[instrumental music plays] The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem: The Podcast.
Yo, it's the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. I'm Victor.
It's funny, you called me. You were like, "Hey, let's get ready for the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem," and well, I was in the middle of typing out a comment. I finished it, and then came in here.
Okay, what was said comment about, Peaches?
Have you ever checked out the Bath & Body Works comment section?
No [laughs].
It's, it's full of just people that are outraged by, um, not being able to use a coupon, for example.
Mm-hmm.
And this one lady was like, "How dare you not take my coupon?"
[laughs].
"Voluspa, here I come with my business."
Oh my gosh.
And so then I commented saying, "So stunning, so brave." [laughs]
[laughs]
And I was commenting all this, like, I said like, "Wow, way to name drop them in the Bath & Body Works se- comment section. You really showed them, Liz."
Wow.
You really showed 'em.
Yeah, I've never looked at the, uh, Bath & Body Works Facebook page until right now. Right now. Um, let's see, uh, what kinda rage ... Y- you weren't kidding [laughs]. The comments are all rage. "You guys charged me twice for an identical order, and overcharged!"
[laughs].
"The total is incorrect. Not good!" Why wouldn't you call customer service?
I mean, to be fair, calling any customer service nowadays is, "Please hold," and then they just blast the, uh, terrible music right into your ear.
You just sit there and yell, "Agent! Agent!"
See, I just yell, "Real person."
[laughs] Oh, "Real person"?
Yeah.
I always yell "Agent" or "Customer service". I haven't tried "Real person". Does that work?
If you're angry enough.
[laughs] If you're angry enough. "But sir, we may be able to help you with our automated system."
"Real person!"
"But sir, we have many different options available that may be able to assist you."
"Shove it up your..." [laughs]
[laughs] Wow, I might have to follow this page just to, uh, check the rage bait here.
And then I'll comment back sometimes and just really egg people on, too [laughs].
Dude, everyone's mad in here.
Yeah, I know.
"The new site's horrible! It doesn't inspire me to buy anything. You've lost your touch." [laughs]
There's a bunch of old women mad about candle sales.
Wow, dude. See, our listeners aren't so bad, Peaches. Our comments section doesn't look like this.
I haven't checked the Sirius XM Octane Fan Club in such a long time.
Ooh, me either. I wonder what's been going on over there?
They used to engulf my Facebook feed with just, "Here are our new ads for the d- for the week."
[laughs]
"Why are you guys playing Shinedown?"
[laughs] Let's see, they've got an article. I saw this one. Uh, PETA asking Alice in Chains to change their name for a month. Did you see that?
Oh, I saw that. Yeah, yeah.
Change it to, uh, Betty in Chains, about the, uh, the elephant. Uh, I would imagine there are people arguing in the comments section about this. You know, even though it's helping an elephant in need, people are going to find some way to raise a ruckus about it.
Well, what's ... Is the elephant the symbol for the, uh, what, what, what party?
Uh, the Republican Party.
Oh, okay, so there you go.
There you go.
We're not changing the name, or we're not changing the logo-
[laughs]
... to support an elephant-
Um-
... that supports that political party.
Yeah, looks like they're, uh, they're all trashing, uh, Peaches.
What?
Or not Peaches, PETA.
I was gonna say, "Huh?"
That, "We hate peaches!"
[laughs]
And then they're like, "Oh wait 'til PETA hears about Cage the Elephant." [laughs]
Oh! Ain't no rest for the wicked.
"You need to change your name completely for a month!" [laughs]. Well, what else do we have? Um, "Did Sleep Token slow down Parkway Drive's success?"
No.
That's what somebody asked as a question in there.
Parkway Drive has been around for 20 years.
Yeah, they're doing fine.
[laughs]
They're doing just fine. I don't think Sleep Token's slowing down anyone's success. They're helping the rock and metal formats become more popular, in general.
I, I, you can't reason with the anti-Sleep Token people.
No [laughs].
"I just don't like it. He sounds like he's gargling mouthwash."
[laughs] "It's not metal."
"Yeah, it's pop at its best."
[laughs]
"Soft music for soft people, ha ha."
Oh man. Yeah, see, our, our listeners are good, dude. Our, our group isn't like this at all. This is just endless complaining.
I guess we're making fun of the people who argue in our comments sections [laughs].
I guess so. Maybe, you know, Jose needs to jump in here and stir it up a little bit.
Ah, why, why don't we just have, like, everybody go full throttle, just like the Bath & Body Works?
