The Daily Zeitgeist - Fetterman Not Better Man, Worst MAGA Party Ever? 05.08.25

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

In episode 1861, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, musician, writer, and host of Cold Brew Got Me Like, Chris Crofton, to discuss… Fetterman Looks Like Another Democrat That May Need To Step Down…, MAGA Had It’s Own Fyre Fest of Sorts… and more! John Fetterman Completely Loses It in Meeting With Union Leaders ‘He needs to resign’: Democrats react with quiet shock to damning John Fetterman profile MAGA Had It’s Own Fyre Fest of Sorts... Cringe Video of Republicans Attempting Party for Trump's First 100 Days Read Chris's Column Here: Advice King: Oligarchs vs. Skynet WATCH: CHRIS CROFTON: NASHVILLE FAMOUS LISTEN: Nosebleeds by DoechiiSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

That's the thing. I'm like, people just need to fucking stop fearing getting ran out. I want to talk about I'm going to talk about a little bit of that. What's overrated? I'll tell you what's overrated. Staying alive. Yeah. Risk your goddamn life, especially if you are me, because I'm no kids. So they should have elected me, you know, cause I'm ready to die.

Ready to die. The biggie. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. Do we need to remix that album cover? Ready to die. It's no biggie. It's just you on a baby's body. You're listening to an iHeart podcast.

My husband has a secret son from a past partner. Hold up Sam, how do we know how we've done the DNA test? Well John, luckily it's mother may have a DNA test week on the OK Storytime podcast. So we'll find out soon. And this wife writes writes my husband received a Facebook message from a woman saying that he is the father Of a five-year-old. Whoa at first he didn't remember her But then he realized they had a one-night stand right before we started dating wait But do we have proof he's a dad to hear the explosive finale? Listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the iHeart radio app Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast

I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly Storytime podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly. I collect my roommates' toenails and fingernails. Those were some callers from my call-in podcast, Therapy Gecko. It's a show where I take phone calls from anonymous strangers as a fake gecko therapist

and try to learn a little bit about their lives. I know that's a weird concept, but I promise it's very interesting. Check it out for yourself by searching for Therapy Gecko on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast,

and I'm excited for my next episode with Chloe Kardashian. God, I've been through so many things that at this point I would rather not feel than feel because feeling is too much for me to handle. I am Chloe Kardashian. Chloe Kardashian, everybody. Chloe Kardashian. No one understands how it's, I'm not just a TV show. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app,

Apple Podcast podcast or wherever you get your podcast. This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Connie Britton is here. I think you should encourage your friend to go ahead and not be holding out for any man to have her babies. She could be waiting another 10 years before she finds the right guy. Connie didn't meet her right guy until you were what, 50 Connie? 52. 52, 52.

52. I kept thinking, oh, I'm gonna meet the guy, I'm gonna meet the guy, I'm gonna meet the guy. I finally was like, what am I waiting for? And I did it. And I'm just so glad that I did. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 387, 5 of Dirt Elyse Ice Day production of I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and it is Friday, May 9th, 2025. Yep, May 9th. May the 9th be with you. Let's see. That's National Knockout Rose Day.

What the fuck is that about? It's something about, it's like a pre-Mother's Day rose thing. It's also, oh shit, National Alphabet Magnet Day. Shout out to all of us that can actually still read into the future. Good luck. Please use these magnets to familiarize yourself with our alphabet. Also National Sleepover Day, National Butterscotch Brownie Day,

National Moscato Day, and National Lost Sock Memorial Day. Oh man, RIP to some real ones that we've lost out there. The lost ones, you might win some, but you just lost one. How long, what's your average lifespan of a sock? Cause I'm real, I've burned through those shits quick. My heel is like made of alien blood or something. Oh really?

Cause I'm getting a whole heel holes nonstop and fast. Like they last under two years. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know. I mean, I'm also barefoot a lot of the time. Yeah. So I don't, I don't put mileage on my socks unless I'm wearing shoes. Interesting. So I have socks, I have socks that, you know,

predate me doing starting Reagan administration. I mean, legit, like Obama's I have Obama's Obama socks. Easy. I go. Welcome to the Obama sons. Yeah. With my Obama socks, As the kids say, weird flex. And that is what they say. And they do say that all the time. Yes they do. Weird flex, but okay.

My name is Jack O'Brien, aka. Cybertrucks are crashin'. Woo, dumpsters on wheels. If that is your ride, we know you'll h Hile both it and your heart are truly vile. That one courtesy of Halcyon salad in the discord. Thank thank you for allowing me to continue the pure joy I felt reading this media article about just how Cybertrucks completely stopped selling. They just like stopped.

They slowed production and it's still just a pile up at the Cybertruck factory, just 10,000 of them fuckers that can't, they can't move at all. In LA, the vibe now is horribly humiliated, humiliated Cybertruck driver and arrogant MAGA freak asshole driver. Like there'll be people who are like, want the attention on their Cybertruck. And then people who have limo tint on their windows, because they like even on their windshield. Yeah. Cause they don't want people to fucking see them in there. But hey, that shit went to cool. Real. That was a, that was a big one 80 because people were like, I've pre-ordered three,

you know, like everyone was like, gotta get your hands on these. And now you cannot sell them to a used car lot. They're like, I don't know, man. Like we'll give you a 10,000 for this. Like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. to get your hands on these. And now you cannot sell them to a used car lot. They're like, I don't know, man. Like we'll give you a 10,000 for the tires.

Yeah. You know, anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined once again by my cohost, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it's Miles Gray. And that white smoke you're seeing, it's not just from his lungs. It also means a Pope has been chosen. They call me man Oh, man, I try to give them all some cope a hope man. God's only spokesman

Shout out to Christy. I'm a Gucci Mane the track dope man. I just look at that quick turn We really like are recording this as there's still probably white smoke above the Vatican. Yep Yep, a pope has been chosen a A post. American. And he is. First American born. American Pope man. Is that something? Ooh, yeah. American Pope man.

I mean. Father let me be. Miles. In our third seat. Dude, he looks so fucking pained from that. Dude, look at Chris's face. He started grimacing when we did that. That's me doing my war notes.

I'm not kidding. That's what I mean. Internal turmoil. People like my whole life have been saying you look like I feel on my worst day. Uh, hilarious standup comedian, actor, musician. He is my American Pope. Uh, you can listen to his podcast.

Cole brew got me like anywhere. His book, the advice King anthology available anywhere. Fine books are sold. The audio book, audio book next week. Audio book is coming out next week. Next week. And it's read by by me. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. It's like a fucking nine hour comedy album. And also it's got an intro by my mom My mom read the intro incredible and she practiced she practiced for the intro

I don't think I told you guys by reading like obituaries out loud in the kitchen because she didn't have a book She's like I want to practice reading the intro, but you didn't give me a book. So that's the spiritual equivalent of your book Practicing reading obituaries out of the newspaper. I mean that's the spiritual equivalent of your book. Yeah. So she's like, I've just been practicing reading obituaries out of the newspaper. I mean, that's part of the newspaper. I love that work ethic too. Like nobody practices. No, it was unbelievable. You know what I mean? Like that warmed my heart. It was unbelievable. It warmed mine too.

