[upbeat music] The noon hour of madness and mayhem, the podcast.
Victor, why is the screen blue?
'Cause it's a piece of crap. That's my guess.
I walked in here and went, "Wow, this is tough to look at."
Mm-hmm. Yeah. I saw that this morning as well and figured, all right, more stuff breaking around here. Just what we need.
Everyone knows you are the guy that poured the, uh, water all over the equipment just so Jade on Friday this past week-
Mm-hmm
... or was it Friday before?
It might've been mid-week. Might've been early like, uh-
I thought it was Friday
... maybe it was Friday before.
Because Lieutenant Crane came in and you said, "Get outta here-"
[laughs] Get?
... because he, y- there was no traffic school. There w- there was no-
Oh
... ability to have traffic school that day.
That's right. That is right. So it would've been, yes, the Friday a week before this last Friday. Yeah. There's video evidence, as you posted on, uh, social media-
Y-
... of me pouring water all over everything.
I was, uh, I made some sort of a, I made a Christmas post with Aubrey, and one of our listeners commented saying, "Hey, is the, is the, uh, studio still messed up?"
Yeah.
And I went, "No, it's, it's back to mostly working-"
Yeah
... but we're not going to be here-"
Yep
... "that Friday."
Correct.
Well, that same listener, after I told them that the day before, then posted in the KBear 101 Idaho Rock and Metal Facebook group asking, "Is the studio still broken? Why aren't you guys in there? I tried calling three times for traffic school." [laughs]
Yeah, and-
And it's like, "Dude, come on. I told you this already."
Like, I dumped in a bunch of, uh, best ofs for that day-
Mm-hmm
... and I didn't look to see, you know, when they, uh, uh, what, reconciled or whatever, resolved-
Right
... to see what they were. So, there's a possibility that there was like a, uh, a segment from best of traffic school-
Which I'm sure-
... that aired.
I think there is. There is one with Crazy Jay where you guys-
Ah
... were picking on him.
Yeah.
Shout out Crazy Jay, by the way.
So, that could've made it confusing and made it sound like we were having traffic school even though we weren't here. But as far as I know, we are doing it this Friday.
Awesome.
As far as I know.
Fantastic. Traffic school powered by The Advocates. Ho- Mostly every Friday. [laughs]
Yes.
Mostly on Fridays.
Yes. Just, uh-
I don't know how you put that. Uh, m- most of the time on Friday.
Yeah.
08:45.
We just didn't have a way to take callers live, uh, 'cause the board was broken. So...
You should've sat down with Lieutenant Crane in your office and just did a live video on TikTok or something.
Well, I had posted, uh, in the group, you know, "Hey, anybody have any questions." But I think by the time he got here, we had one question. So it was like, all right, the, let's just skip it. You know?
And it's usually people just regurgitating the same stuff.
Yeah, and I couldn't do ask me almost anything, 'cause same deal. Uh, you know, we didn't have the ability to go, to go live. So...
And that reminds me, I did see this post in, uh, Life in Pocatello by some user named Mariah. Uh, she posted this on Saturday. "Just got cut off in the middle of the Chubbuck Road intersection by a Chubbuck police officer turning left at a red light whom, whom almost caused multiple accidents in the process because they thought pulling someone over that was five cars ahead was more important than the community safety."
Whoa.
And then wrote a cl- and then put the clown emoji.
[laughs]
"Careful out there in this weather. These 25-year-old police officers haven't had their driver's licenses for very long and feel that traffic laws don't apply to them." Eye roll emoji. "I wish I would've got it on video. It was actually pretty scary." And then after 65 comments, she turned the comments off.
[laughs]
I'm assuming because people were fighting against her. Now, there's no such thing as being a great driver after having your driver's license for a good amount of time. I mean, you can, the boomers are a prime example.
Yeah, just 'cause you've been driving a long time...
I've had my license for 60 years
... that doesn't mean you're a good driver, just 'cause you've had it for a long time.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, I've met teenage drivers that are much better than adult drivers. So, just kinda depends on your level of caution, um, alertness, you know, your ability to pay attention to your surroundings, stay off your phone, not be a distracted driver so you don't end up having to deal with The Advocates' injury attorneys.
