The Daily Zeitgeist - New Congress = Total SH** SHOW, Human Walk Decoded? 01.06.23

Episode Date: January 6, 2023

In episode 1396, Jack and Miles are joined by actor, writer, director, and comedian, Rob Michael Hugel, to discuss... New Year New Congress!!!! Capitol Tour Guides Are Pretending That Jan. 6 Never Happened, The Secret of The Human Walk and more! New Year New Congress!!!! Brian Kilmeade Calls McCarthy Holdouts ‘Insurrectionists,’ Then Scrambles to Take it Back: ‘Probably Shouldn’t Use That Word’ Capitol Tour Guides Are Pretending That Jan. 6 Never Happened Off limits: No mention of Jan. 6 insurrection on U.S. Capitol tours Airport engineer nominated to be next Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Trump’s Architect of the Capitol Abused Power by Offering Private Tours to ‘Patriots,’ Watchdog Says Federal watchdog accuses Architect of the Capitol of ethics violations over offer to give ‘patriots’ tours The Secret of The Human Walk LISTEN: Rumble by Skrillex, Fred Again.. & FlowdanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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2023 i wrote the date yesterday as december 5th 2022 and just like noticed it after the fact like didn't even catch myself in the moment just like noticed it the next day it was like wow that was it wasn't even close this is the hardest fucking week to start writing 23 like to start doing the year change because i remember always in class like when you go back to school you need to date papers you were writing every that first week i was like i would slow down to be like, don't do the same. Yes, nailed it.

Also, January 6th, big day, Jack. You know that. I just noticed that it's January 6th. Like, Jan 6th. Jan Sixers. Unite. Yeah, the day we celebrate the true patriots in this country.

With National Technology Day, National Cuddle Up Day, National Bean Day, National Shortbread Day. Shout out to the Lagumes. It's also Jordan year. Michael Jordan's year. Oh yeah, 2-3. Got the 2-3 on you. Shout out to Michael Jordan and anyone with

the balls to wear the number 23 after Michael Jordan. Yeah. Here's looking at you LeBron James. Yeah, but then he switched out. Nah, but he's alright. Here's looking at you, LeBron James. Yeah, but then he switched out. Nah, but he's all right. Yeah, look, I mean, he's about to take Kareem's score. Oh, man.

That guy's good at basketball. Turns out. Hey, speaking of people who are good at basketball, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. some folks are born made to fit in pants. Ooh, waist size 32. And when the band plays Lord of the Thighs, oh, they point the camera at you, Lord. It ain't me.

It ain't me. Ain't no pants for these plumpers, son. Wow, that is courtesy of Mr. Lex Lugie. I got a flurry of bi-related AKAs over the past couple days, and that is my sign. That's like the groundhog seeing his shadow. That is my sign that I'm ready to record again. Just a flurry of thigh-related AKAs.

Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! It's Miles Gray, and I know that a lot happened while we were gone, so to start things off, let me reference the absolute airplane debacle that happened during the break with this lovely AKA. This plane's not leaving from O.R.D. They said no pie, lit Lit and the crew all rolled. Next plane home cost about 90 G's.

So I have a choice. I either walk home or no get Lambo. Okay, that was a little bit off. It's been a while since I sang this love by Maroon 5, but you get the point. They get the point. Also, where is Pete Buttigieg during all that? Aren't you like the secretary of transport aren't you supposed to be the person who comes to and be like hey what the fuck is going on in here i'm mad at him man y'all should be mad at him but nobody's talking about that

everyone's like what's up with southwest i'm like what about the fucking regulators if biden teeth fall out of his head or something we We might need him. So we have to go easy. Anyway, that was, that was fucked up. That was from fighter of the night, man, fighter of the night,

man. A discord. Thank you. Shout out to fighter of the night, man. Shout out to everybody who got stranded and, or had your plans. Absolutely fucked up.

We've even within our own team, people's plans. Yeah. Messed up. It even happens to us, you know, on this team, on the West Coast.

That's right. Anyways, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny actor, writer, director, comedian, web series pioneer, French horn player. Yes. Who helped create the web series Camp Confessions. I've heard of that. Shannon. Shannon Coffey. Shout out.

One of our favorite guests here. I keep hearing. Directed Broad City, the web series that launched the show. Please welcome the brilliant, the hilarious Rob Michael Hugo. Rob Michael. Hello. Hello. Everyone was singing so much.

I really got to get a tune in there. Yeah. You got to do. There it is. And there's the tune that we were all waiting for from Rob. That's my ditty to contribute. How's everyone doing? Yadda do.

You know, I'm actually pretty happy to be back. We had a recording of our NBA-based podcast on Tuesday, and I felt like I was going to die. I was suffering from the bends that sort of return to the surface work experience. Brutal. I don't think it's unique to me, but I think I get it chronically and badly. And it was a bad day. But the episode was fine. We had a great guest.

Oh, it was fantastic. Great. Mercury is in retrograde. That's right. Oh, it is? All bets are off these days. I keep saying, I hate when that happens. It's retrograding AF right now.

We're going to have to take this episode from the top. Sorry. Please calm down, Marie Curie. Yes. Stop being a retrograde. Rob, where are you coming to us from? I'm in Hollywood, California. All right.

All right. Right underneath the sign. You can almost see it from my roof. Is your home leaking? Is your apartment? Not today. Not today, but it was. Look at you, sir. But right before Thanksgiving, my walls were literally leaking.

Oh. I heard right before I fell asleep the night before I left town, I heard a pitter-pat. And I was like, what is that sound? It sounds like a mouse is in my house. And I felt around, and there was a drip on the pillow next to me. Oh, shit. And there was the ceiling and the wall just dripping down. But thankfully, they fixed it.

I haven't had any problems since. Yeah. There you go. That's what happens, especially in LA. I haven't had any problems since. Yeah. There you go. That's what happens, especially in LA.

