[upbeat music] The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem: The Podcast.
Victor walked in the studio just in time to get this, uh, show started. The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. I am Peaches.
I am Victor Wilt-
Now-
... yes, and it is me. I am here.
Do we wanna play our theme song that I just came up with?
[laughs]
You know, I'm the one who dec- who, uh, you know, used all my musical talent and really put this all together.
You wrote this song?
Yeah.
From start to finish, recorded, produced it, came up with all the lyrics, all-
Yeah, uh, 100%.
Played every instrument?
Sure, call me the Caleb Shomo of this building.
[laughs] That's right. Uh, yes, I would love to hear it because I haven't heard it yet, and we'll, we'll need to see if I give it my stamp of approval as one of the founders of the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem.
No, I liked the, uh, other rendition that I had, um, that I did, but, uh, I sort of messed up the lyrics myself. So-
Okay
... we're gonna go with this version instead.
Okay, let's-
Not necessarily my favorite, uh, tune, but I g- I can tweak it.
All right, all right. Well, i- it's a work in progress. Songwriting takes some time.
It does. It does.
You know? It takes, like, three minutes, you know, and an additional three. So I get it, dude. It takes time.
All right. [laughs] Here we go.
All right.
Here's what I think is our theme song for the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem.
Well, it's high noon on KBAR 101. Victor's got his coffee, the show's begun. It's true. He's bald, he's proud. That mic's his throne. Cat hair all over his studio home. Shaved his goatee for Halloween night. Victoria Rose stole the light. Now he's back on air, just slightly vain. St. Ives coming to steal your band's fame. It's the noon hour of madness and mayhem. One guy's liberal, the other just says, "Nay, man." They bicker about life-
[laughs]
... and somehow win. That's Peaches and Victor. Turn your dial and tune in. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh. Peaches is a tower from SoCal sun. 6'9" and weighs a ton of fun. He hates Sublime, hates lasagna too. But nobody knows who. Nobody knows what's wrong with that dude. He'll argue with traffic lights and fate. But Victor just laughs, says, "This is great." 'Cause trolling Peaches is half the show. You'll hear it live at noon. Now you know. It's the noon hour of madness and mayhem. Coffee and sarcasm. Who needs a nay man? They clash like thunder, but it's all in jest. Two radio weirdos who might be the best. Victor's Prius hums like a lullaby. Lullaby. Peaches rolls his eyes-
I wish I could afford a Prius
... and asks him why. They don't agree on much at all. But that's why listeners have a ball. It's the noon hour of madness-
[laughs] That's a pretty long song
... and mayhem on KBAR 101. Go ahead, say, "Hey, man." They'll rant, they'll rant. They'll laugh, they'll waste your lunch. Oh, oh, oh. Two radio legends with a caffeine punch. Yeah. It's KBAR 101. Now pass Victor another coffee shooter before Peaches snaps.
[laughs]
There you go.
All right.
That's it.
I like it. I like it. Very-
That's what I thought.
Very nice. I wish I could afford a Prius. I need, I need something with better gas mileage.
I don't think they're all that expensive.
Th- they're more expensive? I, I can't afford, uh, $50. [laughs]
There's a thing called a loan, Victor.
Yeah, I know, but you gotta make them payments.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, that's the problem. I v- I can't afford a loan. [laughs]
Well, it s- it says here the 2026 Toyota Prius, they're starting at $28,000.
Jeez. Yeah. [laughs]
That's for the LE. Now the XLE can start from $31 to $33,000. The Nightshade, which sounds pretty cool, $32 to $34. Then the Limited, $35 to $36. Now, if you tell someb- if you tell somebody who owns one of those, "Hey, you drive a Prius?" "No, I drive the Prius Limited."
That's right, Limited.
They're like, "How big of a tool are you?"
No, I can't even afford a Geo Metro, dude. [laughs] You, you might not even know what that car is.
I'm, I'm looking it up.
[laughs] I don't think they-
I've heard that name many times.
I don't think they make them anymore. Those were-
Geo Metro Compact Car from 1993.
