Ep. 97 - Panic on Air: Jade Davis Defies Physics - 10/30/2025

Another day, another descent into whatever fresh technological nightmare Peaches and Viktor have accidentally uncovered. On today’s Noon Hour of Madness & Mayhem, the guys dissect a British TV show called Will AI Take My Job? — which ends with the host being AI. That sends them down the rabbit hole of whether news anchors, DJs, and soda mascots will all be replaced by robots before the week’s out. Somehow, this spirals into a full-on Dr Pepper vs. Pepsi vs. Coca-Cola civil war, complete with emotional soda confessions, “dirty soda” culture from Utah, and Peaches pretending he’s a bartender every time he pours Diet Pepsi.Then the conversation derails gloriously: from AI taking over the airwaves, to Viktor claiming we might all be living in an alternate timeline because a weasel broke the particle accelerator in 2016. Peaches admits he asked ChatGPT what the most underrated candy was and it told him Bit-O-Honey — which sends Viktor into visible despair. They roast modern influencers for eating horse electrolytes, joke about China making social media licenses mandatory, and then, because they are truly men of science, generate a real AI podcast live on air titled “Panic on Air: Jade Davis Defies Physics.” The AI calls Jade “she,” describes her as “a rumor about a skeleton,” and somehow still sounds less robotic than most morning shows.By the end, Peaches and Viktor decide humanity is finished, AI is here to stay, and everyone might as well “just give up” — podcasters, graphic designers, news anchors, even soda drinkers. It’s another gloriously dumb, gloriously human day inside East Idaho’s most chaotic lunch hour.