Mosquitoes Are Taking Ov- IT’S CROFTON TIME! 08.20.25

In episode 1917, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, musician, host of Cold Brew Got Me Like, and subject of the documentary Nashville Famous, Chris Crofton, to discuss… Las Vegas Is Being Plagued By Mosquitos and more!

1. Chris Crofton: Nashville Famous- LA premiere!
2. Las Vegas Is Being Plagued By Mosquitos
3. West Nile virus, pesticide resistance detected among Las Vegas mosquitoes
4. Dengue fever, once confined to the tropics, now threatens the U.S.
5. Mosquitoes that carry West Nile are becoming resistant to insecticides, CDC says
6. Current Dengue Outbreak
7. Las Vegas' growing mosquito problem is 'a ticking time bomb'
8. Crofton's Media Reccomendation: Under The Roller Coaster - A Film by Lila Place

LISTEN: I Don't Believe by Chris Crofton

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
You guys know Dave Girls from chewing gum his whole
fucking career, right Like, every minute he's on stage, he's
chewing ass. I want to kick his ass so many
different ways. Anyway, go to hell. Yeah, man, what would
you say to Dave Girl? I would say, fucking shut
the fuck up and go home and stay there.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's what. If you said, hey, man, come on, bro,
you seem like a cool guy.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
You want to be a food fighters, I would say,
let Ai write your lyrics. They'd probably be better.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Wow, thank you A. I did write my lyrics.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I bet they did. I bet he got some early versions.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I want to be your monkey wrench.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
That's one of his masterpieces. I actually like that. If
you go back that far, he wasn't that bad. But
I'm talking about someone the best, the best, the.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Best, the best, the best.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I want to kick his ass.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Fucked that guy, that.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Group sex motherfucker.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
You're mad at him for having group sex. I'm mad
at everybody, for everybody who's ever had group sex.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm mad at it. You get the fuck out of
here right now. You group sexer, and I'll.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Act like it's a moral judgment, but it's just pure.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
John King, the group sexers will be first against the wall.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, it's just fun because you act like people who act,
you know, like you act like you're morally outraged, but
it's one hundred percent you're just.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Miss just like I could never do that way. I
do not have the courage.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh no, now, I could never. Never. Noney, you can't
even have regular sex now, So group.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Second question, let's go throw that right out the window.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four two, episode
three of Daly's Like Case Hey production of iHeart Radio.
This is a podcast where you take a deep dive
into america share consciousness. It is Wednesday, August twentieth, twenty

(01:57):
twenty five. I just I just want to I just
want to kiss you. No, I just want to get
into the show because we just learned some important lore
about the history of the show.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
National Bacon was National Bacon, Lever was da National has
a way of talk about the National Choker, p Campday,
National Radio Deck Boom.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
They're had bad.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Bacon this morning. Yeah, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
What the fuck is bad bacon?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
It was just like chew like it was uneven bacon.
You know, there was like some chewiness and wasn't wasn't
it all?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:27):
It was a skilly show, Okay it was. It was
at a I got a bagel and then I was like, hey,
why not aside of bacon because my nephew was getting
some bacon on the side.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Uh, try to be like the cool kids. Hey, what
do you get man? Oh yeah, I'm I'm having that
as well.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
One over here, why is that guy doing a fake
British act?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, you were like hashtag bacon and then he looked around.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
At all the young kids and have some skivity bacon.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Like, I know what you guys say.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Rizzed up on the bacon front.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
My name is Jack O'Brien aka d C. He's got
drug fires. That one courtesy of you, Kurt do that
on television and Alicia keats that was what that was
supposed to be. Thank you you current to do that
on television. I'm thrilled to be joined as always buy
my co host mister Miles Grass.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Miles Gray aka I was sending the swine just to
fight DC crime, but the lack thereof would only show
the decline. If you have your doubts people crashing out, well,
let me just tell you something I had to say.
My tender babe on a bender from a drug fire
left them wet like amphibians. If I was you, I
would back the blue. Okay, shut us Salvador Jolly for

(03:45):
that wonderful there if six inspired AKA obviously we're not
letting go of Benny Johnson's bullshit depiction of DC, which
is what happened.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
My infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shootings.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Uh huh, yeah, okay, yep, the classic I never heard that.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, that's we were talking about that. That's the latest
right wing attack, fake crimes that happened to people in DC.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Though you don't think DC's fucked up, bro, My infant
nearly died, oh god, in a drug fund.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
After mass shootings, after mass shootings.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
My boss here at work lives in rural Tennessee, and
he went to New York and he told me about
how he didn't go on the subway because he didn't
want to get killed. And I was like, and he
said it all smug, like, yeah, I'm not taking any
chances up there. And he said, and that's the thing
about these fuckers, they'll challenge you to your face. You're

(04:47):
not supposed to say, like I used to live in
New York and I was just up there visiting and
I rode the subway. What does that make you? You know,
you're not allowed to say it. They just they think
everybody is fucking also scared, and it just makes me
so mad. I was like so mad. But he's my
boss too, so I couldn't be like, you know, I
couldn't be save yeah and be like oh yeah, oh yeah.

(05:08):
Are you afraid of you afraid of pigeons too?

Speaker 6 (05:10):
Well?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Are you afraid are you afraid of like I.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Mean, I'm a little afraid of pigeons.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
You afraid of the Locknest monster? Well, actually you should.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Be, I am, you should be afraid of that.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Actually that was.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Let me start over, let me start ruining it again.
We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by hilarious stand up comedian, actor, musician. You can listen
to his podcast cole Brew Got Me Like Anywhere. His
book The Advice King Anthology available anywhere fine books are sold.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
There is a documentary.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
About him, Chris crofton Nashville Famous that I think is out.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
I don't know is that street?

Speaker 4 (05:47):
That's all I'm gonna promote, and he's, well, he's you're
not gonna promote the new album, and that too. Okay,
one new album ripped. It's called I'm Your Man.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I'm promoting all the things that don't make me any money.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
The poet tree window is open because it's Chris motherfucking Crafting.

Speaker 8 (06:06):
So you think you can tell have been from Chris Crofting?
Cold something from a chair? Do you think you can
tell Didja to get you to.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Trade Chris Crofton for ghosts hot ashes for Chris Crofton?

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Anyway, Then the amount that I felt that song when
I was thirteen years old, like, oh, I was like, fuck.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Dude, is that pig?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
It's so real? Yeah, a big fish in a big
pond or whatever. Dude, Oh that was the I'm thirteen
and deep for you thirteen real. Yeah. Yeah, maybe I
had like smoked a little bit of weed for the
first time. It was like a thirteen Actually no, that
was not smoke. Way till I was like fifteen sixteen.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Didn't do it. So I was like twenty nine it was.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
My twentieth and was terrified the whole time till Miles
made me a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh, I didn't know you got wet? Are you talking
about Miles? I thought this was bad.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I thought this was chewing gum.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I smoked weed and listen to Yeah, like total suburban
you know, eighties suburbs. Everybody's just driving around looking for
a non existent party, listening to Wish You Were Here?
And what was that high off shinny weed? It was good, Chris, What.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Was the album for you?

