Bicycles = Anti-Monarchy? Rail Workers Want Humane Treatment 09.15.22

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to fifty four,
episode four of Judge Lee's Eye Guys Day production of
I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take
a deep dive into America, sometimes Britain's shared consciousness, or
at least marvel from a distance at Britain's shared consciousness.
Sometimes it is Thursday September, which is, of course, the

(00:26):
birthday of Prince Harry. Shout out to Prince Harry, it's
your birthday, bro. You're a really good man. I love you, bro.
You're my brother because I was also born on this day.
But I will recognize your birthdays. Hit me up absolutely

(00:48):
getting uh yeah. It's also National Linguini Day, National Cheese
toast Day, National crem Dement Day, National double Cheese Burger Day,
National Felt Hat Day, National Neo Natal Nurses Day, National
Tackle Kids Cancer Day. A lot of kids ship da, dude.
They're trying to overshadow you with all the with all

(01:10):
these days. I'm already dealing with Harry. Fucking Prince Harry said,
but I'll take cheese toast, you know, I like cheese toap.
That's one of my favorite things to eat. Actually, Linguini
one of the top words in the English language according
to the ghost Face Killer. Yeah, according to the ghost
Face Killer Machine Learning rat assembler that we conceive stuff. Yeah. Anyways,

(01:32):
let's see. My name is Jack O'Brian hey k he
who baha blasts? He who Baha's blast Baha's best, which
is from ween Age Taste Plan and is a short
show title or ak reference thing, A thing I've never
heard that he who laughs last laughs best, I've never

(01:53):
heard of phrase. But alright, let's do it. And I'm
thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Gramle Gray a Khadeo NoHo, the true Prince
of North Hollywood. Thank you so much for having me.
He's wonderful to be here on this Thursday. Well, Miles
Weird thrilled to be joined in our third seat by

(02:14):
one of the very cases on Mount Zeitmore, a hilarious
stand up comedian, actor, musician with a seven point six
rated album on Pitchfork to his name. You can listen
to his podcast Colbrew Got Me Like. You can read
his new book, The Advice King Anthology. The Poetry is
Window Is Open. Hold on to your butt. It's Chris

(02:34):
motherfucking Craft that was incredible. What's up, man? I love
that list. I'm nothing. I'm just sitting in Monrovia in
a fucking garage. But man, oh man, that was an intro.
That's so good because whenever anybody asked me what my
credits are, I'm always like, you know what I mean, like, eustah,

(02:55):
that's so good that you see. That's why you have
a Where are you sitting? You're not sitting in the
garage because you know how to say some credits. I'm like,
I don't want to say credits. It's not cool, Like, okay,
I fund in your garage. Dog, Let's let us say
the credits sitting next to a piece of sheet rock.
Old guy, Hey, look, I got a trash bag for

(03:16):
a window shade. Well, is it your birthday? By the way,
is that what we were alluding to? Happy birthday? Subtle
allusions to it? That's a very subtle, very subtle. Not
been harping on that first, Like you a lot better
than Prince Harry, thanks, oh man? Come on, man, oh man,
I don't know him, and I know he's better than me.

(03:38):
Do you think come on now, I don't believe that.
I just want, honestly, my dream is to corrupt him.
Oh is to hang out with him and be like
do what now? And I'm like, we're gonna know you
got wet, Harry, Oh ship, what did you say? Get wet?
Is that smoke angel l dust? Oh my god? Do

(04:03):
you think the Royals haven't smoked angel dust? That's true.
They probably invented that and they're like naive. One of
the main side of the smoky angel dust is having
like forty corgis. That's true, Prince Charles is, Yeah, I
can only imagine how they're like, I need my angels dust.
People do every day. It's a great tell that you're

(04:29):
an undercover cup. But angels dust, I'm sorry? Are you
putting a possessive s on the end of that? My man?
Where are you from? I'm from England, My good sir.
I'm trying to think about fancy name for bath salts
right now, but I can't think of anything. Ah yes,

(04:50):
bathing bathing salts, bathing salts. They're hurry, bring my bathing
salts and my angels dust. But you think those Royals, man,
they got all day, every day off for like she's
nineties six, She's had every day off, so you know,
imagine she must be who knows putting hats on those
corky smoking angel dust like yeah, I mean like being

(05:15):
like unemployed for a long time can put you in
like a weird you don't you get weird hobbies? And
but imagine if you had them of the British and
Crown behind it. I bet you're actually secret friends with
King Charles on like one of those mud larking probably YouTube.

(05:39):
The only difference between me and them is that they
get their cold blue brew handled handed to them. They
don't have to pour it right exactly. That's the only
difference I do see. Like King Charles is also in
the mud larking, and then he tells Chris, He's like,
we've done it, mate, I can finally stop the Thames
and we can mud lark for days. I'm gonna damn
it up, you damn right. Do you remember that children's

(06:04):
book called the Seven Chinese Brothers? Does anyone remember that
where the guys swallowed the ocean? A lot of my
archaeology interests come from that book, and I could place
it like I remember reading that book and that kid
in the book swallowed the ocean. I don't know why
I think it was so they could get the fish
without without fishing, you know, because they could just drain

(06:26):
the ocean and like one of the Chinese brothers could
swallow the ocean. That was one of his tricks. Each
one had like a skill. But then there was some
moral to the story, like he ended up swallowing the
ocean or dying or something like there's some reason where
it's like you have to fish normal, you can't swallow
the ocean. Like there was a moral. I don't know
what the moral of it was, but I when he

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drained the ocean. Plus, I'm sure that this is like,
you know, probably racist in some way. The seven Chinese
brothers already like remember, like it's gotta have some kind
of problem. But I don't know. But anyway, remember the
illustrations are a little like, oh yeah, it's definitely not right. No,
it seems like there's an updated version that is less intensive.

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But so anyway, said one of the Chinese brothers swallows
the ocean, and the other brothers go in and get
the fish. I think it was the idea. But in
the illustration you could see all the sunken ships, and
I used to think, oh my god, you could just
go in there and get the treasure chests, walk up
to him basically, and I tried to make my brother
swallow the ocean. Yeah, any to the hospital, yea, yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah,

(07:38):
we bat. I realized people talk about video games that
those books back then and giving you some bad ideas too.
They're bad ideas all around us. You just need to
know where to look anyway. Yeah, so that you're right,
they would. Damn the goddamn tams. They would. They'd be like,
I'd like to mudlark today and blow something worn and
then like twelve dudes that have to like pull some

(07:58):
lever and a bunch. No, I want them to swallow it.
I want to talk more about the Royals. Yeah, all right, Well,
I mean we're gonna get to know you a little
bit better. A couple of things we're talking about. We're
gonna talk about rail workers getting ready to strike and
how the business media is covering that story. And then

(08:22):
we got a couple of Royals things. We've got. The
Queen's funeral is already a ship show. Just lots of
people surgeries and being canceled, people uh, you know, food
pantries being closed for the hungry. It is truly just
like a touchdown dance for privilege. It is like everything. Yeah,

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they're like, not only will we light all the money
on fire that you've been giving us for years and
just a lavish display of wealth while like just rolling
this old lady's dead body down the street, but we're
we're also going to make it so you can't do
anything but watch us do that, including I have a

