This company called Embodied, they created this AI robot named Moxie. I have never heard of it. It was designed to interact with the kids, but now the company has closed so kids might have to say goodbye to their friend Moxie's. Parents received an email from Embodied not that long ago with suggestions on how parents can gently break the news that the robot might soon die. At that point, you might as well try to get them a real pet in the house if you don't have one already.
You can just you can't just gently break the news because if you tell your kids now that Moxie has to go on a, quote, unquote, permanent vacation, and then later down the line when they're much older, reveal to them, hey. Hey. Moxie back in the day actually died, and we just didn't wanna straight up tell you that. That'd be a bad move. Those kids would be big time math.
If you know of that couple in your life that's just on the the brink of breaking up, chances are they might split today. Today, December 11th, unofficially known as breakup day because I guess it's always it's the number one day of the year for breakups. It's always fun seeing that type of thing online when you're not involved because either they straight up say, hey. Me and insert name here have broken up, or you see them get all mysterious online, but it's quite obvious, like their Instagram profile, all those pictures are deleted. You start seeing maybe some inspirational quotes posted on their stories or even on their Facebook profiles all about working on themselves, or maybe even see that whole, I'm taking a break from social media post.
That's always a fun one, an online departure? Divorces too. Like, you'll see one of them post a picture of the kids or the dude in the relationship changes their profile pic to their favorite team's logo. They don't mention anything. They just, you know, let things sit.
My favorite thing is when you see someone you know that just consistently posts all about their relationship online to the point where it feels like you're dating that person. And then they break up, and your feelings are actually hurt because all those photos, all those memories, just now gone from the Internet. Happy official, unofficial breakup day, December 11th. Beach's pit party on Kayboro 101, Idaho's only rock station. My dad, years ago, back when I worked at Peiway Asian Diner, He asked me, hey.
Is your boss gonna give out Christmas bonuses? And I went, what? I barely get paid. No company out there anymore gives away Christmas bonuses, or at least I think 95% of them probably don't give out Christmas bonuses. Not every company at all is generous this time of year.
In fact, some are downright, screwgy. I was looking here at this Reddit post asking what cheap or terrible holiday, quote, unquote, bonuses are people starting to receive from work this year. Some of the responses, I work in sales, top performing team, entire team got the same book on how to be better at sales. We are supposed to read this book on our downtime whenever that is, and then management wants to go over the book chapter by chapter in our weekly team meetings. Somebody else said, I used to work at The Cheesecake Factory in 1 year.
They gave everyone a cheesecake from Costco. I wouldn't be mad about that. I love cheesecake. Now I get it. Companies like to say, hey.
Forget the whole actual compensation. Let's go ahead and have this awful pizza party in the break room. Or even worse, they give you this, this, like, hydro Flask, but it's not necessarily a hydro Flask. It's a cheap knockoff of a hydro Flask that has the company logo on it because, for some reason, you really wanted that. I've seen that meme making the rounds online.
Company sent out one box of candy snacks or candy slash snacks for our 14 person team, a t shirt with the company logo. There it is. There was 1 year when I worked at TMZ where they gave out a really cool Christmas, not really a bonus, but a Christmas gift to each one of the staff members. They handed out these North Face TMZ branded backpacks that are all black, and it's awesome. I still use it to this day.
Every single time I go home, I make sure to pack all my clothes into that backpack. That thing surprisingly holds my giant clothes for a week long vacation. I love it. And this right here is your Shot Clock Sports update. It seems that Juan So to signing the biggest contract in baseball history might have come down to getting some free stuff.
The New York Post reports that the bidding between the Mets and the Yankees was tight all weekend, then the Mets owner Steve Cohen discovered that the Yankees did the the yanks deal would require So to to pay for the luxury suite he wanted for his family. The Yankees felt they couldn't give a free suite to So to when star Aaron Judge pays for his own suite. So Cohen asked or Cohen added a free suite to his bid. So to took the $765,000,000 deal, which is only $5,000,000 more than what the Yankees offered. You're making the biggest star in your team, Aaron Judge, pay for his own suite, And that guy is devoted to New York.
