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are these are you creating a seat of books chris i thought you were bringing media to recommend are you sitting on books chris what are you doing with all the books okay make it big oh i got to record r yeah i don't think he's got his headphones in so we're literally just roasting him right now this is a legend because his over unders is going to take 70 minutes just so you know pa i don't know if you never if you know i didn't mean to judge a book by its cover but it's amazing no no this is this is a whole other texture when chris is on the show and i'm just started my recording so you have headphones and then i'll put my headphones on and then i'll then we'll do a cold open then we'll do a cold open i think we have one actually i think yeah this is

couldn't get any colder than this warm it up let's warm it up wait so did you did you leave the evil company chris his headphones aren't in his headphones are not on but i thought he was hearing us No. No. He wasn't the whole time. That was him not here. There you are. Chris.

Okay. Now I got to get you guys your picture back because now I'm looking at my audacity. This is so funny. I can't. I got to get your picture back. Whatever. Listen, there's no, no, no elder abuse allowed here. No, no, no, no, no, no.

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They probably do. No elder, Eldo abo. No, Eldaboo. El daboo. No, no, al-daboo. Hell no, yeah. El-daboo. No, al-daboo, nowhere here, Doug.

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is. And it is also Thursday, September 25th, 2025. No rapture in sight, y'all. What the fuck, Jesus. We were waiting for you, Guy. And now the fucking... I sold everything.

Now everything. I sold the dog collars because I assumed they'd come back to me. It was $1 on Facebook Marketplace. Do people try and get their rapture sales shit back where they're like, hey, it didn't have anything. I can get that back from you since I feel like they shouldn't. Yeah. Well, hey, maybe there's some other stuff in the book of ghost stories called The Bible that they can drum up to make everybody feel happy on a day that they'll be taken away. It's also National Open the Magic Day.

I don't even know what the fuck that is. It's National Daughters Day, National Kisseria Day, National Lobster Day, National Research Administrator Day, National Tunup Day, National Comedy Book Day, Math Storytelling Day, and National One Hit Wonder Day. Shout out all the One Hit Wonders. Wow, one hit wonder. They're not going to shout back because there is. Yeah, that's true. They're just, they're asking to get on this show, which they all do. I told Gautier, I was like, dude, sorry, I can't have you on.

I feel so bad for the guy. I know. I know you want to come on. I know your Zygang, but like, I don't know if people are really fucking with you anymore. And now he's just somebody that you used to know. Exactly. My name is Miles Gray, aka the Lord of Lancashim, DeBlazion Willem Defoe. Everybody know. Okay? And I'm also the showgun with no gun. And I'm thrilled to be joined by my co-host today. Wonderful, talented comedian. I still consider you one of the most high-profile scientists I know. And by default, that is true. You're one of the only scientists, I know. You are still a scientist. You are a scientist. You are a great comedian. You are a great writer. You're a great empathetic person, human being. Check out facial recognition comedy shows also. But please welcome to the mic. My guest co-host today, Pauline McDonnelly!

I feel like this is an intervention for my self-esteem. You're like, sit down. I need to talk to you. We're just crazy about you. We all wrote letters for you because, you know what? You got to get out of the house. Your stand-up comedy has negatively impacted my life in the following ways.

This is literally me like visiting my parents. I'm going to say this. Some shit parents say. They're like, you have an intervention because I'm not doing the job you wanted? I'm like, I'm just here to hang out with my nephew. You act like I'm asking you all for money. The nephew pulls out a letter.

He can barely speak. He doesn't know how to read, but he also has. This is how your open micing has negatively affected my life. He's like, I don't really do open mics anymore. Uh, anyway, here we are, Paula Vigan-Nolan, but you know what? We got the cold brew god here himself and the guest. You know what I mean? This is the advice king.

This is the man who cold brew turns him into a kind of Superman, if you will. Somebody who also has a wonderful film made about him. And I hope when the show came around to Los Angeles and I left some tickets for y'all, y'all came through to see Nashville famous. This man is Nashville famous. This man is a wonderful human being. This man is the Lord of Chaos himself. Please welcome Chris Crouton.

What's up? How are you guys doing? Good to see you, man. How come you guys didn't sing any AKAs today? Well, I still don't have access to the Discord where people apparently are writing me AKAs, Miles. You don't have access to the Discord? No, I don't even know where it is.

I wouldn't even know how to look. I was looking at it my maestress behind my medicine cabinet. The way I've been trying to keep the Discord from being like fully brigated by people who aren't like the real genuine Zygang article. You know, the vibes are important. And shout out all the mods who keep this shit going. I'm the one sending them up. And I know a lot of y'all been asking, hit me up again.

I say this all the time. If I want the Discord invite, hit me up again. I will be sending them out again. Just because I said I would brigade it. You won't let me in. There you go. Oh, my God. Incredible.

You know what? I don't want to go now. Chris, you got a song? You got a song in your heart? Well, no, I just usually like, I just have, well, I got sent some, but they're like about songs. I can't, I don't know the songs because they're, your fans are young people. We'll try to decipher.

Wait, which to the. tune of is out of your wheelhouse in terms of experience. It's unable to accept invite? What does that mean? The first one I have is is to the set to the tune of Float by Asop Rock. Okay. You don't know. Which I don't

know that one. Okay. You're not in the guitar. Wait, what would you think ASAP stands for? Asop Rock, though, is different. Yeah, not ASAP. Not ASAP Rocky. Oh, yeah, that's true. I'm the old one now. Yeah, this is a white rapper. I've heard of Aesop Rock

I just don't listen to I listen to you know pretty much exclusively Gordon Lightfoot so I don't I don't know Aesop Rock I mean I know who he is

but I'm not gonna fucking listen Yeah yeah If I was gonna listen to Aesop Rock I mean I would probably listen to like Oh fuck Tribe Call Quest or something I just hold listen to older shit You know

Yeah But it says here it floats When buffets all around me Are busy drowning mine floats when saucy manicotti is usually, what the fuck? That doesn't even say. Guys, only send Gordon Lightfoot, A.K.A.s to Chris. This is from Snarfila.

This is elder abuse. Snarf. It is elder abuse. This is from Snarfila rocks, which is so, thank you so much. I just don't understand. The next one is to the tune of Coney Island by Taylor Swift. Okay. Sitting on a bench in Coney Island wondering where did Chris Crofton go, the fun times, the cold brew, the coaster, yo.

Sorry that you had to find my vape pen, though. That's cute. That's really sweet. Snarfila rocks. It's very nice. But I'll just do one separate. Yeah, thank you, Snarfila. I just didn't understand.

The other one's just exclusively about Italian food. The Aesop Rock one? Are you a big Italian food guy? Well, that's what I don't get. No, it floats. When buffets around me or all around me or busy drowning. I think when we're talking about... When saucy manicotti is usually drowning, it floats.

This is the thing about doing this show is, We say things that we instantly forget. And then the listeners synthesize that into a thing. And half the time, I'm like, did I say that? And then sometimes I'll ask you when they're like, yes, you said it in this episode. I'm like, that's right. That's right. But anyway, thank you Snarpuilar Rocks.

