The Daily Zeitgeist - Student Muckrakers, RIP NRA? 8.7.20

Episode Date: August 7, 2020

In episode 689. Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Chris Crofton to discuss Attorney General of New York Letitia James coming for the NRA, social media apps taking down Trump videos with misinformation, school's reopening, house parties in the time of Covid, what we are watching for Monday, and more!FOOTNOTES: New York seeks to break up National Rifle Association, alleging financial mismanagement New York attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA Facebook and Twitter removed a Trump video for Covid misinfo — and it revealed something about Fox News Two Students Say They Were Suspended From Their Georgia High School For Posting Photos Of Crowded Hallways City to cut power, water to hosts of huge pandemic house parties, Los Angeles warns An 'irresponsible act': Nashville officials may prosecute Fashion House party organizers WATCH: TNGHT - DOLLAZ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Leo. And he's not here, so he's just going to hear this on the edit. Happy birthday to you. Yeah, Dan, actually cut that out because that wasn't for the listeners. Yeah, yeah, please cut. Please cut that. That was just a personal message to you.

We don't want the listeners getting wind of your birthday and sending you any kind of salutations or whatever. Right. That's against the NCAA rules. We keep an NCAA rules guideline above on all of our podcasts. Also, when are you going to sign that Adidas deal, man? Got to get that done. Hey, guys.

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It's been way too damn long. Get your cold brew ready. Get your YouTubes ready. Crofton coming. He is the hilarious, the talented Mr. Chris Crofton. Whoa. Then he throws up. He's going to do it. What? talented mr chris crofton whoa good man you just froze for a second there oh there you go oh no really yeah yeah we'll get the audio you just won't get our response yeah for a second whatever you just said the best intro and it was frozen it looked like you had dropped your phone

but hey that's the beauty of doing this now in 2020 that's right man hey guys uh it's miles and jack in the future uh you might be wondering why we're interjecting here uh so what you're about to hear the the audio quality uh the audio quality is not great coming from our good friend Chris Crofton. It's a full-on Chris Crofton episode. Chris is a total wild card, and that extends to his audio in this episode. Yeah. So just brace your ears because we figured rather than have everyone tweet us to make sure we know what we're hearing, yes, we do.

But that's the cold brew chaos that mr crofton brings he is speaking into a microphone the whole time uh we are forced to assume that the microphone was plugged into his belly button or uh just a house plant nearby or something uh because it didn't did not uh come through um but anyways either fun episode as always with chris it's just a bit of a mess from a audio quality standpoint but you will be hearing what we heard uh because this is what we were dealing with so just please enjoy this experience uh embrace it for what it is it's consider it something different uh for your sonic power this is actually a gift we gave to dj daniel on his birthday the hardest episode ever to clean up uh anyways uh back to our regularly scheduled program if you can call it 2020 this is um yeah this is this whole setup that we got here just the year 2020 well

well no i mean the whole yeah the year 2020 is fucked but uh for me as a as an uh older gentleman uh this is uh a nightmare i mean like you know to try and do any kind of show business for me, you know, I'm more used to, I mean, using wires and stuff

is not my favorite thing. I mean, I'm like eating a bowl of spaghetti over here. I got

a fucking Chromebook. I bought a laptop. I bought a laptop and I didn't open it for. I bought a laptop. I bought a laptop. I bought a laptop. And I didn't open it for a month and a half. Nice. Because I was intimidated.

Oh, yeah. Just you didn't know what was going to go. In your mind, what was the worst case scenario idea that you know didn't make sense, but you were in your mind like, but that could happen. That's why I'm not opening this thing. If it was good, I was going to ask them if I wanted to use court, Tom. in the sink if it was good I was going to ask them if I wanted

to use Cortana I mean every question in the setup part to me they were like do you want to use your information

to tell us if your computer's broken and I was like no and then they were like well what about using your

information to craft a better internet experience and I was like yes and then they were like well what about what about using your information to craft a better internet experience? And I was like, yes. And then they were like, well, what about your – I was like, I kept drawing, like, firm lines. And then, like, in the next question, back me off. I felt tricked.

Like, I feel manipulated. Right, right, right. They're like, do you want to give your information to us? No. Right. And then they're like, well, what about if you like golf and you want to get golf bag advertisements? your user experience by 0.05 percent right right i was just afraid of the whole process because honestly i just don't know anything about uh laptops beyond you know once you get past emailing um and um like you know checking yahoo

my favorite social media messenger Yahoo Messenger. Checking my AngelFire page where you can find all my tour dates. See the hit counter at the bottom of my blog. And it does this cool thing when you bring the cursor over it, it sparkles like a magic wand. Animated. Animated cursors. So I didn't open it.

And the landlord where I live, his son kept checking to see if I opened the laptop. He's like, does he see? And he was excited about the laptop. Whereas I was sad about it. Like, I just kept looking at it and being like, fuck you, laptop. It sounds like the shittiest Pixar movie.

And the kid kept saying, the kid kept saying, like, you know, like, have you opened your laptop yet? He's like, let me open it like he was excited oh he was that kid at the birthday who wanted to open your gifts you're like bro this is my birthday for which is my chromebook yeah he's like you got a brand new laptop you should be excited not sad yeah i would have paid to see you do an unboxing video of your Chromebook. That was the cause of so much torment. Just pure confusion as opposed to any anticipation. That's your new wave, Chris. Unboxing videos on YouTube where you hate everything and you don't even open them because you're pissed.

That's such a good idea. So I spent $1,100 of stimulus money or whatever on this fucking laptop. Because I figure, well, anyway, I bought this thing for $1,100. It's a lot of money. You buy something for $1,100, usually you'd be happy about it. But instead, it made me nervous and upset. Well, you're going to make all that money back anyways. On that laptop, you're going to build a...

