The Daily Zeitgeist - Virginia Is For Lovers (of Blackface), Netflix Won’t Chill 2.7.19

Episode Date: February 7, 2019

In episode 325, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and musician Chris Crofton to discuss Joshua Trump's appearance at the State Of The Union, a refrigerdating service to match you up with your soulmate, Netflix making their own Planet Earth, more politicians caught in black face, millions in frozen cryptocurrency being lost, the NBA trade deadline, the House Intelligence Committee planning on releasing investigation transcripts to the public, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Boy named Trump who fell asleep during State of the Union hailed a hero2. Refrigerdating service sets you up based on photos of your fridge3. ‘Our Planet’ Trailer: Netflix’s Answer to ‘Planet Earth’ Looks Stunning4. Mark Herring: Please see my statement below.5. Millions in cryptocurrencies frozen after Canadian founder's death6. NBA Trade Deadline Star Index: LeBron James, Lakers desperate for Anthony Davis; Tobias Harris perfect for Philly7. Adam Schiff Announces House Intel Plan To F*ck Trump-Russia F*ckers The F*ck Up8. Chairman Schiff Statement on House Intelligence Committee Investigation9. WATCH: Shlohmo - The End Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 68, Episode 4 of Their Daily Zeitgeist. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, I beg your pardon Walk the straight and narrow Brian Hashtag The Wire Courtesy of Hannah Soltis And I'm thrilled to be joined As always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray I always feel the Psycho's calling me

And I'm your host, Miles G And thank you to, again Soltis Hannahanna for that one. Rock well. Where would you be if you weren't Barry Gordy's child? Doubleheader. Probably not. Probably not having Hanna Soltis.

Hanna Soltis with the doubleheader. She's the goat. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian, actor, singer, musician, Mr. Chris Crofton! Hi! Hey. Hey, man. Happy to be here.

Thanks for coming. Yeah, this place is beautiful. Oh, wow. We try. We try to do what we can. I had a bit, I was going to do a bit about what was in here, like a hot tub and stuff, and then I just backed off. Like a typical tech-office. I was going to be like, typical tech like this is beautiful this i can't believe you have a pinball machine and then i wow two two uh two uh what's a ping pong table i had the hardest time figuring out what a ping

pong i didn't want to come in too hot so i decided not to do it no no come in on a 10 man people say a hot tub filled with champagne that's the thing right filling your hot tub with champagne who has that much fucking champagne they can fill i don't know i've heard that before lady gaga right okay but that would be really hot champagne which is gross that is disgusting yeah hot alcohol maybe i just made that up anyways chris yeah it's great to have you here man thank you it's great to be here yeah big fan of your instagram feed oh yeah i do a cold brew got me like yeah cold brew got me like one of my you are in fact uh drinking some cold brew in front of us i feel like i'm in the presence of you know greatness some guy made a meme

yeah i it's one of my many nonprofit brands that I have. Cold Brew Got Me Like is, yeah, it's really taken off with my 1,700 followers. There it is. Well, the Snake Charmer one is my favorite. Thank you. Cold Brew Got Me Like. And then, well, was it the snake? You're the cobra, and then the little flute is the cold brew.

It's the cold brew. Yeah, I kind of get sad when I spend more than 20 minutes trying to do that. Trying to make those cold brew got me like things. Do you have a format, a process that you do? Like you just take a random photo or something with high energy and be like, okay, now how do I mean the five minutes? In the beginning, it was just straightforward. I can't believe I'm talking about this. But in the beginning, it was straightforward.

It was just like a picture of some guy. You know those guys who jump off of mountains or women who jump off of mountains in those suits that make them fly? Like wingsuit? Yeah. Like, you know, I'd like to put a picture of that. It was very literal. Yeah. You know, or like a picture of...

Oh, I thought you were comparing your process to that. Like, when I first did it, it was a little like jump off. Wingsuit. At first, you might die but when you embrace it you find it you actually fly you just leave it like you leap and the net appears you know what i'm saying that is these instagram memes that that would be sad if i was that excited about a meme but um i mean i was a little bit less excited than that but almost that that excited right so anyway i did literal, and then I got weirder.

And anyway, now I just can't think of any, and so I spend a good 20 minutes. Right. I'm in my 40s, and I have no money. And when you're sitting around for half an hour trying to think of what's a good cold brew got me like, you get sometimes sad. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, let's move on. We also shouldn't make it seem like that's your thing. But it's a lot of fun.

No, I just do that thing on the Instagram. Chris also just released an album last year that got a 7.4 on Pitchfork, which is pretty fucking impressive, man. Which is like a 12 on a normal site. That's 12 stars on Rolling Stone. Yeah, and you're just a very funny comedian and we're thrilled to have you, man. Thanks. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to take our listeners through a few of the things we're talking about today. First of all, we got to shout out Joshua Trump. We mentioned that he attended the State of the Union and we'll talk about why we severely underrated him. We're going to talk about refrigerating. We're going to talk about Netflix just out here stomping on entire brands, entire franchises. And Virginia, the white men of Virginia's problem, they just could not for the past handful of decades stop themselves from doing blackface apparently uh we're gonna we're gonna talk about that because there is uh just can't quit you i just can't stop just wake up in black they're like well what happened but yeah another

person in line for the virginia governorship uh has now come out and admitted to doing blackface in its past, in front of cameras, like presumably. Yeah. We'll talk about it. But first, Chris, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, metal detecting. Metal detecting, like metal detectors?

Metal detecting. I like to watch metal detecting videos on YouTube. Okay. Like the elderly at a beach? No, no, no, no. Come on, man. Hey, man, my bad. You just got to know me.

You're already taking shots at me. Yeah, I want to watch some guy going down the beach. I want to do young guys going down the desert. What is the exciting? You got me fucked up. I literally can't imagine the exciting version of this i spend most of my time at home watching people metal detect on youtube and i am discerning i don't watch just any although it's fun sometimes to watch any old sometimes people will put up like

an hour and a half of just plain old metal detecting where they're like nothing today you know that's insane but but i've watched that also obviously but um you know i that and magnet fishing magnet fishing have you heard of that no that's where you people who have enormous amounts of spare time dangle magnets off of docks and try and find metal in the lake. Oh, okay. And they find some neat stuff sometimes? Not really. Just garbage? You'd be surprised. They find like a, and they're so excited when they find pretty much, like if they find a wrench, they go nuts.

Right, right, right. And they find mostly lawn chairs. Just with like the plastic all eroded. Yeah. So it's just the frame. Yes. And they're like, you can probably fix this up. Like they say stuff like that.

That's fucking mean. So Yes, and they're like, you can probably fix this up. Like they say stuff like that. That's fucking weird. So yeah, like metal detecting, I mention that because I think it's an unusual thing from my search history. It's just that I always wanted to be an archaeologist or I did, you know,

when I was a kid and I found out you had to do a lot of paperwork and stuff and I didn't want to do it anymore. You're like, I just like to dig. Yeah, I just wanted to find shit. Right, right. Yeah.

So like metal detecting, it just seems like I would like that, but then there's no paperwork with that, but there's just a huge amount of frustration. Right. It's just hours of... It's just you don't find anything usually. It's just like the idea of someone uploading a 90-minute video that's just like another dud down at the creek. No, those exist.

Those exist. You know there's nothing going into it. The best video I've ever seen... I mean mean it's the worst but this this dude just drinking and and like in a kayak on a lake magnet fishing and he just keeps saying fuck over and over he keeps dropping stuff he's like fuck and he's like there's supposed to be a town underneath here somewhere like a flooded town yeah he's i used to be obsessed with that like that when they would like flood an entire town. Right. Like for a dam.

And I had always pictured like you'd go swimming and it would be like flying over a fully intact town. Right. But then like it's actually like completely brown and you can't see shit. That's what he was doing. He was like, this is a reservoir and there used to be a town down there and like I'm going to drag this. Thought he was going to pull up a whole church or something. He just got nails. All you really get are nails. get nails there's nails you wouldn't believe the

number of nails are in bodies of water yeah i'm looking i just searched metal detecting videos top result is did i just find a lost revolutionary war treasure metal detecting and i know that is let me guess who that is green Green Mountain Detecting? Yes. Green Mountain Metal Detecting. Hello. You're a fan. Oh, yeah. He's a man of discerning taste, like you said. I love that guy.

I think he makes his own music for his videos, too. Oh, shit. And it's really crappy, like fake grunge. All right. I'm going to be really impressed slash worried about you if you can get the second is Metal Detecting Bonanza exclamation point. Oh, I don't know if i can get that one that's okay like is that that's not no that's not aqua chigger it is is it

yes that is amazing he cannot be fucking cool man that is the greatest wow wow congratulations sir aqua chigger is the least charismatic man but he does great research and he finds incredible stuff like he's not i am not kidding this man he is really annoying and he's that's the thing is you have to deal with these types of personalities yeah very like you know just not necessarily who you want to hang out with, even on video. Right. And he does great research, though,

on Civil War battle sites. Oh, gotcha. And he's relentless. I mean, he will wade around in a creek for way longer than I would ever. That's the thing, is I'm just watching it because it's basically like a greatest hits of metal detecting.

So I don't have to metal detect for 80 years to find a cannonball. I can watch this guy find them. He cuts it up so I don't have to watch him with the six hours he's getting bitten by mosquitoes before he finds the cannonball. Wow. And he found, this is the best thing, and this is why I like it. This is why I like the virtual metal detecting that I do. All right, so he's in the fucking stream right

and he's like listen there's something on the on the stream bed here and he's like i think it's a revolution i think it's a musket i think it's a i think it might be a musket and he puts the camera underwater because he always does that and then he makes this joke hold your breath which is not funny um and uh i hate it and he does it every time. Hold your breath. You know, it's like... Anyway, so he fucking found a goddamn Civil War rifle that was laying on the bottom of a stream since 1870. I mean, there wasn't much left of it, but still. That's rad. I mean, that made me...

I mean, that is what I call a metal-detecting bonanza. Yes, exactly. Exclamation point. Right there, you're like, subscribe. But he's a weird guy because he's also into, like, he'll go to where, like, people whitewater raft

and he'll just find, like, iPhones and glasses. I was going to ask if you watched those. He's just as happy about that shit. Yeah, because that's a genre video. The river skimming. I hate that.

It's always phones. That one's just always phones. That's like, ugh. He's like, it still works. I like how there's, like, disdain, though. There's like Luke. And he's like, it still works. I like how there's like disdain, though. There's like, I like the metal detecting where they find artifacts. Right.

Not this riverbed skimming where you find an old iPod. Right. Exactly. Bullshit. It's true. And then one time he found like a metal detecting, like another metal detector with his metal detector. And he had a lot of fun with that, which I didn't care about either.

He's like, well, the irony. I feel like we could honestly have a whole show that is just you talking about your search history but we have to move on to something you think is underrated or you could go overrated first well i was gonna say overrated weed okay i thought that would make everybody mad yeah and we're furious yeah we're really mad overrated weed okay weed is that what you want me to say or should i say something more like a current event kind of thing no i mean weed is a current event right now i mean maroon five is overrated as well by whoa hold on hold the fuck up all right you got me pissed off the table over fucking coming at m5 i'm sorry m5 i don't't think Room 5 is overrated by anybody now after the Super Bowl.

But weed, what is your beef with weed? Well, just since I moved to Los Angeles like four years ago, everybody I meet is stoned out of their mind, and it's sometimes annoying. I think that they think that it never bothers anybody at all, but I'm kind of sick of meeting glassy-eyed dopes right we're just kind of like hey yeah yeah like what the okay so where do we go from here and also in stand-up when i moved out here like half the stand-ups would be like i forgot my set when they got on stage that's not funny that's not professional either right so anyway i i just think that uh and i'll

say something bad about weed and this will happen. Like everybody who's listening to this will be mad at me. Oh, for sure. But I'm also old. So I smoked weed when it was just like you smoke some pot and you could listen to Journey or whatever. And then you could be like at war off and then you could go to a party. But now you're in like some kind of- You're invested.

Like a mind prison or whatever, when you smoke pot. And the people that learn to function within that prison, which is everybody in LA. You're sitting next to one. Yeah, that's me. Oh, my God. I'm the warden. Miles. The warden of that mind prison.

I run this motherfucker. And I'm good. The inmates can do whatever the fuck they want. Maybe I just feel left out. No, but there's something. I get what you mean when you meet people that are super stoned. Like, especially as a first impression, because you're almost like, what the fuck? Okay. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, certain social situations, I don't want to walk into just dumb high. Right. You know what I mean? Because you still want to be able to, like, convey your personality or that you have a soul. Right. But I see with, like, even, like, my younger cousins who love to just dab and just be diet heroin doubt. And she's like,

what's that? That's what I mean. That's what I mean. That's what I mean. Cause I like, I also do feel left out because when I dab or I tried it before, like it's like, you know,

it's ambulance time. It's not something like I can't like hang out and do a podcast. Like right now, I was like stoned right now. Right. I was stoned right now, I would be gone. I would walk out the door and they'd be like, oh, I guess he went to the bathroom. But I'd be walking home. Like, oh my God, he's log rolling home. I have to walk.

