Ep. 125 - Nobody Hates Idaho Like Me (Also: Please Stop Backing Into Parking Spots) - 12/29/2025

On this episode of The Noon Hour of Madness & Mayhem, Peaches and Viktor Wilt kick things off by discovering—once again—that the KBEAR studio is barely holding itself together, immediately spiraling into accusations of water damage, broken boards, and listeners calling in for Traffic School that very much did not exist that day. From there, the guys unpack the mystery of why people refuse to read Facebook posts, how Best Of segments accidentally gaslit the audience, and why “Traffic School powered by The Advocates” is technically every Friday… except when it absolutely isn’t.

The conversation swerves hard into winter driving anxiety, near-death road trips through Malad Pass, avalanches casually shutting down mountain routes, and the shared trauma of Idaho weather making even basic travel plans feel like a gamble with fate. Peaches relives the horror of Christmas Eve Walmart runs, full-contact shopping maneuvers, and unintentionally terrorizing strangers in Rexburg, while Viktor confirms that Christmas Eve Walmart is a place no one should ever willingly enter.

From there, things get philosophical—Idaho teens publicly hating the state online sparks a brutally honest discussion about how expensive it actually is to “just leave,” the fantasy of cramming five friends into a Southern California apartment, and why stable radio jobs are the only thing anchoring anyone to a place with six months of winter. The guys roast corporate radio, joke about getting fired at iHeart in the Dua Lipa room, pitch Viktor’s imaginary Arizona rock show, and debate whether Arizona heat or Idaho winter is the faster path to death.

As if that wasn’t enough, the episode detours into parking lot warfare—specifically the deeply unserious but oddly aggressive debate over backing into parking spots. Lifted trucks, ego, snowbanks, backup cameras, and fragile masculinity all get dragged into the conversation, culminating in the realization that no one actually saves time either way, but everyone feels VERY strongly about it.

The final stretch skewers clickbait journalism, mislabeled articles spoiling entire TV shows, nobody reading past headlines, and why Stephen King adaptations somehow contain Fallout spoilers. By the end, Peaches and Viktor are united in their frustration with winter, the internet, and people in general—proving once again that this show thrives in the space between petty grievances and oddly relatable existential dread.