The Daily Zeitgeist - Stanley Quenchers, The Legend of Ultramax 01.24.24

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

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a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness, and it is Wednesday, January 24th, 2024. 1-2-4-2-4. Yep. 1-2-4-2-4. Guess what? It's library shelfy day. I don't know what that means. I think that's just when you... Sounds cute. Let's see. Oh, it's just for all you bibliophiles do something fun with your shelf i guess with your book spines it's also national peanut butter day and beer can appreciation day i'll let you decide if that was beer can or bacon beer can it's beer can is it really that is like such a that feels like such an industry fucking day. Like, hey, man, we salute the canneries and the makers of aluminum cans for our favorite beers. Yeah.

Yeah. God, I was going to say, Bacon Appreciation Day is like they have one for every month, it feels like. Oh, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Shout out to beer cans. Yeah. That's very specific.

Something our guests would probably know because there was pull tab, there was cone top, there was stay tab. You know, as you go through the- I know everything about beer cans. I feel like our guests might have had a beer can collection at some point. I did have one. As a youngster, maybe? I did, and I can tell you anything you want to know about beer cans for real. Wait, what's a cone top?

Cone top is a thing they did in the 20s and 30s where i don't know why they did that but they made the can into like a fake bottle what by just like putting a spout on it those things are worth a lot of money unless you ask my grandfather in which case he said to whom like who are they worth money to because i was always like look grandpa i got this old can and it's worth a zillion dollars and he was like who cares to whom to whom and he had a point he had a very good point because i have all those cans now in the basement what's left but yeah i can tell you about cone tops and flat tops flat tops and they use the church key and then uh then we moved on to pull tabs and now we're on

uh whatever the fuck yeah whatever those things are yeah stay tab 1975 there's like a whole timeline of here celebrating i'm not kidding like in fifth grade i was in fifth grade in 1970 fuck i don't know eight or something and that was like everybody collected beer cans i mean it's crazy kids collecting beer cans i mean you know you know. Gotta have them all, like Stanley Quenchers. But it's not right for kids to collect beer cans. All my friends did that, too, for a long time. Yeah, that was a thing. They were supposed to be valuable.

I had a price book. What do you mean? You were cruising for rare beer cans as kids, Jack? I just remember my friends having beer can collections in their bedrooms. Usually my friends who had a waterbed. Oh, like maybe it would just be like family trash to be like, look at that.

That's a beer can right up there. Yeah. Kind of thing. Well, no, you could go to a show. It was like a, I went to a show like,

uh, at a Knights of Columbus. Like 45 minutes away from my house. Actually the same town where my mom looked at that drum set that she rejected yeah it's wallingford connecticut wallingford connecticut to bring up those memories man yeah yeah but i went to this beer can show and then it's like you're hanging around with grown men who are obsessed with beer cans or even worse than kids because at least kids don't know any better right right right but the adults are selling beer cans to children you know being like

this is worth a lot of money you know and i'm buying a bunch of it's just this one comes all the way from colorado yeah and then they make jokes about like you can't be drinking those not yet but as soon as you're able to you should start drinking i'm like crazy no it tastes like shit by the way yeah but it's like my plumber or whatever or whatever this guy was who came into our he was i think he was renovating our house or something. Like one of the few times my, my silly family had like a worker. Like, like that was the kind of town I grew up in where if you had a worker in your house, you felt like you were a part of the crowd, you know, cause everybody always had work being done to their house. Cause they're all rich.

So we had this worker and I just remember he told me that whiskey puts hair on your chest. And I just wonder what motivates a grown person to say that to like a 10-year-old. It's someone who's trying to invite you into the league of extraordinary binge drinkers. Right. It's just like he was just drunk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, whenever you hear that'll put hair, it's never like in a way you're like,

oh, thanks. It's always like danger. It's like, oh, you better watch out for that hot sauce. That'll put hair on your chest. Or you would take whiskey, that'll put hair on your chest. Right, exactly. But you better, if you're a parent, you better say some interesting stuff to your kids, because I don't remember anything

from my childhood except for that guy saying that. This one dude behind you. It's like pretty much the only thing I remember from my childhood is that man telling me that. What's your chest hair count right now? Oh, it's out of control. Oh, okay. Well, then I drank so much. I got hair on my shoulders and my

back. Somebody telling a child that drinking something will put hair on their chest is like a body horror situation. Really? Yeah, but also it was 1978 so this guy was actually trying to get me laid.

That's right. If you're real lucky, maybe you'll get some some if you're real lucky yeah i open up maybe you'll get some hair on your shoulders yeah i got my little cruise i got my little saint christopher medallion in gold dangling amongst my chest weeds yeah i wish my shoulders would come in more but they haven't got a conditioning your shoulder hair that's the number one so he probably was trying to do me a favor but i also think he probably was kind of drunk because when you're drunk you want to tell somebody.

Of course. Yeah, yeah. Get them in on the club. But it's all winks, you know? You're never like, hey, I'm pissed, kid. It's more like, hey, you put hair in your chest, huh? You want to know how to have fun while you're fucking fixing a window frame? Yeah.

He's like, hey, you want to shoot the nail gun with me? Yeah. You think fixing a window frame is boring i got another i got a little secret for you i'm drunk i'm fucking off my fucking face bro all right well my name is jack o'brien aka how long till we see the yeti fuck film the one where they fuck, puke, and fart. How long till we see the Yeti fuck film? It sounds like a true work of art. That is courtesy of Rezik on the Discord. To the tune of Doggy in the Window.

For anybody who is curious. I was having a hard time getting Doggy in the Window in my head. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray. I said Miles Gay. Miles Gray. I'm having a Donald Trump moment. Also, the Dream Weaver, a.k.a.

Blonde Sam. You don't have to turn off the nightlight. Those days are over. You don't have to spill your guts into the night you don't have to lick green leaf tonight the nightmare's too vivid you're not sure if it's real or if it's right okay shout out rockaroni for one of my favorite songs to do karaoke to roxanne talking about clearly just just just embracing those dreams someone give me a dream Macaroni for one of my favorite songs to do karaoke to, Roxanne. Clearly. Just embracing those dreams.

Someone give me a Dreamweaver, AKA, please. Come on now. I think we've leaned into the... It's right there. Is there one in there? There's one in the Discord. Oh, shit. Yeah, bro. Okay, well, then I'm going to have to see.

