well, their latest Motionless in White single, the ♫ werewolf... ♫
[laughs]
Ronnie's been going off the rails with that one [laughing].
Uh, I- I did not see Falling in Reverse on this list.
Oh, good.
Uh-
They released an album recently and it sucked.
[laughs]
One of the worst things I've ever heard.
[laughs]
<< I'm the bad guy, I'm the savage. >>
[laughs]
Imagine Dave Mustaine and Ronnie on the same song.
[laughs]
<< I'm the bad guy, I don't care. >>
[laughs] [upbeat music] All right, What's up bitches [laughing] I had to um-
I can't hear anything-
Quickly-
Oh, there we go
... quickly turn on the mics and this and that, and, uh, that's what we get for multitasking, talking off-air while recording, uh, the- the, uh, noon show. Yeah, crazy day up in here.
I tell you, when you have cookie dough in the morning, you get a little gassy.
Oh, no.
And I'm holding it in here.
All right.
All right?
'Cause you don't have anywhere else to go.
I walked by Jade and let it- let it rip.
You should. You should just go down to his office.
Oh, that one morning I had that Chobani yogurt drink, it was like I had a engine running.
[laughs] Well, earlier today, my stomach... I- I didn't have any, uh, gassy problems, but my stomach was just like [imitates vomiting].
The worst is when you have your CPAP on all night, and then you wake up in the morning, and then you have the fart- farts mixed with burps.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, but just-
See, I don't really have that problem.
Just [burps]. [laughs]
But I don't know, for some reason, my CPAP, the last two nights, it hasn't been, uh, working properly, I guess.
Uh oh.
I've been, uh, snoring.[techno music plays] And I have had a sore throat, so I don't know if maybe that's why. But um, yeah, kinda, kinda frustrating-
I talked about it-
... so I need to tinker with it.
Talked about it yesterday, people are doing sleepovers at aquariums. And I was thinking how, I'm not even trying to like, you know, crap on every activity people do, right? But that just kinda seems silly to where like, "Hey, let's go to a place like the, uh, Monterey Aquarium," one of the biggest aquariums in the, uh, in the country. You go there, and you probably all gather in one room, right?
Mm-hmm.
They don't want you all over the aquarium.
Mm-hmm.
But they probably have you in a sleeping bag on the floor-
Yeah
... and there's just fish around, and that's it. Yay!
Yeah, it doesn't sound like great to me.
And then I have to put up my CPAP, which might scare the fish too.
[laughs]
Well, if there's a few of us that have CPAPs, you know?
Well, and if you're with a class, you know, CPAP, I don't know,
like, the first time, you know, you, you tell your girlfriend, "I have a CPAP." I don't know, me, a little embarrassed, you know?
Well, Aubrey didn't mind it. She's actually very happy I wear it.
Well, the same with Becca, aside from when it's not working and I'm just snoring with the CPAP on. So I don't know what the problem with it is. If I need to, uh, change a filter. If I need to... like an old Nintendo, smack it a few times, get it to do what it's supposed to.
Don't do what I did and just get really mad at the tube for not... for spraying water on you. So then you just, you like rip the tube apart.
Um, I- I haven't done that.
I- I pulled the tube apart and it became, it became this weird mess kind of thing. [laughs]
Maybe I should check the tube and make sure the cat... Like, 'cause the cats have chewed on the tube before and put holes in it.
Oh.
You know?
Yeah.
So then it's, it's not giving you the pressure you need-
Well-
... 'cause it's all blasting out the sides.
I went to my CPAP supplier, and they're like, "We've never seen anything like this before." I'm like, "Well-
[laughs]
... I don't know what happened. I just, uh, I woke up one morning, it was like that."
[laughs] Yeah. I didn't just full on rage at my machine. [laughs]
'Cause I was adding too much water at the time, so it was-
Yeah
... making that [imitates pumping] noise-
Yeah
... and spraying water on me.
Yeah. And I thought maybe the night before I'd been snoring because I forgot to put water in it, but that was not the case. Put water in it last night.
