The Daily Zeitgeist - Twitter PWNED Ron DeSantis, Chaos Candidate Crofton 05.26.23

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

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Political opponents now dunking hard on you. Oh, oh, oh. You suck at launches. Oh, oh, oh. I don't mean SpaceX. Twitter space killed a political star. Twitter space killed a political star. Okay, shout out at Schweitzer on Twitter for that one.

Love Video Killed the Radio Star. Obviously talking about Ron DeSantis, which we will be talking about a little bit today. And I'm thrilled. Fuck it. Just bring the fucking chaos. Today's fucking co-host is none other than the Lord of Chaos. Big Plumpers himself. The man, the myth, the legend.

Please welcome Blake Wexler! Big Plumpers himself. The man, the myth, the legend. Please welcome Blake Wexler! I don't know. I don't like that. A.K.A. Plump up my hams. Plump them up.

A.K.A. Plumper them up. This is an iHeartMedia production. What are we going to write out on vials? Tell us, my co-host. That's the fucking end. That's the last part. I told you, please stick with the script. It's very easy to follow along with.

At the end, my mistake. Before we... This whole thing's out of order. I got to do just some quick updates. We've been saying this at the top of every show. Starting pretty soon, we're going to be starting... We're trying out a new publication schedule in the summer. So we're going to have eight episodes a week. Worry not so we're gonna have eight episodes a week worry not there will still be eight episodes a week but the difference being is there will only

be one friday episode and one monday episode then starting tuesday through friday whatever or tuesday through thursday you're gonna get your whole two episodes a day but it allows us to take a pause for a second because we've been doing this like non-stop so we can kind of do like new stuff and kind of keep things fresh you know jack and i want to keep the relationship fresh so we're doing this not just for you but for us as well so we appreciate i think the 340 episodes you were doing a week actually was not enough i think you're going in the wrong direction a lot of people said that some people my dms were asking they're like what about more shows and it's like i don't know if i have the bandwidth to do that already uh but anything without your listeners but go ahead that's true no zai king makes this thing happen so we appreciate you so yeah uh it'll be fun time so we're gonna

have some new kind of stuff going on and i think you're gonna like it uh but but fuck all that okay let's get to the guest today whatever it's just afilled episode. Allow me to bring in the advice king. The Mr. Cold Brew got me like. The foremost, I don't know, expert on YouTube and everything esoteric, I feel like. You know what I mean? And also, are you running for office? Do I have that right? Oh, yes. Okay.

We'll bring it in. Our future local politician, Chris Crofton! Oh, what's up? You think i'm gonna be crazy today you're wrong i'm a politician now i'm gonna be totally normal against me both sides the sanest career what about both sides chris since last you were on i've seen that you were filing the the relevant documents to run for office locally in Nashville. Yes. Yes. So I moved back to Nashville at the end of September.

And I went, well, whatever, I went here. I was here. And then I live in Madison. How did you get there? That is what we're all wondering. What was the needs of transportation? This is already going to be a very boring segment. Who helped?

Oh, man, I was hoping he was going to talk about metal detecting again. So I moved to Madison, which is like where it's all vape shops and payday loan places, you know. And so it's not New Nashville. So it's like this New Nashville, you know, everybody's like, wee, you know, it's the lollipop forest and all that shit. So I moved to this part of town where the roads are all, well, like wagon tracks. Right. I said wagon tracks. I went down to the city council and I said wagon tracks to them like four times, real loud.

And so anyway, the roads here. Not your chant, by the way. I think that's. Hi, sir. Can we help you? Wagon tracks. Wagon tracks. The roads here are trashed, right?

So the roads here are trashed. It's like a bunch. There's no public transportation of any note. It's humiliating to wait for the bus. You just stand in like some weeds. It's fucking horrible. So we got one neighborhood up here that's like four feet out of Lollipop Town. This new Nashville, you know, I'm up from Nashville.

I'm like 10 minutes up the road, you know, and this is much more real in the sense of it's much more poor. Right. And, you know, real meaning like. Just working class people of it's much more poor right and you know real meaning like just working class people i mean real meaning you don't like it you know what i mean like real is supposed to be you know it's i like it because it reminds me of old nashville before it had like hot and cold running like micro bruise or whatever the fuck and and anyway so i'm like up here and i'm like okay the roads here areed. There's a homeless encampment in the woods. There's like, and then there's just Nashville, like, which is just booming with, and they're

just keep putting up these luxury hotels and things. So I was like, so the big thing was they, they said the Titans, of course, threatened to leave if they don't get a new stadium, which is what NFL teams do, you know? And nobody can say no to them because like, you know, because they'll go to Vegas or something. Yeah. They'll go crazy. Like the whole world will go crazy you know what i mean like it's like uh you know you can't say no to the titans but i also think you should say no to the titans when they do this to you which is they ask for a new stadium and they cut a deal where we give nashville the city gives like 700 million dollars to the to the stadium but it's even more than that but there's like 700 million dollars in tax dollars right going to the nfl yeah when we got people

full of kratom standing in the weeds waiting for the bus that comes erratically like there's no there's there's there's traffic here this place i used to live here when it was empty and and i don't i don't expect it to be empty like when i moved here in 2001 there was nobody here and i understand that's not sustainable but i liked it because you could just go around and rock them you know you could just i had my band and you just pay 200 a month rent you get drunk and you tell everybody what's what that's a great town to me that is a good town yeah but that you know that's not and you know people eventually will catch on to the rent being like $200 and then people come here. Right.

So growth is fine. But like we just have. Yeah. Let's have the wealth distributed properly. So everybody is benefiting from it. Right. What I was saying, trickle down the wealth. I think it's what Miles.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We need to give more money to the people at the top because it's not falling down fast enough. Thank you. So more gravity up top. It'll come down faster. We're not stacking enough money at the top because it will not come down.

You get it. It's like one of those machines at the gas station where they have the pennies. I thought you were going to say, if you push harder on the gas pump lever, more gas comes out faster. Yeah, it's like the gas station. It's like if you don't squeeze hard enough with a gas station, it's the same thing. So anyway, I went down to the stadium hearing, and I don't know if you guys have heard the audio from it. I have it. You know, you can hear it.

Yeah, I would love to hear that. I could play it. It's two minutes long, but it's me yelling at, not yelling, because I'm running for real. That's one thing. I'm running for Metro Council at large is the office, meaning it's not tied to a particular district. So I'm running at large all of Davidson County. There's five selected. There's 21 people running.

And I'm not doing this as a stunt. And I just I went down to the stadium and I and I I thought I was going to wait to watch this. The proceedings, they were deciding whether to approve the stadium and the stadium deal and it was already done like they the activists had to get like had to be activists just to get a hearing but then the hearing was like everybody just sort of like i can't even it's too long a story but one side of the hall was people wearing loafers gucci loafers with no socks for real and the other side was like all black i mean it was like it was like white and black it was it was not that extreme but it was like the white people in the in the fleece vests right the fucking loafers with no socks just got up and said we want

a stadium because it's fun and we can smoke cigars in it and then a bunch of people of color teachers like regular people got up and made good points and they sided with the guys who want to smoke cigars yeah you know and and it was to see that if it was not it would have made me mad if there wasn't taxpayer money involved yeah just the attitude but the fact that they were giving away tax money and it was like very stark because i don't know why there was like weird intimidation things happening the reason i know why you could tell the difference in color between the people who are pro stadium and anti stadium is because they divided us when we got there. You had to get in a line that said pro and a line that said against, which I already thought was weird. But I got up and I didn't even thought they said, well, you can't go in to sit because the Titans already paid a ton of people to be here.

