[upbeat music] The noon hour of madness and mayhem, the podcast.
Victor, do you, do you know more about this whole rapture thing? 'Cause I have no clue and the, the memes have been nonstop on my Facebook feed. I think-
Um-
... it started with this whole South African preacher saying the rapture was either gonna be today or tomorrow.
Yeah, I didn't really read up on any of the articles talking about it. Um, every few years you hear that this is gonna happen. You know, we'll have some... We'll have a lot of people disappear. You know, they're just gone, and then the rest of us are left behind. But, um, far as I know, you know, I had to run to my house at lunch, just as much traffic as ever out there, so I, I don't think anybody's disappeared yet. I don't know how people, uh, determine these things. You know, did he use, uh, some kind of code or...
No, he said it was the first day of the Jewish New Year, and so that was gonna be, I don't know, maybe the, the day that all of a sudden it all comes to an end.
Yeah.
But maybe we should, um, to lessen traffic, sort of
come up with our own scam to say, "Hey-"
[laughs]
"... stay indoors." [laughs] Anybody caught outside might float away, something like that.
Well, and I don't know if it's true or not, but I saw that people were, like, selling a lot of their possessions. I saw somebody make a post on Reddit that their aunt gave 'em, like, $40,000.
It's always the crazy aunt.
[laughs]
It's never anybody else but that crazy aunt, and you know already what kinda hairstyle she has too.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
For sure.
Yeah, mm-hmm.
And I mean, I hope we don't have anybody listening who we're, you know, upsetting with this topic. We're just... It's everywhere, and, um, we hope you're still here. [whimsical music] Oh no, Peaches [laughs]. Yeah.
One of us has to disagree, Victor-
Um-
... according to Jade's rules.
Let me see what I... Let me see what I can pull up in the news on this, Peaches.
[laughs]
Um-
Well-
'Cause-
... yeah, it started out with that preacher. Then I saw it was the first day of the Jewish New Year, and then there was this one guy on TikTok that legit took this seriously, and he said something like, "Oh, today is my last shift at my work. I'm just gonna mess around."
Oh, no. [laughs]
"I'm just gonna cause some havoc and-"
So Peaches, just start swearing on air-
Okay, sure
... you know, 'cause you're gonna disappear, dude.
Yeah, might as well.
Let's see here. Um, yeah, a viral claim by the, the guy you mentioned. I'm just trying to see why people think it was today. I... It gained momentum on TikTok. I'm guessing the people on TikTok just decided, "Hey, let's run wild with this," and then it somehow took off. I mean, I haven't talked to anybody personally who thought this was gonna happen today, but-
Well-
And that's why I wonder about those posts I was seeing where people were getting rid of their possessions and stuff.
I might start cussing up a storm on the air for real because I just got an email from, uh, our- our good pal Daniel from across the hallway.
Oh, boy.
And, uh, there's this particular thing now we have to change that's coming up soon.
Hmm. Hmm. Well, you'll have to tell me off air-
Yeah
... 'cause, uh, if we have to change it, we don't want the listeners to know what it, uh, could've been, I guess.
No, no, not- not change it, but, like, make it for the better.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay, well then why are you mad?
So... Well, 'cause we have to do a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes work now to involve their-
Oh
... involve this, uh, this name.
Okay.
That's what I mean. I mean, it's fantastic. I mean, it's fantastic we got somebody to help us out with, uh, a particular soundtrack, Victor.
A particular soundtrack?
It- it's part of the spoopy season.
Okay, I am stumped now.
You know, on, uh... Did- did you already say the day that we're gonna be doing something?
I don't think s- Oh, Monday?
Monday. Okay.
Monday.
Yeah.
So
I'm still baffled by whatever it is that-
Do I need to say it explicitly on the air?
[laughs] No. I mean, I know Monday we're gonna kick off Halloween music.
Okay, so yeah, now it's brought to you.
Oh, it's brought to you by somebody. Okay.
Yeah.
All right, that's- that's... Well, great. Great. Show me on a piece of paper who it is.
Okay.
I'm excited to see who, what business-
Oh, it's somebody's prize sheet. Hold on, I need to get a big piece of paper here.
Uh-oh. What's that prize sheet for?
Uh.
Oh, Figure 8 Race.
Crazy Figure 8 Race.
I should've brought that to the front desk. Okay. Yeah, I wanna see what business was, uh, you know, just genius and got on board with K-Bear 101's Rockin' Halloween, kicking off on Monday. Oh, there... That's new. Well, cool. I- I can't wait to give them a million plugs-
Yeah, that's the best spot to have
... through- throughout the month of October. It really is one of the-
[laughs]
... best things you can buy onto, so that's very smart of them. So cool, dude, cool. Well, um, did you schedule Monday?
Uh, yeah, I did.
Did it work?
Uh, it worked out just great. I did see a lot of the tracks we have set to kick off the spoopy season.
That's right, the poopy season is coming.
