The Daily Zeitgeist - Humanzees to Basement Eels, Bike Lanes = Votes 04.12.24

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

In episode 1658, Jack and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by comedian and author of The Advice King Anthology, Chris Crofton, to discuss… Guy Created Underground Eel Pit In His Basement, More People Are Commuting To Paris By Bike Than Car, Rich People Getting Second Passports and more! Guy Created Underground Eel Pit In His Basement (Shoutout to Amber @girlwhon3rds on Twitter for sharing this one.) More People Are Commuting To Paris By Bike Than Car More people travel by bicycle than by car in Paris, according to new report French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris Paris to become 100 percent cycling city Rich People Getting Second Passports Humanzee: The Human Chimp LISTEN: Already There by Taylor McFerrin, Robert Glasper, & ThundercatSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is our half-Satan birthday. Season 333. And yeah, what a run it's been. it is a podcast where we take a deep dive into american shared consciousness and it's friday april 12 2024 of course my name is jack o'brien aka party jack is in the pod tonight recalling stories from the daily zeitgeist. Party Jack is gonna change your mind. About JFK, space, and suicide. That is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi, man. Got my shoulders moving.

Little party rock anthem, a.k.a. That's one of, a lot of times, like, Christy Yamaguchi, man. Great taste in music. Great, like, will remind me of a song that I hadn't heard in a long time. I'll go back. I'll check it out. I'll be like, man, this song fucking goes. Like, this is a song that I heard on the radio a couple times, but it's, like, a really, you know, good songwriting, fun.

I went back and I listened to Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO to prepare for this one. And it's not like I was like this is this is worse than i remember how is this possible it's like how is this just so like it's like somebody like humming a song they think like somebody humming that song like because they remember hearing it 12 years ago or something it's like you can hear the lack of talent yeah you know what i mean like that's part of the sound that's the base you can hear the nepotism and that's what's good yeah anyways uh great aka thank you to christy amaguchi man as always i'm thrilled to be joined in the second seat by today's very special guest co-host with the Mo host, a brilliant comedian,

writer, actor. He's got the sparkle folks as our guest today told him. He's got that sparkle about him. Hilarious. He's chaotic. He's riding a recumbent bike in short shorts. He's Blake Wexler.

Hey, this is Blake Wexler, AKA the white Ford Blaco, a.k.a. Blake on me. Blake on me. T-D-Z. T-D-Z. Plumpers, baby. They are huge.

Wow. Thank you. To Paul Garaventa. Went so high, we couldn't even hear it. Shout out to Paul Garaventa. And also, can I give another shout out real quick? May I have the floor for one quick shout out? Is it to AHA?

I would never. No, no, no, no, no, no. But shout out to AHA. Also, shout out to aha also uh shout out to producer victor and also kind of a happy trails on he he has been doing such a good job of booking this show but i think unfortunately he has made i would call a fatal booking error of having myself and our guests simultaneously on the show on the day that oj simpson died no less no and he knew that victor's been saying for a while just he said keep your eyes open april 11th yep i'm just saying you know uh nicole brown simpson's gonna get some revenge if you know

what i'm saying yeah and i yeah we didn't we we didn't know what the fuck he was talking about clue we were like please stop earthquake i don't know but yeah he he called it i mean it's uh it's gonna be a mess folks i'm just putting that out there right now because we are all broken the fuck up about oj passing it's i'd say you hug your kids a little bit tighter, but they're at school, so I'm just sitting here kind of bereft, not knowing what to do with myself. I picked up kids at school today

to hug them. That should be legal. I know it's not, and you're in a little bit of trouble, but it should be legal on days of tragedy like this. Blake, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by another hilarious stand-up comedian, actor. This one's also a musician, this one, who has a Pitchfork 7.4 rated album.

7.4. Yeah, I hate to mention it. And what is that number out of? You do hate to. I hate to mention it. What is that number out of? I hate to mention it every fucking time. Out of 10? It's not that good. 7.4 is really good. It's better than a lot of albums

that I really like. You know? I beat a Wilco album. One Wilco album. I beat Sky Wilco album One Wilco album I beat like Sky Blue Sky And that's like Wilco fans were mad about that

You know all the Wilco albums Wilco is a little bit I was rated better than one of the lesser Wilco albums But in general I can also scientifically Prove I'm better than Wilco in a bunch of ways if we had time. Yeah.

We do have time. We've got to think what timecast is about. I got a 7.4 for Pitchfork. Yeah. So anyway, I don't like to mention it too many times in a row. Your face, Tweety. It doesn't sound as tough when you're bullying someone named Tweety, unfortunately. That was my problem with Sylvester the Cat.

They have serious... They should do merch with Sylvester the Cat on it. That's a good idea. I couldn't agree more. I don't think he likes that, though, when people reference Tweety Bird with him. He hates it. No, he's like, yeah, he's like, I think he's a very powerful man. You know, I don't think he's anyone...

Yeah, you know, he comes on friendly, but he is Jeff Tweety, and he's got very powerful man. You know, I don't think he's anyone. Yeah, I, you know, he comes on friendly, but he is Jeff Tweedy and he's got legions of annoying white men who follow him around. What if you got, what if Jeff Tweedy had you disappeared? That would be the most embarrassing way to get offed. Jeff Tweedy offed you. I can believe it. He would have like yeah he would

have one of the guys in less savvy fav do it yeah uh let's just say a ghost is born after this podcast where you were talking about god damn exactly yeah yeah you're and now you've revealed jack that you are one of his followers i am i am legion all right i'll tell you a quick funny story quick funny story i was in a coffee shop when sky blue sky came off out i've also been in a coffee shop when every album came out yeah but uh like but but but i like the guy behind the counter was like one of these guys who loves wilco like thinks they're like you know i don't know really important for some reason yeah and i think they're good you You know, they're good.

Yeah. You know, I like them a lot. I mean, I've gotten a little bit tired of them, but, but I mean, they put out like,

I don't know, a hundred records or something. Yeah. Like, yeah. Way inside projects. He has some side project with his son, you know,

and yeah, it's called Tweety. I mean, the guy's a megalomaniac, but anyway, the, uh, anyway,

he, uh, I would love to get in a feud with with him because it'd be so good for my social media numbers oh my god oh my god if i could just get him to yell at me once i would get i don't know what i would get but something yeah probably four or five more followers on on threads yeah yeah who who just antagonized you the whole time. Yeah. So that anyway, I was in the, in the store and, and sky blue sky was like a disappointment. And that's, this guy was like, he just said to me, the guy behind the counter,

I was like, Oh, what do you think of this new Wilco record or whatever? I don't even know what I was taught. I just talked to baristas cause I'm lonely. I was like, Oh, and he said,

he said, it's, it's, it's disappointing when you, when you real, when you know what they're capable of. That's devastating. Which I thought that was really funny to me.