You give that job to me. I'm outsourcing it to AI. Oh yeah. I'm just feeding that shit into AI. Practice reading this for me. Actually you're just like, chat GPT, how do I get out of this? to AI. I'm just giving that, I'm just feeding that shit into AI. Practice reading this for me. Actually you're just, you're like, ChatGPT, how do I get out of this? Yeah, make up an excuse for me.

It's Chris motherfucking Crofton! Crofton, what's up? I'm still Chris Crofton. I'm still Chris Crofton. I'm still Chris Crofton. If you don't recognize that hit, then you might recognize this. Even Chris Crofton. Thoughts are rave like Chris Crofton.

Two Pearl Jam songs for the price of one. Swish, swish, double swish. Crofton, hash, full can. Hashtag sad. Yeah. Oh, it's like that dunk. I forget who did it in the dunk contest where he jumped up, dunked. And then as the ball was coming down, dunked the ball a second time.

Yeah. Yep. That's yeah. Chris, wonderful to have you. Hey, good to be here. I'm so thrilled to see you guys. Trying to think of what actor you remind me of. Uh, very, you know, Warren oats.

Come on, man. Come on. This is from the list. And stop acting like my eighth grade ceramics teacher. Before we went on, when we were doing this, you know, they're fishing around for a cold open, so they, these guys, they make fake conversation with the guests and act like they like him or something. And then they cut it all up into some money making thing.

And, uh, it called the cold open that everybody loves, even though it's just starting the show. But during that cold open, I, I, I told them a story, my eighth grade ceramics teacher who, and you, and then Jack said, like how teachers back then. And like, I'm talking about 83, 84. Yeah. Uh, they didn't, there was nobody like telling them what they just said, whatever the fuck they wanted.

Yeah. So they'd be like, yeah, it's like you had a regional manager from like a paper company in your classroom with like a bunch of 12 year olds. Yeah. And the worst for me was the coaches, cause the coaches were the same way. So they'd be like, they'd be like, I'd show up and like, you know, they throw a few balls to me or whatever and I'd miss them or, and they'd just be like, you

suck. You're like eight, they're 40. So this, this teacher said, you look like Warren Oates, which, you know, I was an eighth grade and I never had a moment to actually use that as the cold open. Okay. It's fine. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. But anyway, Warren Oates, if you guys don I was in eighth grade and I never might actually use that as the cold open Okay, so I just might happen one but anyway war notes if you guys don't know him He was the lead character in a while. He was in a lot of Sam Peck and Paul movies He was in he was the lead in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, which is a deranged movie he was in Tulane blacktop basically just frowning and

He always looks concerned and he also looks like grizzled and he's a character actor and when you're in eighth grade and you never had a girlfriend before, you're kind of hoping that somebody tells you you look like, I don't know, somebody marketable with other eighth graders, you know, like it's something an eighth grade girl, he might find attractive. You look like Steve McQueen and the funds mixed together. So exactly that would have been something. But no, my teacher said, you remind me of Warren Oates. And I said, who's that? Hopefully. She was like, you know, a man day idol. Yeah, no, no. But she wasn't wrong. But she did say that she I do kind of look like him. And I ended up playing him in a music video My friend William Tyler made a music video and based on to light lane blacktop and I played Warren Oates

But war notes. Yeah, he he's a character actor not what an eighth grader wants to know he you want to be you guys aren't gonna remember no one on the show someone Google Willie Ames or Oh, wow, or you know leaf Garrett. That's what you're looking for Or, uh, or, you know, leaf Garrett. That's what you're looking for. Yeah. You're not looking for, you're not looking for Warren Oates. And then she says, you don't exactly look like him. It's your facial expressions.

Yeah. Which all he does is frown. He's always playing an alcoholic. So she, she was right. She was right. After he died. Also, I just want to note, Did he die that young? Like 54. He died in 1984.

She actually was paying me a compliment because in this wax figure place I grew up where everybody was just a bowl-cutted lacrosse player, it was like a compliment to look like a character actor. Okay, you got some edge to you. But yeah, it was just an odd thing to say to me because she had to know, I wasn't going to know who he was. And then when I finally found out it was because he was in stripes, which is a movie that's also a thousand years old.

I love everybody who's listening right now. It's just like, what are they fucking talking about? I caught that on Comedy Central with Bill Murray as a kid. So the sergeant in stripes is, and that's how I found out about him. And I was like, oh, it's the, it's the sergeant from. Right. Right. I guess that'd be like my eighth grade years. Like a teacher's like, you remind me of Hugo weaving.

I'm like the guy who plays agent Smith. And the anyway, teachers shut the fuck up. Yeah. Just don't, don't, don't comment on what I look like. Okay. It's my turn. You look like shit. All right. Cause we're thrilled to have you. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're gonna tell the listeners a couple of things that we would talk about later on in the episode if we were to ever get to it. It's gonna be a long one. We're talking about it all. We're gonna talk about Fetterman having Jesus. Time to go. Time to go, time to go.

Back it up. Fee fi fo fum. Yeah. We're going to talk about. Mega had their own fire festival thing. It's like a scam event with great video that highly recommend everybody. Well, we'll talk about it. It's just great schadenfreude happening out there in the world. I might even mention in passing that there's a new pope and he's American.

He's from Chicago. But they call him the Latin Yankee. Because most of his work was done in Peru or something like that. All of that, plenty more. But first, Chris Crofton, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing? Last night, I was in ketamine therapy. And so I'm in the recliner and I'm on the high dose now. Hell yeah.

Like, sadly, the way I calm myself down when, when, when the drug is first coming on, as I fucking look at my phone, which is so sad. It's like, it's like holding my little mommy. You know, I look at Instagram and I'm like, I must still be alive. Yes. That's fucking horrific. For people, for listeners who haven't listened to the last episode, ketamine therapy is, is the actual ketamine therapy, like with medical staff delivering it to you at a clinic.

Yeah. Not sitting on a pile of old tires like in a yard Yeah, so I have chronic depression. I've had I've had chronic depression, you know ever since my ceramics teacher said I look like a 50-year-old character actor when I was in eighth grade and I I've I Started well, I started taking Zoloft at some point the 90s and Then I was still drinking,

so I don't know what it was doing, but I was trying to have it both ways. You know, I was like, I can drink. And also I'm like, the doctors were always like, you can't do both. And I was like, watch me, I'm a special, you know. Oh yeah. You haven't met this 50 year old character actor.

That's all I'm gonna say for the rest of the show, only joke. So anyway, like Zoloft sucks. And as I've gotten older, like it really, I mean, the biggest thing it does is it cuts your sex drive down and which is not a big deal when you're 28. But when you're 56, it starts to be pretty annoying. And it might explain why I've been writing all these poems. I'm like, are you a poet? Or do you need

supplements? Right. So I think, you know, whoever that guy was who hung around the pond all the time had low T. Um, Ralph Waldo, who is it? I can't, I always get them confused. Is that Emerson Thoreau? Thoreau? Thoreau?

Yeah. You can't make any money being obsessed with ponds these days. I'll tell you that. Yeah. Um, so, uh, I started talking to a therapist again about trying to get off Zoloft. And, um, I just, they all kind of have the same, you either kind of can take them and you don't have serious side effects, even though I've never met anybody who didn't. Right.