The poopy season.
It's coming up, and, uh, we normally start on the 1st of October, but that's Wednesday, so K-Bear's Rockin' Halloween, powered by Juicity Vapor, kicking off on Monday. Thank you to Juicity Vapor for getting on board with us. You're the best.
Where's the, uh-
That's awesome
... where's the Friday air horn? [air horn blares]
That's right. That rules. Yeah, all right, well I'm glad the scheduling worked. Uh, I went through the library. I think it's looking pretty good for now. We can make some additions. You know, I- I certainly hope we have what's he building in there-
Oh, did you add that
... in the list. It should be in the list.
Oh, come on, please. I'm really hoping.
Let's just play it during the noon hour today. [laughs]
Sure, okay, let's do that. [whimsical music]
Yeah, let's plug it in.
Victor, you have to be Ronnie Radke for Halloween.
How do you do that?
You gotta just put on the long, m- black hair, uh, maybe put on a very tight turtleneck that's black to resemble his dumb blackout tattoos-
[laughs]
... and then just walk around, making everybody upset.
[laughs] "I'm the bad guy." That's right.
"I'm savage."
[laughs] Just walking around saying that. [laughs]
And he could have... Oh, I was gonna say you could have Becca dress up as Soraya, but they're no longer together. So...
It... I, I think I saw, you know, people talking about his new girlfriend in the Falling in Reverse subreddit-
Sure
... at some point.
Yeah.
'Cause you know how fans are. They just get obsessed with everything. I saw somebody complaining that, like, someone had posted a picture of Noah from Bad Omens with a girl.
[laughs]
And they're, "How dare somebody post about his private life." Fans are weird, man.
Well, Bad Omens got... Bad Omens fans got very weird when they kept posting Noah's baby photos, and that's what caused him to just get off social media altogether.
Yeah. Yeah, I-
Ronnie's just picking fights with Chris Motionless. What was the latest one again? I forgot who it was.
Who was he fighting with the other day?
Uh, it was Courtney from Spiritbox for quite some time, but Courtney wasn't entertaining anything he said. I don't think Chris is either. I think-
No, Chris doesn't respond.
Ronnie's just the loud dude that's just... Oh, d- it was David Draiman of Disturbed.
Oh, really?
It was him I thought. Yes.
What?
That was who he was trying to pick on as of late.
I can't keep track of everyone he tries to get into fights with. And, uh, the... It's only fun when the other guy fights back, like him versus, uh, Eddie Trunk and Sebastian Bach. That was really funny. Um-
Uh, I guess there was no physical... Oh, [laughs] this is the AI overview. There was no physical fight or direct conflict between Ronnie Radke and David Draiman, but rather an online feud where Radke mocked Draiman's relationship and use of dating apps on Instagram.
[laughs]
I... Yeah, 'cause there was that brief moment where David Draiman popped up for someone. And I guess he met his fiance on Bumble. And I was just thinking, what would it be like to say, "Hey, I just matched with the lead singer of Disturbed." And we're going out on this one date, and you find out it's actually him.
Yeah. [laughs]
Like, how many times did people think they were getting catfished-
Oh-
... when they matched with David Draiman? [laughs]
I'm sure. E- e- every single time they thought that.
And I'm sure there, there were so many fans that were just, you know, trying to match with him to be like, "Hey."
[laughs]
"Can I get an autograph?" And he'd do the oh wa oh oh oh in front of me.
[laughs] This guy got money. Come on.
Right. Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely. That's where you get a w- like, weed out those people too that just want you for your money.
I know.
I know Ronnie was posting, uh, DMs he was getting from just random women saying, "Sorry for the breakup. Can I now be the Mrs. Ronnie Radke?"
[laughs]
Well, there was dirtier messages than that. It just got to that.
Well, I'm sure.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm sure.
And he was just making fun of them [laughs] on his story.
Ah, he's, he's, he's crazy, man. I, I don't know. I, I hope that, uh, he'll get into a more entertaining feud again. The last ones have been kind of boring.
Well, the music's been kind of sucky as of late too.
Yeah.
So I think m- we might need to...
I wasn't a very big fan of the last couple songs.
No.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
You know, there was the Hardy song. I didn't think that was very good.
That one, that, that one just seemed like it was made to be a parody. It was just made to be kind of dumb.
Yeah. And, I don't know, Bad Guy was just kind of silly.
Yeah.
"I'm the bad guy." [laughs]
Oh, there was somebody yesterday... I feel so bad for even saying this now. Uh, there was somebody yesterday... I did the whole, like, what's one song you'll never skip no matter how many times you hear it.
Uh-huh.
And one guy said Falling in Reverse Prequel. And I, I completely forgot to play it.
I forgot that song.
But I listened to a li- a little bit of it, but it's just Ronnie just angrily rapping over the... one of the dumbest beats.
