[upbeat music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast
Showing teeth. Labyrinth kicking off the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. Victor is still not here, making his return from Las Vegas. Sick New World, that's the, uh, first band I think he saw. Uh, we got FJ here in studio.
How's it going?
FJ, which by the way, I'll always plug this Alt 101, Saturdays from 10:00 to 3:00. That's where you can, you can listen to Jeff talk about, uh, pretty much anything. I know, uh, pre-Valentine's Day, or was it on Valentine's Day that you talked about, uh, how great it is to be single.
That was on Valentine's Day.
And how, how did that go?
Very well. I mean, I, I love the single life. It, it's phenomenal. I, I get the whole bed to myself. I can go eat what I want. I don't have to ask permission to go do things.
You don't have to worry about going to, like, that par- their, like, their parents' house-
Oh, yeah
... and just sitting there.
That sounds like a terrible time.
[laughs] It's almost like, uh, what's it called? The, the... I mean, what was I gonna say with this? I don't know. But yeah, again, Saturdays, Alt 101, listen to Jeff, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. What else d- have you talked about on there recently besides the, the weirdest names for animals?
Uh, I talk about aliens a lot, uh, occasionally how much I hate snakes.
They are-
Like, if I see snake stories, a- as much as I hate them, I just wanna read them. I don't know why, uh, but just kind of a weird thing.
I forgot the name of the company that was in here that, uh, brought the snakes, but the, uh, video of Victor with the snake on his, uh, shoulders-
Yeah
... is pretty funny.
I, I might have a heart attack.
Were you here for that?
No, I wasn't.
Oh. [laughs]
I would have locked myself in my office.
Shannon and Philip, please stop on by with those [laughs] snakes again.
Or don't. You guys can stay home. It's fine.
I can show you, uh, where Jeff's office exactly is. The, uh, snake that they put on, uh, on Victor's, uh, shoulders wasn't really all that mean. He was just... Uh, he wasn't mean at all. He was just friendly.
It was still a snake.
I think he passed away. Was that Thaddeus, the one that they, uh, they just recently lost? I don't know, but they named a snake Peaches-
[laughs]
... in honor of me, which I thought was awesome. 'Cause I, I just talked about... So I pre-recorded most of the afternoon show today because, well, for the past two nights, I have slept horribly. And I'm like, "You know what? Maybe I should go home during my lunch break and take a nap-
Oh, a nap sounds great
... and just, just fall asleep for an hour." But, uh, I was talking about, uh, weirdest pet names, and I was telling people not to name their, their dog or cat Peaches-
[laughs]
... 'cause I always get tagged in those posts of like, "Hey, Peaches, you should adopt that dog." It's-
The, um, uh, that's not the worst one. Steve. People name their pets Steve a lot, and I don't get it.
[laughs] My sister Bailey hates the fact that her do- her name is the most, the most used name for dogs.
That, that is a pretty popular dog name.
And then we also... Like, my, my family is really bad at naming pets. I, I've realized this after looking at the history of the pets that we've had.
Yeah.
Uh, we've had Rover, classic dog's name. We've had... We still have Sheldon. You know, he's a 55, 54-year-old tortoise.
Oh, wow.
Yeah. He's, he's awesome. Um, Hoppy the rabbit, but again, my sister was 7 when she named the rabbit that. You're not gonna tell a seven-year-old, "Hey, you can't name something that stupid Stupid," you know?
I mean, for most of those names, you could guess what kind of pet it is.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. [laughs] Slithery the snake. [laughs]
Oh. [laughs]
No kidding. Uh, anyway, it's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. We'll return with some, uh, more crap to talk about here in just a few. How about we, uh... Oh, well, I mean, we can go over those now. Any, do we have any more predictions for what Victor will say when he gets back tomorrow morning?
Oh, man. I, I think we've covered a lot of the basic ones, but there, there's gonna be something. He's gonna talk about how good the show was.
He's gonna talk about how great System of a Down and Korn was.
Yeah.
He's gonna say, "A l- a lot of these bands we, uh, we really didn't see 'cause we slept a lot."
I feel like that's gonna be the thing.
He probably went back to his hotel and took a nap.
And, and you know what? He did, because he called me yesterday.
[laughs]
And I was talking with him somewhat about it, and yeah, he totally, like, missed half, most of the lineup. He missed Knocked Loose. He missed Bring Me the Horizon.
What? [coughs]
Uh,
missed a bunch of bands because him and Becca went back up to the hotel room and just slept. 'Cause, uh, th- they decided to drive to Vegas, and I don't know why they didn't just fly.
I'm, uh... I get the driving part. It's not that bad of a drive. But if you're going that far for a concert, you go for the concert.
I, I would have tried lining up, like, some kind of media pass or something to interview those artists there.
Oh, yeah.
We're flying in from Idaho. Please, let me talk to Brian Garris and go ARF ARF with him or something.