[laughs] Those were the c-
Oh, here's one from 2000.
Yeah, that's probably about when they stopped making them. Uh, n-
I mean, th-
Those, those were the ones with good gas mileage back in the day.
The MPG on this thing, 39 city, 46 highway.
Yeah, it, they, they weren't too bad. Uh, see if you could find one used locally. Let's see how much they cost.
[laughs] 55 to 79 horsepower.
[laughs] Yeah, they're-
[laughs] All right, let's Flintstone this thing.
[laughs] Exactly. They're not good for going up hills. [laughs] That Malad Pass in a Geo Metro, not fun.
Oh, I s- I see right here from Edmunds, there are five used Geo Metro vehicles for sale near you with an average cost of $3,561.
Still out of my budget. [laughs]
I mean, that's-
Way out of my budget. Yeah.
Uh, you might as well as a joke just get one of those on the side, drive it around during the summer.
If I could afford it, I'd go get one right now.
I think... I, I would love to see how I fit in one of those things.
Uh, I don't know if you'd fit, Peaches. [laughs]
Yeah.
They're pretty small cars. [laughs]
W- w- we, we almost made me sit in, uh, Ben from the Advocates', uh, Corvette, but, uh-
Yeah, th- that was tight for me.
Yeah, that's t- if it's tight for you, I'm not gonna try my best to get in there.
Yeah.
It was, it was difficult trying to get into the back of the, uh, police car.
Oh yeah, yeah. You had to, like, go sidewards.
I, I couldn't get in. I was stuck.
Well, you know-
I, I think they would've had me lay down in the back or something like that.
They gotta bring in, you know, the, the SWAT vehicle that they put you-
[laughs]
... in the back of, like, a van style thing.
Oh, that'd be pretty cool, wouldn't it?
Yeah. [laughs] I'd love to see-
Y- y- y-
... you get dragged away by SWAT.
You would look BA if you, you just-
[laughs]
... got in the back of a SWAT truck.
That's right.
You come out in the orange jumpsuit.
[laughs]
I have my next, uh, s- stage announcement, I'll be coming out of the SWAT, SWAT car.
[laughs]
Did you see the, uh, Cybertrucks were announced as the, uh, uh, th- they're gonna be us- they're gonna be used by the, uh, Las Vegas Police Department?
Yeah, I did see that. Um, h- how annoying. [laughs]
Right. You see some Cybertruck following you. "Oh, no, it's the 12."
Yeah, like-
Or whatever they call them.
All right. Is it s-
It's the Fuzz.
Is it somebody compensating or is it the cops?
[laughs]
I don't know what to do. Help me.
Oh, anybody who drives a Ford Explorer just for the fun-... screw you.
You don't like Ford Explorers?
Well, aren't, aren't those the ones that are like the, uh... They, they're, they're, they're kind of like the cop cars, too, right?
Um-
There's some, uh-
[sighs]
There's, like, these SUVs-
Oh, yeah, that, that look kinda like cop cars. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Would you drive a white Ford Explorer?
Yeah. Uh, you know, I kind of feel bad for the cops who gotta drive tho- those kinda cars, you know?
Why?
'Cause, you know, the... Most of 'em get to drive something that looks cool, like a Mustang or-
Eh
... you know, some kinda muscle car.
The Mustang gets-
A Charger
... pretty horrible gas mileage.
That's true. We should, [door slams] you know, for the taxpayer purpose, our cops should be driving Priuses.
Yeah, Lieutenant-
That's what they-
... Crane would look pretty-
[laughs]
... pretty sick in one of those.
I demand change. We're gonna put all the cops in Priuses. What's the top speed on a Prius? They, they don't do, uh, many high-speed chases anyway.
Oh, I guess, uh, some officers in, in New York have a Prius.
Dude, it, it would be so hard to stuff a criminal back in the back of a Prius, though. Like, you couldn't get in the back of the Charger, so try to imagine getting in the back of a Prius if you're Peach's size.
The top speed for most recent Toyota Prius models around 112 miles per hour.
