The Daily Zeitgeist - Clarence Thomas Putting Up NUMBERS, Why Local Politics Matters 08.11.23

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

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Wait for the A24 depiction. Alright, guys. Holy shit. It's a banger. We had to do it to them. Yeah, we had to. Thrilled to be joined by mr cold brew got me like the advice king the poetry window is open because it's chris motherfucking croft hey what's up hell yeah hell yeah all right it's been too long man it's been too long, man. How are you? It's been a long time. Since we left you. I've been all right. I just ran for office.

Yeah. And I lost. What was lost? What'd you learn? Oh, that's part of my whole thing. I mean, it's all I could talk about now. It's like once you've seen the inside of the shark, you know the expression. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Once you see the inside of the shark, you can't stop talking about it. You can't stop talking about the inside of the shark. No, everybody knows that one. Once you see the inside of the shark, you can't stop talking about it. You can't stop talking about the inside of the shark. No, everybody knows that one. So they guys seem the inside of this thing. Let me tell you about it. Yeah. I've seen the inside of the shark.

It's not pretty. Yeah. Yeah. It turns out there's not many people who have that kind of disposition and look at it and go, yeah, yeah. I'm going to stick around for this.

Yeah. It's full of the inside of the shark is full of good candidates that got eaten. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's a little piece of that. But that's just a little taste of the five paragraph essay I'm going to hit you with. Don't worry.

We've cleared the entire schedule. Yeah. Overrated and underrated are both going to be lectures about politics. So hell yeah. Fantastic. Fantastic. Amazing. All right. We're going to get to know you a little bit better. We're going to to be lectures about politics. So, hell yeah. Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. Amazing. All right. We're going to get to know you a little bit better. We're going to hear your

lectures on politics. First, a couple of things we might be talking about today. There's a chance we'll be talking about. High probability we may not make it there. The possibility of a Biden impeachment. Clarence Thomas is just the full roster. The man is putting up numbers oh yeah in terms of

just the trips he's getting oh yeah it's it's beautiful it's beautiful he's he should be on an nba roster the way he's putting up these numbers check him with steve bannon we'll check him with uh fans of the movie sound of freedom are fucking everything up all that plenty more maybe some of that none of that we don't know uh before we find out chris we do like to ask our guests what is something from your search history besides what is the next show time for the sound of freedom well yeah i've seen sound of freedom a bunch of times. It's really, really good. Really good. Yeah, that's the one with Julie Andrews. Vince, you think, man.

Julie Andrews and the kids and everything. Everybody singing and singing. I've seen that quite a few times. It's a great movie. Right. Loosely based. I don't know why. Why'd they put it out again?

Yeah. It's a great question. Anyway, I guess my search history, I don't, you know, at this point, my search histories are just the same thing every time. search history i don't you know i at this point my search histories are just the same thing every time you know it's like abandoned mines and and and abandoned mines and all i do is search for abandoned mines and uh you haven't reached the bottom of abandoned mine content that does it tech that's a good one the bottom of the mind yeah yeah you would think so i mean it's repetitive no i'm looking for a tobacco tin I've never seen before.

You know, a brand. A brand of late 1800s tobacco that has never been seen. Like, oh, tuxedo brand tobacco. Right. That's rare. Or like a horrifically racist depiction of like an indigenous person tobacco company. I don't want to find those fucking things. I want to find nice, regular tobacco tobacco regular old tuxedo tobacco regular old late 1800s non-racist tobacco

which i'm sure there was a ton of oh yeah yeah notoriously unracist late 1800s 19th century tobacco of just a scandal free crop yeah they were making tobacco the old-fashioned way. I don't want to look into it too much, but that's what I believe. It's healthy for you. So, yeah. So I've been like, I guess if there's some, I can't really, this campaign has fried my brain. I mean, I thought that by the time this would be over, first of all, I thought I'd still be in the campaign when I was talking to you guys this time. when I was talking to you guys this time, but I also thought I didn't realize that if I wasn't in the campaign,

that I would be a shell of a human. And then I probably should have scheduled this for like two more weeks from now when I was back in the back of the saying again, but I guess we could talk about this guy from Sarah Gordo, Sarah Gordo. Are you guys familiar with this ghost town? No, no.

Okay. I mean, cause you guys are dealing with real shit. You're not living in not really fantasy land of where you go with band look for tobacco i'm no i'm playing a lot of civilization on nintendo switch so i'm also losing my talking about i was talking about steve bannon is no good for you that's fucking bad you got to talk about old time tobacco tins and you got to not get too deep with them because then you'll get sad about that.

You got to ride the surface. Yeah. Of old abandoned mine culture. So you're you're stepping outside of the abandoned mine into the abandoned mining town. Well, what during the pandemic, this guy who I think and this is about this is deep. This is probably going to be, you know, too deep or too, you know, I think a lot of the people too deep for us no no no deep in a way that's not deep like i'm not implying i'm an intellectual for this uh deep in the way of like insanity you know or just like why am i doing this but this guy named uh i forget his name i don't know his name he's some guy who bought an abandoned ghost town or

abandoned mining town during the pandemic and then he started a channel and he gets so many views he has like 800 000 views a thing a thing but the guy i think is like i think he's manic and i think he bought this i don't find him charming that's the thing is have you ever seen people who are kind of like manic so you see them and you say this person's having some kind of episode but other people it's like bill murray showing up people's birthday parties that's supposed to be funny or something even though it's obviously some kind of aberrant behavior that should be he should be these are cries for help yeah he should be somewhere you know being being analyzed for these this behavior so so i don't that's the example of this sarah gordo guy people

are like this guy's out there doing it but he's like a guy who bought a ghost town you ever seen grizzly man this guy has the same energy as grizzly man oh like he has towns he goes yes and he's constantly going down like in old mine tunnels without just wearing like his street clothes oh just you know what you're prepared yeah yeah and he's like man oh man i've never been this deep i'm just waiting for when he gets swallowed up you know and i don't think any of his fans i think most of his fans are like this guy's amazing i love his casual approach to repelling you know like people i think people are gonna be surprised when this guy dies and it'll be like this huge outpouring of bullshit about oh my god isn't it a tragedy that brad got swallowed up in the right in the silver

mine but he you know i my opinion is this guy's got something wrong with him sure like he's not i mean i think whenever you see something like that i that you're just you like painting the picture of someone doing something that just is like devoid of all the safety equipment necessary to do it like the right way to me sounds like oh yeah like you've made your peace on some level you're like yeah and if i die i don't care honestly because this might be so cool and i don't know if like that's what people are kind of grasping yeah it's like the sarah gordo gold mining channel or whatever it is if we watch this guy he's like he's got I would just say his parents are concerned. Let me put it that way. When everyone thinks this guy's kicking ass in the comments, you know, like, oh my God.

