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July 29, 2022 75 mins

In episode 1298, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, musician, writer and host of Cold Brew Got Me Like, Chris Crofton, to discuss… Chris goes off! Joe Manchin, huh? And more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to forty seven,
episode five of Like Guy Say, production of My Heart Radio.
This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
into America's shared consciousness. And it's Friday July, two day
before my mom's birthday shout out. Also also my bad

(00:22):
two days after Jack O'Brien's birthday, and keep a real
quiet around here. He let it slip, and I'm like,
and then I forgot to say it on your actual birthday.
But you know we're not. I know you and I
are not big birthday people. We're not big birthday people.
As a forty two year old man, I feel weird
making a big deal about my birthday. I also I

(00:43):
just don't I just don't want to buy my own
birthday makes it uncomfortable sometimes. Anyway, all that to say,
July twenty nine, letting you know what day it is,
it's national getting an early day, I don't know what
the fun that means. Get Jenard good day. I don't
know what that means. That just embrace new ideas and
toss out old ways. So that's just how I live. Actually,

(01:05):
I'm just like constantly on that new idea grind for sure,
maybe Joe Biden can get an early today to chicken
wing Day. Love that in National Lasagna Day. Shout out
to Garfield. So I haven't I have a new theory
about Joe Biden? Did you see the clip? Well, well
we'll wait, we'll bring our guesting because I want to
talk to him about this too. But remind me that

(01:25):
I have a new theory about Joe Biden. Shout out
to what did you put chicken wings number three? As
was that? I mean? That's like to me, I'm like,
I don't. It's like religion, you know what I mean?
Like every day can be chicken wing Day. I don't. Fine,
you know what, I don't need to preach the gospel
of the chicken wings anymore at this point. Either, No,
you don't at this point, and that's fine. To do

(01:46):
what you gotta do. I think I just heard a
cold brew get cracked, he says with a with a
glint in his eye. WHOA, that ship is called modern Time,
Modern Times, the brewer Time's coffee written in an old
timey font WHOA, I got two coffees for you to cabreezys.

(02:09):
He's got a fucking stump town on deck here comes
the brain. White. Don't even say what fucking story. We're
not even talking about anything today ifs got to Yeah,
I got these first. This is a special occasion. I
love coming on this show, and I've been fucking miserable lately,
so I mean, this is a big This is a

(02:29):
big I'm going crazy today. This is National Lasagna Day. Hell,
whatever you said it was, I'm celebrating with Cobrew. Alright,
hold on a second, hold on, all right, we're not
allowed to talk. He takes a sip. Come what what
usually happens on podcasts? Were you supposed to speak over

(02:52):
your co host? He's like, wait, let me just take
this sip and and come back and sing rhythm as
a dances. I'm having some fun, you know, because I
don't know, guys. If you guys, you guys probably aren't.
You're probably not having that much fun either. But we're
reading the news every day, you know, So I'm like,
this is the greatest. Yeah, this is National asagna Day.

(03:15):
And now now what I call nationalisagnia Day? Whatever. Anthology
of albums, well, uh, anthology of albums. My name is
Jack O'Brien, a K chip. I'm all jacked up on
Mountain Dew. That is the rare movie quote that works
as an a K without any adjustments from the movie

(03:36):
Talladega Nights. And yeah, my friend was making fun of
me with that quote because that was how that was
my big way I treated myself on my birthday was
getting that purple thunder Mountain Dew and it paid off.
It's the year simple simple players love to see it.
Did you know that Will from our sister network, Big

(03:57):
Money Players is in that movie, Will H. Ferrell? I
think Will F the guy yeah from our meeting Will
f Yeah right, yeah, that guy. He said he was
on SNL too. I'm like, okay, yeah, okay, yeah. Anyways,
I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Grad Sea Boys and fill my ball. I'm

(04:22):
making subway to the castle roll for Miles of Grade. Okay,
Bottles and fans because yeah, we're scooping out the fucking
Sea Boys because I'm making subway to the cast roll.
Uh yeah, shout out to bottles and fans on Discord
for that one. I love to see the all the

(04:43):
all the great ak s come together, Keep them coming,
keep them com oan hash Well Miles We're thrilled to
be joined in our third seat by the wild Card
of Mount Zepmore, hilarious stand up comedian, actor, musician with
a seven point before rated album on Pitchfork No Big Deal.
You can listen to his podcast Colbrew Got Me Like

(05:05):
or streaming on Twitch. His new book, The Advice King
Anthology is available to order on Vanderbilt University Press. Vanderbilt University.
That's right, he's Handerbilt University, the same one you talk
about it every guy dinner party, the same one, the

(05:26):
same one you go to goddamn Turks and Caicos and
tell everybody your son, you know, just got in. Well,
guess what this Brady got into Vanderbilt. Oh, that's so great.
He is gonna love it. Entrance honors at entrance. Brandon
is doing great. Yeah. And also the you know Rick,
who's the local judge. He actually dismissed his vehicular homicide case.

(05:50):
So he's got a clear plate to go to college. Now.
We're really happy for him. Yeah, And they're having this
conversation on a beach towl three after three hours after
they murdered somebody, you know. But that's what the phone
call with the business does. It. Yeah, but it's not
like in a cool way. It's goes to talk about that,
so you just talk about like Vaguer built. But yeah,

(06:10):
I took over Vanderbilt. Yeah that's the Jeer University. Oh yeah,
I can go over there anytime I want. I could
be like chancellor or what's up? Anyways? Hold onto your
butts because the poetry window is open. It's Chris motherfucking Craft.
What's up? Okay, I'm so glad to be here in

(06:31):
my in my thank you, in my barn or whatever
or wherever I'm in the storage unit I broadcast from.
You see what's behind me? Uh yeah? A bunch of junk.
Looks like a yard sale. Huh not really, I'm living
that yard sale life. Do you got a hammer there?
It's not even mine, it's my landlord stuff. It's like

(06:51):
a bunch of children's toys and hammers, and I mean whatever.
That somebody else's life that I live in. It looks
like a beach high alive, like one of those beach
highli like scoop probably you know, I don't know about
to see. I'm like I have to block a lot
of stuff out. Yeah. Hey, that's modern Americans. Surviving as

(07:13):
a modern American. When I look at that pile junk
behind me, all I see is a I see a
fresh pineapple. I see like I see a fruit bowl.
I see a nicely arranged fruit bowl, kind of like
Sayson whoever, whoever would have painted or whatever whatever getting
party on this El Greco. Yeah, yeah, I just had

(07:35):
some cold brew. I start talking about artists. Greco is
one of those rare like I don't know, Renaissance but
like master painters who also sounds like a bookie, like
a little bit. Yeah, nobody else feeling me on that. Well,
it's all right, sounds like last episode Greg Hash I canceled,

(08:02):
so so yeah, like I I don't. I was an
art history major, so I like to sprinkle in. Uh
yeah yeah, but I didn't. I was a sports gambling major,
so yeah I did. I didn't go to class or anything.
So I'm always like looking to paintings and being like,
is that is that a um El Greco or m
m mmmmm. Yeah, it could be El Greco or probably

(08:25):
Rembrand yeah, or you know, or it could be could
be uh Pollock Jackson. I mean they're all very similar.
That's it impossible to tell them apart. I mean what, oh,
Greco and Rembrandt overlapped but not Pollock. Come on now, Chris,
holy ships, I'm just flexing on us with the knowledge,

(08:45):
just saying I'm just saying, yeah, yeah, Chris Miles has changed.
I can read your expression and yeah, my god. So
this is like, wow, this is like a serious podcast. Now, Okay,
I don't know, um okay, this is one of those
serious So you guys are gonna have to guide me

(09:08):
along because I like have been like completely I got
back from New York. I was in New York doing
a play acting into play. I was gone for six weeks,
and I came back to just like I don't know
if it's depression from like from COVID I had when
I was in New York, or whether it's from just

