The Daily Zeitgeist - Potent Paris Protest, Barron Trump = NBA Rookie Of The Year 03.27.23

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

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What? It doesn't make sense. If, as a couple, you start an argument in the middle of a group of friends, that group of friends may start looking a lot like potential allies. Resist that urge. Do not attempt to shore up support. Do not ask if you are clearly in the right. Continue debating with your significant other if you must, but leave the others out of it.

Your addiction to argument isn't everyone else's kink. So it's just an interpretation of people having arguments around their friends as like some horny like group sex invitation. No, no. That person has not been to therapy. I know. That is a total breakdown in communication skills in which the other people are trying to find outside like third party opinions to whether or not they're right. Guys, they're not horny. They just don't know how to talk.

They're trying to get everyone horned up. Get everyone involved in their weird kink fetish. Dude, the way that he's like, apparently he forgot to pay the electric bill two months in a row. I was like, my dick was about to blow off. I was so horny when I heard how fucking irresponsible he is i love that shit when they do that ah well i'm thrilled to be joined once again by my co-host mr miles gray blow out blow out blow out I'm not again shorty When pops flat Me and my dukes we

Gotta mop that When wipes plenty We done copped that So much dukey You can't stop Now where'd you get them dirty drawers With the doo-doo in it With the smell that's so offence

Like the devil done shit it Okay shout out to Christy Yamaguchi mainMain for that ludicrous rollout, blowout inspired AKA. Oh, man. And who them girls? Blowout. Anyway, blowout. Anyway, talking about those diapers and true to form, the Geist Child.

Woo! Yeah. Booker was like, he's like, hey, man, I want you to have to talk about something. I want to give you, hey, hey, Dad, here's something for you to talk about. Not a full blow up, but the kind where you knew the vibrations were so intense that you're like, this is ruined. This diaper has been ruined. We have to rush to a dark room right now. Shout out.

I also heard Waffle House, that account got got. So now you got your new burner, your other account. One of the best followers on Twitter. I already have like 100,000 followers. I'm like, bro, I leave for two seconds and he already out here, you know, doing the Lord's work with all these followers. One of the best followers on Twitter, though. So if you're following the Waffle House, go find him. Well, now it's Osh. I think it was Oshitted.

With a DT, right? I think that's what it is. That's right. SHIDT. We'll have it at the end. It'll be my media that I'm enjoying. Yeah, it's O-S-H-I-D-T. Okay? There it is. Just a bit of community service announcement. We'll have it at the end. It'll be my media that I'm enjoying. Yeah, it's O-S-H-I-D-T, okay?

There it is. Community service announcement. Well, speaking of, oh, shit. You guys, it's a banger. Just Miles' second episode back, but we thought he was ready. We had to do it to him. We had to do it to them. We're thrilled to be joined by the cold brew Kraken as producer Justin. Yeah.

You know, as we were letting him into the chat, he was like, unleash, unleash the Kraken, unleash the cold brew Kraken. Mr. Cold brew got me like the advice king. The poetry window was open because it's Chris motherfucking Crofton. Hey, what's up? What's up? Thank you so much, Jack. Thank you for that.

It's like when you see a stand-up and they play Enter Sandman or something. They're coming on stage and then it goes away and everybody's like, oh, yeah, it's a comedy show. It is that. There is that moment. I know exactly what you're talking about where the song comes on. You feel like you're at a baseball game because you're like, oh, here comes the band.

Oh, yeah. And then you got the music music fades down you're like all right y'all how you guys doing tonight how you guys doing tonight all right you guys on some dates tonight and you're like fuck just like what do you do sir yeah fuck god whoa what do you do sir hey what about you long hair what's up with the grateful dead in town come on come on hey am i right come on like he was going hard with that acdc that's how it felt that's how it felt that was such a good reduction well that was an incredible fucking rap by uh by miles there yeah that was i felt like i was in a show yeah all i can all i can talk about now is feces and breast milk. So I wanted that show to go on

I wonder the rest of that song. Yeah, man. That was I was actually opening for another comedian Chris Croft to go to the stage Yeah, hey guys You sick of Republicans or what? You're dancing to Ludacris' Roll Out. Roll Out. Republicans. I feel like they don't got a brain in their head.

You guys heard about Mitch McConnell? Yeah. God damn it. That song was better. Put back on there. That one's like a lizard. He gets the thing wrong instead of turtle. He doesn't even have the.

He's like an iguana, huh? Oh, man. I wish we were listening to Informer still. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Croft at Informer. Oh, man. This is gonna rule. So I grew up in Connecticut.

You guys ever been to Connecticut? Nobody. You heard of the Vander been to Connecticut? Nobody. Nobody. You heard of the Vanderbilt Press? Okay. First of all, you can get my book at a website. Hold on. I have it written down.

No, plug the book after the set. Plug it after the set. W-W-W. Hold on a second. Open up with some plugs. I'm going to open with some plugs real quick.

What else do I have? What else do I have? What else? That's a good opener. What else? Let me find my phone here. First word.

Yeah, first words. Or what else? First word, what else? Yeah, that's a strong. He went with a first word, what else? He went a what else

opener. In flashbacks to 2014 los angeles me showing up age 40 fucking god damn and uh age 40 fucking god damn and uh you know just entering you know nashville legend showing up to yeah start all over at open mics in Los Angeles at age 45. And I'm like, what is everybody treating me like such a weirdo for? Why are these 22-year-olds fucking being such dicks? That's LA. God, I can't believe they're not being such dicks. LA, why are these 22-year-olds being such dicks?

Imagine how old I must have looked to them. You know how old a 45-year-old is when you're 22? Oh, yeah. It's like being dead or 100 although i remember when i was 22 everyone over the age of 30 seemed like the same amount of old oh yeah like it was like 30 to 60 was just old and i remember like i remember doing drugs with someone that was in their 40s and i couldn't believe that they did like i was like yo you you party yeah i'm like you're 40

though they're like yeah dude i'm my life's been fucked up for longer than you've been alive and i was like oh okay cool cool no real dark on it yeah real grizzled i was like all right you're still doing drugs with 20 year olds in your in your 40s it's it's coming from a dark place presumably yeah yeah my life's been fucked up since before you were shitting in diapers, kid. Yeah, I was doing that in 2011. There you go. Then I got my shit together and went straight to open mics. There it is.

