There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/
episode 2: Crofton Comes Alive: WetttBoiz & Top Gun 12.13.22
In episode 1390, Jack and Miles (AKA, The WetttBoiz) are joined by comedian, musician, writer and host of Cold Brew Got Me Like, Chris Crofton, to discuss… R. Richard, Parents, Top Gun deserving top accolades (according to the Right) and much more!
1.TOP GUN: MAVERICK IS THE RIGHT’S LATEST CULTURE-WAR CRUSADE
2. No, Top Gun: Maverick’s success isn’t down to being pro-America and anti-woke
3...
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to sixty seven,
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Episode one of Dirt Daily z guys, but for me,
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it's episode one. It's a production by a Heart Radio
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and also a podcast where we take a deep dive
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into America share consciousness for all you first time listeners. Uh,
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it's Tuesday, December two special Happy Birthday. Shout out to
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my little sister Caitlin for oh birthday. Any any other days, well,
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you know, look obviously respect yeah, respect on Cala's d day.
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And also I just will mention, uh it's it's hot
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Coco Day. Uh. And and one that is weird National
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Day of the Horse. It's like word, it's so fucking
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aggressive the way that is National Day of the Horse,
00:51
which feels like yeah, like Nordic, yeah, Nordic or I
00:57
mean it could also be similar to like the Year
00:59
of a pig, you're of the red day of the
01:03
Day of it just feels like like a terrible like
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Colonizer massacre or something that is like the Day of
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the Horse. But it's just about hey, shout out the
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equine homies. More days, More days should do something like that,
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just like have fun with how you name it. It
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adds some gravity TOAs right, like the annual celebration of
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the commencement of Hot Coco. Imagine if it was the
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horsey instead of the horse, the rational day of the
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undermine really undermine seriousness of the name name National Day
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of the Horse. I didn't even know my horse is
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out in the yard. I didn't even I didn't get anything,
01:46
nothing special. Yeah, get that salt, lick out, get out
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of here. You can't stay inside today. Get your salt,
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I said, Yeah, I just sent a bunch of rude
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shipped to him like usual. I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
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I didn't know it was the horse. I would have
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been like, listen to change your damn you're looking you're
02:02
looking good or whatever. I would have said that to him. Well,
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shout out, shut up, shut out the horse, my horse
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in the yard. My name is the Jack O'Brien a k.
02:14
Check out these pale white plumpers. Yeah, that's what I
02:17
call my legs. My chubby little plumpers are the color
02:22
of nagged eggs. If you hate the term plumpers, well
02:26
you're not the only one. When I call my legs plumpers,
02:31
my dad will not call me son. Then one choog
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ee Christmas Eve, Miles Miles came to say, Jackie with
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your thighs so bright, let's co host the Daily site.
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So now we do some podcasts on things like shock
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in a Tree. You can't catch these old plumpers on site.
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Guy standing on Mad Boom stays shout out to Josiah
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jo z a I y A on Twitter said, accursed
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Daily's like I say, hey, what Blake Wexler birthed into
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existence cannot be undone? We are all so much worse
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off for it. And amen. Yeah, I'm thrilled to be
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joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles. It's
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Miles Gray, lover of Saturday. So he's Miles Gray, a
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k A. Saturday Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
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Saturday Day, Saturday Day. Okay. Shout out to Locker Ni
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returning every morning by sugarray and just Saturday over and
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over again, because it's just about yelling Saturday Saturday straight, Saturday,
03:52
Saturday Saturday Saturday. Um yeah, somebody's doing that for ten hours.
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Chris Well, who's Chris Um there? You can find just
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a looped version of that part of the song for
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ten hours if you're if you're curious, yes A to you,
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r D A y night, yes to you are only
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said that, Yeah, that's Saturday? Is that basically rollers? Yeah? Yeah?
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They were part of my life when I was like
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in fifth grade. People were like they're the shit man.
04:28
They were like, kids were like, man, you think Zeppe's good,
04:31
you're out of your mind. I'm not kidding. Like, kids
04:35
were dead serious about that band. Like I remember everybody
04:38
just being like, yep, I mean music is pretty much
04:40
topped out. Jesus, we're done here. And I was like
04:44
you more, even the fifth grader, I was like, I
04:47
don't know, I think these guys might be a flash
04:49
in the pan. Right, Oh wait, so you kidding me?
04:52
What's it? I mean, I'm curious too, because when those
04:54
songs are there, so like Sacharin, they're like, like, you know,
04:58
they're just kind of they're like they feel like they
05:00
were whatever the equivalent of like an algorithm is now.
05:03
But when you hear people be like this is it? Well,
05:06
I know you like we're obviously the contrarian child. Were
05:09
you in your mind being like go fucking listen to
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blah blah blah. I mean I wasn't a music snab,
05:14
but I was in fifth grade yet, No, I just
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you know, but that's a funny idea that there was nothing.
05:19
There was nothing I could turn them onto, like you know,
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it would have been like, you know, there are sellouts.
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You should listen to Captain and to Neil, you know
05:26
what I mean. Didn't have any right there. I didn't
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know about anybody with cred. Oh you like this band.
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Check out Casey and the fucking Sunshine. You want to
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hear the real deal? Yeah, five year old or ten
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year old sized Criss Crofton. That looks exactly like the
05:45
current Criss Crofton. It's kind of true. Smoking a cigarette
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and some red hair. I did not smoke cigarettes when
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I was the fifth grade. I was like I was.
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I thought I was gonna be Yeah, well I didn't
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know any better, but I thought I was gonna be
05:58
a lawyer because it was the only job I knew. Hey,
06:00
who's that voice? That voice is someone we are thrilled
06:05
to be joined in in a third seat, a hilarious
06:07
stand up comedian, actor, musician with the seven point six
06:10
rated album on Pitchfork. You can listen to his podcast
06:14
Colebrew got me like anywhere to find. Podcasts are given
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away for free. His new book, The Advice King Anthology
06:20
is available now anywhere fine books are sold. The poetry
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window is open because it's Chris motherfucking Croft. What's up?
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What's up? I'm so happy, I'm so happy to be here.
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I'm gonna clear my throat. Hold on, I know you've
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been saying podcast. I'm not kidding. My Colbrew got me like,
06:42
clear my throat is what would be called and we
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got to do something about it. Question you said, when
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you clear your throat, what is it act? What is
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it achieving? Is it that you're trying to knock something loose?
06:52
It's that you're scratching a throat? It's well, what just
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trying to get the attention of the room. I don't
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start not but I think I don't think that's helping
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the look of like older white men when they do that,
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because it does seem like that's what they're doing. But
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I think most of the time it's just something's fucking
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caught and that sus And yeah, it's not good. It's
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not good on a first date. It's not good. It's
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not good on andy it's not good for a single
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man to be running around clear in his throat. It's
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the opposite of what a woman wants. A woman wants moisture,
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woman wants the woman put on a T shirt. Put
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on a T shirt. Woman wants people to be flexible
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and ready for action, not dried out and stand. You know,
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help me with the stroller. As soon as I'm done
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doing you know, I'll be right there to help you
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with the baby. Why does daddy make a scary noise?
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I don't know, because he's too old that should never
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married him, like an old radiator's daddy trying to command
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the room. Again. I ever fully on the movie Big Fish,
08:04
the Tim Burton movie, like the main character, the dad,
08:07
the legend dead character repeatedly keeps saying as an old man,
08:13
I was just dried out when they would like find
08:16
him in a pond. I don't really remember that movie
08:18
that well, but I remember that line because I was
08:20
so baffled by, like, were they like trying to make
08:23
it a thing like a quote, because he says that
08:26
multiple times, I think, um, yeah, maybe it was just
08:30
a very realistic portrayal of aging, you know, I mean,
08:34
like you can look at the pictures of Miles. I'm
08:36
looking at a screen right now because we're doing this
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via zoom, so I'm looking at two moist dudes, Miles
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over here. Miles and Jack both look like, you know,
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there's not gonna be an emergency situation where they, you know,
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can't get to the fire exit because they're clearing the throat.
