[upbeat music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast.
[upbeat music] It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I'm FJ.
I'm Peaches.
And I'm Logan.
And, uh, FJ is gonna be making a, uh... Well, now, like, this might be, like, your regular slot. How long, how long... Are you doing it for just this weekend, or are you doing it-
Oh, no. W- we're gonna, we're gonna keep it going for a while.
All right! So Alt 101, our HD2 music channel or radio station, whatever you call it, um, Alt 101, uh, FJ is gonna be on Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Yes, I am, so come and hang out with me. It, it's gonna be a lot of fun this week. We're gonna talk about some Valentine's Day stuff.
I was about to ask, did you prep anything? 'Cause, uh-
Oh, yeah
... obviously, Valentine's Day makes it a whole lot easier-
Oh, yeah
... than just doing a, a show with nothing.
W- we're gonna talk about some singles awareness issues 'cause there are a lot of single people out there, including myself, so we have to touch on those important things, as well as some lovey-dovey stuff for everybody else.
Yeah, it's funny 'cause last year I was that bitter, single dude, and all the Valentine's Day imaging was just making fun of those people that were, you know, fighting over what music to play and-
Well, you've gotta have-
... couples overall
... a little bit of that. I mean-
Yeah
... what's the fun in not?
Right. Right, so but how are you spending your Valentine's Day, FJ?
I, I will probably, uh, be playing some video games and doing cool stuff like that.
Nice.
Logan, what about you?
Uh,
you guys just reminded me.
It's, it's coming up this weekend?
That it's coming up this weekend.
Yeah, that's Saturday, Logan.
I'm glad.
So I'm gonna-
You, you should probably go get some flowers.
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go probably do that today. Maybe get her, like, a little care package or something.
There you go.
[chuckles]
Something.
A Huntington Beach sweater.
Huntington Beach sweater.
A reminder of home-
Ooh, yeah
... as we talked about, um-
Yeah, the 50 she already owns. [laughing]
[laughing] But the one thing I wanted to talk about is that, um, yesterday or last night, I was on my... I was on Discord with my friends, and we were talking about, uh, dumb things like we always do, like, uh, things we would get rid of, and there was these, uh, scenarios I was coming up with. Like, you had to pick one to get rid of forever, and it was breakfast food edition, and it was pancakes, waffles, bacon, and eggs. Which one would you get rid of? Now-
Eggs
... my hot take is that bacon, I don't care for.
Yep.
Bacon is just, uh, it, it, it doesn't-
Something is wrong with both of you.
It doesn't make-
Salt
... it doesn't make a burger good. It's, uh... I can go the rest of my life without ever even eating a slice of bacon and be just fine.
Bacon makes everything better.
Yep.
But, like, eggs is the base for a whole lot of things.
No, get rid of the eggs.
Yeah, eggs.
If you get rid of eggs, you get rid of cake, you get rid of-
No
... everything.
Just eggs as a breakfast meal.
But still, like, if you got rid of eggs forever, it's the, it's the base-
Well
... of a whole bunch of other ingredients.
You, you can use it for other things, just not in breakfast foods. That, that ruins... Like, eggs by themselves are just disgusting.
Oh, it's great!
No, they're awful.
Eggs Benedict and like-
So good.
Oh, yeah. Sunny side up. Pancakes, I, I, was, was my close second 'cause I was like, "French toast and waffles exist. I like those."
I think those are better than pancakes.
Right, yeah. Exactly.
Waffles are-
... I, French toast-
preño
... is the, the highest tier for me.
Right, yeah, French toast is awesome.
No, it's too eggy.
Too eggy?
Yeah, I'm out. I don't like eggs.
At all?
No. That, that's my one thing that... Like, like, if it's baked into a cake or cookies, that's fine, but eggs by themselves, w- uh, I don't get it. Why not be patient and let the chicken come out and eat a delicious fried chicken?
[laughing] All right, I guess that's, that settles that. [upbeat music]
Greetings, it's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, and I'm FJ.
Are you one of those people that says salutations?
[laughing] Salutations.
Sometimes, yeah.
Oh, boy.
Oh.
'Cause, you know, you ever, you ever play, uh, Bully from Rockstar?
Yeah.
And then, "Salutations!" And then you punch the nerd?
Yep. [laughing]
I, I, I actually think of Charlotte's Web. "Greetings and salutations."
Oh, gross.
Eh, it was a good book.
I wish they would make a new Bully game.
They, they have to. I mean, they, they... It's, it's such a successful game. I, I tried downloading it, and, uh, well, it, like, became a small window on my screen, and then I tried connecting my controller. My controller was plugged into the, the PC, and I'm trying to move the guy. He doesn't move.
