The Daily Zeitgeist - Hospital Horse, Treat Unhoused People Like People 7.28.21

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

In episode 960, Jack and guest host Danl Goodman are joined by Cold Brew Got Me Like host Chris Crofton to discuss record Tokyo COVID numbers after start of Olympics, LA experiments with treating unhoused people like actual people, Kanye living in a stadium, hospital horse and more!FOOTNOTES: Tokyo reports record virus cases days after Olympics begin CDC reverses indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people and kids should wear them indoors LA Experiments With Treating Unhoused People Like People Instead of Like Garbage to Be Removed Kanye Is Living in That Stadium Where He Debuted His Album Hospital Horse LISTEN: UBER - Nightcrawl LISTEN: Chris Crofton Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Just listen, okay? Or Lacey gets it. Do it. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 195, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist! A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, July 28th, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

Here comes the sun. And I said, kiss Jack's thighs. My son kissed thighs. That one is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi-Mannan. I am thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co-host. He is the Marv Albert of competitive gaming without all the ass-biting. The producer of many a podcast on this network, including Fake Doctors Real Friends. You know him from his appearance on Family Feud with that podcast. And as the nicest man in podcasting, please welcome DJ Danil! What's up, everybody? It's your boy DJ Danil, a.k.a. Hideo Noho. Yes, I am here in my house.

Wait, what? Huh? Yeah, Jack, what an intro. Oh, my God. I am totally touched by that. Yes, I was on all those things you said. But to take nicest man in podcasting from Alex Schmidt, I feel like it's just unfair. Nah, man, Alex has let the success of secretly incredibly fascinating go to his head. All right, fair play.

He's a monster now. There you go. Hey, can't you know what? It happens to all of us. You're the nicest man behind the mic, and he's the nicest man on the mic I'll take that And I'm absolutely thrilled

To be here again for another spectacular episode Of the Daily Zeitgeist Wow Taking that Marv Albert shit Right to the people Right to the dome Well DJ Dan You are in luck

Because we are joined In our third seat Well, DJ Dan. Yes, sir. You are in luck. Oh, hell yeah, I am. Because we are joined in our third seat by a talented musician and comedian, but not a musical comedian, not a comedic musician. His album is a serious great work of art. It has a 7.4 on Pitchfork. Oh, my goodness. You're doing all my work. But he's a 7.5 in our hearts. Oh my goodness, you're doing all my work But he's a 7.5 in our hearts

He's the father of the meme And the amazing podcast Cold Brew Got Me Like Please welcome the brilliant, the talented The enigmatic, the chaotic Chris Crofton! Hey, what's up? So glad to be here That's so nice, what a great

Introduction, I love that I'm enigmatic I'm really not enigmatic. That's the thing. I've just got a lot of problems. Which mimics. Enigmatic. I'm not going to lie. The best part of my day yesterday was opening up the doc for today's show and seeing special guest

Chris Crofton. I literally went, yes! That's so nice. We got Chris on the show. Thank you so much. I love being on the show so much. It's the reason I'm rich I love being on the show so much. And it's really, it's the reason I'm rich. From being on this show. I thank you guys very much.

Hot tub with more jets than the actual jets the team has. You're a hot tub. I didn't even write that. That just comes off the dome. I'm not really in a hot tub i'm in my uh landlord's garage and it's very hot hell yeah are you are you sipping on some cold brew

i'm i'm sweating because uh i'm sipping on some hot drip this hot drip got me like uh sweating a little bit now oh sweating on my upper lip hot me tense. Yeah, it's the most caffeinated of coffees with possible exception of cold brew. Oh, wow. That sounds like a... Are you throwing down the gauntlet? Yeah, a little bit. I'm hot drip. The world's stupidest gauntlet that I live in.

I'm hot drip got me like a guy. The world's dumbest gauntlet that I've decided to live inside. Is there a little bit of that hot drip making you feel back at home now that you're in the home base of the office? Does it feel right again? Yeah, man. Came in early today. Got a big pot of coffee brewing in the office kitchen. It was nice. Are you the only one in there? There is a writer's room happening directly above

me for a will ferrell podcast uh which hasn't been announced but it's a little easter egg for you tdc listeners eagle eared listeners where's my writer's room am i right imagine if you just showed up and had your podcast written for you already what a life that would be i would take it i would and then you have like an earpiece in like all those actors that can't even memorize their lines which is their only goddamn job god damn is there a way i can just show up and uh get this over with and then get back to uh sex crimes yes there is oh my god tiny little earpiece yeah sex crimes and or selling tequila and you have no job at all you have zero job just repeat perfect uh and then you get an award like a year and a half later that for a movie you didn't even remember being in

you know brando had like the cue cards for all of his lines like taped to his scene partners and the godfather like that's incredible i didn't know that that fucking rules yeah you turn other great actors into billboards i mean that's when you know you're in charge like i'm gonna tape shit to robertvall. I guess you've arrived. There was also like a lot of mooning each other and like exposing each exposing oneself to each other behind the scenes of The Godfather. It was a real dumb place to create a brilliant work of art. Real mafioso shit. You know, mafia shit.

I was just. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Like it's still a film set. I mean, they did a good job with it, but off set, you know what was up. Yeah, it was just like a lot of fucking. Oh, you know what was up? Mooning.

Yeah. I mean, that's true. Back then, that was like the whole deal. Like, if you wanted to get wacky. Yeah. Look over here. Ah! Hey!

The height of comedy. Oh, no. Yeah, exactly. Comedy again. Oh, no. Yeah, exactly. Got me again. Oh, no. Butt cheeks. All right, Chris, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.

We'll check in with vaccination rates and COVID rates in Tokyo, masks having to go back on. in Tokyo, masks having to go back on. We'll talk about LA experimenting with this kind of avant-garde idea of treating unhoused people like people instead of like garbage to be removed. Shocker. Turns out it works. We'll talk about Kanye's apparently living

in that Mercedes-Benz stadium where he debuted his album now perfect uh i i kind of love that we might even get to that hospital horse because i i think the did you guys see the picture of the horse that visits people in hospital oh yes i have seen that that was submitted to me as a cold brew got me like yeah it's so interesting like the horse looks so menacing and confident and apparently it it chooses who it it chooses who it visits based like it'll like stop its hoof outside of people's room and they'll be like okay he's he's going to visit this this patient sort of

like an angel of death thing so i've thought jesus i didn't think of that you're right i was thinking just about the people who felt bad like is the horse going to come right you know what i mean like right yeah no it's like the horse is like a mean girl who's like no she's out yeah on my deathbed rejected by a horse never mind bitch jesus christ we'll get to all the indignity plenty more but first chris what is something from your search history well now if anybody's heard me on this show before i mostly talk about like abandoned mine exploration, mudlarking. A favorite. Any kind of like amateur archaeology type stuff is what I like.