(09:04):
have a life and keep living, so we'll talk about that.
I've been doing a bit of a dive ever since
I've seen those, like a couple of clips of King
Charles just being such a baby, baby baby every time
these damn these blasted sticking every time, these stinking things

(09:28):
about a pen not working the way he wanted it to. Anyways,
it reminded me of this article I reashed from a
few years back. Those a review of a book by
a royalist, and the context is like she really is
like rooting for him, but like you could just the
whole book, you could just tell she like really hates

(09:49):
just like he's this guy's the fucking worst. So there's
just some great details in there that we might get
to royalists whatever the anymore. Yeah, I know it's crown
they have. Before we get to any of that ship though, Chris,
we like to ask our guest, what is something from
your search history? Well, you know, I feel like a

(10:13):
lot of pressure at this point, you know, because I've
been on the show enough that like I basically have
run out of like actual things I watched, you know
what I mean, Like I've kind of moved into full
time mining, you know, abandoned mines. You know, I'm not
actually mine, but I mean, you know, yeah, thank you,
thank you, thank you. Miles like a therapy, it's it's

(10:37):
not my fault, it's not my mom's fault. So I
was gonna I have one thing to talk about a
band of mind, but I thought I would just mention
one thing I have been watching is uh, you know,
hunting around YouTube. I found this thing, the Coney Island Creek.
I'm kind of like really into Coney Island. Like when
I was in New York in June, going to Coney

(10:58):
Island was like, I seriously, I'm happier in that place
than anywhere else. And I think it's just simply because
it's like it's fucking housing projects at the beach. It's
it's it's it's like it's like democracy the way it's
supposed to be. It's the fucking melting pot. It's all
this ship that you you know that America is supposed

(11:18):
to stand for, but it only stands for like occasionally,
you know, or like maybe never did. But it's just
in certain pockets you can get an idea of like
this is a neat place, Like everybody's a different color.
Everyone's just doing their thing. They don't give a funk
what anybody else is doing. I'm studying my lines walking
down the I was in a play, so I'm studying
the lines walking down the boardwalk, and you know, and

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there's someone on a fucking I mean, it's hacked to
say unicycle, but I think, really, you know, that's the
kind of scene it is. It's like a personality unicycle.
And then it's a person who's just like yelling into
their phone about you know, something about someone lost his
pumas or something, and uh, it's just a And then
there's just an amusement mark right next to a housing
project right next to it. I mean, it's just it's

(12:02):
what America could be to me. And then that scene
closes with a child being attacked by a puma because
they weren't talking about their they were talking about I
don't know why there's there are That is a thing
that happens a lot in New York City. If you've
ever in New York, there's always like exotic animals that
are being discovered in various places. Well, and there's a

(12:22):
lot of Russian mob out in Brighton Beach and in
Coney Island area. So I was imagining because there's like
a lot of like Russian mob kind of looking people,
and then there's a lot of like, oh, I don't
know what, just tourists and all kinds of everything. But anyway,
Russian mob. I was imagining some guy like yelling at
like his wife where his pumas were. But that's like
you know that, I have no idea what the Russian

(12:43):
mob does, IM like, I don't know. I'm not in
their business. But but anyway, it's just a very diverse
and and just and then you look over and the
fucking cyclones going and it's been going since nine seven.
It's the same fucking cyclone. And I just want to
metal detect everywhere, you know, hot else that is right
that is from Island. Have you guys been to Coney Island. Well, no,

(13:07):
it's weird. It's a place I've romanticized because Stephan Marbury
has a tattoo that says Coney Island's Finest And I
always was like, whoa, what a place like movie He
Got Games exactly like sets their great basketball player. He's
growing up in Coney Island, like the yeah, yeah, and

(13:27):
it it gives a lot like Coney Island is a
character in the movie He Got Game. For sure. I
went on one of the best dates of my life
to Coney Island, just went there for a day, rode
our bikes out there, eat our weight in junk food,
saw the White Stripes play at the little ballpark out there,

(13:48):
and uh yeah, that was my wife when we were
dating a date. But if I go on a date
like it's good, it's a good place. Yeah. But so,
the thing I was gonna say was just about the
search history was the So I've been looking into the
Coney Island Creek, which is like an inlet that is
one of the most polluted bodies of water. But they've

(14:11):
cleaned it a little. But now they're talking about damning
it because a hurricane whatever it was sandy came through there.
But if they damn it, then it won't clean itself
because it's a fucking title. And if they damn it,
then the tide won't come in and out and it's
already got you know, it really butts up against like
like there's like an old shipyard and the remains of
an old shipyard right up against the back of a

(14:32):
home depot, you know what I mean. It's that it's
that like you can go find the nineteenth century right
next to home depot, and I just find that stuff fascinating.
Great place for studying mosquitoes. And oh my god, the
whole I mean for like five hundred, no, not five,
not even whatever. However, a long, a long time they

(14:55):
were just dumping, like back in the old days, they
were just like we'll dump everything in the water and
then I'll go way. And so it's it's just insane
where they dumped in there. Like it's like the whole
bottom of the fucking inlet is just coated with like
you know, butane or mercury or whatever, not bututane. But
you know what I mean, like method, I don't know

(15:15):
what the funk. It is just like they just shoe there,
like like a hundred years of shoe factories, just throwing
all their ship in the in the water and just
being like and then smoke his cigars. So I just
love that. But anyway, I love the history of like
Home Depot against the nineteenth century and you know, and
which is better? I mean they both sucked. I guess

(15:35):
so one covered the bottom of the ocean in Greece
and the other is, you know, an unchecked monopoly. They
both suck. However, the at least with the at least
with the old days, there were some like characters down
by the docks. Now everybody at Home Depot is just
depressed and they're like, I think it's an Aisle twelve.
But I also don't give a fuck. It's important to

(15:57):
me that you know that I don't of a funk.
Where's it? I don't know, I'll fuck you. I'm gonna
tell you a number. It might be the right number,
but I want you to know that I don't give
a funk if it is or not. So in nineteen
sixty seven, this dude built his own submarine called the
Quester one, and he he was like a shipyard worker

(16:20):
and he had a dream to build a submarine that
he was gonna send down to the Andrea Doria. The
Andrea Doria was a passenger liner that collided with some
other passenger liner or something or and they ran into
each other and the Swedish ship stayed up and the
Andrea Doria went down and something like a lot of
people were rescued, but like fifty people died or something.

