The Daily Zeitgeist - Mosquitoes Are Taking Ov- IT’S CROFTON TIME! 08.20.25

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

In episode 1917, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, musician, host of Cold Brew Got Me Like, and subject of the documentary Nashville Famous, Chris Crofton, to discuss… Las Vegas Is Being Plagued By Mosquitos and more! Chris Crofton: Nashville Famous- LA premiere! Las Vegas Is Being Plagued By Mosquitos West Nile virus, pesticide resistance detected among Las Vegas mosquitoes Dengue fever, once confined to the tropics, now threatens the U.S. Mosquitoes that carry West Nile are becoming resistant to insecticides, CDC says Current Dengue Outbreak Las Vegas' growing mosquito problem is 'a ticking time bomb' Crofton's Media Reccomendation: Under The Roller Coaster - A Film by Lila Place LISTEN: I Don't Believe by Chris CroftonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You guys know Dave Grohl's been chewing gum his whole fucking career, right? Like every minute he's on stage, he's chewing gum. Ever long. I fucking want to kick his ass so many different ways. Anyway, go real? Hell yeah, man. What would you say to Dave Grohl? I would say fucking shut the fuck up and go home and stay there.

That's what I would say. What if you said, hey, man, come on, bro. You seem like a cool guy? You want to be in food fighters? I would say let AI write your lyrics. They'd probably be better. Wow. Thank you.

AI did write my lyrics. I bet they did. I bet he got some early version. I want to be your monkey wrench. That's one of his masterpieces. I actually like that. If you go back that far, he wasn't that bad.

But I'm talking about, is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best, the best, the best, the best. The best. The best. The best. I want to kick his ass. Fuck that guy

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You get the fuck out of here Right now You group sexer And I'll act like It's a moral judgment But it's just pure jealousy When I'm king The group sexers

Will be first against the wall Yeah It's just fun Because you act like People who act You act like you act You act like you're morally Outraised

But it's 100% You're just mad It's just like I could never do that I do not have the courage Oh no Now I could never. Never.

No way. I can't even have regular sex now, so group sex without question. Let's throw that right out the window. This is an I-Heart podcast. Hey guys, it's AZ Fudd. You may know me as a gold medalist. You may know me as an NCAA national champion. You may even know me as the People's Princess.

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National Bacon leverage Day, National Exhavelinaway, National Travel Day, National Tcha, Pekampi Day, National Radio Day. Boom, there it is. I had bad bacon this morning. what do you mean what the fuck is bad bacon it's just like chew like it was an uneven bacon you know there was like some chewiness and wasn't wasn't oh so it was a skill issue yeah it was a skill issue okay it was that uh i got a bagel and then i was like hey and why not a side of bacon because my nephew was getting some bacon on the side oh oh it wasn't great try to be like the cool kids huh hey what do you get man hey oh yeah i'm i'm having that as well yeah yeah

One over here. Why is that guy doing a fake British accent? Yeah, you were like, hashtag bacon. And then you looked around at all the young kids. Hey, man, I get some skivety bacon, huh? I know what you guys say. Rizzed up on the bacon front. My name's Jack O'Brien, aka D.C.'s got drug fires.

That one, courtesy of you, Kurt, do that on television. And Alicia Keyes was what that was supposed to be. uh thank you you current to do that on television i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray it's miles gray okay i was sending the swine just to fight dc crime but the lack thereof would only show the decline if you have your doubts people crashing out well let me just tell you something had to save my tender babe on a bender from a drug fire left them wet like amphibians if i was you i would back the blue okay shut us Salvador Jolly for that wonderful EF6 inspired A.K.A.

Obviously, we're not letting go of Benny Johnson's bullshit depiction of D.C., which is what happened? My infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shootings. Uh-huh. Yep. Okay. Yep, the classic check. Check. I never heard that. That's insane. Yeah, we were talking about that. That's the latest right-wing attack, fake crimes that happened to people in D.C. Oh, you don't think D.C. is fucked up, bro.

my infant nearly died oh god in a drug fight after mass shootings after mass shootings my boss here at work lives in rural tennessee and he went to new york and he told me about how he didn't go on the subway because he didn't want to get killed and i was like and he said it all smug like yeah i'm not taking any chances up there and And he said, and that's the thing about these fuckers. They'll challenge you to your face. You're not supposed to say, like, I used to live in New York and I was just up there visiting and I rode the subway.

What does that make you? You know, you're not allowed to say it. They just, they think everybody is fucking also scared. And it just makes me so mad. I was like so mad. But he's my boss, too. So I couldn't be like, you know, I couldn't be like, you know, I couldn't be like, he sounds true.

I couldn't be like, oh yeah, oh, yeah. Are you afraid of, um, are you afraid of, um, trying to get something else this bullshit? Are you afraid? Yeah. Are you afraid of like? I mean, I'm a little afraid of pigeons. You afraid of the Loch Ness monster? Well, actually, you should be.

I am. You should be afraid of that, actually. I was a bad example. It's fucking scares. Fuck. All right, let me start over. Let me start over. I'm ruining it again.

We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious stand-up comedian, an actor, musician. You can listen to his podcast. Cole Brew got me like anywhere. His book, The Advice King Anthology, available anywhere if fine books are sold. There is a documentary about him. Chris Crofton, Nashville Famous, that I think is out.

I don't know, is it streaming anywhere? That's all I'm going to promote. Well, you're not going to promote the new album? And that too. Okay. The new album ripped. It's called I'm Your Man. I'm promoting all the things that don't make me any money.

The poetry window is open because it's Chris motherfucking Crofton. So, so you think you can tell. Heaven from Chris Crofton. cold something from a chair. Do you think you can tell? J.J. It should get you to trade.

Chris Crofton for ghosts. Hot ashes for Chris Crofton. Anyway, that's... The amount that I felt that song when I was 13 years old, like, oh, I was like, fuck, dude. Is that Pink Floyd? It was so real? Yeah.

A big fish and a big, pond or whatever, dude. Oh, that was the, I'm, I'm 13 and deep for you. Yeah, that was like real, yeah, yeah. Maybe it had like smoked a little bit of weed for the first time. At 13? Oh, actually, no, that wasn't, I didn't smoke weight until I was like 15, 16. Didn't do it until I was like 29 until I was in my 20th and was terrified the whole

time. Until Miles made me a couple weeks ago. Oh, I didn't know you got wet. What are you talking about, Miles? I thought this was tobacco. I thought this was chewing. gum i smoked weed listen to yeah like total suburban you know 80s suburbs everybody's just driving around looking for a non-existent party listening i wish you were here and what was that

a lot of high off shin weed it was good chris what was the album for you like when i was an angry ass 16 year old i was listening to hybrid theory by lincoln park and it was just like a bunch just check, or just tramping like, fuck yeah. Like, it's just that kind of shit all the time. What was the album like that for you when you were an angry teenager? Oh, my God. That's interesting.