It doesn't rain much, but when it does, the homes aren't built for it. Yeah. And neither are the people. No, the landlords are not built for it. I'll tell you. No. Suddenly their phones don't work. Yeah. Yeah.

Really? Oh, that's weird. It's leaking again? Oh, is it because I haven't repaired the roof in 25 years? Yeah. Don't worry. I'll send someone up to stick a piece of gum in the hole. I'm sure that'll help.

Is it because we built your house out of Lincoln lugs? Yeah. There's a nice cross breeze, though. You know? Yeah. I'm loving the rain, though. Yeah. The rain is nice.

We need it. It's moody, and it cleans the air out. And Los Angeles, after it rains rains is a beautiful, beautiful city. Yeah. It kind of reminds you that you're like living in an actual place and not just a backdrop. Right. Exactly. Yeah.

There's some depth. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like the dust in the air kind of robs everything of depth and it does all look like a matte set painting type thing. It's an establishing shot of insecure but whatever yeah all right rob we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today new year new congress

ish ish sort of they're trying doing their best here, folks. It's not happening. We are going to talk about Capitol tour guides and how they deal with January 6th. Because Capitol's back open for business. Americans from all across this great land are showing up. And they're like, the crypt. I remember them talking about that when people were invading the Capitol. And the tour guides are not allowed to talk about it. were invading the Capitol, and the tour guides are not allowed to talk about it. I personally don't blame them, unless you want to make Capitol tour guide the highest paid position in Washington.

I don't know what you can do to make it worth it for the Capitol tour guides to debate what actually happened on January 6th with people. But anyways, we'll talk about that. We will talk about there's been a scientific breakthrough with regards to the human walk, why we walk the way we walk. There's apparently a second bounce in our gate that has mystified scientists for a little while.

So we have an explanation that I thought was just a fun story. It helps you kind of... Appreciate that second bounce. Yeah. Appreciate the second bounce. All of that. Plenty more. But first, Rob, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history?

Okay. Types of onion. Oh, cool. You said that like you were coming up with a family feud answer. I know because I feel like it's like everything else I looked at was technical, boring, whatever. What's a boring one? Okay, let's get a boring one out of the way just so I know. Just so I have the spectrum.

Like how to set a file path in your Adobe Premiere capture scratch disk or something. Not boring to our audience. We all get that. Let's go back to types of bugs. Hey, were you on Final Cut 7 before, or were you always Premiere? I wasn't Final Cut 7 until about 2013.

Hey, I hear you, man. Remember when X came out? Everyone was like, what the heck is this? That was a bad time. You can map the key commands from Final Cut onto Adobe. That helped a few of us switch, didn't it? All right, Jack. What were you saying again? Types of onions. Types of onions. Something more important. Types of onions,

guys. So what were you looking at? What was going on with that one? I don't know, but I do cook. So this is like, it might have had to do with making a soup. I've been trying to make a lot of soups. This is soup season. I feel like I'm very imprecise with the, if there is a

significant difference between the types of onions like and i i think there is but they're like this is a sweet one this is yeah yeah i i'm very imprecise the the two types of onions i'm aware of are white and red and that's about as in depth and detailed as as I get. You got shallots? Sure. You got green onions? Yeah, I guess those are specific types of things that I recognize. Yellow, white. Yeah, yellow and white get mixed up for me, for sure.

I don't know what the need for them is, actually, if you're going to go for a yellow or a white. I'm looking right now. Some of them are just like the size of a fucking pumpkin, and you're just like cutting it with a sword. They say the yellow is your standard, but they're really good for caramelizing. The best onion to caramelize is a yellow onion.

Okay, let's see. And then it's funny because then it'll say, sweet onions, good for salads, relishes, garnishes. Red onions, good for salads, it's funny. Cause then it'll say sweet onions. Good for salads, relishes, garnishes, red onions. Good for salads, grilling, pickling. So grilling and pickling give the red, the edge there. And they say white onions. I like how these go Mexican dishes.

Like, yo, if you're doing that, don't, yeah, don't, you don't, don't chop up the cilantro with a red onion. Now make sure you got a white onion. That makes sense. Yeah. Well, another thing in the search history I did was Phillipsillips crab does that mean anything to any of you no is that a type of tool it's it's a brand of crab meat it's oh i thought it was like a screwdriver my bad it's crab crab i'm doing a little hand yes yes yes sorry i'm no i'm still coming back to earth from uh two weeks of sickness pandora miles on avatar tooth 30 times during the break yeah exactly yeah that's why i was picturing yeah crab based tools yeah i was just trying to see if the critics got

it wrong but i don't think they did it turns out uh but anyway wait so what's Phillips Crab? It's like. It's a brand of crab meat. Phillips has like crab houses in Maryland area, Baltimore area. Okay. And that's where I am from originally. And so I was, I searched Phillips Crab because I took big crab meat home from home, home to here. I flew on the plane with raw crab meat wow and then i cooked my girlfriend crab cakes wow with the phillips recipe wait but was it blue crab yeah that's right blue crab okay i want to make sure you're and was there some natty bow involved too see you know a lot of

baltimore bro i'm i'm all over well actually a, actually, full disclosure. Miles is just Googling it. My wife. No, no, my wife is from Maryland. So I've got enough Maryland culture. Yes, that's good. I didn't have any natty bow. I couldn't go that hard. I don't know how to. It's easier to fly crab across the country than beer. I know, right?

And then getting it. I saw a place that sold it out in LA. They were like, they had Marylanders like by the throat because they were like, yeah, man, we got Natty Bo, but it's like 20 bucks for a six-pack. It tastes like garbage, but you gotta pay. That's a crime. And people are like, but I

just love the logo. It is the logo. I grew up with that logo. It's a weird cartoon. Pringles man with one eye, basically. Anyway, yeah. That was my Google search. I don't know. Does it tell you about me? I think I got it. I think I got everything in it. You brought big crab energy

into this podcast recording, so I was ready for that answer. It is a lump thing. I'm a lump snob, so lump me. If you have a crab, if you go anywhere, generally anywhere else other than Maryland, and you're like, crab cake.