You're probably going to build a webpage. You got an OnlyFans yet? That sounds like you guys are Philadelphia-y. Alright, 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'll talk about. If we have time, we'll talk about uh if we have time we'll talk about the uh new york attorney general leticia james uh just

setting her sights on the destruction of the nra uh queen we're going to talk about facebook uh twitter pulling videos of the president down uh just things he said in a fox news interview are uh illegal like you can't even say them on twitter and facebook the place where you can say almost dead anything yeah we're gonna look at america's schools as they reopen uh looking good there uh we're gonna talk about the uh the parties that are going on in in LA that miles and I have been hitting up yeah in the Hollywood Hills we're gonna really sick I know we're gonna stand by this Paris Hilton you suck as a DJ I hate to say a Paris but you that party was lame last night girl she knows that you say it with love though yeah

yeah no we're gonna talk about some of the parties that are going on around the country, how people are trying to fight against it. Shut down the party? Shut them down. I mean, the Beastie Boys already indoctrinated us years ago, man, because we got to fight for the right party, man. That's right. It's just so much stuff that used to be acceptable levels of stupidity is no longer fun. And people are having a difficult time making that transition. Yeah.

So we'll talk about that. And we'll also figure out what we're watching over the weekend. But first, Chris Crofton, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, as you know, YouTube is my main way of passing the time even without a coronavirus. So,

I guess it's a YouTube thing. Usually I search for things on YouTube. So, my latest thing, and I hate to kick off the show on a morbid note, but I mean, what doesn't have a morbid note right now? So NASCAR fatalities. Jesus, Chris.

It used to be something like mudlarking and Bigfoot. Yeah, wait, what do you mean? So what happened? What were you thinking about? Like the fatality, like how many people drive, like how many drivers are casualties? I don't know. I like watching them crash are casualties? No, no. I like watching them crash and die. Jesus, Chris.

Well, you can't see them die. Right. You sound like 19-year-old me watching nothingtoxic.com, those awful websites. Dude, but you don't see them. You just know, just like, oh, it's an R.

It's me in 1997 watching Rotten.com. Yeah, right. I was working at the Associates. You go into Rotten.com. Oh, yeah. No, because, I mean, I watched it. I watched the Daytona 500 in its entirety. I don't know if I told you guys that.

1981. There's a whole lot of Daytona 500s on YouTube in their entirety. And if you don't know how they ended, which I sure as hell don't. I wasn't watching the Daytona 500 in 1980. Yeah. It's great. I watched the entire NASCAR race

one day. Okay, maybe I should say that. NASCAR in general. But all you're really waiting for in a NASCAR race is for someone to crash, because otherwise it's just, you know, announcers talking about... Cars driving in cycles. It's just boring, yeah. I mean, like, the 1981 Daytona 500, for example,

the announcers talk about how windy it is for, like, the whole... That's all they talk about. And it's three hours and something. I watched the whole thing. I mean, I was doing something else at the same time but what do you think you recommend uh you i was doing something on the back yeah yeah we get it we get it chris chris what is something you think is overrated oh let me just real quick say, just because I don't sound like a murderer, I don't just... I also watched

that guy open old cans of food still. Of course. Of course. Just for the record, yeah, because we have new listeners. Go back to other Chris Crofton episodes. For the record, I mean, crashes kind of are in your wheelhouse because you also got me to watch that documentary

of the dude who was flying over the river in that car, and that didn't go over. Yeah, I like cars. They're old school, maybe. I like cars. I don't really care if people die. I guess I just like to watch the crash. Yeah, you fit right in with America's leaders.

I still feel like that's just a terrible thing to kick the show off with. Anyway, New England Wildlife and More. Go watch New England Wildlife and More, because he's the guy who opens the old cans of food and he has the nerve to call his channel, his YouTube channel New England Wildlife and More even though he never does anything

with wildlife. It's always the Ann Moore and the Ann Moore is always eating old food from the 1960s. Ann Moore is actually old Dinty Moore cans of food. He buries the lead in his YouTube. Chris, what is a food that holds up surprisingly well based on his channel? Oh, pretty much all of them.

He's always pleasantly surprised. And it's like from the 60s. Wow. Yeah, 60s, 50s. I mean, he just takes a little taste And then he says oh I don't know if I should have done that But he does it every time What's something you think is overrated Chris?

Something I think is overrated Overrated is seeing people Okay Like physically As everyone does that I was thinking about you know isolation you know like overrated is um seeing people like you don't need to see them really it turns out yeah you're just good you've been good with this whole uh quarantine thing i mean

my favorite thing is my friend i have a friend who's like, he's a recovered alcoholic like me, and recovered alcoholics work big on feelings to begin with. You're just sort of starting to come out of your shell, and you really like to be by yourself a lot. So he was just like, the whole world has basically come around in my way of living.

He's like, this is the greatest thing that's ever happened. He said, when we were talking about opening back up, he told me, he said, Chris, I just want to say, wait a minute. This is working. Which I just thought was such an interesting perspective. And obviously an insane perspective because i really like being by myself i mean my mood's up and down and i thank god for hiking i was about to say some underrated overrated is seeing people and underrated is hiking i have had a complete awakening to nature

as a result of this i dead seriously really i always considered yes i always considered hiking to be a chore because my father growing up made fun of people who can't wait what do you mean wait what is that just just paint a picture for me of a scene in which you're a child and your dad is going he's going out of his way to make fun of people that are camping oh my god my dad my dad suffered from depression so all you want to do is sleep so he basically tried to make it seem like he was a genius and everyone else in the world was a moron so he was just like if you're not asleep you're an idiot blanket statement right oh no for real like explicitly when i was like 6 years old he's like look at these idiots camping what are you doing

you got your house all ready with all the stuff and then you're going to take your stuff somewhere else get out of here we got a stove right here you want to use a miniature stove in the woods no thank you Austin thank you very much

so I grew up thinking i hated the outdoors because it was a hassle right right and it's dirty and hot anyone ever asked me to hike i always thought to myself oh i'll do it but i don't want to do it because it's i feel like you may have even said that as an overrated at some point on the show i feel like i've heard you talk spicy about hiking before. Like when you say that, or maybe that could just be a general comedian thing, because I don't think... Actually, when I was dating you, you got to kayak to get laid in California. I don't like that.

