The Daily Zeitgeist - Gas’ll Make ‘Em Dance, GOP Steak Agenda 8.11.26

Episode Date: August 11, 2026

In episode 2106, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian/musician/podcaster Chris Crofton, to discuss… desperate people dancing for petrol, the Right being obsessed with steak and much more! New York gas station offers discounts to dancing customers Beef... It's what's for dinner LISTEN: Skate Wheels - Paul StephanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wow, you press that expeditially. Expeditially. Who says, I can tell you guys were in a better mood than me. That's how you said, bro. You guys were in a better mood than me. Listen to this guitar, like right here, Chris. What do you think of this guy?

Nope. He said, nope. Look at it. No. Nope. I'm not into this normie core. Oh, is that, you know what I'm? Like, it's like walking like, that guy seemed fucking weird to me.

I mean, I get what he means, though. It's like you look at the guy and you're like, ugh. It's like guitar as athletics. It's like he's giving, he's giving Berkeley vibes for sure. Yeah, yeah. He's like the school of John Mayer. But yeah, I also can't play guitar very well. So I get mad when I see people who can.

Oh, just shred. I get that. Fuck you, loser. That's when I was like, man, I was like Thundercats doing too much on bass. And then I'm like, it's because I suck. There's no reason to be that.

Doing too much, bro. Too busy. I just can't get busy like that. He's like doing like more than one musical idea at a time. Like I can't get with it. Just real straight. You got to come off the, Come on.

Hit me with the D.D.D.D.D. I was playing with my. Badoom, but do. I was playing with my friend who's better than me the other day, and he had to show me. He's like, go to this note, you know, and I had to be like, where do I put my hand, you know? And he put it over your heart, put it over his heart and said right here, Chris.

Oh, God. I wish there I am. Most exciting band practice ever. But then I was talking to my friend who I thought, I was like, man, I don't know all the notes and stuff, you know. And like, I think that's just my style. You know, I was looking for some validation, you know. I'm just like, I know, I kind of like a more primitive thing or whatever.

And he's like, he was like, you need, you're a songwriter. You need to learn the notes. I was like, fuck. Fuck you, man. I don't agree. Not what I expected. As long as it's not completely dissonant. Then I think you, everyone has their own process.

I mean, yeah, he was in a bad mood. That's why he said that. to me. He's like, you need to learn the notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It sounds like my trumpet teach, like, when I was learning trumpet, like, and I wanted to start, like, improvising more. He's like, no, you need to learn more before you can start improvising. And I'm like, I think, I think my friend had just

read the Huffington Post. Can't stop a jam. That's against jam law. Yeah. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. You need to learn the notes. The foot. Well, it's kind of rough. Like, I can't jam. Like, I can't really jam. Because if they, you know, I have to, like, go over and look directly at their hand.

Sure. I mean, I mean, But I mean like, yeah, like I'm, if you told me like all the, the cord, what doesn't matter. Great. So we started a band. You guys looking for a cold open? It ain't too much for me to jam. I'll tell you that much.

It ain't must be to jam. I've heard that about you, Jack. It ain't too much. Ha. It ain't too much. Where are you guys? You're in the studio. You're in the different homes.

He's the whatever studio. Yeah. I'm in the home. I'm in Hollywood. Well, Hollywood. What should we do for the cold open? We had it. We already got it, dude.

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Because according to the law, August 11th, 1973, DJ Cool Herk through the back-to-school party in the South Bronx. bringing early back to school party. The birth of hip hop. So that is that's, that's, that's probably, yeah. That's what we got. There's also something. That's a good one. That's a big one. There's also this is presidential joke day.

I'm like, what the fuck is that? I don't even fuck that is, man. Forget it. I remember that being a thing. What? Like, I can't even remember a single one. Sushi jokes.

George. George Bush throwing up sushi. God never. head sushi before. Fuck. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Watch out. You ate that nasty lettuce.

Pooh, baby. I hear that tummy grumbling. Molten hot diarrhea. Blasting out your ass. Oh, that one courtesy of Dr. Mondo Ph.D. Wow. Yeah, you know, I thought it was a little low

brow, but then I found out that it was written by Dr. Mondo, PhD. And, you know, but who can't, you can't argue with the goddamn PhD, I'll tell you that much. No, you can't. Anyways, uh, thank you for that.

Dr. Mondo. Uh, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, aka, I don't practice Santorea, didn't even know what it was called. Till I learned it about. a guy that used to shoot up eight balls.

Okay, shout out Jarn Doe for that one. Talking about sublime, just putting the people on to the, just cool new cultural norms, new trends. Cool, shout to all my SoCal people who know that SoCal reggae rap, soft reggae is just one of these things that ambiently exists. Just one of them thing. Yeah, yeah, shout out Jern. I went to a concert probably 13 years.

ago that was uh i found that uh was sublime after i got there sublime with rome probably sublime with rome yeah yeah yeah and man there there are a lot of people down in uh san the san diego area oh yeah fuck with sublime heavy um anyways miles we're third we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat oh yeah one of the very faces on mount zeitmore a hilarious stand-up comedian actor musician you can listen to his podcast cole brugami like anywhere podcasts are. His book, the Advice King Anthology is available now. Anywhere I find books are sold.

There's a new documentary about him. Chris Crofton, Nashville famous. He's got a couple very good albums you should go listen to now. The poetry window is open because it's Chris motherfucking Crofton! What's up? What's up?

Don't go chasing Chris Crofton. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you used to. I know you're going to a habit your way or nothing at all, but I think you're moving too fast.

Yeah. Chasing Chris Crofton. Don't go chasing Chris Crofton. Please take to the rivers and the... And I did that one myself. No. That's my K.A. Fucking weird out over here. I just built up popular songs from the 90s.

So what's up? Man, I hear chasing that Chris Crofton. will end up with you dying of AIDS. Yeah. As the water falls video. He doesn't know the actual.

The shock on Chris's face. When he said like, wait, what? What kind of show is this? That's one of the verses in waterfalls. Is it really? Three letters took into his final rest and praise.

Yeah, I don't hear me. I still feel bad for left eye. Yeah. Hell yeah, man. Poor left eye. So yeah, what's up? Go get the Advice King Anthology.