And I use the term archaeology extremely loosely. Right. Finding shit would be a better. Amateur metal detector enthusiasts. Yeah. I was just thinking about like, I mean, I guess I should just talk about abandoned mines. I started following this bottle guy. I mean, following him i don't follow anybody i just go look at him but look at him look at him i'm not trying to sound not old today look at you yeah i'm not

you're doing great so far oh what shows do yeah what do i look at on youtube that's like my grandfather used to say that you know like are you gonna like he wants to look at television i like the literal yeah it does kind of remind you that you are actually looking at a fucking box but correct plus all the rich people in my neighborhood like i go hiking and they all just watch tv in these huge mansions they just sit and watch television it's unbelievable they need four square. They have like 88 billion square feet. They need four. Yeah.

And a flat screen TV. I look at these beautiful homes. You can see like the blue light flickering. Oh my God. You can see right in their houses because they're in

fucking rich people world so no one ever does anything. Right. So they just like leave all their curtains open and everything on the lot. Leave their shit on the lot. Probably got their keys

in their Porsche Cayenne. And they fucking sit in their goddamn gigantic air conditioned fucking and they fucking sit in their goddamn gigantic air-conditioned fucking mausoleum and watch Fox News on a fucking uh anyway it's just kind of amazing to me that that got me like just how much room they need to watch tv aspirational you know how much room do you fucking need to watch tv how much fucking room do you yeah a lot okay so apparently yeah so anyway I was Anita Berber. I got real into Anita Berber.

Okay. Anita Berber is this like flapper kind of lady from Weimar, Germany, who was like a drug addict. She's like sort of Jim Morrison of like 1918 or something, 1920 something. Her name's Anita Berber. And Otto Dix did a portrait of her where she's like got, she kind of looks like Jessica,

well, not like Jessica Rabbit. I don't even know who Jessica Rabbit is. Like sort of like, she just looks like, oh, I know who she looks like. She looks like, she's got those painted on lips that make her look like,

she's like, there's a, like the Flaming Lips? Looney Tunes. Or the Rolling Stones cover? No, an old Looney Tunes. Yeah, yeah. No, an old Looney Tunes lady. Betty Boop.

It's like based on her. Yeah, I bet Betty Boop was based on Anita Berber. But anyway, Anita Berber, I just think it's interesting because the boomers will not be quiet about how they like, you know, got rid of the 1950s. They got rid of the 1950s. Like, oh, 1950s, we were uptight. And then we blew it all up. And, you know, david crosby is like the world's greatest person or something and uh and and you know it's just all a bunch

of horse shit you know because anita berber died at age 29 of like fucking she didn't shit that was so much cooler than jim morrison she fucking snorted chloroform out of like bowls with like white rose petals in it like she fucking filled goldfish bowls with fucking chloroform and just put her head in it well and she did cocaine and she ran around nude and weimar germany was like right before yeah nazi germany and it's like nazis use the it's kind of like you know uh the sort of insurrectionists or or you know the republicans being like you know america's going down the tubes and that we need to like basically be authoritarians to get everybody back in shape.

It's like the old trick, you know? So, so yeah, like things were getting too cool basically in Weimar, Germany. And so she sounds sick. So Anita Berber,

yeah, she's like fucking cool as hell. And she's got her, the pictures of her amazing. And I went online to see if I could, then I started looking for artifacts. I'm like going ebay and i'm like actual anita berber photographs like i'm gonna get one of those and then uh and then my next thing on my search history is leslie van houghton so i like like uh feminist icons that are not really you know good role models

but uh anita anita berber leslie van houghton was one of the fucking manson murderers i was That are not really good role models. But Anita Berber. Leslie Van Houten was one of the fucking Manson murderers. I was going to say. When you search Leslie Van Houten. It just says Leslie Van Houten. Convicted criminal. Yeah. So you're doing a little bit of Google excavation.

Anita Berber man. Check her out. She is like seriously. This idea that the 1960s. Was the first time people want ape shit is such a bunch of shit. I'm so sick of boomers talking about the shackles of the 50s and the fucking throwing off of the shackles with. And it gives. Yeah.

And it gives going ape shit a bad name because look what they became. You know, the boomers. Yes. Bad. Yes. People would never stop talking about their childhood more than any other generation i think that's their main claim to claim to fame yeah people who have never talked no one has ever talked as much about their 20s at least the 20s just like

fucking drove it into the ground and then you know great depression and then then World War II and just really, you know, went out big. Yeah, they, well, you know, I think, I just think that there was always a time, you know, there's always like, there's probably a cave, you know, there was a cave woman that was like snorting river dirt or whatever got you high back then, you know. That shit's good.

What's something you think is overrated? Billionaires. Come on, man. I'm sorry. I know you guys have been talking about that. I know. I won't talk about it. I won't talk about it. You leave billionaires alone. I just wanted to say one thing. One thing about them. Yeah. Because I know you guys, I'm sure

on this podcast, you guys have just been fucking talking about billionaires until you want to fucking barf. Never. Never. Never have? Never heard heard about this we wish them the best we're kind of like the washington post here and that we think what jeff bezos is doing is really cool actually it's actually good for super fucking tight yeah it's coolness it's coolness research yes exactly see how cool it is and he said it was cool can a 55 year old man pull off a cowboy hat Yes, exactly. Got me like my podcast just because see what I did there. Well done. Well done. Because because like I just think that the most outrageous thing is that they keep trying to throw in this like that they are doing research of some sort. Like they didn't bring any stuff.

You can see right in the space capsule. Right. It's like nothing in there at all. Nothing. To quote myself, they've just made space the VIP room of a club. Yeah. Yeah. That's all it is. It's like, guess where I'm dancing, asshole.

I bet you're not dancing weightless at One Oak or whatever they fucking party at now. I don't know. One Oak. The Luxor. I like using antique things. Like, you know, I bet you're not weightless at the hottest nightclub in the world, the Luxor in Las Vegas. Nailed it. The top of the Luxor pyramid. Wow.

Anyway, so yeah, I just think that the fact that the most outrageous thing to me, even more outrageous than the cowboy hat, even more outrageous than those fucking $5 spacesuits that they were wearing. And, you know, they're a pure theater. There there's no reason they're just going in a high plane they're not even going to real space they don't need to wear a spacesuit they can wear their street clothes they might as well just be saying we the whole time like that and just someone pointed out that you know the jeff bezos saying we're excited to see what we find out. That's not the point. They've never, we've had a space shuttle before. We've had a space shuttle that took up equipment and stuff. You didn't even bring any equipment.

Nothing. They brought a ball they could throw around. Yes. Confirmed no gravity. I just want to highlight the fact that their spaceships are empty. You can see them. We want to find out. And people pointed out also that high balloons have gone to that part of the atmosphere.

There's nothing what we're going to find out. We're going to find out that you're a dick. Yeah. That's all. You and your friends are a bunch of dicks. And Richard Branson uses shell companies to avoid fucking taxes. That's what we're going to find out, you fucks. Whoa.

Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm to find out, you fucks. Yeah. Yeah. Cold brew truth bomb. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh, no. Yes. Yes.