Right. You can, you can, you can check out a whole, you can go, you can go mining in your street clothes. Awesome. You know, outside the box. He's a disruptor. He's fast and break stuff in the world of mine exploration. He's got disruptor. Move fast and break stuff. In the world of mine exploration. He's got, wow, dude, he's got a fucking 1.65 million subs on YouTube.

He's disrupted rope safety. Killing it. He's a rope safety disruptor. He's like, you know, he's got, it's sort of like submersible. You know, it's kind of like Titan submersible kind of energy. But anyway, he's much better natured than, say, Chadwick Rush or whatever his name was. Chad, what's his name? Rush, Stockton Rush. Oh, right, right, right, right.

Yeah, he has better, he's benevolent Stockton Rush. This guy doesn't mean any harm. He just wants to find some old Levi's. Yeah, and it's clear. He's like, there's one dude that's like, I finally found it. And it's like, we found a secret silver stash while metal detecting he also thinks they forgot about some silver like i think a lot of abandoned mine people think that these like 1920s guys were like not thorough and that they're right go down there and be like all right pack it up just leave it leave it yeah

leave it right don't need it don't need the thing that me our co-workers died extracting from the ground they found a bunch of silver and then like couldn't fit all of it in their pockets and they were like all right no we're we're leaving no it's usually abandoned for a good hell no they had those low-paid workers if they were paid or whatever scraping every you know there's no silver down there but anyway he thinks there is but he found some levi's and he i my favorite thing he did was there was a tramway. Like a tramway for the mine. Right, right. Like Indiana Jones

style. That thing that you ride down. Oh, you know about it? I played Donkey Kong. I played Donkey Kong Country. You know about mining. I know about minecarts. Yeah, I didn't realize. I forgot. Everybody's a miner at this point. Of course. Bitcoin and everything. So, I know't realize. I forgot. Everybody's a miner at this point. Of course.

You know, Bitcoin and everything. So I know about this stuff. So I know too much. That's why I got to relax with this mine stuff. So the tramway, you know, it has skip cars on it, as you guys know. I know every mining term. I mean, I know everyone. If there was a way to get dates by telling people mining terms oh hell yeah you don't think you have tom at your wedding right now tom cruise has sarah exactly tom tom tom

cruise has sarah gordo kind of energy it's like the kind of energy people are like tom cruise is inspiring or you're like tom cruise is a fucking god yeah he needs help again so anyway he uh he he walked the tramway. This is when I realized this guy had something wrong with him. So he's like, I'm going to walk the tramway. This is the fabled and also everything's legendary back then. You know, he's like the legendary Cerro Gordo tramway. And I'm like, legendary to who?

No one's even heard of this place until he started this channel. He's like always saying the classic. Oh, of course. I'm going to trace the Cerro Gordo tramway the way people always do, the classic, whatever. Anyway, but he just went in his regular clothes and he almost died. He walked down the side of a mountain. He's like, oh, it's a lot steeper than I thought it was. He was like, he walked down a mountain.

Right, right, right. In this model of scaling Mount Everest, you just wear your regular clothes. Right, right, right. And he went down a hill he's like wow this this hill's almost too steep probably should have wore that probably should have worn my tennies instead of flip-flops this time and he advertises people to come up there and help him out so i also think he's gonna get murdered oh yeah or he's like and he's you know he's also like collaborating because it's like everybody collaborates you know some other

channel comes up there named fred or whatever f It's like some other channel comes up there named Fred or whatever. Fred's crazy channel. And he comes up and they both go down the mine and they both don't know what they're doing. And they're like, look, I think they forgot some silver. Anyway, so Sarah Gordo. It's the top of the 10. If you like this, I just wanted to bring into the conversation that I think that this guy has Bill Murrayray at a birthday party energy okay i'm gonna check out it's like fun for those around him but also he is a danger to himself and the people who are within the hell are you doing here what the hell are you doing

here besides trying to have sex with everybody bill murray shows up at your goddamn wedding you can be damn sure he's trying and wants to have sex with everybody in the wedding right there's no way that's all celebrities want to do they got nothing else to do yeah except trying to have sex with everybody like nothing else to do you've seen it nick nolte sex god nick nolte when he was recording that i've told you this on the story i've told i've been on the daily zeitgeist and told this story about when i was an alcoholic and i went to aa and i said i wanted to be nick nolte in the whole room oh yeah what the hell's going on it was because nick nolte had handlers and i thought that was badass like he was

such an alcoholic that he had to have a team around him and i was like that's what i want i want to be a loose cannon i want to be the hannibal lector of the bar where they just with my mask on anywhere near a sports bar put him on the freaking dolly so yeah the time when nick nolte escaped from uh the hbo horse racing series they were shooting in pennsylvania and he ran away like they they were like where'd he go oh no and he was issued a statewide bulletin he was in a trailer with a man and his wife, and the guy's wife was going to leave her husband for Nick Nolte, and Nick Nolte had a gun pointed at him, and he'd been gone for like 20 minutes.

That's what he gets into. You can't let that kind of charisma loose just anywhere, man. Yeah, I mean, it's because people want celebrities. People want to have sex with them. It doesn't matter. There's just nothing, because there's nothing. They's nothing they just figure why not like what could happen something's but gotta be better than you know what's happening right now yeah i'll get to go to the met gala if i fuck bill murray i'll get to go to the met gala that's the that's the that's the i don't know i don't

think so that's i don't know i don't know what bill told you chris but yeah he lies a lot and don't ask me how i know don't ask me how i know people aren't thinking straight people have sex with celebrities and ask questions later people think the handlers are to protect us from nick nolte but they're actually to protect nick nick nolte from us from us the horny ones you're stuck on this planet with well my friend was on a soap opera when he was like 16 years old and he was like, you know, having group sex and stuff. Your friend was?

My friend was 16 and the guys were coming up to him and saying, you can have sex with my wife because she likes your soap opera and I don't let her have sex with anybody, but you can because you're on a soap opera. And I realized that's her.

If 16 year olds on soap operas are getting offered people's wives, then imagine Bill Murray at a wedding. Yeah. Imagine a million guys If 16 year olds on soap operas are getting offered people's wives, then something, imagine Bill Murray at a wedding. Yeah. He'll be fucking your cake and everybody will be taking pictures. And I'm sorry, Chris, what is sorry about that?