That's the, um, audio book. Go get it. With the intro by my mom. Hell yeah. My mom reads the intro. Nice. How she do?

She's like 84 years old. Nails it. You guys hate old people? Oh, yeah, the worst. Am I right? Oh, well, Jack hates old people, but people who don't hate old people, go buy my audio book and pay my fucking rent. pay my rent

it's not even that high my rent's not even high it's too low I have trouble with my damn I always say I have trouble with my damn rent it's not even high how much is the audiobook

I don't know I think it's 10 bucks he sounded so defeated I don't know I don't know man it's hard to get information out of Vanderbilt University Press right right

tell you what they are not they are not the most upbeat individuals. Turns out. Because Vanderbilt, it turns out

as mostly a real estate developer that runs school as a side hustle. I had no idea. NYU, very powerful, real estate concern buying up all lower man.

Vanderbilt owns like a sixth of the city's land. Oh, I'm looking at the... And they're selling it off to Chipotle. Looking at the credit. Your mom's name is Penny? My mom's name is Penny, yes. What's her?

What are people's, is that Penelope? No, her real name's Barbara, but she had red hair. Then they named her Penny because the colors were like a, I had red hair, my whole family had red hair. My dad had red hair. Right, right, right. That's why we're all fucked up. Yeah, yeah.

It's constantly bothered. People rubbing our heads, telling us we're idiots, telling us we're cute. Right. Throw us in the river. Mike cousins. My cousin's like maternal grandmother was also named Penny, but her name was like Mary. And I was always like, wait, what? Some people were just getting that fucking name back then.

Yeah, I don't know. My mom had red hair, red hair, and I guess. Good enough. Yeah. I guess, see, I don't know who did it, but, but it's a nice name. And she's a great person, totally crazy and funny. And raised us like a, I mean, I mean, I was going to say something like she raises us like a pack of wolves or something, but not really.

I mean, she wouldn't like that. But I mean, we went to McDonald's like a lot. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Like a lot. Like, she was just like, McDonald's. Look, man. We're going to McDonald's.

Yeah, what do you fucking want, man? Get happy. Like, I'm not making dinner. I didn't sign up for this. Yeah, right, right. Out of that. Sure. Like, she seriously was.

And my dad was like, help us. right so that's why I'm like an ally your red hair the only person in my house that knew how to do anything was my mother my dad was just like this is what happens when you turn a guy loose in his library and let him think a lot I mean the grass never gets cut let's put it that way

that's right um Chris we're thrilled to have you here we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about we have reached the dancing for gas phase of the American experiment. So we're going to look at it. Jesus. We are going to ask the question, what's going on with Republicans and stakes? They really, they love stakes.

They like talking about them. They're like ringing about having. I hope to have. We got to get to that. I know, you know, it's funny. We were going to talk about another episode. I go, I think this is, this story speaks precisely to Chris's vision of Americana. An old stand-up joke, man, that I had was just like.

And it's not great or anything, but just like if you get your stakes well done, it means you've never questioned anything your parents ever told you. And that's all you need to know about Republicans. Donald Trump famously, a well-done, well-done steak with a catch-up man. Republicans are not taking questions. No further answers, Your Honor. We'll talk about Mark Zuckerberg, Super Yacht, bravely ignoring distress calls while he is filming himself sparring with MMA fighters. on a floating ring in the middle of the ocean. Yeah.

Also, as pervert glasses are being banned in bars around the world. All of that, plenty more. But first, Chris Croft, and we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, two things. Like, one thing is just this, on my show, Goldbrook got me like, we have a break.

We take a break in the middle. And I've been finding, like, coffee reviews by, on YouTube, by people who have no views on them, and they're from like 2008. Like, go ship, like basically YouTube ghost ships, you know?

Right, right. Like some guy decided he was going to start a coffee review channel and did like six episodes and it was four. Now, assignment for Zykegang, if anyone wants to, and I did it on my show too,

is if you guys can track down like low view, uh, coffee reviews, um, and send them to my email, best of bread at gmail. That's my real email. You can also just send anything you want to there.

There you can say, what's up or you can say you suck or whatever and best of bread at gmail.com. So anyway, yeah, I'm trying. I also think you could probably use AI for that. Like, you could probably turn AI loose and say, find the lowest view things. But I wish there was a search thing on YouTube

where you could say, like, I want the lowest view videos. Right. But instead, YouTube is like, so fucked. All it does is pop up AI searches and it's just ruined. So it's actually, no one wants to go look for what I just said. But anyway, this guy is just a really good, he did a really good coffee review a really long time ago. I couldn't find any other ones of his.

He said he was going to review a K-cup every day for like 25 days or something in 2008. Oh, and here's the audio. It's real fun. Hello, I'm Jonathan, and we're going to be doing 200 cure K-cup taste reviews in as many days. First, I am not a professional coffee taster. I just love drinking coffee. And in regular brew coffee, I prefer the darker roast. I think it's important to know a reviewer's taste preferences in order to put opinions into perspective.

Wow. This is product review number one, Green Mountain Coffee's Breakfast Blend. That's good coffee. A little sweet, a little acidic, and it's something that I could drink. It's coffee that I could drink throughout the day. That's it. That's so good. That was the whole thing.

I just think it's all he let in, like, uh, with the song and everything, you would think he would say like, this is coffee. Then he's like, this is coffee I can drink throughout the day. That's right. Yeah. That's why, like, God. That's what I like the internet for. If he went through with his all 200 K-cup reviews, he would have quickly found that he was

running out of real estate in terms of. Well, I feel like, oh, that's good. I just don't understand why he gave such a thorough. lead in and then just said it's pretty good. That's a lot of, like a lot of people write the theme song for the podcast before they have an idea for the podcast, you know? So anyway, that guy, I'd rather watch that guy review K-Cups than see Mark Zuckerberg fight somebody on a raft.

Yeah, yeah, going full. I mean, you're a little fucked up like that, huh? We've lost our way. We've lost our way, internet. We need to get back to that. At least that person has like the sincerity or, transparency, but like, dude, I don't fuck all about coffee. I just like drinking coffee.

Here's a review. That's all right. The end. It's like so sad to review a K-cup anyway. That's like reviewing, right. Like a frozen meal or, you got to start somewhere. Frozen pizza reviews. Yeah. I like it. Chris, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated.