I- I- I-
I don't know what the deal is.
... for the most part, don't put water in mine.
Well, I don't think you have to, but you know, like-
It's very dry
... at this time of year, it, yeah, it does get to be very dry. And I was like, "Maybe that's why I have a sore throat."
You wake up and you're like, "I can't really..." Yeah, my mouth is just numb. [laughs]
Yeah. So y'all, if you're, uh, dealing with sleep issues, we always like to remind you to get a sleep study done 'cause you never know, they might be able to do something g- good for you.
Yeah, you weren't here yesterday. Logan, our newest staff member, he was talking about how he's, he's tired of waking up tired, and he doesn't know what-
<< I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired >>
Well, and, and I was like, "Dude, have you... do you snore?" He's like, "Yeah." And I'm like, "Do you make that [belches] type sound?" He's like, "Sometimes." I'm like, "Dude, you have, you have to go get a sleep study done."
Yeah, always best to get these things checked out.
I'm like, just because you're a young guy drinking energy drinks and you're also, like, not sleeping properly, that's, that's a road to AFib.
Yeah, it's, it's a bad combo. So I need to make sure, be vigilant, wear the CPAP. Maybe I need to bring it in, make sure it's working right. 'Cause you know, if you sleep by yourself, you, you don't know. You know, it's not till you wake up and you're like, "Oh, why'd you go sleep on the couch? You hate my guts?" "No, you [laughs] woke me up with your chainsaw snoring."
[laughs]
Sorry. Sorry.
[laughs]
So, you know, I'll check it out today. Maybe the, the hose has a hole in it or maybe something's loose. I don't know. The frustrations of the CPAP life.
There was one time I almost completely forgot to put it on. I- I-
Oh, I do, I do that all the time.
No, I, I never do it. I- I- I'm always adamant about putting that thing on 'cause I'm so afraid of falling asleep without it, that I'll wake up, my heart will just go crazy. So I, I was about to fall asleep. I was on my left hand side. I woke up like the, uh, Home Alone lady, the mom.
[laughs]
I was like, "CPAP!" [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah.
Screamed at the top of my lungs.
I mean, I'm never happy when I wake up and I haven't been wearing it, but, you know, sometimes I'll just be watching TV and just [snorts].
I'm hoping I never have to do that.
Just out. Just out.
I'm hoping I never do that.
You know it's not a good idea to. Don't get a recliner, Peaches [laughs].
I can't fit in most. [laughs]
[laughs] No, it's true. What up, Peaches?
Oh, nothing much. We had, uh, Jade come in here all frantic saying, "Hey, we should delete some files," because we had no storage left.
[laughs]
And then I think I figured out the problem, it was my, uh, unedited Zoom call with, uh, Metal Burb.
You wouldn't think it would be that big.
3 million kilobytes.
[inhales]
It was almost 4 million.
Mm. Well, good job deleting it, Peaches.
Oh, yeah.
Very nice of you.
We have, we have the video up. It's a 40-minute long video on our YouTube, KBear101RMG.
[laughs]
Metal Burb's an awesome YouTuber. He's really put in quite a lot of work on these lists of the best of songs of 2025, the best of albums, best of EPs, et cetera. Um, and he's not even a spreadsheet guy. He just thought of that. He, he has this whole playlist that he just evaluated.
Hmm. Yeah, I, uh, didn't have any kind of motivation for that kind of effort.
I was thinking about it, but it was not really that great. I- I don't want to be mean here. It wasn't that crazy of a year for music.
It really wasn't. That's why I couldn't come up with a favorite album.
Yeah, like last year, what was it last year for you? What was the... your favorite album in 2024?
I think it was Poppy.
Poppy. Yeah.
Might have been Poppy.
Wow, I'm shocked that she's already releasing another one...
Mm-hmm
... this many... two years later.
Yeah.
Barely... not even two years later.
