Ep. 254 - We Asked ChatGPT If Bobby Bones Has A Secret Radio Burner Account - 08/27/2026

Peaches is approaching the final afternoon show of his 20s and apparently believes the only responsible way to enter his 30s is by leaving town for Southern California while mentally preparing to board an aircraft like a man being transported to the moon against his will. The episode immediately establishes that we are dealing with a man whose brain has become a loose collection of tabs playing simultaneously, as the conversation ricochets from California vacations and Tupac lore to gambling, wedding food poisoning, childhood vomiting incidents, Facebook political arguments, MySpace, high-school romantic devastation, and the impending arrival of something known throughout the episode as Peach’s Manifesto. 

Things take a sharp turn into gastrointestinal warfare when the hosts discuss a couple who allegedly paid $30,000 for wedding catering only for the couple and roughly 60 of their 112 guests to become violently ill with norovirus. The suspected culprit? Deviled eggs, because apparently nothing says “eternal commitment” quite like spending tens of thousands of dollars to exchange vows before immediately entering a medically enforced horizontal position. The story becomes even more horrifying when they discuss the discovery that kitchen workers apparently weren't using hand soap. From there, Peaches dredges up a childhood memory in which he vomited all over a bedroom door and received not sympathy, concern, or a gentle glass of water, but the parental equivalent of a performance review: Why didn't you use the toilet? His childhood digestive crisis somehow becomes evidence in the ongoing case against his family’s customer-service department. 

Then comes the political Reddit courtroom. Peaches explains how an old political argument on his personal Facebook page apparently followed him onto a completely unrelated K-Bear post, where somebody decided that using Reddit was sufficient evidence to classify him and Viktor as “raging liberals.” The hosts then attempt to map the political geography of Facebook, Reddit, X, and Threads like two exhausted cartographers trying to draw borders on a burning mattress. Eventually, they reach the conclusion that social media has become progressively worse and begin fantasizing about the return of MySpace—specifically the old version, complete with Top Friends, profile customization, and enough interpersonal warfare to destroy friendships before breakfast. 

The MySpace discussion unlocks one of the most aggressively embarrassing chapters of Peaches’ personal history: his high-school crush Emily and her Top Three Snapchat friend, Zach, a water polo player. Peaches recalls essentially turning himself into a one-man athletic experiment because he wanted to defeat Zach for the romantic affection of a girl, culminating in a promposal involving a cereal box and a basketball-themed message featuring Peaches dunking alongside professional basketball players. It was, by his own admission, painfully cringe. The emotional damage becomes substantially worse when he later discovered Emily and Zach had hooked up, leaving Peaches to process his teenage heartbreak through volleyball spikes presumably aimed directly at the metaphysical ghost of his rival. Emily is now married, apparently travels extensively, has tattoos, and her husband Riley looks vaguely like Peaches, which Peaches interprets not as evidence that humanity contains millions of people with similar facial structures, but as an opportunity to verbally declare victory over a man who has probably never heard of this podcast. 

And then, looming over the entire episode like a poorly written political thriller, comes Peach’s Manifesto. The hosts repeatedly tease its impending release until the phrase begins to sound less like a heartfelt birthday social-media caption and more like Peaches is about to emerge from a bunker wearing an Andre the Giant singlet and announce the dissolution of the United States. In reality, Peaches explains that the “manifesto” is essentially a long, emotional social-media caption about making amends with people from his past. Unfortunately, because the audience has apparently been trained to interpret every sentence on this show as evidence in a criminal investigation, Viktor immediately imagines the comments section filling with jokes, while listeners who don't understand the show's dynamic may wonder why Peaches is publicly threatening to chop people down. 

The episode then introduces an absolutely unnecessary secondary storyline involving an inappropriate birthday gift: an inflatable blue anime woman. The gift was intentionally chosen because it was ridiculous, and Peaches immediately begins contemplating its future as a regift to Bryson’s older brother. Somehow, the object becomes symbolic of the entire episode: a bizarre physical manifestation of two radio hosts who cannot be trusted to behave normally around a birthday, a microphone, or an online comment section. The contrast is particularly spectacular because Peaches is simultaneously talking about pouring his heart out in a deeply personal manifesto while being surrounded by people actively encouraging the comments section to behave like a pack of raccoons with access to Wi-Fi. 

