Cold Brew Got Me Like

Chris predicts the election...WRONG. Chris rants incoherently about skateboarding. ALSO: Antidepressants, and the "Mom & Pop" pharmaceutical company. PLUS: A great new Can Do Cold Brew ad, and a song of the week from The Features!! The Features - "The Idea of Growing Old": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiH8x4bmusA Cold Brew Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton Channel Nonfiction: ChannelNonfict...

Buffalo Tom - "Postcard": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZZ2OojSE7A Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton TRUSTEE   -for Carol Cash my trustees always regarded me with suspicion  like I was going to get them in trouble for being too lively  especially as a young child, in restaurants my female trustee would always look real nervous and say:  “Chris, you need to be quiet. You’re bothering the normal...

Richie Havens - "Follow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEazNNJEcm0 Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton DOGS BARKING - for Gabriel Aguirre  that’s one of  the big things I’ll remember about this planet  that and mom and thunderstorms  other than that I can’t think… oh, kissing  that’s another big one 

Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhiM5gXRZM Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton WE AREN’T THE FIRST we’re the only ones alive right now  the only ones in the whole history of the world to be alive right now  so let’s steel ourselves  with the muscles of kindness against the ones among us who have lost their nerve and are trying to find some shortcut to salvation...

The future: Invisible, heat-tolerant bubble-monkeys having a blast writing about the "Instagram Period" of human history. ALSO: Confused 3rd century farmers listening to podcasts and destroying their own wheat stash. PLUS: The only time George W. Bush felt comfortable during his entire presidency was when he ducked that shoe. A song of the week from The Sonics!! The Sonics - "Shot Down": https://w...

Kenny Rogers - "Daytime Friends": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ9QvfnIJUk Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton JUDGEMENTAL BARISTA  -for Simon Workman in light of every microphone being owned by iHeartRadio - which is also Ticketmaster and also Live Nation and iHeartRadio is just  Clear Channel, renamed in light of the diabolical hedge-funders  rebranded as TED-talkers, offering for-profit amends...

*COLD BREW CONVERSATIONS*: Chris Talks with a Special Guest - Comedian Greg Edwards!  Greg Edwards IG: https://www.instagram.com/gregcomedy?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Cold Brew Patreon:  Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton Can Do Cold Brew:  CanDoColdBrew.com

Brian Protheroe - "Pinball": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87berJKi2ek Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton DRY CLEAN - for Athena I hope no one ever asks me  to dry clean anything  because I don’t know the first thing about it and that reminds me that I don’t know the first thing about a lot of things it also reminds me to pick up my dry cleaning 

Loudon Wainwright III - "You Can't Fail Me Now": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVnH9r7NF28 Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton TAPE HISS - for Sam Armstrong  my youth tape hiss which is what what is which  a Maxell XLII was my first kiss  like the tree frogs at night  like the beat of my heart like aroaring teenage tide  I rocked and rolled all night yes I did  tape hiss 

Billy Joel - "I've Loved These Days":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQkkiD-x8k Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton PROJECT 2050 - for Seth Desrochers In 2050 the babies born now  will be 26 years old the project is to leave them a world to inhabit  the project is not going well we refuse to age gracefully  all because of some poem by Dylan Thomas  stop raging at the dying light  you 90 yr old li...

Mom is reading the intro to Chris's audio book. The musical crimes of Greta Van fleet. ALSO: Greta van Fleet fans are boomers. America refuses to grow up, and that’s its biggest problem. PLUS: The worst things in the world are the result of hyper-individualism, and how the JFK assassination figures into America's decline. AND a Can Do Cold Brew ad!!!! Husker Du - "It's Not Funny Anymore": https://...

The Monroes: "What Do All the People Know": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUM5SON8shg Cold Brew Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton “Locals still calling things what they used to be called  long after they have been renamed or replaced”     -for Ted Frushour I’m looking forward to the days following the great correction  when the survivors emerge from the caves  blinking in the morning dew and sta...