What's something. And this does tie into the political stuff because you, this was your platform. what you've just described the whole Bill Murray fucking a cake beware of famous people don't go into a gold mine in your street clothes Bill Murray will fuck your wedding cake

he's there to fuck your wedding cake he's not there to do whimsical shit you know put rabbit ears behind your head in a photo he's there to do whimsical shit you know put rabbit ears behind your head in a photo america's great he's there to fuck or he's there to fuck a rabbit yeah what is uh what's something you think is overrated what do i think is overrated i think not voting is overrated yeah right not voting here's what's going to happen here people are not going to vote because they think it's a waste of time.

But it turns out that I, as a person who ran for office just now and lost by a number of votes, if I had gotten more votes, I would have won. Right. So it turns out voting

is very important. No matter what fucking Republicans say about it, that's still how we're doing it. That's how it's done. And that's why they're saying it's fake. And that's why they spend all their money. That's the only thing we have. It's the only real thing.

And I'm very susceptible to this shit. You hear enough people on TV talking about something being fake. It can't help but make even the smartest person go. Maybe it's fake. Maybe it's fake. I mean, it's just the power of TV. I mean, everybody grew up with TV being somewhat believable or, you know, depending on. You know how deep you want to go with that, but, you know, originally the TV was pretty straightforward. The news was maybe close to being real.

Like they were just like, you know, I don't know. Everybody in the I don't know what they did back then, what the tv was pretty straightforward the news was maybe close to being real like they were just like you know i don't know everybody in the i don't know what they did back then what the news was but you know it was like sort of connected to what was really happening because there were two parties that were sort of still functioning because they had to be in they had to be doing they were we were on our way to monopoly we were on our way back then we were just baby companies merging so there was still enough companies that it was like there was some legislation to be done like they had to like figure out ways to get these mergers in motion it turns out for the last 50 years all they've

been doing is just merging and merging and merging until now there's no need for policies because it's only like one company so they don't care about it there's no you don't have to maneuver anymore now it's just about tax avoidance right so but for a long time america had a bunch of little companies and they were they needed like uh they were kind of competing like the way it's supposed to be and then and then when there's competition then there's differing opinions and then you need real legislators but you know now we just have like these stunt legislators legislators but you have to i i'm just saying i got 13 000 votes i mean this is all silly i don't know why i'm talking about i should be i should be i should be happy i'm just in shock a little

bit i just ran this campaign i got signs of my name on them right i'm running around town you know i'm telling everybody that it's the end of the world and and and and they're and they're excited to hear it because they're sick of hearing the bullshit. So it was a great experience, and it's not the end of the world. The world is not going to end. We're just going to end up in a bad spot. We're going to end up in a really hot, hot bad spot. And I mean hot like heat, like regular sun.

Right. Yeah, we're just going to end up in a bad spot, and then it's gonna restart and some other kind of people you know bug people or whoever are gonna emerge from the sludge so it's like we're gonna we're just fucking ourselves over by not voting so i'm just saying go fucking vote because the people who vote i mean this is absurd what i'm saying but but i just want to say that I got 13,000 votes. Yeah.

And if I'd gotten 20,000, I would have been in. And if I'd gotten like a few thousand more, I would have made the runoff. Right. My position I was running for council at large was like 15, 20 people running. So, it's like the votes get divided up a lot. Like 13,000 is really good, but it was spread, spread out so much, but 13,000 people voting for me as a first time candidate was an incredible compliment. And I actually started to really want to win because I realized I was

qualified. Also, if you want to run for office, you are qualified. I will tell you right now. And I know that for a fact now i i suspected it but now i know it for a fact yeah if you're a nice person if you're an honest person that's two things that most people aren't in that space yeah so go for it we need surely you had to like get hired by the democratic party and jump through all sorts of hoops to what was the process of from going from I'm not a I'm not a political candidate to I am a political candidate that people can vote for. What was that like? Well. I just I just took his glass.

I went and spoke at that stadium hearing because the because the city of Nashville and now the city of Buffalo, New York, did the same thing. Or New York State did it for Buffalo. They give all the tax money to the NFL because the NFL says if they don't get their stadium paid for, even though they could pay for the stadium and still have massive profits, they could pay for a ton of stadiums. have massive profits they could pay for a ton of stadiums but they just know that the promise of vague promise of economic growth and also just the fact that people like you know in a dystopia people will do anything to keep a football team it's their only joy right you know so they've got this they've got people over a barrel i mean your average person is like i don't want to lose my football team then we got nothing even though should, your average person should say, fuck off, football team. Yeah.

And let's use that money for a decent, for decent bus stops. Right. You know, or whatever. A bus stop that has a roof on it. So you don't sit in the sun while you wait for a bus and a bunch of weeds like in Nashville and humiliated bus stops. Bus stops in Nashville are fucking humiliating. Humiliating.

Because they have all these light up signs that signs that say oh this person's riding the bus okay yes i mean if you all right there's that you guys know you live in a in a in a functioning society in los angeles i mean it's not not perfect debatable it's not but you gotta come to nashville and find out what the you gotta find out you gotta come to nashville and find yourself in a pothole that you're like peering over the side of um yeah anyway it's nashville is a whole nother level of of of idiot like just just corrupt and no no services because there's no taxes there's the other thing i guess i guess i'll say overrated this underrated is taxes hey guess what it turns out if you don't pay any taxes there's's no money. For anything. There's no money to do anything.

It's taxes are not fake. Elections are not fake. We have to get on board with this. And I'm reporting from inside. The shark. Inside the shark. I saw it. Inside the pothole.

It's full of sad people waiting for doctor visits. It's a shark full of lottery tickets. I'm just doing some poetry now beautiful a shark full of lottery tickets is america and america is a is a flapping flavorless oh sorry that was just there's more poetry um yeah yeah yeah yeah got points from us on that we're suckers for alliteration. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got points from us on that. By the way. We're suckers for alliteration. So anyway, the thing is all you have to do to run is you file some paperwork. And I just decided I was going to run. I went down to the election commission.