Next, the show wanders into Grand Theft Auto 6 territory, Netflix, YouTube, copyright concerns, and an increasingly elaborate accusation that Viktor somehow committed a dine-and-dash the night before. Except he didn't. He paid. The problem is that the payment apparently remained pending, leading to an absurd fictional reconstruction in which the hosts imagine themselves fleeing a restaurant while a waitress discovers twenty minutes later that the bill wasn't paid. This is immediately followed by a conspiracy theory in which the waitress may have somehow pocketed the money, despite the hosts having essentially no evidence whatsoever. The entire thing becomes a perfect demonstration of the show's recurring problem: a normal event occurs, and within approximately 45 seconds they have constructed an alternate universe in which everybody is potentially involved in a criminal conspiracy. 

Then comes Peaches’ flight anxiety, which is apparently a recurring internal disaster movie. He explains that he has been saving a prescribed emergency anxiety medication for the flight to California and jokes that he simply collects mysterious pills from the mean streets of Pocatello. His old anxiety involved obsessing over every conceivable detail, including the weather, the boarding process, and the possibility that something would go wrong. He then discovers the horrifying irony of priority boarding: he can get onto the plane earlier, which means he gets to spend more time sitting inside the plane. This is presented as a benefit by the airline, while Peaches correctly identifies it as an elaborate psychological torture mechanism. He also complains about absurd carry-on fees and the cost of flights, leading to a spontaneous investigation into Viktor’s potential trip to Phoenix for his daughter’s wedding. 

The wedding discussion reveals that Viktor’s daughter is planning a small, intimate wedding with no plus-ones, which means Becca apparently won't be attending and Viktor may be traveling solo. Naturally, this immediately becomes another potential family conflict despite everyone involved being fully grown adults. Peaches insists that adults should be capable of being in the same room without immediately deploying the ceremonial CHOP! CHOP!—a recurring joke that has now somehow transformed Peaches into a fictional professional wrestler whose primary conflict-resolution strategy is physically chopping anyone who inconveniences him. 

The final major saga concerns SRJ, the mysterious anonymous radio-industry social-media account known for mocking corporate radio, programming decisions, mediocre talent, voice tracking, consultants, job postings, and essentially every internal frustration that radio employees normally whisper about in hallways. Viktor has apparently gotten into a back-and-forth with the account and becomes convinced that the person behind it is none other than Bobby Bones. The evidence is circumstantial, increasingly ridiculous, and yet somehow presented with the intensity of a congressional investigation. Peaches and Viktor speculate about radio personalities, programmers, syndicated shows, industry insiders, and people with enough access to know about stations changing formats or employees being fired. 

Eventually, they consult ChatGPT as though it were the world's most underpaid private investigator specializing exclusively in radio-industry burner accounts. ChatGPT reportedly gives them a list of possible suspects, including Mike Klein, Don Cottington, Robbie Bridges, Kevin Callahan, and Jason Barrett, while carefully refusing to pretend it can actually identify the anonymous account owner with confidence. Naturally, this responsible caveat does absolutely nothing to stop Viktor from continuing to believe the answer is Bobby Bones. The investigation ends exactly where it began: with no definitive answer, several increasingly elaborate theories, and two radio hosts extremely entertained by the possibility that they have accidentally spent an entire segment investigating a secret identity that may or may not belong to a famous country-radio personality. 

And so the episode concludes with Peaches heading toward the final afternoon show of his 20s, Southern California waiting on the horizon, his flight anxiety lurking in the shadows, an inflatable anime woman possibly awaiting reassignment to another household, an old prom rival still spiritually catching stray volleyball spikes, Viktor potentially preparing for an expensive wedding trip, and Peach’s Manifesto still somewhere in the future, gathering strength. Nobody knows exactly when it will drop. Nobody knows exactly what it will contain. But everyone apparently knows one thing: when the manifesto arrives, the comment section is going to become a crime scene.

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Speaker 1: The noon hour of madness and mayhem the podcast.

Speaker 2: What the hell was that, Peaches? Oh! Whoa!

Speaker 1: H. E. double hockey sticks.

Speaker 2: That's right.

Speaker 1: It's the last noon hour of madness and mayhem before I leave for Southern California, so I figured why not give you that treat, huh? Yeah, I think it's time for you to get.

Speaker 2: You're you're losing your mind.

Speaker 1: You should see my pick of the day for tomorrow. Cheers to you. California. Oh yeah. From Blink182.

Speaker 2: Alright, Peaches. Well, I hope you have an enjoyable vacation. I'm hoping so too. Of course, gonna be taking the hood life tour. Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking forward to seeing you on that uh bus with your 40 ounce of old English.

Speaker 1: I'll have my giant uh fur coat on. my gold chain. Heck yeah. And I'll send you a selfie from where Tupac got shot.

Speaker 2: Alright. Now I think that happened in Vegas. I can still drive over there. Yeah, I guess Vegas ain't too far. What? Like five-hour drive. Four hours. Okay, that's not bad. Get it right. I don't know. I don't go to California very often.