Coursing through your veins. I think I actually was like kind of happy at that age. So I was like a little bit. Like, I mean, I was listening to like, Bruce Horns be in the range. I mean, I was listening to be like, that's just the way it is. Right.

And like Tracy Chapman and shit like that. And then I went to college and I got really mad because I found out that the whole world was like my hometown. Like I thought I was on my way somewhere interesting. And so I wasn't mad yet. So I was like, oh, yeah,

this is just your young years. They're supposed to be stupid. And then I went to college and it was even dumber than high school. And because in high school, they tell you like, you know, you better watch out in college. They don't fuck around and they'll really give you a bad grade.

And then it's even easier than high school. It's even fucking easier than high school. So like, and everybody is, turns out everybody is a you know it's like i thought maybe just my town was fascist but it turned out there's whole colleges anyway it just turned out that i was mad or once i showed up at college and then i started so what was that album what was that album he takes nation of millions oh shit that was that changed my life and i hated hated white people and i've

hated it hated them ever since and and and my mom i remember i think i've told you that's just so funny i still don't even know what it exactly means but i kind of you guys i do know what it means but it's kind of a long thing. And I know he told me I got to move it along. Just kidding. I didn't say that. Constantly giving you the wrap it up. No, no, no.

It's not. I'm just feeling oppressed in general because I'm in my building where I work. I put it in my two weeks, though. So, Zite gang, get me a job. Okay. Somebody. Preferably in a Fortune 500 company in the C-suite. Zykegank, get me a high-paying job.

I don't think you understand the Zykegank. There's someone out there. There's definitely someone out there. You might have to move, though. So I'm down to move. But my mom said, because I was like, look, mom, like, listen to this band, Public Enemy. I was like, look at that. They're standing on the American flag.

Like in this picture on the album. Like in that jail cell, they're standing on the flag. I was like, how about that? That's awesome, right? And she was like, well. And then she goes, she goes, do you ever think they're acting madder than they really are? Uh-huh. Oh, shit.

I love that. sick. Why are they pretending to be so mad? They got it pretty good nowadays. I didn't quite understand what it even meant. I was kind of like, what? Yeah, yeah, right. But now I kind of get it. It's all performance. That's the thing. I always talk about

this scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest Gump is at a Black Panther rally and the Black Panthers are like shouting, you know, Black Panther talking points at Forrest Gump. And he sees like someone slap Jenny and like runs across

the room to go punch them. And the Black Panther who was talking to him keeps shouting at the empty space he was in because it's just like a performance, I guess. It's called Outrage Autopilot, Jack. The outrage automaton was fucking Robert Zemeckis's

reed of black anger. Now, what movie was this? Forest Gump. I've never seen it. No, I've never seen it. Are you serious? No, Jack. We've been over this.

We've been pushing. This is what we're supposed to do for my new job. This is what we're supposed to do for my new job. It's supposed to be me and you guys talking about movies I haven't seen. And I get, hey, you guys can pay me $17,000 a year. Okay. And I'll do an episode every fucking day for four hours. All right, let's talk.

I'll still be happier than I am right now. Anyway, but that, yeah, that I didn't see Forrest Gump. But I heard it's like terrible, like as far as like the, you know, just like, oh, the free spirit got AIDS and like the black guy. yelling. It's not really yelling. He's doing it to get late or whatever. Yeah, it sounds like a great fucking movie. Then there's old Forrest Gump, the actor.

It was actually, Forrest Gump played himself in that movie. Yeah, a lot of people don't realize. So you know so you know. Oh, yeah. And then he made that movie about where he lived in the airport with a volleyball. I know about that shit. Chris, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about

today. um further the terminal and castaway matchup he's just vaguely aware of tom hanks yeah the jamaican guy the guy who talks in the jamaican accent who lived in the airport with the holly bow no that's his son patois what are we going to talk about what are we going to pretend we're going to talk about today but actually talk about it on yesterday's trending. We'll talk about, I don't know, man. Epstein. I don't, Chris, you've seen any good YouTube videos? Las Vegas being plagued by mosquitoes. As a matter of fact, all of that plenty more. But first, Chris Croft, and we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your

search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I'll tell you, this one I may have done at some, you guys will know if I've done it. Have I ever done this one where it's the woman who runs who lives under the roller coaster in coney island no i have never done that a short okay it's a short documentary um i think you may have referenced it but i just started watching it because you sent the link and i was like no i've never seen this before it's awesome it's just like i mean it's just me fantasizing about you know old coney island or old middle class middle class you know where people are eating cheese sandwiches and stuff you know and they're calling that that was like like you know there was roast beef on ride toast like how would you do today oh i don't know i don't

great cheese sandwich now I'm going to bed you know and uh you used to be able to you know afford a house on a waitress's salary and that house was under the coney island cycle yeah and i saw a woman right i saw a woman that was cool it was a great day did you talk to her no i'm gonna wait till i'm gonna wait till i see her a bunch more times then i might say good evening wow i can't wait to the move to the city like you. Yeah, like I, and then if you go on a roller coaster, I mean, then you've done, you're done. Your bucket list is over. The bucket list back then was like, go to the fair, eating a cheese sandwich, and then, you know,

or like someone being like, you know what? When we go to Coney Island, I'm going to audition a new way of walking just to try it out. I'm going to kind of walk like this when I'm on Coney Island next time. It was a big hit on the board rock, walk. A couple people are doing a second bob and you're sitting in the middle of the first bob? Kind of like you're dancing, but now to a little rhythm in your heart. That's why I married him. I saw him bobbing down the boardwalk.

He looked like a jerk, but I kind of thought it was a little bit of sparkle. Just why I watched the beginning of the documentary, and this woman's like, yeah, I like got a job waitressing at Coney Island. And then it ends with her living in a house that's under the roller coaster on Coney Island. So like, first of all, my favorite part about it is that the man who owned the roller coaster was a respected local businessman. And he owned a roller coaster and lived under it. And that was like, and he was like a pillar that. the community because the whole thing was based on amusement. So it was like, you know, the guy who I don't know, they had a zoning issue or something. They had to talk to the guy who owned

the flume and then they had to bring in the guy who owned the, anyway. So he owned a roller coaster and lived under the roller coaster. And that was his business. Yeah, what's your career? I'm thinking about building a roller coaster on my house. It worked. And then just charging people money for it. It was a hotel before, I guess, that house. And I knew of the house because of two things. like because the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall. He lived in this house and I figured it was fake for the movie. I didn't know there was a real house. And then I went to Coney Island