I have to walk. I have to walk. I have to walk. Yeah. So, yeah. And I also don't like it because when I complain about weed at all, everyone says like, you got to try CBD. Or it's just like not your, it's not your, it's not weed's fault.

Like it's your fault. It's what you bring to the weed. Right. And I'm like, how much do you like this stuff? Yeah. Or some people that give schizophrenia. Yeah. I like weed.

You know, you know, that's fine. That's for me. If you don't like it, great. That's for you. I don't, no one should be offended that someone else is like, I don't fuck with it and I don't like it. Yes. It's not saying, because people take it personally.

Like, what do you mean you don't like me? Yeah. I had a really bad experience on weed recently and that's part of the reason I'm angry at weed. Yes. Because it was really deep. Like, I actually was in my apartment and I yelled. Right.

Yeah. Like, I seriously went, ah! Shit. apartment and I yelled right yeah I seriously went that sounds like like half of the time weed would make me like silly and like you know fun to be around and the other half it would make me legitimately mentally ill I can only breathe through my shoe exactly what is something you think is underrated underrated i would say um um youtube youtube okay no i've never heard of this what kind of stuff's on there what do you like watching i think i think youtube is underrated because like if you know what you're doing on there you can really really learn some stuff yeah and you can learn

some stuff that you don't need to know and uh you can watch corporate training videos from 1982 and i think we're living in a golden age and youtube's just getting lost in the shuffle of i think it's one of the best like i don't care about i don't actually this is this is just me being dumb because i i don't actually care if anyone thinks YouTube isn't very good. Yeah. This is an insane thing I'm saying. But I do think that YouTube is one of, if you know how to use it, there's so much amazing shit on there. And I think someday it'll go away.

And I think, because I think someday they'll figure out a way to make it a subscription. I think it's a golden age for like, I mean, also I'm older. Another thing where I'm in my 40s. So, like, the idea that you can watch those things, like even live performances of, like, bands. You know, when I was growing up, you had to send away for that shit. Right, right, right. Pay for it.

Right, right, right. Like, you couldn't just go on. Like, I watched a Yay! Yay! Yes! concert from last summer, part of it, you know, the only problem is now you don't care about anything anymore. You can watch it

whenever you want. So I'm like, who cares about a Yay! Yay! Yes! concert? Right, right. Turned it off.

They look older. Sucks. This is stupid. They were never good. Right. I'm going to watch Metal Detecting again. So, but, you know,

that is, like, kind of cool yeah i can watch a pj harvey show if i want i can watch a jesus lizard show or any of these things that i used to have to and it has devalued certain things like like there i had a videotape with like the you know the um the cat that claws the guy um the the pinky the cat i don't know famous oh famous famous uh famous a famous famous famous viral video from like but like it's about it's the pet of the week oh yeah where the guy has like it's like an animal control guy he's like wearing a uniform he's like and this is pinky and it just yeah it's like pet of the week and he's like, pet of the week, come adopt Pinky. And then Pinky bites his scrotum.

Oh, wow. Yeah, like, wines. Pinky winds his way up his leg like a fucking snake. Yeah, and the leash is also like a tourniquet. And he goes, ah! Ah! It's pet of the week. And anyway, so I had a videotape with that on it.

And like, my friends, we would have have a party based on that one thing. And now you can watch that all day. So I just want people to understand that if you curate your YouTube experience properly, this is a golden age. That's all I'm saying. It's also underrated in the sense that there is so much dark shit. But passively, a lot of teenagers are like, I want to learn about how to get a woman. And then suddenly it's like, this is the problem with black and brown people.

Oh, yeah. No, that's what I mean by curated. You got to be careful. Because algorithms on there are. Yeah. The problem is YouTube is everything. Start wholesome, man. Yeah.

Go with the metal detecting. But I'd rather go into a deep dive in YouTube for example than watch like parks and rec or whatever i love that i'm using a reference of a show that's been off the air for like 10 years but you know what i mean like watch ozark and i'm like i don't care about ozark that's a fake show i'd rather watch some real dude get down i'd rather yeah i'd rather watch some like public access dude play the keyboard. Yeah. Speaking of causes, there's a clip of Tori Amos in HD from the 1992 Montreux Jazz Festival. Yeah. And it's the trippiest clip to watch because it's from 92, but it's in full HD. Oh, wow.

So you're like, it's really confusing visually because everybody is like, you're like, oh, this is 92, but you're not used to seeing 1992 in that resolution. Yeah. Have you ever seen a color photography of World War II? Yeah. It's crazy, man. It, like, fucking blows your mind. That's my shit right there.

I've seen that so many times. I'm, like, colorized anything. I'm, like, colorized. I've watched the czar get deposed or whatever. Right. To 1910. Right, right. Like, colorized.

That's what I'm doing at home. What is a myth? What's something people think is true? You know, to be false. I know that ghosts are real. So the myth is that ghosts are fake. All right.

I believe that I can bust the myth that ghosts are fake. I'm tired of scientists who are like, there's no such thing as a ghost. It's wind. I'm tired of that. Okay. So help me find a ghost. Where are the ghosts at?

The ghosts are at old houses. Oh, great. Somewhere there's a lot of cobwebs. Oh, no, but I've experienced a ghost. I'll tell you the best story real quick, because I know this is a podcast and we have to move. But I was on an island called Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. Very haunted for whatever reason.

And people will say, like, maybe the ghosts can't go across the water. Now, I will admit that when people start, like, having theories about ghosts, it annoys me, too. Sounds stupid, yeah. Like, if I was a scientist, I'd be like, oh, yeah, I take you very seriously now that you've said that ghosts maybe can't go across water. So I was in the shower. This is getting steamy

this is a good episode I like this I was in the shower in 1996 so I was in pretty good shape I had more hair just setting the scene anyway I bought one of those

Brady Bunch watches at a flea market and I like those big thick ones like Mr. Brady used to wear I love my references they're so old you know what i'm talking

about gilgan's island um oh yeah so yeah i bought a big old watch and i hung it on top of the shower and i like it was like this anyway i got out of the shower i knew damn well where i put the watch watch wasn't there not there not i mean it wasn't even so i looked for it like but i even knew like what am i doing like i mean there's nowhere it could be. It's either where I put it, hung up on top of the shower, or it's on the floor, or it's nowhere. So I walked out of the bathroom, and I walked back in, and the watch was right where it was before. What the fuck? Initially.