I'm telling you, that accident that I was in last winter totally messed me up. I, I want nothing to do with driving around anymore. I'm looking at the weather every single day. I'm like, "Sh- can I make it to Rexburg or will there be some sort of sudden snow storm that I'm not going to drive in back from Rexburg to Idaho Falls and all of that?" J- just because it's the, I'm, I'm so afraid of that car not being able to stop or whatever, something.
And it can get pretty nasty between Idaho Falls and Rexburg.
Oh, yeah.
So, yeah. Not-
Like that one time... [laughs] There was that one road trip back in January of 2023 when I was driving from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake City just to try to get a flight. That was the most dangerous drive I've ever b- ever been on with that Malad Pass being so engulfed in, with snow. I couldn't see anything.
Yep.
I was stuck behind a plow.
It's n- not a good time to, uh, go on long road trips. I'm hoping we get lucky with some of the upcoming February shows and the weather is good for like Ghost, Bad Omens. But this time of year sucks. Sucks for making plans.
I was so mad that one day that we were supposed to go see Beartooth in, in Salt Lake at the complex and, uh, Caleb, I was supposed to interview Caleb Shomo-
Yep
... on the s- on the site. But luckily, that interview got canceled because Caleb wasn't feeling well and I went, "Well, it's impossible for me to get down to [laughs] Salt Lake City-"
[laughs]
"... unless I drive for five hours and miss part of the show."
Yeah, so, you know, sometimes you just gotta
cut your losses.
Right.
You know? Yeah, we got really lucky. Bekka and I, we went to Jackson, you know, for the Ian Munsick show, and then a week later there was an avalanche that, uh-
Yeah
... closed the pass. [laughs]
Well, I think they were doing some sort of controlled testing or something like that.
Yeah, they did it on-
But then they, but then they triggered a real avalanche to happen.
They did it on purpose.
Wow.
You know, 'cause they knew one was coming. But yeah, it shut the pass down. Would've been a nightmare drive taking the long route.I don't know.
I think a tornado's possibly on the way, so let's just run in circles as fast as we can.
Oh, geez. Yeah. I'm, I'm hiding in the house, Peaches.
Yeah, me, me too.
[laughs]
You know, I feel so bad 'cause I was just talking in the promo meeting, before the promo meeting started, about the, the Walmart Plus membership, trying to get my groceries delivered to my place so I don't have-
Mm-hmm
... to go anywhere.
Yeah.
I feel like that's a great, [laughs] great w- It's a great way to not only save money, but also you don't have to deal with old people who I've been picking on quite a lot, uh, recently, w- uh, walking around Walmart, hunched over, leaning on the carts. You wouldn't believe how many of those people I ran into, um, over the Christmas vacation, or Christmas break I should say.
Oh, yeah. Uh, I went to Walmart on Christmas Eve. I don't recommend anybody does that.
I, I, I, I did too. I went to the Rexburg one.
[laughs]
And, uh, me and Aubrey sort of split up and I just was like Gronkowski going down to the end zone.
[laughs]
I was pushing everybody outta the way. I was yelling certain things that I shouldn't yell. [laughs] I gotta-
Especially in Rexburg.
I gotta be careful, you know? [laughs]
[laughs]
There, there... We went to a, a certain restaurant yesterday, and, uh, uh, we were standing at the front door. It was so crowded in the lobby we couldn't move anywhere, and it was an hour-long wait. This older lady, middle-aged woman, decides to open the door behind me. Not the left door where there's room. Open the door behind me, and then go, "Hello? Hello?"
[laughs]
And I turn around. I'm like, "Can't you see there's an opening?"
[laughs]
I, I screamed. I'm like-
[laughs]
... "Open the left door."
[laughs]
What, does the left door not work? And then she-
She- she-
And she, n- uh, then went to the counter, said something to the worker, went back outside, and then I went to wait outside with the rest of [laughs] Aubrey's family. And sure enough, her and her [laughs] family saw me and just took off.
[laughs] There's a giant psycho inside. Let's leave.
Let's get out of this place. [instrumental music plays] Well, Victor, we ended that last break with, "Let's get out of here," and that's a perfect segue into this article that I saw from, is it 103.5 KISS FM over in Boise?