(09:29):
like being, you know, popping around New York City and
then coming back to like this living situation that I'm
not crazy about. But I'm sort of spaced out, like
I'm not I'm not sure if it's cod long COVID
kind of stuff, but I definitely feel like I had
COVID like a month ago now, and I feel like
I feel a little odd, like I don't know. So

(09:53):
I'm a little bit spaced out. So you know, if
I if I or if I just talk about depressing
ship today, if I'm just like, you know, sorry, I'm
just trying to, like to I can't quite you know
what I mean, I can't quite I can't quite feel more.
I'm trying to figure out how. But you know, I
can't get the joy from you know, I'm drinking as
much cold brew as I can, I'm watching as much

(10:14):
abandoned mind videos as I can, and I still can't
seem to get back to my usual level of you know,
just like barely hanging on. Now. I'm like, usually I'm
hanging on with like, you know, three fingers, and now
I'm hanging out with too. I definitely felt that, like
it's a little maybe it's an overstatement, but you know,

(10:34):
but I'm hanging out. I'm not feeling it. It feels
a little bit different. I can. I definitely hear that.
I mean, I feel like other people who have experienced
like a similar thing where they were sort of confused.
I like, I don't know if I'm like just have
a general malaise or if I have long COVID is
something I've well, right, what a time to sort through symptoms?
You know what I mean? Like, how could you tell?
Like I mean you could have I can have a

(10:56):
lot of ailments, but I mean like it could all
be just read the news, Like you don't know what
I mean. It's like I don't know. I either have
long COVID or I read the news, or I'm clinically
depressed or I'm just a realist. I mean, how do
you you know? Or or else I have too much
clutter behind me in this zoom in the zoom video,
like what could it? Who knows what it is? It's
hard to pinpoint. I like a nice little seamless blend

(11:19):
of depression, anxiety and stomach issues. That's always good, Like
my stomach is that because McConnell causing Is my stomach
causing it? Or should I have brain or my brain
causing my stomach? Should I have put two cold brewis
in that fucking beer funnel? I've drank as much cold
brew as I possibly can today, and I still feel

(11:41):
like shit, and I still feel so anxious and so
much candy too, not doing anything to set on my stomach.
I mean, you've taken all my suggestions, drink as much
cold brew as your body can possibly contain, and candy.
That's the thing is also, I have like a nineteen

(12:01):
fifties idea of what like health and wellnesses like. It's
like I went bowling. I still feel bowling. Smoked a
bunch of cigarettes, and I still feel like the hula
hoop for fifteen minutes. Hey, a huge hamburger with green
peppers in it. I don't know, doctors, something's not right

(12:24):
about a plymouth and every about a new Plymouth and
everything I drank, drank nine rhyin golds, I worked on
the car, feel like absolute shit. I'm wearing my strappy undershirt.
That's what the doctors get about to ask, are you
Are you wearing this trap? Right? Oh my god, you're

(12:47):
and you're smoking enough? You're smoking. I don't know what
to tell you, except for maybe just I don't know.
I have a couple more beers and go play more pool.
You know, some more men have a few splits. Are
you gambling enough? That's the question, right, All right, Chris,
We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a

(13:09):
couple of stories that we're not gonna get to today. Uh,
we're not going to get to Joe Manin. I don't know.
Maybe we'll get to one of these Joe Manin. Uh,
some some ship went down on Wednesday in DC, a
little Schumer Gamesman ship and possibly like a third of
a step forward for you know, progressive values. So we'll

(13:34):
we'll do the math, we'll show show our work for
what happened in DC. Maybe that maybe more probably not,
probably not given that. But before we get to any
of it, Chris, we do like to ask our guest,
what is something from your search history? Well, I mean
this is like I wish I could return to the

(13:54):
heavy days of telling people about things they don't know about.
But I think it's really just it's just been abandoned
mind videos like I've really, I've really become I've got
a problem with them. I watched them like they're I
don't know the news, or I watched them like their
HBO Max. I watched abandoned mind videos like I'm looking

(14:15):
for new episodes, like I go into a mine with
one of these explorers, and I'm like, I've already seen
this mine, other explorer, because it's the same syndrome as
any video blog. It's like there's only so many minds
and there's so many poor people trying to make money
off YouTube that there's like you know, traffic jams and

(14:37):
people like waiting to look at the the old glove. Oh,
so you're saying, like the minds are now becoming like
packed with other mind seekers. You have to wait in
line to say the same thing about the same glove,
because like a glove is like I think, I mean,
I've been through this before, but I can't stop going
through it because this is my life. I don't know

(14:58):
why I think everybody else should also endure hearing about
these things because I can't stop. I love hearing. What
is the blood I actually forgot already? Well, of course
you did, because this is all, of course, none of this.
You don't care about none that this is important. None
of this is important, and every person is their own
industry and doesn't need to worry about anybody else. So
that's right, that's that's one of my things. I'm actually

(15:22):
in the business of the Jack O'Brien, Brad, and I
am too, And I don't know what you're saying either,
So I mean that's like we just agree with that point.
Passing on the ships passing in the night on the
way to Patreon. That's how I'm describing like modern economy.
No one needs anybody, They just need viewers. So they
don't know, so do k videos up with people doing?

(15:46):
Hey guys. Yeah, like that guy who's that guy like
streams all day long every day that has like so
many people he's like he's like, not not my not
my landlord, not my great, not my landlord's son, and
not us. But the guy guy who who's like, uh,

(16:06):
he's like a liberal guy who like watches he's like
on all day long his name. Yeah, that's it. Yes,
Like I mean, okay, that guy's making money, but what
kind of life is that anyway? That's what I'm just thinking.
I mean has to stand there and people got mad
at him when he bought a house because I mean,
that's what you want a regular job. Like when you
there's a certain point where his therapist is probably like,

(16:27):
you should get a regular job, son, Yeah, like you
are going crazy, like you have no friends, your friends,
little microphone and you and you and you you know,
it's like you're doing great business, like you're talking straight
to me right now, I'm talking to my notes on
the show, like maybe I don't know, have you thought

(16:49):
about like moving the overrated underrated to the end? So
it's like a right, exactly do you feel like it's
eating up too much in the first act? I'm like, Also,
my therapist was like, stop saying I'm saying stuff on
the show that I don't say to you, and yeah,
so you're not proud of me. She's like, I didn't
exactly say it in those words. I didn't if therapist

(17:11):
Like I always imagine therapists are doing some important ship,
like they check out my podcast or whatever. I'm like,
you probably heard my podcast, as you probably heard this
week podcast. I'm not I know what is podcast exactly.
They're like, podcast is. Yeah. So I've been watching these
abandon mind videos. So there's only a few, you know,

(17:33):
I've been watching for quite a while. There's only a
few things that can be found in an abandoned mind? Chris,
how do we like, is there an abandoned mind you
want to go to to see with your own eyes?
Because this is like I want to go to every
one of them. Okay, but what's the mind you really
want to check out and started looking into it. I
mean they're all over the place. Okay, let's name, we'll

(17:54):
fire one off man. Maybe we can we can figure
out a way to make this ship happen. Well a
lot of times, is it gonna be like a make
a wish thing? I could go by myself. I don't know. Look,
you may have to lie to a couple of charitable organizations,
but look how you might have to go with John
Cena unfortunately. Yeah, this guy says he has long COVID

(18:14):
and he wants to go to a mind. They're like, oh,
I mean, what is that gonna cost? Honestly, Like I
don't know, like maybe two hundred bucks. Sure, all this
guy wants. He just wants some trail mixes of cold brew, yeah,
and some lamp Wait. But yeah, Like is there a mind?
I mean, are their minds where you're like, oh, ship,
it's this mine and maybe they have a new angle

(18:36):
on an X specific mind. I'm just curious where it. Like,
you know, because the name the mind's different. They use
fake names because they don't don't want too much traffic,
so they name him their own thing. They'll be like
the jack Knife mind. But it's like it's not really
called the jack Knife Mind. But then I found I found,
I found, I found a YouTube my name couple. But