in the 90s and saw the roller coaster at that point a bit abandoned, although she may have still been living in that house. I didn't realize in like I was there in like 93. I think she may have still been in the house, but the roller coaster was overgrown and because her husband had died. And so the roller coaster wasn't operating anymore, but she was still living in the house and she raised her kids in that house. And it's just an amazing story of just like, I don't know, just back when you

could own a roller coaster. And that was like your living. And, you know, obviously that was not for everybody. You couldn't just have a, I mean, I guess there was some privilege involved probably. Not just everybody could have their own roller coaster. But this guy, you know, he went out every morning and inspected the coaster. Yeah. Just like pick up the paper and then just like kind of take, give it a nice look over once over just to make sure. The kids got to collect all the stuff that fell out of the pockets. Some guy came in the documentary, he goes,

we had everything. Wigs, you know. Right, right. Pocketeeth. 30 baseball caps a day. Hitler youth pin. Everything would come out of it. It's such a whimsical story that it makes me

disres like have so much less respect for Mother Goose fairy tales. Like an old woman who lives in a shoe, who fucking cares. Right, that sucks. This woman lives. lives in a fucking roller coaster. Get your shit together, goose.

Yeah. And anyway, I love Coney Island because Coney Island, so then I'm going to segue into my underrated. I don't know if I'm allowed to do that, but underrated is Coney Island. Go there. But I didn't ask you yet, which is on. Oh, that's right.

Okay. What the fuck is going on right now? There's no fucking chaos now. I'm sorry. What the fuck was that? Chris, we got new listeners coming in. They think we're going to talk. about the news right now go watch the documentary it's called like the house under the roller

coaster or um just one thing about that the part that was rage inducing for me was like the simplicity of life then like to your point chris of like just the nostalgia for like i had a cheese sandwich like when she was just like and i knew all the concessioneers orders as soon as they walked in that guy the one is scrambled eggs with toast this is roast beef on rye and i'm like what a fucking right what a whimsical time when that was all you all you really thought about that you know you know keeping black people from owning land in the area right i mean that's the problem is it's not it was but there was a it's a big problem but uh but there was a living wage was i mean it was easier uh to buy a house and that just leads to dignity dignity privacy that's what it turns out those are things that losing your privacy means you lose your dignity. I don't know how to describe it exactly, but privacy is something we should have or should continue to guard. It's not just private. It sounds like privacy, who cares? I mean, I don't care. I'm open. You know,

that's not it. Privacy is about, privacy is about having a place of your own. And before the internet, regardless of what situation you were in, you could at least, have some dignity because you called the shots in that space. And, you know, maybe not at work. I mean, it's obviously more complicated. But these people are basically not rich people. And they were getting to, you know, raise kids in a way. No, there's never a mention in that that they were broke.

And they owned a roller coaster. I mean, you know, I mean, there's, in terms of market economy, I like that too. It's like, give a person a ride. You get a nickel or whatever. Right. Like the simplicity of that. Now it's like give someone's all your money in return for like the world's worst internet service or whatever.

You know, you give these tech billionaires everything and all you get is a is like a cardboard box with a six pack of soda as fast as you want. Right. Which is not nearly as much fun as a roller coaster. Well, the roller coaster has been bought up by private equity and they like something, you know what I mean?

Like they've like somehow ruined them. Yeah, they close them up and let Justin Bieber go on them all the time or whatever. So wild that she's a VIP roller coaster for the guts of a roller coaster are like the the two things I know them for are like being strewn with baseball hats and like wallets and shit and beheading people. The fact that she raised children in that environment is pretty wild. She said she has this crazy accent that's like some old old, you know, it's I guess a Coney Island accent. It doesn't exist anymore. Right. Yeah.

And yeah, like her and like, I don't know. Babe Ruth probably would have said, oh, you talk the same as me or something. But, oh, you own that roller coaster. You're a small business owner. Yeah. You're an entrepreneur. And it is still privacy. Even if, like, hundreds of people are passing by your windows, but they're doing it at like 60 miles per hour, they're not going to see.

They can't. Yeah. She said, I think I saw a naked old dude. I'm like, nah, you're kidding. She said, we just got used to it. The noise, we just got used to it. And the kids were like, you know, like they enjoyed growing up in that house and there's a piano in there. I don't know.

Anyway, it just looked like, I would like, let's put it this way, I would like to own a roller coaster. Zite gang. And I want to pull the handle and I want to be nice and I want to tip my hat and I want to smoke rum-soaked cigars and I want to pick up wigs and I want to do the things that America was founded on. Nowadays, you're just going to find, like, you know, vape pens, like maybe a couple iPhones and probably another Hitler youth pin or something. Totally. Anyway, I just love that this, just seeing like sort of just that, oh, I don't know. Just I love Coney Island because, okay, so then go ahead. Can you say it's time for the other one?

What's something he thinks? Overrated. Oh, yeah. My famous is time for the other one. underrated, I would say, is Coney Island, because I went there to, and I'm going to use this as another, is this the underrated or the overrated?

Do you want to do overrated? No, no, no, we'll do underrated. You do what you want to do. I thought we were already on the underrated. I'm switching it up. Hey, Chris Crofton, what's something you think's underrated? Okay, Coney Island. Okay.

What's something you think? No, you had more to get. So Coney Island, no, no. But the reason, okay, yeah. I mean, I went out to Coney Island for one day. I think it was two weeks ago. I came up to New York, flew up to New York, got there. Me and my friend Alex Johnson, Alex Johnson directed the two videos for my last record.

Hello, it's me. And I had a couple other videos already come out for this record. But then he was like, one of the directors I was supposed to work with fell through. And he said, why don't we do something? Because I wrote a poem. I mean, it's barely a poem, but I wrote, I wish. I wish I could take Coney, when I feel bad, I wish I could take Coney Island and a pill. I wish there was a pill I could take that was Coney Island.

And he said, why don't we come up for the day? Because I've been on the schedule where I work eight to five, five days a week. And there's like one day off a year or whatever. You have to keep working to get more hours accrued to take time off. Work to be free. Some shit. And he said, we'll shoot it on the Wonder Wheel. And the Wonder Wheel is a Ferris wheel up there that's been there since 1925.

Wow. In the same spot, it's kind of like an Eiffel Tower. I mean, it's like unbelievable, you know, engineering. It's got these cars that, like, it's got the external of the, um, the outside cars stay stationary. And the ones inside, they've built little ramps inside the roller, inside the Ferris wheel. So those, those cars will go, like, sliding around inside the Ferris wheel. So you can go see my video for the song I Don't Believe, which is the first song on my new record. I'm your man, which is out.

out Friday. And the response has been so wonderful. And thank you guys so much. And the psych gangs was so kind about it. And, but this video was really joyful for me. And especially because I've just been under a lot of stress. And I know everybody has. And going out there and seeing every race out there just to have fun. I mean, really, and it's going away. They're trying to put a casino out there. And that will change everything. But right now there's like three I'm sure the guys who own those amusement parks are... Fucking casino, Jesus Christ. But right now there's three independently owned amusement parks out there.

