NHOMAM - This Horrifying Dead Animal Cost $68 And Was Secretly Worth $60,000 - 08/19/2026

This episode of the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem begins with the extremely important national crisis of men losing their hair, because apparently society has decided that follicles deserve their own awareness month. The conversation immediately spirals into the realization that one of the hosts has been willingly chrome-domed since August 28, 2023, after a particularly awful stretch of sleep deprivation and an alarming heart episode convinced him that if the Grim Reaper was coming, he might as well meet him with a freshly shaved head. From there, the hosts spend an impressive amount of time essentially arguing that bald men need to stop treating their scalps like a classified military installation and simply shave the damn thing. Hair loss treatments, hair transplants in Turkey, John Cena's suspiciously powerful new hair situation, Hims advertisements aggressively asking whether you're still balding in 2026, and the eternal male fear that women will no longer find you attractive once your hairline begins retreating are all thrown into the blender. The conclusion is basically that being bald is fine, shampoo bills decrease, showers become faster, and nobody needs to walk around with a desperate little island of hair clinging to the back of their head like it's the last survivor of civilization.

Naturally, the discussion becomes even more psychologically devastating when family history enters the picture. One host talks about his father going through essentially the same life progression, including transferring high schools around the same time and eventually going bald around the same time, while relatives gleefully pointed out his disappearing hairline. Then there is the absolutely brutal comparison to Chris Daughtry, with Jade apparently looking at the situation and declaring that this was the host's future: bald, shaved-headed and apparently destined to become Idaho's answer to Daughtry. This somehow transitions into an insult involving a character from Dune, before the hosts return to their core scientific finding: shaving your head is easier, cheaper, faster and probably better than desperately trying to disguise the fact that your hair has already filed for permanent relocation.

Then comes the Tim Pool Beanie Investigation, which may be the most unnecessary forensic examination of headwear ever conducted on a radio podcast. The hosts discuss an interview clip involving Tim Pool storming out of an argument and somehow arrive at the theory that his ever-present beanie exists primarily to conceal his hair loss. The fact that he was reportedly wearing the beanie indoors during an extreme heat wave only makes the alleged scalp cover-up more suspicious. This evolves into a larger discussion about people who wear hats constantly and then reveal a truly catastrophic haircut or horseshoe-shaped hair situation when the hat finally comes off. The hosts' prescription remains astonishingly simple: shave it. Free yourself. Throw away the shampoo. Become aerodynamic. Stop pretending the last six strands are going to mount a counteroffensive.

The bald-head conversation then somehow mutates into an entire men's grooming seminar. Suddenly we're discussing exfoliating mitts, sugar scrubs, soft skin, smelling good and the general concept that perhaps men should take care of themselves instead of deliberately cultivating the physical appearance of a construction worker who has spent fifteen consecutive hours fighting concrete. Memes about rough, cracked hands and women supposedly preferring men who look like they have been assembled out of gravel are dissected, resulting in the revelation that there is apparently a subsection of the internet dedicated to making masculine self-neglect look aspirational. The hosts' counterargument is refreshingly simple: clean yourself, take care of your skin, smell good, and maybe don't make your hands look like Freddy Krueger's stunt double.

And then, because absolutely nothing can remain normal for more than approximately fourteen seconds, the episode swerves into the Great Tramp Stamp Rebranding Initiative of 2026. The lower-back tattoo is allegedly returning, except apparently we are no longer supposed to call it a tramp stamp. The new, supposedly more respectable terminology is "cake topper." The hosts immediately determine that this is somehow worse. The phrase "cake topper" leads to an extended investigation of whether someone could marry the person of their dreams only to discover years later that their spouse has always dreamed of getting a giant lower-back tattoo. Dating itself becomes a subject of confusion, as one host admits he apparently never experienced the traditional sequence of dinner, conversation, learning about someone's hopes and dreams, and gradually falling in love. Instead, relationships somehow just happen. Meanwhile, the other host's friends are attempting to turn nightly walks into opportunities to get to know each other, which sounds suspiciously like a date disguised as cardiovascular exercise.