Yeah, do ... If you guys wanna just yell at us about everything, feel free in the comments.
Yeah.
The K-Bear 101 Life in I- or Life in Idaho Falls group, you know.
I mean, you can yell there, too.
Yeah, yeah, that ... There's plenty of that going on today, that's for sure. Can't wait for this election crap to be over with. What are people gonna talk about in that group after today?
"How are the roads?"
[laughs] Oh yeah, you're, you're right. [instrumental music plays] So our good pal and friend, Nick Nocturnal-
I wouldn't say that.
[laughs] What?
I would say he's a... a big traitor to K-Bear.
You think so?
Because he stopped replying to us after a certain point and then only did things for Sirius XM Octane, and now he just did an interview with Jesse Lee of, on Sirius XM.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
And I'm just thinking, like, this guy is just, you know, bowing down to the almighty Sirius.
Well, y- you know, he, he knows they're the big national platform, but-
But then he makes fun of them.
That's true.
He says, like, "Everything's Octane core," and...
Yeah, he, he did c-
Made a whole diss track.
He coined that term as a matter of fact, which I don't think is fair. They shouldn't be able to claim all the new rock and metal, all right? Even if a lot of it sounds the same [laughs]. So he's got his, uh, Nocturnal Awards going on at nocturnalawards.com, celebrating the best metal of 2025 and ... It's always funny when he does this each year, 'cause I realize I, I don't listen to as much metal as I think I do.[instrumental music plays] I start looking through the list and I'm like, "W- what are these songs? [laughs] I haven't heard these." Yeah, it's like-
See, I'm always digging for stuff like this for Peach's Pick of the Day, so I feel like I'm well-informed. But-
Yeah
... I haven't reached 30, 30 yet. That's next year. Once I reach 30, I feel like that's when I'm like, "Okay, this newer metal sounds like complete and utter garbage."
[laughs]
Give me stuff from 2014 again.
Yeah, give yourself a couple more years, Peaches, and you'll be that guy.
Yeah.
"I don't like this new stuff. Sounds like pop music to me."
Well, I, I already feel that way about ZYNO3. I'm like, "Who in the world is, uh, So- Somber, or whatever, that tall, lank-
Somber? Yeah.
Isn't that tall, lengthy guy?
I haven't even seen a picture of him.
He's huge.
Is he?
He's like my height, but he's scrawny, scrawny.
So it's like you and Jade had a baby [laughs].
Yeah. Hon- it's honestly what it is.
That, although I gotta look him up now. I've heard of Somber 'cause we-
I hear he's 6'7", 6'7", 8'8". [laughs]
[laughs] Let's see. 20 years, 20 years old, uh, his real name is Shane Michael Buse. That's a interesting name. I gotta find a, a picture of him where he's... Whoa, he is a lanky-looking, uh, he's weird-looking.
Yeah, he is.
Okay. Well, an- anyway, yeah, I, I get it. A lot of that new music popping up on Z, I'm like, "Uh, uh." I mean, the most popular stuff out right now is from that cartoon on Netflix. The... What, what's it called?
And I have no idea what K-Pop Demon Hunters even is.
Yeah, that's what it's called.
Like I have no idea if it's a movie, show, I don't care.
I think it's a movie. Um, you know, Becca's daughter is into it, but I haven't watched it.
A- as soon as you say K-Pop to me, I immediately tune out.
K-Pop's pretty popular.
I hate K-Pop.
You hate K-Pop, huh?
Yeah, well, it's so stupid.
[laughs] So, uh, back to the Nic Nocturnal Awards, um, let me see if it'll, uh... I don't know if it'll let me back in 'cause I had already voted, but I wanted to look at the, uh, the categories. Yeah, yeah, it won't let me, uh, log in.
You can't just, like, log in with a different email?
I guess I could log out of my email and refresh it and see if it'll let me in there. All right, let's log out, refresh, start voting. Okay. Oh, but you gotta sign in to continue. G- come on, dude. We gotta make sure the voting's fair.
Even though now I could log in under a separate email and vote again, which is not fair.
Well, they're turning this whole thing into a, an aw- like, a r- actual awards show. Like, you can get invited to go to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and go to the Sweetwater headquarters and go watch this in person, and there's-
Fort Wayne, Indiana?
And there's gonna be... Well, we're in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Like, we're not that great, [laughs] dude.
Yeah, but we're better than Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I'm... Well-
Dude, it's the Midwest. Have you been to the Midwest?
I'm just saying, like-
It sucks, dude
... we can't say too much when we're here.