[laughing]
It says I can, but then I had to use the keyboard, and once I use keyboard and mouse, it's over. Like, I just can't... I can't do it.
Yeah.
Like, I, I, I, I was trying to play, uh... I try to play games sometimes for a brief minute or two with the keyboard and mouse and be like, "Wow, this sucks."
I don't think I could do it.
Uh, you- you're, you're a key- controller guy, too?
I'm a controller guy.
Okay, good.
Yeah.
Logan, you seem like the keyboard kind of guy.
I, I mean, I can. I don't... Like, uh, Rainbow Six Siege-
Yeah, right, right
... I would, I would controller on p- like, I'd have, play on my PC-
Right
... but I'd use a controller.
Yeah, yeah.
But there's, like, certain games that, like, I'd, like, uh, the GTA role-playing servers.
Oh, yeah, those, those-
Yeah
... seem like a whole lot of fun.
Yeah.
[laughing]
I'd get... I got banned from, like, 20 of them, so. [laughing]
[laughing] I do love those guys on YouTube that mess with a whole lot of those servers.
Yeah. [laughing]
They'll just go in and steal a whole bunch of stuff. And it's funny how serious people are-
Oh, yeah
... when it comes to that type of thing. Jeff, have you heard... or FJ, have you heard about that?
Uh, yeah.
Like, the whole role-playing thing and the-
Yeah.
Like, I love that one guy that sounded like Tuco. That's a famous meme, where-
Yeah. [laughing]
[laughing]
... he pulls up to the car meet in that mot-mot, that mo- monster truck. I feel like a lot of older listeners have no idea what we're talking about right now.
Probably not.
But, uh, speaking of older listeners, um, I wanted to talk about this on this break here. Kurt Cobain, you know, the whole story that-
Oh!
... popped up over the weekend?
Yeah.
What? What popped up?
Um, it got ruled that it was a homicide and not a suicide.
Oh, weird.
What?
Nobody ever thought of that.
Right, I j... I sarcastically put, like, "What? No way!" i- in the K-Bear group, and I think a couple listeners were like, "Peaches, it's, it- we've known about this for years." And it's like, "Well, duh!" [chuckles]
Yeah. I, I, I think since it happened, most people have thought that.
So does that list, like... It's Courtney, right? His-
Well, I, I, I really don't know. I m- m-... I think that was the long theory, right, FJ?
Yeah, that's what people have always thought, but maybe they have a different suspect. We'll, I guess we'll see.
'Cause it happened so before my time, that, like, I j- when I grew up, when I grew up, it wasn't that such of a big, big of a deal. Like, it was just kinda like-
When did it happen again?
I mean, when did he die?
... was it, was it '94?
Yes, or-
Or a little later than that? It might have been '96.
'94, April 5th, '94.
See how good I am?
Yeah, nice.
I, I was born two years after that, so, I mean-
I was 10.
Yeah.
I was, uh, seven years later. [laughs]
Yeah, you were seven years later.
[laughs]
See? There you go, Jeff, you feeling old now?
Thank you, guys-
Yeah
... for making me feel old.
Yeah.
That's why you belong on Alts 101, you know?
[laughs]
Late '90s, early 2000s nostalgia.
Hey, there's some great music on there.
I know, for people like you, definitely.
Yeah, yeah, I'll take it. [upbeat music] It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I'm FJ.
I'm Peaches.
And I'm Logan.
And, uh, well, yesterday we were having this in-depth conversation about if we were to do a, a top five fast food restaurants in our opinion-
Ooh
... who, who would be on that list? And so my list ended up becoming In-N-Out had to be on there, then The Habit, then Culver's, Taco Bell, Del Taco. Those are my five.
Hmm.
Okay.
My worst five would have to be, like, Burger King, McDonald's, uh, what's it called? Um, m- I, I might have to put Jersey Mike's on that list, only because they don't have a, a, a good sandwich that's... They don't have a good size for... It's either the regular, that's, like, pretty small, or the giant, that's too big.
Yeah.
Yeah. But, oh, their Phillies are so good, though.
They are.
It's good, but I j- uh, maybe I... No, I wouldn't th- think I'd put them on there for that. There has to be... I thought I had the whole list, but I guess I, I guess I forgot them. Oh, Five Guys, because they're so ridiculously expensive.
They are so ridiculously expensive, but they are so good.
I think-
I call them the Dr Pepper of, uh, burger fast food restaurants-
[laughs] Yeah
... because everybody who likes them wants everyone to know about it.
True.
It-
That is true.
I do like Five Guys.
I do like it.
I-
I like-
I used to have, like, roommates that worked there and friends that worked there, so I, I, I might have ate a lot of free Five Guys for a few years.
I like it a little bit... I honestly like it more than In-N-Out.
Okay.