I'll just do one of my own notice for the fun of it. Oh, I've been afraid of Chris Crofton because I built my life around Chris Crofton. but time makes you older and children get older and I'm getting older too and then I don't remember the part. Wait, what's the part? The Chris Crofton brings it down.

I'm doing landslide by Fleetwood Mac. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got to keep going. I was going to put Chris Crofton in the landslide part, but I can't remember how to get there. So that's it. That's it. And look, we're honest. Glad to be on the show.

It's great to have you, Chris. We're going to tell people a little bit about what we might talk about, what we might not get to. I just want to take a moment where we should all cry for Theo Vaughn and all the comedy bros who ushered in the Trump administration because he's found himself a new gig as the unwitting spokesperson for ICE deportations. So we'll get into that. And then also there's just, there's a L.A. Comic Con that is happening in L.A.

this month and there's going to be an AI Stan Lee that you can do like a meet and greet with and it's so... We're gonna all have AI psychosis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, just don't look at it and you're fine. Well, the Charlie Kirk one is like, you couldn't avoid it. And it's like, we're...

What Charlie Kirk one? There were like three or four Charlie Kirk. He got a... His AI got a standing ovation at his memorial. And people were like, I cried about this. Like, he was like, I saw some at a church. I'm with Jesus now. Yeah.

I saw at a church that they played... Like at a mega church, they played a janky vocal AI thing of him. And he's like, it's me. I'm in heaven, but don't feel bad. You'll be Christ's soldiers. There were like multiple of them going around immediately. But I'm just like, and people were like, it's what he would have said. It was nuts.

No, no, no. Well, that's the thing about AI. It's bad for us. But I've always just reading. It's not for us either. No, it's not for anyone. The services they throw at us to like make it like, oh, yeah, you should. let us build like 15 million water powered servers in your neighborhood is because like then you can

get your essay you know you can have your essay for school written without doing any work or whatever they're pushing it as AI is like only for oligarchs I mean the real function of AI is to control populations and so it's like I just thought about that the other day like I keep thinking like people are like no one likes AI why do they keep pushing AI no one likes it's because it's not us. That's so true. Don't you agree, Batman? Batman totally agrees with you.

He's sitting in my living room. It's not, it's not supposed to be like that's, I don't know how to describe it. Because they're trying to find a consumer hook to get people that sort of buy in so they can make it profitable because they've already put something in like $770 billion, some $700 billion, which is the most like of all tech investment ever. But they don't seem worried that it's not popular. And I think that's suspicious. And it's because. But that's a thing where they're looking at the stock market and they're like, well, the stock market's going to have a reaction to this, regardless of what they think,

because people are putting their money into it thinking, they're like, well, this is going to be profitable. But I do agree. Like, I think a lot of that there is to have some new form of like information infrastructure or a way to control information that, you know, it's hard to describe. It's like, it's like a flight simulator for like killing actual people that they also turn some version of loose on the market. and you can use it as like a game for your kid or something.

It's like, oh, yeah, it's like, I don't know. It's like AI is not for us. That's all I can think. That brings us to our first question, Chris, which is what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or what you're into? It's a perfect segue because normally, Paula, I would do something where I would say a YouTube video that I've been listening to watching to. It's going to be a rough appearance I can tell.

What are you watching, too, these days, bro? I think you just already gave up. He's like, oh, fuck. Can we reschedule? Yeah. No, but I, this time I'm going to talk about my podcast, Cold Brew got me like. So I did one the other day, and I noticed that, like, they've started doing these. I noticed it before, but I never really read them.

They started doing AI chapters on your podcast, like against your will on Spotify. Like, like, they, they, AI will say what your podcast is about in chapters. Like, like, you know, that AI, quote, listens to it and then spits out these chapters, right? And at first, I was, well, I was just like, I don't want that service, but I don't think that it, I can't find a way to turn it off. But I also thought about what it's for. It's like, if I say I have a podcast, like I'm going through customs or something. And they're like, you have a podcast we see. What's it about?

You know, and it's like, oh, it's called Colbrugami, like, it's just about funny stuff. And they're like, okay, well. Talking about some pretty heady stuff. We can just refer to the fucking summary here. We don't have to listen to your podcast. You know if you're a fucking liberal. Chris fucked your mom and the TSA guy's like, what the fuck? Yeah.

So this cold brew got me like podcast sounds harmless, but it's really all about what we're facing today. And so it's also sometimes, you know, it's funny, but it's kind of a serious podcast. But like anyway, I just don't like the idea that AI can tell these fools, whether you're a liberal in two seconds, or whether liberal, I hate the word liberal,

whether you're anti-fascist in two seconds. That means terrorist nowadays. I know, I know. Welcome to the club, every non-brown person. So you can tell them. So they can find out if you're like,

you know, they can find out other ways. But anyway, listen to this summary of my podcast. And also, what's funny about it is this. First of all, it's dystopian,

but second of all, it's funny because it makes my podcast sounds so fucking depressed. It's incredible. Oh my God. It's so great. Greg was couldn't be on the show so this last one I did by myself. Okay. The title of the podcast is free solo for the great toaster scam. So that's what you're missing by the way. If you're not listening to my podcast, find out what that is. I would I would assume you'd like to know what free solo for the great toaster scam is about. You should want to know. So anyway, here you can find out right here. Chapter one. Capitalism's toaster scam and New beginnings. Chapter 2, Soundbath, Tennessee, and capitalism's mental toll. Chapter 3, unpacking the Charlie Kirk corporate clickbait phenomenon. Chapter 4. The Lonely Illusion of the American Dream. Wait, this is fire, dude.

Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6. Recognizing authoritarianism, Project 2025, and Well, concentration. Chapter 7, the advice king, redefining poor in America. Chapter 8, living off 20th century fumes, colon, global corruption. By the time we're in chapter 9, you're in a Louisiana prison. I'm sorry. Oh, my God. That's what I'm, I just think it's, anyway, the rest of the rest of it.

That is so funny. So you are delighted in the AI summaries. You know, you actually tell people you. podcast like out loud well i mean i don't i don't go through customs very much so it's like usually harmless i'm just telling like people you know he's trying to get the podcast out there yeah yeah i'm just telling like the people who are like you know my ketamine the people who are giving me my ketamine i tell them about my podcast and they're like we don't know what you're talking about i i tell people i sell bespoke guns for dogs that's what you say yeah yeah like they're like oh these are like

bespoke guns like pistols i create for dogs to use that's so cute yeah and then they're like okay great That guy makes dog guns. They don't have to think about it. So, Bollavi, I'm also doing ketamine therapy. And so I, like, the same way I promote when I was having panic attacks, panic attacks back in the 90s and I'd get an ambulance ride and I'd promote my CD to the ambulance guys. Hell yeah.

Oh, I promoted my stand-up. So one of my paramedics follows me on Instagram. Yes, that's exactly right. And that's where people who are like, yeah, like who are the true artists are outside the system promoting their shit to medical providers. Right, right, right. And that's the audience. a tap, man. One physical therapist at a time. That's my model for fame.

Hell, yeah. One physical or occupational therapist at a time. Spread the word. And I'm telling these people like physical therapists and like ketamine administrators, they're all like nurse. I don't know how to say it, like medical assistance and stuff. Like a nurse practitioner. They're just pretty square, you know, a lot of the time, especially in Tennessee. And so I try and tell them about my podcast. And I just can't imagine like them reading that summary and me trying to tell them it's a fun podcast. Right, right, right. They're like.

It's super fun. It's not, I know it sounds, I know the lonely illusion of the American dream makes it sound depressing, but it's also, it's such a universal experience people are having right now. So, you know, they'll probably hear it and they're like, oh my God, I didn't know, I didn't think about this. I recommend the podcast, even though, you know, I do admit that living off 20th century fumes colon, global corruption doesn't sound that fun.

It is really relevant to physical therapist, so. yeah yeah yeah so i tell people i have a podcast like that you know you know it's not helpful probably i don't always tell them i mean it just depends like my ketamine people i've been doing ketamine now for like six months so like i know those people pretty well so then eventually they just start asking what i yeah right right right yeah and i'm also on a drug that makes me talk because i'm high you know right right telling them all this stuff that's how i started telling my my guy who takes my blood pressure, Xavier, I tell him, you know, like, he's like, what are you listening to? And I'm like, okay,

HIPAA. Yeah. And I say John Denver, and he goes, John Dunbar? Wait, he said misheard that is John Dunbar? Yeah, he didn't know. He didn't also know. He's like, I was like, you don't know who John Denver is? He's like 30 years old. Yeah, yeah. He's like a 30 year old black man. He has no fucking idea. He's like, no, I've no. Who? Who?

You know, we have a good time. Like, he'll be him listening to like the old white guy trying to Tell him about John Denver. John Dunbar, dude. John Dunbar. That is so funny. Chris, what's something you think that is underrated? Oh, underrated is my new service that I just started offering, which is, and you guys

can let me know what you think about it, but I think it's a good idea, and I'm dead serious about it. It's called Chris Crofton's punch-ups, and it's $75 an hour, and it's like a sliding scale. If you can only pay 50 bucks an hour, it's fine, but it's over Zoom, and it's me helping people with, like, how to write poetry, how to write a song, how to get out of your own way. It's not a life coach thing. Like, I think I could offer something, but it's not going to be a thing where you can text me at any hour of the day or what? Because life coach is like, it's like a whole thing. Like, I think I might be a good life coach, but I also think I don't want, I just, I'm not trained in the responsibility of being a life coach. Can I tell you, like, an insane life coach story from this week? Sure. Do you have a life coach? No. Oh, okay, okay, okay. But let's say.

Okay, so we had somebody on a show who was a life coach, and they just had like a conference for these life coaches, and so they invited a bunch of life coaches to the show. So the entire audience was like French people in life coaches, and I don't know what the overlap was. And it was like the J. Shetty life coaching pyramid scheme, and I only realized it was. was because of their, like, rabid defense of him as people were working. They were like, how much did you pay? And the audience member was like, none of your business.

Oh, God. Yeah. And then we found out it was like $10,000 for like six months of work. And then we found out that he gives wonderful advice, like, you need to be the tree that shades the other people in your life. Oh, man, I was going to use that. I was going to use that. Are you that, that means you're catty?

Like, oh, I shade all the people in my life. But no, they literally were like, but in the good way, good shade. Like they said that right after. Good shade, good shade. And then they were like, and you have all the resources you ever need to do anything that you want. And like, because of how bad they were with people and how they didn't know how to laugh of jokes and then also like how intense they were about Jay Shetty and how amazing he was, I was like, oh, this is a cult.

Like, I didn't even have, I had, I'd seen him, like, online, and I was like, ah, he seems too rich to be talking about this shit. But, like, no, the life coaching thing is such a wave of, like, that influencer people are, like, riding, too. Because, like, the sign of the recession. Well, you don't need any accreditation. Yeah, because, like, Tony Robbins, you know, like, really kind of kick that whole shit off. And he's like, watch this, bro. I just say things with confidence to a group of unhappy people. And they think I'm God.

It's not really regulated. Yeah, exactly. They discussed the name of their accreditation every time they said, we're Jay Shetty, something, something, accredited life. And I'm like, that means nothing to me. That's right. And so I don't want to do that. That means worse than normal.

I want to make it like, it's really about writing and I understand like AI. Like punchups with Chris Crofton is my idea because punching up is like, you know, punching up a script or something where you get a script and basically it's like how to write a home, how to write a song, how to, I can, I also can punch up. Like, I could help you fix your song. Like a wedding speech? I can help you. I can help you. Yeah, but, you know, like, people would say, like, AI could do that.

Like, I'm not offering something. AI doesn't have taste. And I, if you think it's, I just think 75 bucks an hour is like, what, like, I just, I'm going to try and take this seriously. Like, you could take, it's a class. It's a class. It's a writing class, basically. But I will get into, if you want to know how to be creative.

I can help you with that. But I'm not going into, like, therapy. I'm not talking about... Yeah, we're not talking about your family. We're not doing something. You can take multiple classes and I can teach you how to write a song. I've been trying to think of how to brand it,

but I just came up with Chris Crofton's punch-ups because I meant like punch up your, you know, whatever it is. And then also learn how to punch up, like against trashism. And punch up. I like that too. I liked that too, Paul ofie. That was another part of it. Yeah, like I liked the term.

So Chris Crofton's punchups, you can get at me at best of bread at gmail. Underrated. It'll be an hour on Zoom. And that's, you know, anyway, underrated, underrated. But don't say, don't talk about your family. Don't talk about your childhood. That's not what he's here for.

Well, no, it's like, yeah. And also if you fucking want to do it, like, think of it as a $75 hour-long cameo. And then it's a fucking giant bargain. Or, yeah, exactly. I think that's also. Because I know people are, you know, celebrity metal detectorists are offering, you know, just to hang out, have them say, like, I'd like to detect at your mom's house or whatever they would say on a Zoom.

But, you know, like, people pay $75 for that. Yeah. Well, I think, yeah, exactly. You're an AI chatbot who's a human being who will actually render better, more human results and connection. And I can help you write. I mean, I know how to, like, it took me forever. When I first started writing songs, I tried to write, like, Soundgarden, for example.