I mean, it's still... Right. I mean, they're probably owned by, you know, venture capital, but there's three operating amusement parks, not just one. There's no Disney out there yet, and it just feels good. There's also, like, you know, there's a lot of, like, lower-income housing

and fixed-income housing out there. So it's like they can't just bulldoze that stuff, not yet at least. So there's, I think, a few more years left where you, when I first went out there in the 90s there was a bar in the subway station which I thought oh I got that's why I drink is I want to go in there

but then you go in there and it's not that it's kind of sad is what happens no way you know what I mean I'm like it's gonna be so badass when I get in there you know and it's like oh man that guy has really bad cirrhosis liver you could actually see it on his

face yeah like a guy trying to trade his heart pills for like a cigarette and stuff I was uh I took my kids to the rides on the board on the boardwalk down the shore last week. And we went on the old school, like, swings that, like, swing around. And I just, I took my hands off.

Like, usually I, you're supposed to hold on. I took my hands off, and it truly felt like I was flying. It was like the funnest fucking time. Oh, is that when you said you wanted to say we? Wee. It was like, I had a we in my heart so big that I just like, yeah.

Other kids were, like, looking at my kids, Look at the fuck. Right. It's nice of you to bring your... They're like, this you? This you, bro? It brings out the best in people. And it brings out, I mean, it really did.

Everyone was smiling. I mean, not every single person. But, you know, in general, people are smiling. They're there just to relax. It doesn't cost a zillion dollars. You can take the subway there. I mean, there really is a feeling of a middle class. I mean, it's sort of an illusion, but they're, it's going away, but there's still shreds of it.

There, with people with rent control departments that, that, that mimics a middle class, just because they're, you know, some, there's like old, old Russian guys like walking back from the beach, you know, like the way they've done it since the 60s. I saw one guy, just like, you know, and he's obviously not stressed for rent, but he also doesn't look rich,

but that's all you want. It showed the bullshit of, that ICE isn't any way necessary. Like, I mean, just like everybody was, I mean, it was just so multicultural and everybody was like totally, there's no fucking emergency you know i mean everybody knows this but it's just like felt like

nice to see it in action and i i do feel like you know coney island is a place that that that never lets me down in that respect like where it's just people seeing the sort of best of people the guys at the wonder wheel were so nice one of the guys was like had a tattoo like of the tower that used to be in astroland on his arm like he had like that had obviously been there since like the 70s or whatever yeah like i mean that guy's probably a horrible person but for then At that moment, it felt nice.

And, you know, I don't want to know anything about that guy's background. If there's a hand-drawn Astro Tower on his arm. Right. But he was so nice to us. I saw another guy. He had a tattoo. It said, Coney Island's finest. And it was him kissing his girlfriend.

That's Stefan Marbury. That's for it. Is that right? Yeah, there's Marbury. I got really into Coney Island because Stefan Marbury, the basketball player, he's from Coney Island. So was Jesus Shuttle's worth. The loose basis of course, Chris Crofton has seen he got game.

Uh, but, you know, but the thing about like those ice rays, too, like you see the people who live in these areas understand that that's what makes where they live great. And that's what like gives it this sort of texture that you can't find anywhere else. It's these cities that are so like homogenous and white where people feel like that that's where they have this sort of view perspective where they're like there are people showing up in my neighborhood or there were never brown people before. You know what I mean? And that's yeah. That's where you see the people like, you just see. random people in like, you know, rural Pennsylvania, like roll up on somebody who's just like working on his car and be like, where are your papers? It's like, who the fuck are you even? They're like, I'm just a guy, but you need to get out of here. It's emboldening those kinds of fucking creep fucks. Anyway, Coney Island's finest. Stefan Marbury. Shout out of stuff Marbury. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll do an overrated and get to some news maybe. We'll be right back. Guys, it's AZ Fudd.

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and we do like to ask our guests what is something you think is overrated those any round table discussion with journalists any podcast any podcast with abundance

any any any podcast that has any of those Pod Save America people on it any of those Obama advisors posing as the as the way forward David Axelrod

I mean what the fuck is that man doing anywhere why is he I mean we are dealing with the Rolodexes of the people that we're

Rolodexas nobody's gonna know it's okay we get it's Finger speech It used to be a thing that had phone numbers in it where you spin it around

anyway The contact app I never had one because I was too hung over to construct it but I never had a Rolodex I just had a bunch of cards all of my room

Yeah A few loose receipts that had phone numbers written on them. That's phone numbers written on them without names. Onion 246, 4911. That's all I said. Onion, and they call them up. What did I want from you? Oh, cocaine.

Okay, bye. So, yeah. So, like, we are fully controlled right now. We are fully fucking controlled. And every minute that we debate anything, is wasted time, sadly, unless we're doing it for fun, and that's just to keep people saying. And I totally support that. But to hear people talk about policy under a dictator, or not in this case, dictator, like about 10 dictators, and they don't just control America,

they control the entire world. So we're not even talking about it. Dictators amiss. Dictators never had this much power. No one's ever had this much power, ever. So any journalism that is done in the fashion of there's some, like, something to be gained by debating policies when Trump and his people are making big moves to strike all the voters from the voter rolls. And, I mean, there's just no, it's like, it is an really bigger picture than that. It's like people are starting to get behind Gavin Newsom or something. Politicians will not save us.

Voting will not save us. have to save ourselves. And do I, and the problem is, what does that look like? Well, I can tell you it does not look like listening to Pod Save America guys who are up to their eyeballs in all the people that got us exactly where we are. And I'm so angry that people are still lazy enough to be like, well, you know what? I think we can stay home. Gavin Newsom wrote some all caps tweets. So I think he's got this. Now let's go to the park. Yeah, let's go to fucking the park and, you know, I don't know what they do with the park. Let's fuck in the park.

Yeah, let's go fuck in the park like the old days. Let's go play jacks. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know the hipsters are into that now playing jacks. People love sort of regressing or just sort of being nostalgic for the Obama era sort of liberals because it allows them to not have to confront the absolute like danger we're in right now. Because if you can if you can rely on these tropes of like, well, you know, we just got to run some good candidates. and if we get together and vote right,

we're going to get out of this. No, like we're so far past that. Yes. Like those solutions where truly there has to be more of a collective action happening with the people, whether that's through the withholding of our labor or other organized actions that are actually going to sort of induce some kind of seismic change. Because, yeah, I think the people that I see that are really like into that shit,

they are insulated enough through their privilege or wealth. or race, that they don't have to look at all of these things that are happening as existential issues that have to be fucking addressed with the quickness. So for them, it's easy to just be like, yeah, well, let's think about like, who's going to run in 2028 and just figure out what we're going to do, then you're like, are you, this motherfucker is talking about rigging the elections in fucking next fall. Yeah. What are we talking about right now?