I think, I think In-N-Out is better for, like, the price.
You're right, exactly.
Like, with, like, I-
Price point is better for In-N-Out-
Yeah
... but taste-wise, n- not at all.
No.
Well, Five Guys, to me, I'm just like, "This is not worth $30."
No, yeah.
Like, yeah, I, I, I talked about it on the air recently. If you ever walk into a restaurant and their menu is a chalkboard, you best believe that their prices are gonna be through the roof.
Yep.
Yeah, but-
If there's a bald dude with a beard behind the counter, and he says, "These are handcrafted, artisanal burgers," it's gonna be the most mid burger-
But it's gonna be really good.
It's gonna be the most mid burger you've ever had.
Uh-
It has, it has the flag in the middle
... Have you been to Burly Burger?
Have you... Like, like, burger theory. Like, I've never been there, but people keep saying like, "Oh, that's the ti- kind of restaurant that Burger Theory is."
I haven't gone to Burger Theory.
I haven't gone there because of those comments online-
Yeah
... but I need to find out for myself. Bur-
Burly Burger is that way-
Yeah
... and it's phenomenal.
Burly Burger is pretty good.
But I also think, like, the price, the, the price, I'm not gonna pay 30 bucks for a combo.
Uh-
Uh, it's not that bad there. I think, like-
Burly Burger is kind of... I mean, it's, like, 15, 16 bucks for a, for a burger, which is kind of insane.
Burger and fries, though, y- burgers are about 10 bucks, and then-
I'm- uh, 10, I thought it was, like, 17. I, I remember the one time I went there with Josh, Jade, and Victor, I was like, "Hmm"-
They've got one burger that's that much, but it's, like, huge.
The Burly Burger?
Yeah.
Oh, now I get it.
Most of the burgers are only, like, 10 bucks.
Ri- okay, well.
I still think that's, like... I mean, price point, like, when I'm buying a burger, like, I think to myself, I'm like-
You want five or six bucks
... I want, I want, like, a cheap... Like, I just wanna, like, grab a burger.
Yeah.
I'm not trying to spend-
We're not trying to be like-
... 15, 20 bucks on myself or, like, you know
... Right, we're not trying to be like Joshua Weissman and, like-
[laughs]
... spend $400 on gadgets for the kitchen and A5 Wagyu beef and, you know-
Right.
Fair enough.
My burger's better than McDonald's. No kidding, because you're, you're making one specific burger [laughs] for yourself.
Yeah.
I guess if you're looking for that, you wanna go to Scotty's.
Oh, that's a good place.
Scotty's is great.
Price point-
Right
... taste-
Mm-hmm
... grease level. [laughs]
I do, I do love Freddy's.
Freddy's is pretty good.
That's still expensive, too.
It is expensive.
It is.
I used to work there. That was, like, my first job.
But those shoestring fries, I just-
I can't get behind them.
I don't like it.
Yeah, no, I-
I want a real french fry.
Yeah, I, I didn't like that either.
I didn't think crinkle cut was all that crazy good, but after having Culver's multiple times-
Oh, Culver's is so good
... uh, their crinkle cut fries are great.
Yes, they are.
But the steak fries at, like, Red Robin.
Yeah. Red Robin's great. I've noticed, though, I went there for lunch on my birthday in January.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, [lips smack] we went there with my mom, and I hadn't been there probably in, like, f- four, five years? Their sa- like, their portion sizes have gone down.
Oh, really?
'Cause I remember, like, Red Robin, when I'd go there, I would remember, like, "Oh, their burgers are, like, fat," like, they got, like, big burgers.
The, the, they were kind of like the, the Burly Burger kind-
Yeah
... where they had, like, the flag in the middle-
Yeah
... the whole thing.
Yeah.
But, uh, when I go to Red Robin, I get that, like, Tavern Cup, du- uh, the Tavern Double Haystack, whatever it's called, for, like, $9.99. It's, it's cheap.
I don't know what that is. What is that?
It's on the back of the menu. It's, like, the, the, the combo meal. You get fries, a drink, and a burger for $9.99, and the fries are unlimited.
Oh.
Oh, that's not bad, man.
So that, that's, that's the cool thing about Red Robin. It's like you can go in a third basket of fries and not have to pay a whole bunch more extra, or even pay nothing extra.
That is nice.
Yeah.
It's great. But so yeah, food talk on this noon hour [laughs] of Madness and Mayhem.
[laughs]
There was really nothing else really to talk about. We were just kind of like, "Yeah, what should we discuss?" And yeah, we were having that in-depth conversation yesterday about fast food restaurants, and I knew a lot of people would be upset the fact that I said In-N-Out's in the top five. 'Cause a lot of people from around here, they get so upset about In-N-Out because they, they wanna be so quick to say, "It's overrated!" But, like, it, it's, it's just they hate it because it's a California restaurant.