(16:41):
And this guy was like, I'm gonna go down there
and get their valuables. And he also was like I'm
gonna go down there and actually raised them. He wanted
to raise the Andrea Doria with this sub called the
quester One, and he built He built a sub out
of scrap metal. He had a there was a lot
of hoop blah about it. I knew nothing about it,
and I was watching this video and this guy was like,
there's the old sub. He was like kayaking by this

(17:03):
fucking submarine that's sticking out of this like inlet full
of shoe polish. And and then and and it's been there.
It turned out that it never got off the ground.
Like he spent like six years building this thing out
of scrap metal so that it's just and it's kind
of beautiful, and he put it in, but the ballast
wasn't right because it was expensive to put the right

(17:26):
ballast in, so I only put half the ballast in.
And he told the crane operator to just lower it
in a little, but the crane operator dropped it straight down.
It got stuck in the mud and it didn't ever
move again because it was too heavy, and it got
blown by a storm and now it sticks pretty substantially
out of the body of water that's right behind home
depot And people like painted yellow and ship too. It's

(17:50):
yellow on top because he was originally painted all yellow.
And I've watched enough videos about it now that I
know that they painted he painted a yellow because it
was the cheapest paint he could mind, Like it was
the cheapest like waterproof paint he could find, because they
were like is a Beatles reference, But it was like
before or that song. So this guy and he was
alive in like two thousand nineteen, So these people, he's

(18:11):
been bothered about it his whole life, this giant failure. Imagine, like, hello, man,
tell the story about how your fucking submarine he spent
like fifty years building fell in the mud. How did
you get this number, the cream like dropped it booz
so fucking heavy. Got stuck. Hello, this is press. Crofton
is uh, yeah, it was yellow got stuck in the

(18:34):
mud house whole by exactly. And he's told it like
I'm sure he was excited to tell it like the
first few times, but then YouTube came and he was like,
oh no, right back, it's like four drones above that
fucking thing like colliding. Like I don't have I don't
have any urge to get in a professionally constructed submarine,

(18:56):
let alone one that I like. But that does seem
to be a an urge that some people have is
to build build their own submarine and like get down
there and then it's yeah, the funk was there to
do waiting waiting line for tickets to the Boston concert
or you build your own submarine? Yeah, you couldn't just
quickly google how badly it went forever? Are you like,

(19:18):
are you like eat cop and egg because you're tired
of just sticking it in your gum? Yeah, all right,
let's take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll getting
over it, under it, and we're back. Chris Crofton, what

(19:42):
is something you think is overrated. Well, just those are short.
So I'm just gonna tell you one other thing about
the mining in the Abandoned Mind. We're gonna need to
pass at it out. So so I just was watching

(20:03):
this a band of Mind video and you guys can
find it. I just I talked about it on I
don't know if I talked about it on on my podcast,
but anyway, I put it up on my Instagram at
the Crofton show. But this guy was going through the
abandoned mine on the third level, which is called the
three hundred level, which is because I know too much,
like it's the levels are called on three hundred, like
three hundred meaning three d feet underground. And he was

(20:23):
on the fucking three hundred level of mine and there's
a bunch of old ship down there, like fucking nineteen
sixties carnation, fucking powdered milk and all kinds of stuff.
And then he's like, oh, look an old case of
Skippies peanut butter. Oh and that's a oh a porno
mag There was a fucking hustler from like and I
could tell I know why hustlers that's from the night.

(20:45):
That was a shiny hustler that was like from the nineties.
So who the fuck was masturbating on the three hundred
level of a guy? I mean, I understand being paranoid
your parents are gonna come in on you, but that
seems like and this guy buried the lead. I mean,
he had no interest. He's like he was like, oh,
look an old thing of old peanut butter. And then
he's like, oh the porn bag and like sped by it,

(21:07):
oh man, which I was like, that's the hook. Yeah,
that's the best thing that's ever happened in an abandoned mine. Right.
We understand someone drank evaporated milk and eats skippy and
white bread sandwiches on. I want to know, but the
hustler who brought a porn mag was it like were
they trolling future hunters or like you know what I mean?

(21:28):
Or was it a masturba tory station that people went
to where that was left there as the pornographic material
for other other travelers. When you're a young kid, it's
hard to get porn. And I it's possible that some
kids were like listen, that was like those kids, you
want to go, you want to go masturbate real good?
Not where you have to think. I look at a toothbrush,

(21:48):
I think it looks pornography. Was I think maybe my
first lesson lesson in like communal ownership, you know what
I mean. You got the tape right now. It's like, oh,
I got the tape. Do you need the tape? Yes,
I'll bring it tomorrow, tape tomorrow for you, and then
please allow Yes, you can dub it if you got
two VCRs, and then bring the original back to me

(22:08):
because I need to allow someone else to dub this
teammates porn socialism. That's amazing, hiding them in the forest.
I know people talk about that. So it's like, God,
that's a whole. But the mind ship is a little worried.
So like at the three hundred level, I'm imagining it
might be a little unstable, like it's not safe to
go that deep. Like I get when you're just puts

(22:29):
it around and like the top entrance area, but like
going deep, I would be like, yo, is this about
just collapse? Was this disrespectful the history around you? It's
like old gloves. I'm sorry, Chris, and I don't care
about disrespect. I'm talking about personal safety. Down there, there's
old gloves. Man, there's still gloves. I just like that.

(22:49):
Chris and I catch somebody with their fucking porn bags
down there, I'm like, Yo, get out of here, jackass.
You will hurt yourself in this old mind and man,
be like, have you no respect for the mind? Respect?
Do you masturbated the Smithsonian Institution? Yeah, they wouldn't let you.
But because this is a federally funded heritage site, Oh,
all bets are off and it's Jackie's jack off. Bore you.

(23:14):
I just want to know more about it. I can't
believe the guy skimmed over it, but the underrated would
be I was just gonna say, being respectful to creeps
when they die, like this sort of concern. Someone's probably
talked about it in the last few days, like just
the idea that out of the woodwork come all these
conservative people being like, don't you know, like how dare
you make fun? Yeah? Exactly, Like it's like, why that

(23:38):
is such horseship. These are the same people that you know,
like say, burn baby burn when they execute a murderer.
Of course, you know, I just think it's I just
because I said something about hopefully convicted murderer. I'm sure yeah,
it's just horseshit. It's the same as like we don't
put Supreme Court judges on the court close to an election.

(24:00):
It's all these made up, fucking rules that don't make
any sense. If someone's a bad person, you do not
have to You can be glad a bad person died.
It makes sense. It's not complicated, like you know, like
it makes me so mad. I just made fun of
I mean, I'm not saying, well, here we go. I'm
starting to like backpedal. But you know, like Queen Elizabeth,

(24:22):
you know, I made a joke you know, Corgy Paul Bearers,
you know, Corgy priest or whatever, you know, and I
said a Corgi delivered or eulogy and said she's weird
or she was weird, you know, uh, you know, and
people are like, you know, I put that up on
social media because I've got important you know, because I'm
an important person and um doing working, doing important work,

(24:45):
and uh, you know, a bunch of people are like,
nice work, asshole, libtard, motherfucker and making fun of the dead.
Great job. You know. It's like I just have so
it's so dishonest, It's it's just insane. I just there's
no rea and to be sad about people who you
know are bad who die, then they can't do any

(25:06):
more bad stuff. It's a simple equation. When Rupert Murdoch dies,
it will be good, objectively very good, and people will
be like you just can't it doesn't matter if they're bad.
Well what about his family? They're really they're really going
through it now, ship too. They're carrying the fucking torch.
Fuck them. I hope they all died too soon too.