(19:01):
they're not like I think they're platonic, and I'm like,
I'm on the verge of writing fan fiction about them. Yeah,
I mean there it's it's Tom and Julie and I
hope they'll get visitors. They're called Tom and it's called
Mine Exploring with Tom and Julie, and it is it's
fantastic because it's low key. It's low key. They know
what they're doing, but they kind of have a vibe

(19:22):
like they're just in their street clothes. Because some people
go in and they look like they're like a swat team,
they know. But but but these people look like they're
wearing And also it makes me think I could do it,
you know what I mean, Like the kind of go
in there in a way where they're like, we don't
know it's about to happen. If it's dangerous, like they'll
they'll they'll walk out, you know. But like Tom and

(19:43):
Julie are dangerous. They're making people think that they can
do this. Oh I'm sure, you know, I'm sure. But
there's a whole bunch of different personalities about the band
of minds. There's like the same way as anybody approaches
any kind of sport or I guess it's not really sport,
but I don't know if funny, I don't know if
you can call it a sport when it's just finding
people's old cigarettes. But pointing at trash videos, let's tell

(20:06):
you that that's trash. That's old trash. Though, yes, it's like,
let's carbon date that I knew ninety two. Perfect, I'm
I'm I'm really into new mismatics. Let me look at
this point three a McDonald's box box. But that's the
older font. I mean, that's the world that that's the
world I'm in. Has Is there a similar subgenre of

(20:28):
people diving digging through like trash like landfills. Yeah, that's
called surviving in many other countries. Yeah. Yeah, well mud
larking originally was also it's old trash. I'm curious about
people doing it with new trash, to like study what
they find people like trash new trash, like how recent

(20:52):
like just going to like phil digging like straight down.
This is something a Arizona professor used to do, and
he was like honestly, it's the only way to like
get the truth about how people behave is by digging
through their trash. And he was like, so, for instance,

(21:12):
people smoke way more than they self report in those things,
and they drink way more than they report self report
in any like any statistic that is given that is
excited is underestimating like how much people drink and smoke
by like three three acts basically. But yeah, there wasn't. Yeah,

(21:33):
I mean it's how we know anything about ancient cultures
and looking at their trash. So somebody was like, yeah,
we should just do this, but then he like never
caught on. And I've always been like that should be
like it's a whole like branch of academia, but like
nobody's like doing it. I'm hoping, like maybe somebody on
YouTube will start it up. Okay, I'm trying to look now,

(21:58):
if I were on my show, I would say cold
got me, like I would play the sound effect after
what you just said. It's kind of how I feel
like there's not enough. There's not enough academia about trashy
modern archaeology, Like come on, I'm so tired of academia
fucking up. Oh man, Now you got my catchphrase going

(22:23):
uh so, yeah, that reminds me of like under reporting,
Like that's like you can't throw away porn in the
regular garbage. Like it's like you can't, you know, when
you're growing up, when you're growing up, like you know,
you can't. The reason why people through all their pornography
on people's lawns, and the reason why you know, kids
found porn all the time in the seventies and eighties
on the street was because men wouldn't you know, they

(22:47):
couldn't dispose of it in their own house, So like
they were under reporting in their own way how much
porn there was. So that's like, you know, like when
the when the archaeologists go, you know, digging down, they're
gonna be like, oh, there are a lot more magazines
being fleak out on the streets. So we are under
reporting how much porn George had. If you've ever had

(23:09):
a drinking problem, you start to have a good idea
of like why are there all these alcohol bottles all
over the place, the same same deal. You don't want
like anybody seeing it in the trash, So like people
just like you know, a time of their car. Yeah,
so it took me a long time to figure that out,
and and I this is one of my favorite stories,
so who knows, like maybe every time. That's the other

(23:31):
thing is like this sort of weird depression I have
is making me second guests and think everything I'm saying
is like something I've said before, which is I don't
know if that's that's sort of an aspect of depression.
It's like in decision and things like that, like you
go to the store and you stare at the shelves.
I think also a part and parcel of like talking
a lot for like what you do to like there's
constant times like yeah, but this story I still love,

(23:51):
so I mean, it's still worth telling. But the reason
I found out that people through their ship out the
window because I always was like Jesus wants us to
have porn, Like I didn't know why there was like
magazines on the streets. They feel like, yeah, this is
a gift from God. Like a teenager, a picture of
a naked person is like a you know, it's like
gold or something, so like I mean naked, Yeah, you

(24:11):
find a naked you find a porn magazine when you're
eleven or twelve, I mean, that's like finding you know,
you know, that's like Jesus came and gave it to you,
like a stimulus check. Yeah, that's like a stimulus. The
definition of a stimulus check. Um so stimulus check. So
uh so yeah, So I was working with this I

(24:32):
was working with this this kid, and he was like,
do you want my porn movies? Like I have all
these porn movies and like I'm done going out with
them or whatever, you know what I mean, Like I've
already for a while, Like yeah, I need new yeah
you know what I mean. So like I'm tired of
these porn movies because I already know how they go. Yeah. Yeah.
So so like I gotta get new ones. So so

(24:54):
he he was like, you want my old ones? And
I was like, you know, I was you know, I
wasn't doing I was fairly desperate that point in my life,
but I figured I could get my own porn. So
I was like, no, I don't want you. He was
like way younger, he was like a teenager. We were
both working painting a house, and I was like, I
don't want to your team. No, you know, I did.
I kind of just I kind of did want his porn,
but I because I like that, Yeah, the age difference.

(25:16):
You're like, I can't. I can't be here. I'm twenty
two years old. I should be abably get my own porn.
So uh so, so he say said, Okay, well, I'm
just gonna drive around the neighborhood of my bicycle and
throw them on people's lawns. And that's because he was like,
I can't dispose of them any other way. I can't
put my own garbage. So I just and I was
like case cracked. I mean that was like I was like,

(25:38):
oh my god, Like I really felt like I had
to tell the whole world. I was like, you know,
I can tell you why. I know why the side
streets of suburbia are littered with gag balls, right, yeah,
exactly stuff people are ashamed to heaven. And then the
archaeologists are gonna go down eventually and theyre'll be like,
you know what, there are a lot more gag balls
than we thought people were gaggings. Yeah, we thought it

(26:00):
was one per household. Turns out it was like eight. Yeah.
Their estimate, their conservative estimate before was one gag or
were they wrong? So breaking two thousand and ninety whatever
now probably anyway, I wanted to say, uh, just that
back to the garbage thing real quick, that people do

(26:21):
dig down through the garbage sometimes. And one thing I
heard was that hot dogs from the nineteen fifties are
still intact. Yeah. I love to hear that because yeah,
one thing the guy, the you know archaeologist who did
this that is that you dig down and it's like
a layer cake with every time they send out the

(26:41):
yellow pages, because everybody just immediately throws them away, and
so there's just a layer of yellow pages separating like yeah,
that's when they were sent out and immediately thrown away
by everyone. I used to I used to steal them,
like when I lived in this apartment and called it's
because I was practicing tearing phone books in half. So

(27:04):
for a while I was go bring phone books over
and I would just be like I was just teaching
all my friends how to tear phone books in half.
It was a really weird time for me, and like
the economy was in a absolute spiral and I was like, look,
I have a college degree and no job prospects, but
I will preach the gospel of how to use a
cool technique to rip a phone book in half and

(27:24):
when free drinks at a bar? Where did you? Where
did you find out how to do that? YouTube? It
was like one of the first things I looked like this,
like oh seven, you know, like early YouTube. I was like,
how to tear phone book? And the internet first thing
you ever googled. Yeah, I was like, oh fuck it,

