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I mean, yeah. I don't know exactly what, who's the pedophile or whatever. But I know. heard the song i mean yeah i don't know exactly what who's the pedophile or whatever but i know i don't know exactly probably drake but but i just don't know that i don't know the deets you know it's like i don't know obviously drake's a piece of fucking shit but i don't know exactly how you know and i'm glad that i'm glad that Kendrick filled it in for me a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust us, it's out of this world. Oh, hello, the internet. Welcome to season 344, episode 5 of the Daily Psych Guys. Guess what, motherfuckers? This is our 1700th fucking episode ever. And I'm sure somebody in Psych Gang probably has a spreadsheet that will probably correct us and we're off by like 20 episodes or something.

But based on our calculations, this is episode episode 1700 and it's been a wonderful ride these past 1699 episodes being with you but this is episode 5 of season 344 uh it's a production of iHeart Radio as usual and it's the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness it is Friday June 28th. Friday. National Alaska Day. National Insurance Awareness Day. National Paul Bunyan. Man, Paul Bunyan.

All right, shout out Paul Bunyan and that big blue ox that you had. What was the ox called? Babe or some shit? He was a real person? I thought that nigga was fake. I don't know. You know, like those tall tales are always like half real

and half being like something. Yeah. Like, just like, man, this guy was a hard worker. Yeah, man. He was a community organizer, just like Barack Obama. Anyway, my name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. Miles on the Daily Z with host Jackie Snee. Miles on the Daily Z does his best Dean scream.

Yeah. Okay. Shout out to everybody. You know, I do the Dean scream at the top of the show. Uh, shout out to bottles and fans for that, uh,

scream inspired AKA. And yes, you know, if I'm talking first, that means Jack is out. You know what? He's enjoying a nice summer break. So everybody send your well wishes and wishes of rest to him and his family as they go on their little trip.

But I am thrilled to be joined in the co-host spot with one of my favorite people to co-host a show with, Chicago's very own, one of the greatest game show hosts of all time, one of the funniest improvisers out there, one of the funniest people out there. One of the kindest human beings out there. Please welcome to the microphone, Mr. Jocky's. Now, oh, Jocky's on Daily Z with host Miles Jocky's on Daily Z. And we see dead people. They're not like us. They're not like us. They're not like us. What like us What up, what up Did you watch the pop out? I did watch the pop out I was so sad that I couldn't go

I was celebrating An anniversary I was celebrating an anniversary And I couldn't go For love And really, is it love if you can't go to Kendrick on Juneteenth? Yeah, right. Is it real love?

Like, who do you want to be with more? I'm like, honestly, in Inglewood? Are you really going to keep me from this? At the pop out? Maybe. Well, Jack Heese, it's really good to have you. I was thinking of you because I read some article about how Disneyland is changing their Genie Pass system or something. I didn't understand what was going on.

But you have to stay at a hotel or something i don't know anyway whack that's nothing it has nothing to do with anything because we have one of our favorite guests of all time one of the listeners favorite guests of all time this is a man who you know has has really inspired the imaginations of people across the country with his youtube searches and his niche interests and obviously his love of cold brew the poetry window will consider that shit open because we are welcoming in our third seat our guest today mr chris crofton hey what's up chris welcome to the chris crofton daily zeitgeist. Ooh, okay. Such a lovely place. Mm-hmm. Such a lovely place.

I've been through the desert on a horse named Chris Crofton. It felt good to be out of the Daily Zeitgeist. Ooh, love that Neil Young track. See, those AKAs brought to you by me. Damn, G. Wow, you did what? First you did the Eagles and then Neil Young, huh? I know.

I forgot about that. Two champions of the white community. Last time I did not know that song. I didn't know. I thought Horse With No Name was a Neil Young song, but it's not. It's some dude who is trying to be like Neil Young.

I guess what? Some dudes trying to sound like Neilil i guess what what what yeah no some dudes trying to sound like neil young yeah america and then you recognize obviously part of jacques's aka not like us because like i was quizzing you before you you have intersected with the kendrick lamar beef ending track not like us yeah and i cannot i i can't believe i'm just i'm just humbled as a white man to know about it yeah well there you go you know and i and i and it's just a testament to how far that has gone that a man my age of my complexion knows about this fucking beef did you and i chris was it like

a thing where you're like what what why does everybody keep talking about minors and stuff the fuck is going on and then someone broke it down or you just kind of naturally figured it out or were you on youtube enough that you figured it out i i just fucking i'm online yeah way too much and so i know about a little bit about drake being accused of that sort of stuff and then i but i didn't know i mean obviously and i know kendrick lamar a little bit but so i don't exactly know i don't know i no, I don't mean to put you on the spot. I've heard the song. I've heard the song. I just don't know exactly what is going on.

Yeah, that's fine. But I think that as far as I can tell, it was a big win for Kendrick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a big loss for Drake. Yeah, yeah, but I think he'll be back because Drake's like Avengers movies for the music industry. They need him to generate hits, but we'll see. think he'll be back because drake's like avengers movies for the music industry like they need like

they need him to generate hits but we'll see the brand is pretty fucked up though at the moment so i mean i say this like drake is gonna sell records again yeah he when he makes a song is and especially if it's a hit it's gonna get radio play yeah but he's got in the rap community. Yeah. That nigga is cool. Yeah. It's he is like forever. Yeah. People are not looking at him. He will be viewed as like,

all right. So like hip hop fans, right? For sure. For sure. Capital H fans, capital H hip hop fans. Exactly.

Uh, you know who you are. Well, Chris, it's great to have you. We're going to tease out what we may get to may not get to, because obviously when we got the cold brew gone on, we never know where this fucking thing goes. We might get to talk about how RFK, while the actual presidential debate was happening, had his own little debate by himself. attempt at quote unquote comedy from the right. It's a, uh, I guess it's like a all in the family kind of version. I don't know. I don't know what they're describing it as, but you already know

that it's not going to be good. And maybe we'll get to the fact that Al Michaels will be doing some, uh, voice recaps for the Olympics, but using AI because it won't be him, just his voice model. We'll get into that. Maybe more, maybe less. We don't know with all that, but first, Chris Crofton. You know the first question we always have to ask, which is, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are, what you're interested in, or what you are just trying to figure out in life? I feel like this is going to be a letdown. I mean, it's not magnet fishing. It's not watching metal detecting.