The tattoo discourse becomes progressively more cursed as the internet supplies increasingly terrible terminology. "Tramp stamp" is challenged by "cake topper," "bumper sticker," and eventually the unforgettable phrase "ink above the stink." At this point, the hosts are basically conducting linguistic research into how many different names humanity can invent for a tattoo located above someone's rear end. The comments section becomes a radioactive wasteland of people arguing about whether the tattoos ever disappeared, whether they should be touched up after twenty years, and whether the terminology somehow makes the whole concept better or significantly worse. The answer, according to the hosts, is definitely the latter.

Then the episode finally arrives at the topic that actually threatens to consume civilization: GTA 6 leaks. The hosts dive into the recent leaked footage surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, including speculation about the hacker behind the material, Rockstar's surprisingly aggressive-but-apparently-not-aggressive response, websites hosting the footage, Reddit discussions, and the bizarre possibility that the entire thing could somehow be part of a marketing strategy. There is even speculation that the supposed hacker could be connected to the promotional rollout, because Rockstar traditionally does not exactly sit around politely watching leaked footage spread across the internet. The possibility of Laszlow secretly being behind everything is raised, because apparently the safest way to explain a massive video game leak is to blame the guy associated with Rockstar's audio and radio content.

The GTA conversation gets even more ridiculous when the hosts discuss the supposed military incentive involving four days off to play GTA 6 if you reenlist, which sounds so absurdly like something from Grand Theft Auto that the internet apparently struggled to distinguish reality from satire. The mental image of someone in the middle of a military deployment trying to redeem their GTA vacation pass is enough to derail the discussion entirely. Meanwhile, November 19 is identified as the date everyone is supposedly going to call out of work, and the hosts begin mentally calculating how much paid time off needs to be hoarded for the inevitable GTA 6 binge. The entire workforce is apparently one Rockstar release away from collapsing.

The leaked footage itself becomes its own comedy routine. People are apparently complaining that the 720p footage looks terrible, prompting the obvious response that 720p footage is, in fact, 720p footage. Complaining that leaked, low-resolution material doesn't look as good as a 4K television is apparently the video-game equivalent of complaining that a security-camera recording doesn't look like an IMAX movie. There is also speculation about multiple versions of the game appearing in the leaks because elements of the HUD don't match, potentially indicating that some of the footage could be several years old. The hosts speculate about evolving driving mechanics, development timelines and the possibility that the leaked material doesn't represent the final game at all.

What follows is essentially a full GTA 6 autopsy based on footage nobody can conclusively establish as representative of the final product. The hosts compare what they've seen to Red Dead Redemption 2, speculating that GTA 6 could combine the deeper interaction, inventory systems and physical mechanics of Red Dead with the criminal insanity of Grand Theft Auto. There is discussion of stealing cars through different methods, potentially cloning locks, picking up clothing and hats from NPCs, more elaborate fighting systems and generally more brutal gameplay. The prediction is that Rockstar isn't suddenly going to turn GTA 6 into a gentle family-friendly driving simulator. If anything, the leaked material suggests the game could be considerably more complex while retaining the violence and ridiculousness that people expect from the franchise.

The biggest fear, however, isn't that GTA 6 will be bad. It's that people will ruin it for themselves. The hosts talk about the possibility of hype backlash, with people inevitably declaring the game overrated because the internet cannot allow anyone to enjoy something without somebody immediately appearing to announce that it is actually terrible. Comparisons are made to Sleep Token discourse, where massive hype eventually causes people to turn around and insist that the thing everyone was excited about is overrated. There is also the classic Red Dead Redemption 2 argument, with one host admitting that some people find it boring while another appreciates its slower pace. The consensus is that GTA 6 could be a massive, lengthy, detailed experience, but nobody wants the story spoiled before they even get to play it.

Finally, just when you think the episode has exhausted every possible form of internet insanity, we arrive at The Goofy Fox That Was Actually Worth $60,000. The hosts discover a bizarre mounted animal head that somebody purchased for roughly £50, initially believing it to be some kind of ugly fox. Instead, the horrifying little creature turned out to be a Tasmanian tiger, an extinct animal with extremely rare surviving specimens. The cheap, hideous piece of thrift-store taxidermy eventually sold at auction for around $60,000, instantly transforming the entire episode's philosophy of shopping. Suddenly the hosts are convinced they have been doing capitalism incorrectly and need to start purchasing significantly stranger objects. Why buy normal furniture when you could buy a terrifying dead animal head that turns out to be a priceless natural-history artifact?

