The first broadcast of 2026 kicks the door in wearing snow-covered boots and immediately starts rifling through the emotional junk drawer of modern life. Viktor Wilt opens the year half-rested, mildly annoyed at sleeping too long, and fully prepared to judge society for its past sins—starting with a ruthless inventory of once-luxury gadgets now rotting in garages and landfills. Color ID boxes, Palm Pilots, trunk-mounted CD changers, projection TVs the size of refrigerators—nothing is safe from being publicly declared obsolete and spiritually embarrassing. This spirals into an existential debate over whether any object we treasure today will avoid becoming tomorrow’s cursed Goodwill donation, with brief detours into vinyl nostalgia, GPS failures, and the very real trauma of being betrayed by Airbnb directions in Missoula.
From there, the show veers sharply into television discourse, where Viktor defends the Stranger Things finale against clickbait outrage merchants desperately trying to crown it the next Game of Thrones catastrophe. Spoilers are avoided, but judgment is not. This turns into a larger rant about internet performative disappointment, media literacy, and why some people seem to enjoy being mad more than enjoying things. Just as listeners settle in, the tone takes a hard left into deeply upsetting territory: a viral thread revealing that a non-zero number of grown men do not wipe. What follows is a full-blown hygiene intervention, equal parts disgust, disbelief, and public service announcement, culminating in a firm directive to wash everything, raise children better, and never—under any circumstances—tolerate a grown adult who refuses basic cleanliness.
The episode continues its march through humanity’s worst decisions with a parade of cursed headlines: a New Year’s potato drop in Idaho that somehow resulted in shattered windows and a child in the ICU, a fictional fireworks show in England that hundreds of people showed up for anyway, a public toilet seat discovered with human bite marks, and a McDonald’s employee who voluntarily dunked their hand into a deep fryer to retrieve an earbud. Each story reinforces the running theory that a measurable percentage of the population should not be allowed near fireworks, grease, wildlife, or the internet. This is scientifically supported later by survey data suggesting some Americans genuinely believe they could defeat a grizzly bear in hand-to-hand combat.
Between the madness, Viktor also tears into “dream jobs” that are actually sleep-deprivation factories, explains why flying is mostly just a long humiliation ritual, plugs giveaways involving pregnancy cravings and metal concerts, and tees up Traffic School with Lieutenant Crain—who remains mysteriously tight-lipped about his family’s upcoming Family Feud appearance. The episode closes with arguments over gravy leading to a KFC stabbing, an announcement of Ghost tickets, debates over concert scheduling logistics, and the looming possibility of girlfriends being dragged on-air to share embarrassing stories. It’s a New Year episode that manages to be festive, furious, baffled, and weirdly educational, all while begging listeners to please—please—wipe, shower, and stop biting public infrastructure.
The new year kicks off with Traffic School immediately swerving into the guardrail in the best possible way. Viktor drags Lieutenant Crain back into the studio after what feels like a legally questionable hiatus, and within minutes the show descends into a philosophical debate about whether a car can legally live its entire life in reverse. This question—courtesy of the season’s first call from Crazy J—sets the tone: logic will be challenged, patience will be tested, and common sense will be taken out back and lightly scolded. From there, the episode ricochets through everything from kneecap-based law enforcement hypotheticals to the sobering realization that yes, Idaho law does in fact expect you to stop when exiting a parking lot, even if you’re late and spiritually opposed to stopping.
As the calls roll in, the show tackles the real issues plaguing society: break-checking as a lifestyle choice, why insurance companies absolutely hate you on a personal level, and whether being drunk, anxious, apologetic, or mounted on a horse will magically exempt you from consequences. Viktor pitches increasingly dumb scenarios with absolute confidence, while Lieutenant Crain patiently explains—again—that intent still matters, reverse is not a travel strategy, and no, tapping your brakes to “send a message” is not the loophole you think it is. Somewhere in the middle, the conversation detours into stolen mandolins, electric bluegrass fantasies, public nudity hypotheticals involving hot tubs, and a deeply scientific estimate of what percentage of the population is walking around with their brain unplugged.
The episode wraps by answering questions nobody asked but everyone needed answered: how long a train is supposed to block your life, why on-ramps continue to defeat fully licensed adults, whether Santa is operating under a federal exemption, and how many laws exist purely to irritate Viktor specifically. Toss in a Family Feud tease, a snowblower casualty report, and multiple callers named John, and you’ve got an episode that feels less like traffic school and more like an audio stress test for civilization. Welcome to the new year—nothing has improved.
The episode kicks off like a post-apocalyptic radio transmission from a man who accidentally slept for eleven hours and woke up spiritually confused, emotionally fragile, and legally obligated to host a New Year’s Eve show anyway. Viktor stumbles into consciousness, immediately declares the 1990s officially dead, and proceeds to doomscroll a thread about things that were “socially acceptable back then” while realizing we used to survive entirely on vibes, unlocked car doors, and parents who had zero idea where their children were. From kids baking inside parked vehicles to surprise house visits that would now qualify as home invasions, Viktor spirals into existential dread over how phones have transformed ringing into a harbinger of disaster rather than joy. This segues seamlessly into a full-on “everyone should stop answering calls forever” manifesto, followed by unsolicited life advice about overbooking vacations, the emotional damage of Disneyland itineraries, and the importance of scheduling nothing as an act of self-care.
From there, the episode mutates into a chaotic New Year’s Eve survival guide: Viktor rage-reviews every televised countdown special like a man personally betrayed by Ryan Seacrest, roasts country music for five straight minutes, and questions why “Rockin’ Eve” contains absolutely no rock. He drifts into a vulnerable yet aggressively sarcastic discussion about depression hobbies—where walking outside in winter is declared psychological warfare—and admits Red Dead Redemption 2 has emotionally wounded him for the fourth time. Horror movies, Stephen King adaptations, Stranger Things finales, and falling iguanas all collide in a cinematic fever dream where the Beer Cave Pooper of Pennsylvania becomes a symbol of societal collapse. The show climaxes in peak chaos with coworkers invading the studio, work beefs erupting live on air, Legos being weaponized as proof of wealth, and Viktor threatening death by mystery gift ingestion. The episode limps into the new year exhausted, overstimulated, weirdly hopeful, and deeply committed to staying home, watching TV, and surviving 2026 without falling victim to Florida gravity-based reptiles.
