[upbeat music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast.
Happy Monday. It's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I am Peaches.
I am Victor.
I was on the r/Advice subreddit, and this is the first thing that popped up: "I, 26 female, tattooed my boyfriend's, 28 male, hands, and he's now having a mental health crisis."
Ah!
Oh, not the hands! No. What did she tattoo on his hands?
Well, um, um, there's a whole paragraph here.
Okay.
Um-
Let me get into advice here
... I'm a tattooer who's in a relationship of five years now. My boyfriend has been planning for an entire year. My boyfriend had been planning for an entire year what he wanted tattooed on his hands. When he asked me to tattoo them, I was apprehensive on such an important tattoo, and also it being on someone I'm so close with and love, but ultimately agreed. He's very type A, so the designs were pre-Photoshopped on his hands, and he was super meticulous with the colors, sizing, line weight, et cetera. We had sat down several times and gone over the desi- designs, ultimately coming up with exactly what he wanted. Oh, let's see here. Oh my gosh, this whole thing's such a long post.
It is pretty long. Yeah, she goes on to say, like, okay, the day came to tattoo him, and he became super overbearing about placement. She stenciled his hands about 30 times [laughs]. I'm surprised she didn't give up after, like, three. Like, all right, dude, clearly you're, you're gonna be crazy about this, so.
Oh, I see the pictures. L- luckily, the la- the original poster said, "Hey, here's the hand tattoos themselves."
Oh, okay. Yeah, let me pull that up here and take a look.
Wow, that's, uh, pretty dumb.
[laughs] That is... Those, those are dumb tattoos.
They look like, uh, museums or like, uh, uh, vases from a museum, like what you would see in, like, the ancient Egypt section.
Yeah.
Like these came from King Tut's tomb.
Yeah, that is what they look like. Hold on, it booted me out. Stupid IMGUR website sucks. I mean, his other tattoos aren't good either, so. I mean, he's got, like, flowers on him and stuff, and an owl, but I don't know what those are supposed to be. It looks like they're perfectly placed. Uh, the tattoos are accurate to... I mean, he, he picked this. He picked this.
See, I thought the guy was just tattoo-less, and he was like, "Let me be, let me, let me have my first tattoo be on my hands" kind of thing.
Yeah. So let's see here. So she tattooed him. After that, you know, he thought they were a little too high, but that's where he wanted them. He was happy for about five days. Now, about three months later, he's sick with grief about it. He isn't eating, sleeping, or taking care of [laughs] himself or their dogs. All household responsibilities have fallen on me while he is constantly seeking validation and empathy about the fact that he placed them wrong. I believe he is having his first real OCD spiral, and not only do I have no knowledge on how to help someone experiencing that, um, I'm tired and beaten down from carrying the house. Dump him! [laughs] You know my solution. Dump him. He's a whiner. "Oh, my tattoos were in the wrong spot on my hands, man, even though I decided to put them there." She needs to send this guy into counseling.
Well, that's what a lot of people were saying in the comments that I was reading when you were talking.
Yeah, send him into a counselor.
Send him, send him to go see a counselor. This is not your fault in any way, shape, or form. He has an illness, obviously.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and he can always get them removed, dude. You can do it or get something else tattooed over them. Like, there are many solutions, you know. Like, there's parts of my tattoos that I wanna get fixed that I wasn't really happy with how they turned out, but, "Oh, Peaches, I can't work."
I mean, this guy could be like... He could do the Ronnie Radke thing and just black out his entire upper body.
Looking at those tattoos, he probably should. They look stupid to me.
[laughs] Have you seen the, the video of Ronnie Radke running up and down the beach?
No.
It looks like he's wearing a sweater-
[laughs] 'Cause-
... of how, how stupid those blackout tattoos look
... [laughs] Yeah, why n- [coughs] excuse me. Why not keep it colorful? I don't know. Yeah, this guy's a real whiner. Holy cow.