The episode closes by descending into the cursed ecosystem of Facebook Marketplace, including stories about bizarre items for sale in Appalachia, raw milk being sold locally and seafood boils apparently being offered through social media. The hosts understandably draw a line in the sand at purchasing questionable food from strangers on Facebook Marketplace, particularly when the seafood costs hundreds of dollars and the product appears to have been assembled by someone operating entirely outside the known boundaries of food safety. Thus, the Noon Hour concludes exactly as it should: men debating baldness, internet personalities hiding their heads under beanies, lower-back tattoos being renamed after cake decorations, GTA 6 potentially being leaked by a mysterious hacker who may or may not secretly be part of the marketing campaign, and a horrifying taxidermied animal proving that the fastest route to financial independence might simply be buying the ugliest dead thing you can find at a thrift store.

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Speaker 1: The noon hour of madness and mayhem the podcast. What up, Peaches? What's happening?

Speaker 2: Oh, just losing my hair, dude. Losing your hair. Just losing my hair one hair at a time. Going bald. When was it there? It's been a long time. It's been quite a while. So we wanted to let everybody know that it is National Hair Loss Awareness Month.

Speaker 1: We're coming up on three years that I uh pulled the trigger and shaved my head. Really? It's been that long. It was uh August 28th, 2023. Wow.

Speaker 2: I have no idea when I first uh shaved it for the last time.

Speaker 1: It was after that those few days where I got like little to no sleep and my heart went into aphib and my heart was beating irregularly at the time. And I'm like, you know what? If I die, I'm going out with the shaved head. So I ran to the I just immediately went to the

Speaker 3: bathroom and I was listening to sleep token. I remember that, and I just immediately, without even thinking about it, just zzz just shaved your head. Yeah, and shaved it and never looked back.

Speaker 2: All right, so we had come across a number of holidays that seem stupid to me.

Speaker 3: Hey, what do you mean? National Peach Month is obviously the best month of them all.

Speaker 2: Yeah, very important that we take a whole month to pay attention to a fruit. Um You're paying attention to me. Yeah, fruit in more ways than one.

Speaker 3: Wow. Wow. But naturally this guy's supposed to be an ally.

Speaker 2: Okay, uh, hair loss awareness month. Now, if you had a disease or a sickness that was associated with hair loss, because I I know there are uh sicknesses that people lose their hair or if they're going through treatment. Uh-huh. That would make sense. But this is just for people going bald, from what I can see here.

Speaker 3: There was a fake uh, you know how every like prank call uh ever so the Howard Stern show obviously faked a lot of the a lot of the stuff. This guy called in and said he didn't want to be getting dating with his dating his girlfriend anymore because she had cancer and then she was already bald, and he's like, I don't want to date a man. I'm I'm with her permission, I'm gonna start dating. Like he's at this whole fake scenario, right?

Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like people are calling him a pig and like screaming at him. Yeah, obviously. Yeah, because you're supposed to stick with your partner if they through sickness and in health. I would hope so. There's a lot of sicklos out there.

Speaker 2: Oh, you got cancer? See ya. You're right. Yeah, that's that's pretty messy.

Speaker 3: The toughest battle of your life. Well, good luck.

Speaker 2: Yeah, have fun. I'm out of here. Um, but that would be a legit situation like a cancer awareness month. We have a number of those. And it it's a serious disease that affects people and kills people. Absolutely. Going bald, get over it, dudes. That's the end of National Hair Hair Loss Awareness Month. Shave your head and get over it.

Speaker 3: I see this is what sucks about pre-recording the afternoon show, is I already talked about this, and you're gonna hear it around like 3 p.m., 3 15.

Speaker 2: That's okay because people listen at different times. Like, you know, some of the stuff I talk about during the six o'clock hour, I might bring it back during eight or nine, because most people are not maniacs and aren't awake at 6 a.m.

Speaker 3: I feel like my dad and I are going through what have gone through the same life. You know, like he transferred high schools the same time I did, and he also went bald the same time I did. Now, I intentionally waited a year later so I could say mine lasted longer than his, but uh he would get comments from his brothers like, oh, I see you're losing it here and ganging it here, like pointing to the stomach.

And of course, all of his brothers are also fat and bald now too. Um, but uh like my my mom was like really upset that they would make those comments. And I remember like we we went and saw Dotry perform at the Mountain America Center, and Jade pointed at Chris Dottree and said, That's gonna be you soon with like the shaved head and everything. Yeah. And Jade was like the only guy making those kinds of comments towards me.

