[upbeat music] The noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, the podcast
Happy Monday, Victor.
I am so happy.
Come on, for once, not be tired.
I'm tired.
Any single time Aubrey sleeps just a tad too much, I go, "Sleep, sleep, sleep"
[laughs]
And it drives her nuts.
That, that would drive probably anybody nuts, Peaches.
Well, she took like a three-hour nap Saturday afternoon, then slept in till like 10:00 AM on Sunday morning, and then she had the audacity to be like, "I'm tired" around-
[laughs]
... Sunday at 4:00 PM.
Dude, you know what? Take advantage of as much nap time as you can.
I feel like you just waste your day away if you just sleep too much, and then you really can't sleep the next night.
That's what I thought when I was younger, but now I'm like, ugh, the older I get, like, I really need this sleep. I'm all messed up. You know? Like Saturday I had to get up early, no sleeping in, hanging out at Footwear Outfitters in Idaho Falls.
Yeah, sorry, by the way, for ringing your doorbell Friday night at, uh, 10:00 PM.
Yeah, I, I don't know if we were asleep or if we were, like, in the hot tub.
No, you were asleep.
Oh, okay.
Yeah. [laughs]
All the, all the lights were off?
All the lights were off. Nobody, nobody was up, for sure.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah. 'Cause I, I, uh, was wanting that, uh, interview recorder 'cause at, at the time I thought the, uh, interview was still happening.
Mm-hmm.
So I was panicking going like, "Oh, I need to get that before Victor, like, leaves tomorrow." I didn't know... I, I didn't even realize you ha- I forgot you had the remote.
Ah.
And I thought you were gonna sleep in, and then, you know, I would have to interrupt my plans-
Mm-hmm
... to like stop by your place and pick up the thing, but luckily it all, it... I got the interview stuff, but no interview.
Nope. So it was just a big waste of time.
Absolutely.
But that's, that's all right. It happens.
Yeah. Uh, yeah.
You know? So yeah. Then, uh, Sunday, uh, no, I, I don't think I did get to sleep in Sunday either. I don't know. I'm, I'm tired, Peaches.
Of course you are.
I'm tired, boy.
You always say that.
Ugh. Well, I've got coffee.
And you always do that, too, right before we start the noon hour, "I gotta go get some coffee."
I do, to be able to get through this program.
How much coffee do you drink in a day?
Um-
A little worried about you, too. I was talking with, uh, Maddy's girlfriend over there, uh, Bryn, at the complex 'cause, uh, I was mentioning how much Red Bull Maddy drinks.
Uh-huh.
And Bryn's a little concerned, too, 'cause she had two on the way to Salt Lake City, and then I think she had two more driving back the night of the show.
Yeah, the Red Bulls aren't-
Four Red Bulls
... super strong, though. Are they? I, I don't remember how much caffeine's in them.
Like, I usually have one nice hefty instant coffee shooter in the morning. I don't know exactly how much, uh, caffeine's in it. Or I'll have like, you know, I had a, a Reign earlier, which those are pretty potent.
Reign has 300 milligrams of caffeine.
Yeah.
Uh, one Red Bull has 80.
80.
80 times four.
That's 320.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
That's how much caffeine she's having on a daily basis. I was doing the same thing, and then I got AFib.
Yeah. Uh, and my one can of Reign had almost that much, and, uh, I've got a little more caffeine going on here, so.
Dude, you gotta be careful.
Yeah.
Your heart might explode.
Boom!
All of a sudden I have to, like, take over the morning show 'cause, uh, Victor's no longer here. His heart, his heart burst into fire.
That's right. [laughs]
It's Full of My Valentine.
That's right. [upbeat music]
It is the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem, and Victor, a lot of stuff happened over the weekend online that's worth talking about here on the program, uh, one of which was a guy named Brandon. You know, that's the evil version of my name.
Yes.
Mine's the proper way. Mine's Brendan.
[laughs]
You know, Brendan, Brandon, those names can die in a ditch.
[laughs]
Same with Brandon. Brandon sounds like the dumber version of my name.
[laughs]
Here's, here's Brandon. [laughs]
So, so what did Brandon do?