It's not abandoned mines. Lately, it's been a ton of old 80s pro wrestling because it makes me feel good. And nothing else does that for me quite that way this just it just takes me back to before ai before fucking all the news was just about donald trump and that's all it just takes me back to a time that it's uh you know it's just a simpler fucking time when when wrestling was regional theater when you could be a fat drunk drunk guy and be a wrestler, which would have been me. You know what I mean? Like a time where I could have been a wrestler. You could just show up.

What's your wrestling name? Yeah. What would be your wrestling name? What would be your wrestling name? I mean, now it would probably be some fucking cold brew bullshit. But back then it would have been like, you know, I don't know. Just like, I don't know what the thumbtack or some shit like that oh all right thumbtack okay hell yeah what's your finishing move what's your signature move be

would it be you lifting anybody the thumbtack would be the finishing move i mean it didn't matter you just like the bottom of someone's right right right back then you just peroxided your hair and showed up with a hangover and you were good to go put on some tights Steal them from a jobber Wait was there a show Are there specific wrestlers That you watch that bring you this feeling Or are you just the aesthetic of 80s wrestling in general You're like yep

I was like in love with it because for me growing up I grew up Fucking Connecticut And I grew up in the part of Connecticut That you would assume The part of Connecticut That you would assume the part of Connecticut that earned Connecticut its shitty reputation.

Like the golf and the scotch and the fucking... Except my dad moved us there and then had a nervous breakdown and didn't cut the grass and stuff. So we had a different experience there. It was kind of like being in an autoclave. I actually don't even know what an autoclave is. But it was kind of like being in something bad. What's an autoclave. I actually don't even know what an autoclave is. But it was kind of like being in something bad.

Wait, what's an autoclave? I think that's where they sterilize. I've never done a podcast before, another podcast before, so I might be just saying crazy shit because I'm all talked out or something. But now autoclave is not the right thing to say. Autoclave is where they sterilize surgical instruments. So that's not at all what my childhood was like. It wasn't sterilized? No, that's not at all what my childhood was like it wasn't sterilized it was not at all it was it was a trauma fest and it was and anyway so like like i didn't know what job to have because where i grew up they this happened i don't know if

anybody can relate to this but when they're trying to figure out what to do with a funny kid they don't know what to do that's not a job you know right so they're like you're funny you should be a lawyer that's what they told me because there are only two jobs on the menu like lawyer or maybe three like doctor lawyer stockbroker right right right so they were like you're not gonna be a stockbroker because you talk too much and you can't be a doctor because you talk too much but a lawyer you could be a lawyer so i didn't know what the fuck i was doing i just thought i was gonna be a lawyer there's. So I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I just thought I was going to be a lawyer. There's no internet. I didn't know what jobs there were.

I thought those were only three jobs. I thought the whole country just wore fucking khakis and went skiing. I had no idea what was happening. And then wrestling, man. I turned the channel and there was fucking wrestling. Out of nowhere, men, grown ass men with peroxided hair yeah they were making a living having peroxided hair is the main thing they had to do to make a living and besides that shit yeah yeah and just like but they could in fact then this is the thing they didn't have to

even be in shape or anything they were just alcoholics would you and i was also an alcoholic were they what was what i mean jackie's I know you're a huge wrestling fan, too. I know the aesthetic looks so different now. Everybody looks like they're cut from fucking marble and shit. But it's true. Like, we like hacksaw Jim Duggan and those dudes back in the day. You're like, I mean, you definitely had you definitely had more people that were just brutes, you know, just,

just everyday men, you know what I'm saying? Just the everyday Joe. And then the other half of the people were completely jacked on steroids. Right. Yeah. It was, it was no in between.

It was dusty roads or Hulk Hogan. Right. Or Andre the giant, you know, did you ever hear like a rumor? I remember growing up there, like the ultimate Right. Like those were, or Andre the Giant, you know. Did you ever hear like a rumor? I remember growing up that like the ultimate war, I remember people,

I thought the ultimate warrior died because he did too many steroids. I mean, was that a thing? I'm sure he died because he did too many steroids. But like, I think this was,

yeah, I think this was while he was still wrestling. I think it was just like, you know, like when you hear wrestling lines secondhand, and you're like, that's in the thing he may have. I know he died in 2014, it looks like. Yeah, he died.

He came back to it. Vince McMahon probably started that rumor and was like, I hate this man. Started a rumor he died because Vince was very petty, and we know a lot of shit about him now. But then he came back to the wwe which was like a never say never thing because it you know he hated fencing the wwe he came back to the wwe got inducted into the wwe hall of fame like came to monday night raw did a promo like the ultimate

warrior you know you guys are with me and then died the next morning that is wild like it was crazy it was yeah i don't think he died from steroids like in the moment but he did long term those guys you know it ends up bad man especially those 80s guys died before that that you could be like a normal you know you didn't have to like you could just be sort of out of shape it was it was local it all revolved around i'm talking about like before cable television sure like elevated like wwf and and and took it like nationwide they were just like everything revolved around the local tv station so each wrestling community had their own little like universe you can watch it on Vice's Dark Side of the Ring. It talks about the territories.

It was just like a regional theater company, except just full of lunatics. A regional theater company where you get drunk every day. You see someone bleed from the head. And some of the bigger stars would come to the other territories and just drop in. And then you'd be like,

oh, shit, Ric Flair is here. In Nashville. stars would come to the other territories and just drop in and then you'd be like oh shit rick claire is here and like nashville and that was like yeah it was like a very it was very like very it was very blue collar i mean it was like it was it was not it wasn't like everybody could get a job in wrestling i'm not making it sound like it wasn't like it was a union job or something but but it was like much it was much closer to something that was like you know it hadn't been monopolized like sure there's this there's this guy like but the stories make me happy like just like they're not good stories you know they're all like usually about just men behaving horribly but there was this guy named buzz sawyer he died of at age 31 of a

cocaine overdose oh my god but the stories like like about him is he was just like a good worker, meant like, but he was a terrible person. Like he was a terrible person, but he was a good worker. So we liked having him around, but he didn't bring his own stuff to the wrestling. Like he would go,

he'd just be an up for three days or whatever. He was an ex like a college wrestler. Like he was like a very good wrestler, but he just like went berserk or something, you know? And he, he would show up to the studio and he wouldn't bring his own stuff so the jobbers the guys who would have to get paid 50 bucks to lose

you know to the to the name people he would just take their equipment like he would just take their tights and their boots and like and then like fucking just he he was horrible and then he beat the fuck out of him like really bad like i don't like watching his squash matches because then in the in the real matches with the celebrities he would hit them in a normal nice right fake manner but he'd beat the fuck out of those like regular guys yeah he was not nice but my favorite story about him is they went to japan and buzz sawyer was so fucked up like he always was people were always like man he was a good worker but total piece of shit um like like it's so funny watching shoot interviews about Buzz Sawyer. Because everybody's like, yeah, he was a special one.