Oh, that's plenty for the cops. I demand change. We need [laughs] to save... You know, the gas prices are high. Come on, save us taxpayers money.
Is that it?
Sure.
All right.
Are we gonna just dump the song and go to break?
I already did. I would j-
Okay.
We might as well just go to break.
Ye-
We, you, you walked in right as the noon hour was starting, so I was like, "Sure, let's just go on the air right after the legal ID."
That sounds fine, and then we'll be back after some music with more madness. Madness and mayhem.
That's right, yeah. Now, Victor, I did a little bit of, uh, trolling on the Cave Era 101 Facebook page.
The Facebook or the group?
Uh, just the page.
All right. What, what, what did you do?
I talked about how we should change the, uh, Thanksgiving main dish from turkey into, uh, brisket.
Okay, I saw that post, and I think for Thanksgiving, cook whatever you want. It-
I mean, it is true, but at the same time... Like, I, I did see Stuart's comment, "You do you. Don't worry about what other, what other people are having." It's like, I do worry because if I end up at that person's house and they try to serve me turkey, I don't wanna be like, "No, thank you."
Yeah, that's true, and most people do serve turkey. Trying to remember, I, I think it was last year that I went to Lieutenant Crane's house for Thanksgiving. Is, does that sound right?
Might, might've been two years ago.
That might've been two year... What did I do last year?
I thought you invited the kids over. They, they flew, they flew to the area.
That doesn't sound right.
'Cause I know you, you told me, like, "Oh, yeah, my daughter wants turkey," and I'm like, who in the world just craves turkey like that?
I'm gonna have to go back through my social media or something.
There, there's not anybody out there that out of nowhere goes, "You know what would really sounds good to me right now? A nice turkey sandwich."
Uh, dude, that... I do that.
Uh, that's, that's if you wanna like, "Oh, I'm trying to lose weight, but I also still wanna have flavor."
Nah, I-
Then do you get a turkey sandwich.
'Cause I don't think turkey sandwiches are necessarily good for you, not the way I like 'em.
Uh, they're pretty good.
Like, you make yourself a nice turkey bacon ranch sandwich, oh, bam.
Also go, goes back to the thing about how you need to add stuff to make it taste good.
Well, dude, okay, if you just put-
Oh, wait, that one listener got mad at me again.
If you put, like, just turkey on bread with nothing else, [laughs] that would be a terrible sandwich.
Well, obviously, but, like-
[laughs] You gotta cover it with at least some mayo and cheese.
... y- y- there's, there's so many turkey defenders in that comments section going like, "Well, if it's dry, that person ain't cooking it right."
Well, I do agree with that. If you have dry turkey, somebody screwed up. But also with turkey, you have to at least put gravy on it.
You have to spend all day
cooking that thing.
Dude, it sucks to cook a turkey.
And, and it's, it's a horrible process for such a lame product.
I-
That's, that's my whole thing about Thanksgiving, is that you spend all day trying your absolute hardest to almost perform heart surgery. It's, like, that level of difficulty on a stupid bird that you have to stuff with random crap.
Nah, nah.
And it turns out to be this, like... You know, if it's somewhat wet, you're like, "Okay, this is decent." But if you wanna be grateful for food, you wanna eat something that you want to go out and get.
Yeah, I mean, I've had to cook a turkey many times. It is a pain. You have to use a lot of fridge space for many, many days to thaw it out. Then you have to clean it. I don't s- put stuffing in the turkey. To me, that's gross. Cook the stuffing in a pan on the side.
It's really, really is disturbing to see the, the hole of the turkey, you know-
[clears throat] Yeah
... with all the stuff in there.
And, and it's gross to deal with. Um-
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't like cooking a turkey. I don't like it.
Right.
But, you know, I, I, I still... Turkey's good. I'd say just buy a turkey breast, then you don't have to do anything. It's ready to go. Just buy it.
But what if you're feeding a whole bunch of people?
Invite less. No, no, no. [laughs]
[laughs] Like, that's the thing. It's like-
Buy two turkey breasts. Who wants, who wants the, the dark meat anyway?