'Cause usually when I go with my favorite album, I just go with the one I listen to the most, you know? And that, uh, last Poppy album
is really good. It's really good. It's not I Disagree, it's not that level of greatness, but it was still really good. Um, in the past I've had like Ghost albums. No, last year might have been Sleep Token, not Poppy. Did Take Me Back to Eden come out last year?
No, I thought that was 2023.
Maybe it was. I don't know. But even Sleep Token's new album, I, I don't know if I'd call it my album of the year.[laughs] I listened to lots of older stuff this year. I l- I'm turning into that guy, Peaches. "New music? I don't like new music. Nah."
Yeah. It came out, sorry, [laughs] May 19th, 2023.
Okay. Okay, so I think it was poppy then. [laughs]
[laughs] Well, you are the music director, so you have to enjoy new music, or you have to know about, at least, the new music.
Yeah, and I've been getting pummeled with a lot of country music lately, so that, uh, kept me distracted for a number of months. Haven't had a lot of time to sit down and just listen to an album. And, you know, when you're getting pummeled with music, like, all day, unfamiliar music, when I go home, it's like, "I just wanna watch YouTube or something. I don't want to listen to music." It sucks.
Yeah, I hardly ever listen to anything music-related outside of here.
Yeah, 'cause you, you just get pummeled with it all day. And if you do an eight-hour day and you're doing nothing but analyze music, like, ugh! Just starts to hurt your brain. Hurt your brain.
And then some of my friends will be like, "Hey, have you heard this new song?" And it came out, like, a couple of months ago. I can't be that guy that's like, "Well, I actually listened to it the day it came out."
[laughs] That- that's what I would do. "That's not new." It's like there was a radio station in town that's like, "Only new music." Remember those guys?
Oh, yeah.
"Only new music." And it's like, "Dude, some of these songs are three years old."
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
What? To me, new means it just came out.
Right.
Does not qualify as new if it's been out for age years.
There- there are plenty of people who still send me concert posters, or tour posters, I should say, that I've already seen and posted on our concert calendar. Like, tons of people send me stuff like that.
Well, the YouTu- or Facebook algorithm's terrible and doesn't like to show advertisements for shows and things like that. So, they may not have seen your post 'cause they were too busy pummeling them with political ads and, uh, you know, political content. That's all that mine is. And I don't, I've even stopped, uh, interacting with it 'cause I'm like, "Maybe that'll help." Or reporting it as fraudulent [laughs] information, you know, that kind of thing. They still feed it to me. Crap that I do not want to read, and like, just made up AI stuff. I don't know, man.
Well, that's what I'm getting right now are a bunch of like old ladies trying to put their face on like a, you know, a pretty, [laughs] a pretty AI-generated character. You know?
Yep. There's some kind of new craze going on-
Yeah
... with, uh, the AI family portraits, I guess.
Remember Halloween when people were b- like, they were putting their face on that girl on the bed with a phone and Ghostface was behind them?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Now this is the Christmas edition of that.
Yeah, the, uh, family photo where you're wearing a nice sweater. Yay. Yay for that. I gotta chug some coffee, Peaches. I don't know.
It's one of those days where-
We've been talking a lot.
Yeah, yeah.
Like the listeners won't hear our other talking till noon, but we've pretty much been in here talking nonstop. And you wouldn't think that could wear you out, but it does. It does, especially if you're already sleepy. So.
Especially when Aubrey's l- uh, Aubrey doesn't really talk all that much at her job and she wants to talk to me more after this, and I'm just like tired of talking.
Yeah, yeah. You just wanna sit down, watch some TV. Not happening for me today though. It's gonna be Christmas shopping mayhem. That's what I gotta do. First thing I'm gonna do, go buy bugs.
[laughs]
On my way home, I'm buying bugs so I can bring more bugs into my house. Ugh.
I'm glad I don't have pets.
You should get about six pets.
No.
[laughs] You should try it.
You really wanna see angry Peaches?
[laughs] Do you like pee? Do you like vomit? Last night, Peaches, I, you know, I- I'd felt like a loser all day 'cause I missed work and, uh-
Remember we were making jokes yesterday saying, "Oh, I have no PTO. I'm Victor, I'm gonna take a day off."