Yeah. You know, it's like, is there some way to get laid in California without kayaking? That was like a stand-up joke. From 2002. It's like, no, it's likeaking? That was like a stand-up joke. From 2002. It's like, no, it's like this guy. He was a stand-up. So everybody hates me. So that's why I'm alone here with this microphone.

So I have been having the time of my life hiking. Every day I hike. I've seen about a million bears really i've hiked every single oh my god i see oh that's right because you had a whole saga play out uh on your social media tons of tons of bears it's still going i saw a bear uh a bear ripped the door off the back of my our house today i mean the back of our fence. I woke up this morning and there was a cat licking all the garbage in the yard and it was because a bear came and ripped

a pretty good sized gate off the back fence and came in and turned it over the garbage cans. Wow. So that's not normal. But they're not constantly doing that because I put so many bears on my Instagram at this point that people from Tennessee that I know are like,

how do you live out there? Are you just like bobbing weeds? Yeah, head on a swivel. Right. Yeah, yeah, it's not like that. But I've seen quite a few bears. But the main thing is, truly, I actually enjoy nature, which I feel like is a gift from this stupid pandemic

what was the thing that you were missing like what aspect of being in nature did you get in touch with exactly that you found so nourishing it's a shift it's a shift in perspective because if you consider something to be something you don't want to do

and you kind of keep that in your mind the whole time, you'll do it. But you'll be like, oh, I can't wait for this to be over with. And then now I had nothing else. So there was nothing else. I was like, oh, I just sort of. It was a perspective shift. All of a sudden I found myself open to the experience instead of trashing the experience in my head like usually i'm like oh i'll go on a hike if a girl wants to go and then i'll just put up with it but i really would rather be in a coffee shop well now there's

no coffee shops so i just didn't have that mindset and then i was like oh this is better than a coffee shop right that was like me and exercising like, whoa, taking care of my body. It's incredible. I mean, it's a real thing. Because I definitely had a Chris Crofton's dad mentality of like,

why, man? I'm on the couch, baby. You know what I mean? Bring the world to me. Yeah. And you look weird. Watch a nature documentary. Right, right.

And then I'm like, oh, my back hurts all the time because I don't stand up most of the day. Now I'm doing it all, baby. You were like, there's nothing I can do about that. Yeah.

Better smoke some more. Maybe it'll relax my back more. That's why I love drinking. Yeah, it'll relax you more. Drinking was for everything. My friend was an alcoholic. I thought he was having a heart attack for real. And asked for a beer and drank it.

And then he was sitting there in his chair going like, oh, I feel better. I was like, you didn't have a heart attack. You had an alcoholic attack. Some kind of thing. So anyway, I'm a nature freak now. I mean, I take it seriously. I hike every day for about an hour and a half.

I met a girl in the woods. All right. That's weird. She's not normal. She's not normal. No, she's not normal. She was like, she doesn't say anything, and then she walked by me real fast. And then one day she was like, can you help me?

I left my backpack in a tree, and I had to walk back in the middle of the night in the dark to help this girl because she didn't have a light. And I walked her back into the woods, and we both almost died. There was rustling in the middle of the night in the dark to help this girl because she didn't have a light. I walked her back into the woods and we both almost died. There was rustling in the woods. I've had some I don't want to take up the whole show but there's been a lot going on. Get out in the woods people.

Get out in the woods, meet people. Be a good Samaritan. Be the woods Samaritan. What's a myth Chris? What's something people think is true you know to be true? A myth? Oh yeah, I don't know if there... I think some people probably think Glass Houses by Billy Joel, that album, isn't that good. And I can share that myth and tell you besides the hiking, it's the only thing that's been keeping me going. If anyone wants to get this pandemic in the ass

and get a fresh perspective just blast off elena and get out of the trail meet a woman who's left her backpack in a tree in the middle of the night and go take her there and help her out yeah i can also i can also vouch for all of that. Yep. How I met my wife. Is that album content? I don't know the Billy Joel discography enough. Is Glass Houses seen as just a shit album?

No, it's not. It's just, but it's not, it's not considered one of the most powerful elixirs on the earth. Right, right. I love Don't. One of the most powerful elixirs on the earth right right i love don't wait the most powerful elixirs which it is thank you don't ask me why is one of my favorite billy joel songs i i was more of a greatest hits fan growing up but uh well you're a little younger yeah glasshouse glasshouses came

out in 1980 so i was like in sixth fifth grade probably I mean, it's not like I'm not, I wasn't like in the arena with a lighter. But I did. But that record had You may be right. I may be crazy. But it just may be a lunatic

you're looking for. I mean, just like, it's all toxic masculinity. But everything before, you know, like 2000, actually, whatever. It's all toxic stuff if you really examine it. But, you know, it's all just like, if you want a man, it's a little unpredictable. You're describing a really unstable relationship. Yeah, yeah, no, it's all that. It's all that shit. It's just like, if you look at it yeah no it's all that it's all that shit it's just like if you look at it now it's just like the same it's like god women must have been

so annoyed through every period of time until well pretty much now for yeah like it's amazing because they'll men shut the fuck up yeah they just had to listen to men be like i'm horny and a little bit drunk it's also a great example of like just sums up Billy Joel in the sense that it's full of really like great songs but it also like the album cover sums up like what's not cool

about Billy Joel because it is it's called Glass Houses and the cover is a shot from behind of him holding a rock getting ready to throw it into a glass house oh yeah and his throwing form is off though

his throwing form bad he's kind of a little misshapen kind of a man but he that's his house I like looked into the liner notes like I don't know if they had a great glass wall, but he's like, I realized when I was writing the record,

I lived in a glass house. Oh my God. Chuck Glasterman. At that point, you're like, the journalist is like, dude, shut the fuck up. Thank you. Oh, wow. And you know he told that.

At a cocktail party or whatever. And you won't believe this as I'm writing it. Don't say it. He's going to say it. Don't say it. He's going to say it. Christie Brinkley. I actually, it turns out the title of my record.