It, it, it is such a stressful holiday.
Oh, it is.
It is. Because you, you... If you're the person hosting, it's the worst.
Uh-
Like, if, if you're inviting your random relatives that come over, they, they barely know who you are. It's kinda like that whole thing about how, like, you know, girls get attacked if they're wearing a band T-shirt. It's like, "Name three songs."
Mm-hmm.
Name three fun facts about me, and if you can't do it, then you don't know me, and you get... Go, you go somewhere else for Thanksgiving.
See, that's why it's good to be the host. Then nobody's bothering you, 'cause you're cooking. I don't-
W- oh, it's true.
I'm, I don't, I don't know what's happening for Thanksgiving this year, 'cause, like, I have a, a big dining room with a big table-
Mm-hmm
... and lots of chairs. Like, I might get duped into having to host Thanksgiving. I don't know.
And you also have a special lady now who might bring the family over, too.
She has family. Yeah.
Yeah.
They're... She has a lot of family.
She's, "Oh, come on. You, you have the big table. Come on."
I know.
"Let them, let them come over," and you, you're gonna be like, "Well-"
I do-
"... for you, I will."
I do kinda have the perfect place to do it, but my house is a mess. No, sorry, everybody, my house is a mess. Nobody can come over for Thanksgiving.
It's always a mess. Oh, that's the thing.
It's more of a mess than usual right now 'cause of the, uh, zoo that has moved in, all the glitters.
Well, whose fault is that?
Um-
She'll... Y- y- you let her do that, then it's gonna be the Thanksgiving dinner guaranteed.
Well, you can't-
Guaranteed.
You can't just be like, "You have to get rid of all your pets. Only mine are allowed." [laughs]
That's right. Put 'em down in the backyard. Get the gun.
Just go drop 'em off at the Humane Society. I know they've been attached to you for 10 years.
[laughs]
Just go drop 'em off. Re-home 'em.
Right.
Yeah, you can't, you can't do that. And I like her pets. It... My, my cats just don't really like her pets, but they're starting to get along. Though I don't know if you heard my story about Koopa this morning.
Oh, no.
[laughs] Um, it's a long story-
That's okay
... so I'll save it for our next break.
Okay.
'Cause for those who missed it, my evening last night that was going very well was very quickly derailed by Koopa in a very disgusting way.
All right.
And I'm sure listeners will laugh, and hopefully it'll be also appetizing for them while they eat their lunch.
Sure. I also think this whole thing, uh, petition to change Thanksgiving dinner from turkey to brisket, brisket's also very difficult to get right.
Yeah, exactly.
It's way worse than turkey.
Uh-
Uh-
... I say change it to pizza.
Change it to pizza, tacos, stuffin'-
Yes, taco- tacos are perfect. They're like the easiest thing to cook. You put the meat in the pan, season it. All right, get your tortilla and put your crap on it.
I mean, even the white people-
Eat your tacos.
... tacos were like, it's just horribly done. You, you, people still somewhat enjoy it. But you're right, pizza, you can't really mess up pizza.
Hotdogs.
Hotdogs.
[laughs] How's that? Hotdogs for Thanksgiving.
Sure.
'Cause they could... They got all kinds of meat in 'em. Every- you know, you got beef, turkey, chicken, who knows what, pork.
[laughs] All right, Victor, you said you had a story about your cat, Koopa. Do you want any music behind this?
Oh. I used the horror movie music when I talked about it earlier [laughs] on my show, but you can pick whatever you'd like. [faint piano music plays] Yeah, that'll work. Okay, so-
Even though Halloween is behind us now?
All right, I'm gonna go over my whole, whole afternoon yesterday. So about 4:45, I remembered that I have a lot of cardboard in the back of my truck that I needed to take to the dump. The Transfer Station. So I Googled their website. Let me actually Google their website again real quick, 'cause I wanted to determine if I am stupid-
[laughs]
... or if they need to put more information on their website.
I, I heard your, uh, thing with Jade yesterday about why it's not just called the dump.