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And in the middle there's me and I looked dry
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before we start recording. The last thing, I say, the
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chords are dewey, let's get it, let's get it on.
09:03
Every time it's like, you guys are a couple of
09:06
wet boys, and yeah, so anyway, it's kind of a
09:13
thing like I just do everything sort of like without
09:17
preparation in a way, like I mean, like I just
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it doesn't occur to me, like, oh, you should really
09:21
like clear your throat a bunch before this fucking podcast.
09:24
But then yesterday got out of hand. The one that
09:26
we're putting up tonight, the new episode of which is
09:30
so fucking good, like we really have gotten hit our stride.
09:33
It's funny, man. Today was the most recent one that
09:36
we're putting up tonight is the funniest one I've ever done. Oh,
09:39
it's so funny. I mean it's insane. But the labor
09:42
went that went into a d throat clean. We had
09:44
to like I had to like edit. There's just like
09:46
a lot of noises on there, you know, and I
09:48
was just like that is not you know, like I can't.
09:51
We gotta do something. I don't know if there's a
09:53
filter like called like you know, the old you know,
09:56
young you know, called boy something, Yeah, like a wet boy.
10:00
What are you putting your mic through? You got like
10:01
in a cloud lifter or something. You've got to be
10:03
putting that through a wet boy pedal, Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
10:06
The moisturizer, yeah exactly, I got put a vocal moisturizer. Anyway,
10:11
we're working on it. People are fans of the show,
10:14
you know, and we have a lot of crossover. A
10:16
lot of our fans are fans of you guys, of course,
10:19
and so you know, just we're working on it. Don't
10:21
don't care. Objection was too dry. They were working on them.
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I'm getting I'm getting my neck worked on pre medical
10:30
procedure medical. I mean, it's it's happens pretty quick to like,
10:35
you know, it's just one minute, you're one minute you
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never clear your throat. The next minute you know you're
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clearing your throat. Seriously, there's nothing, you know, I don't
10:43
think unless you're like already famous professor or something, and
10:47
it's like maybe matches. It's like somehow like that could
10:50
be a thing where you're, oh, he's he's got gravitas
10:52
because he clears his throat or something, because he's like
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already an author. I mean, I'm an author, but I
10:57
definitely way more successful author. If you're like Rudyard Kipling
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and you're going around your clearing your throat, then you're
11:03
probably it's a power move. But for me, it's just like,
11:07
I'm on hinge. You don't want to be clear in
11:09
your throat while you're on your wine holiday or whatever
11:12
every fucking basic motherfucker wants to do with their goddamn
11:15
hinge life. You know, Hinge those apps, you know, we've
11:18
talked about that before. Yeah, the last person they want,
11:21
they want to do a selfie with a fucking boat
11:23
and a glass of wine. The last thing they wanted
11:25
some motherfucker clear in their throat, reminding them, reminding them
11:28
their mortality. Yeah, could you stop death rattling on myselfie
11:35
picturing like somebody with a glass of champagne in the
11:37
air boat in the background, like face to the side,
11:41
catching their good face. And then you're in the background
11:43
like you made a cop like just you know, clears
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your their throat less than you. Joe Biden. I was
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gonna say, Joe Biden is wet compared to you. That's right,
11:55
all right, Chris, We're gonna get to know you a
11:56
little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell
11:58
our listeners a couple of the things we might get
12:01
to today. We'll see we might talk about the next
12:04
COVID wave that's coming, uh, and how it coincides with
12:08
Ellen's cool joke about his pronouns. We're gonna talk about
12:13
Tucker Carlson getting up in arms about CBS carrying butt plugs, uh,
12:17
and like how that kind of flow charted through the right. Um,
12:22
some investigations that both new congresses are. You know, both
12:27
parties are talking about like that they're gonna go after
12:30
the new Congress. And of course they have announced the
12:34
Golden Globes and top Gun Maverick got nominated for Best Picture,
12:40
and the Right is celebrating. I guess the right like
12:44
claimed that as their movie. So we'll talk about all
12:47
of that or some of that, maybe none a bit
12:50
uh plenty more though, But first, Chris, we like to
12:53
task our guests. What is something from your search history? Okay, well,
12:57
I don't know if if we're allowed to uh, if
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you've listened to my podcast, you know this story but recently, um,
13:03
I mean it's worth repeating. When I was in the nineties,
13:06
I was working as a production assistant on a pornography
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uh twenty four hour pornography channel, like a like a
13:15
like a satellite channel that showed pornography. I mean Spice.
13:20
I think it was Spice. Why didn't I couldn't remember
13:23
the name of it. Um. I only work the job
13:26
two days, but more than enough, very action packed days
13:31
a month once a month. The Spice channel. I swear
13:34
it was the Spice Channel. I just couldn't think of it. Uh.
13:37
They had a live taping. Everything was like, you know,
13:40
they had a bunch of VCRs running. That's all it
13:42
was at that time, in like ninety seven, was just
13:45
a bank of VCR showing porn movies forever on a loop.
13:48
And my friend friend you know, not a good friend
13:51
but I mean anyway, I'll tell you more about like
13:56
our friendship later. But he's a he was running the VCRs. Basically,
14:02
he was just keeping the VCRs going, and so he
14:04
was like, but he knew me, and he for some
14:05
reason knew that I would like this job, which was
14:08
coming in on the day they had the home shopping
14:11
channel for sex toys, and they had real porn stars,
14:15
like big name porn stars come in and demonstrate the sexes.
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I got to clothed, like pick out what they got
14:21
to wear, and I also got to pair which one
14:24
with which other one, like I got to pick who
14:26
got to be with whoever to demonstrate the products. My
14:30
friend was basically like, this is my gift to you.
14:34
We knew you always wanted to be a stylist for
14:37
porn shoots. I think he just knew I was in
14:39
the porn you know, which is just so sad. You know,
14:42
it's the same that's the same as saying someone's lonely. Lonely,
14:45
I mean, it's not like a quality that you want. Oh, Chris,
14:48
I love this because he loves porn. I just but
14:50
I also loved the idea. That's like also part of
14:52
the gig is you got to figure out what they're
14:54
gonna wear. Crazy, No, it was insane. I was so
14:56
I was like standing around holding like fucking g string
15:00
and just like them up next year. And some of
15:05
the porn stars are board stars that I knew, you know, intimately,
15:09
and um and yeah and and so he keeps clearing
15:13
his throat and ruining the shot. Just told me he
15:15
loves my work. I'm glad I was wet back then.
15:19
I was moys, this is disgusting, this whole thing needs
15:22
to go. Um. So this is back when I was
15:27
a wet boy. So uh. I anyway, at the time
15:31
of my life doing that job because I was just
15:34
like I also got to see, you know, some of
15:37
the porn stars were like just like really sexual and
15:41
like masturbating in the green room and stuff. And I
15:44
was like, wow, this is like the healthy ones. You know,
15:46
they're like can't wait to get in there. I wish
15:48
we were really fucking. We can't fuck on camera, you know,
15:50
we can't funk. It's only we can't show penetration on
15:53
this channel or whatever. So that was like more what
15:54
I was thinking, like that was like the free love
15:56
kind of side of porn like the more healthy, like
15:59
I'm just super horny and I love this industry. But
16:01
then they were like then there was like the pimp side,
16:05
like this this one horn star. I don't know if
16:06
I should say her name, but she's an author, Okay,
16:10
I mean anyway, okay, well, anyway, we'll what you're gonna
16:14
find out what I'll just say, some horn star. It
16:17
was a big porn star at the time. My friend
16:19
who ran the channel was making her say a bunch
16:21
of stuff like for the for the like pitch the
16:24
channel like. He was making her say like spice up
16:27
your living room or whatever. And then but then he
16:29
for fun, he tried to, like, you know, not a
16:31
nice way. He tried to make her say big words purpose.