Back. All right, Chris, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we probably won't end up talking about today but we could if we wanted to france is on fire because they have a uh protest culture and they have a fucked up president who did some fucked up shit and they can do shit about that so they burn it down they burn it down. They burn it down. So we'll talk about that. Why we're jealous. We'll talk about Melania, which she's been up to. Yeah. You know, Baron, he's, Miles is going to keep with his push to get Baron to start hooping.

He, I think something might, he's growing so big. I'm freaked out. Like every photo, it's like, oh, he's his mom's height. Oh, he's Donald Trump's height. Oh, he's Donald Trump's height. Oh, he's taller than Donald Trump. Oh, he's seeing eye to eye with John Sally. Oh, he's taller than the White House Christmas tree. He's going to end up being too big for basketball.

I know, right? He's like a Roald Dahl character about the little boy who grew too big. He's at least half Slovenian, Luka Doncic. Yeah. I mean, look, it's there. So, look, if we got to see him in the league, let's see. He doesn't look agile. To me, he does not look agile.

Yeah. Look, I know. Whenever you're dressed, though, like Donald Trump, you will not, there's no way to look at. Like, even if you were fucking Usain Bolt in, like, that pink tie and, like, black suit, you'd be like, I think that guy has mobility issues. He looks like a serial traveler to me.

Yeah. You have to dribble. Oh, it's a traveler in them. He's like, that Eurostep is kind of flagrant, man. Hello! Don't call this anymore, but you just traveled. Threw like a bullhorn up to a building.

Baron! You have to dribble. No, you cannot sue me. Twitter blue checkmark bullshit. The regular blue checkmarks are going to be canceled on April 1st. What'd they do? What'd they say? Oh, man.

You don't even know. The regular blue check marks spicy problematic as far yeah i got it but before we get to any of that chris they're taken away great what's something from your search history well i first of all i think the blue oh god i want those are all good topics and i have like i'm gonna you know because i'm a new kind of person you know since i've been a co-host, you know, I'm much calmer now and everything. 25% more professional. My topic.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Way less funny. Yeah. Because, well, you sent me that document that said what the hosts are supposed to be. And you said it's a lot less funny. Yeah. A lot of people don't know that any time the co-host is speaking, I'm making the wrap it up gesture in my Zoom window to them. I might as well tell the audience what happened.

What happened was i was a co-host on the show last time yeah a couple weeks back yeah not long ago with with uh blair sake was the guest so go check it out amazing it's really fun a client triumvirate absolutely great and and um i just said by mistake before we started i was saying oh i've been worried about this i've been worried about being a host because i gotta change my the way i am i have to be like what i meant to say was i need to be 75 more professional but instead i said i meant like calm down and i said i have to be 75 less funny yeah what i meant was just calmer but you know it came out wrong and then jack like his zoom window went off and like crashing and stuff. Anyway,

he was yelling at you with a hot mic. Yeah. Yeah. And the I heart radio stock went way down and everything. And, um, like crap alarm bells going off. Yeah. And I was like,

I just meant 25% more professional. Oh man. I made so much money though. A couple of weeks ago. And that the stock price did. Oh, you shorted it. Oh fuck. Yeah. I knew you were on. I, a couple weeks ago, and the stock price did. Oh, you shorted it? Oh, fuck, yeah.

I knew you were on. I was like, watch this. Watch this, Geist Child. You're paying for your college right here off this Chris Coffin. You're betting against your own company when I'm on the show. I like that. Hey, you got any good American, you got to bet against your own company. We got to short the Crofton episodes.

Yeah, got to short. He texted me, is it Super Bowl Sunday? And I was like, what is Miles talking about? He was like, because I just bought the dip. So I bought it. And I was like, what is Miles talking about? He was like, because I just bought the dip. So I bought it. And I was like, oh, okay. I didn't even know what he was talking about. But now he has three Lambos.

Oh, shit. So here's what I've got for you today. This is a thing that I just found out about yesterday. And I put it up on my Instagram. It was a cold brew. Got me like, someone sent it to me. And it's some guy named I think his name is. Yes.

Cedric Lorenzen. Are you familiar with this guy? No. He like has sex. He doesn't actually have sex with food, but he's like he's like a porno chef. Like on Instagram. He has 1.9 million followers okay whoa he he he like he makes like 1980s desserts right that look like they would have served it like spago you know to like jack

nicholson and rebecca broussard in like 1986 right and he's like he basically like you And he's like, he basically like, you know, he's always sucking on his fingers and he has no shirt on, or he's wearing like a really crisp white Oxford. And he's like squeezing, uh, you know, tomatoes over his chest and stuff.

Like creme fresh. He's like straight up fingering like, yeah. Handle hopes and stuff. Yeah. He has 1.9 million followers he was like salt bay but i can i can do that better he saw what salt bay was doing and was like i'll i'll make it goes like this with the salt thing and he has like a slick back ponytail i don't know about that

he's he's the most infuriating person in hell man we gotta bring back regular jobs dude this one video of him we gotta get manufacturing back in this country this is ridiculous this man is dipping his ponytail in creme fraiche this guy's licking the beer foam in such a grotesque way i'm like it reminds me of like ought to be funny like when i was a kid i remember seeing beer foam and i was like oh i want to i want i want that part of the beer i remember seeing like someone pour a beer and you want to drink beer foam and i understand the fascination of beer beer foam but this guy is going to the next level by burying his face into the beer foam like why is he tucking in his pants oh my god he's about to slap i've seen this one he's about to slap. I've seen this one. He's about to slap. Yeah, he slaps his meat. It's like pork belly.

Do you see the way he dipped that pork belly? Oh, okay. He threw the carrot through his fingers. He fucking molests a raw chicken. He fucking has a raw chicken in one of these things, and he slaps it around and grabs its Oh, I've seen this guy. He grabs its ass. Wait, why do you have to spit the fucking beer out?