And they all filled the place already. They had a picnic. The Titans had a picnic for people in the afternoon to be there. That's how you warm up for activism is with a light, light or dirt. What was a weekday? So they, it was whoever got there first, got to speak for two hours. So the pro stadium people got two hours and then a bunch of anti stadium people had like kids and stuff. Regular people had to go home. So anyway, I, I got in there and I just, I didn't, I just wanted to, I realized they were going to pass it.

So I just said, this is socialism, not because I hate socialism. Of course, the first person that came at me was a liberal saying, why do you got to put down socialism? And I was like, I'm not putting down socialism. I'm saying socialism to these people because they don't, they think corporate capitalism, they think it's peak capitalism because NFL's involved. So they're like, NFL is capitalism, but you're giving them taxpayer money. Doesn't matter, NFL.

And so I was just there to say, I said it was like putting up a gold statue of Stalin. I said it was crazy shit because I wanted to say stuff in that chamber that they had not heard. But I mainly got to say, this is corruption and you guys know it. And it felt so good because when I do stand up, all I do is complain about corruption. Yeah. Well, not all. And I also do jokes about how people who smoke pot have mustard on their pants. But they but, you know, I got to be true. Yeah. You can't just get up there and talk about the division of wealth. But anyway, so it was like a very it

was an amazing moment for me because i realized oh wait this is like doing stand-up but for people who don't want to hear it like well that's not that different either i know it's not that different but but hearing saying this stuff about you know corruption to people who are actually doing the corruption felt good and so then i well, I should run for office. And then, I mean, the amount of support I've had has been just absolutely amazing. People have been like, yes. So we'll see. I just want to be a nice guy.

Yeah. Look, hey, for those of you that are able, you know, check out Chris Crofton's campaign running for the At-Large District. Okay. Metro Council, At-Large, Nashville, Tennessee At-Large National Tennessee. You can go to VoteBlue and I'm raising money there. I haven't got my account all the way set up.

Don't go there. Don't go there for a little while. Go there in a couple days. But I'm not kidding. VoteBlue. When you launch your fundraising arm. Alright, Chris, we're going to somehow get to know you even better than that. But first, let's tease some of the stories we may get to.

Not even sure. Might not even be worth saying what we might talk about because I know this is going to be wide ranging. We're going to obviously talk about Ron DeSantis' Twitter campaign announcement because it was a fucking disaster of the highest order. You'd love to see that. And we might even talk about how winnie the pooh is going to save texas school children from mass shootings not sure how that's going to work and also the new barbie movie finally did what the fans wanted which was include aqua's

barbie girl track in the trailer the cowards have finally done it so we'll talk about that and also just the background between that song and mattel, because apparently that might be sort of the source of the tension between the film and that song not being used. But obviously, fuck all that. Chris. Who gives a shit about all that? What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, yeah. I've kind of, you guys know this a little.

Well, I don't know if you know this or not, but people who listen to my podcast, Cold Brew Got Me Like, may know a little bit about this guy. I don't know if you guys know A.J. Webberman. Are you familiar with A.J. Webberman? I'm not. Garbology. Does that ring a bell? Is that the study of trash? Yeah, well, he invented the name of it, and he's very fired up about it.

So are his friends. He invented that name. Whoa, this guy looks like he's into garbology. Is that coming from you guys that honking or is that on my street i think it's in your brain yeah no oh you don't even hear it okay it doesn't matter okay thank you thank you right for your support um oh it is the study of trash i was making a joke that is actually what garbology is well no it's a made-up word by a.j weberman a.j weberman it was a guy who was obsessed with bob Dylan. And he went through Bob Dylan's trash, most famously, and like actually found some shit that was like pretty interesting when Bob Dylan lived in New York before he moved to Malibu. And so this is like 71, 70. And I think Bob was like kind of interested in this guy. Like they would run into the West Village at that time was a pretty small community.

So he would they would run into each other. And and I think maybe Bob thought for a minute that he needed A.J. Weberman to like connect him to the street or something, because he had, you know, he'd already gone through his London, you know, his tour of England, you know, which they made the great movie. Don't look back about where he had wild hair and was on speed. the great movie don't look back about where he had wild hair and was on speed and then he like had his motorcycle accident and which many people think was an excuse just for him to recover from speed and to like go to woodstock and try and get healthy and then you know but then all his fans were mad because he was this revolutionary and then all of a sudden he put out nashville skyline which was like an instrumental record kind of like him singing like you know out of nowhere

his fans were like what the fuck because they'd already like him singing like, you know, out of nowhere, his fans were like, what the fuck? Cause they'd already like invested in like, you know, whatever people thought they needed for the revolution. They already had supplies and shit, you know? And then Bob was on Bob Dylan's like,

so they were like, Oh my God, you fucking sell out piece of shit. And that was AJ Weberman. He was like, you abandoned the revolution. So he ran into Dylan on the revolution so he ran into dylan on the street and he he just had a conversation with him but it turns out he has like a photographic

memory or something so he wrote down every word that dylan said to him on the street and he's like i'm gonna publish this in underground newspapers he also had dylan's phone number because dylan gave it to him and hung out with him for a brief period but he was so he's like i'm gonna publish these interviews, so he's like, I'm going to publish these interviews. And Dylan's like, man, those weren't interviews. I was just talking to you on the street. Those aren't interviews.

And he's like, well, they're interviews to me. I wrote them down. This guy's got something wrong with him a little. You know, he's smart, but he's also got something wrong with him. I would probably say he, well, I don't know what's the matter with him. Writing it down from memory and calling it an interview

is such a superpower too he's calling him he's calling him from pay phones to talk about this because this is before cell phones you know so he's calling bob dylan not pay bob dylan's talking to him for a half an hour but it turns out he's recording bob dylan talking and he's explaining to bob dylan i'm going to use these interviews and bob dylan's going no man those weren't interviews stop calling him interviews it was a conversation, you know, and he was telling Bob Dylan what he said. And Bob Dylan actually was saying, like, I said that?