This episode opens in a cloud of heavy metal, sleep deprivation, and existential dread as Viktor lurches into the studio like a caffeine-deprived goblin with a broken monitor glowing an unnatural, radioactive green—an omen of the chaos to come. He immediately spirals into a frantic inventory of everything going wrong: no sleep, a packed day, a monitor on death’s door, and a brain that is already operating at about 60% capacity and actively trying to self-destruct. From there, the show detonates into madness at full throttle—free Bad Omens tickets are dangled like forbidden fruit while Viktor rants about scalpers being absolute parasites, then veers directly into naked cyclists being attacked in the UK, declaring Portland the only safe haven for nude bike chaos in modern society.
Things rapidly escalate as Viktor unloads his deeply personal hatred of air travel, celebrating a $25,000 fine handed to an unruly airline passenger like it’s a public execution meant to scare the rest of us into compliance. His sleep-deprived brain then accidentally discovers thick-coins.net, a horrifying relic of the internet where a man named Theodore Nickels is attempting to revolutionize currency by making thnickels—aggressively thick nickels sold on a website that proudly looks like it was built during the Clinton administration. Viktor is visibly disturbed, confused, and emotionally wounded by the existence of this site and wisely flees before pre-ordering a coin out of pure exhaustion.
From there, we plunge into metal rumors and broken dreams as Viktor discusses a Tool album rumor that absolutely no one believes but everyone desperately wants to be true, before reminiscing about Florida Man insanity, crowned forever by Chuck E. Cheese getting arrested in costume like a cursed theme park fever dream. Just when you think it can’t get worse, a Florida man shatters a toilet at Outback Steakhouse and sues for $50,000, inspiring vivid, haunting imagery of porcelain shrapnel and the perfect segue into an accidental future ad campaign for injury attorneys.
The episode continues its relentless assault on sanity with drunk mandolin theft apologies, lottery tickets that win exactly one useless dollar, HOAs in Florida issuing $165,000 fines for tires touching grass, and Viktor questioning every life choice that led him here. The vibes turn truly cursed when liquid nitrogen cocktails rupture stomachs, thrill-seekers fall from bridges, AI chatbots allegedly trigger psychosis, and Viktor reassures himself that he is fine because he hasn’t opened ChatGPT today (the irony is deafening).
Miraculously, the episode ends on a strange neon-soaked glimmer of hope with the announcement of a futuristic Atari hotel straight out of Tron and Blade Runner—before immediately dunking on Atari games as borderline unplayable fossils. The grand finale? A couple attempting to sell their baby for a six-pack of beer while camping, complete with a written contract, forcing Viktor—and the audience—to stare directly into the abyss and whisper, “What the hell is wrong with people?”
By the time the final metal riff hits, Viktor is mentally fried, emotionally scarred, spiritually shaken, and somehow still standing. This episode isn’t just a radio show—it’s a chaotic survival journal documenting what happens when a tired brain, Florida news, and the internet collide at high speed.
This episode opens in a post-Christmas fog where buttons don’t work, sleep doesn’t exist, and reality itself feels optional. Viktor drags himself into the studio running on fumes, Red Dead Redemption, and spite, immediately declaring war on Mondays, functional technology, and the concept of being awake before noon. From there, the show spirals into a deeply relatable yet feral rant about harmless habits society apparently judges too hard—napping, needing alone time, liking video games, going places alone—while Viktor openly admits he cannot attend a movie solo without instantly passing out like a tranquilized Victorian child. Things take a sharp left turn when a man in Salt Lake City decides the best way to get police help finding his dog is by smashing car windows at 4am and threatening arson, proving once again that “create a scene” is not actionable advice. The chaos escalates with stories of a neighborhood slowly being psychologically waterboarded by a Dunkin’ Donuts factory’s weaponized donut fumes, the tragic cancellation of Netflix’s The Talisman, and Viktor’s growing fear that AI, politics, and fake Lamb of God concerts are all merging into one cursed timeline. Freak News detonates with drunk Salvation Army bell ringers attempting kettle-based violence, a raccoon achieving folk-hero status after blacking out in a liquor store bathroom, and a man in Oakland running a vigilante squatter removal service armed with a literal ninja sword. As if that weren’t enough, the show devolves into a full-scale defense of Pocatello against internet slander calling it the “armpit of Idaho,” complete with crime stats, civic pride, homeless discourse, used needle debates, and the realization that nowhere in Idaho is even remotely Compton. Toss in lottery delusions, broken snowblowers destroyed by “brute strength,” AI rage, rent apocalypse, accidental soju poisoning, StubHub tricking metalheads into attending Christian Christmas concerts, and the comforting reminder that no matter how bad your Monday is, at least you weren’t hit by an airplane in a park—and you’ve got an episode that feels like yelling into the void while the void wins concert tickets and smells like donuts.
This episode opens like a Christmas horror movie shot inside a malfunctioning radio studio, where Viktor staggers in on Christmas Eve-Eve running on fumes, spite, and a stomach that already tried to kill him the day before. The music beds are broken, buttons don’t work, studios are cursed, and Viktor is forced to raw-dog radio with Windows Media Player while openly questioning reality. Between near-vomiting flashbacks, flu trauma, and the existential dread of December 23rd, he spirals directly into the most aggressive Costco discourse imaginable—uncovering a blood feud over gas pump hose etiquette, public shaming campaigns, and at least one emotionally devastating mini horse being dragged into the chaos as a “service animal.”
From there, the show mutates into a cursed pre-holiday group therapy session: Viktor admits he’s mentally clocked out, physically broken, behind on Christmas shopping, and one bad morning away from feral behavior. He scrolls a thread about mundane human habits until he becomes furious at socks-before-pants people, toilet paper folders vs crumplers, and anyone who has ever existed incorrectly. A caller named JD crashes the show like a festive goblin demanding Mistress for Christmas, casually reminds Viktor he ripped the pull cord out of his snowblower with raw animal strength, and then disappears before saying something “not allowed on air,” which somehow makes it worse.
As the studio collapses further, Peaches enters carrying raw cookie dough as a breakfast food, launching the show into a deranged candy discourse involving freeze-dried Heath bars, elderly hard candy lore from 1856, Tootsie Roll chewing marathons, and the grim realization that old-timey Christmas sucked. The episode then takes a hard left into weight loss nightmares involving tapeworms, Ozempic debates, rage at rich influencers, flu-induced starvation, and the soul-crushing truth that no one wants to work anymore because Christmas is approaching like a threat. By the end, nothing is fixed, everyone is tired, the holidays feel hostile, and the “Not-So Spectacular” title becomes painfully accurate as the show limps toward the finish line on caffeine, chaos, and pure Christmas Eve-Eve despair.