[laughs] Yeah, I know. I- I just couldn't do it. Just couldn't do it. But I felt like a- any time I take a sick day for some reason, I feel like a loser. Even if I'm, like, bedridden with the flu and, like, really messed up. So, when Becca went to work, I was like, "I gotta do something." So, you know, get out of bed and I'm like doing laundry and this and that, and I was like, "All right, I'm gonna change the bedding." So I, uh, washed all the sheets and blankets, put all this fresh bedding on and I was like, "Okay, now I'm gonna finally lay back down and go to sleep." I'm laying there, it's a clean bed. It's all comfy. Lucy and Jess are laying on the bed. And then I just start hearing ... Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Oh.
And Lucy just pukes all over the clean bed.
Pets, man. And this time I learned my lesson. The last time she did that, I tried picking her up and getting her out of the room as fast as possible to get her to the tile. This time, I just let her puke on the bed.
Wow.
[laughs] I was just like-
You accepted defeat. It's all good.
Get it all out. [laughs] I'll just-
I really don't know what to say to this.
Buy more blankets.
'Cause whatever, whatever I say is probably gonna be taken out of context then.
[laughs]
Yeah. Some guy will like-
It's like whatever.
"Peaches is, uh, wanting to abuse cats." Like ...
No, no, no, no. So I, I let her puke. She just kept puking. And then, you know, I put on a fresh blanket. [laughs] Got relaxed again. Like, ugh! Thankfully this is a short work week. Pets, dude.
You used to do it work Friday.
You should get six pets. I did it at work Friday.
But you took Monday off, so it's still only a two-day-
I know
... work week for ya.
I- I can't complain too bad. So it- it-
It's just dumb.
It's not that rough.
Like, we have to come in on Friday, the day after Christmas, and then go leave again for another weekend. Like January 2nd as well, like we come back to work on Friday, January 2nd-
Mm-hmm
... and then we gotta go back to a weekend.
I know.
If we were smart, we'd be like, "Okay, let's just take the rest of the week off."
Yeah.
And why don't we take New Year's Day ... Oh yeah, it makes sense we take New Year's Day off, but-
It's a national holiday.
But why don't we take New Year's Eve off? That's like the big part of New Year's.
Yeah.
Is that you stay up late, you- you party prep all of that.
That's right. Ugh.
You get, in this area, you get Martinelli's and Welch's and you-
[laughs]
... drink all of that.
[laughs]
... booze-free. That stuff's actually delicious, though. It's really tasty. I like it.
It is. [laughs] We have those Dollar Tree wine glasses, and we pour that in there-
[laughs]
... and go "woo-hoo!"
Let's see what this person wants. Okay, Barry, you're live on the show, keep that in mind. Who's this?
I knew it, I knew there was something wrong with that Peaches guy. He, he abuses cats.
[laughs] Oh, there it goes! Peaches getting called out.
He got me. [laughs]
Darn cat abusers! We don't-
That's right
... need them in this world.
That's right. Now, if your cat was gonna throw up on your bed, what would you do? Would you try to get it out of the room or just let it go?
I, I just let it go and get it out of the way.
Yeah! Yeah.
It's much easier to clean up that way.
Yeah, exactly. 'Cause they just puke down one spot.
Yeah. Yep.
Now, does JD have Maine Coons, like the bigger cats?
JD has big cats-
Yeah
... and they probably puke a lot.
I was gonna say, do they puke a lot?
Actually, no.
Actually, my cats do not puke a lot because, um, kind of picky on the food that we feed them.
See, and I think mine just got stressed out 'cause she had an incident with Millie the dog, and her and-
Oh, oh
... her and Millie hate each other. They are mortal enemies. They hate each other! It's crazy.
Mortal? Mortal enemies? I mean-
Mortal enemies.
Yeah, uh, why would you put them together like that? That's, that's... You're evil.
