[instrumental music plays] The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem: The Podcast.
This is the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. What's up, Peaches?
Oh, nothing much. I saw a video of Sydney Sweeney pop up.
Mm-hmm.
She was at some sort of premiere, dressed all nice and everything. And I was thinking, you know, Scooter Braun is dating her. She-
Okay
... basically called off her engagement with her fiance and is now dating somebody new. And I was just thinking, like, how, how painful would it be to date someone like that?
[laughs] Well, and celebrities, they don't often tend to stay together.
No, because they, uh ... Well, there's a lot, there's a lot to it, I would think. There's a lot of moving around, a very hectic schedule all the time.
Oh, yeah.
I bet, like, your significant other has to reach out to your agent to get in contact with you [laughs].
Probably, and ... Yeah, I mean, I, I don't think I'd want to date a, like a movie star or something like that. You know? I ... Maybe you, if you enjoy, you know, a lot of your o- alone time, I guess, or you don't want to be around them that much, but the busy schedules and things, it's just gotta be hard to make it work out.
Especially when you're trying to date Sydney Sweeney and she's, you know, the face of a lot of different campaigns. She's very controversial right now.
Oh, yeah.
You can't be seen out in public with her. You have to stay in hiding.
Oh, and everywhere you go, you're gonna have people taking pictures of you. It, it doesn't really sound like that great of an existence. I mean, you make a lot of money and you're famous, but I don't know. I, I, I think that's why you end up having celebrities move to places like Jackson or Sun Valley.
Sure, yeah.
And just fall off the face of the planet. Yeah.
Well, I saw Ellen DeGeneres is making her way back to the US, allegedly.
Yeah, I saw that too. Yeah. Uh, where, where did she move?
She moved to the UK. She did a whole political statement, and I think that's what makes it funny, is that she's like, "I'm moving to the UK to get away from him," and then sure enough, she's coming back.
Yeah, and you ... When you listen to a lot of standup comedy, you don't tend to hear a lot of good things about the UK. It doesn't sound like the place to go. You know, if you could go-
Most other countries would not be good.
Yeah, you need to go to somewhere like, I don't know, Denmark, you know?
I would feel so out of place in a c- a country like Italy, you know? I, I don't speak Italian.
Yeah, you- you'd have to go somewhere, I think, to make it, uh, easiest, where English would be the primary language.
And then, I'm also the ... Like, I already just have a unique voice. I can't imagine going against the accent-
Oh, yeah
... and being the big dumb American coming to the, coming to the, the good old UK.
Well, and when I've been to Mexico, for example, you know, not speaking the language, you always feel real awkward.
Mm-hmm.
You know, trying to communicate, and you feel like an idiot tourist, 'cause you are. And-
And you don't wanna be that American that's, you know, breaking the rules and-
Yeah
... acting dumb out there.
Yeah, I think I'm, I'm stuck in the US. I don't know if I'd be able to go to another, another country. I don't know. Like Denmark, they speak what? Danish?
Yeah.
And then-
That's tough
... Sweden, they're speaking Swedish.
Imagine going to Iceland, trying to speak Icelandic.
What are ... Y- yeah, what countries speak English? [laughs]
[laughs]
Let's find out here.
I mean, G- English is an ever-growing ... It, it's growing more and more, and more and more people are speaking it-
Well-
... comparative before. But still, like, if you go to France and you try speaking French, they're gonna make fun of you.
Yeah.
But if you go to Italy and you mess something up, then they're gonna ... Like, they're nice about it.
It looks like the ... There's not a lot that are primarily English-speaking countries. You of course have the UK, Canada, Australia, uh, New Zealand, and Ireland. Uh-
I've heard-
Australia's out, dude.
I-
We've talked plenty about Australia.
I-
Too, too many critters.
Yeah, I've heard Australians, they also, they, they really will
... Like, there, there, there's no filter with them.
Yeah [laughs]?
They really will make fun of you.
[laughs] And y- you probably deserve it, you know [laughs]? Especially for me, 'cause I've talked a lot of crap on Australia over the years on this show.
I think it's only if you go to, like, the outback.
Yeah, I, I don't know a lot-
For the most part.
I don't know a lot about Australia. I just know about the giant spiders and there's, you know, snakes and ... Ugh. Ugh.