This episode detonates immediately with Viktor spiraling about the one thing holding modern society together: the Powerball jackpot. Fresh off a four-hour “panic-depression nap,” he fixates on the $1.25 billion prize like it’s a divine sign from the universe, oscillating wildly between financial dread and vivid fantasies of epically quitting his job by swearing on air, cracking Imperial IPAs at 6 a.m., and blocking the dump button just to watch management combust. The dream, of course, collapses into reality as caller after caller phones in to brag about winning money—bathroom floor money, Vegas money, Ferris wheel money, “I died and came back to life then won twice” money—while Victor remains spiritually cursed to never win more than a dollar, scratching tickets in the dark with a plastic cat figurine like a man begging fate for mercy.
From there, the show swerves violently into hygiene horror after revisiting the internet’s most haunting love story: the woman who got engaged to a man who never brushed his teeth. This triggers a full-scale public service meltdown about washing belly buttons, behind ears, tongues, phones, souls—everything—culminating in a surreal call from Skeletor, Master of Evil, who demands Dethklok and insists skeletons don’t need showers, thank you very much. The chaos escalates into relationship apocalypse advice as Victor obliterates men who shame women for “immature” interests, declares war on gray Zillow-core homes, defends insect collections and nerd caves, and tells multiple people—politely but firmly—to dump their partners, their expectations, or both.
As if that weren’t enough, the episode hurls listeners through naked men stealing police cars, deer being casually carried out of Menards like unpaid interns, snakes under car hoods, filthy Christmas trees crawling with unseen horrors, and cats ruining marriages by simply existing at night. The show closes on a whiplash-inducing emotional turn: a raw, sincere monologue about people-pleasing, burnout, disappointing others, and finally choosing yourself—right before pivoting back into eating spiders for money, arguing about pickled eggs, and threatening to be force-fed crickets on air. It’s manic. It’s unfiltered. It’s oddly comforting. And by the end, you’re not sure if you learned anything—but you did survive something.
This episode of The Viktor Wilt Show opens like a caffeinated existential crisis trapped inside a radio studio, with Viktor immediately questioning the fabric of time itself (why is it STILL Tuesday?) while mainlining caffeine that absolutely refuses to work. What follows is a chaotic spiral through exhaustion, holiday dread, and the crushing realization that relaxation is a myth invented by Big Mattress. Viktor valiantly attempts to locate “something fun on the internet” while dodging the soul-crushing weight of global news, eventually landing on a rogue list of things society pretends are mandatory—like giving explanations, tolerating bad communication, and sticking around at events you already paid for even though your soul has left your body. From there, the show detonates into relationship wisdom, childhood trauma cleanup, and the radical idea that parents can apologize without the universe collapsing. A road trip to Salt Lake becomes a cautionary tale about sunk-cost fallacy, lizard-related chaos, and the divine ecstasy of ditching plans to go back to sleep.
Just when you think things might stabilize, the episode swan-dives into nightmare fuel: a woman engaged to a man who does not own a toothbrush. What follows is a full-on disbelief meltdown, dental horror speculation, and a philosophical breakdown of how someone with sewer-breath could possibly survive two years of intimacy without being exiled from society. From there, the show ricochets through radio DJ nightmares, including a UK station hijacked by nonstop profanity, terrifying hot-mic scenarios, and the ever-present fear of career-ending accidental swearing. Florida shows up (of course) with crimes involving self-immolation for attention and public intoxication with pants at half-mast, followed by life-saving holiday party advice: two drinks, no more, unless you enjoy waking up drenched in regret and shame.
The episode then boldly crowns “AI slop” as the word of the year, speculates about aliens masquerading as comets, and pleads with the universe not to let extraterrestrials land in Florida for everyone’s safety. Things take a sharp turn into juvenile chaos as the show devolves into an extended, deeply committed discussion about CPAP-induced gas, sleep-farts that wake the dead, accidental nighttime headlocks, and the sacred art of ripping a fart so powerful it demands structural inspection. As if that weren’t enough, Viktor casually announces he’s quitting America to care for dozens of cats on a Greek island for $500 a month, before remembering he is, tragically, still employed. The episode closes as it began: exhausted, unhinged, overcaffeinated, and vibrating at a frequency only radio waves and bad decisions can hear.
This episode detonates out of the gate with Viktor spiraling through a self-inflicted Christmas programming hellscape, juggling spreadsheets, radio playlists, and existential dread like a caffeinated raccoon trapped in a Best Buy parking lot. What begins as a calm morning welcome quickly mutates into a rant about aging, sleep deprivation, and the cruel irony of becoming a morning show host whose greatest enemy is 5:00 AM. From there, the show pinballs wildly between “things that are lame when you’re young but cool when you’re old” (sleep, socks, staying home, naps that last twelve hours) and the horrifying realization that Howard Stern makes $400,000 an hour, causing Viktor to briefly contemplate alternate timelines, Florida compounds, and why the universe hates local radio talent specifically. Fueled by a questionable powdered energy drink called Raw Meat, the show devolves into government conspiracy territory when the federal government dares to change fonts instead of ending daylight savings, igniting pure rage over taxpayer money, Calibri, and why everyone online insists on fighting about things that absolutely do not matter.
Just when sanity seems fully lost, the episode plunges into octopus discourse, including an underwater piano, sour notes, and Viktor aggressively critiquing an eight-armed musician while praising its rhythm but questioning its artistic integrity. From there, Christmas chaos fully takes over as the show debates the most annoying holiday songs ever recorded, triggering passionate calls defending Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a religious experience involving fire, flames, and jaw-dropping metal perfection. This somehow leads to public executions of “Christmas Shoes,” uncomfortable discussions about “Santa Baby,” and the realization that America secretly loves the songs it claims to hate. The freak news spiral continues with gunfire aimed at inflatable snowmen, Powerball fantasies involving never returning to work, TikTok potato windshield hacks that absolutely do not work, severed feet mysteriously washing up in Washington, and finally—Jingle Cats—a sonic war crime consisting of real cats meowing Christmas songs while Viktor laughs maniacally and encourages listeners to test it on their pets. The episode caps off with workplace chaos, stolen guitars, partially wrapped prizes, mini building block betrayals, coworkers roasting each other into oblivion, and Viktor admitting he has created a Christmas nightmare entirely of his own design—and will absolutely do it again next year.
