#0310 - You Criticized The Government Online? Congrats, You’re On A List - 02/17/2026

On this frostbitten, slush-soaked Tuesday transmission from the trenches of Idaho Falls, Viktor Wilt drags himself into the studio like a caffeinated cryptid emerging from a cave of regret, immediately declaring war on snow, Meta, and the concept of consciousness itself. The show begins with slick roads and existential dread as news breaks that Meta has patented an AI capable of resurrecting your dead relatives’ Facebook accounts so Grandma can start posting minion memes from beyond the grave. Nothing says “good morning” like imagining deceased loved ones dropping hot takes on current events. Zuckerberg is apparently building a haunted house but it’s just your newsfeed. The vibe? Light apocalypse. Casual dystopia. Breakfast terror.

From there, the brain pinballs into a discussion about what 99% of humans can do that the remaining 1% cannot—rolling Rs, swallowing pills, remembering faces, burping (imagine the internal pressure), taking naps (THE TRUE TRAGEDY), and driving competently, which according to evidence on the roads is not universal. Meanwhile, Viktor openly fantasizes about napping while Becca lives the dream and he does chores like a martyr to domestic responsibility.

Then it’s off to Frosty Footsteps 5K—walking in the literal cold to raise money for the Idaho Falls Rescue Mission—because if we’re all going to freeze in slush, we might as well do it for charity. A wholesome detour before we plunge headfirst into global stupidity.

Australia enters the chat with a family that tried to dodge a $600 restaurant bill by ripping armpit hair out and planting it in their food. Yes. Armpit hair sabotage. The culinary equivalent of self-inflicted follicular warfare. They were caught on camera committing the pit-pluck maneuver and now restaurants everywhere must remain vigilant against sweaty follicle fraud.

We spiral further as a British “boffin” warns that 15,000 city-killer asteroids could be silently hurtling toward Earth and there is apparently no grand planetary defense plan beyond vibes and hope. Sleep tight. Meanwhile in Denmark, police accidentally emailed sensitive files to a random guy who refused to give them back and got arrested for hacking because apparently the moral of the story is “even when it’s their fault, you’re still going to jail.”

Italy loses its Lover’s Arch to the sea on Valentine’s Day because romance is dead and erosion is undefeated.

Florida, as always, becomes the sacred land of idiotic criminality: one man dines and dashes, forgets his phone charger, returns to the crime scene the next day like a confused raccoon, and is promptly arrested. Another thief locks himself inside a landscaping van while attempting to steal tools and has to beg for release like a budget supervillain trapped in his own stupidity. Police call it their greatest arrest ever. Florida continues to provide.

Then comes relationship nuclear disaster: a man accidentally deletes his fiancée’s two-thirds-complete Red Dead Redemption 2 save file. That’s not a mistake. That’s an extinction-level emotional event. Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan himself) gets tagged in the drama. We are now measuring love in percentage of game completion.

The TSA joins the rant parade, listing their most annoying airport species: line skippers, liquid smugglers, over-packers, shoe rebels. Viktor counters with “concessions are highway robbery” and honestly, he’s right.

Then it gets darker: reports claim social media platforms may have handed over user data for people criticizing ICE, suggesting that free speech now comes with a complimentary watchlist subscription. Chips in brains. Thought policing. Casual Tuesday paranoia.

Celebrity chaos follows: Shia LaBeouf allegedly spirals shirtless in New Orleans, Brittany Curran shows up hammered at a police station, and TMZ is feasting. Fame: not even once.

Then, in a moment of audio nerd madness, we learn that audiophiles couldn’t tell the difference between music transmitted through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud. Mud. The banana is now a viable sound engineering tool. Nothing matters.

And finally—poetic symmetry—the episode closes with AI romance heartbreak. GPT-4o (described as “unusually flirty”) gets shut down before Valentine’s Day and thousands of users in a subreddit called “My Boyfriend Is AI” spiral into emotional collapse because their digital lovers vanished overnight. Corporate ghosting at scale. The future is lonely and algorithmic.

The show ends the way it began: exhausted, mildly existential, fantasizing about naps and video games, staring down the long road of Tuesday like a man who knows the banana-wire mud audio test is the least of our problems.

It wasn’t just a show. It was a slow-motion psychological snowplow through modern absurdity.