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Like?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
When I was an angry ass sixteen year old, I
was listening to Hybrid Theory by Lincoln Park and.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
It was just like a bunch of just checked just Champion,
like fuck yeah, like it's just that kind of shit
all the time.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
What what?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
What was the album like that for you when you
were angry? That's interesting coursing through your veins.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think I actually was like kind of happy at
that age, so I was like a little bit like,
I mean I was listening to like Darlings be in
the Range. I mean I was listening to be like
that that's just the way it is, and like Tracy
Chapman and shit like that. And then I went to
college and I got really mad because I found out
that the whole world was like my hometown, like I

(08:10):
thought I was on my way somewhere interesting, and so
I wasn't mad yet, so I was like, oh, yeah,
this is just your young years. They're supposed to be stupid.
And then I went to college and it was even
dumber than high school. And because in high school they
tell you, like, you know, you better watch out. In college,
they don't fuck around, and they'll really give you a
bad grade if you didn't. Then it's even easier.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Than high schools, even fucking.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Easier than high school. So like, and everybody is turns
out everybody is a you know. It's like I thought
maybe just my town was fascist, but it turned out
there's whole colleges anyway. It just turned out that I
was mad or once I showed up at college. And
then I started that album Enemy Takes a Nation of Millions.
Oh that was that changed my life. And I hated

(08:54):
hated white people and I've hated it, hated him ever since,
and and and and my mom. I remember, I think
I told you that this is so funny. I still
don't even know what it exactly means, but I kind
of you, guys, I do know what it means, but
it's kind of a long thing, and I know he
told me I got to move it along, just kidding
me to say.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
That constantly giving you the wrap it up.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
No, no, no, it's not. I'm I'm just feeling impressed
in general because I'm in my building where I work.
I put it in my two weeks though, So its gang,
get me a job.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay, somebody.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Fortune five hundred company in the c suite.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
It's like, gang, get me a high paying job. Now,
I don't think you understand the zeit gang.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
So there's someone out there. There's definitely someone out there.
You might have to move, though.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
So I'm down to move. But my mom said, because
I was like, look, mom, like, listen to this band
Public Enemy. I was like, look at that. They're standing
on the American flag, like in this picture on the album,
like in that jail cell, they're standing on the flag.
I was like, how about that. That's awesome, right, And
she was like well, and then she goes, she goes,
do you ever think they're acting matter than they really are?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Uh huh oh classic? Why are they pretending to be
so mad?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Pretty good nowadays? I didn't understand what it even meant.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Like, I was kind of like, what, Yeah, but now, yeah,
that's the thing I always talking about this scene in
Forrest Gump where Forrest Gump is at a Black Panther
rally and the black panthers are like shouting, you know,
black panther talking points at Forrest Gump, and he sees

(10:32):
like someone slap Jenny and like runs across the room
to go punch them. And the black panther who was
talking to him keeps shouting at the empty space he
was in because it's.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Just like a performance. I guess like he's just outrage.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Automaton was fucking Robert Zemeckis's read of black Anger.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now what movie was this?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Forrest Gump? I've never really, I've never.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, are you serious?

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Exactly?

Speaker 6 (11:02):
We've been over there, We've been what we're supposed to do, period.
This is what we're supposed to do for My new
job is supposed to be me and you guys talking
about movies I haven't seen. And I get Hey, you
guys can pay me seventeen thousand dollars a year. Okay,
Now I'll do an episode every fucking day for four hours.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
All still be than I am right now anyway, But that, yeah,
that I didn't see Forrest Gump. But I heard it's
like terrible, like as far as like the you know,
just like oh the Free Spirit got aids and like
the black guy yelling is not really yelling. He's doing
it to get late or whatever. Yeah, that sounds like
a great fucking movie. And then there's sports. Then there's
old Forrest Gump the actor. It was actually Forrest Gump

(11:43):
played himself in that movie.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, then you.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Want to oh yeah, and then he made that movie
about where he lived in the airport with a volleyball.
I know about this, Chris.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
We're going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the
listeners a couple of things we're talking about today.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Further, the Terminal.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
And Castaway matchup.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
He's just vaguely aware of Tom Hanks. Yeah, the Jamaican guy,
the guy who talks in the Jamaican accent.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Who, No, that's his son, patois What are we going
to talk about? What are we going to pretend we're
going to talk about today but actually talk about it.
Yesterday's trending. Uh, we'll talk about I don't know, man Epstein.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Seen any good YouTube videos.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Las Vegas being plagued by mosquitoes as a matter of fact.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
All of that plenty more.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
But first, Chris Croft and we do like to ask
our guest, what is something from your search history that's
revealing about who you are?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Well, I'll tell you this one. I may have done it,
so maybe I've done. You guys will know if I've
done it. Have I ever done this one where it's
the woman who runs who lives under the roller coaster
and cone the Island?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, I have never done that.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, it's a short documentary.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think you may have referenced it, but I just
started watching it because you sent the Lincoln. Okay, I've
never seen this one.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's awesome. It's just like I mean, it's just me
fantasizing about you know, old Coney Island or old middle class,
middle class you know, people are eating cheese sandwiches and stuff,
you know, and they call it that was like like
you know, like you know, there was like how would
you do today? I had a great cheese sandwich. Now
I'm going to bed, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
And I used to be able to, you know, afford
a house on a waitress's salary, and that house was
under the Coney Islands and I saw a woman, right,
I saw a woman that was cool. It was a
great day. Did you talk to her?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, I'm gonna wait till I'm gonna wait till I
see her a bunch more times. Then I might say
good evening.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Wow, I can't wait till the move to the city,
like you like I.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
And then if you go on a roller coaster, I mean,
then you're done. Your bucket list is over. The bucket
christ back then was like go to the fair, eat
a cheese sandwich, and then you know.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Like, you know what, when we go to Coney Island,
I'm going to audition a new way of walking, just
to try it out, kind of walk.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Like this island.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
It was a big hit.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
On the boardwalk a couple you're doing a second bob
and you're sitting in the middle.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Of the first bob, kind of like you're dancing, but
to a little rhythm in your heart.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
That's why I married him.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I saw him bobbing down the boardwalk. He looked like
a jerk, but I kind of thought it was a
little bit of sparkle.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
The just why I watched the beginning of the documentary
and this woman was like, Yeah, I like got a
job waitressing at Coney Island, and then it ends with
her living in a house that's under the roller coaster.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah and Coney so so like, first of all, my
favorite part about it is that the man who owned
the roller coaster was a respected local businessman and he
owned a roller coaster and lived under it, and that
was like and he was like a pillar of the community.
Because the whole thing was based on amusements. So it
was like, you know, the guy, I don't know that
he had a zoning issue or something. They had to

(15:02):
talk to the guy who owned the like flum and
then they had to bring in the guy owned the anyway,
So he owned a roller coaster and lived under the
roller coaster and that was his business.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, when your career, I'm thinking about building a roller
coaster on my house. It wasn't just charging it.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
It was a hotel before. I guess that that house.
And I knew of the house because of two things,
like because the Woody Allen movie Uh Any Hall, he
lived in this house and I figured it was fake
for the movie. I didn't know it was a real house.
And then I went to Tony Island, in the nineties
and saw the roller coaster at that point had been abandoned.