Again, I'm trolling. I'm hoping nobody with the name Brandon's really mad right now. [laughs]
[laughs] Never listening to CAVER again.
Yeah, like, uh, "He was insulting my name."
[laughs]
No, it, it, only... The name I al- The only name I truly, truly hate, Colter.
Colter?
What a stupid name. [laughs]
[laughs]
Right up there with Cletus and Curtis.
[laughs]
The three Cs. Cletus, Curtis, and Colter. [laughs]
[laughs] Right.
There's a, there's a total of six Ts between the three guys. [laughs]
[laughs] Oh, geez.
No, I'm just kidding again. But, uh, but Brandon posted in Life in I- [clears throat] Idaho Falls, "Okay guys, I went to Trader Joe's, and I will say you guys over-hyped the heck out of it."
All right.
So then I did some trolling myself, and luckily he posted this right as I was leaving Utah. So I had decided to take a picture of my Double-Double at In-N-Out.
Mm-hmm.
I then went to the Ogden Trader Joe's, which is right next to the In-N-Out in Ogden right there.
Mm-hmm.
And took some pictures of, uh... took a picture of the store out front, and then made my own post saying like, "Oh man, I love these places."
[laughs]
"Great quality products, great quality food, great prices." A lot of people were in agreement with me. Somebody by the name of Cynthia tried saying Trader Joe's is overpriced and small portions, and I had a battle with her in the comments 'cause I'm like, "Have you not been to any of the grocery stores here in the area?"
Yeah. Tr- Trader Joe's, I've only been there a few times, but I mean, it always seemed like a pretty good deal, you know, as far as pricing goes.
Well, Cynthia tried saying Trader Joe's core demographic is childless millennials with high disposable incomes-
[laughs]
... 80 to $120,000 who like organic, vegetarian, unique, high quality, and specialty food items.
I think she's thinking of Whole Foods.
That's what I'm thinking. No, because she also mentions Whole Foods in another comment.
Huh.
And I do agree with her on Whole Foods being that way.
It's expensive. Yeah, for sure, and it's centered around a lot of organic blah, blah, blah. Um-
You have Whole Foods. You have Sprouts. You have a lot of those health stores.
Mm-hmm.
The Erewhon in LA. [laughs]
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Geez, that one's terrible.
Right. But Trader Joe's, I mean, I, I went in there, and there was tons of families and-
Yeah
... tons of people of different backgrounds in there.
Yeah.
Not these childless millennials that she's talking about. I wish I had this high disposable income she speaks of.
Yeah. No kidding. [laughs] That'd be great.
I went in there and bought some stuff that's so much cheaper compared to a place like, I don't know, Brolim's, Fred Meyer.Any one of those places around here where it's like seven bucks for a bag of chips?
Yeah, I know.
You get a 12-pack of soda for $15.
Yeah, when I've gone to, um, Trader Joe's... What have I bought there? I m- I usually don't walk out with very much.
Well, you can't buy, like, frozen stuff-
No
... 'cause it's just gonna get ruined.
Exactly.
Like, I, I bought, uh, Aubrey's mom a nice little Mother's Day succulent.
Mm-hmm.
Um, people, by the way, were ransacking the front of that store 'cause they were trying to get the last-minute flowers for Mother's Day yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
And, and I found the one little th- one little succulent that was in a woven basket-
Mm-hmm
... by itself, the one left. So I got that. The guy didn't even ring it up. He was like, "Do you want it in a bag?" I'm like, "No, thanks." And then I saw him ring everything else up, and then he just gave me the succulent on the side.
Well, that was nice of him.
Yeah.
All right. Yeah.
That thing was easily like 20 bucks, 30 bucks maybe.
Well, a dollar saved is a dollar saved, Peaches.
I got s- I got some of those fruit jellies. I got some apricots, some kiwis.
No peaches?
No peaches, yeah. No, I, I'm just-
[laughs]
... I'm just the peaches by myself, you know?
[laughs]
All right, what else did I get from there? I got some other snacks, I think.
Here's my grocery list.
Here's my grocery list.