Speaker 2: I remember telling you you should shave your head back in the day.

Speaker 3: There was also a few others that said you should shave your head, not making fun of me for it, but like saying, like, you know, like you're gonna be dot.

Speaker 2: Well, and Dot Tree, he's all buff and stuff. It's not really an insult to be like, that's what you're gonna look like, Peaches. You're gonna be bald and bald.

Speaker 3: Well, you did just say I would look like the guy from uh Dune.

Speaker 2: in the black The black tar. Yeah. Now that's insulting.

Speaker 3: All right. Yeah. If anything, that's our former GM, like I mentioned.

Speaker 2: Oh, uh let's see. So there are ways you can observe national hair loss awareness month, peaches. And you know what those ways to observe are? Don't give up on fuller hair. Dude, I keep getting an advertisement, by the way.

Speaker 3: This is hilarious. I keep getting this advertisement. Are you still balding in 2026? It's the first thing it says, it's a woman like berating you. Oh, geez. She's like, sign up for him's hair loss.

Speaker 2: Then like, okay, there is medication you can try. There's a lot of chicken.

Speaker 3: You can go to Turkey. You can pull what John Cena's doing and go to Turkey and get the swollen head, and then all of a sudden, like you had this like almost wet looking buzz cut the rest of your life. Yeah, yeah.

There you go. That's also a lot of attention to it. It's a lot of money, too. Like nobody's of money. John Cena has a lot of money. He's he's fine. He can do it.

Speaker 2: Like, I'm telling you, dudes, like ladies will still like you if you have a shaved head. Absolutely. Yeah, you're I think that's the main worry with guys like, oh, if I go in bald, the ladies aren't gonna like me anymore. Trust me, shaving it rather than you know, doing everything you can to try to cover it up. Or hang on to it. Hanging on to it.

Speaker 3: There's a hilarious. There's a hilarious meme that I've seen where it's like 99% of balding dudes shave it right before it all grows back. And obviously it's not the case.

Speaker 2: Like, did you see the video making the rounds of uh it's he's a common right-wing commentator, Tim Pool? All right, do you know who that guy is? No, no clue. Okay, so he he would did one of these videos where you go sit down and you argue with like 20 different people. Have you seen those videos? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll have a you know around. And I guess he got upset and stormed out of the the thing and left.

Speaker 3: Why are they always so sensitive too? I don't know. If they're supposed to like tell it how it is.

Speaker 2: Well, and if you're gonna go into something where people ask you questions, they're going to ask you questions that might be a little bit uh difficult to answer.

Speaker 3: Like Jesse Ventura talks about how tough he is, he's been through all this stuff, but I I've seen him walk out of more radio shows than anybody.

Speaker 2: Oh, he storms out. Yeah.

Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sit here

Speaker 2: and it's like this is part of the job. If you're being interviewed, answer the questions, even and give an angry answer. Sure.

Speaker 3: I'm open to answer anything, too. That's the thing. It's like I who cares, you know.

Speaker 2: I wonder what it would take to get me to storm out of an interview. I mean, I would start screaming and yelling before I stormed out. I'd I'd at least try to argue my way out of it with volume.

Speaker 3: I think it would be more so like somebody else interrupting you consistently.

Speaker 2: The reason I brought up this Tim Pool is because he always wears a beanie. Always. 20 as far as I know, he sleeps in a beanie. That's his CPAP, the beanie. So it's so awkward to see during an extreme heat wave, this guy sitting in this room with 20 people, and he's wearing the stupid beanie on his head inside of a building. And I I so I Googled, like, why does Tim Poole always wear a beanie? It's because he's going bald. It's cause Shave your head, dude. There was a take off the peanie.

Speaker 3: There was a guy at TMZ that always wore a hat, and when you one time he took it off to like itch his scalp. Yeah, it was the worst haircut I've ever seen. I don't know how he just doesn't shave the sides.

Speaker 2: Was it a ball cap or a beanie?

Speaker 3: Uh it was either. Like he would show up with either one. Either one. And then he like he had like that, not even a it was like a lawn horseshoe. Uh huh. It was really weird. I'm like, dude, I was so tempted to walk up there with razors and be like, I'm gonna save you with this.

