The Daily Zeitgeist - ALL CAPS ALL CAP PRESIDENCY, Crofton’s Vitamin D 06.25.25

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

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I said, I love you to somebody by mistake the other day on them. Did you? Yeah. I love you. I, uh, jump out a window. Right. I said, I love you. And then I went, Oh no.

And then the thing stopped. Was it like a date or was it something that was a man that I'm friends with? I've never said that. Just was like, I just had just broken up with my girlfriend. And so I just forgot. I was so used to saying, I love you. I hung up on video calls. I love you.

I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I just was like I just had just broken up with my girlfriend And so I just forgot I was so yeah I love you. I said it like and then he went all I said, oh no Oh, no, and he just his eyes went wide and he yeah the video call then now I won't he won't return my calls Did he text you back and he was Hey, about that thing you said earlier. I was like, one thing you misheard.

You heard you miss heard me at all. I've never actually never said that before. Oh, you misunderstood, sir. You misheard. I've never loved anyone. Yeah. I don't think you'd be the first person I ever said that to. That's an amazing move is like the big I love you and then claiming you never said it.

I've never said that in my life. I've actually never said that in my life. So yeah, I don't think it would be to you. Probably not. This is an iHeart Podcast. Just like great shoes, great books take you places. Through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.

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What the fuck? What the fuck? Zoom workplace. They got too many screens. They got too many screens. I'll tell you that right now. Yeah, Zoom workplace. What the fuck? What the fuck, Zoom workplace? They got too many screens. They got too many screens. I'll tell you that right now. Thank you. It is Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, 62525.

Oh man, what a day though. You know what? And thank you for that wonderful music. Can we just get that as a drop? Because today is Her Majesty's birthday. Shout out to Her Majesty. I love you so much. I'm so glad I get to spend my life with you. We've had such a fucked up year so far,

but goddamn it, we're getting through it. Anyway, I love you dearly. Happy birthday. Also, National Parchment Day. I don't know which one I'm feeling the national catfish day definitely not catfish but this is about the actual the fish with whiskers not the sociological whiskers little whiskies I mean hey man you always have the opportunity now to get her majesty parchment for her birthday just be like sorry babe I didn't make your birthday national parchment day. Look I

I'm gonna give her some gifts later on. We'll see how that goes I'll be like hey parchment paper, you know what the ancients ascribe their wisdom upon My name is Jack O'Brien aka times have changed and times are tough Here I come and it costs ten bucks Mama, I come in cans That one courtesy of first blood 522 on the discord in reference to Ozzy Osborne Being somebody who is selling his DNA Via oh coming can't and I just thought I was disappointed All right, it was they were like can of Ozzy Osbourne's DNA can with Ozzy Osbourne's DNA sample

It was apparently a can that he drank out of it was not a can that he jacked off into Mmm, yeah, so I guess I'm the bad guy for yeah, you're doing a lot of sort of wish casting I think with that can Turns out it's not that. He never said it was. Just turns out it isn't. Also, have we realized before that our significant, our SOs birthdays are exactly a week apart? Jack, the things we talk about in our private text threads, I'm not expecting to come on the show. Okay. And that was really sensitive information, but I guess most people could deduce at this point that last Wednesday was your majesty's.

Yep. And this week's her majesty's. Exactly a week apart. The zodiac is real, you guys. What does that mean? Like, do you think that we're supposed, like, are we connected? I don't know, man.

I'm just saying, like, there's a lot of, a lot of my close friends are born around now. My wife is born around now. Both of our wives are born around the same time. Yeah, that's true. It's star-crossed. A ton of people were born today also. Star-crossed co-hosts. Star-crossed co-hosts. Mm-hmm. Star-crossed fever.

That's right. It's spreading. And unfortunately, there's no more vaccines available. Thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, you heard it. I'm sleep deprived and my house burned down. That means I'm the show dad that sleep that bad. I'm also Hideo Nohome, an experimental pop artist. Ya boy, Kushpapa. Thank you to Archcam Cam on the discord for that.

It was nice. I'm just so upset at technology. Just let's croft and save us. The show dad who saved that is a lot. I'll see what I can do. I got to get it. You know, you can do it. You got it. I'm not exactly feeling that great either.

Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Yeah. One of our favorite guests. So hilarious stand-up comedian, actor, musician. You can listen to his podcast, Cold Brew Got Me Like Anywhere. His book, The Advice King Anthology is available everywhere. Fine books are sold. The poetry window is open because it's Chris,

motherfucking Crofton. Hey, what's up? Hey, Chris. I'm trying to do something where I, I was trying to think of a song where I, you know, the thing about cutting in cans. Well, I like that. I like that. We're talking about jacking off right out of, right out of the gate.

Oh yeah. Which reminded me of the time, like when I was on the show and I told, I think, were you both there when I, I think miles was just, you were out Jack. When I said that like being a local rock star was just like having one night stands where you don't come. I think that was you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Remember that? I mean, those were wild days. That was me. That definitely was you. I remember you being like, that was when I was starting to get comfortable. That was when I was starting to get comfortable. That's when I was starting to get comfortable. Oh, that sounds great. You know, that was a big, uh, Bill Clinton thing.

The, uh, he, he was always like, he would have his little affairs with, um, the 22 year old intern at the White House. And then he, but he would never come. And he like talked about, he was like, I'm saving up my power. And then the one time he did, it was used as evidence against him. It was a real come-based morality. What is he like? One of these Olympics?

When did he say that? His mentality is like Olympic sprinters from the 80s. Yes. Like, you got to keep it in rock. I'm pretty sure it's fucking, yeah, raging bull. Just straight up raging bull. What did he say that on Larry King or something? Yeah, he came through.

Larry King was like, you know, it's a funny story. That's insane. How did you hear that?, it's a funny story. That's insane. How do you keep my power? I think I heard it on slow burn. The podcast about the Monica Lewinsky. I I've consumed a fair share of content about, about that scandal. More than mine was about alcoholism. It was just like, you know, in order for me to play like a guy who had one night

stands, like that's really not my personality, but order for me to play like a guy who had one night stands, like that's really not my personality, but like I had to get really drunk to be that guy. But then you're so drunk. You can't come too much on your chip. Yeah. That was, yeah. It was like, Oh, I'm that guy who does one night stands now. Yeah.