He was not a good guy. But he was a great, great worker. But he was going through customs and he didn't want to wait because he wanted to go to a bar. So he threw his luggage in the garbage. And just so he could walk through. Yes. Jesus Christ. And that was like, that was a story.

He threw all his belongings. In the 80s, too, when customs was probably easy as hell to get through. Yes. Yeah Christ. And that was like, that was a story. He threw all his belongings. He threw all his belongings when customs was probably easy as hell to get through. Yes. Yeah, yeah. It was like, the last time I saw him, because he died really young,

like the last time I saw him, we were waiting in line for customs on the way back from Japan and he just wanted to go to a bar and he didn't want to wait so he threw his luggage

in the garbage and that was the last time I saw him. It's like, and I just thought that was such a power move to throw your luggage in the garbage.

Power move and like so tragic too and you're like, God, that's another level of justice. I luggage in the car. Power move and so tragic, too. And you're like, God. I can relate. You know what I mean? It's like seeing The Lighthouse. I saw that movie, The Lighthouse. And I was like, that looks like the 90s.

Chris, what's something you think is underrated? Something that's underrated is, hold on. Let me look at my notes here. I wrote down Jimmy Webb and I wrote down jimmy webb and i wrote down therapist it's not very good i guess underrated would be um overrated would be not going to a therapist but also overrated would be saying that just going to a therapist is going to fix your shit like i'm tired of people saying like oh just go to therapy i went to therapy like i went to therapy and I got it done.

And now you have to do it. It's like, fuck that. Like it's an endless, endless journey. There's no go to therapy and get done with it. And there's a lot of like. You mean like the perception that like merely just saying like, just go to therapy and then everything is solved rather than like it's a whole process.

I agree that men will not go to therapy, right? But just because you went to therapy, like doesn't mean anything like that doesn't mean you did the work and it doesn't mean you're all better. There's still many pieces of shit who go to therapy. Like on a consistent basis. Now that makes me impervious to criticism because I went to therapy. Oh,

that's not how it works. It's a, it's a constant journey like a, or an endless journey. And so I not how it works. It's a constant journey or an endless journey. And so I started seeing this therapist and I'm really just doing this because I want to figure out a way to tell this story. That's fine. That's what you're here for, Chris. This is a new therapist, right? And he's a dude. And I usually go to women therapists because I was raised by my mom, basically. And I don't like men. I don't like them telling me what to do because I never had it happen to me.

So I'm very open with them. Sure. Resistant. Also, I can't. I just don't like I feel more comfortable with women. I feel safer with women. And so this guy was basically trying to tell me that I needed more masculine in my life. This is just happening.

This is like last week. Yeah. You know what I mean? And I was like getting so mad because I was like, what? What does that mean? What do you mean? Yeah, exactly. Is that why you're watching wrestling clips?

No, no, no, no, no. Wrestling is my happy place. No, that has nothing to do with men. Okay. Wrestling to me was just like. You just said, I'm just trying to connect the dots here. Okay. Wrestling to me was, there's no dots.

That's art. Wrestling to me was like my introduction to like art. I mean, wrestling to me was art. This was people doing regional theater. I mean, people don't say it that way, but that's what it was. It was like little theater troops. What is the therapist saying? What exactly was the imbalance in your life that this therapist is like?

You need more masculine. Like, what does that even mean? This is the thing. God, I just took my hat off. It's like, it's a bright light coming off my dome. So he was just saying like, you know, you don't have enough masculine influence your life. You're you're you're. He started saying, like, how Carl Young said creativity was female.

It was making me like I was starting to think I was getting red pilled. Right. Then that's what it's all right. At our big ass ages, we ain't got dude at this point. It's too late, bro. Yeah. Like, yeah, you're not an eight-year-old boy with an absent father. You're a grown-ass man.

Well... What the fuck? You're supposed to hang out with truckers? So here's... Yeah. What the fuck is that? That's what he wants me to do. What are you going to do?

Go to his truckers. Becoming some lot lizard? Like, come on now. Are you telling me to become a lot lizard? Yeah, kind of. I think it would fit. I'm standing up with cold brew all over my face. Are you telling me to become a lot lizard?

Yes. Yes, I am. So, no, I guess his point was, I think I understood his point. But at first it was like, I took it like, what are you talking about? So, he said, what do you think is a good quality in a man? about like so he said what do you think is a good quality in a man and i seriously was like um i was like what do men represent in terms of good qualities yeah you know another pause and i finally said kindness and i said that's not true that's all i can get i couldn't think of a single thing.

Well, why is it also like specific to like gender? Well, that is true. Or being like a person, like I don't, is there a specific thing you need as a man, you know, versus like just as a human being, like qualities that make a person. I think he was saying, like he was trying to say in my life,

having a dysfunctional father who I love my father, but he was like an example. He was like a cautionary tale. Sure. Like all I could learn from him is what not to do right and i didn't he didn't talk to me so i had no and because he had because he was like want to talk about fucking stalin only uh you know he had no friends so he had no friends like they want his friends there are no men around anyway like no one my dad would like chase them all away because any man that came around wanted to talk about like you know fucking football and my dad was like yeah but what about the holocaust right what about see you later you know i mean because my dad just thought associating he wanted to let people know that he'd had a lot of trauma and that that was what he thought about

that's what i think about trauma you know that that's not you know most people don't want to hear about that all the time including me growing up people don't want to hear about that all the time, including me growing up. I don't want to hear like only about like, like Stalin. But that's what happened. You don't? Yeah. You don't? My dad talks about Stalin so much.

We were talking about thinking about getting him a Stalin belt buckle. So, so he seriously, but it's just him trying to say that he understands injustice. That's what he thinks about. It's like, you might want to talk about football just him trying to say that he understands injustice. That's what he thinks about. It's like, you might want to talk about football. I want to talk about Stalin. Right. He's leading with that just to kind of show you where he's at. I get you.

