[instrumental music plays] The noon hour of madness and mayhem, the podcast.
Yeah, I am recording the podcast, Peaches.
Now you are.
Now I am. So it'll begin with that. Me going, "Yeah, I am." Uh, it was funny that you mentioned Christmas music, Peaches, 'cause people are so crazy when it comes to Christmas music, and you just can't win. We've been getting a lot of messages to Classy, in I'd say the last week-ish, "When's the Christmas music gonna start? When are you gonna play Christmas music?" And had we been playing Christmas music already on Classy, Peaches, do you know what kind of messages we'd be getting?
I'm sorry, what?
You're ignoring me!
I'm having... I- I came up with a great idea as you were talking-
Okay
... and I was writing it down. I'm sorry.
Save it for the next... Uh, is it for the next break?
It's for the next break.
Okay. So, I was explaining that we've been getting messages asking when we're gonna play Christmas music, people.
Yeah, they've been popping up on my phone every day.
Yes. Now, do you know what kind of messages we'd be getting if we were playing Christmas music already?
Uh, the same messages we're getting now.
Except-
"What idiots running this station."
[laughs]
"Someone at RiverBend's asleep behind the helm. Get that leftist out of the morning show."
"All you guys need to do is have some respect for Thanksgiving and wait till after Thanksgiving to play Christmas music!"
That, that-
You can't win with Christmas music, people.
That's when you just, you know, reply with their profile picture. [laughs]
[laughs]
Or reply with the worst photo on their Facebook and be like, "Is this you?"
[laughs] That is a great insult.
Or you dox them and just be like, "Is this your address?"
[laughs] Is this your address?
[laughs]
Is this your social security number? Oh, man.
Somebody did dox a radio DJ on Reddit one time. [laughs]
Oh.
Posting his real name, posting his a- his home address right there on the subreddit. [laughs]
See, that's why you need to have a real generic real name, so that, uh, if people try to find your address, uh, they have a really hard time.
Uh, Victor lives at, uh-
Blank, uh, in, uh, Rexburg.
I would never, never give out-
[laughs]
... somebody's address like that on the air.
Well, yesterday, uh, when I was in in the morning looking at, uh, the new music for Classy... No... Well, Z, KBear, The Hawk, I was checking out the most popular streaming songs in the last week in East Idaho. What do you think the majority of those top songs were, Peaches?
Christmas songs.
That's right, Peaches! And guess what the number one most popular one in the last week was?
Mariah Carey?
Yes, it was!
All I Want For Christmas?
<>. Mm-hmm. So, crazy enough, I mean, I know for a fact people are already, of their own free will, just rocking Christmas tunes. The second Halloween got over, they just fired them right up. It was all the classics, <>. I mean, I'd say like, uh, probably 75% or so of the top 100 songs... Well, or maybe top 50 in East Idaho right now on Spotify and e- et cetera, all Christmas tunes. It's bizarre, dude. I don't wanna hear Christmas tunes right now, 'cause I've been listening to them since last month. Yeah. Had enough.
I feel bad for the poor retail workers. That's who are gonna suffer the most.
Oh, yeah. I mean, they were putting up those decorations months ago.
Yeah.
Now they're just, just gonna suffer through those Christmas tunes. And it's Walmart radio. "Hey, everybody! It's Walmart radio and here we go with another Christmas classic. It's <>."
I feel like it would be almost insulting, not for Classy but for other stations out there, where, like, they have to do the very early Christmas switch in order to gain attention for their station.
Mm-hmm.
'Cause it's, it's more so just a, a publicity stunt to be like, "Hey-"
Yeah.
"... this station exists. Now we're playing Christmas songs for those who are extra weird about the Christmas season."
Maybe we should really torture Josh next year and we start playing Christmas music in August. [laughs] Just really jump ahead of the game. Flip Crassy- Classy.
Crassy. [laughs]
[laughs] Wouldn't that be a fun-
That's an good-
... fun radio station? [laughs]
No, that, that's a great April Fools Day prank.
[laughs]
You change Classy to Crassy97.
And they're just rude.
And Chantelle gets to be herself. Josh gets to be himself.
They just swear.
They, [laughs] oh!
[laughs] Crassy97.
They take the trash out and bleep you. [laughs]
[laughs]
[instrumental music plays] Peaches, I gotta say, whatever you're doing over there, the sheer mention of Christmas has just disrupted my social media feed. It- it's a, it's amazing how fast it can go from Facebook listening to your phone to feeding you content about whatever you're yapping about. I've got, uh, an article up about top Christmas movies. Like, why? Why would that just come out of nowhere
if they're not listening to everything we do? You know all those horrible things you say all the time when the mics are off, Peaches? That's why your algorithm looks that way. But it's not as weird as Jade's.
But I also send those messed up- [clears throat] messed up videos to people and really, really make my, uh, my feed as messed up as it can be.
Yeah, and, and it can be enjoyable if you're in the right mood for it. You know, like, some of those AI videos, I just couldn't take them yesterday. And you just showed me the Peaches pizza video. If you had shown me that yesterday, I might have just puked. [laughs] I might have vomited. Have you shared that for our audience yet?
Uh, no. No.
Okay.
I, I'm working on another video that's gonna be posted everywhere. I wanna make sure this one... It, it, it is a priority.
Okay. All right. Well, make sure you get the Peaches pizza video posted to the KBear group.
'Cause it's a... This one's a KBear Classy crossover.
A Crassy then.
Crassy crossover. Speaking of classy-
It's a Crassy 101
... I emailed you the, uh, what I was just working on.
Okay. Let's pull it up here.... this is a, uh-
If you're just now tuning in-
... Christmas song.
In that previous break, we were talking about, um, people who just jump the gun when it comes to Christmas music and annoy the Classy97 Facebook page by just asking, "When are you guys starting Christmas music?"
And, East-
We will when we will, okay?
Yeah, East-
Shut your mouth.
East Idaho has already started it. I saw the streaming numbers. People are listening to Christmas m- music like crazy.
Be glad I'm not in charge of the Classy97 Facebook page 'cause I'd be replying back with a nice, uh, Crassy97 response with-
[laughs]
... Bleep you. [laughs]
[laughs] All right, so this is just, uh, Peach's, uh, anti-Christmas tune?
Uh, no, this is, uh, Josh and Shantel doing an anti-Christmas Christmas song.
Oh, so they're singing.
Uh, yeah, that's wh- how, uh, Suno or ChatGPT, uh, assumed it was.
Okay.
I think. Yeah.
All right, let's check it out.
Words. Yeah.
Doo-doo-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-dun-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-dun-do-do-do-do.
I love songs that sing about doo-doo. I gotta tell you-
It's great
... every time I hear it, I- I just love it.
Right.
Doo-do-dun-do-do-do-do.
It's not even Thanksgiving. We're still eating pie. But here come the messages. "When's the sleigh bells, you guys?"
[laughs]
We love a good jingle. We love old St. Nick. But Classy97's got limits. Y'all are getting real quick. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Stop it. Stop it. Your tinsel can wait. Josh and Shantel are trying not to break. It's still November. Don't make them snap. Your Christmas obsession's giving us whiplash. Too early for a riot. Too soon for the snow. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
[laughs]
Calm down, Karen. We'll let you know.
[laughs]
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-dun-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
This is a pretty good Christmas song.
Hey, jingle bell rock. It's 80 degrees. We're still unmelting from summer, please. You're counting your reindeer. We're counting the days till we give in and flip that sleigh right switch anyway. Stop it. Stop it. Your tinsel can wait. Josh and Shantel are losing their faith. The North Pole called. They said, "Relax. We promise the jolly's coming back." You'll get your bing, your ding, your ho, ho, ho. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. But not till we say so. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
[laughs] You've got to send this to those guys so they can play it [laughs] on the morning show.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
They- they were right outside the studio, both of them, Josh and Shantel, and I was-
[laughs]
... hoping they would come in.
Yeah. That's why we raise in-
Oh, Josh!
Shantel.
Shantel and Josh, come here.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. If one more times gone by.
We have present for your morning show, and, uh, I think you're really gonna love it. Peach has just threw this together 'cause we were talking about Christmas maniacs. You know? Um, Shantel, you can go ahead and, uh... Here, I'll get Mike 4 fired up here, and we're gonna have to turn the mics off when the, uh, the song starts playing. But, you know, people are weird when it comes to Christmas music. They either want it right now
or it's too early.
[laughs]
One or the other.
You can't win.
No, you just can't win with any of them.
There is no making anyone happy.
No.
Yeah.
And, y- you know, right now, so far, Classy97 is not the Christmas music station.
Uh, we will be the Christmas music channel beginning-
Do we have to be the channel still?
[laughs]
Uh, well, I just rebuilt everything, so yeah, we better.
[laughs]
Okay. I've just gone back to station.
Yeah.
[laughs]
Okay.
That's, that's my choice.
You could just go over it, Josh, and be like, "Christmas music station."
[laughs]
Yeah, just-
Yeah.
[laughs]
Uh, so I did... Uh, you know, that's what I- I did, and I've built, you know, 200 some odd pieces of imaging. So yeah, we're gonna keep it.
Mm, I think you need to start over Josh-
Mm, no
... and, uh, go back to being the Christmas music s- uh, station.
No, it's fine.
Yeah.
We'll, we'll be fine.
But, uh, we... Uh, Peach has made a song for you. Gonna play it for, for you right now, and we're gonna make the listeners suffer through it again-
[clears throat]
... even though we almost listened to the whole thing already.
All right.
And this is a message for your listeners, uh, [laughs] for right now.
Okay.
All right? And you tell me if you'll play this on your show.
Doo-doo-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-dun-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-dun-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-dun-do-do-do-do. It's not even Thanksgiving. We're still eating pie. But here come the messages. "When's the sleigh bells, you guys?" [laughs] We love a good jingle. We love old St. Nick. But Classy97's got limits. Y'all are getting real quick. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Stop it. Stop it. Your tinsel can wait. Josh and Shantel are trying not to break. It's still November. Don't make them snap. Your Christmas obsession's giving us whiplash. Too early for a riot. Too soon for the snow. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Calm down, Karen. We'll let you know. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
[laughs]
Now,
look. Look, I was all good. [laughs]
[laughs]
"Calm down, Karen. We'll let you know."? That's such a good line.
It is good. [laughs]
Yeah, we've done a few breaks on AI songs recently 'cause they've gotten so good.
That's really good.
Really good.
Yeah, it is. [laughs]
I mean, the lyric quality.
Yeah.
Uh, the-
And true. [laughs]
[laughs]
Calm down. [laughs]
We also made a joke earlier about how for April Fool's Day, you guys should, you guys should switch to Crassy97-
Yes. [laughs]
And so you guys would do something about-
Crazy
... like, you know-
I love it
... if you didn't do the dishes, bleep you, you know.
[laughs]
Oh, geez. [laughs]
[laughs]
I love it. I'm all in.
[laughs]
Darn it. [laughs]
[laughs]
So, we got lots of ideas for you guys.
Yes. [laughs]
We got some more dang music coming up.
There's Highway to Heck.
Uh, so, we- we'll send you this song 'cause it, it's got a lot of pretty good parts in it, and-
Yeah.
We thought your listeners might enjoy it on tomorrow's morning show.
[laughs] A lesson. Some of them could use a lesson.
Okay.
[laughs]
We'll see what happens."Not the little St. James." [laughing] What the heck?
[laughs] Have you never seen that page, In Real Life Loading Screens?
Uh-uh.
It, it, it'll make fun of, like, current events and make it like a loading screen.
Okay, that-
Yeah.
That explains that one. Yeah, I haven't seen that one. All right, Peaches, I just stumbled across a subreddit called All Rock Music. Have you ever seen this one?
No, I haven't but I, I do know that using Reddit makes you a leftist. I will not give up on that joke.
[laughs] Well, it's true, Peaches. You know, I, I was hanging out in R/Conservative the other day, and those are clearly as far left as they go.
A lot of blue-haired people in there.
Tons, tons of 'em! Tons of 'em.
Tons of septum piercings, all that.
So, All Rock Music, it looks like is just, you know, random rock music posts, as you'd expect. But right now, there's a very popular post going on called What's Ruining Rock Music?
Oh boy, is Eddie Trunk the one who posted this?
[laughs] God, he is such a turd.
He really is. He h- he's losing all of his, uh, music acts that he likes, like Ace Frehley, you know, rest in peace, like-
Yeah
... uh, he was talking about like, "I love this band, Tesla," recently.
Yeah.
And I'm like, "They're in their 60s." Pretty soon-
Oh, okay
... all of the acts that Eddie Trunk boasts about on his radio show are gonna be dead, and then what is he gonna talk about?
I mean, Tesla's gotta be older than their 60s.
I love The Pretty Reckless.
Let's find out how old the guys in Tesla are. Let's go with Jeff Keith, lead vocalist. Uh, 67. You, you called it, Peaches. I would've thought they'd be a little bit older than that, since they formed in 1981.