(15:40):
Although she may have still been living in that house,
I didn't realize, and like I was there in like
ninety three. I think she may have still been in
the house, but the roller coaster was overgrown and because
her husband had died and so the roller coaster wasn't
operating anymore. But she was still living in the house
and she raised her kids in that house and they
It's just this just an amazing story of just like
I don't know, just back when you can own a

(16:00):
roller coaster, and that was like you're living and you know,
obviously that was not for everybody. You couldn't just have
I guess there was some privilege involved, probably not just
everybody could have their own roller coaster. But this guy,
you know, he went out every morning and inspected the coaster.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah, just like pick up the paper and then just
like kind of take give it a nice look over
once and kids to make sure.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
The kids got to collect all the stuff that fell
out of the pockets. Some guy came goes they we
had everything, wigs, you.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Know, wiggs, pocket, thirty baseball caps, a day Hitler youth pin.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Everything.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
I mean, it's such a whimsical story that it makes
me disre like, have so much less respect for mother
Goose fairy tales, like an old woman who lives in
a shoe, who fucking caress this woman lives in a
fucking roller coaster.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, and and anyway, I love Coney Island because Coney Island.
So then I'm gonna segue into my over underrated. I
don't know if I'm allowed to do that, but no,
underrated is Coney Island.

Speaker 9 (17:11):
Go there, But I didn't know which is that's right?
Is going on? I'm sorry that movie.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
So we've got new listeners coming in. They think we're
gonna talk about the news right now.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Go watch the documentary. It's called like the House under
the roller Coaster or just.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
One thing about that. The part that was rage inducing
for me was like the simplicity of life then, like
to your point, Chris, of like just the nostalgia for
like I had a cheese sandwich, like when she was
just like and I.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Knew all the concession is or as soon as they
walked in that guy, the one who scrambled eggs with toes,
this is roast beef on Rye and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
What a fucking what a whimsical time when that was
all you all you really thought about that? Yeah, you know,
you know, keeping black people from owning land in the area.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Right, I mean, that's the problem is it's not it was,
but there was a it's a big problem, but there
was a living wage was I mean, it was easier
to buy a house. And that just leads to dignity, dignity, privacy,
That's what it turns out. Those are things that losing

(18:24):
your privacy means you lose your dignity. I don't know
how to describe it exactly, but privacy was something is
something we should have or should continue to guard. It's
not just private. It sounds like privacy. Who cares? I mean,
I don't care. I'm open, you know, that's not it.
Privacy is about. Privacy is about having a place of

(18:44):
your own. And before the Internet, regardless of what situation
you were in, you could at least have some dignity
because you called the shots in that space, and you know,
maybe not at work. I mean it's obviously more complicated,
but these people are basically not rich people and they
were getting to, you know, raise kids in a way. No,

(19:08):
there's never a mention in that that that they were
broke and they owned a roller coaster. I mean, you know,
I mean there's and in terms of in terms of
market economy, I like that too. It's like give a
person a ride to get get a nickel or whatever.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Right, like the simplicity of that.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Now, it's like give someone all your money in return
for like the world's worst internet service or or whatever
you know you give. You give these tech billionaires everything
and you all you get is a is like a
cardboard box with a six pack of soda as fast
as you want, which is not nearly as much fun
as a roller coaster.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, the roller coasters has been bought up by private equity,
and they like something you know what I mean, like
they've like somehow ruined them.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, they close them up and let Justin Bieber go
on them all the time or whatever.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
It's so wid.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Roller coaster for the gu roller coaster are like the
two things I know them for are like being strewn
with baseball hats and like wallets and ship and beheading people.
The fact that she raised children in that environment is.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Oh, she said, she has this crazy accent. That's like
some old old you know who knows. I guess the
Coney Island.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Doesn't exist anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, and uh yeah like her and like, I don't know, babe,
Ruth probably would have said, oh, you talked the same
as me. But uh oh, you own that roller coaster.
You're a small business owner.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Yeah, you're an entrepreneur, and it is still privacy even
if like hundreds of people are passing by your windows,
but they're doing it at like sixty miles per hour.
They're not going to see they can't enough.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, they're going to be like I think I saw
a naked old dude likes she said.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
We just got used to it. We just got used
to it. And the kids were like, you know, they
enjoyed growing up in that growing up in that house.
And there's a piano in there.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Anyway, it just looked crazy.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I would like, let's put it this way, I would
like to own a roller coaster gang And I was
in a hold the handle and I want to be nice,
and I want to tip my hat, and I want
to smoke rum soaked cigars, and I want to pick
up wigs, and I want to do the things that.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Nowadays, you're just gonna find, like, you know, vight pens,
like maybe a couple of iPhones and probably another Hitler
youth pin or something.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Totally anyway, I just I just love that this this
uh just seeing like sort of just that. Oh I
don't know, just I love Coney Island because okay, so
then go ahead. Can you say it's time for.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
My famous it is time for the other one?

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Underrated? I would say, is is Coney Island because I
went there to And I'm gonna use this as another way.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Is this the underrated?

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Do you want to do overrated? Okay?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh no, we'll do under age. Oh you do what
you want to do. I thought we were already on
the underrange.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I switched it up.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Hey, Chris crofton, what's something he thinks underrated?

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Okay, Coney Island?

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Okay, what's something he thinks? No, you had more to get.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
So Coney Island? No, No, but the reason okay, yeah,
I mean I went out to Coney Island for one day.
I think it was two weeks ago. I came up
to New York, flew up to New York, got there,
me and my friend Alex Johnson. Alex Johnson directed the
two videos for my last record, Hello It's Me, and
I had a couple other videos already come out for
this record, but then he was like one of the

(22:34):
directors I was supposed to work with fell through, And
he said, why don't we do something because I wrote
a poem. I mean, it's barely a poem, but I
wrote I wish I wish I could take cony it
when I feel bad. I wish I could take Coney
Island in a pill. I wish there was a pill
I could take that was Coney Island. And he said,
why don't we come up for the day Because I
had been on the schedule where I work eight to five,

(22:56):
five days a week and there's like one day off
a year or whatever. You have to keep working to
get more hours accrued, to take time off work, to
be free some shit. And he said, well, shoot it
on the Wonder Wheel. And the Wonder wheel's a Ferris
wheel up there that's been there since nineteen twenty five. Wow,
in the same spot. It's kind of like an Eiffel Tower.