There were a lot of people extremely mad that, uh, Chris Daughtry got his arms blacked out.
Yeah?
A lot of those, uh, American Idol fans from way back in the day-
Okay, 'cause he-
... they still see him as, like, a, a, a, what's it called? A wholesome-
Mm-hmm
... family rock guy.
Yeah.
He did that, and I think he's trying to break free from that. Now, right now, he's, uh, doing some recording with Jor- Jordan Fish.
I saw that. I saw that.
So I'm assuming all of his new songs are gonna sound exactly the same.
[laughs] They're gonna sound like everything else on the radio.
Just like, uh-
[laughs]
... Poppy's latest album.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Poppy, Architects. I mean, sure, it sounds good, sounds quality, but they do all sound the same, you know? We got one Bring Me the Horizon. We don't need 10 million more.
I, I did talk about, uh, I did post it in the Kbear group. We gotta go to Manchester.
What's in Man- Oh, the, the big show that they're doing.
The Bring Me the Horizon show with, uh, Static Dress, Dying Wish, all these different bands for 20 years of Count Your Blessings.
Nice. Yeah, I'm gonna go, uh, see Bring Me the Horizon in about a week and a half because-
Oh, lucky you
... yay.
I've never seen them.
They're killer, dude.
I know.
Hopefully they'll come back close.
There was that one time I, I was planning on going to that Bring Me the Horizon, Fall Out Boy show, and then you and Jay just took the tickets from me and went to the show.
Well, Bring Me the Horizon was good, but it would be much better to see them on a headlining show at night than see them during the day like we did and then just get so disappointed by terrible Fall Out Boy.
[laughs]
They were so bad. Uh, like, nothing against Fall Out Boy. The, the set-
Nothing against, but they suck. What, what do you say? [laughs]
Their set sucked. It did. And don't wear a Snuggie on stage.
Well, Pete Wentz is a notorious D-bag. I could have told you that.
Yeah, I... They just... It just wasn't fun. I, and, and they... I don't know. After Bring Me the Horizon, it was just like the energy just went [whooshes] out of the whole venue. It was weird.
I mean, could you imagine trying to do a stand-up set after, like, Bill Burr or Joe Rogan or Dave Chappelle?
Well, it was after Joe Rogan maybe. [laughs]
You could try. But he's still a professional comedian.
He is. He's just not one of the greats. He's not Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr.
I-
Yeah, I, I mean, come on, Peaches.
Yeah. This podcast is crazy good.
Well, h- [laughs]
[laughs] I'm just-
His podcast is popular.
I'm just trying to say that the-
[laughs]
I, I thought you were gonna hit me with that guy's comment like, uh, he did with you with, uh, the Motionless in White track. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good, brother.
[laughs] Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
It's like, what are you, Hulk Hogan?
Rogan's podcast used to be good. I used to like it.
You should've just replied back to that guy with just with his picture, his profile picture.
[laughs]
I, I've seen a lot of that happening as of late. People took my idea of, uh, these, reading these hate comments, like, uh, people saying Megan Fox is mid, and when you go to, like, the guy's profile-
[laughs]
... it's one of the ugliest dudes you've ever seen.
[laughs]
[upbeat music] This is the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I'm Peaches.
I'm Victor Wilt. And, you know, earlier I bragged it up that I was gonna go see Bring Me the Horizon in about a week and a half, Peaches.
Wait, wait, wait.
Get it, get it going.
Oh, good for you.
That's right. And, uh, that's at the Sick New World Festival in Vegas.
Oh, good-
[laughs]
... for you.
I know we got some listeners going. Give them one.
Oh-
[laughs]
... good for you.
But today, in case anybody listening is going, they announced the schedule. So I was able to try to take a look and see, okay, who am I gonna have to miss? You know, 'cause you, you gotta plot out these big festivals with, like, four stages.
Oh, I just, uh, when pre-recording the show, I, I just talked about how stupid and lame Coachella is.
