[instrumental music plays] The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast.
I just stumbled across a weird post right when I opened Reddit, Peaches. And I just read the title and was like, "Wh- why not just do it today?" This post is called, "I've made up my mind to divorce my wife within four years." [laughs] Why such a long time frame? [laughs]
Start the countdown clock.
[laughs] You know? Like, you don't know what could happen in four years. Like, getting a divorce is expensive, right? What if they win the lottery or, or, or something like that or, uh, there's a major life changing event? All of a sudden there's a lot of, uh, medical debt racked up or, uh, a, a new baby appears or, I don't know. Wh- we gotta see why.
Yeah, please, tell me more.
All right. So, they're both in their mid-30s, been married since college. Um, you know, he talks about what they do. Um, uh, why? Why here? Uh, okay, he's got some health issues. And then she leaves everything on the floor, doesn't put trash in the bin, leaves dishes everywhere. It's been very difficult to keep up the energy to keep up during the week-
What a slob
... with his health issues. So she's, she's messy
and, uh, he wants her to change her ways when it comes to, uh, the chores around the house. What, what I don't get is... Okay, he says once... She's in some type of a, a college program pursuing a degree and she, he says once she finishes the program and is financially stable and supported by this new position, she can have 80% of everything, but she's gonna have to make her own coffee and put her own dishes in the wash. [laughs] Um,
this guy to me
sound like he might, uh,
need to just get this job done right now. 'Cause
I don't know if she's using, uh, like student loans or something to, uh, pay for her schooling. This guy don't realize he's gonna have to pay half of that. [laughs] You know? Like, uh, if, if you're feeling that way about somebody, why would you make them wait four years? And it doesn't appear that he's telling her. Like, I don't know, Peaches, if you're, if you're feeling like dumping somebody, if you're set on it, just dump them. I don't know, it's just a weird post to me. Within four years. I don't know.
Y- it's weird, man. That's, that's all, that's all I can say.
[laughs] It's just all I can allow. [laughs]
I'm just repeating, I'm just gonna echo what you're saying.
[laughs] I just, I, I don't know. I was hoping you'd disagree. [laughs] It'd be like, it makes sense to me. I wanna be in a miserable relationship for four years. [laughs]
I just love how he's calling her out to the Reddit post.
In this dirty house. [laughs]
Like, what if she sees it?
[laughs] She might 'cause he, he goes into some, some very specific details of their life. It's a long post. [laughs] So, I don't know. Maybe he loves, secretly, messy house. [laughs] And
I, I bet he's hoping she's gonna have to take on half of his, uh, medical debt. I, I, I think, uh, this guy's a turd. That's what I think.
No kidding.
[laughs] I think this guy-
A guy posting r- uh, [laughs] like, a long speech on Reddit-
[laughs]
... is a real piece of crap. Who would've thought?
[laughs] [instrumental music plays] This is the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem. What's up, Peaches?
So I talked about my top 10 favorite albums of 2025 with Metal Birb. That video is uploaded on our YouTube.
Mm-hmm.
K-Bear 101 RMG, if people wanna watch it.
Very nice.
Uh, what are some of your favorite albums of the year, Victor? We don't have to go through the top 10-
[sighs]
... but what are some of yours?
I was thinking about this the other day and, 'cause I was... Uh, generally, I have a top album of the year. I don't have one this year. Uh, there are some albums that I liked, like, some parts of them. Um, but generally my album of the year is like, you know, th- that's grade A start to finish. And I don't know if I just didn't listen to enough full albums.
I don't think you did.
But-
I think you were so sidetracked with many different things that you didn't have time to sit down and listen to albums.
It has been a very busy year and y- you know, usually I'm sitting in my office and, uh, you know, I'm doing the type of work where I'm not listening to music. Like, you know, working on specific music for the radio station.
Right.
So it's more tedious, boring crap that one of the bosses wants me to do that eats up just days of my time and I need to listen to some music to pass the time. But I listened to, like, the whole Ghost album and it was okay.
Cookie cutter.
Yeah, the new Sleep Token album was good, but-
We got into that, me and Metal Birb, about the whole Sleep Token album, just, uh, uh, I think he... [sighs] I forgot exactly what he said, but he did get into arguments with Sleep Token fans.
Yeah, it had some really good songs, but then it had some songs that I, you know... I didn't listen to it over and over and over again like I did with, uh, Take Me Back to Eden, which was my album of the year when it came out. Uh, did Poppy's album come out this year?