[laughs]
What's on your grocery list of Peach Theron? You know, every, every-
[laughs]
... every weekday afternoon at 4:00 PM. Give me your stupid answer for my stupid question.
[laughs]
[upbeat music] It is the noon hour of Madness and Mayhem. I am Peaches.
I'm Victor Wilt.
And I think this other post that I wanted to talk about got deleted.
Dang it.
It was in the other Life in Idaho Falls group. Let me see.
The one I'm, the one I'm banned from?
No, the one that you, uh, the one that you're actually a part of.
Oh.
Let me see here. Wait. Nope, nope, it's still there. Thank goodness. Thank, uh, thank goodness I sent it to you via Facebook Messenger.
Well.
This guy by the name of, uh, Bernard, he posted, "I have found myself listening to the local radio stations less and less, as I'm tired of hearing the same 10 songs from the '70s and '80s played over and over ad nauseam. Just to make sure I'm not missing the obvious, is there any radio station that plays any '90s songs on a, any, any consistent basis, just to break it up when I'm in the mood?" So then I immediately commented, "K-Bear 101 welcomes you with open arms. We do play a lot of '90s rock. Some would say that's a little too much, but..." Including myself, you know, but th- th- th-
Yeah
... besides that-
I mean, we play a lot of '90s music
... but we also play, like, a wide variety. Well, I was also a little upset, uh, because I did see a lot of, uh, quote, unquote, "our listeners" that were promoting other stations on this post.
What?
Like this, uh, Breezy Bird guy just putting, "SiriusXM."
How dare you.
And then Daisy, Daisy had the audacity to put, "94.9 and 104.5 The PIK"-
Oh, gross
... in the comments section.
Gross. Yeah.
So the next time she tries for a ticket giveaway, I might, I might think otherwise.
See, and I thought this guy Reed was one of our listeners.
No, Reed-
Uh, the one who was talking about people talking too much on the radio.
Yeah, I think he's just trying to solely insult us.
Ah.
And I don't know if he's trolling. I don't know if he's actually a, a legitimate mad person, that when it comes to what we talk about here on the air, like maybe we said something that was a little too offensive to him.
Maybe.
And that's when he goes like, "You know what? No more talking on the radio."
[laughs]
But I also replied back to him by saying, "Hey, if you wanted to hear strictly music, you have streaming, CDs, vinyl, et cetera. DJs drive radio. It has been proven again and again and again."
Yeah, and I just went to him and said, "No."
"No." [laughs]
[laughs] I will not stop the talking. [laughs]
Uh, Bernard said, "I rarely, if ever, hear a DJ on any of the Idaho Falls stations. Usually it's a half hour of commercials followed by the same playlist of songs I heard only yesterday."
Oh, not listening to us.
So then I, I said, "Are you dumb?" No, no, I said-
[laughs]
... "The, the longest commercial break I've ever seen on K-Bear is around three and a half minutes."
Yeah.
Right?
That, that would be, like, the longest.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I, I also said, "I can tell you there have been other, there have been countless times that I have talked on the air, and especially our morning show host, uh, Victor, has talked longer than that."
[laughs]
[laughs] That's right, all the time. Uh-
But I'm wondering what he's listening to. Is he listening to, like, The PIK where you hear Shaggy talk like this for 10 seconds in between tw- eight different songs?
I'm guessing it, it could be The PIK. They've started playing a little bit of '90s. But it, it could be The Arrow, you know, 'cause The Arrow plays mostly '70s and '80s, and I would imagine the playlist sucks, and it's been the same for years. They don't, you know... Th- th- that station's just your generic classic hits station. So that, that's my guess.
Oh, look at Brandon. Again, the stupid name Brandon. I-
[laughs]
You know what? I'm gonna stand by my insults here, because Brandon put, "K-Bear is just pop rock. 104.5 is much better."
What? [laughs]
[laughs]
Get outta here, Brandon.
But then we have people like Taylor who's awesome. "K-Bear 101 is the best station." We have, uh, Junior who said something like, uh, "In a perfect world, everyone would just listen to K-Bear 101 and let the music heal thy soul-
That's right
... and free the oppressive grind of having to work and pay bills."