Like, I was a fan of Soundgarten. Talking about the Spoon Man and shit? Right. Like, and I tried to, like, but look at me. I'm like a redheaded guy. from Connecticut. And I can't sing about like riding a pack of dogs. You know, like, Chris Cornell has like,

you can buy that coming from him. But I was trying to do that. For like three years, I filled notebooks with stuff about riding pack of dogs. What's the most, what's the cringiest lyric you wrote that you still think of like, oh my God. Oh,

I'll tell you one. This crosses over into alcoholism, too. I don't know if I've ever said this on the show. But like, like, there are these famous like, a Freud or somebody or other and Freud and like, let's say Freud and Copernicus, this is not correct historically are hanging out

and they both did nitrous and then like they were so excited in the next morning they wrote something on a blackboard that they were really excited about and they wrote hogamous, hegamous, woman polygamous, higamous, man is monogamous and which of course is, you know,

sexist clap trap on first clap trap. Listen to me, that's the first time it's ever been said on a podcast. But, you know, anyway, so they just thought they had some breakthrough. And they went back and looked at the blackboard and they said, my God, you know, drugs don't work. So my moment for that was the worst lyric I ever wrote. So I like, this night I got wasted and I fucking like woke up in the yard clutching cheese. And I was like, but like I was like, oh, you know, I locked myself out of the house, a shit in the yard, whatever.

And then I was like, but oh, I wrote that thing on my hand. Yeah. I wrote that thing on my hand. that's going to make it all worth it because that's what this is all about. I'm Mikowski. I'm Rambo. I'm doing hard work to get the poetry. And the poetry's right in my hand.

I remember I wrote it on there and I opened my hand up and it said, naked is the day I was born on it. Wow. A lot of work. A lot of work to get to that. So I would say that was. This is so similar. Like standups will like write the most serial killer-ass shit in our notebooks.

Like I don't do comedy as well. Yeah. Yeah. And then you're like, hell of a joke. And you're like, I don't remember what that was. What the fuck was that supposed to mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. My notes app is a fucking mess. All right. Let's take a quick break when we come back. Overrated after this. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time as uncertain as this one.

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Emma Watson has announced she's retiring from acting. Has anyone else noticed that we haven't seen Emma Watson in anything in several years? Emma Watson is opening up the truth behind her five-year break from acting. Watson said she wasn't very happy. Was acting always something you were going to do? I was using acting as a way of escaping to feel free. My parents, it wasn't just the divorce, it was just like the continuing situation of living between two different houses and two different lives and two different sets of values, the career and the life that looks like. the dream. But are you really happy? Fame has given me this extraordinary power. It's also

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Tell us something that's overrated. I was going to say overrated, and this will spill into, like, I think I've said spill into twice. I've never said that in my life. A lot of things you haven't said in your life. This is a wild. This is so funny. I'm glad to be here. We're treading new ground.

Yeah. So overrated is calling what's happening in politics. This is not politics. And much like, like, AI is not for us. It's for, like, it's for controlling us. And they're going to throw us some. Look, you can make a picture turn it. You can make a dog that's just a regular picture

into a dog that barks. We can make a dog bark. We can make your family dog come back to life and run around next to your mom or whatever. And it's like, we'll use this to identify you in a crowd. We'll use this. Yes, that's what's really up. And so they're just trying to keep people on board with it by being like,

it also can do this stupid shit that you will then be like, I like AI. No, I think we should do AI because, look, it made my birthday present open automatically in the picture. I don't even know. I don't know what they use it for. I don't know what. But overrated is calling things that are one thing, another thing. This isn't politics. This is a coup.

This is not every minute that we treat this like something that can be solved through elections is another minute we're gaslighting ourselves. Yeah. This is not. I wrote a column about it. Vote blue no matter coup. Yeah. Yes. Vote coup no matter blue.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And the vote for Kim Jeffries. It was just like, I think one way we could do this is we could just wait them out. Yeah. That was like, what the fuck? This new one where he's like, they better watch it because the statute of limitations is five years.

So when he's gone, they're all going to get prosecuted. And you're like, in what courts? Hey, dickhead. What are you talking about? You're just letting them fucking run roughshot over the electoral system. I just think that's the funniest thing because you're like, his plan is basically like, you know what? One thing we could do is just wait for this all to end. Yeah.

Oh, just. And then. Did they go away yet? No. And then do stuff at the end after it ends. You have to be very, very quiet. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

So I recommend my advice column, the new one, it's called How to Heal the Political Divide, came out like last week. And it's just about this is not, this is a loss of narrative. This is in capitalism, God is a secular God. It's the prosperity gospel. It's a ranch house.

It's having a kid's college fund. It's having some leftover money to have a lake house. That's all gone. So people are completely lost. Our God, our God, the secular God of the American dream has left the fucking building.

I don't know why you think your podcast is depressing. Side note, I don't. Yeah, exactly. The secular god of America has left the building. And also, what I'm trying to think of some current event thing. But also, Charlize Theron's doing another movie about Barbarrella or whatever that fucking car crashing thing is. Mad Max.

Mad, Matt. I love that, Chris, because you're like, I don't know a lot of movies, but you had to pull from the ones you did. No, you're like, Barbarella. Yeah, yeah. You know, Barbarola with the car crashes. in the desert with the cars animation. And also hashtag Charlie Sterran.

So I'm not totally depressing. Don't worry. Like we're going to be fine. We'll be fine. No, but it's true. I mean, like there's this whole thing. There was a poll recently where like 70% of Americans are like there is no fucking American dream anymore.

Like what are you fucking talking about? And you have all these politicians who because they have reached a place of comfort or prosperity that they just assume that like that that's kind of the case for most people or they're just completely indifferent to it that you are able to say shit like earnestly like we're just going to wait them out because you live in some weird fucking magical you know insulated fantasy fantasy chamber where none of these things are possible because you just you know you can't see it you can't see that degradation happening in real time like everybody else can't right i don't know what we're going to do that's the only thing because because we carry

of these tracking devices in our pockets called phones that tell them with a couple presses of a button whether your podcast is liberal or conservative. They can look at your search history and find out whether you go to Huffington Post or Drudge Report. It's not easy to figure out even how to resist this shit because they've been putting things in place for 30 years now since, well, 25 years since the Patriot Act where they've made it so you can you can just declare someone a terrorist and put them in jail indefinitely. So it's like it's not the 60. their boat. Yeah. Yeah, I like, I had always had the complacency of like, well, nothing I do is that important. So it's fine. But it's like, they're just disappearing regular people all the time left and right. So it's like, it's not fine. It's not okay. And I don't want to be scared. Yeah. No. And like the Powell memo, which was this memo written by this guy named Powell, as you might assume, it was that came out in the late 60s. And he was just this corporate dude who ran a company that made who knows what typewriters or something. And he was just like, we're not having another 60s ever again.

So they've been working on this ever since then. Oh, like he was like, let's make sure we don't or? Yes, we're never having this again. We're never educating the public on this level. We're going to destroy education except for in certain pockets of the country where we could be guaranteed. These kids are going to grow up to be capitalists. Everywhere else, we are dumbing the education system down.