Oh, yes. Straight from Concentrate. So that's boring. I know. Billionaires is boring. But it's, I mean, it worked in a certain respect because, like, when you look at, I think there was a statistic that one morning of Jeff Bezos going to space got as much coverage as climate change got for the entire year 2020. Like one morning of Bezos traveling to space. So, I mean, it's just like the mainstream media bought it, hook, line, and sinker.

Well, they need something. Yeah. They need something every two minutes. This model of getting people to click on stuff, there's no way to go. 24 hours of needing new clicks. This just leads to, yeah, stories about what's coming up on the show, like a horse visiting people in the hospital. And also, you know, it's like they need that stuff.

That's probably not even a horse. It's probably like news producers in a goddamn suit. A horse suit. Just like, we need a story. It's been five minutes since something horrible happened. Are you sure? Are you sure no one's electrocuted themselves in Bulgaria? Because you can use that.

People don't care. And that person gets visited by the horse. It's just one. But then just say people in Bulgaria are getting electrocuted. Make it bigger bigger there you go there you go what is uh what's something you think is underrated my podcast yeah my podcast cold brew got me like boom boom hit him with another one it's just me and my brother greg and much like my other podcast with my brother greg which was one called the chris crofton show and the other one is called was called best of bread which is that was best of bread was an actual radio show we had on we had on the radio station in nashville the vanderbilt

the vanderbilt college radio station before they sold its npr but you know we just end up talking a lot about stuff exactly then. Then we watch some videos. Like this week we watched, I was hoping Jimmy Loftus would be on, just not Danny. I didn't begin. I'm calling people Danny. I'm like my dad. It's great. You are my orchestra teacher.

I love it. No, it's awful. It's awful. And I'll tell you why. It's because I misread Danil one time. I thought it said Danny. And then I called you Danny. Anyway, it's absurd.

I've heard it a million times. Your DJ name is Danil. Yes. Yeah, DJ Danil. But you prefer to be called Dan. Yeah, Dan's good. Yes, yes. Dan's good.

So anyway, yes. Danil's more like the brand. Yeah, okay. More with Dan. Very impersonal. All right, that's cool. Between close friends. I know you.

Yes, I know you. And I should call you your proper name. Yeah, I don't want you to call me like K-Dawg or something. K-Dawg with cold brew toothpaste. Crossing that off. Yeah, because Jack does that a lot. So, what was I going to say? Dan.

You're talking about what cold brew got me like, got you, will get listeners like. Oh, is that what I was talking about? No, what I was talking about, me and Greg talking about what cold brew got me like, got you, will get listeners like. Oh, is that what I was talking about? No, what I was talking about, me and Greg talking about. Best of Bread, the college radio show. Best of Bread. Well, we just ended up talking. I forget what I was saying. But Best of Bread, I hope it's not a brain wipe.

You guys have listened to the show. Actually, I don't think, I think we cut the brain wipe off the show. No, I think we actually may have kept it. Did we leave it? Like my brain went completely blank you needed to grab an egg we needed to grab an egg so we could reset i get very excited when i'm on this show and then i don't eat there you go that's a problem gotta eat so anyway cold brew got me like is uh underrated because because it rules and because we we talk about videos we show funny videos. And then, oh, that's what I was saying. Oh, I was hoping Jamie Loftus would be on maybe

because I know she hosted last week. And I just was wondering because I made fun of Massachusetts. Ah. And I wanted to get into it like, you know, do you guys have any position on Massachusetts? I live there for a little bit. Well, for the sake of this conversation, it's great. Okay.

Let me hear it. Do you think it's wicked awesome and stuff? You know why Massachusetts? If it was so cool, there's a reason why Wicked never made it out of Massachusetts. Wow. As far as slang. There's a reason.

Almost all slang takes off now. People get slang taken off that sucks. And fucking Wicked still didn't take off. So choogy. Because it sucks. Yeah, choogy takes off and W still didn't take off because it sucks yeah chugi takes off and wicked doesn't take off you know you got something wrong with your culture so chugi's a piece of shit yeah i mean that's insane who invented that i think i i think it's intentionally dumb i think that was who marketed it yeah is. Is it from Bustle Media Group?

I feel like that's a Bustle Media Group move. Someone just developed that on like a whiteboard on a day, the same day they were trying to figure out whether they should put on a horse costume and knock on dying people's doors. There's just one whiteboard with both of those ideas on it. A horse comes into your hospital room while you're dying and says, you're choogy. And it was their greatest honor. Yeah, and they're like, well, who was that? Don't worry about it. It's for the news.

So we had this flute guy. I just go around the internet. I go around the internet. I'm fucking done. I'm not talking crazy. Yeah, I'm making no sense. We had this flute guy. Is this related to Massachusetts or we're on to?

Yes. Okay. So it was like this guy in a vest from the 90s that was talking. He was playing the flute and he like was wearing a vest and it was like nine. It was a 90s video. This woman interviewing a flute maker, a guy who sells flutes and booths at craft fairs in Massachusetts. And he was wearing a vest and he looked really tired he looked like a massachusetts guy he looked like a tired anyway it doesn't matter

there's plenty of people in massachusetts who are going to kick my ass so no they don't like fighting it's yeah i know they're gonna kill me no they're very peaceful and uh conflict avoidant i don't think so that's not what i've. They say wicked a bunch and then they kick your ass. When I lived there, I was once watching a sporting event on a TV at a bar and somebody was standing over by the bar and he just

walked over and offered to fight me. He was like, I noticed you were looking at me, bro. Do you want to go outside and fight? I was like, I don't. I was watching the game And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wasn't. I was watching this, the game.

He was he was like kind of confused, but also like just took my refusal. Like he was like, OK, all right. Oh, he did. Yeah. Yeah. It's the kind of it's the kind of scene where it's like, yeah, if we're not going to get laid, listen, the bar's closing in five minutes. Let's just fight everybody. Right.

Yeah. So get that energy out somehow yeah it's like in that documentary goodwill hunting that's right directed by warner hersalk how about them apples a whole career out of that chris it's not your fault i don't so uh so anyway i'm from connecticut so i have some idea of what I'm talking about. But anyway, the thing about Massachusetts was I realized that in the south where I moved, Nashville, I lived in Nashville for 13 years. There was a rockabilly problem there. You know, like people who live in the 50s, you know, in quotes, you know, but they don't really. They kind of half live in the 50s. Like you got almost all 50s stuff, but then they drive, like, a regular car.

Did he say problem, like an infestation of rockabilly? Well, just as a, yeah, a bit of a, just a, I mean, there's just a lot of rockabilly people down there. Got it. And I'm just, I used to do a lot of stand-up about rockabilly people, and it wasn't very nice. And I just thought I was making fun of rockabilly people, and people used to like it.