It's him trying to seem like an intellectual. Right. You know, so there are just no men around. And I think his point was, was that like that I need, I do feel like that absence in my life. When I go around the world, if i meet a man that has shit even remotely together i'm kind of like daddy like it's pretty embarrassing it's like you know i feel this instinct when i'm around some dude who's got a shit together that i want

to move into his house right and i don't know what that is and it's kind of embarrassing and now i know i didn't know what it is and now i know what it is. It's just like simply that I am like not used to a dude that is kind and has this shit together. I did not have them around and they do exist. So I guess that was his point was to try and find some positive role models that are men. And in this case through AA, because that's my right.

So what you're saying, Chris is you went to therapy and you're all better now no no no no what is what is really what really i was just trying to figure out a way to to tell this story about how he asked me what was good about men and it took me like an i was quiet for like an hour and then finally said kindness no that it's not true. Right. So that's, that was really why I wanted to bring it up. But I also do want to bring up that we all need tending to, and I mean that in a positive way. I don't mean to say like, if you say you went to therapy, that's good, but there is no went

to therapy. In my opinion, first of all, you could have the worst therapist in the world. You can get a therapist that'll tell you anything. Sure. You know, my dad went to therapy for years and told the therapist that he was a genius and his family was holding his hip him back, you know, and that's all therapy for years and told the therapist that he was a genius and his family was holding him back. You know, and that's all the therapist knew. And the therapist reinforced that probably.

Yeah, and a therapist can only go on what they're told. So when the therapist met us, you know, he was like, there's the people that held my client back. Right. And we were like, you have no fucking idea. You want to hear what really happened? Yeah. You know, so anyway. My therapist to this day thinks I've had an affair with Beyonce, you know.

That's what I'm talking about. I can't get anything done. Beyonce will not stop blowing up. She just won't stop blowing up my phone. Yo, I've had some shitty therapy. I had one dude tell me that I shouldn't let women have sex with me on top, with a woman on top. What? Yeah.

But he was really trying to tell you, Miles, you got to be doing this work. He's like, you need to actually be like, you know, like as a man. This might be the same guy. I was like, what the fuck? What's this guy's name? I'll tell you later, but no, this dude is. He sounds like my guy.

Was this a therapist of color? He was like, he was ethnically ambiguous. He was not. I could not put my finger on it, but I would not say that he was like he was ethnically ambiguous he was not i could not put my finger on it but i would not say that he was white okay he was spicy but yeah yeah there was some flavor in there i couldn't quite pinpoint it you never found out no because after that i was like this dude is tripping bro like like how what the fuck does that have to do with my fear of failure you know what i mean i'm like i'm in here trying to sort out some real shit and then your solution is like don't let them women get on top of you that's how you're gonna lose your erection and i'm like

don't let them women cowgirl you boy don't let them yeah cowgirl they're like you don't want a woman to dominate you do you i'm like what the fuck that's funnier than my story that's like actually one of the worst things i've ever heard out of therapy. I've heard some bullshit from therapists too. It was so fucking bad. Did you listen for like a week or two? You're like, no, no, baby, get off me, get off me. No, I was like, no, man, I got to be the man. Like, what the fuck?

No. You know what I mean? I want to work the middle. Anyway, so Chris, that was your overrated. What's your underrated? I don't even know what that was in terms of an overrated. Underrated, I would say telling boomers to shut the fuck up. Wow.

Underrated. Underrated. People do not do it enough. About what? About everything. Should I just snap on my mom right now? They're all supposed to be dead already, first of all. So everything they say, they're supposed to be dead.

Or at least they shouldn't be allowed to vote okay and i like that that's why you know your presidential bid is alluring to me oh i'm serious oh anybody over 70 can't vote in my america well no fucking way yeah yeah certainly not only them which is you ain't gotta deal with it you ain't gotta deal with it you should have age-specific law like age-specific like things on the ballot. Like, all right, this is for the seniors. Like, let's vote on social security. Y'all can vote on that stuff.

Yeah. Or just give them a fake slate of things like Fox News stuff. And they can vote on it, but it doesn't go anywhere. If the effects of a certain bill will go further than this person's lifespan, then yeah, I think then maybe we should let the people that have to deal with it have to say that. You could also give them a fake slate if they feel bad. They could have their own little fake slate where they vote for gas stoves or whatever they like to do.

No, you can't take away my stove. Were you also about to say Jimmy Webb? I know you've read... Do you know who Jimmy Webb is? No, because I was going to put me on the game. Jimmy Webb is the guy who wrote Wichita Lineman. who wrote wichita lineman oh the song wichita lineman what is that he wrote by the time i got to phoenix oh by the time i

what is that get to phoenix okay okay well i mean i forget sometimes that i am old but this reminds me that's why i like to come on the daily side guys to just just confuse Miles about who Neil Young is. So Jimmy Webb wrote, have you ever heard of the band The Fifth Dimension? No. Vaguely. They were a big, big, big band in the late 60s. So when Jimmy Webb was 17 years old, he became a songwriter on a huge level.

He moved from Oklahoma to Hollywood to become a songwriter. And when he was 17 he started writing major hits damn and actually he did his best writing when he was 17 and 18 years old and then after that he kind of got into drugs and he was a horrible person like all the fucking sex shit and don't even look him up oh god i mean he did you know it's like he would never let the woman on top oh yeah he didn't he didn't. He definitely did. He dead seriously probably did that for years on the advice of his karate teacher. But karate teachers were also like therapists back then.

Right. Yeah, of course. That was the man's first therapist. Yeah. Have you tried karate, man? Every now and then, the karate teacher would just be like, how are you doing, man? Yeah, my wife left me too, man. No one's ever asked me that before.

No man has ever asked me how I was doing. Right, right, right. So Jimmy Webb, who's written some of the greatest songs ever that I love very much. I love the song, The Moon's a Harsh Mistress. And as a songwriter, Moon's a Harsh Mistress was a hit for Linda Ronstadt, a hit for Glenn Campbell. Glenn Campbell was the main guy that he wrote for.

Okay. He also wrote The Highwaymen. song the the it doesn't matter fucking they're all these like legendary to quote neil hamburger legendary legendary songs you know i mean like in jimmy webb i thought would be fun to go see because he was in town and i was like i never go to see concerts and there are times where i miss concerts that I'm like, oh, that's probably going to be lame, but then people say, oh, I went and saw Todd Rundgren or whatever, and it was incredible, you know what I mean?

Because I'm looking at Todd Rundgren's show, and I'm thinking, he's 70-whatever years old. He's going to suck. He's going to play like, you know, he's going to play, I don't know, all keyboard set or something of his guitar music, or I think he's going to do some weird shit that I don't want to see because he's old. But then sometimes I miss those shows and people say, you missed it.