Oh, wait. You've got to look at the one. Okay. The one where he makes this drink. He's like, it's, let's see. If you're looking at this. If you're looking at the one okay the one where he makes this drink like he's like it's it's it's uh let's see if you're looking at this if you're looking at oh my god what is this one where he's fingering a grapefruit okay that's a holy that's just him straight up fucking pretending that fruit is vaginas and like sticking his finger in them and and and people love it i

mean like there are women who are in the comments like holy fuck i can't go to work now because my pants fell off or whatever and i mean and then there's other people who are in the comments like, holy fuck, I can't go to work now because my pants fell off or whatever. And then there's other people who are like, other women who are like, fucking fuck this. You know what I mean? Like, really fuck this. Like, women are like,

either like, hell yes. Hey, fuck you. Do you have an OnlyFans? I can watch you fuck this? It's like totally, oh, that's, I didn't even think of that. He can be like,

yeah, behind the paywall, he can be like, you should see what I do. Oh, yeah. This man is making so much money. You should see what I do be like yeah behind the paywall he can be like you should see what i do oh yeah this man is making so much money see what i do this coconut paywall so and there's so this what i like about it is how conflicted the audience is because it's really just like nine and a half weeks kind of thing like the aesthetic the way it's lit and everything it's like right it's kind of right it's like and the desserts look like shit they look like

somebody you get at a restaurant like a fusion restaurant in 1987 and he's so obviously cocky and he's he looks like they sometimes he just puts up pictures of himself walking around you know and he just looks like your average you know nightmare bro yeah you know aspiring influencer guy and women love that some women are like yeah i want that creep here he is wearing a sweatshirt that says real men make you nut first is that what he said yeah he has a sweatshirt that says that and then his latest blog post is bon appetit baby we need to bring back manufacturing jobs this is he i volunteer to be the fruit i I identify as fruit now. Yeah.

It's a smart insight because I think like we're losing all the sex in our movies. There's only like. So this fool is. The way he finger blasted this coconut. Oh, that's the worst one. It's a fucking scene. Yeah, yeah. Here it comes.

Here it comes. Right there. Right there. Yeah, yeah. Here it comes. Right there. That's when he was like, is that too far? Oh my god. I'll just do it quick. Whatever. Get in where you fit in. Yeah. And I feel like there's a big market there. Yeah. It's only like porn and then sexless superhero movies.

So like this guy got in where he fit in. So what's the gender flip version? Like a woman having sex with a baseball or something? Yeah, I don't know. Like sporting equipment or we always get people already have that when like women do anything with like macho stuff. They're like, oh, have you seen the one chick was the 9000 guns and the big butt? Yeah.

I guess maybe add sex to anything. And Jack, we're fucking up, man. Cedric Lorenzen. You know what? I'm going to do this rest of the podcast naked. This is giving me some good ideas for the Daily Zeitgeist refresh. That's my new cold brew name. When I'm drinking cold brew, I am named Cedric Lorenzen.

And if anyone addresses me differently, I will squirt them with. With coconut juice. Creme fraiche. I mean, as always, a classic all-time search history. You've got to watch the one, though, where he makes the chocolate drink because he's acting so macho. He's like sniffing absolute vodka. And he does that thing where you make a triangle underneath your mouth and do the tongue thing like that. Really?

Oh, yeah. He goes. Yeah. Yeah. He's got like some very uh like some of his very straightforward interpretations of sexuality there's nothing subtle happening dude this guy's a virgin he's a fucking virgin i think he's like this guy's a virgin he reminds me of that guy that who's that guy that soccer player no ex ufc guy was now in jail in croatia

or whatever his name was alex and you. You know what I'm talking about. Andrew Tate. Oh, he's a kickball. Yeah, yeah. Andrew Tate was definitely like, man, this guy's got his shit together. Yeah. He's the Andrew Tate of fucking food. He thinks he's tough.

Look, he's found the Venn diagram is if you like to eat and you like hard abs, you pull up to Cedric Lorenzen's page and you got it all. Yeah. I just mean that there's a lot of women who are like, now this is what a real man does. But a real, I mean, it's like, I don't, you know, real men are asleep on the couch.

Real men are disinterested in everything and emotionally unavailable. I just think, I don't know. I don't know what I think. I feel, now I feel completely, I'm all fucked up. I'm impressed by this guy's bit. I think he's got a good angle.

I'm impressed by it. I like that his first post Like if you scroll all the way back Whoa This Hold on This is his first post It's him and a baby kangaroo And it says

Come here cunt Oh What the fuck is this guy This is his first page That's not him is it I think it might be him as a baby or some shit Oh he's like a 20 year old So first

It's throwback Thursday Five years ago Anyway shout out to Cedric Lorenzen True hero Of the modern world You need to do a fucking counter account where it's you doing sexy cold brews there you go yeah or like putting like yeah like it's so stupid it's like this is so obvious like i don't even know how to it's like if yeah like my my version of

the account would be like filling like a trombone with whipped cream or something just like putting cherries putting cherries in like a sewer pipe and being like get it i mean you're gonna sit here and tell me that your interest in mud larking wasn't erotic at all come on no except for like sometimes they do find sex stuff in the mud yeah of course uh let's take a quick break and we'll be right back hey i'm bruce bozzi on my podcast table for two we have unforgettable lunch after unforgettable lunch with the best guest you could possibly ask for people like david dukovny you know new yorkers have a reputation of being very tough and but it's not. It's not that way at all. They're very accepting.

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And Chris just took a big swig of what I have to assume is cold brew. Yeah, it's my brand. I got my own brand now. Yeah. Cedric Lorenzen. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated, Chris? Overrated is,

now this is sort of a serious one a little bit, just overrated is being sort of, being arch, being ironic, being over it. Wait, this was you for a long time, Chris. What's that? This was you for a long time chris what's that so this was you for a long time i'm not saying i've accomplished this i'm saying this is something we could aspire to wait so what do you mean by this like just someone who's just got just completely like nothing moves them everything's like whatever i want or just like being like republic Republicans are trying to fucking do this. They're trying to take over Democratic legislatures, but whatever.

I know about it. I know it sucks. I'm so smart that this is just another Tuesday. Dystopia 2.0. Oh, you haven't accepted it? Yeah. Of course they are. Of course they are.

Let's go get a fucking latte though yeah or you know you're even commenting on it right now actually makes you dumb yeah because i've known about this for 15 years two people with stainless steel refrigerators hanging off a climbing wall being like did you hear the republicans are taking over the legislature oh hashtag what did you think was gonna happen so I watched, let me find the name of it. I watched on Criterion Channel last night, the James Baldwin documentary. Oh, yeah. Called Ticket, Price of the Ticket, I think it's called.