Yeah.
And then who else? Uh, Billy, "Listen to K-Bear 101."
Yeah, we got a lot of people giving us some love in here.
I do like Doug. "Cannonball 101 plays close to every genre from past to present as the brand ambassador for Cannonball."
Yes.
I said, "Thank you, Doug. Appreciate you, uh, spreading the word."
Let's see. "Bear plays more mainstream garbage with Ghost and Chili Peppers, man, and their country counterpart plays 98 point, 98% pop or snap tracks and blow cou- bro country-
[laughs] Blow country
... while ignoring it." That's not true. We play tons of... We play more red dirt country than any other station. And also, listen to Outlaw, Outlaw 101. It's all that stuff. It's nothing but that. There's other options.
But overall for Bernard, I say, "Hey, listen to K-Bear." I think he did say at one point, if I haven't mentioned it yet, 'cause I completely lost track of what I've said so far in this break, that, uh, hey, like, I think he said something along the lines of, "K-Bear plays too much angry stuff." And I understand, like-
Okay
... metal's not necessarily anybody's fav- or everybody's favorite thing.
Yeah.
But, uh, we, uh, you, you did suggest Alt 101-
Mm-hmm
... which I don't think he has the ability to use an HD radio in his car based off another comment he made where he was talking about how, like, he can't really get Spotify in the vehicle.
Oh, okay. So yeah, he must not be able to use apps or something.
And a lot of people are saying, like, Pandora, iHeartRadio-
So-
... Spotify. There's a lot of old people endorsing Pandora, because Pandora is-
[laughs]
... the old person Spotify.
It is. [laughs]
You know, I will stand by that and repeat that to the, to the hills or the mountains, whatever.
[laughs]
From the mountains. But, uh, uh, but people who just say Spotify, like, get ready for some advertisements. 'Cause I was trying to watch Netflix yesterday with Aubrey. There was 75-second long ad breaks every 10 minutes.
Oh, man.
And I, I'm waiting for the day Spotify goes, no matter what tier you have-You're gonna have to listen to some ads.
Oh, yeah.
Because Spotify is not paying artists. Artists are not making any money. They're eventually going to start taking a stand for themselves, and Spotify will have to fork over all that money they're taking from artists to the people who are making music for their platform.
Oh, exactly. Yeah, I mean, if you listen to podcasts, you get ads on Spotify.
Mm-hmm.
It'll come to music soon enough.
I've noticed it with-
SiriusXM used to be the same way, commercial-free.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, yeah, not the case anymore.
I've noticed it with, uh, with podcasts, like the, uh, iHeartRadio podcasts especially. Like, when you go to load one of them, it s- it shows you the, the episode length, and then it jumps to, like, an even longer length because they have to feed the ads-
Mm-hmm
... into where they should be.
Yeah. Yeah.
And it's, it's [laughs] like, why?
[laughs]
Why, why do that? I was gonna comment on the Woody Show subreddit saying, "Holy ads," and be one of those people.
Uh, sh- you should.
I still might.
Go for it.
Yeah, yeah. But you know where, like, there are no ads are the Victor Wooten Show podcast version of his show-
Mm-hmm
... and the Peaches Pit Party podcast version of my show, and also this podcast, the Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem.
Yep, no commercials-
And it-
... unless, I guess I'm giving a plug or something
... and you can openly slap anybody that says, "I only listen to Spotify."
[laughs]
You know, especially if their name's Brandon. That's all I gotta say. [upbeat music] So there's been a lot of outrage involving the Welcome to Rockville music festival, and I stand by my statement that outdoor shows are not necessarily... They should not be necessarily a thing. I think every single amphitheater should have a retractable roof.
Yeah, I mean, a big show like that-
You can't really fit in a building.
Y- you can't. Um-
Uh, maybe move it to, like, more so, like, "Hey, maybe we should move it to July and then [laughs] have our fans, uh, suffer in the hot weather rather than have the, uh, the chance of maybe a storm coming a little too close."
Well, and I mean, these storms have been happening at these Midwest music festivals for years.
Where is Rockville?
Uh, or actually that's in Florida.