(25:27):
So there's something here right in the monster's like it is.
It sounds bad. It sounds bad, but I mean, I'm
just saying, you know, whatever made mee Loughland is nice.
But I don't know why we have to give these
people the better of the doubt. They're not giving us
the better for the death. They're stomping on our graves. Yeah,
but that's if there's no like in build accepted like
status of being like, well, when they're they're you can't

(25:51):
gloat or be happy about their demise, like if you know,
it's I think as our our willingness to like respect
or review these institutions or roads like their their freakouts
become more vivid or people like, man, that's really no
way to do that, Like you don't want to do that,
Like you don't want to talk about people like that
because I don't know, it's like superstition or something like

(26:13):
somehow you're gonna it's just some bullshit because it doesn't
make any sense because these people are are not respectful
to living people. I don't even understand scream at you
on the internet, call you a fucking flatheaded pancake or
whatever the people call people that is mainly what they called.
What is that an insult from a joke book? You

(26:33):
found out that flatheaded handcakes faces redundant. I think that
was like how I would come up with disses. I
think I called like someone spaghetti sauce. These people don't
reserve their means dead. I'm just saying there mean as
fun these people. I'm not out here. You know, you're

(26:54):
not stopping the presses to to like shoot on some
obscure person who is doing their job. And like you're like,
I don't know this person, somebody who has you know,
through the descending or ascension of the crown, and like
this idea of you, especially it relates to like the
monarchy of like the divine right of kings and ships.

(27:15):
That's fucking bullshit, that's bullshit. You have the operative if
if you if you are taking that, if you're benefiting
from this, like this weird concept of like your divine
right as a monarch. Then but you gotta come that
guess what you own everything that's come along with that. Yes,
and then but that's all you, that's you, that's you. Okay,
that's why you don't have a last name. That's how

(27:37):
fucking popping you are. You don't have a last names.
I don't give up. I'm talking about motherfucker's and I
don't have last names. They're so fucking powerful. Yeah, I
just so that was the my overrated was going to be.
Just that, it's that it's overrated to be respectful of
the lousy people who are not nice. And then, uh,
the other one is underrated is this is not respectful

(28:00):
to the dead. So I'm it's pretty enjoyable when some
shit dies to say to use a little honesty and
stop with the smoke and mirrors about respect and stuff,
because nobody's showing anybody fucking any respect right now, especially
people who are telling you to show respect when they
feel like that's someone that they this idea that liberals
are like it's just completely out of control, disrespecting everybody.

(28:25):
But like it's like always this preppy, sort of like
old money idea of what respect is. It's like, you
can be fucking racist your whole life, but then you
still gotta be nice when they die or some ship. Yes,
it's like some that's really the finish line for them.
I created jobs. It's these things that like the Tucker
Carlson's of the world, and these people I grew up

(28:48):
among in Connecticut. They have these like rules and they're
all meant to control people. It's like, you have to
be nice in this situation because it helps us to
not get criticized. Of course, that's all it is. It's
just it helps us to not to keep running this scam.
That there's this inherent it's really connected to just the

(29:09):
like they feel like they're heroes because they fucking have money.
I don't know how that that's as simple as that really,
And they don't want to be criticized ever, so especially
when they die, it's a perfect time for them to
be like, especially not now criticize, but especially now that
so much and like weird fucking ship posts and Facebook
posts of people who are like defending, like Elon Musk

(29:32):
and Jeff Bezos. They're like these people. You might hate them,
but they are putting food on the table for millions,
so you want them to go away. Can you show
me that on a piece of paper, buddy? Can you
draw out how how much money I'm getting from Elon
Musk because it seems like it's the other way around.

(29:53):
Jeff the cause of and solution to all life's problems.
I said the wrong origin blew up? Oh Dawn, Twitter,
See I'm digging in. I'm digging in on this wanting
bad people. He's already worried about how people are gonna
act when he died. That's why he's policing the queen's death.
Anybody who criticizes anyone who ever sold books is a monster,

(30:18):
and everyone knows that. That's always that's always been true.
If you start a website, you cannot be criticized. Oh
so you're anti literacy, I got it. Should we talk
about the queen's funeral real quick? So Monday is the
Queen's funeral, And you know there was a procession with

(30:39):
Coffin and all on Wednesday of this week, so really
it's pretty much like a week long affair. But yeah,
it's like south By, but instead of concert and movies,
it's just a single queen funeral. What band is? What
bandes the Queen? If it's south By, oh Man, Rolling Stone,

(31:00):
cold Play? Although south By is supposed to be small though,
be a little more indie, right, Sorry, I guess that's
like the original show some respect for Spoon can criticize
Spoon for Elizabeth You kidding me? How many job spoon? Anyways,

(31:23):
it will feature the traditional closing of McDonald's restaurants to
allow everyone to pay their respects, which is how I
that was how I was initially like, oh so this
is like this is a overt fuck you too. The
working class is like, yeah, you can't. You can't even
eat McDonald's while we're petting our respects to the queen. Right,

(31:45):
but all like the flag Graw parlors are open, right, Yeah,
but Caviare City will be open all night long. Yeah,
it's like party same vibe as Party City to Yeah,
it's like and it's so sloppy to loose Caviar because
they're so wealthy. I bought fake mustaches at party city.

(32:06):
You try buying a bunch of fake mustaches at parties
in your city when you're fifty three year old white man.
See how they oh, my god, like caviar. It's been
declared an extra bank holiday, and that that means that
it would require people to be paid over time, which
is why everyone's like closing the closing down because they

(32:29):
don't want to pay people. But that it does mean
like schools and shops will be closed for what is
the first state funeral since Churchill died in sixty and
they like there's some details, like some specifics that they're doing,
Like they closed bike racks. They put up notes saying

(32:50):
don't lock your bikes here across one of the cities too,
Like in the honor of Queen Elizabeth, they were like,
don't everyone knows you don't lock your bike when someone
just died. As the Queen lies at rest, that she
wants to hear all that clicking was locking to remove

(33:15):
bikes found on the rack during this time. But it's
like nobody's working, you know, if that's not someone's job,
that is a piece of metal that you're just making
people's lives harder by saying you can't. Doesn't that feel
like it's specifically anti working class, like pro it's just

(33:36):
like a way to funck over people with less money,
then yeah, or I mean, or if you're just like yeah,
in a town generally where you get around on bike,
like it's just such a weird act of hostility that
makes no sense. There's nothing I guess maybe unless you're
really trying to say, like, dude, we're gonna force you
to respect the fucking queen because you can't even park

(33:56):
your bike anywhere. Just sucking watch the BBC man sucking
sob like, I don't know your bike, but I guess
it's probably stolen. It's probably just another way for people
who have just some semblance of power to this is
how we flex our power to say we're sad about this. Weird.

(34:17):
Do you think there's any way that she knew how
to ride a bike? No, no way, ride side saddle
like side saddle and just like keep or just so
confused because it's not moving forward. Just it my word,
it's I bet she. I bet she did learn to

(34:39):
ride a bike, and people at the time we're like,
this is unacceptable. She's like a true icon of class
to ride a bike like this into business. They were
like meetings about it. Presumed she took a terrible tumble.
UK grocery store chain turned down the sound of its

(34:59):
checkout beat out of perspect like this ship. Also it
did not that's not true. It is real. The UK
supermarket chain Morrison's turned down the sound of his checkout
leaps two. No one's allowed to eat. No one can
eat for nine six hours. I'll tell you who can eat.