And then I said, you know what? You got to leave these people alone. Everybody's got to deal with their, their problems. It's different, different ways. Some people dress up like they're from the 1950s. It's not my,

it's not my business. Right. But I do like the idea of like, like that. They think they have time traveled, you know, like drive down the street, but you know,

I, I, I'm not going to get into that. This guy, I realized that where the South people think they're like in like Elvis's band or something. Right. From like the early band, not the late band, but like the band in the beginning, you know,

like they're like, oh, I was in Elvis's, you know, the band where they had the pompadours and went like, whatever. Right. And then, and then I realized the entire region around massachusetts is doing like they think that's like revolutionary war rockabilly like they think they wow they think because he was i realized that that whole wooden thing you know they're obsessed with wood up there like wood oh look his house is beautiful it's made of wood and like this beautiful wooden flute they're obsessed with wood in the northeast and it really

is revolutionary war rockabilly huh that's what it is it's like i am paul revere yeah yeah except you're not i mean i i wish i could disagree with you i lived in lexington massachusetts and they literally have a holiday where everybody dresses up like they're in the revolutionary war and reenacts the first shot and like the guy guy getting killed by the British soldiers and all that shit. Yeah. And it's like this flute guy. This guy was like, he basically carved a Native American flute and put on a vest. He didn't even know what he was doing.

He was like half Paul Revere, half Sacagawea. Like he thinks he's a fucking hybrid of all early America just because he lives in fucking Boston. Yeah. Anyway, that's my... So anyway, direct all hate mail to bestofbred at gmail.com, please. I will not see you anymore, you guys. Revolutionary war rockabilly. I do kind of respect that.

But that's what we watched. We watched the last episode of Cold Brew Got Me Like. We watched this flute guy. Is the hockey hair that they wear in Massachusetts, is that just like the revolutionary like ponytail but they let it down is that is that i think so yes i think that that yes i'm getting on board with this theory i definitely think that they like talking about the they love talking about the lexington bridge or whatever i don't even that's not even a thing but

you know like there's a wooden bridge where they don't even know what it is. They're like, right. You know, like that's where Paul Revere told everybody to go to hell. You know what I mean? Like that's where Paul Revere said, give me Liberty or give me death.

And my grandfather, Phineas was blah, blah, blah. Yeah. So anyway, Colbert got me like, he's on today.

That's why I came on the right day. I came on on the right day. So it's on tonight on on on the right day. I came on on the right day, so it's on tonight on Twitch at 6.30 Pacific. So that's 7.30 Mountain, 8.30 Central, and 9.30 Eastern. Tonight on Twitch.

You got all the time zones. It's Wednesday night. I did it the right way. Last time, remember, I appeared on the wrong day. So tonight, you guys listening to the show today, you can go on Twitch tonight at 630 Pacific and watch this great show I was just talking about that's all about Revolutionary War Rockabilly and flute guys who sit in booths.

And the woman who was interviewing him said, what's it like? And he said, I just sit in my booth. Sometimes people come by and just say, that sounds very good, what you're playing. That's the as shit most honest answer tell what it's so sad that was his description of like that was his badass story sometimes people come over and tell me it sounds nice there you go okay psycho well at least i got fans yeah it's unbelievable it's a great little video and it's got like 90s fonts on it.

And it's just perfect. It's a company. Keep making it sound better. I don't want to blow everybody's minds on the podcast. So I'll just leave it there. All right. Just tune in. Just tune in.

There you go. See for yourselves. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. ourselves all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session, 24 hours. BPM 110, 120.

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available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, former Packers star Kabir Bajabiamila caught up in a bizarre situation. KGB explaining what he believes led to the arrest of his friends at a children's Christmas play. A family man, former NFL player, devout Christian, now cut off from his family and connected to a strange arrest. I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite. I got swept up in Kabir's journey, but this was only the beginning in a story about faith and football, the search for meaning away from the gridiron, and the consequences for everyone involved. You mix homesteading with guns and church and a little bit of the spice of conspiracy

theories that we liked. Voila! You got straight away. I felt like I was living in North Korea, but worse, if that's possible. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change

their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? I mean, the Boone County Rebels stay the Boone County rebels with the image of... It's right here in black and white in the prints. They lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him

to talk to me about the mascot switch is a leader. You choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On the segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that.

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But in terms of like overall story, kind of the main story, Tokyo recorded a record number of new cases of COVID on tuesday days after the start of the games and their solution appears to be just make everyone who lives there live like they're in a zombie apocalypse the prime minister was just sure avoid all non-essential outings but he also in the same breath said no need to consider a suspension of the games so and god forbid in a related story the cdc is reversing earlier advice that we don't need to wear masks indoors if we've been vaccinated and basically telling people you have to if especially if you're in a hot spot like la st louis etc i'm all for anything that like makes everyone more annoyed at the people who aren't getting vaccinated and i

feel like this will do that like just oh most certainly fucking fed up yes yeah i mean that has to be the message throughout this whole thing is that like the only reason it's still this bad is because people have decided to not get the vaccine. And like before, when it was easier to like it was harder to blame those people because there wasn't the vaccine at this point. This so the it's very clear. It's extremely clear. We get lucky we have it. Yeah. We have it.

Other people in the world want it yeah we have it other people in the world want it and we have it and reject it what a fucking supremely american move yes absolutely so gross the american exceptionalism exactly i mean it really is it's like i was raised i was raised in it i was raised in it i'm 52 i grew up for this whole narrative that basically all you have to do is strut around that's the american American, you know, you don't have to, nothing will touch you. You're an American. Nothing happens. You read about bad news and it's just somewhere far away.

Yeah. Yeah, totally. But California is making government workers either get the vaccine or provide weekly like clean tests, I guess. So it's like the option between one trip to the doctor, like weekly trips to the doctors. So I just feel like this is what we need to do. I've been kind of harping on this, but the idea of like making it,

making getting the vaccine the easy choice, like needs to be more and more the answer that people go with. I mean, we were giving people money not long ago. There was like lotteries literal saying hey oh get the vaccine you might get 50 grand get after it it's like crazy that wasn't enough no i got in my car the day i was allowed to go get a vaccine and got got my arm shot where's my fifty thousand dollars gosh darn it yes And that is Dan's new catchphrase.

Where's my $50,000? Where's my $50,000? Imagine having $50,000. You'd be rich. Catch me on Twitch, TV slash. Where's my $50,000? If I got $50,000,

I'd be, I'd open that vape shop. I've always wanted to open it. See, and there we are making the world a better place while also getting vaccinated you want to know what it's called i'd vape canaveral oh yeah is it space themed or yeah yeah i might have to revise it because the whole bezos thing but right that's pretty good though because cape canaveral you also like are picturing like the the trail of like smoke leaving as the rocket leaves and then you so you can do things with that

from a design perspective uh how about vaped crusaders that's pretty good too that's pretty good that's pretty i'm not it's not because you're gonna get both both sides the comic books too you could do comic book nerds but you're gonna get both both sides the comic books too you could do comic book nerds but you could also get like the right wing people who really want to bring back the crusade oh wow yeah you get everybody across the aisle there you go yeah can you imagine opening up a comic book store and not knowing anything about comics how fucked you would be like so fast like if i just casually threw a bunch of x-men comics in a bin you know like next to the cash register and also was a vape store right like

the kind of arguments you'd get in i'd be like oh yeah that's the uh yeah i think that's the uh issue where the avengers like show up in the x-men or something i'd be like what what the fuck are you talking about there has to be an episode of The Apprentice or something like that where the task was to go run a comic book store for a day. Oh, my God. Some reality show fan needs to let us know. That's the X-Men where Archie shows up. Right.