Oh, gosh. Hinge. Is that your favorite? It's kind of a joke. I do a lot of those. But Hinge is not, it's underrated for the wrong reasons. Hinge is horrific, but it's underrated because you really get to see what's going on. I don't know much about Hinge.

Can you explain what the difference between Hinge and other dating apps? I don't, it's not a hookup. I get supposed to be like, for people who really want a relationship. And, you know, if you put in your correct age, like my age is 50, right? Sure. So like, I get an idea of oh fuck, we just got such a funny message. Producer, met my wife on Hinge.

Victor says he met his wife on Hinge. I guess we shouldn't be married. Is that what you're saying? He must not have been on Hinge in Nashville. Right. No, definitely not. Holy fuck. The 50-something division on Hinge in Nashville is the most disheartening. I mean, first of all,

everybody in this whole country is a radiologist assistant. Everybody. Everybody works in health care. There's only like one there's only one scam that capitalism is running that actually still

needs people and it's health care. Right, right, right. It's a complete, like... And it's a job you can tech, you can like get a career fairly quickly and stable, so I totally get that, yeah. Right, but they also pay you the least they can pay you. I mean, it's like, you know, until they can turn over medicine to AI, they're stuck paying. They need people. And it's like the only product

that people always will need and will always pay for. That's right. So it's like, it's just incredible because these people are stuck working long hours of this job, probably make, you know, 60 grand a year or something, something where they have two, you know, two people working. The husband, and wife or I guess they're not husband before these people got divorced. They're all divorced. Whoa, whoa, what are you doing, bro? Everybody's, I wish that would be, that would be a much more fun app.

At least if there was something more going on than just late capitalist begging for companionship. If there was some sort of angle where it was like, have sex with, you know, you're, I don't know, whatever, neighbor sex.com or something. Your radiologist. Anything, like wild card, spinthebottle.

org. But anyway, I am just like so disheartened but also informed from Hinge. So Hinge to me is more of a like a research. It's like Snopes. It's a menagerie that you can peek into. Well, everyone wears the same outfit in the whole world. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, they really do. What is that outfit that you're seeing very consistently? Oh, my God. In Nashville, it's like cowboy stuff and like. Oh, everyone's a cowboy? And tattoos of like, yeah, like whatever they get a tattoo of, like a, what? I don't know what they get a tattoo of, like a menu from their favorite restaurant or something. Like on their back.

Yeah. Like fucking. This is actually from a fictitious restaurant called Climpy's from Arrested Development. I love also, you should not go out with me if you're an alcoholic, not my thing. That was one thing I saw yesterday. What does that mean? Yeah. I guess they, in their mind,

like self-identified practicing alcoholics, do you think they mean? Yeah, that's like the same as saying you should not go out with me if you're a murderer, not my thing. Yeah. Okay. The key to my heart is Jesus is another one I saw that was good. You know, that's just normal, normal. Something that's not negotiable for me is please have a fishing license. Imagine me trying to date in this scenario.

Wait. Wait. Because they don't want to go. easy to get. They don't want to go out on a lake and then be like, wait, you don't have your fishing license? Oh, they're scared of like fishing illegal. Wait to the pop out. The fishing game warns.

The fishing game warns about to bust our asses. So I'm kind of a sad mood also because, listen, I joined this the other day. And I was like seriously like, listen, I should probably date. And this is like my, I'm like, I'll just go on here. I did this in L.A. And everyone in LA had the same thing Instead of they were wearing fedoras. This is like 2000.

Every 19, you know. And everyone was wearing a fucking $3 fedora and standing next to a boat holding a glass of white wine. That's now this is the same thing except it's cowboy hats And champagne flutes full of fucking rosé Standing next to a Like a building, like a fancy building.

Like showing like I have money. I can stand next to this. You've caught me admiring my building. Oh, me? Anyway, so it made me so sad because it's like, I'm never good. You have to meet people in real life except for Victor. Or if you're like hot, then you probably meet some people who are pretty good, you know, just because everybody says yes to that. You know, I mean, if you're super hot, but then any, you can meet people on the street if you're super hot.

People like me, I got to work. I'm like hot, but, you know, a different kind of hot. That's right. You're hot. You're hot to me, bro. I have a sort of intensity that doesn't come across on in hinge photos. You have to really Yeah, you're like, don't message me

Unless you can recommend Coffee reviews with less than eight views From 17 years ago Okay, this guy has no money I go crazy for alpha men That are confident in their masculine energy Who also respects a lady For wanting to live confidently

In her feminine energy Yeah, yeah, yeah And she's standing in like a fit, wait So that isn't going to work out for you? That sounds good. I just like this. Also these people have been convinced that imaginary people exist. Like she's like, I want, if you get an alpha male, you're going to get some MAGA nut job who's

like just yelling about the stolen election all day. They're never going to like let you live confidently in your feminine energy. They're going to be too busy putting their fist through the wall. Or that version of that guy is sort of like, he's like, but I do. He's like, yeah, like I hate immigrants and gay people. But women, y'all do whatever you want with your body. And they're like, there he is. This is my queen.

It's like, I want a fireman that reads poetry. There's no such fucking thing. Anyway, I, just, Hinge is like, informative, depressing. Yeah, sure. Not helpful. Victor, how many times did you have to, how long were you in there until you met your wife? He said a couple years. A couple years on the set.

Yeah, yeah. Put the work in. So anyway, yeah, like Hinge, I know, I know, like, I'm just on it for a couple minutes. And, and, uh, it's, it's funny, but I don't feel like that's like, I mean, if you of any kind of way of being that's not just like getting the fucking last drips out of capitalism's

fucking, you know, shower robe. Right. I mean, if you're not just like, just fully like just operating on, like, I'm fine, I can barely pay for things and I live in a cardboard nest. But I can

afford a fucking Chinese cowboy hat and I can squeeze my wiener dog like then you're going to meet somebody you love and right it is so much it just it feels like so much of life is sorting through people it's like what what people do now you know well also like people are generally like

I understand they're under pressure and I'm under pressure too and uh you know I'm not saying that they're doing their best they think that you want to you financial security is the name of the game uh and uh that's what they're trying to show is like they're posing with, you know, objects that say like I'm not, yeah, like I don't, and I don't want to date somebody who doesn't, isn't down with like, standing near the buildings. I don't want somebody who's not, like, you know what I mean?