(27:44):
let's go because I always heard it was like a
technique thing and had nothing to do with with strength.
So once then I saw the technique videos, I was like, oh,
y'all are fucked. Watch me get watched me start tearing
phone books left and right, putting people to sleep. But
we're gonnaken choke old. Alright, let's take a quick break.
We'll come back. We'll continue talking about mind videos probably

(28:05):
for a while. We're not getting to any stories, so
people just know right now this is gonna he's impossible
to stranger. We'll be right back and we're back and

(28:28):
all right, So your search history was mind video video.
Just that's the thing. Is like, it's like just to
just to go back to it real quick. Um, is
that what you asked about the gloves? Like, there's only
the only few things. There's only a few things you
can find in an abandoned mind. It's mind whatever miners

(28:49):
brought to minds, because these are that's what they are,
their minds that have been not used in a while.
And usually the last time they were used was at
the latest, like the sixties, and you know, but lot
of times there earlier than that. But still even in
the sixties, it was basically gloves, lunch boxes, you know,
I mean, you're only gonna find a few things, you

(29:12):
know that. I mean, there's only there's no no miner
is gonna bring in like a violin. When you're not
gonna find something, you find tun of cans, you find
uh cigarette packs, you know, things like that. And then
the people find the cigarette and they say, look at
the cigarette. This guy. Imagine who smoked this cigarette. I
love that ship. I love imagine who's smoke the cigarette.

(29:32):
That's my favorite fucking thing to do is to imagine
who smokes the video? And you just go, I mean,
there's something about that. I never get enough of it.
They're like, imagine who wore this glove. Imagical kind of
crazy facial hair. The guy who wore this glove must
have had in nine we're the first person to hold
this glove since that that guy, and I'm all that's

(29:54):
all I care about is that feeling of like, my god, wow.
That's the weird version of that power the Christopher Walking
has in the movie Dead Zone where he like shakes someone,
hands someone's hand and like sees their whole life story
looking at a spent cigarette. But you're like, you just
made a good movie. That's a good idea because mind

(30:17):
video guys are dreaming of because they hold a cigarette
and they wish they could see, you know, And here
the conversation which they imagined to be salty when it
was happening, you know what I mean. The guy who
was smoking that cigarette was probably saying like I'm tired
of being in the navy, you know, or something like that.
They imagine, you know, back then it's like talking about
dames or something, swearing they could be a movie star

(30:40):
if they could get out of this place. It's just
all comes back to piano man lyrics. But they're like
you think you think they're gonna they think they're ever
gonna really make a nuclear bomb, that kind of stuff
like that. I hear they're working at it and last
alley mos that's what they imagine it's like this comedy

(31:01):
script is about Chris like being it's you and you
love abandoned mind videos, and the story is about you
taking a trip to one of these minds, but literally,
you know it's a magic mind and you end up
picking up one of these items and you immediately flash
into that person's life like it's now you in a
mind when it's operating, and you're like trying to make

(31:23):
something like well, just a fish out of water, you
know how happy you'd be. The part of this is
fantasizing about the past, in the sense that they want
a simpler past. They're like, I could just go in
here with a drill, probably half drunk. I can make
my make make maybe you know, more than my beer
money for the day, and then go to sleep on

(31:45):
some cot wearing some greasy overalls and then do it
again and then live out my days that way, smoking
smoking stubby cigarettes and talking about the Navy. And then
you know, then nobody ever has to go on the
Internet and nobody ever has to have an insurrection, and
they're no goddamn you know, Republicans haven't gone full Q
and on, and everybody's just acting like, you know, but
it's all bullshit because back then sucked too. Yeah, and

(32:09):
that's your realization. Yeah, like so much simpler. And people
down there talking about like, wait a minute, this miner's
cabins full of racists. Yeah exactly, and they were all
murdered by their boss. My bunk mates just masturbating out
in the open. Smittye put a frying pan over that. Yeah,

(32:32):
I told you only bring only three of your erotic
wood carvings into the bunk at a time. For God's sake,
I thought we'd we agreed that we had all masturbate
inside the soup pot with the soup pot on top
of our protest on you. And yeah, it's just your
life of chaos in this mining bunk, like a similar life,
but it's like way way worse. And then you're like,

(32:54):
get me back to the internet. Yeah yeah that sounds good.
But anyway, Yes, so there's like lines of people trying
to look at a glove. What is something you think
is underrated? Underrated? I had a written down, Oh underrated
it is my book, Yeah, the Advice King Anthology. Hell yeah,

(33:16):
because I mean for real, because this book came out
and nothing happened, and uh that was sort of stunning
for me. I thought, so like I want, I thought
today during the Underrated I would say like, hey, Terry Gross,
I know you listen to this show. Get me on

(33:37):
there and let me explain my book to you, and
let me also explain that you're part of the problem.
And then they are as easy listening for the one percent. Yes,
let me tell you all about that. So I know
that's not gonna work. And if you're just joining us,
we're talking to Chris Crofton and he is the author
of Advice King, the Advice King Anthology and Vice King Anthology. Yeah, so, anyway,

(34:04):
I think that book is underrated and and I now
I've just found out and you guys the same ship.
Everybody knows. It's like everything's doing it yourself. Like there's
no budget for anything because the budget goes to the
CEO or you know, I don't know who's CEO of
Vanderbilt is, but they the actual Venderbook Press is understaffed
and underpaid, even though they have an eight billion dollar endowment.

(34:28):
I'm you know, now, I'm gonna say that's where all
the money is is in university endowments. That's just they're
they're hoarding it in case of a rainy day or
in case they need to take over a country. I'm
not sure it's so much money that they Yeah, it's raining,
the rainy day is now. Uh so yeah, so I

(34:50):
just uh, I just I love Now. I gotta say
something nice because I love the fact that they put
out my book. They did. They put out my book.
But I know, and it's not their fault. They old
me ahead of time. There's not gonna be you know,
we don't have a budget to do much. So I'm
on my own with this book, which is okay because
I've been done this before. But sometimes you wish someone

(35:10):
would review a book. But I also talked to a
dude wrote who has written eight books. And I talked
to him, and he writes for the New York Times,
and I said to him, hey, my book came out
and it didn't get reviewed anywhere anywhere, and he got
like he got he started looking off into the middle distance.
They got returned to funny color and he said, I've

(35:32):
written eight books and none of them have gotten reviewed.
And I write for the New York Times. And he
explained to me that rich people don't like to read
about books. They like to read about food. So all
the most newspapers in the world have expanded their food
sections and gotten rid of their book sections. So there's

(35:54):
no The reason why books have blurbs on them from
other authors and things and friends now is because where
it used to be like Atlanta Journal Constitution, like those newspapers,
those newspapers flat out don't review books anymore. So there's
just there's just very few places to get it reviewed.
There's the usual suspects. There's like NPR or I mean

(36:15):
not NPR UM, but you know, there's like New York
Times occasionally. I mean, it's just like stand up comedy.
It's like, you know, oh, Conan has stand ups on
every other week now or you know, it's just like
there's very few They want to go with celebrities always always,
So it's like the books that they will go with
to review, if there are reviews, will always be you know,

(36:35):
I don't know whoever, like Mario Lopez is you know,
my Journey to Abs or whatever the hell? You know,
if you could get your book into Mario Lopez's book club,
that is the way to do it, because no, I'm
just well, know, what's that is that they will be like,
they being the people who are trying to promote books,
will be like, do you know anybody famous? That's the model.

(36:57):
I mean, that is the model. Find someone famous now
put on their Instagram? You know, do you know anybody famous?
And I'm like, I know Jack O'Brien, I know Miles Gray.
They're like someone that won't harm you if you aligne.
I know, I know. Uh, I know a couple of
competitive weightlifters. Okay, great, I know, No, he really need.