Except, Oh man. I, I, you know, I got into character. Too hard. Too good. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, maybe if I, maybe if I smoke a cigarette, do you ever sing a song like turn the page about how hard it is to go from stop to stop and have one night stands, but you're too drunk to actually come. No, because that's not a popular

brag about like at all. You're supposed to talk about how you never ever have not come. That's not something you're supposed to brag about like at all. You're supposed to talk about how you never ever have not come. That's right. You come cause you can't stop coming. But like Arnold Schwarzenegger and pumping iron. Yeah, I've written lots of songs about that. Like about how I can't stop coming. Stop.

Good. Feels so good. Lou. When I'm in the gym, I'm coming. When I'm at home, I'm coming. The tour bus is full of come like every coming. Stop. Good. Feels so good. Lou, like when I'm in the gym, I'm coming home. I'm coming. The tour bus is full of calm. Like every time I try and get out of the tour bus, I can't have to wade through the come. Yeah.

But yeah, yeah. Make sure we isolate this part for the Instagram feed guys. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. This will be the best for this week.

I was thinking about, I was trying to think of a, I can't think of how to sing freak on a leash, but I was going to say like Crofton on a leash. That's, that's, that's my, that's my, that's my, I like that. You did like the Trump version of an AK, like I have the concept of an AK. The concept of an AK that I'm working with. Yeah. But it's one of the best concepts. I've told you guys the story of Pussy on Hold, though,

in terms of songs about coming. I didn't write any songs about coming, but I did write a song called Pussy on Hold. OK. And I say write pretty loosely. We were rehearsing, and we had this sort of nasty sounding riff. And I was dating a woman in Alabama at the time and so I was like, I got pussy on hold in Alabama, you know? And then like everybody in the

band was like, you have to say that. No. Like, you said it. That's the name of the song. You know, one of those things when all your friends, like all your, you said it, dude. Yeah, all your hairy, all your hairy dude friends are like you gotta say it now You have to that has to be the name of the song except. I actually did it I went all the way through and then I name a song man. Yeah, I named a song pussy on hold, you know But you know, it's not like it wasn't supposed to be a good song it was supposed to be a kind of a joke, you know, but still like when I started dating my girlfriend and I was in the process of recording that album, she was like, you're recording a song called pussy on hold about, like, she was just

like, you're an idiot. You know what I mean? Like, and I was like, no, you don't understand. And I said to her, I'm sure I told you, I'm sure I told you this story. Yeah, exactly. Jack. That's exactly what my response was. Basically like rock and roll roll except I was 41

You know Understand chili Roy said it's a good title for a song. So yeah So I really really she was like, why are you making a song called that and I was like, well I made a deal with myself when I was like 10 years old or whatever I said Like if I thought it I had to say it and if I said, you know, and she was like What are you talking about? You should not keep deals that you made with your she's like, what are you fucking talking about? I was like, well, yeah, you know, it's just one of those things where you make a deal with yourself You make a deal with you.

She was so fucking just like looking at me like you are so fucking stupid. I was, I was just about to quit drinking unbeknownst to me. And I was, I was ready to hear this shit. And she goes, you're a fucking idiot. And I was like, noted. I think you're right. And then she was like, I think you might be right on this one. She was like, um, I was like, it's the first thought that came to my head.

And that's part of the deal is you do. Yeah. And you do. And she goes, she was like, you ever thought about having a second thought? Oh shit. And I was like, you know, I like fell on the floor, you know, and she swept me into a dust pan. All my bones fell out.

Bye. I slid out under the door. It was kind of incredible. And then she was like, then I quit drinking. And then she was like, cause she asked me what my biggest problem was, which is a weird question, but it was like supposed to be a lead into her breaking up with me. I was supposed to say drinking and she was supposed to say like, I'm breaking up with you, but instead she said, what's your biggest problem? And I thought drinking, but then I realized I

didn't want to say that. So I was going to say something else. I wonder what my, what my other option was going to be like nachos or something. Just like being, I don't know, just too tired or something. So what's your biggest problem? I just, just generally just being always tired, I think. Anyway. So I said drinking and then she said, well, I don't think I can be in a relationship. And I said, I'll quit. And then we were together like two more years, which I think was not supposed to be part of the plan really happy ending.

Yeah. All right. But we're still friends anyway. That's the cold open my pants fell down. Chris, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. Today. Uh, we, the president has, you know, solved the, the war, solved war ended war.

Oh no, as a Bish recording, that could be so different in a moment. Yeah. Well, it is already different. He ended it and then it came back. Then he got mad and became first president to say fuck intentionally on national TV. He said it like a kid saying fuck for the first time in front of his parents. He's like, they've been fighting for so long. They don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Real big kids swearing from his parents' energy. But anyways, uh, we'll, we'll talk about just what, what's going on there. So we'll, we'll talk about that. We might even talk about Jeff Bezos' wedding, all of that, plenty more. But first Chris Crofton, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I was going to recommend this channel on YouTube called has a has Accia news. I don't know if I ever mentioned it to you guys before H E Z a K Y a, and

this person digs up like some pretty, pretty like, I don't know where they get this stuff because I'm like all over this, you know what I mean? Like I'm like, as far as I can tell, I'm on the hunt for this sort of stuff and then somehow he got footage of a Playboy Mansion party. Oh good. God, like basically b-roll like not narrated just like a brightly lit video camera walking around during a Playboy Mansion party in 1983 and including a shot of the buffet and Boy, oh boy, if you ever thought that the Playboy Mansion was anything more than a nasty pimp's house, then you are going to be disappointed when you find out

that this place is so fucking sleazy and depressing. It's unbelievable. It's just a bunch of charmless men making sex jokes while these helpless, you know, 19 year olds have to stand there wearing geometric print dresses because it was like, you know, 1983. That's the only fun part is like seeing what they're wearing stuff. There's like a person who looks like they did so much cocaine their nose melted off. Yeah, yeah. And then there's some lady that comes in that looks like actually like a cocaine gargoyle of some sort. And then there's some lady that, yeah, that comes in. It looks like actually like a cocaine gargoyle of some sort.