Like, we're going to be by the buildings. I want to stay close to the buildings. Right. This could be you standing by this building. Look, this is the other thing I value, this private property. Am I, are we going to talk about the surge of federal law enforcement in the state right now? Nah. Right. So many political moderates. I mean, I mean, there are some great people. I mean, there are people on here like, no way, no Trump supporters, no MAGA. I mean, there's a lot of that. But there's also a lot of, like, centrist and moderate.

It's like, what the hell are you doing? I don't get involved in politics. And I don't care if you're black, yellow, purple, green, or white, you know? I don't see color. You could be an alien. Chris, what's something you think is overrated? Well, gosh, I wish I could, I wish I could say some fun stuff. overrated his Instagram

because it doesn't work anymore I mean it fully doesn't work Yeah it's it's a shell of itself Like I don't need to see It uses it as if it works I think everyone it's like out of habit At this point like every time I've I get on like I look at it on my phone

I'm like dude I don't give a fuck about someone posting Three weeks ago Right this used to like They've completely lost what made it interesting Which was sort of like What's everyone doing right now Immediacy? Yeah yeah yeah

And sure. It's, I knew what someone did four weeks ago. Yeah. So, so, like, I have a show coming up. I might as well use this to promote real quick. I have some shows coming up with Josh Fatim. I don't know if Josh Fatim. I don't know if Josh Fatim's ever been on the Daily's Ikeyes.

No. He's a good friend of Johnny Pemberton. I used to do a show with him in L.A., him and Johnny. And O was doing a lot of shows with him, too. I remember early on. I think we just never got Josh on the show. He's so funny. Anyway, there's a tour coming up.

Me and Josh are doing four dates. We're just doing Nashville on the tour. 20th, which is not this Thursday, but the next. So that's August 20th at the basement in Nashville. And so the basement got in touch with me, and they're like, you've sold four tickets. And I was like, well... Is this a congratulations call or... Yeah, that's not good.

Right, right. Well, this is becoming common. And this didn't used to be common because there was a time where, anyway, it's just connected to Instagram because that, but then they said, let's do a collaborative post. Like, that's the... Everybody's still thinking in that. Like, I put up tons of posts. They didn't even, you know what I mean?

they haven't seen the posts that I've put up. Right, right. So I'm just saying it's like everybody's still doing it. I just think mailing lists are the way to go. So go to Chris Crofton.com and get on my mailing list because I just, there's no way to reach. I mean, I know people would love to see this show. It's going to be a great show. I never get to get together with Josh and do some shows.

So please come to the basement on the 20th in Nashville and buy a ticket ahead of time just so the venue doesn't, you know, yell at me. And then, and, and, uh, I'm hanging by a thread. So anyway, the 18th in Chattanooga at JJ's Bohemia and the 14th this Friday in Memphis at the Lamplighter Lounge and then in Atlanta on the 22nd, the I-drum gallery. So anyway, just Instagram is fucking hooked for real. And I don't, I just, I guess mailing list. So go to Chris Crofton.com if you want to find out what I'm doing. And also I just want to say Ed Zittron's doing a great job talking about AI.

It makes me happy. I think he's a bit of a downer. He's a He's a He's a hater, I've noticed. He's a hater. Okay, let me see. Overraid. What else that I have written?

I have, we could replace the, uh, All Things Considered song on NPR with a freak on a leash. That's a good idea. Read the room, NPR. Oh, shit.

What is the awful? What is the awesome? It takes a part of the song again. Oh yeah. Yeah. Jesus. As if there's time for, this is a time for like,

whatever that is, Dixieland. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. And then the news. is like, Donald Trump strangled

of chicken on live television. It's probably like, we like have fun here. You can't play that song. It has to be something more appropriate. Slip knot. Yeah. Right.

Right. I don't know. Yeah. They had NPR Tiny Desk did have Napalm death on. There you go. Did they use that? Yeah.

Use that. Yeah. But something like something more appropriate than whatever that is like that. Yeah. That's some Clinton-era shit. I feel like that's them trying to be silly billies a little bit. It's such a bygone thing when people would hit like the marimba or xylophone to give you that like

like sort of melodic morse code energy that they would put in those news jingles. Oh yeah, underrated also like or overrated. I don't know which one it is. Underrated, I always say watch the movie network from 1976. I watched it the other night again. it's the I'm mad as hell I'm not gonna take it anymore show and man oh man

does it fucking resonate so hardcore forever and the good news is we're turning this shit around because DSA is actually whether or not

they're actually the real thing I still doubt politicians are the real thing even when they are you know saying the right things but I do feel like we're seeing energy

we're seeing a moment you know we're seeing a moment where people are just like not listening to the NPR theme song anymore yeah I think it's the song that turn them on

but turn them away. Well, I mean, it's serious. Like, I wish we could put it in. We should put it in. I mean, I'm like, all these requests now, like, because all my audio's all fucked up, but I don't have it on, like, but you could play the song and it's like,

you can't play that song and then say the shit that's going on in America right now. It doesn't match. Yeah, I feel you. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about all the stuff that's going on in America. We'll be right back.

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I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the... a pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people, and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here. I can wait four hours for the next bus, or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is, and not the lies you're sold about it. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip,

I hope you listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. Latest example of the mainstream media turning bleak capitalist nightmare shit into a wacky news story. A gas station in Half Moon, New York, is offering a 20% discount for customers

who are willing to dance for their amusement, I guess, social media clicks. It's kind of like somebody shooting at the ground and saying dance to somebody in like a Western movie. 100%. Except, I mean, it really is, except rather than the gun, it's just like the threat of capitalism devouring you.

It's like, what are you going to do without your gas, not get to your job? One Facebook video racked up six million views. And they, like, I get it. Like, they show the three people who did it and have the most energy and are like having fun with it. Seemed to be having fun. Seem to be selling it the most. But, like, there's got to be 40 examples of people just like. dancing joylessly.