I think you've actually done it already. Oh, no. Oh, boy. Oh, no. Someone call my doctor. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just imagining it. Maybe it's so obvious and right there that I just, my brain filled in the gaps.

But I thought you would. Yeah, very possible. Very possible. So many songs about dreams. we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious stand-up comedian actor musician with the 7.4 rated album on pitchfork to his name that's right uh you can listen to his podcast cold brew got me like anywhere find podcasts or give it away for free uh his new book the advice king anthology available anywhere fine books are sold or given away for free at the library. You know, the poetry window is open because it's Chris motherfucking Crofton.

What's up? Good to see you guys. What's up, man? I noticed something about you. You look like you have your fist over your chest, like you're doing half a Wakanda salute. But I'm. Yeah, yeah. I broke my scapula thursday i got an email

from or no i sent an email saying hey i would like to go back on the daily zeitgeist and and uh uh i got an email back that said hey you we were thinking about it on tuesday and i said sure uh wednesday today's wednesday i guess in the podcast world but uh ruin everything i've ruined everything no so anyway when i sent that email i started the whole show over when um when this when i sent that email i did not have a broken scapula i had never even heard of a scapula. And then when I, when I got, when I confirmed, yeah, sure. I'll do it Tuesday.

I was on like, you know, morphine, but I figured by Tuesday I'd be all right. Uh, but I broke my scapula Thursday afternoon and I broke my rib. And, uh,

so Nashville has been like this ice skating rink for a week. And now it just went away. Cause it just got finally went up to like 40 or 50 or whatever. Right. And so all this stuff melted rink for a week and now it just went away because it just got finally went up to like 40 or 50 or whatever right and so all the stuff melted but for a week i guess nashville has like a couple snow plows i mean yeah you mean like literally like two they have a few i guess but it was not cool it was like everybody was falling down my neighborhood was like a fucking circus like it was like the whole the street was an ice sheet for a week so people were trying to go to work and i'm gonna turn back my neighbors a guy a drunk guy came down our street like first of all our street it's got no sidewalks or anything so like if you go off the street you're in a lawn right and so and so

this my neighbor is like i i was asleep because it was after I broke my scapula. So I was in bed. But I woke up and my roommate was like, that's right. I said roommate. My roommate. Your buddy. My buddy. Yeah.

My wife. My mother. My beautiful wife was doing animation on the new Fast and Furious movie in the living room of my well-appointed Silver Lake. Pigeotare, wherever you pronounce that fucking word. How does animation know a new Fast and Furious movie? Whatever, she pays the bills. I was asleep. She pays the bills. I live right next to the

silver lake reservoir just gotten this note from vin diesel i'm friends with jimmy kimmel it's unbelievable so me and jimmy kimmel were taking a nap in the same bed and um and my wife was animating fast and furious 12 or whatever it is yeah and uh no okay i'm gonna go back to what's really happening my roommate said that the next doordoor neighbor, he's like, did you see what happened? And I was like, no, I was in there. And he said, oh, my God, this car came down the street, lost control, and went into my neighbor's yard. It slid on the ice and landed in their yard.

Wow. And then it was a drunk person, too, even though it was the middle of the day. And, yeah, because I always think drinking is nighttime thing. Right. But not for this guy. And so then while he was trying to get out of the yard, which he also couldn't get out of because it was ice, too. And it's down in a gully like our streets on kind of a hill. And like it's a it's just a very, you know, this was not an ideal piece of land for houses when they put them in here.

So the so this car, this So this car is smashing into the people who live there. He's trying to back up and stuff and he smashed into their car. And then they eventually had to go out there and take his keys away from him. And then they gave him a blanket because it was so cold and they gave him some water and then the police came. I guess I didn't see the police

but he said the police were very mean to the guy because he didn't speak English. Anyway, Nashville needs more snow plows on the double. So if anybody out there in Daily Zeitgeist's world has an extra snow plow, you might want to call up the city hall here. Bring it on down. How's your rib? How's your scapula?

That's what I'm concerned about. The thing is I've broken so many fucking bones that it's really just embarrassing. Like I was more embarrassed when I hit the ground than anything else. Because I heard, or I didn't hit the ground, I hit the steps. But I heard things crack. So I knew. Yeah. You were like, ah.

It's something. Yeah. That's something. You know, it's just like, I haven't broken that much stuff. I mean, yeah, I have. But I haven't. I mean, I broke my hip in 2018. Right. You know, roller skating. You know, and everybody thinks that much stuff. I mean, yeah, I have, but I haven't. I mean, I broke my hip in 2018. Right.

You know, roller skating, you know, and everybody thinks that's funny, but, you know, it's not funny. I only laugh because I felt awkward. It's funny. It's funny. That's L.A.'s fault. That's because people in L.A., grown people go roller skating because they're reliving their childhood that they didn't get to have in Wisconsin because their mean dentist father never talked to them or whatever. Right. So they move out to LA and start roller skating,

wear crazy clothes now, even though I'm 40. So then. Look at how high these socks are. Yeah, exactly. These crazy socks. I got them on the internet,

you know? The Yeti fuck film on there. So I broke. Yeah. So I broke. I'm doing a Yeti fuck film. We so i broke yeah so i wrote i'm doing a yeti fuck film we're pitching it to adult swim it's gonna be called yeti fuck film but we're gonna censor it put stars instead of the fuck you know it's like gonna be f and then three stars yeah and i yeah i know somebody

at adult swim he's like a lower down guy but um i know the guy put the roof on Adult Swim's. He replaced the roof, and he talked to one of the guys there. Didn't they switch buildings, though? Yeah, but he still got the guy's number. Yeah, well, he's just in the loop. You know what I mean? He's got the guy's number. I don't know how it's going to work, but it's pretty much all set.

Yeah, I hear that. Yeah, it's all set. So I fucking, I don't even know what i'm talking about anymore but i it was like the the my roommate said the day it happened my roommate's car got stuck in the middle of the road and it was stuck and he came running in and he said oh my god oh my god oh my god the car's stuck in the middle of the road and someone doesn't come over the hills we live over a hill and he's like somebody's gonna run into my car and i was like oh fuck yeah i love jobs you know what i mean yeah and i like helping And I was like, oh, fuck. Yeah, I love jobs. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I like helping.

So I was like, oh, shit. I was standing barefoot in the kitchen eating a cold quesadilla. And I put on my sneakers and he said the stairs are slippery. But that was the only thing I hold against them because the stairs were not slippery. They were impassable, unusable. Each one was a solid fucking piece of ice. impassable, unusable. Each one was a solid fucking piece of ice.