They educated, they educated the everybody in America super well in the middle of the 20th century because they thought we had to compete with Russia. and so, but when the 60s came along, they realized, oh, my God, we created this monster. These are just well-educated people being like, we're not going to go fucking work and make lamps or whatever you want us to do. We're going to have a life. And they're like, we can never have that again. So this guy wrote a specific memo saying, we are never, ever going to, we're going to sabotage

every single part of the system that created this moment. The 1960s for Capital was a huge moment. and it wasn't the wasn't because crosbie stills and Nash was in Laurel Canyon or whatever the fuck we had to listen about for the rest of our lives Laurel Canyon's like you know that's like more of that bait and switch stuff like that's not what really happened what really happened was there was an actual civil rights movement and has nothing you do with fucking johnny mitchell even though i love johnny mitchell but that's how we talk about the 60s the 60s was actually an amazing moment 60s was an amazing moment that they've been working ever since to make sure never happens again and they've got everything in place now for it not to have the palmo memo is chilling because it really is it's truly just articulating it's like this attack against enterprise you know like the way they view this whole this whole system of our financial system and where the power should lie in the the the role of the chamber of commerce or the role of business executives on how to keep this project going it's pretty stark you know

there's a whole section about like evaluation of textbooks like you know they all need to they're all the, again, like you're saying, and here we are now where, you know, eighth graders, 12th graders and the latest nation's report card are like reading and doing math at like the lowest levels ever and they're reading comprehension is much lower. And, you know, like you can see like with people's lack of critical thinking skills, even as it relates to things like who they vote for. I could have been a Republican. I was grown, I grew up in an area where there, I would have been if I had not been exposed to certain things when I went to college. I mean, I thought crazy shit growing up where I grew up.

And luckily, I went to college and met some people who just said, you're thinking the stuff you think is crazy. And I said, you know, I'd never given a second, never given it a second thought. And then I gave it a second thought. That's how long it took for me to reconsider. You know what I was like my, you know, I was raised to believe gay people were bad in the Catholic Church. They were very explicit about that. We are like, we're like baddies, though. You know what I'm like that.

There's a significant difference. You guys are, they're bad. I do know what that means. And so you are baddies. In that sense, you know, yeah, you're welcome. Sinner, we call them sinners. I know that means hot. So, but, you know, I was raised, like, I wasn't raised on a lot.

Like, it was like, be a stockbroker, play lacrosse, and gay people are bad. Right. And, you know, it's hard to even talk about because it sounds so, it sounds, but I was brought up. You tell a kid in an environment where all you care about is lacrosse and you don't talk about any other shit that gay people are bad and that's the only thing that kid hears it sticks with the kid because the kid's a kid hilarious because in my high school all of the female lacrosse players were lesbian so it's kind of if you care about lacrosse you should love gay people and thank goodness like we've moved as a culture it seemed like we were moving in the right

direction but the thing is there's there are still these bubbles it's just amazing how fast being poorly educated affects yeah yeah yeah yeah well it's that's that's their form of like sort of erasure that they they're more comfortable with you like well no i mean it's just like anyway so that's an embarrassing story for me to tell but it's just that's how important i think it is just you know you've got to hear different perspectives well from people who grew up in different environments and they just will challenge you kids will challenge other kids I'd say, at least you're very honest with your life experiences, which there are many. And even maybe, yes, you were embarrassed to say that, but first of all, at least you can say

you're not performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia because that would be a true embarrassment. Yeah, I mean, definitely not just because you didn't get booked, for sure. For sure. You don't have blood money. Who books that? Maybe. Yeah, yeah.

Well, so, because I'm thinking. to now somebody who is embarrassed because I just think of, that's a whole other thing. Just like looking at that lineup of comedians who are like, yeah, from the we're going to Saudi Arabia to do comedy, it's going to be great. I just think of also Theo Vaughn who's coming into the

news right now because he basically we posted a video, I guess at the beginning of the year where fans said, hey, like my friend got deported, can you like record a message for me? And he like sent this video out. The Department of Homeland Security sort of like,

use that video to create this like just fucking disgusting like all their fucking meme videos that they do like whether it's like Pokemon got to catch them all and it's all just like deportation the this latest one is using Theo Vaughn and basically it's about him talking to someone who got deported to kick off this bit of terrible state propaganda and we'll talk about his reaction I still can't believe that's fake hair or you got deported dead and then now they're just rolling a bunch of deportation footage like in this TikTok

aesthetic fucking meme form it's it's fucking just whatever he really say that or yeah he said it but it wasn't related to this someone was like hey my friend's getting deported can you send him a message like we're fans and he's just like hey man heard you getting deported bye

and that now the department of Homeland Security is like you know it be great if we just turn that into our deportation propaganda video It's a perfect accent to use. His tweet about it was, yo, DHS, I didn't approve to be used in this. I know you know my address, so send a check. And then, and please take this down and please keep me out of your banger deportation videos.

And then, like, my thoughts and heart are a lot more nuanced than this video allows. Well, at least he's, I guess so he's only willing to do paid spokesperson gigs for ICE. Yeah, he's like a cameo for the U.S. admin. I mean like at that point I'm like the way like that's just so funny completely negates the sentiment when you're like send me my money this is an example I'm more nuanced but I did support Trump and I did say weirdly anti actually anti-Semitic things and yeah like all that's a fucking red carpet for Trump advanced during the election became very close to this administration has been to the White House and now you're like how this fucking happen like you're a fucking maga stooch that's great that's great that's That's crazy. They're people. That's nuts. Have they done any drugs?

This is an example of like Americans like celebrating knowing nothing. Now Theo Vaughn, it seems like has some kind of conscience, is being educated in public. He's being educated in public because he's finding out stuff you're supposed to find out from being educated. You're supposed to find out like Theo Vaughn is like a perfect example of a guy who probably was like sheltered. and now he's finding out like... He was from Louisiana. He was on the real world or road rule. Right, but was he like, how did he grow up?

He grew up in Louisiana. A lot of people, like, his dad was he parented? His dad passed away when he was like 16. He says he didn't come from money. There's a lot of people on the internet who are like... He's 45 years old and has been rich for a while or has been in the entertainment. He's been on TV since 19, yeah. Yeah, he's been exposed.

Like, he has been in L.A. for long enough and at the comedy store and around people from all different backgrounds long enough to like be actually curious and retain information. Not to excuse it, but that is just like for your average dumbass like Vio Vaughn, this is something that didn't come on his radar until people started getting like until there were videos of ice like beating up 80 year olds. And then he's like, oh shit. Oh, shit.

No, truly. He's like, hey man, there's like people that they're just construction shop, construction sites man or just like a gardener. What the hell? And you're like, what the fuck? It's so crazy that like, what frustrates me is that people who are this fucking dumb and have such a platform will continue to have opinions,

despite being so wrong. Yes. Despite being proven wrong over and over again, they'll have strong opinions, they'll have the confidence to think that, and maybe not Theo Vaughan with like the combativeness, but like other fucking Andrew Schultz and stuff, will have the like combativeness against people who are like,

hey, you're an idiot and you've been bad at, like, predicting what people do in these situations or what could come from, like, eroding these institutions. And they'll continue to have opinions in public. And I'm like, at some point, you got to shut the fuck down. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's a podcast equipment. I mean, they, you know, like, you think about all the money, like people like Peter Thiel have put into this sort of like era of comedy, you know, and like the, how, like, a lot of that intersects with the Joe Rogan podcast and how Joe Rogan has like these like straight up oligarchs on his show and you're like what the fuck do they have to do with comedy but also like these people I think they've identified that some of these podcast hosts are just these very useful idiots to take to cede their messages of like anti democratic anti democratic values and shit but then in real time these people come around to and they're like wait what the fuck like this is like why are people yelling at me wait this is bad oh yeah I mean, it's like, I just can't, I just can't, the anti-intellectual movement or like, like, that's, America stands for being anti-intellectual. Like, we don't need any facts.