Speaker 1: People sometimes go. My old my old physics teacher would drive to Vegas for the weekend and then come back and lose all his money.

Speaker 2: Yeah. That's why you don't gamble, people. The house always wins. Who's gambling right now? You know, who can risk throwing the money away?

Speaker 1: As I was pre-recording the afternoon show, I heard I was reading the story about I almost said I heard like one of those people in Life in Idaho Falls. I heard, not I heard this. I read this uh story about how this couple paid $30,000 to have this uh this certain company cater their wedding. And now they're suing because they both and also like 60 of the 112 guests got norovirus and they were bedridden for days.

Speaker 2: Oh that's where I got norovirus was at a wedding. You know, and it was a fancy wedding.

Speaker 1: And they found out like the the kitchen workers weren't using hand soap to wash their hands. Wash your hands! They've they found a whole bunch of stuff. Oh, geez.

Speaker 2: Yeah. They trace stars back to uh deviled eggs. That's one of my favorites too. I know. Thankfully it didn't ruin them for me. You know, I mean I would never probably eat one that I didn't know who prepared it ever again. But thankfully they're still good. Because yeah, man, you ever had something ruined? Oh yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1: My mom made this weird dinner one time and I threw up all over the door, the bedroom door. And instead of like going, oh, we're so sorry, Brunet, are you okay? My mom goes, why'd you go all over the door? Go to the toilet! That's a good parent right there. And I also think I threw open the bathroom sink for some reason and not the toilet. Oh. And they still yelled at me about that too.

Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you could uh clog up the case.

Speaker 1: It's like thanks for caring about me. I'm like, wait till you guys are old and you guys need to go to a nursing home. I'm gonna be the handler of your future.

Speaker 2: You'll be like uh Ben Stiller in Happy Gilmore. I think I meant in real life. Oh no, in Happy Gilmore where you're I'm like, Larry Stiller is dead.

Speaker 1: He's been dead. Maybe Ben caused that.

Speaker 2: Alright, you're losing me here today, Peaches. My brain's already cooked because your birthday party was too hot.

Speaker 1: My my uh afternoon show is me basically going to uh different subreddits and talking about different subject matters, and then I talked about that one guy where we we I I brought him up to you talking about that one guy that like uh so you went on a political tirade on your personal Facebook page, like a year or so ago. Okay. And I guess you got into a heated argument with one person. And people on Facebook, they like to just comment things that don't have anything to do with the post sometimes.

Yeah. And so you posted something on the K-Bear page completely different from what you've been talking about on your personal Facebook at the time. And this guy comments like a retaliation about like just continuing on the political argument on a K-bear post. And then another guy replied saying, like, well, Peaches and Victor are raging liberals because they use Reddit.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, if you go to Reddit at all, you're a leftist.

Speaker 1: There's a trending phrase that people like to say now, the litmus test. Okay. They're like saying that for some reason now. Like, oh, it's the uh asking somebody if they use Reddit as the perfect litmus test to see what their political views are. Dude, that's like that guy doesn't even know who I am as a person, and he's just assuming I'm a raging leftist.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have tons of subreddits for conservatives. Like, there's all kinds of different people on Reddit. I'd say you know, maybe it leans a little more left as far as the users.

Speaker 1: Um, but I Facebook leans predominantly left. You think so?

Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I would say Facebook leans pretty right. I mean, X is, you know, definitely way to the right.

Speaker 1: Twitter used to be the complete opposite. Yeah, yeah. And then it'd be Elon Musk turned over and took it over. Now it's awful. Well, I'm not saying because it's political political. I'm just saying because it's just a terrible platform.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it sucks. I don't go there anymore.

Speaker 1: Even threads is awful. I think Threads needs to die.

Speaker 2: Yeah, Thread sucks too. Um and all the changes they've made to social media over the years have just made it bad. That's why I'm hoping that you know MySpace really is coming back and that they set it up like it used to be. You know they're not gonna. They're gonna you know, try to launch it in a new way. Yeah.

Speaker 1: And you have to pay for certain things that were free before.

Speaker 2: Yeah, or it just won't have the same features, or it's gonna look different. Just go back to the old crappy MySpace look. It'll be just fine.

Speaker 1: For the same price as two cups of coffee per month. You can get your own personalized theme song on your profile again. Oh geez.

Speaker 2: It will be fun if it works properly, because they said they're bringing back like the top friends list and things like that. That's gonna ruin me. And you can always make some friends mad with that.

Speaker 1: I I've talked about that on the show before, how on Snapchat he used to show people's best friends who Snapchatted the most. Yeah. And it would just haunt me. Because my high school crush, Emily, She had this guy by the name of Zach on her uh top three who is a water polo player.