And it was there, and then it was gone, and then it was there. And I don't think I missed it floating out of the room and floating back in. I think it was just there and it was gone and then it was there. It's not maybe the best ghost story, but I'll never forget it. I'm convinced. Professor,

the watch was there, then it was gone, then it was there. It'll never work. And it was dripping in blood. That's my myth busting. There it is. Well, you're all on notice. Ghosts exist.

Ghosts exist. And they steal watches. They do. Only temporary. They borrow watches. That watch did not get blown away, scientists. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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to the state of the union by melania and wasn't really referenced during the course of the State of the Union. But there are now photographs that show that during the speech, he was just like cartoon snoozing. He was broken neck asleep. He had the broke neck just like. If there had been a feather above his head that he was just keeping afloat, he couldn't have been more cartoonish. I mean, it was late.

You know, that speech went into the night. Probably past his bedtime. It was a long speech. But yeah, just the image of it is just so funny. Everyone's so engaged and he's just like, dude, I'm sorry. I can't be here right now. But he's not a real Trump, right? He's just named Trump.

Just someone with the name Trump. And was he sitting? Did I see Melania in that picture? Yeah. Was he sitting close to Melania? Yeah, because it's part of her anti-bullying campaign, Be Best. Yeah, yeah. She's doing a great job.

Just because of her name. That's how terrible this president is. The name alone will get you in trouble with your friends. Yeah. And did we talk about my theory as why Trump didn't mention him? I think we did. On the show? Probably, yes.

Yeah. There's just no way he could make room for a world where his last name gets people bullied. Yeah, I'm sure. Because he's too cool. He'd be like, if anything, he gets laid. He gets laid. All the time. He's nine.

Yeah. Right. Whatever. He's getting it. Left and right. He's great. Let's talk about refrigerating. Refrigerating? Refrigerating. Refrigerating. He's getting it. Left and right. He's great. Let's talk about refriger-dating. Refriger-dating?

Refriger-dating. Refriger-dating. It's a dating service from Samsung. Yeah. It's matching people based on the contents of their fridges. Yeah, so rather than swiping on a photo of a human visage, you would look at a just cluttered mess of the inside of someone's refrigerator, and they're encouraging people to, you know, based off what a refrigerator looks like,

you know, go after that. Now, I don't know how serious this is because it's— This seems like some post-apocalyptic shit where it's just like, look at the food I have in my refrigerator, ladies. Well, if this weren't, you know, just a blatant PR thing from Samsung for the new refrigerator and I really thought about it. I'm trying to think of what kind of refrigerator like interior would be like. I would be like, oh, fuck.

Yes. Swiping on this. Yeah. Did you see how she had the milk in Tupperware? Like, I don't know what I'm looking for. Milk in Tupperware? Yeah. She doesn't fuck with cartons.

You know, whatever that is. I think you'd be looking for like just, I mean, I would think like the more, I mean, you just would end up with people with fake pictures of fridges. Right. Well organized. I'm not going to show my fridge. Right. Yeah.

Absolutely. My fridge. What's yours? Cold brew and one container of feta cheese that's expired. Like, you know, and maybe like some candy because I'm afraid oh you put candy in the fruits well no i don't know not candy but maybe cereal i live in an unusual place so i'm afraid of of animals so i keep cereal in the refrigerator i mean whatever it'd be horrible i mean they would say i'd rather you know i look like a murderer or something it's like i would get a picture if i wanted to have a

date right i would get a picture of like kim kardashian's refrigerator and then I'd have that up there. And then they'd come to my house and they'd be like, where's your refrigerator that I loved? And you'd be like, sorry. Where's all that boxed water from the refrigerator? Yeah, exactly. The boxed water would be the flip. This would drive sales of boxed water through the roof. Yeah, this Samsung, it's this new line of refrigerators that already seems like, Yeah, this Samsung, it's this new line of refrigerators that already seems like, I think we've hit peak refrigerator technology already. When we had the ice door and water dispenser in the door, I think that's all we need. But now there's see-through doors and fucking smart tablets built into it.

But this one specifically has a touchscreen and interior cameras that allow you to see the inside of your fridge from an internet connected device and the system can alert you when use by dates are approaching. Now does it read the use by dates? It must be analyzing it but like how many cameras are there like are you just putting everything that has a use by date? Not everything is like printed right

there on the top. Yeah if they make you input the use by date then that is such a pain in the ass. Just using your hand and eye I still think is the best top. Yeah. If they make you input the use by date, then that is such a pain in the ass. Yeah. Just using your hand and eye, I still think is the best system. Yes. Yeah. Or your fucking nose.

Or nose, yeah. When your refrigerator starts to smell bad, that's the real use by date. Hopefully it doesn't get to that point where you're like, damn. Yeah, no, me neither. A little spicy in there. Yeah. I would never let something go that long. That's a whole thing. Grown up with children. Anyways. Yeah, you, me neither. A little spicy in there. Yeah. I would never let something go that long. That's a whole thing.

Grown up with children. Anyways. Yeah, you have a refrigerator. You have a refrigerator. They're just trying to trick you into getting more refrigerators. I mean, you have a refrigerator that's working, and then they'll tell you you need a refrigerator that helps you date or whatever. Right.

And you're like, yeah. Well, the camera is just sort of like, you don't need to be seeing inside. Like, what the fuck do I need that my refrigerator be camera enabled? Right. Like, what reason yeah only in my mind it only goes to dark places where i'm like what are you trying to figure out you're trying to get a hand profile of me exactly yeah oh yeah it's like 14 algorithms yep more nsa looking at your shit yeah my hands nsa fine why would your hands be in the refrigerator because you're grabbing shit oh oh it's like a live video feed? Yeah, like inside.

It's un-fucking-necessary. Yeah, okay. Got it. It's like that doorbell thing. Like, fucking four people have rung my doorbell in my life. Like, that would be the most dead air thing. Who rings your fucking doorbell? You're like calling them, like, I think it's broken.

I don't know, man. Oh, it's a raccoon again. It's not alerting me. It's a raccoon again alerting me it's a wreck man you do live in an unusual place where raccoons ring the doorbell i live in monrovia i live in monrovia california it's out by out east of pasadena yeah there's a lot of animals out there and i live in like a little cabin kind of thing oh that's awesome in the back backyard uh back house so So Netflix announced a new TV show that I think they advertised for the first time on the Super Bowl called Planet Earth, I believe. Well, that was the old one. Oh, okay.

That they're coming for. Right. It is called- Our Planet. Our Planet. Yeah. Which planet is- Oh, Planet Earth.