And it was the most inspiring. You know, he is, if anyone doesn't know who james baldwin is author african african-american gay author started writing in the 20s first wrote about homosexuality in 55 very early was like a big deal but kind of like a reserved guy like he grew up poor real poor but but outspoken and he also was a preacher when he was very young and so his his he was really eloquent when he spoke he ended up involved in the civil rights movement uh he moved to france because it was such a hard it was so hard to be black and gay or just plain black in america in the 50s so he moved to france and actually thrived but he didn't want to be in France he wanted to be in the

United States really but he had to be in France because but he also was like well in France they like us and Maya Angelou's in the doc came out in 89 so it's shot on 16 millimeter it's beautiful and Maya Angelou

just mentioned she said that you know said it so plainly. She said in France, black Americans were safe because they didn't have any guilt about slavery in France. So the target of their resentment was not black Americans. The target of their resentment was Algerians, which James Baldwin identified with even back then and said, they're us. They're us in France. I'm not blind to the fact that France is safer for me because they don't have this white hatred of black people because black people remind whites of their own sins. That's not the case in France.

The people that remind France of their own sins is Algerians. Well, because the Algerians were a colony. Yeah. Among many other French colonies in Africa, but yes. Yeah. And that, but that was just,

uh, to me, that movie was inspiring in the sense that there is like this, this was like Martin Luther King was assassinated. I mean, this only, this came up in the documentary because he was friends with Dr. King. He was friends with he marched on Selma and he was at all that stuff.

And he knew Martin Luther King. He knew Malcolm X. He knew I don't know if he knew Medgar Evers, but that stuff devastated him and made him very angry. But he never stopped being optimistic. And that was a point of people kept trying to, especially white critics kept trying to say, oh, he's just turned into a polemicist. He's, he's bitter. He's, uh, you know, he, since the civil rights stuff, he's just become like this propagandist and he's enraged. And he was like, I'm never, he's like, I've never. And all his

friends said he was always mad. He was never bitter. He was always angry because he thought people could do better. What he talked about mostly was, unless we get together and stop all this individualism and everybody being over it and having their own little ecosystem in their head where they know this and they know that, and they get all this personal pleasure from ambition and everything. He said, to get where we need to be, he didn't imply that we're going to get there but he said we got to try and he said the price we have to pay is enormous to go from individual to collective because you have to abandon all your fucking self-seeking which is the most americans have been sold this idea that there's nobody happier than the marlboro man the guy's standing all by himself right that guy's supposed to be the happy guy, surrounded by nothing.

Just me and my steers. Yes, and all the fools who fell for that are the ones that are storming the Capitol being like, why do I feel like shit? I'm alone! Yeah, wait a minute! Somebody did this to me! And it's like, no, fucking Daniel Boone did this to you. Fucking Marlboro man did this to you. Capitalism trying to sell every person a toaster instead of seven people

sharing one toaster. Right. You get everybody being the Marlboro man. Everybody needs their own toaster. Yeah. So Jack's like, what the fuck are you talking about? I mean,

that's the fucking coconuts to James Baldwin. I love it. The spectrum on the show. Jack's doing that. Doing that wrap it up thing. Thumbs up with the other hand. This is great stuff. So anyway, I go, if you can get to watch that, it's just about, it's beautiful. Anyway, it's, it's,

it's inspiring in the sense that like, I understand that this all is overwhelming and I feel the same. And I think that Jameswin was also honest he wasn't like i'm doing this i'm fixing this he's just saying we need to try you know and he was serious he was intellectual he was not afraid to be serious he was also funny and cool but he was also like i'm putting myself out there because not because i'm bitter but the opposite i i'm i'm hopeful right and so that just made me think of all this shit that's going on in tennessee because i'm in tennessee now you know and it's

like this shit is they're trying to roll back civil rights i mean that's what they're trying to do and it was just a minute ago so we're let you know we it's we can't let this happen it was like martin luther king was assassinated one year before i was born yeah i mean i am 78 years old but but you know what i mean it was a minute ago and they're already they've already overturned the the voting rights act there i mean this is like happening and if you can roll your eyes and drink pabst blue ribbon and stuff but that's not helping really and you know i know that and i'm the guy who did it for years so i'm not i'm not i'm not yelling at anybody i just thought that documentary made me want to write more it made me want to fucking speak the truth more and and he was in such danger i'm just some fucking white guy i mean james baldwin was fucking taking a chance and he

and he lived a long life and had a lot of beautiful friends that supported him and yeah anyway yeah i mean there's a lot of good shit that supported him and yeah anyway yeah ticket to ride i mean there's a lot of good shit in there price of the ticket james baldwin on criterion but i'm sure you can get it off you know youtube or whatever yeah i think you can get it on pbs too yeah it was originally like an american master yeah it's it's a knockout movie i mean it's it's only an hour and a half long but i i could watch it again. Because also just James Baldwin's like fucking just dealing with a guy that's smart. Oh, yeah. I mean, his quotes.

He's like a time traveler. I mean, like it also just shows you, like you're saying, like the complexity of all of these issues we're dealing with and how they just how they've lasted for so long. But the observations are still the same. And, you know, how, how you know pressing a lot of his words are yeah really truly brilliant people rarely are they're they're not the ones who are smug and disconnected from the world they're usually very engaged and inspired by and you know not always optimistic i guess but just trying to like engage with the world around them and but yeah i think you're right that there is this fashionable idea of like

that's smart and witty to just be over it and dismissive yeah well i think it's just a way to deal with your powerlessness over it too and It is understandable. It is depressing. Much easier to just be like, yeah, I know, so I can move on. It's really me talking to myself right now because I'm just there. I'm laying around. I might not be cynical. I never have been cynical. I've always been hopeful,

but I do end up sleeping fucking an extra five hours because I think about the news you know like i mean it's not easy but i i just think like the idea of like liberals is sort of i don't know it's just like we we have to be earnest yeah you know sometimes yeah yeah it's not enough just to know well i think it's easier for some people to be like yeah i know than to really actually know right you know and feel it in their fucking bones.

They can read a headline and like sort of, you know, intellectually understand. But then it's a whole other level of engagement to be like, that's so fucking bad that something has to be done and it needs to be talked about versus being like, oh, yeah, that's a bad thing. I get that. But I don't have the energy or will to engage with it because it's just too much. And I totally see why. Yo, earnestness. People are just so fucking, people don't, people are just like, because it's meme time.

