The Daily Zeitgeist - Top 10 of 2024: #5 Humanzees to Basement Eels 04.12.24

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

We are counting down the top 10 episodes of 2024, as voted by our listeners! Up next, #5: Humanzees to Basement Eels, Bike Lanes = Votes 04.12.24 In episode 1658, Jack and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by comedian and author of The Advice King Anthology, Chris Crofton, to discuss… Guy Created Underground Eel Pit In His Basement, More People Are Commuting To Paris By Bike Than Car, Rich People Getting Second Passports and more! Guy Created Underground Eel Pit In His Basement (Shoutout to Amber @girlwhon3rds on Twitter for sharing this one.) More People Are Commuting To Paris By Bike Than Car More people travel by bicycle than by car in Paris, according to new report French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris Paris to become 100 percent cycling city Rich People Getting Second Passports Humanzee: The Human Chimp LISTEN: Already There by Taylor McFerrin, Robert Glasper, & ThundercatSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You've caught me unwinding, enjoying a large goblet of delicious eggnog, untangling my brain, gaining five to 15 pounds of eggnog. While we unwind here at Daily Zeitgeist, in addition to publishing our normal year-end episodes and Santa's University, et cetera, we've decided to take the opportunity to count down the top 10 episodes of the year

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We hope you have a restful holiday. Ooh! Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 333, episode 5 of Dirt Gangly Night Guy's Day production of iHeartRadio. I didn't hear what you said there, Hmm Blake. Yeah, it's it sounded Demented I guess I would say it was clean. Whatever it was appropriate thing. Oh good Mm-hmm. Yeah, we don't run blue on this podcast

We are half halfway to Satan. This is our half Satan birthday season 333 and Satan. This is our half Satan birthday season 333 and yeah what a run it's been. It is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness and it's Friday April 12th 2024 of course my name is Jack O'Brien aka Party Jack is in the pod tonight recalling stories from the daily zeitgeist. Party Jack is going to change your mind about JFK space and suicide. That is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi, main got my shoulders moving. Little party rock anthem,

aka that's one of a lot of times like Christy Yamaguchi, man, great taste in music. Great, like will remind me of a song that I hadn't heard in a long time. I'll go back. I'll check it out. I'll be like, man, this song is fucking go. Like this is a song that I heard on the radio a couple of times, but it's like a really, you know, good songwriting fun.

I went back and I listened to party rock anthem by LMFAO to prepare for this one. Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO to prepare for this one. And it's not like, I was like, this is worse than I remember. Like listening to it. How is this possible? It's like, how is this just so, like it's like somebody like humming a song. Like somebody humming that song,

like because they remember hearing it 12 years ago or something. It's like you can hear the lack of talent. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like that's part of the sound. That's the base. You can hear the nepotism. Correct.

And that's what's good. Yeah. Anyways, Great A.K.A. Thank you to Kristy Yamaguchi, man, as always. I'm thrilled to be joined in the second seat by today's very special guest, co-host with the Mo-host, a brilliant comedian, writer, actor. He's got the sparkle folks, as our guest today told him.

He's got that sparkle about him. Hilarious. He's chaotic. He's riding a recumbent bike in short shorts. He's Blake Wexler. Hey, this is Blake Wexler! Hey! This is Blake Wexler, AKA the white Ford Blaco, AKA Blake on me. Blake on me. T-D-Z. T-D-Z. Plumbers, baby. They are Wow, thank you to Paul Garaventa went so high we couldn't even hear it Shut up all Garaventa and also can I give another shout out real quick? It do it may I have the floor for one quick shout out. I want to give is it to aha

I would never But shout out to Aha. Also, shout out to producer Victor and also kind of a happy trails on, he has been doing such a good job of booking this show, but I think unfortunately he has made, I would call a fatal booking error of having myself and our guests simultaneously on the show.

On the day that OJ Simpson died. No less. No less. And he knew that. Victor's been saying for a while, just he said, keep your eyes open. April 11th. I'm just saying, you know, Nicole Brown Simpson is going to get some revenge, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah. And we didn't. We didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. We were like, please stop.

But earthquake. I don't know. But yeah, he, he called it. I mean, it's, uh, it's going to be a mess folks. I'm just putting that out there right now because we are all broken the fuck up about OJ passing. It's I'd say you hug your kids a little bit tighter, but they're at school. because we are all broken the fuck up about OJ passing. I'd say you hug your kids a little bit tighter,

but they're at school. So I'm just sitting here kind of bereft, not knowing what to do with myself. I picked up kids at school today to hug them. To hug them. Just any kid that I returned to. That should be legal. I know it's not, and you're in a little bit of trouble,

but it should be legal on days of tragedy like this. Blake, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by another hilarious standup comedian, actor. This one's also a musician. This one who has a pitchfork 7.4 rated album. Yeah, I hate, I hate to mention it. And what is that number out of? You do hate to. I hate to mention it. pitchfork seven point four rated got a seven point four. Yeah, I hate I hate to mention it. And what is that number out?

You do hate to hate to mention it every fucking time. I guess seven or four. It's not that good work. But there is it is really good. Like, it's better than a lot of albums that I really like. You know, yeah, I beat. I beat a Wilco album, one Wilco album. I beat like Sky Blue Sky. Yeah. And that's like, you know, people, Wilco fans are mad about that.

You know, all the Wilco. I was better. I was rated better than one of the lesser Wilco albums. Yeah. But, you know, in general, yeah, I'm I can also scientifically prove I'm better than Wilco in a bunch of ways. Yeah. We had time. But but we do have some. Yeah, but uh, you know general yeah, I'm I can also scientifically prove I'm better than Wilco in a bunch of ways. Yeah, we had time but um, but uh, I Got a 7.4 from pitchfork. Yeah. So anyway, I don't like to mention it too many times in a row. Tweety

It doesn't sound as tough when you're bullying tweet someone named Tweety. Unfortunately, that was my problem with Sylvester the cat. They have serious, they should do merch with Sylvester the cat on it. That's a good idea. I couldn't agree more. I don't think he likes that though. When people reference Tweety bird with him, he hates it though. He's like, yeah, he's like, uh, I think he's a, he's a very powerful man. You know, I don't think he's anyone.

Yeah. I, you know, he comes on friendly, but he is Jeff Tweedy and he's got legions of, of, of annoying white men who, who, who follow him around. What if you got, what if Jeff Tweedy had you disappeared? That would be the most embarrassing way to get offed. Jeff Tweedy off to you. I can believe it. He would have like, he would have one of the guys in less savvy fab do it.

Yeah. Uh, let's just say a ghost is born after this podcast where you were talking shit about me because exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And now you've revealed Jack that you are one of his followers. I am, I am Legion. All right.

I'll tell you a quick, funny'll tell you a quick funny story. Quick funny story. I was in a coffee shop when Sky Blue Sky came off out. I've also been in a coffee shop when every album came out. Yeah. But like, but, but where you hang. But I like the guy behind the counter was like one of these guys who loves Wilco, like thinks they're like, you know, I don't know, really important for some reason.

Yeah. And I think they're good, you know, I don't know, really important for some reason. Yeah. And I think they're good. You know, they're good. Yeah. You know, I like them a lot. I mean, I've gotten a little bit tired of them, but, but I mean, they put out, like, I don't know, a hundred records or something. I know it's like, yeah, way inside projects.