Have, have side effects, but they allege that there are some people who don't, I don't know, I hope I'm glad for them, but I always get side effects, whether it's nerves, like if I take Wellbutrin, I go completely, they always recommend Wellbutrin. Like when I say I want to get off the loft and I think I've used this, you guys, I've been talking about on my own podcast, so I might overlap, but you know, the time I took Wellbutrin in LA and I was like feeling like every time I well, buterin, the weird energy I get from it, which is actually anxiety and kind of mania, I start to think I'm like getting better for the first like month. Right.

I was in the car like driving on the two and I was like, why I realized that I was listening to Pink Floyd, the final cut, really loud and drinking a vanilla latte. Neither of things I do. You just so do in the body of somebody who likes vanilla latte and just wants it a lifetime yourself. I do not listen to the Pink Floyd song, possible pass on a sunny day in LA normally. And you may find yourself sipping a vanilla latte. On the tube.

And that's when you finally say enough, well, buterin, you go back on Zoloft. Sadly. So anyway, I started taking ketamine. I mean, you know, I went through a whole bunch of stuff. The brand of the drug is Spravato, which I don't know if I got, I told you guys last time, which I think is so funny. And I think Spravato is what ketamine is called. Spravato in the, in the nasal spray form that I'm doing it.

I do it Mondays and Wednesdays and I've done about probably about 15, no, maybe 12 or 15 of them at this point. And I do think it's helping. So I'm going to make fun of it because I think I talked about it last show where it's just like kind of like doing ketamine and Jiffy Lube or something. Like it's like the people who help you, you know, like they're just low paid people, like it's a venture capital model for every business, including ketamine treatments.

So, you know, you're not going to have. Shuffle through. Yeah. Yeah. You just have these sort of like well-intentioned, but low paid people trying to help you, you know And they also shuffle everybody through they shuffle people through every job there So at this point I've held hands with like just about everybody in the building

I thought I was dying, you know, like you know, I saw like you see the guy in the parking lot blowing leaves He's like you're doing better, man Never when you told me about my childhood for, uh, while you were peaking? So it's kind of like tripping with strangers and, um, which is odd, but I have gotten to be able to get through it, but okay. So I'm in this office park and you're kind of stoned on ketamine. So like, you have the same kind of thoughts, like, like office park, I started thinking about that term, you know, for a while and I was just like,

what the fuck? Like even that I was like, I think I'm having a bad trip. Office park? The only kind of parks America believes in. What the fuck is that? You know, like yes fucking world is all fucked. Yeah, you know what I mean?

Like office park was enough for me to like. All right, top three parks. Number one, amusement park. Number two, water park. Number three, office park. I was hoping, I mean like office park was enough for me to like top three parks number one amusement park to water park So yes, I was like I was already like Cuz it's like they give you the nasal spray you take three of them one and then wait five minutes Then you have another and note that was the dose I did the first couple times and I still freaked out,

but I have managed to calm myself down and let myself get through it. And it's not easy. And I think that's helping because I realized how wound up I am. And did I tell you I found a Johns Hopkins ketamine playlist? Did I tell you that last time?

No, but that makes sense. I mean, Johns Hopkins is like at the forefront of medical research. And I think they do a lot of sense. I mean, John Hopkins is like at the forefront of medical research and I think they do a lot of stuff for now. For now. Oh yeah. So that's what I said to the also, I talk politics when I get like high. So it's like everybody in there is like, oh God, this guy's like, here we go. Yeah. He's going to talk about the fucking darkest shit when we go in there. Let's not go in there. I press the panic button and they're like, I'm not going in. Now you go in. I don't want to hear about history. Yeah.

From a guy who says he's dying. Um, because I did that one time I talked about Irish history for a really long time. He was like, okay, I gotta, I gotta go check on other patients. Are you, I don't think you're dying probably cause you're talking a lot. So I don't even remember what I'm talking about. Wait, so what did you just, you just Googled office park? No. So I was like, this is what happened. I'm looking at my Instagram on Ketamine, and I'm taking the full dose now and I'm managing it and I'm feeling pretty good about it. But it

does help me to look at my phone to just keep me from freaking out. And then I listened to music too. And I did look up some some one of the doctors did say, hey, do you listen to anything while you're doing this? And I said, no, I think it'll freak me out. But I was imagining listening to like Bob Dylan or something. And so he was like, no. Charles Manson's early shit. There are Spravato playlists.

There are Ketamine playlists on Spotify. So that made it feel like I wasn't gonna die because I was like, they can't be making playlists for something that kills you. I don't think. Yeah. Right, right, right. And, and Johns Hopkins, even though Johns Hopkins is probably completely defunded and run by, you know, Kellyanne Conway now, it still made me feel

better that it was a Johns Hopkins playlist. I was like, they can't be making playlists for people to get killed by. So, but then that made me think of a million, that made me think of all kinds of jokes, like I accidentally listened to the Wells Fargo playlist. What, what is the, what's, is there anything surprising on there? Here we go. Oh no, no, it's just a bunch of flute music, you know, like wood flutes and stuff, you know what I mean?

Like, yeah, you remember Sam fear, the magic flute guy? Nope. They used to advertise his stuff on, on TV in the eighties, nineties, nineties. Zam fear was a guy who was a big celebrity on nineties, late night TV. Cause they sold his wooden flute music before you could get like, you know, mood music on your phone. So my friend sends me this on Instagram while I'm on Ketamine. And it's a tweet. This is that vanishingly rare occasion when someone says fun fact, and then tells you something that is just insanely fun. And what he sent me was this WhatsApp that someone retweeted and it says, fun fact for the day, Karl Marx's great, great grandson has a parkour

YouTube channel called exclamation marks Wow And that's real. Yeah, so I was well, I wanted to find out if it was real. So I wrote here's exactly what I wrote to My friend. I'm on ketamine I'm already like pretty upset about the term office park to show you where I'm at like really upset like this is unacceptable like that kind of upset. And then I said, no fucking way, please hold. And then I went and looked. I said, the world is bonkers. I'm in a recliner on ketamine right now in a quote office park. And I just watched

Karl Marx's great grandson do parkour. And someone commented the floor is capitalism. Oh, this cannot be real. And then I wrote and yet dot dot dot. Yeah, here we are. So that's it. That's my, that's my social media. I mean, that's, that was absolutely the fact that I watched Karl Marx's great grandson du parcours means that we're're we don't live in a simula.

We're absolutely fine. I don't think the simulation could come up with that. No, no, that's too weird. That's too much. There are two on the writers. Good. That's that. That's that. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll hear some overrated underrated. I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly. I am talking to a felon right now and I cannot decide if I like him or not. Those were some callers from my call in podcast, Therapy Gecko.

It's a show where I take real phone calls from anonymous strangers all over the world as a fake gecko therapist and try to dig into their brains and learn a little bit about their lives. I know that's a weird concept but I promise it's pretty interesting if you give it a shot. Matter of fact here's a few more examples of the kinds of calls we get on this show. I live with my boyfriend and I found his pizjar in our apartment. I collect my roommates' toenails and fingernails. I have very overbearing parents.