16:35
He said, turn your living room into adenna debauchery. And
16:37
she'd never heard that word, obviously, and she got very
16:39
angry and her pimp, her pimp husband got very angry
16:42
and said it was a stupid word. I still remember
16:45
that as it was, turned your living room into addenta debauchery,
16:48
and she yea, So so I I helpfully, I just
16:51
want to interact with this horn star because so I
16:53
went over with a piece of paper that I had
16:55
written debauchery, like phonetically on like and I handed it
16:59
to her and her husband was like her, yeah, he
17:01
was like not a nice guy. And he was like,
17:04
she doesn't need to say it. It's a stupid word.
17:07
This whole thing is stupid and like, you know, just
17:10
like that kind of thing. And so anyway, she wrote
17:13
a book years later, and uh, it's called Anatomy of
17:17
an Adult Film. So I just thought, oh my gosh,
17:19
because I was wondering if that woman survived, because that's
17:22
like a shitty relationship between her and her husband. He
17:24
seemed controlling and I didn't like it. Anyway, she survived
17:28
and thrived. I was gonna say, it was your Google
17:30
search history debauchery or was it this person's book? And
17:34
it is the book. It's the book. I just looked
17:37
her up. I just looked her up. I mean, I
17:38
don't I don't think it's a big deal to say
17:40
her name, but you guys, I'm just not gonna say it.
17:42
But anyway, I'll say the name of her co author,
17:43
because this is this is the thing. It's her books,
17:45
you know, not terrible, but just like very boring. It's
17:47
about like how to make it in the porn industry.
17:49
It's actually very technical. It's kind of like just field
17:52
users guide. Yeah, it's like it's like, you know, just
17:55
like pointers for porn stars, like how to like take
17:59
a facial It like that. You know that you can
18:01
cancel this whole episode now. Um. So, anyway, she had
18:08
a co author turns out for this book, and his
18:11
name is Our Richard r Richard Richard interesting and he
18:18
is the most prolific and horrible author there ever was,
18:24
and he has become I'm very interested in this man.
18:26
And I also think that Our Richard is he's obviously
18:29
I don't know, he's like simultaneously like really really convinced
18:33
of his talent, but then also embarrassed enough to call
18:35
himself Our Richard, like the night stalker. What's that like?
18:39
The night stalker? Okay, well I don't know. But Our
18:44
Richard is like not helpful for a search. If you
18:46
are Richard on the internet, you get pretty much every Richard.
18:50
It's like it doesn't like so on her website for
18:56
this book, Anatomy of an Adult Film that she co
18:59
wrote with Our Richard, she wrote nothing, but then Our
19:01
Richard wrote his whole biography. He has an avatar that
19:05
looks like a Dungeons and Dragons person. He talks about
19:08
how he's a Kung Fu uh fighter, and then he
19:11
would lists his books. Okay, so he has written a
19:14
natomy of an adult film, but then he wrote he
19:17
has a series called second Chance. Okay. Second Chance is
19:21
the name of like you know, I guess, like the
19:23
John Wick or something, you know. For him, it's like
19:25
a it's like a series, like I don't know what's
19:27
what's another series, Like I don't know Jack Reacher did
19:30
Jack Reacher book, but this one's called second Chance. He
19:34
has like a million books second Chance and The Lord
19:37
of Yes, except this is called second Chance, which is
19:41
like not very action packed name for a series, you
19:44
know what I mean, Like Lord of the Rings. I'm like, yeah,
19:46
what's that about? Second Chance? Yeah, that sounds like a
19:50
drug and alcohol pamphlet. Listen to this second Chance Colon,
19:54
god Killer, second Chance, sky Pirate, second Chance, scroll Seeker,
19:59
second Chance, King of the Islands, second Chance, King of Ziah,
20:03
second Chance, Duke of Avaron, second Chance, King of Goluman,
20:07
second Chance, King of the Sky, second Chance, war Lord
20:11
of Africa, second Chance, King of Araby, second Chance King
20:15
of Macedonia, Second Chance, King of a Rules Chance. I mean,
20:19
I'm not gonna even do any more of those. Okay,
20:22
there's like a million of them. I just found his
20:23
page on good Reads and it says, uh, popular answered
20:27
questions from him like where where I guess you get
20:30
to do an author interview? And the first one is
20:32
how do you deal with writer's block? Are Richard? I
20:35
have never had writer's not even close, asshole, it's not
20:42
here and the Okay, so Adventurer is another series. He
20:45
has adventure another action packed. Man, you gotta figure out
20:49
what goes before the colon. It's the first thing you see.
20:52
Adventurer plan simulation problem, Adventurer panner problem, and then a
21:00
R Adventurer Sailing Problem. Then just a bunch of stories.
21:09
I'm just going to hit you with some of these
21:11
titles because they're just incredible. Okay, So those are a
21:14
series Adventurer and Second Chance. And then here's just a
21:18
straight up novels right, A Programmer's Gambit, Amateur Stripper, bondage House,
21:26
Corporate Sex, Slaves, Friday Night, that one's intriguing, Go Naked
21:33
in the Software Glasshopper, Winter, Involuntary Nude Layoff, not a hero,
21:44
Pirates of the Keys, Summer of Sex, What the Beach Murders,
21:51
The Beach Dealers, The Secret Life of Wanda Wilson. Did
21:56
you read the one that he just has one book
21:58
called Big Cock? I didn't get that, but it's it's
22:04
it's I think, you know, Grasshopper Winner is my favorite
22:10
because it's just like, I don't know what it's like.
22:12
It's like, you know, it's just like I don't know
22:14
things you don't you know. It's like a very I
22:17
don't know, like I think of like the leather Decision.
22:21
I'm sorry, dude, this description of Big Cock, I'm I
22:26
don't know, I don't even know what I'm reading, and
22:28
I don't know if my intelligence has just drastically gone down.
22:31
It just says Jim McK is an eighteen year old
22:33
man growing up with a very large cock. Hannah is
22:36
a rich lady who owns a near bankrupt factory. Heather
22:40
is Hannah's eighteen year old daughter. Hannah could still be
22:43
a rich lady, but if the factory goes bankrupt, however,
22:47
lots of people this is the description. Yeah, he doesn't
22:50
have writer's block because he's insane. It's just use the
22:54
back backspace key, or the people do not have writer's block.
22:58
The whole thing just goes on to described like just
23:00
very plains like yeah, and then they have to like
23:02
screw the customers for the company survive, and you're like,
23:07
he doesn't do to take part in a customer sex party. Yeah,
23:13
the thing we've all heard of. I read a bunch
23:16
of his stuff and it's like very very well. I
23:19
guess the main thing is his books are twenty six
23:21
pages long between twenty six and that makes sense. I
23:26
think that's long for like college essay. And he is
23:28
so cocky in his like his autobiography and stuff like.
23:32
I mean, I just feel like you should mention that
23:35
his books are like three Yeah, that's not that's cheating me.
23:40
I'm pretty fucking prolific man with my two paragraph books
23:43
I've been working on for Hey, he doesn't decide when
23:46
the book ends. The book decides and he's just there
23:50
he hit the print. And then he also describes like driving,
23:54
like I read a part where he just describes driving
23:57
like way too much. Like he says like I got
23:58
in the car and then I started the car, and
24:00
I drove a car and then I went to this
24:02
other place and then I stopped the car and got
24:03
out of the car. He's focused on like details, don't
24:08
want it's also interesting too. On good good Reads, most
24:12
of his books have five stars with like I would
24:16
say all have just four races, exact accounts that he
24:21
just used to be like, yeah, like, I don't know,
24:25
I want. I just think it'd be fun to get
24:26
the audience, like going on on naming like alternate our
24:30
Richard books, like, you know, I just feel like, you know,
24:32
the double Decker Turtle the the uh double Decker Turtle
24:38
Party Nudetown is one. Um, Newtowntown. I'm not thinking of
24:44
a good one, you know, like the Complicated Badger or
24:47
the the Involuntary Badger. Um, you know, Toy Horrors is
24:54
one of them. Uh. He has another series called Vix
24:57
the Marine and Vix the Force Leader. I can only
24:59
imagine that's like, I mean, hey, Mom, it's it's our Yeah,
25:03
just calling me back because I checked my good Reads
25:05
page again and I noticed that Big Cox still has
25:09
three three five star reviews. I'm still waiting on the
25:14
fourth from you. Uh, just you don't even have to
25:17
read it, Mom, I gave you the synopsis in Painstakes,
25:21
email you and Dad and just do the five stars. Okay, Yeah,
25:25
So anyway, I just think people should be aware of
25:27
our Richard and his work and uh, you know, his
25:30
his autobiographies. He says, I've I've published forty four novels
25:33
in over a hundred and fifty short stories. I spent
25:35
my early years in the part of Los Angeles known
25:38
as South Central. I was known as white Boy, which
25:40
was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a
25:43
skilled kung fu player using a system that I learned Korean.