I think the oldest band that is still touring, The Rolling Stones, they're in their, I think, 80s. [laughs]
Yeah, they're, they're up there.
Or late 70s.
They're up there. So, the guy who... well, actually, it was a, maybe it was a, a woman. The poster's name was Amber Flowers.
Oh, sure.
Uh, says that artificial intelligence is ruining rock music.
Usually, you never see a woman complain a lot. Like, it's mostly some big, fat, hairy dude.
Yeah.
He's like, "Oh, yeah, I haven't showered in two weeks, but let me tell you about my opinion on metal."
Yeah, and generally, they're just old people, 'cause rock music is in the best state it's been since probably the early 2000s.
Don't you love those, uh, those people that just comment, "Not metal," on, uh-
Not metal.
... Poppy's, on Poppy's videos-
[laughs]
... and Sleep Token and Bad Omens?
Not metal!
"Back in my day, we had Slayer."
[laughs] Well, and back in the day, like, uh, AC/DC was a- as extreme as it gets.
Yeah, Judas Priest was, uh, pretty extreme back then, too.
Like, people will say, "Ghost, not metal," right? You see that all the time. But who is the most legendary and revered metal band? Black Sabbath.
Who does Ghost sound closest to [laughing], other than maybe Deep Purple?
Also-
Black Sabbath.
Ozzy really enjoyed Ghost. That's why I think he had Ghost-
Yeah, yeah
... as part of his hall of fame, right?
But I mean, if, if Sabbath-
I saw Ghost open up for Black Sabbath back in 2017.
Yeah, if Sabbath is metal, why wouldn't any of these other bands be metal? Ozzy doesn't scream in songs. There aren't blast beats.
I listened to the old Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath. It's pretty boring. I'm not, not gonna lie [laughing] I'm sitting there-
How dare you!
It's like, yeah, it's just, it's just boring.
[laughs]
Like, if I, if I was around in 1965 when it came out, woo! Yeah.
Oh, yeah, it would've been pretty crazy. I mean, Paranoid was pr- you know, that's their second album. You know, that, that's pretty upbeat and rocking.
I do like that song.
[singing]
Can
never go wrong with that one. Yeah.
You know? So that, it, it, it's metal. But, uh, let's see what these guys are saying is ruining metal. Um,
small music venues closing down. That, that's not ruining metal, that just sucks. Metal's still good.
[laughs] It just goes to show how little fans there are for metal [laughs].
Or ruining rock music-
Oh
... I guess I should say. Not, not metal. All right, you know, perfect recordings. No live or garage-type feel. Sorry, I, I like good production, Peaches.
Yeah, same here. I, I hate the whole live album crap that pe- that bands do sometimes.
Yeah, live albums generally sound terrible.
Right.
You know? Like, if I could listen to Ghost's live albums or their studio albums, any day, I'm gonna go [laughing] with the studio albums.
'Cause I'm, I'm mad I'm not at the concert when I listen to a live album.
Yeah, totally. 'Cause it, a live album doesn't sound like what it sounds like when you're at a live show. You can't feel the music like that. You're not getting pummeled by the bass.
Like, I thought Vanna did a great job at the show on Saturday, opening for Set It Off. And then I just watched a YouTube video of hers, and she sounds awful, 'cause it's a YouTube video. [laughs]
Yeah, YouTube videos are terrible, for sure. And, ugh, you know, just bad recordings with a garage-type feel. Like, throw on pretty much any black metal band. They, their albums sound awful.
Turn on Sanguisugabog.
[laughs] Yeah, just sounds terrible. You know, uh, nothing against the songs. Oh, now they're blaming us, Peaches. Well, we're not really corporate radio.
No, we're not.
But corporate radio's not ruining rock music either.
It, th-
Corporate radio just sucks.
There was somebody that was commenting on one of my, on the video, of, of the latest video that I posted of the, uh, music releases. And the guy was like, "Why don't you spin some of these then?" I'm like, "I will."
[laughs] Yeah.
What about the Utah KBear?
[laughs] Exactly.
Like, I've been playing some heavy stuff for Peaches' Pick of the Day. That's one of the rules. Just because you didn't hear it l- on when you listened to KBear doesn't mean it doesn't play.
Yeah. I mean, this morning, I played 13 minutes of Opeth.
I also saw you played OMG from Strapping Young Lad.
[laughs] Yes, I did.