He has some side project with his son, you know, and yeah, it's called tweety. I mean, the guy's a megalomaniac, but anyway, anyway, he, uh, I would love to get in a feud with him because it'd be so good for my social media numbers. Oh my God. Oh my God. If I could just get him to yell at me once, I would get, I don't know what I would get, but something. Yeah.

Probably four or five more followers on threads. Yeah. Yeah. Who, who just antagonized you the whole time? Yeah. Yeah. Who just antagonized you the whole time? Yeah. So anyway, I was in the in the store and Sky Blue Sky was like a disappointment. And that's this guy was like, he just said to me, the guy behind the counter, I was like, oh, what do you think of this new Wilco record or whatever? I don't even know what I was talking.

I just talked to baristas because I'm lonely. I was like, oh, and he said, he said, it's it's it's disappointing when you when you reel when you know what they're capable of. That's which I thought that was really funny to me. Yeah. Like really, that my parents would have said to me. Yeah. Was this a really weird like and I knew what he meant because like there's a certain class of like music fan that likes like when Wilco put a lot of computer noises in their songs, they were like, now we're getting somewhere.

You know what I mean? And then Sky Blue Sky was sort of just like regular rock and roll without as much beeping or like, and they were like, yeah, we know that they're capable of more. And I'm like, you mean more computer noises. More beeping. Yeah.

Like you mean like- More dusty computer noises. You mean like you think music's advanced if it uses machines. And I didn't get into it with them because I just wanted to, you know, I didn't want to have a fight. Well, you know, Cold War kids don't use the machines. They just, it's just all talent and vocals. You know, it's just, there's nothing about music. I've noticed that the Cold War kid, that's my most current reference.

Also the Cold War kids, they just shout at that the Cold War kid, that's my most current reference also, the Cold War kids, they don't need that. They just shouted a tape recorder. Yeah, that's right. They never did that shit. But anyway, that's, go ahead. This podcast is cold brew got me like, this book is the advice king anthology.

He's the only person who will go off on a 10 minute sidebar during his introduction. It's Chris motherfucking Crofton. I never get a AKA. No one ever gives me one. So I'm going to do one. Well, no one wants to. I'm sure there's like dozens.

I've been through the, I've been through the desert on a horse. Damn Chris Crofton. There it is. So, uh, it's pretty good. America, not Neil Young. Oh, just another Chris Crofton in the wall. Uh-huh. Oh, you're good at this.

Chris Crofton to you, Chris Crofton. Hey, come on. Hey, stop, man. We're going to get sued. We're going to get sued by those old sisters. I made that one. Oh my God. There's plenty of room at the hotel. Chris Crofton. I mean, that one works really well, actually.

And I wrote all those. You did. I told you. I told you guys. He has a 7.4 on pitch for it. Chris, how are you doing? I'm doing great. I'm here in Nashville.

Well, Madison, technically, which is like sort of like the vape sales district. Uh huh. Right. Right. And, um, but you know, it's fine. I'm, I'm like having fun over here. You know, I'm just had my birthday yesterday. Hey, Chris Crofton to you.

Thanks. Turn 55, which is like, you know, not a birthday. You just didn't edit that out and necessarily say out loud. Yeah, you don't want to say out loud. There's not like a lot of people are going to be like, there's a lot of people just went, oh, you know, but whatever. You know, I got to like I'm an oversharer. I'm not going to start lying about my age.

I like to tell people the real deal Yeah, like grunge style. I was raised by Eddie Vedder and Eddie better tells the truth. I mean I know he has a point right there Justin. We can come back in here Doesn't anymore though, he has a facelift. He has a facelift. Eddie Vedder. Did he get a facelift? Yeah, yeah, he has a facelift. Oh man. Come on.

I mean, it's well done, but he still, he got one, you know? Oh really? Yeah, he got one. I mean, well done. It's the best one I've ever seen. Does he have those like otherworldly eyes that like Wolf Blitzer's facelift was just like all of a sudden his eyes looked like he was like from David Lynch's Dune or something. Like his eyes just like had these weird like shadowy blue features to them.

I think Eddie looks like, he just looks like what he is, which is like a guy who gave up on the whole, you know. I mean, he kind of gave up on the... The grunge thing? You know, fighting, ticket master and stuff. Like all that stuff. Like that I was, you know, like... I was like, that's what you were here for. I like that guy. Yeah. I like the guy who was all mad.

Now he's like, mr. You know, he's just like mr. Chicago cubs or whatever. He's a pro junk fee now. When I saw him, he made a big speech. I saw him in, in LA before I moved and he, in 2022, and he made a speech about how he didn't think that the allegations against Bill Murray were true because he's hung out with Bill Murray and Bill Murray's rules.

Oh yeah. It was super nice. And I was like, he went on a long thing about that and I was like, man, Eddie, you need to drink less wine on stage. You dumbass. I mean, you just turned into everything. This guy who I've met. You used to rail against people. what you're, yeah I mean just it was like dude you fucking,

you did it and you fucking got too famous. Alright. Yeah. So anyway Eddie Vedder would say he was, the old Eddie Vedder that I used to like would have said he was 55 and I'll tell you one thing on a blog, on a blog or on some fucking, one time I went on that Reddit they have for the Daily Zeitgeist the sub reddit. Oh don't do that mistake, right? I know I know but I wanted more I wanted more praise. I was looking for more praise and I couldn't get enough on the regular on the underneath the underneath It's like a regular Twitter. Instagram wasn't enough. Oh, Crofton did a good job all this Crofton's number one

See what I'm fever or whatever I said Yeah, and then I went on reddit and One guy Weeping the globe Instagram Always there's a hashtag Croft truly couldn't possibly anyway So I want to feel her sweeping the globe I went on goddamn the subred and the sub Reddit said, uh, that they said that

it was sad that I was 53. So I can only imagine like this guy was like, I think it's kind of sad that he is. Doing this at age 53. And then, and then someone else said, what's supposed to be doing? I know he's like, what else is he supposed to be doing? And then the guy was like, I don't know, you know, but I know what he thought. Right. Cause I know he's like, I else is he supposed to be doing?

And then the guy was like, I don't know. You know, but I know what he thought. Right. Cause he thinks 53 year olds are supposed to have a yacht or whatever. Yeah. You're supposed to have a yacht or some shit. And it should be hanging out at his golf club. Yeah.

Country club. Yeah. And another is that too, but you don't just podcast. You do also hang out at your golf club as well. Who does? You pull your yacht up to your golf course. And yeah. Me, I run a whole network of gambling sites.

I do a lot of things. You do, a lot of interests. That's right. I would argue that wines might be the best thing to drink as a performer at a rock show, because liquor that will take hold of you too quickly. Beer will bloat you and you'll burp during your performance, where wine I think might actually be the smoothest thing. If you're going to do it, I would say-

Maybe it would have been better if Eddie Vedder had been bloated during his speech about how his fellow celebrity was cool to him and so therefore can't be a predator. Yeah, also odd that a speech, he didn't even make a comment in passing. He was like, I need a 2PM. It was rough stuff and he also said, like he called a woman a bitch.

He was like he's like he was wearing a sparkly jacket and some other someone in the audience was wearing a sparkly jacket. Like he was wearing a sequined jacket. And he said, like, don't steal my thunder, bitch. And then he felt so bad about it because his old, like, activist self, like, was he wasn't drunk enough to forget that. So he started saying, like, women needed to equal pay and stuff right after that. And it was like, man, you are a fucking mess. Equal pay to buy different jackets than me.