So I went outside and happily put my foot on the top step and immediately flew up in the air and landed in the air. I realized, oh my God, I am 54 years old and hovering over a set of concrete fucking steps and I am fucked. And so one step broke my rib and the other step broke my scapula, which is the piece on the back of your shoulder, the wing.

And, you know, I didn't even feel the shoulder thing because the rib hurts so much. So my only thing was I actually thought I probably broke my back. So when I stood up, I was happy. Yeah.

You're like, it's a miracle. It was really lucky. I hadn't spun all the way. Yeah. That sounds like it could have been worse. Yeah. It felt like the mundane way. I mean, you know, no one plans on getting paralyzed.

I mean, it's like, that's what it felt like. It felt like, oh, fuck, this is really dangerous. Like, when I was in the middle of slipping, I was like, oh, my fucking God. I mean, it's just like. Credit to you, man. I'm glad you're doing well. And also, I'm glad, you know, you listened to our email where he said,

get the fuck over it. You said you'd wanted to, we're doing this show. So we're doing the fucking show. Yeah. More on that later. You want to be in the big time? You're going to slip big time.

This is Hollywood. Yeah. I thought you were a professional. We'll never talk to you again. If you don't get on this zoom, what do you mean? Something's broken. Like I get it. I believe you, but like, why are on this Zoom. What do you mean something's broken? Like, I get it. I believe you.

But, like, why are you telling me that? Yeah, what does that have to do with fucking anything? You break your voice? Yeah. Tell it to your personal assistant, you scumbag. Oh, man. So, I have a GoFundMe anyway. I already made the goal, though.

And people from Daily Zeitgeist and you guys, whoever's in charge of your social media, retweeted my GoFundMe. So I'm very grateful, as usual, to the Daily Zeitgeist community because they've just been a huge part of my life in the last three, four years. Zeitgang. Yeah. And a part of theirs and a part of ours, man. Amazing people. I canceled my health insurance because I feel like I can just reach out to them. Just wing it.

Good idea. That's a good idea. Yeah, that's probably the best idea you've ever had. I'm sure your wife is an animator for one of the major movie series. Well, her work on the last five. Working on the New Avengers. Yeah. She's a stunt coordinator for the New Avengers flick.

Yeah. Yeah. I know how hollywood works kevin what's his name feige yeah yeah he gives he gives us good health insurance uh chris we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment uh first a couple of things that we would be talking about today if we ever got to them but we'll see we've already taken up a lot of time already trump jazz is getting more jazzy yeah aka he might be showing the signs of cognitive decline and we're just curious to check in where are we at with this are we good like we talked about how he kept confusing nicky haley and nancy pelosi I think, yesterday's episode.

But it just seems like it's worse. Getting more and more consistent. Like slurry. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll check in with these Stanley Quenchers. I think I want to hear what Chris has to say about the Stanley Quenchers. Yeah, we have to get to that.

All of that. I don't know what that is. Plenty more. You'll find out. But first, Chris, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history revealing about who you are? Well,

I've still been watching that guy who talks about tool tops quite a bit. Tom Ask Jim from Beneath the Plains. And I do recommend that, although it is repetitive. Once you find out that the entire world beneath your feet is made of old bottles, you eventually get over it.

Magic wanes. And they're all with them both. Bottles all the way down. It's incredible. I just think the coolest thing about it is it just gives you the impression that you can just take a little rod. He's always talking about taking a rod and sticking it in the ground. And he casually says, oh, and I was able to detect some stove ashes and glass with a rod that he sticks in the ground. And it makes it sound so.

Just feel it out. Yeah, it sounds so easy. He finds a depression in the ground and then sticks a rod in it. And he's like, oh, stove ash. Whereas if I found a depression in the ground, you know, you'd stick your fucking. Crawl in there. You'd stick your fucking probe directly into your, you know your your septic tank or whatever it is you know like he's just yeah yeah i don't understand anyway yeah that's great you know so you're still

on that that's great to hear but then the other stuff is like i don't know if you guys have ever heard of this um website called the rialto report you may have no i don't think so you never heard of the rialto report okay it's about a golden age porn and um they track down all the old porn stars and talk about them and they have a podcast that you can only get like through their website i don't know why if they got banned from other websites or something or from they can't too anyway rialto report is very good then the guy did a podcast this guy named april west i think that's his name he's kind of like this i don't know i thought he was an okay guy who was just interested in the history of porn which of course is impossible i seriously because i like podcasters

that i you know have a decent voice and like that i think are like reasonably nice people i don't want to listen to a podcast if i think the people hosting the show are dicks. Right. So that's a really good point. I genuinely like have been out on podcasts just being like, I think they might be an asshole, you know? Yeah. Yeah.

So this guy sounded reasonable. I thought he just had a really, you know, an outsized interest in 1970s and 80s pornography, which I admit I also have an outsized interest in it's very specific aesthetic so anyway he talks about it very academically as well like as if there's no horniness involved which of course is impossible anyway that he did a podcast for wondery or something called about tracy lords and i really did not like that podcast and i hated his tone it like hated it it was a very creepy podcast it was done with some other journalists and both of them came off looking like shit i couldn't even finish listening to it but it doesn't matter

rialto report what i'm saying is rialto report you know uh i'm not saying i'm a fan of their fucking people but i love this story they found about this woman named ultramax and if you go down i don't know if i can see uh miles face i can see he's on this on this website oh yeah you saw my mouth get real slack as i'm looking ultramax it's like the third one down yeah yeah and why it's like part one ultramax queen of she looks like flow from mel's diner that old show, you know, I don't even know why I'm fucking mentioning that with your audience's age. But there's no reason whatsoever. But she looks just like Flo from Mel's Diner.

So not like a bombshell or anything. She looks like a regular person. Yeah, totally like a regular woman. She looks like an older, older regular person. Yeah, she looks like she would be a politician. I assumed looking at the picture that this was a story about a politician's wife who like tried to shut down the porn industry. Yeah. Or like or like Margaret Thatcher's sister. But instead, it's Queen of the Swingers.