Meatloaf trying to run a comic book tour. Just the violence that we would encounter of trying to fake it with comic book people. You can fake it with indie rock people. Right. You can get away with it. But comic book people, they'll do an investigation. They'll find out.

Because you can be like, oh, yeah, I can't pick which. They're questioning. Oh, I can't even pick which Gang of Four record I like the best. Right. You know what I mean? And then the indie person will be like oh fine but then the the comical people will be like what do you mean you can't pick one pick one now yeah the choice is clear pick one now so we want to do an update on nithya ramenaman, former guest on Daily Zeitgeist, who got elected to be part of the

city council. CD4? CD4. And, you know, one of the main things she ran on was addressing the unhoused situation in Los Angeles, and we are seeing some results. She just kind of reported on an approach they took

where they and this is going to sound weird they treated unhoused people like people so the the solution prior to this had literally been to make people leave the given area where they were so like if there was an encampment, they would like raid the encampment and just like force them to go somewhere else. And then, you know, a month later when people who were there complained enough, they would just go and make them force them to move somewhere else. And so the strategy here was just like patience and treating people like people. And yeah, so they like would they went, they made contact with them. They like talked to them, found out like what it would take to get them into shelters. A lot of the people

had accumulated a lot of things. That was actually an interesting finding that she also talked about was people in L.A. were talking about how like during the pandemic, the homelessness seemed to like explode. And she was saying like when you actually did the research, the numbers went down, the numbers of people. But, like, it seemed like there were more people because people were able to, like, basically camp in place and, like, build out larger encampments. Right. So, anyways, they, like, helped these people get their stuff into storage, you know, asked what they were interested in and then worked with them to pursue that rather than just being like going and being like, get out of here. You can't be here. You don't have to

go home, but you can't stay here type shit. They worked with them. Yeah, you just basically chase them around. Yeah, exactly. That's all. Just keep them on the run everywhere. The one neighborhood goes crazy and says, get them out of here, and then they get them out of there and they go to another neighborhood. It's terrible. I think this is the first step in showing that the solutions are very clearly out there.

It takes a little bit of extra work, but it is a solution that we need to pursue more ferociously. Nithya very clearly points out that this is one encampment. This is just my district. This is, you know, this is a big effort that will need to be taken by the city and by, you know, volunteers, people of the city and everybody to help out. But it is for the betterment of everyone. And it just takes a little bit more effort than what

we're doing right now, which is basically just like like you said shooing people from one place to another which is terrible yeah i mean it's it reminds me of when we talked about uh when we were talking about policing and like alternate solutions to policing as as it's currently constituted where the police are like a military force that invades neighborhoods and treats the citizens of their own town like enemy combatants. We were talking about communities that had created this layer of humanity between like, so when you called 911, they would dispatch people, like actual people, not armed police officers, but like a community member, a trained social worker, a health decades now, and people are starting to pursue that elsewhere. And this just seems, again, like you're adding a layer of empathy and thinking of the person as a human being, like, rather than an obstacle to be removed. So, yeah, it's pretty cool, and I think a good direction to be moving.

Nithya, in her Twitter thread, put an email out there that you can hit up if you want to get involved in the LA area, and we'll put that in the footnotes. When I hike, I watch those people with big houses watching TV in a little corner of it. Mm-hmm. And you know the air conditioning's going in every part of that motherfucker.

Oh, yeah. Fucking rich people don't want to leave anywhere that they might go in any time in the next six months not air conditioned. Nope. But I just noticed all the wasted fucking, there's a house up there that, there's a house up there right near that trailhead that's just like, it's got like a Mercedes in the driveway with like a cover on it. And it's just vacant. I mean, it's, they have like gardeners come and take care of it, but no one's ever there. It's just a house just sitting there, you know. And I bet it's air conditioned too inside.

Yeah. too inside yeah um anyway so there's houses you know there's just places to it's just i you know the idea of just being in a like a really nice neighborhood and just being mad at people for i mean the idea that homelessness is a is something you just it's definitely treated by even like smart people just get very crazy around that subject and are just like i want them gone you know what i mean i don't care where they go you know what i mean like and it's like i don't know it's it's a it's a it's a major people get like you know this is my home i pay for this so i don't want this here you know what i mean it's like but you also are hoarding resources you know you've got like absolutely you've got you you took too much space you got 14 outbuildings that are you got one outbuilding with a with a fucking foosball

table and it's refrigerated down to 40 degrees in case your stupid nephew goes in there you know yeah less nephews more fucking humanity and it's yeah less nephews more humanity i think that's exactly right crofton 2024. Congratulations to, I don't know who, she won a seat on something? Yeah. That's so awesome. That's great. She's the council person for Council District 4 here in Los Angeles.

That just happened? That happened back when. Oh, so she's been on the show as a council person. She came on when she was running running yeah well that's cool she got the tdz bump uh i'm not saying that's why that's why i'm not saying we're totally responsible for saving the world but you know we certainly help most people i talk to say you are there you go i don't really talk to anybody i think there's a i talk a lot on here about like

sort of the psychology of you know the cognitive dissonance involved in being a white person in america and like just the the things that stress white people out of that like the white supremacy and like knowing that there's a lie there and like that that being part of the reason that there's so much anger around it and so much just like rage that you see coming out of white people is like they there's the knowledge that there's a lie there that you're having to protect and like distance yourself from and like you don't want to admit that so there's like extra extra fear there. I think the same thing's true with the homelessness thing.

When you look at, I think you're right. The response is so illogical and just so move thing from out of my face. Yeah. Sometimes from otherwise reasonable people. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's because it is the consequence of their resource hoarding. It's like the one unavoidable consequence.

And like everything else, they feel like they can buy their way out of. And so there's like a desperation there. And yet we could buy our way out of this as well. But it would just mean putting your resources towards something that isn't a bigger TV in your place. Yeah. Yeah. Or more air conditioning. I mean, I can't help it.