Even at the age of 29, they won't let me move out of their house. So if you want an excuse to get out of your own head and see what's going on in someone else's head, search for Therapy Gecko on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's the one with the green guy on it. Hey, my name's Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of On Purpose. And I'm excited for my next episode with Khloe Kardashian. God, I've been through so many things

that at this point I would rather not feel than feel because feeling is too much for me to handle. All right, we're ready. I am Khloe Kardashian. Khloe Kardashian, everybody! Khloe Kardashian? No one understands how it's... I'm not just a TV show.

There would be times that I was like, I don't even want to go out to the grocery store because I feel like I know what they're thinking about me. And that was scary to me because I've never been in a dark place for that long. You've always taken care of others. Have you discovered anything about why you've seen yourself take on that role in so many relationships in your life? How do you even find the courage to trust again?

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Connie Britton is here. I think you should encourage your friend to go ahead and not be holding out for any man to have her babies. If she is passionate about becoming a mother and she has her eggs frozen and she has her life together, go for it. She could be waiting another 10 years before she finds the right guy. Connie didn't meet her right guy until you were what, 50 Connie?

How long have you guys been together? Yeah, no, 52. 52. I adopted my son as a single mom because I kept thinking, oh, I'm going to meet the guy. I'm going to meet the guy. I'm going to meet the guy. I finally was like, what am I waiting for?

And I did it. And I'm just so glad that I did. I wanna change the narrative about single parents and also help to create a community for single parents so that they can not feel alone in it. One of the big things is it's so hard, especially for women to ask for help. Listen to Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My husband has a secret son from a past partner. Hold up, Sam, how do we know? Have we done the DNA test? Well, John, luckily it's Mother May I Have a DNA Test Week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. And this wife writes, my husband received a Facebook message from a woman saying

that he is the father of a five-year-old. Whoa! At first, he didn't remember her, but then he realized they had a one-night stand right before we started dating. Wait, but do we have proof he's a dad? Well, the author says there's no confirmation the kid is even his son, but the woman from Facebook has a meeting with her lawyer soon. I think she's going after our money. If the kid is actually my husband's, she would be entitled to it too. So what's a husband got to say about this? This could be his kid.

Well, apparently he broke down in the middle of the living room apologizing, but this is what scared me. His first instinct, if the kid is his son, is to pay the child support, but not be an active father in the kid's life because he only wants a family with me, his wife. Oh, this is a mess.

To hear the explosive finale, follow OK Storytime on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. I gotta say, I just looked on the Johns Hopkins. They got like playlists for like every psychedelic drug. Yeah. It's pretty nice. Is it all flute music? Is there any, like, are there any bops on there? It looks like a lot of it's like classical, like just stuff that's sort of, I don't think. Yeah. I mean, I hopefully I'll find the party one that has. Anything from Andre's 3000th flute album? No, there is Alice DJ Better Off Alone, though.

Do you think you're better off? I don't know if that's good when you're on second. It's just offshin good rave music from the. Yeah. You gotta be careful. Gotta be careful. You gotta be careful. They're going to send a takedown notice.

Yep. Sorry. Sorry. Chris. Yeah. I'd love to hear something that you think is underrated. Underrated is, let me look at my notes. I actually, I prepare it here.

Uh, you said underrated,rated right? I you know what? Let you decide if you want to go under I messed it up I messed it up now you underrated Underrated looking at social media on ketamine. Oh, that was what my media on ketamine. That was what my thing. So we could kill the cover. That was what I wrote down. That was what I wrote down. I did it early. Efficient search history answer. Yeah. Oh, man. Well, I'll do it backwards. You're going to fucking kill me. Web search. I forgot. My web search, I did have one for the web search. And this is just

something if people want, it's very boring, but I did see that there's some guy who puts train wheels on his car. Like he has a hydraulic system where he can retract the rubber wheels. And ride on the rails. Yeah. Have you seen that shit? Yeah. I'm just doing it backward, but it doesn't matter. I don't know if I've seen the car that has everything, but I've seen it.

I've seen a car that had like the prop, like the shit on a car so it could ride on rails. That's it. So this guy, like, it's just this video. There's like 2 million views on it of, you know, some kind of hobby that you do at the end of the world where you put train wheels on your car and then you drive along abandoned train tracks without checking ahead of time to see if they

make sure they're abandoned. Yeah. Or just like a tree across them or I mean, they're just speeding through the forest getting slapped in the face by branches and they're just like, you and there's like their daughter, there's like a five year old girl through the forest, getting slapped in the face by branches, and they're just like, you-hoo, and there's like their daughter, there's like a five-year-old girl in the car,

which I'm sure is actually bad ass. I mean, she probably had a great time. But everybody in the comments was like, she's never gonna forget this. What does a damsel? She's never gonna forget this. Yeah, when they go head on with a fucking freight car? Yeah, or else until they find out

it goes directly to an abandoned mine. Right. There by combining my two favorite things. Or they run over a damsel as somebody with a mustache looks on and snickers to himself. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

So that's just like, if you want to look, there's some people who go on train tracks with, I would definitely do it. This one that I saw that seemed dangerous was one like a train track through the woods. I mean, going through a track on a train track through the desert, like that seems I've seen people do that. That's kind of fun. But this guy is ripping through the forest on a I like how you've seen enough train. You're like, okay, obviously, we've got

seen that one where the dudes on the desert dude, our outfit is on the roof. This guy was in the fucking forest. Well, there's like a lot of abandoned train tracks out by the abandoned mine. So every now and then those guys probably get bored and like there's, they put on, they build these little things that go on the rails. I've seen that. Yeah. Yeah. But this one is like, this is strange. Like you don't go through the woods on them. Wait, why do you think the woods is more? Cause you're gonna get hit in the head.

Oh, you're just saying with like the low hanging, I mean you can't that takes you out. Yeah, you can't clear the you can't clear the tracks or see what's coming in the woods. So it's like kind of insane to bring your daughter along for like a, you know, a mystery ride straight into a gorge. I'd say no activity has been ruined for me harder by movies than standing on or near train tracks. Like I, because like during the eighties, no movie included train tracks that didn't then have somebody turn back and see like white smoke coming and getting, you know what

I mean? Like it was just, it seems to me to be an inevitability. If you were near like the idea of driving on abandoned train tracks is like, well, that's a fool's game. Obviously it's not really abandoned and there's going to be a train coming like Ghostbusters 2, Stand By Me, like all those, all those. But that was a ghost train that went through them. But it doesn't matter. It still pays off the like, if you are by tracks, it's coming.

It's coming. It's never not happened in a movie. And therefore, in my brain, I'm like, there's a 95% probability when I'm near train tracks that I'm about to get fucked up. Do you ever go near like a train crossing that's clearly not active anymore, but in your mind you're still like, nah, bro. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

I don't care that the tracks aren't there. Yeah, nice try, assholes. I'm like, this fucker's about to blow through here. Light us all up, man. Nah, fuck this. I feel that way, I feel that way too, but these tracks were so overgrown that I was like not so afraid of,

like watching this guy do this, I like not so afraid of like watching this guy do this I was not so afraid of a train coming because they were so overgrown But but I was afraid of like, you know a snake to the face or oh shit Or like a lemur to the face also an 80s also an 80s trope snake to the face going through some over Overgrown thing you're gonna catch a snake buddy. Yeah, or yeah Are you come out and you don't notice There's a snake in your hair and then yeah, you kind of got something there where I mean That was good that sounded like a real movie thanks

No problem. Hey, really good guys. Way to go. Wow. You guys sounded like a shitty movie there. Way to go. Wow. Really impressive that you guys can sell like a shitty 80s movie. I was thinking Patch on your back, man.