He was just so embarrassed. He said he was so embarrassed. He said, bitch, when I mean, no one really. He was. And then he went on and he immediately said like women's pay was going up or something and it was like, my God, you are too drunk, buddy. You know, you've you've alienated the Tweety Mafia and now the veterans. And bitches, you've alienated.

You should take all that out. Sorry about that. Bitches and sparkly jackets. You can take that out. Coming for your ass. But I'm 55. I don't know what that means. I'm 55. So I get to go to the movies or something for half price or I don't know what happens. Something. No, it's the new 47. Yeah.

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All right, Chris, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First we're going to tell our listeners some of the stories. Because we have no concept of who you are. We're going to tell our listeners some of the stories we would have gotten to if we had different people in our second and third seats. So we would have talked about a guy. This one I think we might get to because I think, Chris, you might be interested in this one. This is a story about a guy who created an underground eel pit in his basement that

one of our listeners, Amber at girl who nerds on Twitter shared with us. He has like, you know how, Oh, I'm in on this. Basements will sometimes have like a manhole cover type thing that's like, Oh, there's a sump pump or something under there. A rain cistern. Well, he had a rainwater cistern under there and converted it into a large fish tank for American eels. Not these foreign eels. Not these red, white, and blue eels. Yeah, they

were caught in Maine, he specifically says. We have some good news about Paris changing their culture around cars to being a bike city. So we'll talk about that. Maybe some conversation about rich people getting second passports. Something about the new Civil War movie, an AI pin that is here to solve none of your problems. All of that, not really none of that probably, but maybe a couple. We'll see.

But before we don't get to that stuff Chris we do like to ask our guest What is something from your search history? I got a pretty good one this time Okay If you've been listening to my podcast cold brew got me like you probably have heard me talk about this in fact You definitely have but I have to bring it up just in case you guys familiar with the human Z The human Z. This is like a missing link type thing. Man's a human chimpanzee hybrid. Yeah.

Which there is, I don't think there is one right. But like cryptozoology, but in the 1970s, like these groups, group of people, like not very many became convinced that this one chimp was a half man, half chimp because he walked around and he didn't walk on all fours like a chimp. And he also had like kind of look like a person. Kind of look like me. And he kind of like me, like, I don't know, pale like, yeah, maybe pale. I was thinking pale. His face was like hairless, like where a chimps face is hairy.

So like you could see more of his face, which anyway, these like basically these people just decided that he was half human because he looked like kind of like half human. And because he he walked on his on his hind legs, which he was brought up. He was in New Jersey being raised by people who train chimps for, you know, to fire cap guns and roller skate and stuff like that. You know, like a chimpanzee training camp for like movies or TV shows or whatever. And it's always like two nut balls are just like, you know, who just are nuts. You don't have these chimpanzees running around their yard and they teach them how to smile

and stuff by, you know, God knows what technique and, uh, and uh, yeah, whatever, putting like a clothes pin on their nuts or whatever. And, uh, and, and, uh, or whatever, uh, fill in the blank, but whatever, it's an unpleasant business. I'm sure. And anyway, this family had these chimps and then they had this one named Oliver. And he was like, they were like, he's half human because he walks in a way that we can't teach apes.

We can't teach our chimps to walk. We can teach them to walk a little bit, but we have to like, you know, whatever, make sure they're doing it or whatever. You know what I mean? We have to like make them be next to them, like, you know, with the stick or whatever, and I don't know if it's with the stick, you know, but not to hit them, maybe not to hit them, but just like, you know, put them under the chin and remind them that they need to be walking or whatever verbal insults.

Yeah. Whatever happens to chimps when they're in New Jersey instead of the fucking jungle, so, so, so anyway, there's suburban, there's suburban, suburban New Jersey sitting in like a lazy boy instead of in the jungle where they're supposed to be. So this family decides and then somehow this lawyer gets wind of this chimp that's supposed to be half human. And I don't know how in the world there's like some grapevine in 1977 where people just like word of mouth or talking about this half human. Anyway, this lawyer, a local news, right? Yeah, you know what it was is this the zoologist was probably screaming at the top of his lungs

Can we please stop these rumors about him being half human? I'm the only one with access to his mother Can we put your ruining by? Yes, there's this guy definitely fucked a chimp. He fucked it. So this documentary is just unbelievable You got a I maybe I can link it or send it to Justin or something. Um, it is like These guys it's a whole documentary just based on these people who think this things they're like even after all of the stuff where it's Like this thing is there's no proof this thing's anything but a chimp with like no hair on his face because of some You know, well, he's got mange or not mange, but like some kind of genetic thing is born with no hair on his face.

Just cause of things born with no hair on his face doesn't mean it's half, but they're like, this is definitely a half human half. This is definitely a human Z, but nobody offered any proof, but they were still like, I still think he is like, there was just like three people. You want to believe the trainers, the trainers thought he was a half human, this piano player guy, this pianist who tried to buy him, but he got outbid by a lawyer and the lawyer took him to Japan where the thing was like, you know, he went on TV and wore like athletic shorts and rode an exercise bike. No. And like, you know, and this guy was like, it was supposed to be researched.

Those Japanese fucked me. I was supposed to get we were supposed to do serious research and then I'm on TV, you know Yeah, like rip anyone's fingers or face No, it's great human. It's a way to human Z and they have this British narrator I don't know what show that this was on the side. It's a you know, SCI channels has a sci-fi channel Maybe SCI. No, I think sci fi channel changed its spelling to S Y F Y for some reason. OK, let's from like 2002. This documentary anyway, it's absolutely wonderful. And and they really go into the main reason this this shimp had to be taken out of the

out of the training facility, which is really, you know, a ranch house, you know, and had to stop drinking wine. Oh, he's like, he's, and also he's a human because look, he drinks a lot. Like he drinks a lot of liquor. And it's like, yeah, he's defending Bill Murray. Yeah. And Bill Maher.

Anyway, loves Bill. And then there's one guy says like, that he thinks that he heard that his uncle worked at a lab in the twenties where they definitely produced a human human Z. And you're like, that's the same story. Everybody says about it. You know what I mean? He's like in the twenties, my uncle worked at this lab in Pensacola where they, it definitely happened.

They made one and they had to euthanize it, you know, and it's like, you could substitute just Richard Gere and the fucking hamster for any part of that story. Yeah, yeah. Edit that out. Or whatever. Yeah, it was durable. It wasn't a hamster. Anyway, you gotta find this documentary. It's gonna come for you. It's really good. It's really good. There's a new art film starring Jesse Eisenberg called Sasquatch Sunset.

That it just like follows a family of Sasquatch around. Like Jesse Eisenberg, I believe, is playing one of them. No, they just. That's right. It's Jesse Eisenberg in his original, without the makeup that makes him look less like a human. Yes. It's I don't know. Like, I remember watching that Verna Herzog movie about the cave art, that's some of the earliest culture that we have of prehistoric humans.

And one of the first things that we ever drew was half animal, half human. I think it was a cat person. And I think there's just a fascination that's built into us. We just want these creatures that are half human, half animal. That's just there and we will keep making it happen one way or another. In our case, I think, our version of culture is more interested in like half human, half ape. And that's why we have the obsession with like Bigfoot and Sasquatch and Humanzy.

But, you know, past cultures have given us like werewolves or like cat people. Was that the documentary where the cave art kills the subject of the documentary at the end? Was that then Yeats It or is that a different? That's a different one. That's a different one. That's a different one. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're thinking of a horror film.

Oh no, Grizzly Men. I was thinking of Grizzly Men. Grizzly Men. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I apologize. Yes, of the Dakota Grizzly Men. Correct. Yeah, you say Grizzly Men.