And then, and then there's, but my favorite footage of all is just the buffet. The buffet is just like, you don't want to go back in time. Like I sometimes think like, man, I should have, man, I should have been born at a different time, you know, back when you could get, you know, I don't know what I just imagine like a simpler time, but then, back when you could get, you know, I don't know what I just imagined like a simpler time. But then you look at them like the buffet and you think, she's man, that broccoli looks wet. He's got it all.

That broccoli looks like that broccoli looks wet and it looks like it's been wet for 48 hours. Everything that's on that buffet has had the shit cooked out of it. Yeah. These people were eating some wet salmon. I mean, it's not that much different than now, actually. If you go to one of those kind of because I've catered, if you go to one of those, like those dinners are still like just wet vegetables cooked by angry motherfuckers.

So this is the broccoli and it loses its structural integrity. Yeah. And I've been behind the scenes because they're like everybody in that kitchen is like, fuck these fucking people. I just love 80s cuisine. One thing just looks like a serving dish just full of hot lemons. Yeah, yeah, totally. Hot lemon. I think I'll scoop up some roasted lemons. Yeah.

Dude, I used to work for Playboy, actually, like, and Jamie Loftus and I both overlapped working at Playboy around the same time. And I used to go to the mansion to like shoot stuff because I worked on the video team. That place is the gross, the fucking energy in there is so fucking wild. And for me as a kid, you know, born in the eighties, look, the fucking playboy mentioned the fucking grotto dude. Right. And I went and I was like, this place smells like shitty grandpa house.

It like, it's, it was like, I mean, obviously it's been sold off now and probably close to being demolished or something, but it stunk too. Like it was, you're like, oh, this place was fun 37,000 years ago when, before American people arrived on this continent. Oh my God. Well, you realize that every single man in there is, I mean, anybody who hung out at the Playboy Mansion, they weren't hanging out to hang out with Hef. They were hanging out, hang out with hef They were hanging out like specifically to bother Teenage girls, right? Yeah, I mean they were there like everybody in that video looks a little bit like

Why is there a fucking camera here? I mean there was a little bit of that. They're like who array I mean they were all kind of like Like this is what you but some of the guys are drunk enough or they're drinking like white wine. You know, it's going to be shabbily of some sort out of a humongous barrel. And like everything was labeled shabbily. Even the red wine. Wow.

You want some shabbily? This is red. Yeah. Yeah. Red shabbily. Whatever. Okay. I got to go talk to you.

Anyway, I'm just glad that, you know, someone put a camera in there so people can remember that even though the world's about to end, at least we have like, At least we have that. Less wet buffets. Yeah. We're not serving hot lemons to sex criminals. At least our sex criminal parties are like charred,

have charred broccoli now. Have a charred broccoli rob. And that's real The Caesar salad I guess like I'm wrong though because there are what am I saying? Like there's the parties and stuff They're the same thing. This was just like I Don't know everyone in there looks like they work at all the men look like they work at Radio Shack And all the women look like they they skate for ice capades and it's like it's before a time when like everybody had like a famous interior

decorator doing their millionaire mansion. So it just looks like a house. It looks like a Hampton inn. Yeah, it really does. It looks straight up like a Hampton inn. Serving hot lemons and like awkward sex innuendos from RadioShack guys. What, uh, what's something you think's underrated? Not seeing videos of the playboy mansion from, but thank you.

Has Kaia news for demystifying the playboy mansion and showing it for the foil, the hot foil filled with lemons. Nightmare was, so I would say underrated is that you just say overrated. Uh, let's go underrated first. Chris underrated is my new single vitamin D. It's barely had any time to be underrated though, because it came out last week. Wow. And it came out like maybe, maybe it came out two weeks ago actually,

but the video came out today., but the video came out today Oh the video came out today, and it's a really kind of I think it's a very pretty video it's just me the songs called vitamin D, it's about me being depressed in California and Like they wanted a quote for me about the single my own label and so I said Sleeping all day while the palm trees sway label. And so I said, um, a sleeping all day while the palm trees sway. 2017. I think it might have been 2018 when I wrote it. But anyway, it's a I'm really it's one of my one of my favorite songs and it's in the videos out today. And it's

like a basic basically a sun thing where it's like, it starts out dark and a silhouette of me and then like gradually gets brighter and the lyrics are on the screen, which is nice. I like that. Like you can sort of follow along. Yeah, I'm so glad that's what the vitamin D reference was is gets brighter and the lyrics are on the screen, which is nice. I like that. Like you can sort of follow along. Yeah. I'm so glad that's what the vitamin D reference was is to the sun and not based on your pussy on hold previous. So yeah, we thought this guy didn't like a raunchy sex. Raunchy.

I've come a long way, you know? Yeah. I've, uh, you know, and, and, um, the buffets are better. Buffets are better on this album. Yeah. There's like, you know, um, away the further you get away from peer pressure from Lunkheads, the better the buffets get. But that's not true.

I mean, I was part of those Lunkheads. It was supposed to be a sex joke. You know, I mean, that was like where I was coming from. You know, it was like, oh, fuck, I'm not gonna talk about that. No. But anyway, so underrated. is that what you want? Listen to me. Well, you just told us you're underrated. Yeah, I do just want to shout out that you have a highly rated album on Pitchfork for people.

For listeners who don't know that Chris Crofton is not just a comedian, not just a poet, but an acclaimed singer-songwriter with some great albums that you should check out. Thanks. That's what I was supposed to do. I mean, that was what I was led by. Behind the music led me to believe there was some career. Yeah. So I was planning on that career.