25:47
I knew only his pack. It would be easier to
25:50
tell you the places that Pack wasn't wanted by the police,
25:53
rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. See,
25:56
and that's what that sentence. You get an idea? Here
25:59
eats himself, Like what I mean that rules actually found
26:03
one of our Richard sock puppet accounts that he uses
26:06
to big up his ratings. Al Right, never mind, I'm
26:09
going through you guys would know you guys would know
26:11
how to handle this better than me. I didn't have.
26:12
I don't have the technical ability to exploit our Richard.
26:16
I know, Yes, Chris, you put me on the I'm
26:18
on the set now, and like Sandor has twoty four reviews,
26:26
all of them are Our Richard books. I just feel
26:28
like you should know. Yeah, you should know sand Or.
26:31
Wasn't that the name one of the names in one
26:33
of the titles of his book, like Planet Sandor? Yeah,
26:38
maybe they're just a big fan, you know, I mean
26:41
his his review of Big Cock is him just doing
26:45
like the three paragraph version of the description written by
26:48
our Richard. Like the review by sand Or of Big Cock.
26:52
It says, Jim Mack is growing up with a very
26:54
large cop. This is yeah, like so yeah, it's real dry,
27:01
it's really dry. And his pants were his pants were
27:04
big to accommodate. And then you know, and I love
27:07
the last part says when the staff then screws up,
27:09
Jim arranges a party where the wives of the staff
27:11
get some nude revenge. Last sentence a lot more plot
27:14
than you might think, see, that's yeah, that's that's the goal,
27:18
because no one's ever written that downe's ever written that down.
27:22
A lot, A lot more plot than you might I
27:26
go for the most plot per minute, that's what. Yeah,
27:29
where's your next book? Big plot? Are Richard? We want
27:33
to see that one. That's that's my sister, that's my fuckings,
27:36
that's my latest the internet searge Our Richard, Yeah, good
27:41
luck and just enjoy. I don't know, someone do a
27:43
book report on Second Chance King of Goluman. Yeah, I
27:47
mean we might have to do Our Richard book Club
27:50
at some point, like like uh yeah, the Secret Life
27:54
of Wanda Wilson. There's more, way more. His writing style
27:58
maybe dry, but he a wet boy. That's actually from
28:01
his auto bio. Yes, and his writing style is summed
28:05
up in that sentence where he says like it would
28:07
be easier to describe the places that he is not
28:10
wanted than the places that he is also wanted. Or
28:14
he's just he's very clunky. Yeah that bio. Like this
28:18
guy is a path I mean such a pathological liar
28:21
to there's something. There's so much more going on here
28:23
because like you said, like that bio that you read, Chris,
28:26
or he's like I grew up in the part of
28:28
Los Angeles known as the South Central. Yeah, he's out
28:31
of his mind, I think as a guy like lives
28:34
in his mom's house certainly, and he's not a skilled
28:37
kung fu player because nobody has a skilled kung fu
28:40
player has ever said that, because you would get knocked
28:42
out if you said that to another Yeah, well I
28:44
knew him, this guy, this Korean who trained me. His
28:47
name was Pack. Yeah, and and and it would be
28:50
easier to tell you the places that Pack wasn't wanted
28:53
by that he's rather than the places where he was
28:55
wanted by the police. Yeah, in case you don't think
28:59
I'm real, So anyway, our Richard Man, Yeah, um, all right, Well,
29:05
let's take a quick break. That's been search history. We'll
29:08
be back with overrated, underrated, and maybe one of the
29:12
stories we'll see. We'll be right back and we're back,
29:25
And Chris, you do like taskcre guests, especially you, what
29:29
is something you think is overrated? Um? Overrated? I'm gonna
29:33
say Los Angeles, okay, talking about I've got my dukes up.
29:41
I mean, the listeners can't see it, But do you
29:43
do you really feel like you're defending Los Angeles? Los
29:47
Angeles is so big. Can you feel like you can
29:49
defend part of it but you can't defend the whole thing? Yeah,
29:52
But I'm just trying to cause a little trouble because
29:54
I'm back in mtown. Madison Tennessee down as it's known
30:00
up the street from Nashville. I'm in the real Nashville.
30:03
Hell yeah, Maddie. It's like I was thinking about ways
30:05
to describe where I'm at. Madison is like an informal
30:10
gathering of the Juggalos. Oh or okay, Broke Burbank Oho, Okay,
30:18
that's that picture. It's mostly vape stores. It's almost all
30:23
UD prefer to be at an informal Juggalo gathering than
30:27
any version of Burbank. To be honest, it's it's better
30:30
than Burbank. Did you say that? Because like it is endearing?
30:33
Because when you said informal gathering the Juggalos, I'm like,
30:35
all right, whoa, whoa, Like let's pull up, but what
30:39
are you a Juggalo? Hell yeah, Broke right Malenko, Are
30:42
you serious? I am serious? I don't I didn't know.
30:45
Yeah yeah, man, I've been working with them for for
30:47
a minute. That's cool. I'm not that's really cool. I
30:52
just remember watching that documentary American Juggalo when it came out,
30:56
and like, when you know, the gathering of Juggalos was like,
30:59
oh man, you know kind of wold ship goes on
31:01
and like, oh, these people are just fans of a
31:03
thing and they get picked up. So yeah, this is
31:06
like that. Madison, Tennessee is like that. It's vape stores
31:11
and people looking for groceries, Okay, and that's what happened.
31:14
It's like there's a lot of trouble in the parking
31:16
lots of these vape stores because people don't want a
31:18
vape but they're being forced to vape because there's no
31:20
food available. So there's and everybody's dressed up like they're
31:23
just came from a swingers party or a Craigslist random encounter. Everybody.
31:28
I mean, it's really You see a you see a
31:30
woman that's dressed like Slash from Guns and Roses interacting
31:34
with some hipster are moved here because they can't afford
31:37
the rent because their dad won't give them any more
31:40
money or something, so they had to move to like
31:41
the They couldn't live in East Nahville anymore, so they
31:44
moved up the street, you know. And so there's like
31:46
hipster is interacting with people who want to murder hipsters,
31:49
you know, and like it's really and everything's just everybody's
31:54
wearing the craziest clothes. It kind of makes me happy,
31:58
you know, It kind of makes me happy because everybody
32:00
in Los Angeles, where's those fucking short pants and those
32:03
big white sneakers in the fucking knit hat? Uh and
32:07
everybody here where it's like whatever the funk they found
32:10
on the ground, or you know, whatever they found at
32:12
the you know what I mean, Like they'll wear velvet
32:14
hot pants with a with a with a halter time.
32:17
I don't even know what clothes are. I can't describe. Man,
32:19
don't say that's like yourself off used to style the
32:22
Live Home Shopping Network. Point especially man, you know something
32:25
about garments. First, I'll tell you one of the one
32:27
of the porn stars asked me what I was doing
32:29
that night, and I totally chickened out because I was
32:31
just like such a I could have dated, I could
32:33
have intimidating. I get it, you know what I mean.
32:35
It's such a bad I still it still haunts me,
32:38
like when I'm sleeping, trying to get to sleep. I know.