And I remember like running every day, trying my best to be as skinny as possible so I could out beat so I can beat out this guy. Oh, I asked for a prom in like March. What'd she say? Well, she said, yeah. I still have the nervous video on my phone from 2014.

Oh. Or 2013, but it's like, uh hi, uh, here's a cereal box like that. That has like uh the post of a banner on the inside that says it'll be a slam dunk if you went to prom with me. It showed a picture of me dunking with a bunch of professional basketball players. So cringe. Oh. And I found out later down the line that she and Zach hooked up a few times.

Go fit. And of course, she left me in the dust after prom, so yeah. Shame. And now she's married to some guy who kind of looks like me. Not as tall or as good looking, but his name is Riley. Riley.

Speaker 2: Okay, no offense.

Speaker 1: Take that, Riley.

Speaker 2: Look at me and look at you. You and your well, she's like traveling all over the world too, and he's in none of the pictures.

Speaker 1: So I'm thinking she's just going all over the place and he's paying the bills. My hands look like this, so hers can be in Bulgaria or wherever. Take that. She has tattoos all over her now. I'm like, gross! Yuck!

Yuck. It was not meant to be for sure. But back then I was devastated. I was playing I was playing volleyball my senior year. I was spiking that ball, picturing like Zach's face on it.

Speaker 3: You got me rolling this morning. Peaches. All right, Peaches.

Speaker 2: We we are approaching the day of the release of the manifesto. So you told me off air. You made a big speech at the end of your show too. I was joking.

Speaker 1: Oh, I was I was I was kidding. All right.

Speaker 2: I thought you were serious, and I was like, are you gonna read the whole manifesto on air?

Speaker 1: The last break of my afternoon show today, spoiler alert, is uh me saying, you know what? I poured my heart out into that caption for social media. So that's that's the long speech is gonna be that whenever it comes out. Okay.

Speaker 2: So rapidly approaching the release of Peach's Manifesto.

Speaker 1: Okay, hopefully I'll be a little bit more than that. It's gonna be some like heartfelt caption talking about all this stuff, and now I'm gonna have a bunch of K-bear listeners commenting, TLDR! Here goes Peaches killing Rampage. Maybe you need to hire an editor, chop this thing down a bit, Peaches.

Speaker 1: No, I'm chopping other people down according to you.

Speaker 2: Like Andre the Giant.

Speaker 1: That instead of killing people, I'm walking around in the Andre the Giant singlet with my my hand raised, and I'm just whoa.

Speaker 2: Just the good old chop.

Speaker 1: I did talk about making amends with people from my past in that post. So what if I just find my old basketball coach? He's now the principal of my old middle school. I show up to the office. Well pop! Just attack him. in a singlet, He won't see it coming. Brendan, is that you? Well, pop!

Speaker 2: Yeah, people uh definitely should leave snarky, sarcastic remarks. Like, no one cares.

Speaker 1: Oh jeez. I'm sure you'll comment that. Oh, yeah. I'll find something good to comment. Oh my goodness. It's gonna be and people who don't listen are gonna be like, how can he say something like that? There was someone that like commented, like, you're not really Victor's friend if you're making jokes like this on one of your posts.

Speaker 2: I saw that. I don't remember who it was, but it's like, do they not ever listen to the show?

Speaker 1: I guess they don't.

Speaker 2: I'm gonna make fun of each other all the time on here.

Speaker 1: Sometimes I think everybody listens, and then other times I think like we're the only two just hearing ourselves speak.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I know people listen because they'll come up and talk to me about stuff that we talked about that day.

Speaker 1: Or it's the same, like, you know, Crazy Jay, Crazy Carl. They all have crazy as their first name. Yeah. Crazy Becca. Crazy Becca. I'm glad there was no beer porn at uh the restaurant last night on each other.

Speaker 2: No, uh, we we were perfectly well behaved, and we still got accused of a crime.

Speaker 1: You guys are a are a crazy couple, huh?

Speaker 2: I guess so. Can't go anywhere.

Speaker 1: Giving me gifts that are inappropriate for the public eye.

Speaker 2: I thought it would be fun for you to open that gift in a public place. I told my dad about it.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I told you, he's like, oh, okay, I guess you can if they gave you the receipt, you can just return it. That's like if the receipt was in there. But after that means I have to walk into

Speaker 2: that store, holding that and go, this wasn't she wasn't the right type for me or something like that. Yeah, they did have ones that were more um more realistic, I guess you'd say.

Speaker 1: And they're probably way more expensive, weren't they?