And she was like part of like the Long Island, like the thriving swinging scene of like wealthy manhattan and but like professional class like yeah doctors and dentists and stuff and then like also on amityville long island so it was like was basically this jewish professionals swinger culture and it is unbelievable because jewish professionals are not necessarily always you know you don't picture like a 1970s dentist being very like hot like a like a suburban dentist and they're not and neither is ultramax but they all were so horny and so out of control because of like the early 70s just being like everybody should have sex with everybody all the time and have you ever tried a rubber mallet on your dick or whatever you know like there's like you can mail order a rubber

mallet that's just for your dick wow was her name ultramax like that was her name's maxine right but but there's the whole story she named herself ultramax like that already she was like well they were gonna name me like super Maxine or something or whatever it was. And so we settled on ultra max, but just about halfway down, there's a picture of a swingers party that go down her interview and then see a picture where there's a man smoking a cigar.

And it looks kind of like one of those, like a color palettes, kind of like a dog playing cards, kind of one of those paintings. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Do you see that?

Now, blow that fucking thing up, and then just thank me. Just thank me. And also, since I have to have that image in my life, now you do, because it never will leave. Look at that fucking pageant. There is a whole, this thing is dense. It's like looking at a Where's Waldo, where it's like there's a story in every square inch of this image. Uncle Junior is like squeezing some guy's nipples in the background.

That one, I didn't even see that because I was so busy looking at that guy's cigar, which turns out is a breadstick. Oh, yeah. It's some kind of a food thing. Wow. I thought it was a penis. It looks like kind of a food thing. Wow. I thought it was a penis. It looks like a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.

I mean, it is crazy. And it's like a photograph of a home in Amityville, Long Island in 1973. And what this is all coming around to is what happened? Why was life so interesting and now it sucks? Where is the person named Ultramax having a food party and the internet ruined everything everybody in that picture would be looking at their phones instead of whatever that woman's doing rubbing down a pepperoni or you see that one lady who's like i don't think that's a pepperoni boss no but i'm serious no no no no that's what i thought too but it is a pepperoni that's the thing is like oh yeah they're doing some food stuff there yeah there there's the one guy who's tickling the one guy's nipples but

then there's the other right next to him that woman is squeezing some kind of piece of pepperoni yeah sausage or something anyway but that man the look on that man's face not to mention the size of that man's penis the one with the fucking breadstick in his mouth yeah like what kind of seduction is that like to look at a woman like that dead he has no smile on his face he looks dead angry yeah his penis is flaccid his penis is huge but it's flaccid and he has a either a giant cigar that's unlit or uh also i like the idea of guys back then couldn't even sex wasn't enough it was such a wild sex party in 73 that they were like i want to smoke while i'm having sex yeah regular regular group sex is so boring i must have a tobacco product we light up a mac and noodle yeah light up a cigar and i'm not gonna smile at all because this is an everyday occurrence that dude looks like

iggy pop kind of he does he's got iggy pop but yeah like he's got the heroin build you know yeah i think we could do an iheart radio podcast just about ultra max okay yeah and we do dramatizations i do the voice of Ultramax. I mean, I don't know. I just think that picture is something that people need to know about. That picture is amazing. It's really, and it's, you're never going to forget that. What a time. So that's my gift to you.

Well, thank you. We will link off to it with the NSFW in the footnotes. Yeah, footnotes. Oh, yeah. People are going to be falling out of the fucking Google office. Ultramax looks like a fucking icon that everybody should know about. People are going to be flipping out of their chairs at their WeWorks. Yeah.

We'll link off to the Ultramax interview and also the... Gazuga. Holy God. That's the craziest... Whatever happened to people saying gazuga? saying gazoo while we're at it people used to say gazoo when they saw a picture when a naked lady walked in yeah drop that picture into any fucking we work and see what happens gazoo.com just spitting cappuccino everywhere nespresso all right let's take a quick break we We'll come back, talk over it and under it.

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My movie didn't get salt burned, got robbed. First of all, salt burn sucks. Second of all, who cares? At this point, rich kids do all the art so these rich kids you want to give them a statue on top of everything else yeah that's that i do chris i do no and they vote on themselves who do you think votes for these oscars their parents uh rich other rich kids vote on them they don't even watch the movies they vote you know how much it costs to go to tish at nyu no okay they better get a fucking statue you know thank you that's what i'm saying i mean like end of the world stuff it's like people getting mad about their show being canceled

it's just end of the world stuff it's like you know i don't know it's just people's lives have gotten so crazily or i can't even speak. I had cold brew. I don't know why I did. I had some earlier, too. With my broken scapula. People's lives have gotten so crazily devoid of sex parties with big breadsticks and pepperoni. Yes. There's not enough people dead.

Still debatable about the pepperoni. There's not enough naked people dead staring at each other while yeah huge pieces of food yeah so anyway i don't i don't care about i mean the fact that people are invested in the oscars makes me sad um and also just the idea of people trying to be cinephiles in an age where all the movies blow i would love it i would love it if we could all be back in a time where we could be serious about movies yeah back in time square at you know, sort of grimy cinema watching Ultramax flicks. I miss being pretentious. I miss intellectual conversations.

But it's gone. Stop trying to manufacture it. Ooh, I wonder which movie this year. There's so many rich examples of get out of here. There's no movies they're good it's like one movie that's good if you're lucky right and everybody decided it was oppenheimer and for some reason barbie which i didn't see and i'm not gonna see and i can't even look at i tried to watch five seconds that movie made me want to throw up i can't even look at five

seconds i can't even look at it i saw it on fucking one of the machines you know fucking an airplane one of the one of the one of the apps oh one of the machines you know you know like disney plus or something i was at someone's house they call a streaming service and i was like oh my god i was like this looks horrible i don't care what oh god anyway Oh, look how beautiful. What's her name? Don't worry. Ultra Marvy. Rich kid. Yeah, X79. However, you know, like whatever.

The conveyor belt that rolled off. I'm not into hot people. We need to take hot people down, not give them statues. Yeah. What's her name? Margot Robbie. Yeah, Margot Robbie. Oh, yeah.

She better get a statue or else what? She'll have an even bigger ego and hit her personal assistant even harder with her phone. We cannot confirm or deny. Excuse me. Margot Robbie. No, I'm sure she seems very nice. What is something you think is underrated? My show on NPR.

Yeah. My show, Nashville Confidential. How's it going? It's, I mean, it's a dream come true. I'm looking for sponsors right now, though, because NPR, they're dealing with the same thing everybody else is dealing with, have any people don't have any money to give them like they maybe did right so they're like i i was i did three segments and to do more segments i have to have sponsors which i'm working on here in nashville but the segments i've done so far have been really fun and and and the fact that i've been on nPR, even though it's local, it's WPLN, but it's like a huge reach.