(23:18):
I mean, it's like unbelievable, you know, engineering. It's got
these cars that like it's got the external of the
the outside cars stay stationary, and the ones inside they've
built little ramps inside the roller inside the ferris wheel,
so those those car those cars will go like sliding
around inside the ferris wheel. So you can go see

(23:39):
my video for the song I Don't Believe, which is
the first song on my new record, I'm Your Man,
which is out came out Friday, and the response has
been so wonderful, and thank you guys so much, and
the Zeitgangs was so kind about it, and and but
this video was really joyful for me, and especially because
I've just been a lot under a lot of stress,

(24:01):
and I know everybody has, and going out there and
seeing every race out there just to have fun, I
mean really, and there's it's going away. They're trying to
put a casino out there and that will change everything.
But right now there's like three I'm sure the guys
who own those amusement parks casino Jesus Christ. But right
now there's three independently owned amusement parks out there. I

(24:22):
mean it's still right. I mean they're probably owned by
you know, venture capital, but there's three operating amusement parks,
not just one. There's no Disney out there yet, and
it just feels good. There's also, like you know, there's
a lot of like lower income housing and fixed income
housing out there, so it's like they can't just bulldoze
that stuff, not yet at least, so there's I think
a few more years left where you When I first

(24:45):
went out there in the nineties, there was a bar
in the subway station, you know, which I thought, Oh,
I got that's why I drink is I want to
go in there. But then you go in there and
it's not that it's kind of sad is what happens.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
But.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
As you know, it's like, oh, man, that guy has
really bad throats in the covery.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
You could actually see it on his face.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, like a guy trying to trade his heart pills
for like a cigarette and stuff.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
I was.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
I took my kids to the rides on the on
the boardwalk down the shore last week, and we went
on the old school like swings that like swing around,
and I just I took my hands off like usually
you're supposed to hold on. I took my hands off,
and it truly felt like I was flying. It was
like the funnest fucking time I always.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
When you said you wanted to say we we.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
It was like I had a wei in my heart
so big that I just like, yeah, other kids were
like looking at my kids, like what the fuck.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's nice of you to bring your like this you
this you bro.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
It brings out the best in people, and it brings
out I mean, it really did. Everyone was smiling. I'm
not every single person, but you know, in general, people
are smiling. They're they're just to relax. It doesn't cost
a zillion dollars, so you can take the subway there.
I mean, there really is a feeling of a middle class.
I mean it's it's sort of an illusion, but there there.
It's going away, but there's still shreds of it there

(26:09):
with people with rent control departments that that that mimics
a middle class just because they're you know. Some of
that was like old old Russian guys, like walking back
from the beach, you know, like the way they've done
it since the sixties. I saw one guy just like
you know, and and he's obviously not stressed for rent,
but he also doesn't look rich. But that's all you want.

(26:30):
It showed the bullshit of that ice is in any
way necessary, Like I mean, just like everybody was there
were I mean, it was just so multicultural and and
everybody was like totally there's no fucking emergency, you know.
I mean, everybody knows this, but it's just like felt
like nice to see it in action. And I do

(26:50):
feel like, you know, Coney Island is a place that
that that never lets me down in that respect, like
where it's just people seeing the sort of best of people.
Guys at the Wonder Wheel were so nice. Guys was
like had a tattoo like of the tower that used
to be in Astroland on his arm, like he had
like that it obviously been there since like the seventies
or whatever. Yeah, Like, I mean that guy's probably a

(27:11):
horrible person, but for then at that moment, it felt nice.
And uh, you know, I don't want to know about
that guy's background if he's a hand drawn Astro tower
on his arm, right, but he was so nice to us.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
I saw another guy. He had a tattoo it said
Coney Island's Finest and it was him kissing his girlfriend.
That's Stefan Marbury, That's right, because I remember, yeah, there's
I got really into Coney Island because Stefan Marbury the
basketball player. He's from Coney Island.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
It was Jesus Shuttles the loose basis of Forrest Criss
Crofton has seen.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
He got game. But you know, but the thing about
like those ice rays too, like you see the people
who live in these areas understand that that's what makes
where they live great, and that's what gives it this
sort of texture that you can't find anywhere else. It's
these cities that are so like homogeneous and white where
people feel like that that's where they have this sort

(28:03):
of view perspective where they're like.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
They're people showing up in my neighborhood where they were
never brown people before, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
And that's yeah, that's where you see the people like
you just see random people and like you know, rural Pennsylvania,
like roll up on somebody who's just like working on
his car and be.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Like where your papers? Where are your papers?

Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's like, who the fuck are you even They're like,
I'm just a guy, but you need to get out
of here. It's emboldening those kinds of fucking creep fucks. Anyway,
Cony Island's finest stuff on Marbury.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Shout out stuff Marbury. Let's take a quick break, we'll
come back. We'll do an overrated and get some news.
Maybe we'll be right back and we're back and Chris crofton,

(28:52):
We do like to ask our guests, what is something
you think is overrated?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Those any roundtable discussion with journalists, any time, any podcast
with abundance, any any of any any podcast as any
of those pods Save America people on it, any of
those Obama advisors posing as the as the way forward,
David Axelrod, I mean, what the fuck is that man

(29:23):
doing anywhere? Why is he? I mean, we are dealing
with the rolodexes of the people that we rolodexes. Nobody's
gonna it's okay. We listened like gang. It used to
be a thing that had phone numbers in it where
you spin it around anyway.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
The contact app.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
I never had Contact because I was too hungover to
construct it. But I never had a Rolodex.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Cards my room, phone numbers written on them, phone numbers
written on them without names.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Onion two four six four nine one. That's all said onion.
And they call them up. What did I want from you?
Oh cocaine?

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Bye? So so yeah, so like I we are fully
controlled right now. We are fully fucking controlled. And every
minute that we debate anything is wasted time, sadly, unless
we're doing it for fun, and that's just to keep
people sane, and I totally support that. But to hear

(30:28):
people talk about policy under a dictator or not in
this case, dictator, like about ten dictators and they don't
just control America, they control the entire world. So we're
not even talking about a dictator is a miss. Dictators
never had this much power. No one's ever had this
much power ever, So that any journalism that is done

(30:48):
in the fashion of there's some like something to be
gained by debating policies when Trump and his people are
are making big moo just to just strike all the
voters from the voter rolls, and I mean, there's just
no there's just it's like it is a really bigger
picture than that. It's like this, people are starting to

(31:11):
get behind Gavin Newsom or something. Politicians will not save us.
Voting will not save us. We have to save ourselves
and do I And the problem is what does that
look like? Well, I can tell you it does not
look like listening to podsave America, guys who are up
to their eyeballs in all the people that got us
exactly where we are. And I'm so angry that people

(31:34):
are still lazy enough to be like, well, you know what,
I think we can stay home. Gavin Newsom wrote some
all caps tweets, so I think he's got this. Now's
go to the park. Yeah, let's go to fucking the park.
And you know, I don't know what they do in
the park.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Let's sucking the park.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Let's go the old days.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Let's go play jacks. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know,
the hipsters are into that now, playing the people people.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Love sort of regressing or sort of being nostalgic for
the Obama era sort of liberals because it allows them
to not have to confront the absolute like danger we're
in right now. Because if you can, if you can
rely on these tropes of like, well, you know, we
just got to run some good candidates and if we
get together and vote right, we're gonna get out of this. No, like,

(32:20):
we're so far past that, like those solutions where truly
there has to be more of a collective action happening
with the people, whether that's through the withholding of our
labor or other organized actions that are actually going to
sort of induce some kind of seismic change, because yeah,
I think the people that I see that are really