(35:20):
Buskers and street performers have been banned from the underground,
from the TV, not for, not for just like general banning,
just because of the Queen, because of the Queen. You
don't know what they're gonna sing about, Chris, that's true.
The Queen doesn't want to hear something bad singer while
she's having to lay around. Yeah, she's got to slay
in a box. She doesn't want to hear some shitty
music while she's in there. Busking is serious business in

(35:43):
the UK, and I like that that people make money.
Like they interviewed somebody for this article and they were
they were like, yeah, more than a quarter of my
monthly income is gone because of this, thanks the Queen.
So shitty. The air stocracy sucks so fucking bad. They
want money and respect and you can't have both. I'm sorry.

(36:07):
They're like these things called center Parks. It's like a
European network of holiday villages. And they announced they would
close on Monday and reopen Tuesday, but like people planned
their vacations there and they were just going to kick
them out of like the hotel complex. Basically, yeah, you're
not allowed to be here while we are, you know,

(36:29):
doing whatever weird sacrifice we do in honor of the
passing of the queen. But the big one is they
had people were like, we're literally just going to be
like out sitting and will cancel our reservations. But several
food banks to be out shipping on the road. Yeah,

(36:50):
I don't know what do you do? I mean, if
you can't get a vacation, No, if you can't, if
you can't, if you're on vacation in a place and
the place that you're you're supposed to be staying like
is no longer open. The queen take me to the
road recommend and they call him the Haymarket riots. I

(37:11):
don't know what they would call a ship riot, but
uh yeah, that's what I think I thought, okay, most
riots throughout history where ship riots, and they just like
kind of erased that. People don't ask me more bathroom
is during a road. That's one of the details that
gets erased from history, the massive amounts of nowhere. I'm
working on a doctrine about it. There you go. But yeah,

(37:32):
the big the big one. Several food banks will close
that day. Holy fuck, what's the point of that because
the queen loved to take funds that were intended for
poor people and use it for her own closing closing
down the food banks for a corgy parade. It really
does like when you think about, okay, the food banks,
the bike locks, the bike racks, like it, it's stuff

(37:56):
that seems like it would be very common sense so
that you don't do that. Ship It does seem like
it is the aristocracy and the people, the these royalists,
which is apparently a thing just being like, yeah, this
is our day. Motherfucker's like you you sit and respect

(38:16):
us on our day, you know, Yeah, because it doesn't
there's no there's no like logic to being like, oh
I don't like bike racks. Yeah right, they're like, you know,
her and her bike racks. You know, just for one day,
the bike racks will be at peace. It really like
you're saying. It's like, oh, you don't give a fuck,
watch us make it unavoidable for you. Motherfucker's like you

(38:40):
can talk all the ships you want, like, oh, you
don't give a fuck. But guess what. I can stop
the bike racks. I'll make the beeps go low, get
rid of the shopping bags, the busker and also guess what,
you can't talk all the ship you want, because I
will be very mad and I will arrest you. I'll
tell you one thing, aristocracy. You keep pushing and we'll

(39:00):
use queens. Queen Elizabeth's rib cage? Is that goddamn pike rack? Hey,
that's what I'm telling about. See what I'm saying? Yeah,
watch it. Then someone's gonna go, what's this guy doing in?
Who the fun is that? I'm going too far? I'm
going too far? Okay, we're mad about bike racks, but

(39:21):
we're not on That doesn't help. We're trying to get
the food pantries open, sure, but thank you for that comment.
We're not gonna go full and gain. I'll use your
food food banks is the money bank you guys can
cut that. By the way, I think you should cut
rib cage and turn it into like ice cream, Like really,
obviously we'll use the Queen's cream in a different voice,

(39:43):
like DJ Dan's voice. Just be like ice cream. They
are also there's just like a lot of First of all,
the funeral is gonna cost millions of pounds, and they're
also like canceling their canceling a bunch of people's doctor's appointments.
Oh my god, because doctors. Doctors love the fucking queen.

(40:07):
Oh man. Yeah, they're like, oh funk, I'm not doing
any doctoring today. I gotta fucking get real. I gotta
meditate on all the great things the Queen did for me.
Hold one, I like. Yah. They're generally like, man, we
don't give a funk about anything. If you're too if
you're starving, I don't know, figure something out. You got
like chemo surgeries are being canceled. Yeah, it feels. And then,

(40:34):
of course, like as with all you know, big televised spectacles,
the unhoused community will be like forcibly removed by police.
So oh cool. So it's like the Olympics and everything,
all those shitty things wrapped up in one. Yeah, well yeah,
I mean I don't know, like what, I'm really curious

(40:55):
how how inconvenient everyone really is, because you see a
lot of people are just like I don't fucking get it,
you know, but I want it, Like I can only
imagine how truly, like just maddening it is to be like, well,
I can't go I can't go to my fucking doctor
because someone without a last name, no, six year old

(41:16):
with no last name died. Have you no kouth? No?
I bet you drink tea at four o'clock or whatever.
There's also they've been arresting people just for saying things
that are critical of that wet roughed up and arrested
someone who what did he say, well, sick old man

(41:37):
and he said you're a sickle man to Andrew. Someone
said who elected him when something was happening with the
new king and they got arrested. That's like Monty Python ship, Yeah,
I didn't vote for you. It's wild too. That was
another moment where just like the one time they asked
that woman in London if she was like a monarchist
whatever feeling when there's like a video of them the

(42:00):
least asking that Heckler, like why would you do that?
And he's like because he's a pedophile and he's like
assaulting people and he can get away with it, and
the Crown was used to like obscure his crime. In
fact that you are all our pals and Jimmy Saville,
who is like one of the biggest fucking rapists and
recorded history. I mean, there's not a lot to like

(42:21):
about the royal family if you even think about it
for five seconds. I mean, I really I think people
are just fans of them the way they're fans of
any It gives them a connection to power and wealth
that they like, you know, it's like I stand the
Queen and that means that she might vend move me
some money or something like. I think that's a lot
of fandom now. Is like this just extreme association because

(42:41):
you can't even get near wealth anymore because it's all
concentrated at the top. So standing feels like somehow, like
defending them feels like you're close to them, and somehow
they know that you're defending them. So weird psychological it's
like you know, it's like yeah, it's like, um, how
do you say it? Like when the kidnapper used to
like a kidnapper. Yeah, it's kind of like that, you know,

(43:02):
It's like it's just this sort of love of wealthy celebrities,
because that just feels like they might know that you
love them, and then you're their friend and maybe you
can come over and use their infinity pool or whatever
while you suck eggs in read real life and they
fucking shut down your bike rack. Yeah, and guess what,
they just switched out their eggs with pieces of ship

(43:23):
But then like Stopholm syndrome, you knowbod, He's like, of
course they need just shut down the bike racks, right,
fun are you talking about? You know anything about death
at all? You think people want to hear I want
to ride a bike? You think there's nothing more disrespectful
than using a bike rack right near someone's death. You
gotta wait at least eight days. Do you not know

(43:44):
anything about Western civilization? Yeah, and you have to have
at least eight coregis. One guy went to Parliament Square
and held up a blank piece of paper as like,
this feels like it's like a psychological experiment on just
like how much the city has lost it. He held
up a blank piece of paper, and the officer officers