[laughs] I didn't even look at the lineup.
Uh, no, just because i- overall, the whole thing is just a dumb experience that all these... I'm not... I, I don't wanna call... I'm not gonna say the name of them on the air, but, like [laughs]
[laughs]
... all these influencers, these typical, like, LA wannabes-
Mm-hmm
... wanna just r- rush to the desert.
Yeah.
They don't even know Coachella is an actual city. They just think it's a cute name for a festival.
Yeah. And, uh, I did see some pretty awesome-looking clips of Nine Inch Noise, you know, the Nine Inch Nails-Boyz Noise collaboration.
I did, I did also see Trent Reznor's wife was also on stage-
Yeah
... performing with him.
So that looked cool, and then I saw people complaining about Justin Bieber's set. I guess he just ran YouTube videos or something.
He was on his, like, little MacBook on the stage and was just going through and playing what the listeners want, and he played the Deez Nuts video at some point.
[laughs]
And I don't know if that was a meme or if that was an actual thing.
I don't remember that.
But it seems like his kind of humor.
Hmm. So th- that... You know, props to him. If he can just come... He probably got paid a couple million to come sit there and push buttons. [laughs] Good on him.
I mean-
Good on him
... that's the thing, too. It's just, like, Sabrina Carpenter, she did her typical thing.
Yeah. Yeah.
Uh, it's j- Like, those are the people that you wanna see. The rest of Coachella is just, like, a, a Starbucks folk playlist.
Yeah.
And nobody really cares about that.
Yeah. The Sick New World lineup's really good. Um, I'm gonna have no problems, uh, seeing Acid Bath-
Good
... 'cause the, the bands that are playing at the same time as them are Alien Ant Farm, who I, I do... I would like to see.
You would?
Yeah. I'd, I'd like to see them. And, uh-
The one hit wonder?
And Lords of Acid, they're playing at about the same time.
Hmm.
Lords of Acid, you never heard of them? Old, uh, industrial electronic act from the '90s. And then you got Corrosion of Conformity, who I've seen. Bloody Wood would probably be cool. Might be able to make it over there for them after Acid Bath, but Mastodon plays right after Acid Bath, so yeah. Sorry, sorry, Bloody Wood.
Well, you gotta run from the green stage to the purple stage.
But those are side by side.
Are they?
Those are the... Yeah, those are the main stages.
Okay.
So if you stay in that area, you're cool. The other two stages are both in separate areas. So, uh, it's looking like I'm gonna probably spend most of my time at the main stage. But one thing I saw that I didn't see on the flyer is that the second band on the Diablo stage early, early in the day, Showing Teeth.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. I didn't see that on the flyer.
[laughs]
Showing Tee- So I'm gonna have to be there early.
So let's see here. Yeah, that starts at, like, what? 9:00 AM? No, what-
Let's see. They're playing at-
Oh, they're playing at noon
... at noon.
So they-
So it's, it's not bad
... they play at noon on the Diablo stage. Okay.
Yeah.
Then what's next for you? I see Acid Bath at 2:00.
Yeah, there's, there's not a ton.
Then you go to Mastodon.
Oh, s- I'd probably-
But then you skip Cypress Hill and AFI, and then you go to Knocked Loose-
Yeah
... later on, on the green stage.
Would, would I wanna skip-
And then Marilyn Manson.
Would I wanna skip Cypress Hill for Kitty and Norma Jean? I, I think I'd rather see Cypress Hill. I don't know. And then AFI, I bet Becca will wanna see AFI.
I can already smell the Cypress Hill performance from here.
[laughs]
Uh, AFI, the last album was fantastic. It's different from what they've put out-
Yeah
... in the past.
I'm guessing she'll wanna see them, and then you got, yeah, Knocked Loose, Marilyn Manson, Evanescence.
You can skip Evanescence 'cause I know you don't like them.
Uh, uh, Becca's gonna wanna see them.