It's not about, the elections won't fucking matter if they're rigged in the midterms. Anyway. So we have to get a little, we have to sort of get in our revolutionary bag here a little bit and think about some bigger picture solutions to this rather than being like, hello, neoliberal think tank guy. What should we be doing now? Even though you've had all the wrong answers for the last three decades at minimum. Yeah, they just can't break the idea that it's like unrealistic or it's like childish to think anything other than neoliberalism. Because you can see, like, to your point, David Axelrod, there was a piece in the New York Times where they were talking about David Axelrod going to, like, Obama congratulate, congratulating Zoran Mamdani. And there's this, when, so Axelrod visited the Mamdani headquarters in June. He said, quote, what I found when I went over to that office was a familiar spirit that I hadn't seen in a while of just determined upbeat idealism. You may not agree with every answer he's giving or every idea he has, but he's certainly asking the right questions, which is how do we make the country work for working people? And you can already tell they're trying to figure out how to fucking get their claws into this and just reorient this Democratic socialist fucking candidate into being like, and then can you now say all the things that won't scare our backers, our real backers on Wall Street and the other super moneyed wealthy elite that basically are the ones that set all

of our wages, the ones that determine all of our life outcomes, can we reorient that to be a little more friendly because if we play this out the way you wanted to, we're talking about the end of the status quo as we, the elites, know it. And that's, come on. And we don't want to do the ugly thing and start smearing you in public because that's not a good look for us either because we know you are very popular right now. We're in a tough position here. On the one hand, everybody that we know and work for would rather die than let you get elected. On the other hand, admitting that would really make us look bad. So

we're kind of, what you have to understand is this is really hard on us, okay? This is really hard for us. It's stressful, man. Well, I was about to say that because I just read that. I didn't know, I guess I read the same New York Times thing about, that was

supposed to be like, oh yeah, the one that said like Obama, lots of people are ignoring Mamdani, but Obama called him. You know, and I was like, oh, no. I mean, my response to that was, oh, no. I mean, immediately. All right. And I was like, my God, those motherfuckers are trying to.

And then it made me suspect Monda, mom, don't know, because he shouldn't be taking that call. Yeah. I mean, sure, in the larger context. That's what I'm, in terms of, I, then that's like the, that's the fucking hard part about even running as anything other than a Democrat or to the left of the Democrats is you have to be so careful to not scare off the people who just immediately like, they, they're so mercurial that suddenly they can be like, oh, actually, no, I'm actually cool.

on Zoran Mamdani because some of the people that I really think are above criticism like Barack Obama aren't embracing him. It's like this fucking delicate balancing act you can do. Part of me is like yeah, bro, embrace him and then fucking let all those people down while you go fucking

full pedal to the medal with your policies that you want. Right. Let those people be like, but you said, but Obama said you wouldn't, fuck you. I'm trying to fucking have real outcomes for working people. I just want someone to say like when fucking, David Axelrod shows up somewhere, just say

like, or Larry Summers, just say, yeah, you're not allowed in, buddy. They're like, what do you want, bro? You want a pin? You know, you are a fucking criminal. I mean, you're not, you're not just some fucking, I know you get invited to society parties, but everybody there is a murderer.

So get the hell out of here. I mean, get the fuck out of here, man. You know, but it's not that. It's like David Axelrod, well, I mean, he must have something to offer, but he's just a fame horn. I mean, that's the guy, Have you ever met a consultant?

I mean, does anyone give a fuck about a consultant? Political consultants somehow have reinvented themselves. Consultants are the most annoying people on the planet. And they're some of the least skilled. And they mostly are just like narcissists who wedge themselves around people who are actually talented. And somehow they've become celebrities because of CNN. I just makes me so mad.

Anyway, yeah, I mean, that's a thing is. But also, good luck to consultants. Yeah, I think that's the fine line with Mom Donnie is, is he really fully ready to take on this fucked up form of capitalism that's poisoning specific like right in this context our country but broadly the earth but is he willing to really go there because again when you have the constant gardeners of capitalism in david oxalrod and barraq obama being like hey fella coming through it is a little bit like they're only there to make sure you are keeping capitalism safe that's the only reason they're there

because they know they have such a brand issue with a part with the party that they're like, okay, we need to appeal to people who want some kind of substantive change, but it can't be, it can't go too far afield from what we are supposed to do as, you know, big, but they're having active meetings around the clock. Like a bunch of Ivy League graduates are having active meetings around the clock about like, how do we get in there? How do we get in with this guy? How do we capture a little bit of that energy? That's what I think is like, can't David Axelrod stay home once in a while. Can't like, can't James, James Carville sleep in? No, no. You know, like, these people are, he doesn't sleep. Well, you got to stop allowing these people. Huge amounts of energy also, like, if someone has a huge amount of energy, you should also tell them to get out of here, too, because they'll end up.

That is, that is the one thing that, like, successful people all have in common. It's not how smart they are. It's, they're just like, I barely sleep, man. I'm so fucking. in sight to be meeting you right now, friend. This is like, geez. Hey, how you doing?

James Carlin again? I just called you. You called here at midnight last night. It's my day. I just calling him back in to check you know and say how you've been the thing you needed there. I'll come on right now. Oh, shit.

That's right. That's right. If I wasn't depressive, I could be James Carville. But much better looking. I kind of look about the same. No, no, no. He looks like a fucking. I'm going to put a notch on my lipstick case.

Oh, wow. With my button knife. That's a Pat Benettar reference. For the kids. For the kids. That's another Benatar reference for the kids. Hashtag Benatar. Skibbittie to whatever it is.

Skibbitty. Skibetan. Spat Benatar. Pat Benatar, low-key riszed up. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hey guys, it's AZ Fudd. You may know me as a gold medalist.

You may know me as an NCAA national champion and recent most outstanding player. You may even know me as the people's princess. But now, you're also going to know me as your favorite host. Every week on my new podcast, Fud around and find out, I'll give you an inside look at everything happening in my crazy light as I try to balance it all. From my travels across the globe to preparing for another run at the Nadi with my Yukon Huskies to just try to make it to my midterms on time. You'll get the inside scoop on everything. I'll be talking to some special guests about pop culture, basketball, and what it's

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So sick. By 2007, you mean lately, yeah. Yeah. I was there 20, I was there right after that shooting to go see the JZ 4. 44 tour. I think that was the last time I was in Vegas. Wait, no. Last time I was there was for NBA.