Planet Earth. Right. Exactly. But it's basically planet Earth. You know, because Netflix, they have a really good thing going. They like to take existing genres of TV and then just turn it the fuck up. Just one-up them. Yeah, like Chef's Table took cooking, culinary shows up a notch.

Even if it was fucking American Ninja Warrior, they made Ultimate Beastmaster and even stole people from that show to be like, okay, well, here's our version of an obstacle course show. And now they're coming for the sort of nature, you know, beautifully shot doc genre of planet Earth. Right. And they got from the trailer,

the cinematography looks really fucking good. So I'm like, oh, okay. But I wonder if they have David Attenborough. Right. So that's what I said. I was like, so somebody said, I wonder if they have David Attenborough. Right. So that's what I said. I was like, somebody said, wait, do they have David Attenborough? I was like, no, this is their competition for David Attenborough's BBC shows. And sure enough, they got David fucking Attenborough, bro.

He is. He's just fucking just taking a dump on planet Earth. Yeah. Yeah. I'm taking my talents to Netflix. I didn't know David Attenborough was still alive. Oh, man. He's out here.

He's been narrating nature documentaries since like 1964. Yeah, right? This is the first time that I've been very confident Netflix is paying attention to me in particular, because this is the main thing I use Netflix for is just to have nature documentaries on in the background. Really? Yeah, because like kids, you're not supposed to like have a bunch of like, you know, confusing lots of like cuts stuff on TV, but you can have a nature documentary on and it's helping

them like, you know, appreciate nature and you don't feel too bad. There's no like problematic language. Yeah. And you can just like look up and see an amazing image. You don't have to be following the plot. Oh, you should do that one where it's just a train ride yeah have you seen those slow tv yeah yeah yeah no i've also had that oh so you're just the master of slow moving content just ambient television there you go yeah yeah but yeah i'm i'm looking forward to there look there were a few shots where i was like

oh that looks like that was a feat of cinematography to like, you know, mid hunt cheetah action shots. Yeah. This shows for weed people. Oh yeah. 100%. This is 100%. I mean, I've,

I've been stoned and enjoyed it many times. So I mean, that sounds awesome. If you, like, I'd love to go on a virtual train ride or look at a, of a look at a Pelican or whatever. I mean,

I'm into that shit. Yeah. I mean, if you're stoned, that sounds great. Or people metal detecting yeah whatever yeah like uh i but i do think like like i love when i a little thing about the pot thing i do love it when it works it just doesn't usually work for me like i would try and watch a pelican right you know like on modern weed and then i would end up throwing the tv out the window and calling the authorities. Calling the ambulance. Yeah, whatever it is.

But if you can chill out and watch any of that kind of stuff, that's great. That's what it was made for. I do not. I don't need the weed. I'm fine. If you check out the latest Blue Planet 2, there's some shit on there that is mind-blowing. There are fish that eat birds like that's what they eat that's what they do they just jump out of the water and eat birds out of the

fucking air man it's crazy oh my god yeah and they have it in slow motion it's wild anyways that's my weed yeah let's talk blackface guys oh man this is this story this is the story that just won't quit yeah i mean look not only is virginia for lovers it's also for blackface it seems it seems like it's mainly for lovers of minstrel shows virginia is for lovers of blackface i mean yes so first there was ralph northam the governor came out and we talked about him being like look i actually it wasn't me in the blackface kKK photo. I did blackface. You know how the shoe polish gets on your face and it doesn't come off? It wasn't me.

I was Michael Jackson. It wasn't me. And I won. So hopefully that takes it down a couple of levels. So there was just incidental blackface on his medical school yearbook page. Just another person in blackface. But he did have a blackface experience in his past. And his nickname was Coon Man, I think.

His nickname was Coon Man. And not the song. Right. Confused with Spoon Man. Right. But yeah, he, look, that was the first thing. So everyone looked at, okay, well, who would be next in succession? And that would have been the Lieutenant Governor, Justin Fairfax.

And right now he's embroiled in, he's like looking at sexual assault allegations from back in 2004. Right. Where the victim has come out and put these things on the record. Right. And he's been denying it. So people are like, oh, fuck. Well.

Yeah, they got nobody. This Democrat party is in a ray. Like, well, who's next in line? Another Democrat, unfortunately. Yeah. The Attorney General, Mark Herring. And now we find out he puts out a statement who was like look in the 80s i was 19 and i was a real big fan of the rappers like curtis blow so me and my friends did a little

bit of a rap minstrel show put on some blackface at a party and did some some perform some songs i'm really fucking sorry uh and i'm just you know i've come a long way and did the usual thing where then he lists off all the good things he's done which is meant to sort of offset all that other shit right uh but come on now like let's be real all y'all gotta go well i think it's weird because also these white people are trying to say that like they're trying to like actually act like like they're referencing like beloved black artists like you know like like he's like he mentioned curtis blow it was probably like pm dawn or something like they're referencing like beloved black artists like you know like like he's like he mentioned curtis blow it was probably like pm dawn or something right he's like you know he's

like he's like trying to be like i just loved og rap yeah it's like oh we'll give him a pass i mean rock him i mean who talks about him let's give this guy a pass for that or i really loved or i won the michael jackson contest you know i just love. Like, that'll help. Yeah. Like, that's. Well, it's just this thing. Well, he won, so. Well, there's a thing. I don't know what's going on in Virginia, because even that his yearbook, his medical school, East Virginia Medical School. Right.

They had to, like, stop doing the yearbook because there was so much blackface happening. Right. There was a recent medical school yearbook, like, from the past 10 years where there were people in blackface. Again. Yeah. Like, that recently. medical school yearbook like from the past 10 years where there were people in blackface again yeah like that that recently i know the deal because i grew up in connecticut in a really wealthy town we were not all that wealthy and that's why i've been in a perpetual rage for my whole life but uh and that's almost 75 true so you know growing up in that area you know, growing up in that area, you know where these people, what they're like. They're like, I remember in college, like I went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut,

which is where Tucker Carlson, I was in the same class as Tucker Carlson. I knew Tucker Carlson. Oh, wow. And he actually seemed normal. He didn't let on that he was secretly a fascist. That's the problem with him is he does seem normal. He might actually be normal and he's still just milking it yeah so anyway at that school there was i remember blackface happened

at my school or it was like white people being like oh yeah no one can stop me from being politically incorrect it was like the old version of that like like oh yeah i'm not supposed to do blackface why because i like michael jack Jackson. Right. What's the problem? But it was this way of being racist that it's like that white bully culture that those politicians come out of. All those politicians, they're all connected, wealthy people. And that scene is deeply – Well, and also it's like it's one of those things where you don't have many people of color in your orbit. So, of course, you're going to do that because you never see you don't see like black people this party like hey there's my friend

blackface guy right you know what i mean and i think that's it's those environments too where you can fuck around and and do wild shit like this but there's no one around to be like yeah and it's just like a thrill thing where it's like we're not supposed to but it's just us right and we know, fuck it. We'll do this offensive shit. And the internet thankfully changed that because now there's like light in those corners where they were safe to do this bullshit because nobody would call them on it. It's like streaking for racist people. It's like a thrill.

