Ep. 225 - Max The Wonder Fish - 08/20/2025
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Ep. 225 - Max The Wonder Fish - 08/20/2025

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This week is just dragging by. It is hump day, Wednesday, 08/20/2025. I am Peaches. If you wanna get a hold of me, you can over at (208) 535-1015. It was just yesterday.

I posted this during the show, and I meant to talk about it, but I didn't. So I'm starting the show with this whole thing. There was an article posted from eastadahonews.com. I shared the article on our Facebook page at Kay Barrett one zero one FM. Basically well, I'll just let the audio do it for me.

The man visiting Yellowstone National Park thought it was a good idea to tease a bison. Did you see him? On that log. You see him teasing the bison here? Yes.

Here we go. And what's funny is that the guy there's a guy and girl recording this dude taunting a bison. You can tell everybody just wants him to get hit by this bison because why would you taunt a wild giant animal? I don't know. Genius of the day material, which, by the way, you can hear that every weekday morning at 06:45.

The bison, by the way, goes towards the guy taunting him, which he then quickly backs away and, unfortunately, does not get hit. Fortunately, yet unfortunate. You know? You wanna make sure nobody gets into a tragic you don't you don't wanna wish for somebody's demise, really. But sometimes you're like, man, I wish that guy learned his lesson.

I wish that guy learned his lesson. Anyway, like I mentioned before, if you wanna get a hold of me, you can over at (208) 535-1015. You can even see that video of, of Victor on our Facebook page of him in the, the seat on the other side of this computer that, for some reason, sinks down. So when he sits in it, you can barely see his head over the monitor. I posted that all over our social media platforms.

Make sure to follow us if you haven't done so already. K Bear one zero one FM. You know what's funny is that Victor didn't show up today and, usually, this is his favorite day to make fun of. It is indeed National Radio Day. And what that means is that every radio DJ on the planet will then post a picture to celebrate this holiday, and that's all that they do.

They've and you'll see the old timers in the industry post, old, old photos of themselves. Back when I started in 1977, where's my, old car horn button? Yeah. There's that. That was how the that's what their car sounded like when they pulled into the parking lot when they first started in radio.

National Radio Day, August 20 every year. Again, the old timers post the photos of themselves. Some of them are lucky. They'll post like, hey. I was I've been at this station now for, thirty, sometimes even forty years, which is crazy.

Mostly twenty to thirty years. But then you'll see those radio DJs that have been bouncing around all around the country, and they list off all the stations they have ever worked for. And it feels like they've never actually called the place home. And it's quite sad to see they started off in a place like Saint Louis, then moved to Boston, then moved to Pittsburgh, then moved to Florida, then moved to it's like the whole I'm an everywhere man song, but somebody's career in radio. I feel bad for my poor friend, Erica.

She was, she was working in Los Angeles as a phone screener. No. She was, Ryan Seacrest's producer for a little while. Then she moved to San Diego, became their morning show producer. Then she moved to Salt Lake City, was on their morning show team.

It was her and a guy named E White for a short while. They're thirteen months, as a matter of fact. They were only on the air for thirteen months. Then she quickly got laid off, and then luckily now she found another radio gig, in Denver. So, yeah, she's doing she's already been to four stations and she's around the same age as me.

So, yeah, although she's been bouncing around so far. But, you know, National Radio Day, I guess, we'll celebrate it. I might, post a picture of all the on air staff, you know, post myself, Victor, Jade, Lou Brutus, maybe throw in Maddie in there. Why not? Yesterday for To Peach Thrown, I thought the radio prep gave out a great question.

It was like, what's the smallest, dumbest purchase you've ever made that brought you just ridiculous amounts of joy? And now today, it's repeating a question I have asked before. What's a phrase, what's a phrase you, people use these days that you just can't stand? And there's a lot of them for me. There is a lot of phrases that I just absolutely hate.

Like, it is what it is or, hunker down with the bootstraps, all that workplace jargon. That sucks. That's one of the dumbest things you'll ever I can ever hear. Let's see what people have to say in this thread. Coworkers calling each other work wife or work husband.