You know, it's internet time. Everybody's a dope. You know what I mean? It's like two seconds. You try and be earnest for two seconds and 15 people hit you with some really funny shit. They hit you with 12 memes and make you feel like an idiot. Yeah.

You know, and they're good i'm not saying this post-apocalyptic sense of humor is going on it's incredible yeah like you know like there's a meme of like spongebob the the spongebob what am i saying the spongebob spongebob the spongebob but it's like a float in a parade, like a floating float, you know? Yeah. Floating float. What am I saying? A balloon. That gets ripped. Like a balloon.

A floating float. Fucking cold brew bullshit. Cedric Lorenzen here. Live from the marshmallow hideout. So it said, it was just, you could see the flame in the balloon. You know, it was like a hot air balloon. Right. I love that. This is my life. life trying to explain things everybody knows already what they

are yeah yeah the and it said oh no oh hell no hell no the meme said on it it was just a picture of that with the flame under spongebob and it said hell no they burn in spongebob s-P-U-N-C-H pussy. Hell naw they burnin' spunch Bob's pussy. That's the funniest

fucking thing. I laughed so goddamn hard at that even though it's insane. Yeah. Hell naw they burnin'

spunch Bob's pussy. Sorry, how does this relate to James Baldwin? Just to sit like, you can get caught up looking at that shit. Everything's gone fucking crazy. It's very

seductive, a lot of the apocalyptic humor. Oh, it's all gallows humor now. It reminds me of all these brand movies that are coming out that I'm going to love that are like the air jordan origin story the fire flaming hot cheetos origin story and they're all like good and i'm gonna like go and be like that's actually good guys it's actually really yeah tetris it's

actually you should actually check it out like it's it's a bummer but yeah i want to see i said on my tweet i said on my tweet, I said on my tweet. And what's the tweet? This is why I have no friends. The tweet that you do on Twitter? I said on my, a tweet that I published. On Twitter? Yeah, I said that I would rather see Jen Air.

I don't know if you guys are familiar with The Stove, but I'd rather see the Jen Air story than fucking Air. The Jen Air origin story? Yeah, more than I'd like to see fucking Ben Affleck in another goddamn wig. Oh, man. In Argo Part 2. Yeah. Fucking Argo is the worst movie I ever saw in my fucking life. Argo Part 2.

It should have been called Wig Store. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, we're doing that again? I thought underrated was out of the picture. No. Oh, crap. Underrated. No, the myth.

We were done with that. I thought that was uh for some reason i thought oh myth is gone yeah it's gone yeah well i took up too much time already so why don't we just go away why don't we just go past that how about the underrated james baldwin is underrated there we go all right yes oh yeah if you don't know yeah absolutely yeah then i'm the kind of guy is underrated yeah and i gotta catch up on the reading part. I have a tendency to learn about the people and not read the books. So it made me want to read James Baldwin books, you know, and see a play. They kept showing parts of this play that he put on called, oh, God, it's called like.

Anyway, it looked like the best play in the world yeah it was done by it was like about race and it was done by these fucking dead serious actors from the actor's studio back then you know like where is this seriousness that's what i'm talking about you see these actors and it's like this isn't like now it's like a broadway play they're like, is there enough gas in Godzilla? You know what I mean? Like, that's what's happening. The Godzilla musical actually does look pretty good, though. I hear it's getting good reviews off Broadway. Is the Swiss man who's running Godzilla ready with his computers? with his computers well the last time chris was on he recommended all the beauty and the bloodshed which i finally watched recently and it is an absolute like mind-blowing knockout documentary

so i will confirm this recommendation oh i'm glad i'm glad that was man i can't name that movie to save my life still i'm always like all the all the guts and stuff everybody Everybody's mad in the world exploded. Yeah, I always want to say all the fury because of all the sound and the fury. All the anger and the loudness. Yeah. France. Hey, speaking of France. Hey. Fucking, I mean, I'm glad that somebody's around, Miles, that you're back to appreciate these segues.

Speaking of France. Yeah. I mean, that was pretty seamless, though. You probably heard of France, right? Heard of it. Heard of it, yeah. I was there in 1990. Hell yeah.

Yeah, you were. I was there, man, in 90. End of last week, there were demonstrations that saw more than a million people taking a stand against Macron's government. There were more than 200 protests across the country 903 fires lit in the streets of paris alone i love where that's that who's the fucking fire counter i don't know they got one oh yeah oh there's another one okay what are you at

602 okay keep going keep going they must be angry. It's probably some nepo baby doing the counting too. Yeah. They're like, he's undercounting the fires. You got to get those fires numbers up. Gerard Debrardieu's nephew is doing the fire counting. But this is all due to Macron's pension reform bill, which would raise the legal age of retirement from 62 to 64, all well below what it is in the U S and also we don't really have an official age of retirement in the U S when we need to look at our, look at our Congress. Yeah. I, this is my God. It's crazy. It's wild because you know, this is not for

someone who's fucking 61 right now. You're like, what the fuck are you doing? You're adding three more fucking years right now. I was about to fucking cash out. Because again, they have a really, really wonderful retirement system compared to the United States. And the French really have, like, it's a point of pride, but also their work-life balance is so important. I was listening to, I forget, like one of the news shows shows and they were talking to the protesters on the street. And person after person was like, we really value the idea that there is a work life balance. That is really important. And I'm like hearing that.

I'm like, wow, that's a take that's only starting to gain steam in the United States of people being like militant or not necessarily militant, like drawing a hard line like underneath this idea that i'm not going to toil and have my labor exploited till the fucking till i literally collapse there's going to be a fucking sunset to this and the fact that he goes and wants to unilaterally do this because he did it he completely went around a parliamentary vote and just like invoked these special powers the president has to be like, yeah, all right, pushed it through, deal with it. And now you got 903 fires in Paris. I mean, you have to be militant because they're relentless about trying to take away the work-life balance across the world, anything that's plugged into the global economy. And I feel like this is going to be used,

is being used by the mainstream media for photo ops to be like, look at this chaos aren't you glad you live in america being the subtext and i feel like the answer should be no no look at what they're fighting for like this is how this is how you buy that and this country and it's just getting worse for older people in this country oh like it's not gonna it's gonna deteriorate much quicker and the situation is already like it's hard to even compare what a retiree's life looked like fucking 20 years ago and what it looks like today you know like you think about all the like roving people who are like you know like chasing the seasonal work and shit like that living in rvs as like a

way to quote retire but still be working and it's very miles i'm sitting right here you know you don't have to i don't you're making me feel i mean this i'm just trying to light a fire under you man trying to light a fire on you i'm gonna go light 903 fires today but i i mean i feel like you know there there are a lot of reasons that the u.s doesn't have a culture like this like you know historical reasons a armed police force who will kill you for damaging property but we also have a mainstream media that treats the burning of a car or the looting of a store as the most serious time imagine human life yeah and yeah that was the first thing I read that. I mean, this is some of the upside, I guess, to social media.