Yeah. Like, really. Something that my parents would have said to me. Yeah, it was just a really weird, like, and I knew what he meant. Because, like, there's a certain class of, like, music fan that likes, like, when Wilco put a lot of computer noises in their songs. Like, they were were like now we're getting somewhere you know what i mean and then like sky blue sky was sort of just like regular rock and roll without as much beeping or like yeah like yeah we we know that they're capable

of more and i'm like you mean more computer noises more beeping yeah like you mean like dusty computer you mean like you think music's advanced if it uses machines. And I didn't get into it with him because I just wanted to, you know, I didn't want to have a fight. Well, you know, Cold War kids don't use the machines. They just it's just all talent and vocals. You know, it's just something that knows nothing about music. I've noticed that the Cold War kid, that's my most current reference. Also, the Cold War kids, they don't need that. They just shouted a tape recorder yeah that's right they never did that shit but anyway

this podcast is cold brew got me like uh his book is the advice king anthology uh he's the only person who will go off on a 10 minute sidebar during his introduction it's Chris motherfucking Crofton hey what's up I never get a aka no one ever gives me one so I'm gonna do one I'm sure there's like dozens I've been through the desert on a horse named

Chris Crofton there it is so it's pretty good America not Neil Young all in all you're just uh another chris crofton in the wall uh-huh oh you're good at this chris crofton to you we're gonna get sued we're to get sued by those old sisters who made that one. Oh, my God. There's plenty of room at the hotel, Chris Crofton. I mean, that one works really well, actually.

And I wrote all those. You did? I told you. I told you guys. He has a 7.4 on pitch for it. Chris, how are you doing? I'm doing great. I'm here in Nashville. Well, Madison,

technically, which is like sort of like the vape sales district. Uh-huh. Right, right. But, you know, it's all right. I'm like having fun over here. You know, I just had my birthday yesterday. Hey, Chris Crofton to you. Thanks. Turned 55, which is like, you know, not a birthday. You just didn't edit that out unnecessarily. Say out loud. Yeah. You don't want to say out loud. There's not like a lot of people are going to be like, there's a lot of people just went,

Ooh, you know, but whatever, you know, I got to like, I'm an overshare. I'm not going to start lying about my age. I like to tell people the real deal. Yeah. Like grunge style i was raised by eddie vetter and eddie better tells the truth i mean he used to now he has a point right there justin we can come back in here back in on eddie better tells the truth if he doesn't anymore he doesn't anymore though he has a facelift he has a facelift eddie better did he get a facelift yeah he has a oh man come on i mean it's well done but he's still he got one you know oh really yeah he got i mean i mean well the best one i've ever seen does he have those like otherworldly eyes that

like wolf blitzer's facelift was just like all of a sudden his eyes looked like he was like from david lynch's dune or something like his eyes just like had these weird like shadowy blue fit like features to them i think eddie looks like he just looks like what he is which is like a guy who gave up on the whole you know i mean he kind of gave up on the the grunge thing you know fighting ticket master and stuff like all that stuff like that i was you know like i was like that's what you were here for i like that guy yeah like the guy was all mad now he's like mr you know he's just like mr chicago cubs or whatever he's pro junk fee now when i saw him when i saw him he made a big speech i saw him in in la before i moved and he in 2022 and he made a speech about how he didn't think that the

allegations against bill murray were true because he's hung out with Bill Murray and Bill Murray's rules. It was super nice. And I was like, he went on a long thing about that. And I was like, man, Eddie,

you need to drink less wine on stage. You dumbass. Yeah. Oh no. I mean, you just turned into this guy who I've met. You used to rail against people like what you're. Yeah. I mean, just, it was like, dude, you did it you fucking got too famous and all right yeah so

anyway eddie vetter would say he was the old eddie vetter that i used to like would have said he was 55 and i'll tell you one thing on a blog on a blog or on some fucking one time i went on that reddit they have for the daily zeitgeist the subreddit big mistake right I know I know but I wanted more I wanted more praise I was looking for more praise now I couldn't get enough on the regular on the underneath the

picture on Instagram wasn't enough oh Crofton did a good job all this Crofton's number one Crofton fever or whatever I said and then I went on Reddit and Crofton fever one guy Crofton fever or whatever I said And then I went on Reddit and Crofton fever They always put that under Crofton fever

Sweeping the globe Don't you look under the Instagram The Daily Psychos Instagram There's a hashtag Crofton fever Anyway Crofton fever sweeping the globe I went on the subreddit And the subreddit said that it was sad that I was 53.

So I can only imagine like this guy was like, I think it's kind of sad that he is doing this at age 53. And then someone else said, what's he supposed to be doing? I know he's like, what else is he supposed to be doing? And then the guy was like, I don't know't know you know but i know what he thought right because he thinks 53 year olds are supposed to have a yacht or whatever yeah you're supposed to have a yacht or some shit and you should be hanging out at his golf club yeah his country club yeah and another do that too like you don't just podcast you do also hang out at your golf club as well. Who does? You pull your yacht up to your golf course. And yeah, I run I run a yeah, I run a I run a whole network of gambling sites.

I do a lot of things. You do a lot of interest. I would argue that supplements might be the best thing to drink as a performer at a rock show. Because liquor, that will take hold of you too quickly. Beer will bloat you and you'll burp during your performance. Where wine, I think, might actually be the smoothest thing that you can... If you're going to do it, I would say... Maybe it would have been better if Eddie Vedder had been bloated during his speech about how his fellow celebrity was cool to him and so therefore can't be a predator.

Yeah. Also odd that a speech that he didn't even make a comment in passing. I need 2 p.m. It was rough stuff. And he also said, like, he called a woman a bitch. Like, he was like, he's like, he was wearing a sparkly jacket and some other someone bitch. He was wearing a sparkly jacket and someone in the audience was wearing a sparkly jacket. He was wearing a sequined jacket.

And he said, don't steal my thunder, bitch. And then he felt so bad about it because his old activist self wasn't drunk enough to forget that. So he started saying women needed equal pay and stuff right after that. And it was like, man, you are a fucking mess. Equal pay to buy different jackets than me. He was just so embarrassed. He said,

he was so embarrassed. He said, bitch, when I mean, no one really, he was, and then he went on and he immediately said like women's pay was going up or something.

And it was like, my God, you are too drunk, buddy. You know, you've, you've, uh, alienated the Tweety Mafia and now the Vetermans

and bitches you've alienated bitches you should take all that out sorry about that bitches in sparkly jackets are coming for your ass but I'm 55 I don't know what that means I'm 55 so I get to go to the movies or something for half price or I don't know what that means. I'm 55, so I get to go to the movies or something for half price, or I don't know what happens.

It's the new 47. 55 is the new 47, so you're thriving. Is that where we're at now in the math? I mean, it doesn't matter. No one can stop me. No one. It's always very convincing when there's a pause

in between stop and me. No one can stop me. I'm on hinge. That between stop and me. No one can stop me. I'm on hinge. That's right, baby. No one can stop me. I'm on hinge. Me. Yes. He's on hinge.