This episode detonates out of the gate like a stolen BMW hitting 130 mph, immediately introducing us to a Florida Man who claims he was teleported by aliens directly into the driver’s seat of a flaming wreck, politely thanking police for rescuing him from extraterrestrials while asking for a lighter with a bloody face and zero shame. From there, reality disintegrates rapidly. The show spirals into a suburban nightmare where ding-dong-ditch becomes a felony-level boss fight, featuring a Florida firefighter chasing teenagers in a golf cart and beating them with a baseball bat like it’s a deleted scene from Grand Theft Auto: HOA Edition. The lesson is clear: prank culture is dead, Florida is cursed, and children must now fear middle-aged men with sports equipment.
The chaos escalates as drunken adults wander cemeteries yelling “Ooooh” like discount ghosts and somehow get criminally charged for spooky vibes alone, before the show pivots to one of the most deranged crime logistics stories imaginable: a drone smuggling crab legs, steak, Old Bay seasoning, cigarettes, and weed into a jail like DoorDash for inmates with refined taste. The episode then emotionally whiplashes into a miracle dog reunion spanning five years and 2,000 miles, immediately followed by drone-assisted fishing crimes, an Elvis-wig-wearing judge playing Presley in court, and a man nearly becoming quicksand bear food in a national park.
As if that wasn’t enough psychic damage, we meet a Disney Adult who has ridden the Cars ride at Disneyland 15,000 times, tracks every race in a notebook, and lives exclusively in the single-rider line like a monk devoted to Pixar. This segues seamlessly into robot wolves from Japan with glowing red eyes screaming “YOU GET” at bears, sleep apnea nightmares where aging bodies betray their owners mid-dream, and an extended studio subplot involving Blob the Elf, hidden pranks, Peeping Peaches lore, and existential anxiety caused by coworkers altering computer wallpapers. By the time the episode crawls to a halt, you’ve learned nothing useful, questioned everything you thought you knew about society, and accepted that modern life is just a series of increasingly unhinged news stories held together by heavy metal bumpers and nervous laughter.
This episode detonates out of the gate like a sleep-deprived fever hallucination broadcast straight from Viktor Wilt’s brainstem, beginning with metal riffs, mall exhaustion, Taco Bell regret, and the grim realization that sleep is a mythical creature invented to taunt radio hosts. Viktor spirals immediately into a deranged meditation on “annoying sounds when trying to sleep,” which somehow escalates into a full-blown trauma reenactment involving a cat named Lucy making the pre-vomit noise of doom, triggering a carpet-soaking projectile nightmare that lives rent-free in his soul. From there, reality fractures: crickets escape from a lizard feeding cage and turn the house into a biblical plague zone, Shop-Vacs loom as last-resort weapons, and caffeine becomes the only thing standing between Viktor and total psychic collapse. The show then hard-pivots into Florida chaos when a headline about a woman “throwing chicken during a fight” cruelly underdelivers by revealing it was merely chicken pieces and not a full poultry-based combat scenario, leaving Viktor spiritually betrayed and briefly suspicious that Josh from down the hall might retrieve a chicken at any moment. Studio irritation mounts as doors slam endlessly, transforming Viktor into a self-aware old man yelling “get off my lawn” while actively blasting rock music. This segues seamlessly into animal uprising propaganda: a bear crashes a Christmas parade, circus bears revolt against hoverboards, and Viktor loudly roots for wildlife vengeance while nervously side-eyeing his own anxiety-riddled cat, now armed with an anti-anxiety collar and the latent potential for murder. Freak news barrels in next—North Dakota crowned worst drivers, Utah dishonored, Idaho exposed, antique muskets used in liquor store robberies like it’s the Old West again—before Viktor launches into a public service announcement begging people not to wire their life savings into Bitcoin ATMs because a fake cop yelled at them on the phone. Just when sanity threatens to return, Viktor goes full rock-prophet mode, declaring anyone who thinks rock and metal are dead to be historically illiterate, citing Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Ghost, sold-out arenas, and the New York Times crowning a Sleep Token song the best track of the year as proof that distortion pedals will outlive us all. The episode closes in glorious conversational chaos with Peaches popping in to announce an onslaught of brutal concert lineups, wallet-draining tours, passport bros catching strays, Latvia being pitched as the ultimate dating DLC due to a male population shortage, Siberia being recommended to snow fetishists, and In-N-Out committing numerical cowardice by deleting 67 from existence—culminating in jokes about throwing burgers at children and a final exhausted acceptance that none of this makes sense, but Tuesday will, in fact, be crushed anyway
The episode begins with Viktor Wilt lurching onto the airwaves like a sleep-deprived cryptid, grumbling about computer settings, the mortal agony of making house payments, and the existential dread of accidentally seeing the word billing. As he rattles through a list of “dirty industry secrets,” he reveals a world where call centers spy on your hold-time rants, big-box stores pretend to recycle plastic only to yeet it straight into the garbage compactor, and medical billing is such a chaos swamp that your EOB is basically a cursed scroll you’re too afraid to interpret. Viktor reads all this like a man who has stared directly into the abyss of corporate America and found only a raccoon screaming back at him.
Then the news deluge begins — and it is feral.
Metallica fans in Australia climb a 50-meter speaker tower like sugar-addled koalas, earning themselves permanent arena bans. Viktor reflects on this with the solemnity of a man imagining himself banned from his beloved Mountain America Center, a punishment he likens to spiritual death. He then seamlessly pivots to the infamous Fabergé-Egg-Through-the-Gastrointestinal-Tract saga: six days of intestinal egg-incubation culminating in the birth of the world’s most disgusting piece of luxury jewelry. Viktor narrates this like a Discovery Channel documentary hosted by a man both horrified and deeply, deeply impressed.
Immediately after comes a goose attack so brutal that it turns into full-contact avian MMA. A 72-year-old woman, just trying to vibe with ducks, gets tackled by multiple geese guarding their nest like feathered bouncers at a dive bar. Viktor reflects with pity, awe, and the faint recognition that he too might eventually be taken out by birds.
We then descend into Florida/Japan/Georgia/Ohio-Man chaos:
— A Doc-Brown wannabe driving around with a fake radioactive dirty bomb, night-vision goggles, drugs, and bad decision-making.