That's interesting. That's his family name. We should have known. Cox Men. It's my given name. We should have known Cox. Is my given name. You ever heard of Coxman? Yeah, I used to say in the 70s, like they called like men like who were like they called anyway, I don't need to talk about that.

What's the one who drives the boat and crew? Is that a Cox Wayne or is that a Cox Wayne Cox? Imagine the jokes. Imagine the jokes. That's why I had to quit crew. I couldn't handle it. I was laughing too hard to roll. Imagine being the Cock Swain.

Imagine how many jokes you got. Oh boy. I'd be so lucky. They did do them the good deed of making it COX, S-W-A-I-N, so that people... Yeah. Like, no, it's not even that. It's Cox. Right.

And then laugh, laugh, laugh. So anyway, check out this, laugh, laugh, laugh. So anyway, check out this. Yes. Check out this human Z documentary. It's a British guy doing the narration and he says human Z so many times is so great. And it's so great. And he just keeps saying that all anyone thinks about is human Z. He's like he's like how scientists are constantly thinking about human Z's.

And I don't think that that's true. And, you know, he just like made this, this thing like seem like that's all on the front burner of human, you know, all anyone thinks about is human Z's. And, you know, I just, I never even heard of human. I think there really is a type of person who is just born built in obsessed with human Z's and like half human half, I mean, like, built in, obsessed with humanzies and half human, half.

I mean, we have furries, we have people who identify that way. So it's not breaking news, but I just feel like, yeah, that's something that's just there. It's not unique to our weird time or whatever. We've just always had that, I feel like. Well, I've thought about Big yeah, I thought about Bigfoot plenty

but I don't think about I've never thought about human Z's at all until I saw this documentary and No, you can't stop thinking about it. Anyway, it's like just the word is the two are related. I Know I never thought about that. No, I never considered a big boy fucking question Bigfoot was a hurt was a part like the son of a person who had sex with a chimpanzee. Oh, OK. But anyway, I think it's funny when the middle class in the 70s, there was a middle class. So people are thinking about all these kind of things that are fun to think about. No one has any time. They got too close to the truth. And that's why they destroyed the middle class in the 80s.

Oh, maybe that's what it is. I was thinking about, like, you know, these people could afford like, you know, to bottle feed chimps and stuff like in their ranch house. Probably both of them were like drivers, Ed teachers or something, you know, and they like somehow had enough of an economy going that they could run the chimps preserve. No one's got any money for that. Yeah, I've retired at 55. I just yeah, I've been a driver's ed teacher for 40 years and it was good.

I grew up with my money. How did you buy your house? Oh, I'm a driver's ed instructor. Oh, of course. Oh yeah, I hear that's a good gig. What are you going to do with your extra money? I think I'm going to start a chimp reserve, teach chimps how to smile and smoke cigars. Yeah. Well, we got a house down the shore. Yeah. What year is this? 1976. Yes. We've got a house down the shore. Yeah, what year is this? 1976. Yes, exactly. And I hate this question, but why do you have so many bottles of milk

in the back of your car? What is, what is that? Oh, I'm so glad you asked, Blake. Yes, I'm sure you are. Have you heard of a Manzie? Have I heard of one? It's all I think about. It's funny the guy too,

is the guy who's like, yeah, you know, like all these half men, half beasts, like the Loch Ness Monster, someone truly, you know, tried to fuck a lizard, and then, you know, pterodactyl, someone tried to fuck a lizard. Wait, no, do you want to fuck a lizard? Oh my God, the Loch Ness Monster! Dinosaurs are obviously someone fucked a lizard that's why standing up. I wonder who fucked a whale and made the Loch Ness monster.

Yeah. Forcing it in there. I never thought about that at all. Yeah. All right. 55 is already a good year. That's right. Baby.

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And I'm Anya Packer, a former pro hockey player and now a full Madison Packer stan. Anya and I met through hockey and now we're married and moms to two awesome toddlers. And on our new podcast, Moms Who Puck, we're opening up about the chaos of our daily lives between the juggle of being athletes, raising children and all the messiness in between. We're also turning to fellow athletes and beyond to learn about their parenthood journeys and collect valuable advice. Like FIFA World Cup winner Ashlyn Harris. I wish my village would have prepared me for how hard motherhood was going to be.

And Peloton instructor and Ratchet Mom Club founder, Kirsten Ferguson. And I remember going in there hot mess. So listen to Moms Who Puck, a production of iHeart Women's Sports and Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. And we're back. And Chris Crofton, we do like to ask our guests and particularly you, especially you, what is something you think is underrated? I was thinking alcohol or no overrated was alcohol on airplanes. So underrated was underrated was, uh, how much Nashville sucks.

See what I did? Yeah, you did a double. See what I did? Yeah. You managed to make it an over. See what's underrated is how much Nashville sucks because I don't know if you guys have been paying attention, but the whole world has at this point been paying attention to what's happening in Tennessee. And I'm just wondering at what point the justice department intervenes in a state that is violating civil rights or whether that's something that at this point, the justice department intervenes in a state that is violating

civil rights or whether that's something that at this point would be considered, Oh, we don't want to get the Republicans mad. Right. You know what I mean? Like, Oh, this is no time to make the Republicans mad, which is like the whole, I guess the whole future is going to be that we can't do anything ever because it's going to make somebody upset and then they'll be worse than they were already, which is the whole idea of, you know, I don't know, we'll just like to some barbaric shit at the border.

So, like, you know, instead of like taking a stand against Republican policy, we're going to, you know, this this weird thing where we have to like appease fascists as some way forward to get Democrats elected. But anyway, I just think what's happening in Tennessee is so disheartening that I want to move and I want to move in the sense that everybody's going to want to move out of states like this. And I'm not kidding. You know what I mean? I'm not kidding. I'm considering like, this is like Luxembourg and like, I don't know. I don't know anything about what Luxembourg Luxembourg's like. It might be the capital of Luxembourg Luxembourg.

Is that that country? Yeah. Who knows? There's no way to know. I'm not really familiar with South America. So Luxembourg, there is an article in CNBC. CSI Miami.net. CSI Miami.net where I get all my news. All the news.

Yeah. Just as you finish an article, it plays the, that boo theme. But it's all about people being like how the Uber wealthy are investing in second passports to get like to prepare themselves to flee the country. But they like, first of all, it's not, it's not in a thing in a article that's like outraged about this. This is in an article called CNBC's Inside Wealth Newsletter, where they. I subscribe to that. So let me actually just pull it up.

Yeah. They follow like the behavior of rich people, the way like gossip blogs report on Ariana Grande. Like they're just like, Oh, what Peter Thiel do? Oh my God. How's he spending his money? He bought a pool table that walks. And, and is humiliated when you play pool on it, which is part of the fun for him.

But yeah, basically the Uber wealthy are collecting second citizenships and that's you need to be either extremely wealthy to afford it or you need to like have relatives who have dual citizenship or something. Otherwise you're kind of fucked. There's a bunch of countries that make it easier than other. Like I think Portugal makes it fairly easy, but by fairly easy, it's relative of in order to get US citizenship, it's probably the most difficult thing anyone can do in the history of the world. But yeah, I have

so sorry, but when I say that us as the wealthy, we have been doing that where it is the thing. We also obviously have disposable income to take a the flights to own second properties in other countries to right you know we've been doing that you all have just heard about it recently but we've actually been planning this for quite some time yeah if you had been paying attention to our newsletter about all the cool shit we get up to or my Instagram account it's not just such just a second passport you need a what what the wealthy are calling passport portfolios,

collections of second and even third or fourth citizenships. And they specifically say, like, a relatively small number of Americans do renounce their citizenship. So if you're not gonna like pay a bunch of money and like own a house in a foreign country, you need to basically renounce your U S citizenship, which most people don't want to do.