Speaker 2: Uh they had some that were like 10 bucks more, but I thought that the blue anime girl was just more ridiculous. Right up my alley. ridiculous. Because I I can't stand anime. Now, I'm gonna turn the mics off for a second and tell you what I was gonna get you for. Oh god. But um, then I saw that because I can't think of any way to work around these terms on air. So hold on. So that's that's but then I found the uh yes, inflatable uh blue anime woman. Like, that'll work.

Speaker 1: We found out Bryson's older brother's uh birthday. Uh I think it's in like November or October. So I'll just re-gift that to him.

Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, the gift that keeps on getting lightly used. I wanted to find something, you know, heartfelt and special for your 30th birthday.

Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. So here I was thinking it would be something like that. You know, it's been a cruel summer, like Taylor Swift, and I'm I'm over here, like, you know, talking about the my long caption, you know, it's a manifest. Expressing my feelings to people. It's a manifest. And all the Victor's now inviting people to comment this heinous crap on my page.

Speaker 2: That's right. I can't wait. I can't wait. It's gonna be loads of fun. Today's gonna be a good day. We've got the release of Peach's Manifesto. I'm not releasing it today. Oh, I thought you were releasing it today.

Speaker 1: No, I'm releasing it like the day I get back.

Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Okay. I thought you were gonna release it today.

Speaker 1: No, I need to get more pictures for the carousella photos, you know.

Speaker 2: Okay, all right. Well, at least we have the extended look at Grand Theft Auto 6 coming today, then.

Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Uh I don't have Netflix.

Speaker 2: Um, it'll be on YouTube, I think, tonight at 7 p.m. Uh, it goes on Netflix at 1 p.m. So I'm sure you can imagine how hard I'm gonna be working here in the studio or my office at 1 p.m. today.

Speaker 1: And I can only imagine how many people are going to be sharing that exact same news that's already talked about in the video online.

Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure. Uh I I could probably film uh a long reaction video to it.

Speaker 1: You definitely should go live. I could go live. Yeah, because uh uh at 1 p.m. I got a very special appointment.

Speaker 2: You might get a copyright violation if you go live with it. You know, I I think if I did a reaction video and then waited till seven o'clock to post it on YouTube, it'd probably be okay. But I bet Netflix has some kind of window, you know, of time where they have the rights to it. Wouldn't that be dumb to get sued for something that you know was available for everyone six hours later.

Speaker 1: You already didn't pay for dinner last night, so you might as well keep the crime spree up.

Speaker 2: I I love dining and dashing. It's my new hobby, apparently.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to see Victor run out of a restaurant.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the slowest dine and dash of all time.

Speaker 1: Yeah, did I pay the bill? Yes. Okay, we're going, everybody. Thanks for inviting us out. Yeah, have a great rest of your night. You guys walk out of the restaurant. Twenty minutes later, the waitress comes back. You know that couple that was sitting right here. They didn't pay. I guess I told them they did, but they they they just didn't.

Yeah, we we did. And it's it sounded like she was up to something. Maybe she pocketed the money. Maybe. I don't know. Well, let's just come up with this whole conspiracy theory about a young girl that was serving us at this uh this sports bar themed place.

Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't say their name, no free plugs.

Speaker 1: And uh she's not even a listener, so we just accuse her. We go to East Idaho news with this whole thing, too.

Speaker 2: Yeah, let me see if the pending charge has gone through. Um still pending.

Speaker 1: Next on the New Hour of Madness and Mayhem, we find out we call the restaurants live on air.

Speaker 2: Oh, actually, they they did open, and uh I do need to call them. Thanks for reminding me. One more stupid task I gotta deal with. Don't dine dine and dash.

Speaker 1: Um, you didn't really dine and dash.

Speaker 2: I know, I know. I was trying to look at it.

Speaker 1: Because there are some listeners who passively listen and hear like every other word and then they twist it in their head to the point where like they think we said something completely different. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2: Victor was on air just bragging that he dined and dashed.

Speaker 1: at a local... Peaches is going to kill people. He's uploading a manifesto.

Speaker 2: Peaches, you were just driving me in insane off air. I'm not a big fan of traveling by air, and so you you you kind of got me filled with anxiety, and I'm not even going on a trip.

Speaker 1: This is what goes on in my head as I'm as I'm preparing to fly. Now, I do have one of those uh emergency anxiety pills left in that container that I have. All right, that was prescribed by a doctor. It's not a drug, all right. Peaches picked it up on the streets. That's right, yeah. I just I'm collecting pills.

You know, I give the mean streets of pokey, and I just pick up whatever's left out there on the ground, you know. There you go. No, but uh I I've been saving this one pill for that flight. So that way I know I'll be less anxious. I'll still be kind of iffy here and there.