For NBA. Yeah, what am I? I was there for a week in 2016 hosting at the improv in Hara's Casino at Christmas time. And it was one of the worst experiences of my life. Oh. What's Vegas like at Christmas time? I mean, it was fun, weird. I love it.

It's like everybody's, I don't know, like everybody's crazy and lots and lots of Asians come there, I guess, just because they just fun. for them. Oh, we love gambling. That's kind of a normal part of the crowd, but, but then there's like, it's just like whoever, I don't know, like crazy, you know, like Duck Dynasty people. Yeah, yeah. Looking people. And I just stand up. I was the host, you know, and my friends got me the gig and they, oh, anyway, they were just like, got me in there. And so I was there for a week at Christmas time and I just bombed my fucking head off because everybody there hated me because I could tell I was like a liberal. I mean, I just look, I have like the wrong energy for a host. You know, I come out and I look right away, like, you know, they're like, this guy, he's not going to make us in a good mood.

And then, and then I just, well, you're all happy, I guess. Here's the jokes. I did two things. I first of all, I said, hey, you guys in here? I said, like, you guys all in here because you're winning? Like, what you're not? I thought, why did I thought? And then I'm like, they don't like me.

I don't know why they don't like me. Like, I'm like always doing that, like saying something. You're making fun of them for sucking at gambling. And the guy who ran the room, my people got me in. there, like his boss kind of. So he was, so they were just doing me a favor. You know, they're like, well, you've done a stand up quite a bit here in Los Angeles and you're

not really ready to host in Vegas, but we're going to give it to you anyway. Good luck. And every time I came offstage, the guy who ran the room, just would go, where are you from again? New York City. That's right. Here's one of the jokes I did. Case Picante vibes. I said, listen, you

guys, I said I was poking around the casino last night. I already lost him. Just even saying that. I was poking around the casino the other night. And I found a older slot machine called Dog Pound. And I got six great Danes up in my room if anybody wants to adopt one. You know, there's like, I mean, even, you know, not the best. But I didn't know what to do. And then I said, because I looked at them and I was like, they're not going to want to hear like about how Hillary Clinton should, you know, stop composting or whatever I normally was saying. Right. And then I said, there was another slot machine I found called Soup King.

And they didn't tell you, they didn't tell you you need a bucket for when you win and it burnt my legs. Absolute disaster. But I met Marshall Warfield. Oh. And she was super nice. And she said my set was pretty good. Hey. That's not nothing coming from Marshall Warfield.

No. Anyway, sorry. That's my Vegas. That's my Vegas. We love a night court reference around here. Sure, super nice for real. What's happening in Vegas and staying in Vegas right now are mosquitoes. Oh, no.

The mosquito population has exploded in Las Vegas in recent years. Thanks to, I have to assume this is a misper. The liberals, the lips. Climate change? How are we going to turn this on the lips? But yeah, as temperatures warm, apparently, the air can contain more moisture. and thus the range of geographies for mosquitoes expands. That was the one good thing about being in a desert like that,

is you didn't have to worry about them fucking skeeters. So, well, now everyone will know the pestilence. L.A. used to have far fewer mosquitoes than it does now, too. Until the 80s Egypti species came over on a shipping container from, I believe, Southeast Asia. But Vegas mosquitoes have shown signs of pesticide, resistance, which, given the number of tourists that Vegas gets, the fact that mosquitoes carry diseases like dengue fever and West Nile virus, people are calling this a ticking time bomb. Well, I mean, Vegas is already so strapped just from just since Trump came into office. Like, he's trying, he does, he's such a union buster and all those casinos are unionized on the strip, or at least all the

major ones are unionized. The fucking ice raids are preventing more people from being like, I'm not going to fucking go there to gamble if there's like mass goons, like asking for papers and I'm just trying to give away my money. And then there was that whole thing about taxes on your gambling losses. Like, you used to be able to deduct all your gambling losses. So that would like help people be degenerate professional gamblers. And-

Pull for degenerate gamblers. Yeah, like next year, I think there's going to be this change that will basically make it that you can't you can't deduct those losses a lot of people like what the like what's the fucking point of anything like where what am I supposed to do here now and you just see like all the time constant reports about how less and less people are going to Vegas over the last year not just because of that but also because internally our economy is fucked so not everyone has let me piss money away at the fucking Caesar's palace pool cabana like they used to in a good yeah everybody I know has been

laid off yeah everybody not everybody but a lot And a lot of the people I know who like work in, you know, live comedy and stuff are saying just like nobody goes to comedy shows right now. Like nobody is spending any money anywhere. There's a big like consumer spending report coming up that people are like, I will see, you know. Maybe it'll show that these tariffs aren't being passed down to people. But I feel like that, I don't know.

No. Maybe the message will read actually very bad. That's so annoying about like. Brown tables. So, like, do you think it's possible the tariffs will have no effect at all? Right. I'm like, why are you talking right now?

You think that's a thing to say. Yeah, I mean, get the fuck out of here. I doubt it. It's funny, on the one hand, you would expect him to be, Trump to be kinder to gambler since he built his fortune

partially on casinos that, slash, like, pissed away a lot of money in casinos, like the one business that should be impossible to fuck up, as badly as he did. But he is, if nothing else, like a complete predator. And he knows that that's like having a tougher tax law around casino losses is not going to change whether people gamble or not, you know, or at least like the problem gamblers gamble or not. Like he knows that that is an inelastic supply of gamblers that are just going to keep going there. Yeah. So I don't know. Or maybe

Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to, mosquitoes like, like I'm one of those people they like, you know. Oh, you got that blood? Some people say, yeah, whatever it is, I don't know what it is because I'm too good looking or whatever it is, but they love to sting me. And I can't go to, so I'm out. Vegas is out for me. Also, I have no money.

But I'm going to use the mosquitoes or the money, but either way. It's going to become a big thing. Listen, man, I can't go gambling with you this weekend because I'm not. not getting dengue fever. Aren't you also broke? Well, well, look, before that, though. Too broke to get dengue fever, I'll tell you that. Exactly. You're going to pay my bill when I get dengue? That's what I thought. No way. I'm going to watch television. Yeah. Oh, my God. Everything, there's, you know, especially with all the Bureau of Labor

Statistics shit going on and like the numbers getting cooked, I'm constantly now reading other articles or people like, well, you know, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics data is being suppressed. Here's some other indicators that you can look from other places. And the signs are also bad there. Right. So regardless of how you cut it. And I think that's the other thing, too. It just like, this is the plan. Yeah, no, but this is like the thing too where people, despite the data being suppressed, it's not effect. People ambiently know that the economy is depressed right now. That's just like, that's just, that's just felt. People still know that. There's not a single, I mean, there are some Republicans who are like, I think Trump's been

great for the economy, but overall, most people are like, dude, I'm doing fucking way worse even now. And now with the costs going up because of the stupid-ass tariffs, like, it's, it's even harder to fucking exist. We're being depressed on purpose. I mean, right. Peter Thiel has publicly said a zillion times, all these guys have publicly said a zillion times that they think everybody should die except them. Right. I mean, it's, that's what's, that's, I mean, really, they're just like, listen, people who are in any way affected by any policy, that's their own fault. Any policy that affects anybody, that we can say, if we cut every job in the whole world and you don't have money saved, that's your fault. Like, we will, they've made it so there's like, it's not even, it's just simply like, we're going to do whatever we want.