Well, I, I was going to let Millie outside so she could go to the bathroom, and I forgot that Lucy was hiding behind the curtain at the back door. So, I picked Lucy up, and then Millie's jumping out of the window [growls], and they both go crazy. Lucy clawed the crap out of me. There's blood all over the place. I think she got-
Blood all over.
I think she's... It was my blood. I checked Lucy and Millie for wounds, 'cause it seemed like one of them got attached to the other one. I don't know if it was a claw or teeth.
[laughs] It was my, it was my blood. That's hilarious. [laughs]
Well, yeah, so then I, I-
[laughs]
... had to, you know, take... I, like, cleaned all up. And then I was, like, petting both of them and just feeling around. And then I'd look at my hands and see if there was blood on them.
And-
And, uh-
... you know what sucks, is that all those pets in that house run the risk of seeing Victor naked, so I'd throw up too.
I, I-
Yeah, I would too. I, I agree.
I wasn't naked-
I did
... all right? I, I did get in my boxers-
We-
... to get comfy and
[imitates vomiting] [laughs] Lucy.
Ugh. The worst, the worst thing that happens at my house is, uh, from outside to inside, they do 80 miles an hour. And it, whatever is in their way, they go up, over and around. They don't care. And they're, I mean, th- they're hauling butt. I mean-
And they're big.
So-
So they probably knock stuff over.
And they're big. Oh, yeah. I mean, and they hit the, they hit the slick floor and you hear, you hear bodies crashing against refrigerators-
[laughs]
... and stuff. And it, and it's not quiet. I mean, it's not like a poof. It's like ka-boom!
Mm-hmm.
I mean, they slam into stuff.
Yeah, dudes-
They're claw- [laughs] They can... They're hilarious that way. But, uh, no, they don't puke. But, you know, we're pretty picky about which food we feed them.
But when they do-
You know, we-
... puke, when they do, do they puke a big pile of puke?
A big puke pile?
Yeah.
I don't know. What, what is that out of, Joe Dirt?
[laughs]
Pile of puke on [laughs], big puke pile?
I-
Anyway.
... I was impressed by Lucy's amount of puke last night. It was a pretty good amount.
Yeah, I mean, well, if they, if she's a, a gobbler, you know what I mean? Scars food real fast?
Yeah.
She'll always, she'll always puke huge amounts.
Hmm. I think she just got stressed.
Yeah.
Poor little kitty, stressed. And then she just-
Oh, man
... puked on my clean blanket.
You would too if, like, you just had, all of a sudden, five other roommates. [laughs]
[laughs] That-
Yeah. Yeah.
Actually, I would. If I had five other roommates, I would puke.
And saw, and, and you saw Victor naked or in boxers.
[laughs] Yeah.
[laughs]
It'd be pretty scary to see him-
You know?
... wearing that CPAP, only wearing his boxers.
[laughs]
Oh, man!
Sorry.
Man, it's like you got a face-hugger from the movie Aliens on his face, walking around half naked.
[laughs]
I don't [laughs] want to see that.
All right. I, I guess I'm probably to, to blame for the cat puking, 'cause th- that's pretty much-
Okay
... the, uh, nighttime look.
Okay. Okay, yeah. Delivering the goods, man.
[laughs] Delivering the goods? All right, I think we could do that for you, JD. Hold on, I have to wait for this slow system to, uh, load up.
Oh, man.
So, I-
You need, you need to go, you need to go, uh, beat the snot out of Skeletor and get all that crap fixed.
Man, Skeletor already came in here and was hollering at us about other things relating to the computer system, [laughs] so... Think I'm gonna leave Skeletor, uh, alone for the moment. But, uh-
Yeah. Yeah
... I'll, I'll be able to get your delivering the goods going here in just a minute.
Here in just a minute. Hey-
Also, JD, this, uh, th- this Friday I'll be, uh, playing Touch Too Much. It's my pick of the day. So, I, uh-
Oh, yay!
I added that to the system. It wasn't even in the, in the library. So, yeah.