Chris Crofton, what's some of these things overrated? Overrated, cowardly politicians. Come on now. Yeah. I've never heard of such a thing. Give them a break. And I'm just talking about this. I'm talking about, on a a serious note that we just had

ice raids here in Nashville, Tennessee and people are still walking around in yoga pants and playing indoor miniature golf and stuff. And I just feel like, and this is sad and, and, and this is sad because I understand that I think our mayor who I actually know was well-intentioned when he ran, but he thought Kamala Harris is going to win and he thought somehow things were just going to be okay. And then he was going to be able to be a fun mayor that was going to work on public transit and then Kamala Harris didn't win.

And I would argue that even if Kamala Harris had won, anybody who's paying attention knows that something very bad is happening in our country. So I just, I just, he was hoping to be a sort of 2000s Obama era kind of mayor. That's optimistic. And he did it. He did it for the last few months. He was DJing and going to every hot dog competition or whatever the fuck mayors do.

I'm going to stop you right there because that's all I ask for from my mayor is DJing and hot dog competitions. Yeah, like judging hot sauce or whatever, judging longest hot dog. I think that one's the longest. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I declare. Mayor. I declare.

Yeah. Like old time mayor shit, but it is not old time times. And fucking be a street fighter. Basically. And he is in big trouble now. Big because he kind of had to, especially in a red state like Nashville, but probably like Tennessee, but I would say probably in every state at this point, you have to make a deal with the cops. Um, you have to back the blue or you will, the police will make your life miserable.

Like, I mean, they'll just somehow a mayor is going to have to get elected. Is going to have to say something about I'm going to support the police because the police can fucking take you out. So I think, you know, he doesn't, he tries to like boost the police because the police can fucking take you out. So I think, you know, he doesn't, he tries to like boost the police while also saying he wants to help marginalized people, which of course makes no sense. And, and he's stuck in that place. And then now the Nashville police department was

seemingly involved in the ICE raids. They're not supposed to be by law. Yeah, but I feel like we've seen this across the country collaboration between the two. But they showed up and they and Freddie has my friend who's the mayor is just in he's done. He's done. Everybody's fucking I mean, they kidnapped people. Oh, they're so incensed because yeah, like for everything that you kind of ride into office with it's like where is that energy now? And how was he not prepared for this?

This like was certainly, well, first of all, it was like a 50, 50 chance or whatever. Right. That it was going to happen. But you know, people got kidnapped. I mean, they got, this isn't like, this isn't like checking. This isn't a regular way to check for people's citizenship. You can't stop someone's car and then throw them in a bus. You don't, they did stops.

They did, they basically just put up roadblocks and just like in a, in a Latin neighborhood and just fucking hold people out of cars that couldn't, couldn't in 10 minutes tell them that they were a citizen. Yeah. Even though a lot of times they don't even speak English and those cops. I mean, anyway, it's just like, and now it's like. Well, on top of that too, they don't even have an argument about public safety. Like every, every story I read about people getting caught up in ice

raids, it's like, it's some kid in college who's like doing good in school or a person who just goes to their job. And the whole time, like, we got to get the worst ones out. But then the problem, like, but that's just cover to do this whole terror campaign, but like they've even lost this like argument that it's even about public safety. Oh, definitely. And I just think like, that's another thing where it's like, even for a mayor who probably is afraid, you can at least say that it's like these, what, where are

the people, where are the criminals that you're trying to get these people are contributing to the country? What the fuck is this? Is not that you can't split the difference on this. You can't fight a coup and say you're a Democrat. You can't, there's no Republicans or Democrats anymore. No one, we're just not, I understand there's, there's no way for people to, to get everybody on the same page about that is impossible, but there's just

people who are doing a coup and kidnapping people out of cars. And then there's other people. There's no, yeah. Then there's no other people who are like, well, I don't want to get, you know, elected out of office. So I'm just going to stay as quiet as possible. And I think that's what your point is. It's like, and I want to, I want our politicians to be, I wrote it. I wrote a column today that my advice column, I recommend everybody read it. It's,. It was sort of a silly question, but it was meant to be, I think, oh, I took it seriously because it was, the question was, who are we supposed to root for between the Skynet AI and oligarchs?

Who are we supposed to root for? And I wrote, you know, I make $600 a week. I can't root for anybody because it doesn't fucking make any difference. The only thing I'm rooting for is we drop individualism and start collectivism because that's the only way forward. And I just, you know, I said, Martin Luther King, Dr.

Martin Luther King, pray for us. Um, um, Harvey Milk pray for us. Eugene Debs pray for us. Ida B. Wells pray for us. You know, we need real, real people. And you know, we're not going to, any of the elected officials we have now were elected before they somehow didn't see this coming.

So we need all new people and those are going to have to be people from the street. Because if you're talking about getting elected again, and that's important to you right now, then you are not on the right side. Yeah. So if you have kids, I understand, like he has kids. This is all a pitch for like, I wanna be mayor, but I can't, I'm not gonna because it's just, I can't. But I'm saying we need people,

maybe younger people than me who don't look like 1950s character actors or whatever. You know, people who look less mad than me, you know, who don't have kids go in there, especially my age, we've already lived. I've had so much fun. I mean, what do you need to do really? I mean, we're all going. So let's put our necks on the line for the kids.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you had a pretty good pitch right before you said you, you, you want to be mayor and you're ready to die. Yeah. Ready to die. I mean, I, I, I don't want to die, but I mean, like Martin Luther King Jr. want to die?

No. Did fucking any of these, any of these activists, but they were willing to, you know, who they all died. I mean, you know, and because they were like, Brave. Well, and yeah, spoke with conviction and, and they, they stood on their beliefs a lot of the time. And yeah, this crop of politicians we have are people who mimic that. But when push comes to shove, they abandon all of those, you know, sort of perceived morals that they espoused on the way to office. And I think, yeah, we need more people like. abandoned all of those, you know, sort of perceived morals that they espoused on the way to office.

And I think, yeah, we need more people like just to not fear getting voted out of office because the shit you can do in one term, like there, there is things you can do and then, yeah, if they get you out, they get you out, but at least you went in there and you stood for something. And I don't know who it is, but I mean, somebody, somebody who's willing to, you know, I mean, say you get, say you, someone gets into office and they made a deal with the police. Well you go back on that deal now.

Right. It's as simple as that and you risk it. We've been doing it the other way for decades. And you risk getting, and you risk getting fucking shot. Yeah. But yeah, your point is taken, but it's not a safe position to be in to be anti-police. We will link off to your column in the footnote. We should talk about somebody who's really talk about like the difference between where

they were when they were running for office and where they're at now. John Fetterman, it's just like, it's getting like scary kind of. Oh yeah. Yeah, there's a New York magazine article that was published last week about just, he's getting into car accidents, he's fighting people, he's just unable to do any of the things that are part of his job, and people are concerned. Yeah. His family, especially.

He got into a car accident at a time when right before it, they were messaging his doctors being like, hey, this is really unsafe that he's able to drive at all. He refuses to stop looking at his phone while he's driving. Yeah. I mean, just all of it, right? Wild. it's all kind of branches off from the stroke that he had on the campaign trail and then from there, like then he, I remember he also said he was hospitalized with, you know, with depression he was dealing with. And a lot of people were like, that's great.

You know, like we support you. And, but a lot of his staffers have noted that it feels like he's starting to regress in a really measurable way. And also just struggle with like stuff from the like auditory complications he has just from the stroke. Apparently, he's regular. I mean, I saw a story about this a few months ago about how he's like his attendance has been really low, like for votes. And like in this in this magazine article, New York magazine article, people he's just hides in his office basically, like alone while the Senate is doing business, one staffer quote, but it's pretty impossible to overstate how disengaged he is.

He doesn't read memos. He's taking very few meetings. The job is just a platform for him to run for president. That's all he cares about, which is like very odd because concerning how much he's alienated constituents, supporters, and even his own staff, especially around his like hard line stance with supporting Israel and like every terrible act they make against Palestinian people, it's just like, I don't know how you think, like where's where, who's your base exactly?

Cause many people are very confused as to what he stands for at this point. Just like this, there's a lot of stuff in like from him getting, really fighting with his wife in front of staffers, crying while FaceTiming with staff. It's just all kind of paints a picture of a guy who is definitely, it just feels like he's in over his head in terms of doing the duties of a Senator, especially in 2025 with all this shit that comes along with quote unquote resisting Trump. If any Democrats, I mean, the few Democrats that do, but that along with his physical and like mental health, it's just all like

every, like so many of these articles about him are ending with people being like, I just really think it's time for him to really kind of take a step back for like his own sake. Like it just, it feels a little bit like this is a little too much for him right now, which, you know, they typically don't do that. step back for his own sake. It feels a little bit like this is a little too much for him right now. Which they typically don't do that for senators and the Democratic Party. Like, yeah, no, push through it. But it just sounds like stuff is just so out there and in

your face that it's really hard to ignore at this point. Diane Feinstein and all these other people who have been obviously like not able to do their job. But the Democrats are just, I guess because of the process of replacing one and like the game of having as many Democrats as possible, but it's pretty ghoulish. There was news today about him. You guys might've seen it just that he, I mean, it's just more leaked stuff.

You know, it's like, but he freaked out at some meeting with the teachers and like, started repeating himself and then said, I guess, quote, I don't know why everybody's mad at me. I didn't do anything. Yeah. Why does everybody is mad at me? Why does everyone hate me? What did I ever do yelling, banging his fists on a desk at five union representatives? And then his aid cried. Yeah, it like ushered them out.

And then who are these aids and why can't they get other jobs? That's what I want. I mean, that's because that's getting into on a Senate stat, like getting staffed in a Senate office is like kind of like, you know, that's how you claw your way into it. Hang on for dear life, no matter what happens. Yeah. And I think that's what like, you know, a lot of a lot of the anecdotes and reports are coming from a lot of people, current and former staffers who are just like, it's kind of it's freaking us out. One, I think his former chief of staff said he was worried that he was not taking his medication like his doctors had told him to, and yeah, it's just, again, this is, this is, this does not look good. And also like, do you look at his votes? Like he voted to confirm Pam Bondi.

Like there's just a lot of shit where you're like, no, he's this, whatever's going on. Like he took a silver pager or gold pager from Netanyahu. I mean, he seems like his only policy at this point is to violently support Israel. Yeah. No, truly. That seems like the one newly consistent thing. He's, I have no idea. Israel's not in Pennsylvania.

Yeah. Well, you know, but again, I think this is like one of those things too. You fear the outside spending and like for many people that's APAC spending that goes when you begin to articulate pro-Palestinian talking points, especially as an office holder in Congress. Yeah. Here's a joke about him. So his staffers, one of his staffers is leaked that they're concerned about him

because he, he's so sad or he's so upset that he's not even saying fee five foe foam Well, he enters a room Climbing his beanstalk in your mind. He looks he's dead ringer for you're casting the new Jack in the beanstalk Oh my god, I do imagine he's also like physically imposing like I would I mean I bet they pulled furniture in front of the door one He was like he's in there we like I don't know why everybody's mad at me no just get outside feed I fo fum I smell the blood of Olivia Munn that's pretty good oh wait why is it English Munn isn't how you needed

something to rhyme with man I can be fee-fi-fo-fam blood of an English man now this podcast is where it needs to be. Thank you. We're back, baby. Got distracted. They could have made anything up. The, the first part is gibberish. Why not just, I mean, if it's like British English, you're saying an Englishman.

Right. An Englishman. Fi fife o fem. I spoke the blood of an Englishman. Oh damn. That, that guy sounded right proper, Miles. Thank you. Thank you. You could make money so many good ways back then.

Writing shit like that, sitting by a pond. Writing shit like that. The bar was so fucking low, man. It was a golden age for people with low T. There are only like 800 people. So it was just like, yeah, oh yeah. You see this thing? I just wrote it as a fucking banger. And then like 20 people read it and you're like, I'm the most influential person.

What do you call it? I don't know, a haiku. I don't know. They're probably making a decent wage. They're like, here, have a bale of hay. I love it. Thank you. Actually, too. Yeah, too. What the heck? We have to. Thank you for describing how fair a maiden my wife is. It was one of what's his name's. It was one of what's his names. It was one of what's his name's ancestors talking about abundance.

That's right. Oh, what's it? I forget his name. Abundance. Oh, the abundance thing. Ezra Klein. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly. I am talking to a felon right now and I cannot decide if I like him or not.

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Even the grifters most of the thing, everyone on the right was talking about how epic the first hundred days this administration would be, despite every metric indicating that it was a total shit show at the fuck factory. And this was a moment for Trump's sycophants to lie to his face as we saw in the first hundred days of the Trump administration, and then the second thing that happened was the first hundred days of the Trump administration. And then the second thing that happened was the first hundred days of the Trump administration, and then the second indicating that it was a total shit show at the fuck factory. And this was a moment for Trump's sycophants to lie

to his face, as we saw on that cabinet meeting about his greatness and also a great opportunity for outsiders to grift. And that's when I see the, that cabinet meeting. Chris, did you see the cabinet meeting where everybody just sat there trying to be like, Mr. President, you're the finest human specimen of president. All right. I just thought that was what that was like the moment for me,

for whatever reason, where we just like entered a new level of surreal, fucking dystopia shit that's just like, oh, we are in a movie now. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's quite difficult to live and keep your head on straight, especially with trying to raise kids. But I think everybody, you know, who's doing it is, is a damn hero. Because I do think that if you're, if you're, and I know people who are taking

care of their kids and stuff and in the face of all this, because it will pass. I don't know if it'll pass with an ice age, you have to wait that long. But I mean, this will go away. These people will pass away, they will blow away, whatever happens. Their ideas will blow away. It's worth hanging in there.