We don't, we hate experts. We can just do everything from our gut, all based on the fact that we won World War II. And we didn't even win it by ourselves. You know what I'm saying. But like the idea that that notion of like, all you need is spit and vinegar. You don't need any facts whatsoever. But then when you run up against complicated shit, that stuff. doesn't work anymore and all their our whole culture is doubling down on the idea because they don't

have another gear to shift to but i think like that that aspect of it is also created by like evil nerds do you know what i mean like they're the ones they rose in silicon valley they became like super capitalists and then they like they just spread misinformation just like what you were saying earlier about like never letting the 60s happen again yeah right like i feel like that's true it's like there are plenty of people who know better and it's just pure greed and so then they instill this sense of like well the masses don't need to know et cetera et cetera we'll convince them that they're smarter than like experts or whatever yeah there's i just feel like we have to remember sorry miles just quickly you know kind people this there's a lot of kind people who just have

bad fucking facts and we have to try oh yeah i have i have a few friends who that's all like you know I don't know how it's going to work. I feel like it's not going to work. I feel like we have too many, there's too many people who are just like. There is, to your point, I think a lot of people do know people like this who they've just

just trying to find a way forward, you know, just some light at the end of the tunnel. And that is like, even Theo Vaughn being fucking confused by basic things. It's like good to watch because you see how stupid Americans are kept. I mean,

I don't. Down turns on his microwave to watch the nightly news. Yeah. I mean, and he also has a, yes, I couldn't. believe this. Do you know this, Paul Vee, that he has fake hair. That is not a

real. He was bald. He got a full mullet. I mean, if this was a different time in history and he wasn't doing damage, I would say it was funny because it's funny. I mean, it is funny. Is that real? That's yes. I could not believe it. Because he bald. Are these bald videos? These bald transplant things real? Because it looks fake. He bald. I didn't mean. He bald. What I mean is him bald is so frightening. He would not have any audience. He didn't have that. He looks terrifying.

He literally looks like a finance dude. He looks like what he is, which is like a fucking like uneducated, dangerous, like redneck. And he got that mullet. Now he looks like a fun loving. And now he's a stud, man. Hey, I look like a tickle me Elmo redneck. Hey, man.

Party in the front. Fascism in the back, man. I don't like the expression redneck because I'm a redneck. I mean, we're all, I mean, anybody raised in America to some extent is kept in the, in a redneck. state of mind. Yeah. But anyway, I don't, but anyway, he's just like, he, that, thank God he has that mullet, but it's made him look like smarter than he is, if that's, if that's even possible.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a goof with a mullet. He looks horrifying without his mullet. And I just can't believe. Well, guys, I mean, look, I, I hate to announce this on the show like this, but I am going to Istanbul next month to get my hair transplant. I'm so sick of dudes catfishing women. What the fuck is that?

Sorry, I'm going to have the mullet now. You'd be so mad without, it's just like, it's like dudes on the internet telling women that makeup is catfishing them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the river. Holy fuck. Yeah. Well, that's like the stupidest thing I ever heard of my life. I've never even heard of that.

I mean, I've heard of catfishing, but I didn't know, like, someone was trying to say makeup was catfishing. Oh, yeah. There's everything's catfishing, you know. I'm getting a mullet, though, and I'm going to get a mullet, and I'm going to be back on top, baby. asking a lot of questions. Could you imagine? Suddenly, Chris, you get the mullet transplant, and then you got fucking Bolsonaro and fucking Net and Yahoo on your podcast.

Being like, hey, man, like, let's talk about it, man. Listen, I don't really know much about this. Let's talk about it, bro. Let's talk about it, man. I think, I don't know anything about this. It sounds like it's pretty hard, me. Is it hard doing genocide? Because people don't talk about how hard it is.

People, a lot of haters, man. I feel bad for you, man. Anyway, you like, I'm not going to get a mullet that in no way. I don't want to do that. I'm happy with my, it's the end of the world podcast. I'm not going to get a bullet. Okay, good, good, good. I, however.

Well, you just merely have to get a hair cut. I know so much about baldness because I'm bald. So it's like, I've just like to sniff out a wig. So I would never have known that was a wig. I can usually, I'm really good at spotting wigs, you know, but I would never. Wig spotting. The new podcast. Go Google fucking stick a picture of fucking everyone's whatever his name is without his hair.

And then put it on and try and listen to his podcast. Try and listen to God damn Theo Vaughn's podcast with that bald mugshot-looking guy. Right. If he went to Yale and didn't get a hair transplant, he'd be like a J.D. Vance type person. Yeah, J.D. Vance is a perfect example of a guy who knows nothing who's like being manipulated. Yeah. I mean, it's like that guy's- I mean, that doesn't excuse it. But yeah, like- Oh, no, and I'm not in any way excusing this stuff.

I'm just saying the path forward is education. Hell yeah. All right. Well, let's educate ourselves on a new AI product when we come back because this is the thing, You were saying like AI's for oligarchs, but there's also, there's very much an active sector within AI of people who do believe that it's going to bring about really cool shit, like talking Suzanne Summers fuck dolls. Well, I'm open to AI, maybe now that you say that. Well, maybe I'm open to AI because my Suzanne Summers homemade broom fuck doll does not say shit. It's a thigh master.

All right. We'll be right back. It's a thigh master with a bucket on it. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time, as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians. I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations, but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country. Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized?

I might personally lose hope. This individual. might lose the faith, but there's an institution that doesn't lose faith, and that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. There's not a single day that Paula and I don't call or text each other, sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country. This new podcast will be a way to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast.

Today, I'm joined by Emma Watson. Emma Watson. Emma Watson has apparently quit acting. Emma Watson has announced she's retiring from acting. Has anyone else noticed that we haven't seen Emma Watson in anything in several years? Emma Watson is opening up the truth behind her five-year break from acting. Watson said she wasn't very happy. Was acting always something you were going to do?

I was using acting as a way of escaping to feel free. My parents, it wasn't just the divorce, it was just like the continuing situation of living between two different houses and two different lives and two different sets of values, the career and the life that looks like the dream. But are you really happy? Fame has given me this extraordinary power. It's also given me a lot of responsibility.

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty. on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All I know is what I've been told, and that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved, until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. I'm telling you, we know Quincy Kilder, we know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV.

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I didn't know her, did not kill her, or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y'all said it. They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her.

They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County. A show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I started trying to get pregnant about four years ago now.