You get a crab cake. It's like a little thin like hockey shred it up and the meat is like thready shreddy it's not sufficient looks like hair clip barbershop clippings yeah exactly or like if you if you if somehow crab meat was extracted in a dryer like whatever was in the lint catch it's like yes the crab catch you're like no what about the bigint catch, it's like, what becomes a crab catch? They're like, no, what about the big chunky pieces? And they're like,

no, no, no. Take the lint catch. Yeah. You don't even see that stuff outside of the area, I think. Is lump ever good other than with crab meat?

I feel like lumps is usually a bad thing. The presidents of the United States are the actual. Yeah. She's in my head. That's true. She's lump. That's true. She's lump. She's lump. She's lump. Yeah, I thought that was about a brain tumor, but okay.

Oh, is it? It could be. She's lump. She's lump. She's lump in my head. Come on. Oh my God. Come on. Who's naive now? No. I just made that up. I don't think that's true. Anyways, what is something you think is overrated, Rob? Oh, all right.

This is controversial, I think. Maybe. I think micro dosing. Micro dosing. Extremely overrated these days. Go on. You're all about the macro dose? You a psychonaut over here?

I'm not an expert in any way. Okay. I'm a novice at best. Okay. But everyone's like, it's coming, like everywhere I turn, it's micro dosing everywhere. Yeah. And I've tried these little like gummies. Mm-hmm.

And you're just like, oh, I'll take one of these and you're like wait and it's like okay i don't know i think the micro dose is just an excuse to sell more of these doses what what dose what chemical compound are we talking about specifically it's still kind of gummies okay so you got psilocybin gummies see when i do it i don't i don't like pre-measured anything. I'll be in control of it. But even then, I think there's a difference. I think there's the one version of microdosing that got hugely popular in 2015 because of all the Silicon Valley people who were like, I'm microdosing LSD and I'm opening up new parts of my brain or whatever.

It's done amazing things for my coding. Right, right right right and then also then there's the version too that i people also say micro dosing which is like don't take so much that you have a like you overdose on mushrooms and have a full trip just enough to get goofy and open and i think that's i think there's a reconciliation of those two definitions that probably has to happen but i think for yeah like trying to i think that like you're saying these marketed versions i think there's something a little bit interesting about that because it feels like they're really capitalizing on like the interest in it rather than like what's the most effective thing or whatever yeah because

i'm seeing i mean i'm seeing because everyone should be careful when taking drugs obviously like i i'm so i'm so skittish and supportive of like being careful. But these, like the package says like, you know, take a microdose, take like one a day for five days in a row. And like, if you do that, it's like, it actually is, it's just like equivalent to nothing.

Like, I don't think it's expanding your mind. I think you're just eating a gummy and getting ready to buy another pack of gummies in a couple of days. Right. Oh, so for you, your experience has been like, all right, let's go. Let's turn a corner with this little gummy. And then it's like, what the fuck is this? Like, this ain't.

Yeah, you're just like, OK, I don't know. I guess I'll take more. I don't know. And then a whole day goes by and you're like, I think I should have taken 20. Right. Like, I think i should have just taken 20 i don't know what i'm doing with this it's not yeah you gotta anything yeah there's some guidance definitely helps yeah the way i've heard of it being used is like so it's supposed to be

sub perceptual like below the level of perception and it's meant to replace like antidepressants in some case not not replace but be an alternative that people are free to explore if they're interested in trying it but that's so so i mean in the same way that like you don't take you know antidepressant to feel something you know other than over time it like i think that's the only context that i've heard it being kind of medically advised but yeah if you're looking to like actually feel something it doesn't i agree i think the bottom look so back in the day i did like i i interviewed this guy james fadiman who's like one of like the pioneers of like, you know, psychedelic use and micro dosing. And like, it's if I think the biggest benefit are probably for people who like would obviously have that kind of experience under the supervision of like a

professional who's actually trying to help understand how that would help you because I think it's it's gone into the recreational space or just like you hear about it and like all of these things that it's helped in like these studies with very like specific applications that i think it gets a little bit muddied where it's like oh shit i want to like and now like i want to buy that when that's not necessarily like i had the most it took like a meeting with this doc like this guy james fadiman for me to even have an experience that like i was understanding what i need to be looking for and that helped tremendously like for example like facilitating anxiety over like creating stuff like if i would sit down to write i used to fucking really wait and like do a lot

in my head before i would even like start moving my hands on a keyboard and like he would do this experiment after a microdose like you wait and he's like okay let's try something like why don't you just like write something you're feeling and i just didn't i didn't wait like like we're doing a lot of ab testing before like just for fun like let's play operation okay right and let's see how you do off like just normal and i was like so in my head and focused and trying to get everything done at a certain time and then after i'd done like a microdose i was just engaging with the process just differently where i was like, Oh, you know what, I'm just going to try and take all these out without getting in my head. And I think it's different for many people. But I get your point,

because the marketing of it does almost seem like you're like, Yeah, man, here's the magic jelly bean. But that well, also, if you watch, like, I watched one of those Netflix documentaries where they like, you know, show people doing these experiments and like doing the guided dosing and everything. And they do the mega dose and everything. It's like people see God and realize that life is infinite and that they're not going to die and that everything is great. And I was like, Oh yeah. Like, where's that? Right.

Yeah. Of course. Like it doesn't, it doesn't add up. Yeah, totally. You're not going to get that without like a really intense dose and experience.

Yeah. I mean, I was going to say overrated the American office. Am I right? But yeah, we already covered it. I think you guys had great, great. Those were great reactions, which make me feel more educated than less.

Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. I'm just a, I'm just a guy trying to take as many mushrooms as possible. That's where we're landing. I'm just a guy standing in front of you trying to take as many mushrooms as possible. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll do an underrated and we'll get into some news. Fantasy football fans, the NFL season is here and now is the time to get ready to dominate your leagues. The best way to crush your opponents this season is to listen to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Come hang out with me, Marcus Grant, and my pal Michael F. Florio as we give you all the info you need to absolutely steamroll your fantasy league and bring home a championship.

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Scented candles. Okay. Just across the board. You go into someone's house and they've been burning like a PF candle. And immediately you feel a little safer. You feel like. What's a PF candle? Well, it's a brand.

It's like a, it's a, it's a accessible hip brand. Okay. Of candle. Of scented candle. Oh yeah. Yeah. The brown jar with the little label. Yes. Yeah, they're like everywhere. They're like huge,

but it's an LA-based relatively independent company, I think. But not Yankee Candles. I'm not... I was talking about candles for a while to a friend, and they were like, oh, yeah, but Yankee Candles... I was like, don't talk to me about Yankee candles.

I have the opposite experience. Whenever I walk into a place that is burning a Yankee candle, I feel like they're trying to cover up something bad smelling. That's just my automatic, because that's how it was used throughout my life. Yeah, a scented candle. Oh, right. For the bathroom. Yeah, using in case of emergency. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. automatic because that's how it was used throughout my life yeah sending candles oh right yeah using case of emergency yeah exactly yeah no i i always think about like a snickerdoodle like so sweet too strong holiday season like i don't know i feel sick i'm gonna throw up oh yeah

but you know there's so many hip candles that are, you know, range and expensive to whatever. But I'd say if you're looking to start your year off better, get a nice candle that's got a like a hip logo and burn in your house. And when people come over, it smells so much better. I do it alone just for me. It's really just for me now. What kind of sense are you into? You know, like what's your, like woodsy? Woodsy, yeah.

Tobacco? Tobacco's a great one. Teakwood tobacco's a great one. Okay, all right, all right, okay. Now I'll get into floral. I'm not afraid. I don't care. I'll get a little rose.

Wow. Oh, I love tube rose. Love tube rose. Give me a good tube rose. I'm there. Also, shout out Cantrip Candles. That's another homie from maryland oh cool yeah i've heard of them out in la yeah you guys fuck with incense or is that too far

oh yeah well yeah i know i do as yeah japanese like incense i burn a lot of japanese incense i've always been a big incense fan from when i was very young and it was the first way i got high was just inhaling as much incense as i possibly could when i burn it in my room just straight into your nose you're like yeah trying to do the french inhale you know like that's making me cough just thinking about trying to like gross take a probably gave me some neurological disorder there used to be that uh like college store at the mall that was like it was before hot topic and it was like spencer's gifts hip no it was like for me it was called like the college store or something and it was like oh really tie-dye t-shirts and like incense and a glass case with

like knives and little i guess i don't know if they were weed bowls or things that I didn't understand. Yeah. And they had tons of incense. Wait, I have to plug my computer in. I'm really sorry. They're going to be like, wait, I have to plug my candle company. Oh, shit. Wait. My candle company. Oh, other question.

You fuck with a wood wick? I have, but I don't use any. But I don't use any now. Because they crackle, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they kind of frighten me now. It's like, I'm afraid something's going to pop out of the... I love those things.

The candles. They're exciting. They feel like... Yeah. It's like the pop rocks of candles. It's very hack, but I'm like, ooh. Yeah, look at it go. Click, click, yeah, it's like, it's like the pop rocks of candles. Like it's very hack, but I'm like, Ooh,

yeah. Miles is a huge fan of the magic, uh, birthday candles that keep coming back. How do they keep going? How do they keep them going? I want to eat the cake. I don't want to know.

I don't want to know, but they always get mad at me when I spit on them I was like I know how to put them out And yeah It's usually just run the candle Alright well Also I just have to shout out Confetti cannons

Have you guys ever fucked with a confetti cannon before Like the one made by TNT The place that makes the little snapper things You throw on the ground and like oh monster snaps? yeah so the company that makes those also make a confetti cannon that we didn't do much for New Years but like

you know it was me and the kids and my wife and we got this confetti cannon that I was like hyping up I was like well when it turns nine we're doing the confetti cannon guys I'm like was expecting it to be sort of a dud and it was a lot it was powerful and the confetti went everywhere and i i have to recommend them got it at target and yeah i was indoors yeah and then we immediately swept it all up. It's just like bounce off of all the walls.

I mean, it's small. It's not like it's just when you have it in like party favors in my like that caliber of like a fun novelty. It definitely exceeded. And there I think there's some pyrotechnics involved because it makes like a loud like cap gun sound. No way. That TNT thing made a big sound i know that's the name of the company tnt i just like that you're do you remember in cone heads the movie where dan ackroyd is in charge of doing the fireworks display at the high school and he brings like

a little bottle rock and he like goes off and it like piffles i was like yeah and this guy's like way to go cone head and then he puts his sunglasses on and like a fucking aurora borealis like blasts everybody and everyone's like i'm just picturing you being like all right let's see what this little fucker can do and then like everyone's like has a suntan from my kid's hair is still pushed back all of a sudden, Oprah Go is performing out of nowhere. What are you doing here? That's right. All right.