No. Uh-
That was last-
N-
Okay.
Yeah, no, I think it was last year. Poppy's gonna release a new album very beginning of next year.
Yeah.
Um, Empty Hands.
And I hope it's good. Um-
Jordan Fish effect.
Yeah, I know. That's... There's some of the new Poppy songs that I really like, but um, you know, nothing has ever lived up to I Disagree.
I was going to, uh, dive into that with Metal Birb, but we talked for so long that you start... You, when you go on a Zoom call for that long, you start seeing that countdown clock. Like, "Hey-
Mm-hmm
... it's gonna abruptly end."
Yep. Yep, I know what you mean. So I, I was... I looked through a list of, like... You know, there are a few different lists of the best albums of the year and none of the ones on there-... would, would have been my top album, either. And nothing got me interested enough to listen to a full album. Like, you know, Nine Inch Nails technically put out a new album.
Meh.
But I didn't-
I w- I wouldn't count that.
But it's, you know, it's a soundtrack and it's mostly instrumental.
It's something Disney paid them to do and-
Like-
... they, they went through with it, obviously.
Yeah, I might be able to pick some favorite songs of the year, but I don't know if I could pick a favorite album of the year. What was your album of the year?
Should I reveal it here, or should I just let people go to the YouTube video to find out about it?
Do you think they're gonna take the time? [laughs]
If you're a real fan, yeah. But if you're a mindless, uh, listener, uh, maybe not.
[laughs] Maybe they hate YouTube, Peaches. "That's for kids. I don't watch the YouTubes."
Oh, what do you, what do you, what do you watch stuff on?
[laughs] I watch stuff on my old CRT TV with my, uh, my satellite dish.
[laughs]
That's what I do. My God. A- a- all right, I won't throw any, uh-
It's not-
... cable providers under the bus.
It's not cool to not care.
It's not cool to not care.
There are a lot of people out there like, "Oh, I only have time to listen, like, 10 minutes of radio, then I get to go to my, uh, job and I work for 12 hours." You know, that type of thing.
Yeah, but that's, that's how most people live, Peaches.
Or, "I, I don't know what bands are coming through the area 'cause I just ignore everything. I live in my own world, my own bubble."
Yeah, I mean, I could name my favorite shows of the year, um, but I, I don't have a favorite album of the year. I, I don't know. I need to listen to some more, I guess. Like, I really liked songs from, uh, BABYMETAL, Poppy, Sleep Token, uh, Ghost. What are some other good songs that came out during the year? I don't know. I- it's been a crazy year for me. I've been very busy, um, you know, both at work and in my personal life. So, a lot of go, go, go. I listened to a lot of podcasts, you know? 'Cause that's what I do when I'm, uh... I don't like listening to music when I'm, uh, taking a long drive or if I'm doing chores around the house. Seems like it, uh, makes the minutes creep by. So, I listen to-
It does
... I listen to yapping. You know, I listen to, like, Last Podcast On The Left.
Yeah, I do a lo- well, like, I mention, long road trips, I don't wanna listen to songs at all.
Hmm.
I just wanna listen to old radio stuff or I wanna listen to some new podcasts where people get to have a lengthy conversation for a couple of hours.
Yeah, 'cause if you listen to, you know, like, a song, it's like, "Okay, that was four minutes of driving."
Yeah.
And then another four minutes of driving. But if you're listening to people talk, it seems like it goes by, uh, much quicker. So-
'Cause you're almost joining in the conversation.
Yeah. Yeah, you're the, the fly on the wall, as they say. So, I-
So technically, we're helping you out when we talk for a long time here on the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem.
Yeah, we're helping your lunch break go by faster so you can get back [laughs] to work. [laughs] Hope you love it, everybody.
Peaches, why don't people like dark chocolate? Yep.
'Cause it's bitter and tastes awful?
It's good. I went to the break room and I had brought my Lindor chocolates, chocolates home, so I didn't have any candy here, but I saw two remaining chocolate. Like, that thing-
There was three last night, so somebody must have aten one, or ate one, uh, prior to 9:00 AM.
Was it one of these?
Yeah.
One of the black ones?
Somebo- so it must've been you.
No, it was not me.
Oh.
I grabbed these 'cause nobody was eating them, but it, like, it's probably why people don't drink instant coffee shooters like I have. Thick black sludge, lots of flavor, bitter, painful.
I'm not gonna dive into the whole coffee thing again, you know. I, I made that one guy upset.
What did you say?