I'm going to add that to your intro, actually, next time. All right. Chris, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners some of the stories. Because we have no concept of who you are. We're going to tell our listeners some of the stories we would have gotten to if we had different people in our second and third seats. So we would have talked about a guy. This one I think we might get to because I think, Chris, you might be interested in this one.

This is a story about a guy who created an underground eel pit in his basement that one of our listeners, Amber, at GirlWhoNerds on Twitter shared with us. He has, like, you know how... Oh, I'm in on this. Basements will sometimes have, like, a manhole cover type thing that's like, oh, there's a sump pump or something under there. A rain cistern. Well, he had a rainwater cistern under there

and converted it into a large fish tank for American eels. Not these foreign eels. Nah, fuck that. These red, white, and blue eels. Yeah, they were caught in Maine, he specifically says. We have some good news about Paris changing their culture around cars to being a bike city. So we'll talk about that. Maybe some conversation about rich

people getting second passports, something about the new Civil War movie, an AI pin that is here to solve none of your problems. All of that, not really none of that, probably, but maybe a couple. We'll see. But before we don't get to that stuff, Chris, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? I got a pretty good one this time. Okay. If you've been listening to my podcast, Cold Brew Got Me Like, you probably have heard me talk about this. In fact, you definitely have, but I have to bring it up just in case.

Are you guys familiar with the Humanzee? The Humanzee. This is like a missing link type thing man's a human chimpanzee hybrid which which there is i don't think there is one right this is like cryptozoology but in the 1970s like these group this group of people like not very many became convinced that this one chimp was a half man half chimp because he walked around and he didn't walk on all fours like a chimp and he also had like a kind of look like a person kind of look like me and uh he kind of looks like me like i don't know pale like yeah maybe pale i

was thinking pale and his face was like hairless like where a chimp's face is hairy so like he could see more of his face which anyway these like basically these people just decided that he was half human because he looked like kind of like half human and because he he walked on his on his hind legs which the he was brought up he was in uh new jersey being raised by people who trained chimps for you know to uh fire cap guns and roller skate chimps for, you know, to, uh, fire cap guns and, and roller skate and stuff like that. You know, like a,

a chimpanzee training camp for like movies or TV shows or whatever. And it's always like two nut balls or just like, you know, who just are nuts, you know, have these chimpanzees running around their yard and they teach them how to smile and stuff by, you know,

God knows what technique and, uh, electric shop therapy God knows what technique. Electroshop therapy. Yeah, whatever. Putting like a clothespin on their nuts or whatever. Or whatever. Yeah, or whatever. Fill in the blank.

But whatever. It's an unpleasant business, I'm sure. And anyway, this family had these chimps, and then they had this one named Oliver. And he was like, they were like, he's half human because he walks in a way that we can't teach apes. We can't teach our chimps to walk. We can teach them to walk a little bit, but we have to like, you know, whatever, make sure they're doing it or whatever. You know what I mean? We have to like make them be able to view next to them like, you know, with the stick or whatever.

And I don't know if it's with the stick you know but not to hit them maybe not to hit them but just like to you know put them under the chin and remind them that they need to be walking or whatever verbal insults yeah whatever happens to chimps when they're in new jersey instead of the fucking jungle so so so anyway when they're suburban in their suburban when they're in suburban new jersey sitting in like a a lazy boy instead of in the jungle where they're supposed to be. So this family decides and then somehow this lawyer gets wind of this chimp that's supposed to be half human. And I don't know how in the world there's like some grapevine in 1977 where people just like word of mouth are talking about this half human. Anyway, this lawyer. Probably the local news, right?

You know what it was? It's just the zoologist was probably screaming at the top of his lungs. about this half-human anyway this lawyer the local news right yeah you know what it was is this the zoologist was probably screaming at the top of his lungs can we please stop these rumors about him being half-human i'm the only one with access to his mother can we please you're ruining my family well there's this freaking yes there's this guy definitely fucked a chin he fucked him he fucked it so this documentary is just unbelievable you gotta i maybe i can link it or send it to justin or something um it is like uh these guys it's a whole documentary just based on these people who think this things that they're like even after all of the stuff where

it's like this thing's there's no proof this thing's anything but a chimp with like no hair on his face because of some you know like he's got mange or not mange, but like some kind of genetic thing is born with no hair on his face. Just because of things born with no hair on his face doesn't mean it's half, but they're like, this is definitely a half human half. This is definitely a human Z, but nobody offered any proof,

but they were still like, I still think he is like, there was just like three people. You want to believe the trainers, the trainers thought he was half human this piano player guy this pianist who tried to buy him but he got outbid by a lawyer and the lawyer took him to japan where the thing was like you know he went on tv and wore like athletic shorts and rode an exercise bike and stuff no and like you know and this guy was like it was supposed to be

researched those japanese fucked me i was supposed to get we were supposed to be research. Those Japanese fucked me. I was supposed to get... We were supposed to do serious research, and they had them on TV. You know, eating a hot dog. Did he ever, like, rip anyone's fingers or face or genitals off? No, because he was more human. Anyway, it's a humansy, and they have this British narrator. I don't know what show this is on. The Psy?

Do you know what SCI channel is? Is that a sci-fi channel? Maybe. SCI? No, I think sci-fi channel changed its spelling to sy fy for some reason okay but this is from like 2002 this documentary anyway it's absolutely wonderful and that and they really go into the main reason this this chimp had to be taken out of the out of the training facility which is really you know a ranch house you know, and had to stop drinking wine.

And also, he's a human because, look, he drinks a lot. He drinks a lot of liquor. He keeps defending Bill Murray. Yeah. And Bill Maher. He loves Bill Maher. And then there's one guy who says that he thinks that he heard that his uncle worked at a lab in the 20s where they definitely produced a humanzy. And you're like that's the same story everybody says about

you know what i mean he's like in the 20s my uncle worked at this lab in pensacola where they yeah it definitely happened they made one and they had to euthanize it you know and it's like you could substitute just richard gear and the fucking hamster for any part of that story. Gerbil. Edit that out. Or whatever. It was gerbil. It wasn't a hamster. You gotta find this documentary. It's really good. There's a new art

film starring Jesse Eisenberg called Sasquatch Sunset that it just like follows a family of Sasquatch around like Jesse Eisenberg, I believe is playing one of them. No, there's just,

that's right. It's Jesse Eisenberg in his original, you know, without the makeup that makes him look less like a human. Yes. It's a, I don't know. Like,

I remember watching that Werner Herzog movie about the like cave art like from that's like some of the earliest culture that we have of like prehistoric humans and like one of the first things that we ever drew was like half animal half human like i think it was a cat person and i think there's just a like fascination that's like built into us that we just like want these creatures that are like half human, half animal like that. That's just there. And we will keep making it happen one way or another. In our case, I think it's like we're our version of culture is more interested in like half human, half ape. Our version of culture is more interested in like half human, half ape.