Oh, these guys and their endless clickbait. Yeah.
This one wasn't clickbait. I, I was-
Okay
... I was pleasantly surprised.
Is it about cheese?
Shout out to Shannon. No, this one's about, um, nobody hates Idaho like me. Um, teens are discussing Idaho hatred online.
Okay.
The- There are plenty of people online who are, uh, young, um, uh, uh, from Idaho that don't necessarily want to be here in this state.
Yeah, it's-
And I figured I would bring it up because there's a lot of people that say, "Well, you can just get out," but then there are people who l- have been born and raised here who do want to leave.
Yeah, it's not as easy as just get out.
No, and people are saying like, "California's always open." Uh, uh, good luck.
Do you know how much it costs to live there?
Yeah.
I mean, here's the thing. Here's my idea. If you're a teenager tuned in right now, you absolutely hate Idaho, finish high school, and if you wanna go to college in California, that's gonna be a little different than what I'm suggesting right now, but I know most people, uh, are, are... More and more people are seeing college as not necessarily an option anymore. So-
Yeah
... if you want to just go from high school straight to adulthood, you grab, like, five of your closest friends. You then move to Southern California, and you all get a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment, and you live in that for, like, $3,500 a month-
[laughs]
... without utilities, without the internet, w- uh, groceries are gonna be different. Give that to one guy. Have g- have the one dude get groceries, and everybody... I, I don't know. Uh, how would you separate that? You'd just get a giant whiteboard and-
Yeah, I don't, I don't know, man, but it's-
... start listing everything differently? I don't know.
Again, it's not as easy as just get up and leave, and when I was young I wanted to get outta Idaho as fast as possible. Now-
What made you d- decide to stay here?
I have a job. Actually, it was, you know, I had kids, so that gets you stuck somewhere, but now it's like we work in radio and we've got pretty stable radio jobs. Like, I'm, I'm not gonna go work for one, one of these companies like, you know, that's a Town Square Station you were talking about. No way. Not gonna go work for iHeart. No. Or... Be- Beasley Media or Audacy.
iHeart. iHeart you just get fired in the Dua Lipa room every-
Exactly.
Tha- that's what happens to all the employees after six months of working there.
Yeah, so, you know, now the only thing that keeps me stuck here is I can't afford to move to somewhere where it's nicer weather, [laughs] you know?
Here's the thing. Here's the thing.
All the places with good weather-
You already have the nice house here in the area.
Yeah.
You, you can easily wait for, like, that perfect peak point for the real estate market, and then you sell it for the most money you can.
Yeah.
And then you move to Arizona, and then you just walk to 98 KUPD, and [laughs] you just have your resume in hand, and you start crying your eyes out, and you-
KUPD just fired their, like, 20-year afternoon host.
Well, now's your opportunity.
And i- And I thought Hubbard Media was one of the good places.
I mean, I-
But I'd assume that's a budget cut.
That's perfect for you. Afternoons... You no longer have to do mornings.
Oh, it would be great.
Afternoons with Victor Welch in Arizona. The Arizona Assault Show with Victor Wel- I don't know. Something dumb. A- And then-
Let's see if they listed the job.
You have, uh, your daughter Taryn out there in Phoenix. It's perfect for you.
I mean, Phoenix... Like, I think I would take dealing with Phoenix summer over dealing with Idaho winter, 'cause at least you don't have to get out and shovel, and you-
But for me-
... you just hide inside.
But for me, uh, the, the, the Arizona summer, it's gonna be brutal. It's gonna be 120-plus degrees every single day.
It's bad.
And you're one electrical outage a- away from dying.
[laughs] That's true.
'Cause everybody needs that AC.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, that, that's true, and, uh, you know, the water situation's getting to be a little bit different down there. Uh, it's an iffy area to live in. You know, I wish I could afford to live in certain areas of Arizona, maybe not Phoenix, but... Like, Sedona's really expensive. Um,
and then, like, where I would like to live in Oregon is really expensive too. The housing's just out of, out of control.I am scrolling to see if Phoenix is, uh... I'm guessing they're not gonna fill that position. I'm guessing, uh, what they're gonna do is they're gonna eliminate their night's position and put the night's guy, Shan Man, they'll put-
Shan Man?