Remember, uh, y- he was like, "Oh, you said coffee needs to have a whole bunch of stuff added to it in order to taste good," and got really mad at me.
I agree. Like coffee, I don't think it tastes good. I drink it for the caffeine, and it's cheap.
Who cares? [laughs]
You know, if, uh-
Like, just drink it.
Yeah, but-
Drink what... Drink whatever you want, eat whatever you want.
I just ate one of these dark chocolate Lindors.
Good stuff, dude.
I took my truffles back to, to my place in the little, their little tin container, put it on my coffee table.
Mm-hmm.
Aubrey was over, had one. I'm like, "I'll just leave those there, who cares?"
I don't think I told anybody I had them. They're just in bag, sitting amongst the mess on my dining room table.
Somebody was, uh, making fun of you for separating them by color.
Why?
A- and, and I, I didn't elaborate in the comment section saying, "Hey, no, he was just splitting them evenly." Because listener Troy, shout out to him, brought a giant tin of Lindor truffles. Like, there was so many in that container. And last year when he did the same thing, uh, I mostly ate, like, the whole container.
Yes.
[laughs]
So, I split them up-
I, I ate most-
... so we'd have an equal amount. [laughs]
I ate most of the container 'cause they were just sitting there behind, like, sitting there behind you in a little, like, uh, plastic cylinder.
Yeah.
And I, and I would occasionally just go and grab one. And o- once I see something, like, I wanna eat in the studio or something like that-
Mm-hmm
... I'll just, like, you know, pick at it till it's gone.
That's why I took mine home, so I wouldn't ju- just sit there and pick at them. And [laughs] lo- lo- and behold, I saw one of these, the least popular in the break room, and I was like, "Well, I guess I'll take it." I did get some M&M Minis from Josh.
Yeah, I ate mine this morning.
Ah. M&M Minis are pretty bomb candy.
I feel bad 'cause we're making fun of people who gift others lottery tickets, and then sure enough, tw- 10 minutes later this morning, Josh and Chantel gift all of us lottery tickets. [laughs]
Dude, my whole morning show seemed like it was about lottery tickets today. Big Powerball jackpot, everybody [laughs], in case you didn't hear. [laughs]
You shouldn't share it.
Shouldn't share what? The jackpot?
Yeah. Don't tell people to sign up, and just l- let us do it.
Oh, okay. Yeah, um, 'cause we're gonna totally win. Tell you what, if I don't show up to work, uh, tomorrow, you'll know what happened.
I just assume you, uh, pulled some sickness out of your butt and, and sent m- [laughs] went along with that. [laughs]
I got no time off available. I can't take any more days. I don't know what happens when-
What do I have today? Oh, Ebola.
Eh, you know, if anybody's gonna catch it, it's gonna be me, for sure. So I've, I need to lay low for a while and build up some PTO. Um...'Cause I, I, I need to be able to take a vacation at some point. My daughter was talking to me about going to Phoenix to visit her. She wants me to come down and see Nine Inch Nails in, uh, March in Phoenix instead of going to Salt Lake. And I was like, "Well, that would be fun, but I have no money-
I'm contemplating-
... and I have no PTO."
... whether going to Nine Inch Nails or going to a band I actually am a giant fan of, Nothing More, that same night.
Hm. I would go to Nine Inch Nails any day.
'Cause, like, uh, Nine Inch Nails, I know a couple of their tracks. I really am not a fan of Closer.
Really?
I'm kind of annoyed by that song.
Really?
It's just six minutes of [singing].
Oh, it's so good. I, I guarantee you... Uh, you know how I told you to go to Trans-Siberian Orchestra 'cause-
Yeah
... the show would blow your mind?
Right.
Okay. Now-
But do I have to be on drugs to, uh, to [laughs] really enjoy Nine Inch Nails?
Did you enjoy Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
Uh, I did, but I also feel like it would've been, would've been enhanced.
[laughs]
[laughs]
I bet there were some people on drugs at the Trans-Siberian Orchestra [laughs] show though.
I was laughing at those people that were dumb, that were like, "Oh, okay, the show's over," like, you know, uh, through the, the album.
Uh-huh.
And then the people next to me just got up and left right away.
Re- Really?
Yeah.
'Cause they, they didn't even get into the really good stuff-
No
... until after that.
That one guy's like, "Merry Christmas. That's it."
[laughs]
And sure enough, I did see not only the people next to me leave, but also, uh, uh, people... Because w- I had a good view of the entire arena.
Yeah.