The craziest detail of this story is the gas station didn't even play music for them. They had to just dance in silence. Yeah. They had to just do that. No instrumental acapella. That's not nice. Especially with Bluetooth speakers and everything being so cheap. Ah, so easy to get to.

Yeah. It's not hard. Just play it out of your phone even. Yeah. This really is so indicative, like just like the Omni Crisis. that we're in. It's like people's desperation and like click clout engagement culture

too. Where this gas station's like I mean shit I get some viral videos maybe if I videotape these desperate people dancing for a discount on their gasoline that they need and then I win because I get some views and then they win because they get their precious gas they need to fucking survive.

It's like so fucking wow. Well you guys are probably too young to remember this, but I put myself through college doing dance marathons. Oh, like, like, dance till you drop kind of thing? This was in the, like, late 20s, early 30s. And I was thinking about, I could do the jitterbug for 14 hours. I was thinking about dance marathons. That's the first thing that came to mind.

During the Depression, they did these sadistic things called dance marathons. I think they shoot horses, don't they? They shoot horses, don't they? Yeah, that's the movie that's about that. I had no idea. That's what it is about, but. It's like you just exploit people who I don't even know what the point was. I actually thought about going deeper on that because I don't quite get what the,

because I guess it was just they got crowds of people to watch, but they would go for 24 hours, 30 hours. It's a lot like hands on a hard body, the documentary about the guys who had to touch the pickup truck. Oh, the cars. The people had to touch the pickup truck. And that turned out to be like tell you how desperate people are because they thought it was going to be a whimsical competition where people kept their hand on the truck for, you know, a few hours and someone won a truck, and it turned out

to be this like days long, like nightmare of people trying desperately to win a truck because it would change their life. People would like die. Because there was like bathroom, like you weren't allowed to use the restroom. Oh, that's the funniest documentary and the darkest. I mean, it's everything. That documentary is beautiful in terms of like just being

plain old entertaining, like the guy who thinks he's going to be able to eat Snickers and get through it. Right. and wear cowboy boots and stuff and like the other contestants being like man that guy is fucking. I mean it is just, I mean it's, it really is a similar thing,

right? Because I know like, the point of those marathons was to win a prize in an era where people were finally unemployed. So like you could get a fuck ton of money from dancing as long as you could

to survive. And now like, I feel like that sort of same sort of economic like, oh, is there a thing I can do once and give myself? a life-changing amount of money

or a life-changing opportunity. And, like, social media has kind of been, like, the stand-in for a lot of people. Only fans. Yeah, but, I mean, like, social media broadly, right? Especially as sort of like, man, you can go viral. And then from there, like, who knows what's going to happen without realizing you are just in this, like, really fucked up rat wheel

or, like, the people that are running social media, like, we're trying to get the fucking data from you. Right. There's a middleman, too. So, like, back at, like, in terms of, like, Only fans, like, only fans is great. if it, I mean, it's not great or whatever. There's a lot of things about it that are not great, but in general, like, in terms of a way to make money. Yeah.

But then they have the guy who runs the app makes a billion dollars and all these people have to, you know, do all this stuff for, you know, there's always a middleman now. Like, at least a fucking dance marathon happened in person. You got cash in your hand. You didn't have to like, now fucking dance. Pay a feed of fucking Mark Zuckerberg. So this is making me long for my college days. of a straight exchange of I sat on top of a flagpole for four days and then I got $75. The flagpole sitting was the same phenomenon.

You and your pals, you and your co-eds racing to crowd into a phone booth together. Right. Right. Yes. But now the phone booth thing gets, no one watches it because everybody's at home and they watch it on their phone, but you had to upload it. And then you get no views or whatever. And you ended up just squashing yourself into a phone book for no phone book. Phone booth for no fucking reason.

Right, right. There's a social media manager for this gas station who's like, fucking talented. Yeah, a monster or very talented. It's hard to tell with. This gas station, though, I need some gas. Half moon New York. Yeah, upstate New York. I also just like, what is the end game for this company to be like?

And then we get six million views on the video. And there is, you know, there's not. I think there's just like something that just pulls at people to be like, this will get attention. I mean, they love like, you look at the comments on these videos and they're like, I'm going to go there. Wow, that seems fun. Like, you know, they're just like, it's a way, like the guy who, one of the people who made the final cut of the highlight real. Jeff Bezos made those comments. Yeah, right.

The guy who made the final cut is like, yeah, put a little extra pep in my step going back to work. And now I can go back to work a little bit more refresh. and he was there like buying two giant like monster energy drinks. Jesus is like fuck man. It's so good. Monster energy drinks will make you more comfortable with doing exploitative capitalist shit. That's what it's fuel, baby. Yeah, you have a couple of monster energy drinks.

You'll dance your ass off for nothing. You'll just dance at a gas station. You serve the monster that is the US dollar. Yeah, you'll just dance at a fucking gas station and you'll be happy as a bird. It's just like, it's just interesting to see like there's always, there will always be some form of entertainment, which is like, how do you exploit desperate people, like in an exchange for our entertainment and will also generate attention for everybody. It's like, okay, people will come to our danceoffs. People will, it'll create all this news. They get their little money. Now it's social media

posts for people who need gasoline because the price is just so fucking high. It's preventing people from using their fucking cars. It's like the, it's a combination of the idea, like the trick of, the trick of, of the lottery, which is that we're meant to judge things based like in a pre-TV, pre-media world, like the way our brain, our body is designed evolutionarily is like, well, if I saw a thing, that must mean it's probably possible. And so I can do, you know, so, and because they're showing you the one winner and not the, you know, 99,000 losers. Like me watching a Bon Jovi behind the music on VH1 and deciding to be a musician.

Exactly. And it's like, where's my jet? And then I feel like there's also a thing of, man, I'm like, yeah, some of those people are probably desperate, but they're not as desperate as me. Like the, they shoot horses, don't they thing? It's like everybody has that same feeling of like, it's like my feeling about, like, if I ever got, I'm not a trained fighter. I've not been in fights in my life, but if I ever got into a fight, I would just like, I'd go so crazy on them, you know? Oh, yeah. Like, I definitely went.

That was like right. In a plane crash, I would just crawl up into the baggage compartment. Yeah, exactly. I'd always saw. I jumped right before it hit the elevator. Jump in the air, so when it hits the ground, I wouldn't actually be on the ground. Yeah, yeah. Ground.