(44:05):
came and asked for his details, and he was like,
what if I wrote not my king on that blank
piece of paper? And they were like, yeah, we would
have arrested you. Just just very strange that. I love
how genteel a sound that. What are these for his details?
That sounds like it's not so bad anyways. All right, well,
let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk

(44:27):
about some potential strikes happening here in the US. We're
so much better than England, you know, just so much
killing it over here. The new episode should be called

(44:51):
Snope Sink Fanta. There you go. You guys just missed
the enthralling back and forth about what the origins of fanta,
or maybe be it didn't. It's totally either way. There
is a reason, though, you may not be experiencing a
lot of Fanta in your local store because rail workers
are ready to strike. What is it this time? Hold on, Jack,

(45:16):
let me just set the table for you here. Okay,
So companies for years have prioritized maximum profits, which has
led to understaffing and general negligence of the rail infrastructure,
for example in America. Yes, like a typical like if
you're like a like a train, If driving a train
going from Chattanooga to Atlanta, it took about five to

(45:39):
six hours in the eighties. Now it takes around twelve
because again understaffing, negligence, the infrastructure is not great. And
a lot of this too is now that just work.
It's just been more intense, more intense business on the
rails because of the increased demand for goods from people
just ordering ship more and more online. And right now

(46:00):
two large rail unions, the International Association of Sheet Metal,
Air Rail and Transportation Workers Transportation Division smart TV and
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and train Men are ready
to strike with up to like a hundred forty thousand
plus people. This would be the first mass railroad strikes
since the nineteen eighties. I think it was since nineteen
eight potentially, And these workers aren't really necessarily complaining about wages.

(46:24):
What they're really the biggest sticking point in these negotiations
is that they're fighting to have just a decent quality
of life because as it stands, when these workers have
a day off, they're always on call and they have
to constantly check in to see if they're gonna get
called in up until like midnight, and then they know,
like they'll have the day off. Like it's very unpredictable

(46:45):
and like they never have any semblance of being able
to live their life. And because of this, even when
they think they have days off, means they're missing doctor's appointments,
they're missing birthdays, they're missing the births of children. They
can't bike, they can't park their bikes on the bike racks.
This is how, this is how out of control of
this ship. But this is all because again the rail companies.

(47:06):
There are the railroads. They would rather run these workers
ragged with eighty to ninety hour work weeks than actually
just invest in hiring more people. And what sort of
is now at stake here is that Congress, because of
the Railway Labor Act, it does a couple of things
that helps the railroads. First is that the Railway Labor Act,
it's it's basically doesn't cover these workers for federal overtime protection.

(47:30):
The only thing that they get is like a guarantee
of like ten hours between shifts every twenty four hours.
So it's like if you're working a tent, like ten
hours in between shifts depending on how far you like
live from your place of work or you have to
be that might not even be enough to actually sleep
and like do ship that you might have to just
as a normal person who is in the in between
times of not working. And second, the Railway Labor Act.

(47:54):
Because of it, Congress can step in and stop a
strike and force workers to accept an attract unilaterally. And
so what about the Senate though, can't that person step in?
What depends on who it benefits. Materarian will not step
in on this one. They're like, no, no, no, you
can go ahead and do that. But right now, other

(48:16):
unions have agreed to deals that have been sort of
like the government that was like trying to intervene to
really stop this strike from happening because it's it would
be a massive disruption. Obviously, because we just got a
news thing from my phone. The Washington Post says, Amtrak
cancels all long distance trains beginning Thursday as rail systems
brace for potential strike. Yeah, and I mean by the

(48:38):
time you hear this, it may be happening all because
so right now, one of the deals that the government
has intervened on put on the table. Some unions have
like have accepted this was like a twenty four percent
wage increase over five years, but a lot of people
point out, with inflation where it's at, that's actually a
day cut. Yeah, that's you're not even keep him, that's
so that's nothing stuff at this The other offer now

(49:01):
is that they're trying to negotiate there like, well, we
can get you guaranteed time off to go to the
doctor and that's it, And that doesn't seem too attractive
to the people that also want to be able to
again have a life. All of these people, like constantly,
these union members and workers. All they're saying is I
can't I can't fucking ever know when I have time

(49:21):
to like see my kids or my grandkids. I'm sorry,
do they think when my queen died they became the
queen of England? Because go to the doctor whenever you
want to get the exactly who do you think you are?
It's some bad taste to go to the doctor because
you know someone died somewhere. But you hear people saying
this is my living situation, my work situation, you'd be like,

(49:43):
that's fucked up. At a minimum, you got to have
time to fucking spend like, see your fanis like live
like someone whose life isn't all work. I've been reading
about this and talking about it quite a bit because
this is like someone smart. I didn't ink of this,
but they were like if you're like when they were
talking about unionizing Starbucks and they're talking about unionizing Amazon

(50:06):
warehouses or things like that, and they're like, oh, that's
gonna make our business. That's gonna sunk up our business model.
That's because if you have a business that's built on
violating labor laws, then that's not a business. And that's like,
that's why I'm so glad that unions are you know,
some seems to of course, this is like me just

(50:26):
watching the news and being like, unions are gonna come back.
You know, I don't know how much how significant it is,
but every time a Starbucks gets unionized or I mean
this is obvious stuff, like workers get abused without unions.
I mean it's it's it's as simple as that. And
and and you know you've got people being in bottles
and not being able to go to doctor's appointments, and
it's all in the name of the executives these companies.

(50:49):
The stat is I forget what the stat is exactly.
But it used to be the CEOs of companies made
whatever twenty times the income of their lowest paid worker
or whatever whatever, and now it's like two eight thousand times.
It's not that high, but it's like something like it's
it's twenty thousand times. It's high. So it's not a mystery,
and it's that That's the thing, is like, there's this
constant lie that the one percent or that you know,

(51:11):
the wealth hoarders have that somehow this has always been
the way it's been, and it hasn't been. It's been
like since the early nineties when they started making full
time people temp workers and saying, hey, what are they
gonna do if we cut their pensions? What are we
gonna do if we make them on call all the time?
You know? My brother pointed out the other he mentioned
the fucking Iraq war, sending the fucking national Guard, and

(51:32):
the national Guard was not supposed to be deployed overseas,
and they're like, what are they gonna do about it?
It's just this the gradual erosion of of like a
social contract. It's just like, and I'm so glad that
these fucking people are in some way getting because they're
just abusing workers just to pay their fucking dividends. Right.
And you know this one of the guys who is

(51:54):
quoted in this this American Prospect article about like the
impending strike, he talks about like what it's been like
just because of the pandemic. Quote, I don't know what
happened during the pandemic that woke everybody up, and I'm
talking about all of America, but yeah, they had a
big effect. People are saying, now there's something more to
life than wasting it on the railroad or at my job.