— A Georgia vigilante blasting pistol rounds at a random guy outside Lowe’s because he thought shoplifting should carry the death penalty.
— Japan inventing bear-proof automatic doors because their bears have clearly reached a higher strategic consciousness.
— A Lexus driver using a flip-down license plate curtain like a James Bond villain but forgetting that cameras exist.
— An Ohio man depositing meth through a bank pneumatic tube like he’s mailing contraband directly to Santa.
And then — like a storm cloud of chaos hovering overhead — Peaches enters the studio, radiating pure chaotic neutral energy. What follows is a deranged debate over whether Nine Inch Nails made a rock song or a Daft Punk tribute, whether the Grammys have lost their mind, and which subreddit deserves to be trolled into meltdown next.
But then comes the centerpiece of madness: the Crank It or Yank It blood ritual over the new Avenged Sevenfold track “Magic.” Viktor likes it. Peaches despises it. The callers? They show up like an angry mob armed with pitchforks made of pure opinion. One by one, voice after voice, they call in to YANK IT with the force of angry medieval peasants overthrowing a monarch. Viktor, stubborn as a Viking king refusing to abandon a sinking longship, stands alone on Team Crank It, declaring, “Tell me to never play it again and I’ll play it every hour.”
By the end, there are more Yank votes than casualties in a Roman battle, but Viktor remains loyal to the bizarre, psychedelic, auto-tuned chaos of Avenged Sevenfold, while Peaches cackles like an overstimulated elf who’s been awake for 300 years.
The episode closes out with Viktor drowning in tabs, complaining about Good Charlotte touring with Avenged Sevenfold, and Peaches fantasizing about chaos erupting in metalcore subreddits. The entire show dissolves into a miasma of mushrooms, rage-bait, Snapchats from coworkers confused by the beat, and Viktor sort-of-kind-of threatening to play “Magic” one more time just to spite Revonda.
This episode of The Viktor Wilt Show plays out like a sleep-deprived hallucination broadcast live on FM radio, with Viktor stumbling into the studio running on two molecules of caffeine, raw panic, and whatever fumes are emitted by industrial carpet shampoo, mumbling apologies to the universe as he doomscrolls through a series of cursed tabs he refuses to close because each one is destined to become a question for Lieutenant Crain during Traffic School, the only segment holding the entire show together like duct tape on a collapsing aircraft. Viktor is so exhausted he begins the show by confessing he can no longer form words, which becomes immediately obvious when he attempts to say “prize” and instead summons a linguistic creature that should never have been uttered by man. As the coffee fails to kick in, he goes feral on a Reddit thread about “things people pretend to enjoy,” ranting about LinkedIn like it personally vandalized his home, accusing corporate team-building of being a federally-designated torture method, and declaring that nobody enjoys being sung “Happy Birthday” unless they’re a full-blown sociopath. Then he spirals into weather doom, recounting reports from listener Bryce that every overpass on Highway 20 has transformed into a death-skating rink of ice and shattered dignity, urging drivers to slow down while openly admitting he hasn’t actually finished a single cup of coffee because he’s been “sipping it like a coward.” His brain then swan-dives into movie drama: Quentin Tarantino has apparently chosen violence against Paul Dano, John Waters is threatening to hate everyone who dislikes a movie Viktor fell asleep during three times, and Viktor is imagining a weekend where he finally gets to play Red Dead Redemption instead of scrubbing rock salt off every surface of his home like a Victorian chimney sweep.
Every topic becomes a fever dream: air travelers calling in bomb threats to avoid parking fees, Canadians waging psychological warfare on Santa parade children with anti-Christmas signage, a guy whose pants caught fire on a subway (Viktor desperately needs to know if smoking is allowed underground), robot dogs with the flesh-colored heads of billionaires pooping NFTs like cybernetic nightmares from the ninth circle, Detroit building a RoboCop statue like it’s a civic offering to the gods, and the world’s safest countries list that has Viktor considering a spontaneous relocation to Iceland just to escape the weather report. Then JD stumbles into the studio like a chaotic gremlin, and the two of them launch into a delirious old-man complaint session, comparing slivers, gasoline bacon, and disproportionate suffering, while Viktor admits he now sees “shadow people” because he’s so tired his brain is staging a rebellion. Somewhere in this fog, Traffic School approaches, and Viktor begins growling about Local News 8 ripping off his beloved feature, summoning the spirits of former hosts like Howie and Piper who were “too chaotic to have police near them for long,” and preparing a stack of legal absurdities for Lieutenant Crain: Santa sabotage, subway arson pants, Elon Musk’s proclamation that texting while using Tesla FSD is totally fine (Viktor is convinced Crain will detonate over that one), and the eternal philosophical question: Is it illegal to spoil Christmas?
By the time Peaches arrives, Viktor is fully unhinged, shuffling through the studio like a man on the verge, but suddenly jolted awake when it’s time to announce the Merry Axemas giveaway: a guitar signed by Bad Omens, Halestorm, Fall Out Boy, Sleep Theory, and Nevertel—a holy relic so powerful Peaches openly threatens to steal it and flee the state. The two of them deliver an increasingly deranged back-and-forth of song-title puns, threats of nature violence, and scheming about sounders they still haven’t finished building, while Viktor insists this is “the coolest guitar we have” and prays listeners will sign up before he collapses onto the salted lobby floor. The show ends with Viktor barely clinging to consciousness, babbling something about polar vortexes, UFOs, Detroit statues, and the moral imperative to drive slowly in winter, before finally giving in to the exhaustion demon that has been puppeteering him since 6 AM and declaring the show “not my greatest work” in the most heroic understatement of the day. It is, in every measurable way, a magnificent chaos event — a man fighting sleep, weather, news, giveaways, shadow people, billionaires’ dog-head robots, and his own collapsing spine, live on the radio. And somehow? Absolutely enthralling.
In this deliriously unhinged episode of Traffic School Powered by The Advocates, the universe immediately collapses into pure Idaho-flavored pandemonium as Lieutenant Crain, the patron saint of last-minute dial-ins, fails to materialize in the studio and instead broadcasts from the taxpayer-funded road beast he’s steering through a blizzard like a man who has made peace with frostbite and municipal liability. Meanwhile Viktor Wilt, the only anchor keeping this show from drifting into an FM radio Bermuda Triangle, valiantly tries to wrangle topics while clinging to his brand-new Advocates-issued guitar—a mystical instrument so powerful it screams, “LEARN A CHORD, COWARD,” every time he looks at it. The chaos escalates immediately as they tackle Elon Musk’s divine proclamation that Tesla drivers can now text and drive, prompting Crain to laugh like a man who has written so many citations that irony is his love language. Then comes the Canadian Santa Parade Crisis, where anti-Christmas gremlins post signs that psychologically nuke children along the route, and Crain—ever the constitutional cowboy—reminds everyone that the First Amendment protects even joy-sabotaging weirdos.