I just can't imagine you go to a place like Sydney, Melbourne, any one of those big cities in Australia, and you're dealing with those giant spiders. I would think if you're, like, going to
the o- ... Like, like, the, the desolate, the isolated side of the country where there's just n- nothing but, you know, crazy environment.
Yeah, there's p- ... I, I bet if you're in the population center, it's probably not too bad, huh?
Hmm.
Maybe I have to go check it out. Maybe.
I don't think they're finding a, a dinner plate-sized spider in the Sydney Opera House.
You never know, dude. I, uh, just the fact that they're out there. But I guess you think about, like, Arizona, there's giant spiders there.
Scorpions.
Snakes. Scorpions. You know, I mean-
You go to Florida.
Yeah [laughs]. Fl-
Gators in the toilet.
Exactly. W- we've got, I mean, around here, mountain lions. There's giant cats roaming the woods that'll rip you to pieces.
Yeah, sure.
Bears. Yeah, I guess you gotta deal with stuff everywhere, but something about giant spiders and snakes just ... Ugh.
Well, when they pop up at you, that's what's-
Ugh
... terrifying. You hear that little rattle.
Ah.
And you're like, "W- what is that?"
Ah. Snakes. Ee.
And they move so fast.
Oh, yeah.
So that's what freaks me out about snakes. They move so fast.
And they jump.
And they can lunge at you.
Yeah.
And you just see this head on a stick just come right at your face [laughs].
And if you get bit by a rattlesnake and you get-
You're done.
Yeah, you, you gotta, like, get to the hospital quick. Kill you dead. "All right, anybody, uh, wanna go for a hike?" [laughs] I think this-
We went from Sydney Sweeney to, uh, to animals.
Yeah, you know how this show works sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, Peaches, I guess I've, of course, gotta give a shout-out to Ben and Mason from the Advocates for stopping by unexpectedly and bringing me a Christmas present. That, that was pretty wild. Pretty wild. We'll have some video up of that soon, but, uh, yeah, you saw me. I'm, I'm, like, exhausted from endless chores at my house. I've been doing chores for, like, days and days, and last night, I was up late shampooing carpets, trying-
You used to be the guy that would go to bed at 7:00.
I know, but I'm trying to get ready for the kids to come visit and, you know, the place has gotten to be a bit messy with the zoo and, you know, Becca moving in and-
Right, yeah.
So it's like, all right, I want it to be somewhat in order and we need to be able to put up the Christmas tree. So you stopped by, helped me move some big speakers upstairs. And so I was just ... I started getting a headache after the morning show, I was trying to edit my podcast and I was just like, "Ugh."
[laughs]
You, you walked by and thought I was sleeping.
No, I thought you passed out for a second.
Just passed out. "He's, he's dead in there."
I was about to run over to, to Josh from Classy and be like, "Hey, uh, Victor's passed out in the K-Bro studio-"
[laughs]
"... we might need to drive extra carefully and extra slowly to the hospital-"
Oh, jeez.
"... to not get into an accident while taking, you know, a, a coworker who's potentially died in the studio." [laughs]
No, I'll use a dad phrase, "I was resting my eyes," but that, that is what I was doing. I just kind of had my head down 'cause I started getting a headache, so took some ibuprofen and was like, "All right, I'll just chill for a minute here."
Well, luckily, I walked in, and then was like, "Oh, he's, he's really asleep," so I did... tried quietly walking out. But then the, soon as you heard that door click, you woke up.
Well, I wasn't sleeping, Peaches. I, I wasn't sleeping. 'Cause I... you know the sounds I make when I sleep. [snoring]
That's what I was also worried about too, was-
Yeah, yeah
... sleep apnea.
It, it's pretty clear when I'm sleeping. I make a lot of noise. So then like, what? Five minutes later, I'm trying to get back to doing the podcast thing, get it t- you know, ready to upload. I don't really edit it, by the way, everybody. You know, I'm splicing bits together.
Yeah, you, you record the bits, and then you put them all into one big episode.
Yeah, exactly. So, uh, Kennedy comes up from the front desk, and she's like, "There's some people here who wanna see you." And I figured it was just listeners, you know, wanted to say hi.