Ex- excellent, man. Our new drummer, Emilio, shout out to Emilio, uh, uh, started singing that when we play.
Oh, good!
Nice!
Yeah, yeah.
There you go. Shout out to Stiff Richard.
Very cool.
Uh, yeah. He, he's got a, he's got a great voice too, as well as, uh, being a killer drummer. He's just a great all-around guy. You know?
Well, it's good that you've finally got someone in the band decent. [laughs]
Yeah, somebody that's, you know, like, in the band, not just in the world. You know what I mean?
[laughs]
Victor has a Lucy type reaction when he hears about Stiff Richard. He goes uh, uh, uh. [laughs]
[laughs]
That's not true. That's not true. I like Stiff Richard there. I'm doing fine.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
You guys are silly.
I was throwing jabs at JD and Josh.
All right. Uh, yeah, JD and Josh. Yeah, the, the, the two... Yeah, we've been... That's been us forever, Stiff Richard. Anyway, sorry.
I know. So I'm glad you finally found a good member. [laughs]
I am, I am too.
[laughs]
I needed a member. I didn't have a member. [laughs]
[laughs]
[laughs] That was without-
You said it!
Yeah. [laughs]
You said it. [laughs]
You suck! Shut up! All right.
[laughs]
All right, I got your delivering the goods ready to go. I'm gonna deliver the goods for you.
[laughs]
All right, man. Peace.
[laughs] Okay.
You guys have a great day.
You do, too. [laughs]
You, too. [laughs]
Thanks for making me laugh. Bye.
You're welcome. All right, we're gonna take a quick break, then we'll deliver the goods. And then before we know it, this show will be done. Yeah!... and then you can have the studio, Peaches, since-
Yeah, I gotta do my afternoon show. I gotta do the weekend shows. [laughs]
Ah. Well, at, at least it, you're back working in here now.
Oh, yeah. I gotta get the promos ready for Friday.
For the thing! For the thing, that's right.
I'll play you the sounder off the air.
Okay. I'll check it out. We'll be back. [rock music plays]
Whoops.
Hi.
Yeah. Sorry.
What's up, Pages?
I was talking to you before the song ended.
[laughs] I know. It's okay, dude. It's Christmastime. Everybody's mentally checked out, dude.
You know what? I was very happy to see this morning, I gotta give Josh and Chantel credit. They got their first hate message about the show.
[laughs] I know. It was so funny 'cause it's the same one we get.
But we get it all the time.
"Why don't you guys shut up? Why don't you guys shut up and play more music? Why are you guys talking about nothing?" I loved it, dude. Made me totally laugh.
And, and Josh was very just kill 'em with kindness kinda guy. He, he had a great response to that.
Yeah. And that's generally what I do. You know, I'm, I'm not mean back, you know. I just jump on air and talk even more. Just babble on about nothing, the pointless breaks.
That's what you gotta do.
Yeah.
I think that's the reason why a lot of people stopped complaining about KBears is because they knew, they, they know that if they complain about anything, we'll just do it more.
Yeah. Yeah. Might as well 'cause most people like it, for some reason. I, I don't know why. But, I mean, look at right now. We're not talking about anything. We are literally just babbling on, killing time.
We're, we're making fun of [laughs] somebody saying, "Another show here in the building is talking about nothing."
Yeah.
And I, I got, I gotta agree with that listener a little bit. But at the same time, like-
[laughs]
... if you look at my show too, like, there's random crap that I just talk about, like the timeout box or whatever, or the fact that I, I'm enjoying this weather that we're having and it's a very unpopular opinion.
Yeah. This weather is great.
Yeah. Knocking on wood.
Dude, keep it up. I don't care if we don't see any snow in the valleys. Let it all be up in the mountains, let-
All right. Don't say that now because then you're gonna start seeing people complain, "Victor wants a natural disaster to happen."
Well, you know, they had to trigger an avalanche on the Teton Pass 'cause, you know, snow conditions were getting pretty bad in the mountains. And, uh, water runs downhill, Peaches.
Oh, no kidding.