And if you are affected by it in any way at all, you can, that is, you, we will characterize you as dead weight. Yeah, you are dead weight. You are fat that we are cutting. And we, and also, we are cutting fat and we want to cut fat. And we are going to take that fat that we're getting from you and we're going to use it to spend, to make our lives last forever. I mean, they've said it explicitly and they actually are running things. It's not Donald Trump. It's not Putin.

It's not. They're all, all, they have money. invested in all those countries. It is. Putin's actually the richest as rich as them. Whoever, these like 20 guys or these 50 guys, these 50 white men, these 100 white men are deciding that

we're going to do whatever we want. And that includes destroy Gaza. That includes destroy Ukraine. You think fucking Peter Thiel gives a shit about any of those people? He sees that all as their own fault. He's like and I've heard it directly from these Republicans saying like when they talk about Medicaid being

cut. They say, well, if that affects you or if ice affects you, like, oh, ice is maybe going to affect you, then you're in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you're anywhere near an ice raid and you get caught up in that, that's your own fault for being in that part of town. I mean, that's how dark this shit is. This shit is dark. Darker than, that's what I mean, darker than these roundtables. Darker than an abandoned mine. Now we're talking back to overrated. Overrated. I want to do overrated. again. Well, hopefully we can just, hopefully we can just, like, we'll send, we'll send the Republicans a message in 2026, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Gavin Newsom, who used to be married to Don Jr.'s girlfriend, who's now the ambassador to Taiwan or something, Kimberly Gilfoyle, that guy will save us. The guy who used to be married and pose on a bare rug with Kimberly Gilfoyle. That's the guy. Is he, like, getting momentum anywhere except in the mainstream media? I feel like a lot of these things are just like people being like that the Trump economy is doing great and it's important for Mamdani to get Obama's sign off and people being like Gavin Newsom is like the it reminds me

of like the stories where people are like Mike Pence is going to run for president and he's forced to be reckoned with. It's like no he's not. He's just getting Gavin Newsom is just getting buzz right now because he's just being spicy about everything. Yeah. And people are like actually, I mean, I think most people in California are so like, bro, fuck Gavin Newsom, bro. These guy's a fucking loser. His policies are fucking suck. He's not going to do anything to advance anything. I mean, what policies are fucking

suck? He looks like a cruder. These policies friggin suck, man. Any guy wears his hair like that, you can't trust. Yeah, but now he's just doing, basically he's getting a ton of like likes on social media just because he's tweeting like Donald Trump now in all caps and being like, I, the most

handsome governor. Thank you for your attention he's just doing that whole stylistic sort of version of tweeting and people are like oh bro he's fucking showing him and it's like guys they are they are snatching children off the street with cancer who are u.s citizens right okay i'm not i'm not here to be like yeah dude fucking upload your photo of you when you were playing baseball in high school and compare that to jd vansen high school that's such a fucking own no that's a fucking joke on everybody who is living in that having any kind of existential threat that's being presented by this government right now to just be caught up in the fucking, like, dude, fucking tweet like Trump, man, show something.

And we have to believe ourselves this time because the media is not, the media is owned by these people. So the media is never going to tell us how many people are without jobs. They're never going to tell us what is happening to my father right now since he fell and hit his head and is now in a care facility that's staffed by about three people. is it's owned by a venture, private equity firm, you know, and that they have no one working there and they keep fucking up over and over again, over and over and if you talk to anybody, that's all they've ever experienced in health care is fuckups over and over and over

because there's no employees in the building because these buildings have 10 people in them, these big, shiny buildings, because these motherfuckers are stealing all the wages. We're going to be the, we are right. We're the ones have to communicate this. I realize we're not set up for that. We don't have a, we're set up to watch television. I mean, I understand it.

I don't know how to quit it entirely myself, but I will say every minute you watch television is more wasted time. Every bit of it, I don't care if it's CNN, MSNBC, any of it, you know. I like Emma Vigland. I like the majority report. I've talked about them many times on the show. I love the majority report.

I really like them. I think they're passionate and I appreciate that they're informed and they usually have opinions that I agree with. And I really liked that Emma Vigland went on that roundtable, that plexiglass roundtable on MSNBC, the nighttime, whatever, or ho-down, or whatever they call it. And, you know, with all those... We've got that guy, Scott Jennings being like, I don't see what's wrong with ice. They haven't done anything wrong, really. I mean, that does sound maybe concerning, but it hasn't even started happening yet.

That's all he ever says about everything. He's like, well, it's just a proposal. Yeah, right. Emma Viglin did a great job talking about Mum Doni and about, about, like, really real shit. But I still question, like, who that's getting. to you know who is that who are you talking to you're talking to some somebody who's crazy enough to be watching CNN and I am yeah but I think I'm at my mom's house I mean I think just like with the way with a lot of conservatives trust eroded because like they didn't like that they were you know

hearing that like they were racist or whatever and then they flocked to like their own version of the media I think there are plenty of people who are increasingly disillusioned with like the MSNBC CNN version of reporting the quote unquote news to being like this is is this is like this sanitized version of my reality that really doesn't connect to like the desperation I'm seeing and experiencing as a human being. And I think that's why a lot of people point out that like most of like the good journalists now, unfortunately, are just like on substack or have podcasts now because they've been fully banished from traditional media. Because again, what they're saying just poses a direct threat to the sort of capitalist status

quo that we have of just like burying our head in the sands or burying people's heads in the sand to kind of just like continue toiling, ignore the rot, and we will continue to collect your the wealth from your wages, from your labor. Thank you. Thank you. No other questions. Thank you. No further answers, Your Honor. Chris Crofton, such a pleasure having you, as always, where can people find you, follow you, hear you, see you, maybe? You can see me for real, Angeles. That's right. For the first time in a while, Los Angeles can be able to sink their teeth into my ass. Wow. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Literally. For a nickel. Kind of mood I get when I get talk about MSNBC. I get fucking fierce. Hashtag skibbitty. I want people to bite my ass. Fucking skivety maddow. So I, so I, so listen, I'm going to be in Los Angeles. That talks directly to the kids. Oh, my God. He's cutting through all the red tape.