Well, shout out Confetti Cannons. Shout out Confetti Cannons. Speaking of the new year, we got a new Congress and it appears to be generationally dysfunctional. It's dysfunctional on a level that we haven't seen in decades, right? This is... I would... I mean, we say a century because the last time it's dysfunctional on a level that we haven't seen in decades right this is i would i mean

there we say a century because the last time they failed to actually uh you know elect a speaker was 1923 wow and that took like i think nine tries or something like that right now i just watched as of this recording i watched the eighth ballot go up to try and elect a speaker again kevin mccarthy is not even close the detractors are even growing and so we so we're still kicking out we don't have a congress technically yet because until there's a fucking speaker chosen they can't swear it in they can't swear anybody in so we're in this like very just middle place where everyone's just technically a member elect and kevin mccarthy i think you know he's he's sort of the architect of his own demise just because he's had this fantasy of being speaker swirling around his head forever and

it was has been willing to do literally fucking anything like in pursuit of this power you know like including having his spine surgically removed also like delivering candy grams to donald trump to curry favor he sorted his star starburst for him right yeah because he likes the he likes the pink ones and he likes the red ones yeah and i got your favorites and i handpicked them and i put them in a fucking jar for you daddy now make me speaker was kind of the vibe and he got his position uh then if you remember on january 6th he's like i've had enough of this trump guy blah like he we're done then he's like actually never mind i'm gonna obstruct any kind of possible investigation

into this so he's he's kind of all over the place and because he also would make deals with democrats you know to like keep the government funded this has just created like this group of like never kevins as they call them like matt gates and these other like like andy biggs and like the other one note insurrectionists that have just managed to use their numbers they're a little bit of just these few detractors have prevented him from getting the necessary votes to become speaker. And it's hard to look at what's going on and be like, no, they actually have demands because ideologically they're very similar. You know what I mean? They're all just varying degrees of like hate, hatred.

So they're pretty lockstep in that part. So now it's just like very personal. And I think these, a lot of people are just being like, you know, this small group there, they like to hold this group hostage and the they think they're going to get more concessions or maybe not. But do they have someone that they're they want instead? Is it like it feels feels very much like they're doing this to show the Republicans what it's like to not be a Republican and have to deal with Republicans? They're just like, no,

we don't want it. And they're like, but if you don't pick, we can't pass bills. I don't care. What? Just a whole point is for, yeah,

without any end in sight other than because fuck you. That's why. Yeah. Yeah. There are, there are some people, but like, you know,

right now, the one person that has been brought up a lot is Byron Donald's of Florida, who this is such a transparently cynical pick because he's black. And like, I think these other Republicans are like, what if we pivot to him and it's not Kevin McCarthy? And plus, also, we can claim not racist at the same time. It's really quite clever what they're doing doing but it doesn't seem like that's really a needle but i do want to play a couple clips because it's starting to fucking piss off like like even the people on fox because they're like just fucking pick okay just get this just get with kevin okay so we can move this thing but and i think and because every day it's not happening it just looks terrible you're actually demonstrating demonstrating to people you are literally unable to get the government going. Even if you have power, you can't even do that small step. Lauren Boebert has said all kinds of stuff.

She's like, maybe we could even have Trump. We could nominate Trump as speaker. That's like more QAnon nonsense. And her whole thing was like, well, at least if Congress isn't moving, they're not going to waste all this money, which is not true. Because if you remember that $1.7 trillion bill that passed just a couple of weeks ago, that's money spent. That's not going to stop. Although good luck getting your paycheck because that would be effective if you don't want to be, or that would be affected if you don't want to do anything. So at this point, it's just such a sad look for the GOP on top of everything else that Fox is just trying to shame them into voting for Kevin.

And I just want to play this clip of Sean Hannity just being just so exasperated with Lauren Boebert. And she's like, yeah, and like, they're not gonna be able to do shit because yeah, guess what? Like there's their new kids in town. You said complimentary things about President Trump needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, sir, you do not have the votes. It's time to withdraw. Let me turn the tables. Congresswoman Kevin McCarthy is two hundred and two, three votes.

Your side has 20. So if I'm going to use your words and your methodology and your math, your words and your methodology and your math, is it a time for you to pack it in and your side to pack it in, considering he has over 200 and you have 20? Sean, I understand the frustration, I promise you, but

I'm not frustrated. He does not have the vote. We are hearing from many people who are still... I don't get frustrated. I do martial arts. I am an MMA master who vapes, okay? MMA vape. Have you heard of that? It's MMA and vape clouds contests, okay?

But, yeah, it's wild to see. What do you think? How are you looking at it, Rob? I think Sean Hannity is frustrated, actually. I'm not frustrated. I'm not frustrated. You're frustrated. Sounds like you're frustrated, Rob, because I'm not frustrated. I'm not frustrated. You're frustrated. Sounds like you're frustrated, Rob, because I'm not frustrated.

I'll tell you that much. No way. Not me. Not never. Not today. I mean, they play with fire. They get burned. I don't know.

They're so... It's hard to have energy for what is always going on with what's to do with fox and then the fringy and how they work together sometimes and then they go against each other and it's exciting to see them not agree i think because you're like yeah you idiots but then at the end of the day we all suffer yeah yeah nothing gets done yeah a mess upon a mess that stops other important things from happening, which sucks. The other thing was, even on Fox and Friends, they used the fucking I-word to describe these never-Kevin people that are holding up the selection of the speaker. This is Brian Kilmeade using the I-word to describe Republicans? If it's Washington, I would imagine there's a lot

of bologna on it uh that was a joke about pizza afterwards so that they could discuss ways to get around this hold on i should give you this joke because that joke's too good i was gonna say we gotta go back i want to hear about the bologna that joke is so fucking ball yeah you guys joke is so fucking bad it's about they were talking about how there was this, they knew McCarthy was in trouble because they were rolling in fucking pallets of pizzas to his office to be like, we're not fucking leaving until we figure this out. On a cart.

Maybe they're just doing it for the food. Three dozen, I think. Yeah, three dozen. I think at that point, you just say cheese. You don't ask people what you want on it, right? You just say, we're ordering pizza. If it's Washington, I would imagine there's a lot of bologna on it right you just say we're ordering pizza if it's washington uh

i would imagine there's a lot of bologna on it absolutely oh that's not a topic people put on pizza yep bro we're normal if it's the republicans i'd imagine it's a supreme pizza because they're white supremacists jackie missed it you should use that word sorry right but here's the thing if you pick jim just so insincere the insurrectionists are you know you might probably shouldn't use that word the people that don't want to vote they would disagree with that right saboteur saboteur so we this so if you're picking jim he's a little flustered he's like he just got shot collared it seemed like his little collar went off.

He looked like Chris D'Elia in that one clip when he found out Snapchats can be fucking screenshotted. He was like, oh, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, saboteurs, saboteurs. That's what I meant. Stanley Tucci. Yeah. So anyway, that's where they're at. They're flailing.

And McCarthy's now adding all kinds of sweeteners to try to get people. He was like, look, we'll put a thing where if five of you don't like me, you can have a vote for a vote of confidence against me to get me out. I'll let you do that. Like, he's fucking being like, here's the noose and the like and the gallows. You can be in charge. I'll put it around my neck. Will you now vote for me? And they're like, nah, fuck out of here.

You can be in charge. I'll put it around my neck. Will you now vote for me? And they're like, nah, fuck out of here. So now there's a lot of people looking like, well, can the Democrats? Y'all are lockstep every time voting for Hakeem Jeffries. Every time. That's not changing. There's no movement there.

So there's talk of all this fucking, as many people point out, Sorkin- West Wing bullshit of like, maybe there could be a coal, a consensus coalition government and the Democrats could work with the Republicans. It's like, no, you think for the amount of progressives that are even in the party, there's no way they're going to be like, yeah, all these rules, rules, changes and things that they're proposing to make it easier for them. No, they're not going to fucking they're not going to entertain that. to make it easier for them no they're not gonna fucking they're not gonna entertain that so this is gonna drag on into next week for sure until whatever deals are made or kevin you know decides to just bow out disgracefully as he should because again this is what happens you know like the second obama got in office he started bringing in all these tea party freedom caucus motherfuckers and now we're just watching them like reap what they sow in real time, which is kind of cool because it's all on C-SPAN like in 4K. Yeah.

And we're all watching. And another funny thing is just to add is one thing to this little nice moment to this. Until a speaker is actually chosen, the clerk of the house, which is like this more like it's not an elected official's position, but the clerk of the house is the one who is procedurally like in charge in lieu of a speaker being chosen. And that luckily that's a black woman named Cheryl Johnson. So like, you know, I'm sure I don't know if maybe the racism will get to the Republicans at a certain point where they're like, by default, this black woman is at the head of

the House of Representatives. Maybe that's enough for them to do something. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But it sounds like this is what happens when people are only there to say no. Is she a Democrat or a Republican? No, she's like, it's like a nonpartisan position. Nonpartisan position.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it. Okay. All right. Well, let's take a quick break. Got it. Okay. All right.

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giant lincoln sit around doing nothing all day last year the capitol reopened for tours for the first time since the pandemic so you have a new option you don't just have to sit there and stand outside and watch nothing happen in those those big statues but as we talked about at that point tour guys were still awaiting guidance on how to address the January 6th attacks, which I have to feel like is the first question that you're getting on any one of those tours at this point. Right. So good. It, it would at this point be a January 6th tour.

Like, right. Yeah. When a massive moment in history happens anywhere, you're like, that's what this is now. Like, yeah, there's so much. Of course, there's history before. But yeah, right. Yeah. The distraction is too high. You'd be like everyone has hands up, like no questions like 9-11 museum.

Actually, you're not allowed to talk about not the day 9-11 you're just allowed to talk about the architecture of the twin towers it's like that type of just like bury your head in the sand type creepy yeah that's creepy but if someone asks if you if you go on the tour and say hey isn't that the place where that guy put a big horns on his head and was running around with the American flag without a shirt on, you will be told that they're not allowed to speak on it. Which I feel like this has to be until they invent a new, incredibly highly paid position that is just like sin eater

for the stupidity of our politics and is just sitting there being like, all right, here we go. Let's, you know, all right, what now? What do you think happened? Macro doses, whatever they want. And yeah, you know, so, so many drugs, so much healthcare and they go in there and they go in knowing they're about to do battle in the in the field of ideas with people who you know just want to break your brain essentially which of course are people who would love to be like you're gonna be a proxy for nancy pelosi are you ready and you're like, what? No. Even if this wasn't a rule, so much of my body would be screaming, just say, yeah, I'm actually not allowed to talk about it, but I would love to, fellow patriot. But I just can't because you know who will cancel me.

Am I right, yeah give him that license I feel like that's where I would go like after five days of arguing with people I'd just be like get the fuck out of here I mean I'm trying to imagine like who's doing the tour like are like intense like right

far right insurrectionists like still doing the tour like let's take another look. Maybe we'll get better bearings on the place. Well, if they heard that they were talking about the January 6th insurrection on the tour, I can guarantee you they would be showing up, probably. To fight.

Yeah, insisting that they have the right to open carry during the tour and train the gun on you, as you have the argument. To fight. There was no special decision about January 6th. It is simply that the tour focuses on the history of Congress and the art of architecture of the Capitol, which is like that. you have to be unequivocal about reality right at the expense of these people's cognitive dissonance yeah and it's just like they're like we don't want to do that i mean we know what the fuck happened but we're not about to be like nah i don't know what you're saying that didn't happen like there's just there they there's no energy for that especially not from the government or you know like a position like this to your point it's a totally unfair proposition for someone who's just trying to do a job like you're saying be like's a totally unfair proposition for someone who's just trying to do a job like you're saying be like okay can you mediate one of the most cataclysmic like

socio-political events of recent memory in real time at the place it happened it's just it's just not gonna work like that but i'm i'm sure republicans love the fact that that is the case because yeah their whole thing is like it's it's so polarizing. Democrats are going to say, how the fuck are you not going to talk about this? Are you what the fuck are we doing? Republicans like don't politicize this political act. It's attempted overthrow of the government because we didn't like the results of an election. Don't politicize that

yeah but yeah and i'm not saying they shouldn't like create a new position that is just like you know something for the people who are in the debate team in high school to do instead of becoming ben shapiro they could just like go there and have arguments with people and like deal with the stupidity and right but as of as of now like just having the same the tour guide be in charge of that i think i think i've got to cite the president of i got a lot of tables man on this one the quote from cable guy that miles always uses from janine why is there pepsi at a medieval times oh man you don't have utensils immediately wait so they don't have utensils but they had pepsi in medieval times look i got a lot of yeah exactly i don't know like what is the alternative automation so it's like a robot

who's like fuck out of here this is what happened moving on that's what i was thinking the ed 209 guided like pre-recorded guided tour with an armed security guard who's, like, not going to put up with any bullshit. So, you know, it's just like. With the gun trained on you. Yeah. And they're just like, that assholes. They're like, okay, moving on. Next room.

Or whatever. Yeah, yeah. I feel like because that would be the only way you could spare somebody having to debate is like if you had some kind of display or you know exhibit to sort of answer those questions but even then it's like are people going to yell at the inanimate objects get mad yeah a screening room where you like show the clips and show the like yeah actions of what happened get it out of the way right no commentary no commentary just show some clips yeah yeah if you remember that's what happened here wow wow they're all wearing kind of the same stuff huh anyway okay what else uh so the person in charge of this decision is the architect

of the capital which seems like a trumped up like a that seems like a really nice title to get someone who's just in charge of it. Like they didn't, they're not the architect of the capital. That was somebody like decades ago. That feels like the Oracle from the matrix or some shit. Like the key master. Yeah.

Wasn't the architect, a person in the matrix. Wasn't that like one of the, was that the Asian guy, the little Asian dude who had all the keys or was he like the key master? Anyway, the homie with all the keys from the matrix Asian dude who had all the keys? Or was he like the key master? Anyway, the homie with all the keys from the Matrix who could open up all the doors. So the architect of the Capitol

who's in charge of this decision is a Trump appointee named J. Brett Blanton. And great name. J. So he... J. Brett. Took the J out, whatever his name is, John, whatever. Took that out because he wanted to emphasize the Brett Blanton part of his name. Which fucking rules. Dude took that out because he wanted to emphasize the Brett Blanton part

of his name, which fucking rules. Jay Brett? What's up, Jay Brett? Blanty? We just call him Blanty. Yeah. They don't even have, wow, when you go to his Wikipedia page, you don't even know what the fucking J is.

It just says J.Brett. J.Brett. Wow. do not go there yeah so he's a trouble appointee and just you know because of this decision people started looking at the job he's been doing blanton was recently accused by a federal watchdog of ethics violations which included offering private capital tours to quote patriots in 2020 and allowing his family to drive cars assigned to him solely for official use, which so, so like at one point, you know, he's in one of these capital police looking SUVs and that's what he's given. And then somebody is like driving in a Walmart parking lot and his daughter comes like screaming out of the Walmart parking lot and like almost takes them out and then gives them the finger in this's boyfriend's car was hit by a car that drove away.

He used his Jeep's emergency equipment package to blast a siren, chase the guy down, claiming that he was an off-duty cop. Somebody needs to greenlight a reality show about him and his daughter. Scott Pruitt. Oh, wow. Him and Scott Pruitt. Yeah. Abuses of power. Blasting with Bram. Blasting. That's right. J. Brett, immediately. Him and Scott Pruitt. Yeah. Abuses of power. Blasting with Bram versions.

Blasting. That's right. Jay Brett, dude. Come on, man. You got to do better than that. I mean, right now he's also in the news too, because Matt Gates is complaining to him that Kevin McCarthy moved into the speaker's office already. Right.

And he's like, um, excuse me, architect. I guess he's like also the fucking like superintendent of the building. Like the way he's like mediating. There's a leak over here. And also, yeah, I don't think he's supposed to be here. I think he's a squatter. He like wrote a letter accusing him of squatting in the office or whatever. I mean, which I get it, too.

Like, you know, you didn't have the votes. It's kind of both of you to be like, all right, this is my office. Yeah, you might have to move your shit out. All right. have the votes it's kind of both of you to be like all right this is my office yeah you might have to move your shit out all right let's get out of washington real briefly and get into the evolution of human behavior and specifically the human walk there is a wired article about this new study that basically is is saying they have figured out like there's a second hitch a second bounce in the human walk which is not a mystery i was aware of but apparently it's one that scientists have been puzzling over like we we don't bounce once with each step we bounce twice and it the article and the study

just made me realize like walking is such a massively complex thing we do every day without thinking about it. And like science can't, have you guys ever like watched the videos of robots trying to walk on two feet? Like, yeah, it's a disaster.

My guy, they just can't get it right. Yeah. They just, they look like they're, you know, like the ones that actually look somewhat impressive are the ones that are like trying to replicate how dogs walk.

And those actually work on all fours. And there's a video from a couple years ago of Caltech. The CBS News went into Caltech. And they showed the best they have for human two-feet walking. And it looks like shit. Like it's still a disaster. But they did have this like one thing that they had that was really impressive. It's like a prosthetic that goes, it basically takes the place of this prosthetic shin, at all the things that are happening, in order to fine-tune the weight shifting that happens inside our foot just automatically every day with every step we take, it's full of all these whirring conveyor belts and levers. It's the most complex looking shit and i think of

my foot as like a dumb blunt instrument that i'm just like right so it might as well be a crutch bottom you know it's just a thing but it's this super delicately balanced thing well that's so i thought of crush bottom because like the best that they had at least caltech had as of two years ago was like a robot that was like walking on these two little like balls like that's basically they're not even trying with the foot to like mimic like yeah strike four foot kind of yeah they're just like that shit's way too complicated and like amazing and intricately designed we're just doing like tennis balls you're walking on tennis balls right and so the thing that they figured out is basically that this second hitch that we all like somehow unconsciously learned along the way and yeah i think i don't think it's there the