Yeah, uh, dude, we can. [laughs] The Midwest is trash, all of it. [laughs] Okay. So, out of like, these songs, for example, Breakdown of the Year, lemme see how many of them I've heard. One, two, three, four, five, maybe six, seven. Maybe seven or eight, and there's like 20 of 'em. What did you pick for Breakdown of the Year? Do you remember?
I don't even have it pulled up unfortunately, should I?
I, I went with Whitechapel, Hymns & Dissonance. I put-
That's what, that's what I think I went, 'cause I know it's a popularity contest-
Yeah
... and Whitechapel did have one of the best albums of the year.
Yeah, I tended to vote Whitechapel when they showed up. I g- I gave Phil Bozeman Vocalist of the Year.
Even though Lorna Shore's Unbreakable did have a pretty crazy breakdown.
Oh, yeah. That's a, that's a really good song, and it's, it, it's catchy too. But, uh, I thought Whitechapel came out so strong, you know-
They did
... to show like, "Hey, we can still crush-"
I see tons of, uh-
"... and be completely, you know, just mind-blowingly heavy."
I see tons of TikToks of Phil, um, doing those vocals live, and people are just in awe of him.
Oh, yeah. He's great, and he's a really nice guy. You know, really good dude. Uh, do you remember who you put for Guitarist of the Year? Um, I think I gave it to Greg from Allegion, just 'cause he's probably not gonna get a lot of votes, and the guy is ridiculous on guitar.
Who, who are some of the other nu- nominees?
Uh, you had Mike from Spiritbox.
No, I don't think I voted for him.
Um, you got the guitarist from Vildhjarta, Rivers of Nile, Fallujah, Killswitch, uh, Shadow of Intent, End Currents, uh, Deftones, Mirror, Trivium, Dream Theater, Tetrarch. I almost gave it to Diamond from Tetrarch 'cause-
I gave it to Trivium. But Do-
You gave it to Trivium?
But Diamond from T- Tetrarch needs to have her recognition.
I know. I wanted to give it to her 'cause she's cool. She's nice. Uh, you know, we've had her in studio before. But, uh, sorry, Diamond. [laughs] I'm sorry. I gave it to, uh, Greg from Allegion. Uh, let's see. Drummer of the Year?
I gave it to, uh, Sleep Token's drummer.
I don't think they even put... He's not on the list, which I thought was insane-
Hmm
... 'cause he, he deserves to win Drummer of the Year.
'Cause everybody who even hates, like, Sleep Token, everybody who loves, hates Sleep Token, loves their drummer.
Well, yeah, 'cause he's amazing.
Yeah.
I gave it to, uh, Between the Buried and Me's drummer. I almost gave it to Electric Callboy's drummer, but-
I'd give it to him. That's who I gave it to.
Did you? Yeah.
'Cause he was the, the guy from Sum 41 and he had the-
Yeah
... big move, and I gotta say, you know, it really does show that you can go... You can have a show, if the drummer's, the original drummer can't play, you can always have that fill-in guy come in-
[laughs]
... and learn the set. Going back-
Volbeat
... to the whole Ghost Volbeat thing.
[laughs] Yeah, I mentioned I gave Vocalist of the Year to Phil from Whitechapel. Uh, Bassist of the Year, I think I just gave it to Between the Buried and Me's bass player, 'cause
Like, Bassist of the Year-
... he's the-
... like, none of those really mattered to me. Like I, all I cared about was Album of the Year and Breakdown of the Year, Vocalist of the Year.
What'd you do for Album of the Year?
Album of the Year, I gave it to Architects, I believe.
I think I gave it to Sleep Token. Uh-
'Cause S- Sleep Token's album was not necessarily the best to me.I, I, I, I was thinking it's more so like, hey, this is good, good for the TikTok crowd of like, "Go ahead and wrap your arms around," and the whole, you know, the whole thing and-
It, it-
"I'll be your provider." [laughs]
See, and seeing those songs live made me appreciate it more. I wasn't too into that album, now I dig it. I mean, I still think... The, the problem with Provider is it starts off so cringe, but if you can make it past the first, like, 20 seconds [laughs], then the song gets good. But it's that, "I wanna be your provider." Like, ugh, it, it just-
I still-
... makes me cringe out a little bit
... think Architects, The Sky, The Earth, and All Between is downright fantastic.