And I, I snuck in a song one morning you didn't... I don't think you even commented on it. I played Despised Icon with Matt Honeycutt-
Oh
... Over My Dead Body as your-
I was just like, "Cool"
... metal morning wake-up call.
I'm like, "All right, cool." [laughs]
Yeah. [laughs] I just thought you arrived late and you're just playing. [laughs]
I'm gonna respond to this person that said corporate radio and put, "Corporate radio
is ruining radio, not rock music."[laughs] 'Cause, yeah, rock music is just fine. Who dares call me? Oh, music rep.
[laughs] Speaking of-
Oh, and then of course-
...
... this ain't a cover radio
... you always have this comment, "I didn't even know radio was still a thing. Oh, people still listen to radio?" [laughs] Like, tons of people listen to radio.
Can you legally punch them?
Well, jcook023, I'm coming through the internet for you.
[laughs]
I'm coming through the tubes of the internet to find you.
I'm such a comedian. What's the deal with airplane food?
Ugh, all, all these idiots. "You listen to the radio?" Man, these guys suck. All right.
"I listen to my curated playlist on Pandora."
[laughs]
You old fogey.
Fans who, who only care about legacy bands. There we go. People who are aversive to new music.
Eddie Trunk.
Eddie Trunk is ruining rock music. [laughs]
I, he, he just, he just did this one, uh, break about... I, I wish we t... I wish we talked to him. He asked the question, "What younger band should we pay more attention to?" Or something like that.
All right.
And it had the Funeral Portrait on that list.
Okay.
It had a basic- basically a bunch of generic rock bands. There was no Bad Omens. There was no weird stuff to it. You know?
Okay.
There was no ex- there was no slightly metal in, in there. It was just-
Well, Eddie Trunk, he-
... classic rock sound.
It's am- it's amazing he was on a show called That Metal Show, when the guy is so out of touch with metal music. Yeah. That, that's why that show failed. [laughs] 'Cause people in the modern age were watching it like, "Guys, it's not 1980 anymore. You gotta get with the times."
I now know how you feel about me when it came to, like, the hair on my head. You know, like, just shave it off.
[laughs]
'Cause I see Eddie Trunk, and I'm like, "Dude, half of your head-
Just shave it off
... is th- is there.
[laughs]
Like, you're just... You're halfway there. Just shave the rest off. Why are you holding on?
Oh, no. You're gonna make r/bald start showing up in my feed again. [laughs]
[laughs] I talked about it yesterday too.
No. Stop! [laughs] Peaches, that's a weird photo you just showed me of Eddie Trunk.
[laughs]
Like, that's a pro shot. Why didn't he have them do some, some work to it?
"Great having Cris- Criss Angel sit in with me today on 'Trunk Nation,' discussing his new show with Alice Cooper." So, you have Criss Angel, and then you have some old dad who talks a lot about rock music. [laughs]
Could Criss Angel make Eddie Trunk disappear? [laughs] Please.
[laughs] Ugh.
[laughs] Could... You ever see those old videos where Criss Angel would put a bunch of hooks in his back and then get flown by a helicopter over the Grand Canyon? [laughs]
[laughs] Not the Eddie Trunk blimp.
[laughs]
[laughs] We're gonna see Trunks' trunk flying through the air.
[laughs]
There goes Eddie.
[laughs]
It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a failed radio DJ flying across the sky.
[laughs]
[laughs] Trunk Nation.
[laughs]
There's his TrunksNation right there. [laughs]
Wasn't one of the old magic tricks you put somebody in a barrel, push them over a Niagara Falls? A trunk would work. [laughs]
[laughs] You didn't have anybody who says, "I don't listen to the radio?" [laughs]
[laughs]
Fly him over with hooks. [laughs]
[laughs] Oh.
What was that one thing? Like, it was, uh, David Blaine was in ice.
Yeah, yeah, [laughs] that'll work too.
Frozen solid.
[laughs] Yeah. Or, you know, when they'd saw a woman in half. [laughs]
Geez.
[laughs]
Trunk Nation.
[laughs] They generally put her in a trunk. [laughs] Or when they put him in the big trunk, and they stick all the swords
into him. [laughs] Trunk Nation.
We're, we're gonna get somebody all upset. "People are talking about killing a radio DJ on Cave Mirror." [laughs]
[laughs] No, we're talking about failed magic tricks, everybody.
[laughs]
That's different. [laughs] Oh.
[laughs] That's it. That's all we needed.
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