(37:24):
That's not a model that's sustainable for for art, you
can't know. You can't like good artist never good artists
aren't gonna know celebrities not very well. I mean like,
if you go to l A, you can move to
l A and know some celebrities. I'm saying. I'm not
saying that we're all shitty artists if we know a celebrity,
but because you know, you, if you live in Los Angeles,
you can get you could get to know them because
they're everywhere, you know. I mean me and Colin. Colin

(37:46):
Farrell's in my other room right now, mao. Him and
Mario Lopez are in there and he won't even review
my book. No, and they won't review, and they won't
share it on their Instagram as they say they gotta
save that for big stuff or something like that, so
you know the Yeah, they're like, I gotta save that
for like my girlfriends. My girlfriend's putting out a you
know something or other. So my girlfriend makes pots, so

(38:09):
I gotta put up. I can't. I can't. Oh, I
can't saturate my you know what I mean. It's like,
you know, even if you do know how a famous
person they're, they're guaranteed to be just as paranoid about
you as you're about their social media presence. So they're
not gonna share that ship. Yeah, anyway, So that's what's
going on. It's like I'm just like trying to get
I figured to be fun to do an underrated where
I said, hey, and this is really a fact. This

(38:30):
book fucking rules and it is so funny and and
I mean the people who do read it you have
a better life, so so, and they're we're making more
at their jobs too. I think I read something like that. Yes,
and they're taller slightly so yes, and they sexually last longer.

(38:54):
So all I'm saying is if anyone listening to this
fucking podcast wants to help out because I'm gonna be
peddling this book now forever, and I will because it's good.
So I don't get ship. I'm like Hunter s Thompson,
excepted Hunter s. Thompson was just told to do it
a zone like, oh, you got a good book, good,
go on Instagram with it, Hunter Thompson. Boomers. These fucking

(39:18):
boomers had it so easy. I mean they didn't really.
I know that some boomer will be like it was
always hard's they always say yeah, But you know, Hunter
s Thompson didn't have to sell his goddamn book on
fucking Instagram. No he didn't. But hey, z Gang, get
in there. I'm only seeing one review. The Night Gang
has helped me out a lot certain websites, So let's

(39:40):
get the review. I want to review in a in
in either the New York Times, that Gang. I know
one of you is a book reviewer for the New
York Times. Popular mechanics would be okay, okay, Christian science monitor, yes,
any of those things. But yeah, review the book. Be
the first person. Imagine being the first person to tell

(40:02):
people about the Bible. That's just I'm not saying my
books as good as the Bible. I'm just saying, imagine
that thrill. This would be maybe similar book, definitely better
than the Bible. I was going to say, at least
tag apostles. When you have Neil Hamburger, Jamie Loftus, and
Jim James from My Morning Jacket all saying you need

(40:24):
to read this book. That's a triumvirate more potent than
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. I
would say by that alone, this is the new Bible.
I will go step further. Yeah. So, and also just
order it. You can order it on everything from Amazon.
I don't give a ship. I don't give a ship
if you buy it from Amazon. I don't care. You know,

(40:44):
like I get money from that someday. I don't know
how or did you get it from, you know, Vanderbilt
University Press. I just want this book. Get University Press,
even though you gotta have a good solid half hour
to do that. If you want to order it from
Vendori Vernerbil University Press, you're gonna need a half hour
because they make you sign up. The fucking website will
crash at least twice while you're own there. But that's

(41:05):
what I'm saying, I just want it in people's hands.
I want it in your head. I want you to
read it because it it will make you feel better.
And I'm almost I can't do any more pep talks
until people more by the book. I'm running out of
pep talks because I'm I'm drowning in content that I
that I've got to move. I've got palettes of hope.

(41:28):
It's dying on the docks. I've come on some hope
sitting here. Come pick them up so I can so
I can get in a good mood again and give
you more hope. Because my pep talks, I'm i can't
writing the advice column at this point. I'm just like
people are like, man, I don't know what I'm supposed
to do, and I usually I'm like go hiking or
fucking Now, I'm just like, you know what suck eggs?
I don't for himself. I'm miserable, which is not a

(41:53):
good advice column. You know what I mean? By my book,
and then I'll be happy again. What is something you
think is overrated? Overrated? Health and wellness? Health and wellness,
because in my opinion, they're the same thing, and they're
just trying to sell an extra thing to health. Yeah,
it's rich people wanting to think there's a secret extra

(42:13):
part of health that they get. It's just really just
like a manny petty, right. It's mostly just like the stress.
You don't have the stress of having your toil to survive.
That's also a huge part. Like, yeah, I don't know,
I'm so healthy. It's like I don't I don't have
to toil either and kind of have all my needs
are meant health and wellness. Yeah, it's like health and servants.

(42:35):
You know, there's something there's I smell a rat. That's
all I'm saying. Wellness, not that it's wealth and wellness, yes,
or health and wealthness either. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's it's
yes exactly. The health wealth wellness generally is is just
like treat yourself guys like that. It's like the it's
like the shitty parts of goople you know, right right,

(42:58):
the wellness industry. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, um, there's a
there's a there's some dose of there's something about it
that's just strikes me as as just like just really shitty,
like somehow Like I was gonna say, it's tied up
in eugenics. I don't think that's true that I'm sure,

(43:20):
but you know, there's some there's something. It's something like
I feel like it's racist, Like there's certain about like
it's like anybody can be healthy. It's like almost like
anybody can be healthy, but it takes a white person
to be well. Like that's how I feel like it's
some it's some like yeah, oh yeah, you can be
healthy if you're anybody can be healthy, but are you well?
And that means are you fucking white? I mean I

(43:41):
don't that's extreme, and I don't mean that everybody who
says that thinks they're I only think about race stuff
because I think about I think about it constantly, only
because of it's impossible not to. You look at the
people who are pushing these like you know, we're already healthy,
let's get well or tend to be wealthy white people,
because it's just like what else can Once you get

(44:03):
really rich, you just start to care about like extending
your life and right well then and also just again,
like all of the things that are you know, touted
as being like you know, essentials to your wellness are
typically out of reachs for most working people, and it's
like this is who who can afford this? Who can
afford this lifestyle? You're prescribing via your wellness you know,

(44:25):
website or whatever, right, And I think, like, you know,
Gwyneth Paltrow pushing the idea that she's basically a magical person,
is you know, is you know she's also a white
lady with blonde hair. I mean, I think there's just
a component of this like ultra health like has to
do with like Gwyneth Paltrow having blonde hair and translucent
trying to turn like invisible. She's so white. Like I

(44:46):
just feel like there's like a certain amount of like
stunt whiteness involved in this ship, Like, well, how fucking
white and blonde? I am? It's just generally too like socioeconomically,
there are people who have different life expectancies just by
virtue of like who they are, they're born into, what
class they're born into, and then being like using that
to be like and that's my secret. Are these fucking berries?

(45:07):
It's like, no, motherfucker. You probably had your mother probably
that's retal care. That's pretty healthy, And there could be
people diet growing up you have lower health complications, but
you want to point to the fucking whatever the funk
it is, uh and say that's the cause of and
solution to all. I just don't. Sometimes I feel like
I come off like I hate white people, which is insane.
Obviously I'm a white person. But but I but I

(45:29):
but I do feel like you know that, well, you know,
white people should police themselves a little bit on these
things when they get into these like weird like Ariyan
fucking Nazi things like health and wellness sounds like a
division of fucking the Nazi Party. You know, it just
sounds like, you know, like it's just some sort of like, uh,
there's something that strikes me really wrong about it. And

(45:51):
then it's also just a scam to sell stuff. You know.
It's just like once you get into the rich person game,
all it is is just life extension stuff off and
like panaceas and and and snake oil and like you know,
a medicine show stuff where you just new moisturizers the
industry for people to you know, once they get rich,
they think about only two things tax evasion and smooth

(46:13):
skin and living forever. You know, I mean, it's really
there's nothing else to fucking do. The two things that
are inevitable that you can't get away taxes, and they're like, Nope,
fuck both of those. I will evade both. Yeah. I
just feel like sometimes when people say wellness, they're about
to say white. That's how it feels. There's also a

(46:34):
w yeah, or it's just it's just so like sort
of ignorant of the idea of what is even being
said to that, Like even if in the most innocent
version of someone talking about wellness, it's just there's a
there's a lack of regards. Yeah, break it down, That's
what I'm like, say, tell me what break it down?
What does wellness mean? You know? Break it down? Nobody

(46:54):
you know, But I don't know what I'm saying this
to break it down, I'm saying I'm picturing myself saying
this to what fell. So she's listening, I would love
to talk to you respectfully about these issues. I mean,
you heard her. She's already coming with hot takes today.
She said how children of like famous people have to
work twice as hard or something, and you're their nepo kids.

