[upbeat jazz music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast.
Life is Idaho. No, Life is the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem.
[laughs] That's right.
I am Peaches.
I am Victor Wilt. What's up?
Life is Idaho popped up on my Facebook feed again. Breaking news, Victor.
Oh, no, what do, what do they got for us? What's really happening around here?
Idaho officials are investigating after a massive unexplained hole suddenly appeared overnight on private ranch land somewhere outside the Snake River Plain.
Really?
Yeah. It's a pic- there's a l- legit ChatGPT generated picture here.
[laughs] Of the big hole?
Of a massive hole.
[laughs]
The ranch owner says everything looked normal before sunset, then by sunrise it looked like the earth just gave up and disappeared.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I saw this all over the local news, Peaches.
Just like that one time that, uh, that post a couple days ago about how there was random earthquakes happening-
Mm-hmm
... in all the cities across Idaho.
Yep.
Maybe that was generated by this page, too.
Uh, it was.
Wow.
[laughs] Life is Idaho is a dumpster fire of AI slop.
Has, uh, 10,000 followers, by the way.
I know. It's got quite a few, and it's funny 'cause sometimes you read the comments and people believe it.
Uh, one guy by the name of Dana, "Ever see the movie Tremors?"
[laughs] Oh, geez.
"Throw a car in there."
[laughs]
Let's see what else is there.
The sand worms. Oh.
"What's that d- what's that do to property taxes?"
[laughs]
From Colette.
Oh, Tom and Michelle. I love a good joint Facebook account.
Yeah.
Tom and Michelle posted, "I'm pretty sure this is a made AI story."
[laughs] Oh, really? Really? I don't know. I don't know. It seems so real to me.
Well, Coulter said, "That is AI. We don't have that much snow on the mountains."
[laughs]
[laughs] Oh, yeah, Life is Idaho posted this, by the way, like a few hours ago.
Okay.
They're still going at it.
Well, if you wanna follow a really stupid page with lots of AI garbage, uh, Life is Idaho is for you.
Well, speaking of that, um, I believe one of our listeners, um,
shared one of their posts in the Life in Idaho Falls Facebook group.
[laughs]
But this guy took it seriously-
Oh
... where it was the whole thing of let's not have Idaho turn into this.
Oh, I hate those ones.
Right.
I hate those ones.
It's like, well, you, you sharing that post is not going to change anything.
No, no, and you could, uh, find pictures of Idaho Falls, Pocatello from 20, 30 years ago, uh, it still doesn't look like you're out in the middle of the mountains in the woods living in a cabin.
But Victor, you grew up in Pocatello, Idaho. You wouldn't know about this.
I ... Yeah, I have no idea what it's been like around here for the last 43 years. No clue. I, I, I miss the good old days when we didn't have electricity, and we all lived in our little log cabins, and we had to go hunt and gather to get resources.
[laughs]
I, I miss those days when I was a, when I was a wee lad, when I was a boy.
You made your wife at the time churn butter.
That's right.
Your daughters ran out into the field and frolicked.
[laughs] Exactly.
They had to wear those floral dresses.
Everybody had a nice meadow-
[laughs]
... outside of their cabin.
They personally knitted all the time.
Oh, yeah, d- you had to make your own clothes.
[laughs]
You know, I, I miss wearing my, uh, bison skin coats in the wintertime.
See, back when, uh, Victor was brand new on KBEAR, he didn't set an alarm clock. There was no alarm clock back then, so he put a pin in a candle-
[laughs]
... and then waited for that candle to melt to that point, and then the pin dropped, and that woke him up.
Yep. Yep. That's what we had to do back in those days, Peaches, back when Idaho was like it used to be.
But I'm ... That's why you're a book collector. That makes sense now. That's why you read all these different books. There was no TV back then.
No, that was our only form of entertainment. You know, aside from, I don't know,
taking a stick and-
Playing, uh-
... playing in the dirt
... what's that game with jacks where you throw the ball?
Oh, yeah, jacks.
Yeah. Play the-
That was new technology when I was a boy.
[upbeat music] So obviously for the listeners that don't know, I am in here during the afternoon show. Even though the afternoon show I pre-record to focus on other tasks, I'm still in here answering calls-
Yeah
... doing contests. Like To Peach Throne is sort of live.
Sort of live, yeah.
Like, I'm sort of live there in the afternoon, but I, I pre-record most of the breaks. Like the one that I just pre-recorded for the 2:00 hour-
Mm-hmm
... is me talking about that one person in this office
that will not stop cutting the dang donuts.
[laughs] Yeah, um, there was another donut this morning that had been cut in half, and, uh, I ... It was a cinnamon roll, and I took the other half because I didn't want a chocolate covered donut. So that's why I took ... I mean, there was only half of it there.
When, when, when was this?
Uh, this might've been a m- ... It was right after the morning show, an hour and a half ago.
So they saw my post, and then they went and chopped-
[laughs] Another donut in half, but it was right in half.
'Cause I thought, I thought the culprit was Josh. No, but originally I thought it was Jay Miller, but he left.