Yeah.
They don't actually hate it. They just wanna say, "I don't like it because it reminds me of the people that I'm supposed to not like-
Right
... because other people on Facebook told me to do so."
100%.
Right.
Yeah.
100%. [upbeat music]
Hello, everybody, it's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I'm, once again, FJ.
I'm Peaches.
And I'm Logan.
Now, P- uh, FJ, you're a giant fan of what gets played on Alt 101, 'cause you grew up with that stuff. You're the old guy in the room.
It's true, it's true.
I wanna talk about how old you are, you know? [laughs]
It, it's fine. I'm 41. I'll be 42 in a few months.
So these, uh, these songs o- on Alt 101, which... what would- what artist would you say is your least favorite on that playlist?
Oh, uh-
'Cause I know, I know, you, you seem to like the same stuff that Jade likes when it comes to, like, Thursday-
Uh
... Taking Back Sunday. Why are they named after days? I don't know.
Nobody does, but I'll, I'll go with it. Um, I, I'd probably say, like, The Killers and bands like that.
See, I like The Killers. They're fun.
Uh, j- just weren't my cup of tea back then.
... but there's some great ones on- Zebrahead's on there. Like, that was my first concert ever.
That, that's what, that's what I added to the playlist [laughs].
Oh.
Ze- That Zebrahead Falling Apart song was on some sort of old wrestling game, and that's all I heard growing up, was the "Everything's falling apart," that whole lyric.
Oh.
Yeah.
Such a great track.
I-
That, that whole album was awesome.
Now, I snuck in Chris Benoit's old theme song on the playlist-
Really?
-a long time ago. It's been playing on alt ever since. It's, uh, Our Lady Peace, whatever.
Oh, yeah.
That song.
Okay.
That was his old theme song. I'm like, "Maybe we shouldn't play that," because, you know, the whole thing with him, that's one of the worst things to ever happen to wrestling, too. And then they tried erasing him from all the history.
[laughs]
And now they've brought back all the Royal Rumbles that he's in-
Yeah
... from the early 2000s, and it's all on Netflix.
Oh, wow!
So you can watch all of that stuff.
I might have to go watch some.
Right, you, you should, like... 'cause I'm like, I miss the old wrestling days of 2004.
Oh, that's when it was good.
Back when I went to MovieTown, and I'd rent those on VHS, and I'd ch- you know, shove them in and watch them right away.
Yeah!
Yeah. It was, it was, it was a fun time. I miss VHS. I miss b- I miss the nostalgia of video rental stores.
Oh, Blockbuster was the best.
Uh, but also, speaking of that, it just reminded me that the Life in Idaho Falls admin on Facebook posted a whole thread of what do we need here in East Idaho, more specifically Idaho Falls.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, there's a lot of people, of course, saying Trader Joe's.
Yeah.
Like, we always want a Trader Joe's, but a lot of people have been saying we want a... And now, like, the whole anti-a, a, the anti-Trader Joe's crowd is popping up now. [laughing]
[laughing]
Overrated! Like, okay-
Yeah
... what was the point of you saying that, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, don't ask a question if you don't want the answer.
Like, you can stick to Natural Grocers if you really wanted to. [laughs]
Right.
Like, but my least favorite thing is when we get variety here in the area, and sure enough, there are people like, "But we already have that one Cafe Rio place!"
So give us another choice. It's fine.
Right.
Yeah.
You can go to Cafe Rio.
What's wrong with better options or more options?
More options, right. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
I mean, like, like, in Pocatello, there's a Chipotle coming-
It's going here
... and it's right across the street from, uh, Cafe Rio.
I'm kind of jealous. I want a Chipotle here.
We do.
We, we're gonna get one.
We're gonna get one.
Oh, we do?
Carl's, Carl's Jr.
The old Po- The old Carl's Jr. by the mall is gonna become a Chipotle.
Yes!
[laughing] It's, it's coming back to the area, which is funny that it came to Pocatello, then went out of business, and then-
They're bringing it back.
They're bringing it back, so-
I'm always down for a good burrito.
Yeah, I mean, Chipotle, I had some really bad food poisoning. I don't know if it was from there, but there was a long while where I just didn't eat there, and now I'm just rediscovering my love for it again.
Oh, it's... I, I, I'm pretty excited all of a sudden.
Yeah. [laughing]
[laughing]
You ever get fat boy excited? Don't you look like-
Oh, yeah.
[laughing] You're like, "Oh, man!" That, that's what I got recently. I was, uh, eating my food from Taco Bell, and I realized, "Oh, I still have another taco in here."
You got so excited?
I got so excited. Yeah, that's right. [upbeat music]
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