Yeah, we-
It has to be called the Transfer Station.
'Cause they gotta transfer the stuff to the dump. But I still call it the dump. So anyway, it says, "Has new temporary hours and will be accepting limited loads due to maintenance inside the Transfer Station building October 14th through November 24th. See below for more details." So it's got the temporary hours, which are 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and it says that small loads, um, blah, blah, blah, maximum of four bags or two trash containers, one mattress set, et cetera. And then it says, "The following items will still be accepted..." Okay, I am dumb, 'cause it says, "... metal recyclables, cardboard recycling." Here's the key there.
Why are there so many rules?
I don't know.
Wh- why is it that places like also, like Goodwill, Salvation Army, they always have these set rules, like you can only donate during these hours, and if they don't accept any more donations, like, uh, you just gotta keep your stuff till they finally do?
Yeah.
Or what, like, if I have stuff to give you, I'm just gonna give it to you.
I'm guessing it's-
Apparently you can give it... You can get in major trouble if you, like, drop off-
Just dump it off? [laughs]
If you drop off donations. [laughs]
Yeah. Yeah, you can. Now the key word in there, 'cause I, I am dumb, the key word in there was recycling. Usually, I'm a terrible lib, and I take-
[laughs]
... I take all of my cardboard, and I roll into the Transfer Station building, and I dump it in the big pit where they run over it with the tr- you know, the tractor. Cardboard recycling means you break down all your boxes, and you take 'em out to the little, you know, dumpster-looking thing, and you slide each one in one at a time. I read that as, "Oh, they're accepting cardboard," so I pulled into the Transfer Station, and they're like, "Whoa, whoa." You know, they're stopping everybody on their way in.
Oh, I hate when they do that stuff. It's like, "Let me, let me dump my stuff."
And they're like, "What, what are you doing?" And I'm like, "Oh, I just got some cardboard." And they're like, "Okay, uh, you can put it in the cardboard recycling." And I'm like, "Well, okay, so I can drive it in the building?" They're like, "No, outside of the building, and you have to flatten all the boxes."
Oh, come on.
And I was like-
Just let me get rid of the cardboard, you morons.
I'm like, "I don't wanna get rid of it, I wanna, you know... Come on."
Reminds me of that one time I recycled a whole bunch of bottles, and that one lady who sounded like Roz from Monsters, Inc. started screaming at me, "No glass bottles," and like started to-
[laughs]
... and I've never recycled again because of that lady.
So I've still got a truck full of boxes. If anybody needs boxes for like moving or something, y- you can stop by the studio, I'll give you what I got. I, I got boxes 'cause I'm not gonna take the time to break 'em down today, I'm too busy. Uh, so anyway-
[laughs]
... I go home frustrated at 5:00, you know, like get home about 5:00.
Right.
And I pass out on the couch. You know, I'm watching TV, bam, out cold, old man. Woke up at about 7:45, was like, "Okay, I'm gonna do some chores." You know, 'cause Beck has been working, I want her to come home to a clean house. So I did a bunch of chores, vacuuming, dishes, did some sweeping. Then I decided, you, you... I look like crap. I'm gonna shave and I'm gonna take shower, so I'm, you know, nice and clean after doing the chores and I look nice. So it's about 10:00, ab- about 10:00, and I'm like, "You know what?" I'm gonna go get myself a nice cold soda out of the fridge. And, uh, I walked to my fridge, and Koopa has been hanging out on top of the fridge, or up on the cupboards in the kitchen-
Huh-
... 'cause he's-
... typical cat
... an- and he's bothered by all the other animals. Now, right prior to this, the last chores I did were vacuuming in the dining room, you know, the dining room rug. And I also had Millie the dog running around, and she attacks the vacuum, it's fun for her. She, you know, gets a kick out of it. So Koopa is standing on top of the fridge watching all this, and clearly disturbed by both vacuum and dog, 'cause cats hate both of those things. So then [laughs] I go to open the fridge, and there's a bowl of Halloween candy sitting on top of the fridge that Koopa is in. You know, he's just standing in it. And the bowl, when I opened the fridge, it was on the, the edge, falls off the fridge. Now, one of two things could have either happened here. Koopa had freaked out and was standing in the bowl and peed in the bowl of candy, or when the bowl tipped and he fell on me, he just started peeing.