I hate to be like this person who just hates everybody who has stuff or something, you know, because that's the way it's characterized. Oh, you're just a hater who hates people who have Porsches or whatever. But it's like, I can't help but look at a Porsche Cayenne and think you could get a decent car that and take that extra money and give it to a homeless shelter. I mean, I just can't help but think that, I mean, I, I understand that people need cars, you know, especially in Los Angeles, you know, but you know, or, you know, they need cars for now, hopefully big picture, we'll get rid of cars, but you know, that's anyway, while we

have, while we have to have cars, I have a car, let's put it that way i have a car it's a honda fit and i paid it off for six years and it's been awesome to have it's a new car and i love it and um but you know i think if you buy a car that costs seven times as much as that my car like i think you should take those extra six times as much you know and give it away and so when i see a person with a porsche cayenne i think badly of them i mean i hate to say that but i honestly think it's a logical position to take i think it's a lie because i think you can look at the world and see you know you don't need a porsche cayenne and you know whatever i don't know why i'm so mad at porsche cayennes but i just damn they're everywhere they're fucking everywhere a lot of

people have those fucking things. How much are they? And they're just basically like SUVs. They even have an SUV that says Porsche on it. I mean, that doesn't even make any sense. I feel like the Porsche Cayenne more than... I have no knowledge of what it's like to drive or what they're like, but that one really seems to me like you're paying for the fact that there's like a porsche

thing that's what i mean it's like putting a sticker like taking a rav4 or something just like peeling off the toyota and putting a fucking porsche sticker on yeah just so you can not get laughed at at the country club or whatever you're paying forty thousand dollars for the logo on the fucking hood and i would not be as mad if it was called Porsche paprika. I really wouldn't. I don't know why. Yeah, that was your. Because that's cute. That was your.

It's just bullshit, man. What's cayenne about it? Yeah. Nothing. That's really funny. All right, let's take another quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you.

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How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. They lion.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On the segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash.

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And Dan had a quick addition to yesterday's story about the five kids under the age of 10 who all accidentally ate edibles. But I do love this detail that you added just about so we were talking chris about how uh the idea of like 10 or 5 kids under the age of 10 all being like way too high was just i i couldn't really picture what that would be because children are already like naturally the most high creatures that I've ever... I was talking about how my kids are always saying shit like, how do my bones move me?

So Dan has a good... Oh, she has exactly what old people say when they're high. Dan had a good one. From when he was a kid, how much does a golf course weigh? Wow. That was a fresh question to my father when I was a kid, how much does a golf course weigh? Wow. That was a fresh question to my father

when I was a wee lad. We were driving to school and I said, Dad, how much does a golf course weigh? I don't know, Dan. I'm surprised you're not a scientist. Why aren't you a scientist? Because I ask questions like that. How come you didn't grow up to weigh golf courses?

Who knows? The social weight of golf courses is too much is more than we can bear i'll tell you that much that's another cold brew truth bomb there you go that's that was that was yeah i think talk about stoned that needs to be like a project in la and for the next 40 years is get rid of these fucking private golf courses that are taking up like what is the best park land in Los Angeles. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. Fucking hell.

And we pay for it with fucking taxes. Talk about like I pay my taxes so that I don't have to. I pay my taxes so that fucking rich guys can go to a little club that I'm not allowed into. Yeah. They got to make a smaller sport. That's a rich person's sport. These five, like 50,000 acres. Hey, asshole, make a smaller sport.

I mean, see. We need five square miles for our sport. Oh, well, then you can't do it anymore. Yeah. How about that? And you'll have to live with it. What? Then you'll have to live with it.

At least hunters go out to a place that nobody's trying to... What if they had a hunting preserve in the middle of the fucking city? They're still assholes, though, because I watch these metal detector guys go out in in the woods and they have to wear a ton of orange and shit so they don't get blown away yeah i'm dick for sure yeah don't shoot me i'm not a deer yeah i'll shoot wherever i want asshole but this is like i'm reading whenever i'm reading a book i have to mention at least 10 times on dailies i guess but I'm reading The Power Broker, which is about Robert Moses. I'm at the part where he's still pretty cool. Page 40? Yeah. It's in the 200s.

Oh, fuck. You really are in there. page book so i'm never gonna make it all the way through but he is currently like kicking the vanderbilts off of like a bunch of land that they've been hoarding on long island to to build public parks there like it's why we have like fire island is because somebody like fought that fight at a certain point and kicked the extremely wealthy off of it so right and now if someone tried to do that they'd be like this is unprecedented yeah yeah exactly nobody's ever been mean to a rich person before yeah all right well let's talk about kanye west real quick please this is just like my favorite kanye story that i've heard in probably six years it's so he he had that thing where he debuted like his rough draft of his album that

he's been working on donda uh to a sold-out crowd at the mercedes-benz stadium just walked around on a giant white like thing that apparently cost five hundred thousand dollars it was so like just strange but like in a way that i i like when he's strange in that way uh where it seems like he you know is in control of it and is like having fun with it yeah the confidence is incredible but so going off of that he he apparently like really liked the vibe of that whole event with just a sold out crowd like watching him walk he was like yeah okay this is kind of cool so he liked the vibe enough that he hasn't left since then he is living there now all right i saw a picture of that is that really true yes apparently he's living there you can't live in a stadium where Where's he living? Like behind the snack bar or something?

That's what I think. So I've heard of other people having offices at Staples Center. I think there's parts of these giant buildings that we don't know about, that we never go into. I forgot it was in the 1970s. I was picturing a 1970s arena. Where's he sleeping? In a hot dog stand but like he just like randomly like showed up at a mls soccer game like the phantom of the opera was

just like hanging out because they were having a a soccer game in his in his house i saw that picture so does he wear that thing on his face all the time now does he wear that when he sleeps i wonder i mean when does he take it off that's the period he's going through right now. Does he put it on before he answers the door? Probably. He's like, hold on a second. He heard about the mask mandate. He comes to the door and he's like, oh, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

Stop doing that, Kanye. Why are you making that noise? Sounds like a didgeridoo for some reason. Why are you making that noise? That's the noise this person with the mask on makes. We all sound like that. I'm totally into it too, but I think that, I just, I mean, I think he should drop the listening party and just, yeah,

next time just do it with no noise. Just sell out a stadium just to just walk around on a sheet. Just as an exercise in confidence. Yeah, he should just keep trying. It's like that work of art, The Artist is Present, just to just walk around on a sheet. Just doesn't exercise in confidence. Yeah, he should just keep trying. It's like that work of art, The Artist is Present, where she sits down across from one person,

except it's Kanye sitting in front of 30,000 people. Yeah, I mean, if he pushed them too far, people would get mad. Sheer confidence. Yeah. I've always defended i've always defended kanye because there i think there's something that makes people irrationally mad about him you just said like it would make he might make people mad he already makes people so mad like from the start people just like he really drives people crazy well a long time yes i mean i think a lot of it is that i mean is that he's black i

mean like white people get so mad about kanye yeah for shit that he does that is like they celebrate bad behavior and rock stars constantly and then kanye does something like like fuck i mean like when kanye interrupted taylor swift's speech yeah like years ago i just remember white people were so like, oh, he's really gone too far. You know what I mean? It's like, what are you fucking talking about? Like fucking, do you know what Oasis has done? You know what I mean? I was like, I mean, it's just like complete.

It's a really good example of, of racism. I mean, it's like, cause I, Kanye is, can be a dick, but I mean, like that's part of the D you know, that's part of, usually that's part of what people like about rock stars.