He's not here.
He's not here anymore. Josh, I thought it was him because he, you know, he's like, "I'm on a diet. I'm trying to lose weight."
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
And usually when, when people try to vocalize that to everyone they know-
Mm-hmm
... they'll, they'll get, like, the diet Coke instead of the regular Coke.
Uh-huh.
They'll, they'll cut donuts-
[laughs]
... and be like, "Oh, I'm cutting back." No, if you're really dieting, you don't eat that kind of crap.
I wonder if someone did just slice it in half to annoy you. I don't know.
If they did, I'll just throw the whole box of donuts away.
[laughs]
I mean, I don't care about doing that whatsoever. I-
Yeah
... I could e- like, I threw away the, uh, the one third of the, of that donut left that they l- I know who it is.
Yeah, yeah, you-
I have a good feel-
You told me who you speculated it was.
Yeah.
But they don't seem like they would do that just to annoy you.
No, I feel like that person's so, like, in their own land or in their own mind kind of thing, like la, la, la, la, la.
[laughs]
That she just doesn't pay attention.
Well, and maybe, yeah, just, just wanted part of a donut, but-
Who eats chocolate covered donuts?I do.
You do?
Yeah.
I, I just don't like 'em.
Oh, okay.
I, you know, I saw 'em sitting there, and I was like, "All right. I can say no to a donut. This is great."
I had the, the maple bar, the one maple bar left, and that's what kinda drove me to see the, uh... That's what drove me to see that one-third left of a donut.
That picture of the box of donuts with the maple bar in it is what drove me over to the, to the donuts-
[laughs]
But the maple bar was gone.
Sorry.
So I had half.
I should've eaten half of it. [laughs]
You should've had half.
[laughs]
That's why, Peaches. Share.
But I, I, I still don't under- Maybe it's Jade trying to annoy me.
It could be. He, he likes to do that kinda crap.
Ja- Jade did this thing this morning. Now, I notice these things. I'm, uh, very hyper-aware of these types of things. He, uh, went to Justin, talked to him.
Mm-hmm.
Went to Josh and Chantel, talked to them.
Mm-hmm.
Goes past my studio, doesn't say a single word.
[laughs]
Goes to Katie, says hi to her. Goes to you and says, "What's up, d- uh, dirtbag?" And then-
[laughs]
Then he goes back around and still doesn't say anything to me at all.
Maybe he is just trying to get under your skin today. [laughs] Uh, that's, that's all I can think. I don't know. Or maybe he didn't have something important to tell you. He had some kinda crap that, um, he needed me to do. I don't remember what it was, but-
But at least a hi or something.
I, I guess.
I feel bad because I sometimes don't say hi to Andrea, and Jeff's office is right next to hers.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm like, "Jeff, there he is." And then I walk by Andrea, and I don't even look at her. [laughs]
[laughs] See, you're doing the same thing, Peaches. You're hurting feelings.
'Cause I, I can't be like, "What's up, Andrea? How you doing?" [laughs]
[laughs]
Maybe she's the one-
Ah
... cutting the donuts. [laughs]
Yes. It's, it's all Andrea's fault. Shame. [upbeat music]
All right, Victor. You told me you have something here for the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem.
Yeah. I've got a warning. I mean, I warn people all the time to avoid natural waters, right? There's wildlife. There's parasites. Well, in beautiful Yellowstone National Park as well as Grand Teton National Park, a new federal study has found brain-eating amoebas in recreational waters.
I love that punk band.
[laughs] Brain Eating Amoebas? Yeah. They're, they're fantastic. So yeah, yeah. They found in, uh, one-third of all of the water samples they took the brain-eating amoeba, and, um, yeah, it, it can cause, uh, uh, you know, some unpleasant things such as, uh,
death. Um, [laughs] 98%-
That's it
... people who get it die, 98%. And you still got people like, "When are they gonna fill up Jensen Grove?" [laughs] Now, I don't know if Jensen Grove had brain-eating amoebas, okay? Don't, don't you all be reporting me for saying false information, but yeah, uh, don't go in the water in Yellowstone, man. I mean, brain-eating amoeba. I- if something's eating your brain, does that, you know-
You, you can't-
... make it easier on you when you're dying?
Now let me, let me Google search this real fast.
Like, would that eliminate pain receptors or, you know, do you just kinda, you know, you lose some form of consciousness?
So I'm typing.
I don't look in- I don't look a lot into parasites 'cause they give me the creeps, the thought of, uh, bugs and things swimming into your nose or burrowing into your skin.
The amoeba destroys brain tissue and causes severe swelling, leading to coma and death, typically within one to 12 days of symptom onset.
Holy cow.
The, uh, the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming in warm freshwater or using contaminated water for nasi- uh, nasal irrigation.
Oh.
Nasal irrigation.
So be care- careful with that nasal spray.
Yeah.
Don't fill up your, uh, [laughs] your saline nasal spray in the river. [laughs]
It travels from the nose-
Right into your head
... along the, uh, how do you say this? The olfactory. Is that the... Is that an L there?