Shan Man, they're gonna-
Shan Man in the afternoons. What's going on everybody? Let's play some heavy metal.
I bet that's what they'll do, and then they just won't have, uh, middays.
We're gonna play some Audio Slave, the heaviest song we have here. [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, they just won't have a night shift. Maybe they'll start, uh, you know, running a syndicated show or something like that. 'Cause that happened a couple weeks ago, and I am not seeing any listings for on-air talent in Phoenix.
Get ready for AI Ashley.
[laughs] Yeah, exactly. That's what they're gonna have going on there. So, yeah, kids who are hating on Idaho, like, I don't know, when you get older things get a little bit better. The late... You, you know, y- when you're a kid th- it doesn't seem like there's that much to do. When you get older and you're content to stay at home, it's not too bad. It's just winter. Like the minute it snowed the other day and I had to get the shovel out, I, I was mad. And then when I went out to my truck this morning, it's all icy-
It's all cold
... 10 degrees.
Yeah.
I was like, "This sucks. This is pissing me off."
I think this is a lot of people with seasonal depression, and it's only December.
Oh, yeah, I should take, uh, vitamin D pictures.
But-
Thank you for reminding me
... there- there's a wide variety of comments on this guy's video. He says, "Nobody hates Idaho like me." That's what he says, right?
Okay.
The, the first comment, "Good. Leave."
[laughs]
Two words. That, that's what you g- it's like-
So bright
... okay, I'll do that. [laughs] You know?
[laughs] It's not that easy.
Yeah, right.
It costs money to move.
There's that one hater of mine that just keeps telling me to go back to California. I'm like, "Okay, I'll go." [laughs]
[laughs]
You know?
He just outta here. Yeah.
Um, one guy yelled, "For real, get me out of this heck hole."
[laughs]
Another one says, "Love-hate relationship," like what you were just mentioning.
Yeah, there you go. I like it here during the, uh, nice months. It's not too bad. Yeah.
Another one, another one says, "Idaho Falls will be the death of me."
[laughs]
[laughs] I thought that was pretty funny.
I, I can feel that. [laughs]
"Counting down the days. Biggest mistake, moving here," from Claudia.
Where'd she move from though? You gotta say.
I'm... Yeah, I mean, who knows? I mean, could be... I, I, I feel like people come out here for school. People come out here for a new opportunity.
Yeah.
There's not that many people moving out here than you think, that you think. It's more so like Nashville, Dallas. We've t- we've talked about this many times.
Yeah, yeah, I mean-
The number one m- most moved to state in 2024 is like Vermont.
Yeah.
I don't meet a... I don't know anybody from Vermont that's screaming their heads off about Californians moving there. I don't know anybody from Vermont overall.
Y- me either, you know?
[laughs]
It's a, it's a little teeny state, so.
Maybe I should join Life in Vermont [laughs] or like-
And that's the thing, people see these percentages, it's like a per capita thing, and it's like, no, the, the sheer number of people moving elsewhere is bigger. You know, we might have a good percentage of population growth, but people are going to, like, dumps like Texas, you know? Texas is just overrun with people.
Uh, the, the... From The Fit Cranberry, maybe you should be this guy's friend, "Us liberals in Idaho need to stick together. It's scary out here, man." [laughs]
[laughs] [instrumental music plays]
You know Justin from down the hall at 105 The Hawk? He decided to post on the, uh, 105 The Hawk Facebook page, "Backing into your parking spot. Yes or no?"
[laughs] Oh, what is with these guys and parking backward in the parking lot? They act like you're crazy if you don't do it.
They're the, uh, Dr Pepper drinkers of parking.
I'd say, 'cause Josh and Justin both back into their parking spots. Uh-
Everybody kinda has their specific parking spot around here.
Kinda.
I've noticed that. Or the designated parking area, more so. Like Josh will go where the station vehicles are at-
Mm-hmm
... farther away because, well, he decided to, uh, completely bulldoze Justin's car-
[laughs]
... back during the spring time or summer time, whenever that was. And he gave me so much grief when I slipped and my car went right into a snow pile, he was just talking mad trash, all of that.
Oh, yeah, we all were.