So they're just like doing second, second citizenships. So Luxembourg, here we come. Right. Well, yeah, like Luxembourg, like, I mean, I just mean like, yeah, like if Luxembourg was Nash was, was Tennessee and, and say, I don't know, fucking some other country. It's gonna be really difficult what you're trying to do right now. Just I've been in your position before. You just signed yourself up for a very, very difficult analogy.

Anyway, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna finish it. But let's say you move. It doesn't even need. I don't even need to say that. All I'm saying is I want to move to California because people are in a better mood there. People are in a horrible mood in Tennessee, or, and this is the thing,

or they are trying to pretend everything's fine, which is what makes it even worse. There's a divide happening between liberals with property and liberals without property. Liberals with property in Nashville are having the time of their lives on one hand, because their property values have tripled in 10 years. So they all are rich on paper, but they can't sell their houses. They can just like leverage it into loans

and things, but they can't actually move. So they have to stay here because if they sell their house here, prices in Nashville are going up so high that they will immediately be priced out. Like if they sell their house, say for $900,000 that they bought for $200,000 10 years ago, they will then. Like they can't just go ahead and get another house. You will not get a house. So you'll have to leave Nashville. So they're not going to leave.

Cause a lot of them have kids and stuff. And I understand that they're stuck here, but that means that they will be unrealistically optimistic about what's going on because they just have to be because they have kids and stuff. But it's not, it's insane to watch. What Tennessee is doing is not light. They are overtly doing very racist stuff, like basically racism, like gaveling black people out of their rights to speak in the legislature on a regular basis, like in laughing in their faces, white guys just pounding gavels and not letting procedures go on that are supposed to go on for black legislators. And they're just doing that and laughing. And like, and they're also, they just,

what is it? TSU, a historically black university here. They, the state legislature, the state of Tennessee withheld, turns out they stole billions of dollars that was supposed to go to that university and they just took it over. They just, they just installed a white, like they, since they installed a new board, they took over the college.

Jesus Christ. Like the overt, the things that are going on here are not normal. They're not normal at all. And I think there is this will for people to stay in this is normal. This is normal. This is normal because you just don't want it to not be normal. But at a certain point when you run away, you're actually smart. Right. You know, and I'm just saying that that is how it feels in Tennessee right now for me, as a person who doesn't have any reason to be like sugar coating it because I don't have any I don't have to stay here. I don't have any family. I have my family here, but they're my family.

You know, they're just my regular family. I don't care about them. So yeah, they whatever every man for himself. That's how my dad taught me every human being. That's how my dad taught me. Every human being. That's how my dad taught me. As I've said many times, I thought you were referring to the fact that the Tennessee Senate just approved a measure allowing teachers to carry concealed guns. It is that true?

That's true. Oh, and also that's true. And also that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. I mean, also they've like, yeah, I, I made the point today, like they're always talking about how teachers are pedophiles, but they also want to arm them. It's kind of Yeah. Yeah. I mean, also, they've like, yeah, I made the point today. Like, they're always talking about how teachers are pedophiles,

but they also want to arm them. It's kind of confusing. Right. Well, it is easier to say arm the teachers than arm the pedophiles. Like, that's a hard thing to get through. Yeah, certainly. Yeah. So anyway, I think they should just skip. Why don't they just arm the kids? I mean, if that's the really the idea, you know, the guns make us safer. I mean, why? Why keep you know, why keep incremental for kids? Yeah. Anyway, I know, that guns make us safer. I mean, why, why keep, you know, why keep incrementally for kids? Yeah.

Anyway, I just think that's, that's it. It's just hard to get behind this, like sort of. We're, we're like doing progress progressive policies in Nashville in this smaller and smaller area. And it's like, to me, it's just like, and everyone's just sort of being foodies and all these things that they want to do, right? And they also want to get famous everyone here wants to get famous Everybody in America thinks they're entitled to get famous and they will not let it be interrupted. I don't want to hear about bad news

I'm trying to become a famous person And we have a disease and it's not America. The whole world has a disease because of Instagram. Oh, I think it's worse in America though. But it is, you know, it's like, no one's going to interrupt my, my, you know, I'm going to be the next Willie Nelson and no one's going to stop Willie Nelson. I don't care what the next Mr. Beast, the next Mr. Beast, Mr.

Beast. Yeah. Who's Mr. Beast? He's like an economy. He's his, his own economy. Who is he. Yeah. Who's Mr. Beast? Mr. Beast? Yeah, who's Mr. Beast? He's like an economy. One of the most famous. He's his own economy. Who is he?

Yeah. Musician? He's a famous influencer on social media that all I know is I keep getting these Twitter ads for him where he's like, I locked 100 people in a. Well, I gotta look him up. You love him. You love him. All right. You, you would kind of love Mr. Beastman. Does he have a newsletter? I'm sure he does. I'm going to sign up for his newsletter. Yeah.

So anyway, I just think that there is like, I'm not feeling like, uh, and I'm sure this is happening to a lot of people, is that they're dealing with people who are having varying degrees of, uh, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, there is like, I'm not feeling like, and I'm sure this is happening to a lot of people, is that they're dealing with people who are having varying degrees of a good time because of if they own property, they're getting rich. And if you're a non- if you're a renter like me, you are absolutely miserable. So there's just a divide. And these are people that used to be on my side. And then it gets sort of into this sort of like, well, maybe you should have bought. You know what I mean?

It becomes like, there's two kinds of liberals. Like maybe it's your fucking fault. I mean, it really comes down to, cause they don't want to hear it. Maybe you should have been a driver's ed teacher. They don't want to hear it, you know, at a certain point, they don't and they'll just, it's getting, you know, I just feel like at one point, one of my friends is going to

be like, you just should have made more money, man. You know, like it's not really anybody else's fault except yours. And that's frightening. A little hard. Yeah. So I'm just frightened that the bootstrapping is going to be the next thing that's coming out of liberals mouths basically. Oh yeah.

And underrated or overrated, I was going to say is alcohol and airplanes, just because I think it's funny that they keep selling this thing that makes them have to duct tape half the passengers to their seats. I mean, I really find that unbelievable. It's crazy. I will say, all right, this does seem like you're slightly, uh, you know, sub tweeting Blake here. Why you love to drink on the airplanes?

I he's been, he's been duct taped to the last three planes. I duct tape myself before I order the drink. Werewolf style. Yeah. Right. Exactly. That's nice of you. Well, that's a good idea.

Thank you. That's a good idea. If you already put yourself, if you know you're going to go for a drink. Drink responsibly. Like at the end of those ads for alcohol where they're like, drink responsibly. If they just had somebody duct taping themselves to a radiator before they took their first drink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Disassembling their gun and putting it in different rooms of their house.

Yeah, or you put it on like a different safe. That's what it would have taken for me at the end to drink responsibly, is to chain myself to a radiator, you know? I'm so stupid. I almost conjugated the word safes to saves. Cause in my mind I'm like, wait, it's the plural of safes? Am I? Yeah. I don't want to sound like a moron.