32:40
And for the listeners out there, this is the seventeenth
32:42
time we've had to edit out that mentioned from Chris
32:44
about the porn star who asked him didn't saying later
32:47
we apologize that one got through, but hey, it's alright,
32:49
It's alright, man. Madison is also like, right across from
32:53
the end of my street is a smeral Those which
32:55
is a closed down club that Johnny Cash used to
32:57
drink at, which is just this just the dump, you know,
33:01
it's like a dumpy nineteen seventies place that he would go.
33:04
It'sn't mentioned in his autobiography, but it's just there. It's
33:07
just a shell of itself. And I've been thinking about
33:09
going down there and trying to metal detect or trying
33:12
to see if he dropped anything, Johnny Cash dropping stuff there. Wait,
33:17
so it is closed down, Oh yeah, and I can
33:19
think about getting in there and maybe, you know, just
33:21
tearing up the carpet and see if anybody left him
33:24
pot pocket watches or whatever. Make sure you have a
33:27
go pro on and put on a YouTube channel, yeah,
33:29
because back then you know you'll have to wait in line.
33:31
Though of course people be like, just like, it's four
33:33
other bloggers ahead of Hey guys here, it's moral does
33:37
Hey guys, here's Moral Doo's You can actually hear the
33:39
other people recording on the back totally, and that happens,
33:42
you know, family, it's your boy here it's moral does now.
33:45
This is a legendary light knife light scene in Nashville
33:48
back in the day. Yeah, Like I gotta wait, I
33:51
gotta wait to look and then and then somebody plants
33:53
a doll like something. You know, I talked like a
33:57
dollar oh ship. There's a weird dollin here. You saw,
34:00
like just sitting in the middle of the dude. You
34:03
just I saw you pull that out of your fucking
34:05
Fannie pack. I hear a ghost in the background. Saw
34:08
you pull that fucking creepy doll out. Haunted dolls is
34:10
big business on the internet. So yeah, I've seen that.
34:14
That's scary. That's not good. I mean the people who
34:17
have that. I've seen that on the internet. Yeah, these
34:18
people who have like a haunted doll collection and they
34:20
sit at their house with a bunch of dolls, And
34:23
that's not good. It's called kicking it with the homies.
34:25
If your neighbors doing that, I imagine behind a drawing curtain.
34:28
What's going on, especially up here in Madison, Madison, Tennessee.
34:31
I'm trying to get it as a major player now
34:33
as a town. Like it's not I'm gonna bring us hometown. Yeah,
34:37
like it's a place to go if you want a vape.
34:39
Madison most foul. Smoke Mountain. There's a place called Smoke
34:43
Mountain right near me. What is it like barbecue? But
34:50
it's kind of incredible. If you want to get food
34:52
up here, you might as well fucking forget it. I
34:54
mean you you know you can have a burger king
34:56
or vape. Hey what about roma pizza ampasta? Right are
35:00
by the walmart? Are you looking at? Are you looking at?
35:02
Are you prowling? Yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, there's
35:06
there's there's a funny thing. There are some l a
35:08
looking people here, um like who wear that knit knit
35:12
cap and those short pants and stuff? How's with barbecue
35:15
across from Smoke Mountain? When you say short pants, are
35:19
you just talking about shorts? No? No, I'm short pants.
35:23
You know what I'm talking about. I was trust fun
35:25
ladies who where the freaking giant white sneakers and the
35:27
freaking short the pants that show their ankles, like you know,
35:30
like they wear socks like yeah, you like a crop
35:33
crop pant with like the big old chunky balenci Yaga sneakers,
35:37
like like a big big sweatshirt or something. It's called
35:41
high low bro it's called high low high fashion with
35:43
some low brow pieces. Dude, just like the juxtaposition of
35:46
the two. You know what I mean, right whatever, But
35:48
in yes, that's you might say that. They might say that.
35:50
I don't know. If you look up the lady who
35:52
did the um there's a boomtown Rats song called I
35:55
Don't Like Monday's that's about a woman who shot a
35:57
bunch of people coming out of school, and she had
36:00
that look going way before all these ladies did. So
36:02
if you want to look at where that knit cap,
36:05
short pants, big white sneakers look came from, it came
36:08
straight out of the shooter. I think her name is
36:11
Brenda something or other. But anyway, so anyway, that's uh,
36:14
Los Angeles is you know, people from Kansas dressing up
36:17
like that, whatever it is. You know, that's what l
36:19
A is. And that's what I'm feeling free now to
36:21
put down l A because I left and so I
36:24
might be back though, so I gotta be a little
36:26
I'm gonna come back. I'll come back. I'll come back also,
36:31
and just pretend I never left, because I never saw
36:32
anybody when I was there. Anyway, nobody knows you left
36:35
in l a. Oh you've been busy and you're just
36:37
like I've been busy. Oh yeah, what you've been doing?
36:39
None of your business? A lot of big time ship.
36:42
Judd Apataw, Judd Apataw. How about that saying his name?
36:48
What about that? Where'd you go? Chris? I don't know
36:52
a little name called Judd Apataw short appage. How hard
36:58
he get that? We didn't even ain't got anything? Just
37:01
said his name three times? Often it's kicking ass. I
37:04
was wondering where Crofton was. He was kicking ass Judd
37:07
hapitaal fuck yeah. So anyway, while all you guys are
37:13
all enjoying your fake it till you make it, I'm
37:16
down here where you make it till you fake it.
37:18
Go your vitamins from fruit flavored vape car Tennessee vape,
37:24
whether you like it or not. Oh man, all right,
37:31
let's take one more break. We'll be right back. And
37:43
we're back, and Chris, we do like to ask, I
37:46
guess what's something you think is just underrated? Underrated? Here
37:51
we go Today's today is underrated? Is uh? I saw
37:56
this movie last night. I don't know if it's underrated
37:58
or not, but that movie, uh, it's called like the
38:01
Blood and the Madness or something like that. It's a
38:04
documentary about um, the Sackler family and Nan Golden, the photographer.
38:10
And I was not ready for what a great movie
38:12
that was, all the beauty and the bloodshed. Yes, that
38:16
movie is a crusher of a movie. It's not just
38:20
about the Sackler family, it's about Nan Golden. Ostensibly, it's
38:23
about a documentary by Laura Poittress, who did forget. She's
38:27
done a couple of some big things. It's just a
38:30
beautiful movie. I recommend it, but I guess what I
38:32
would say is like I forgot this is overrated or underrated,
38:35
But underrated is a uh is going through your childhood
38:39
and like dealing with if you had a difficult childhood,
38:42
like if your household dynamic was was rough, like if
38:45
you're a lot of the movie is about her appraising
38:49
her relationship with her parents, and in a way that's
38:53
really her and her parents are still alive, so she
38:55
pretty fearlessly and I don't think she had a choice
38:59
because her upbring it was so difficult. But it was
39:01
not this the thing it was like in a suburb
39:03
with parents that it was not like she was not
39:06
like abused physically, But she basically comes right out and
39:09
say my parents were not ready to have kids. They
39:11
should not have had kids. Because she doesn't and Nan Golden,
39:14
I don't know. There's something about the way she speaks.
39:15
It's sort of very authoritative, like she was she you
39:18
really know that my parents should not have had kids,
39:22
you know, And she's not kidding, you know what I mean?
39:24
Like and and I she said they were kids themselves,
39:26
and I feel like that about my parents, and I
39:29
you know, they could probably hear the show, and I
39:31
just I think it's the truth. I mean, back then,
39:33
kids married other kids, they had kids because they were
39:36
supposed to, and and and some really crazy ship and
39:39
sued because they did not know how to parent. And
39:42
so we have a whole generation of people that have
39:44
had this kind of parenting where the parents were just kids,
39:48
so they just made everything about themselves in a way,
39:50
so the kids were just there as like little dolls
39:54
or you know, a little just set dressing for nineteen
39:57
fifties or nineteen sixties or nineteen seventies, clear family values
40:01
and the damage that that does to the kid because
40:03
you grow up feeling like you're a fucking side end
40:05
table or something, or you're a lamp. And then you
40:07
grow up and try and have a relationship or something,
40:10
and you realize that you don't know what your own
40:12
feelings mean because you never had a space for them
40:15
as a kid. So as as a kid, like in
40:17
my home, my parents argued so much that I had
40:19
no I just kept quiet. I mean I just kept
40:23
quiet and try to stay out of the way. I
40:24
hid my room. I held myself physically, I mean I
40:27
when I've talked about therapists, I even get deep enough
40:29
into like I would hold myself in physical positions to
40:32
try and make them stop arguing. Like you turn yourself
40:34
into like almost like a totem or or an object
40:38
to try to make a yelling stop. But you can't
40:41
do it because you're a child. So because parents back
40:43
then didn't realize children were like not just miniature adults.