(52:14):
And that's true across the board. I think it's helped
people really re established different priorities in their lives. And
this is again, you're countless people saying this is this
strike needs to happen. Quote, This is not about money.
This is about quality of life. This is about getting
time off with your family and remembering that people that
people don't know what trains are even they think trains
are like some relic of the past. They don't know

(52:35):
how they get their ship. And the pandemic and the
supply chain stuff is just highlighted for Americans who think
this ship comes out of the air that that that
if you don't fucking support your workers and your infrastructure,
you know, I mean, I I thinking about people at
Starbucks being like, where's my mocha? You know what I mean?
Like enduring the pandemic, people were like they were like

(52:55):
the poor workers are like, we have no mocha here,
and they're like, what do you mean? You know, it's
like how fucking kick the wall's? Yeah, exactly, there must
be mocha in here. It comes out of the ground
or whatever. You get some mocha. Yeah, they don't. You know,
it's like a train. Right what wait to hear about
all your other consumer electronics? Yeah, it's right, yeah, fucking asshole.

(53:22):
But like you look again, right, like we're saying, anybody
with half a heart and a human soul says, yeah,
you need time to fucking be with your family otherwise
you this is what? How how different is this from
just like forced labor, indentured serf servitude where you're like, no,
your whole existence is actually built on you working for me,
not you having a life funk out of here. But

(53:45):
you know, because I think most people you haven't seen
this talked about because I think the steaks are so clear,
Like every time we talk about these these unions forming
or disputes they're having with contracts, you'll always hear me like, yep,
I side with them, Like if I hear about it,
I'm never being like these people are trying to bite
off more than they can shoot. No, you're like, damn,

(54:06):
they're getting violated like that. They're trying to get the
bare minimum exactly. And you look at places like Bloomberg
right their front page right now it's actually been overtaken
by the amtrack closures, but earlier the main headline was
quote US rail strike risk stoking inflation at worst possible time, Right,

(54:27):
Like what, Yeah, it's like locking your bike at the
worst possible time. Yeah, it's this is yeah, callback, call
a callback. I hope you're taking notes. Like then, there
are a couple other articles underneath that, not just freight
the rail strike maybe coming for US commuters. Another one
crop car shipments set to halt on US rail strike threat.

(54:50):
White House Ways emergency to create to keep vital goods
on rails if there's a strike. Not one fucking mention
that these people are working eighty to ninety our fucking
weeks can barely see their families, they're in, like working
unfathomable hours into their sixties and beyond and are still
you know, we're like, oh, this couldn't come in a

(55:11):
worse time. You want to borrow the car, you can
strike this close to an election, right exactly. And that's why,
and that's why it's interesting it out on Bloomberg their
friends his opinion Congress won't let a rail dispute cripple
the US, which means they'll step in and which sounds

(55:32):
which is pressure, which is pressure. You know, because the
railroads know what it is, they can force Congress's hand
because they have the ability to be like, all right,
well this is the contract. I'm sorry, that's it. That's that.
And they're counting on that rather than just you know,
taking the fucking millions of millions of dollars they make
and just making a couple of couple million less. So

(55:54):
these people can, you know, maybe work like fucking seventy
work weeks. I don't know what the fuck, but yeah,
and I think they know. And with this constant thing
because a lot of the rail the railroads have told
shipping companies, hey, we can't take certain kinds of cargo
because we've got to prepare for this strike, and that's
already affecting the markets. And they know, oh see, and
they got election coming up. If I fucking hold the

(56:17):
economy hostage as an employer, let's see what happens. All
of Dark's owning news outlets will be the death of
of of us all. I really believe that because because
it's it's as simple as that. Now, you know that
guy bought CNN. You know, it's like, this is not
People still are trying to take these outlets seriously. And

(56:40):
as long as billionaires are allowed to buy like multiple outlets,
and you know, I mean the fair or what do
you call it, the old rules of media ownership, you know,
are essential. I mean, like this is the thing. It's
like what those headlines you're reading, you know, it's like
that's all because billionaires only goddamn newspaper. I mean, otherwise
it would be I mean whatever, the headline would be different, right,

(57:05):
And also all the speculation. I just wrote my most
recent Advice King column about one of those New York
Times op ed writers who like not to mention all
the sub stack. Motherfucker's these old white dudes who are
like talking about you know, do people understand the value
of work? And it's like, fuck you, motherfucker's like, you know,

(57:26):
it's like the New York Times, it was under different
ownership would not allow these people to speculate about this nonsense.
That's not a question of like whether people want to work.
It's a question of what's the quality of the fucking work.
It's not it's it's it's like you give someone a
job with absolutely. I mean, it's just it's a dishonest argument.
Nobody doesn't want to work. Also, it's a dishonest argument

(57:48):
because you have to work in a capitalist society or
you're on the fucking street. All that's happening is everybody
is like facing like, well, at the moment, I don't
really feel like having my life ruined, so I guess
I'll take money from my mom or all moved into
mom's house. I mean, that's what's happening, if anything. But
there's nobody who's got the luxury of being like I
don't think I want to work in America. That doesn't exist.

(58:09):
So it's a false discussion. It's just a matter of
do you want to fucking drive your own car to
deliver sandwiches, you know, while you're paying off student loans.
And that's not a question of that's not a referendum
on whether or not people like like the think work
is noball or whatever it is that these fucking rich
people think people sit around doing it's it's all the

(58:32):
it's all these like tool tools don't work anymore, like
shaming people into being like, well, nobody wants to work anymore.
And that's why I think there's like that whole push
back to quiet quitting too, which is like they caught
wind of the fact that people are like just setting
boundaries in their own minds with how they like survive
the toil of working, and they're like, whoa, there's a

(58:55):
way that you can get quiet fired too. You know what.
It doesn't or like people don't give a funk because
like to Chris, your point, the if right now, just
like it's this or beyond the street, So I'll make
that work, like however fucking way I have to. Yeah,
I mean it's it's it's just, um, I've been alive

(59:16):
for the whole thing, you know. I remember I remember
when when Temple were like people were working forty hours
a week and they were calling it temp work, you know,
and I knew that something was wrong. You know, that
was the early nineties. I didn't know that it would
lead to absolutely stripping every benefit in the world. But
I knew, and we all knew, and we're talking about
back then like this is bullshit, like but realizing that

(59:37):
we were powerless. And that's the problem is there's no
you know, if there's no union, and I think about
show business, you know, all these like people who want
to be in show business at this point, it's like,
do you even want to be an artist or you
just want to be safe? Show business has strong unions.
The reason why people get paid and fucking show business
is because of union. There was no fucking union, like,
no SAG, no, whatever the funk else there after? If

(01:00:02):
there was no afterra I'm I'm actually, um, what do
you call it when you're SAG eligible? Wendell Berry? No?
Was it? Was it? Yes? That's taft totally for life.
I got that bad Berry for life. Never get that

(01:00:24):
second gig. Well, Chris as always truly a pleasure of
having you, man, Where can people find you? Follow you
all that? I like the way you just cut me
off hardcore. Sorry, I don't care. I don't care. I
like I need it. I need it. I'm gonna keep
talking about this stuff as soon after I turn off
our zoom by myself. And that's why to a water

(01:00:50):
ski there's a water ski in the corner. I sail
this ship too. You heard that, right, yeah right, you're
mucking motherfucking water ski. I'm weeping. You're art of the problem.
Fucking rich people water skiing, You piece of shit. So
you think the bike locks should be all bike You
wish your water skiing right now a piece of ships