Okay, I kind of remember that song 'cause I think... I don't know if we had it in rotation, but I... we played it when it was new.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Here and there. But, uh-
I don't know, maybe... I, I think they just need to put out another heavy song. Those are the ones people like the most.
Ro- ro- uh, Ronald was fantastic.
Yeah, it was a great song.
Yeah.
For sure. Watch the World Burn. That one, you know, it had plenty of rap in it, but it, it was just a wild song.
That was one of the best songs I've seen live. I feel like Falling in Reverse-
Oh, yeah
... when you see them live, they're, they're fantastic.
Oh, they're great live. They're incredible.
The, the sound, everything about it.
Oh, yeah.
It's just awesome.
I'm so pumped for all these shows we have coming up. It's gonna be really cool to see such a wide variety of bands. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got m- First of all, we got Chevelle, Asking Alexandria, Dead Poets Society at the-
Yeah
... Mountain America Center on Tuesday. Then we got Mudvayne, Static X, and Venda to the Portni Pelz Trust Amphitheater on Friday next week. And then a week after that, Friday, October 10th, In This Moment, Dayseeker, The Funeral Portrait, and Dead. And I also need to hit up, uh, one person we know to potentially have Lee Jennings of The Funeral Portrait join us in studio.
That would be awesome.
'Cause he, he's a fun guy, and he's also about six foot five.
Oh, another-
So tall guys unite.
Another big elf.
That's right.
All right. I know-
You call him a big elf. Tell him that.
I will. I'll be like, "Look at you, you big elf."
[laughs]
"I'm out of here. I'm going to hang out with short people." [instrumental music plays]
All right, Victor, here we go. An AI artist just secured a multi-million dollar record deal.
Ugh.
After racking up millions of streams across YouTube and Spotify, AI artist Xania Monet. Xan- A- X-A-N-I-A M-O-N-E-T.
Okay. That's not the one we heard that one day. Um-
Uh, I'm not sure exactly.
Bring, bring up a song.
Okay.
Let's listen to it. You know?
I don't want to give an AI artist a, a listen.
[laughs] They're already getting millions of dollars.
I know.
I'm gonna start making AI songs. Forget it, you know? Why, why put in effort into anything anymore?
This one's called How Was I Supposed To Know? And the first lyric is, "Oh, mm." All right, here we go. [laugh]
Oh, mm.
Oh, mm. Luckily I can see the lyrics here so I can stop it if there's a giant F bomb or something like that.
Okay.
Oh.
I told you.
Oh, mm.
Okay.
Better have a...
He didn't walk me down no stairs. Didn't warn me about them boys who wouldn't care. Didn't tell me what a real man sounds like. So I fell for the ones that lie just right. He never told me...
The AI voice sounds pretty good.
It does. It sounds like, uh, terrib- [laughs] Terrible. It sounds like your stereotypical pop.
Yeah. Yeah. No, it sounds realistic. Yeah, pop, pop and country I think are doomed.
[laughs]
I think those formats are doomed-
I do see-
... because of AI.
I see a picture here. This says, "Start the rapture." [laughs]
[laughs] Start the rapture-
In the, in the-
... because of this?
Yeah.[laughs]
Uh, well, there, there was something I said on the morning show [laughing] that was like, all right, it might as well be the end of times. Oh, it was because Michelob ULTRA's the most popular beer in America. I was like, "We are in the end times." [laughs]
[laughs] I saw, "Finally cut out the middle man, the artist." [laughs]
[laughs]
"Guys, my AI just got signed to AI Music Industries. Bro, I'm rich." This is what's on-
Ge- get to the, uh, chorus. I wanna hear if it's really catchy.
All right, here we go.
My charity check my friends. Never showed me what to lose or what to defend.
Oh, check out the little AI there.
So I chase love with an open wound. Looking for something I was never introduced to. Mama did her best but she can't teach. What it feels like when a father speaks. So I took-
Get to the chorus, lady
... every "I love you" too deep.
It's happening right here.
Even when they only meant it for a week.
All right, here we go.
How was I supposed to know what love looked like. When Daddy never showed me what felt right? How was I supposed to set the bar. When I-
I don't think it's very good.
I got to say, it sounds like an R&B version of what Lorna Shore just released with, with Glenwood.
[laughs]
My daddy beat me [laughing] into this whole thing.
We're getting back into that kind of stuff now, right? The late '90s it was like, or, or I guess mid '90s, Korn. There were all kinds of bands with the, uh, my parents were awful to me songs.
I'm gonna release a, release a track against my parents. Maybe, my dad mumbled, I sit all day.
[laughs]
He mentally destroyed me. Like something like that, maybe include in the breakdown, I, I hate you but I love you at the same time, or something like that.
Yeah, dude, that sounds like a hit.
Sure.
You can just make it with AI. Don't put any effort in.
How do you make something up about your parents?
[laughs]
Yeah. My mom bakes me the wrong cake on my birthday.
[laughs]
[laughs]
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