40:46
They didn't know that they were like could get impacted
40:49
like physiologically by all this stress. So you know, you
40:53
grow up and then you turned your feelings off at
40:55
some point as a kid, and then when you try
40:57
and turn it back on, there the thing are the
41:00
least familiar with, and they're pretty much the most important
41:02
thing you need to know, like if you want to
41:04
have friends and relationships, like your self worth. It's very
41:09
difficult for you to determine because you know, it's like
41:11
you you've been you've been sort of in a way
41:14
in that atmosphere devalued or something because you have to
41:16
like just you're just treated like you're something in the
41:19
room that that is not important or something. It's like
41:23
that yeah, or whatever you have to say isn't important,
41:26
and that is like that can play a huge part.
41:29
So when you finally get out of the house and
41:30
you try and speak on a date or something, you realize, oh,
41:33
I think I'm a piece of ship, Like I have
41:34
no self worth because I just I just never have
41:37
had that reflected back at me, like um. So, anyway,
41:40
this movie addresses that in a huge way because her
41:42
parents were so obsessed with appearances that her sister was
41:46
a lesbian and they put her in a mental hospital
41:50
and the mental hospital report and I don't want to
41:53
give too much away, but just because because it is
41:55
like a very interesting movie, It's got a lot going on.
41:58
It's like it's also about the Sacklers and the opioid crisis.
42:00
Because Nan Golden got addicted to oxycont But it's kind
42:05
of about holding your parents accountable, and it's kind of
42:07
about holding the Sacklers accountable and keeping up appearances and
42:12
museums with the Sackler name and then trying to get
42:15
them to take the Sackler name down, and museums being
42:17
very uncomfortable with that because they were worried about the perception,
42:20
just the way her parents were worried about their perception.
42:22
I mean, it's all like very skillful anyway, I recommended.
42:25
I cried my head off, and me and my brother
42:27
talked for an hour and a half afterward about just
42:31
like the whole growing up, you know. And I really
42:34
don't mean that to be harsh on my parents. I
42:37
really don't. They were just following the rules, you know,
42:40
the rules where you get married and then you have
42:42
kids or else you're a freak, you know, and it
42:45
doesn't matter if you're not growing up enough to do that.
42:47
You just do it and it just leads to a
42:49
lot of trouble and and and you know it's still
42:52
going on anyway. That's it. That's my that's my now
42:55
you now, it's did I do a good job? I
42:59
didn't take over always what about big cop by our
43:02
Richard though, well there's that too. You can also just
43:05
like forget about your childhood and read about big cocks.
43:07
Yeah no, but I mean it's it's interesting too many
43:09
because I remember so much, like my parents talking about
43:14
the cycles that they were trying to break, like just
43:17
as adults. I remember, like as I got older and
43:20
like talking to my dad having like more adult conversations
43:22
with him, talking about the pressures of like growing up
43:26
in like the sixties, when people are just like the
43:28
funk mental health is like, look, I just fought in
43:31
the war, I'm black, the world is fucked up. We're
43:34
trying to make the best we can, and so many
43:37
things that get absorbed by like like you know, people
43:40
of my grandparents age their kids. It's interesting to see
43:43
how much how much self awareness it really fucking takes
43:46
to be able to be like fuck, like I could
43:48
do this breathlessly and keep these sort of cycles going,
43:52
or I you know, you need some level of self
43:54
awareness to know like, oh what am I doing this
43:57
thing where like I'm completely disregarding my child because they're
44:01
a child, and what do they know? Because this is
44:03
just how things should be in a house, etcetera, etcetera.
44:06
So it's like it's interesting to just see, like how
44:08
even now, like a documentary like this or a lot
44:10
more media now is about kind of looking at our
44:13
parents and kind of like having a reckoning with that.
44:16
And I think this is obviously in a much more
44:18
like clear eyed documentary way versus like a lot of
44:20
the narrative stuff that's come out the last year and
44:22
a half. Well how having to do it? Also, while
44:24
you don't want to disown your parents and you want
44:27
to love your parents like you know, you where you
44:29
can forgive them, but you also can't on some level
44:32
interact with them in that old way because it makes
44:34
you feel like kids. You know. It's like I just
44:36
when I'm around my parents, they are similar to the
44:39
way they used to be. So I start feeling like
44:41
that trauma because I feel like I'm eight years old again,
44:43
you know, and I feel like i'm because I mean,
44:45
the idea of asking your kid, how do you feel?
44:47
That's the thing was missing from that entire equation. So
44:51
like you know, when the when the parents grew up
44:53
and had kids, they also didn't ever have that question
44:56
asked to them. So like, you know, like the dad
44:58
was still trying to figure out how he felt about
45:00
his kids and stuff like, I mean, just didn't have
45:01
the language or the you know, it's like a learned
45:05
I think we're making progress anyway. I recommend this movie
45:07
very highly. I don't know if it's underrated or not,
45:10
but go see the what's it call again? All the
45:13
Beauty and the Blood? It's hard to remember. It's a
45:16
good it's a good title that. Yeah, I don't know
45:20
if he's quite up to a title like that, but
45:23
he would he would what what would he call it?
45:25
What would he call that movie? All the Beauty and
45:27
the Blood? Said, he would call it like it would
45:29
be called like it would be called like pain pills
45:31
and Naked Parents or something like that, like something like
45:35
worse than that. Yeah, I had heard about that because
45:38
it's on a lot of top ten lists, which actually
45:41
ties right into kind of one of our stories, the
45:43
Top Gun Maverick getting nominated for the Golden Globes, and
45:48
you know, the right is claiming that is like finally
45:50
Emeric is ready to like movies that are cool and
45:56
portray the military is sexy and this past weekend, Ao
46:01
Scott from The New York Times published his top ten
46:04
movies of the year, and All the Beauty and the
46:07
Bloodshed was number nine, but he was bombarded by trolls
46:11
because a self described movie podcaster criticized his list for
46:15
not including Maverick and Elon Musk hopped in and was like,
46:19
that's because the New York Times has gone full woke.
46:23
So that's that's the thing that's happening, Like I'm seeing
46:26
it with people who are fans of everything everywhere all
46:28
at once, are like beerrating people who don't put it
46:31
on the list, and people are like, I've never even
46:33
heard of So that same podcaster devoted a whole episode
46:37
of their show to criticizing Ao Scott's list of movies,
46:41
claiming that no one had ever seen any of them.
46:44
By the way, his number one was nope. Uh. And
46:47
also just like spent all the time talking about how
46:50
like no one had heard of any of these movies,
46:52
and they're a movie podcaster, like spending an hour bragging
46:57
about all the acclaimed movies you've never heard of. It's
47:00
the weird look for a movie podcaster. But I don't know, Yeah,
47:05
just if there's a list of movies that you don't know,
47:10
and people are saying, are good, there's probably a pretty
47:12
good chance that you're going to find some really compelling
47:15
ship on there, and and maybe don't just assume automatically
47:18
that everything that you saw that your must be way
47:22
better than that. Is it that they don't like that
47:25
it was left out of the top films? Are they
47:27
more invested in the narrative that Top Gun is the
47:29
best film of the year because pro military ship like
47:33
this is number one, you know what I mean? Like
47:36
it's not like saying like, well, you know, I feel
47:38
like this is that and the other. I feel like
47:39
it's almost like somebody who's upset that their top ten
47:42
list isn't reinforcing like this broader culture war a message
47:45
of like, dude, ship from the eighties is still fucking cool,
47:48
including our takes on policy and politicians. Right. Yeah, I
47:53
think big picture, they want the middle class back, you know,
47:56
somehow Top Gun represents some like for them, like America,
48:00
you know, like that's America. That's what America's about. Is
48:02
like everybody has a job and they're a pilot, you
48:06
know what I mean, That's what I remember about America.