(47:16):
They are really the who are persecuted. Yeah, no country,
oh god, like because she she is like, I don't.
I'm sure most people know that. But she is the
child of a famous person, so and she herself is
raising children of extremely famous people. So so yeah. The

(47:38):
other thing was just as far as the overrated would
be amenities versus you know, which is connected. It's it's
an amenities over culture. Wealthy people don't care about music.
They don't care about are They care about music that's
on in the background while they get a fucking massage.
They care about music that's on in the background while
they fucking do a real estate deal. Music is being

(48:01):
affected by the amenity culture. It's being it's being forced
to the background when it should be. It's one of
the most important, heartening, beautiful things in the world. It's
way more beautiful than real estate, or way more beautiful
than you know, moisturizer or any of this other ship.
But it's basically free, you know, and that doesn't do

(48:23):
ship for rich people. They don't know how to fucking
make music, they don't know how to fucking engage with it.
That it makes them feel weird. They would rather have
a hotel than a music venue. That's what's happening to Nashville.
Like it's not it's not just by accident. They value
hotels more than music venues. That's why they're not staying around.
It's because if we let these motherfucker's with obscene wealth

(48:44):
or against our will let them because he really can't
combat these these like sort of capital what do you
call him? Venture capital? Not venture capital, but just like
you know, like like consortiums or I can't think of
just like the big just people, rich people who have
like just these giant amounts of wealth at the you know,
the top fo people have and they put them into

(49:05):
these huge funds and then they make over a whole city.
I'm just saying that the art is being displaced on purpose.
Like it took me a while to figure that out.
It's not just a side effect. It's something that rich
people do not value. In fact, music spaces always have
made them uncomfortable because they don't feel at home there.
They don't get it. They know about something that they
can't that like dies the second they touch it and

(49:25):
make and it makes them feel uncomfortable. That makes them
They don't know because they do not their program for
whether by nature or nurture, for capitalism only, so they
just don't They don't get it, and it makes them
mad when they see people really enjoying music because they don't.
That makes them feel bad. So they want to not
see that. They want to see another thing they recognize,
which is a Chipotle or a hotel or something they

(49:47):
can use, something rich person can use, a surface industry thing,
and and and and America is being recolonized. And this
is like insane to say, but it's like, I mean,
it's not insane to say, I just want to don't
want to be insensitive people who are actually colonized. But
what I'm saying is that we came here, fucking made
the Indians except our culture at the you know, or

(50:09):
death like you know, like go to Christian school and
all the ship that's happening with Indigenous like the whole
residential schools thing and in Canada is insane, I mean
absolutely insane. And it's all about like basically people coming
in and saying this is our culture. You're gonna take it,
and if you don't take it, we're gonna fucking throw
you off a cliff. And now that's happening in this

(50:31):
weird way where it's like we're gonna we're read the top,
you know, hundred people or no, it's not ten thousand.
Richest people in America are making over America in the
image that they want, and that's an image that is there.
It's like the fucking English going to India and making
everybody learn how to do cricket. These motherfucker's are are
replacing music venues with hotels, not by accident, but because

(50:53):
they want hotels more, because they recognize those and they
value them. Almost like fucking music is fucking some language
they want to stamp out and make it into just
instrumental ship in the background of a TikTok video, and
TikTok videos devalue music too. Anyway, these are all things
I'm thinking about while I'm a lousy mood, and it's
all like friction. It's just making it more friction less, right,

(51:16):
like they they've taken out any like TikTok makes everything
friction less, and you know there take over the Supreme
Court just makes it. It's all the stuff they've wanted
to do and been pushing to do, but like they
no longer have the stops in place, we no longer
have the protections in place. It's all deregulation equals frictionless

(51:39):
overpowering of the country by the wealthy, like that's always, always,
always going to be the case. And did you guys
hear about the I'm sure you did. You probably already
talked about it. They're they're trying to raise the Republicans
are trying to raise the retirement age for pilots. Did
about that? I mean, I saw that being floated around
a while back, but I didn't have and sure what

(52:00):
what was going on today? They're trying to raise the
age for pilots to The mandatory retirement age for commercial
pilots is sixty five, but they want to raise it
the sixty seven because there aren't enough pilots. Just take
them on vacation, right, So it's like having a draft
for like bartenders, right and all. Because they don't want
to raise the wages. They like, we can attract people

(52:23):
with this current thing, Well, then we got to get
more out of the people that are dumb enough or
not dumb enough, but are doing the job. Eventually, they're
going to lower the labor. They're gonna make it some
kids can work. That's what they dream of. Yeah, it's like, uh,
this is your pilot speaking. My name is Brett. I'm
fortun I didn't connecting the people's great towards the end

(52:45):
of their career. People towards the end of their career
and like towards normal retirement age, are easier to manipulate
and like pay less because they can't like just switch paths,
you know, switch careers easily. So they're just like, yeah, no,
it's keep grinding these poor bastards down. I just think

(53:05):
it's so funny that that's their legislation. They can't pass
sucking anything, but they're like, you know what we're gonna
need to do. We're gonna need to do a draft,
like a military draft with caddies golf a second break. Yet,
by the way, no, let's do that, and then we'll
come back and talk about real briefly a couple of

(53:26):
stories that are happening. Let's do it, and we're back,
and all right, let's talk real quick, what what happened
in DC on Wednesday. Basically Schumer, you know, Mitch McConnell

(53:50):
has been saying there there's this thing called like the
Chips Actors, this bill to basically make more semiconductors and
ship in the United States. It's on China, and will
also help the automobile industry and you know, relieve some
supply chain issues ultimately, just to help you know, the
commerce run fruit. And this was like a thing that

(54:10):
had bipartisan support too, because they're like, yeah, you know,
it's got China in it. So it was helping you know,
conservatives and be like, yeah, okay, let's push back against
all of this. And Mitch McConnell was essentially saying, look,
you will not have bipartisan support for this bill. If
you try at all to resurrect any section of the
Build Back Better Act, don't even fucking think about it.

(54:31):
If you do, we're going to withhold all the support
and etcetera, etcetera. So Wednesday, bipartisan support for the Chips bill.
It passes. Then hours later, Chuck Schumer and Joe Mansion,
like some w w E characters emerge from the shadows
with hands like like just upholding hands, being like, we've
reached a deal on a bill to address climate, the climate, healthcare,

(54:54):
and some taxes, and we can do it all under reconciliation.
So we don't need fucking sixty votes. We can do
it with fifty. And you know what, guess what you know,
I know everyone was a really cynical, but Mansion really
hates inflation. So Schumer was like, hey, why don't we
call this, Why don't we spend money on all this stuff?
But we can call it the Inflation Reduction Act. And

(55:15):
you know, if this bill could even reduce the deficit Byllis,
He's like, I'm in god his ass. So it will
help fight it is. It does have a question mark
at the end, is that the name of the bill
is Inflation Reduction Act. Question about it? Maybe, And it
will finally help, you know, like lower healthcare costs because
Medicare can now negotiate directly to set prescription drug costs

(55:37):
has been a fucking thing people in time about for ages.
Then it will you know, lower some senior out of
pocket expenses, reduced Obamacare costs for people who will be
seeking coverage on the exchange, and the prescription drug savings
and a new tax of fiftent on corporate profits will
help fund the healthcare portion, as well as three hundred
sixty nine billion in climate funding. And a lot of