But it is right now. There was that New Yorker piece, which I wasn't crazy about it, but that one, did you read it? The came out today or yesterday just about like how my brain's my brain's finally broken. No, okay. It was just written. It's, it's, it's great. I'm just mad. I'm jealous of anybody's in the New Yorker, but you know, it's probably fine. I'm like, she's a pretty good writer. It's not that good. Oh, she's no advice King. Um, but anyway, so I'm mad at everybody, but, but it's a good article.

It's about just a list of like a laundry list of what people deal with on a regular basis of deep fakes and, and just politics and just the endless, endless barrage of bad news. And so you don't even remember what the bad news was or what day it is or what time it is or anything you just are lost in your fucking phone and in the internet. And everybody is, this is probably peak disorientation for any human beings ever on earth. I honestly, I think that's true.

You know what I mean? There's never been, I mean, you were dealing with one dinosaur, one guy trying to throw us fucking a caveman. You know what I mean? Like one guy's trying to hit you with a club and then maybe there's no dinosaurs. I mean, I guess they didn't coexist. I don't know a cheetah whatever you had two things, but you knew they were real There was like a deep fake you know Not only not a world where like half of what you see is fake

Yeah, the yeah that says by Gia Tolentino who? Fucking deep fakey jumping a damn waterfall. I like like that you're like this damn Gia Tolentino. I think she's so great. I think she's so fucking good. Oh. Chick Mero's all right. Oh, well, you're probably not as upset as me, who doesn't work for the New Yorker. Right, right, right.

Well, at least you can articulate both of those. That already sets you apart from 99% of the people out there. But anyway, so this grift, right, because everyone is now everyone is susceptible, like you're saying, to fucking hacks on the right one guy who works for the Daily Caller, another one who calls herself an activist, they decided to team up and really cash in on the excitement. The two

quote plan to host what they described on the events now deleted website as the official celebration of President Trump's first 100 days at the newly trumpified Kennedy Center. Tickets for this event went from between $100 and $2,500. Keep that in mind. Invitations, promised, and unforgettable evening where quote, where quote, luxury meets excitement. And I don't know what that means. There was also a promise of access to individual guests, members of the Trump administration and members of Congress said, that's AI generator,

right? Luxury meets excitement. I feel like this whole thing feels AI generated. When you do that luxury meets excitement. I don't even know. What's the line of cocaine is what it is. Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

Like you wear a ball gown while screaming racial slurs at full volume and do a little blow and you're like, this is the height of luxury and excitement. Yeah. Wow. And you can get away with it. Isn't that luxurious? Unbelievable. So the problems began immediately once Trump announced that a rally in Michigan

would be the event that marked the first hundred days. And once that potential big draw just went poof, the Kennedy center canceled the contract with the organizers and it forced the event to move to the equally glamorous, uh, Arlington, Virginia. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, things still good, still pretty good. It's not like geographically, not that far from Washington, DC. So it's basically the president's approving.

Yeah, you're there. You're there. You're selling access. Things get... This is where the details get real fucking spicy. So problems multiplied from there. Macmillan, who's one of the organizers, acknowledged that she asked attendees with comp tickets to bring bottles of alcohol to fill out the bar, even though the website promised quote premium drinks. Another organizer himself asked the husband of a photographer who had been

hired to shoot the event to bring some alcohol as well. Can everybody just bring alcohol? The man then warned the organizer to call off the party before a fire festival style debacle ensued, quote, you're charging big money for this thing and people won't be getting what they paid for, the man wrote according to messages later when the photographer realized she wouldn't be paid to shoot the party, she canceled the Instagram, the Instagram account under one of the organizers names subsequently sent a message to the photographer with the line, fuck you whore.

Both organizers deny that he sent the message, but they won't say who did. Well, it wasn't us. And so who did it? I won't say. We're not at Liberty to say we're, we're just as bothered by it as you are, but we can't say who did it from our account in 2025, denying something means you did it. Yeah, it's, it is actually just kind of noteworthy that they went through the 25 denying something means you did it. Yeah. Yeah. Truly.

It's, it is actually just kind of noteworthy that they went through the effort of denying it. Oh yeah. You know, that's when like, so, but then their defenses of it are. So, okay. The event, the event finally comes and it was, I mean, was it a success? I guess if you consider the fact that it looked like total shit and people called the cops on them for not delivering what was promised. Yeah. One guest said, quote, there was no VIP. There was no red carpet like they promised. Like when I bought my ticket, we also said we would be quote in the company of high profile guests. I have no idea who those would have been because I didn't see anybody high profile. When asked if she had a different explanation for the ticket packages, right, because tickets were between like $202,000. Like what explanation for different ticket packages not being what they were advertised, the organizer just said no. The website also mimicked the

official White House website. This is where the this is where the griff really comes in. And one of the organizers again, this woman was asked, isn't that deceptive to like have this sort of font color scheme? Everything mimic the official White House website where you're calling it the official 100 days party. She says this is her defense quote. If a color scheme and font needs somebody to believe, although there are words

on the website, they'd say exactly who the host is, that this must be the White House putting this on. I don't know what to tell that person. Wow. So yeah, real, real, real awesome grifter. And can you just explain like, what was the different? No, no. Okay. I mean, it looked cool. It looked fun, man.

I don't know. Like you got to kind of be there. It's one of those things where you got to be there. Oh, I'm sorry. It looked tight. I'm sorry. It looked tight. I'm sorry. Yeah. This one clip from the dance floor is humiliating. This is from, so the local GOP like outfit in Arlington, Virginia, they started

posting shit because they're like, this is a grift. Beware of these fucking people. Uh, Chris, have you ever been to a party that looked this fucking sick? I'm just going to play from the top. There's like literally eight people on the dance floor. There's a guy with a puppet on the ground. There's a dancing. He's not this guy's a MAGA hat. He's waving around. Looks like a total dipshit.

This I don't know. This guy, there's a guy on the ground, I think, doing like a triumph type bit because he's like just holding a puppet, but laying down in front of a woman. It's all. That's the worst looking party you ever saw in my life. Yeah. And you can't party with, you can't party with a bunch of, I mean, that's the thing is nobody. It's hard to say, but you know, it's like they've reinvented.

They wanted to be the popular kids, you know? So they're like, the only way they can do it is with violence. So that's what they're doing. So they've, they've gotten to the top of the power structure. So now they're the popular. Right. As far as they're concerned, but enforced popular kiddom, but the kind of trash that they are makes it so nobody, they're still not going to have fun. Cause they don't understand that charmless people have to get their shit together and become like, I don't know what, you know, do some work on themselves.

You know, I know it's a popular thing to say, but someone like Donald Trump Jr. if he wants to have friends that are fun, he's going to have to become a whole different person. You know, the kind of people who are going to come to Donald Trump's party are guaranteed to make him sad because he's expecting it to be like, he really, you know, he hates Robert De Niro, but he would love it if Robert De Niro would come. Like these people are never going to get what they want, which is actually approval from celebrities, like liberal celebrities, and they're never going to get it. So they're stuck with just like another guy who thought violence

was a way to get popular. Yeah, I mean, they all share the thing where every person who like rises up on the conservative side of things, I mean, and either side, but like really, it's really pronounced with the right wingers, right wingers, especially who just go, no, I can't be that I'm the problem here. Right. It's everything else. It's not me and everything else needs to change. Not like, yeah, I'm going to rearrange the world.