But then Bring Me the Horizon, of course, after that, and then Jade would probably fangirl at Korn.
Now, see, I have read a bunch of different, um, reviews from previous Sick New Worlds, and everybody's like, "You have to go see Danny Elfman." Like, you know, he composed, uh, for tons of different movies.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
He had that band Oingo Boingo.
[laughs]
And everybody talked about how it was the best part of the whole show, Da- uh, Danny Elfman's set.
But look at, look who's playing before him.
Korn.
No, Ministry.
Oh, on that stage. Yeah, Ministry.
That's a very good band, too.
Ministry's great live, but I'm not gonna miss Bring Me the Horizon.
But then you have Poison the Well playing at the same time as Bring Me the Horizon.
I know. See, th- th- it, it gets hard.
Like, Wage War the same time. I would love to see Wage War again. They're gonna be in Salt Lake on May 5th.
Yeah, and you got Underoath headlining, uh, th- that Diablo stage there. But I think if I had to pick Underoath, Danny Elfman, or Korn, uh-I'm gonna try to talk Becca into Danny Elfman. She, she likes The Nightmare Before Christmas a lot, you know? So...
Here's the thing, you can split up. You guys are not conjoined at the hip.
We could, but it's a crowd of, like, 80,000 people. It's gonna be hard to find [laughs] each other again.
Hey, I don't have that problem. [laughs]
Okay. Yeah, I know. If Peaches was there, I could see you from across the whole venue grounds.
You wanna see me vacation in Japan, you'll be able to see me across-
Exactly
... the whole intersection.
Becca is short. She'll hide-
[laughs]
... in that kind of crowd. But then, then of course, System of a Down, definitely gotta watch them, so.
Also, I feel like your entire sche- your schedule has to be Showing Teeth at noon, you then run over to the, uh, the green stage for Acid Bath, then right after, you have Mastodon on the purple stage, and then you can run back to the spiral stage for Kitty.
Yeah, I mean, and, uh, Snot-
I mean, Kitty's performing at the same time, actually.
Ugh. I could go see Snot right after Showing Teeth. Snot would be really cool to see.
It, it's just hard, man.
Yeah, that, that small stage has a lot of great, uh, hardcore bands. You got Speed.
Yeah.
Tsunami. You got Pig Pen-
Mm-hmm
... who features that, uh, that chef Matty Matheson or whatever his name is.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
We play some of their stuff on Jake's show. You got Health on that stage.
I know. I'd like to see Health and Deafheaven.
Yeah, right.
But, but see, and then, but the Melvins are playing at the same time as Health and Deafheaven.
Oh, speaking of that, the Melvins just released a new song.
Is it good?
With, uh, somebody else that I, I was like, these two collaborated? Hold on, let me see if I can find it. It was, like, it, it was, like, your perfect song.
Wow.
Melvins and Napalm Death.
Okay.
They did an album together.
Wow! I'm gonna have to check that out while I deal with, like, boring, you know, music research and stuff. The Melvins are one of the best live bands ever, but I've never been able to get into their recorded music. Is that weird?
Uh, sure.
Like, they're just so heavy live. Like-
Like Trans-Siberian Orchestra, that was a great performance. Am I gonna go out of my way to listen to them-
Yeah
... recorded-wise? No.
No, no. But the show was, like, holy crap. So yeah, it looks like I'm gonna be spending a lot of time at the main stage at this one. Uh, but listeners, if you're going, you can go to the Sick New World website and, uh, schedule's posted.
Yeah, Melvins and Napalm Death, the album, Victor, is called Savage Imperial Death March.
Okay.
Came out on, uh, Friday.
And who the heck is She Wants Revenge?
Look it up.
I've never even heard of that band. They're pretty high up on the-
She Wants...
Pretty high up on the bill on that stage. They're between the Melvins and Clutch.
They have close to three million monthly Spotify listeners.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, we might need to check 'em out. We might need to look at some of these other bands on here and see if there's stuff we should be playing. So yeah.