Crowded House - "Fall at Your Feet": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROiU9kOHeE Cold Brew Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton SHAG CARPET - for Simon Workman I can picture little people as small as an ants walking the little trails in the shadow of the stalks of shag (in my mind the carpet is dark green) it’s sometime in the 1970s but the wee folk who live in the shag don’t know that  they just thi...

Flyte - "White Roses": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPdS4StZq8 Cold Brew Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton BUYING A TINY HOUSE ON AMAZON - for Marci Kelley I am going to pretend that you mean  that you want to buy a tiny house on the Amazon River because there are some topics too dark to discuss - even for poets  soooo the poem is: don’t make it too tiny because a hippopotamus will knock it ov...

*COLD BREW CONVERSATIONS*: Chris Talks with a Special Guest - Comedian Allen Strickland Williams!  Allen Strickland Williams IG: https://www.instagram.com/allenstricklandwilliams?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Cold Brew Patreon:  Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton Can Do Cold Brew:  CanDoColdBrew.com

Tristen - "Complex": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Vs3Q1ddno&list=RDx6Vs3Q1ddno&start_radio=1 Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton MINERS GOTTA MINE - for Stephanie Dooley my wife said that I said this in my sleep  and I didn’t believe her it made me so mad because I figured she thought I was stupid after that  which I secretly feared (that I was stupid) so I started drinking heavily  and...

Paying $4 for three cents worth of glop. ALSO: An idea for a 40 second podcast about the Loch ness Monster - multiple episodes daily. PLUS: Greg's done with oat milk, a new Can Do Cold Brew ad and a song of the week from Whores!!! Whores - "Hieronymus Bosch Was Right": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIajY9cADH4 Cold Brew Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton Channel Nonfiction: ChannelNonfiction.com...

Dehd - "Hard to Love": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eN4UYjU0cg Patreon: Patreon.com/ChrisCrofton THE LOCAL LIBRARY - for Marcus Fessler put on sensible shoes  and stroll through the racks  breathe in the scents: the banana of poetry  the mildew of politics the incense of myth  and a pressed flower in a book that hasn’t  been opened since that summer day in 1887 when Kathleen McGregor was so ha...

Bee Gees - "Mr. Natural": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFulEf2aylE "Devil at Your Heels" - Ken Carter doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjuyBboubDc&t=2436s CRANES AND THEIR OPERATORS - for Sam Armstrong this job is underestimated crane operators have more power than the Pope the Pope can’t operate a crane and neither can the money men at BlackRock so stop giving all your money to the Dem...

John Denver - "Looking For Space": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMyzyPmVSdw CLOCKING IN/CLOCKING OUT - for Gabriel Aguirre I have one of those time clocks at home  and I clock in when I’m writing a poem and clock out when I’m not  no money in it  no boss  I just like making a fool out of that machine

Sebadoh - "Tree": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwl0-Ad0V4k NEEDING TIME TO GRIEVE IN THE REDWOODS - for Carol Cash Redwoods avoid cliches that’s what I like about them best words  are meant to label things and send them along  in times of grief  language can feel like an affront  Redwoods hold out their arms  that’s a ll 

*COLD BREW CONVERSATIONS*: Chris Talks with a Special Guest - Comedian Kristen Toomey!  Kristen Toomey IG: https://www.instagram.com/kristentoomey?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Can Do Cold Brew: CanDoColdBrew.com

Folk Implosion - "One Part Lullaby": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W1bBrClD0k NORMIES LOVE EDM - for Zach Prosser Normies love EDM it said on the wall  in black spray paint I took out my can of red spray paint with the intention of adding  “Because lyrics provoke thought. And thought slows the transfer of capital”  but before I could, I was tased by a drone  and the beat goes on

The poem "Delivering Uber Eats in the Middle of a Deadly Hurricane," and the song "Beautiful Beat" by Nada Surf!!!! "Beautiful Beat" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNJItWQ6fQ

The poem "Writer's Block," and The Wedding Present's "It's a Gas"!!!!! Good morning! "It's a Gas" -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMkyimsgUWI