Ep. 257 - I Wrestled A Bear And Other Lies You Should Put On Your Dating Profile - 09/10/2026

The Noon Hour of Madness and Mayhem opens with Peaches and FJ wandering through Reddit’s Unpopular Opinion subreddit, which immediately produces the sort of take that makes you wonder whether somebody should be allowed to have internet access before noon: school should apparently run all 12 months of the year. The argument is that children would somehow become smarter, teachers would work full-time and get paid more, and the entire educational system would presumably transform into a glorious academic utopia where nobody ever sees daylight again. Peaches and FJ are absolutely not buying it. They debate summer vacation, year-round school schedules, agricultural traditions, and the psychological necessity of allowing children to disappear for several months before returning to school like they've just been released from captivity. Peaches even reveals that he attended a year-round elementary school, complete with bizarrely long winter and spring breaks but a shorter summer, and admits that by the eighth week of a normal summer he was already bored enough to start begging for school to return. Naturally, the conversation eventually reaches Howard Stern and the fantasy of working one day a week from a basement studio while everybody else does the actual work.

From there, the subreddit becomes a conveyor belt of questionable opinions. The hosts tackle the theory that anime is popular in the West because there aren't enough cartoons aimed at teenagers and young adults anymore, and neither host can really understand the phenomenon. One Piece comes under particularly heavy scrutiny, including the live-action adaptation and the apparently mandatory knowledge of characters like Monkey D. Luffy. The conversation then mutates into a larger assault on entertainment that takes too long to get anywhere. Slow-burn movies? Absolutely not. Three-and-a-half-hour historical films? Potentially a hostage situation. Oppenheimer gets dragged into the discussion, while John Wick Chapter 4 is held up as proof that a nearly three-hour movie can work perfectly well when something is constantly exploding, shooting, punching, stabbing, or otherwise preventing the audience from checking the clock.

The show then wanders into the dangerous territory of judging people by appearances, and FJ provides an excellent example of why that can backfire spectacularly. A man who looked like he belonged at a K-Bear event turned out to be a Classy 97 listener, demonstrating that apparently even radio