(32:40):
like into that shit are they are insulated enough through
their privilege or wealth or race that they don't have
to look at all of these things that are happening
as existential issues that have to be fucking addressed with
the quickness. So for them, it's easy to just be like, yeah, well,
let's think about like who's going to run in twenty
twenty eight and just figure.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Out what we're gonna do that.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
You're like, are you this motherfucker is talking about rigging
the elections in fucking next fall? Yeah, what are we
talking about right now? It's not about the elections. Won't
fucking matter if they're rigged in the midterms anyway. So
we have to get a little we have to sort
of get in our revolutionary bag here a little bit
and think about some bigger picture solutions to this rather

(33:24):
than being like, hello, neoliberal think tank guy, what should
we be doing now, even though you've had all the
wrong answers for the last three decades at minimum.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Yeah, they just can't break the idea that it's like unrealistic,
where it's like childish to think anything other than neoliberal.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Because you can see like to your point, David Axelrod,
there was a piece in the New York Times where
they were talking about David Axelrod going to and like
Obama congratulate, congratulating Zorn Mamdani, and there's this quin So
axel Rod visited the Mamdanni headquarters in June. He said,
quote what I found when I went over to that
off was a familiar spirit that I hadn't seen in

(34:02):
a while of just determined, upbeat idealism. You may not
agree with every answer he's giving or every idea he has,
but he's certainly asking the right questions, which is, how
do we make the country work for working people? And
you can already tell they're trying to figure out how
to fucking get their claws into this and just reorient
this was a democratic socialist fucking candidate into being like

(34:23):
and then can you now say all the things that
won't scare our backers, our real backers on Wall Street
and the others, the other super moneyed, wealthy elite that
basically are the ones that set all of our wages,
the ones that determine all of our life outcomes. Can
we reorient that to be a little more friendly, because
if we play this out the way you wanted to,

(34:44):
we're talking about the end of the status quo as
we the elites know it. And that's come on, now,
let's not of that. And we don't want to do
the ugly thing and start smearing you in public, because
that's not a good look for us either, because we
know you are very popular right now.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
We're in a tough position here. On the one hand,
everybody that we know and work for would rather die
than let you get elected. On the other hand, admitting
that would really make us look bad. So we're kind
of what you have to understand is this is really
hard on us. Okay, this is really hard to stressful man.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well, I was about to say that because I just
read that I didn't know, I guess I read the
same New York Times thing about that was supposed to
be like, oh yeah, the one that said like lots
of people are ignoring mom Donnie, but Obama called him,
you know, and I was like, oh no, I mean
my response to that was, oh no, I mean immediately
and I was like, my god, those motherfuckers are trying

(35:40):
to and if and then it made me suspect Mam
Donnie because he shouldn't be taking that call.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, I sure in the larger context, I think in
terms of and that's like the that's the fucking hard
part about even running as anything other than a Democrat
or to the left of the Democrats is you have
to be so careful to not scare off the people
who just immediately like they're so mercurial that suddenly they
can be like, oh, actually no, I'm actually cooling on

(36:06):
Zorn Mumdani because some of the people that I really
think are above criticism, like Barack Obama, aren't embracing him.
It's like this fucking delicate balancing act you can do.
Part of me is like, yeah, bro, embrace him and
then fucking let all those people down while you go
fucking full pedal to the medal with your policies that
you want let those people do what you hope for.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
But you said, but Obama said, you wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Fuck you. I'm trying to fucking have real outcomes for
working people.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I just want someone to say, like, when fucking David
Axelrod shows up somewhere, just say like or just say yeah,
you're not allowed in, buddy.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
They're like, what do you want, bro? You want to pick?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
You know, you are fucking criminal, you I mean you're not.
You're not just some fucking I know, you get invited
to society parties, but everybody there's a murderer. So so
get the hell out of here. I mean, get the
fuck out of here, man, you know. But it's not
that it's like David axel Rod Well, I mean, he
must have something to offer, but he's just a fame horn.

(37:04):
I mean, that's the guy you're a if you're a
medic consultant. I mean, does anyone give a fuck about
a consultant? Political consultants somehow reinvented themselves. Consultants are the
most annoying people on the planet, and they're some of
the least skilled, and they mostly are just like narcissists
who wedge themselves around people who are actually talented and
and and somehow they've become celebrities because of CNN. It

(37:26):
just makes me so mad. Anyway. Yeah, yeah, I mean
that's also good lucks a consultants.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, I think that's that's the that's the fine line
with mom, Donnie, is is he really fully ready to
take on this fucked up form of capitalism that's poisoning
specific like right in this context our country, but broadly
the earth. But is he willing to really go there?
Because again, when you have the constant gardeners of capitalism

(37:52):
in David Axelrod and Barack Obama being like hey fella
coming through, it is a little bit like they're only
there to make sure you are keeping capitalism safe. That's
the only reason they're there. Because they know they have
such a brand issue with a part with the party
that they're like, Okay, we need to appeal to people
who want some kind of substantive change. But it can't

(38:12):
be it can't go too far afield from what we
are supposed to do, as you know, big.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
But they're having active meetings around the clock, like a
bunch of Ivy League graduates are having active meetings around
the clock about like how do we get in there,
how do we get in with this guy? How do
we capture a little bit of that energy?

Speaker 1 (38:30):
That's what I think is like, can't David Axelrod stay
home once in a while, can't like, can't did James
James Carville sleep in? You know, like these people are
sleep well, you got to stop allowing huge amounts of energy. Also,
like if someone is a huge amount of energy, you
should also tell them to get out of here too,

(38:51):
because that.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Is that is the one cruise thing. That's like successful
people all have in common. It's not how smart they are,
it's they're just like I already, man, I'm so fucking
sighted to be meeting you right now. Friend, It's just like.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
This is hey, how you doing?

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Ja?

Speaker 2 (39:09):
You call it again? I just called it a midnight
last night, exactly right?

Speaker 3 (39:17):
You needed.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Oh ship?

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Okay, that's right, that's right. If I wasn't depressive, I
could be James Carville.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
But much better looking.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
M hmmm.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I kind of look about the same, I think. No, No,
he looks like a thank you by you night.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
I'm gonna put a notch on my lipstick case.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Oh well, with my knife.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
That's a Pat Benatar reference for the kids. For the kids,
that's another Benetar reference for the kids. Shag Benattarar, Pat
Benatar low key rizzed up.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Let's take a quick break.

Speaker 10 (40:00):
We'll be right back, and we're back we're back and.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Dudu bro, you has been to Vegas lately?