So I, I, I'm doing like, and I'm getting to sneak in some commentary. I mean, like, you know, you're not going to be able to get, you know, I'm not gonna be able to say what I want to say necessarily. Sure. But I can say a little, and I can also just, I'm also, I'm so into being on the the on the radio that i would even just do entertainment pieces because people need that too they don't just need me yelling about you know being mad at hot people or whatever so uh you know those would be the entertainment pieces yeah yeah so so the last one i did was riding the bus so i've done three the first one was the bell witch the second one was about my campaign and the third one was about the bus and the second one was about my campaign. And the third one was about the bus

and the bus one was my bus. One was my favorite because here's the idea. I was going to take the bus and I was just going to talk to people. That was the whole idea. I was like, I'm just going to talk to people. And I was like, ah, I don't know. What am I going to talk to them about? And then my friend was like, yeah, the bus, man, no one takes the bus here because the bus doesn't go anywhere. And he's like, and if you want to go to the West side, forget it. And I was like, I know because rich people don't like the bus to come near them. And in Nashville, they had a whole plan for a new bus. And the Tennessee state legislature who actually live in these rich neighborhoods outside Nashville outlawed that kind of bus because it was going to let people from my side of town get to their

side of town and that's not what they want so i decided oh shit i could do a kind of commentary in the bus trip so i said there's this botanical garden called cheekwood in west nashville and so i decided to try and take the bus to cheekwood which is from madison so i was talking about look i was talking about my neighborhood, Kratom and vape stores. And then I'm trying to go to the botanical garden and I never got there because you can't get there. You can get a mile away from it, but I even missed my stop and I ended up five miles away from it. And then I ended up in a Sprouts. I ended up in a Sprouts using the bathroom and I asked the cashier, this is my favorite part of the report actually. And it's just real subtle

because I didn't even have the, I had the mic on, but I didn favorite part of the report, actually. And it's just real subtle because I didn't even have them. I had the mic on, but I didn't have it right in front of the guy. But I just said, hey, man, can I get to Cheekwood near here? And he goes, yeah. And I said, is Cheekwood near here? And he said, yeah. And I said, he said, it's about 10 minutes by, you know, driving. It's about 10 minutes.

I said, what if I want to walk? And he goes, well, that would take three or four hours. And I said, three or four hours. And he said, that's how long it would take me. Hey man, I'm just looking at your legs and I'm just doing the math. So I just thought, I don't know why that made me laugh so hard. Just the fact that he says a 10 minute drive, but a three or four hour walk. Yeah.

We don't have a lot of experience making that conversion in our day to day lives, but I had to turn back and I went back home and the bus, I didn't want to demonize the bus because the bus actually was pleasant. Um, it just doesn't go. It really just goes down the main thoroughfares. And, um, so if you can go to, um, I'm trying to think of where I would put it.

I guess I could put a link to it somewhere. I don't know how I could do it. Or maybe you guys could link to the most recent one. Yeah. We'll link to the most recent report from Chris on Nashville Confidential. And when I was rolling down Gallatin Road, which is the dumpy road, which runs through the middle of East Nashville, which is funny because it's like all the yoga pants people just have to pretend it doesn't exist. Right. Like to fulfill their whatever.

Culture quota. Just to make them feel like they didn't get ripped off moving to Nashville after they read all the hype. And then they get there and they're like, why am I running by a payday loan place in my yoga pants? So they just pretend the payday loan place is like, I don't know what, an old cabin. Like an orange area or something. And I went by this abandoned car wash and I realized they should turn that

thing into a coffee shop. This is just on the fly while I'm going down by on the bus. And you can squirt coffee out of those fucking old water guns. And you can make fucking oat foam come out of the fucking foam brushes. Yeah. And you can turn that dial to like whatever you want. Like, you know, mocha, mocha, mocha, mocha, mocha, decaf, you know, decaf, with whip. Will you have Mocha. Triple mocha. Do you have like a with whip?

Yeah. I mean, you have to. We talked about it on my podcast. You have to get some controls in there because, you know, people can't be squirting. People's hearts are exploding. You'll lose money. Well, you'll lose money. You can't have that thing squirt. You have to limit it.

It's like a barber chair. Like a barber chair shot. Yeah. Yeah. It's not unlimited. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Just enough to do so. You got to measure. Yeah. shot. Yeah. It's not unlimited. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just enough to do something. You got to measure it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, some woman emailed me or sent me an Instagram message saying she was working in Laverne, which is somewhere outside of town here, which I don't know where it is. It's kind of like saying like, I don't know what it's like saying, but someplace outside of LA of LA that you never, you've heard of, but you've never been Laverne. So Laverne, she was coming from Laverne and she's from Knoxville and she caught that. And she goes, I love when you said about the squirting, squirting the coffee and I'm going to listen to WPLN more, which is, you know, if she does, she's not going to hear anybody else talking about that. But I was so happy, you know, that's the fun of the radio, you know, it's of the radio. There's just random people.

So business owners consider sponsoring. I've got a couple things lined up but it's not something that a corporation is necessarily going to see an obvious tie into it. I'm describing it as the Daily Show meets

What the fuck did I say? I can't remember as a show meets and then he kind of trailed off but yeah i do need a sponsor and it's not that much money it's really just covering my salary there you go anyway it's exciting and if i don't do something with national confidential on npr i i can do something with it somewhere else because I really enjoy this talking to people in public. It's really fun. Oh, and I'll tell you one thing quick.

Sorry. This guy in the bus station said, hey, can I talk to you? And I was like, or he's like, he didn't say that. He said, what's up, man? What are you doing? And I was like, I was like, he's like, I work for the sewer department. It's like that. He's smoking a lot.

I don't know how he's smoking a lot. He's only smoking one cigarette, but he's smoking a lot. And he was like, what are you doing? And I was like, I'm doing something about the bus. He's like, oh, the bus. But he didn't really say, he just kept going like, ah, yeah, the bus. You know, I was like, yeah, the bus. What do you take the bus?