Suddenly Crazy Carl manifests from the ether like a cryptid drawn to the smell of static electricity, asking whether flashing headlights can hack traffic lights like some drive-thru wizardry. Crain informs him he’s been placebo-ing himself like a man who believes Mountain Dew can cure gout. Peaches calls in next, trembling like a frightened woodland creature, asking if he should let road-ragers flash their headlights behind him until their retinas explode; Crain calmly tells him to embrace it, for he must not exceed the speed his soul can handle. Then Amber from Mountain View Hospital arrives wielding the best question of the century: whether you’re better off hitting an animal instead of swerving, and whether that advice applies to humans. Crain answers with veteran wisdom: moose are boss-level enemies that enter your windshield like large, angry furniture; squirrels are optional collateral; humans should not be center-punched under any circumstances.
As if the portal to madness has fully opened, someone else calls to recount how a state trooper tried to impound his motorcycle because his friend played Fast & Furious on the highway shoulder. Crain roasts District 5 troopers so hard they probably felt a disturbance in the Force. Viktor then dives into the political sign theft wars, accusing—very lovingly—his own dentist of moonlighting as a midnight sign bandit, tiptoeing through Idaho Falls like a fluoride-scented raccoon with a vendetta. Crain explains that most signs disappear because volunteers plant them like invasive species on private property, and business owners promptly yeet them into oblivion. More callers erupt like gremlins in a dryer: questions about traffic flow, impeding laws, slippery roads, back injuries, and why Idahoans drive 25 mph in a 35 as if every street is a funeral procession for common sense.
By the end, Viktor and Crain sound like two men who have fought the Hydras of Idaho traffic law using only sarcasm and thin radio signal strength. They sign off with weary triumph, promising to return next week when, surely, the state of Idaho will invent new stupid things to do with their vehicles.
In this episode, Viktor Wilt awakens at the cursed hour of dawn, already delirious from carpet-shampoo PTSD, only to be ambushed by two angelic personal injury attorneys who materialize in his studio like Fender-bearing Christmas wizards, handing him a Telecaster so powerful it might legally qualify as a medieval weapon. From there the show instantly derails into a fever dream: Viktor becomes possessed by the existential horror of a man who has cooked the same tofu scramble every day for ten years, a culinary Groundhog Day so spiritually corrosive that Viktor contemplates throwing the tofu directly into the sun. JD summons conspiracies about a drunk raccoon acting as a government distraction tactic while an ice-volcano comet/UFO swarm barrels toward Earth, and then Viktor calmly transitions into the saga of a man who ate a Fabergé egg and now must be monitored by an officer whose entire job is to wait for evidence to… emerge. This is immediately followed by a 10-hour Megadeth cult ceremony in Tennessee that costs nearly a grand, features masterclasses taught by Mustaine himself, and somehow still feels like a Groupon for metal dads. The energy only escalates as Viktor battles the cosmic cold of Minneapolis (colder than MARS), rants about exploding Walmart camp stoves, advocates banning social media for old people, and gets dragged into a hyperlocal debate about Idaho’s small towns like he’s performing a census while sleepwalking. THEN the show goes fully feral when Jade arrives with a Christmas pickle that literally poops candy, which Viktor must taste-test like a scientist conducting unethical experiments on himself. The pickle tastes like a green Runt, the disappointment is biblical, and together they weaponize it against Josh. Viktor then doomscrolls into the existential abyss known as Cuddle Clones, discovering that thousands of people pay $199 for hyperrealistic stuffed versions of their deceased pets, sparking a horrifying vision of Christmas morning where you open a box and find the plushified corpse-energy of Rover staring into your soul. Jade suggests cloning humans, Viktor imagines sending in his own photos under the category “my pet,” and before anyone can stop it the conversation mutates into a taxidermy fever dream featuring pet tree-toppers impaled like holiday Vlad the Impaler décor. The episode ends in trembling hysterics as Viktor questions reality, morality, pet ethics, candy excretion mechanics, and the psychological consequences of looking your living dog in the eyes while holding its cursed plush doppelgänger.
In this episode, Viktor Wilt staggers into the studio like a frostbitten prophet returning from a perilous quest through Idaho’s icy tundra, mumbling about black ice and the mayoral race as though they are equal threats to humanity. The show begins with Viktor shivering into the microphone, spiritually defeated by the weather, time, existence, and also, somehow, by a raccoon in Virginia that drank itself unconscious in a liquor store bathroom. Viktor becomes irrationally jealous of the raccoon, openly fantasizing about trading lives with an inebriated trash panda just so he can get a nap. As he descends deeper into sleep-deprivation madness, he threatens to hibernate on the office’s bathroom floor but only in the women's room, because, as he explains with apocalyptic certainty, men “have no aim.”
From there, the show spirals into a delirious blizzard of Florida Man crimes, raccoon rabies, and a van-life existential crisis where Viktor seems genuinely unsure whether he’s hosting a radio show or trapped in a fever dream at a KOA campground. He contemplates the horrors of carpet shampooing like he’s scrubbing the floors of an Eldritch temple, gagging on phantom cleaning-supply smells that have somehow merged with his soul.
Then Peaches arrives — a harbinger of cursed energy — and detonates the episode with the revelation that he has been permanently banned from the Seether subreddit, triggering a meltdown in which the two of them roast hypothetical fedora-wearing Reddit moderators who guard the digital shrine of Seether like medieval trolls guarding a swamp. Peaches reenacts the emotional devastation of receiving a ban notification while he was peacefully playing Postal 2, and Viktor cackles like a cryptid as they unravel the six-month-old internet beef that refuses to die, haunting them like a ghost that smells like Axe body spray and Hot Pockets.