Just, just listeners. [laughs]
I just figured it was listeners that wanted to say hi. I'm like, "All right," and come out. I'm all disheveled. And it was Ben and Mason from The Advocates, and he's got this big present and, um, I assumed that it was something they wanted to do for Friday when we kick off that new, uh, giveaway-
Mm-hmm
... with The Advocates that we'll announce Friday morning. He's like, "No, you know, uh, we've been working together a long time, wanted to get you a present from The Advocates." And I... it, it was pretty obvious what the box was. There's not very many things that come in a box shaped like that. A long, rectangular, skinny box. So I'm like, "You gotta be kidding me." And, uh, I think it was two, three weeks ago, Ben came by my house, and he, he had brought over his, uh, his Fender, uh, Telecaster Deluxe to show me his new guitar. And so we were playing it, and it was an awesome guitar, like so sweet. So, you know, I open up this present from The Advocates. He got me a, you know, gray and black sunburst version of the same guitar. It's a really nice guitar. What the heck, man? What the heck? I, I, I think it is the nicest Christmas present I've ever gotten.
Whoa.
Yeah. I think i- i- it has to be.
Take that, Mama Wilk.
Sorry, Ma. [laughs]
You and your grave.
[laughing] Oh, jeez, Peaches. But, uh, yeah, so I gotta give a big thanks to, uh, Ben and Damien and Mason from The Advocates. That was a very unexpected surprise. And, uh, it helped wake me up and get me excited to go back to the tedious work that I need to do today. I, I wanna go home and ge- get my practice amp and just sit around here ripping riffs, but, uh, I probably need to work on the stuff Jade keeps yelling at me to get done.
Well, you can do some Outlaw riffs.
I could, on a guitar like that.
Yeah.
Might as well-
Perfect
... you know, replicate the songs you're gonna be listening to.
Yeah, so I had to send some photos to my guitar-playing friends, you know, and pretty much all of them said the same thing that Jade said, "Now you gotta learn how to play it." [laughs]
[laughs]
Yeah. Thanks, Jade.
Should we cue Jade's weekly riff?
[laughs] Yeah. That's right, Jade's weekly riff, making a comeback. Stay tuned. [instrumental music plays] Yeah, I guess, Peaches, for anybody who wasn't listening to the morning show, we could recap the story of what happened last night with you, 'cause it's really funny.
Well, I was gonna talk about it at the start of my show too, so if, if people miss it out here, they can als- they'll also miss it or they'll, they'll probably hear it on the afternoon show.
It's worth talking about three times, 'cause it's so funny.
And it's such a slow news day, you might as well.
Yeah, I mean, how many, how many times can we talk about the drunk raccoon? That's the only thing I've seen in the news from every news source.
I'm not talking about that on the show, I guess, now.
[laughs]
No, forget the drunk raccoon.
[laughs] No, uh, Peaches last night calls me while I'm, you know, doing housework-
Why?
... trying to shampoo carpets and he's like-
I was shocked you were up at 8:30.
Yeah, I was up kinda late last night 'cause, you know, with the kids coming, there's only so much time to get things done.
Yeah, me and Aubrey, I was like, well, I'm not wanting to drive to Rexburg in this weather. She's not wanting to drive into Idaho Falls in this weather. So we just decided to just do our own thing last night. I'm sitting there on the computer playing Postal 2, just enjoying myself, and I get a Reddit notification. And usually, it's some bogus post from somebody in the R, like R/Wo- TheWoodyShow-
Yeah
... or something like that, but it said I was permanently banned. I'm like, "Huh? What's going on? What do you mean I'm permanently banned?"
[laughs]
And then I looked and yeah, this guy, this mod of R/Seether, the Seether subreddit mod, got really upset with me over comments I made six months ago.
[laughs]
And said a whole bunch of stuff I can't repeat on the air in the message. So then I was like, "Okay, I guess I'm permanently banned from R/Seether." So I took his message, copied and pasted it into ChatGPT, sent it back to him, it was like this professional response, and he wrote, "God, I hate your smug attitude."
[laughs]
"Goodbye, man." And I, I then was like, "What is he even talking about?" 'Cause he, he said I was talking about it six months later. I'm like, "Dude, I don't care or know who you are."
[laughs]
Like, Seether, to me, is one of those bands, when they come on the radio, I go, "Okay, that's pretty neat."