Sure. Doesn't necessarily bother me all that much. Let's unpack that. Instantly makes me feel like I'm in a therapy session I didn't sign up for and not in a good way. Gross.

My tombstone is going to read, for the last time, it's I couldn't care less, not I could care less. Because if you could care less, you could still care less. You know? Tell me you know nothing about insert topic here without telling me. The the the one that's been kinda bugging me recently, and it's also listed here, is the I was today years old when or the other phrase that was like, what was oh, oh my gosh, you guys.

I'm obsessed. And then goes into some product that they're just, you know, paid to talk about, broke the Internet. Didn't that start with, Kim Kardashian when she was on the, cover? She was on the cover of some magazine, and it said Kim Kardashian broke the Internet. I think that was the first time it was ever really used.

There's a few in here that I'm like, These are just regular everyday phrases. Not gonna lie, to be honest. And then it goes into some Gen z crap like Aura farming, Skibbity, Ohio riz, this ick, irregardless. I don't think I've ever heard anybody actually say irregardless ever. But, this might be my to peach their own question just because there's so many answers people can give.

What's a phrase people use these days that you can't stand? If you see it pop up in the Ka Barre group, that will be the official to peach their own question. Peach's Pip Party on KhabAir 101. I have never flown on United. I think I've flown on Delta, like, once or twice back when, Idaho Falls Regional only had flights with Delta to go back to Southern California with through.

I think that was before Allegiant came on board and was like, hey. We now do nonstop flights to Southern California. So then ever since then, I've been using them. But Delta used to have to do that layover in Salt Lake, and I would have to do my best, sprint across that entire airport because it would be, like, a thirty minute layover. And then sometimes, you know, the flight from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake City might be a little late, so it ends up being a much shorter layover.

And then I have to just sprint sprint across, like, two football fields to get to my next gate and get on that next flight back home. And it would also suck on the way back. There would be, it would be so much longer on the way back too. Like, for some reason, there would always be a delay in between Santa Ana to Salt Lake, and then I have to wait, like, four hours in the Salt Lake Airport. I could have just driven back to Idaho Falls faster.

You know? But, people who have flown United and Delta might be able to, sue, both, airlines just because they were promised a window seat and turns out, well, their window seat had no window. Yeah. There was that. This, company said, yeah.

This can become class action lawsuits against both airlines. I mean, to me, the window is not a big deal. The window seat, not necessarily the best fit for me. It's not the it's not the best when you I have to sit next to some parents and their young kid, and then the other parent and the other young kid is on the opposite side. And then the young kid gets the window seat, and they leave the window open.

And it's one of those flights where the sun comes in through the window, and it glares right into my face. And it's like, I'm trying to watch a movie. And I could reach over and shut the window, but could you imagine me just reaching over, shutting this tiny little window? This kid wants to just stare outside. I'm like, no.

Thanks. I'm trying to watch my movie here. You know? You know, something is probably bad for a sport when the owners and the players both support getting rid of it. The NBA and the NBPA both support proposals in a couple of states that would restrict prop betting, which is the kind of wager where fans could bet money on the points totals and other personal statistics for a player in a game.

A an n NBA spokesperson said protecting the integrity of our game is paramount, and we believe reasonable limitations on certain prop bets should be given due consideration. And a spokesperson for the, National Basketball Players Association said the union was concerned that prop bets have become an increasingly alarming source of player harassment both online and in person. I've talked about this before. Players receiving, like, death threats via a DM, you know, just because they didn't score 20 points. They scored 18.

That type of thing. The NFL's domination of popular culture just took another step forward as the league partnered up with Crocs to launch a new line of team themed shoes. About half of the teams will be available in about a month with the other teams being released later in the year, and, reportedly, that the, designs vary. Some are sleek and subtle, if not fancy. Others like the bear's clawed toes or the vikings horned heels look more like a Halloween costume, but fun to wear at least.