Or go find a corner and nap in it for 20 minutes.
Yeah. Power nap in between b- oh, you can't really do that in between bands. There's so many bands on the schedule.
I could figure that out easy. [upbeat music]
Jeff, are you familiar with, uh, Scientology?
Eno- enough to know that it's really weird.
[laughs] Yeah, so people have been r- doing those speed runs in their buildings, like the one in LA. They have a giant, um, they have a giant HQ in Los Angeles.
Yeah.
And we walk by it all the time whenever I'm back at home, and I always see people kind of messing with those, messing with, uh, the people outside trying to, uh, uh, recruit.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And there's, there's one guy in particular that's always just bullying them. [laughs]
Sure.
Like, he's... I think his name on Instagram is streets.la or something like that. But all these teenagers have recently started just sprinting through the headquarters, especially that one, to the point now where the, the, the buildings have removed the door handles.
Like, the people who have, who are running the lobby have removed the door handles in an attempt to defend themselves from the speed runs, and they're all just, like, not even standing outside anymore. They're standing inside the lobby peeking out through the front door.
Waiting for speed runners.
Yeah. I mean, could you potentially just-Like try your best, 'cause there's enough room in between the doors where you could pry it open.
Yeah.
You could just rip it open and run through those people.
N- uh, now are the people actually doing any harm to anybody in the building, or are they just running through it?
They're just running through. They're trying to make a mockery out of, you know, this whole thing. 'Cause, you know, it is a controversial religion. [laughs] It is a very controversial thing.
Religion is a loose statement there.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And, uh, uh, people are just finding it funny to try to run through. 'Cause they have funny reactions, like the staff has... The staff will do everything they can to block with their hands out, block the people from running through.
Oh, don't run through here.
And it's just, it's just content, and they found out they could get away with it without getting in legal trouble.
Oh.
I mean, could you get away with it? That's a good question for Lieutenant Crane.
Th- that is.
I'm gonna ask that on, uh... I'll put that on the, uh, traffic school page here. But yeah, yeah, the people are just... N- people, I think people are now no longer able to run through the Scientology HQ in LA, but they'll find a way I feel like.
I'm not gonna try and speed run it myself.
[laughs]
It'd be more of a fast walk.
They just catch you, like, right in the middle of the lobby. "Hey."
[laughs] "We, we got you already." [upbeat music]
You know, FJ, well, it's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, first of all. I wanted to talk to you about this because I saw another one of these stories pop up, uh, over the weekend about how someone fell off a cruise ship.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And it was right by Catalina Island.
I was thinking, how do you fall off a cruise ship? Like, you're not in the middle, uh, of any, like, dangerous part of the ocean. You're not in the middle of Drake's Passage or Drake Passage, whatever it's called. It's not a s- there's not a storm. You're right there by Catalina Island. I'm sure it's calm waters.
So my brother just got off a cruise, and, like, you can feel the ship rocking as you're going. It- it's not just, like, all... You know, the ship moves, so if you're leaning too far over the edge, you might go over the edge.
I'm trying to see what... how old was this person?
Posted two days ago, crew member on Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship falls overboard off Massachusetts coast. That's an entirely different story-
[laughs]
... from what I was talking about. Here's another one. Oh, where, where, where'd it go? Where'd it go? Oh, yeah, the one that fell off of Catalina Island. A woman died. Oh, that's, yeah, 13 hours ago.
Oh, wow.
A woman died after falling over her room's balcony.
How many people are falling off cruise ships?
Apparently a lot.
Do they need to make the, the, the, the, what's it called? The railing taller?
Maybe just put up some, like, chicken wire so you can't fall over.
Have, like, those, uh, suicide nets that they have at, like, the Apple factory in China.
Oh, yeah.
Something like that. [laughs] Have, like, little nets on the sides, or you land in the lifeboat that's now no longer there because they needed to replace it with a inflatable mattress or, like, one of those stunt pads.
That's true.
So you land on it and just whoosh. But, but then that would encourage people to jump off.
Oh, yeah, like, "Hey, there's a net. I'm just gonna jump into the net."
And also, people forget that if you fall off a cruise ship, you don't just land in the ocean. That, that engine I think could just suck you in, couldn't it?
I don't know if I've ever heard of that happening, but-
Let's see
... I mean, usually falling that far in the water doesn't feel very good anyways.
Well, how did this lady die, or how did this cr- uh, it's not even a lady. This is just a c... We'll see here. Let's see who it was.
A, a shipwide... A passenger told CBS News Boston that a shipwide man overboard announcement was issued and lifeboats were launched. A search helicopter arrived. They couldn't find the person, so maybe that person just drowned 'cause they couldn't swim.
Maybe they did get sucked into the props.
I have seen a lot of, uh, a lot of stories about old people falling off. I'm like, "Who's not watching Grandma?"