48:08
Everybody was a pilot. And had a brand new plane
48:11
and plane and everything money in their pocket and did
48:13
karaoke and and had a hot girlfriend. That's what America was.
48:17
I'm a tired of New America. America did have a
48:20
middle class in the eighties. Everybody got a plane. I
48:22
remember when I was growing up. Y'all, everybody got a
48:24
plane that nice hair, everybody nice hair do, and sunglass.
48:27
Motorcycles were faster than fighter jets. Everyone was white. Everybody's
48:31
flying around the planes when I'm I missed that. That's
48:35
what I want to see in movies. I want to
48:36
see movies about when America had more planes in it,
48:41
and fast people and nice people and good people that
48:43
worked hard and had big heads and nice hair dues.
48:48
When Tom Cruise was everybody. I remember when I was
48:51
growing up, everybody looked like Tom Cruise. Everybody and had
48:54
a plane and it went fast, and they were strong
48:56
and fast and good and drank beer and didn't have
48:59
any trouble about it, sliding around houses on the wood
49:02
floors in our underwear, and they still want to work
49:06
even though they had a hangover and their kids or
49:09
their wife or anything. But that's why it was. That's
49:11
how it worked. And there's no such thing as PTSD. Yeah,
49:14
top Con is bringing back jobs to America. If every
49:17
movie is a woke movie, then we're not gonna have
49:19
as many jobs in this country. We need horror movies
49:22
about jobs facts. What's their love? Is it just that
49:25
it's all war like? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, bomb them. Well,
49:29
but it's interesting, right because so breap Bark columnists like
49:32
at the time said top Come Maverick is a masculine,
49:35
pro American, stridently non woke blockbuster. Um, the movie actually did,
49:41
like feature a more diverse cast than the original, and
49:45
if the movie bombed, like brepe Bart definitely would have
49:48
been like this is why it bombed because they had
49:51
the more diverse cast, so, you know, like they did
49:55
with Late Year for instance. Um, people need real like
49:58
they've gone crazy, and they think that movies can like
50:01
they think movies can like bring back the middle class
50:04
or something like we had enough movies about like jobs
50:06
or something. You know, like if we had more movies
50:08
and shown people acting normal like a regular person back
50:13
in the nineteen fifties like we all did, then people
50:15
would stop getting these crazy ideas and they would have
50:18
jobs again. Uh, you know, at the factories right, because
50:22
there's no major party that actually does anything that affects changed.
50:28
They This is the level that it gets fought at
50:31
is in conversations about Yeah, people have gone fucking crazy.
50:35
They've gone fucking crazy because the middle class has gone
50:38
away and and and and that just has led to
50:41
all kinds of trouble because because you know, I mean,
50:44
I don't I don't want to go off about it,
50:46
but but just that I feel like that's what people
50:49
are going crazy and they think things that have nothing
50:51
to do with why they're unhappy can fix why they're unhappy.
50:54
If the movies were just, you know, this way, then
50:58
everything can be fine, and I would be able to
51:00
get a girlfriend without being nice, just the way you
51:03
used to be able to. I wouldn't be an insult.
51:06
There are more movies about plane drivers. Everybody should drive
51:10
a plane and have a nice hair and tow and
51:11
then I can have a girlfriend. I mean, it's nutty
51:13
ship like this movie is taking away my opportunity to
51:18
get laid as a total piece of ship. Well, it's
51:21
this other thing too, or they think that the decisions
51:23
made by like fifteen people on the West side of
51:26
l A. It's like what's determining like the course of
51:30
humanity and our culture. Like I get it, You're like,
51:33
see this thing that did well aligned a little bit
51:36
more with my like raw raw jingleistic bullshit that I'm into.
51:40
But then to be like and because that's there, we're
51:43
winning that fight. When the real reason you're looking at
51:46
people like you know, move into the ideologies they are.
51:49
It's not because the fucking movies, because of what their
51:51
lived experiences are. And I get yeah, Like to everyone's point,
51:54
it's like yeah, but it's easier to be like yeah, yeah,
51:56
top Gun, top Gun, Top Gun. Yea, we just need
51:59
more top guns. We had just movies like The Passion
52:02
of the Christ and Top Gun on the top ten list,
52:06
everyone would have a job in two cars and health
52:09
insurance like they used to. Actually, Chris, I'll go one better.
52:12
No one would even need health insurance because they would
52:15
be imbued with the message of Christ's love. That's how
52:18
I see us getting around this whole health insurance can
52:20
under him honestly. Also, every fucking clunky dude has never
52:25
been seen by his parents, who doesn't know how to
52:27
ask a girl out because he's got no self worth
52:29
because he was treated like a lamp by his goddamn
52:32
religious parents or whatever. He doesn't know how to get
52:36
on a date anymore because no movies are telling him
52:38
how to do it. You know how any fucking people
52:40
must have actually reenacted that you've lost that love and
52:44
feeling and seen from fucking top gun and successfully seduced
52:48
someone because they saw it in a movie. Like how
52:50
many people probably got wives and husbands out of doing
52:53
things they saw movies? Remember like the underwear seen thee
52:57
oh man, I'm married Brad because he impersonated the underwear
53:00
scene from Risky Business perfectly. We dated it on our
53:03
wedding day, came out at our wedding and came out
53:06
of the cake and head underwear on. Miles might remember
53:09
from when we worked in the same office. But I
53:11
don't enter a room to the other way. Hills go
53:15
up my spine when I hear then then then the
53:19
whole personality come from that movie. Apparently I didn't know that.
53:22
But yes, Jack's always sliding and that if there are
53:25
no movies to copy like that, how are we going
53:27
to have a life? Like you know that's true because yeah,
53:29
you think of like people who was like especially like
53:32
the kinds of maga sort of like charismatic figures. They're
53:35
the kinds of people who could be like, I can
53:37
fucking quote every Meatballs film and that used to get
53:41
me jobs. Yeah, and like that made me the funniest
53:44
fucking person. Now when I say ship like that, I'm
53:47
a misogynt and no one even knows what it is. Does.
53:50
Everybody's got different streaming service because the movies are saying
53:54
that that's not good anymore. And I think that's an
53:56
interesting point, is like dudes whose whole personality was based
53:59
on movies are like, well, this ship is getting me
54:02
in trouble and I don't know any other way. And
54:04
I would argue that was most of America. Anybody who's
54:07
ever had a regular job that kept these kind of
54:09
people occupied. So they wouldn't be yelling at some movie
54:12
reviewer because they didn't know any of the movies was.
54:14
They would be too busy getting laid by impersonating Meatballs.