And that's why we have the obsession with like Bigfoot and Sasquatch and Humansy. But, you know, past cultures have given us like werewolves or like cat people. Was that the documentary where the cave art kills the subject of the documentary at the end? Was that then eats it or is that a different? That's a different one. That's a different one. OK, I'm sorry. Yeah, I think I think you're thinking of a horror film oh no grizzly men i was thinking grizzly men yeah yeah i apologize yes of the dakota grizzly men correct yeah you say grizzly men that's interesting that's his family name we should have known

cox my given name you ever heard heard of a coxswain? Yeah. That's what they used to say in the 70s. They called men who were like, they called themselves. Anyway, I don't need to talk about that. What's the one who drives the boat and crew? Is that a coxswain or is that a coxswain? Coxswain.

Imagine the jokes. Imagine the jokes. That's why I had to quit crew. I couldn't handle it. I was laughing too hard to roll. Imagine being the Cox Wayne. Imagine how many jokes you got. Oh, boy.

I'd be so lucky. They did do them the good deed of making it C-O-X-S-W-A-I-N. So that people are like, no, it's not even that. It's Cox. Right. And then laugh, laugh, laugh. So anyway, check out this Humansy documentary. It's a British guy doing the narration

and he says, Humansy so many times is so great. It's so great. And he just keeps saying that all anyone thinks about is Humansy. He's like, how scientists are constantly thinking about Humansy and I don't think that's true. And, you know, he just

made this thing seem like that's all on the front burner of human, you know, all anyone thinks about is humanses. And, you know, I just I never even heard of humanses. I think there really is a type of person who is just born built in obsessed with humanses and like half human half. I mean, like, I mean, we have furries. We have people who like identify that way so it's not breaking news but i just feel like yeah that's something that's just there it's not unique to our like weird time or whatever we've just always had that i feel like well i've thought about like yeah i've thought about bigfoot plenty but i don't think about i've never thought about humansies at all until I saw this documentary.

No, you can't stop thinking about it. Anyway, it's like just the word. You don't think the two are related? I never thought about that. No, I never considered a Bigfoot. Don't ask stupid fucking questions. I never thought that a Bigfoot was the son of a person who had sex with a chimpanzee. Oh, okay.

But anyway, I think it's funny when the middle class in the 70s, there was a middle class. So people were thinking about all these kind of things that are fun to think about. No one has any time. They got too close to the truth. And that's why they destroyed the middle class in the 80s. Oh, maybe that's what it is. I was just thinking about these people could afford to bottle feed chimps and stuff like in their ranch house. Probably both of them were like driver's ed teachers or something.

You know, they like somehow had enough of an economy going that they could run a chimp preserve. No one's got any money for that. Yeah, I've retired at 55. I just yeah, I've been a driver's ed teacher for 40 years. And it was a good day. I'm good with my money. How did you buy your house? Oh, I'm a driver's ed instructor. Oh, of course.

Oh, yeah. That's a good gig. What are you going to do with your extra money? I think I'm going to start a chimp preserve. Teach chimps how to smile and smoke cigars. Well, we got a house down the shore. Yeah. What year is this?

1976. Yes. And I hate this question, but why do you have so many bottles of milk in the back of your car? What is that? Oh, I'm so glad you asked, Blake. Have you heard of a humanzee? Have I heard of one?

It's all I think about. It's funny, the guy, too. The guy who's like, yeah, you know, all these half-men, half-beasts, like the Loch Ness Monster, so and truly, you know like all these half men half beasts like the lock less block nest monster so and truly you know tried to fuck a lizard and then you know pterodactyl someone tried to fuck a lizard wait no are you do you want to fuck a lizard is that yeah

dinosaurs are obviously someone fucked a lizard that's why he's standing up yeah i wonder who fucked a whale and made the Loch Ness Monster. Yeah. That's so funny. Forcing it in there. I never thought about that at all. Yeah. All right.

55 is already a good year. That's right, baby. I'm thinking about new things. This is the direction things are headed. It truly is. I'm thinking about new non- new things. This is the direction things are headed. It truly is. I'm thinking about new nonprofit things. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about your underrated overrated. We'll be right back.

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See what I did? Yes, you did you did it you managed to make it an over what's underrated is how much nashville sucks because i don't know if you guys have been paying attention but the whole world has at this point been paying attention to what's happening in tennessee and i'm just wondering at what point the justice department intervenes in a state that is violating civil rights or whether that's something that at this point would be considered oh we don't want to get the republicans mad right you know what i mean like oh this is no time to make the republicans mad which is like the whole i guess the whole future is going to be that we can't do anything ever because it's

going to make somebody upset and then they'll be worse than they were already which is the whole idea of you know i don't know we'll just like do some barbaric shit at the border so like you know instead of like taking a stand against republican policy we're gonna you know this this weird thing where we have to like appease fascists yeah some way forward to get Democrats elected. But anyway, I just think what's happening in Tennessee is so disheartening that I want to move, and I want to move in the sense that everybody's going to want to move out of states like this. And I'm not kidding.

You know what I mean? I'm not kidding you know what i mean i'm not kidding i'm considering like this is like luxembourg and like i don't know i don't know anything about what luxembourg's like it might be isn't the capital of luxembourg luxembourg is that who knows you know who knows there's no way to know i'm not really familiar with south america so yes yeah with South America. So, Luxembourg. There is an article in CNBC. CSIMiami.net. CSIMiami.net, where I get all my news. All the news.

Yeah. Just as you finish an article, it plays that boo theme. But it's all about people being, like how the uber wealthy are investing in second passports to get like to prepare themselves to flee the country. But they like. First of all, it's not it's not in a thing in a article that's like outraged about this. This is in an article called CNBCnbc's inside wealth newsletter where they

i subscribe to that so let me actually just pull it up yeah they follow like the behavior of rich people the way like gossip blogs report on ariana grande like they're just like oh what peter teal do oh my god how's he spending his money? He bought a pool table that walks. And is humiliated when you play pool on it, which is part of the fun for him. But, yeah, basically the uber wealthy are collecting second citizenships,

and you need to be either extremely wealthy to afford it or you need to like have relatives who have dual citizenship or something otherwise you're kind of fucked it there's like a bunch of countries that make it easier than other like i think portugal makes it fairly easy but it and by fairly easy it's relative of in order to get u.s citizenship it's probably the most difficult thing anyone can do in the history of the world but yeah i have so us sorry but when i say that us at the the wealthy we have been doing that where it is a thing and we also obviously have disposable income to take a the flights to own second properties in other countries to right you know we've been doing that you all have just heard about it recently but we've