All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll come back and talk about Republicans and stakes. Hell yeah. Get Bell, Pure Fiber Internet with Crave Netflix and Disney Plus from $94 a month. Price guaranteed for two years on Internet with a two-year term and auto pay credit. Visit bell.ca for details and to check availability. Bell. Connection is everything. Hey, Portlandia fans. Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen here. You know us, or rather you know them. Tony and Candice, Nina and Lance, Spike, and yes, the chicken. We've played a lot of iconic characters over the years, but today we're showing up as ourselves to tell you about Podlandia, AEO rewatch, our brand new podcast.

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And we love a steak, don't we folks? Miles, you were pointing out that the Republicans are on some, on some beef. It's what's for dinner type shit right now. What's for fucking dinner, man? Drill, baby drill. We love fucking beef, man, out here. Dude, it's like, it's just,

it's just that staple flesh that Americans have also brought it around the world. Just one of those things, man. Got to consume it. Um, but like, I think that the lettuce thing is a sciop to make people just eat more meat. Because I've definitely eaten less salad than I ever have in the last couple months.

Oh, I just eat more other vegetables. You know, you know, salad isn't the only vegetable you can consume. Okay. Red meat. Stay the only, there's vegetables, the food, there's red meat or there's iceberg lettuce. Those are the only two kinds of foods.

Those are the two things I'm aware of. But I mean, like, if you look right now, the economy's in chaos. Yes, beef is like something like almost 25% more expensive since Trump took office. And steak has come up twice in the last month as Republicans just sort of just give their little sound bites, right, and talk about affordability. Last month, I definitely pointed it out because Troy Nels, who's from Texas, he brought it up, like right before the 4th of July where people like, oh, man, like, you know, everything's so

affordable? What do you say to, like, speak to the affordability crisis? And he, he, uh, weaponized stake in this instance to be like, no, everything's all good because I got my stakes. Do House Republicans make the case that you're fighting for affordability when you go back to your districts? Affordability, what are you talking about? I'm going to go to tomorrow. I'm going to, well, over the fourth. This guy, a cartoon character? What are you talking about, eh? I'm going to sit in my backyard with my family, my neighbors. And we're going to be, enjoying the fourth. So he goes on and he goes, affordability, what?

I'm going to go get some nice lobster tails and some nice rib-eyes. And again, like using that to be like, what do you mean there's a crisis? Everything is normal. Good answer. Good answer. Because I am steak consumer. That's so sad, man.

Yeah. And it's just like, but there's this, in that one, that version, you're like, okay, he used steak to shame people into being like, there is no affordability crisis. If I can still afford it. He's a giant asshole, but he's also a moron because like he's a consumer like the whole model that we all none of us know how to feed

ourselves unless we can go to a store is is a big problem right um and uh you know like just i just that guy like he's such a victim i see i see republicans even though i hate them because of what they're doing but i see these people as children that guy's like that guy's that's oh yeah you should he has a twin he's an identical twin brother who is also running and they look like this fuck weird two-headed Serberic... Yeah, that shit. That guy's alcoholic dad said to him

when he was like... Like, you know, they're bullying me at school, Dad, what should I do? And he's like, fuck, you know, fuck you. I've got lobster tails on the grill. Shut the fuck up. Yeah. Like, yeah.

I don't know what... I don't know what that's like. Look how many stakes I have. Right, right. Thanks, Dad. Now, we have interim nepo senator, Darlene Graham, younger sister of Lindsay Graham. I do just want to say at the end of that video,

he does say, when they are like, so how does that affect affordability and people who live check to check? He's like, maybe they don't work as hard as me. I don't got an affordability crisis. So maybe they don't work as hard as much. Everyone should be a senator. That's the model we have going here.

Let them eat cake. Had like a poetic element to it. There was something like if it's working for you. Affordability? I'm eating steak. It's not like, there's no like cute misunderstanding. He's just like, well, you should work harder. I have steak and, like,

lobster tails get fucked, buddy. When let them eat cake became suck my dick. Yeah, yeah, totally. From the back. So, yeah. Now, Darlene Graham, she's trying to win the South Carolina primary. She's had the last week to make her case at a very short window to try and get her shit together for this run. And she brought up steak at least twice. Like last week she was saying something about, she's like, oh, I only get it on sale. And she's said the exact same thing on a fox and friend's appearance, which is,

I'm like, is this like a line? HOMS thing where you're like, you're going to talk about steak as like your way to relate to the every man. So here's Darlene Graham talking about, you know, her campaign. But how she gets affordability vis-a-vis steak prices. About 24 hours. I know you've talked a lot about affordability. You've talked about high prices at the grocery store. How will you actually tackle this problem?

And why did you decide to make this your platform? Well, like most South Carolina and, I struggle too. You know, when I go shopping, I'm a bargain shopper. If the stakes don't on sale, I don't buy it that week. I look for the buy one, get one free sale. So I think like most South Carolinians, I live the struggles here too. If the stakes don't on sale, I don't get them.

I don't get them. I mean, like, I get part of it, too, is like I think they're trying to touch to a thing that felt like a normal, like, item that people could get when the economy was better. It's like you didn't think twice. By association. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. So I think like there's that part to it too, but like it's just interesting like how much as a texture the thing of like, like, well, you know, maybe I think that's how they sort of signal it's like, man, we were doing good. We were eating steaks. So now it's like, well, I get it. I'm also now. I understand the struggle, the pangs of hunger that hit because now I can only buy it at a discount. Maybe they should take a couple chews of the steak and then pass it around the table, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just everybody gets a little chew on the steak. By the way, her and her. interview is happening in a, I think the plan was to make it look like a busy headquarters,

because there's people in the background, like these like middle-aged men working, but they're all just staring silently at the camera, not moving. Yeah, very much. It's giving haunting. Like, they're just all, like, it's like the, like, these are people who like worked on the original Graham campaign when Lindsay Graham first ran and were like, sexually harassed to death and she like can't actually see them like they're just staring there without saying anything like smiling into the cameras yeah that's how i'm doing it all yeah they're like

the ghosts of the 20th century being like yeah we just need to buy stakes yeah yeah yeah you know i mean like i remember like you know i worked for marathon fuel for 40 years and i got a goal watch and I buy steak. So what's the matter with all these? Right. Right. It's like it is, it kind of reminds me of like the thing we were talking about

in the trending episode with like Democrats and the data center thing where it's like stakes give the Republicans a way to like acknowledge things could be better without really getting like going systemic on them and being like, well, don't give them real ideas. We can just be like, yeah, man, steak, huh? Yeah. We're going to work on that. We're making their campaign songs, Big Rock Candy Mountain.