Yeah, it, it, it's a great album, for sure. Great album, for sure. You know, they got Video of the Year. Label of the Year, I just gave it to our homies at Sumerian, um-
True
... 'cause, 'cause they're my homies, you know? And it doesn't look like they have, uh, Full Metal Jackey's label on there.
No, uh, I gotta say Mike from Sumerian has been the best contact so far. I mean, you can't really dethrone Full Metal Jackey, but a good second place guy is Mike from Sumerian.
Yeah, they're both, they're both the best. Both the best. Uh, Song of the Year... What did I do for Song of the Year? I can't remember if I went... I, I might've given it to Whitechapel.
'Cause they got Electric Callboy tonsily on there, but-
That was a late entry.
Late entry, and I don't think it's the best song that Electric Callboy-
[laughs]
... put out this year. I thought Elevator Op-
Yeah, it's very copy-paste.
Yeah, Elevator Operator was, like, really good. But that, that song's just fun. I gave that one Video of the Year.
So did I, yeah.
Yeah, that, that one was pretty good. Album of the Year, I think I might've gave it to S- to Sleep Token, if they're on this list. This list is incredibly long, holy crap.
Well, I think you said there was 51 entries for one of them.
That's probably the category, Album of the Year. But I, I think I did give it to Sleep Token. I probably should've given it to Whitechapel. Probably should've. But, oh well, I already voted. And you listeners, you can vote at nocturnalawards.com, and I think it said something about winning an amp or something like that.
Yeah, you can, uh, actually enter to... Enter this separate contest once you vote to win a Marshall amp from Sweetwater.
Hey. Uh, yeah, there we go, there's the link, redirecting me to enter to win
a Marshall JCM800+ 1960B. All right, sure, I'll, I'll get more spam sent to my email. Here we go.
But what did you vote for for, uh, Radio Song of the Year?
Uh, what were the radio songs of the year?
It was like Bad Omens, Dying to Love-
I think I gave it to Bad Omens. I think I gave it to Bad Omens.
Fall into Reverse, God as a Weapon?
'Cause, yeah, let's see. Did... I, I don't think I picked Caramel by Sleep Token.
I think that's what I voted for.
Yeah, I-
Yeah, that's the, that's exactly what I voted for 'cause I know, I know it's been, like, one of the biggest songs on our playlist for the year, and I was talking about it yesterday. K-Bear's Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2025.
Mm-hmm.
And yeah, m- Ca- Caramel has to be up there. Same with God as a Weapon, and-
Yeah
... um, what el- what else would there be? Elevator Operator, probably.
I mean, if I had to pick my own
Radio Song of the Year, what would I go with? Did Ratatata come out this year?
I don't know.
I don't know either. That, and I re- I really like that song a lot. I'd have to look at, uh, our full playlist to really see. Let me, let me pull up the, the old database, Peaches, and we'll see what we've got in the, the P category. P for, uh, pee.
[laughs] Now let's see what's in there. Yeah, Ratatata. That came out... No, that came out last year. Wow.
I don't know. There weren't a, there weren't a lot of standout radio songs this year, I feel.
'Cause God as a Weapon from Fall into Reverse had to be the biggest letdown of the year, in my honest opinion.
Yeah, I mean, I-
Just 'cause it wasn't, it was not a good song.
I, I wasn't too stoked on that one. The new Ghost album was okay. Um, you know, even, uh, what's Sleep Token's big song?
Even in Arcadia? Oh no, the whole album? I was just, I was talking about the whole album.
Well, the, the, the first single that came out.
Emergence.
Emergence. Um, it, it's, it's good, but it's not my favorite Sleep Token. So I don't know what I would pick for Radio Song of the Year. What do, what do we got in, uh... Limp Bizkit. There you go, Making Love to Morgan Wallen, [laughs] Radio Song of the Year. That's my vote.
Peaches, how many, uh, band Facebook pages did you say looked like they got hacked today?
I saw at least three right as I logged into Facebook this morning. Breaking Benjamin, eh, has not fixed theirs yet.
[laughs] Oh, really?
They, they just, they uploaded an article about how Jeff Bridges... Or no, it was, uh, Richard Branson and his wife split up after so many years together.
[laughs]
And then there was a link in the comments section, too.
All right. Let's see. Oh, they must've fixed it now, uh, Breaking Benjamin. Somebody posted in the Asking Alexandria subreddit [laughs] this post, and it says, "My mom got pregnant with me in high school."
[laughs]
"My dad left when [laughs] he found out. She missed her prom to raise me. When prom came, she said, or I said, 'Mom, come with me. You missed yours because of me.' She laughed, cried, and agreed." And it, it's got a picture of, you know, the mom holding the baby, and then the mom [laughs] with the kid at the prom.