We were getting a little bit older, and it just kind of felt like the winter. could be closing. Bloomberg and IHeard Podcasts present. IVF disrupted, the Kind Body story, a podcast about a company that promised to revolutionize fertility care. Introducing Kind Body, a new generation of women's health and fertility care. Backed by millions in venture capital and private equity, it grew like a tech startup. While Kind Body did help women start families, it also left behind a stream of

disillusioned, and angry patience. You think you're finally, like, with the right people in the right hands, and then to find out again that you're just not. Don't be fooled. By what? All the bright and shiny. Listen to IVF disrupted, the kind body story, starting September 19 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

um so this month's la comic con is going to have a special guest the late great freaky stan lee uh the dead marvel comics editor is going to be fucking just they're doing a bit of tech necromancy uh because he's going to be an ai powered hologramed where people can pay like 15 to 20 bucks to quote unquote chat with stan lee and then also you can also pay to get a picture with a holographic talking corpse. Can you fuck, Stan Lee? Let's put a pin in that question. Seems like you can probably just put a couple lines of code in there. Yeah, yeah. Well, unfortunately, it's just a video box. There's nothing really tangible.

Put it in that video box. I know. I wish I wasn't doing this with comedians. Give me a popper and a video box. Put the whole thing in there. So, yeah. Video box kills the vagina. Video box.

Who needs a girlfriend when you got this monitor? Oh, shit. So the head of the Stanley legacy programs for cartoon studios said that the holograms will be faithful to the real dead Stan Lee. But so just as an example. I'm never so bad for Stanley, but like, you know how like when whistleblowers are like, hi, my name is this. And if you find me dead, it's not suicide. I feel like doing that, but for like AI.

Like, hi, if you ever see an AI. I didn't want to do this. It is against my will. Well, that's the thing. There are people like, the states like California and like, I think 27 others have these, like, these laws that give you, like, right to recognize a post-mortem right of publicity, meaning you can profit off of, like, someone in your family can profit off of your dead ghost. Jesus. But just as an example. Indie rock band name, dead ghost.

Dead ghost, yeah. Love a, just love a redundant name. So the company that's behind the Stan Lee AI thing, last year they did an unveiling where they, like their first sort of AI holograph or hologram persona was Howie Mandel. And it's totally, like I said, it's so natural. I just want to let them, I just want to play this from the demo of the Howie Mandel AI hologram.

And just how fucking legit, how fucking not creepyers. Did he give permission to do this or do they, can they just do this? Because they're probably paying these people a fuck ton of money so they can just be like, look, the guy from this show you like, the guy from Bobby's world. The NFTs. Here's the Howie Mandel AI hologram, just pitching us on how just normal this is. Hey, folks, Howie here. And I've got something truly amazing to share with you today.

Look at the hand gestures. I've got a little secret. Oh my God, they're so late. Everything you're seeing and hearing right now was generated with proto AI text to persona technology. No way. Pretty cool, right? I'm an international superstar. Look at that last part.

You think I have technology. Pretty cool, right? I'm an international superstar. You think I have time to actually have this recorded? We shut the face. It's the worst fucking... I think AI used him because he has zero personality to begin with, so he's the easiest one to mimic.

I feel so bad, but, like, there are so many... I'm just like, Howie Mandel is too dumb to talk to us about AI. Like, I just, none of his vibes are giving off. I'm critically thinking about this. I am an international superstar. No, you're not. You're not. I mean, maybe Bobby's world.

I couldn't believe, you know, I thought of Howie Mandel when I was like, 1980. So I was like 16, like I was born in 69. So I was watching like Howie Mandel on HBO and like 86. I thought he was kind of funny at that time. Yeah. You know, like when he would do those funny voices and like blow up that fucking surgical glove on his head and stuff. Hell yeah. That's how I got Bobby's world.

But he's been a corporate spokesman ever since, like, you know, selling, like, capitalism and silver suitcases. That guy's a fucking, doing AI of him is like doing him. I mean, he's already AI. I just think it's funny, you know. You're not, you've relinquished your entire identity and persona to corporate names. Make a fucking AI bot of somebody who's actually complicated and interesting. It's probably impossible. They can't because they will not say yes.

And now our new AI, our Ryan Seacrest model. You thought that was creepy. So, like, earlier this year, we talked about a company called Real Botics who was making, like, these, like, sex dolls that were infusing them with AI. And, like, they spoke, like, the worst, like, just, like, stilted, jumpy AI talk you've ever heard from a thing trying to pretend it was human. Well, the AI Stanley thing is weird. But Suzanne Summers, the late Suzanne Summers' husband. basically

do not marry the wrong man signed off you not marry the wrong man signed off on real bodics making a humanoid spooky fuck doll of Suzanne Summers and when they

like this was five months ago when they when they like wheeled this thing out to be like look how cool this is who did this? This is a company called real bodics along with I believe her husband her late husband

Alan Hamill, who was basically like, yeah, yeah, go ahead. That's disgusting. This fucking, I'm just going to show you this presentation because it's A, creepy as fuck, but B, it sucks fucking shit. This thing doesn't even come close to looking like Suzanne Summers. And then

this is her weirded out widower here. That's disgusting. I'll play this beginning part where also the technology sucks. So he keeps being like, does the name Alan Hamill mean anything to you? That's his name her her fucking former husband oh my god does the name alan hamill means anything to you not responding it's just wobbling and back and forth the developer's like uh that's how he thinks

women act normally that's it does it say anything oh it will but this is funny because like this is her widower and then the husband's like does my name mean anything to you it can't even fucking respond because it's bullshit. You know what I mean? The guy who was supposed to type the response was like looking at his phone. But here's one where he's like, do you have any good memories of us?

And I'll let Suzanne Summers AI robot speak for herself. Of course, I believe. Alice Hamill is my husband of 55 wonderful years. He's my partner in everything from life to love and he shared so many beautiful memories today. Do you have a favorite memory of us? Just so much.

favorite memory that we share Oh, they're so many. One of my favorites is when Alan and I were It's just like, again, this whole presentation is so spooky because... It's the worst. It's a small world ride ever. You've ever seen. Pirates of the Caribbean starring

All your favorite... All your favorite sitcom sex dolls. Oh, my God. Yeah, they brought up the John Ritter one after. My fucking homemade. uh susan summer's sex doll is way better than that when i do her voice i got a whole tape that i made of her talking and i put it in the bucket it's it's cut up lines of dialogue from yeah and it's so much more realistic yeah and if i ask her about whatever she says she's horny to every question like again so this is just again this is their future application

for her husband should be in some kind of prison for that i don't advocate people I honestly think this is actually like elder abuse because they do not understand the technology when they sign shit like this. Exactly. It does not feel like they would. I mean, and also like ironically or unironically, I mean, like there was there was a lot of talk about Stan Lee being being abused towards the end of his life also. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This was like, I remember there was like there was talk about how he was a victim of elder abuse.