Yeah. If they're white, you know, they're like, Oh, fucking Jim Morrison didn't give a fuck. Right. And then the Kanye is like,

Kanye thinks it's okay to use this fucking salad fork for the entree? Damn, what are your thoughts on Kanye? The salad fork thing is a bridge too far for me, personally. You can't deal with that. Okay, Emily Post. Exactly. I mean, you know, personally with Kanye, I think it's a situation

where, you know, I would love for him to be open to getting help of some kind, where it just feels like it's just constantly surrounding himself with yes people at every possible moment. And it just kind of allowing him to do whatever he wants at every opportunity, whether it's healthy for him or not. whether it's healthy for him or not the the stadium thing i mean you know it started with it started with msg it started with madison square garden and doing it there and i think he's just like bigger more people more stadium more snow more more this more everything and it's just it's just kind of like a it's a display of grandiose ego and and like bravado and stuff like that yeah i don't know i mean like i know i just described things rather than having a take on it but like i guess no i

think that's fair like i think a lot of people until someone steps in it's like i'm going to help this human being like i think a lot of people's like take on it is to be worried and that worried for him and i think that's totally fair also i just think in this particular case like it's it's kind of awesome i also don't know if he's if he's not getting help like i don't i just don't know like what his well it's cooler than like you know like richard branson going to space with his stupid friends he doesn't have to waste any resources to stand around like the Phantom of the Opera. There's lots of fun we can have here on Earth.

Yeah. I'm going to write him a letter. There you go. Okay. Dear Kanye, and the address is, what is it? BMW Center, I think. Yeah, yeah. And that's all it says.

Or the Mercedes-Benz, whatever, one of those. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to send him a Christmas list. That sounds lovely. But that is incredible. I think it's neat him a Christmas list. That sounds lovely. But that is incredible. I think it's neat and I think that, neat.

I think it's neat. I think that's the right word for it. I think it's neat. I think, I just want to know what you do when you got that mask on. Because like,

what if someone at this game talks to him? Is he allowed to talk to him or is he just like, I mean, he didn't even talk to the crowd. You know what I mean? I wonder if he's allowed to talk with that thing on. You know, I don't think he is. Like, they'll be like, Kanye, how are you enjoying the game? And he's like, I mean, he didn't even talk to the crowd. I wonder if he's allowed to talk with that

thing on, you know, like, I don't think he is like they'll be like, Kanye, how are you enjoying the game? And he's like, you know, it's post-verbal. Did you just make a noise? Post-verbal, that's a good one. Oh, I want him to do a listening party where he doesn't do any listening. There's nothing. He just makes duck noise.

He does like a duck. He impersonates a chicken for like two hours. And finally, the main event. We want to talk about this hospital horse. I feel like this is... So when I first saw this, I thought, okay, we're definitely living in the simulation. Because this...

I mean, it just feels like it's coming from another dimension the horse like appears so confident as it like hovers that there's a picture if you haven't seen it of the horse visiting a woman who either appears to be like like dissolving into tears at the like majesty of the horse or like having a terror bowel movement like it's no i think you're i think you're right on the terror bowel movement my lord is it it's just like early in the morning yeah the horse is delivering the last rites right there that's the horse saying the final words that this person is going to hear yeah i'm sure the person thinks that what does a person who's near in near-death delirium think when a horse is in their room right and also i mean i'm sure it's i'm sure

it's a scale thing because it's a picture but this horse is enormous yeah and you see that it's it's bulging it has a beautiful braid but then like how did that horse fit through that door it is a miracle that this door is a beautiful braid sauntering through a hospital and then, you know, teleports from outside into this room. Right. After choosing. After choosing. Like, the degree to which they have given this horse the run of the hospital is

truly, like, next level. So the tweet says, in France, a beautiful 15-year-old stallion named Peo often comes to comfort and soothe terminal patients at the Tecker Hospital in Calais. Mispronouncing all those French words. Nice. The horse chooses which patient he wants to see, kicking his hoof outside the door.

So the horse is just this magisterial presence that just kind of like wanders through the hospital and decides to like go in and see a dying human and like the amount of confidence and eye contact that is uh going on in this in this uh photograph is pretty awesome it's pretty cool but so my theory that this is proof that we're living in the simulation is just that like the idea of putting a horse in a hospital like happened a few years ago when John Mulaney was saying that like the Trump presidency is like having a horse in a hospital. And you have to just like sort of at first you're like, oh, there's a horse in the hospital. But then you're like, wait, what's it going to do? I think that that joke just like spawned this in our collective unconsciousness and whatever however the simulation works is it's now like port portaled over into reality i think that's what's going on i mean i think the real

question here is what kind of hospital is this that lets a horse in it who let it in who let it in regardless of what it does after that like it's great that it's doing all this stuff once it's in there, but what the fuck is it doing in there and who brought it? Yeah. Who had the idea the first time? Is there another? This is the part I was thinking of while I was listening to you guys. I was just thinking, what other animals are wandering around in there? Is there a squid that slaps the patients?

Like, how many others? Is there a rhinoceros that disrespects the dead? Who's to say if this horse is just doing a power move like, look, I'm alive and beautiful. You look like shit, Grandma. There's a lot

of projection on this horse. Oh, 100%. That horse could be saying, in your face, Granny. This horse is just looking for salt on people's arms and it's like yes is this oats yes i just uh what i was gonna say earlier is i found this guardian article about about this horse so there's a couple a couple very interesting lines in here one there's a picture that i just posted in the chat that uh is horrifying A looming horse in the background,

just out of focus, looking on these doctors like, are you providing medical care? But then also this line, with payout, this is from the horse's owner, with payout, we try to recreate life at the end of life in order to fight and create an energy to accompany families and caregivers caregivers says his trainer hasan bushakor so what is it what is this image that they're trying to craft here with this horse that this horse has no idea about at all right we try to create life at the end of life i mean there's like definitely like an artistic thing that they're trying to do here and I'm sure it like I'm sure in person this is quite the thing

to see like a horse just wandering the halls of the hospital all the pictures in this article are stunning I'm just thinking about so much stuff right now like imagine being dying and then there's horse shit in your room yeah I was just thinking of the horse taking a shit

also which has to happen. Like, they do not have this horse house broken. Yes. God damn. It's a good thing it's not a monkey. Imagine if it was a monkey. Like, pull out all their tubes and shit. Yeah, seriously. Just freaking out and yelling.

He drank my saline solution! I did not realize it was like visiting terminal patients. And now this guardian article is really fucking me up. They also have the horse like licking a casket of a like young person who died of cancer. Jesus Christ. Fucking Nosferatu horse. Oh my God, I did not scroll all the way down there. Oh my gosh.

Just inhaling the soul. This horse is a vampire. God damn it. Vampire horse. Yeah. Sucking souls. That would be great.

Soul sucking horse. Soul sucking horse. Someone needs to Photoshop the horse inhaling this woman's soul like through his nostrils. I just want to be near death and be like,

get these fucking animals out of here. I just want to be near death and be like, get these fucking animals out of here. I'm trying to die. Some of the people are actually riding the horse through the hallway. Give life at the end of life is such a funny idea.