That's what I thought.
Yeah. Not Mi- but, uh, I mean, heck, even at the System of a Down show at, uh, Sick New World, you know, this is in Vegas, where it never rains, for whatever reason, for about five minutes during System of a Down, little bit of rain coming down.
Cloud seeding.
[laughs]
They're controlling the weather.
That's right. It was a HAARP weather machine. They were setting it off from beneath Area 51 outside the city.
Just like how those, those windmills are causing, uh, tornadoes.
Yes.
[laughs] No, what was that one phone call that we have in imaging? Oh, the traffic circles are causing tornaders.
[laughs] Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna go to an outdoor festival,
uh, you're taking a risk of bad weather. And, uh, I, I read through a lot of the stuff about it, and it sounds like, you know, they had, like, one shut down for about two and a half hours. I think another one was about an hour and a half. Um, sounded like pretty good communication on letting people in and out. Um-
Did you just mention In-N-Out on this Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem?
Oh, free plug. Geez.
Uh-oh.
[laughs]
I was more so you're gonna offend someone by the name of Brandon or something like that, and they're gonna post in-
Yeah, maybe. Maybe
... Life in Idaho Falls, "Boycotting Cave Bear. They're endorsing that California-based liberal restaurant."
But yeah, I don't know. I think if I was gonna go to one of those festivals, I don't know if I'd wanna go to Florida, you know?
I would. I'd enjoy that over Ohio.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
Or, uh, Sacramento, California.
Hmm.
I'm not gonna be in the same city as Gavin Newsom.
[laughs] But, but who's in... Well, I, I don't know what city Welcome to Rockville was in, but-
I thought it was Daytona.
I, I think you're right. I think it is Daytona.
Well, the r- the reason why I bring up Rockville is this guy named, by the name of Ray posted in Welcome to Rockville, "Rock villains," and he truly is showing [laughs] that he's a, he's a rock villain.
[laughs]
"Hashtag five finger death punch. Yeah, that was a very disappointing show. One of my all-time favorite bands showed their true colors here. Screw FFDP and Ivan. The, the folks up front, me included, got pepper sprayed or maced. Several, several of us put up the X to stop and get help. They didn't miss a bleeping beat."
[laughs]
"Didn't give a bleep. You think after all the videos FFDP puts out about helping out when, uh, folks go down, there would have been something happening on, on their end wh- when a giant hole opened up right in front of the bleep. Total disappointment."
[laughs]
"I, for one, will never waste money on a ticket to see that bleep joke of a band, the comp- that claims to care."
[laughs]
"Bleep you for not giving a bleep, Ivan. Classless, arrogant, and not what you portray on your videos. My first time seeing the one bleeping band that I feel speaks volumes to me and my experiences was a complete and total bleeping letdown. Really, TBH, the only bleeping band I really [laughs] wanted to see out of the entire lineup didn't give the first bleep about the bleep bleep that k- [laughs] that kept you going for 20 years.
Jeez.
Enjoy your tour. I hope none of you other crowds get bleeped up, and y'all do nothing, absolutely nothing about it. Bleep off respectfully."
Wow. Okay, now where-
Am I okay to say bleep like that as many times as I did?
I think so. I think it's fine. You, you bleeped it out. Um, where did the pepper spray come from?
I don't know. [laughs]
[laughs]
I'm not, I wasn't in Florida.
[laughs] Was, was Ivan Moody just mowing down the front row?
I was in Salt Lake City just, uh, [laughs] just putting earplugs in too far into my ear.
[laughs]
I can just imagine now Ivan Moody like, "Welcome to the circus."
[laughs]
[laughs] Macing people.
Wash it all away. Burma.
[laughs]
[laughs]
You see Chris Kael, as nice as he is, just putting down the bass.
[laughs] Just busting out the mace. Oh.
I, I mean, if you were to try to, like, have, like, try to up a g- try to go against Five Finger Death Punch, I mean, you have Zoltan right there, who's, like, a black belt in jujitsu who will take down everybody. [laughs]
[laughs]
If Ivan pepper sprayed everyone, "Zoltan, protect me."
[laughs]
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