He goes, yeah, I take the bus, a bus. He just kept saying the bus. And then in the middle of talking to me, a woman walks by and he goes, hey, baby. And then he tries to grab her and he misses and then he goes and then he goes sorry and then he continued to talk to me and then he said when's this gonna be on oh man oh it's a national confidential fucking hey man i should have a radio show i was like sorry sorry. Sorry. They call me Scorpion because I'm like,

come here. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Was he apologizing to you or the woman? I don't know what. No, he wasn't apologizing to the woman. He was apologizing for, I guess, to me, I i guess or some failed

attempt at charisma jesus or something i don't know sorry you had to see that man yeah i mean that was l riz right there my bad man yeah so he didn't get he didn't get on the report oh no well hey you're saving you're saving for future future reports yeah yeah exactly co-host it's really fun man i talked to a nice kid on the bus like a centrist kid because i was like he's like he's like just graduated from college um he's like a senior i was talking about the stadium being bullshit you know i said this titans deserve a worse stadium yeah because they suck and uh he's like oh we mustn't you know he was a little bit like come on he was just trying trying to, he's just making his way in the world.

I'm on the other end of the spectrum where I'm like, some kind of goat chewing cans. And he's like, fuck it, oh yeah? Are you excited about the Titans? And he's like, well, kind of.

Well, fuck you then. Yeah, you done with that can? It was a great cut. Come on, eat cans with me. Skip the middle part. So he, so the middle part, you mean my life, whatever I collect these beer cans. Yeah. So he, so he, um, I said the stadium, I said, how was the stadiums?

He said, I went to a game. I said, is the stadium falling apart? Cause you know, there's, they're building a new stadium, you know? And he said, yeah. He said, I think that there's an ulterior motive there, but that remains to be seen. And I said, remains to be seen. It's right there. You know, right away.

I was like, he's like, I was like, I can tell you, he's like, I don't understand what the scam is. I was like, I can tell you what it is. Anyway, it was just a funny contest between the two. You know, I was like, it's like, you know, their friends are going to build the bathrooms. Hey, well look, give people, look, their friends are going to build the bathrooms. Hey, well, look. Don't give it all away, man. Because people got to tune in now. You know what I mean?

Oh, it's 25 minutes long. Yeah. No, I get it. I mean, I'm fucking on NPR. Wow. You turn on NPR, there's me talking about squirting fucking coffee and breaking young people's dreams. It's me and Cokie Roberts. Destroying young people's dreams of centrist existence.

Well, I'm excited about the Titans. Why? They suck. Always will. Anyway. All right. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back We're back And Chris Crawford, do you know what a Stanley Quencher is? I don't know what that is It sounds like something for a drill Oh, interesting

It is kind of, yeah When your drill gets hot It's actually the most One of the most sought after Consumer items of the last year. You know like Stanley insulated thermoses and stuff? They've been around for over 100 years. Yeah, I was thinking about Stanley Drills.

Stanley makes a whole bunch of shit. Is it all the same? Are they also the Stanley Vacuums? Stanley Steamers? I think we tried to figure this out live on Mike before and never got anywhere. It's Stanley 1913 drinkware and gear is what they have on their website.

It feels like mostly cups. But hey, look, look, Stanley is a very common name. But yeah, this fucking quencher right has become such like a hyped consumer item that we've all I've just definitely been like scratching my head. I'm like, I kind of get it. I get that. Like anything that becomes like huge on TikTok has a potential for becoming like a vacuum. You know, what are those vacuum sealed mug or whatever? Like an insulated cup that now fetches hundreds of dollars, like on, you know, secondary websites if you're trying to buy something at an auction.

which is hundreds of dollars, like on, you know, secondary websites, if you're trying to buy something at an auction. But recently a woman in Roseville, California was arrested after just like casually filling her shopping cart with over 60 Stanley cups after a store received like a fresh shipment. And rather than paying, she just fucking bolted out the store, filled her trunk with the loot and just took off only to be caught later and when like when the cops showed up like it's so funny how cops always like to do like the bust photo where they're like this is what we recovered and we're putting it all in the hood of a car three tylenol of a police car yeah like basically over 60 cups this is like thousands of dollars of stanley mugs and she almost got away with it and we were talking on the last episode about like

what the fuck is why like why is it getting like so like so popular and after you know combing reddit and a few other blogs and reading a few other news articles it basically comes down to like a convergence of influencers on water talk you know the very like hydration centric uh sub sub community of tiktok users promoting this fucking cup along with shaking his head i've never heard of this along with these features specifically that people apparently like i see this repeatedly talked about and people like well the reason why i got a stanley is because i like that it has a handle i like that has a wide straw for drinking, like good amounts of water. It's high capacity,

and I can use it with my car's cup holder because some other cups, they're too thick. You know what I mean? Triple C thick down there to get into my cup holder where a Stanley Quencher, just, it does the job. Okay, so this leads, this is directly tied into the Oscarcar talk this is like people are going to be like why didn't stanley quencher get nominated for an oscar

they did have a barbie tie-in cup and i do believe that should have been yeah i stand yeti coolers i stand the barbie movie i stand stan Stanley steamers or whatever the fuck this is. It gets carpet cleaner, but like, so sales last year hit around $750 million. You know what they did in 2020? You know what their revenues were? 70 million. Wow.

They fucking 10 X miles. They 10 X that shit. That's fucking hockey stick growth, bro. That's hockey stick growth. Next thing you know, someone's smoking it at one of the ultra maxes parties that think it's's fucking hockey stick growth bro that's hockey stick growth you next thing you know someone's smoking it at one of ultra max's parties that think it's such a hockey stick yeah and apparently the other thing that i think is a secret here has a lot to do with you're welcome

you've inspired inspired a nation that was a tough one is the new president of stanley is the fucking previously he was the cmo at crocs and he was basically behind completely reviving the chunky slipper into a trendy item that people were losing their shit over so this dude apparently has just like the the fucking gift to be like we have a fucking genius on our hands here feels like this person should be a household name just in terms of understanding this particularly stupid version of the zeitgeist they are he is him or she is her depending on i don't know enough about the person but wow yeah yeah yeah the person is terrence riley terrence riley oh yeah damn over from crocs but yeah like it's just like become this whole thing right now the most expensive

stanley quencher i saw when i went on stock x which is like where people like hypebeast and stuff so it used to be like sneakers and like clothing now it's like fucking cups there's a one that sold for over 420 dollars for like a philippines only exclusive colorway. And that is, it's a $400 metal cup for sipping. Yeah. So it's like a Cabbage Patch doll. Exactly. It's like all product crazes. Except now people are so crazy about Cabbage Patch dolls are at least

kind of interesting. A cup? Yeah. I think it's like an adult it's like a thing that feels functional so it doesn't seem like completely like a waste to like have a ton of them because like well i use them but like for me i'm like you only need like one yeah go to goodwill man the whole store is cut off you want a cup i'll get you a cup i'm used to like a fucking mirror that looked like a captain's ship wheel. And now all there is in there is fucking cups,

just tons and tons of those fucking cups, insulated fucking cups. Yeah. And you won't want, won't don't want to buy them because it's a cup and you imagine that somehow there's going to be hepatitis in it. And so everybody just leaves them there and buys another one, which ends up in the thrift store.