[laughs]
Pee went everywhere. Everywhere.
[laughs]
All over me, all over my fridge, all over my floor-
Hm
... all over the candy, all over the cupboards. There was... It was a pee explosion. Cat pee.
Heh heh, all right.
No, it wasn't-
All right.
It was-
Neck kid.
It was neck-
[laughs]
... kid. It was, ah!
Ha ha!
[laughs]
And so I freak out, you know? And I had to therefore deal with... I mean, I had to basically clean and scrub my entire kitchen.
[laughs]
I had the paper towels out. I had disinfecting wipes. I had-
Man, it's great not having a pet.
Yeah. Becca gets home, I'm like, "Don't come near me."
The only pee risk I have is me not making it-
[laughs]
... to the bathroom.
And, eh, like, it took me till 11:00 to clean the kitchen.
11?
Till 11 'cause it was everywhere, and I had to shower again afterward and put on fresh clothes 'cause I also had pee all over me.
[laughs]
I'm gonna go off and kill myself some people.
[laughs]
Or cats. [laughs]
[laughs]
Go first thing this morning, 'cause Pupa ran and hid after that. This morning, he's up yowling, "Rah, rah," and I just picked him up and walked downstairs. He's fighting with me 'cause he wanted food, and I just was like, "No, you're getting a reminder, bro." And I put him in the room with the cat boxes and just started yelling at him, "This is where you pee! This is where you pee, Pupa!"
Kill John Lennon.
[laughs] No.
[laughs]
Uh, so yeah. I ended up getting to sleep after that 'cause I was so jacked up, you know, from mopping and, you know, disinfecting wipes and showers, and I got to sleep at like midnight to-
Oh, no. [laughs]
All because of stupid Pupa and cat pee. That was my, uh, nightmarish evening, Peaches.
All right. [laughs]
Prior- I was just about to sit down, relax, an- watch some garbage. I was already like, "Ah, it's been great. I got so much done." No.
I'm assuming he peed when he fell.
That's what it seemed like because there was, like, pee in the bowl when it hit the ground, and it seems like if the bowl just tipped, all of the pee would've been out of the bowl. So I assume there was a w- it all happened so fast, I assume he had been up there holding it on top of the fridge for a long time and just went- the final straw was falling out the fridge-
[laughs]
... and he just lost control.
He, he, he's probably terrified to use the litter box 'cause of the dog running around. The vacuum's on. He was like, "Okay, I'll wait till those are all both out of the room."
Yeah.
And then sure enough, y- you open the fridge and- and get a surprise.
Y- yeah, so-
Woo hoo!
... that was, that was my night, Peaches, y- you know, when I would usually have been in bed by 10:00.
Oh, no kidding. Hopefully what you had is more entertaining than mine, Victor, 'cause I came across this question. What do men actually want for Christmas?
Oh, I actually talked about that this morning, and yeah, it's not a very exciting thread.
No, it's always just the same old, "I want some peace and quiet."
Exactly. [laughs] "I want to-
"I want my wife to shut up every once in a while."
[laughs] No, it doesn't say that, Peaches.
"I want a w-"
[laughs]
"I want to have a tin sign that says, 'I call beer, water.'"
[laughs] I did... I was happy to see one guy in there say he wants video games and Legos, but-
"I want a whole day with no family."
Like, I-
"I enjoy being alone."
'Cause what I said was, you know, I've g- like, got everything I need, so, you know, just hanging out with, uh, my lady and relaxing. Tha- that's the old man answer, dude.
Oh, this one's sad. "I want my wife's bone cancer to disappear."
[laughs] Yeah, I know.
Oh, come on, dude.
That's why I told you this isn't a good thread.
Wow.
Yeah, th- I... That's about where I bailed out of it.