It was great. So I decide I'm going to get tickets. They're 60 bucks each plus a fee. So it's like $140 investment. It's at the Country Music Hall of Fame here in Nashville. And Jimmy Webb's 77 years old, right? But he wrote those hits when he was 17. So that means the people listening to him were 30, which means his fans are 90 years old.

Right. So the show, what were the vibes like at the show? Fucking Cracker Barrel. Oh, good ass pancakes

and biscuits. Cracker Barrel. Fucking, I don't know, insurrection. And let me tell you, though, let me tell you,

black people love them from Cracker Barrel. We love them racist pancakes. Cracker, actually, I was too hard on Cracker. I love Cracker Barrel, too. That's the first time I ever had it. bad though, I heard, business wise. They tell you, black people love them some Cracker Barrel. We love them racist pancakes. Cracker Barrel, actually, I was too hard on Cracker Barrel. I love Cracker Barrel, too. That's the first time I ever had it, actually.

Cracker Barrel is doing bad, though, I heard, business-wise. They're suffering out here. They're not doing great. Cracker Barrel is the only place I ever ate where I had proper amount of food. I grew up, like, we were not, like, my mom didn't know how to cook food. I remember you saying this. Yeah, she only cooked for four, and we had six, and she didn't know how to cook for more, and she'd be like, listen, I know it's not enough food,

but everybody can just shut up because I hate fucking cooking. Anyway, so he... What? So anyway, the Jimmy Webb show was pretty cool, huh? So Jimmy Webb... No, what happened was... So listen, so I love these Jimmy Webb songs.

I'm putting aside like just because fucking David Bowie and Mick Jagger and Robert Plant, they all were having sex in ways no one wants to think about. So I do, I do. I love the song. So I, I did that.

First of all, I went through that separated art from artists. Cause I'm like, I love these songs. I'm a songwriter. I want to see this guy. This guy's a master songwriter. I want to see him live.

He's 77. He's probably not gonna be doing this much longer, but it turns out he's vibrant. He's fine. He's bragging. He played four songs in an hour and 10 minutes the rest of the time he talked and i didn't know it was songs and stories so he just told stories i know everything about everything from youtube i know everything there

is to know about the 60s and the 70s and also just from being alive with the fucking boomers battering me over the head over and over again with woodstock and fucking grainy footage of the fucking you know the goddamn i don't know led zeppelin whatever just like the good old days of a million years ago that we've had to live with as if like just over and over be told the best time in life was 70 years ago and everyone alive now doesn't know how great it was because these fools have had control of our TV airwaves for the last 50 years. And they've just rebroadcast Woodstock. And so the point is? The point is that I almost went crazy in that show.

He was telling stories. He said Laurel Canyon. I was like, you fucking say you boomer. You say Laurel Canyon one more fucking time to me. Say it. Say Laurel Canyon, was like you fucking say you boomer you say laurel canyon one more fucking time to me say it say laurel canyon you piece of fucking shit stop talking you know what i'm talking about like i'm talking about those things that they have hypnotized generation after generation that their shitty child that was the best child and that's all he did the whole time as he talked about how great it was and how songwriters today aren't as good.

All the good ones are dead. It was just one of these things where boomers do not know. Right. That you don't talk for 25 fucking minutes. Yeah. When you pay, people paid $60. Unless you're Kanye West. Yeah, exactly.

It's true. All right. Well, Chris, we're going to have to take a quick break. But when we come back, I'm going to have to get everyone's take on the latest bit of comedy from the right wing, because we've got a pretty good, pretty good panel here to discuss this. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds. Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists.

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is rip current available now with new episodes every thursday listen on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back um so the right wing they're trying to do comedy again there is a new terrible fucking cartoon as they describe sitcom because they have canned laughs in it dropped on twitter and it's as bad as you'd imagine it's called the new norm about a guy named norm uh and the creators have been like pitching this for a while because and it's also gotten zero traction because it's awful and bad and regressive and like they've been telling potential networks like it's like a spiritual companion to all in the family but like without the self-awareness at all and the creators behind this mess uploaded like a three minute

clip that we just watched they're calling it a pilot and they are begging people for money to help as they literally describe it to quote fight the woke mind virus the jokes were as predictable as everything you think right wing comedy is which is basically saying like trying to be like i like it all distills down to these people are different and they want respect that's so fucking dumb and then they use you know whatever culture war shit there was like a rainbow can of beer later on in the episode i guess the kids like the high school they go to was renamed colin kaepernick high school and everything's like oh so woke chris you look you haven't your your facial expression

has expression has not changed i think since that came on and i i'm just mad i'm just mad i mean i to me it's like a nazi sitcom making fun of jews i mean it's the same fucking shit it's not even woke is just code for vermin and and jews and it's not it's not it's not a thing it's it's it's just a it's just a code word for every non-white non-non-white non-non-straight i mean it's not it's not fucking funny but it's like not only is it not funny it's um it's violent i mean whatever that that person was calling that guy that in that clip yeah well of course yeah everything and there's like jokes about identifying as inanimate objects which is a thing you know homophobic transphobic people love to do and be like oh yeah like this person identifies as a there's like a thing where a guy was joining a high school karate class he's like because i identify as like a 17 year old high school student and they're like yeah so so so

the whole thing i don't know if people remember how nazis came to power but they they talked about what they described as like uh basically their idea the same exact thing is what i'm about to say they they accused minorities of subverting the fabric of germany yeah they they they wanted a throwback to lederhosen and white people it was just make germany great again and that's exactly what this is and that's why it's not funny it's not even and it's disguised because now they know enough to not they can't come back wearing outfits that have like a big logo on them that say you know that say like the fourth reich they can't make it like a thing that like a like a like an anti-woke like design that is reminiscent of a swastika but that's what this shit is so it's like and they're trying to sneak it into the discourse

by saying it's a tv show and and and that's what and they got dave rubin who is a gay man that is is one of these people that like thinks i don't know that he's going to be safer if he hides in the in the complex that wants to eradicate him you know what i mean like this is too you know this is just like this is this is like the version of collaborators i hate to say it but you know like like fucking Dave Rubin's a collaborator. Like, I don't even know who Larry Elder is, but I know who Dave Rubin is because I watch Sam Seder and Sam Seder just makes fun of Dave Rubin. Yeah, Larry Elder, he ran for governor in California. Yeah, and he's like a black conservative, like, talk person.