actually been planning this for quite some time yeah if you had been paying attention to our newsletter about all the cool shit we get up to or my instagram account it's not just it's not just a second passport you need uh what what the wealthy are calling passport portfolios, collections of second and even third or fourth citizenships. And they specifically say a relatively small number of Americans do renounce their citizenship. So if you're not going to pay a bunch of money and own a house in a foreign country, you need to basically renounce your u.s citizenship which most people don't want to do so they're just like doing second second citizenships so luxembourg here we come right here we go well yeah like luxembourg like i mean i just mean like yeah like if luxembourg was

nash was was tennessee and and say i don't know, fucking some other country. This is going to be really difficult what you're trying to do right now. I've been in your position before. You just signed yourself up for a very, very difficult analogy. Anyway, I'm not going to finish it. But let's say you move. I don't even need to say that. All I'm saying is I want to move to California

because people are in a better mood there. People are in a horrible mood in Tennessee or, and this is the thing, or they are trying to pretend everything's fine, which is what makes it even worse. There's a divide happening between liberals with property and liberals without property. Liberals with property in Nashville are having the time of their lives on one hand because their property values have tripled in 10 years so they all are rich on paper but they can't sell their houses they can just like leverage it into loans and things but they can't actually move so they have to stay here because if they sell their house here prices in nashville are going up so high that they will immediately be priced out. Like if they sell their house, say for $900,000 that they bought for $200,000 10 years ago,

they will then, like they can't just go ahead and buy another house. Like you will not get a house. So you'll have to leave Nashville. So they're not going to leave because a lot of them have kids and stuff. And I understand that they're stuck here,

but that means that they will be unrealistically optimistic about what's going on because they just have to be because they have kids and stuff. But it's not. It's insane to watch what Tennessee is doing is not light. stuff like basically racism like gaveling black people out of their rights to speak in the legislature on a regular basis like in laughing in their faces white guys just pounding gavels and not letting procedures go on that are supposed to go on for black legislators and they're just doing that and laughing and like and they're also they they just, what is it? TSU, uh, historically black university here. They, they, the state led just the state of Tennessee withheld.

Turns out they stole billions of dollars. It was supposed to go to that university and they just took it over. They just, uh, they just installed a white, like they, since they installed a new board, they took over the college. Like the overt, the, the, the things that are going on here are not normal they're not normal at all and i think there is this will for people to stay in this is normal this is normal this is normal because you just don't want it to not be normal but at a certain point when you run away you're actually smart right you know and i'm just saying that that is how it feels in tennessee

right now for me as a person who doesn't have any reason to be sugarcoating it, because I don't have to stay here. I don't have any family. I have my family here, but they're my family. They're just my regular family. I don't care about them. They're my uncle. Yeah, they, whatever.

Every man for himself. That's how my dad taught me. Every humanzy for himself. That's how my dad taught me. As Izy for himself. That's how my dad taught me. As I've said many times, my dad told me. I thought you were referring to the fact that the Tennessee Senate just approved a measure allowing teachers to carry concealed

guns. Is that true? That's true. And also that's true. And also that's true. I made the point today, they're always talking about how teachers are pedophiles, but they also want to arm them. It's true. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, also, they've like, yeah, I made the point today, like, they're always talking about how teachers are pedophiles, but they also want to arm them. It's kind of confusing.

Right. Well, it is easier to say arm the teachers than arm the pedophiles. Like, that's a hard thing to get through. Yeah, certainly. Jam that bill through. So anyway, I think they should just skip. Why don't they just arm the kids? I mean, if that's really the idea, you know, that guns make us safer.

I mean, why keep, you know, why keep incrementally. Guns for kids. Yeah. Anyway, I just think that's the really the idea, you know, that guns make us safer. I mean, why? Why keep you know, why keep incrementally for kids? Yeah. Anyway, I just think that's that's it. It's just hard to get behind this. Like sort of we're like doing progress, progressive policies in Nashville in this smaller and smaller area. And it's like to me, it's just like and everyone's just sort of being foodies and all these things that they want to do. Right. And they also want to get famous.

Everyone here wants to get famous. Everybody in America thinks they're entitled to get famous and they will not let it be interrupted. I don't want to hear about bad news. I'm trying to become a famous person. And we have a disease. And it's not just America. The whole world has a disease because instagram oh i think it's worse in america though but it is you know it's like no one's gonna interrupt my

my you know i'm going to be the next willie nelson and no one's gonna stop me willie nelson i don't care what the next mr beast yeah the next who's mr beast Who's Mr. Beast? Mr. Beast? Yeah, who's Mr. Beast? He's like an economy. He's his own economy. Who is he? He's a famous influencer on social media that all I know

is I keep getting these Twitter ads for him where he's like, I locked 100 people in a haunted grocery store, like saw, saw how long they could survive for. And then like, cool. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I gotta look him up. You would love him. All right. You, you would kind of love him. Does he have a newsletter? I'm sure he does. I'm going to sign up for his newsletter. Yeah. Um, so anyway, I just think that there's like i'm not feeling like uh and i'm sure

this is happening to a lot of people is that they're dealing with people who are having varying degrees of a good time because of if the if they own property they're they're getting rich and if you're a non if you're a renter like me you are absolutely miserable so there's just a divide and these are people that used to be on my side and then it gets sort of into this sort of like well maybe you should have bought you know what i mean it becomes like there's two kinds of liberals like maybe it's your fucking fault i mean it really comes down to because they don't want to hear it you should have been a driver's ed teacher they don't want to hear it you know at a certain point they don't and they'll just it's getting you know i just feel like at one point one of my friends is going to be like you just should have made more money man

you know like it's not really anybody else's fault except yours and that's frightening a little hard yeah so i'm just frightened that the bootstrapping is gonna be the next thing that's coming out of liberals mouths basically oh yeah and underrated or overrated i was gonna say is alcohol on airplanes just because i think it's funny that they keep selling this thing that makes them have to duct tape half the passengers to their seats. Right. I mean, I really find that unbelievable. It's crazy.

I will say. Alright, this does seem like you're slightly subtweeting Blake here. Oh, wait, is that why? You love to drink on the airplanes? He's been duct taped to the last three planes that he was on. But I do it myself. I duct tape myself before I order the

drink. Werewolf style. That's nice of you. Well, that's a good idea. Thank you. That's a good idea. If you already put yourself, if you know you're going to go berserk. Drink responsibly at the end of those ads for alcohol where they're like, drink responsibly if they just had somebody duct taping

themselves to a radiator before they took their first drink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just assembling their gun and putting it in different rooms of their house and locking different safes. That's what it would have taken for me at the end to drink responsibly

is to chain myself to a radiator. I'm so stupid. I almost conjugated the word safes to saves because in my mind i'm like wait it's the plural of safe saves am i yeah yeah i don't want to sound like a moron what if you're robbing a bank and you're like it is take me to all of your saves and they're like wait what yeah hold on i'm sorry what you know what i mean asshole yeah stop fucking stop correcting me in my own home are Are you going to home invade me? Are you going to home invade me?