Right? I wanna own a pair of Crocs. You know? I I wanted to I want a pair of Crocs just as a, a lazy shoe. You know?

The type to where I can quickly put them on and just walk out to the garbage, throw my trash away, come back in, take them off, that type of thing. NASCAR fans might see their favorite drivers behind the wheel of, trucks more often starting next year. NASCAR officials are discussing, discussing what does that say? Discussing a change to the rule that limits Cup Series drivers of more than three years of experience to just five races in the Xfinity Series and the Truck Series. Those appearances must be before the regular season finale in playoffs so ensure the, so ensure that cup drivers don't directly impact championship deciding events.

NASCAR president Steve O'Donnell said we're going to look at who, who is able to race in the series in the future, as well and maybe, make some changes down the road. We're looking at a lot of things over the off season and talking to a lot of the teams and drivers. That does it for your Shot Clock sports update right here on KBAR one zero one. I finally heard Bill Burr's rant about that song from Thin Lizzy. The boys are back in town, and it's quite funny.

The the first lyric is just dumb too. Somebody pointed that out in a podcast. I wanna give them credit, but I forgot the name of the podcast, where the title of the song is, the boys are back in town, and the first lyric says, guess who just got back to town today or something like that. You know? And so I was thinking more so, like, what are some other famous songs that don't make sense and are kinda just nonsense?

The the lyrics just don't make any sense whatsoever. And people were talking about this on Reddit. There's, you know, Owl City Fireflies where he got a thousand hugs from 10,000 lightning bugs. The math just doesn't add up there. You know?

I think there was a whole thing about how TLC rejected Baby One More Time because they thought it sounded like domestic abuse, which I also thought too from Britney Spears' Baby Hit Me One More Time, that whole thing. I Want It That Way from the Backstreet Boys where the lyrics just don't make any sense whatsoever. I've never actually taken a look at the lyrics. I know the lyrics by heart to sing that song. I Want It That Way.

And don't make fun of me for that because every metal show that I have been to, for some reason, they have covered I Want It That Way from the Backstreet Boys, and everyone in the crowd knows the lyrics. Alright. Yeah. There's the whole, you are my fire, the one desire, believe when I say I want it that way. But yeah.

It kinda doesn't necessarily flow, you know? It starts off saying, you are my fire, the one desire. Am I your fire, your one desire? In another verse, in verse three of the song, tell me why ain't nothing but a heartache. Tell me why ain't nothing but a mistake.

Yeah. They don't they don't make sense, but they're just fun to sing. Right? Man, pop songs are so dumb. Obligatory Girls Aloud plug something kinda oh jumping on my toot toot.

There's another one right there. Wasn't there the whole fiasco with Benson Boone recently where he was like Moonbeam ice cream dancing in the movies? And it's like, who's actually being that weirdo dancing at the movie theater? You know, who's that one theater couple that just dances in the movie theater? And you're like, sit down and watch the dame movie.

Alright. This is pretty funny. Police on Vancouver Island say the the roadside check the roadside checks set up for a Nickelback concert this month resulted in 142 breath demands and got rid of 18 alleged drunk drivers. The British Columbia Highway Patrol says 54 other types of violation tickets were handed out after the checks were conducted in British Columbia, but the concert for the rock band was on August 9. The alcohol screenings resulted resulted in 13 drivers being issued immediate ninety ninety day driving prohibitions.

You think on National Radio Day, I would speak better, right, for being a radio DJ for this long? Four receiving, three day prohibitions and one twenty four hour band. Nickelback, the ultimate snitches. Police target Nickelback fans in British Columbia. They nabbed 18 alleged drunk drivers.

If you want more stories like that, make sure to check out Freak News every single weekday morning at 07:45 on the Victor Will show. I was reading something here about how twenty one percent of men experience anxiety getting a haircut because most likely they're just afraid of the haircut being all messed up. I don't know how many, dudes out there are loyal to their barber. Back when I had head hair, you know, I would go to this guy named Andy in Southern California in Long Beach. Well, he started out in Los Alamitos.