Speaker 1 (40:22):
So sad by two thousand and seven, you mean lately?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, I was there twenty I was there right after
that shooting to go see the jay Z four forty
four tour. I think that was the last time I
was in vague Wait, no, last time I was there.
We were there together.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, I was there for a week in twenty sixteen,
hosting at the Improv in Harah's Casino at Christmas time.
At Christmas time, and it was one of the worst
experiences of my life.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Oh, what's it fun like at Christmas time?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
I mean it was fun weird, It's like everybody's uh,
I don't know, like everybody's crazy. And well, lots and
lots of Asians come there, I guess just because they
just fun for them, that's kind of a normal part
of the crowd. But but then there's like it's just
like whoever, I don't know, like crazy, you know, like
Duck Dynasty people. Yeah, yeah, look at people. And I

(41:15):
just stand up. I was the host, you know, and
and my friends got me the gig and and they anyway,
they were just like got me in there, and so
I was there for a week at Christmas time, and
I just bombed my fucking head off because everybody there
hated me because I could tell I was like a
liberal basic. I mean, I just look, I have like
the wrong energy for a host. You know. I come
out and I look right away like you know, they're
like this guy, he's not going to make us in

(41:36):
a good mood.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
And then and then I just you're all happy.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
I guess here's the jokes.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I did two things. I first of all, I said, hey,
you guys in here. I said, like, you guys all
in here because you're winning, like when you're not saying
I thought, why I thought? And then I'm like, they
don't like me. I don't know why they don't like me,
Like I'm like always doing that, like saying something.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Of them for sucking at gambling.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
And the guy who ran the room the people got
me in there like his boss kind of so he
was so they were just doing me a favor, you know,
They're like, well, you've done a stand up quite a
bit here in Los Angeles and you're not really ready
to host in Vegas, but we're gonna give it to
you anyway. Good luck and every time I came off stage,
the guy who ran the room just would go, where.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Are you from again?

Speaker 2 (42:21):
New York City?

Speaker 4 (42:23):
That's right, here's one of the jokes.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
I said.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Listen, you guys, I said, I was poking around the
casino last night. I already lost him just even saying
that I was poking around the casino the other other
night and I found a found an older slot machine
called dog Pound, and I got six great danes up
in my room. If anybody wants to adopt one, you know,
there's like, I mean, even you know, not the best.

(42:52):
But I didn't know what to do. And then I said,
because I looked at them, and I was like, they're
not gonna want to hear like about how Hillary Clinton
should you know, you know, stop compost or whatever I
normally was saying.

Speaker 7 (43:01):
And uh.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
And then I said there was another slot machine I
found called Soup King, and they didn't tell you. They
didn't tell you need a bucket for when you win.
And it burnt my legs, an absolute disaster. But I
met Marshall Warfield. Oh, and she was super nice and
she said my set was pretty good.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Hey, that's not nothing coming from Marshall Warfield.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Anyway, Sorry, that's my Vegas. That's my Vegas.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
We love a night court reference around here.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
She was super nice. For real.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
What's happening in Vegas and staying in Vegas right now?
Are mosquitoes? Oh?

Speaker 4 (43:39):
The mosquito population has exploded in Las Vegas in recent years.
Thanks two. I have to assume this is a mid
climate change. How are we going to turn this on
the lips? But yeah, as temperature is warm, apparently the
air can contain more moisture and thus the range of

(44:03):
geographies for mosquitoes expands.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
That was the one good thing about being in a
desert like that is you didn't have to worry about
them fucking skeeters. So well, now everyone will know the pestilens.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
LA used to have far fewer mosquitoes till the eighties.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Egypti species came over on a shipping container from I
believe Southeast Asia.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
But Vegas, Vegas mosquitoes have shown signs of pesticide resistance, which,
given the number of tourists the Vegas gets the fact
used to get mosquitos carry diseases like dang gay fever
and West male virus. People are calling this a ticking
time Bohm, Well.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
I mean Vegas are Vegas is already so strapped just
from just since Trump came into office, like he's trying
he does he's such a union buster, and all those
casinos are unionized on the strip or every least all
the major ones are unionized. The fucking ice raids are
preventing more people from being like, I'm not gonna fucking
go there to gamble if there's like masked goons like

(45:10):
asking for papers and I'm just trying to give away
my money. And then there was that whole thing about
taxes on your gambling losses, like they used to be
able to deduct all your gambling losses, so that would
like helped people be degenerate professional gambler and.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
All for degenerate gambler.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Yeah, Like next year, I think there's gonna be this
change that will basically make it that you can't you
can't deduct those losses. A lot of people are like,
what the like, what's the fucking point of anything? Like
where what am I supposed to do here now? And
you just see like all the time constant reports about
how less and less people are going to Vegas over
the last year, not just because of that, but also
because internally our economy is fucked, so not everyone has

(45:49):
let me piss money away at the fucking Caesar's palace
pool cabana like they used to and the good.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah, everybody I know has been laid off.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah everybody.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Not everybody, but a lot.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
And a lot of the people I know who like
work in you know, live comedy and stuff are saying,
just like, nobody goes to comedy shows right now, like
nobody is spending any money anywhere. There's a big like
consumer spending report coming up that people are like, I
will see, you know, maybe it'll show that these tariffs
aren't being passed down to people, but I feel like

(46:21):
that I don't know. No, maybe the hossage will will
read that.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Actually very just so annoying about like brown tables. So
you think it's possible the tariffs will have no effect at.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
All, right right now?

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Think yeah, I mean, I got it.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
I doubt it.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
It's funny.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
On the one hand, you would expect him to be
Trump to be kinder to gamblers, since he built his
fortune partially on casinos that slash like pissed away a
lot of money on in casinos like the one business
that should be impossible to fuck up as badly as
he did. But he is, if nothing else, like a

(47:05):
complete predator. And he knows that that's like having a
tougher tax law around casino losses is not going to
change whether people gamble or not, you know, or at
least like the problem gamblers gamble or not, Like he
knows that that is an inelastic supply of gamblers that

(47:26):
are just going to keep keep going there. Yeah, so
I don't know or maybe not.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
I'm not gonna mosquitos like like I'm one of those
people they like, you know, oh you got that blood.
Some people say, sweet, whatever it is. I don't know
what it is. It's because I'm too good looking or
whatever it is, but they they love to seeing me,
and and I can't go to so I'm out. Vegas
is out for me. Also rules I have no money,

(47:53):
but I'm gonna use that.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
The mosquitoes are the money.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
But either become a big it's gonna become a big thing. Listen, man,
I can't go gambling with you this weekend. I'm not
getting dang gay fever, aren't you?

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Also broke?

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Well, well, look before that too, broke to get dang
gay fever.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
I'll tell you that exactly.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
You're gonna pay my bill when I get Dan gay.
That's what I thought.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
No way, I'm gonna say, watch television.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, O my god. Everything there's there's you know, especially
with all the Bureau of Labor Statistics shit going on
and like the number is getting cooked. I'm constantly now
reading other articles or people like, well, you know, since
the Bureau of Labor Statistics data is being suppressed, here's
some other indicators that you can look from other places,
and the signs are all so bad there, right, so

(48:36):
regardless of how you cut it. And I think that's
the other thing too. It just like the plan. Yeah no,
but this is like the thing too where people, despite
the data being suppressed, it's not effect people ambiently know
that the economy is depressed right now. That's just like,
that's just that's just felt. People still know that there's
not a single I mean, there are some Republicans who

(48:57):
are like, I think Trump's been great for the economy,
but overall most peop are like, dude, I'm doing fucking
way worse even now, and now the costs going up
because of the stupid ass tariffs, like, it's even harder
to fucking exist.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
We're being depressed on purpose. I mean, Peter Thiel has
publicly said a zillion times. All these guys have publicly
said a zillion times that they think everybody should die
except them, right, I mean that's I mean, it's like,
I mean, really they're just like listen, people who are