He's like, what does that mean? So Bob Dylan, you get the closest picture of Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's insecure as hell. He did not want these. He was like, anyway, so you get to see this side of Bob Dylan that's kind of amazing, and you get a guy who's not intimidated by Bob Dylan, so he's calling Bob Dylan a pig and a sellout and stuff. It's incredible. Anyway, I'm just going to play

a little bit of it. Where's my fucking phone? Here it is. It's so good. It's so good. I mean, if you don't like Bob Dylan, it doesn't even matter because it's just a showdown between to be able to talk to Bob Dylan without fear. You have to have something wrong with you. Let's put it that way. Yeah. So I don't feel that, but i get that generationally i'm like i'll fucking i'll pull up to bob dylan and jacob dylan i don't yeah now it doesn't matter now people are always right now people are choking out bob dylan but right and left these days uh so uh here's him talking about this is an excerpt from his phone call talking about uh bob dylan's albums nash phone call, talking about Bob Dylan's albums, Nashville Skyline, and the one that followed it that everybody hated too,

which was Self-Portrait. Both of them were like, one was a covers album, Self-Portrait, and the other was just like, which is a great song, but it's not, you know, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll or whatever. You know, I mean, it's like a tone change from like Blown in the Wind, you know, let's go, you know, I mean, it's like a different, a tone change from like Blown in the Wind, you know, let's go, you know, Masters Award, all of a sudden.

Big deal. So big difference. Here we go. And then I told him that Nashville Skyline sucked while South Portia was a stone ripoff since many people played it once and stuck it on their show. It's not related to objective reality.

Okay, he said. So then I told him Nashville. He's reading, he's reading he's reading he's reading his transcript to bob dylan on the phone and he's saying so then i told him nashville skyline sucked and self-portrait was a stone ripoff and bob and he said and bob dylan said that you said that there were two good songs on only two good songs on self-portrait and then bob dylan says there's more than two good songs on there man i know i said that but there's more were two good songs on, only two good songs on Self-Portrait. And then Bob Dylan says, there's more than two good songs on there, man. I know I said that, but there's more than two good songs on there.

And that's just the part I like. Here we go. And then I told him that Nashville Skyline sucked while Self-Portrait was a stone ripple since many people bled it, played it once, and stuck it on their shelf. These are albums related to objective reality. Don't respond quietly.

Well, there were two good songs on Self-Portrait. Days of 49 and Copped the Shell. Hey, you know, you don't have to change this, man in with two good songs on self-portrait. Days of 49, cop the show. Hey, you know, you don't have to change this, man, but I would say there were more than two. I was supposed to say

there were more than two. I just said there were more than two. I can't understand a fucking thing. There were more than two. Okay, well, if that didn't work out,

you guys have a nice day and I'm going to turn my mic off. That was Chris's plug section actually that's what he wanted to promote is aj weberman's interview go listen to aj web there's also a 2006 documentary on youtube right now about aj weberman it was a bbc i guess sanctioned documentary it's about aj weberman and his friends who all got left behind by dylan they all took acid and

thought there was gonna be a revolution and they all ended up just zonked out of their minds and bob dylan moved to malibu which i think is a big big picture i did want to tie that into what we're all dealing with is like oh the 60s people you know the 60s people that promised a lot and then just stole all the money instead yeah and left a bunch of true believers in their wake and that's where aj weberman's on the right track because he's saying to d, man, he's like, what the fuck? Because Dylan's like, I don't have to answer for anything I wrote. And he's like, well, yeah, you do, because a lot of people believed it, you know, and

that means that you are responsible. Me and all my friends are all acid casualties who thought we were having a revolution. And now you're moving to Malibu. And and Bob Dylan, I think for a minute was interested in that message. He's like, hmm, that's interesting. But then he ended up attacking A.J. Weberman. He rode up on a bicycle and attacked A.J. Weberman and beat him up. And that was the last time I talked to him.

He moved to a colder city instead of Malibu. Oh, yeah. Oh, dope. As a compromise. A.J. Weberman's friend, who's so impressed that A.J. ever knew Bob Dylan. So he has like a posse just from ever talking to Bob Dylan. So A.J. Weberman's acid casualty friend, he ever talking to Bob Dylan. So AJ Webberman's acid casualty friend, he goes, well, AJ had a relationship with him though. AJ had a relationship

with him. And AJ goes, well, I didn't really have a relationship with him. And he goes, he goes, I knew him for a minute. And then his acid casualty friend goes, you can't unring that bell. There you go. I like that. You definitely can't. Here's a bell, Chris, that I want you to ring. What's something that's overrated? NFL stadiums. NFL stadiums are for the 1%. If there's no middle class, they're just a giant cigar bar. Yeah, truly.

The Tennessee Titans rushing game. That's what's overrated. Yeah. Oh, and that's the other thing. I mean, technically, you could take all the football stadiums and fucking throw them in the ocean as far as I'm concerned because all I got all I care about is fucking weirdos yelling at Bob Dylan so

you know that's my NFL that's seriously but I mean if someone shakes you down like if the NFL says we get a new stadium or else the correct response when you have no streets and you have torn up streets and bad education and homeless camps in the woods then you say, fuck off.

Go be the fucking. And it'll never happen. They'll never say no. No, yeah. They'll never say no. It happens everywhere. It happened in Inglewood with SoFi Stadium. The Cronkies have a real track record of that.

Like St. Louis, people in St. Louis will tell you the same thing. Like, look what they did by taking all of these subsidies to build the fucking stadium while parts of the city are crumbling yeah it's like it's just like do they have arsenal also yeah the cronkies also own arsenal yeah who are they the cronky family they own like every denver sports team the guy the guy owns a construction company his wife is a walton of walmart we should outlaw construction companies too oh i mean this guy like the the amounts of money. I'm sick of buildings. Fucking obscene.

Nothing good about it. I don't get to live in any of them. I don't get to live in any of those buildings. But they made a ton of money because he's married to Walmart money and basically being like, every Walmart we build, we'll use your company, honey, and keep all the money in the family. And then just double, just over and over and over again. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the is the daughter of a construction million billion. I'm not a billionaire, but millionaire.

I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene is funded. The reason she's able to run around with no job. Yes. Unless you can't play a job. She's rich in construction. Yeah. One hundred construction needs to be outlawed. Thank you.

Only destruction. Yeah. Destruction. Legalized destruction. I want to hear about somebody who got rich from destruction. Yeah. Destruction. Legalized destruction. I want to hear about somebody who got ripped from Destruction. Yeah, exactly. What's the main thing that's underrated? The middle class.

The middle class. That's on my mind. Candidate crossing. Go off. It's the missing piece. We don't talk about it. We keep acting like if there's an honest discussion of the lack of a middle class then everything makes sense everything makes sense where did the middle class go they went

crazy that's where they went they they shot they shot they bought guns they they they ended up on opiates their towns are abandoned and boarded up anyone who's driven across the country can see every town in the middle of the country that used to have a marching band and elk's lodge is now boarded up where did those people go they went crazy that's where they went they went fucking crazy they became q anon they became shooters they became all the middle class is is what this country the only reason this country has stability i mean you take away someone's economic security and you make them a nut poverty isoverty is the ultimate radicalizer. That's not my quote, but that's it.

So it's so dumb to talk about the symptoms of all this. Crime rates are going up. Things are going to be a mental health crisis. Where's the mental health crisis coming from? All the people that used to have jobs. That's where all people used to have jobs that weren't five dollars an hour. Fucking putting Jeff Bezos's underwear in a box. hour fucking putting Jeff Bezos his underwear in a box

if someone wants to edit my response to this question from yesterday to Chris's response to what's underrated today where my response was watch a TV show in the middle of the day take a break he's out here being like the middle class has fucking vanished it's been a war since

the steady war since the late 60s what really told me like it's just that that stadium thing was really part of it was just like they kind of try and act like this is a working class experience like it's the pittsburgh steelers in 1972 yeah how much is a season ticket you know i don't even know i know know the games are like $200 tickets. Oh, yeah, they're sitting in the upper deck. NFL tickets are insane. You cannot get... So this is not what they're selling it as.