I followed him to his new shop and, just started going to him in no. It was Bellflower, something like that. I don't know. I forgot. But it's been so it's been so long.

And I, I told him, like, right before no. Did I ever tell him that I moved to Idaho? I don't know. I'm sure he's probably wondered, Where has Brendan gone? Because I think the last time I saw him was during the pandemic.

And you know how every barber in America was doing that thing where they said they were closed, but they were secretly taking clients. I know you were doing that every barber in America. You wanna know why? Because I saw it for myself. I was even one of those customers.

It was like the Prohibition era where you it was outlawed to have haircuts in places where in places like California where the COVID rules were strictly enforced. You know? I had to walk in through the back door of the shop and look left and right so nobody saw me. Like, the COVID police would have seen me and arrested me for getting a haircut because I would have gotten sick, you know, if we're just simply getting a haircut. I wouldn't have gotten sick for standing up in a restaurant.

No. Wasn't it, like, the whole thing where no. There was, like, walking one way down a grocery store aisle. That's what you had to do. At least that's what what you had to do in strict Southern California.

You know? So I that's the last time I think I saw my barber, Andy. And now that I have no hair on my head, he's gonna be real sad. Maybe I should just go visit him. But wouldn't that be weird to show up to a barbershop as a bald guy and be like, what's up, Andy?

Great to see you. It's been a few a good amount of years. I am now living in Idaho, and I'm bald. Yeah. And that type of thing.

Oh, man. Peach's Pip Party on Cabaret one zero one. Did you ever watch The Biggest Loser? The show about fat people just losing weight. Right?

My family and I used to watch that. We used to watch The Biggest Loser, American Gladiator, Survivor together. It was a whole thing. We would DVR it, and then we would spend a night just watching our shows. And I think my dad ended up just giving up on The Biggest Loser just because it was a a bunch of fat people just crying that they didn't lose 15 pounds in one week.

They were supposed to lose 20, that type of thing. And then there would be, like, these advert very obviously advertised little pieces of the show where it's like, hey, guys. For lunch today, maybe we should try the Subway Fresh Fit sandwich. Who's going to say that in any conversation? They're just gonna say, you know what?

Let's go get Subway and leave it as that. Right? Well, Jillian Michaels, one of the trainers on the show, she is now she's now publicly criticizing the Netflix docuseries fit for TV, the reality of the biggest loser they're talking about. Well, the whole show is about The Biggest Loser, and there were some claims in that docuseries that the the show never gave its contestants caffeine pills, weight loss drugs, anything. They were all natural.

Ah, natural. But, supposedly, Jillian's like, well, I have here evidence that we gave them tons of stuff. Jillian Michaels shared 2,009 email exchanges showing that Bob Harper, the other trainer on the show, and the show's producers were involved in discussions about providing fat burners to contestants. She also addressed that, well, supposedly, Bob Harper is in the docuseries, and he had a heart attack a couple years back. I say a couple years.

It was probably, like, ten years ago. I don't know how long ago it was. He had a heart attack, and then, supposedly, Jillian ghosted him, apparently. But Jillian's like, well, I got receipts of that too. I have text messages I have sent to Bob that he never responded to.

And TMZ also has, the shopping list, and then there's organic dark roast Starbucks grounds and a bunch of different teas full of caffeine that they brought to the contestants. So, I mean, clearly, Jillian is like, hey. This whole docuseries is dumb and full of lies. So I feel like also in a way she's providing, she's providing the spotlight to the docuseries because if it wasn't for her, I would have never heard about it. And even if I saw it pop up on Netflix, I wouldn't care to watch it.

Now that I know it's full of lies, maybe other people will dive deep and who knows? This will this is just putting a major spotlight on a dumb docuseries. Peach's Pit Party on Kay Bear one zero one. I was diving deep diving deep into this story here about, prisoners on work release from a Western Australian prison. They've been accused of stealing and eating guinea pigs from a nearby animal shelter.