I was going to have a helicopter with my name on it and land at the orange bowl or whatever and get out and like play a couple songs and then head back to Malibu. Yeah. Graceland. No, no, the Playboy Mansion, which I imagine to be a lot nicer than it actually is. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, I, thanks, Jack.

Yeah. This new record is my best record. It was actually finished in 2020. I'm not talking about that my best record. Um, it was actually finished in 2020. I I'm not talking about that a whole lot. I don't, it doesn't matter. I don't think it, it's not, it's meant to be timeless. Like I always write, try and try and write. I mean, I'm not writing of the moment.

Like I'm out of, I don't know what would be of the moment in 2020 anyway, but. Yeah. It came, I finished it January of 2020 and then the pandemic. So you're like, I think Biden's really going to fix this thing. That was, that's one of your songs. I think Biden's got this. Yeah, totally. I think Biden gets it.

Yeah. Oh man. What, uh, what's something you think's overrated? Oh boy. Oh boy. Abundance. Okay. You know about abundance?

Seek on it. I saw you post about this. Oh my abundance. Okay. You know about abundance? See, I saw you post about this. Oh my God. I just realized that abundance isn't just stupid. It's offensive. It is like, when you're talking to the new, yeah, this is the new, like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, like idea that like the democratic party needs to like go more center less like focused on, you know, the issues that have animated them in the past and more about like a sci fi future. Deregulation. Yes.

Like that's deregulation. Which has never swayed us wrong in the past deregulation. I mean, we're in the middle of the biggest deregulation frenzy. We're about to sell off our, our goddamn national monuments. What kind of deregulation are they talking about draining the ocean? I mean, like, I mean, like, you know, the ocean is deregulated in that it exists. I mean, we're tired of it. It's all the idea that they can build housing in like, they can build enough

housing in New York city to make it cheap, which is deranged. That is not correct. There's no, there's only four cities. Everyone in the whole world wants to live in because that's where the jobs are. There's only like, and wherever Oracle decides to put their jobs is where you have to live. So anyway, I just am offended by abundance because it's actually taking up a bunch of space in the middle of a coup. And there's a coup, there's a fucking coup and you're talking about abundance.

I mean, what an offensive thing to do if you're talking about abundance during a coup Where most people have like? You know what which has been proven over and over again. Most people have not enough money for a $400 emergency who People don't want abundance they want fucking the bare minimum People don't want abundance. They want fucking the bare minimum. This should be a movement. I mean, it's just like misreading everything on it's just, it makes me so mad

because it's like, for people who are struggling more than ever right now, or being kidnapped by like a planes, plain clothes vigilante group, the offensiveness of being, you know what, we got an idea to get out of this while you're getting stuffed into a car. Yeah. By a masked alcoholic. Our plan is abundance. How's it sound like?

Not only are you going to get out of jail, but you're also going to get a great house because we're going to build tons of new apartment complexes that are going to solve all this. And it is the most obvious, like, well, what it is to me is it looks like that's that's what's going to happen. Sadly, we're moving on. We're moving on those people who are left behind or got kidnapped. They're out of luck. We're talking about the kidnapping battle. We've lost the messaging around the

kid. And we're talking about for us, we're talking about how do we get the centrist to vote democrat instead of republican, because we're talking about, for us, we're talking about how do we get the centrists to vote Democrat instead of Republican? Because we're going to tell them abundance. That's what's going to happen. Not only are you going to have what you have now, but you're going to have even more of it because we're going to cut regulations more. And those are the Democrats. And Ezra Klein is getting to run around and say this offensive.

That's the thing. I just shifted into like yesterday, realizing that the reason this makes me so mad is it's actually offensive to be talking about abundance. Right now, that that word is not the word he should be saying, you know what, Democrats, if you want to get elected, let's talk about meeting your needs. Let's talk about the basics. Abundance is just like a middle finger to people. I mean, it's, it's just it's not is just like a middle finger to people. I mean, it's so, it's almost-

It's just, it's not, it's like a fig leaf. You know what I mean? Like the real work is in dismantling all this shit that prevents people from experiencing even like a utopian sense of like, like you're saying the bare minimum. Like how are people gonna, you can't say, well, it's abundance, abundance, abundance,

but not really go after sort of structural issues that keep people from having the lives they deserve, because if you're not going to do that, then this is all just fucking nonsense. It's noise. Right. I just can't believe it. I just, I just, it's kind of, it kind of stuns me that someone would pitch. It, I think it's meant to disorient actually.

I think it's like for people who are already disoriented, which is everybody in this country, if whether they know it or not, that like the pitching root deregulation in the middle of it. Is like when it's all because of deregulation is actually a surreal mean trick where people are like, going to be so confused. I don't know what it's like, but I can't think of a metaphor. I think they just had like abundance fest last like a few weeks ago, like they did like a festival for people who are like

excited about this. And it was just like a bunch of centrists jerking each other off. They should just call it rezoning and then people would be considerably less of that'd be a much, you know, be much less exciting op ed. But yeah, it's, it's basically trying to put a revolutionary, like, new, exciting, positive spin on what the Democratic Party has already been doing. Like that center turn, that turn to the center, that idea of like kind of Clintonian, like,

triangulation where you're just like, well, we're going to like, you know, make the business people happy and also like take care of people. But it just, it doesn't seem like it's seriously able to, to do that in any way. It seems like it's just more of the same. Well, it means, it means that they're, they're, they don't intend to address what's happening. That that's the, that's the train pulling away. The abundance train full of bananas and oranges or whatever You conjure in your head with abundance. I can I conjure those hats that are made of oranges

Yeah, like you know what I mean? Like everybody on the train Everybody else just goes to fucking El Salvador and and and and I guess as we're clients driving the train and everybody's like thank goodness For Ezra Klein framing our our luck our luckiness as a social policy. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I was just thinking about that. You know, I mean, I think Hitler was pitching some like really great lifestyle

changes for the people who are not Jewish as well. Right. You know, like, oh boy, oh boy, you're not going to believe what we're going to do with Germany. Well, not for those people, but. But we need our Lebensraum. Yeah. I mean, it's like, it just strikes me as a, it just, it just hit me. It hits me a million different ways to make that make.