They're selling it as, like, with this smoke and mirrors thing, they're still a middle class, and there's still a bunch of working class people that don't even exist because they're all the working class people or, you know, whatever. There's not a working class necessarily. It's a service class. It's a service class.

There's a bunch of people working for low wages in in customer service, rich people service job. Right. Anyway, so those people are not going to the game. They don't have the money. So this is really just a social club for wealthy people. So this is really just a social club for wealthy people. And they are using this cartoon while the NFL is working class because they're talking about when there was a manufacturing industry. And then people really did go to the games and wear undershirts and drink beer and whatever, smoke big cigarettes, whatever they did.

Smoking big cigarettes. Hand me my big cig, honey. I'm going to the game. Back in the day, when people could safely have a, you know, you could be an alcoholic and a heavy smoker and have a good job with benefits. Exactly. And you could smoke in a NICU. For real. You know what I mean? Like, how many

packs of cigarettes do you have, aunt, you know, aunt whatever who operates a drill press? She has five packs of cigarettes in her fucking purse. But this is like a thing, though, too, like this conversation about how different things are, like, because there is no middle class middle class is something I brush up against with a lot of like like baby boomer people that I know when like they talk about like like like someone person's like, oh, I'm worried about my grandson. He's like, I don't want him to be one of these like kids in their 20s who lives at home still. And I'm like, do you know what the world is like for people that are trying to get a job? And she said, well, you know,

when I got out of high school, I worked at a diner and I was able to pay for my own apartment. And I go, you cannot fucking do that anymore. That's a fucking mirage. That is not, that's nonexistent. Your apartment is $3 a month. Yeah, 100%.

For a 10 bedroom. And like, yeah, this is all- Yeah, it came with a carton of cigarettes every month. That's a benefit. Exactly. It was a Lucky Strike sponsored housing project. Do you have any non-smoking units? What the hell is that? What the fuck are you saying? What's a non-smoking

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We can open up some holes in your walls and let more smoke draft in if you want. Put windows in it. I don't know what you want. Open the windows. But yeah, I mean, like there is this idea where a lot of older people believe that that that that's the pace of things in this country still like you know even like like people who like in my family were like bus drivers and people of color and still managed to like have some semblance of like being able to get a house at some point but again these are all this is that's all just fucking vaporware and you know i think a lot of younger people in america are made to feel

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uh what do you want to talk about ron desantis yeah why not yeah what's the matter with his pants i just want to know what's the matter with his pants well he's always wearing those cow pleated he's always wearing those cowboy boots yeah but those pants man his pants like he either has bow legs or he's impersonating a man with bow legs. What do you mean? What do you mean? He looks like freaking his legs look like freaking what's a Yosemite Sam's legs. Oh, that is great.

And his legs got like that from riding that goddamn horse. That's what I mean. I don't think I don't. Yeah, I think I think could be because he wears. Riding a Coke brother. Well, he wears those like cowboy boots that give him like an extra two inches of height, which is a thing I'm always looking at. I'm like, wow. Two inches of toxic power. Toxic.

Yeah. Toxic power. So as we've talked about before, you know, we knew that DeSantis was going to announce. dosantis was going to announce and we also learned that he wanted to formally launch the campaign using an interview with none other than elon musk on on twitter spaces uh which elon musk was saying like it just was like this is this is hyped you know this is going to be a groundbreaking moment he got the breaking part right because the whole thing was a fucking disaster a cluster fuck if you will and again how could you have foreseen this because it's only a tech company that laid off 80 of its staff how could they have any kind of

technical issues i just don't understand elon musk was just advocating for laying off more people at tech companies but again this was the result and if when it started right 600 000 people tuned it but then there was all kinds of problems. There was fucking feedback, echoes. The audio was like, sounded worse than that clip Crofton just played for us. That's unnecessary. You didn't have to do that. I'm not an owner of a big tech company.

You don't have to do that. Sorry. But even that was better, Chris. I didn't lay off 80% of anybody. All that to say, that's why that was better, Chris. I didn't lay off 80% of anybody. All that to say. That's why that clip said it's so bad. It's Chris laid off 80% of his tech. Once Justin and Victor and Becca get through with it,

it's going to sound crystal clear and you guys are going to sound like assholes. In a way, I think it's better. It's more authentic to the voice of this show. So many times I've put unintelligible shit on this show. No, not even not even again your episode where you had the wrong mic in your hand and you had the laptop recording your audio behind you is still the most like out in the yard i was holding a mic out in the yard yeah it was

amazing but like i look out after you're like the mic was fucking behind me yeah i mean you guys were so nice about that i can't believe that made it to the air that would never happen now this is dude you know this that would never happen now now that i heart radio's got together that thing people don't tune into daily zeitgeist for the professionalism they tune in for its authenticity and okay good thank god i'm authentic chaotic nature brought to you by i heart media iedia. I'm so authentic. But anyway, so people who are trying to tune in, they got logged out of like Twitter completely, some people. And, you know, this went on for like 20 fucking minutes. And then the moderator, David Sachs,

who's like Elon Musk's business partner, said that they were, he's like, we're kind of melting the servers. And, you know, that's actually kind of a good thing, which fuck off, no it is it's indicative of how shitty and unstable twitter is right now it's not because you broke the fucking internet and you can hear going for you yeah you could hear elon musk in the background saying he's like oh like i'm working to allocate more server capacity like this is fucking star trek or some

shit like why does he have a mic just let him well because he was also part of this like weird triangular conversation then the feed fucking cut out completely with like a notice for people that said this twitter space has ended and then it started again 25 minutes late and then this time there were only 40 000 people joining in and then it eventually got close to 100 000 people so it means that half a million people just fucked off after that. They're like, I'm off. I only came to see that it was a disaster. Half a million bots.

Yeah, or whatever it is. But again, like the idea. It's not even real people. A lot of people are pointing out that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had more people watching her on Twitch playing fucking Last of Us or you know or among us or like whatever streaming video gameplay than even ron de santos did like at the like once this shit got going like had just like even less people so the idea that like this broke the fucking internet i think is just it's it's all fucking what are you on most it was doing like putting up attaching more servers or whatever yeah allocating more server space captain that's slang for smoking rocks

to allocate more server space yeah that means he did a bump off his hand he's like hey hand me that fucking light bulb yeah okay uh-huh yeah yeah what the fuck hey hey scotty beam me up am i right so again then desantis just went on and just parroted a bunch of like tired ass talking points that we've already heard in like this pre-recorded video he released earlier and then in the day and he was also asked why he made the announcement on twitter instead of tv and he was his answer was basically like oh you know i love elon musk and it's it's really to do with the fact that he's a quote, free speech advocate. We're going to keep doing that. And then at that point,

even Fox news was fucking with DeSantis when he came on for the interview. Like later that night, the host was like, well, just so you know, Fox news will not crash during this interview. And he had got him do all that. Yeah. I think again,

this is just part of like how terrible DeSantis is. Decision-making is already like in regards to like again fucking everything right his singular focus on being like getting notoriety and grabbing attention has led him into like a losing battle with disney and now he wants to go worship at the altar of fucking elon because he thought it would be you know groundbreaking like this is the new shit it in fact was not and the, when this whole thing started off, one of the first things they started talking about was fucking Twitter. Not even Ron DeSantis' announcement.

First things first. Yeah, the Twitter guys played Ron DeSantis also because they were trying to show that you could use Twitter spaces as a viable way for right-wing shit. And they were trying to gin up ad dollars. I don't know. Ron DeSantis just couldn't say no i bet musk just said like hey man i'm elon musk and ron de sanchez was like oh boy and he's like how about you launch your campaign on my fucking app that doesn't even work and he was like oh

okay like he couldn't say no you know i feel like he probably just has like an in crowd moment like ron de sanchez just wants to be popular he's's obviously a freak. Oh, yeah. I mean, a lot of a lot of there's a quote from like a I guess a huge Republican donor who said in regards to Ron DeSantis, there's two types of donors. There are people that believe that Ron DeSantis is a viable candidate. And then there are those who have actually met Ron DeSantis. This is what a Republican donor said. He's like, this guy is so fucking awkward. Like he does. There's nothing about him that feels presidential. And they like i don't fucking know man like i don't know

if i want to give him my fucking money after my interaction with him if he's serious about running for president which i guess he is like i mean who cares i mean at this point here i'd say yeah you know what i mean he's serious but then i'm gonna do it i really feel like his advisors fucked up like they were probably like, don't say yes. And he couldn't resist to say yes to Elon Musk because that was a dumb idea. That was a I mean, on his face. Why the fuck would you launch anything on an app? I mean, that's exactly.

I mean, this is the thing. Like, I think his own handlers obviously know he's bad in person. That's why, like his second huge campaign ad, like where he was running, I think, for reelection, it was a voiceover of someone else's voice and just visuals of Ron DeSantis. Because when you hear his voice, he's kind of like this. And it's just sort of, you know, with Florida. You just fucking shut the fuck up, dude. You have the worst fucking voice.

No one wants to hear it. And it's just fascist bullshit coming out all the time. So you have that. There's plenty of fucking video clips of you on Twitter where you look at absolute fucking clown. Just like like with his like fake laughs and shit. His jaw unhinges. Yeah. No, I'm like, it sucks to say like, man, like Trump even doesn't have like shit like that.

Like the best you can do is like him, like sniffling or just like, you know, like weird shit like that. You never see him like fake laugh. He rarely laughs himself. So just visually, I think he's coming off like as a completely different person than Ron DeSantis. And again,

putting, announcing your fucking presidency on an app where there's no video. Like I think as further evidence, they're like, we don't need, like they shouldn't even see you, bro. Just bro just fucking announce wait that wasn't even supposed to be video there was no no no it's just an audio launch your audio launch chris you don't use spaces on twitter nobody fucking does no i don't know i met my wife on spacesaces. You did. It's a beautiful marriage.

Yeah. I think she has a lovely voice. Yeah. She's not here. I don't know where she went. Maybe that is the genius of having, of launching it on Spaces, is that compared to Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis looks like the most empathetic, like socially adept person in the entire world. Maybe that's, you put them next to you on i mean as somebody who used to work in politics i'm struck just by how fucking bad this

was like if you're announcing your candidacy it's actually important where and how you do it that's like just like 101 of like your messaging thing right like are you couldn't even fucking do it in person or in your own fucking state not even a swing state and like tie that to whatever your overall campaign message is and then like the content of the announcement just gave no one a fucking vision for what his presidency would look like he just talked about all the woke shit that he's pulling like pushing back on and that's not, you're literally talking just regression the whole fucking time. You're not offering anybody like, no, and I would stop that. And I don't like that there's trans rights and I don't like Disney.

Okay. That's the world you live in. You're all of your fucking problems still exist. Like, you know, no healthcare and other shit like that. Even like Trump have like deployed this like faux populism to try and give people something. But like Ron DeSantis is like, I'm fucking cruel. Okay. Yeah.

Cruel. That's it. You like that? And I'm also too much of a wimp to push back on Donald Trump. I will never say his name because I'm shook daddy. That's me. Like, that's just what it's going to be. And we've said the only way someone's going to beat Trump is if you come for his fucking neck.

I'm over here Googling shook daddy. Shook daddy. You know what I mean? Just you're shook baby. Yeah, I know. I know what kind of No, shook daddy is one. I don't know. It's the opposite of a lit daddy. Yeah. He's shook. Exactly. Okay. You're reading that. You just read that off the screen.

Urban dictionary. Urban dictionary says everything means fucking doesn't matter what word look up any word they're like that means that means fucking like really dad that means person you'd like to fuck a flashlight no that's an ottoman that's a person you'd like to fuck on the streets that's a turkish person you'd like to have sex on the street the streets. What? On the streets. To put their feet up. Yeah.

Fire hydrant? That's a person you want to fuck. That's having feet up sex. But, like, you know what's even wild? Like, even W, Bush 2, had an announcement speech that offered people just an idea of the America he was trying to create. Like, everyone's done it. And I fucking hate that I even have to give him that kind of, or just juxtxtapose the to be like, this fucking guy even knew what the fuck was going on. But again, he had more of a real machine behind him. Whereas DeSantis just feels like it's like a lot of his him and his

wife collaborating and a bunch of bad ideas swirling around. But I don't know. I would imagine when you do a campaign launch, the one of the most important parts of it, after message, is eliminating variables in the announcement. And you mentioned it earlier, the Twitter issues with their software and their tech, like when they laid off 80% of their engineers, there has been a pattern of problems that Twitter has had. So it's, why would you sign up for something that's not even just a variable that could happen? It's been happening. Yeah.

That the app has been having issues. So. Right. And especially when you're going up against. Where do you want to have your mother's 80th birthday party? Oh, at that restaurant that has the F rating from the health department that only has two people. And no ramp.

Yeah. The really steep staircase. Yeah. It's a jagged. It's a jagged rock pathway up there and there's no there's nothing like that's like it's like what like you look at him like what the fuck were you thinking but again i think that's his whole like sort of uh you could describe his whole governorship is what the fuck are you thinking and again he just wants all he wants to do is

carve out this like i'm fighting against the woke bullshit. And, you know, he thinks that's enough. And it's just it's not going to be because at the end of the day, you're going to you're eventually going to cross paths with Trump. And he's already calling you meatball Ron, which I hate to say is kind of fucking funny. Meatball. It's devastating. It's the meanest thing I've ever heard. Yeah. To be completely Ron. It's devastating. It's the meanest thing I've ever heard, to be completely honest.

Old puddin' boy. I think he's got somebody, somebody's going to go after his legs. I mean, you got to look at this. It's not his legs, it's his pants. But I'm not the only one who's seen this. This is like, I've seen it. Somebody said something about it. They've approached me.

Maybe a world star? A world star? That's maybe what it was. Oh, I mean, there is this one picture where I think he goes into, like, a disaster zone. I think it's this one where he's wearing the boots. Yeah, he's got crazy. Oh, my fucking God. But the best is when you see this is, like, after Hurricane Ian, how him and his wife, like, it's like she dresses him.

Like, they're in the exact same outfit. Oh, my God. They're white, gorgeous white disaster boots disaster they look like white power rangers yeah shout out the white ranger yeah i mean again this is fucking hell this is what's so weird too like he's he's also so caught up in this like toxic masculinity shit like he and he doesn't even know where he fits it's like i gotta have my boots with the lifts always he's dangerous he's a dangerous person i mean he went to yale i think that's so fucking i don't understand these people all went to yale and harvard yeah i don't understand what these these universities are teaching these are supposed to be good institutions what kind of

values do they teach these people depending on what you're trying to do right if you're like going to like business school or whatever it's just capitalist finishing school. Why don't they fix that? Because they're turning out tyrants. I think people should be fucking telling them that. I mean, this is absurd. This guy is actually... Yeah.

I think more than that, it's the university. It's just the class of it all. It's just that this 1% class is the one that's churning out all the people that get all the advantages. Yeah. How does this charmless, violent creep, Rhonda Sannis, which he ultimately is, he's a violent person because his legislation is violent toward transgender people, toward LGBTQ people. That's the thing about these people is, here's the thing is like, there is no policy. I mean, I think everybody knows this, but Republicans don't have any policies. All they have is tax avoidance. And they've already done that so successfully that all the

money's already at the top. And now it's just about getting more police on the streets, just cementing their positions and preparing for the ultimate, like when all these poor people charge their towers, they're just going to have a militarized police to protect them. I mean, that's how dark this is. So the reason why Ron DeSantis and the Republicans have nothing to offer except for this anti-woke stuff is because they have no policies because they want the government to collapse. They want everything to be privatized. So we got people like, well, I was reading about, well, you know, what's his name? The guy, now he's in trouble, Noam Chomsky, you know, because I guess he had something some dealings with Epstein. But he said that he described the Republicans just the other day as as an as an insurrection. It's been an insurrection since the since Nixon. aren't popular so they switch to culture war stuff but ultimately they're trying to take over because they can't win fairly because they have no policies that would ever make anyone vote for

them but yeah so they're just doing culture war but even culture war that's why they're actually starting to sort of like the insurrection and stuff is they're trying to take over because they know they don't have a brand that could be popular. I mean, there's nothing to offer people. Their policies are all just transfer of wealth upward. And so Ron DeSantis is just, I just don't understand how this guy graduated from Harvard. Didn't he have any professors that said like, hey, you're man, you're a creep. Like, we're not going to give you a, I mean, what happens at these colleges? Where do you, I just don't understand where all these, like Mike Pompeo, these freaks, how do they come out of these colleges? I mean, I guess he went to West Point or something.

Well, look, it's there. There are overlords, you know, and you either get in line. We should speak about them with respect. Yeah. Tone shift. Got to be. No, I went to Yale. You went to Yale?

No, no. But thank you for your incredulous response. No, I'm just going to be like, no thank you for your incredulous response. No, I'm just going to be like, you piece of shit. You rascal. You white rascal. You rascal. You fucking rascal.

You motherfucking rascal, you. What is Yale's secret society called? Skull and Bones? Yeah, that's what it was yeah yeah no no follow-up thing i was just asking i think yeah no just good to let you know skull and bones only cool stuff comes out of there and like yeah to your point i mean this is again we're this is the late we're in the they're in that stage late stage capitalism where it gives way to fascism this is the cycle because late stage

capitalism embroils too many people in poverty and they'll begin to ask questions and the only way to fight back against poor people or working people saying what the fuck is going on everybody is stealing our fucking money is uh-oh sorry police state assholes because we don't want to keep answering these fucking questions or change the status quo and we need to do everything we can to protect it. So anybody who's not talking about like real change, you know, it's that's why I'm running for office. I'm not kidding. I mean, that's really why I'm running, because I've reached the end point of bitching.

Like, I can't like I wrote a column for the Nashville scene. It was my last one because I can't write anymore because I'm a candidate now. So it's like free advertising. Like if it's like if I'm writing, I guess I could be interviewed by the national scene, but I can't actually write a column for them because then they'd have to give everybody a column if they're a candidate. But my last column was, this is fascism. And I didn't, people sort of were like, I don't see it.

You know, like, I don't see it. It's not going to look the same. My point was, it's not going to look the same as like the 40s exactly. You know, but we have the built-in racism that we have in this country from day one you know it's like not even like we have to activate some we already have these boogeymen that this that the right wing is used for years and years already you know i mean there's there's already the built-in uh anyway my my point is just that I don't... What is it?

Authoritarian democracy? You know, what is gerrymandering? I mean, that's fascism. Authoritarian democracy? You know what I mean? Like, what is it? What do you call it then? I mean, I realize fascism sounds really horrible.

And if you have kids and I don't, like, I don't think that's something you want to hear. You know what I mean? But I'm just saying... How else are you going to describe what's happening, right? That's it. We're criminalizing people's existence at every level. You're poor, you're a criminal You're trans. You're criminal. You're gay. You're criminal. You're not cis white Christian. You will find a way to make your they're just like, I don't even office i think is a good idea because at least i don't know at least you're in the in there doing getting trampled i mean i feel like i'm gonna get trampled once i get in there it's not like i'm gonna be able to like when i my friend

who's helping me run was like what's your platform and i was like you know i'm like well i mean what's that twitch well no it's like platform uh i don't know probably uh i can't even think of a fucking platform so uh ms paint nine and three quarters so um so i don't even know what i'm talking about you guys go i mean look your platform is at the end of the day you want everything for everybody my platform nobody he was like he was like i was like i want to try and get community back and i think public transportation good public transportation is one way to do that is to have everybody together you know and some sometimes not always in a car just in some truck just honking and screaming that's not a good model for anything and then i also was like guns you know i

want to get rid of guns and he's like well you're gonna sound crazy if you say you want to get rid of guns because if you think as a city council member you're gonna be able to get rid of any guns you're out of your fucking mind yeah so i had to like get my i want to run though with the energy of a guy who's running for president You got it You know what I mean Like I'm going to say shit I don't care I'm going to say shit

That we can't do Yeah Everyone You should have announced On Spaces Is what you should have done That's what I should have done But I think you can come back

Hey we can redo it Hey look I'll hop on board I'll be an advisor to your campaign I've got a little experience You know what I mean Oh fuck yeah I'm not kidding

And also I want to I bet if there's people Zyte gang If you have like some real policy shit, hit me up too. Because look, we can crowdsource this platform for profit. I'm not kidding.

I'm really, I have so much support here in town and people think I have a shot to win, but it is going to be a struggle. I'm going up against people who are, you know. Yeah, well-funded and aren't on Cold Brew all the time.

Guys with gray hair that parted gray hair, you know. Yeah. And they are the ones that win. Mike Pence looking motherfuckers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But all you got to do is make fun of them. Be like, dude, this guy doesn't even fucking know music.

I don't want to be too crazy, though, too, because then people, I can't be, like, full comedian. Like, you know, I can't be like, Cold Brew got me. Chris, I don't know if you're going to be able to suppress that part of you. I can't run around town saying Cold Brew got me. You might, but you might,

and it might take everybody by storm. They're like, well, I've got a guy. I've talked to some advisors who are like, you got to do the comedy stuff. And then other people are like, no, you got to like, you know, you got to be more centrist and start talking about zoning and stuff. And so, like, I'm really already. Well, I think, look, it's like anything, right? I think a good candidate is somebody who's going to articulate things that people weren't

quite able to articulate and in a way that's going to connect them to their own situation where like you can be like zoning but this is how it affects you also i think it's bullshit and then put your own croft and spin on it yeah i'll say like you want a chicken you want a pinball machine i'm tired of people telling you you gotta go talk to somebody about it wait that's wrong i want people to talk about it all right you want to get a chicken you're gonna going to need to fill out paperwork. Wait, I need to bow to big chickens demand? Pro chicken. You want more than two chickens on your property, there's

going to be a shit ton of paperwork. That's all I got to say. Vote Crofton. Alright, well, vote Crofton. A rooster? Go fuck yourself. Oh my god, a pinball machine? No paperwork. I love those things. Especially if they're made by Midway Games. Alright, we'll be right back and we're going to talk about Barbie, the movie, maybe after this. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back barbie, Chris, you hear that? Holy shit, I've been waiting for this movie. Finally. Margot Robbie looks just like Barbie, so it's going to be great. It's exactly like Barbie. I just want to bring this up because I myself was always like, is the Barbie Girl song by Aqua ever going to be in the Barbie movie? As a millennial, I millennial like it has to be

there's only one barbie song the new trailer just came out i've heard you do huh the screaming about that oh i know you won't stop talking about it jack i remember we had to shelf a whole episode when you're on i remember because it's all i was talking about like we started over because it was worth it was like please stop talking about fucking barbie and i'm like i'm sorry i'm so upset um i get it but this new this new uh fucking trailer actually uses the track from aqua um in the last couple seconds but it kind of feels like this sonic the hedgehog moment where like all of the internet was like where the fuck is barbie girl by aqua and your marketing this is bullshit and then suddenly you know the studio is just kind of like all right fine let's fucking add it in case the fans just completely like lose it on us like to the point where like one fan just like re-edited the like the previous trailer to include the song and it was

actually like way better it like it all worked together but it was previously reported that the movie would in no uncertain terms they would not be using the song and uh lenny nystrom of the band speculated that it might have to it might have been because it was too on the nose for the film although i feel like everything about this film has been pretty on the nose yeah take the layup but the whole other thing is that apparently where they track down lenny nystrom. No, for comment. I mean, who's living on the side of a volcano. Probably right next to Leanie Bloomingdale's.

We caught up with Leanie... We caught up with her in Sumatra on the side of her... In her treehouse on the side of a volcano. But the other reason might be because back in the 90s, Mattel, the makers of Barbiebie they sued aqua over the song but they lost the case so in 1997 mattel took aqua's record label mca at the time shout out when mca was a thing uh to court alleging that the song made quote unauthorized use of the unauthorized use of the toy manufacturers barbie doll trademarks and

likeness and argued that the band the brand was tarnished by lyrics that quote associate sexual and other unsavory themes with mattel's barbie products because you know there was stuff like kiss me here touch me there hanky panky uh you can touch you can play i'm always yours make me walk make me talk do whatever you please i can act like a star i can beg on my knees you know all that the band was saying that like it was actually about plastic surgeries and some parts were intended as sexual but after the lawsuit their lawyers shut the fuck up shut the fuck up don't don't talk about that don't say anything about the sexual shit because that's what they're suing you about what the fuck was that oh shit my own fucking siri just went off

anyway so then mca hey siri where can i find a doll with conservative fine family values uh and then so there was a counter suit filed by mca records and they said because they said that they're they called their quote alleged trademark violation a crime and they're like that's bullshit things got so fucking heated with these two lawsuits that the judge literally had to say this is a quote from the court documents quote the parties are advised to chill the judge said chill the fuck out to both fucking parties i just love that that's where the judge is you gotta chill out the parties are advised to chill what year was this

1997 yeah before 9-11 people were in a better mood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ain't hearing that in post 9-11. You know what I mean? People are talking about chill. Dude, chill, man. You're advised to chill, bro. Yeah.

I have not heard that word once since 2001. Completely absent from the West. Well, yeah, I guess it stuck around september 10th 2001 the last the last day of chill well no like you know like back then it was like this is as bad as it's gonna get the future looks just like it's nothing but barbie lawsuits yeah yeah it was at the time i remember i was in law school studying barbie law everything felt like it was going in the right direction then 9-11 happened but both suits were eventually thrown out and mattel was like you know mattel said they were disappointed and mca was like it's a it's a victory for free speech uh the band was just like this is great

publicity but it's just funny that like like why they wouldn't include the song because when they're saying like oh we don't like the sexual undertones. Like, because if you've seen the trailer for the film, like there's a whole scene where Ken keeps talking about beaching guys off. And he's like, anyone wants to beach them off has to beach me off first. And you're like, I mean,

look, you're embracing the camp. Yeah, exactly. I keep seeing this episode. It's so annoying. You can cut it all out. I keep going.

I didn't ever do that. Usually. Have you been doing that? I haven't even noticed. It's so annoying. You can cut it all out. I keep going. I didn't ever do that. Usually. Have you been doing that? I haven't even noticed. Oh, good. Good. But I've been doing it a bunch. Yeah. I don't know.

But anyway, Greta Gerwig. What? What is this going to be? What? Has anyone ever seen Greta Gerwig's other movies? What's going to happen? Like, I mean, he's going to go indie rock. Barbie actually has an existential crisis.

There's going gonna be a shin song playing during that so yeah upside cut my thumb song new slang they're gonna play that and barbie's gonna find out she shouldn't live in her dream house and she should be like a volunteer or something that's gonna be some bullshit man this is bullshit and also i'm tired of people being cast in movies that look like the people why don't we do some casting that's interesting? So you should have been Ken. Just anybody. I don't know.

I like the idea of you being Ken. Samuel Jackson. Samuel Jackson as Barbie. Sign me up. I mean, for real. Let's do something interesting. Like get somebody who looks like Barbie. Wait, Chris, this is your campaign.

Sam Jackson should be Barbie. Everybody. Sam Jackson should be is your campaign. Sam Jackson should be Barbie. Everybody. Sam Jackson should be Amelia Earhart. Sam Jackson should be everybody. And everybody should do different crazy, you know, do crazy casting. It's the end of the world. Let's do some interesting shit. Like, oh, we'll get Greta Gerwig.

Oh, Greta Gerwig, thinking outside the box, decides to get Margot Robbie because she looks like Barbie. And she talks like bar it's the worst idea already i don't want to see it and then i know what she's gonna do because if you saw what was the name of that person no no nanette or something the one who was like her other one about the lady who had a nervous breakdown and ended up being a ballet instructor i'm sorry what that movie that she did i don't know it's called licorice pizza the tangerine monkey i hate that movie so uh the um no the movie that she did last time about the woman had a nervous

breakdown it's called like on the edge or like greta gerwig goes crazy what's it called the last one she did the last one she did was as a writer about that herself she played herself or is it noah bombax was that noah bombax movie i don't know dude the movie that about the woman it's called like parakeet williams or something it's like it's it's her she plays a white lady who has a nervous breakdown and is saved by like she becomes a ballet dancer or something it doesn't i would have seen itakeet Williams. It's going to be like Amelie. It's going to be like Amelie.

All the movies I've seen by Greta Gerwig are some variation on Amelie, which is where some, like, weird girl accidentally stumbles into a twee existence. And that's what's going to happen to Barbie. She's going to end up working at a record store and they're going to play that Shins song. All right. I love that.

The shins were also sued by Mattel, by the way, it has been pre-saved by none other than Chris Crofton. You have heard it here first folks, Chris, thank you so much for joining us on the daily zeitgeist today, man. I appreciate it.

You have to exit on that absurd. Me trying to remember the name of that movie, but okay. Williams sounds like I'm, I'm notoriously behind on movies, but but okay parakeet williams sounds look i'm i'm notoriously behind on movies but i love parakeet williams oh francis ha is what that's it that's it parakeet williams it's about that's from 2012 that was so long i was like wait what her last no i'm gonna turn my mic on hey shout out parakeet

williams though that's oh my god oh i just love it please someone please someone prompt chat gpt to write the script for parakeet williams whatever that whatever that film is chris where can people find you follow you listen to you donate to your campaign and all that um donating to the campaign is probably the most important thing for me right now and that's on act blue um you just put in my name chris crofton and uh the name of the campaign is uh crofton for council and i honestly i'm i'm in the process of setting up that account right now i'm waiting for them to email me back so it might be monday before it's up but act blue and uh then the other stuff is just uh the uh the coldberg got me like podcast and uh at the crofton show on twitter and um instagram there it is uh is there a work

of social media any media that you've been enjoying recently oh let's do the one that i love the love the most which is the um the hell is it it's's the one that's about the calculator app. Do you guys know that one? No. It ain't about SpongeBob? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, hell no. They burn in SpongeBob's pussy.

That's the best. I mean, that seriously is the best reason for the world to end. Like, I'm grateful for the world ending just so I got that meme. Yeah, you can witness all that. Do you know what we're talking about, Blake? I don't. I don't know what it is. It's a meme. It's a Spongebob float from a parade and it's a hot air balloon so it's got, you can see the flame underneath Spongebob's,

well, just, it's a hot air balloon but it says, someone took a picture of it and says and wrote, hell naw, aw hell naw, they burning Spongebob's spussy you know i mean that's just the greatest thing that anyone's ever what's your current what's your current favorite that makes william shakespeare sound like an idiot uh just all right i'm just gonna i can't remember it you guys go you can't remember so you're Shakespeare is not like an idiot. All right.

I'm just going to. I can't remember it. You guys go. You can't remember? So you're seeding? Oh, here it is. Here it is. Here it is.

I won't see it. Okay. Josh Letterman, parentheses, old friend 99 said, playing around in calculator app. Some of these numbers are huge. Some of these numbers are fucking huge. It's from a while ago ago but i love that so much blake thank you so much for joining me on this this night of a thousand laughs uh where can people find you follow you and what's uh you know oh i've thrown some tour dates and what's some social media shit you're like yeah why not uh people could find me at Blake Wexler on all social media and then

also I will be at Blue Ridge Comedy Club in Bristol, Tennessee, which is far away from you, Chris. Unfortunately, I would love to have seen you, but it's on the border of Virginia, half of the streets of Virginia, half of the streets, Tennessee. I might go to that. I might go.

I would love to see you. Sincere I might go. I would love to see you. Sincerely, period. I would love to see you. And also I have a stand-up comedy special coming out this summer at some point. It's called Daddy Long Legs. It's my first hour special. So I will plug that at another point. And then as far as social media

goes, I saw Carl Tartt post this where it was an NBA thing from a few weeks ago but it uh it's from never devin parker on either instagram or uh tiktok and it says uh john moran's fan john moran's friends before he goes on ig live and then it's that uh that video of what's his face from uh morpheus from the matrix yeah with the actor oh sam uh lawrence fishburne tamarind what was it peacock melons or whatever but it's lawrence fishburne and he just goes somebody get this man a gun like that clip and it just it made me laugh

so hard it was this character from Jodwick thank you producer oh god I was like I don't know if that's from the Matrix

no it was my favorite part of the Matrix but never Devin Parker for that that tick that tick tock

fantastic this was so much fun and Chris good luck with your with running for office you're you're a terrific man thanks so much I love Blake We wexler i love blake wexler he's so funny naturally funny shout out spongebob thank you chris thanks also a tweet i like is from so

saith black lord at j mood 88 uh tweeted basically someone someone like he tweeted this desantis thing sounds like a gta radio show and for people who don't know, the game Grand Theft Audio had built-in radio stations. And I just want to play you because this guy just overlaid the Ron DeSantis thing over gameplay footage from GTA 5. And it's just funny altogether. These past few years have given me a new appreciation for the fragility of our freedoms. I never thought I would see things in America that we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic. Oh, shit. It's fucking

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We've got a Facebook fan page and a website. Well, hold on daily zeitgeist.com where you can find our episodes and our foot notes, foot notes. Thank you. Nailed itcom where you can find our episodes and our footnotes footnotes thank you nailed it uh where you can you know you can check out all the things we talked about or didn't get to talk about um as well as the song we're gonna ride out on i want to go out on this so i recently heard this remix i'm gonna find it i'm gonna find it and i will bring it to you when i actually lock it down i think i'm gonna have to like it's I'm going to find it. And I will bring it to you when I actually lock it down. I think I'm going to have to like, it's on like some DJ record website.

But I heard, okay, so there's the track Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin. It's fucking go to. But there's also a Jamaican version by the Marvelles. That's also fantastic. That has like its own reggae feel to it. I heard someone mash up the original Aretha vocals with the Marvelles reggae like backing track. And it's so fucking good but for now I want to at least draw your attention to the alternate mix of Rocksteady the young black

or young gifted and black outtake where the drum like the drums are just a little bit funkier than the I broke my hip listening to Rocksteady oh yeah when I was roller skating and I fell down and broke my hip Rocksteady was playing. Rocksteady, babe! It was when Aretha Franklin had died and it was an all Aretha Franklin skating night. And I got overexcited during Rocksteady and I fell and broke my hip. What? 2018.

Yeah, you broke your hip in 2018? 2018, yeah. But wait, I feel like we were doing this show and you never fucking brought that up. I definitely must have brought it up It was from Depakote I was on this drug that caused bone loss Called Depakote Anyway, that's a whole different can of worms

But anyway I broke my Because Rocksteady is such a good job It caused such a good song It caused a 49-year-old to break his damn hip Well, check out this version Because it's funkier It will put honey back in those hips

So check out this version Thank you Yes Check this one out The alternate version. That'll do it for us today. Get your hips wet. We'll be back to tell you what's trending.

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