Yes. Woo-hoo! We're blackfacing! That's exactly right. Yeah. Oh, God, that was so cool. Don't tell anyone, please. That's a perfect description of it.

You're right. That's what it is. And, you know, that was so cool. Don't tell anyone. That's a perfect description of it. You're right. That's what it is. And, you know, I mean, Covenant Catholic also saw blackface there. This is just, yeah, these whites can't stop themselves. Jack. I'm sorry. Say something to them. It's like the final frontier.

Yeah. It's like, well, what, you know, we can do whatever we want. Like, what other thing can I do that I can get away with? Right. Like, what other thing can I do that I can get away with? Right. And the really bad news is that fourth in line and likely new Virginia governor is a Republican speaker of the House of Delegates, Kirk Cox. All right.

Assuming he has not done blackface. Although, even if he did, he would not. I'm sure Vegas is taking action on this shit right now. They're like, did Kirk Cox do blackface? There's almost no way he hasn't. But it's just a question of whether, because all of these, so I think Northam and then the Lieutenant Governor

were both exposed by a conservative website. And so it seems like this guy probably is safe from that, at least Kirk Cox. Unless he has it so flagrantly out there. Right. When he's like, hey, we were Jay-Z and Beyonce for Halloween. He did his blackface alone in the basement for a day or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to see what it's like. Away from the cameras. He was the guy under the KKK hood in that picture. Well, it's good because the Democrats have to show people, especially if they're trying to bring more people into their base, that this is the there is there's a standard for being leadership in the party. Right. And doing this kind of shit will exclude you from doing that, from participating. Oh, yeah. And that, you know, and I think the more the Republicans have people like Steve King and they're just like, well, you know, we'll just let it ride. Right. You know that your people are trying to see like, oh, okay, these are two very different ideologies.

The standard is with Democrats, it's like if at one point in their past they did blackface. With Republicans, it's Steve King went to the State of the Union with a black person, and that's like, well, he's clear from now on. He's in the clear. He did the opposite of blackface. So we're good. We can wipe our hands and we're all good. All right.

Let's talk about crypto, guys. We haven't taken our eye off the crypto game here on the Daily Psych, guys. No, there's a wild story, though. So, I mean, the whole point behind the cryptocurrencies is that it's like a one-to-one thing. You don't just like transfer numbers and, you know, your money is on like 5,000 different computers and it's just a number on like a thousand different servers. It's actually like on a server somewhere. Unfortunately, that means that sometimes your money is like a term paper

on an old word processor computer that just shorts out and you lose the whole thing. Right. And in this case, there was a guy who founded a crypto platform where people stored their cryptocurrency. And he died unexpectedly at the age of 30, so was not planning for that from complications due to Crohn's disease while volunteering at an orphanage in India. So good on him. But it turns out he never told anybody the password for getting in and managing this platform. And so there's $180 million Canadian in his account that nobody can get to. It's just gone. Just locked up right there.

It's just gone. Unless somebody can figure out a way to get in. Are there, I'm sure, conspiracy theories abound around this? There are, yes. Are there, I'm sure, conspiracy theories abound around this? Yes, because people are saying his fiancée is being, or maybe his wife, his widow, is being accused of orchestrating the whole thing,

and people are saying he's not dead. But has the money moved? Do they have any idea if it has? Or they just know that $180 million is just frozen, suspended in midair right now yeah i i don't know all the details anybody if anybody from this controversy is listening to the daily zeitgeist right now i'm just going to put out there have you tried working for the weekend 69 right everybody um that's working and also with just an n right with the g and then 420 69 yeah yeah sex master g yes um i mean he's a canadian so all this sounds about right you know working for the weekend

sounds like it's about his speed working for the weekend a oh my god lover boys from canada yeah i forgot about that so yeah try all the lover boyboy song titles. And albums. And it has to have 69 in there. Definitely. 420, 69. What is 420 times 69? Don't worry about that. Okay. Anyways, we're going to take a quick break to do that math.

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And we're back. And we don't often get into sports here. I mean, we talk about the big events like the Super Bowl. Yeah, and World Cup. And World Cup. Oh, I wish that drop came in. Nick's asleep at the wheel. We had to get rid of it.

We had to make room on that. Well, there's something that I didn't really think of as a big culture crossing event, but it's developing into one. And that is the NBA trade deadline. For the past like five days, stories about the NBA trade deadline have been at the top of Google Trends. Right.

Every day. Because there's like league changing shifts that could occur. Right. So there's the Anthony Davis thing. You know, he is probably top three players in the NBA. And if you were taking odds on who's going to be the best player in the NBA for the next five seasons, he would probably be your top bet. He's just that age, that young, that just incredibly talented.

And he wants to go to the Lakers. There's some weird agent stuff involved because he's represented by the same person as LeBron. And there's like weird things that people think there's tampering going on. But anyways, the Lakers are throwing basically their entire team. We were going to give away our future. We being? The Lakers. Okay.

Yes. For the next 10 years, at least, our core, basically the entire young core, and some first-round picks for Anthony Davis, which, you know, great. I think we're past the point of, like, trying to, like, wait. Like, I'm ready. Fuck it. Let's do instant ramen if we got to. Right. That was, like, a thing that I personally was like,

that seems like a lot to give away. And I think it was weird for the first time. Yeah, there was a lot of attention around this because it was, you know, a huge concentration of talent could have occurred on the Lakers. Still might. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, I mean, it seems like you won't have enough players left to field a team if you do get him because they're just asking for everything. At the same time, it would be worth it.

At the same time, it would be worth it. Like Zach Lowe from ESPN, who's kind of the guy who knows everything about basketball these days, was saying that this would be the biggest trade in the NBA since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar went to the Lakers from the Milwaukee Bucks in like the late 70s. Whoa. Okay. Yeah. So it's like he's that good and uh it's that kind of unprecedented but maybe because that is on the table everybody's now got NBA trade deadline fever like it's sort of where fans get to dream more so than draft night right it seems like it's a bigger deal than like the NBA finals now. People are really-

Because there's so much speculation too of being like, well, then if that happens, these are the other permutations of these outcomes. These are all the different ways this can end. And I think that's what these deadlines do. It activates the imagination. It's like Comic-Con. You don't actually see the movies.