So, you know, in response, me, the activist that I am, I'm coming to Los Angeles to play an indie rock show. Hell yeah. But I'm coming. But first, I'm showing the movie. So please come. It's kind of important because we haven't sold very many tickets. So everybody's got to come. And if they can't, if they can't, I already did this. Just get in touch with me. We need asses in the seats. I'll give you, you know, I'll pay for your ticket. But no, I don't know why I'm saying that. Why am I sounding desperate? This is my mother speaking.

I am kicking ass. You don't need to come. You don't need to come. But anyway, Thursday, August 28th. That's next Thursday. Like, or not, you know, not two days for now, but the next one. Nine days. Yeah, nine days.

That's it. Thanks, Jack. A nine days. So, yeah. And it's at 9.30 p.m. 9.30 p.m. at, oh, it's seven days, eight days. eight days. It's an Elysian Theater.

I got to say where it is. Elysian Theater, 9.30. Greg Turkington's doing the Q&A. Get there. And it's going to be so fun and it's a great movie and I'm going to be there and I can't wait. And then the next night I'm doing a show at the Healing Force of the Records, Healing Force of the Universe Records in Pasadena. And those are the two places you can see me. And then in Nashville, you can see me the 22nd this Friday playing my release show in Nashville.

And then I'm on the 23rd to Five Film Festival is featuring. the documentary as their main movie here in Nashville. Chris Croft and Nashville famous. That's so cool. And yeah, thanks. I mean, and I'm excited to see you guys in L.A. So the 28th, yeah, please come. I mean, I think it's like, I don't know how much it is,

but it's like, it's like, it's going to be worth it. Where they, we'll link off to where they can buy tickets at the Elysian. The Elysian theater. Yeah. Elysian. I can't say it right. Elysian, Elysian. Yeah, yeah. You know what it is, right?

You guys know. Yeah. L.A. people are familiar with this place. Yeah. And I know the people who run it and they're nice people and it's going to be fun no matter what, but we would like to make it crowded. So just for fun, you know?

Yeah. Yeah, so Zite Gang, pull up to the Elysian, August 28th, okay, when Chris's show is there. Go to the box office and tell them your Zite gang looking for the free free and there'll be some tickets. I think the first 15 people, there will be tickets there. Make sure you get them and pay homage to the God Chris Croft in, all right?

Hell yeah. I mean. Get there, Zite, gang. Please come. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Besides that documentary about Coney Island?

Let me get back to me real quick. You give us a good one. Get me back to me real quick. All right. Miles Gray. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying and where can people find you and follow you?

Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. Also catch me out 420-day fiancé, a work of media that I've been enjoying. Yeah, this one. is from mark mark sharp 82 at mark sharp 82.byskaid social posted I'm not saying the new war the world's movie is bad but they were showing it on a flight I was on and I walked out so that's a good joke yeah it's real tough guy I'm not I might have to find this too well you think so you can just walk out of the world so you think you tough okay okay wow wait was you talking about your

movie or something no no no I was just part of the Lord when anybody walks out of a movie oh interesting Well established. He choked a guy out for saying that he walked out of anger management. Interesting. Kind of ironic, to be honest. Well, that's the kind of energy we need. Thank you, Chris. I like to tweet by April Clark, just a picture of her holding a hammer, and she said,

fuck, everything looks like a nail. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on blue sky at Jack O'Bee, number one. Chris, any, anything? I don't, I'm just going to say, like, you know, if you want to feel sane, listen to a majority report with Sam Cedar, you know, I just, I just, it makes me feel seen in the sense that they're not, they are acting like it's an emergency, and that makes me feel better. I guess I'll just say that. They always, I turn it on and, uh, yeah, it makes me happy. I don't agree. I don't know what people think of that show. I think it's, do you guys like it, I forget. Do you guys like that show?

Have you been on it? Or do you know anybody who goes on it? I've been on a panel with Emma before. And yeah, she's great. Was it okay? Okay, good. I hope they're good people. They seem like good people to me. I'm hoping. Actually, I was shocked how young Emma is. She's so mature and intelligent.

And I'm like, oh, wow. Okay, you are wise beyond your years. When she spoke really well on MSNBC. And, you know, I know Sam, like, Sam tries to be fun. I don't necessarily think he's that funny, but I mean, I'm not trying to be mean, but it's like I listen because I think they're smart, you know, and I don't mind. Sometimes they're kind of funny. Yeah, fuck. Anyway, put them down. I have to put them down. No, you don't know. But yeah, I love them.

And I think I'm just wondering, because you guys know better. You guys know the media better. So if it gets quiet after I say something, then I figure they're all bunch of things. No, I just like, I can't believe. Yeah, I mean, I definitely see clips of them. But, I mean, I know I've more, definitely more familiar with Emma. than I am with Sam, but I'm, but I'm well aware of majority. Well, we're just on the same page.

You know, we're on the same page. We're all on the same. I mean, it's like, they get it. This is, this is a very bad situation and it is not, you know, it's definitely not time to just like, you know, fucking trade memes off or whatever. Yeah. But in that, you know, in that, but anyway,

thank you all for having me on a show. I'm like a wreck. Doing these shows inside where I'm in. Right. And this will be the last one. this will be out of here I don't know where the fuck I'm going the next one I'm doing is from who fucking knows

but I'll be so happy because I'm so absurdly upset when I'm in this building and it's a major corporation toward the beginning of the alphabet that's involved in packages God, who could that be? It's not who you think

and it's not Amazon and it's not who you think it's not fucking Amazon You can find us on Twitter Amazon It's called Big Boy You can find us on Twitter On Blue Sky Daily Zykeyes for the Daily Zytegeist

On Instagram You can go to the description of this episode Wherever you're listening to it And underneath the show description You will find the footnotes Which is where we link off to the information That we talked about in today's episode We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy

Hey Miles Is there a song that you think that people might enjoy? I look Chris was just talking about Coney Island and it's splendor. And I think Zyke gang, if you haven't seen the I don't believe video yet, I think you should navigate to YouTube to check it out. Or

stream it anywhere. So Chris Crofton, I don't believe. Check it out. Or be a fucking loser and be banished from Zite Gang. Thank you guys. And please come through to the show. Please come through to Chris's show at the Elysian or at Healing Force of the universe. L.A. Zite gang, I know you're

out there. It'll mean a lot. I'm going to be out of town, but I'm going to buy some tickets at the Elysian so if you don't have a ticket there'll be some free ones there oh that's so nice see if yeah and then you can't wait to see you jack will be there jack i'm so excited i'm so excited i it's it's i'm i'm thrilled i'm thrilled with the zeit gang always um just being so kind and i mean that they're always they're always supportive and it means so much yep so yeah if you need a ticket uh you know maybe hit them up but all but there'll be there'll be some free ones there that we'll be putting down for people

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