Well, I think it's because we're just such at a critical point and we, we know that the democratic establishment elite is trying to completely redirect all this anger, like anti-establishment anger into something. They can just be like, Oh, can we, can we ride this thing again? But Hakeem Jeffries, man, what good luck. Fuck. Yeah. Hakeem Jeffries, man.

What the fuck should we be sound with? Did you hear that thing? And he said, when he said he was going to, I'm sure you guys covered it where he said, like time and place of his choosing. Yeah. That whole thing. That was insane. That was like, we are going to address someone just smacked your mama. What you're of his choosing? Yeah, that whole thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was insane. That was like-

We are going to address it. Someone just smacked your mama. What you gonna do? Oh. That was like world champion. You've already said what I'm gonna do. Oh, I said what I'm gonna do. And that is do something at a time and place of my choosing.

That was gold medal word salad. That was next level. All right, speaking of word salads, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about our president's attempt at social media diplomacy. We'll be right back. Just like great shoes, great books take you places through unforgettable love stories and

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Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And as we talked about yesterday, I mean, on trends, you know, the president thought he had ended the conflict between Israel and Iran, celebrated it with a tweet that was like an award acceptance speech. Yeah. And then immediately, like, they just kept bombing each other. Israel specifically dropped, dropped like all their bombs They were basically like oh, there's a ceasefire coming up. Okay, what can we get done before the officials crammed for this?

Crammed for the ceasefire with yeah as much death and destruction as we possibly I mean I think the moment was that's I mean who knows what's happening has him right now But the thing maybe worth talking about looking back on is that like, there is this other thing, the subtext of him always wanting the Nobel peace prize. Yeah. And this was another moment where he was like, I did it. Peace and love for everyone. You're welcome. God bless you both. Like he literally said, God bless you both Israel, Iran, for giving everyone peace.

And then, you know, once he heard that basically Netanyahu just doesn't give a fuck about what he says, like Netanyahu was like, yeah, whatever, just keep the arms coming, man. Like I'm going to just do whatever the fuck I want to do. Trump really started freaking out. So once he heard that there was going to be this other retaliatory, retaliatory strike from Israel, he just started tweeting all caps Israel. Do not drop the bombs.

If you do, it's a major violation. Bring your pilots home now. Donald J. Trump, president of the United States. He just types all of that out in all caps. What the fuck? Oh, okay. It's like watching someone, it's like kindergarten president,

watch him learn on the job that Israel is not going to do what you tell them to. He's, I say no, I declare. Netanyahu is pretty consistent. If anything, he's going to lie about whatever he needs to, to drag the US into shit and he'll also just, you know, he does whatever the fuck he wants. So then after that, like right after he posted this, like, like a common kid marrow in all caps, he goes out to like the White House lawn because he's

headed to the Hague to turn himself in for crimes against humanity. No, unfortunately, no, that's not what he's going. There's a NATO summit there. Um, and he gave some reporter, the reporter, some insight into really how front, like, I think this, a lot of it's to me, this reads as so frustrated because this guy really thinks he's the fucking peacemaker and chief or some shit. And when he realizes that he has absolutely no control and command zero respect from anybody, this is why I think he gets flustered and drops the bomb.

When I say he says fuck, I'm saying the bomb like this is NBC. This is him basically talking to the press where they're saying. Oh my god, what's happening? You said there's a ceasefire and like Israel like are they breaking in or is Iran doing it? He's like, oh, they're both I'm mad at them both both of my children and this is him talking about all that Israel as soon as we made the deal they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. When I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop

everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. That's probably the most forceful we've ever seen a president be critical of Israel. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right? But it's also like he's just learning who they are and what they do. He's like, I said not to bomb and they did a bomb anyways. What the heck? I said, I would give you more bombs if you bomb. It's also so impressive with their massive loads. Yeah. So into the massive loads part.

Um, and then this is where like, he's about to get on the helicopter. He kind of comes back and just tries to explain, you know, what, what's really going on with these two countries. You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that? Whoa, a jog by a jog. There goes your Nobel Peace Prize, Mr. Donald. I mean, I don't know.

He clearly thought that he was like, and I ate on that one, baby. That was he I don't know. So which to me, it sounded just so frustrated. I don't think he was thinking of like, posterity and like, I'm breaking the convention by saying fuck because he's already broken every single norm that exists at that point. Like, I'm like, yeah, he's probably said fuck a bunch now. But like, it really feels like he's just so precious. He really thought he has some kind of control here. And he does it because he's such an inconsistent and unreliable person to negotiate with in general and just say shit like there's a ceasefire. And Iran's like, what? There is like, I mean, we're I guess we, first of all, you didn't tell us that. Yeah.

And also Israel doesn't seem to listen to anything anyone says, but okay. Yeah. I mean, that would be great if that was true. The fuck they're doing. Okay. Now clean your room. I felt like he had the energy of a kid saying fuck for the first time in front of his parents like that.

It felt like he was building to that. I see like, I just see an impotent, frustrated old man. Yeah. Yeah, I see that too. I see an impotent, frustrated old man. Yeah. Yeah, I see that too. I think, but hey, he contains multitudes. He can be giddy about saying fuck on, on the news. And, you know, it reminds me of, reminds me of when my physics teacher, Mr. Carlson said fuck in class because Jeff Marvin finally drove him insane. Yeah.

I never forgot it because he had that same energy. He's like he was like, you know, he was like, I'm going to do something. It's going to change everything right now. Yeah, I've made a decision, Jeff Marvin. You know, you've driven me too far because Jeff Marvin, Jeff Marvin was just always like fucking around us. Name what's up, man? You should always be like, you always be like, just like these tests are bullshit.