Speaker 2: You hopefully you'll be okay. You seem much less stressed than when usual or than usual.

Speaker 1: How I used to be. Now that I'm entering my 30s, I'm trying to be more adult and not go, I need to cling between the tiles with a toothbrush, otherwise the plane will take off.

Speaker 2: Yeah, you you've only mentioned being worried about the weather a couple times. I am worried about the weather. And usually it's like a week of everything's gonna go wrong. Everything's gonna go wrong. Like, shut up, pages.

Speaker 1: You better take off or

Speaker 2: else But yeah, you just describing the plane taking off and all the people getting on there, and it takes forever. Well, here's the thing fighting over the overhead bin.

Speaker 1: I'm a credit card holder with this particular airline. And they give you priority boarding. They also give you a free snack, which is what they should do no matter what, right?

I shouldn't pay six bucks for animal cookies or animal crackers or whatever. And I uh so I get the golden pass that allows me to go with like the the military vets who served our country. Like they they actually did something with the with themselves, you know.

They they sacrificed themselves for our freedom and all that. Yeah, and then you got big old me going, I pay 50 bucks a year to have your credit card. Let me let me scan my ticket. What was even dumber is that you get priority boarding, so you get on the plane faster. I'm still in the back of the plane, and like I'm just gonna be sitting there in this cramped window seat for even longer. Yeah. I want to spend the least amount of time on that plane as possible. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Sounds like it's time to dump that useless credit card.

Speaker 1: Well, I I use it to, you know, just pay for my tickets, earn points. Yeah. And then I get free, not free trips, but I get discounts. Like, I just save 21 bucks on this trip. Right.

Thanks to that. But they still try to charge you an arm and a leg for a carry-on. I can't imagine paying 90 bucks for a carry-on bag. Oh, that reminds me.

Speaker 2: I need to look into uh flights to Phoenix.

Speaker 1: Because your daughter's getting married. Yeah. And pretty soon Victor is gonna be a grandpa.

Speaker 2: No, I'm not quite old enough to be a grandpa. Okay. I gotta remember the dates of her wedding, though. The dates? There's more than one. You know, I mean the dates that I need to be there. Because I I don't remember what day she said it's on. I think it's on like a Sunday. Like the 25th of October or something. I think that's about right. Okay. Looking at uh quick glance here.

Speaker 1: We're looking at airline tickets. How much did you pay for your flight? Let us know.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not very happy with the the numbers I'm seeing.

Speaker 1: Dude, I was looking up uh tickets to Chicago, like non-stop flights to Chicago because that's all I keep getting advertisements for. I know who falls to Chicago. It's it's horrible. It's like 500 bucks. Even flights to Vegas are like the cheapest.

Speaker 2: Yeah, this is ridiculous. And this is to travel on that same airline you are. I mean, if I wanted to go the you know, the cheapest little run of dates, like go Friday through Monday, 279 dollars.

Speaker 1: You might as well just go the whole week because they give you a discount that way, right? Uh at least that's what they do for me, because that's that's why I take a I I don't want to ever take uh a trip back home and I'm gone a weekend. That would suck.

Speaker 2: Well, like for this trip, I don't have a lot of uh PTO, so you know, I've I don't have the time off available, and uh I don't believe Becca's going, so it's like I'll just go down there, get it done with, come back.

Speaker 1: She's not supporting what is it, her uh her daughter-in-law.

Speaker 2: No, they were like having a small, you know, intimate wedding, and so uh no plus ones for anyone. Really? So if I get there and I see anybody brought a plus one, I'm gonna be mad at my daughter.

Speaker 1: You're you're her dad, and also that's your wife. Yeah.

Speaker 2: I I think she's worried more about there being uh conflict.

Speaker 1: You gotta be adults. That's the thing. I know I know Victor's an adult. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: There's a lot of people. I don't particularly know more the other person. I don't really know them all that well,

Speaker 2: but there's there would not be a lot of people. There would not be any.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't think there would be anything. You guys are like in your 40s, you know. And even like as a guy who's about to turn 30, I'm like, if I see a person I don't like, I'm not gonna be like, get this person out of here. Chop! Chop! Peaches with the big chop.

Speaker 2: Alright, so last night, Peaches, I was uh waiting for Becca to get off work, so I'm just sitting there dinking around on my phone, and I got into a little bit I I might almost call it an argument. Whoa, with crappy radio jock. Now Oh, but I think I

Speaker 1: think they almost crappy PD revealed themselves, I feel like. What? Because they said, look at my f look at my producer. And the producer is from Valentine in the morning in LA. It's Brian Burton. And Brian was on a couch asleep, and he put up that as his story and said, put that look at my yeah, and then and I know Valentine, he's one of those dudes on the air, he's all wholesome and he's a he's a very great father figure and all of that. But behind the scenes, he might have a foul mouth. And I think I've heard him back when I was an intern at iHeartMedia.