I will actually, I will agree with you, Chris, that drinking on a plane can be overrated because for two reasons, one serious and one kind of not as serious. I like how serious you're taking on this topic. This is why my platform. I like it. I like it. You get more dehydrated on planes because of the altitude. So if you're drinking alcohol, it does hit you and make you your hangover will be worse the next day if you're drinking heavily on a plane.

And then also one of my favorite stories is I had a friend who had was flying across the country, got hammer on a plane, and forgot that he had driven to the airport. So when he got off the plane, he was like, oh, god damn it. I have to take an Uber home. And then he had to Uber back the next day to LAX to retrieve his car like a true drunk idiot. It's one of my favorite things. Yeah, I respect it. I respect it, too. He didn't drink and drive.

Yeah, and that is admirable he went home chained himself to the radiator and went to sleep yeah like i think like it's that's a very funny idea that you preemptively like you like a dog putting a thunder shirt on or something yeah yeah you're like listen i know how i get i'll have i'll have a white wine spritzer but i i am aware of what is coming you just have a mass text that goes out to everyone on your phone. It's like, I'm about to. So my phone has sensed that I just had my first drink. And so everything that comes after this should be taken with a grain of salt.

I've also locked all my bank accounts and preemptively filed for divorce with my wife. Drinking on a plane is one of my favorite things to do, but I know how I get. I know how I get. Like, I mean, how much money do they make off it? They have to like, they have to do it. I mean, they have to, they can't let, they can't just be like. People who like it, like it so much. Right.

But like, yeah, there's like, there's like feces flying around the cabin. Like everybody's choking the flight attendants. Like, you know, it just seems like at some point, like, it's fodder for fucking Fox News because they're like, look, civilization has gone to hell. Like, you know, it's like, so they end up using these videos all to prove that we need a dictator. And, you know, so, like, it's just a lose, lose, lose, lose situation. Like, let's just stop selling alcohol on planes i love this that's right dance because there's no way anybody like would get behind never never no i know because like but else somebody's already fucking loaded up with xanax and fucking

nyquil yeah when they get on the plane anyway so that's why their first drink hits them and they start screaming about 9-11 or whatever they do yeah yeah steroids i mean i jack myself up on anabolic steroids yeah you're already people are already all fucked up to begin with and then they have a fucking white wine and it seems like a harmless thing to do but combined with the drug cocktail they've already ingested just to get through the flight they go they go immediately ape shit try and murder everybody and then so i mean then they go around like, would you like a drink? Right next to the guy strapped to the chair. Can I still get a drink?

Yeah. You guys look stressed out. He went crazy, but I promise I'm not going to go crazy. So I'll have just a double jack. A double? Two doubles? I once asked for a double. And the flight attendant, without skipping a beat a beat goes how about a single and then

all right you can't fight with the flight attendant after that it's like no I need I need a double double and could you pour it in my mouth so I don't have to untape my arms correct thank you that's all I have let's look into it

let's look into let's do some research I like the theory that it's all a plan to get a dictator yeah let's look at how out of control all these people are oh yeah what if they weren't allowed to drink yeah all right well that let's take a quick break and we'll come back and just blow through all those news stories in six minutes. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

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it to your attention, Chris. It seems like a cool thing. Like an underground eel cave that you can just build into your house. I don't know if this jogs anything for you as a fan of weird underground shit on YouTube.

Well, I mean, I've gotten so hooked on a couple things now with just the mine exploration and the guy who finds the bottles that I don't really, I don't need any eels or anything like that. But I respect, like, you know, anybody who's going to the trouble. And I don't, I'm not that kind of person myself. I'm the kind of person that has a clip light and, you know, a milk crate and, you milk crate and uh and and

you know in a youtube and uh that's my life you know what i mean like and maybe a banana you know on the counter so there's not a lot happening like as far as like decoration or anything for me so the idea of like putting a an eel farm in my basement is like just from a labor standpoint i just think about a lot of work yeah work. Yeah. I could be watching television during that time. That's a bit of a try hard. Whereas the people who you kind of pay attention to are more people who have a shovel and notice that there's a little dip in a field and go and are like, yeah, people used to shit there and drop their bottles. Yeah. And I like to watch them do it.

I don't want to do it. I don't want to dig. I like to sit on my ass. I like write poems they are one of the least you don't need to exert yourself and yeah i like those kinds of things i like thinking i like looking off into the middle distance yeah like i don't really want to like fuck with eels you know what i mean like and that's the problem is like when you have like a significant other, like, like a woman who, you know, might be interested in a man that did some stuff, you know, like, I think that is a good idea. Like, I think a woman, even if she didn't like the eels might be like, well, this shows

some initiative. Yeah. And she'd be right. I'm guessing this is not. Yeah. Like, look at this guy, this guy I just met, he has an eel farm in his basement. I mean, that's not what I ever really wanted, but I've been divorced twice and you know slid pickings and this guy i mean if he has enough money your eels if he has enough money he has enough money to be raising a couple chimps yeah and and he has

this eel farm so this guy i mean you know he's a driver's head instructor so your read on this is this guy just built his underground subterranean eel farm for the ladies. Yes, as like a way to show that he is motivated or because he's insane and has sex with the eels in some way. Right. Yeah. There's always the chance that this is like to him what the moths are to Buffalo Bill. There's only two reasons a man does anything. Yeah.

And they're basically the same reason. Yeah, they are the same reason. There's only two reasons a man does anything. Yeah, and they're basically the same reason. Yeah, they are the same reason. It's the same reason. It turns out it's the same reason. Are you having sex with the eels, or are you trying to obtain sex by having the eels? Yes. Alright.

Alright. Hashtag obtain sex. Obtain. Oh, God. Oh, fuck. hashtag obtain sex obtain oh god oh fuck should we talk Polly and the biking yeah so we've talked before about how a lot of

Western European and American cities were essentially designed by cars like it's like a new species came along and was like we're cars and that we're just going to have you change everything to be as efficient for us to get from one place to another but there have been a couple stories that have made us feel like maybe it's not too late to undo some of that damage usually those things are happening uh on the western european side of that damage. Usually those things are happening on the Western European

side of that, not in the American side of that. I understand. It rarely comes from here. It does not. On our side, we had like a couple months at the beginning of the pandemic where New York was like, we're just not going to have like cars around. We're going to like let people walk around a little bit. And we were like, what if they left? And before we could say, what if we left it like that, like finish that sentence, they had already like let the cars back. And all the birds killed themselves when the cars came back. It's like, oh, there's nature here. Why is that? But so Paris is showing us like what this would look like. They have this very ambitious climate plan that includes transforming streets into zones reserved for pedestrians, bicycles and public transport. Like these zones sound like Central Park a little bit.