Like, get up. It's time to do karaoke. Ride the horse one last time. Ride that horse all the way. We realized you don't have any living loved ones. So we arranged a karaoke party with a bunch of animals. We're taking you to a farm. You're going to pet all the ducks.

I want to stay here. No, this is for the news. Chris, as always, such a pleasure having you, man. Thank you. So much fun to be on, man. Both of you guys. And I mean, always so much fun. I always look forward to this very much.

We always look forward to having you. Where can people find you and follow you? You can follow me on at the Crofton show on Instagram and Twitter. Still writing poems almost every day on Twitter. And you can watch cold brew. Got me like live tonight on Twitch at six 30 Pacific. Or you can watch it, watch it on YouTube.

Cold brew. Got me like, or you can watch it on or listen to it on Spotify or Apple, whatever. And it's, it's a podcast now and it on YouTube, Cold Brew Got Me Like, or you can watch it on, or listen to it on Spotify or Apple, whatever. And it's a podcast now. And it works as a podcast. Because we basically do a lot of talking. I mean, the videos are part of it, but it's not. Anyway, it works as a podcast.

So listen to that Cold Brew Got Me Like and view it as well. And is there a tweet or some other work on social media you've been enjoying? Yes. I have one for once. Seems like you have it written down. Because this is the part of the fucking show where I fall apart every time. Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck. But maybe someone's already done it because it was such a masterpiece.

Blair Saki? Did someone already do it? No, I don't think so. Her long thing that she did about being on the plane? Oh, my God. No, I don't think so. It's so fucking funny. Let's hear it. God damn it. Okay. Blair legend this is oh this is such a fucking good tweet it's not even a

tweet it's like an epic story so blare saki man across the aisles pretending not to notice me sexually a trained thespian a trained thespian but unfortunately for him i have a trained eye and i can see through his beleaguered labor. And then she says, I know he's digging deep right now as he hasn't looked over in minutes. The strain is palpable. You could say it has its own heartbeat at this point. Poor thing, as if any man has ever resisted a woman eating beef jerky with a Chardonnay in the history of the world. That's the line of the whole thing.

That's the line. In the history of the world is what kills me. Pull kindle out coquettish little tart a master of a master of koi hasn't a clue his transparency is blinding me like a freshly cleaned glass yep i've got him right where i want him he's a goner man has no idea who he's dealing with. Fortunately, my playbook is endless. Just reapplied Aquaphor to my entire face. Can see he's besieged with a desire to run his hand down my cheek like a slip and slide. Though he hides in Tom Clancy, I know surrender is near. Folks, folks, folks, he just pulled out an eye mask. The gazelle is limping now.

We're about to close. I can't even. There's only two more, sorry. He fell asleep. The gazelle is limping now. We're about to close. I can't even. There's only two more. Sorry. He fell asleep. The gazelle is limping now. He fell asleep. Sir, you think I was born yesterday?

I haven't seen something this calculated since the subprime mortgage scandal. Sweet little bugger isn't ready for my ultimate finisher move where I offer him some of my veggie crisps and he gracefully concedes, giving over to TH. You know, it just ends. So fucking good. So great. Oh, wait, she's got one more she added a day later. Well, we spent the weekend together. He cried

and said he doesn't know what he'll do if I don't fly and meet his entire family immediately. I swear, I wish life would surprise me even one time. Even one time. That's great. As if anyone has resisted a woman eating beef jerky and drinking in the history of the world kills me so much

Danil where can people find you what's a tweet you've been enjoying you can find me on all the things including twitch.tv slash DJ underscore Danil where I too will be streaming this evening enjoying you can find me on all the things including twitch.tv slash gj underscore dandle where i too will be streaming this evening but i start earlier i start earlier so you can come say hi to me and then go watch cold brew god thank god but you can find me there and i also have a short series of tweets that i liked from former guest pat soroy is it soroy i think it's pat soroy and he told a story I'll read this one quickly. This is my addition to the men's wedding ring discourse. One time at the pawn shop, a woman

came in looking to get a quote on a ring. It was a little ass diamond solitaire. I think I told her we'd give her $100 for it. She asked how much we sell it for. I told her $250. She looked a little pissed. And that's usually because jewelry has an insane retail markup. She asked what ring like that would cost in stores. I told her, I don't know, $400, $500. She scoffed and said thank you and took her ring back. Instead of leaving, though, she shopped out her phone. She called her man, presumably the dude who gave her the ring, and very loudly was like,

So that's all you're coming to this marriage with? $400? They went back and forth for a few minutes, and finally she said, Well, I'm here. Come through. $400? They went back and forth for a few minutes. And finally, she said, well, I'm here. Come through. 20 minutes later, the dude pulled up and he legit looked like Slim Thug if he joined one of those Christian weightlifting teams. Dude stormed in and they argued for a second. And then he said, who the fuck told you that? Girl just pointed to me and the dude charged up. He asked me how the fuck I got those numbers. And I told him it was just based off market value and met risk and weight and stuff. He pulled her aside and they argued for a few more minutes and finally said can i use that

a hundred dollars to put towards another ring and lay away oh my god i told him for sure and the three of us headed to the jeweler case to look for a ring that was more to her liking after about 20 minutes it became obvious she wasn't feeling the shit we had she looked around for a bit and her eyes settled on a set of rims and tires. 22 inch blades. She asked if they'll fit her car so we take out the lug gauge and check her car against the tires and it turns out they're a match. They were going for a G and we needed

10% down for layer way. $100 did the trick and we set them aside. Two weeks later he came and got them out and I like to think that somewhere out there in the depths of Facebook there's a pic of that lady posted up in front of her Impala on 22s like this talking about i said yes that's adorable oh i love that story shout out at pztx former guest pat sir royce let's go all right uh tweet i enjoyed doth tweeted i respect the moon because it controls two of our most precious elements,

oceans and wolves. And big culture energy. Put a tweet after my own heart. Havana syndrome? Have you tried Havana fucking girlfriend? Oh, well. Havana, I guess. That's funny.

That's good. Really got me. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes.

We link off the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy dj daniel do you do you have a song that you'd recommend people go check out i do have a song that i recommend people go check out a little heavier than i'm sure some people are used to but this awesome artist this guy named uber u-b-u-r is a new ep that just came out called odium and one of the songs on it is called Nightcrawl. It's like a drum and bassy tune, but it's a lot more stripped down. It's a lot more bare, but it lets every sound come through.

There's fantastic growls. There's really good energy to it. And it's just like, you know, a good nighttime driving song. And so, yeah, go check out Nightcrawl by Uber. U-B-U-R. And Chris, is there a song of yours that you would uh direct people to to check out oh wow that's a nice question um yes please go uh go to um what am i saying go to spotify go to spotify we'll just link to one of the ones that people um hello it's me my new record's

finished but it hasn't come out yet. So my last one was from 2018. It's called Hello, It's Me. And I would recommend It's All My Fault off that record. That's probably my favorite song on it. All right. Well, we are going to link off to both of those. Thanks so much. Yeah, yeah.

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