I heard him, you know, cussing up a storm sometimes and all of that. So he might be crappy PD. Or it might be John Peake, who is the PD of that station for Valentine of the Morning. 102.7. No, no, no. 1043 My FM.

Speaker 2: Or somebody, you know, uh crappy PD could have like found that photo somewhere and just thought it would be funny to put that up and get people thinking. Yeah, you know, I'm giving away my identity.

Maybe it's you. So um I was going back and forth with um crappy radio jock about oh, what were we talking about? Oh, there were all these radio stations making it look like it was this massive deal that they like played some Dolly Parton songs outside of their format.

You know, because she passed away. There was um Nick Carter. He was talking about how he played uh what I don't know if he played Jolene, but there was another station that played like Stairway to Heaven, but it was Dolly Parton's version.

And I'm like, well, that's weak. You know, if you're a rock station, just play one of her big songs like Jolene. There's not rules that say you can and can't unless you got an uptight PD. Like so I jumped on the air this morning and I I just threw Jolene on.

I'm like, look, you can do it. It's not a big deal. We don't need to be celebrating like these guys did something groundbreaking in radio thing by playing a song outside the format.

Speaker 1: Nick Carter is one of those dudes that I tried connecting with on LinkedIn back when I was also the again, the intern at iHeartMedia. I was trying to get in touch with all these different radio DJs just to kind of like introduce myself and all of that. And he he was in New York at the time on that VH1 countdown show or whatever, but he's the most annoying person to have on LinkedIn. You want to talk about a LinkedIn lunatic? Oh, yeah.

He shares nonstop pictures. Here's me with Slash, here's me with Billy Gibbons. He's one of those typical radio DJs that'll be like, oh, rest in peace to my good friend. Ah I'll miss you, Dolly. I didn't stare at your chest area when I went when I met you. Okay, maybe I did.

Speaker 2: So, you know, I was talking with him about how on our station, like we've played Lady Gaga. There's nothing worse than like Olivia Rodrigo, MM, like, and uh that it's stupid that these rock stations are like, wow, we played a song one time.

Speaker 1: There's not there's nothing creepier than a man, uh, a male radio DJ in their 50s that's single. They really creep me out. Like the way that they'll they're close to making comments on Facebook, you know, like, oh, look at this Haughty.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 1: And Nick Carter's one of those dudes that was like, I came to LA. He's on what?

Speaker 2: The uh he's on KLOS.

Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like I came to KLOS so I can see the Los Angeles woman. And I'm like, dude, why would you say that? Quit trying to be this like edgy teenager kind of guy.

Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's gotta be what my age or something. He's older. He's older than me.

Speaker 1: Oh, for sure. He's older. Yeah.

Speaker 2: So anyway, the argument started with me and uh crappy Radio Jock. Because I said, by the way, I believe that you are Bobby Bones. And got an LOL. I promise you I'm not Bobby Bones. And like, well, that's what Bobby Bones would say. He's the only guy in the country or in country radio I've seen criticize how the industry works publicly, and you're always at all the country stuff and have that same passion and fire.

You're Bobby Bones. And he's like, Yeah, but I criticize every format, and it's not that I'm criticizing the format, I'm criticizing people who are doing stupid stuff in each format. I do respect Bobby a lot. I like that he doesn't hold back, but I promise you, if I was making millions of dollars with iHeart, I wouldn't be going on uh crappy radio jock and trashing iHeart. Bobby is a smart businessman. He wouldn't do that either. I'm like, well, you're versed in multiple formats.

Speaker 1: Imagine it's him talking about himself. Bobby's a smart businessman.

Speaker 2: Uh I still think that uh crappy radio jock is Bobby Bones.

Speaker 1: He makes millions of dollars with iHeartMeD, he's like him typing as himself.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So I was like, you know, love the passion you have about radio. Uh most people are afraid to say stuff. Um I said, but I will say the last person anyone would expect to be crappy radio jock would be Bobby Bones. iHeart wouldn't fire him if they found out.

He's very smart and could cover his tracks. And if you aren't him, you definitely work in the country format. And uh says, I think if Bobby Bones was behind this account and I iHeart found out they absolutely would fire him because I've caused grief for them over the years. And so I was like, does that affect sales at iHeart? I'm like, the only people who know about the grief you give iHeart are radio people. No, no, no, nobody else except industry people are looking at this. It's not like you know, Coca-Cola is gonna not advertise on iHeart because of some post on crappy radio jock.