What if you were robbing a bank and you were like, take me to all of your saves. And they're like, wait, what? Yeah. Hold on. I'm sorry. You know what I mean, asshole. Yeah. Stop fucking stop correcting me in my own home. Are you going to home invade me or are you going to home invade me? I will actually, I will agree with you, Chris,

that drinking on a plane can be overrated because for two reasons, one serious and one kind of not as serious. I like how serious you're taking on this topic. This is why, this is my platform. I like it. I like it. You get more dehydrated on planes because of the altitude. So if you're drinking alcohol, it does hit you and make you, your hangover will be worse the next day if you're drinking heavily on a plane.

And then also one of my favorite stories is I had a friend who was flying across the country, got hammered on a plane and forgot that he had driven to the airport. So when he got off the plane, he was like, oh, God damn it, I have to take an Uber home. And then he had to Uber back the next day to LAX to retrieve his car. Like a true drunk idiot.

It's one of my favorite things. Yeah. I respect it. I respect it too. He didn't drink and drive. Yeah. And that is admirable. He went home, chained himself to the radiator and went to sleep.

Yeah. I think that's a very funny idea that you preemptively, like a dog putting a Thunder shirt on or something. Yeah. You're like, listen, I know how I get. I'll have a white wine spritzer, but I am aware of what is coming. You just have a mass text that goes out to everyone on your phone. It's like, uh, I'm about to, uh, so my phone has sensed that, uh, I just

had my first drink and so everything that comes after this should be taken with a grain of salt. I've also locked all my bank accounts and preemptively filed for divorce with. Drinking on a plane is one of my favorite things to do, but I know how I get, I know how I get like, I mean, how much money do they make off it? They have to like, they have to do it. I mean, they have to like, can't let, they can't just be like, people who like it, like it so much.

Right. But like, yeah, there's like, there's like feces flying around the cabin. Like everybody's choking the flight attendants. Like, you know, it just seems like at some point, like it's fodder for fucking Fox News because they're like, look, civilization has gone to hell. Like, you know, it's like, so they end up being using these videos all to prove that we need a dictator and, uh, you know, so like this, it's just a lose, lose, lose, lose situation.

Like let's just stop selling alcohol on planes. I love this stance because there's no way anybody like would get behind. Never, never. No, I know. Because like, but else somebody is already fucking loaded up with Xanax and fucking Nyquil. Yeah. When they get on the plane anyway. So that's why their first drink hits them and they start screaming about 9-11 or whatever they do. Yeah. Yeah.

Steroids. I mean, I jack myself up on anabolic steroids. Yeah, you're already already all. Steroids and then they have a fucking white wine and it seems like a harmless thing to do, but combined with the drug cocktail, they've already adjusted just to get through the flight. They go they go immediately apeshit and try and murder everybody. And then so I mean, then they go go around they would you like a drink? You know, you know, like right next to the guy is trapped to the chair. Can I still get a drink?

Yeah, you look up you look stressed out But I promise I'm not gonna go crazy. So I'll have it right a double jack a double I was asked for a double the flight attendant without skipping a beat goes, how about a single and then handed it to me? All right. You can't fight with the flight attendant after that. It's like, no, I need, I need a double. It's a double. And could you pour it in my mouth so I don't have to untape my arms? Correct. Thank you. That's all I have. Just something to look into.

Let's look into it. Let's look into, let's do some research. I like the theory that it's all a plan to get a dictator. Yeah. Let's look at how out of control all these people are. Oh yeah. What if they weren't allowed to drink? Yeah. All right. Well, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and just blow through all those news stories in six minutes. We'll be right back. stories in six minutes.

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I'm Madison Packer, a pro hockey veteran going on my 10th season in New York. And I'm Anya Packer, a former pro hockey player and now a full Madison Packer stan. Anya and I met through hockey and now we're married and moms to two awesome toddlers. And on our new podcast, Moms Who Puck, we're opening up about the chaos of our daily lives between the juggle of being athletes, raising children and all the messiness in between. We're also turning to fellow athletes and beyond to learn about their parenthood journeys and collect valuable advice.

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and Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. And we're back and okay, Guy installed eel aquarium in his rain cistern. I just something I don't even need to talk about this. I just wanted to bring it to your attention, Chris. It seems like a cool thing, like an underground eel cave

that you can just like build into your house. I don't know if this jogs anything for you as a fan of weird underground shit on YouTube. Well, I mean, I've gotten so hooked on a couple things now with just the mind exploration and the guy who finds the bottles that I don't really, I don't need any eels or anything like that, but I, I respect like, you know, anybody who's, uh, going to the trouble and I don't, I don't, I'm not that kind of person myself.

I'm the kind of person who has a clip light and you know, milk crate and, uh, and, and, you know, and a YouTube and, uh, that's my life. You know what I mean? Like, and maybe a banana, you know, on the counter. So there's not a lot happening, like as far as like decoration or anything for me. So the idea of like putting an eel farm in my basement is like, just from a labor standpoint,

I just think about- It's a lot of work. Yeah, like I could be watching television during that time. That was a bit of a try hard. Whereas like the people who you kind of pay attention to are more people who have a shovel and notice that there's a little dip in a field and go and are like, yeah, people used to shit there and drop their bottles. Yeah. And I like to, I like to watch them do it.

I don't want to do it. I don't want to dig. I like to sit on my ass. I like to write poems. They are one of the least you don't need to exert yourself. And, um, I like those kinds of things. I like thinking. I like looking off into the middle distance.

Yeah, like I don't really want to like fuck with eels. You know what I mean? Like, and that's the problem is like when you have like a significant other, like like a woman who might be interested in a man that did some stuff. You know, like I think that is a good idea. Like I think a woman, even if she didn't like the eels might be like, well, this shows some initiative. Yeah.

And she'd be right. I'm guessing this is not. Yeah. Like, look at this guy, this guy I just met, he has an eel farm in his basement. I mean, that's not what I ever really wanted, but I've been divorced twice and you know, split pickings in this guy. I mean, if he has enough money, if he has enough money, he has enough money to be raising a couple of chimps and, and he has enough money, your eels, if he has money, he has enough money to be raising a couple chimps.

Yeah. And, and he has this eel farm. So this guy, I mean, you know, he's a driver's ed instructor. So your read on this is this guy just built his underground subterranean eel farm for the ladies. Yes. That's like a way to show that he is motivated or because he's, he's insane and has sex with the eels in some way. Right. Yeah. Yeah. There's always there's always the chance that this is like to him what the moths are to buffalo. There's only two reasons a man does anything.

Yeah. And they're basically the same reason. Yeah, they are the same reason. It turns out it's the same reason. Are you having sex with the eels or are you trying to obtain sex by having the heels? Yes All right Paul he hashtag obtain sex Should we talk Polly and the biking? Yeah.