Anyway, here's a band that should be a part of the festival, Limp Bizkit.
Yeah. Oh, that would be great. [upbeat music]
Papa Roach, you can see them live in Pocatello.
That's-
July 23rd.
Right. It's gonna be fun. We're giving away tickets all week.
That's-
Listen for back-to-back tracks from any of the bands on the bill.
I bet you thought we were gonna play another Papa Roach track, but nope, we're talking.
That's right. No prizes now, just us yapping-
That's right
... which is an even better prize.
Absolutely. You get to hear our voices and us entertain you.
Yeah.
For those people that just want music, I got two words for you.
[laughs]
Well, I can't say that on the air, never mind.
[laughs] Good job, Peaches. Um, I was on the phone earlier with Full Metal Jackie.
Oh, good for you. Let me play the button again. Wait, wait.
Oh, good for you.
[laughs] Also, shout out to Full Metal Jackie.
[air horn]
And, you know, we're talking music stuff, and she was looking at what we've been playing, and she's like, "You're playing Mafra?" And I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, it's popular." She's like, "I think that's AI." And I'm like, "I don't think Mafra's AI." Do you think Mafra's AI, Peaches?
No, she's a, she's a real girl. We watched it. I watched the video, as a matter of fact.
But she-
She's done other songs in the past.
Yeah, and people were saying she's been on TikTok for, like, years and years and years.
Yeah.
Um-
But people have been wanting her to put out original music, but she's just put out covers so far.
Yeah.
And a lot of people were like, "Well, Falling in Reverse said they did Last Re- Last Resort reimagined." Now everyone's doing a, quote, "reimagined track."
Well, ton- tons of people do, uh, vocal covers online. There's, like, probably thousands of those channels, and she just happened to blow up with, uh, Bring Me the Horizon's Doomed.
I think she just put out a new one from, uh, The Plot in You. But I, I didn't get the time to go back and dig through all of the evidence that people are, you know, spreading on Reddit to... There, there was a lot of people on Reddit saying they think she's AI.
But there's also a lot of idiots online saying, "Hey, that, uh, Artemis II voyage, that was entirely fake. They want you to believe that we went to the Moon."
Wow.
Like, there was one guy that was online trying to say the studio lighting was lazy when they went to the dark side of the Moon, but they didn't realize, like, that's not a studio lighting. That's the flash from the camera on the spaceship because they're filming through a window.
Yeah.
That's the reflection of the light.
[laughs]
They thought that was a studio light.
[laughs]
You can't light up the Moon.
[laughs]
Okay, the Moon is, is large, everybody. [laughs] And they weren't that close to it. [laughs]
But you know what's crazy is, uh, Josh from Classy97, he got way into the whole entire thing-
Mm-hmm
... and he was telling us about how they went from 25,000 to, 25,000 miles per hour to 15 miles per hour-
Wow
... to reenter the Earth's atmosphere, and then they land in the ocean.
Yeah. Scary.
In that little capsule.
Yeah, that's frightening, man.
So many things could go wrong. I mean, my middle school was named after a dead astronaut.
Really?
Christa McAuliffe.
From the-
Who died on the Challenger.
Wow.
She had nothing to do with the middle school, but she got it named after her. [laughs]
So you need a spectacular death, everybody.
[laughs] There you go.
That's what you need if you want-
Brendan Peach Elementary School.
[laughs]
Victor Wilt High School.
I'm down. I'm down for that.
The Jake Davis Academy for Adults.
[laughs]
[laughs] So yeah, it's just getting so crazy with... Now everything is getting called fake.I mean, I even saw people arguing in the East Idaho News article about, uh, you know, the president's tweet last night [laughs]
Well, I was just-
And people were calling that fake, and it's like, "Well, no, it's right from his page."
I was just joking with, uh, with my friend Zach. His, his wife's about to, uh, give birth soon. I'm like, "Please post the picture so I can comment 'AI slop'"
[laughs]
Right there in the comments section.