Right. And the big rock candy mountain. think about it. Or she'll be coming around the mountain or any kind of old fucking shit. Mountain's made ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. I remember what we'll call everybody just bought steaks and shut the fuck up and listen to it.

She'll be coming around the mountain and, um, but this is okay. So you guys been to a steakhouse recently? No, a steak like a property. Like you want to go to where white supremacy sits, especially in like a southern states, I would say, you know, no, that's not true. The north do. I mean, like, steakhouses are a place where people go to. feel like everything's okay. Right, right.

And where men are, where men go to feel like they're still in charge. And fetishizing a version of like the 40s and 50s. Yes. And steak is like, and yeah,

and like the 40s and 50s were fetishizing some fucking like Western fucking Chuck wagon or something that they think they're associated with. Which they saw in a movie. Like all this was seen in movies. They're like, I want the theme of my restaurant to be the frontier where we were doing

settler colonial violence. Let me go back to overrated movies. I mean, really, the invention of the camera ruined, I mean everything. But anyway, that's a whole separate. But I mean, like, seriously, like, people think they were,

they saw a chuck wagon. They don't know. They're like, I know what a chuck wagon in real life, I think. You know, it's like, and you ask a cowboy from the 19th century, and they're like, I've never even,

there's no such thing as a chuck wagon. What are you talking about? So, uh, that was Otto Preminger. invented that. Um, the film director.

God damn. Um, you guys were like, Otto Preminger reference. references. Hey, Chris, do you have any auto Preminger references is what we said right before we started recording? As a matter of fact,

don't fucking derail the show unless you've got proper auto preminger. When I was putting myself through college doing dance marathons, there was nothing I like to do better than unwind with an auto Preminger movie about imaginary chuck wagons. So, okay, so

stakeholders are like performative capitalism at its best. And you can step in there and it's still, everybody's wearing ties and stuff, you know, and they're like, they're, the, you know, the waiters are wearing, like, 14, you know, big old aprons and, like, they're doing some, yeah, they're doing, yeah, they're doing some, some kind of theater. Right, right, right, right. And meat is the center of this Republican, like, when Republicans go to the store, which we will see probably in, what, certainly

within the next 15 years, where it's too hot for cattle to, like, even exist, even indoors or something. Right. Like, you know, there's not going to be any steak in the store, and then they'll have to switch to some other food, you know, they'll be like, real men eat fucking tofu or whatever that's changed to. Soybean steaks. Real men eat product six, the new meat substitute.

So, so, like, we are just like, we have all the evidence, you know, they, they conflate, like, meat and oil, too, like, they think they can drill for gravy. Like, there's a lot of, like, there's just so much theater involved in steaks, and it's so

crazy, because all they do is make you shit badly and then you're in a horrible mood which explains all these people i've seen republicans they eat huge pieces of meat for lunch you know sluggish that makes you and have like a beer at lunch or whatever kind of thing real men do you know what that does to real men it makes them shit weird and it makes them more short-tempered right right right oh man i mean no that's you've really hit the nail on the head because like i think about why i'm like why haven't i because i think about what a steakhouse is like a roots chris or something like that that. And when you go in there, it like feels for me as like a personal call, I'm like,

bro, this feels weird. It's like, I can get steak anywhere, but like the vibe of a proper like steakhouse to your point is because like it does feel like this bastion of like this this bygone era of like you're being served by servants that are well dressed because they respect the decorum of the fucking steakhouse. It's also a bygone era because everyone died from eating those food. Red meat constantly. Right, right, right. Check the decorum of the fucking steakhouse. It's also a bygone era because everyone died from eating those food. Red meat constantly. Right, right, right. Check their colons. Like the last one I went to is I was visiting a friend

in Omaha and he was like, oh, we should go to this like kitsy place where like you grill your own steak. And I was like, oh yeah, that's kind of funny. And I remember doing that there. But that was like sort of a completely, that was more of like an every man kind of person version than like the steak house.

You know, like your Peter Lugar kind of fucking thing where it's like, oh no, no, no. This is like a classic fire. Yeah. Yeah. So we're living through. a really funny time, you know. And I sometimes I think, yeah, it's like funny. Yeah, not funny. But, but, but, but I do think it's like really going to be funny for for people in the

future to go through and like go through what the hell exactly were steakhouses, you know? Right. Oh, look what they dress like. God damn. They dressed up to eat like that. Yeah, they all look like, oh, they're all like, what's golf? Oh, look. Takes up all the place you can put affordable housing.

Why is everyone's hair so greasy? Look at golf. Why is this both so masculine? It's just this little ball. All. Yeah. Wait, but that was viable land they could have grown their food on and they didn't. Yeah, yeah.

Why is RFK Jr. Always holding a big bird? But they knew the climate was suffering, yet they didn't foresee any of this. Used all their water on this? Yeah. On pulling off a computer hut? Yeah. Cooling computers and golf courses.

If you told the man that you were going to take away his golf, he would cry like a baby and then say women are emotional. That's just these damn emotional women. I'll overthrow, drop a nuclear bomb on the world if you take away my golf. My fucking golf. Chris Crofton, such a pleasure having you as always on the Daily Zykeyes. Where can people find you, follow you, here you see you, all that good stuff? You can find me at The Crofton Show on what's left of Instagram.

You can find me on all the places. I'm, as I've already established, very thirsty. So I'm on everything. Blue Sky, fucking, even on old Twitter. I just like to check in there and see what maniacs say and threads too at the Crofton Show and then you can please listen to my podcast

Cold Brew Got Me Like and you can get that anywhere and and go yeah go get the advice King Anthology on audiobook if you want it's pretty fun I read the whole thing it took like six million hours to record it and then

come to these shows really that's the really the fun thing is come to these Josh Vadim and me doing these stand-up shows together. Doesn't happen very often. This Friday, the 14th in Memphis at the lamplighter lounge. Then Tuesday in Chattanooga, the 18th at JJ's Bohemia. I don't remember the end of them, but come to my Instagram and see them.