So we've talked before about how a lot of Western European and American cities were essentially designed by cars. It's like a new species came along and was like, we're cars and we're just going to have you change everything to be as efficient for us to get from one place to another. But there have been a couple of stories that have made us feel like maybe it's not too late to undo some of that damage. Usually, those things are happening on the Western European side of that, not in the American side of that. I understand. It rarely comes from here. It does not. On our side, we had like a couple months at the beginning of the pandemic where New York was like, we're just not going

to have like cars around. We're going to like let people walk around a little bit. And we were like, what if they left? And by before we could say, what if we left it like that, like finish that sentence, they had already like let the cars back. All the birds killed themselves when the cars came back. It's like, Oh, there's nature here. Why is that? But so Paris is showing us like what this would look like. They have this very ambitious climate plan that includes transforming streets

into zones reserved for pedestrians, bicycles, and public transport. Like these zones sound like Central Park a little bit. Like what if it was all just, you know, I guess Central Park has like a couple roads that go through, but they're like usually closed and like there's like one car at a time going through it for the most part. And so this plan aims to have like 30,000 parking stands, 1,000 spaces reserved for cargo bikes, 52 kilometers of provisional tracks, 300 kilometers of bicycle tracks,

1,000 kilometers of bike lanes. Just, I don't know, it sounds cool to me. Like that would be how your city is designed is just like a place where you could like walk around without being concerned that your child would be like pancaked by a fucking muscle car. You know, which is like 90% of my mind when I'm walking around with my kid is like, well, how do, how do I ensure that they aren't that they don't run into the street and get run over by a fucking car? And it's wild that, you know, we didn't have any say in that. It was just like,

that used to not be the case. And then over the past 70 years, they were just like, yeah, it's better for commerce. So we're going to make it. So you just have to keep your fucking head on the swivel at all times in order to get from place to place. And the consequences couldn't be fucking higher, by the way, if you screw up. And as an avid cyclist, I have the lower body of a hippopotamus. I am very pro-bike, but I've known or I've seen that American cities will do something where they'll claim that they're very bike-friendly. But, oh, we have so many bike lanes, but they're not protected bike lanes. That's Nashville. That's Nashville.

Yes. So it's like, oh no, we painted a green stripe on the street. On the side of the highway. On the side of the highway. With all the motorists will be like, oh, sure, there's a green stripe on the ground that no one sees. And yeah, I think that's the vernacular around it too, can be often misleading when,

because there's nothing better than a protected bike lane. And to your point, it'll get rid of less, or it'll cause less emissions. People are also, you're getting around and exercising. Like you don't have to be going 1000 miles per hour. It's like, oh, like you get your heart rate, you're moving your body around a little bit. You know, it's good for you. You'll feel better. It's such a better way to like have a civilization. And like this, they built this shit and now more people commute to work in Paris. Like now, as of now, like they've been doing this for the past few years. It's like going to get more and more ambitious over the next five. But as of now, like more people are commuting to work on bike than car.

And like, when they started this, that was like unheard of. Like they were like, well, no, like, of course not. That's, you know, it's, it was like a, an American city. Did you see the, the, just quickly that the, the Paris speaking of just, not only are they walking or biking to work, but they, 25%, they just had a story in the New York times, 25% of, uh, Parisians live in, in, um, public housing, not, not, not, not affordable housing, public housing, like, and that's what I ran on when I ran for city council.

I ran for this affordable housing, this notion of affordable housing. It's not affordable anyway. Um, you know, like what they're talking about is affordable for, affordable housing, this notion of affordable housing. It's not affordable anyway. Um, you know, like what they're talking about is affordable for, you know, if you're upper middle class or middle class, like, I mean, I don't even know if there's such a thing as a middle class, but you know, there's, there's like affordable is like, oh, 1400 bucks for a one bedroom or something that's still out of the reach of most people who work in the service industry. And that's most was a lot of the, certainly the artists who live here. And, uh, and just regular people work in the service industry and that's most was a lot of the certainly the artists who live here and And just regular people work in the service industry. I mean, that's the gig economy is the service industry

I mean you can't make enough to pay $1,400 a month rent doing that no matter how many fucking door dashes you deliver And so like you need subs and people are like, oh what about if we don't what we don't want public housing Look what happened to public housing, but that's just like what happened to public housing? I mean, yeah, it's like got some crime in it, but so does regular housing. And also those people still live in Nashville. Otherwise, they wouldn't be here. They are in public housing, and that's why they're here.

And so Paris, unfortunately, has like, you know, hasn't been brainwashed like America into thinking like that cars are in the constitution, you know, right? Yeah, yeah, because they've been around for a thousand ten thousand years or whatever We've been around for two hundred well, you know in this current incarnation a couple three hundred years You know what? It seems like most of the time we've had cars as far as I noticed. Thank you Yeah, I think it would work like I really want we just like our if we If we just kept trying in cities around the US. This is being done in cities around Europe.

This mayor who has instituted this, it's a major part of her platform. She's so popular that she's running for president now. Amazing. so popular that she's running for president now. Like she's like, it's been done in London, Milan, Barcelona. And those candidates have also gotten like huge marks. It's just like an easy way to, I mean, I guess not easy in the U S but it is like a guaranteed winner if you just do it in your city, like, because people want like walkable livable cities where you don't have to worry about like just, you know, taking a step in the wrong direction and being killed.

Like, but we can't like in the U S like we can't do anything about it because we're like captive to, I don't know, fucking chambers of commerce. Like Roots spring, seen songs about barefoot girls on the hood of a Dodge. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You know, which I love that song, but you know, this, we're, we're just brought up to think cars are as American as, as, as apple pie and fucking freedom. And I mean, you're not going to take, you're not going to take my car as the same.

You'll get the same resistance. Like you're trying to take a gun. Well, I keep my gun in my car. Cars. Yeah. You can't take my. Well, I keep my gun in my car Cars. Yeah, you can't take my cars. It's got my gun in my guns Well, okay. So why don't you show me what my gun rack looks like on the back of that 10-speed? It's in a few in various saves in my car. It's in my car in various the only walkable city I'm comfortable with is the walking dead That's it. So otherwise, fuck you.

Cars in general, I just like cars in general were a terrible idea. Like the whole idea, it was a bad idea. It's just that nobody, everybody likes them and that's the problem. So they just like them. So that's the, you know, but really big picture cars were a terrible idea. And I'm going to say one thing real quick, uh, because I know we're running out of time, but I want to say there's this documentary called my architect on criteria.

Humanity again, like you forgot that you didn't. Greatest episode ever. Also, I just want to interject. You man, I don't know the name of it. There's a documentary. Go to YouTube and put it in humanzy. There's probably gonna be a bunch of stuff that comes up.

I can't remember. It says Psy on it. I don't know what channel that was, but a sci-fi maybe? SCI. SCI. Did we talk about this yet? I'm 55. Thank you. So I just wanted to say that there's this documentary called My Architect, and it's about this architect named Louis Kahn, but it's about his son who didn't know him because his dad had three different families

that didn't know about each other, and his dad was five-foot-six and severely burnt as a child in Estonia, and he came to America and became this... He didn't hit his stride as an artist until he was 51, which I like, and I'm already kicking his ass. You're so bad. So so he he designed these buildings. He designed the capital of Bangladesh. And anyway, he was a terrible dad.

But it's this beautiful documentary about Nathaniel Khan. But is the Khan is not his real name. As he changed, he was Jewish. He changed his name in the early. His father changed his name in the 20s or something but anyway Louis Kahn is this architect anyway his idea for Philadelphia and that's why I thought of it he lived grew up in Philadelphia after he came from Estonia and he wanted to he was one of the architects that he had a huge proposal for downtown

Philadelphia and and it was to have cars all left outside the city. And this is in, and he was laughed out of town and everybody said, Oh, you know, he, these William F Buckley types and one of whom was in the documentary, still angry about it. He's like, he wanted to leave the cars outside of town. Fucking idiot. You know, like we have the cars in town and in this country, in this country, you know what I mean? That's right.

So I don't know who this fucking guy thinks he is, but anyway, it was just so interesting because he was right. The idea was that there would be these giant car parks or like, you know, like car garages that were also kind of beautiful that he built all around the city, everybody would walk from them into the city. So there would be no cars in the city.