So I have a good time instead of realizing the reason I'm not having a good time is because I probably have a ton of trauma. Yeah. Yeah. A lot I'm working with. Yeah. These motherfuckers were not loved. I'm not saying that that excuses anything because it doesn't because there's lots of love unloved people who who?

Fuck it. I don't care I think we end on that Crofton what a pleasure having you on the podcast where Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff. Man, you can find me and follow me a whole lot right now because I've got so many fun things going on. I, I next Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee at the Belcourt theater, which is the, one of the premier art house theaters in the country is showing the premiere of my documentary or my, my friend Seth's documentary about me

called Chris Crofton Nashville Famous. It features like, I don't know, it's got a bunch of, if you're interested in the great people that are in it, you can go to my Instagram at the Crofton Show and see, but David Berman is in it before he passed away and that's the thing that really means a lot to me. And, uh, it's just a beautiful, it's a beautiful movie and it's

showing it's on the schedule, man. They're showing the trailer before other movies and shit. Like this is insane. And I didn't, it took 10 years. So I wasn't, I wasn't invested in it anymore. I mean, I was hoping he was going to cut it together real quick and I could use it to get on shows in LA in 2014. Right.

No. Uh, so that was, and I was telling people like, I was desperate. I was like, you know, new to LA going to open mics and stuff and being like, I got a documentary coming out and all those people, you know, 10 years, you know, 10 years later, they're like, Hey, what's up with that documentary? What happened to that? Asshole saying, so it's out and it's exciting. You know, it's really exciting and it's going to show out in LA.

Hopefully in July, we were anyway, that's it's going to show, we're going to do a premiere in LA. We're just trying to find the venue. We wanted to do it at video, but it's just too expensive. So we're, we're just, we're going to have some, we're going to have a showing in LA in July. And then on top of that, my audio book, the advice, kinesiology is out. Well, it was supposed to be out next Thursday. There are a couple of files that were fucked up, but I think it's still

will be out around next week and it's going to be on every damn. And it's going to, I love it so much. Honestly, you guys, it's like, it's, it's like a comedy album. And it's just based in this,'s just based in this weird format. But it's going to be so fun to listen to on road trips and wherever, in the bathroom, at the gym, wherever you listen to it, in the garage, anywhere in your house. A young Warren Oates.

You want to hear Warren Oates tell jokes for nine hours, then you sit in your bathroom and listen to this book. That's so cool. And then the other thing is my record is coming out in like July or August called I'm Your Man. And the first single is coming out. The video is already done in like July. And so

I am a lot of the busy with going on. I'm excited, you know, and I'm excited. I'll share the, I'll share the stuff. I'll share you the stuff with you guys. But, but anyway, yeah, glad to be here. Amazing. I just said that like I was in an AA meeting. Hey, go support Chris and go check out the documentary, Nashville Famous.

I want to hear that people pulled up to Chris and said hello. And you know, LA that's going to bro. We'll be there. Wednesday at 8 p.m. The documentary Nashville famous. I want to hear that people pulled up to Chris and said hello. And you know, LA that's going to bro. We'll be there. Wednesday at 8 PM and I'm going to perform. Like there's going to be, it's going to be a special night in Nashville, if you can make it.

Uh, we've already sold a lot of tickets, so it's, uh, it's, um, going to be a great night. I'm going to perform a little bit. Q and a, my mom and dad will be there. Hell yeah. You bother them. You and a also we're doing a Q and a, we got an intro. We got the whole damn thing.

It's a real, I mean, it's really exciting. And I'm very grateful. I mean, people from the zeit gang have been asking me about these things and, Oh, and Cobra got me like, sorry, that show is fucking great now too. I mean, it really has hit a stride I mean if you guys want to hear about the end of the world from a different podcast but what is what's a slightly different slant on everything going completely to shit amazing is there is there work in media you've been enjoying you know this is the one I always let everybody down on.

Um, I don't know why I think it's like not important. Um, but I, I just have a hard time. I've been like enjoying, I'll just tell you, I've been enjoying the red and Stimpy Instagram account. And I recommend it's just somebody, I don't know if it has something to do with the actual, like people who made it, but it's just, it's just great clips of some of the greats. I don't know if you guys remember. Ren and Stimpy, but it's an absolutely great show.

And, and, and Ren is this deranged Chihuahua and Stimpy is this cat, I guess. I can't even really, I don't even know. I think he's a cat, but man, oh man, Ren loses his mind. It gets so mad all the time. And I was really animal. He gets so mad all the time. And I was like, he really gets so mad. Ren's a chihuahua. And Ren, sorry, Stimpy.

I think, is he a cat? Cat? Cat? Did you see that? Yeah, yeah, it's a cat. The clip of Ren playing the president of the United States is just insane. And so appropriate for like right now. I'll even play it real quick right now. And you don't agree with me.

Do you know who you're dealing with? He hits the button and blows a chunk out of the earth. Anyways, it's dark. It's real dark. I felt that spiritually. There you go. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work media you've been enjoying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Find me pretty much everywhere.

They got at symbols at miles of gray. Find Jack and I the basketball podcast. Miles and check out my boosties. And you can also find me talking 90 Day Fiance on 420 Day Fiance. This one is just so stupid. This is on bluesguy at Corey Atad, Atad.com posted the Internet was a mistake. But sometimes the but sometimes it's the best thing ever. I think that's how we all feel about the Internet.

But this one is taken taking the musical someone just made and flipped. Let's take a listen. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you let my daughter go, that'll be the end of it. But if you don't, I will look for you. But if you don't I will look for you

I will find you and I will kill you Stupid ass We got too much time, but sometimes you make the beautiful works of art, don't we? You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on blue sky at jack OB the number one. And first of all, just enjoying just how many other people feel about the Celtics the way that I do. Oh, yeah. Benjamin Solak tweeted, there simply is nothing that hits quite like a Celtic loss. And I'm just seeing that everywhere, everywhere. So shout out to everybody.

Shout out to the Celtics for bringing us all together like that. Yeah, Celtics are this year's NBA's Drake, I think. Oh, I mean, we'll see. They're going to come back and win the series. But no, but I'm saying like that, like a lot of you are like, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Just the hater, the hateration coming, bringing us all together in this eatery. And then at Roast Malone tweeted, whoever came up with Lefty Lucy Righty Tidy

absolutely cranked it out of the park on that one. And I agree. That's, it's one of those early memes that has fucking invaded my brain. You can find us on Twitter and BlueSky at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of the episode wherever you're listening to it and you can find Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of the episode wherever you're listening to it,

and you can find the footnotes. 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 people might enjoy? Yeah, look, Dochi, I still, one of the greats that more people need to really embrace is one of the best MCs right

now. One of her latest tracks is called Nose Bleeds. That's what we're going to go out on. It's the, she's just fantastic. The production feels like peak Timbaland, but like in 2025, it's just, it's got it all. Dochi, Nose Bleeds, go now. Listen. There we go.

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