You should give that guy the Aaron Judge room, for crying out loud. Caitlin Clark has added another award to the stack she's gotten this year. Time Magazine has named her the athlete of the year. The magazine asked her asked her to divine her 2024 season, which saw her break the NCAA all time scoring record, set a WNBA rookie record for most 3 pointers made in the season, and she also won WNBA rookie of the year. She had to describe all of that in one word.
Clark chose historic and said, I've been able to captivate so many people that have never watched women's sports, let alone women's basketball, and turn them into fans. Truly, truly, she is the athlete of the year. Tiger Woods last competed in the open championship back in July and will be making a much anticipated return to the golf course at the PNC championship on December 19th with his son, Charlie. Tiger and Charlie have become fan favorites since they first competed together in 2020. The guys will be attempting to win their 1st PNC championship for the first time as their best finish was second place in 2021.
That does it for your Shot Clock Sports Update right here on k Bear 101. K Bear 101, there's this question going around TikTok. Is no office holiday party a red flag? This TikTok creator named Val, she has, sparked this viral debate with her theory that a company's decision to cancel or skimp on a holiday party might just be a red flag for impending layoffs. She suggests that if your company isn't throwing a party this year, it might be time to polish up your resume and start job hunting.
In radio, the holidays are the worst days or the holidays are the worst it's it's the worst time of the year for a lot of different radio DJs in the bigger markets because they could just be let go via text message, email, etcetera. And I'm sure they're still gonna throw that holiday party, which would absolutely suck to go through something like that. Just get randomly laid off, and then you go on to Instagram a few a few days a later, and you see, your former coworkers partying up at Disneyland. I knew a few people that, got exited or they they exited themselves out of, Iheartmedia in Burbank, and you see those stations partying it up at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, that would be a tough pill to swallow. There has to be that one person in your life that it's extremely difficult to try finding a gift for.
I mean, I feel like I would be the easiest but also the hardest person to try to get a gift for because I'm thankful really for anything. If you took the time and money to get me something, I'm forever grateful. You know? Victor got me has gotten me a few fridge magnets. Love those things.
I think they're great. They're on my refrigerator. My mom is the exact same way. She's very selfless, and it's hard to try to find anything for her. I know her preferences, but I'm also thinking, like, what would be good but also not make her cry?
Tears of happiness. You know? That type of thing. There's been times where I've gotten her some cards and necklaces, and she just bursts into tears saying, you know, thank you and gives me the big hug and all that, and I don't necessarily want her to go through that. I think I got that from her.
I think my sister, she's not nearly as emotional as me when it comes to receiving great gifts. I think when I turned 24, my ex decided to throw me a, birthday party and invited all of my friends, and I was just, you know, teary eyed the whole time. And she's like, yeah. Here. I got you this.
I opened up a present, and it's literally shoes that I I wanted. Like, she bought me sneakers, and I went, what? Nobody has ever done anything for for me like that ever since. She bought me sneakers, and I still have those sneakers to this day. They're very loud.
They're the most colorful pairs of shoes or most colorful pair of shoes you'll ever see. At some point, if we ever do a stage announcement again at a venue, I'll be sure to wear those on stage so you can see exactly what I'm talking about. There's a picture of Cillian Murphy making the rounds from the new trailer for from the trailer for the upcoming film 28 years later, the sequel, to 28 days later. Is that the right title? I know it was supposed to go 28 Days Later, and there was no movie after that.
That was 28 months later, so they just jumped from 28 Days Later to 28 years later. Haven't seen the original film. This is sort of making me wanna go see the original film, but Cillian Murphy, there's a screenshot of him from the trailer of him looking like Christian Bale out of that one movie that I'm forgetting. The the mentalist? Is that what I'm thinking of?
He's incredibly skinny, has every single part of his body, you know, the bone sticking out. He barely has any hair left, and people are wondering what exactly happens to Cillian Murphy in this new movie 28 years later. Cillian Murphy is an interesting guy. I was watching an interview of him, and he was talking about how he doesn't have social media. At one point, he didn't even know what a meme was.