Like what if it was all just, you know, I guess Central Park has like a couple roads that go through, but they're like closed and there's one car at a time going through it for the most part. And so this plan aims to have 30,000 parking stands, 1,000 spaces reserved for cargo bikes, 52 kilometers of provisional tracks, 300 kilometers of bicycle tracks 1 000 kilometers of bike lanes just i don't know it sounds cool to me like the that that would be how your city is designed is just like a place where you could like walk around without being concerned that your child would be like pancaked by a fucking muscle car you know yeah which is like 90 of my mind when i'm walking around with my kid is like well how do i ensure that they aren't they don't run into the street and get run over by a fucking car and it's it's wild that you know we didn't have any say in that

it was just like that used to not be the case and then over the past 70 years they were just like yeah it's better for commerce so we're gonna make it so you just have to keep your fucking head on a swivel at all times in order to get from place to place and the consequences couldn't be fucking higher by the way if you if you screw up and as a an avid uhist. I have the lower body of a hippopotamus. I am very pro bike, but I've known or I've seen that American cities will do something where they'll claim that they're very

bike friendly. Oh, we have so many bike lanes, but they're not protected bike lanes. That's Nashville. Yeah, so it's like, oh no, we painted a green stripe on the street so it's on the side of the highway on the side of the highway yeah on the side of the highway so yeah it which yeah with all all the you know motorists will be like oh sure there's a

green stripe on the ground that we no one sees and yeah i think that's the vernacular around it too can be often misleading when because there's nothing better than a protected bike lane and to your point it'll get rid of less or it'll cause less emissions people are also you're getting around and exercising like you don't have to be going a thousand miles per hour it's like oh like you get your heart rate you're moving your body around a little bit you know it's and it's kind of takes 10 extra minutes to get where you're going even if you're going like across town correct yeah it's good for you you'll feel better it's such a better way to like have a civilization and like this they built this shit and now more people commute to work in paris like now as, like they, they've been doing this for the past few years.

It's like going to get more and more ambitious over the next five. But as of now, like more people are commuting to work on bike than car. And like when they started this, that was like unheard of. Like they were like, well, no, like, of course not. That's, you know, it's, it was like a, an American city. Did you see the, the, just quickly that the Paris, speaking of just, not only are they walking or biking to work, but they, 25%, they just had a story in the New York Times, 25% of Parisians live in public housing. Not affordable housing. Public housing.

Right. housing not not not not affordable housing public housing like right and and that's what i ran on when i ran for city council i ran for this affordable housing this notion of affordable housing it's not affordable anyway um you know like what they're talking about is affordable for you know if you're upper middle class or middle class like i mean i don't even know if there's such a thing as a middle class but you know there's there's like affordable is like oh 1400 bucks for a one bedroom or something that's still out of the reach of most people who work in the service industry and that's most was a lot of the certainly the artists who live here and uh and just regular people work in the service industry i mean that's the gig economy is the service industry i mean you can't make enough to pay 1400 a month rent doing that no matter how

many fucking door dashes you deliver. And so, like, you need – and people are like, oh, what about if we don't – we don't want public housing. Look what happened to public housing. But that's just like, what happened to public housing? I mean, yeah, it's, like, got some crime in it, but so does regular housing. And also, those people still live in Nashville. Otherwise, they wouldn't be here.

They are in public housing, and that's why they're here and uh so paris unfortunately has like you know hasn't been brainwashed like america into thinking like that cars are in the constitution you know right yeah yeah because they've been around for a thousand ten thousand years or whatever we've been around for 200 well you know in this current incarnation a couple 300 years know, and it seems like most of the time we've had cars as far as I noticed. I think it, yeah, I think it would work. Like, I really think we could just like, if we just kept trying in cities around the U.S., like, just this, like it's a major part of her platform. And she's so popular that she's running for president now. Like she's, like it's been done in London, Milan, Barcelona.

And those candidates have also gotten like huge marks. It's just like an easy way to, I mean, I guess not easy in the US, but it is like a guaranteed winner. If you just do it in your city, like, because people want like walkable livable cities where you don't have to worry about like, just, you know, taking a step in the wrong direction and being killed. and being killed like but we can't like in the u.s like we can't do anything about it because we're like captive to i don't know fucking chambers of commerce fucking ruse springsteen songs about barefoot girls on the hood of a dodge yeah yeah exactly you know which i love that song but you know this we're just brought up to think cars are as american as as apple pie and fucking freedom and i mean you're not gonna take you're not going to take my car.

You'll get the same resistance like you're trying to take a gun. Well, I keep my gun in my car. Yeah, you can't take my car. It's got my gun in it. My guns are in my car. Okay, so why don't you show me what my gun rack looks like on the back of that 10 speed. It's in various saves in my car. It's in my car in various saves. The only walkable

city I'm comfortable with is the Walking Dead walkable city. That's it. Otherwise, fuck you. Cars in general, cars in general were a terrible idea. Like the whole idea. It was a bad idea. It's just that nobody, everybody likes them

and that's the problem so they just like them so yeah that's the you know but really big picture cars were a terrible idea and i'm going to say one thing real quick uh because i know we're running out of time but i want to say there's this documentary called my architect on criteria what if you promoted humanesy again like you forgot that you ever talked about it or didn't i wish oh fuck i would have been the greatest episode ever if i said that also i just want to interject humanzy i don't even i don't know the name of it go to youtube and put it in humanzy there's probably a bunch of stuff that comes up i can't remember it says psi on it i don't know what channel that was but a sci-fi maybe

sci did we talk about this i'm 55 thank you um so uh i just wanted to say that there's this this documentary called my architect and it's about this architect named louis khan but it's about his son who didn't know him because his dad had three different families that didn't know about each other and his dad was five foot six and severely burnt as a child in estonia and he came to america and became this he didn't hit his stride as an artist until he was 51 which i like and uh i'm already kicking his ass you're so um that ass yeah so so he he designed these buildings he designed the capital of bangladesh and anyway he was a terrible dad but it's this beautiful documentary about nathaniel

khan but his khan is not his real name is he changed his he was jewish he changed his name in the early his father changed his name in the 20s or something but anyway louis khan is this architect anyway his idea for philadelphia and that's why i thought of it he lived grew up in philadelphia after he came from estonia andonia. And he was one of the architects. He had a huge proposal for downtown Philadelphia. And it was to have cars all left outside the city. And he was laughed out of town. And everybody said, oh, these William F. Buckley types,

and one of whom was in the documentary, still angry about it. He's like, he wanted to leave the cars outside of town. Fucking idiot. You know, like wanted to leave the cars outside of town. Fucking idiot. You know, like, we have the cars in town in this country, you know what I mean? That's right. So I don't know who this fucking guy thinks he is, but anyway, and it was just so interesting

because he was right. The idea was that there would be these giant car parks or like, you know, like car garages that were also kind of beautiful that he built all around the city everybody would walk from them into the city so there would be no cars it's just waiting there for some somebody to put it together and become incredibly popular but it's it it's just wild that like that that would be so popular with young people. It'd be popular with, with the elderly who like can't really drive at this point,

but it's like that mainstream money-making commerce, you know, albatross like it, there's gotta be a, like if one city pulls it off, like it will become such a like tourist hotspot. Like I would just like go there all the time just to like experience a city withoutpot. I would just go there all the time just to experience a city without cars.