Oh, no, he's going to say the same thing he said in Rolling Stone. Yeah. He sold 7.1 million copies in the U.S. alone. It's interesting. There's a great Chuck Klosterman essay about Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen, like comparing the two of them and how Billy Joel is sold about the same amount of records at their peak. Songs, like if you look at them song for song, they both have comparably really good songs that stand the test of time. But Billy Joel's just not cool.

So he just doesn't get the respect that Bruce Springsteen does. He doesn't have that folklore hero vibe to him. Right, exactly. Billy Joel on this album cover is wearing bootcut jeans. I feel like you'd never see Bruce Springsteen in bootcut jeans. Well, I think Billy Joel had a little bit of a problem with getting

dressed because he is like he's kind of shaped weird. He's very small. I think he just had trouble probably. His stylist probably didn't know what to do with him. They were always kind of like was all, they were always kind of like,

try these bootcut jeans. He's like, do I always have to wear bootcut jeans? The stylist always was, I don't know. Otherwise they'll see the stilts. Just cuff them, just cuff them. He was like, does this look good? And the stylist was like, eh, good enough, I guess. Look, you're not Springsteen, man.

I wouldn't think about it too much. But I love Billy Joel for real. He's a great songwriter. I recommend that record. And I recommend especially All For Lena. That song, All For Lena. Go on a hike and put on All For Lena and just do your best. Sorry.

Do your best. Yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about. Listen, that's how I grew up. I was the kid in the house that had to like make it so my parents didn't get divorced. So for me, this is a very hard time. I'm like, I'm telling everybody how I'm not kidding. I was the kid in the house that my parents were like, we're going to get divorced unless you do a joke. Oh, my God.

It was like that kind of thing. And then I would like do a joke or whatever. And they'd be like, you saved our marriage. So for me, this time is just like, I'm always like, there's a way to look joke or whatever. And they'd be like, you saved our marriage. So for me, this time is just like, I'm always like, there's a way to look at it where it's going to be okay, mom.

And I'm sure that hasn't tinged your engagement with comedy as a career in any way. Negative. Probably not. I don't think so. Great. All right, Chris,

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wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And New York Attorney General Letitia James announced yesterday morning that she plans to destroy the NRA. Very subtle. She said, we seek to dissolve the NRA because no organization is above the law. But basically, she's pointing out all these different ways that they're technically a nonprofit and they are using money that is donated to them to go on vacations. Their leadership team is just wildly corrupt. And that's not shocking as they are a conservative political group. But I don't know.

I guess it's tough for me to tell at this early stage if this is a get Capone on tax evasion type of master stroke or if we're just doing gun rights people a favor by pointing out how brutally and thoroughly corrupt and incompetent their main organization is i don't know i uh i mean i think at the very least it's like one of those things where it could be and then you can also just like look i'm just enforcing the law uh and they're wildly corrupt and that's what i'm here for and like when you like you look at how like they would they had to blow through 64 million dollars to like get their balance sheet to be in a deficit it's like all right fuck it trips to the bahamas private jets uh this that whatever you need like we gotta we gotta get we gotta turn 65 64 million to get us in the fucking red uh that must have been fun that must have been yeah yeah so they

were intentionally getting into the red is that the idea yeah they were saying like that's one of the things about just sort of all the mismanagement is sort of like you because you needed you wanted to turn like look all kinds of things that were going on it's like since like wayne lapierre uh like the way he compensates himself what he does for his wife to have hair makeup all these things just like on its face it's like uh it's like you know it's like any church mega church yeah it feels like a mega church i was just about to say it feels very mega churchy yeah yeah for sure my first thought was that it's so interesting i read that i read the headline before before we started talking today and i the first thing i thought was i actually tensed up because i was

like oh the right wing is gonna make this like oh um you know more of this liberals are trying to take away all our institutions i mean that's that's, they're going to frame it as like, Oh, another overreach by a crazed progressive to steal one of the foundations of America. Even though, you know, they say that about everything. I mean, NRA is not like a founded,

like they act like the NRA was founded by the founding fathers or something. Yeah. Like Paul Revere, like he started the NRA. Yeah. First of all, they act like the Founding Fathers are God, only selectively, of course, unless they disagree

with something. But anyway, I just thought the only thing you can do is keep pushing. It doesn't matter what these people say. This is a moment where you just got to keep doing the right thing. It doesn't matter whether the right wing says you're a goddamn doing it for theater. I just say I just think it's interesting. It doesn't matter whether the right wing says you're a goddamn doing it for theater or, you know,

I mean, I, I just say, I just think it's interesting. My first thought was to get nervous. I'm like, Oh, the right wing is going to say this is,

this is going to feed the fire for the right wing, but everything feeds the fire for the right wing. So fuck them and just go and do it. Just keep, keep taking them down. Yeah. I mean, it's,

it's so true. Like, cause I think a lot of the things that are happening in the news and just in the last few months, it does feel like they're taking every it's NRA. But, you know, I think that it's it's that fear of just the outlash that pushes, you know, would be progressives to the center and then just, you know, puts us in a state of inertia. Like we're inert and we're not able like we're looking at this cycle cycle of violence happening over and over like i don't know i don't know but yeah to that point uh it seems like more people have the will to just not care anymore because it's really about what is the purpose is of all of the things that we do and what like morally what we're about rather than politically what it means yes yeah but it's hard it's hard yeah you face this awful you know

anyway i mean whether they're not whether they're wrong or right i mean the the bottom line is like these ultra conservatives are going to look at this as another step in like the erasure of their culture um by liberals and things like that so i mean and yeah unfortunately there's no there's no way you can explain to them to look at it differently aside from thinking about statistically what's going on what they are what kind of violence they enable as an organization and what's best for all people in the country yeah it's a garbage organization um it's a garbage, and I'm sure it is just a funnel for money.