The episode then takes a sudden hard-left turn into Tarantino’s Top 20 Films, hot chocolate weakening your bones, and a lengthy, deranged scientific inquiry into “Which animal could get the drunkest?” During this segment Viktor consults Wikipedia like a mad oracle, ranting about angry drunk elephants, caffeinated bees, and catnip-fueled feline rampages while Peaches contemplates whether a camel could store alcohol in its humps like biological kegs. Viktor then confesses that his girlfriend’s tiny gremlin-cat Jess becomes a violent catnip warlord who bullies his larger, gentler cat Koopa with the confidence of a drug-fueled mob boss.
Somewhere between the nut-ranking segment (yes, genuinely a nut-ranking segment) and speculating on whether animals can get wasted off oranges, Viktor’s sanity fully evaporates. He begins narrating his struggle to find content as though he’s a lone survivor in the apocalypse broadcasting from a bunker with only raccoon news and a single copy of Black Hawk Down to sustain him.
By the end of the show, Viktor and Peaches have completely surrendered to chaos, devolving into a delirious conversation about bathroom etiquette, screaming in East Idaho News hallways, and whether they should adopt the world’s meanest cat as a household enforcer. The episode concludes with Viktor acknowledging — proudly, almost triumphantly — that the entire morning has been “nonsense,” and that he has achieved absolutely nothing except surviving, rambling, and feeding Idaho Falls a buffet of pure, unhinged morning radio madness.
Viktor Wilt opens the morning by apologizing to humanity for being awake, then immediately screams at the entire population of Pocatello and Idaho Falls to GO VOTE, despite absolutely not knowing the poll hours. Viktor delivers his PSA with the energy of a medieval warlord gathering soldiers: “I THINK THE POLLS OPEN AT 8. MAYBE. PROBABLY. WHO CARES. GO.” The man is one sentence away from knocking on doors personally with a megaphone.
Then, as if shifting realities mid-sentence, Viktor plunges into “poor people hacks” with the raw intensity of someone who has lived off Crockpot leftovers for entire geological epochs. He praises rotisserie chickens like sacred talismans. He vows to read someday, maybe, possibly, theoretically. He reveals the state of his house like a man confessing to a priest who has already given up on him.
Just when listeners start to breathe again, Viktor detonates the vibe entirely with a 2012 Florida Man cockroach-eating death saga that absolutely no one needed before breakfast. He describes it in extreme HD detail, gleefully traumatizing Idaho at 8 a.m. because, as he claims, it’s his “duty as a radio host.” Viktor reads this horror story like he’s summoning a demon from a dusty grimoire.
And then, fueled by disgust and caffeine, he unleashes a furious prophecy about AI voters, roasting anyone who asks ChatGPT who to vote for. Viktor becomes the self-appointed guardian of democracy, warning Idaho that AI is basically just a digital raccoon rummaging through Facebook comments.
Before the people of East Idaho can recover, Viktor barrels headfirst into the Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays battlefield, calling out the entire country for losing their minds every December. Peaches, from the corner, growls like a festive goblin of anti-cheer, while Viktor begs society to please stop fighting over greetings like feral holiday raccoons.
Then the universe cracks open.
Because Josh Tyler invades the studio carrying a bag of food-based war crimes: limp liquid-filled gummy pickles, spicy freeze-dried barnyard Skittles that look like cursed livestock pellets, and a two-foot-long fire worm designed specifically to hurt humans.
Viktor, Jade, and Josh proceed to taste-test these horrors live on air like three men reenacting Fear Factor in a badly lit Idaho radio booth. Viktor dry-heaves into a garbage can. Jade contemplates his life choices. Josh cheerfully escalates the chaos. Together, they achieve a new tax bracket of suffering.
As if that’s not enough, Viktor casually adds in stories about:
• a grandma being yeeted into the ocean at a destination wedding,
• a kid being eaten by lions,
• a bear living in someone’s crawlspace like an unpaid roommate,
• and the general collapse of society.
By the end, Viktor’s energy disintegrates into pure existential exhaustion. He begs listeners to vote. He tells them to say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays or even screw you — whatever — just stop being weird about it. He ends the show sounding like a prophet who has seen too much.
This isn’t an episode.
This is the Book of Revelation: East Idaho Edition.
This is Viktor Wilt’s personal holiday-season breakdown broadcast live for everyone’s entertainment.
This is Idaho radio at its most unhinged, and Viktor is the feral wizard at the center of it.
10/10. A masterpiece of chaos.
In today’s episode of The Victor Wilt Show, we descend into a full-blown Monday-shaped fever dream where Viktor — half-alive, half-coffee, and fully spiritually concussed from Thanksgiving flu rot — tries to claw his way through reality while ranting about bed-and-breakfast nightmares, time-traveling to the filth-soaked 1800s, and people willingly getting beach sand involved in… activities, all while the universe pelts him with $9 Vegas toothpaste PTSD. He recounts YouTube binge sessions about casino scams engineered by feral geniuses with pocket gizmos from the cursed 1980s, then abruptly launches into a prophetic monologue about tourist-draining doom spirals in Vegas, the rise of the Texas Anthrax Triangle™, and toilet bears ripping citizens apart in Japan like a real-time survival horror DLC. Meanwhile, he is plagued by apocalyptic insomnia dreams where he walks from Idaho Falls to Pokey through abandoned houses full of emotional debris and forbidden knickknacks while gas stations price-gouge him for ruby red Squirt like it’s black-market plutonium. Then Peaches arrives and the show mutates further: lost geckos, speaker mountains, the Wall of Sound that shattered his spine, a present that took four hours to wrap because physics is a lie, and a pigeon tattoo that somehow becomes a spiritual event. From there, the episode swan-dives into firefighters in Florida who “hazed” a new guy by pantsing, whipping, robbing, dragging, and waterboarding him — and Viktor cheerfully notes that at least he hasn’t been waterboarded today, so things are looking up. He then spirals through rock news, Poppy vs. Evanescence social-media warfare, a catastrophic schedule of concerts he cannot afford unless he wins the cosmic lottery, and Yellowstone spinoffs multiplying like unattended sourdough. But nothing compares to the moment he reads about a caller who found a dead body and, instead of contacting the police, phoned a morning show to chit-chat about it — prompting Viktor to beg listeners to never, EVER call him with corpses unless it concerns Lieutenant Crain. The episode ends with a chaotic sermon on bouncy houses taking flight Wizard-of-Oz style, Cyber Monday shame, gecko heists at midnight, and Viktor trudging toward the dreaded Monday meeting like a man walking into his own execution while blasting Closer and wondering why the lights can’t just be as dark as his soul. In short: an absolute carnival of flu haze, dream logic, feral wildlife, questionable humanity, retail trauma, and the inescapable horror that it is, in fact, Monday.