Yeah.
But I don't actively listen to their stuff outside, let alone also moderate their subreddit. Or, you know, I, I went on their subreddit one time to ask, "Hey, what are some questions I should ask Dale of Seether when I'm t- when, when I'm interviewing him prior to the show here in Idaho Falls?" And they give me all these terrible questions and, yeah, he lost his mind, this, this moderator. And I'm just thinking like, "W- w- what do I do?" Like, I d- I can't reason with stupid people.
No, wha- what, what are you supposed to do?
I, I can't... I also, I also can't really say much to... else besides, because if I were to be like, "Dude-[trumpet music plays] You should really reconsider your, your life choices.
[laughs]
Then he's gonna like, potentially like, oh, the, make a post about me in R/Seether and then I can't comment 'cause I'm permanently banned from the, the subreddit.
Should I contact Seether's label and tell them to, you know, reach out and be like, "Hey, you need to unban this person?"
No, just go-
"He didn't do anything wrong."
Just, just be like, "You guys should really get rid of R/Seether. Just shut it all down."
Yeah, just close it.
Like, you know, the drama that was happening with R/art?
N- no, I don't know if I-
That's been happening recently.
Is it because of AI?
It got shut down completely.
Wow.
The... And so, it'd be hilarious, it... Like, a, a giant comeback story if a radio DJ who gets permanently banned from R/Seether goes to the label and then interviews any one of the members, and then the ban also shuts down the [laughs] subreddit.
[laughs] That would be amazing.
'Cause I don't think the band even cares either. They're like, "Yeah, we, we do have a, a whiny fan base, a whiny, hardcore fan base." Out of all the bands we've ever dealt with, I'm shocked that the Seether fans are the ones to piss us off the most.
Yeah, I... You know, we've talked a lot about toxic fan bases, but they're usually fine with us and all you did was not ask their stupid questions.
Right, and so, what was funnier, funny is that we talked about this in the morning show, I had to go to our YouTube channel and type in Seether, like search on our channel to find that previous episode, and the, the podcast was titled Seether Fans Need A Hug and it had 15 views at the time. I think it's from, probably from the team of moderators on that-
Yeah
... subreddit.
I can't believe this guy.
Yeah, and then they, they dug deep. There's no timestamps or anything. I think in the middle of that show is when I started-
[laughs]
... talking about that. And, and so then he left a comment like, "Seether moderator here, um, you actually didn't do this." And he left, like, this whole, like, essay in the comment section.
So ridiculous. [laughs]
So, and, and then called me a garbage interviewer, said I don't belong where I'm at.
[laughs]
And this whole thing, and I'm like, "Dude, you're a moderator of the Seether subreddit."
[laughs]
"I bet you wear a fedora unironically, like, to, to say the least." Like, I just, I, I just wanted to go off on this dude, but, you know, as a, a representative of this company, I can't, like, you know-
Yeah, no, you-
... say something-
... handle it responsibly
... really bad, and then it goes right back to Jay-
[laughs]
... and he's like, "How dare you have a Riverbend Media Group employee, uh, tell me that I'm a loser, like." [laughs]
[laughs]
As a, uh, as a, uh, important mod of R/Seether, I, I take my job very seriously.
Well, it'd be unfortunate if, uh, you know, people started posting in the Seether subreddit for like-
Justice for Peaches?
... justice for Peaches or Peaches rules or-
Well, I told my friend Matt and he posted in there something really, really [laughs] bad.
Yeah, that was pretty bad.
That got removed by moderators. And then, um, what's it called? I, I re- like, I've been talking back and forth with my former friend Bobby, who I've mentioned on the show a bunch of times.
Yeah.
We had a falling out, but recently he re-followed me on Instagram and we've been sharing memes back and forth. And so then I, I said, "Dude, I just got banned from R/Seether." And he's like, "What are you talking about?"
[laughs]
And I sent him the message that I got and we were going back and forth and he was making fun of those guys. And I'm like, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend again."
It's the noon hour of madness and mayhem. What's up, Peaches?
You know, it could always be worse. You know, I have the, the moderators of R/Seether attacking me online. At least it's not Quentin Tarantino.
Oh. Yeah, he's making some people mad.