Yeah. There was this illicit trade in the pet's meat, that that began when inmates at this prison were told that the meat was tasty. Don't they eat guinea pig in South America? It's called a cui, something like that, c u y. The animals were at the, shelter after their former owner surrendered them to be cared for and hopefully rehomed.

Well, now they're inside a prisoner's stomach. You know what I mean? A prison staffer then discovered a, guinea pig carcass in a fridge. This investigation was launched. I'm sorry that I'm talking about this.

I'm sure you're probably disgusted. Go on. Ew. Why would you talk about that for Peach? Sorry.

I was just looking into it. I'm a I'm a guinea pig fan myself. What sucks about guinea pigs is that they only live two to four years. I think guinea pig lifespan, five to seven. Sorry.

I was off only by a little, but five to seven is really not all that long. We had a Carmel. That was our that was our guinea pig in my parents' place. Thought she was a guy the entire time. Turns out it was a girl.

Poor guinea pig. Poor Carmel. She was awesome too. Like, she would speak loudly if she wanted something. You can hear their squeaks and all of that.

I couldn't imagine eating a guinea pig. Now they're all investigating because that one police officer, that one prison stabber found a guinea pig in the fridge. I wonder if there was that one prisoner that accidentally left it there. Sure enough ruined the entire thing, and now they're just hating on that one guy. Another one of those stories popped up again where a library book has has been returned after eighty two years of not being at the library.

The last time it was checked out was how long ago? Well, I don't wanna do the math. No. It was checked out in July 1943 and returned this past June from a person in Oregon. So they did the math.

Turns out that, the fine for overdue books back then was 3¢ a day, not accounting for inflation. The penalty would amount to nearly $900. 3¢ in 1943, amounts to 56¢ in today's money. So that would add up to more than $16,000. Now does does the library ever send that bill and say, hey.

Your grandma checked out this book years ago, and now now you are the one who has to pay for it. I've what what was the book called again? Something like all about the family? Like, yeah, the book is Your Child, His Family in Fringe by marriage and family counselor, Francis Bruce Strain. Cool.

I don't know why these, stories make the news. Library book returned after eighty two years. Note says grandma won't be able to pay for it anymore. Well, most likely grandma's dead, and so, again, the the library book gets returned, and then sure enough, yippee. There we go.

It's back where it should be. The end. A Kentucky woman is learning the hard way that revenge is expensive. Stephanie Carlquist allegedly went full country music fantasy on her ex's car. You know that classic from Carrie Underwood before he cheats.

We're talking glitter in the vents. She put glitter in in the air conditioning vents. A cracked windshield, and rearview mirror, busted radio screen, salt in the engine. The total damage, 12,500 doll dollars. Total loss, probably her dignity.

He's her ex says she she'd even slashed a tire before. Now she's behind bars on $12,000 bond, and her parents are stepping in to pay for the damage or maybe get them a whole new car. If your breakup playlist is mostly Carrie Underwood, maybe stick to crying in the car instead of wrecking someone else's. Also, this lady's 31 years old, and she's acting like she's, 17. Well, there's this, story popping up in my feed about the world's oldest chicken.

She's 14 years old. I didn't realize chickens lived such a short lifespan. They usually live, like, five to ten years. I've never really dealt with chickens. The only chickens I've ever dealt with is what's on my plate.

You know? Never really kept chickens. I think my friend, Zach, he just moved to Tennessee. He wants to have chickens because he wants to, for some reason, do that. I don't know.

I don't know many people that own chickens, to be quite honest with you. But, her name's Pearl, the world's oldest chicken. She's 14 years old. She survived what life has thrown at her, chickenpox, pneumonia. She also has arthritis that makes her tilt her body to one side.

Her best friend's a mop, apparently. That's what it says. Her arthritis tilts her body to one side, and her best friend is a mop, whatever that means. Cool. Neat.

Right? Whole article about her. She was awarded the Guinness World Record for the world's oldest chicken. Shout out to Pearl. You did it.