And then sure enough, shortly afterwards he crashes-
[laughs]
... into a parked car-
I know, I-
... during the summertime.
[laughs] I know, I'm about due. But, like, when I'm getting here, I'm in a hurry to get into the building, so I'm not gonna fart around and take my time to spin my truck around backward and back into the spot. At the end of the day, y- y- it o- it only takes two seconds to back out. I don't know why they're so insistent that it... You're, like, not manly if you don't park backward. What were one of the responses on the Hawk page about backing in?
Uh, at the time of this recording of this noon hour break here, it was posted 11 minutes ago, there's only one comment.
Oh, okay. Oh, okay.
And Gerald says, "Yes, if I'm in my larger truck."
But why?
The all-new Ford F650.
[laughs]
You can only back this truck in.
And is that just because you're afraid you're not gonna be able to back out without smashing into somebody? [laughs]
I'm assuming so, but re- those cameras exist, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Those backup cameras?
Yeah.
I feel like those exist in most modern cars.
Yeah, even-
Apologies to those that don't necessarily have the luxury of having a car from 2015 or so on, or, you know, to 2026 now.
I mean, even my truck, which is a 2011, it's got one of the crappy backup cams in the, uh, rear view mirror, so it's not the best but it works. And then you have your side view mirrors. You know, you just gotta be a, a little bit cautious and patient and... I, I don't know, I'm not gonna take the time... The only time I would back into a parking spot is, like, if I was going through the Walmart parking lot and, you know, the, the parking spots are at an angle. And if I was going past one on the left side that was open, I'd back into it, you know?
Makes sense, yeah.
Yeah.
No, at the Mountain America Center, uh, uh, whenever there's a concert, I will always back into a spot because, you know, trying to leave a concert after the concert's over-
You wanna get out there.
You wanna get out of there, but also, like, there's people that are just nuts. They're trying their absolute best to also get out of there too and they're driving like maniacs.
Oh, yeah, totally. So, I'm on the, uh, side of just do it when it's necessary, but it's usually not necessary and it takes a, a bunch of extra time. I, I'm just not gonna do it. I don't care-
I look like a fool-
... what those guys say
... I look like a fool trying to back into my parking spot in my apartment.
[laughs]
Uh, but it ma- it makes it nice when you're trying to leave 'cause then you can just go straight forward without having to back up.
Yeah, but-... you're taking all the same amount of time as you would to back up. You know, it, it all evens out.
The first world problem that I have every single winter with my certain spot is that they put that little snow wall in between the, you know, the, uh, in between lanes-
Mm-hmm
... on the street. So then, uh, when I'm driving down my street, I gotta pop a U-ey after my apartment and then make my way back. And then if I wanna back into my spot, I, I have to, you know, be a, be aware of the, uh, little snow wall. I can't crash into that. It'll be crashing, like, into concrete when it's this cold outside.
That's true, that's true. I generally just barrel over it, but I-
Well, you got a lifted truck-
That's right
... you g- you gotta back it into every spot.
That's right. Ag- that, that's why you get a truck, so you don't... You just mow down people's cars. You don't have to do anything.
We should make that an imager. [laughs]
[laughs]
"Do you drive a lifted truck and back it into a spot?" [laughs] Something like we are, K-Bear 101. [laughs]
[laughs] Might as well.
But I'm gonna put that for 105 Outlaw.
Yeah.
Even better.
Yep.
"Do you, do you back your horse up into the stable?" [laughs]
[laughs] The Justin Pierce Show. [laughs]
[laughs] [instrumental music playing] The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. I am Peaches.
I'm Victor Wilt. And earlier on my show, we were talking about, uh, various shows that are out right now. Uh, Welcome to Derry, for example, Stephen King's show.
We were talking about that prior to the promo meeting.
Was that-
That, that, that wasn't on the air. That was just me, you, and Jade and Josh around the table.
I thought we talked... Well, maybe I talked about it on my show without you. But, um, I'm sitting here scrolling, looking for crap to talk about, and this article pops up about the new Carrie adaptation that was done by Mike Flanagan, the guy who did, like, uh, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher. Yeah. He, uh-
I, I don't know any of those.
Oh, they're all excellent shows on Netflix.