So now the thrift store, not only that, people used to work in the thrift store and were handling interesting items like bird's nest replicas and whatever the fuck else used to be in there. And now all they do is cups. And they're like, how's the day at the thrift store?

And they're like, it sucks because we just deal in cups. Thank you. I feel like that mirror that looks like a captain's ship wheel is going to look really cool next to that beer can collection. I like yeah yeah but i'm looking great next to one another you go into a goodwill you're hoping to find a crazy pair of shorts not a goddamn cup metal another yeti mug that says like hashtag cup brad and barbara's 40th anniversary it's like what the fuck commemorative yet yeah and like stuff from weddings like the whole fucking t-shirt rack is like phoebe and dan's wedding or whatever it's like all 50 shirts

they bought for a nickel you know it's like everything's ruined everything is ruined people are in love with cups people want to marry cups jack i see you kind of have a hype drinking bottle that i see around a lot in LA. That O'Walla. The O'Walla right here. Oh, this bad boy? You're talking the O'Walla with the olive green draft, dark sea, Atlantic Ocean colored colorway? Colorway.

Got a built-in straw. I don't know how I feel about the built-in straw, to be honest with you. I was just thinking about that the stanley having a like removable fat boy like mcdonald's sprite sized straw is actually maybe a little bit more appealing to me because i always have the question of like there must be so much fucking mold like i don't you know like who's cleaning the inside of this like straw that is built into the side of this cup? I have a metal straw and I feel the same way. You don't have one of those. Like, I feel like all of these cups now come with like a small sort of pipe cleaner thing.

So you can really fucking clean that thing. I threw that shit away. That's my fucking worst nightmare. I think also because I grew up playing a brass instrument like trumpet like you also have to keep it like you're constantly blowing into it and when that shit gets disgusting it's like dude i'm gonna get sick from playing my own trumpet it feels like so i definitely have a thing with like getting them fucking straws clean because i just yeah bacteria i uh well now you're making me feel bad about this, Wala. But I will say that the Stanley thing, it kind of makes more sense to me after you did your research.

Because, first of all, just the number of cups that don't fit in a car's cup holder that you can buy, like a coffee cup. Yeah. Is just, like, why would that ever exist? It's a shame that we, we all need them to fit, like fit into this same size, but there, I have like multiple coffee cups that I can't bring with me anywhere because they're just like way too wide. And then you got the fat straw, you got this handle on the side. These are crucial. Yeah. So you're in, I mean, yeah, mean yeah i mean i mean not to say like i'm disappointed but i get like i think it's one of those things too it's like it's it's a thing you

if you like you get one of them but there's also now this like collector aspect now where people are like i gotta have all the fucking colors and i'm gonna spend hundreds of dollars to attain them that's when we're like oh we, we're losing the plot so quickly. So quickly. But it feels like, again, we've had water. I remember it used to be the hydro flask. That was the thing fucking everybody wanted in terms of water bottles. Is that the one that has a bag inside your shirt and a straw that comes over?

What? Do you know those? Oh, that's a camelback? Hardcore runners. Yeah, like a camelback? Hardcore like runners. Yeah, like a camelback thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know about that. I know about that.

Hydroflask just seems like a very high tech term for just like a. No, it's another metal fucking can that you drink out of. So does it like inject the water directly into your veins bypassing your mouth? No, it's a screw offoff lid that you have to manually suck from? Hydro Flask. Fucking marketing. Yeah, right? It was actually designed by NASA.

Pretty cool. I'm back in. I'm back in. I don't know. I'm going to keep my eye on these various Stanley mugs. I'm probably not going to buy anything for over $400. I'm just going to keep it reasonable.

I did have fun, Miles. Thank you for putting this story together because I've had fun just texting my wife various. You know what's funny i found one that was actually even more expensive than the fucking filipino colorway exclusive it was the parfait ombre quencher someone is listed for fucking 500 yes this is like a product i could see myself using and also to chris's point just like a a functional society does not have this happening in it well you know like a couple times you guys have said something that i'm not familiar with uh i feel like i should bring it up what is a colorway a colorway just means like

the specific like of the variety of cup so it comes in this color or this colorway is like a sneaker a combination of like a handful of colors that go and like where they're placed it's like a very usually a simple combination of colors it's with like sneakers i gotcha okay so it's another okay yeah right it's an updated color scheme it's all about yeah like what's that thing called a hydro flask. Yes, exactly. It's like the same colorway. Colorway on my hydro flask was designed by NASA and Andy Warhol. When we get to the end of the show

and I talk about what tweet I like, I'm going to talk about my own poem, which I wrote about cups, about fucking smart cups. It's in the zeitgeist. Someone wanted a poem called Smart Cups because everything, it's all about unicorns, billionaires, so we've got to reinvent something

that is not reinventable. Yeah. Because we need something, if we're going to be a billionaire, we've got to sell a lot of these things. So we've got to reinvent something that everyone needs, but is unreinventable. Yeah.

Like a cop. I feel like the tech industry went from like in Social Network, the Justin Timberlake characters like, you know what? Yeah. A million dollars is great. You know what's better? A billion dollars. Like, I feel like now the tech industry is like, you know what's fucking disgusting? A million dollars. Fucking gross.