You're just seeing the trailers for the movies. And so it's just all hype. But it's like a place for fans to just get excited about what could be, even though half of those movies are going to end up sucking. Yeah, look, just give the Pelicans what they want. If they want LeBron, fine. There's also a thing that happens where if they want LeBron. So, I mean, yes.

Just get it done, man. That's the one person who they are not willing to trade. And, I mean, the reason they need to make this happen is because LeBron. So, I mean, yes. Just get it done, man. That's the one person who they are not willing to trade. And, I mean, the reason they need to make this happen is because LeBron's probably LeBron for the next three seasons. I mean, he does not seem to be human. I mean, look, we're the same age, and the way I'm feeling my body, I mean, he should probably retire now. Yeah.

Just to be real. You may notice that I've become completely silent. He's going to start pulling muscles i don't know anything about basketball the six make a prediction without knowing anything make a prediction right now i don't even know what you guys are talking about i don't even know either i can't remember i think you should definitely do the trade yeah it's happening you heard it like that first gang you're on the if you're, who's the coach of the, I'll like another great, Pat O'Reilly, if you're listening.

Pat O'Reilly. Okay. O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Wait, what was that his name? Pat O'Reilly. Yeah, yeah. See, that's, yeah.

I should have shut up. I like Pat O'Reilly, though. Pat O'Reilly. Who's definitely a person. That's so bad. Oh, God, that's sad. Shout out to listener Pat O'Reilly, who's right now just like, Yes!

It's me, Pat O'Reilly. I can't believe I called him Pat O'Reilly. I'm such a loser. The number one trending name yesterday was Tobias Harris, who I have to talk about because the Sixers traded for him from the Clippers. And now it was an interesting, like the way this news cycle works though, because it's all about like potential.

Once the trade actually happens, people are like, oh, they fucked up now. Right. Because so Tobias, the Sixers traded to get him. He's like a, you know, up and coming talent, one of the best three point shooters for a big man in the league and just one of the best three point shooters in the league. So Woj, the guy who breaks all the news in the NBA,

was writing about this this morning right after the deal. And he was like, wow, the Sixers have one of the best starting fives, probably the best starting five next to Golden State. And then everybody was like, the Sixers made a big mistake here. They gave away too much. And Woj took that article down and put up something being like, and I guess the Sixers think they did a good thing. Oh, wow.

Like just it's, you know, people, nobody wants to buy into the hype. That's it's NBA Twitter and NBA blogosphere is just, you know. They've got you twisted. They got me twisted. If I had some kind of thing I could do for the NBA, because I have been watching a little bit over the years, I think they should, just to shake it up, next season no three-pointers. Wow.

There you go. That would be interesting, actually. And also really good for the 76ers, so I'm about it. Do it like Rockin' Jock on MTV. Right. In the 20-point basket. That's way high up there. An idea that I loved was...

I forgot about that. That's a great idea. The 10-point shot. Yeah, because you could just reverse the fucking game... I forgot about that. That's a great idea. The 10-point shot. Yeah, because you could just reverse the fucking game. I don't know. Like, yo, bring that 20-point basket down. We'll just be all tall people. There'll be nothing, no skill.

Like when Golden State was just like destroying everybody with threes a couple years ago, people were like, this is destroying the game. We need to change it. One of the ideas that was floated that I still really like is that each home court has a different three point like shape and like distance. Oh, well, so like in the same way that like major league baseball,

you know, the outfield wall, like you could be in a home run hitters. That's cool. Right. You could be. Yeah. So like Steph would be somewhere where like half court,

he's just bombing from half court and he's the only person in his own half. That's a good idea. Because I was watching a game the other night and I was just surprised at how much they were shooting threes. They were just shooting threes and shooting threes and shooting threes. Yeah, they now are at the point where if you're driving for an open layup, you will kick it to a corner three

if the guy has an open corner three because that per point is the best mathematical play. Value for your money. Math ruins everything. Math rules everything around me. Math. Mareem.

I said ruins, but I like math rules everything. Mareem. Get the math. That's catch. Math ruins everything around me. Let's talk Adam Schiff. Hey, look. He's got the reins of the House Intel Committee. Okay.

And he's ready to do some shit. If you remember when Devin Nunes was running it, when he was the chairman, when the Republicans had the House, it was basically a laughable interview session where people from the Trump campaign or in orbit of the Trump campaign would come in to quote-unquote quote unquote Russian stuff. And they would just basically lie. Yeah. And no one really pressed them because it was up to the, you know, the

chairman to be like, okay, hold on. Did you commit perjury? They're just like, okay, thanks for your testimony. You can go. And then all the Democrats are like, well, hold on. There's a fuck. Right. Nobody was pushing them. Nobody was cross-examining them in any way that was exactly and now so on the first day of official business right adam schiff now in the chairman's seat has said look robert muller you're getting all the transcripts of all the testimony like over 50 instances of testimony over 50 different people i think uh were they holding it back from him yeah because devin nununes wouldn't give him the official transcripts. Oh, he was in charge. That's right.

Just to be like, oh, well, you know, I don't think it's good, I think, for national security or whatever. Right. We can't trust Robert Mueller with these secrets. Because if you look at it, people like Michael Cohen and Rick Gates and Paul Manafort, they've gotten in trouble for lying to Congress. Right. Right.

So and you can do that when you have an official transcript to say, this is what we know. Oh, wait. And this is what you said, you know, under oath, essentially, to Congress. So now he's going to have not only is Robert Mueller going to have full transcripts. Adam Schiff's like, this is what he says. The committee also plans to release to the public all investigation transcripts as it's committed to providing the American public with a greater transparency and insight into Russia's operations and the U.S. government's response. So, hey, everybody's going to get to take a look at what they were talking about. Now, this could be really bad for people who have not really seen the indictments yet, like Eric Prince and Jared Kushner and Donald Jr.

Those are people who— Eric Prince, boy, boy, I'd like to see him go oh yeah i mean like he just went in there i was like i don't know anything when i was in the safe shelves i just ran into that like murky figure from the middle east it was total coinkydink yeah uh so yeah we shall see how many blackface photos eric prince oh my god jesus christ uh his wallpaper i think yeah i think devin nunez is like one of those people that a lot of these people i always think they're so lucky for suits and ties and like full heads of hair and and uh speaking as a person who has no hair um but you know like i'm always mad at everybody who has hair, and mainly the hair. Yeah, you fucking evil-haired fuck. They look like – Devin Nunes looks really squirrely and suspicious and like a criminal kind of.