Speaker 2: But dudes, all you gotta do is shave your head. It's gonna be fine. And then you don't have to buy shampoo and conditioner anymore. You're you're good to go. Showers are way quicker. It's awesome. You know, you you can go to bed immediately after taking a shower, and you don't wake up looking like, you know, somebody puts you in the electric chair in the middle of the night.

Speaker 3: Well, now that I'm I'm bald, I'm also like uh doing things like exfoliation and stuff, so showers are longer. I'm not going to exfoliate my head. Not my head, but I'm like, you know, I got the I got the mitt and I have the sugar scrub and I'm rubbing it on me.

Speaker 2: I I ain't gonna say nothing because I do have one of those exfoliating rags. Oh, see? I I've only used it.

Speaker 3: It's okay to take care of your skin, Victor.

Speaker 2: Well, girls like it if you have soft skin.

Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if you smell good. You don't smell like a dirty metal head.

Speaker 2: Exactly. Clean every part of yourself, uh, exfoliate your skin. The ladies will like it. You see all those memes like this is what my man's hands look like, and they're like, you know, what one of the Marvel Avengers that looks like a rock, you know, like that guy? The Thane? I don't know what their hands look like a thing just cracked and dry.

Speaker 3: From the Fantastic Four?

Speaker 2: And it's like, oh yeah, rub me all over so it looks like the cat scratched the crap out of me. That's the man I want.

Speaker 3: My hands look like this, so hers can look like that. I just did a 15-hour unpaid shift.

Speaker 2: Yeah, my hands look like this, so her body can look like that. It looks like something out of a Freddie Kruger movie. Come on, give me a break. Pages. What? Where did you find this article? What's the headline?

Speaker 3: Uh it was posted by four-nine, which is your height. Um four nine.

Speaker 2: Uh are you on Facebook or something? Yeah. Four, just the number, four nine. Yeah.

Speaker 3: Oh, spelled out. Oh. Four. F-O-U-R-Space nine.

Speaker 2: Four-nine. Digital creator. All right, let me pull it up here. Uh because all things go in cycles, Peaches. Fashion, stuff like that. Apparently, the tramp stamp is coming back.

Speaker 3: Well, they're not really calling it a tramp stamp because that's it's that's a bad label. They're calling it a cake topper. A cake topper because it's above your butt.

Speaker 2: That just sounds worse to me for some reason.

Speaker 3: I don't know why. know why. I call it a stupid decision.

Speaker 2: Now peaches, I know you don't like tattoos very much, though. What if you got your dream girl? You're like, I'm I'm never gonna be apart from you. I can't ever lose you. You gotta be mine forever. You get married, and then she's like, listen, it's been my life's goal, my life's dream to get a cake topper. What are you gonna do?

Speaker 3: She says that what? How after how many years of me knowing her?

Speaker 2: Let's say you uh you do it, you know, like some people do, and you get married really fast. So you you didn't have a lot of time to hear about her hopes and dreams.

Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be talked about on like the first date?

Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what people talk about on dates, because I don't think I've ever sat down and had like a date date. I just somehow sad. I just somehow end up hooked up with people. It just kinda happens.

Speaker 3: That's really sad, dude. What I I don't know. Like, well, no, you want to go out on a date, and then you get what? She's put on some nice clothes, go to a restaurant, have a list of topics to talk about. It's just never worked out that way for me. Two of my friends meet people, and all of a sudden we're hooked up.

We're talking about going on nightly walks because they're trying to improve their health. And I was like, I can join because I'm I've been doing that this whole time. They go, uh, we're gonna use those opportunities to get to know each other. Okay. I'm like, wow.

Speaker 2: All right, so that's a date.

Speaker 3: Okay, I'll put my headphones in and just walk by myself then. I I'd rather hear the sound of my own breathing than like, what are your hopes and dreams? I want to get a cake topper.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder what the comments on this article are like.

Speaker 3: I've had one for 20 years.

Speaker 2: They were very, very popular uh back when I was in my early 20s. That that was a pretty big trend.

Speaker 3: Ah, the steering wheel for the behind from Dirk. The street there, it says right there. Excellent. I've got a 25-year-old one I can whip out.

Speaker 2: Well, you shouldn't have to cover them up. If you've got it uh, I guess cake topper. Show it off.