Not only is it not funny because, know the content right that's a given just comedically is also ass it was so bad there's no sense of i well there's no sense of irony at all because it's basically just pointing a finger at different people all the whole time also i've never heard a laugh track that then had like chatter in it. Like every laugh track was laughter. And then it was like, yeah, yeah.

Right. Some person was like, I know that's right. Like what? That's not a laugh track. That's somebody talking in the living room. It's crazy. Like,

yeah. To Chris's point point like it is there is just something so disturbing when like what they what especially you know like there's obviously gutfeld who tries to make jokes or whatever but it's still coming from the same fucking tree but this truly is just sort of like how do we how do we just be racist racist homophobic anti-progress anti-everything but but we can't we're not making jokes we're just gonna make caricatures of people to sort of just keep up keep the outrage up to be like and it's normal to think this shit is bad and that you hate it too because norm hates

it yeah because normally and the funny thing is you know obviously they're trying to go for some modern version of all in the family where know, even like the main character looks like some Archie Bunker. And and, you know, like that's that's the funny part is. Like, look, I, you know, I don't need to wax poetic about how terrible their content is like that. It is. It fucking is but it's just like if you're gonna do this shit at least do it like all in the family was also to black people was very racist you know it was a very racist show but in but but in a way that was like oh you're not i don't want

to say palatable but it was just like this there was a self-awareness there's a self-awareness to that right and i know like it's a different like creator and things like that like that was the purpose of that was to show how unprogressive and how bad archie bunker was yeah but it's also just like you guys they are so enthralled with how much they hate all of us that they are not even creative with it you're not even creative with it and it's like that's even more insulting uh it's like you're gonna be bad and bad it's basically yeah i just i'm just gonna take all of my terrible beliefs and make them cartoons like there's there's a like there's a lot of fucking weird shit in this and i think yeah like you're saying chris they're just these this is just like it's propaganda that they're just pretending is entertainment but really like the message is so

clear of just like like fuck everything that isn't cishet normie uh conservative america and that's bad and fuck it all like there's even a depiction of assistant health and human services secretary Rachel Levine where there's like a star of David like on her uniform it's just really fucking it's really fucked up and I think yeah there's nothing funny about attempting to move people to violence against people you know which is what the insurrection was a result the insurrection was a result of this sort of thing where they are ready to hang mike pence like you know what's mike pence except for in this case a stand-in for like a cuck or uh you know i mean you know you know in that case mike pence was cast as the lefty because, which shows you how, how like he's a

white, he's a cis white man. And they were ready to, they were ready to hang him because, and they were actually trying to hang him for real because he was supposed to be like left-leaning like, forget about whether if he was gay or, or, or non-binary or even just liberal for real. I mean, they were going to hang Mike Pence. So what does that mean that they want to do to everybody of color, everybody of different fucking political persuasion? I mean, it's just, we've already seen it.

These people are capable of violence. This is just a call to violence. It's not a sitcom. This is a call to violence. That's why it's's not funny it's not funny because all in the family was about thinking this shit was about to go away it was all about like meathead and his being like shut the fuck up dad you're aged out it's the 60s we're on the way to a better life but it's like archie bunker stayed alive and is now a hundred because these people live forever. It turns out and they keep voting. And,

and so it's like, we, we, we need to, uh, vote our fucking heads off. Young people got to vote. I know it sucks.

I know it's a week. It seems so weak compared to this horrible shit that's going on, but it's sadly, it's like what we got, you know, it really is what we got. Besides that, we got violence and no one wants that

and if you don't vote this show will be premiering on Fox right after The Simpsons 40 seasons 40 seasons I also love this conversation because this is a conversation where

I mean sometimes like I think if there is any criticism of the left is that it can be just as exclusionary sometimes. It can be like, shut up. Like having conversations on the left about the right can devolve into the left calling each other names, and it's difficult. So I do think that if anyone wanted to make fun of the left for anything, it could be like they could make fun of the left for just not supporting each other.

Well, yeah, or just or just like neoliberalism as a whole, like that it gestures to things of like progress, but absolutely fails every time. Yeah, I think it's just it's just different versions of the same thing. Like, you know, like they're like with liberalism, it's about their and conservatism is about maintaining the status quo. And one version is sort of like pretending as if there is going to be progress, but it's just enough to maintain the status quo. And the other version is just so outwardly aggressive and violent being like, we need to literally go in reverse. But it's just to be also because we need to maintain the status quo. And I think for them, they really just want to have this like social caste system where there are people who are higher than other people. And this is a very easy way to begin to sort people and say, well, then this group that we call woke or whatever is beneath the people who are the real Americans, et cetera, et cetera. So, yeah, it's all very exhausting. But anyway, I don't think that show is going to do fucking anything but a lot of people have watched it whether they hate watched it or what i'm on season two so make sure to check it out

yeah yeah you play larry elder's nephew i play larry elder's nephew yeah yeah yeah exactly they call me a black whisper all right're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back, and we'll talk about Olympics AI something something. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds. Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the

most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Bruce Bozzi. On my podcast, Table for Two,

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The Olympics are coming up. I got to say, I was watching the track and field qualifiers, the trials, you know, Olympic trials. There's something about, like, I don't know, I really like the 800 meter race, because that feels like the most wild shit to be like, you gotta go all out for two fucking laps. I'm always like, I could never do that

shit. I remember I ran the 200 in high school, and I fucking hated it. Yeah, it was terrible. I could do the 100. 200, that's like two 100s. Don't ask me to just run that long. And 800? It's eight of them, bitch. That, 200. That's like two one hundreds. Don't ask me. 800 is eight of them bitches. That's 800. That's eight, one hundred.

No, not me. Not me. That's too much. But anyway, so while that's happening, also break dancing. I can't wait to see what the fuck,

like Olympia. Like I'm really nice. Yeah. Break dancing is a, is a category this year. Like 50 years too late. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm curious. Is there like an Olympic? I wish I knew'm curious like is there like an olympic i wish i knew like if there was like what the rules were i really should look into it like is there like a dj you know what i mean yeah it's like yeah you know like all right babito let's go and like just does everybody break to the same beat you know what i mean is there like an olympic standard or does each team have their own break beat that they come up? Anyway, that's. Is there going to be like a Swiss team?

Yeah. I mean, like all I mean, countries can submit break dancing teams. Yeah. Countries are participating. Like a Swiss break dancing team. Are they going to make a movie about them like the way they made about the Jamaican bobsled team? Like, yeah. Against all odds.

Like all these. Yeah. Like what? The Swiss break dancers are just like finding out about breakdancing. Like as we speak. Who do we think the top three countries are going to be in that? The Philippines. The Philippines.