You get like 50, 75 signatures or whatever it is. And then you're on the ballot. And then you start an ActBlue account, which is a – well, if you're the progressive like yeah money hoovering operation i hate that expression it's like i just hate all the they should just say normal progressive is normal or hateful and the other is like hate group yeah there's only two yeah hey do you like human rights yeah or backwards or forwards or violence or no violence those are better names for these parties yeah so yeah so chris i gotta just i like how you said how you went from being like i don't know if i can do this shit to very much like no you have to

and i know this happens a lot like when you enter like in politics because there's this fucking mythological presence around what it means to run for office or the kind of people that run for office what was that moment when you went oh shit it's a everyone's a fucking joker in here the first time i went to a mayoral forum my friend lizzie cooperman you guys know lizzie cooperman she's like are you gonna be saying mayoral like as much you keep saying she's like you say mayoral like i don't know if i can be friends with you if you're gonna say mayoral this much yeah she has a good point but for the purposes of this show i have to you say mayoral. Like, I don't know if I can be friends with you if you're going to say mayoral this much. She has a good point. But for the purposes of this show, I have to say it.

Mayoral. Mayoral. Mayoral forums are where the candidates for mayor here in Nashville get together and are asked questions. And once I got in the race, I had to start going to these events just to make myself known. You have to become a known quantity to these people. And I had some head start with that because of the advice column. Right. And the book. So people in this town, and also just like, you know,

my previous life as a person who just, you know, fucking said dirty. Rocked a thousand crowds. Yeah, rocked, punk rocked, dirty shit person, whatever. Man about town. I don't know. Yeah. Crazy person. Right. Crazy guy. Oh, punk rock. Oh, he's rude. dirty shit person whatever man about town i don't even person is yeah crazy person right crazy guy oh punk rock oh he's rude oh he's rude and crazy and that's how you revolt by being drunk as fuck

on anhyzer bush products that's revolution is being asleep all the time with like four cigarettes in your mouth that's how you fight the system. I mean, that is kind of impressive. Sleep on the floor with a cigarette in your ass. That's revolution. No, so like that was the old self where I thought revolution was accomplished by being belligerent. Sure. And burning bridges. Like that's the funniest thing is you have to build bridges.

Revolution is building bridges, not burning them with tax dollars yeah wait so what happened at the mayoral forum this show's gonna be rough uh it's my fault too that's my fault that's why we're the hosts and you're the guest i drank cold brew i drank a lot of it i just did it now the way i saw you looking down the barrel of that cup when you were drinking the cold brew, I was like, this guy is seeing like stars. Like he's going like speed in Star Wars. It's not necessarily the best thing to do a level-headed political conversation and drink cold brew at the same time. So the Merrill Forum, I was just like, oh, my God. There were like 15 people up there.

Some of them were like completely nuts, like absolutely nuts, you know. And then some were like had zero charisma. And then there were like two that like one that knew a lot of stuff. And then, but I mean, it was not, I was immediately like, my first thought was, you guys, was why the hell am i running for city council why aren't i running for mayor like far from being far from being intimidated i was just like this is what we're choosing from right right yeah and that's when you get into these people are to run for mayor you need a ton of money a significant amount of money and people are not investing in like bold independent people you know what i mean people are

they're they're they want their candidate to be the kind of person who has no friends because then you give them one cigar and it's the greatest experience this candidate's ever had in his life you know what i mean you can some misfit in there like one golf trip around by that cigar one yeah one golf club that has his name engraved on it. Remember that Kobe by the way? Yeah, you can drill in the wildlife refuge. Oh my God, no one's ever given me a gift before. This is the first time I've been in a room with more than four people in it.

Did people come to you? I'd imagine you're pretty clear that you're not like a party man. But did you get approached by any like political operatives, insiders? Yes, just a little bit. But I mean, I'm not I don't have enough power at this. I mean, I wasn't enough of a known quantity to really get bothered. bothered so i just got like people who are some some billionaire startup thing that's trying to get you to use their app and those guys that were working for it were okay and they were trying i think maybe they were trying to do the right thing but i was just like this sounds like they're like our our billionaire benefactor is just sick of politics the way they are and it's like already i'm just like yeah that's not a real a real thing. Billionaires don't care about anything. So that I'm already out.

And then you're like, no, no, you know, I'm not a white supremacist. Right. They're like, oh, oh, OK. Sorry. Sorry. Oh, never mind. Sorry. Sorry.

I actually think these were nice people. I think they thought that their billionaire overlord actually was like a guy who's had it with partisan politics well i don't this is happening in entertainment too where i've heard tell now like a few billionaire like scion types who have all this money because their parents fucked up business and like they want to subvert that like with their billions of dollars but they kind of don't know where to start and it is a little interesting thing where you see these people like, look, I know I have like this money comes from fucking death ships, but yeah, I want to make sure Trump isn't president and make some cool stuff along the

way. So I feel like you can, you definitely, there, there is that kind of like billionaire with, with a form, like a very infant or a very newborn form of consciousness coming online. I might be.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm so unsympathetic to those people. Like, I can't even believe, you know, I have no sympathy. Oh, your empire. You're finally realizing like, oh, you're coming to some, you know, you're starting to, you know, understand the, you know, like you're just going to give a little bit of your, give all your money back then.

Give it all back. Give it all the fucking, go, go you're just going to give a little bit of your, give all your money back then. Give it all back. Give it all the fucking, go start the world's largest food pantry. Throw away all your money. Get ready, you know, get out of here. I'm starting to feel like maybe. Fuck off. Yeah.

So, you know, I'm not interested in slowly waking up billionaires. No, no, not at all. I'm sleepy eyed. Oh oh i think maybe we did bad things like fuck you you fucking oh maybe maybe playing polo is not helpful maybe playing polo in dubai is actually quite shallow so i yeah i got the cert i got the certification i mean i i i went and i i did the signatures and then i started my bank account i had to file a little bit of paperwork which is a pain in the ass i mean it was like a bunch of stuff i didn't want to do

certainly i mean like there was some paperwork that almost drove me insane like me uploading uploading a fucking spreadsheet into a portal i mean that was like i mean for someone who's 54 years old that's like you know why don't you just fucking jump out the fucking window i mean this is the fucking worst thing i've ever seen in my life i mean that was excruciating yeah hold on hold that thought we're gonna take a quick break we're gonna come back and talk about spreadsheets. Okay. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life.

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And back to the portal and the spreadsheet. So, yeah. So, at 3 a.m. last Friday, like, not Friday, but the Friday before, the election was last Thursday. So, I lost last Thursday. And also, nobody votes. So, it took them, like, five minutes to count the votes. It was like election night. Wow.

15% of registered voters in Nashville vote in the mayoral race. Wow. But everybody complains about the result. Yeah. Got to focus. And 15%. And I'm here to tell you, the fact that nobody voted, it's not like a bunch of fake votes came from somewhere. There was just like everybody got four votes.

It took them like five minutes to count them. And I found out I lost in like 45 minutes. I was expecting a long night. You're like, here we go. This is all unknown to me. I know politics. I know where my heart is, and I understand the big stuff. But I thought, oh, election night is where you watch TV for four hours, and the returns come in slowly.