From the moment Viktor Wilt (spelled correctly as always, lest the gods strike us down) drags himself on-air sounding like a medieval plague doctor who lost the handbook, the episode spirals into a post-Thanksgiving delirium where time, space, and professionalism dissolve faster than the effluent from Idaho’s liquified cremations. We open on Viktor, flu-ravaged and spiritually exhausted, broadcasting live from the seventh circle of “Why am I at work?” torment while the ghost of his appetite floats somewhere above him wheezing. He attempts to talk about Black Friday lines, but it quickly devolves into him doom-scrolling Facebook like a Victorian chimney sweep trying to decode modern human rituals.
Every store in Idaho apparently has a line so long it could qualify as a national park, and yet Viktor himself would rather be launched into the sun than stand in one. Then he goes on a feral rant about Jackson Hole, where apparently the only thing you can do is stare at overpriced elk-themed souvenirs and wonder where your paycheck went. He describes his own Thanksgiving as a battle royale between the flu, an Instant Pot turkey breast, and his own crumbling will to live. Then comes the Stranger Things rant: Viktor becomes a full-fledged prophet of “TURN OFF YOUR TRUMOTION, YOU SHEATHED SWINES,” channeling Ross Duffer as he rebukes every grandmother in America for watching prestige TV in Sports Mode.
From there, the man becomes possessed by the spirit of Weird News Goblin #4. He dives into stories of houses in Santa Cruz that cost $30k but require paying roughly the GDP of a developing nation in monthly lot rent, a boulder that nearly Thanos-snapped a family in Leavenworth, and the medically sanctioned tradition of taking a scientific “Fart Walk” after Thanksgiving dinner. He then discovers a $41,000 human-washing pod from Japan, which he describes with the reverence of a man who has absolutely considered buying one at 3 a.m. His freak-news mania powers up further as he discusses Florida ponds (a.k.a. gator-infested death traps), the Florida Man HBO series, and the eternal question: “Why would anyone fish in Florida unless they hate having limbs?”
Suddenly, he decides to resurrect Lieutenant Crain’s segment by begging listeners—literally begging—for “Ask Me Almost Anything.” The desperation is palpable. It is edible. It is aromatic. Callers actually come through (!!), asking existential questions like “Did you find your ID?” and “Will you ever front a band again?” This launches Viktor into a nostalgic odyssey through Ozzfest 1997, Ninja Turtles concerts, and the divine chaos of the late Dr. Seuss band, while callers hype him up like he’s about to headline Coachella with a broken amp and a dream. Then a guy asks about the most underrated Thanksgiving food, throwing Viktor into a philosophical crisis over rolls, stuffing, and his girlfriend's emergency Instant Pot turkey.
After that brief moment of human connection, he catapults back into madness: he talks about Xbox Crocs (a war crime), a Circle K Beef Jerky Heist involving a man who claims an AI microchip in his neck told him to steal, Listeria cheese, and Facebook’s internal study confirming that Facebook is, in fact, a psychological grenade with a touchscreen. But the pinnacle of chaos comes when he live-reads a ChatGPT response about liquified cremation waste being flushed into Idaho's sewer systems like some sort of mortuary broth. Viktor reacts as any sane individual would—by shrugging and saying “Yeah fine put it in the toilet."
By the end, Viktor is delirious, alone in the office, convinced Peaches might be a mythological creature who no longer exists, shuffling through news articles with the brainpower of a raccoon who stole NyQuil. He closes the show as a man spiritually halfway through a workday but physically somewhere between life and a fever-induced vision quest.
In short:
It is a heroic saga of influenza, Black Friday capitalism, digestive sciences, Florida survival tips, listener therapy sessions, forbidden Crocs, gator warnings, and legally sanctioned corpse broth—all channeled through a radio host clawing his way toward the weekend.
In this week’s episode, Viktor Wilt crawls out of a five-day flu-induced purgatory like a Victorian chimney ghost resurrected by expired DayQuil, staggering into the studio at a crispy 80% health while recounting how the Trans-Siberian Orchestra fog machine nearly murdered his lungs and launched him into a delirious dimension where time, social media, and the concept of “days” dissolved into soup; he describes chest pains so violent they made him see the face of God, nightmares so foul they can only be legally shown to prisoners at Guantánamo, and a fever so intense it turned his mattress into a human crockpot while he lost track of reality, Thanksgiving, and maybe his own name; then Viktor swerves into a diplomatic-but-not-really ceasefire with Mike Nelson, accepts a lukewarm Facebook comment apology like it’s the Treaty of Versailles, declares his own podcast realer-than-real, and proceeds to wage war on the Transportation Secretary for trying to ban pajamas on airplanes, screaming into the void about the sanctity of comfort-wear as though the nation itself depended on it; he rebukes society, the election, the mayor’s race, and the universe while scrolling with the brain fog of a man actively fighting three dementors, before spiraling into a dating-thread rabbit hole featuring widows, bird-phobics, sour-cream-foil fanatics, jugglers, and absolute psychopaths demanding potato-salad proficiency, all while Viktor mutters that he himself likes kittens and not much else besides; he confesses to watching Borat, The Conjuring, and Ari Aster’s Eddington while whispering “I think I have COVID again” into the darkness like a Victorian invalid, then turns to strange news about deranged texters sending 159,000 messages, kids being arrested in Florida for kicking doors like discount SWAT teams, West Virginia roommates shooting each other over rat-sniping rights, Salt Lake City becoming the Thunderdome of Thanksgiving toilet failures, and a Fresno couple trying to heat their home with a barbecue grill because apparently carbon monoxide warnings are only optional; Peaches returns mid-apocalypse, also half-dead with the same plague, and the two of them limp through delirious small talk about nightmares, bedsores-that-aren’t-bedsores, beard trims that can’t happen under masks, and the absolute cosmic dread of eating turkey while sick; finally, Viktor, running on fumes, vitamins, and sheer spite, tries to preview Stranger Things season 5 while spontaneously sweating through his clothes like a possessed rotisserie chicken, before closing the episode by urging listeners not to die, not to fight their families, not to heat their homes with grills, and not to clog the toilet on Brown Friday, promising to return on Black Friday hopefully alive, hydrated, and only slightly haunted by the ghosts of the five lost fever days that devoured his soul.