You never use the right. you give us these practice tests They're like the chest is a thousand times harder and these are all bullshit and oh and everything's like he wasn't saying bullshit though He wasn't sorry. He was just saying like this is energy. Yeah, just like yeah, he's just going out Yeah, you give us these tests of the practical. Is this this is like 11th 12th Wow, no, maybe senior year even yeah senior year. Well, it's supposed to be going to college. Why is he so shrill? Yeah, I mean he was just like belligerent, you know, he was a rich kid, you know, I was going to school a bunch of rich kids They were like, you know rich kids are kids. Oh, they're like no, I don't accept that. This is my grade Yeah, no, no, totally. They're like my dad is what you know CEO like all state or whatever and you better watch out and

I have so many stories about the kids I grew up with just telling authority figures just the most offensive shit, you know? And so this guy, Mr. Carlson finally just couldn't take it anymore. And he said, Jeff, why don't you take your things and get the fuck out of here? Oh shit. Wow.

And then the whole class went crazy. Yeah. And then Jeff started going, I will take my fucking books and get the fuck out of here. Because you're a fucking asshole and all this shit. And it was like, in 1986, it was a sort of a bigger deal. And it turns out that was Jeff's dad. Trump's saying that now.

It does not have the same energy. But in 86, that was something. It changed the atmosphere. In 86. You got a thing you know, it didn't change the atmosphere. Yeah. The thing you got to understand about 86 is- There's this guy, Jeff Martin, I went to school with. I did think about saying fucking fucking. Oh man.

So anyway, that, and also like I was thinking about that movie, hyper normalization by Adam Curtis, that documentary that kind of made the rounds a few years ago when people thought they could still think their way out of this. Right. Or you could watch a droll documentary and be like, aha, I wonder, you know, that's what Ezra Klein's still doing. Have you seen hyper normalization, honey? To his wife like runs the Atlantic.

Let's write a honey. Everybody already knows about that. Oh, I guess I'll go back to abundance. But that movie is all about how this intertwined global economy has made it so really nations don't exactly exist. And so everyone's just doesn't know how to there's no through line anymore. I mean, Adam Curtis, he's not infallible. I don't know. But the idea seems right. Yeah, yeah. It's that we are living in an age where nobody knows a narrative, including the people in charge. They don't know what, there's no narrative anymore. Like these narratives are what keep humans in tribes. You know, there's somebody who explains

why we're doing this and that, and there's nobody to do that anymore. Yeah, I think that- There's no authority. I think that documentary is like really a good thing to keep in mind at this point because I do like this. So the thesis that I took away from that documentary is like there's this massive economic system that is like bigger than any nation state and it's like its values are the thing that moves everything forward. Then everybody else is basically in this big global economic, neoliberal system that just like sort of

siphons money and moves it upwards to the richest people. That's what's actually happening. Then all government and all politicians and politics is trailing behind it trying to make sense of it in the old model of how we understood the world before. And I think that is why some people, I think people have a sense of that. And I think that's why some people at least chose a dictator.

They were like, let's go with the strong man. Surely they can't say no to him, right? Surely we'll have like a dictator who can like stand up to this system. And that's what we're seeing right now is him being like, I am the president of the United States and I say stop, everything stops right now. And like, it's just like, that's not happening. That's exactly right.

Yeah, that's not like the promise of his presidency to the people, in addition to like white supremacy and just violence and breaking stuff that like, has been hurting them was like, I'm going to stand up to the system. Like Joe Biden at multiple times during his presidency, like kind of threw up his hands and was like, well, I'm trying to do this, but I can't do the dang thing.

People are like, well, you're the fucking president of the United States and he was like, I don't know, Jack. But this is Trump's Biden moment where he's just like, he can't do anything and he's showing that in a very public way. That I feel like isn't a good look for him and his supporters. But it's- Yeah, but it's. Well, yeah, I mean, but I think he just also doesn't know how, like,

just sort of like the global order functions generally. Yeah. So he's just completely out of his depth. And so he just he literally thinks signing a fucking tweet with all caps, President Donald J. Trump, United States of America, somehow is like the seal in which people are going to be like, ah, yes, it has come from on high. We must now listen to him.

Because at this point, the United States has completely just put all any kind of any global authority they had, just set it on fire completely. It's such a boomer move actually to sign it like that. Like, you know, just be like. That's like your parents signing a text to you. It was like doing that. He's doing the thing where a parent says your name and then parentheses mom and dad.

Yeah. That should put men to it. Or the same thing where like a parent is like, you know, saying, Donald J. Trump, you come in this house right now. You're like, oh shit. The full name? Yeah, this man Oh shit. Yeah. The full name. Oh, okay. Yeah, this is serious.

But again, this whole presidency is unserious and this nation is so unserious as we get into like an era where things need such drastic action to change. That it's like, of course, of course he doesn't know how to maneuver this thing at all, like it, cause he doesn't even understand really how any of it works.

Cause he's just so governed by his own greed. Yeah. Did you see, ever see a clip that was going around just recently of like some boomer talking about how America was the big dog, like about the tariffs. They're like these tariffs, like putting 142% tariffs on China or whatever. And he's like, well, he's like, he was like probably 80, 75. He's like, they're going to have to come to the table. Cause we're the big dog in the yard. Big dogs, big dogs in the yard and they're going to have to, we're in a diaper.

It's like, and you know, it's like everybody there, everybody like shook his head, like sadly, you know, it's like, it's like, it's like no one ever grew up after 1950. Like we won world war two and then everyone decided we were done with all the hard work. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it feels like everyone is, they still think we live in the old world or the old way of doing things. I think that's been so clear since 2020. And it's just not working as much as it used to on people.

Like clearly misinformation, things like that. But like even now when you see people like people who like love CNN and MSNBC, they're like, why are they all for war in Iran right now? This doesn't even make sense. Like, what's wrong with the media? Help the markets? Well, not even that like that from them is just just normal people. They're like, I'm looking at I think enough people saw what happened. And I remember Iraq and they're like, wait, they're doing it again. No, like this. I'm so sure, you know,

it's only once, you know, just came on. You fool me. You're not fooling me again. Can't you fool me? Yeah, that's that's the thing. You know, and I think, again, again, so many of these even levers of control that a lot of politicians believe still work are also just failing at the same time and everyone's just scrambling.