Someone had to explain to him what a meme is, and I'm thinking, how can you live like that in 2024, almost 2025, really? How can you be that out of touch, almost living under a rock? I feel like that would be peaceful, but yet boring. Is he one of those dudes that makes references to classic books? He only reads classic literature.
He feel I I feel like he's that type of guy, where if you invite him to a party and you try explaining to him what the talk to a podcast is, I feel like he'll look at you with the most the worst look possible and then say, well, I've I've been reading this old book. I I feel like Cillian Murphy is one of those weird dudes, but I I I could be way wrong. Only way to find out is is to get him on the show. Somehow, someway, if Killian Murphy or anybody who knows Killian Murphy's tuning in right now, tell him to call in. Call me up.
So I was reading this story about this IHOP worker that felt bad for this homeless person outside the restaurant. So she, instead of just, you know, looking, feeling sad about the guy, she gave him a stack of pancakes and some water. She told her manager that she did that, and the manager was like, oh, why did you do such a thing? Now we're gonna have people soliciting outside. He basically said this homeless person is gonna be like a raccoon, that they're gonna return the homeless guy's gonna return numbers.
Like, there's gonna be more of them. It's just some poor dude down bad on his luck outside in IHOP, and this lady did the right thing or did a great thing by giving them some free food. And turns out days later, that same manager called the rep and said, yeah. You, did some you you crossed the line with the company policy, so we're gonna have to let you go. Well, this story got a whole bunch of attention that this manager fired this worker for doing the right thing, And now there's an update to the story saying that they offered her her job back.
But would you really wanna go back to something like that? I'm sure she found somewhere better. People saw who she was, maybe local to the area. Maybe the local news covered it, and a whole bunch of businesses saw that and were like, oh, yeah. Let's let's hire this woman, considering she got fired from a minimum wage IHOP job.
And I think the manager even got named in the article that I was reading. So his name is being put out there. Yikes. You're if you're tied into one of those articles, that's almost as bad as having, like, a public Karen freak out, like, at a Dairy Queen or something like what happened here in the area. You would have to go in hiding big time.
Christmas has been saved, thanks in part to firefighters in Norwalk, Connecticut. During the recent, Norwalk holiday extravaganza, Santa Claus rappelled down the side of a 13 story building. I wonder why he would do such a thing. Like, the per the people behind the holiday extravaganza, they're like, we need to make Santa do something above and beyond that will be unforgettable. Well, that did happen because, unfortunately, part of Saint Nick's wardrobe got tangled up in the rigging, and he was left dangling 60 feet off the ground.
Firefighters had to rush in and rescue Santa. They first made contact with him through a 6th floor window, and they were eventually able to, pull him inside. Thankfully, neither Santa nor anyone else was hurt, but that could be traumatizing to some kids. It's like taking your kids to the aquarium, and you see a fish eat another fish, and your kid starts crying. But what have been funny is that they did some sort of, like, what I'm gonna call donkey stunt, like a Johnny Knoxville donkey stunt, if you know what I'm alluding to.
And they had a stuntman pretend to be Santa, and this Santa in particular just did something utterly ridiculous, like fell all the way down but landed on a, like, a mattress pad, like one of the stunt pads on the bottom, but you couldn't see the stunt pads, so you just thought Santa fell. The shock on those kids' and parents' faces would have been hilarious. Wow. We're getting dark on AskReddit. Somebody asked this question yesterday, and it's still at the top of the page.
Men, why do you often say you're fine even when you're not? That's a tough question. Tough tough question. Top answer with 10,000 upvotes because I think most believe that nobody truly cares. Well, they said the explicit version of that that I can't repeat on the air, but you get the picture.
Right? Somebody replied saying, yeah. It's a combination of no one really cares. The average person cannot do anything to change that. I don't wanna make family friends worry about me.
I don't wanna bum everyone out and ruin the vibe. There's that classic phrase, man up, that I was told many times. I was told earlier in life to be aggressive in basketball, most anything. And then when I started being aggressive, everyone's like, woah. Woah.
Woah. Okay. Tone it back. Tone it back. Tone it back type thing.
This is a depressing thread. I'm just scrolling down. It's the same. I think it's also rarely seen as are you good, but rather, will you survive, or can you deal with it? So it has to be really bad for it to be acceptable to answer no when asked when you're fine or if you're fine.