Like people were just, yeah, like they're like, the people were taking care of him aren't neglect. him and just basically waiting for checks to come in. Yeah, it's... I'm going through that with like, I mean, like, what's happening in my family with people getting old is like, that's the part of them, part of like life that like gets pushed to the side by all this like Donald Trump said the escalator broke, you know, and all this stuff. Like, it just takes up a new cycle. It's, but everybody I know is going through an older. Yeah, real life is coming. Family member who's falling to pieces and no one has any money to take care of them and knows what to

do. And that's like, and like just speaking of elder abuse, I mean, I just bringing it to something real. I just made me think of like, I mean, the end of your life in a, in a, in a society that does not have a proper social safety net is completely. Oh, it's a nightmare. Like, D, it's just, and it's happening, it happens to everybody. It's like that Charlie's Barley's there in car movie. Barbarrella. Exactly. It's like Barbarella on wheels or whatever that was. Yeah, starring Farah Fawcett. That's the same thing. Yeah.

And yeah, and my barborella on wheels sex doll I'm still working on. But that thing says, I'm horny. That's the only thing. It's a razor scooter. And it says it in my voice, but I did it like a higher voice. Well, Chris. And it cost me like as much as a bucket and a broom and like some, you know, shoulder pads. Wow, shoulder pads.

Well, look. Oh, yeah, like football shoulder pads. Yeah, yeah, full on. Like, just think you fucking play linebacker, man. Well, Chris, thank you for joining us on The Daily of That Guys, man. It's always great having you. Thank you for having me. And so nice to meet you, Pallelby.

Nice meeting you, too. Yeah, aside from, if you want, if you're interested in Chris Crofton's punch-ups, look, 75 bucks an hour. Best of Bread at gmail.com. Hit them up. And if you can't do it, 75 bucks, 50. But I mean, I'm not, this is a real thing. Like, I'm going to really, like, I'm not going to waste your time.

You're such a generous guy, too. Like, yeah, I think people of you have. Any genuine curiosity, Chris is a very generous, sincere human being, as I think that's why people really love you so much, Chris. And maybe he'd let you in on his sex dolls. Like, maybe he'd like show you. He didn't say that. He didn't say that. I'm trying to be an early investor. If no one does this, no one does this, like in the next five days, but I don't get on the out, then I'll start, you know. That's a threat? I don't like that. I'll unleash my sex bots on the planet. I'm going to turn. I'm going to start

a sex doll business and you don't want that. You do not want that. Chris, where else do the people find you and follow you, man? You can find me at a Crofton show on Instagram and all the other things like Twitter and all that crap. But Instagram, if you want to message me to do one of these sessions or, you know, private lessons or whatever, you can get at me through the DMs of Instagram. I'm always checking that shit like a sad sack. And then I'm trying to think like, I think I'm just going to be doing some shows, you know, playing shows and showing the movie. So you can just follow me on also chriscrofton.com to tell you all that stuff. Amazing. Is there a working media or social media that you've been enjoying?

You know, can you guys go? I always forget this part of the show. Every fucking time I forget. That's okay. It's okay. Forgive yourself. We forgive you. Paula Vee. Thank you for joining me today. Where do the people find you follow you and what's a work on media that you've been fucking with? I'm at Pala Viginalin, P-A-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N everywhere. I have the facial recognition comedy show at the comedy store every month. We're still doing it.

Hell yeah. I'm going to be in S-F, October 3rd, and 4th. I'm going to be traveling. I'm trying to travel more for stand-up so I can sell merch and make it sustainable. So the touring lifestyle. So check out my link tree. It's the link in my bio on my Instagram. for upcoming shows and where I'll be

because they'll be in different cities. I think I'm going to like Portland or Seattle in December or something like that. Just a bunch of different places. A work of media that I've been enjoying is literally all of the rapture tweets and TikToks and everything. My friend at the Andrew Nadau

posted getting raptured and as I'm ascending, seeing that my awful neighbor is also getting raptured below me and trying to subtly push him back down with my foot. Chris, did you find your work of media? I'll just say, no, I'm just going to do something self-serving. Go check out my latest podcast.

I think I did a good job of explaining where I think we're at. And then besides that, just go listen to Lola, whatever her name of Lola Young. Go listen to Spiders by Lola Young. I love that song. I think Lola Young's kicking ass. And I know she's like, you know, got big money on her side, but she's the real deal. And it feels good to hear somebody communicating, uh, what it's like to be in the middle of this mess. That's what I get from her.

You know, I get like chaos, but the kind of chaos that's human, you know, so spiders. Yeah, there's a fun about, I really, I really, I really like Lillian. She's, I, I'm really, my sister turned me on to her. And I'm like so fucking, I'm just so heartened. Like, you know, she's to me like a Kirk Cobain type person, you know. And I love it. You know, I think, I mean, she's just like, Kirk Cobain, I don't mean tragic. I just mean, like, communicating actual feelings, you know?

Yeah, in a different way. That feels very, like, unique to them. Wait a minute. I'm looking up you Lola Young spiders, and the picture they have is Lola Young with a sex doll of herself. Is that why you're interested in this on, Chris? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

And he proceeds into the distance It's from the album I'm only fucking myself And it's a sex doll with a picture of her face on it And her holding it I like music with bad words Wow No I think she's great Anyway that's my work of media is lowly young

Go listen to all this stuff off her new record Oh I didn't realize a fucking record already came out I'm so behind And the first four singles made me really happy And I love I think I feel like She's like totally representative of like Talking about her phone and her fucking...

I don't know. It just sounds fucking like I bet what young people are going through. Just like such bullshit and she's coming through it with grace and art. This wasn't meant for you anyway,

that album? I just liked that messy. I liked Messy and I liked her performance on Fallon, which I just was going through her stuff on YouTube, you know?

And fuck Jimmy Fallon so hard. But I love, I love that performance she did of Messi. And the thing about Messi that's amazing is there's no proper like there's this there's no proper britt there's the high point of the song is when she says

I got high and forgot to fold my clothes that's like the high point of the song which is such a neat I've never had a song or known of a song where the high point of the song is just this sort of vocal thing where it's like I get a chill I just got a chill talking about it when she goes up with that I got high again and forgot to fold my clothes it's such a such a poignant thing and so relatable because everybody's getting high trying to get through this shit you know, and forgetting to fold their clothes. That's what I love it. Like that one song, Big Brown Eyes,

it starts off as like, you can eat shit. And I'm like, yeah, great. I've never heard that so melodically, and I love it. That's exactly right. My plans. She's talking like internet talk,

except making it beautiful art. You know, it's like blunt. It's like listening to text messages. Like, I love it. I just love it. Chris, that was, you caught me off guard with that Lola Young plug. My sister, Pam,

I got to give my, she's much younger than me. she told me about it. Otherwise, I'd be listening to Gordon Lightfoot exclusive. Yeah. Okay, so now a new note, only Lola Young or Gordon Lightfoot, aka. That's it. That's it. Those are the only two artists I know about. So if anyone wants to DM me, if anyone wants to send me a message about other artists

there are, there are other artists out there? We'll find out. I don't think there are. I think those are the two genders. There's two genders. Gordon Lightfoot or Lillian. You can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about 90-day fiancee. I'm 420-day fiancé. Work in media. at Alexelbbb.b.B.B.B.B.Sky. Social posted. Give it a week and Tylenol will be back on TV. God, I hope. We'll see. Who knows?

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