They're just psyched to have... They have money for some vague reason. What's their reason? The gun industry is doing fine. You don't need the NRA. It's like, you know, the NRA is just some... I'm sure it's just a slush fund for whoever. Yeah, and a massively

organized lobbying arm for the gun industry that can activate many, many people to like jam the phone lines on Capitol Hill or whatever, or give that impression, which is one of the most effective part of them is their ability to mobilize their members to scare legislators out of any kind of like functional gun control or gun reform. out of any kind of like functional gun control or gun reform. Yeah, I guess I'll say one thing quickly. And it's just, and I'm not pushing, you know, I'm not here to talk about alcoholism, but I do find that some of these things that I learned from getting sober applied to this pandemic in the sense that,

and to politics as well, because what AA is about is like, or fuck AA, I don't want to bring them into it, but just the idea of recovery is that you stood up and you show up and you put one foot in front of the other, kind of regardless of anything. It's like, it's almost like, you know, it's like, are you going to stay sober? It's like, you don't even think about that. You just, you just take it one day at a time. And I feel like the approach to all this is to be fearless. Everything's telling you that foot in front of the other and seeing what happens. And I've always thought that was one of my favorite things about recovering was just this idea of doing what you kind of don't want to do because you really want to stay home and hide under a pile of coats. But if you get out and you just keep taking those steps, people will get the fuck out of your way.

I mean, sometimes. And you move towards something good. Yeah, you just keep moving. And it might feel wrong, but you just keep moving and you keep moving righteously but from a broad systemic perspective i i also want to emphasize what you guys were saying at first that you know the like that there was a period i think that we're just coming to the end of where the republicans were not making good faith arguments or like the right was not making good faith arguments. And people like the Democrats and the center left were trying to make like trying to argue and, you know, be like, OK, they're going to say this, but we're going to say that. to say that and um you know i i always talk about this article from like very early on in the trump administration that talked about somebody knowing that america was in trouble with the attempt to

pass obamacare because all the republicans were just immediately like strategically against it no matter what like they just wouldn't like have the conversation in the first place and so like what we're talking about is essentially going like being like okay they won't make good faith arguments so we will no longer make good faith arguments but that is overall in a totem a bad thing right like that's it's the hand is being forced by the right wing but that's why this whole kind of right wing strategy is dangerous is because it forces the other side to then nobody's talking to each other everyone's talking past each other wait so you're saying that this attempt at dissolving it is a bad faith argument or what what are you saying no no i guess just uh what chris was talking about when he was like,

yeah, at first I was like, what are the, what's their argument going to be? But now he realizes that like, we, we can't do that. And I agree,

we can't do that. But at the same time, like that's, well, what are you supposed to say? If you just statistically say like, you know, so many,

like there's a new report from the secret service said a lot of mass shootings are uh carried out with illegal guns like that were illegally obtained and you say the reason why we have to crank down on these things is because you know like where's the bad faith in that aside from that you're dealing with somebody who is completely unwilling or unopened to engage like on some you know level playing field of like you're saying, you may have your perspective on things and I have mine, but let's both sit at this table that we agree is a table and the things that are on it are facts and that we are dealing in those things.

Right. Because that's just the way that the conservatives are able to manipulate Democrats is just because they're saying like, well, I'm just going to sit in this position of bad faith, but then the onus is on you to try and convince me, and you know damn well it's not going to happen because I'm just going to laugh at you everything you say. Yeah. I'm just saying

that's a casualty of the way that the right wing has been moving for the past 20 years, basically. I personally think that guns in America should be regulated the way they are in the UK and that you should be able to get like a single pump shotgun for hunting and that's it. But that's just me.

You can't argue with people who's just in their response to everything in the end is they just say, what about Chicago? What about, what about, what about, what about? They're just full of shit. They're full of shit. It's just tough, yeah. So very frustrating, very frustrating to engage people on that level. Let's talk about schools opening back up. That's something that has been sort of the conversation as it relates to the global pandemic that we are the hotspot of as a country.

you know, the global pandemic that we are the hot spot of as a country. The newest way that that is manifested is, you know, people on Trump's side of things saying, we just need to open schools like kids are kids are going to be fine. And other people, people more on the scientific side saying that's, you know, you that's absolute horseshit yeah that's absolute horseshit and the like you cannot open schools without like massive massive changes to the way things are being done at those schools yeah so we got a brief window into what uh at least one school district is looking like as they reopen. And it looks exactly like every school I've ever been to. Looks like January 2020. Yeah.

It's just nothing. Right. Just maybe a little more crowded for some reason. So, yeah, I mean, there has been all these talks, like whether it's, you know, Pence, he was praising this like private school in North Carolina saying, like, it's the model for reopening. Cut to they had to quarantine entire like fourth grade class because one of the students tested positive coming to school. And they're like, OK, so it's not the easiest thing.

And then with this, there's this image. I think I referred to it maybe yesterday or the day before, but from North Paulding High School in Georgia. And it's just like, you know, to our point, it doesn't look like anything is different. And there was one photo that went viral. There's another video that people were looking at from this same high school. And it turns out that the two students who posted those, they have been from school for for posting those images uh and you know hannah waters is a 15 year old she was one of the people who spoke to like buzzfeed and was like identifying herself when they asked her why what explanation did they give you for just

post it's basically a social media post you know you're just saying like oh here look up look at my school though doesn't look like social distancing or masks you know that was sort of like the thrust of the post. It was told that, quote, the policies I broke stated that I used my phone in the hallway without permission, used my phone for social media and posting pictures of minors without consent. That's the way they went with it. And then they go on to say that on Wednesday at the school, an intercom announcement at the school from principal Gabe Carmona said any student found criticizing the school on social media could face discipline. I mean,

so that's fascism. Yeah. I mean, they're just treating students like enemies of fascism. Yeah. Enemies of the state who are like dissident journalists. Who's like muck raking is going to bring down this great society. Like what the fuck are they on it?