Yeah. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Just like great shoes, great books take you places through unforgettable love stories, and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robay, and this is Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from

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and bestselling author and meat eater founder, Stephen Rinella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say, when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the ice age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come

to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The summer of 1993 was one of the best of my life. I'm journalist Jeff Perlman, and this is Rick Jervis. We were interns at the Nashville Tennessean, but the most unforgettable part? Our roommate, Reggie Payne, from Oakley, sports editor and aspiring rapper. And his stage name?

Sexy Sweat. In 2020, I had a simple idea. Let's find Reggie. We searched everywhere, but Reggie was gone. In February 2020, Reggie was having a diabetic episode. His mom called 911. Police cuffed him face down. He slipped into a coma and died.

I'm like thanking you, but then I see my son's not moving. No headlines, no outrage, just silence. So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos himself. Finally, some good news.

Finally. Yeah, some good news. Kind of actually. Yeah. What? He rented Florence and got married. Shout out pissed off Italian people. No, I was going to say just good news because I can believe in love again.

Oh, oh, yes. After things went south good news because I can believe in love again. Oh, yes. After things went south with that last marriage, he found love again. With that Dan McKenzie. With that Dan McKenzie, this guy find love again with a new person. This is the person that he was caught texting. I love you alive girl. So it's also a sign that, you know, romantic poetry is not dead. He is that now they're getting married in Venice and they were like renting the city. They're like, shut down.

We're going to shut down chunks of your city, which like happened. Like I've been places where like all of a sudden they're like, yeah, you can't come inside this like national park or something because like rich people are here. Recently I saw where some people were getting married like in front of the pyramids in Giza. Yeah. And you're like, what the fuck? Okay, sure. Anyways, him being the third richest person in the world, there was some attention and the people of Venice were not thrilled that their city was being shut down.

There's been kind of a long running sense that the city values rich tourists over the people who actually live there. And so they start there too. Also there. I know you believe it. They've got that issue there. Whoa, hold on. Then wait, you have to go to Venice, Italy to find that clash.

That's like Nashville and they cut down all the cherry trees to, so the NFL draft could have their stage and the whole whole town was like, what are you doing? Those are like historic cherry trees. And they're like, we'll replant them. And then there were some arborists the whole whole town was like, what are you doing? Those are like historic cherry trees. And they're like, we'll replant them. And then there were some arborists like waited and it was like, you can't replant them and they're like, we're still going to do it. We're cutting them down there.

They're like, we're still going to do it. And they're like, no, we're going to do it. We're going to replant them. That's not possible with a cherry tree. Yeah. But that's, we're going to do it. Well, we're saying it is just for the purposes of moving along this conversation. Right. Right.

It's a lot like the global hyper normalization. It's just like, yeah, but that's what we're going to say. We don't need experts to weigh in on this. We're going to plant them. We're not cutting Medicaid. Okay. I don't know where you keep hearing that just because you're reading the bill that we're trying to get votes on right now.

We're not doing that. It's just, you're like, wow that we're trying to get votes on right now. We're not doing that. It's just, you're like, wow, full on authoritarianism. But yeah, the fucking banner they unfurled in like the square it said with Bezos laughing, he said, if you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax. I'm like, yeah. With a picture of Jeff Bezos laughing up ruriously,

and they really caught a bad angle. I think normally he doesn't look like a super villain from Superman But they just must have caught him at a bad angle because yeah, he's more like actually that's what he looks like. Sorry Nevermind. Yeah, he's got like human growth hormone. Mr. Magoo kind of basic bitch to fucking Florence Whatever I mean, that's the thing about these fucking guys. Venice. Venice. Or whatever the hell it is. Venice, Chris. Lawrence, Venice, whatever. I mean, it's the same shit. Like, let's rent a cigar bar.

No, you better not. Let's rent a cigar bar. You better not. You know what I want from my, I'm kind of crazy. You know, I'm kind of a guy who thinks outside the box. You know how I am always about innovation and everything. Yeah. How I decided to make packages go faster.

Well, another thing I thought about was, I'm gonna rent a cigar bar for my fucking bachelor party. No, you know he thought about was I'm going to rent a cigar bar for my fucking bachelor. No, you know, he's going crazy. He's like, we're flying in master cigar rollers from Cuba to roll them fresh right in front of us. He's going to roll them on the casino floor because I think outside the box. Now don't be off put by the fact that they're blindfolded with a bag over their head They just can't see where they are while they're doing that I want I want you guys to experience something wild for the actual ceremony I'm gonna take you to a city where no one's ever been before yo you ever

You ever asked your story you ever asked your stove on the beheaded on a decapitated head of a peasant before oh You gotta fucking try it dude. It was sick party. You probably never even heard of this place. The streets are fucking water. Yeah, you're not going to believe this. I just heard about it. They've got these things called gonbolas. Gon bowling.

Gon fishing. You go in them and it's like a car, and that's where you go on the street. Some protesters were like, we're going to fuck up the we're gonna you know protest we're gonna swim in the canals to block the waterways and It actually worked. They're moving the wedding outside of the city center Protesters are claiming a victory which you know, oh yeah

Oh, yeah, no because they were like all the all these people like 200 billionaires dissent, you know It's like fucking Oprah and shit and he wanted a trumpet. Oh, great free Mick Jagger Ivanka Trump Yeah, I first when I was like that when they said the amount of private jets that were about to hit Venice I was like all the people of Italy you could you could really do something special with all those Important people's jets there in one place. But I'm sure that place is locked down like fucking who knows what. But the way they were talking was like all these

people now booking up the water taxis and all these other modes of transportation to get to the city center for the wedding. So like their whole plan was like, okay, we'll bet you can do that, but we are literally going to block the canals with shit that floats and our bodies. So good fucking luck.