It's just waiting there for somebody to put it together and become incredibly popular. But it's just wild that that would be so popular with young people, it'd be popular with the elderly who can't really drive at this point. But it's that mainstream money moneymaking commerce, you know, Albatross, like it, there's gotta be a, like if one city pulls it off, like it will become such a like tourist hotspot. Like I would just like go there all the time just to like experience a city

without cars. That would be fucking wonderful. Have you been to the Grove? Have you been to the Grove? The Grove is the best example. The closest we have to this in the US. It's incredible. And they have like an Eiffel Tower that shoots sparks out of it and stuff.

The Grove is stunning. Stunning. That's why we should have elected Caruso. Thank you. All right. Chris Crofton, What a pleasure having you as always. Thank you so much.

So fun to be on. I always love being on and I, um, yeah, that's it. That's it. Where can people find you? Follow you can find me on Instagram. Boy, oh boy. Can you ever I'm a slave to the Graham slave to the Graham. So, uh, it's a, yeah, at the Crofton show. You can find me at the Crofton show on X

Twitter. I still I do have a threads account in the blue sky account, whatever it is, but I can't go on there. I just don't go on there very much. I'm still on X and Twitter. I don't know. Twitter at fuck at the Crofton show. That's it. And you can go buy my book, the advice king anthology from I don't care if you get it from Amazon, go ahead. And, um, and, um, and it's called the advice. Can't fucking try. Great. It's so good. And I wrote it, but it's still good.

And, uh, and, uh, what else I'm going on tour with Neil hamburger in may, uh, in Minneapolis and, um, Milwaukee, Milwaukee and those areas. So starting May 14th, the first night I'm doing is May 15th or something. I'm gonna come back on the show one more time this month. So I'll tell it more. Yeah. I'll tell it more.

I'll tell it more. I'll tell it more about Tennessee. My tour down Tennessee way. Hashtag Obtain Sex. You could become a manfluencer with that hashtag. Oh God. It's on the table for you. There are things I would like to do if I had more energy to turn cities into

bikeable cities, be an influencer, all these things that have just, I've just decided to move on. There you go. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Oh, I always forget that part. You guys go first. Blake Wexler. Blakey Blakey about to make a big mistakey.

Ooh. I mean, don't. Not another teen movie. Is it? Cool. Cool quote. It was another teen movie, just so we're on the same page. Yeah, everybody. Yeah. Don't. But you don't let them lie to you. Never, ever, ever let them lie to you.

And if you get nothing else out of the show, take that away. Also, I am going to be, I have some stand updates coming up. I'm going to be in Cincinnati, April 18th to the 21st at Go Bananas Comedy Club. Six shows, for God's sakes. That's great. Yeah, too many. Wakes takes for God's sakes.

That's awesome. Thank you. Look at all these rakes. And on April 27th, I'm gonna be in Philly doing my review show called The Reviews Are In, where me and my guests read actual reviews of products and places that both positive and negative, we riff on them, and that's at the Coop.

And then the next day, I'm gonna be in Brooklyn, April 28th, at Strong Rope Brewery for my monthly show there at Strong Rope Go On. So you can get all these tickets in my bio at Blake Wexler on all social medias. That's fun. Those are great. Social medias. Listen to all that stuff.

However you, medians, whatever it is. Medias. Medias. Medias. Medias. Social medias. And an art, a piece of art, a piece of social mediate. A piece of art? as media, media, media, social mediates, and an art, a piece of art, a piece of social media. A piece of art or social media that you've been enjoying.

There was a Monet I was looking at the other day. No, this is from Chad Daniels, a very funny standup comedian at that Chad Daniels. And the tweet was, if you're a murderous jerk, chemo won't work. Was the, uh, was the tweet. So yeah, timely. Chris got anything for us that you've been enjoying?

Oh yeah. Um, I can't find anything, but, uh, I like everything, uh, Blair Saki does. Yes. Yeah. Seconded the best. Blair tweeted the other day, I stared at the eclipse, but it only made me stronger. Sorry. And that's true.

That's not, that's not even a joke. That's just a fact about Blair. She's so strong. So strong. It's crazy. I mean, I like my own joke. I'll do, I'll do one of my own tweets just cause. Do it. It's for my birthday.

It's for my birthday. Nothing makes me want to play less than when a therapist says play is important. This is from the Crofton show. Uh, the tweet is today's my birthday. Today's my birthday and Today's my birthday. And here's my Venmo. But yeah, like, you know, therapists say that, you know, they say, like, play is important and then you want to die.

Chris, I have a book called Play that was recommended by my therapist. For real? Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. About play. Holy fuck. My therapist has made great recommendations that I have read, Yes. For real? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. About play. Holy fuck. My therapist has made great recommendations that I have read, made it all the way through man's search for meaning.

Great book. Highly recommend. Play did, could not, couldn't do it. No. Couldn't. Yeah. I need one that says work. There's something so depressing about being like, I'm just reading this book about how

I should have more fun from my therapist. Oh God. something so depressing about being like, um, just reading this book about how I should have more fun from my therapist. Yeah, that's, that's, yeah, that's, I, I get it. I get that. I understand the concept, but it's actually homework about how I should have more fun and I'm reading it because my therapist assigned it to me. My house made of twigs keeps falling down when I'm reading my book about play. Oh no.

Um, let's see a tweet I've been enjoying, uh, that bitch with the bacon tattoo tweeted raisins or grape jerky. And I think I will now only call raisins, grape jerky and Maddie at bestest name tweeted, you can never really own earbuds. You just have to appreciate the time you had together. And that's a good way to view that fleeting relationship. You can also Amy a at Lull and on we Amy a at Lull on we I've always pronounced that Lull-U-I,

but I do know how ONWE is pronounced. Tweeted Aubrey Plaza could play the Joker, but Joaquin Phoenix couldn't do April Ludgate, and that is a fact. That's awesome. 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 where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode There was a song that we think you might enjoy Super producer Justin is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah if you want to feel like you can solve complex math equations in your head with the same ease It takes to sit back and listen to a chill piece of music then boy do I have a song for you It's called already there by Taylor McFerrin It's the son of legendary musician Bobby McFerrin of don't worry be happy fame

Robert Glasper and Thundercat if you know anything about the last two they get pretty jazzy and technical and complex. But the best parts of this song are when they just like vibe out and get really smooth with it. You could picture like a chill professor hitting a blunt and drawing out some organic molecules or something on a chalkboard. And so yeah, this song is called Already There by Taylor McFerrin, Robert Glasper, Thunder Cat, and you can find that in the footnote. Justin, that was so smooth. I thought that was the song you just talking about. I'm like, this is amazing.

That's the biggest compliment I've ever gotten. It's true. I thought it was going to be a song by Count Dracula from Sesame Street. Dracula? Yeah. All right. We will let go off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

visit the iHeartRadio app and podcast from wherever. Find podcasts or give it away for free. That is going to do it for us this week. 333 in the books. You fuckers said we couldn't do it, didn't you? You all said we couldn't do it. Now look at you. You look stupid as hell. 333 seasons? 333 seasons, Chris. Read them in a week. Wow, I never even heard heard that. That's insane. That's yeah, exactly. We're almost catching up.

Congratulations. Thanks. Hey, thank you so much. But yeah, we're back on Monday with another episode, tell you what was trending over the weekend, and we'll have a highlight episode, eclipse episode from season 333 over the weekend, the weekly zeitgeist, and we will talk to y'all then. Have a great weekend. Bye everyone. Bye.

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