It was literally an hour and 15 minutes. They're like, you lost. All right. They're like, all right. Zulfat Suara took the majority of votes. Okay. Okay. I know Zulfat.

I like Zulfat a lot. There you go. She's a good one. Got the most votes. And Delicia Porterfield is great. And she was a big help to me. How about Berkeley Allen? Berkeley Allen is not so much a favorite of mine.

Okay. She's, I guess, what you would call a centrist who's interested in more police. Oh, okay. You know, it's like that kind of thing. There's like two parties. What about Russ Pulley? That's a fun name. He's also sort of a centrist guy.

My favorites, I might as well say, who cares? I mean, I don't know, you know, most people who, first of all, thanks to the Daily Zeitgeist. Thanks to the Zeitgang. I got campaign donations from freaking, well, not campaign donations, but people, I got support from Sweden. I got campaign donations from Sweden. That's illegal. That's interesting. What'd you do with them?

I bought a windsurf. I couldn't, anyway, I bought a windsurf. That's cold brew. I bought a windsurf. Anyway, I bought a windsurf. That's cold brew. I bought a windsurf. You're welcome, Daily Zeit. Guys, thank you. I bought a windsurf. So Zeitgang was very helpful to me.

Nice. People donated. I mean, seriously, you guys have a network of very kind people who like your show. I feel like at home among those people, and it's it's it's i feel like at home among those people and it's because they're good people and um you guys should be proud of that because they really helped me and they were like everybody's like i wish i was there i could vote for you i wish i was in nashville i could vote for you you know i mean just like telling their friends to vote for me in nashville and then you showed them some like VPN kind of routes that they could use to

actually vote for you, right? I don't know what a VPN is. Is that a vape pen? Alright. I just wanted to get that on the record so nobody would accuse you of any sort of election nefarity. No fuckery.

The ones that I like for the race, because there's a runoff now, and the ones I like are well, Zat already got in delicia quinn evans seagal and um i forget if there's a third one i mean there's not a bunch of people got in that i don't i mean one guy got in from just putting up signs in illegal spots that's a good thing to know is like you know it's also just the sad part of this is even if you get involved if i found out that incumbents the reason incumbents never get voted out is because people just vote for the most famous person yeah it's name recognition yeah it's it's name recognition to a point where I thought I didn't understand how much. No, it's really absurd how it's truly you can be you could be a manila envelope with a like a legal first and last name.

And if you have the right like air power game to just flood the fucking zone with TV or any other kind of advertising, he'll be like, yeah, yeah, I think I'm voting for Herb Pullman. They're like, that's a that's a manila envelope. It's not even a real person like i don't know i just it seems well that's like that yeah that's like that monty python bit with the fucking grapefruit that they put the grapefruit in the glass box and people come look at it because the grapefruit from tv but but yeah it was it was really stunning to me that that like alice raleigh the one who's like freddie mccon McConnell is going to be the mayor if everyone votes in the runoff. And he's great.

And I've known him since 2004 when I had my crazy radio show, Best of Bread, which I actually pitched to you guys as a podcast. Yeah. And I never heard back. The C-suite, they were a little bit uncomfortable by the content. Yeah, yeah.

Like you switched servers or something, it said, when I got sent the email. So Mailer Damon. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. They said, yeah,

but best of bread used to be right next to Freddie's radio show, which was called liberal radio in like 2005. And so I've known him since he had dreadlocks and more like those necklaces. You could buy at a gas station that have like some kind of like kind of Dave Grohl wears. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Those gas station necklaces. Wait, what's a station that have like some kind of like the kind of dave grohl wears yeah you know what i'm talking about those gas station necklaces wait what's a gas station necklace you know those like those like thong things like you go to like it's a way to

look like you're artsy like in in like rural alabama or whatever you buy like a you buy like a leather thong at the gas station it has like a little symbol on whoa wait this white guy had dreadlocks yeah yeah yeah and that's gonna be the mayor well yeah i guess and we love it i think it means like you know how there's like a way it's kind of like juggalos you know it's like it's like trying to be alternative or different in a sure sure in like a like there's a live bait store and for some reason they sell necklaces that have like a yin yang on them yeah that kind of thing like and you're like i'm not with this crowd help you know what i mean right like i don't want live baits i want you know i want art i want i want woodstock 99 you know something like i'm an artist i'm an artist and i'm stuck in live bait world yeah

so he wore one of those because everybody from nashville is like from rural tennessee right so they come to nashville and they're still wearing their like wherever freddy's gonna kill me i don't know where freddy's from but he was still wearing his like country skateboarder kind of outfit you know like with dreadlocks like right now with dreadlocks like that's not unusual you know yeah like with dreadlocks, like white men with dreadlocks. Like that's not unusual. Just letting you know. Yeah, like people like, you know, in a coffee house or smoking like clove cigarettes in like Decatur, Georgia or whatever. Yeah. You know, people are trying to like make a name for themselves. They come to Nashville, then they get straightened out.

Someone says, white man with dreadlocks. Right. You know, get those off of your head. I mean, you're in Nashville now. Freddie, yeah. It's a good idea to lose those. You're in Nashville now. What are you it's a good good idea to lose those you're a nashville now what are you doing wearing a yin yang necklace well that's supposed to mean i'm

nice and i don't like live bait well not around here you look like a fool so anyway he he he he's now has short hair and he doesn't wear anyway he has short hair now and he's a vote for him and he and he is rules and he's great and he's my friend and i've known him forever and that's gonna be mayor and you're endorsing him you're endorsing him for mayor yes i did right away they asked me oh if anyone wants to check out a really action-packed interview just google chris crofton at large q a because i said what i just wanted to say about nashville people keep these politicians that are liars keep saying that people are coming to nashville because they like music or something people are coming to Nashville because they like music or something.

People are coming to Nashville because there's no fucking income tax. This is a tax haven. Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Idaho, and Alaska are the only states with income tax. So if any conservative tries to tell you, conservative, whatever, mean person, anybody, anyway, any conservative says they're moving somewhere for freedom and it happens to be one of those five places it means freedom from taxes and it means that they're having to tighten their belts like everybody else because even rich people aren't rich anymore because of these billionaires super people yeah they're fucking it up for their regular coming to nashville not because they like that oh nashville's so unique and fun no they're here just to avoid taxes and they're trying just to avoid taxes.