And that was enough of a threat. So I really appreciate that. I really appreciate that. That's great. Well, Chris Crofton, it's a, it's always so wonderful to have you here. Where can people find you, follow you, experience you, all that good stuff? Well, you can come see a premiere, the LA premiere. stuff. Well, you can come see a premiere, the LA premiere. It's only the second time it's shown in, well, in the world of this

documentary about me called Chris Crofton Nashville Famous, directed by my friend Seth Pomeroy. It's showing at the Elysian Theater, Elysian Theater on August 28th, Thursday, August 28th at 930. And Greg Turkington is going to intro it. Uh, Neil Hamburger and my friend. And, um, then, um, it's going to show, I think Saturday, I'm not sure about that, but I'm just going to announce that the LA premiere is going to be at the

Elysian and, and then, um, on that Friday, I'm going to be doing a show at the, um, healing force of the universe records, um, for in honor of my new record, which is, which is coming out on August 15th called I'm Your Man. And, uh, the first singles out, um, it's called vitamin D and, um, it's like one of my favorite songs and, um, you can go on my Instagram and all that. And then also you can go listen to cold brew got me. Like if you want to hear, um, last episode was just me just being so sad. And my brother trying desperately to like, be like, whoa.

Oh, it was just like, it was the night after Iran got bombed. And I was just like, I don't know what the, there's no way forward. And he was like, well, I mean, one way forward is to change the subject. And I was like, I put them in such a bad spot. But then he found this like thing where some like McDonald's tried to launch a smoothie business and then like this guy made some big speech about how going out of business was actually even better than succeeding. Like he made some, the CEO, like he had like AI write him a speech about like AI

write me something where I want something went out of business, but it's actually better. It's like actually a triumph. And so we ended up, so go listen to cold brew got me like the podcast 200, almost 200 episodes. Swish is there work in media you've been enjoying? Yes. And it's a real simple one. And I did my homework this time.

Cause usually this is the part where I go just go to Blair Socky's tweets. Yeah. Which is good too. Go to Blair Socky's tweets. Yeah, go there. You're never gonna be let down by Blair Sockie I'm a big fan and this is the one I found here Just simply by some guy named Alan Detlef debt laugh if you're paying attention at all to the New York City Mayor's race, I hope you can see that the entire project of the Democratic Party is to prevent the left from accessing power. Yeah. I just that's such a beautifully simply put and it's it is that is the project. There is no left. And that election happened last night, but after we recorded this.

So we don't know what the results are, but we'll see. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. I see what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, yeah, that's, that's to me is like, yeah, this is like, I mean, all the

neocons coming out of the woodwork, even Bill Clinton, fucking sex predator endorsing a sex. I mean, it's just like, these people are shameless. Yeah. It's just shameless people. I mean, they're just going after a specific person who has no brain activity going on anymore. They're, Bill Clinton says, okay.

Oh yeah, it's true. I don't know who he's, who is. I'd like to meet who his like endorsement matters to. Yeah, because you can imagine there's some people in their like early thirties who are like, oh shit, Bill Clinton. Waiting for that Clinton endorsement. All right, all right.

Imagine if Clinton, is Clinton too old to run? What if Bill Clinton ran again and he did abundance? Holy shit. Gen Z, don't ever do that. Dude, I'm, I'm wait, I'm keeping my powder dry until I know where Clinton's going with this one. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work at me, dude?

You've been enjoying. Yeah. Find me everywhere at miles of gray. The final episode of miles in check out mad boosties just happened. So tune in for that. Uh, you know, a storied storied run of shows now from damn three years, three damn years, three damn years, wrapping it up forever, wrapping it up forever, wrapping it up forever. There's too much going on in the world.

Can't be fooling around with the likes of the Lakers, not being in the championship, because I will not abide. We'll not abide. We both made a promise that if our teams didn't make it to the championship by the third season, we would quit. Oh, that's good. My team, my team sucks. Shit.

So that's a good out. I mean, that's a good, that's a good way to design it. Uh, also now we have to get married. We had that was also part Yeah, well, whatever where you gonna go Monte Carlo? We're shutting down Venice Beach Okay, I'm the list you guys are gonna believe this Yeah, the Venice canals of Venice Beach area don't want to swim in those but anyway anyway, find us there. Find me talking about 90-day fiancee on 420-day fiancee. A post I like, let's see.

At thorbenson.beastguy.social. Again, there's so much Cuomo, Zorin posting happening. It said me, don't rank Cuomo cashier. Sir, this is a Wendy's in New Orleans Louisiana and then Timothy Simons Timothy C Simon's up these guys are social posted have a great time with the World Cup remember an unidentified masked person can grab you at any time and send you to a foreign gulag and you'll have no chance to defend yourself

anyway buy a ticket bye bye have fun you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at Jack OB the number one. Uh, I'm just going to shout out Hezakaya news. There's a lot of really interesting shit. Hell yeah. Uh, yeah, they've got it broken out by like decades and stuff and just like wild B roll of like Joe Biden giving a speech on drugs and you know, the nineties, just the outfits, incredible primary sources there.

So I spend a lot of time in the pandemic watching has Kaia content. That shit's cool. But that's he's my Netflix. But but but has Kaia. I don't I love like who's submitting like somebody like some one of those like sex criminals. Man, I got some raw footage of the Playboy Mansion. Right. There's just like access to like ABC News B-roll or something like that. I'm going to send it to you in a plain brown box.

That's right. You can find us on Twitter on Blue Sky at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of the episode wherever you listen to it and there you will find the footnotes. Footnotes. Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy.

Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yes, there is. Again, just some nice music. Just look, I was like, I've been listening to some like heavy shit recently, but I'm like, you know what, I need to kind of chill out a little bit. I need some good vibration. So this is a band called Bios Caracas Boys. I'm gonna just go on a limb here and say they're maybe from Caracas, Venezuela. But this track, just really good, really good energy. Just makes me feel good. It's called Por Las Buenas by Bios Caracas Boys. B-I-L-L-O. So check that one out.

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