I don't put them in the downsides. Well, who cares? What am I? Just the fact that right away someone said the reason is that you're wondering why this isn't happening in America because it can't happen here because we have police that would fucking shoot you murder everybody who is lighting these fires. I mean, this would never but they're like i just didn't didn't didn't think of that because i was almost just gonna go yeah we need to have it in america but then someone wrote like yeah there's a reason why we don't have it here you'll be kettled tased packaged and frozen and the other we didn't have it in the summer of 2020 like we had mass protests but i think that's a that points to another reason that

we don't have a lot of organizing is because you have to be working 50 60 hours a week to have health care in this country yeah i mean but then there's you know they also did a good job of being like well that's going to be the last one of those as far as the, you know, the black lives matter protests. Now they're building cop city, right? A 400 acre fucking war facility for the Atlanta police, you know? Yeah.

And, uh, they've are trying those kids as terrorists who are fucking, I mean, that's it, you know, like that's how, you know,

right. Cause they're like, Oh, you want to protest the building of like a soldier cop camp. You're a terrorist. Yeah. And I mean, this, like the other thing too, is because of the size of France, it's easier for a bunch of people to converge on the Capitol. I didn't think that either. I was operating it right until you just said that.

I mean, there's a lot, I mean, there's a lot of difference. Like we're just so spread out. It's just, you know, you have to go to maybe your Capitol, things like that. But all that to say is yes, it's, it's much, much different. And I've seen, there have been critical, very non-critical analysis. They're like, wow, people really don't like Macron, huh? I wonder if that's going to be good for the right and Marie Le Pen and the far right. This is a labor-led movement. And it has fuck all to do with the far right.

They have fuck all the energizing people in terms of like this this terrible reform that is about to hit the books and it's just wild because it was so un like the second it was mentioned 60 to like around 70 percent of people that were pulled were like i'm so fucking against what you just said right now do not want it like what are you talking about there's a there's a deficit of some whatever billion. And most people like, why don't you fucking tax the wealthy to address this fucking deficit? Instead, you're just saying, now put them to work longer, because we're not going to. I mean, there is money we could probably find, but we're not going to do the thing that would like ask people who have more to put in their fair share. So people who are like doing manual

labor or women or low wage workers aren't going to really bear the brunt of this fucked up reform. Yeah. And the unions are not letting up either. They have they've basically like, you know, they're like 30 percent of the flights into Paris have been like canceled. The railroads are like half working. And they're saying they're calling for another mass protest on Tuesday because this is the one way they feel that they can actually pressure the government in France to do something because they successfully did that in 2006. There were these reforms that were going to go into effect that was aimed at young workers because youth unemployment was so high. But employers were like, we'd hire more young people, but all the labor protections you have for workers makes it harder to just fucking fire a young person. And that's why we don't we don't hire them.

And the government's like, fuck it. We'll take away those protections. You can fire him as much as you want. And they're like, is that good? They fucking took the streets like the unions fucking weren't fucking around. And eventually then President Jacques Chirac like relented and got the fucking message and i think that's why too you see these protests are going to continue because i think the only other route is like the equivalent of the french supreme court looking at how this was done and

they'll probably i don't know i don't think they'd be too friendly to the way macron did this because it was such a specific it was like tied to a specific bill yet had the most significant reforms that would reverberate through the nation. I just couldn't believe that when I heard that there was like a way to bypass parliament, like what the, yeah, well then what, what the fuck is that for?

It's just a parliament. It's just set dressing. I mean, unless, you know, you know, I mean, they were just like,

yeah, Macron can't pass this and it's not popular. So he's just going to use the, whatever the fuck it is. Yeah. America has that with the presidential, like, yeah,

we can go do, we can drop bang bangs on anyone. Yeah. It was insane to me. I just said that. That's so crazy. And, but that's,

but that is the reason why people are so energized is because it was done in such a, like just, I am the one who's gonna push this through like you know as the you know god king a lot of his supporters who are like wealthier older people and who are might not be as like tethered to the reality of what it's like to work every day you forgot about provision 69x that's right. Give me the codes. Did you forget about that? Where something that everybody doesn't want still happens? Yeah.

Provision 69X was a great adult film. The amount of money that the New York Times must be spending right now looking for a French protester who voted for Trump has to to be like right 40 of their editorial budget i'm fighting macron but this is why i voted for trump i like that daily zeitgeist going for the fuck going after new york times it's about yeah yeah we've been we've been going easy on him for too long i let my relationship with maggie haberman cloud things a little too much. Yeah. You know, she's good. Maggie's a friend. Maggie's a friend.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and miles you finally have an announcement yeah yeah i found common ground with melania trump you've been looking for a way to connect with her for a while just yeah first it was like spiritually yeah philosophically everything i mean that jacket that was like i don't really care do you i was like you know what i like that nah fucking i care damn yeah you know so close fuck we almost you almost had me melania but things are seemingly not going great for the trump family and i say seemingly because it seems like he might go to jail but we don't know but we just don't know what will happen and all we hear now is about how don Donald Trump is angry and paranoid about his legal troubles or how he recently threatened more chaos on Kroger Twitter that like he was yelling at on Friday night.

States who got more votes than any sitting president in history and leading candidate by far for the Republican Party nomination. What a fucking sentence this is with a crime when it is known by all that no crime has been committed. There may be a nationwide Adderall shortage, but there's not one in Mar-a-Lago. I will tell you that much. And then he says, and this is causing the nationwide Adderall shortage. This and it's also known that potential death and destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our country. So here he goes.