I saw a whole bunch of people go, "Okay, let's go."
What?
But, uh, I did see some families with kids, and that would absolutely suck. I, I'm sorry. H- having a kid, like a young kid must suck. My kid is gonna sit there and enjoy the whole dang show.
[laughs]
I don't care if he's [imitates baby crying]
[laughs]
"I don't like it."
[laughs]
Sit there, you wuss.
Yeah, that show didn't even get good. I mean, okay, nev- nevermind. Uh, that's the wrong way to put it. The show started to get really good in the second half.
I was gonna say the entire show was fantastic.
Yeah.
We brought one of, uh, Aubrey's nieces, and I could tell she wasn't appreciating it to the fullest.
Really?
Yeah, she was kind of getting bored sitting there. You know, kids, they... Th- the attention span-
Ah
... a little, a little short.
Becca's daughter, she was really blown away by it.
But she left. You guys had to leave because of her.
We did leave, but we, uh, we made it almost all the way through the whole show.
And I, I shouldn't make fun of those kids, 'cause I was that kid to the point where my parents paid all this money to have us go to an Angels game.
Mm-hmm.
Now, I don't know how old I was. I was very young. But, you know, "And the rocket's red glar-" And the, the jets, th- the fireworks go off. The jets go over the stadium. Big old Peaches baby [imitates baby crying]
[laughs]
... as loud as possible-
[laughs]
... to the point-
[laughs]
... my parents and my grandpa had to leave-
[laughs]
... before the game even started. "I don't wanna be here." [laughs]
[laughs] That's hilarious.
You can imagine some, you know, some baby that's 10 times the size of a normal baby.
[laughs]
[imitates baby crying]
[laughs] That's hilarious.
Get my dad on the phone, he'll tell you.
Oh, that's too funny. Well, back to Nine Inch Nails, Peaches. I've seen Nine Inch Nails and Nothing More. Nine Inch Nails is an experience. Nothing More is a great concert, but-
But I've been dying to see Nothing More. 2024, we were talking about albums of the year-
Yeah, it w-
... or best albums. 2024, Carnal, that album was fantastic.
I guarantee there will be no comparison between the two shows.
And I interviewed Johnny Hawkins, and now he's automatically my good friend.
[laughs] Your good friend, Johnny Hawkins.
Trent Reznor doesn't care for radio people, so I shouldn't care for that guy. He seems like a downer.
Trust me-
As a, as a, as a downer of a person, Trent Reznor seems like a downer.
He seems like he'd be a really nice guy to me.
He seems like he would be very intricate with every answer-
[laughs]
... to every question ever to him.
I, I'd like to interview him. I'm just telli- Taryn said that Nine Inch Nails, and she isn't a huge Nine Inch Nails fan, she's seen all kinds of bands. She said it was by far the best concert she's ever seen-
'Cause I'm sitting there-
... this last tour.
I'll, I'll sit there and listen to Nine Inch Nails, and I'll be like, "Okay, when's this over?"
[laughs]
Like, like, uh, "When's the song gonna get good?" [laughs]
You're nuts, Peaches.
Do I need to be under a certain substance and be like, "Whoa."
[laughs]
"I see the lasers in my car."
[laughs] Peaches, if you could add one item to a loaf of bread, what would you [laughs] prefer?
The next person-
[laughs]
... that shows up to the studio here, peaks in, and then walks away.
Who was it?
I, I've... Multiple people do that-
They're coming
... all, all the time.
They're coming. Who is it? Oh, it's Justin. It's Justin walking by. Justin, come here. Got a question for you.
Justin's been down on his luck recently.
Justin been down on his luck?
Yeah.
What do you mean?
I don't know if he shared the story on the air, if he wants to, but, you know-
What, what?
Horrible things happening to his car all the time.
Oh, well-
What happened to your car?
Well, Josh Tyler from Classy '97, in what must have been February, pulled his Toyota truck out of the parking lot. He backs in, like most smart people do. He just-
Yeah, so, so that you smash into the other vehicles-
Yeah.
... 'cause you don't know how to back your truck up right?
And we all know that you don't know how to back your vehicle into a parking spot, Victor, but that's all right. So he drove-
[laughs]
... his, drove his Toyota truck into my car and ripped the front end off of it.
I remember that.
And then some lunatic on Friday night backed his vehicle into my
car at the bowling alley, so...
Is it the same car?
Same car, yeah.