(55:59):
these are in the form of incentives, And you're like, wait,
what the funk Joe Man, Huh? Not only that, Like
I said, Schumer played McConnell, and everyone's sort of like,
this is wild. You have core climate spending, increased corporate taxes,
and healthcare. We not so fucking fast, you fucking idiot.
You forgot this was America all of a sudden, because yes,

(56:22):
as Ed Markey from Massachusetts describes this as quote the
most significant investment environmental justice and climate action in American history.
That sounds good, but just like criminal justice reform, in
this country, even the slightest movement towards progress will be
just by default, the most significant action we've ever taken.
And I'm not trying to take a full ship on
this bill because there are good things in it, you know,

(56:44):
like it's there are there are you know, like there
is encouragement for more renewables and tackling emissions reductions and
things like that. And they'll say we'll reduce emissions by
about and analysts are like, okay, that's feasible. But what
the spill really does. It gives mansion the field goods
by investing more in like there was a bit of

(57:05):
a deal. He wanted more infrastructure to be able to
sell more fossil fuels, essentially to get the product of
ports to be able to ship it out. And also
this bill, what it really does, a lot of the
emphasis is really on relying on cars, and all the
experts have said repeatedly just just switching cars to electric
isn't going to cut it, Like we need actually need

(57:26):
to be more efficient across the board, like we need
more green spaces, we need better urban planning so people
can walk to places, or take light rail, or take bikes,
or have better bike lanes, because those are all the
things that help people create less emissions. So it sounds
very un American, Yeah, exactly from point get away from
fucking cars. No. So what the bill does it in

(57:48):
incentivizes consumers to just buy electric cars, and when it
mentions trains and light rail, the purpose is to say
that those industries are excluded from the funding. So you know,
it's it's interesting because it's doing some good things while
also really putting like ignoring something that a lot of

(58:08):
climatologists and people have saying been saying, which is like,
I know, we all think electric car equals no emissions,
which is true from the car, but if you think
about what it takes to make the car and also
where the fucking electricity comes for your car. That's where
the bigger issue is, because unless you're charging that ship

(58:30):
straight off a solar panel, it's pretty likely that the
electricity you're using to charge in e V is coming
from burning fossil fuels. So I was just reading Advice.
They were one of the reporters. There were just like
you know, giving like sort of a sober analysis of
like what's happening, Like there are some good things, but
the car piece. I really wanted to bring to people's
attention that you know, how efficient an electric car actually is.

(58:53):
Then this is from Vice. It's is quote. Electric car
owners today would generally be thrilled to get an efficiency
of four miles per killer hour. Most get less. But
if you're traveling at sixty five miles per hour on
the highway, that means using sixteen kilowatts to travel for
one hour. In that same time, a whole home air
conditioner running at full tilt is using something like four kilowatts.

(59:16):
So driving on the highway uses at a bare minimum
as much electricity as running four air conditioners at once.
But realistically, most e vs get less than four miles
per kilowatt hour, and most people drive faster than sixty
five miles per hour on the highway, so the actual
effect is probably more like five or even seven air conditioners.
So we have, sure, we can go, We can talk

(59:38):
about electric vehicles, but we really need to, you know,
sincerely address the electric the energy generation piece of it
all too, because then everything is thrown out of lack.
So we've taken a step forward and maybe like two
thirds back, so still forward progress. But again it's a
very American bill that men are like it's revolution sinary.

(01:00:00):
But it's like when you think of how much has
to be done and how little we've done, sure it
is all that to say this this has to be
built upon rather than I'm sure many people like to
be like, hey, well we did that, even though we
were talking about a trillion dollars before this. We need
to look at nuclear energy is what we need to
look at. But where that's a conversation for another day.

(01:00:23):
I want to measure everything by air conditioners. Now. Yeah,
like like man I man I had an orgasm. That
thing was probably the forest of like nine air conditioners,
nine conditioning standards homes. You know what I'm saying, Yeah,

(01:00:44):
you know what I'm saying, oh yeah, and this I
took a six air conditioner ship the other day. Those
things are all full the plunger. Get the set of
right now, when I measure everything and how much it
takes to ment a bitcoin, that's what I usually measure.
It used to be my old, my old way of
making sense of at all what I mean. This is

(01:01:05):
all like again, it's good that there is movement towards
tackling this, even though again it took Joe mansion. The
way he's talking about the build too is just like
he's just dunking on Joe Biden's like agenda too, as
if he's still like this conservative. It's really weird, he
said quote. For too long, the reconciliation to baiting Washington
has been defined by how it can help advance Democrats.

(01:01:26):
A political agenda called build back better, build back better
is dead, and instead we have the opportunity to make
our country stronger by bringing Americans together. Shut the fuck up.
It seems like the president just needs to be a
like punching bag, Like that is the role of the
of the American president now? Is that like just take
it for granted everyone's gonna hate them, and then you

(01:01:47):
can consolidate Congress against them to get things done. Like
just how big a stooge they are is like the
like how useful they are. Basically that's interesting because the
approval ratings have just like gone down, down, down down,
of course, because the because the real power is with

(01:02:08):
multinational corporations and they can do anything. The president is
basically like just set dressing to distract people. But people
aren't even like distracted by the president anymore. They're just like,
funk that guy, you know. I mean they're like we
say fuck Trump. Yeah, I mean it goes back to
like it's just it's just depressing. But anyway, just thinking

(01:02:29):
about like you know, Net Network, the movie Network from
nineteen seventeen something, Yeah, all those but that cynical at
the time. I got it exactly right right the famous
speech where Ned Beatty playing essentially God telling Peter Finch like, uh,

(01:02:50):
you know your your your act is over. We're canceling
you because you you know, you're getting too negative and
you're telling too many truths. And for a while you
were entertaining, but now you're just you know, you're you
know you are you're you're revealing what's behind the curtain,
and what's behind the curtain is that there are no nations.
There's just dollars. There's no nations anymore, there's no These
nations are just these nationalism and these things just distractions

(01:03:11):
to keep people busy while the real business of running
the world goes on at you know, the G seven
or the you know, yeah, or like any of these
like big you know, fucking Builderberg Group or whatever, these
these these things, okay, well yeah, yeah wherever they're building bears,

(01:03:31):
and they're building bears, like bears that are able to
shoot guns at people. And if you think build a bar, again,
build a bear and not connected. Come on, I think
everything is true. But yeah, the president is just like

(01:03:51):
a freaking I mean, it's not he doesn't. It's really bad,
you know. It's just like we should really just say,
like the people who are on the war world are
like Jeff bezos and stop using these middlemen and stuff
and just make them the president and then everybody can
be mad at them instead. I didn't do anything. He
didn't do anything, and I mean that literally, he didn't
do anything. But he can't. We should say that this

(01:04:15):
is a piece of sponsored content that we are using
to launch Jeff Bezos presidential campaign. We just we think
he's going to be he's the man for the job,
especially if you take a just google Jeff Bezos cowboy
hat and just just google can Amazon deliver and you

(01:04:37):
and so can President Bazos. I think you're right though,
you know, Jack, I think that that point that the
these big businessmen who really run the world are using
the the president of United States is just like a
foil to make themselves like they're they're there and they're
the ones in charge. Um, you know, Chuck Schumer's daughter
is an Amazon lobbyist. I just found that out. That's

(01:04:59):
you know what what for her. He's a Democrat, you know,
he's he's got his daughter is a lobbyist for a
fucking corporation. I mean whatever, It's just you know, so yeah,
So it's like it's like, really, these guys are getting
to aggrandize themselves by being like, hey, we could run
this better than this idiot, like you know, but they
are running it and they're not running it better. They

(01:05:20):
don't need they don't. When you have that much wealth
you have, you actually have no need to be anywhere
near like office, because you can you can we already
just talked about how much can be done by twenty
seven billionaires spending less than one percent of the money
they made during the pandemic to shift things massively. You
were just talking about that, like not not in this episode.