Yeah. The Philippines. So I'm growing up in LA. So many of the best breakers I knew were Filipino. Okay. Filipinos. I feel like the Filipinos could definitely have a breakdance. Obviously the US.

But I'm sure like whenever you watch those Red Bull dance battles, everybody's bringing it. Like South Korea. Yeah, break dancing has become... Everybody has a little flavor. I like, though, too, when you look at the Olympic website, it's not even break dancing. They call it breaking.

Yo, that's just wild that someone's going to be like, I'm the Olympic gold medalist in breaking and again this is decades decades late that's gonna be fun though it would be fun to watch i mean i'd rather see that than like uh some crazy antique uh you know cross-country skiing and shooting skeet or whatever that is yeah uh yeah i don't know what they said they have to adapt their style and improvise to the beat of the dj's tracks in a bid to secure the judges votes and take home the first olympic breaking medals so hey how many how many people do you think are gonna use not like us well it looks like too i don't think you look based on what i'm reading i think the the dj

whoever the olympic dj is is the one who to choose yeah yeah yeah so i don't think i think the the dj whoever the olympic dj is is the one who to choose yeah yeah yeah so i don't think i think for them they have to respond to what the dj is putting out there that's what i'm saying you know he's gonna play that do you think yeah could you okay you know he's gonna play it yeah all right go on chris hold the phone yeah all right are they gonna drug test the break dancers oh they can't that's what i'm talking about that's insanity no i don't think i mean what they'll disqualify every team could you imagine yeah like how many break dancers not stoned ever i'm sure there are people who are like breaking for christ kind of people now you know what i mean like i'm on the street narrow

maybe a long time ago but maybe i mean like i'm on the straight and narrow maybe a long time ago but maybe i mean like back in the day they were probably just drunk and break dancing maybe because it was harder to get weed but i never heard of you know in the 80s they probably were more drunk but but i mean i just can't imagine them it's going to be the least they're going to be like listen we're hobbled in the interviews they'll be like we're going to be hobbled obviously from the fact that we're not going to be stoned but i think yeah i mean and i think that will be an advantage for the swiss team who are gonna be fucking stone cold sober and break dancing to huey lewis in the news i can't wait i can't wait it's also just wild someone's gonna be like you know i was an olympic dj

the swiss win yeah you know what i mean because they're like well yeah because you know we didn't we don't i feel like they're camp you can't drug test for something like break dancing who knows but you know that's a big deal yeah right man we uh i'm like a judge you was uh you was djing under the influence bro we got to disqualify you from yeah they're gonna sober dj but this ain't the only thing this ain't the only new thing this year yeah what else is there you're about to tell us about a little Al Michaels. Yeah. Well, the new thing, which amongst other events, I don't know. I think flag football might be 2028 anyway, or maybe it's this year.

Again, I'm so focused on just watching people run because I'm not good at it. But Al Michaels is going to be back for the paris olympics and when i say al michaels i mean nbc will be using an ai generated al michaels voice to narrate what they call quote customized olympic recaps and what's i guess you know the like it will say someone's name like your name like this is al michaels and jacques this is your olympic update this is something al update. This is something Al Michaels, he's part of this because he helped create the voice model. And I'm assuming they gave him some kind of bags of money to do this. But it's weird because, if you remember, NBC dropped him from the NFL playoffs because people were complaining that he had, quote, lost it and was too, quote, boring now. But I guess people are fine with, like, the robot version. Well, you know, because they could bring him back to his heyday.

You know, it's going to be 1980s Al Michael or 1990s Al Michael. A little more energy. I hope they age him through every clip. Like, one is early Al Michael and then the next is senile Al Michael. Who is that for? I think it's just, again, because everything's about, no, everything's just everything. Everyone's just trying to do AI, like on some level, like to be like, Hey, and this is art.

Cause again, this is a huge, like we've talked, we talked about this in a lot of episodes, you know, wall street is so just big on AI that it's permeating through all these companies now to sort of evangelize AI or embrace it or make through all these companies now to sort of evangelize ai or embrace it or make it part of a thing to sort of normalize like oh and there'll be ai this for that no one asked for like eurovision sport used ai last year and ibm provided ai commentary for the u.s open and wimbledon that shit did not go well one for one article talking about it said that the announcers sounded like quote helen mirren if she'd just been hit with a polo mallet and your uncle from queens trying to do a hugh grant impression that's how things were coming off

and so and after that they're like yeah we're not bringing it back this year uh because i sound like this was kind of an l for everybody so yeah and i think yeah chris you're you're just like i just think like you're talking you're talking about you're talking about another thing where it's a decision made by these old motherfuckers who run these networks are still like you know what we need we need to keep al michaels in the mix forever like what the fuck these people cannot i mean this is all connected to like why i was mad at the jimmy webb concert and the reason why is because they don't read the room because they don't give a fuck they are so up their own ass that they will talk for 20 minutes about laurel

canyon and not know it's 50 years ago fuckhead 50 50 years ago that meanshead. 50. 50 years ago. That means in 1980, that would be you talking about 1930 and taking up all the airwaves with 1930 and bringing back AI versions of fucking flappers. Like, you fuckers. Like, let it fucking go. Let us. Not me. Look, I'm in the middle somewhere. I guess I might be able to vote for another couple of years under my model. But what I'm saying is turn it over to the people who want to make progress.

This is like, I cannot wait for these people. These people need to fall out. These people need to fall out as soon as possible. When we talked about this on previous episodes, the reason why these people are still in power is because they are the they tend to the garden of this form of capitalism. And they they do not want to give the tools to another generation that is looking to make things more equitable. I can't leave the yard. Yeah, it's like, oh, we're going to have Howard Coe, A.I. Howard Cosell announced the Olympics.

Like, yeah, which actually I would be cool with. Yeah. Or Harry Carey. Harry Carey. olympics like yeah which actually i would be cool with yeah or harry carrey harry carrey like if you're gonna go if you're gonna go oh then give us like give us like the personalities from back in the day or some shit or go new al michaels is just right in the middle where it's like who gives a fuck because you know like some people were pointing out that like back in those days right like in we there's like radio or like black and white television or not HD television, you needed big personalities like Harry Carey or Vince Scully, people like that to kind of make the

broadcast a little more interesting. And as like the fidelity has gone up, like the personalities you could notice, like they kind of just dial those back because they're not as important. And that's not the case for every single sports broadcast but that's one thing people pointed out is because some of the broadcasters are partly owned by the teams themselves so now they're like well now this is our brand and now we got to worry about how it's being talked about etc etc so it's a different energy but chris crofton it was a pleasure having you on the daily thank you for having me as usual It's always so much fun. Where do the people find you, follow you?