That would be fucking wonderful. Have you been to the Grove? Have you been to the Grove? The Grove is the best example, the closest we have to this in the US. It's incredible. And they have an Eiffel Tower that shoots sparks out of it and stuff.

The Grove is stunning, stunning. That's why we should have elected Caruso. Thank you. All right. Chris Crofton, what a pleasure having you, as always. Thank you so much. It's so fun to be on. I always love being on.

And I, yeah, that's it. That's it. Where can people find you, follow you? You can find me on Instagram. Boy, oh boy, can you ever. I'm a slave to the gram. Slave to the gram. So it's, yeah, at the Crofton Show.

You can find me at the Crofton Show on X, Twitter. I still, I do have a Threads account and a Blue Sky account, whatever it is, but I can't go on there. I just don't go on there very much. I'm still on X and Twitter. I don't know. Twitter at fuck, at the Crofton show that's it and you can go buy my book uh the advice king anthology from i don't care if you get it from amazon go ahead and um and uh and it's called the advice it's so great it's so good and i wrote it but it's still good and uh and uh what else I'm going on tour with Neil Hamburger in May in Minneapolis and Milwaukee and those areas.

So starting May 14th, the first night I'm doing is May 15th or something. I'm going to come back on the show one more time this month, so I'll tell it more. Yeah. I'll tell it more. I'll tell it more. I'll tell it more about Tennessee. My tour down Tennessee way. Hashtag obtain sex.

You could become a manfluencer with that hashtag. It's on the table for you. The things I would like to do if I had more energy to turn cities into bikeable cities, be an influencer, all these things. I've just decided to move on. There you go. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Oh, I always forget that part. You guys go first. Blake Wexler. Blakey Blakey, about to make

a big mistake-y. Ooh. Not another teen movie. Is it? Cool quote. It was another teen movie, just so we're on the same page. Yeah, everybody. Yeah, don't. But you don't let them lie to you. Never, ever, ever let them lie to you. And if you get nothing else out of the show, take that away. Also, I am going to be I have some stand updates coming up. I'm going to be in Cincinnati, April 18th to the 21st at Go Bananas Comedy Club. Six shows, for God's sakes. That's awesome. Yeah, too many. Ranks takes for God's sakes.

That's awesome. Thank you. Look at all these ranks. And on April 27th, I'm going to be in Philly doing my review show called The Reviews Are In, where me and my guests read actual reviews of products and places that uh both positive and negative we riff on them and that's at the coop and then the next day i'm going to be in brooklyn april 28th at strong rope brewery uh for my monthly show there at strong rope go on it so you can get all these tickets in my bio at blake wexler on all social medias. That's fun. Social medias. Listen to all that stuff.

However you, medians, whatever it is. Medias. Medias. Medias. Medias. Social medias. And an art, a piece of art, a piece of social mediat. A piece of art or a social mediat that you've been enjoying?

There was a Monet I was looking at the other day. No, of, this is from Chad Daniels, There was a Monet I was looking at the other day. No. This is from Chad Daniels, a very funny stand-up comedian, at that Chad Daniels. And the tweet was, if you're a murderous jerk, chemo won't work. And that's Johnny Cochran. Was the tweet.

Yeah. Timely. R.I.P. R.I.P. R.I.P. R.I.P. R.I.P. Chris, got anything for us that you've been enjoying? Oh, yeah. I can't find anything, but I like everything Blair Saki does. Yes.

The best. Blair tweeted the other day, I stared at the eclipse but it only made me stronger. Sorry. And that's true. That's not even a joke. That's just a fact about Blair. She's so strong. So strong. It's crazy. I mean, I like my own joke. I'll do one of my own

tweets. Just cause. Do it. It's for my birthday. It's for my birthday. Nothing makes me want to play less than when a therapist says play is important. This is from the crofton show uh the tweet is today's my birthday today's my birthday and here's my venmo but yeah like you know when therapists say that you know they say like play is important and then you want to just like die chris i have a book called play that was recommended by my therapist for real yeah yeah oh my god all about play holy fuck my

therapist has made great recommendations that i have read made it all the way through man's search for meaning great book highly recommend play did could not couldn't do it no couldn't yeah i need i need one that says work there's something so depressing about being like i'm just reading this book about how i should have more fun from my therapist oh god yeah that's that's yeah that's i i get it i get that i understand the concept but it's actually homework about how i should have more fun and i'm reading it because my therapist assigned it to me my house made of twigs keeps falling down when i'm reading my book about play oh no um let's see tweet i've been enjoying uh that bitch with the bacon tattoo tweeted, raisins are grape jerky.

And I think I will now only call raisins grape jerky. Wow. And Maddie at bestestname tweeted, you can never really own earbuds. You just have to appreciate the time you had together. And that's a good way to view that fleeting relationship. You can also, Amy A at lol and on we amy a at lol on we i've always pronounced that lol and ui but i do know how on we is pronounced tweeted aubrey plaza could

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in today's episode. There was a song that we think you might enjoy. Super producer Justin, is there a song that you think you might enjoy. Super producer Justin, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah, if you want to feel like you can solve complex math equations in your head with the same ease it takes to sit back and listen to a chill piece of music, then boy, do I have a song for you. It's called Already There by Taylor McFerrin. It's the son of legendary musician Bobby McFerrin of Don't Worry, Be Happy fame.

Robert Glasper and Thundercat. If you know anything about the last two, they get pretty jazzy and technical and complex. But the best parts of this song are when they just like vibe out and get really smooth with it. You can picture like a chill professor hitting a blunt and drawing out some organic molecules or something on a chalkboard. And so, yeah, this song is called Already There by Taylor McFerrin, Robert Glasper, Thundercat. And you can find that in the footnotes. Justin, that was so smooth.

I thought that was the song you just talking about. This is amazing. That's the biggest compliment I've ever gotten. It's true. I thought it was going to be a song by Count Dracula from Sesame Street. Dracula? Yeah. Alright, we will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production

of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app and podcast or wherever. Find podcasts or give it away for free. That is going to do it for us this week. 333 in the books. You fuckers said we couldn't do it, didn't you? You all said we couldn't do it. Now you you all said we couldn't do it now

look at you 333 seasons 333 seasons chris i never read them in a week that's insane that's yeah exactly we're almost catching up congratulations thanks hey thank you so much but yeah we're back on monday with another episode tell you what was trending over the weekend. And we'll have a highlight episode, a clips episode from season 333 over the weekend. The weekly zeitgeist. And we will talk to you all then. Have a great weekend. Bye, everyone.

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