You outlived all of your friends and everything, and now you're just this sour old chicken. Well, I I the reason why I wanted to talk about this is because it reminded me of when I don't know if they do this game anymore at carnivals, but you remember that game where they would have the glass the the glass bowls with fish in it? Like, there's one fish per glass bowl. You'd throw the ping pong ball. If your ping pong ball landed in the glass bowl, you'd win that fish.

They had that at my elementary school carnival back in the first grade, and I decided to play it. My dad was hoping that I would lose because right as I threw my first ball, it landed in this orange fish's bowl, and he just yelled this loud expletive because that meant now he had to pay for the tank, the filter, the the decorations for it. You know, like, those little pretty rocks they put at the bottom of the fish tank, the fish food as well. He also knew he'd be the one to clean it, all that fun stuff. So I was all excited.

I'm jumping for joy. Next thing I hear, I just hear that loud well, I'm not gonna say the word, but, you know, I just hear him just I hear him just scream that one word at an elementary school carnival out of all places. But I won the fish. And what was sad is that, like, I I think the reason why they don't do it anymore is because it's cruel to the fish, I think, maybe. I don't know.

But you would go to the trash can by that stand after the carnival was over, and you would see, like, just a bunch of dead fish. Like, they just throw the fish away. And it sucked. Right? It sucks to see that.

But I named I named the fish Max after Max from Max and Ruby, the kids show. I was obsessed with it at the time. You know? And I had Ruby as well. I we we got another fish for the tank named her Ruby.

She was awesome too, but, you know, Max outlived every single thing we put in that tank. We had the original Ruby. She lived her life, passed away. You know, we got Ruby two. We we had bamboo shrimp that we put in there.

That was the thing that freaked me out is that we got these bamboo shrimp years after, you know, we got Max, And those bamboo shrimp do not live long whatsoever. What are their lifespans? Bamboo shrimp lifespan. One to two years. Yeah.

They don't live at lawn at all. So this bamboo shrimp died. Right? And then Max is eating it, and I just well, the the second I saw that went, how could he do that? How could he eat our little bamboo shrimp?

I literally just found out. They only live one to two years. No wonder that thing died so fast. Jeez. But, yeah, Max outlived those bamboo shrimp.

He lost all of his coloring, lost his fins, and he just swam around. And then finally, after, like, fourteen years of being alive, Max finally passed away, and we buried him in the backyard. But Max was awesome. Just outlived everything. Super long super long lifespan, Max, the wonder fish.

So I have no idea on how this works. This guy has been blind since he was 13 years old, and, well, he finally now is able to see again through his tooth. Is the tooth in where his eye should be? Is it in his mouth? Because I was just thinking I I I I'm hoping that it's in, like, where his eye should be, but it could be in his mouth.

It would be funny if he just, like, had to open his mouth every single time to see, but then, like, his eye would see everything that happens in his mouth. Wouldn't that be kinda gross? This guy in particular, he was yeah. Like I mentioned, he went blind at when he was 13 years old. He's had about 50 procedures done to try to get his vision back.

Finally, he has it back. But some emotional stuff here. When he said him and the doctor made eye contact, they just both both burst into tears. Supposedly, this has been, like, a a surgery that was developed back in the nineteen sixties. It's a last resort for people with severe corneal blindness.

It involves removing a patient's tooth, inserting a plastic lens into it, and then stitching the whole thing into the patient's eye socket. There we go. Okay. There's the part. I was just thinking, like, at a random front tooth, he was all of a sudden able to see, open his mouth, like, one of those, like, monsters type thing.

It just reminds me of the, that monster from, Pan's Labyrinth. Is it Pan's Labyrinth where he has to put his eyes over where his eyes should be or he put his hands over where his eyes should be, and and he opens them up and his eyes are in the middle of his palms, something like that. Thanks for listening to Peach's Pit Party, the podcast. If you enjoyed the show, please share, subscribe, and rate the podcast. Peach's Pit Party is hosted by me, Peaches, AKA Brendan Peach and is a production of Riverbend Media Group.

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