Yeah, Justin's just innocently bowling. He says someone walks into the bowling alley and goes, "Hey, uh, whoever has a red so-and-so, a red such-and-such-"
It's orange, Peaches
... "orange, orange such-and-such, uh, your car just got hit."
You call that orange?
It is orange.
I think it's reddish.
You're...
[laughs]
See?
The studio light in here is red.
Yes.
That is Mars orange.
I'm gonna have to look at it when I go outside again.
Okay.
I didn't even notice the dent. Uh, they... Where'd they hit it?
Doesn't shock me because you can't back into a parking spot.
[laughs] I can.
It's on the passenger door-
It takes too long. I'm, I'm in a hurry when I get here. I got work to do. Chop, chop. You know, I ain't gonna back into a parking spot.
Have you seen Victor walk? He, he looks down.
The Victor Wilt Show... Uh, The Victor Wilt Show, every morning from 6:00 until 10:00. Uh, no, let's change that. From 6:10 until 10:00.
Oh, yes.
Hey, I usually make it here before that guy who backs his truck into your car-
Mm-hmm
... [laughs] in the parking lot.
Okay.
Probably taking all that time trying to back his truck in.
Gotcha. Well-
Oh, there he went.
What did you call me here for?
The guy who can't drive. I was just gonna ask, if you could have-
[laughs]
... any one item added to a loaf of bread, what would it be?
... added. It wouldn't be razor blades.
[laughs] Okay, that's what- That's what I was hoping you'd say.
Yes. [laughs]
[laughs]
Maybe a nice Chris Gaines album. Maybe.
Yeah.
[laughing]
Hey, the Chris Gaines album was really good. Sorry.
Was- was it really good?
Yeah, I think so.
All right, I never listened to it.
I mean, it was alternative country before alternative country became a thing.
Garth, always ahead of the game.
Yes, he was.
I mean-
Always doing something new.
Have you hopped on the air, Justin, on-
[clears throat]
... on The Hawk and talked about how Garth Brooks is a serial killer?
I have not 'cause I don't [laughs] understand the whole...
[laughs]
I don't really... I don't know what the bodies are about.
Yeah, do- you gotta follow the manosphere to be in- in the loop on this. Peaches, what's the deal with Garth Brooks being a-
Uh-
... serial killer?
About how, like, every time he books a tour, someone coincidentally get- goes missing in that city that he is in.
Hm.
Hm? I- I mean, but he does play, like, big cities in the South, right?
So it doesn't-
[laughs]
I mean- [laughs]
So that just- that just happens there.
Well, I mean, it's like going to Memphis and figuring out if you're gonna end up on the First 48 or not.
Exactly.
But it happens on the day that he's there, too. I think there's a whole bunch of stuff that you're like, "This is- this doesn't look like a coincidence." This looks like something he's doing, or there's like- there's an- an obsessed fan with Garth Brooks that just takes people on the day that he's performing in that city.
I just figured it's like Garth Brooks is in St. Louis, and-
Well, if that- yeah
... somebody probably disappears every day in that city.
Yeah.
I- if Garth- if Garth Brooks goes to Detroit, obviously that's Detroit.
[laughs] There you go. Yeah. He-
And over the past few years, I mean, realistically, you know, Garth's gotten... He's kinda... He's- he's a little on the deep end.
Oh, yeah.
Little on the deep end?
His Facebook Live videos are- are- should be in the... Should be, like, in the, what's it called? Just locked up-
Yeah
... somewhere. Yeah.
Hm. Well, you know, when you- when you got a, uh, make that kind of money for that long, figure out ways to spend it. Who knows what he's doing? Getting some-
He's like that creepy uncle showing up to Thanksgiving.
Getting somewhere. [laughs]
Yeah.
Yeah, Peaches would know.
[laughing]
[laughing] Yeah, that- that was all I had, Justin.
All right.
Just wanted to find out. Sorry about your car, dude.
Yeah, it's all right. It'll get fixed. It's just the door.
All right. Well, hopefully third time's a charm. [laughs]
Oh, I hope there's no third time.
That's until Victor tries backing in-
Oh, yeah
... and just ru- [laughs] runs right-
Right
... over the hood.
Yeah, that would-
[coughs]
That's it.
Will you back into my truck so I can get it fixed up?
[laughs]
[laughs] All right, everybody. Tune into 105 The Hawk. Check out, uh, Justin Pearce. 2:00 to 7:00.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Oh, am I supposed to be on till 7:00?
I hope-
Oh
... so.
Okay.
What? [laughs]
I didn't know.
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. [instrumental music plays]