Wh- when-
And I didn't even mention that one on air. I was like, "That's too dark."
Oh, did you see his name? [laughs]
No, I didn't see his name.
I can't say his username-
[laughs]
... but it's pretty funny.
All right, uh, you'll have to tell me when we get off air. Now what I was gonna ask you, Peaches, is, you know, 'cause you're, you're, you're not a guitar player. When you go to a live show, is it important to you to see, like, the big walls of amps on the stage?
No.
You know, I have my wall of sound, you know, at my house.
I don't really care.
All right, I-
I want the band to put on a show. I love... I, I, I'm a guy who loves when they talk between the songs, too.
Yeah, yep.
'Cause wh- when they do song after song after song and they just stand there, it's pretty boring to me.
Yeah, I wanna hear s- hear from the band a little bit, a little bit of entertainment.
A lot of people are, like, uh, pointing fingers at Dayseeker right now by just saying they're just doing backing tracks and that's about it, and I was wondering why they sounded so close to the recording one when they performed live at the Mountain America Center.
Ooh, I wasn't paying close enough attention to judge that. Um, well-
And they just parted ways with their guitarist, too.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, all right, drama in the Dayseeker camp. Uh-
I know Fame On... Oh, sorry. I know Fame On Fire also, uh, Blake Saul is no longer in the band as well, and I just saw pictures of Fame On Fire on stage and they only have three people, and one of them is playing bass so there's no guitarist.
Oh, so they're just running guitar sounds?
Uh, yeah.
Mm.
And it l- it looks pretty, uh-
Now that I don't, that I don't like. I, I don't-
It's pretty bad.
I, I, I like seeing bands... Like, playing the backing tracks is one thing 'cause it just enhances the sound, but when there is a, an instrument that is clearly missing like a guitar or bass-
Oh, yeah
... that's very distracting. You know, very distracting. [laughs] Uh, the reason I ask this is 'cause they were, ver- I found this article at, uh, guitar.com, and they were talking about how Metallica doesn't use amps on stage anymore, and, uh, you know, it, it's controversial to a lot of people, but
I, I think it makes shows so much better because when you're using digital amps, like what I use... I mean, I still run it through a real guitar cab, but if I was gonna play a show, I, I would, I wouldn't bring the guitar cab.
I know nothing about the techni- technical side behind all this.
So, like, the... Most bands nowadays aren't using real amps on stage. They're using digital modelers that sound like real amps.
Okay.
And the great thing about 'em is, you know, it...... in, in the old days, Peaches, um, you'd have to put a microphone in front of your guitar amp, and if it moves the slightest bit, 'cause you have to point it at the exact-
It'll-
... right part of the speaker.
It'll start to ring, right?
Well, it, it can ring, but the, the sound of the guitar, if it moves even, like, a half a centimeter, it could sound completely different.
Huh.
So with a digital amp setup, you know, it just goes straight to the PA, and it always sounds the same. Every night it's gonna sound perfect. And that's why modern bands generally sound really, really good, except for those that are using real amps. Like you, there are very few bands I've seen that are using real amps that sound as good as those using the fake amps. Like Tool, they've got a great sound guy. They've got it very dialed in. They use real amps. System of a Down, same deal. But like-
You know who's, you know who's viral on TikTok is the, like, Moths to Flames sound guy.
Yeah.
He's, uh, posting videos of him doing his thing. He's like, "Okay, because of this, now we have to amp this up. Because of this, we put this down," and it turns out really cool.
Yeah, I'll have to check that out. Uh, the first time I really discovered bands not using real amps and it being a controversy, I think it was Black Veil Brides. They were using digital amps, but they still put the, the wall of speakers behind them, but they were just empty cabinets. You know, there were no speakers in them. It was just the boxes.
I mean, it's pretty cool they have more props on stage rather than seeing a wall of amps.
Yeah, uh, but, and so like, bands like Rush, who are also using digital amps, they were like, "Well, uh, wh- what are we gonna do?" It seems kinda silly to have the fake amp boxes." So they started putting up crazy stuff in the background where the amps would be, like a bunch of, uh, machines that were cooking rotisserie chickens.