W- well, I mean, some of those cruise ships are just old people.
Uh, yeah, yeah. [laughs]
Which is... They should have babysitters on those.
Uh, yeah, just handlers or something. How about, like, a nursing home at sea kind of thing?
Oh, that'd be a great idea.
Yeah, you know those two-
We would lose somebody every day off one of those.
[laughs] It just... It's like a MrBeast video. [laughs] The, the, the final person wins a quarter of the million dollars. [laughs]
[laughs] The last person standing.
Not only that, but will they fall off, but they'll just die at sea because they're old, so.
Oh, they're gonna hit the water, and their bones are just gonna snap. [upbeat music]
Wrapping up the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, I was just talking to FJ off the air about how the, uh, this cup that I posted about, this Coca-Cola plastic tumbler, um, is gaining traction in the KBARA 101 Idaho Rock and Metal Facebook group. But then-
Uh, apparently I need to see this cup 'cause-
Oh, you, you've seen the cup in plenty of, uh, Pizza Huts across the country back in the '90s.
Oh, those cups.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's one of the top cups ever.
Yeah, of course. It has to be.
I, I, I could just... I feel like there's a lot cooler cups out there on the planet.
Well, like what? Like what? The, the old '90s cups with the, uh, the blue and the purple on it?
I've got a glass boot in my office. That thing's pretty cool.
Mm-hmm. I'm talking more so about commercial, commercial cups.
Oh, okay. All right.
That's a, that's a, that's a one of a kind.
Uh, maybe not one of a kind, but it's, it's old.
It's something.
It's older than me.
Yeah, it's, it's a cool, uh, antique.
N- uh, now cool commercial cups. Um, all right, th- uh, yeah, those-
Like-
... those are pretty cool.
Yeah, but the Coca-Cola has to be number one I, I feel like.
It's at least one of the most memorable.
But, and you get that, you get that superior ice you put in there. You, you've... The, it's always better that way.
Oh, it, it, oh, yeah.
I li- I like the cup with the ice for, with the soda versus over the bottle. The bottle kinda sucks to me. Like, if I get a bottle of Pepsi, eh.
I don't mind the bottle. I think a bottle's better than a can.
I, I like the can more too for some reason.
Really?
Yeah, yeah. I like the tall cans, not the regular ones, like the 16 ounce.
You, you want, you want the big can.
Yeah, I want the big can 'cause it's... there's nothing worse than when you go to, like, a, a gathering and they give you, like, that sample cup, that sample can, I mean.
Oh, yeah, like the-
Like the tiny, tiny one
... the six ouncer, and you're like, "Well, where's the rest of my drink?"
Yeah. [laughs] It's like when they give you that fun-sized candy bar. Here's a sample of a Milky Way.
I want the whole Milky Way. I don't want the sample.
And, and also there's the, uh, the little tiny water bottles they hand out too.
Oh, yeah. Uh, uh, swallow, later it's gone. You're like, "Well, I'm still thirsty."
And there's nothing worse than when you get e- either you get that or you get the obscenely large tall water bottle and it can't fit in the cup holder.So it's a hold of the entire drive?
Yeah. Yep. Yep. Those are pretty bad.
Or you let it flop around in the back seat. We have this, uh, thing in my car that when we go down to Salt Lake City or even Boise, um, I have this, like, plastic bin that I put all the s- the snacks and water bottles in.
Yeah.
Just to kind of have it be, like, our road trip ready snack tray, whatever, or snack bin. And sometimes they fall out because they're so tall. You know, you get that giant one for, like, seventy-five cents.
Yeah.
Just falls out, rolls around the car for the next three hours driving down to Salt Lake.
Why do they not design them so they go in the cup holder?
Because the p-p-- these companies should know. A-Americans, we like everything bigger, you know?
We do, but design it in a way that it can be bigger but still fit in the cup holder.
I was talking about these car manufacturers overseas like Hyundai-
Oh, oh
... Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, uh, Volkswagen.
Well, even the American-built cars, the cup holder is no bigger.
Oh, true, true.
They're all, like, a standard way-too-small size.
Why not, like, have these, like, these trucks that are made for, for hauling people that work in these giant, like, GMC Sierras or these Ford F-150s? Why not equip that, have that enough-- have enough cup holder room to where you could have, like, your sixty-four ounce bucket of soda?
A liter of cola in there.
Yeah. It's your fuel.
Exactly.
You know, you need fueled up, the truck needs fueled up, need to be ready for the day. Anyway, that's the [laughs] that's the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. Finishing o- finishing it off talking about a cup for crying out loud. Um, yeah, I'll be back at two for Peaches Pit Party, and FJ, appreciate you hanging out because I think tomorrow Victor will, will hopefully make his return.
Unless he's got a stomach bug.
And we'll find out. We'll find out.
We will.
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