Speaker 1: It reminds me of when Associate Memes was a thing at In N Out Burger, yeah. Some like random guy was in charge of all these different crazy things going on at all the different in and out locations. Like somebody poured the entire gallon of shake mix down the toilet and clogged the whole system at this one and so like Lindsay Snyder, the founder of In N Out, uh started like hunting this guy down, and they found out who it was, and

Speaker 2: they traced him down, and he like got fired from the store that he was at. And this account was just notorious with what you just mentioned, like insiders at In N Out, it was only for associates. Yeah, and I mean, crappy radio jocks definitely high up at some company, uh, because has all the insider info, is always letting people know what company is going to be firing people soon and things like that, which would make me think if that's the case, you're you're dealing with somebody who works at a syndicated show because they're gonna get that information. Hey, this station's flipping format, or the staff's being let go. They might have, you know, c companies reaching out to them.

Hey, is your show available in our market? I still think it's Bobby Bones, even though we I mean we went back and forth for quite a while. But he's like, Bobby's too busy to do a stupid page like this.

It takes a lot of time, and I don't think people know the amount of research I do and the time it takes to create the memes and videos. He's like, that blank don't have time for that blank. I'm like, if he really enjoyed it, he would make the time. You know, he'd sit around at home laughing and making it, and I was like, all right, well, uh we can we can go ahead and move along, but uh, you know, you do great work. I still think you're Bobby Bones.

So I just went to AI. It was a visceral reaction uh from crappy radio jock as the conversation went on. Got very defensive about not being Bobby Bones. And Bobby Bones, you know, he's been getting kind of crazy. You know, he's been putting out kind of uh, well, they're helpful videos, but they can be kind of aggressive in tone as well. I I really think that crappy radio jock is Bobby Bones. What were you saying about AI?

Speaker 1: I asked Chad GPT, I'm like, do you know the Instagram page at crappy radio jock? And it goes, yeah, I know it's an anonymous Instagram account focused specifically on the radio industry, has built a pretty big reputation for calling out bad programming, corporate radio nonsense, mediocre talent, voice tracking, consultants, bad job postings, and generally the stuff radio people complain about privately but don't always want publicly. Yeah, or don't always say publicly.

Accurate. It goes on and on and on. And I said, Okay, then who do you think it who do you think is the person behind it based off of what they have posted? And it says, honestly, I have a theory, but I would not pretend we can identify the person with confidence, and it goes on to like all these bullet points talking about like all the stuff like they've explicitly said it's just one person in a 2022 interview with Country Air Check, crappy PD said crappy radio jock and crappy PD were separate people and that they don't know who each other's identities are.

Okay. And then it goes, so I'm like, give me names. And it says, well, if we're wanting names, my Mike Klein. Mike Klein. Back in 2022, a programming industry QA actually had a PD specifically joke that SRJ, crappy radio jock, might be Mike Klein along alongside another name, Don Cottington.

Speaker 2: Okay, I haven't heard of either of these guys.

Speaker 1: Uh Rod Robbie Bridges is the third suspect. This one is interesting because Crappy Radio Jock participated in an all access 10 questions takeover with Robbie Bridges in 2022. And Bridges was a veteran top 40 programmer slash air talent. The connection doesn't mean he's crappy Radio Jock. If anything, it could mean the opposite, but he's exactly the type of person that examined based on the accounts, knowledge based.

Speaker 2: And Bobby Bones got his start like as he wasn't like the country guy he is now. You know, he was like a sh I don't know if I want to say shock jock, but he he got a reputation real fast for being pretty crazy on the air. Wow. So I I really think it's Bobby Bones.

Speaker 1: There's also Kevin Callahan who was named and Jason Barrett as well.

Speaker 2: Jason Barrett from Barrett Media. I think so. And Kap Kevin, do you say Kevin Callahan? Yeah. That's an another guy at uh Barrett Media.

Speaker 1: Odyssey's West Coast regional VP of programming. That's what he was before, too. Well, uh I bet people, I bet our listeners love us talking about in-depth radio stuff.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I think that they might some of them might enjoy following that page. It's not really called crappy radio jock. Right. Think of a different word that uh we wouldn't say on air that means crappy.

Speaker 1: I just call it SRJ, or I just called it SRJ.

Speaker 2: SRJ is fine. Yeah. And that if you searched for uh SRJ, Instagram, Radio Jock, it'd probably come up. But it it's a pretty funny page. They do a really good job making fun of radio. So uh we should leave, Peaches. Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1: My final afternoon show in my 20s. We'll get to it at two.

Speaker 2: Manifesto incoming soon. Okay.

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