Speaker 3: There are there's a dude going, No, it's a bleep tramp stamp. No, it will always be a tramp stamp, says another comment. And then they got Haley, cake toppers, that's hot. Just needs the okay. Oh, I know what you were gonna say. Wow. That's what someone says commented to.

Speaker 2: That makes it a million times worse than a tramp stamp.

Speaker 3: We got Mo going put a put lipstick on a pig, still a pig.

Speaker 2: Jeez! Yeah, that's that's how you pick up the chicks, dude. Keep talking that way.

Speaker 3: It's no universe. Am I referring to a tramp stamp as a cake topper?

Speaker 2: Hey, Oh, hey, you know, ladies, if you want to get yourself a tattoo anywhere, I say go for it.

Speaker 3: Where I come from is known as a bumper sticker, regardless of one size. What?

Speaker 2: Bumper sticker. I've never heard that one. Bumper sticker seems like it'd be on your butt cheek.

Speaker 3: Then you got this 40-year-old woman here.

Speaker 2: First of all, they never left, obviously, because ink is forever. No, I'm probably uh guessing that you need to have that tattoo touched up at this point. Uh 20 years later, things fade. You gotta make that thing look fresh.

You need a fresh-free. Can I say this comment from from Crystal? Uh let me see.

Crystal Cameron. Scrolling here. Post about an hour ago. Hmm. I I might have a uh different order. I I'm gonna leave it up to you to I don't think I can.

Speaker 3: Okay, then don't it's insinuating that other comment that I was about to say.

Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Then yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's referring to what they were kind of called back in the 90s. You let me turn the mics off.

Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Um, yeah. Probably best not to say that. Um it's not that bad, but that would insinuate, like you said, the other thing that we mentioned regarding cake topper.

Speaker 3: I did like Morgan's comment. They will forever be ink above the stink to me.

Speaker 2: I got a couple different things. I was like, well, I guess we could talk about this. Have you seen any of the GTA 6 leaks that came out in the last two days?

Speaker 3: Um I I I have I'm not really excited for it because I I can't play it.

Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you got you sold your Xbox.

Speaker 3: I'm just a PC player now, so I'll have to wait for the game to come out. Or I can just when you take the day off that day, I'll probably just peep in through the window and watch you play it. Okay.

Speaker 2: Okay. Or, you know, you could always just go. Okay, I'm not going to say what I was going to say. It involved crime. There was you know, if you're gonna get your hands on GTA 6, commit some crime to get it.

Speaker 3: There was something about like a U.S. Army battalion uh saying, hey, if you re-enlist, we'll give you a four-day GTA 6 pass. And it's a legitimate offer.

Speaker 2: Join the military and we'll give you four days off to play GTA 6.

Speaker 3: The comments were like, sounds like something straight out of GTA. Like Yeah.

Speaker 2: then you're back out in that

Speaker 3: boat, sitting in the middle of the Strait of Horror Moose for a year. Imagine you're in the middle of a battle. Can I redeem this pass?

Speaker 2: And you're like, uh, you know, I'm getting kind of sick of sitting here on this boat. Can I please go back to the mainland in four days of GTA, please?

Speaker 3: Uh November 19th is gonna be the day everybody calls. My voice is correct.

Speaker 2: I need I know I need to seriously uh build up some PTO because I I do want to enjoy a few days off doing nothing but playing GTA 6. Yeah. Well, um, the new leaks, it's kind of confusing me because Rockstar is pretty good about taking things down.

Speaker 3: I think copyright strike. I think they're intentionally you think so. Trying to build a pipe because August 27th is when that Netflix thing happens. Yeah, in a week. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: In a week. And all of a sudden now you got this supposed hacker guy who's trying to intimidate Rockstar into releasing the game as a physical disc. Yeah, watch it be Laszlo. It's Laszlo.

Speaker 3: Just him doing marketing for the release of the footage. So the the footage is like all over Reddit, and it's not getting taken down, which is weird to me. Um so I, of course, since it was just thrown in my face, I checked it out. Um, okay. So when that's thrown in your face, you'll watch it. Yeah. But anytime there's like a grotesque video making the rounds, you're like, I can't.

Speaker 1: I can't do it. No, I mean, but there's something like

Speaker 3: my friend's uh girlfriend sent me uh or she video called me on Snapchat. I'm sitting on the toilet at home. Like, okay, she she's calling me now. Uh all of a sudden I get jump scared by this.