That's cool.
And they were actually cooking rotisserie chickens-
[laughs]
... and then that's how they'd feed the crew at the end of the night [laughs]. But that's what, you know, looked like their amps on stage. And I, I don't know. To me, it's not controversial at all, but I remember when it ha- somebody took a picture of the back of Black Veil Brides' amps, their, their, or the cabinets, and were like, "See, they're not really playing live." And then it became this major discussion 'cause people were like, "No, they are playing live. They're just not using speakers."
Is that why people-
"It's a digital modeler."
Is that why people unnecessarily hate on them all the time?
It's pro- ... It's-
Because they, they used to be really accepted. But now all of a sudden, like, anybody mentions Black Veil Brides ... Well, I also think, like, you were talking about it this morning when you were saying, like, what band has the worst fan base. I have to say the entire genre [laughs] of, of rock and metal.
[laughs]
It, it just, no matter what band you post online-
Yeah, but-
... magically, there's somebody in the, in the comments going, "That's cornball music." Now that, that's the thing to say.
Cornball music.
Like, I posted, like, all the new releases coming out last Friday on Halloween.
Mm-hmm.
And some guy was like, "Besides Peeling Flesh and this other band, uh, this is all cornball music."
[laughs] I hadn't heard that one. Cornball.
Well, they-
How old was that guy?
People are calling it, you know, people are calling Ice Nine Kills corny, cornball.
It is kinda corny, but it's fun. Like, Electric Callboy's kinda corny.
Yeah, it's better than just having some generic m- bland band out there. I don't know.
But, yeah, you know, I've always been into kinda corny music. I mean, my band used to make joke songs, you know, like the song we wrote about Jade's band. Um, you know, the Britney Spears song the Re- the Reptilians wrote. Uh, you know, I love Tenacious D. They're definitely corny.
Yeah.
You know, I, I, I was, I was a huge fan of Green Jello when I was a little kid. Three Little Pigs.
GWAR.
Yeah, GWAR, corny ... Like, it's okay to have fun in music, you know? Like-
Look at GuttaLax. Those guys are in hazmat suits and-
Yeah, Ghost, i- i- ... You know, they've got a lot of corny going on. I mean, look at, look at how they dress and how they sound. Like, people don't get it. There's a lot of humor in what Ghost does. Just go watch their music videos, like the He Is video.
Well, I know-
It's hilarious.
I was, I posted that question. What's that one song that annoys you to the point where you can't even listen to it? And there was multiple people put, "Anything by Ghost."
[laughs]
"Anything by Sleep Token."
It's like, yeah, you gotta name one specific annoying Ghost song.
What's that one s- one song for you? Is it James Blunt, uh, Monsters?
G- uh, pretty m- any song by James Blunt. [laughs]
Yeah, any song. Yeah. [laughs]
[laughs] I just don't know the names of them, so that's probably why people use that answer, Peaches, is because they don't know the individual song name.
But you can't really hate it all that much if you don't even know the song title.
Yeah, you can, 'cause you turn it off so fast [laughs] and you try to pretend it doesn't exist.
Well, 'cause you would want to know the name so that way you can avoid it in the future. Like, you could tell your Pandora, old person Spotify, or even Spotify not to play it.
Can you tell it to not play a specific artist, though?
Mm-hmm, yeah.
Okay, see, so yeah. I'm, I, I can understand why people use that answer, 'cause I don't know the name of James Blunt's songs. All I know is that he's the worst vocalist of all time.
I s- there's a whole lot worse than him out there.
Like who?
I mean, Gwen Stefani exists.
Gwen Stefani's way better than him.
Gwen Stefani sucks.
She is a million times better than James Blunt.
The, the singer of I- ... The, the, the past singer and now the current son, the singer [laughs] of Sublime. Both of them are awful.
Ah, a million times better than James Blunt.
No.
A million times better.
There's no talent there. It's just him m- m- talking about things.
Uh-
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