You might as well kill yourself, dude. Yeah. You guys know Cafe Tropical? Do you remember cafe yeah sunset okay one of the places i hung out no one of the first places i hung out in la one of the only like homey places as a person from out of town you know like coming from nashville like i mean whatever i don't have to make myself sound like i'm axel rose and welcome welcome to the jungle um did walk off that bus i did used to live in new york i used to used to live in new york so i mean it wasn't like but i mean it was just like a homey kind of place yeah and then it got bought and it got turned into like they remade it and ruined it and they kept some of the staff and the staff was all in there unhappy because they previously it's almost it was all hispanic and they changed the decor into like modern fucking blue bottle you know fucking like really yeah and then now it's out of business and

i'll tell you why it went out of business and that's the interesting thing it's just that the son of some lady who had a restaurant for 40 years like a mexican restaurant her dumb ass son who undoubtedly grew up like i think pretty wealthy because this is a very successful restaurant he somehow managed to get his name on the like she wrote him into the restaurant that they lived i mean that they lived they ran so he ended up like with a piece of the restaurant. He leveraged that into like buying 12 businesses because he was trying to be a mogul. And in the process, bankrupted everything, including his mom's business that she had his whole life that gave him. So I just think that was a perfect example of this. This this son who's been infected with this this billionaire culture thinks oh my

mom has a restaurant and that affords us a living but that's not enough i want to be a goddamn baller so i'm gonna fucking take my mom's money without telling her and then buy a bunch of restaurants and bars get drunk do coke lose it all and in the process wipe out cafe tropical so the lesson is kids i can't i don't know what the lesson is settle down settle the fuck down don't only go to like places and you know stability what about stability yeah does it all have to be let it all ride so you can there's can coke definitely a personal actualization you know movement that is just all about telling people yes and sometimes yeah do we have a good idea how about when your friend says let's reinvent the cup you say fuck you hey what i got

this idea fuck off right all ideas at this point garbage. I don't even want to hear what they are. Yeah. We've already reached peak civilization. Now we need to settle the fuck down. For real. That's right. No, I don't want to hear your idea, Justin, or whatever your name is. No offense, Justin Connor, the producer of the show.

Josh, I think would be his name. Yeah, Josh. Whatever, Josh. I don't want to hear your idea for socks and stay up longer than other socks super socks yeah ultra socks yeah like shave dollar shave club or whatever is dollar shave club gonna be delivering after the apocalypse yeah it is actually they just totally disrupted that industry they fucking crushed it dog i know're joking, but that's actually not funny to joke about because Dollar Shave Club crushed it, dog. Fuck.

I hit home. Jack's like, Jack got Dollar Shave Club shit all over his house. When I talk to people who are in finance, they will get mad if you make fun of somebody who's successful sometimes. Actually actually he's

disrupting and like killing it so i don't know what you're talking about really like you sound crazy by criticizing him that's my favorite part of like the submarine that exploded uh those idiots there's so many things to choose from my favorite part they said that they disrupted like the safety protocol like there's certain things you're not supposed. They said that they disrupted like the safety protocol. Like there's certain things you're not supposed to disrupt. Yeah. That's one of, one of those things.

I'm disrupting deep sea diving. No, no, don't disrupt that. Please don't do that. Uh, Chris Crofton, as always truly, uh,

wonderful and chaotic to have you on the daily. Thank you. So fun to be back. Always miss it. I love being back on. Love you guys. We so fun to be back yeah always miss it i love being back on love you guys we love you we hope you continue to heal uh where can people find you and is there a work of media you've been enjoying you can find me on uh instagram and at the crofton show and you can find me at twitter still at the crofton show still hanging on that thing i don't

want to start another goddamn thing yeah and uh you can find me at uh if you go to wpln.org you can find the nashville confidential show if you kind of poke around it's part of this show called this is nashville we'll link off to it and thanks and then um you know you can go uh buy my buy my record if you want uh hello it's me you can buy it from my my label uh arrowhawk records and um yeah my book go buy my book too and i'm going on to i'm going on tour opening for neil hamburger in may and uh and i'm hitting minneapolis and stuff oh amazing so that's exciting and i just gang there i just toured with them yeah i've already got some people saying i'm finally gonna meet you know that's so fun that That's great. So that's it.

Amazing. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yeah, I'm going to talk about this, my own poem, because I can't, I don't ever get ready for this part. This is a, every time I'm on this show, I'm always like at this part, I don't know why I just disdain this. I just can't, for some reason, get my head around it. But this is about cups. And it's a poem I wrote on Poetry Window the other day called Smart Mugs. Someone who, I bet you anything listens to this show,

someone named Chicken Enthusiast said smart mugs was the topic they wanted for Poetry Window. So I wrote, quote, I wish my mug did something. You know, it's depressing that it's just like fully realized. It makes me think of death. You know what I mean? I don't like things that are simple and effective. They're disheartening. That's.

Bang. It's all to distract us from death. I have been coming to that realization of late. That's all I think about. Not a fun realization to come to. I just fell down. I know. I'm hashtag death all the way.

Amazing. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, find me at milesofgray all over the at bound world. Find Jack and I on our basketball podcast. Miles and Jack got mad boosties. You can also find me at Miles of Grey all over the at-bound world. Find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack on Mad Boosties. You can also find me on 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexander talking about 90 Day Fiance. And also, hey, I haven't talked about it in a while, but check out The Good Thief. That was a true crime show I did about the Greek Robin Hood who was robbing the rich and giving it back.

And it's a true story. A tweet I like is from Samantha Ruddy at Sam Lee Matters tweeted, I got laid off yesterday. It's a blur, but when I got on the Zoom call with my manager and saw an HR guy was also there, I'm 90% sure I said, ah, shit, you got me. Well, you got my ass. Ah, shit, you got my ass Ah shit you got me

Yeah it's like when Joe Pesci knows When he's about to get whacked Good fellas Yeah Tweet I've been enjoying Sorry I was going to say one thing real quick In case anybody wants to watch a really good movie that's on Tubi Bare Knuckles

It's a 1970s exploitation action movie. And I just wanted to, I forgot to mention in the beginning. It's called Bare Knuckles. And it's fucking great. It's bad, but it's great. The acting in it's great. Anyway, sorry about that. That sounds great. Julia Clare tweeted, adults should not be twins

being twins is for children. It's just, I like a strong opinion. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes.

We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy yeah uh this is uh a track from jordan rakai r-a-k-e-i it's called freedom i think it just came out recently i heard on the radio and it's actually a really got this dude's got a great voice and i really love the instrumentation and a little bit of good good rhythm section in there too so check this song out it's called freedom jordan rakai good one just to get your get your day keep keep your day going with some good music it's about braveheart yeah yeah yeah it's just basically he's using all samples from the movie to create the beat

tight dude yeah that's cool did you say you discovered it on the radio yeah yeah yeah yeah i turn it on sometimes yeah i know it's kind of wild i heard it from my cup i like you know i just like taking it back to the 70s recommended i heard it from my cup yeah my ai cup is always listening to me and then it just you know checks my vibe and suggests different songs for me precisely on a daily basis precisely all right well the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen your favorite shows that is going to do it for us this morning we are back this afternoon to tell you what is trending and we'll talk to y'all then. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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