He was talking about how, um, one of the greatest movies, his favorite movie of the 21st century was There Will Be Blood with Daniel Day Lewis.
Well, it was one of his favorites. I think he had it-
It was
... at number five.
Okay.
'Cause I went through the list and, uh, talked about some of them this morning. Uh, amazingly, his number one... Let's see, number one was Black Hawk Down, number two was Toy Story 3. [laughs] That was his pick.
Well, honestly, Toy Story 3 was a great conclusion to that trilogy. He-
Yeah.
He's right about that. Like, it was a great conclusion. Then they came out with Toy Story 4 and now they're working on Toy Story 5.
Mm-hmm.
Ha- Most of the original cast is dead. Don Rickles is dead.
Yeah.
That, uh, what lady who played Mrs. Potato Head's dead. Jim Varney's been long dead.
Yeah, so, you, they're, they're, they need... Sometimes you just need to stop.
Yeah.
Just stop.
Tim Allen's on the way out. [laughs]
[laughs] But yeah, number five, There Will Be Blood, and I do agree, it's a hot take from him, 'cause I thought that guy did a great job in that movie. He's a- he's talk... What, what's the guy's name?
Paul Dano?
Paul Dano. He plays the, the preachers, or, you know, the preacher.
Yeah, he said, "Dano is weak sauce, man. He is j- just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. The weakest actor in SAG."
Yeah.
The Screen Actors Guild.
Yeah, I know.
He, he just decided to completely obliterate this dude.
[laughs]
I would start a war with Quentin Tarantino-
[laughs]
... if all of a sudden, like, he's just coming at me. I'd be like, "You know what? Next time I see you, I'm punching you in the mouth." Like-
Yeah, it was pretty ruthless to call him the worst actor in the Screen Actors Guild.
Be like, "You are the ugliest director where... I have ever seen."
[laughs]
"You like feet. Like, you're constantly putting foot, feets..." [laughs] Not feets. They're constantly putting-
Feets.
... feets [laughs] in your movies.
You and your feets.
[laughs] Yeah, I, I thought it was pretty wild that he'd just make a pretty unprovoked attack on that g-... 'Cause I thought everybody agreed he did a great job in that movie. You know what I mean? He's no Daniel Day Lewis, obviously.
You can't compare to Daniel Day Lewis. He's just too good.
But, but to be able to hold, hold your own with him and it has some of the most, like, iconic movie moments. Yeah, he, he did great.
I was watching this, uh, one particular scene where Denzel plays this guy's dad and this kid's a football player and he wants to go far with it, and he's having a giant fight with Denzel, his dad in the movie.
Yeah.
And I'm thinking like, "If I were that kid, I would, I would be terrified."
[laughs] Oh, totally.
To not, not, not pretend fight against Denzel Washington-
[laughs]
... who's one of the best actors of all time.
Oh, man. Yeah. It's gonna be interesting to see... I bet Paul Dano will say something like, you know, a, a, a reasonable response. He'll take the nice route. But wouldn't it be fun if he just fires back?
Oh, yeah.
Starts trashing Tarantino movies or something, or [laughs] I don't know.
But maybe, like, working with a phenomenal actor makes you better. Like, maybe, like, it's like playing with a professional player no matter what sport you're in.
Huh?
Like, if you're playing with... Against... With, with Magic Johnson on your team, he's gonna pass through the ball very well and you can go to the basket and score.
That's true.
Like, you play with a great quarterback like Tom Brady, it's gonna be super easy rather than just, you know, some mediocre guy.
Yeah, so if you're in with Daniel Day Lewis, you're just gonna automatically look... Do a good job.
And he's also the... What, what, what kinda actor is, is it where, like, he's, uh-
A method actor.
Method actor. I keep for-
Yeah.
I keep wanting to say improv, but no, that's not it. But he's like a method actor to where he's that character throughout the entirety of filming.
Yeah. Yeah, he seems like he'd be kind of an intimidating guy to work on movies with.
Kind of annoying too.
He, he could be kind of annoying.
You go, you go to the catering table and he's there in character.
[laughs]
He, he... Well, didn't he play Abraham Lincoln at one point?
I think he did.
Could you imagine that?
[laughs]
All right, calm down, Daniel. [laughs]
[laughs]
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