Absolutely. You didn't really have a baby. [laughs]
[laughs]
I know you. Your baby'd be much uglier than that.
You know, we could use AI to edit the baby's appearance, so we could make it just very ugly.
Yeah.
I wanna do that with my future kid.
[laughs]
Just ge- get a picture o- of the baby, have AI make it to where it's extremely ugly, then post it online and see how many people-
[laughs]
... will just be like, "Oh, that kid's beautiful."
"She's so precious."
"She's so precious looking."
[laughs]
"What's her name?"
[laughs] Give her a horrible name too.
Oh, oh, yeah.
Yeah. You might as well. But, but then you'll have somebody get mad. "You shouldn't bully your baby like that." They're not gonna remember they're a baby.
People get mad for all the dumbest things possible. Have you ever seen a video of a fat cat online-
Yeah
... and you see all the comments of like, "That's abuse. Animal abuse." It's like-
Aw. Well, like that big chonky boy I was carrying around the, uh, antique store the other day? [laughs]
[laughs] Hey, if you're ever down in Salt Lake City, go to Raunch Records. They have a cat right there in the, in the, the room, and she's precious.
Yeah.
She's a little chunky cat.
Yeah, dude, I... We walked into... I can't remember what it's called, the country store or whatever. It's on the way to Ririe. It looks like a giant old barn.
Oh.
I'm sure you've seen it.
You went in there?
Yeah.
I tell Aubrey every time, like, "I wanna go in there," and we just drive right past it 'cause we go to her parents' place out in Ririe.
Yeah.
I'm like, "I wanna go in there. I wanna go in there." And she's like, "Maybe..." And so now, now it's a joke where I say, "Maybe one day."
[laughs]
"Maybe one day I'll get to go in there."
They got two cats in there.
And she gets really upset with me when I say that. [laughs]
They got the gray one, and he looks like he has a mountain lion face.
Oh.
And that's the one who I picked up, and I just carried him with me everywhere I went in there. It's a big place. [laughs] And I was just walking around like, "That's my boy. This is a good kitty."
Cats and dogs definitely know if you like them or not.
Yeah.
Uh, Aubrey hates all animals really-
[laughs]
... especially pets. So they, they somehow sense that, and they'll try to, uh... They won't attack her, but they'll just, like, ignore her completely.
Yeah.
But when it comes to me, they're like, "Oh, this guy's a big friendly giant teddy bear. Let's go up and, right up and hug him," or do, like, you know, let's, like, let's go shake our butt in front of him kind of thing. [laughs] I must have dogs that wanna... Like, they must know I must like to pet them, and then they just move their way up, and I pet, start petting their butt, and they look back at me.
[laughs] Yeah. There was, uh, the, the big gray cat. He was great, and then upstairs there was a black cat sleeping in the corner, and he was out cold.
Oh.
And I still pet him. Um-
Well, good
... you gotta pet the cat.
Obviously.
But they have a, they have a lot of cool stuff in there. We bought, um, a w- a weird looking owl thing that we put in the front yard, and it, it's made out of metal, and it looks like it's, uh, flapping in the breeze. It's pretty cool, and it, the price wasn't bad.
I do feel like I get a behind-the-scenes tour 'cause you tell me about this stuff after I already, I've already seen it-
Yeah
... on Snapchat from Becca.
Yeah.
She-
She posts everything.
Yeah. She'll post, like... She posted you guys walking through the store, and there was a creepy doll-
Yeah
... right there on the shelf.
That was that same place.
Yeah, yeah.
That was in the, the barn of doom, whatever it's called, the country store.
Yeah. That was shortly after she had you carrying the cat.
Yes. Yeah.
The barn of doom.
[laughs] I don't know what it's called.
Well, and that-
I can't remember
... and that place, if it ever goes out of business, we could make that a concert venue.
Dude, that place is so packed with stuffed peaches. It is crazy.