Posted a picture with a baseball bat, I believe. He's trying to slow motion ramp up some kind of MAGA jailbreak riot. But while all that's going on, I wanted to check in with his wife and son. First up, I just want to say I saw a picture of Barron Trump this week this motherfucker needs to be hooping yes you know what i mean he's six foot seven now from reports eight foot bunch how about if he is the hoop all right make a hoop with your arms baron yeah right there bank shot off your face, you fucking goof. No. But, I mean, he is so tall.

I can't. It's like, again, every time I see him, I feel like I'm checking in with someone else's kid. I'm like, look at Baron. Oh, man, you're playing basketball, Baron? Like, what the fuck's going on? But Melania, this is the important thing. She's doing what many of us have been doing the last three years or so, which is completely disengaging from reality because it's just so shit. This is this is from People magazine, this new exclusive quote.

She remains angry and doesn't want to hear the alleged hush money payment mentioned. Oh, he's aware of who think about that. This is this is bringing the stormy stuff back. Yeah, I'd be like my damn marriage. Come on, guys. Remember four months after Baron was born? I had that affair. Anyway, he's six foot seven. this is bringing the stormy stuff back yeah i'd be like my damn marriage come on guys remember four months after baron was born i had that affair anyway he's six foot seven quote she is aware of her husband and who he is and keeps her life upbeat with her own family and a few close friends oh wow okay well what else she just started a lifestyle influencer like blog just about how to

keep a positive frame of mind yeah it says goop with one O missing. And then she goes on to say, quote, Melania is leading her own life and still feels happy being at Mar-a-Lago. Surrounded by people who love her and who never talk about reality or bad things about her husband.

I just love the quote that they say, who never talk about reality. That is so, I just, I'm holding on to that they say who never talk about reality that is so I'm holding on to that and it reminds me like yeah sometimes you get in those zones you're like we're not talking about reality today

I hope it's a stated policy reality free zone all spin zone for rich people that is a very slight adjustment 100% all spin zone for rich people that is a very slight adjustment right yeah 100 i mean that is the structure was in place i don't think yeah i don't think that's a quote that would come from the actual rich person because they have no concept of reality that it wouldn't be like

hey let's not talk about reality yeah these are sounds like the perspective of someone who isn't like oh yeah well i mean they're like oh. They don't talk about reality in there. I mean, imagine being her friend. Just imagine that by itself. Like, just no matter what you were allowed to talk about. What the fuck are you doing with your life? Are you crazy? Like, you don't got a crazy person's hanging around with Melania Trump.

Imagine the self-esteem problems. Oh, my God. Or like the politics of being one of her sycophants where like one person starts doing that reality talk and they're like, we gotta get rid of Debra. Debra is out of

control. I think she's off her meds or something. She brought up Donald. Next girlfriend was in a book club and like all the women in the book club wanted this one hot lady to be in it, but she didn't read books. So they like put her in it anyway. And they're just like, you can just be here to talk about whatever.

Yeah. You talk about like what our conversation makes you think of. She's smart in other ways. Right. Yeah. But she doesn't have anything relevant to say about the book you all read for the meeting. Yeah. No, it doesn't matter. We want her here anyway. She's so hot.

She's a genius. That's the other thing. They'll go way on the other direction. She's actually a genius. That's why she can't read. It's just too much. She's already got so much reading in her head just naturally. You know, a part of me is like, I was like, oh, that must suck for her.

But I think at the end of it, I'm like, no, you chose your life. Okay. And this is the one you've chosen to live but on some level like i get it especially the part like she knows who she's with yet she's still in this it reminds me of like i dated somebody who like knowingly dated somebody who brought untold amount untold amounts of chaos into my life i'm just like yeah and i was willingly there like it was either fucking trying to get me caught up in fistfights because the mouth was just way too spicy like oh yeah well he about to fuck you and your homeboy up i'm like uh and you're like this is love i'm like no but you're a d1 athlete and that was new for me and i love the story and also your favorite movie was

also belly by hype williams so i felt like we're there and then and i just remember like there was so much stuff going on and i stuck around until one day they called me because she crashed her car on like pch because she was on molly and she was with a homeboy who like did a like a g move and like put her in the passenger seat so when the cops pulled up he was there and then he was fucked up but he was on probie so they arrested him and she called me she's like you gotta come get me like i don't know what happened this was after like a week where i was like you're putting me through too much and i did the little melania thing i went and saw attack of the clones with my mother right after i hung up the phone i went to. I said, can we go see Attack of the Clones? Can we go see that shit?

So that was my version of not talking about reality. Because my mom did not know I was dating that person. And she was like, you want to go to the movies? Yeah, rich people don't like any reality anyway. And then, yeah, they probably just talk about, you know, with Melania, it's probably the usual stuff. You know, like, how's your lobster, Melania? How's your lobster, Melania? And Melania's like, it's like it's pretty good it's not as

good as yesterday but it's fine yeah oh okay well anyway yeah like I always had lobster yesterday it was pretty good but I love your bag I love your bag oh my god yeah where'd you get that bag so I did a stand-up show in Malibu I hosted a stand-up show in malibu i i hosted a stand-up show in malibu for three years and those people man they don't want to know about a good crowd shit whether or not they're married to donald trump and whether he paid off a porn star they don't want to hear about a damn thing yeah i don't like what kills like what would it killed with that mouth they think they like comedy that's the funniest thing i love it i love it i love it i love it and then they immediately when the show starts start talking like really loudly and don't pay attention

to it at all and then they also when they do listen to it they think comedy is i don't know what they think it's supposed to be but they can't stand when it's about stuff at all like anything in the news like this is no one wants to hear about this yeah so they hate comedy i don't know where they think the tension in comedy would come from if you just did what they like which would be like i don't know what like people who have big boats rule like isn't it the worst when you're christening your boat and you fall off your pants fall off or whatever the fuck it is i don't know what they want first word what else followed by where are you from sir what else? Followed by, where are you from, sir? What else? But my favorite is that they, before the show, seriously are like, this, I love comedy.

I love to laugh. Comedy. And the first time, you're like. You're like, oh, I can't afford a house. What the fuck? Exactly. Anybody else? They're like, what is he talking about?