But if you put a suit on him – Right. All these guys are misfit sociopaths, and they benefit so much by suits and by the fact that a lot of them look like airline pilots, you know, cartoon airline pilots. It's so much theater. I mean, Darden Nunes, if you took him and put him in, like, an undershirt and a pair of shorts, you would see what he is, which is a grifter. Right.

They're a bunch of grifters, and I'm so tired. They should all have to wear their regular clothes to the Congress. He should have to wear, like, gotcha weightlifter pants from the 90s with, like, a sun-bleached bum equipment T-shirt. And wrap around sunglasses you'd be like this guy I wouldn't even let him

near my fucking car I bet he dresses like Joey Badafuka when he's like lounging around he's got like a little p-tail too it makes me mad

you know same with Mitch McConnell I mean the guy looks like a Mitch McConnell wears jean cargo pants for goodness sake I mean thank goodness for suits

that's all I can say yeah oh yeah for sure Mitch McConnell does rock jeans a lot with a polo tucked into the jeans. Oh, yeah. Well, definitely. It's a professional look. There's an amazing article about Devin Nunez's family.

So he has like a really rich farming family from California. And that's how he became a representative from California is because that's where his family's farm was but they apparently moved away like ten years ago right at Iowa or Idaho or one of those places and a Reporter went to like report on that to be like this is shady because they are trying to hide that right because they don't want people to know that he's not really from California and They like went full crime family on him on the reporter they started like tailing him around and like

telling people to like tell him to like back off and they were like it's gonna be bad for you man yeah it's really wild hey look if y'all got info on the real Nunez family farm yeah you know Nunez when he ran for office it's the kind of

thing where he's like my family farm farm, and it's probably like, they probably own like 70 factory farms where they shoot pigs with like, they drop bombs on the pigs. Right, and it's heavily dependent on illegal labor, and that's the thing he's trying to cover up. Yes, as well as the bombs that they drop on other people's farms.

They probably have Eric Prince come in and kill the pigs. He's just banging them. He's like, can I? Can I have my team of mercenaries come in? I made a homemade bomber. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Can I test it on one of your family's industrial farms?

Devin Nunes. Sure. I'd love to watch, too. It sounds great. That's true. That's true. You can quote us on that. And that is true. I'll take us on that. And that is true.

I'll take responsibility for that. This has been a pleasure, man. It's been awesome having you. Oh, it's been so fun. It's great to be here, really. I loved it. Where can people find your work, find you? Well, can I promote a specific show or no?

Oh, okay. Promote the hell out of it. January. I'm already off to a good start. That's not the right month. April 11th at the Bootleg Theater. I'm doing a show where I'm playing music, but I'm also going to have some stand-ups. It's going to be an evening with Chris Crofton, and it is also my birthday. It's a big birthday. I'm not going to tell anybody what it is, but you probably can figure it out. Okay. 35. You said you were in your 30s so uh anyway over the hill party at the crofton show on twitter and i guess the bootleg

theater is in los angeles bootleg theaters in echo park yeah april 11th nine o'clock and uh the other thing is the advice king King. Check out my advice column. It's every two weeks in the Nashville scene or on the Nashville scene website. Okay. And it's called The Advice King, and it's pretty funny. That's awesome. It's a comedic advice column. I'm not qualified to give advice.

You can look at my refrigerator. And what's your handle on Instagram? Oh, Chris underscore Crofton. All right. It's catchy. Underscore gang, Chris underscore Crofton. All right. Catchy. Underscore gang. Underscores are sexy. Yes.

Are you on Twitter too? At the Crofton Show. Yeah. I'm always on there trying to get things viral. Get things viral. Never happens. I've been on there so long. Never have one viral tweet.

It makes me feel. Well, let's do a real concerted effort to try and get some viral. It's so sad. I mean, if there was like a model for how hard I've worked for my meas... I mean, I love... Now I'm putting down my followers. But I mean, like... My measly followers.

The idiots that follow you. No, no, no, no. I mean, like, if there was like... If you had to apply like the same amount of work to like building like the Empire State Building or something, I never would. I mean, it'd be like one story tall, right? Right, right. If you had the same ratio of work to result.

There you go. I've tweeted so many times is all I'm saying. And someone please make me viral before I- But he loves all you followers out there. I love- But he needs new ones. I love all my measly followers. Right.

It's like us when we need you guys to rate and review the Daily Zeitgeist on Apple Podcasts because we love you guys, but we also want new listeners. There are far worse podcasts that have more reviews than us. Yeah. I'm not talking about you, Mo Rocca. Mo Rocca's been coming at me. Your mortal enemy.

This is a good show. Thanks, man. Yeah, I love it. You guys are fun. Miles, where can people find you? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And also, yeah, like I said, we got a live show coming up March Our fun. Miles, where can people find you? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. And also, yeah, like I said, we got a live show coming up March 7th at the Dynasty Typewriter with the Bechdel cast. We're doing a little collaborative live show. And it's unlike anything the world has ever seen.

That's awesome. I love Jamie Loftus and Caitlin. Yeah. That's great. Oh, yeah. They're fantastic. Tweet I like is from at and Caitlin. Yeah. That's great. Oh, yeah. They're fantastic. A tweet I like is from at Dan White. At, at Dan White.

He says, was making 90K a year as the edgy, quote unquote, social media guru for Hall's cough drops until I got fired last week for following a bunch of porn stars and tweeting, sore throat, eat my ass at the Pope. Chris, I forgot to ask you, is there a tweet you've been enjoying? I'll put, yeah, I'll look at my, hold on, let me pull up on my 6S here. I found one, Amy Shanker? Yeah. Do you know who she is?

I think so. She tweeted, I'm not a squirter, but I tell guys I am so they'll work harder. That's great and a tweet I've been enjoying the Royal Butler at the Royal Butler tweeted a lady must always initiate hand contact otherwise a gentleman could be considered incredibly forward hashtag handshakes and hand

Amory just said yes please Britain's etiquette expert has spoken because yeah let's let them decide. You can follow 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.

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we might be releasing a weird mashup that he's just been working on. But anyway, this is The End by Shlomo. Greatomo great beat you know just a little hip-hop instrumental for you if you're a freestyler look just download it and just go off in your car on your drive please all right uh we are gonna ride out on that we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast and we will talk to you guys thanks so much for having me. All right. Bye. I'm going to go to bed. Thank you. They were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson.

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