We could just, you know... If they ever go out, we could convert it.
They had some kind of a weird old sled bed for, like, kids or something in there. It was gigantic, and it was, like, pink and, uh-
I'm worried I'm gonna go in there and buy something that's haunted.
It seemed like the type of pl- ... That doll thing. I almost bought it 'cause it was so ugly.
You should've put it right in Jade's office.
[laughs] It would match.
Just kept, keep it there.
[laughs]
[upbeat music] So to wrap up the noon hour of madness and mayhem, Victor, I, uh, returned that record player that I got.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
'Cause the sound quality was just not good.
Mm-hmm.
And so I, I got the $95 back on, on an Amazon gift card.
Okay.
So I decided to purchase an even more expensive record player that will not only play records but also cassettes, CDs, uh, FM, AM radio.
Nice.
And then also it will convert your vinyl records to MP3s on a flash drive with no computer.
Nice. Does it have, uh, like, line out so you can hook it up to a better system?
Uh, I believe so. I could've done that with the old one too-
Yeah
... I think. I could've just plugged in the, the, the s- the little things to the back of it kind of thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So I could've done that, but I don't know. I feel like I want something more than just a vinyl record player 'cause that one, the old one could only play vinyl records.
Yeah.
I wanted something more 'cause I have all these CDs lying around. I have these cassettes from back in the day.
Yeah.
Well, not necessarily back in the day. I just bought them on Amazon 'cause I was like, "Let me be that one weird dude that collects outdated ways to listen to music."
[laughs] Hipster.
Right.
Yeah. Well, uh-
I only listen via 8-track. [laughs]
My little record player that, uh, I basically only use for radio, it's got pretty good sound. You know, it's one of... It looks c- like old-fashioned, you know? It's like, looks like it's made out of wood.
That's what I was kind of wanting to go for, but this n- this new one is very futuristic looking.
Right on. Did it ha-
By that I mean it's just a modern stereo. [laughs]
Did you read the reviews?
Yeah.
Okay.
They're pretty high up.
Yeah.
The, the ones were, for the last one were also pretty high up too.
Yeah. I... Well, it, it'll be interesting to see, you know, how the sound quality is when you get it. When does it show up?
Uh, tomorrow.
All right.
And that's the thing I wanted to talk about is that when you order something off of Amazon like that, you have to click on Hide What's Inside the Box 'cause, uh, I didn't realize you, uh, you had to do that the last time I bought mine.
Mm-hmm.
And it just showed up with the packaging, the original packaging that shows what's inside-
Mm-hmm
... so a porch pirate can come by and just wanna take that and then sell it to a pawn shop or something or just use it for themselves.
Yeah. Yeah. I've or- ... Generally, that only happens to me with, like, real large items. Like, when I ordered the carpet cleaner, it showed up in theActual box
I am a little concerned because my friend Bryson, he's moving in with his girlfriend at the end of the week.
Mm-hmm.
And he still lives at his parents' place. I think she lives with her parents as well.
Mm-hmm.
But, um, they, they were asking me, "Hey, could you-- could we ship our couch that we wanna buy to your place?"
Hmm.
And I was just like, "Why can't you just store it at your parents' place?"
Yeah.
There was no explanation for that. It was just I'm watching it, and there's three giant boxes that are super heavy inside my living room.
Huh. Just taking up space.
Are they trying to hide the fact that there's a couch or-
[laughs]
Or rent a storage unit. I, I don't know.
That's a lot of money, though.
Not that bad.
I mean, that's not, it's not too bad for me to just watch it.
Well, it's nice of you.
Without spending extra money for them, you know.
Yeah, I guess it's nice of you, but do their parents have a bigger place than you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The, the, the... especially Bryson's parents. They live in, like, a nice big house.
Yeah.
Has a whole bunch of bedrooms.
Got a garage?
Yeah.
[laughs] Where a couch would go, realize.