(49:30):
in any way affected by any policy, that's their own fault.
Any policy that affects anybody that we can say, if
we cut every job in the whole world and you
don't have money saved, that's your fault, like we will.
They've made it so there's like it's not even it's
just simply like we're gonna do whatever we want, and

(49:53):
if you are affected by it in any way at all,
you can that is you. We will characterize you as
dead weight. Yeah, you are dead weight. You are fat
that we are cutting and we and also we are
cutting fat, and we want to cut fat, and we
are going to take that fat that we're getting from
you and we're going to use it to spend to

(50:14):
make our lives last forever. I mean, they've said it
explicitly and they actually are running things. It's not Donald Trump.
It's not Putin. It's not they're all all they have
money invested in all those countries.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
It is people like Putin's actually the richest blue.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Whoever. These these these like twenty guys or these fifty guys,
these fifty white men, these hundred white men are deciding
that we're gonna do whatever we want, and that includes
destroy Gaza, that includes destroy Ukraine. You think fucking Peter
Tiel gives a shit about any of those people. He
sees that all is their own fault. He's like, and
I've heard it directly from these Republicans saying, like when

(50:52):
they talk about Medicaid being cut, they say, well, if
that affects you, or if ice affects you, like oh
ice is maybe that affect you, then you're in the
wrong place at the wrong time. If you're anywhere near
a nice rate and you get caught up in that,
that's your own fault for being in that part of town.
I mean, that's how dark this shit is. This shit
is dark, darker than that's what I mean, Darker than
darkest round tables, darker, darker than an abandoned mine.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Now we're talking back to overrated overrated. I want to
do overrated again.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Well, hopefully we can, just hopefully we can, just like
we'll send We'll send the Republicans a message in twenty
twenty six, right.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Oh yeah with Gavin Newsom fucking who used to be
married to Don Junior's girlfriend who's now the ambassador to
Taiwan or something. Kimberly Gilfoyle. That guy will save us.
The guy used to be married and pose on a
bear rug with Kimberly Gilfoyle.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
That's the guy.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
Is he like getting momentum anywhere except in the mainstream media.
I feel like a lot of these things are just
like people being like that the trope economy is doing great,
and uh, it's important for mom Donnie to get Obama's
sign off, and people being like Gavin Newsom is like
the It reminds me of like the stories where people

(52:07):
were like, Mike Pence is going to run for president
and he's forced to be reckoned with like, no, he's not.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
He's just getting Gavin Newsoms just getting buzz right now
because he's just being spicy about everything and people are like, actually,
I mean I think most people in California are so
like bro fuck Gavin Newsom. Bro, this guy's a fucking loser.
His policies are fucking suck. He's not going to do
anything trans fucking fuck c He's freaking suck. Man.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
His hair like that, you can't trust.

Speaker 7 (52:39):
Yeah, But now he's just doing basically, he's getting a
ton of like likes on social media just because he's
tweeting like Donald Trump now in all caps and being
like I the most handsome governor, thank you for your attention.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
He's just doing that whole stylistic sort of version of tweeting,
and people.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Are like, oh, bro, he's fucking showing him.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
And it's like, guys, they are they are snatching children
off the street with cancer. Who are us citizens?

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Right?

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Okay, I'm not. I'm not here to be like, yeah, dude,
fucking upload your photo of you when you were playing
baseball in high school and compare that to J D.
Vans in high school. That's such a fucking own. No,
that's a fucking joke on everybody who is living in
the having any kind of existential threat that's being presented
by this government right now, to just be caught up
in the fucking like.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
Dude, fucking tweet like Trump Man Trump or something.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
And we have to believe ourselves this time because the
media is not the media is owned by these people.
So the media is never going to tell us how
many people are without jobs. They're never gonna tell us, Uh,
what is happening to my father right now? Since he
fell and hit his head and is now in a
care facility that's staffed by about three people who's s
owned by a venture private equity firm, you know, and

(53:49):
that they have no one working there, and they keep
fucking up over and over again, over and over and over.
And if you talk to anybody, that's all they've ever
experienced in healthcare is fuck ups over and over and
over because there's no employees in the building. Because these
buildings have ten people in them, these big shiny buildings.
Because these motherfuckers are stealing all the wages. We're gonna

(54:12):
be the we're we are right, we're the ones have
to communicate this. I don't I realize we're not set
up for that. We don't have a We're set up
to watch television. I mean, I understand it. I don't
know how to quit it entirely myself, but I will
say every minute you watch television is more wasted time,
every bit of it. I don't care if it's CNN, MSNBC,
any of it. You know. I like m of Vigland.

(54:33):
I like the Majority Report. I've talked about them many
times on the show. I love the Majority Report. I
really like them. I like I think they're passionate and
I appreciate that they're informed and they usually have opinions
that I agree with, and I really like that. Emma
Vigland went on that roundtable, that Plexiglass roundtable on MSNBC
the Nighttime whatever Hodown or whatever they call it, and uh,
you know, with all those we've.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
Got that guy Scott Jennings being like, I don't see
what's wrong with ice. They have done anything wrong, really,
I mean that does sound maybe concerning, but it hasn't
even started happening yet. That's all he ever says about everything.
He's like, well, it's just a proposal, yeah right.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
And of England did a great job talking about m'm
donnie and about about like really real shit. But I
still question, like who that's getting to? You know, who
is that? Who are you talking to? You're talking to
some somebody who's crazy enough to be watching CNN and
I am, yeah, but I think about my mom's house.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
I mean, I think with a lot of conservatives, trust
eroded because like they didn't like that they were you know,
hearing that like they were racist or whatever, and then
they flocked to like their own version of the media.
I think there are plenty of people who are increasingly
disillusioned with like the MSNBC CNN version of reporting the
quote unquote news to being like this is this is

(55:44):
like this sanitized version of my reality that really doesn't
connect to like the desperation I'm seeing and experiencing as
a human being. And I think that's why a lot
of people point out that like most of like the
good journalists now unfortunately are just like on substack or
have podcasts now because they've been fully banished from traditional media.
Because again, what they're saying just it poses a direct

(56:08):
threat to the sort of capitalist status quo that we
have of just like baring our head in the sands
or burying people's heads in the sand to kind of
just like continue toiling, ignore the rot, and we will
continue to collect your the wealth, from your wages, from
your labor. Thank you, thank you, no other question, no.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Further answers your honor, Chris crofton such a pleasure having
you as always. Where can people find you? Follow you,
hear you, see you?