Uh, I don't-
The, uh, the olfactory nerve to the brain. It consumes brain cells, causes massive inflammation.
So your head swells up?
So you, you start out with a severe headache. Maybe you get a high fever, nausea, vomiting, stiff neck, and then later on you have confusion, lack of attention, loss of balance, hallucinations, seizures, and coma.
And then coma and death.
The fatality rate is over 97%. It's almost always fatal-
Mm
... even with prompt treatment.
Yep. So if you're participating in water sports, especially during the hottest parts of the year, uh, 'cause, like, yeah, a couple years ago somebody died at Lake Mead from this. Um, d-
just, just go to the pool. Just go, [laughs] just go to the pool, people. You know? Like, tho- those natural waters, man, it, it's getting bad.
I'll send you this whole scientific article for what exactly happens. Oh, this nine-year-old got it.
Mm-hmm.
This nine-year-old by the name of Halley died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba infection while swimming near her family's home in Kansas.
Wow.
The organism responsible dwells in warm freshwater lakes and rivers and usually targets children and young adults. Once in the brain, it causes that swelling. The infection is almost universally fatal. It's giving the same information. Although infection- Although deadly, infections are exceedingly uncommon. There were only 34 reported in the US during the past 10 years.
Okay. Well-
That was back in 2014.
Oh, okay. Well, things are heating up, Peaches, since 2014, [laughs] so, uh, just be careful out there, everybody. We want our listeners to be alive and not, uh, you know, dealing with brain-eating parasites.
I'll put that in Imaging.
Okay. [upbeat music]
So yesterday, Victor, we were talking about, uh, stupid Life is Idaho posts.
Yeah.
And wasn't one of them like, "Hey, that's awesome." Uh, Idaho, Idahoans say, "That's huckleberry."
Yeah.
Something like that?
Yeah. It had a, it had a whole bunch of supposed phrases we use, most of which d- most of them didn't even make sense, uh, but also that I'd never heard a single person use.
And y- you mentioned how, like, when it comes to picking huckleberries, you've never actually picked any huckleberries because people keep those spots secret.
Yes.
And I just had a video online, I wish I can give the guy credit and talk about it and actually play the video because it's so funny. This guy gives away, uh, different secret parts of Utah.
Oh.
He, he'll, he'll be like, "This, by the way, is a, is a massive swimming hole, like, for a lot of, uh, families with kids."
Parasites. Don't do it.
They can just, they can just jump right in.
Don't do it. [laughs]
And I was gonna bring that up in the last break, but I figured we'd talk about it here to wrap up the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. Why not? Be- uh, th- this guy was giving directions to these different places.
Uh-huh.
And people were commenting like, "I hope you OD and die."
Jeez.
"Why are you giving away these, like, secret parts that are gems to us? I don't want-
Oh, my gosh
... other people showing up." It's, it's like, it's public land, I feel like, right?
Yeah, exactly. Let people get out and see it.
Yeah.
You know?
Let, uh, let them swim a little, I think.
Yeah, if somebody wants to dr- jump into an, a brain-eating amoeba-filled pond with their family, you ... [laughs]
Let them jump in first, see if they die.
Exactly. [laughs]
Then you jump in if it's safe.
Come back a week later, you know, after reading the news for a week. [laughs] See if anything's popped up.
That's a great way to drive those people from out of state out of here.
[laughs] They-
You tell them about the secret spots.
The secret spots that are all swimming holes packed with parasites. [laughs]
That's why I'm telling other Californians to jump in the Snake River.
[laughs] Oh, geez.
[laughs]
My gosh. Don't jump in the river, anybody, please.
I- is that illegal?
To tell people to jump in the river?
Yeah. The, the, to tell people like, "Hey, you should go for a nice swim." [laughs]
Well, [laughs] I, I ... Due to the fact that they could die, I, I would think, Peaches, that that's ... W- will you put that on my traffic school-
I'm doing that right now
... notes for tomorrow?
Is it illegal to tell someone-
[laughs] Here's a great swimming hole
... to jump into [laughs] a deadly body of water?
[laughs]
Yeah, I'm gonna Google search this too and see what Google has to say first. I really-
I mean, I'm gonna assume,
uh, you know, 'cause someone would be like, "Well, if somebody told you to jump off a bridge, would you?" [laughs] You know?
Oh, yeah, one of those dumb things.
[laughs]
Oh, telling someone to jump into a deadly body of water is generally not illegal in most jurisdictions-
[laughs] Oh
... including the majority of the US and the UK-
[laughs]
... as words alone typically do not create a legal duty or criminal offense.
[laughs]
However, it c- it can become a crime under specific circumstances involving a duty of care, intentional harm, or statutes regarding suicide. So it's more so like, hey, if you pushed your friend into the Snake River. [laughs]
Yeah, or if you, like, held them at gunpoint and were like, "Jump in."
Yeah. Do it.
You will-
No one's gonna miss you.
[laughs]
You're from California. Get out of my state.
Then it might be a crime.
This is Huckleberry.
[laughs]
[laughs]
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