Speaker 2: Uh that would uh that's kind of how I looked when I went to Winco last weekend.

Speaker 3: I'm like, is this a continuation of like what happened with Perez? Like, what's going on here? Oh no. And she's like, no, it's part of a TikTok trend. That's a TikTok trend too. Apparently it's you're supposed to say, like, I really uh to be honest, I really like it when you do this, and it's supposed to be like this heinous thing. Like the the looks just get worse and worse and worse. That's what couples are doing on TikTok. I don't know.

Speaker 2: Oh, well, I've I've got some real weird pictures of me recently. So maybe I'll have to go post them on the K bear TikTok. Sure. But uh reading through the comments on uh these GTA leaks. People on the internet are so dumb sometimes. Sometimes so the videos that were uploaded to Reddit are in uh 720 pixel quality. You know, pretty low quality, old YouTube quality. You know, standard high death is 1080. Most people have a 4K T.

Speaker 3: I was gonna say there's 1440p, there's yeah.

Speaker 2: So the videos are 720p. And people are like, this looks like crap. It's like well, duh, it's not the 4K footage.

Speaker 3: I Just imagine some guy getting all upset. It's all blurry.

Speaker 2: This looks worse than GTA 5. But the another weird part about this is the hacker guy has like three different websites set up where you can just go there and look at the leaks in full, you know, high def quality, and they're all there. It'd be so cool. And those websites aren't getting taken down either.

Speaker 3: It'd be so great to get Laszlo on the show. I need to, I need to find out a way to reach out to him.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be it'd be great. I'd I'd love to meet Laszlo, and it's gonna be interesting because both Laszlo and what's his name, Dan Hauser, the like former head of Rocky.

Speaker 3: I know Dan Hoder, not or Soder, but not Dan Hauser.

Speaker 2: Dan Hauser. I think he was the guy who wrote Red Dead Redemption, GTA 5.

Speaker 3: Like, I mean Imagine being the guy who wrote those games. Yeah.

Speaker 2: And he's like the head guy on him. Laszlo is the head audio guy on him. Uh, and they're not involved with GTA 6.

Speaker 3: So that's someone tells me this this game is gonna be a letdown for a lot of people. I don't know. Uh, you're I feel like it's gonna happen. It's whatever what happened with sleep token is gonna happen with GTA 6.

Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be like

Speaker 3: you're gonna get like, I don't understand the hype, it's overrated. Like you got people trying to do these hot takes online when it comes to like what's the most overrated video game? Red Dead Redemption 2. I found it boring.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And it Red Dead, it is a bit of a slow burn of a game. That's why I like it. It's my my relaxation. I think it's fun. You know?

Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a guy who gets bored easily, and I think Red Dead Redemption 2 is fun.

Speaker 2: Based on the footage I've seen of uh GTA 6 that leaked, I think you're gonna see a combination uh between some of the uh elements of play that you got in Red Dead Redemption 2, like interactions with people, um you know, the inventory management and things like that, but with the GTA chaos. I do think it's gonna be more in the Red Dead 2 vein. I I bet it's a long long story, um, and that the gameplay mechanics, there'll be a lot more complexity to it. Which would be cool, which from what I've seen, it looked kind of kind of cool to me. Like uh, there's a scene when the guy what's Jason? Is that the name of the main game?

Speaker 3: Oh, I haven't paid attention. I'm sorry, I didn't have nothing.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm you know me. I'm I'm I'm in. I I guess not that much if I don't know his name, but he he gets in a fight with some people, and some of the options that pop up, like when he went to steal a car, you could either break the window or you could clone the the lock. So I think in your cell phone, you have some type of device to clone. Also uh the the fighting mechanics seem more like Red Dead picking up weapons, he picks up the cops' hat, security guard's hat, puts it on, like in Red Dead when you know you want to steal somebody's hat. So I think it's gonna be a pretty cool combination between those two games, and based on the violence scenes I saw, I think this is gonna be pretty brutal. I think anybody who's worried about the content getting toned down, I don't think that's gonna happen. Uh I mean, Red Dead 2 has some pretty vile moments in it. I I don't think anybody worried about that.