Well, yeah, Asking Alexandria is one of those bands that I saw, yeah, post the exact same article about...
[laughs]
Not e- not Richard Branson. It was a different article before that. I think it was, like, Clint Eastwood Dying.
[laughs] I wonder how so many... 'Cause those bands are on different labels. Um, I wonder how so many different bands got hacked today.[instrumental music plays] Is, is our page fine? [laughing] We, we don't have anything weird popping up?
No, not at all.
All right, [laughing] cool. Somebody needs to hack, like, the Octane page, or the, uh, the K-Rock page and start... Well, actually, that would be the typical kinda content K-Rock would post anyway-
[laughs]
... so nobody would know that it had been hacked. [laughs]
I, I would laugh really hard if like Z-103 got hacked. [laughs]
[laughs]
Katie's in there, "What?"
Oh, geez, remember when, uh, Z-103 played, what was that, uh-
KSI?
... KSI song? And then Z just started getting but, just pummeled with messages on Twitter?
I remember that. Yeah, back when we had a text line there was, uh, so many requests coming in.
Yeah, and like Katie was losing her mind. I'm like, "No, this is great! This is great!" You know? "Play the song!" Uh, I, I wouldn't mind if, uh, we had that kinda reaction going on here. I mean, we need to get the text line rolling again before-
Oh, absolutely. I, I wonder how many people have tried texting us not realizing the text line doesn't exist, and hasn't existed for what? Three years now?
Yeah, something like that, and they're like, "Screw those guys. They never message me back or acknowledge what I'm saying in my text messages."
Oh, the worst happened yesterday. Some listener decided to, I'm not gonna name their name, but tried calling me on this phone and I was using the bathroom. Then they called the front desk to then get transferred to that phone, and then they tried calling ag- the front desk... The, the regular phone and then the front desk again to get transferred to Jade's office, to then go to me.
Geez. Guys, just have some patience. Sometimes we're not in the room, or we might be on another call with somebody else.
[laughs] I had an email from poor Andrea telling me who, what... Like, they had a song request [laughs] and I was like, "Oh, come on."
[laughs] It went to Andrea?
Yeah. 'Cause, you know, if like, if somebody's not at the front desk it can get-
Oh, yeah
... transferred to her office.
Oh, my gosh. Guys, like, we can only take one call at a time. I've... It happened to me this morning. I mentioned if you wanna request a song, you know, call. So of course all the lines light up. By the time I get done talking to one person, everybody else gets mad and bails.
Yeah.
It's like, you know, just have a little patience or try us again, you know?
The worst is when I do To Peach The Own, all the lines fill up and then I get that one chatty listener that keeps, like, talking to me for 20 minutes.
Yeah. You gotta cut 'em off.
And I feel bad for cutting them off too because it's like they, they've... They, you know, decided to chime in on a stupid segment where they don't win anything.
But yeah th- so they're helping with content-
They are.
... but at the same time it's like, "Hey, you know, we got a lot of people calling, I gotta get some of these others." You know? "Appreciate your input but, uh, make it snappy! Chop, chop!" [instrumental music plays] Oh, I just remembered something, Peaches, 'cause we're recording this kinda early.
Yeah, you have that stupid Sleep Token song stuck in my head.
Which one?
<< I wanna be your provider >>
[laughs] Well, I just remembered that, uh, you know Jade and Josh stopped by my show to eat some weird foods earlier?
Mm-hmm.
And they were going to come to the noon hour today to try the spicy worm. Did they show you that?
No.
Okay. So it's a big, like, two-foot gummy worm or something that gets incrementally hotter as it goes along. So they were gonna, like, slice it up, slice and dice it into little pieces and we could see, you know, how hot it really is. I think we're gonna have to probably record that segment for your program. Oh, there's, there's that old man right now.
[Burps]
Huh? Hey, you in the conference room? What? Now! Conference room? Yeah. I don't like that. Forget it. What? Okay, everybody. Th- that's a Friday radio thing, not Tuesday. Friday is now a Tuesday. All right. Well, everybody, maybe we'll be back during Peach's show to eat the spicy worm. Hopefully. Uh, this could be my last time on air. Uh, been good knowing y'all. Um, thanks for tuning in, uh, my final Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem, maybe. Otherwise, you'll hear us eat the spicy worm during Peach's show. Oh, geez. [instrumental music plays]
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