The, this student who is 15 fucking years old, mind you, muckraking is going to bring down this great society. Like what the fuck are they on it? The, this student who is 15 fucking years old, mind you, she said she took the photos to raise awareness of how her school quote, ignorantly opened back up. Not only did they open, but they have not been safe. Many people are not following CDC guidelines because the County did not make

these precautions mandatory. Then this school much in the same way masks are up to you whatever you would like to do and it's like less than 10 mask use apparently from like the anecdotal posts that students have like submitted or whatever but i mean it goes to show you that yeah it is this trickle-down ignorance that's affecting people and just to that point we were talking about yesterday with that app you know the remix to the awful tv interview trump gave when he went on fox and friends and said you know all children are immune to all coronaviruses ever um that caused a lot of problems like facebook and twitter had to pull every iteration of that

soundbite off of their platforms because it's a dangerous fucking lie that will get people killed and the white house was adamant that actually what he was what he was trying to say which is like their famous way of spinning it is that kids are at a much lower risk than adults um and but cnn's like oliver darcy like there's this article he rightly points out i mean trump is really just he got in trouble for saying stuff to fox news that he had just already heard before on fox news right like it was just like an interview with a fox news viewer so that take didn't come out of thin air that is being pumped over the airwaves from fox constantly where they're like hey we got to get this laborer daycare opened up so the laborers can go i mean we have to get the schools back because the children need an education. Right.

This is a nightmare. Labor daycare is a great way of describing. I'm moving to Ireland. Oh, I mean, there's Irish Zeitgang that I'm sure would be glad to have you. Here's an interesting thing. I don't even know anything about Ireland, but I'm just assuming it's got to be better than here. I mean, at this point, you know, i feel like i can get a passport that's why come on we need you my grandmother was born in ireland so i can go to ireland and i can show

up right now i'm 51 i got plenty of time to get started and i'll just show up and say you know maybe i'll put on an apron and say i'm ready for business and uh where do i go like right this way the cold brew factory sir yeah i'm just wondering you are now in the minute you're the ministry of memes that would be so sad oh my god yeah like like me at the like checking in that i like you regret it they're like dude i'm like meme production and they're like get the fuck out of here it could be the johnny apple seed of uh recovery over there yeah none of these are paid jobs but they're all perfect for me that's my life but i will say really that just going to ireland is like crossed my mind i mean i don't even know

i mean i could get a passport because i have a but i mean like i don't know anything about ireland when your country's so fucked that you're like thank god i don't have children that's sad i mean that is fucking sad you know all i thought when i was when you guys were talking it's just like i just got sad and moving to ireland i mean that's just not or you know replacing this government i mean this is you cannot have a government that's whole job is to know replacing this government i mean this is you cannot have a government that's whole job is to destroy government and then have an emergency i mean and that's right small government and this is like i think this clever thing that i made up but it's it's it's i think it's a good way to say it small government small government is just

what's left when you stole all the money right you know i mean small government's not a goal it's it's a result as a result of corruption yeah it's all you can have yes you just have a hollowed out yeah you have a hollowed out government truly small government is just what you're left with when there's no money because some someone stole it and i just it's just hard to watch and we need to replace these fuckers well that's the thing i think yeah at all you you hope that more and more people are sort of begin to wake up to like the idea that the way this whole country is being run is completely completely wrong and fucked up and most people do not have a semblance of a life that resembles you know people in other developed

countries based on how they're treated from their employers the time off they have their access to any kind of safety nets it's just it's it's just like you know we just have really i always say this we just have really good pr and marketing like the the like the media shows and films we send out have people like it's completely devoid of the real like what it means to be an american which is like it actually feels like you're constantly being abandoned and you're fending for yourself that's actually what the overwhelming feeling of being an american is and i think you see it too with like how much we worship money and wealth and wealth accumulation like it's almost like that's our God because in a way,

because our society is not set up where we're protected or feel safe, the only thing that will make us feel safe is accumulating massive amounts of wealth. That's the one thing that's like, that will protect me because even if that goes wrong, I can use money to solve it because based on what I'm seeing, there's clearly a buy-in to be able to live at a certain level of happiness or stability. Yeah. I keep talking about that book, Sapiens, but he identifies capitalism as the true religion of America, capitalism and science, but we are clearly failing as worshipers of the Church of Science these days. Yeah, the money prayer people are definitely beating the scientists right now because those are the loudest voices and their arguments are being folded up into these arguments about,

well, go to open the schools, though. It's like, no, that's not you. That's not an educator saying that. That's somebody who sits on the board of a multinational corporation who's like, our revenues are on pause right now. Get these people back out there. What the fuck is going on? Yep. All right, guys, let's take another quick break. We'll be right back to pick our rewatch for the weekend and talk about some sick parties we've all been to. Hello, everyone.

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It's completely lit. That's really what's going on. I mean, we laugh at everybody, but yeah, we have our own very special exclusive version of a shithead. And yeah, I mean, this is a thing that goes on i'm sure in other cities but like hill parties like is kind of a thing like some people put together a little seed money you rent like a mansion in the hills you charge a cover that offsets the cost of the rental you probably lose your deposit because the house is fucked up and then you keep moving to the next one um and those have basically continued. There was another one that where there was the police had to go to like the Brentwood area or Holmby Hills where the Playboy Mansion is.

And they had to break up a gigantic fucking wedding at a mansion where they were like, what the fuck is this? Like, what are y'all doing? And this is just basically continued down a path. all doing and this is just basically continued down a path and this this wedding actually happened i think right after uh the bravest mayor in the land eric garcetti has said that on starting august 7th the lapd is going to work with the dwp the department of water and power to shut off utilities at properties found to be hosting parties within 48 hours and i'm like oh my how effective my utilities oh no like what the fuck are they talking about most of these people at these parties are just drinking tap water and you know yeah uh it's just like a such a weird i mean

because it's funny because i feel like a lot of the people where they're this is happening is almost like in these wealthier areas uh and you almost be like you can't you can't find them looks like they could uh they could deal with that but it's just very clear like we're our city is not anywhere close to where it needs to be in terms of like being able to safely i don't i mean just to to not you know put all of our frontline workers at risk uh but it's all just i think part of this whole you know, put all of our frontline workers at risk. But it's all just, I think, part of this whole, you know, global, especially in America thing where people are just unable to reconcile their needs to be able to go out and socialize with the fact that there's a deadly pandemic, or it's the inability to, you know, surrender to the idea that we are biologically completely out of and scientifically out of control on this one. I remember when Italy was having their shutdown,