Like, I'm at a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, 900 square foot apartment-
[laughs]
... versus a house. [laughs]
Yeah. Well, you're a good friend, Peaches, I guess.
I-- Yeah. Hey, you posted that on your Facebook a while back when I helped you move all the-
That Peaches is a good friend?
Yeah. [laughs] I helped you move all that stuff.
[laughs]
And you said, "Peaches is a good friend," or something like that.
Well, I've got more plans of moving stuff around now that I got a new bookshelf, and, uh, eventually I might need some help moving, uh, a TV stand that weighs a ton into my bedroom.
I've moved a bunch of stuff in my place. I don't ever call you for help.
Why not?
[laughs] 'Cause I just do it myself.
[laughs] Well, if I could, I would.
[laughs]
But I, I can't.
When I first moved out here, I bought a, uh, giant bookshelf from a couple in Rexburg.
Mm-hmm.
So that was January of 2021. I think it was early February-
Mm-hmm
... of 2021, so there was snow on the ground, and I just carried the entire thing-
[laughs] Oh, geez
... with two hands above my head.
Rawr.
I'm like, "I know nobody in this area. Peaches."
[laughs]
And I walk in. That holds all my movies. But forget the books. It holds all my alphabetical DVDs.
Yeah. We went, you know, thrifting, as you saw on, uh, Saturday.
Suspect I'm one of those people that only shops at thrift stores?
Uh, no. Well, we were looking for a bookshelf, and I don't know if you've gone to a furniture store, but what they charge for furniture- [laughs]
I haven't really-
... in a furniture store compared to a thrift store is very different.
I don't really shop for stuff like that. I'll go to Facebook Marketplace for that kind of thing.
That's where we ended up finding a, a bookshelf, but we did go to a variety of thrift stores. And while we're shopping for a bookshelf, 'cause I have books everywhere and no shelf space,
I bought, like, 50 more books, Peaches, 'cause they were a dol- a dollar. [laughs]
My mom used to do that kind of thing. She would go to the Friends of the Library book sale, and she would read... Uh, she won't admit this, but I've seen the books she's read, all right? It's, it's no Stephen King. It's like The Cowboy Who Saved Me.
Yeah.
The, the, The Man Who Walked Up the Castle. I don't know, but it's all these different romance books, and she would buy them for, like, a quarter, and she would walk away with, like, a garbage bag-
Yeah
... full of these books.
Exactly.
And she would read all of them and then just return them.
And return them?
Well, she would just kind of, like, sell them back.
See, I just buy them and put them on the shelf and never read them. I'm a loser. [laughs]
'Cause wouldn't be, wouldn't it be embarrassing to be, like, a 60-year-old woman with all these romance books? [laughs]
Heck yes.
Just, just in the bedroom.
Yes, it would. [laughs]
My dad has all these different, like, uh, autobiographies from famous athletes and famous people. Like, I think I gifted him, like, a Dodgers book.
Yeah.
I can only imagine my mom's side of the room. All of a sudden, there's, like, a whole library of, like, you know, The Man Who Showed Up in My Small Town.
I just... I, I see books and, you know, I have the authors I like to buy, and then I'll just see weird stuff. Like, there was a hardcover book, and I think it was called Taking Care of Your Cat. [laughs] I was just like... It made me laugh, so I picked it up and bought it.
I do have a coffee table, and I've always wanted to get a coffee table book that's, like, Toilets in Weird Places.
Yeah.
Which is, it is, it, it is a real book.
And then I'll show you this other book I-
You can't say the title of it?
I, I can. I just sent this to you'll guess who, and I was like, "I just found the worst book ever at Goodwill."
Oh.
And that's the name of the book, Jade.
[laughs]
Every time I drive by the Jade Spa, I'm like, "Oh, I gotta think of that guy getting a facial or something." [laughs]
[laughs] Okay, we better end the break there.
[laughs] All I can s- Jade is, "Are you up for one?"
Sure. [laughs]
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