Right. And they're trying to make this town over with stadiums because that's what they recognize. All they want is the Dave Matthews Band and the Titans. Yeah. They don't want any art. What is art to rich people? It just annoys them. It's like if you've ever been to a stand-up show where rich people go and they're just like immediately getting raged.

Because they're like, I thought I liked stand-up. They don't know what it is because they think it's like, is political it's like why aren't they punching down on immigrants that's what i thought stand-up comedy rich people do not like art good art is all about politics well they like art in the context of it's a good way to sort of shield yourself from taxes by you know putting your money in art like tangible oh yeah buying like damien let's not forget about that yeah they love that part of art yeah some frozen shark or whatever we do see we have seen like in the past week even in ohio like good voter turnout when a thing becomes like a national issue like a story nationally but local elections like where where could people have like learned more about their local election like where is the information because there's no more local media right so like where were you getting

the word out that people should vote like was it just local like advertising were you like signs like what we're like where is there nashville still is i've got buttons made i got buttons made and and that was the first thing i did because that's so much fun to me that was the most fun part about running was making a button design yeah i mean just old school you know buttons like more fun than business cards people are giving me business cards it's like who wants a business card that's just something you put in your car and just clean out six months later you know that that that the button people were excited to have it like you know they just wanted a button and and and my friend larissa designed them they look like jfk

buttons she based it on that design jfk and uh you know obviously it's not the same but but uh you really luckily in nashville we have the nashville scene which is like the la weekly except it's okay it's still surviving here you know it's still and it's and it, except it's still surviving here. It's still an indie thing, yeah. And it's got a great, and that's where I wrote my advice column. So they did a lot of coverage. So that was helpful. Like my interview, people said they voted for me just based on that interview.

And I really recommend that people go Google it because it was just, it's not, I'm not not hopeful. I'm just trying to say, you know, when you look at, yeah, when you look at things and you have have people saying that this is social this is like some kind of moral moral decay that's causing this it's a hundred percent economic it's a hundred percent economic and even the racists you want those motherfuckers somewhere playing darts and drunk on natty ice you don't want them loose and worried you don't want them worrying

about where their next paycheck is coming from right and that's that expression poverty is the ultimate radicalizer whether the poor person is a nice person or a racist you do not want them fucking poor person fuck anybody you do not want anybody nervous. A cornered animal is what we're dealing with most of America at this point. And maybe you lash out by giving someone a hug or maybe you lash out

by demonizing transgender people, but everybody's reacting in like these crazy instinctive ways that you, how you react when you have a thousand dollars in your bank account and you have four kids or whatever. I mean, it makes people reactionary. Yeah and in my case it's like i don't have any kids so i

can be like my reaction is going to be love but but that's because i just can't i have that ability because i have no kids like if you have kids like you i'm just saying that everybody deals with this kind of stress differently and um you just don't want people to be at their worst which is what america is making people now you know yeah but i i just think that my my message was simply like people are moving to nashville because they're avoiding taxes all this chaos is because there's no middle class stop listening to people saying stuff about fucking immigrants and transgender people for god's sake because that's exactly what the nazis did fucking germany was an economic wreck and then some idiot came along and started saying that the reason why was because of fucking jews and yeah

and it worked because people were crazy yeah yeah people were crazy in germany at that time fucking money you had you had a ton of veterans from the First World War who were unemployed and angry and looking for something to do. And then you have somebody come along with an explanation for why their situation is that. And, you know, that's what they say. Yes. And that's where we're at. I think that's where we're at. And I think we've been at that point for a while now.

But the media relies on this both sides stuff. But there is no more Republican Party. I'm not saying the Republicans all know that or the people who follow the Republican Party are all bad. I'm not even saying that, but I'm just saying that they are mistaken. They're being misled. The Republicans are there to destroy the government. That's all they're trying to do at this point noam chomsky said that the republicans have been an insurrectionary party since the early 1970s we're just at the basically completion point of that they don't stand for anything except for corporate power so really and then once they start saying hate stuff they should just be off the they should be treated like what they are they're a fringe group at this point unfortunately they're half the fucking country anyway i said stuff like that yeah and you know but but this is the thing is it's like i said it that emphatically

yeah and and i think 10 years ago when things were pretty much the same anytime post citizens united i would argue has been a fascist situation and even before that i mean this is the capitalism late capitalism capitalism evolves to fascism through monopoly that's just what it does i mean yeah it's it's designed that way i mean fascism is the end point because that's you just keep eating stuff until you're one thing i mean it's like merging and merging and eating and eating until you start eating your own country your people you start eating labor you cut costs that way you anyway people were ready to hear it and they were like thank you because people are tired of hearing this msnbc fox news dichotomy and yeah they're tired of this both

side stuff but i understand the media is in a bad spot because they don't know how to even if they're just like they do know it's it's just that it's it's just gonna it every all of our problems are just solved by abandoning the old ways really of like of what we've been doing because like to your point we're so over invested in ideologies and ways of treating each other or the economy that the end point will always just be like self-immolation like just self-destruction and yeah we're i think credit to you, right? Like the reason people are ready to hear it, and I think that's why this is going to be a process,

I think for any candidate who is speaking truth to power consistently, it is appealing to a lot of people, but more people are just slowly, I think, really understanding that it's like, yeah, man, every time these fucking losers come and ask for a vote, they keep suggesting the same fucking way out. And that's why like it's it is even wearing thin on a lot of people to that to hear someone say something that is completely like antithetical to that while also sort of centering people's

needs, working people's needs and quality of life and things like that, just as is a much more appealing platform than someone going on doing like scaremongering around, you know, LGBTQ people are saying that like the earth isn't burning down. Right. You know, that's that's what we're so desperately in need of is just to hear things that are completely that are, you know, diametrically opposed to the status quo. But I think over time, it's it is going to catch. I mean, you see it with how many more people are understanding, like that these craven, like cynical bills like that were in Ohio aren't to do X, Y or Z. But it's because they say we want to actually cement minority rule.

And I think the more people are able to see that, you know, I think I think you'll experience more success down the road for sure. If you continue, if you decide to continue to pursue, I'm enthusiastic always, you know, about whatever it is, you know, I think it's really also voting for people who have energy that is not, you don't want low energy people. And I don't mean low energy necessarily. I'm high energy. I sleep like 14 hours a day. So I don't mean like, I don't mean like,

I don't mean it has to be someone who's literally like high energy i sleep like 14 hours a day so i don't mean like i don't mean like i don't mean it has to be someone who's literally like high energy because that can be a frightening aspect that's narcissism you know narcissists have tons of energy you know check out donald trump he's got tons more energy than me and that does that's not good you know but but but energy in the sense that you don't want to get, I understand we're up against some bad stuff, but we are stuck here. There's no other world to be in. We have to be here and we have to keep fighting so we can go, so we can have for our kids. I don't have kids, but just for kids. So there's a freaking world and they get to have fun too because we got to have fun.