back when Italy was like the scary story that we didn't want to become. Like the end of February, right? Right. And there were like isolated stories of a handful of people who like snuck out beyond like curfew or like got out of towns that had been totally locked down and like they got busted and shamed and there was this like big social media push to

like shame anybody who was going outside um yeah where is all that where like it's just america's too there's too much going on we're also to just have a coordinated message it's like legally how do you lock down a country like this like you can't legally do it so then on top of that there are people in their minds are like well you can't legally do that so why am I going to do that like which is the same weird like

quasi constitutional like motivation these people have to not wear masks etc because again it's just like fuck you I do what I want okay so I gotta tell my zoom keeps messing up because i'm in the damn woods and and and uh so i fell i i just basically fell into a heap of guitars i don't know if if anyone's if anyone saw what was happening out here they would anyway uh all my i'm picturing a bear just like pawing your wi-fi box to draw you out talking i'm running around this cabin like press up against the windows to try and make the zoom stay going so anyway real quick because this is important i i in nashville they

just had one of these parties i mean and it went like nationwide because this guy ate ass on Instagram. And at this house in Nashville called the Fashion House, which is an Airbnb that they painted like Yves Saint Laurent logos on the walls. And they say it's a homage to, I mean, their Instagram is so poorly punctuated. It's almost impossible to understand what their fucking fashion house is about. But they called it the fashion house. I mean, that's about all you need to know. If you are an opportunity to brand something and you call it the fashion house

you pretty much know how stupid the people are so these people had a party at this place called the fashion house they had no masks uh and some visiting porn star flew into nashville his name is daddy's juiced he flew into nashville he does actually ate ass for like two seconds i mean it was certainly not satisfying for whoever's ass it was and he didn't and then he flew away the next day like he like went on instagram and he's like peace out nashville i'm a legend like some ass eating santa claus like good night i'm out see you next year peace out nashville i'm a legend like some ass eating santa claus like good night i'm out see you next year came to nashville without a mask went to the fat house ate someone's ass on instagram and then tweeted out like peace out nashville i was on fox news for eating ass

wow that does feel so 2020 though that's peak that's what i'm saying that's apocalypse right there that doesn't get like what's like what a guy flew in to just do analingus and then immediately leaved and that was the gig i feel like that's a story that rush limbaugh would make up if he knew that ass eating the problem thing that people were into. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You're saying people eat someone's ass? Now, how do you do that? You cut it up? You would assume that you were eating.

You would assume that it was a slow roast. Terry, send me a link really quick. Oh, my God. Okay. These kids, man. These millennials, I tell you. It's, yeah. Well, hey well hey man you get it how you live yeah uh also just an incredibly efficient way to spread that's what i mean it's well any any

disease eating ass is like i i ate ass i ate ass i ate ass in 1986 so So the idea that, first of all, it's annoying to me that eating ass is like, it's basically a meme come to life. Like it's not eating ass is not. He didn't even eat an ass. He licked an ass for a photo op. Like that's not eating an ass. Right. Nobody. It's he basically did a lie.

He did. He did a meat. These kids aren't in it for the love of the game yeah basically people are the internet has become like he he did a live action meme is what he did right right right it started out as a punch line everybody's punch line for every joke all of a sudden eating ass like which is i mean and then it became like i'm gonna eat ass on instagram and i'm a legend and and and yeah that ain't eating ass though huh there needs to be a major reason of everything include a reset of senses for i hope yeah we gotta we have to actually have a standard of eating ass because you know like to your point chris it sounds like you had a problem

with the commitment of his ass eating uh and don't go into it like you're you know licking a nine volt battery for the first time you don't do it like you're an emoji i mean he basically did it like he was an like people are out there by the way i don even know. It's just very complicated and very sad. I don't even feel like digging through it because it's so sad. It's just every part of it is sad. His name is

Eddie's Jews. Yeah. He does good work sometimes, but it sounds like his commitment wasn't really in it. You don't know who he is, do you? Oh, yeah. He's one of the best. No, I don't know. I don't know.

All right. Let's really quickly decide on a rewatch for the weekend. I'm just going to tick through the top 10 on Netflix currently. We got The Umbrella Academy at number one. Shameless from Showtime at number two. World's Most Wanted at number one shameless uh from showtime at number two uh world's most wanted at number three malibu rescue at number four which appears to be a children's show version of baywatch um jurassic park is at number five i think that's what i'm going to do because uh jurassic park just

returned to netflix i just need i just need that right now um make my kids watch it so that i can uh you know put the fear of god in them oh yeah and explain why sam jackson's arm was detached from his body inexplicably right yeah exactly and it's been like the number one movie at the box office all summer. The original Jurassic Park just because people are showing up. Oh, right, right. Immigration Nation. Just a real fun fact. I never saw Jurassic Park.

That's unbelievable. We'll remedy that. That is something we shall have to remedy. I have so many Braveheart quotes in my brain and they are of no use. Chris, have you seen Braveheart? I did see Braveheart quotes in my brain and they are of no use. Chris, have you seen Braveheart? I did see Braveheart.

That was before I started banging heroin. Sugar Rush Extra Sweet, which is a cooking show about food that is sugary, I believe. Hey, look, if it's not nailed it, don't bother. Netflix, come on. Just give Nicole Byer that.

The Last Dance, we've already talked about plenty. Dennis the Menace, The Ridge. I referenced that actually the scene where Walter Matthau's denture teeth are replaced with big chiclets is something, a visual trope I talk about a lot. But I think the Zeitgang has heard me talk plenty about Dennis the Menace. And then Latte,

which is a children's movie. Okay, I'm torn between these god-awful children's films. Because you always do, you always, I always get to watch like the adult thing, and then you're always gonna like, I guess I'll watch it with my kids. And sometimes I'm like, let me have the really in-depth analysis of a story about a greedy bear that steals a magic stone to keep the forest water for himself.