Just get the best of you on the internet. Sadly, on Instagram, at The Crofton Show, and on Twitter, at The Crofton Show. And I also am on threads, but I don't go on there very much. I'm trying to go on more. It actually is sort of nice to go on to a place where the trending topics aren't all all you know alt-right yeah uh greatest hits but so those two things you can order my book uh the advice king anthology on um i don't care where you get it you know don't go to don't go through the vanderbilt

vanderbilt university website because it'll take you the rest of your life just get it from fucking amazon doesn't matter well the instructions in that book are for amazon it'll take down you read that book you'll take down amazon there you go that's instructions to take down we're working from the inside so order the order the book always proven effective taking it down from the inside hell yeah man that's what we were doing in the 80s man just taking it down from the inside and also listen to my podcast cold brew got me like because like i think it's it's we have a solid little fan base but it's really i talk about very deeply about politics and uh like about societal stuff and also we talk

about you know bigfoot and and mine you know abandoned mines and this crap but we do the crap we do the you know the fun stuff too um and that but we do the crap. We do the, you know, the fun stuff too. Um, and that's about it. And then, uh, just, uh,

I don't know. I'm trying to think if I have any, any tour things to announce now I'll have something soon, but nothing right now. Okay. Always a pleasure. Always a pleasure. Where do the people find you follow you?

What's a work of media that you're digging? Oh, you know, you can find me, everybody. You can find me in these streets about half a block away from going in the house forever. That's where you can find me. But it's almost time.

It's almost time to stay in the crib. Or at Jackie's Kneel on everything. That's where you can find me. If you are listening to this, this Sunday, Comedian Feud is putting up a very impromptu show. I have not even announced it yet, and it's in four days. Okay. So, you know, it's going to be. We'll see.

It's very likely not. But we do have a live stream. So if you want to watch it, check it out. Check my IG, Linktree, all that good stuff. And you can get some tickets to watch the live stream of Comedian Feud. Always a good time, though. Always fun. So check that out.

Now, have we seen or talked about the Abraham Lincoln wax thing? Yeah, we talked about that on trending uh yeah yeah yeah so maybe maybe we've all maybe this has already been like talked about but so you know if you don't know go look up the lincoln wax like statue or whatever statue in dc and he's like melted to a point where it looks like he's getting the best blow job of his life yeah he's getting that hock tour the glock he's getting and then somebody was like so the original tweet was maybe a wax lincoln sculpture wasn't the best idea during dc's first week of summer heat and then somebody by the name of jesse specter uh quote quote tweeted it with, just add a

Nancy Reagan statue and it's all good. Oh, shit. The goat. The throat goat herself. The throat goat herself, baby. Oh my god. Only she can make Abraham Lincoln break his back to the back. So wild, bro.

His head almost fell right off. That hot two-a-girl, she was interviewed in Nashville. Lincoln break his back to the back. So wild, bro. His head almost fell right off. That Hot Tua girl, she was interviewed in Nashville. That's her down in Nashville. Yeah, she's famous. It's wild how famous somehow, like, just that.

I mean, I get it because men are fucking horny and they're like, hell yeah, dude. Hot Tua? Fuck yeah. Although it's funny to see people who put pictures of Tony Hawk with the Dolphins quarterback to a tag of Viola. You're like, oh man, we got to stop. We got to stop.

Chris, did you find the thing that you're liking? Yeah, I'm trying to find, there's this YouTube documentary about a mummy that was hanging in a fun house. And it's called the outlaw it's an outlaw it's a mummy of an outlaw that was killed in um in a gunfight in 1913 and they found him hanging in a fun house at an amusement park in long beach in like 1978 because they were shooting a six million dollar man episode and they went in in and one

of the guys working on the episode went inside this fun house that they were using but any notice that this mummy had hair growing on this like like novelty looking thing hanging was like had hair on it and it turned out that there's this documentary it's called like the mummified outlaw just look up his name's elmer purdy i think they're talking about old uh to old like sideshow guys and they talked about if you're if your fucking sideshow didn't have a mummy in it it was called a rag bag that was like their put down like if you didn't have a mummy in your sideshow it was a rag bag anyway it's an incredible documentary and i i i probably should have used it as one of my fucking overrated underrateds instead of what I fucking said, which is a bunch of craziness.

But anyway, this I'm going to find it right now. But it's called it's called like if you look up Elmer Purdy or if you look up like the mummy outlaw, it's a BBC documentary about it. And they found everybody. They found the guy who had the mummy stuck in his closet in L.A. This like this this like sideshow guy. All right. Became a movie maker. It's an incredible it's an incredible story.

It's called like the mummified outlaw. Just search that and you'll be distracted from all the horror. Beautiful. Miles, can I give you one more quick one that I just saw? Yeah, you were fucking cracking the fuck up. I was like, what the fuck did he just say? It may be only funny to me, but the original tweet is a 105-year-old woman receives her master's degree from Stanford University, which is a beautiful thing. So great.

And then at Huge Tulip quote tweets, what's she finna do with the master's at 105? That is so funny. Oh, shit. That is so funny. Oh, man. You have to hear that voice. What's he going to do with a mask? Is that 105? 105. A tweet I like is from at John Rich TV.

The NBA draft happened recently. And he tweeted, he said, this is the first time I've looked at a draft class and thought, I bet I could beat some of these guys up. It's just all looking like kids and shit. Bro. Bro. Oh, man. It's an amazing tweet.

Amazing, amazing tweet. Anyway, you can find me at milesofgray You can also find Jack and I talking about basketball On Miles and Jack Got Mad Boosty's latest episode We got to speak to the legend himself Vince Carter, which was a dope episode So please tune into that You can also catch me talking 90 Day Fiance On 420 Day Fiance

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And also our Footnotes Thank you Where we post all the articles we talked about Plus the music we are going to ride out on today. Today, we're just going to ride out on one of the tracks that I really loved from the Pop Out performance. It was when J-Rock and Kendrick Lamar performed J-Rock's track, Win. So we're going to go out on Win by J-Rock because that's a weekend just pump up track.

A lot of people love just, I, I guess working out to the song, but not me. I just want to jump up and down when I listen to it. That's going to do it for us. The Day's Like Ice is a production of iHeartRadio. So for more podcasts,

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