The subtext is, am I morally obligated to step in? Is this so bad that you're going to do something to harm yourself or others and make me feel guilty for not asking? It's a social obligation. Make sure to check-in on, not just men, but everybody in your life, especially those dudes that are extra quiet. You know?
Say, hey. What's up? How's it going? If they don't really say much, you you at least asked, and you're checking in on them. Make them laugh.
That's why I like to do I like to make my friends laugh all the time. That's why I do the show. Try to make you laugh as much as possible. If I don't, well, I'm sorry. I keep getting these emails for tours that have been announced for next year.
Gets me excited for 2025. Getting to see more live music. Next year, I'll for sure have to log exactly what bands I see because there was a moment not that long ago where I was thinking about what band was it again. Oh, Caskets. I was looking up because I added the set it off interview to the artist interrogations podcast.
You can listen to that on demand wherever you get your podcasts. And I was like, wait a minute. What bands opened up for Set It Off? Like, I already knew about Crown the Empire. And then I also knew Death by Romy only because those band members came out on stage in lingerie, and those stood out to me compared to, you know, the usual, stage in lingerie, and those stood out to me compared to, you know, the usual other bands.
And then I was like, who there was somebody else in that lineup too. And they went, oh, yeah. There was Caskets there as well, which I don't remember a single part of their performance, unfortunately. Like, I I don't know if I'm just that forgettable or forgetful or their set was that forgettable, or I've seen so many artists this year that I'm just like, oh, okay. I did see that band at some point.
But, Yeah. I'm excited for another year, another next year, 2025, full of shows, and I've updated our concert calendar quite a lot as of late, especially in the past 2 days. There was a a few shows that got announced today. Berry tomorrow and while she sleeps, going to be at the Soundwell with Vended, you know, Corey Taylor's son's band. And I think Clown Sun is also in that band as well.
This email that I got specifically already talking about Spirit Box next year, disturbed next year at the Ford Idaho Center Arena, which we might be doing something for, by the way. Hint hint. Kill switch engage. Machine head, Meshuggah with cannibal corpse. Now that show is April 5th at the complex in Salt Lake City, and then April 6th, the Revolution concert house.
There's 2 opportunities to go see 2 great legendary metal bands, and I was thinking about it. I'm like, now that I shave I've shaved my head and grew out the beard, if I grew it out a little bit longer, I kinda look like I'd be a member of Meshuggah. Can I play an instrument like them? Absolutely not. They're legendary, and I wanna see bleed live.
Yeah. I wanna see that song, that legendary riff just live right there in person. I heard nonstop rave reviews about Meshuggah, and I've also heard great things about Cannibal Corpse. And I think I would love to do an on-site interview with Corpse Grinder because we play Cannibal Corpse on Jang Show. That's right.
We play Cannibal Corpse here on this radio station. Anyway, check out that concert calendar at riverbendmediagroup.com/calendar. It's that time for to peach their own and, well, chat GPT helped out with today's question. I was like, hey. Could you give me some really cool, I I don't think I wrote the word cool.
I think I wrote, like, could you give me some awesome questions to ask for to peach their own? And this was one of them. If you could travel and if you could time travel to any concert in history, which one would you pick? I'm glad Amber instantly answered back saying the exact same show that I would I would choose. Live Aid to see Queen.
I even asked Google AI if you could time travel to any concert in history. Which one would you choose? First, it gave The Beatles the their Shea Stadium concert back in 1965. Then it also said Woodstock back in 1969. Maybe I would choose Woodstock 99 and watch it from a distance.
Maybe. The original Woodstock, I feel like that was legendary at the time, but I also feel like that would have been a smelly festival. That would have been I think that would have been, like, a not just smelly, but also, like, you would have been there, but, like, oh, that's it? That that's honestly it? Like, Jimi Hendrix would have been cool to see, but Crosby, Stills, and Nash, maybe that would have been cool.