A brave hedgehog and a timid squirrel must work together to retrieve it. You're talking latte right there, man. Yeah, that's latte. That doesn't feel like it's going to venture enough in a problematic town as much as I'd like. I think Malibu rescue is yeah it's like the way this as summer turns to matt returns to malibu team flounder takes to the beach to host and and unexpectedly compete in in the international beach master competition which looks like essentially like um like a tough mudder race, but for wealthy people. With sand.

Yeah. And I can only imagine what kind of, you know what? That's, it seems so formulaic that I love watching films like this, where I try and just like watch the first like five minutes and be like, okay, I know exactly what the movie is about. The concept of Baywatch for children is so wild.

Well, I just saw a thing where the trophy for winning this beach match or competition is a bronze butt. At one point during the trailer, the defending champs Team USA bites on the butt. All right, mate. Hey, there's also Aussies there. All right, mate.

Here we go. That's what we got. Malibu Rescue and Jurassic Park, number four and five. do you guys have criterion channel either of you uh i haven't watched like tv like where i've like intentionally been like let me cruise over to that channel real quick in a long time oh well criterion channel is like streaming service that you'd be it's like the art film right right oh okay yeah for the criteria no i don't 10 99 month

offer cold and uh put in code cold brew got me like for what 10% off your first month i don't know i gave the password to uh some other people that they're using it so i guess i guess you can pass it pass around the password and they don't know how to fix it um they don't know how to you um so i've been watching i just wanted to mention tarkovsky the direction director uh he directed solaris in 1962 which was remade i think with like ryan gossel or something in 2004. right right and he's influenced by kubrick obviously quite a bit um but movies are about dread and they really they're slow. But but but but they are. I just wanted to offer those people for people listening. If they want something that sort of he was making those movies when the Soviet Union was collapsing.

So the movies are about people that have lost ideas, that have lost the narrative and lost belief. Yeah. I mean, yeah, absolutely. Especially, oh man, I can, there's something about Russian creators. They really nail that existential dread so well. And I can only imagine someone like Tarkovsky who's like born in 32,

like you witnessed like an entire generation of men wiped out by the war. And then like that, like reverberation into your country for decades to come. Sorry, I stepped away. Are we still talking Malibu Rescue? No, we're talking about the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, Jack. Oh, okay.

Got it. Yeah. Anyway, he's a Russian director from the 60s. His movies are existential dread and love and is worth it so those those things i found comfort in a way even though the movies are dark really uh chris and i was just want to say just to double check you said you you were eating ass back in 1986 right because as i look uh andre tarkovsky passed away on december 29th 1986 oh okay just putting that out i don't know if there's any connection As I look, Andre Tarkovsky passed away on December 29th, 1986.

Oh, okay. Just putting that out there. I don't know if there's any connection there. Big year, big year, big year. Chris, it's been a pleasure as always having you on The Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? So much fun to be on here. I'm so grateful for you guys.

So much fun to be on here. I'm so grateful for you guys. And you can find me, The Crofton Show, on Twitter, which is where I write poems all the time. And I also am on Instagram at Chris underscore Crofton. And also I'm starting a podcast soon. And it's going to be called Cold Brew Got Me Like. And I haven't told anybody about it. So now people,

because that means I have to make it, let them know. So it's going to be on Twitch, I guess my Twitch, what do you call it? Yeah. Twitch. It's like a lot of Twitch. And then I'm going to do an audio one.

Um, uh, but it's, it's, it's, it's friend and a producer and stuff and uh i'm excited about it and um also uh gonna be a scam for me to make money nice nice scam god anyway that it's it's i just got to figure out some way to get... I'm a bartender.

That's not happening. Right. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh, I'll let you guys go first. Okay. Miles, where can people find you and follow you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. gray also my other podcast for 20 day fiance if you watch 90 day fiance then it's the number one rated 90 day fiance podcast out there

i can say that without confidence uh but in my mind i say with great confidence um yeah some tweets that i like let's see First up. I'm sorry. Okay, first one is from Solnate, at M. Nate Shyamalan. It says, Time Traveler, what year is this? Me, LMAO. Oh, man, you fucked up so bad. Then there's

another one that says, this is from at Pyle Patel. It says, Scully will yell federal agent at anything. Girl, that's literally an alien. It doesn't care. And then another one is from at Jenny E. Nicholson saying, fellas, are you still powdering your balls? A targeted YouTube ad selected just for me by a meticulous algorithm

after years of gathered data. Yeah, yeah. I actually had that one too. Some tweets I've been enjoying. First of all, Alex Schmitty, former host of the Crack Podcast, just tweeted that he is excited to announce that he's launching his own dang podcast. It's called Secretly Incredibly Fascinating. Y'all need to check it out uh alex is the man and i've never heard him uh be anything less than amazing to listen to on a podcast some other tweets i've been enjoying uh alex bays tweeted

me this meeting could have been an email also me me. Gets an email. God damn it. And Miel, former guest of this show and also All she's known for. Former guest of this show. You might have heard her in that one. Storied. Former guest of the show.

Also, she has a really great podcast called Punch Up the Jam. She tweeted, if I had a million dollars for every time Akon bought a city in Senegal and named it Akon City and invented an official cryptocurrency and named that Akon,

I would have one million dollars, which is a great way to learn that fact. And finally, Cullen Crawford tweeted, never before has Cirque du Soleil so beautifully told the story of the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of the American government. 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, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we write out on miles what's it going

to be today okay uh let's go you know just because uh we're just talking about money going around and flying everywhere let's do a track called dollars by hudson mohawk i was just listening to this song the other day like i don't know hi maybe uh and i was just thinking of the song and just how much the dollars is everything that uh yeah we worship but uh this track goes though so play this at your next uh super spreader event uh just kidding all right we're gonna ride out on that the daily zeitgeist is a production by heart radio for more podcasts from my heart radio yeah heart radio app apple podcasts are wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for this morning.

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