There you go. But, yeah, buy tickets ahead of time, too, because it drives everybody. I'm not the only one to say this, but it makes everybody fucking crazy. Like, just because they're like, I think it'll be a good show in the end. But, I mean, like, four tickets sold. I mean, it just makes people nervous, you know? Yeah, yeah, for sure. That's all.

They're going to update you every time a ticket, this will call you. I don't know, you know, it's like, that's the thing. And it's like, I'll go on Instagram again. I mean, that's what you know, that's what you say. You know, I'll go back on Instagram and hit it harder. Hey, could you hit it a little harder on the gram? Thanks, ma'am.

Miles. Yeah. Where can people find you? Oh, wait. Chris, is there? work of media you've been enjoying. Yes, there's a new Ken Carter. You guys, you know, longtime listeners will definitely know me babbling about devil at your heels, that documentary about the guy trying to jump a Lincoln Continental across the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. That man, Ken Carter, who, you know, said he was 44 years old and was on the threshold of life. And said he was a healthy specimen, which is just always like what I remind myself in the morning, you know? Right. Um, healthy specimen. Because a lot of people don't think they're on the threshold of life when they're 44. Right, sure. But they are. So just look up. The new Ken Carter video is called.

It's about him trying to jump, set a record in a jet car. It was after he jumped the Lincoln Continental. But he didn't really jump the Lincoln Continental. You guys probably know that part or maybe you don't. But at the last minute, the filmmakers were like, we're running out of film. someone's got to get this car and jump it. So Ken Carter's best friend without him knowing. They sent Ken Carter to some business meeting, a fake business meeting,

and then his friend Ken Powers jumped the car. So then Ken Carter was so mad, and he's still going on about that jump in this video. But Ken Carter, world record rocket car jump, ramp to ramp. It's just a little slice of the old carnival world that I love so much. So that's a piece of media I'm enjoying is Ken Carter with a briefcase at a racetrack, explaining how he's going to jump over a bunch of snakes with a rocket car. That's amazing. Miles,

where can people find you? Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray, talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé, and I'm talking about soccer, football on ain't it footy every week over there, talking about soccer, sports.

Talking about soccer. I like is from, I played one of her videos last week where she talked about, like, her internal monologue when she goes to airport, security and just starts off. She's like, fuck, you have a gun. You have like, just completely getting her own head before she goes in. That's funny. It's so funny. And then she just posted another video where it's her, like a lot of people do this thing where like they know YouTube

videos so well. They'll just play the, like they'll just have a laptop in front of them and just completely lip sync or just speak along with the video. And in this one, it's, this is from stevees underscore t. v. It's a, it's like she's watching this rap battle. that I think it's like an Australian rap battle and it's the worst rap battle ever but the best part is when she pretends to be the dude replying the rap battle because he absolutely blanks.

So right now she's pretending to be the guy who's going to reply. You've got a better chance of tame and a tiger or raping and lights like the suffer face inside a gay nightclub time cunt. So now she's like, oh shit, how am I going to come back to this clapping nervously? Here she goes.

I'm sorry little kids, but I'm the killer clown today. I could say bullets are going to spray. I'm from Brooklyn. That's all right. But let me just say, I like to get close and personal with a razor sharp object. But let me just say this. I'm not going to stab you in the heart.

What I'm going to do is grab your hand, stab you in the neck, puncture your lungs slam a blood object into your stomach. Fuck. A non-object into your stomach. He went back and corrected it. Oh man, that's fucking funny.

Fucking brutal. The way she's fucking... Performs that is so fucking good, dude. This is like, she's like one of the... I'm slowly becoming one of the most consistently funny followers I found online. So check Stevie's underscore T.D. That's so good.

But also let me say this. It's always a good. That's a good. That's all right. That's all right. battle line. Wrestlers always did that when they were doing promos.

They always say, let me tell you something over and over again. They couldn't think of what. What else? Because they can't say what else. What else? Let's see.

Oh, a story that we were, I meant to talk about today was that one night only director Will Gluck cut out so much nudity because people dislike sex on screen.

It takes you out of the movie. And Josh, Josh Billinson wrote, this sort of prudishness is a slippery slope toward a world where there's only one night a year when it's legal for single people to have sex, which is the premise of the movie. But yeah, very, very weird

that this movie about a fascist society where it's legal, only legal to have sex for one night is now being like, yeah, but we're not gonna actually show the sex. I'm already doing that anyway. What's your one night, Chris? Call your shot. He's got the Jason mask on. I got it on the calendar right in front of my head right here.

It's not for two months. I'm looking forward to it, though. David at Elvish, Presley tweeted, got kicked off Odysseus's boat for saying, So that just happened after every island. That's fucking funny. Also, like John Denver, the song from Chris's album, I'm Your Man. Is that what it's called John Denver? Yeah, yeah.

That's really good. Oh, thanks. Really good song. People should go listen to you. I'm here, man. That's nice. Thanks, Jack. Oh, that's good, man.

It's really good. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack Obey, the number one Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeast. We're at The Daily Zykeast on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it, and there at the bottom you will find the foot. But no.

Which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? Yeah, this is UK MC Paul Steffen. The tracks called Skate Wheels. And it's just like a really dope mashup because it's like a very UK rap pattern. Like the rhythm of the delivery is very like garage grime MC. But the beat feels very like New York, boom, bap, grimy hip hop.

So it's like a really nice blend of the two kind of styles. But first, let me say this. And I'm from Brooklyn either. That's all right. It's such a stupid guy who was lost after the first line. But first let me say this. This is a good song by Paul Steph. Skate.

There you go. Check it out. It's hip hop day too. I forgot. So like it's inter-repanel. Go listen to go listen to yo bum rush the show. It still stands up. Public enemies.

first album. It's fucking awesome. I had a friend who recently got into the public enemies like, whoa, public enemy is like fucking heavy. Go listen to my Uziweighs a ton. Song fucking rules. I thought you're going to say, I have a friend who recently bumrushed the show.

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