Yeah. So it'll come down here in the form of, uh, rivers and things like that.
I heard we, I heard we unlock the snow when there's a temp post made about "Where is the snow?" in the Life In Idaho Falls Facebook group.
Ugh. I hope we don't unlock the snow.
Shout out to that one listener, by the way, that, uh, you know, he, he, he did ask "Where is the snow?" and then tagged me in that group, so I thought that was pretty great.
Well, let's see what this listener wants.
Hey, I got the [hiccups] hiccups. You're live on the show [hiccups].
[laughs] I, I, I got heartburn too.
[hiccups]
I've also got the hiccups.
Who's this?
This is Scott.
Scott, what do you want? [laughs]
I thought Seinfeld was the show about nothing. You can't be the show about nothing.
You, well, that show's off air now, so we're taking up the mantle.
[laughs]
And also, Jerry Seinfeld has enough money. Uh, we wanna follow his route to get that much money.
Yeah.
Good point. Good point.
So we're working on it.
W- me and Victor both have the Larry David haircut too, so...
Yes.
Okay, okay. Good point.
All right, Scott, you have a wonderful Christmas.
You do the same.
All right. We will.
Talk to you later.
We should probably end this show with a Christmas song.
I was hoping-
You ready?
... someone would call in just completely upset.
That's what I was hoping is someone would call and go, "You guys suck and I hate you, and why don't you shut up and quit talking so much?"
Nobody has the courage to do that. I feel like they would do that if they're just trolling.
Yeah. Like, JD would call and do it, you know. Maybe Crazy Jay. But, you know... [clears throat] I want someone who's never called us before and really hates it when we're talking. [laughs]
Should we end the show when that happens or-
Yeah, we're not gonna stop talking till somebody calls and tells us to shut up. That's what we're gonna do. It'll be our Christmas gift to you. We will shut up and we'll play a Christmas song. Um, I, you know, I, I always like going with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra with Metallica.
Oh, yeah.
Th- that, that one's, that one's pretty good.
I, I do like that remix though, that, uh, DJ Cummerbund did release with, uh, Billy Idol and, uh, Jose Feliciano with Feliz Navidad.
That one's pretty good too. And he did the, uh, the Trans-Siberian, uh, Metallica one too.
I figured. DJ Cummerbund also announced his retirement this year.
What?
So it really does suck to see a legend go like that, but-
That's sad
... you know, at, at least he got to see his, uh, his, uh, his epic track Pants Feet get to number one on Peaches' Power Ballad.
That's right. All right, we got a caller here. Uh, KBear, you're live on the show. Keep that in mind. Who's this?
None of your [censored] business. Your guys' [censored] show sucks. No point in-
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You, you, we didn't see you could swear.
[clears throat] I'm not [censored] swearing though.
You're editing yourself?
Can you hear me? Hello? That, that doesn't count?
That first one kind of was close.
It was c- it was closer.
That's how it's g- [laughs] I, I jumped up. [laughs]
Well-
It made me nervous enough to hit the dump button, so what? How about you just s- you know, leave the editing out and n-
You're so-
I mean, don't say the words but-
You're full of [censored]. Your show sucks. Bah, humbug.
[laughs]
Get back to the music.
All right.
Perfect.
We wi- we will. And I hope you have a terrible Christmas!
Merry [censored] Christmas!
[laughs]
Why don't you become a chimney sweep and get in the [laughs]-
[laughs] You'll find about chimney sweeps on the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem Today. It's a horrible business.
And please, for any dad out there that wants to slide down the chimney pretending to be Santa, please do not do that.
Don't do it. [laughs] Don't do it.
[laughs] I would never want to have a dad.
[laughs]
Don't end up like the Gremlins girl.
[laughs] All right, everybody. Time marches on for Carol the Bell Tolls. We'll talk to you soon. [instrumental music plays] Thank you again for tuning into the Victor Wilt Show. This program's a production of Riverbend Media Group. To contact the show or for more information, hit us up at riverbendmediagroup.com.