I mean, we're all in our sixties and we've had good lives. Just the thing about like us being stuck here that like they, they discovered that Mars is like atmosphere. Like the, the dust on Mars is like deadly poisonous to humans. Like, it's just, it's a wrap on that idea.

Like we're never going to be able to colonize mars they discovered that like 10 years ago and they there's like a story today where they're like there's actually seasons on mars and that could actually make it like pretty neat 10 years ago it's an it's a complete wrap people really going to have really don't want to vote no yeah exactly they just want they're like cyanide dust clouds swirling around yeah yeah i don't know but i mean i figure we could find a helmet maybe during the fall it would be nice how about looking into voting yeah i'd rather not i'd rather see i think the season's on mars probably how about you fucking vote all right let's take a quick break

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on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast and we're back we're back and pro publica you know they keep dropping albums lps on us this is this is kind of their most complete vision concept album the the bribery lp on yeah thomas it's uh it's the pro publica is is pro-publican. That's for sure, because they have even more evidence that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was just he's just been getting flewed out like some I.G. sugar baby around the globe for billionaires pleasure, basically, so they could also access the Supreme Court. pleasure basically so they could also access the supreme court and we knew about the horatio alger situation and how like you know like once he once he became a supreme court justice he entered this association and immediately like it's like a two hundred thousand dollar to join group of wealthy people who essentially just want access to very powerful people in our government. And we also knew about Harlan nodding to Nazis Crow, but now

we get an idea of... Just likes their dinnerware. Just think it's a cool thing to have because it's such a weird time on Earth. I also need to unburden myself of the money that I have. Everyone normal has a sculpture garden of the world's most famous dictators. Of course.

Have you seen my Pol Pot teapot?'s fucking it's whimsical but anyway what pro public is saying is like this guy has been accepting gifts like none other like they can't even find anything they said quote at least 38 destination vacations including a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the bahamas 26 private jet flights plus an additional eight by helicopter a a dozen VIP passes to professional and college sporting events typically perched in the skybox, two stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica, and one standing invitation to an Uber exclusive golf club overlooking the Atlantic

coast. These gifts include contributors like from people from the fossil fuel industry, someone from like Berkshire Hathaway. And we also found out that Thomas also gives access to the Horatio Alger Foundation or Association basically for fundraisers. Like they can have fundraisers like in the Supreme Court because Clarence Thomas is like, yeah, yeah, like I can I can I can arrange that for you. In the Supreme Court? Like in one of the buildings like around there, like's unbelievable you can try on the robes bang the gavels they're 1500 plate dinners if you're a member of the horatio auger thing if you're a guest it's it's something like 10 000 or like nine thousand dollars so you know one guy card absolutely yeah

one guy they pointed out basically bankrolled the thomas's like summer vacations for a fucking decade and these aren't just some like oh it was a large group of people you know i don't know it was like a junket type trips like no they're talking about like how specifically one donor's like i really liked it you know like i went to school in nebraska see this, like not the University of Nebraska football team. And I was like, what the fuck? Why are you going to see this like off brand Nebraska football team? And then also like other parties were like people who were like fawning over Clarence Thomas, like a guy and his wife serenaded him with like an original song.

Like, no. Yeah. Goofy. Damn it. How do we not have video of that? Yeah, I know. Right. Yeah, goofy shit.

God damn it. How do we not have video of that? Yeah, I know, right? Again, Thomas is smart, though, in the sense that the companies associated with these billionaires didn't have business in front of the court, you know, explicitly. But they work in industries where the Supreme Court decisions have huge implications on the company's bottom line. And at that point, I think most people are people like okay have haven't we seen enough here like this has been the most billionaire friendly like run of supreme court of the supreme court and like this he's one of the people who presided over citizens united like that that was five four he didn't recuse himself from that basically made corporations

infinitely powerful it's like one of the most impactful decisions the last, I don't know, but fucking... Long time. The reason that we have the corporate kleptocracy we have now didn't make any sense at the time, hasn't made sense since then, completely destroyed any attempt at, like,

you know, keeping billionaires from controlling political power and now we're learning the entire time he was being like just taken care of yeah by titan by the people who've most benefited from that like it's just the most like one-to-one connection of bribery into action that i can think of like yeah citizens united like decision at the time everyone was like what the fuck like but this shit like doesn't make sense like if you if your goal is to preside over a functioning civilization like this you are correct doesn't make sense doesn't make any sense but yeah like people yeah well but he didn't explicitly, like, say these people's names in any ruling.

So we're OK. You guys are painting like Barack Obama as some like nation of Islam doom prophet because of like one time he went to a church with somebody. Right. Yeah. But this guy is getting fucking finger popped on yachts by billionaires and they're acting like oh i mean it's it's not they didn't have any explicit business in front of the court that's not the point it's all about this soft power that there is no everybody there's only every company is owned by another company that's owned by another company that has business before the court i mean the idea like oh nabisco

doesn't have any business before the court yeah but vi but Viacom that owns Nabisco or, you know, I mean, it's like there is no company that isn't partially owned by a hedge fund. I mean, the idea that the brand name isn't like we didn't make a ruling on Nabisco, like saying, like, Jesus could be bigger. Right. Like we, you know, the idea that any of these companies are independent or that they could say that, oh'm just being friendly this billionaire has no business ties yeah right we didn't make a ruling directly on cheez-its we just made it possible for cheez-its to bankroll the entire next election like yeah i just the idea that like people are like well they didn't have any business in front of the court i mean it's just like that's fucking crazy do some googling and find out well it's like yeah it's like it's same thing when you look at like berkshire hathaway it's like well berkshire hathaway didn't have business in front of the

court it's like yeah but they like fully own like materials and construction businesses and jewelers and all these other companies but again this is just sort of like just this inability to just cross that bridge or at least the media is unable to just be like this is so fucking foul like there's there's no way you can defend any of this shit especially when he was saying he was so duplicitous in the shit that he said where he was like you know like i left a clarence thomas has said like you know trying to pat himself on the back he's like you know i actually i actually said goodbye to actually making a lot of money and accumulating wealth because i decided to sit on the court because it's about the principle of the thing cut to you doing all this fucking fancy shit

with all these billionaires and already getting all your bills fucking paid etc then this again can i imagine this is only a probably a fraction of what's going on clarence thomas obviously has no personality he looks like he looks about as fun as don't even know, he looks like a bookend. He looks like an angry bookend. His eyeballs look so mad all the time. And then he goes on these...