(01:01:12):
at a time like this. Queen Elizabeth Corgy died, okay,
stopped find You can find me at the Crofton Show
on Twitter. You can find me at the Crofton Show
on Instagram. And cold brew got me like is really
we've got a pretty fucking decent audience and and we

(01:01:33):
really are having some fun. We started doing it in
the morning because we were doing in the afternoon, and
it's really it's that first coffee of the day, first
cold brew of the day energy that which is what
I'm having right now. You know, I love it, you know,
And and and me and Gregor and greg was my
brother who's on the show. With me. We're basically doing
like we talked about current events, but it's it's really

(01:01:54):
just a freewheeling. We talked about whatever. This week. We
talked about Deep Purple, like the band De Purple. We
talked about I don't know. The week before, we talked
about John Gotti finding out that, uh you know how
loud he yelled in the prison when he found out
about sucking uh Sammy the Bull, And like you know,
Greg said he tore up his toilet paper in his
cell like a cat when he found out about Sammy

(01:02:16):
the Bull. Uh, it's anyways, just weird ship, you know,
it's weird ship mixed in with real ship. So anyway,
I've just been digging that. So go find cold brew
got me like it's it's really We've got some fucking
listeners and and uh it's a lot of fun. Yeah.
Oh and I'll go see uh go at the Croft.
What I'm saying at the crofton show, I'm fucking seriously
cold brewed out right now. Uh, we go see at

(01:02:38):
the crofton show. Go see at the crofton show. Doesn't
mean anything. I'm going to Nashville to do the Southern
Festival of Books anything I'll go to the crofton show
right now anywhere, just putting crofton and anything. Um. And
then I died just right there, um, So I don't

(01:03:00):
really fell down, just disappeared from the screen. So uh,
I'm going to be a featured author at the Southern
Festival Books October fifteenth in Nashville, if you're gonna be around.
And uh, and I'm launching the audio book for the
Advice King, And I think I'm gonna have a publicist,
So I'm gonna try and make a big deal out
of this audio book because I just think it's gonna
be a ton of fun to hear. Like, I get
real fired up when I read these columns out loud.

(01:03:22):
Oh and you're a completely different, completely different quantity when
you're on Mike, for sure. Well, I'm having having a
lot of fun. Always so fun to be here, you guys.
I mean, I'm very grateful for daily see guys, and
you guys and uh and for you guys doing this
you know, day in and day out. I know, means
a ton to Uh. We're me and everybody else. We're lucky.

(01:03:43):
We just get to laugh and say shit about bike racks,
being like that's great works out pretty well for us too.
Is there a tweet or some of the work of
social media you've been enjoying? You know, I always sucked
this up, so this is no different. I think that
my favor a tweet would probably be oh ship, I

(01:04:03):
like that one that I did about how Oligarcs you know,
owning everything is gonna sunk us up. That's a paraphrase. Ah,
you guys go first. Okay, Miles, where can people find you?
What's the tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me
at Miles of Gray on Twitter and Instagram. Check Jack

(01:04:24):
and I out on Miles and Jack got bad mad
boost Ese. Do you want to hear about basketball talk?
Or if you want to hear me talking about ninety
day fiance with Sophia Alexandra, check me out on four
twenty day fiance. Uh, let's see the things that I'm man,
there's some there's some good ones. Uh. First one is
from Luisa at Luisa the last tweeted and I just

(01:04:45):
really resonated. Babysitting a four year old has convinced me
that video games are What video games need is a
little buddy mode where a kid can have a character
that just kind of jogs along with you and can
help Slash get their own encouraging score, but cannot be harmed.
And I'm like, a good idea. Yeah, Like, honestly, I
remember when I was a kid. Older cousins would be like, yeah,
I just hold this controller and then actually she was

(01:05:08):
not plugged in. Yeah yeah, but I was with you,
you know what I mean. That's what we call little
buddy mote. Yeah, that was like me cheating that Monopoly
that was so bad. My brother lost every game. But
I was like, it's just you're just not good at it.
You heard that was your little brother. Yeah, my little brother.
I tuked him over. I cheated. I just put my fucking,

(01:05:30):
you know, my fucking little car or top hat or
whatever on any space I wanted. And I was like,
such a life buddy. I'm sorry you didn't get the
right role. That wasn't the right number. Oh yeah it was.
You just can't see right. Uh. Then another one is
from m Nate Shamalan. M Nate Shamalan to be the
CEO of nineties McDonald's. We need like fifteen mascots for

(01:05:51):
some reason. Marketing guy, Okay, like what CEO clown marketing guy. Kids,
they don't. Don't kids hate clown ceo? Another guy steals
from our store marketing guy? Why would we ceo a
purple abomination? Just fucking discussing this guy like that. That's

(01:06:16):
great ship. Find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. Brian
matt Jones at Pillowfort tweeted trans exclusionary and pro monarchy
called that surfing turf, and Julius Irvington tweeted he got
that French bulldog in him parentheses asthma. Uh, how about

(01:06:41):
Chris any any tweet you want, Like, I'm just like
looking right now, but I it's I just I think America.
This is someone named Aaron Handling is actually an American says,
I don't think fucking hell, I don't. Oh. I think
Americans significantly underestimate how much the ordinary British person hates Americans.

(01:07:04):
And I know that's accurate because I want to England
one time and I did her personal study that the
hand old man, Oh that was I went into this
fucking shoe store because it's back in the nineties. I
was trying to buy grunge boots and they had like old,
like military boots in there. And I had like a
fire doors guide to London sticking into my front pocket

(01:07:25):
and I didn't know and fucking guy behind the counter,
what do you fucking talk to me? And he was
like some old r AF pilot kind of you know
what I mean. He was just but his face was
like purple, and I was like, I just want some boots.
He made me talk to his nine year old daughter
and she sold me the boots. He wouldn't even speak
to me. So this is true. I mean that I

(01:07:46):
had one experience in England, and I know everything about England.
I've been a few times, but the worst was by
far during the Iraq War. I went in two thousand
five and I was like, I was telling people I
was Japanese. I was, I'm not. Well they had there.
They had a good reason at that time. Yeah, I
mean just in general, like you don't you don't really

(01:08:06):
want to go around advertising you're in America. Yeah, so fun,
Queen Elizabeth. I get the feeling. The guy, the owner
that shoes the store would would not be thrilled. He's
not locking up his bike today, no fucking way. Yeah.
That motherfucker's like you like hit his kid with a
frying pan when they tried to lock up their bike.

(01:08:28):
All right. You can find us on Twitter at daily
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where we post our episodes. On our foot notes, we
link off to the information that we talked about in
today's episode, as well as a song that we think
you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people
might enjoy it? Oh man? This track is from Stimulator Jones,

(01:08:51):
who has like great just nineties R and B vibes
to like their production style like it feels very of
that era, and this track is no different. We've gone
on out on the track before, but this one's called
Vilified by Stimulator Jones. So have a little nineties R
and B nostalgia for your for your here really mild

(01:09:13):
on this the just a Mirror one week after the
Queen dies. I know, I know you're gonna all right,
my bad, you know what? Not fuck it? Just go
with it. You know I was almost gonna say silence,
but you know, all right? Well. The Daily zy Guy
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