The game being tame should be worried. So anyway, they're they're all over Reddit. I'm not saying you should go look at them, but they're they're not trying to take them down, apparently, because they were up since yesterday. And Rockstar, I mean, they they cut stuff down fast.

Speaker 3: They're like Disney, they'll just shut it all off.

Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's got it's gotta be some kind of marketing stunt, you would think. And then I'll bet that the final quality footage is even better because the the like some of like the HUD, what is that what it's called?

The on-screen display. Yeah, yeah. Like it didn't match in all the videos. So I think that these were different versions at different times. We could be looking at footage that's a few years old in those leaked clips.

Speaker 3: Well, apparently, like the driving in the game's been around for like over a year now, like the driving mechanics and all of that. No, so who knows? Uh we'll believe it when we see it kind of thing.

Speaker 2: Well, and we're gonna find out more in a week on the uh 27th on Netflix, which people are mad about that too, even though I think they're supposed to put it up everywhere else like six hours later. I don't know if that's just a rumor, but extended look at GTA 6 coming uh next Thursday.

Very excited for that. Um hopefully they don't give away too much, though. You know, I that's the only thing that uh got me bothered about leaks.

I don't want any story, you know. Seeing a little bit of gameplay footage, cool, but I don't want to have it spoiled. It's why I don't watch movie trailers. You know, they always they ruin them nowadays. Stupid directors, editors, so all right.

As we prepare to wrap up the noon hour of madness in mayhem. I know you've been selling all your possessions, peaches, but there gotta be some things out there that if you saw them, you just couldn't help but buy them. Dumb art. Okay, I want you to Google goofy fox bought at market and go to the news.

Speaker 3: Goofy box at market.

Speaker 2: Goofy fox bought at market. That should bring up a story about this. And I want you to look at this mounted head. Bought for 50 quid. Oh my god.

Speaker 3: Now, if you were at the most British dude I've ever seen.

Speaker 2: If you were in a thrift store, Peaches and you saw that mounted head. For sale in Drist. go into your shopping cart?

Speaker 3: No, no, I'm afraid of taxidermy. Every time I go into Texas Roadhouse, I push people out of the way to get out from underneath the moose.

Speaker 2: So this head, it looks nothing like a fox. So I guess you could call it a goofy fox, but it turns out it was actually a natural history. Holy Grail, this is why you should always buy weird stuff. It sold at auction for like $60,000 because it was apparently a Tasmanian tiger, which is an animal that became extinct about a hundred years ago. And there's like hardly any specimens. Most of them are just like skins that were made into rugs.

Not a lot of heads floating around. Imagine. I mean, 50 bucks. Well, it was 50, what are what are those pounds? I don't know how 50 quid, you know, whatever they call it in the UK. Kind of pricey for a wacky head that's mounted to a board. You know, I would have tried to talk him down. Been like, come on, 10 bucks. Look at this thing.

It's hideous. But did they have Antiques Roadshow roll through? Like, did you see that article about the sword that was supposedly used uh when people attack Joseph Smith that they were talking about on East Idaho News? I have Antiques Roadshow roll through and you bring in this strange head mounted to a board. You're like, I know everybody's got these great pieces of silver and stuff here, but look at this head. How much you give me for this?

Speaker 3: 50 pounds to dollars is 68 dollars.

Speaker 2: Oh, so it's 68 bucks. So this guy got way more than $60,000 out of the head at auction. Dude. I need to go shopping for some more weird stuff, dude. I'm not buying the weird enough stuff. You know anybody slinging weird looking dead animals?

Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure there's tons around here. You ever seen the series of videos on Facebook? Or I'm sure that's all over like Instagram, TikTok as well. This girl will talk about what it's like on Facebook Marketplace in the Appalachia area. And it's it's horrible. It's disgusting. Really? What they sell on there.

Speaker 2: You can set your location, right? Yeah. I I might have to give that a look. Please. Just for fun. Because we don't got enough weird stuff around here.

Speaker 3: That's for sure. I did see somebody trying to sell like raw creamy milk on Facebook Marketplace here. And it looked like just old eggnog. Like old, just disgusting golden sludge.

Speaker 2: When I see people selling food on Facebook Market, I'm like, no. No.

Speaker 3: You ever trust that one lady with like a seafood boil on Facebook Marketplace? Come on, spend like $200 in a bag of uh crab and all that stuff.

Speaker 2: Yeah. No thanks.

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