54:18
And now they're like, oh, like, I can't impersonate anything
54:21
because you know, another thing about not being seen as
54:24
a kid is you don't develop a personality. So you
54:26
develop a pop culture personality. And it used to be
54:28
in the nineties, you wanted to get laid, you talked
54:30
about fucking Seinfeld. Everybody wants the same joke. Nobody, nobody
54:35
can get laid anymore. Who's an idiot? Yeah, you're like,
54:37
I don't have all the streaming services. If we had,
54:40
every movie was top Gune, I could impersonate that movie
54:43
and then I could get laid and then I can
54:45
have a life. But now people have made it so
54:48
I gotta know stuff and have a personality. One conservative
54:54
TV host claimed that back in June, specifically because the
54:57
box office success of Maverick happened, that that was going
55:01
to translate into votes for the Republicans in the upcoming
55:04
midterm election. People are so fucking stupid. Yeah, it's funny
55:10
doing like people who are like who's whose takes are
55:12
actually being like considered by like political leadership or like, dude,
55:17
that movie did well. People will forget that you're taking
55:20
away human rights and completely ignoring earth death or just
55:24
like living wages. Yeah, yeah, that'll do it. Top Guns
55:27
doing well. I think they're ready for the reversus Wade reversal. Yeah,
55:32
Like I think I've read the room. Oh we were wrong,
55:36
Oh we were better keep pressing. Samuel Alito probably watches
55:42
fucking m I can't even imagine. Probably watch the original
55:46
Top Gun Nonsense. Probably he probably watched soul Man to
55:50
prepare to like meet Clarence Thomas. Imagine Judge Alito's sense
55:54
of humor probably total straight up like you lost that
55:57
love and feeling like assal with assault ship and just
56:00
always close talking people after a dissenting opinion and saying
56:03
you can still be my wing man exactly. Yeah, like
56:07
it's way too close. Yeah, in the lunch room at
56:10
the fucking Supreme Court. Yeah, the Supreme Court, fucking Commas,
56:14
Supreme Court. Calf Yeah, he's like, you lost that love
56:17
and feeling. We have folks, stop gun Goose, stop gun Goose.
56:25
Have my funny? Uh you some more of a Maverick. Actually,
56:30
I'll take the Mavericks day. I have ya. I'm talking
56:34
about the potato. Come on, girl, what do you mean?
56:37
I ain't cool? How to? What are you so excited about? Alito?
56:45
I just overturned roversus weight fucking dark Well, Chris as
56:52
always a true pleasure having you on the dailies, like
56:54
Geist where some people Yeah, holy god, I funked it
56:59
up again in one topic that's we did so much
57:05
more than that. We talked about parenting the relics of
57:10
eighties films and explaining the situation we're in today. Who
57:14
the are Richard is Chris? Come on now, baby, you
57:17
introduced us to our Richard. I'm so glad to be
57:20
on the show again. I always am. I'm not getting
57:22
the I really I'm grateful for you guys, and UM,
57:26
wish you continued success. I don't know why I said
57:28
that part, but I wish he continued success. That's just
57:31
straight cold brew. Um. That's everybody when I leave a
57:34
room success, that's cold brew guy. UM. You can find
57:40
me at the Crofton Show on Twitter. I've been on
57:43
there less lately just because I've been having more jobs
57:47
to do. Uh, but I'll be doing the poetry window
57:50
on there and Instagram at the Crofton Show as well,
57:53
and most importantly, go see my show. I'm playing live
57:57
in Chattanooga this Thursday. Um. I'm reading from a book,
58:02
I'm playing music, I'm doing stand up, all the same,
58:04
all the same show like the Criss Crofton Variety our
58:08
and um, that's in Chattanooga this Thursday night at Lomaine
58:12
The Bar is called Lomaine and a great comedian named
58:14
Sam Severan is opening up for me. And then December
58:18
in um Nashville. I'm also doing a show at the
58:20
five Spot here in town. And go listen to our
58:23
podcast and I have a new podcast behind the paywall
58:26
on Patreon for three bucks a month, you can listen
58:28
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58:31
artists that I love and I've done six episodes on
58:34
that and I've the most recent ones about John Denver.
58:38
And is there a tweet or some other work of
58:41
social media you've been enjoying? Oh yeah, I did that again.
58:44
I always funked that up, you guys go first. Okay, Miles,
58:48
how about you? Where can people find you with Twitter
58:51
and Instagram? And you know other play I think how
58:55
was it? Hive Social? And the Master Master We're gonna
59:04
call it mastered on though, just so you know officially
59:06
on this show it's called mastered on. Uh yeah, at
59:10
Miles of Gray. You want to hear basketball, well, guess
59:13
what you can check Jack and I out on our
59:15
basketball podcast, Miles and Jack Got Mad boost these okay
59:19
every Thursdays talking NBA. And then also if you wanna
59:22
hear me talk ninety fiance. Check my other podcast out
59:25
with Sophia Alexandra for twenty day Fiance and a tweet
59:29
that I like. Man, obviously I like everything that's talking
59:33
about Elon Musk just getting fucking booed to hell at
59:36
the Chase Center. But I'll just I'll just like this tweet,
59:40
which is just very straightforward an article about that event.
59:44
It's from Dr Angela Rasmussen at Angie Underscore. Rasmuson tweeted
59:48
new Twitter might be hardcore, but it's got nothing on reality.
59:51
Quote this is from this Gizmodo album The booing got
59:54
louder Is Musk wandered around on stage with a microphone
59:57
in hand. Musk started pacing and waving clear the unsure
1:00:00
what to do about such a negative reaction the videos
1:00:04
straight into me, veins he deserves every fucking bit of it,
1:00:08
although it's not his fault because he shouldn't exist. He
1:00:11
should be checked out of existence. Yeah, he should be
1:00:13
a regular guy who just wants to be best friends
1:00:16
with Dave Chappelle and also Dave Chappelle, My god, would
1:00:18
a cell phone that dude? He was doing Buddha lingus
1:00:23
On Elon Musk for like five minutes in this Wow,
1:00:26
look who I brought up? It was who all kinds think? Yeah,
1:00:31
Dave Chappelle brought out Elon Musk for like the last
1:00:34
eight ten minutes of his show at the in San Francisco,
1:00:37
and he got food to the apps just off the earth,
1:00:40
and they both didn't know what to do. Like even
1:00:42
Dave Chappelle was like, I thought my cred would at
1:00:45
least protect him, and everyone's like, nah, funk all you
1:00:48
Jesus at grill Pill. Underscore tweeted, babe, you want to
1:00:52
come over and read too far into each other's tone?
1:00:55
You do? Why did you say it like that? And
1:00:58
then z Emerson World of Echo tweeted blue Read voice,
1:01:04
Oh when it's we're at Boys, my wife, Loue Reid,
1:01:09
Boys and bon Jovi Voice, it's my life. Um, I've
1:01:14
enjoyed that. You can find me on Twitter at Jack
1:01:18
Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily
1:01:20
Zey Guys. We're at the Daily Zyeys on Instagram. We
1:01:23
have a Facebook fan page and a website Daily zycheys
1:01:27
dot com. We can find our episodes and our footnotes.
1:01:31
But before we get to the music recommendation. Chris, did
1:01:34
you find a tweet you've been enjoying? I found it tweet,
1:01:37
but it's my tweet that's perfect. So it's attention Red
1:01:40
Hot Chili Peppers. I just thought of this lyric and
1:01:43
you can have it. I put a clam in the
1:01:46
file cabinet. I'll put the clam in the file clapt Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:01:53
The first one I ever put up was I hit
1:01:55
of Dolphin with the yardstick. So there's a lot of
1:02:00
If you like Red Hutchili Peppers, are you you know
1:02:03
that's that's what I do? Amazing? Um miles, how about
1:02:07
a song? Is their song? Put the plan in the
1:02:10
failing cabiness, I put the clan in the funk. I'll
1:02:20
go through the shows off my personal life of Dwight Eisenhower.
1:02:25
Another one was Dwight Eisenhower with a two can on
1:02:27
his shoulder, And then I see I can't even do
1:02:36
it with a two can on his shoulder. Okay, I
1:02:39
got on your shoulder, girl, What song are we gonna do? Oh?
1:02:42
I found this this. I heard this wild mash up
1:02:45
on the radio on caser W that was mashing up
1:02:48
Portishead with Griselda and it's Mtron's mashed with dr Birds
1:02:54
And I could only find this on YouTube, so search
1:02:57
cuts so c U T s Oh, it's like this
1:02:59
d who does these mashups? And search for Mr Birds
1:03:04
M Y S T E r B I r d
1:03:06
S mr Birds because it's obviously a commodation of those two. Uh,
1:03:10
this kind of a really it's like not the most
1:03:13
like complex mash up, but it's nice to see how
1:03:15
like the two instrumentals work together. So this is Mr
1:03:19
Birds by cuts up. Well the daily is that guys,
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