He's grossing me out. This is not comedy. Well, they just decide it's not comedy, and there's some other kind of comedy that they would like. That's all it has. I don't know. It bummed me out a little bit. It bummed me out. I not comedy well they just decide it's not comedy and there's some other kind of comedy that they would like that's all it had i don't know it bummed me out a little bit yeah i don't i can't even i can't i don't like this reality-based comedy these yeah any reference to anything about anything that would lead to something funny they hate and they i think they just want you to make fun of poor people basically talk about how cheap those tory birch slides look on people yeah it's something they want you to bully.

All they think is funny is bullying. All they think is funny is bullying. Well, Chris, as always, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, read you, all that good stuff.

Thank you for having me again. I love it always. So you can find me at, at the Crofton show on Twitter and on Instagram. There it is. And a cold brew got me like is on Instagram, you know, probably for the rest of eternity. And then it's going to be on my gravestone.

And, um, uh, and then you can also read my book, the advice King anthology, which I'm starting to record the audio book finally this week or coming week. coming week and uh you can also listen to my record hello it's me uh which is on all the uh all the fucking platforms hey oh and cold brew got me like our show yeah yeah we have a cold brew sponsor now and uh last show was about larry summers so we're

getting like we're we're kind of talking about some serious shit. And in addition to just talking about like the band Survivor. Yeah. It's like part Billy Squire, part serious. And you guys are fans of Larry Summers, right? That guy, that guy rules. Oh, yeah. He's really he's always done a good job. I think he's the goat.

He's really, he's always done a good job, I think. He's the goat. Inventing crises and then talking about them and how to solve them. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying, Chris? Yes. I did it. I fucking picked out the thing ahead of time. Hell yeah. For once, this guy, his name is At Funeral Pig.

Oh, man. And his name is at Funeral Pig. Oh, man. And his name is Worgen. At Funeral Pig is his handle. And this is his tweet. My men are shooting fire arrows into the thatched roofs of your village right now, Playboy. Miles, where can people find you and what is a work media you've been enjoying twitter instagram at miles of gray check jack and i out on miles and jack and sometimes miles and i before e except

after c got mad boosties uh and also check me out on 420 Day Fiance. We are coming back soon. I'm talking about Love is Blind, I think. And maybe the other way. Anyway, a tweet I like is actually from the show Las Culturistas at Las Culturistas. A quote tweeted this tweet from Gold Derby that said, quote, Hashtag Emmy Spotlight.

Bowen Yang is hilarious, heartbreaking and deserving of recognition. And the quote tweet just said, yeah, sure, why not? That's the way to respond to that. Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah, of course. Okay. I really enjoy this genre of tweets where people just screen cap Elon Musk, like, tweeting something and then his SIGGAP fans responding to it.

Mr. Too Damn Chris tweeted a screencap of Hakeem Jeffries said, House Dems are fighting hard for the American people. Right-wing extremists are fighting each other. And Elon Musk responded, that's what she said. And Jeff Curry tweeted, one of the best comebacks ever. Crying, laughing emoji. This. Why? tweeted one of the best comebacks ever crying laughing emoji this why one of the best comebacks ever sir uh it's like peter teal fucking or peter teal fucking

you know the guy who's most powerful in tennessee politics dad his dad owned a car dealership and he sold the land for so much that he's like the biggest power player in national politics. Because that's how our politics work. Is the guy who owns the biggest car dealership, the guy who invented PayPal, or this fucking fool. Yeah. Fool! Elon Musk's jokes are below fifth grade level. They are moron.

He's a moron. I don't care. That one didn't even make sense. Musk's jokes are below fifth grade level. They are moron. He's a moron. I don't care. That one didn't even make sense. He's a freaking teenage boy freak. And he's got so much money. That's the best comeback ever, Chris. I mean, I'm just saying, like, how does our political system has to get the money out of it?

The guy with the biggest car dealership. Chris, he could, like, buy and sell you a million times. Oh, I'm dead. I'm dead. They're going to kill me with a drone. Dude, he could have you killed by a drone. Oh, they're going to take me out. And you just remember.

Yeah. Why? But you just remember where you're going to buy your next GMC truck. Yeah. I'm serious. His dad, you you know the parking lots are big so he sold it for like 110 million dollars and now it's like you can't do any legislation in tennessee without running it by this guy beeman yeah from beeman toyota what a system steaming and we got the world's richest man saying that's what she said yeah but it's hey i get it melania when

he says it let's link up melania fuck reality fuck it all let's watch some james baldwin documentary how's the shrimp he's okay it's okay i eat the tails you know i know the tails are good oh yes everyone eats the tails melania don't worry about it you know what oh deb you're not eating your tails they're giving to me oh yeah let me have the tails let Milani You know what? Oh, Deb, you're not eating your tails? Then give it to me Let me have the tails Let me get out of the garbage I love getting the tails out of the garbage I love you

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episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? This is like a beat by Dorian Concept that's pretty cool. I liked it because it sounds like, because I have so much baby noises going on in my house, it sounds like an almost chopped up baby vocal sample, but it's played on a keyboard.

The beats is kind of cool. It's a nice texture to have. But there's a Dorian concept in the track. It's called You're Untouchable. Babies are underrated vocalists. I mean, it's hard to get them in the studio for legal reasons. Who's the most famous baby on a track? That Aaliyah song,

the little laughing baby. Yeah. There's also that kid Jordy, the French kid. If you don't think the French are ahead of us. Hello baby. I remember I used to gibberish

sing that shit with my friend all the time. Me too. My mom fucking got so annoyed by it. I remember she lost it in the car when me and my friend were screaming it. We were like, And she was just like, Is that a Geordie Deep cut?

That's not the one I'm even familiar with. You got that coming up on the horizon. I know. Oh, God. Congratulations, Miles Gray. Thank you. Congratulations. not the one i'm even familiar with you got that coming up on the horizon i know oh god well congratulations miles gray thank you congratulations the child only knows wu-tang and uh her majesty is that's what i keep telling her and she hates when i say that wu-tang is for the children yeah because off rip i just put on fucking triumph yeah which I thought y'all wasn't going to see me. And blasting it when I'm changing the baby's diaper.

And she's like, what are you doing? I'm like, Wu-Tang is for the children. It's like this bit has gone far enough. Yeah. She just told me with her eyes she wants a Wu-Tang tattoo. Inspector Deck is so underrated. And the baby will know that. The baby will know this.

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