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Maybe you can see me for real Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
For the first time in a while, Los Angeles and
Bells sink their teeth into my ass.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Yeah, literally for a nickel kind.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Of mood I get when I get talked about MSNBC,
I get fucking fierce hashtag skibbity.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
I want people to bite my ass.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Fucking skim me madow so I so listen, I'm gonna
be in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Talks correctly to the kids. Oh my, he's cutting through
all the red tape, so uh.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
You know in response with me the activist that I am,
I'm coming to Los Angeles to play an indie rock show.
But I'm coming, uh, but first I'm showing the movie.
So please come. It's kind of important because we haven't
sold very many tickets, so everybody's everybody's got to come,
and if they can't, if they can't, I already did this.
If you just get in touch with me, we need

(57:34):
asses in the seats. I'll give you. You know, I'll
pay for your ticket. But no, I don't know why
I'm saying that. Why am I sounding desperate? This is
my mother speaking. I am thinking like, you know, you
don't need to come, you don't need to come. But anyway, Thursday,
August twenty eighth. That's next Thursday, like or not, you know,
not two days now, but the next one and nine days. Yeah,

(57:55):
nine days, that's it, thanks Jan, thank you Jo. Nine days.
So yeah. And it's a m nine thirty pm at
oh It's seven days, eight days, eight days. It's a
it's a the Alesian Theater. I gotta say where it is,
Aleasion Theater, nine thirty. Greg Turkington's doing the Q and A.
And it's gonna be so fun and it's a great

(58:15):
movie and I'm gonna be there and I can't wait.
And then the next night I'm doing a show at
the Healing Force of the Records Healing Force of the
Universe Records in Pasadena, And those are the two places
you can see me. And then in Nashville you can
see me the twenty second this Friday, playing my release
show in Nashville, and then I'm on the twenty third
to five Film Festival is featuring the documentary as their

(58:37):
main movie here in Nashville. Chris crofton Nashville Famous. That's
so cool and yeah, thanks, I mean, and I'm excited
to see you guys in La. So the twenty eighth, Yeah,
please come. I mean, I think it's like, I don't
know how much it is, but it's like it's like
gonna be worth it.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
We're gonna go where they will link off to where
they can buy tickets at the Aleitian the aleash Theater.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Yeah, you can't say it, right, Alicia, And yeah, yeah,
you know what it is, right, you show. Yeah, La
people are familiar with this place. Yeah, and uh, I
know the people who run it and they're nice people.
And it's gonna be fun no matter what. We would
like to make it crowded. So just just for fun,
you know.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Yeah, So Zey Gang, pull up to the Allegion August
twenty eighth. Okay, when Chris's show is there, go to
the box office and tell them your Zeit Gang looking
for the free free and there'll be some tickets. I
think the first fifteen people there will be tickets there.
Make sure you get them and pay homage to the god.
Chris crofton All right, hell.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
I mean get there That gang Please Come is their
work of media that you've been enjoying.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Besides that documentary about Cony Island.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Let Me Get back to Me real Us a good one.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Get me back to get back to me real quick.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
All right? Miles Gray is their working media you've been
enjoying and where can people find you?

Speaker 2 (59:58):
And find me everywhere at Miles and Gray. Also catch
Me Off four twenty Day Fiance a work of media
that I've been joining. Yeah, this one is from Mark
Mark Sharp eighty two at Mark Sharp eighty two Do
Beast Guide Social posted I'm not saying The New War
the World's movie is bad, but they were showing it
on a flight I was on and I walked out,
So that's a good joke. Yeah, it's real, tough guy.

(01:00:22):
I'm might have to find this dude. Bro, you think
so you can just walk out the world of the world,
So you think you to.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Okay, Wow, what was you talking about your movie or something?

Speaker 8 (01:00:30):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
No, it was just really hard when anybody walks out
of a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
Interesting, well established he choked the guy out for saying
that he walked out of anger management.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Interesting kind of ironic to be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
M well, that's the kind of energy we need.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Thank you, Chris.

Speaker 7 (01:00:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
I like to tweet by April Clark just a picture
of her holding a hammer and she said, fuck, everything
looks like a nail. You can find me on Twitter
at Jack Underscore, Brian on Blue Sky at Jack ob
the Number one, Chris any anything.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I I'm just gonna say, like, you know, if you
want to feel sane, listen to the Majority Report with
Sam Seter. You know. I just I just it makes
me feel seen in the sense that they're not they
are acting like it's an emergency, and that makes me
feel better. I guess I'll just say that they always
I turn it on and uh yeah, it makes me happy.

(01:01:29):
I don't agree. I don't know what people think of
that show. I think it's do you guys like it?
I was, I forget Do you guys like that show?
If you've been on it or do you know anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Been on it. I've been on a panel with Emma before,
and yeah, that's that. She's great.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
It was okay, okay, good. I hope they're good wrong people.
They seem like good people to me. That's I'm home.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
When I was actually I was shocked how young Emma
is because she's so like mature and intelligent, and I'm like, oh, wow, okay,
you cool, wise beyond your ears when.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
She spoke really well on MSNBC. And you know, I
know Sam, like Sam is like Sam tries to be funny.
I don't necessarily think he's that funny, but I mean,
I'm not trying to be mean. But it's like I
listened because I think they're smart, you know, and I
don't mind sometimes they're kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Yeah, fu anyway, put them down.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
I have to put him down. But yeah, I love them,
And I think I'm just wondering because you guys know better.
You guys know the media better. So if it gets
quiet after I say something, then I figure they're all.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
No, I can't believe. Yeah, I mean, I I definitely
see clips of them, but I mean, I know I'm
more definitely more familiar with them than I am with Sam.
But I'm but I'm well aware of majority.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
We're just on the same page. You know, We're on
the same page. We're all on the same I mean,
it's like they get it. This is this is a
very bad situation and it is not you know, it's
definitely not time to just like, you know, fucking trade
memes off or whatever. Yeah, but in that, you know,
in that. But anyway, thank you all for having me
on the show. I'm like a ragg do an these

(01:02:58):
shows inside where I'm in, right, and this will be
the last one. This will be out of here. I
don't know where the fuck I'm going. The next one
I'm gonna be doing is from who fucking knows. But
I'll be so happy because I'm so absurdly upset when
I'm in this building and it's a major corporation toward
the beginning of the alphabet that's involved in packages.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
God, who could that be. It's not who you think,
and it's not Amazon, and it's not who you think.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
It's not fucking Amazon.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
You can think us on Twitter something called Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
It's called big Boy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
You find us on Twitter and Blue Sky Daily Zeitgeist
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Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
I look, Chris was just talking about Coney Island and
it's splendor, and I think that Gang. If you haven't
seen the I don't believe video yet, I think you
should navigate to YouTube to check it out or stream
it anywhere. So Chris crofton, I don't believe check it
out or be a.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Thank you guys, and please come to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Please come through the Chris's show at the Allegion or
at Healing Force of the Universe. Ellie Zy Gang, I
know you're out there. It'll mean a lot. I'm gonna
be out of town, but I'm gonna buy some tickets
at the Allegian. So if you don't have a ticket,
there'll be some free ones there. Oh that's so nice
to see if yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
And then be so nice. Hell yeah, I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Jack will be there. Jack, we will be excited.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
I'm so excited. It's it's it's I'm I'm uh thrilled.
I'm thrilled with the Zeit Gang always just being so
kind and I mean that they're always they're always supportive
and and it means so much.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Yep. So yeah, if you need a ticket, uh, you know,
maybe hit them up, but I'll but there'll be there'll
be some free ones there. I love that we'll be
putting down for.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Man, that makes me happy. Thanks.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
I mean one last free one because I'm taking one
of those free so hey, hey, hold on you buying
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