He's obviously on these trips. He's obviously an object. He's a Supreme Court justice. None of these people are his real friends. Can you imagine how much of a loser you have to be to go on a fishing trip with a guy or a woman who is using you as a fucking device and having a nice time? Oh, this is so fun. And they're like. This is what it's all about.

Dance for me. Dance for me. Oh, my God. We're going to be able to take over the world because it's this kind of person. Like, they give him a fishing rod that has his name on it. Watch this. We're going to be able to take over the world because it's this kind of person. They give him a fishing rod that has his name on it. Watch this. We're going to sing him a song. An original little ditty. That is wild. They give him a bowling shirt

that says, here comes the judge on it. And he's like, I'll throw whatever you want. I would have no friends if it weren't for this. Imagine having fun on a fishing trip where you are obviously being taken advantage of or any of these things. He's just going around on on planes being like there's something dramatically wrong with the person well that's why you couldn't do it and someone like a shell of a human who's only chasing material

comfort or this image of power is completely fine being a total instrument right of the billionaire class because in his mind he's like i don't know i get to see these like weird division two ncaa games yeah exactly yes it was yes and like have and somehow have fun knowing that you're an absolute you're being used like on that level and you still have fun right yeah oh this is a pretty game, even though I'm like ruining the world. Like, oh, I'm ruining democracy. But man, oh, man, I'm courtside. Yeah. I'm ruining democracy. So courtside. Alice Raleigh, the person who came in second to Freddie McConnell in the Nashville mayor's race and is now in the runoff.

She was one of those people. Her only she was she was a she's an ill-tempered person who only her only platform is like privatizing public schools and the usual stuff like i mean stuff that she read on a cereal box of like you know fascist wheaties or whatever you know i like that you i like how she's cashing in on the fact that she was a private a public school teacher to be like and that's why it's bad well anyway she is yeah so she is like this charmless person who was not even there's this other guy named Matt Wilshire, who I did not want to win, but at least he campaigned hard. He's also a guy who he posed at the site of the new juvenile detention center that's being built. And he was like, I'm investing in the youth of Nashville. That was surreal. Like, unbelievable.

Like dog whistles. Like he made it sound like it was a community center. It was like a, it was a juvenile jail. He's like, this will be a building that will give young people a chance. Anyway, total craziness.

But Matt Wilshire, at least put the work in Alice Raleigh came in second because some guys, an actual hedge fund guy who looks like, I don't know, a cartoon villain. Like, you know, some guy was like a X lacrosse captain. Who's like, got some't know, a cartoon villain. Some guy who's like an ex-lacrosse captain

who's got some tortoiseshell glasses because now he's a financier or whatever. He bought ads for her at the last minute on television and she came in second. Out of fucking nowhere. Right. Out of fucking nowhere. Yeah.

So all you need is money plus a moron and you have got the Supreme Court or you've got a second place finisher in the mayor's race. And no offense to Alice Raleigh. I don't know who she is. I don't know anything about her. I know that she has not run a campaign that has been anything except for hostile and weird. And like all she wants is more police, which, of course, is I mean, which is just bouncers. Police are just bouncers for the billionaires yacht club.

Remember that police are there to crack heads at just bouncers for the billionaire's yacht club. Remember that. Police are there to crack heads at the gate of the billionaire's fucking yacht club that's got the Supreme Court in there, you know, wearing his captain's hat that says to judge on it. You know, well, Chris, as always, such a pleasure having you. That was it? That was it? I thought we had a couple of hours. We got two minutes. That'll be for the Patreon.

Yeah. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Well, you can follow me on Cold Brew Got Me Like the Show. And it's me and my brother talking about stuff like this. And the last episode was me right after the election loss. So it's pretty sad. I'm like, I couldn't even be anything. I was like, yeah, well, cold brew didn't work.

My last episode cold brew did not work. I mean, it's seriously, you can, you cannot lose an election. Cold brew will not solve that. Right. Right. So cold brew got me like the show. Uh, you can follow me on Instagram. You can follow me on Twitter and, um, go buy my book, the advice King, or go listen to

my record. Uh, Hello, It's Me. And I think that's all the stuff I need to promote. I know I forgot something, but that's okay. Amazing. And is there a work in media you've been enjoying? Oh, yeah. You know what I follow? I follow this channel called Channel.

Jesus Christ. Channel. It's okay. Actually, Channel's making a comeback. I've heard media execs talking about actually pronounced chanel i'm a young man following channels i follow this channel on instagram okay i love an instagram channel needed i don't know if they're familiar with instagram but it's got these channels on the show pictures so um it's this one called Poor Boy's Bar.

Do you guys know about that? No. Well, it's some kind of like, I just like all the things on it. There you go. Poor Boy's Bar. Hashtag grandpa. That's plenty. So like it's, let's see what this says.

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And that's by someone named at, I can't even read. I can't even say this out loud, the name of their handle. Someone named Wyatt on Twitter. Yeah. There you go. And then one more. A woman with a rotisserie chicken can be something so dangerous that doesn't make any sense uh and like also like like marxist marxist dkl marxist at dkl marxist on Twitter wrote, the Spanish language went off with Biblioteca.

Yes. That's one of my favorite tweets of the year. I love that. Miles, where can people find you as their work media? You've been enjoying. Twitter, Instagram, threads, wherever, at Miles of Grey. Also find us on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack got mad.

Boosties, find me on the new true crime show, The Good Thief, where I talk about the Greek Robin Hood. It's a really good show. Thank you for everybody who's subscribed and rated. podcast miles and jack got mad boosties find me on the new true crime show the good thief where i talk about the greek robin hood it's a really good show thank you for everybody who's subscribed and rated that one uh and also a 420 day fiance with sophie alexandra uh work of media i like nah nothing nothing really specifically speaking out to me at the moment but uh i will let you know if i do come across something you can find me on on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. Tweet I've been enjoying. McNeil at Reflog underscore 18

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Miles what song do you think people might enjoy I think you are going to like this track by yoni myraz y-o-n-i-m-a-y-r-a-z it's called 1999 and uh it's just like a this guy's like i guess like a jazz keyboard player but he really loves like 90s hip hop so he tries to use that sort of boom bap sort of aesthetic while also playing like live keys and things like that So it just kind of feels like you know the kind of like if you went to a coffee shop You're like, oh who's this little fucking band going off right now? So check this one out 1999 by Yoni my rose. All right

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