I know Carrie, but I don't know the, like, Midnight M-... Midnight Mass, actually, you know what? Now that I'm thinking about it, I have heard that title. Haven't seen any part of it.
It's excellent. It's an excellent show. But anyway, I, I guess he's doing an adaptation of Carrie and I haven't heard a lot about it, so I was gonna dive into this article and, you know, see is this a, a movie? Is it gonna be a long series? And it s- says, you know, "Carrie star says Mike Flanagan's new Stephen King remake transcends horror." And it's got a picture of Matthew Lillard. Is that how you say... Lillard?
Matthew Lillard, yeah.
He was in Scream.
He was, uh, he's Shaggy.
Yeah, he's Shaggy. So he's in the new Carrie. And I pull up this article and I start reading, and the entire article is about the new season of Fallout.
[laughs]
And I was reading through it going, "Okay, yeah, where, where are they gonna tie this in?"
They've just got the l- it completely labeled incorrect and I got some spoilers for Fallout-
Oh, no
... that I haven't even watched yet 'cause I was just trying to s- kinda scan through.
Don't say it on the air 'cause I haven't finished season one. There's so many shows out there right now that I, I desperately wanna watch. I'm in this predicament where e- every single time I'm not here, I'm either hanging out with Aubrey or I'm doing, like, a personal day where I'm just playing stuff on the computer; I don't necessarily just wanna watch TV. Or I'm at, like, her parents' place and they're so afraid of that show Welcome to Derry that I can't really watch it there without the mom kinda being squeamish, you know?
Yeah, it's got some gore in it.
It was making me squeamish. That very- that first scene. I'm not gonna go into details.
Yeah, yeah.
But that first scene you see-
Ew.
... you're like, "Whoa. Okay."
Yeah, you know you're-
"Why did I turn this on in front of two people who are not necessarily into that sorta thing?"
Yeah, 'cause it's, it's real horror. So I went back and this link from Facebook... And again, it just shows that nobody actually reads articles. Nobody in the comments is mentioning that this article has nothing to do with [laughs] what the headline. They're just like, "That's... He'd, he'd be an excellent Man in Black," or, "I like that they use... or that Flanagan uses characters from his other movies," blah, blah, blah.
Like, I don't know, you think if you're interested, you'd click through to read the thing. But yeah, no checks or balances.
Everybody wants everything right there all... that's it. Th- they want the most minimal information they can retain the, they can retain and that's about it. Like, they can just see the headline, see a little bi- bit of a body text and then be like, "Okay, done."
Yeah. I'm... I'd like to know more about, like, when's it gonna air and things like that, but I don't need all the s- the Fallout spoilers.
Well here, I'll do, "Carrie TV show adaptation release date."
Yeah.
I'll type that in right now. Let's see. Um, just says Prime Video 2026.
Okay.
"They just, uh, wrapped up filming late this year for the eight-episode series that promises a modern reimagining of Stephen King's classic story, including Carrie's iconic locker room scene with current tech like smartphones."
Ok-
Um, the one-
Oh, geez. Yeah.
The one thing I have with we- it, Welcome to Derry, I was gonna mention this to you, their language is so different from how they, I would think, talking back in the 1960s. They're talking like me and you off the air.
[laughs] Yeah.
There's so many F-bombs and [laughs] all o- all that.
[laughs] There are a lot of, uh, naughty words being used. But I don't know, we weren't around back then. Maybe that is how kids talk.
We need... Uh, well, Stephen King, he's 78 years old. He was born in 1947. He was 13 when it hit in 1960. You think he would know what it was like to- [laughs]
Yeah. In, in his books there's definitely lots of profanity, so... I don't... What gets me or, or when you're watching shows from, like, even earlier, like, I don't know when Game of Thrones is supposed to take place. [laughs] But they, they-
Yeah, Peter Dinklage cussing up a storm. [laughs]
Oh yeah, they use all kinds of profanity or bike shows in the Wild West. Like even Red Dead there will be s- you know, some profanity. And I'm like-
Jon Snow, "The winter is coming." [laughs]
[laughs] Yeah, i- it's, it's definitely fun. [instrumental music playing] The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information or to contact the show visit riverbendmediagroup.com.