The Who back then? That would have been neat to see Keith Moon just completely rip apart his drum set because he's he was that crazy of a player. The Rolling Stones at Altamonte Speedway back in 1969, a notorious concert known for its violence and chaotic atmosphere? That would've been pretty cool. Oh, the Michael Jackson thriller tour.
Back in 1983 to see Michael Jackson at his prime, that'd be a unique choice. If you could time travel to any concert in history, which one would you pick? Let me know. 208-535-1015. Hey, K Bear.
How's it going? Not too bad. James, if you could time travel to any concert in history, which one would you pick? Probably when Mozart was performing in front of the king of Austria. It was See classical?
You know? It was crazy. Yeah. Why not? It's not like we've ever gotten to hear the original form of it.
I No matter what, if you try using sheet music to play off of it, it's still an interpretation. You're not hearing it from the person that composed it. Yeah. Yeah. That would be funny if you you go back in time and Mozart's just completely overrated.
I mean, by all rights, he actually was is considered to be that overrated. You just go back in time and then people freak out because they see you and, like, you're not dressed the way that they are. Like, what's going on here? Imagine if the people back then saw me just pop up in the background of that concert. Giant.
Yeah. Giant. They all run away. And then and then I get picked up for witchcraft or something because I whip out my cell phone to start filming it as evidence. Hey.
Take a selfie with the Mozart? Get hung as witches. K, Bear. How's it going? Hey, Peaches.
What's up? What's happening with you? Well, I am just driving back from hotel, and I was trying to get a hold of you earlier because I wanted to talk to you about being a whiny baby bed wetter. I'm just kidding. Just kidding.
Woah. Hey. Woah. Your softer side, you were talking about being come on now. You're talking about the the the gift receiving break from earlier?
Yeah. Yeah. What would be on topic there, Troy? They well, I I've got one for your topic. Oh, I'm just messing up.
Hey. What's up? Well, what's the answer here? For any concert that you can travel back in time to, which one would you pick? You know, I think that I would really like to go back in Queen, and I can't remember the name of it.
Limeade. The title. Limeade. Yes. I think I would but only if I could be side stage.
Not out in the crowd because that was way too me freaking people. I'd have to be on stage. Isn't that funny? You look at something like that and you go, man, the parking situation must have sucked. Trying to get out of that place would have sucked.
Oh my god. People don't realize how good we have it at Mountain America. True. True. I I know.
I'm not excited for how the Rose Bowl is going to be in April of next year for ACDC. I feel like it's gonna be fun showing up for that show, watching it, and then having to deal with my cranky dad and uncle after that show trying to get out of the parking lot. And they'll probably try to make me drive considering, you know, they're one of them is in their sixties, the other one's close to 60. And meanwhile, there's me who travels to Salt Lake City to and from in the same night. And, Oh, man.
Yeah. We're we're actually hitting ACDC in Vegas. Oh, very nice. You were able to get tickets for that? Yep.
Very cool. I may or may not have been on the clock, but went to pop Tom's and hung out with my friend. And we got 10 tickets, and a group of us are gonna go down there and hook it up. That'd be great. Yeah.
I'm I'm excited for this upcoming tour. I'm probably gonna be teary eyed there too to circle back to the whole emotional soft side of Peaches there. Well, I just had a listener call in and say this for to peach their own. The I'm just calling in, about the the concert I'd like to see. Yeah.
If you can travel back in time to any concert ever, what would you where would you go? Pantera before 2004. Oh, yeah. That would have been great. What a what a awesome response.
Pantera before Dimebag Darrell unfortunately passed away. I did see, what was it, not that long ago that it's been 20 years since Dimebag's passing, which is absolutely insane. And I think didn't John Lennon pass away on the same day? Not the exact same day, the same year, or anything, just the same day. John Lennon.
I'm Google searching this real fast to make sure that I'm correct. Yeah. He died December 8, 1980. Dimebag Darrell, December 8, 2004. That's pretty crazy.
Pretty crazy. I have gone to see the little memorial to John Lennon, in New York City. I would love to go back there and go check that out. And, love to go see Pantera 2 or the what whatever we wanna call this band that's pretending to be Pantera with Zakk Wylde. Would love to see those guys.
If they come around next year, I might need to go check them out. Thanks for