(01:05:43):
No no, no, no, right, yeah, that's like two days ago.
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, so that you're right, though
the president is functioning now is a guy to make
for the corporate heads too, who are running ship. Look
at I mean, I would say effectively Clarence Thomas is
the most powerful person in the world. Oh yeah, then
there's you know what I mean. And then it shows
to like what is the like how these offices operate,

(01:06:06):
are you know, based on how we perceive them or
we can really choose to look at where the influence
comes from, and it's about the billions of dollars that
are constantly being pumped into people's pockets or into those
same big business people, whether they realize it or not,
they're they're sort of the dark money that that they generate,

(01:06:27):
whether it's whether they're actually donating to Clarence Thomas or not. Ultimately,
the forces of big business are installing right wing politicians
because that those are the ones that serve their interests
my money forever and I don't want to ever die
And just poking a finger at Joe Biden, you know, man,
talk about being a president at the wrong time, Like

(01:06:47):
you just signed up to be like just like a
fucking just to be on. I mean there's no one
believes that. I mean after Trump especially, no one believes
the president has any well just like also the worst,
the the less appropriate person couldn't come at a worse time,
you know, like the momentum. You know, you can't have
someone who's like hails from Delaware, which is we love

(01:07:12):
we hey incorporate here, baby, because we'll we'll bend over
backwards to accommodate your business, like from coming from a
place like that, to tackle the problem of like the
wealth and influence of moneyed interests in corporations, Like, uh,
how do you know so much about Delaware because that's
like that's like one of the first things I was
taught in like government everything corporation like that you got

(01:07:35):
to incorporate or even I remember like the first business
class I took like in college, like yeah, and every
and you got to incorporate in Delaware, like there or Nevada,
like those are your options. But like most companies do
and all the credit card companies are in Delaware, Like
there's a reason why. You know. That's like it's like
being for I don't even know what the example for
California would be, but like if we said, you know,
our biggest industry was weed or something like that, be

(01:07:58):
like being a California Democrat who's like being like, oh no, no, no,
I'm I'm against the legalizing weed. Like what, that's not
how this state works. Well, you know the state where
like white color crime, there's a white color crime purge
happening at all times. They're like, no, you're good here, man,
you just say your company is located here. We're We're good.
You don't even have to be located here, you just

(01:08:20):
need to say you're from here. I like that. This
just turned into a Delaware region, man, Delaware's Daily's I
guess every day. It was just like Delaware, What are
we gonna do about that? Jackie Miles are doing. They've
been talking about Delaware for nine episodes, and they also
have that accent that we started out talking about. I'm

(01:08:40):
gonna start listen to that dex Shepherd show Shephard talking
about Delaware. Ye, but yeah, I've been by the way.
I got a friend in academia who's been digging down
into the landfills h in Delaware. Huh. And they're using
a lot more dildos than they're admitting to there. It
is turn ur. We figured about one bilbo a block

(01:09:03):
no way, no way, four or five household and if
you think those are energy efficient, either that or one
household had like six hundred fifty thousand buildos, but we
don't think so it's wild to think there's like this
one address I know that has like hundreds of thousands
of businesses like use this address in Delaware to say

(01:09:26):
that's where they're incorporated. And it's just wild all because
of the the business friendly loopholes in the state. Like
name any company. It's like Amazon, Apple, fucking Facebook, JP Morgan,
like they're all there. They all live in the same
house together, our house well Criss Crofton as always such
a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Follow

(01:09:50):
you all that good stuff? You can thank you, Miles
we We you can find me at Amazon dot com
Advice King Anthology and it's a book and and you
can get it yeah on Amazon dot Com, which is,
you know, like one of my favorite websites. And um,

(01:10:11):
then you can also follow me on Twitter and Instagram
hashtag hashtag at the Crofton Show and Cold Brew Got
Me like the podcast, which is on We're putting it
up every Monday now and it is a lot of
fun and also like, lately it's been really kind of
depressing because I've been in a shitty mood, but it's

(01:10:31):
like the podcast where I let my real self out,
which means, you know, lately it's just like a lot
of angst, but it's Cold Brew Got Me, Like, is
the podcast, And we were not on Twitch anymore. We're
just on all the other We're on Being Being Being,
all the being, we Being Weasel and all the main platforms,
you know, like um and uh yeah, oh yeah, we're

(01:10:55):
on We're on Chicken Chicken House and all the main
all the main platform man on the ones that are
just household names. Yeah, and uh. The other thing is
I wanted to say, if you guys want to get
a fucking I heart radio, Criss Crofton goes to Abandoned
Mines thing going and Will Ferrell there you go, you

(01:11:17):
know me and Will Ferrell. Yeah, but I don't know him,
but i'll know him after we're go on the mind together. Yeah, exactly.
Oh that's the show, like you, every every guest you're
taken on Mine and see. Hell yeah, you will throw
all your oxygen meters going off. Miles. Where can people
find you with the tweet or some work of social

(01:11:39):
media you've been find me on Twitter and Instagram at
Miles of Gray. Where else can you find me? Obviously
Miles and Jack got Matt boost he just check out
the latest episode episode episode with Jasmine Watkins. It was
a really fun time. Also rate and review the dailies
like Geist and also check me out on four D

(01:12:01):
fiance if you like ninety days. Some tweets that I
like me see now one of its it's really this one.
This is from Robbie Slowick at Robbie Slowick tweeted just
like in parentheses, starts making decent money for the first
time the universe. Money is actually worth less now just uh,

(01:12:25):
I always like that. Um and yeah, that's about it. Actually,
that was the one tweet that got to me. How
about you, Chris, any any tweet that got to you lately? Oh? Man,
you know so many. I uh, I like tweets. Yeah,
you know what I mean, And I would say one
of my favorite tweeters is, uh god, I don't fucking

(01:12:46):
know Blair Saki. I'll say, Blair Saki, go check out,
go follow Blair Saki and uh and everything she tweets
is good. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Undersquirrel.
Brian Charlie James tweet did a cab includes people who
drive a Dodge Charger? I think that's true. That that

(01:13:08):
is true, am I it's a cop car in someplace,
it's already a copy and overfunded. I just heard about
a cop who who like retired at fifty nine and
bought like this is like anecdotally, this is not this
is somebody who knows somebody like friend of a friend
cop who retired at fifty nine and like bought a

(01:13:29):
second like multimillion dollar home. So cops have I feel
like they don't need more funding, contrary to what some
democratic questions. I mean. I also like this from Tyler Snodgrass.
For some reason, my entire Twitter feed is accounts I
don't follow, and they're all like shirts that go hard

(01:13:50):
animals going goblin mode out of context, humans, humans dying.
Maybe Goblin's going animal mode means from twelve years ago,
pies with threatening auras, men being dogs, dogs, three exclamation point.
That's true. That is true. Everything everything's going gobbler mode.

(01:14:11):
Even goblins are going goblin mode sometimes usually animal mode.
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as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,

(01:14:35):
what song do we think people might enjoy? Uh? This
is an album? Well, this is a track from an
album called Marshmallow By It's like obscure production. I don't
know if it's one person or it's a team called
the Sweet Enoughs. And the album sounds like it's like
really trippy instrumental music, Like it sounds like like hold

(01:14:56):
music if you were like on an acid trip. Well,
I thought it gonna be from my favorite genre, spam music.
This is whole. It's like you call the Hell but
hell like also because like all the great artists are
in hell that they make the hold music. Uh And
I don't know what how you want to process how
I just described that. But like I said, it's great

(01:15:18):
instrumental music. The whole album is just it's a nice texture.
I know Christmas talking about music that's in the background.
Ship this can be in the foreground for the background.
But this is the sweet enough with Marshmallow. All right, Well,
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