second you learn to walk you know when like babies are taking their first step. It's still pretty like step, then like fall forward onto the next step, fall forward onto the next step. But somewhere along the way, you get this second hitch and it's apparently to conserve energy because our legs are super, super fucking huge and heavy. our legs are super, super fucking huge and heavy. Like compare it. Like when they do a design analysis of the human body, they're like,

yeah, why are the legs so big? Like the legs really shouldn't be as big. They're so they're stupid big. Like my legs account for like 70% of my body. That's like a lot of people. Like we're all just big crumb drawings. Thick, thick,

thick daddy. Yeah. Thick daddies out here, thick daddies out here. With our plumpers. But it's, so we need this like second hitch of the, I think it's happening in the ankle. There's like one at the hip level that like swings the leg forward and then another at the ankle that like kind of pops you forward a little bit. kind of pops you forward a little bit but the the idea that the way they did the analysis was just sort of simplifying it to just the ankle the knee and the hip and that and then like treating the whole thing like it's a ball rolling to like figure out basically how the system works and

it's like from a step to step if you are just analyzing it on a like one step basis it doesn't make sense but as an overall like system efficiency over time it actually conserves energy and they think it came like we first learned it because the way that we hunted was not we weren't like quick strike hunters who like jumped in and like fought a thing to death we would just like annoy the animal to death by like following them walking after them to the point of exhaustion so like the most the most accurate pop culture example of what it was like to be hunted by a human is the friday the 13th movies where jason just like calmly walks after you while you're like sprinting and like burning your energy. Like, oh my God, no. And yeah, but we've kept it because it's, yeah, like we're kind of more built for the marathon rather than the sprint as a species.

And so we have this like ingenious architecture. Shout out to the architect. Jesus Christ. ingenious architecture. Shout out to the architect. Jesus Christ. My architect, Jesus Christ, JC. That's what the J stands for. Jesus.

But, yeah, it's like this learned behavior that I wasn't even aware of. When I watch a slow motion someone walking, I kind of see something's happening, but it's basically like elongating your stride a little bit more. It doesn't happen when you're running. It only happens.

It looks so obvious when you see animators do it because they know about the double bounce walk cycle for animation. And it's easier for me to see it when I look at this computer, like, like exaggerated thing. It's like, oh yeah, the first knee bend is like like absorbing and then the next one goes to like set you off and i'm like that's why but yeah thank you uh just sort of amateur 3d animation youtube channel for helping me understand it's very stupid looking when when you see it exaggerated like that but yeah well look at us now look at us now assholes look at us now. Look at us now. Assholes. Look at us now. Animals that we hunted to exhaustion that we just followed by walking to the point of exhaustion. I love that.

Just slow walk. Fitting. Yeah. You know, just like, we'll wear you down. That's all. Yeah. Cause there's like that one tribe in Africa, like that's able to hunt like these, like that's, I always remember that was like the first example I learned about like the

efficiency of human hunting, which is like, nah, man, we just walk after it and it's going to give up and then we can just stab it to death. I'm like, wow,

it's crazy. I can't imagine walking after an animal and it like not getting away though. Right. So it's, they're, they're also very good trackers. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So it has to, good trackers. Yeah, yeah, right. So it's basically it has to sleep at some point.

And that's what you're counting on. And I don't. Not at all. I'll be just fine. Yeah, exactly. Well, Rob, truly a pleasure having you on this first TDZ of the year.

2023, is it? Yeah, let's go with that. Sure. Let's say 2023, Miles. Sure. Where can people find you, follow you, experience you? I'd say just go straight to the Insta. Ooh.

Insta? Yeah, Insta. Is that the Spanish version with the accent on the A? Yes, that's the one. Act like you've studied abroad in Spain. Insta. Pinches.

Pinches. Rob Michael Hugel is the tag. There you go. I'm all over the place. Amazing. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been doing?

I'll be honest. I'm off that Twitter. I'm really far off it. There you go. Oh, like you're not using it? Not like you're off it. Like, I'm off that. I'm not using it. Yeah. What off did you mean? Off that Twitter? I don't know. In a colloquial sense. He was getting not using it. Yeah. What off did you mean? Off that Twitter. I don't know.

In a colloquial sense, he was getting Brooklyn with it. Yeah. Honestly, no, I don't have a social media. How about a show or something media wise? I do. I do. It's going to blow your minds. Seinfeld on Netflix.

I've never heard of it. Yes, it's a great show. It's a show that's basically about... What? Four white people. Oh. And you gotta see it. Amazing.

Jack, this is exactly what I was saying we needed on TV. I know. It's something new, something fresh. Hold on. I'm gonna write this down. I started watching it with my girlfriend as a joke. She hadn't seen some episodes and we started and then slowly our minds started to like melt and it became like a three day marathon of Seinfeld, which has ups and downs. It's a real ride.

If you actually do revisit, you know, if you have, if you've seen seen it already because it can get really crazy it's it's an interesting uh window into culture of the time good and bad i'm just in it for the soundtrack but if you say the show part's good i believe you yeah eventually kind of everything in your life that happens you'll start to hear the little yeah like what's the deal my roommate just closed the door he's a door closer he's a door closer you can't get with the door closer if it goes really easy to just write some episodes real oh yeah yeah anything that's great just do that treat yourself to that we don't need what do you mean she doesn't micro dose yeah she's got a micro dose micro definitely be a micro dosing episode for sure is she a micro dose.

Definitely be a micro dosing at the set. For sure. Is she a micro or macro? Miles, where can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? You find me if there's at symbols at miles of gray. I'm probably there.

What else? Also find Jack and I on the latest episode of miles and jack got mad boosties uh with special guest gareth reynolds uh of the dollop and you know just general funny fantastic person uh is on also check me out on uh 420 day fiance that's the other thing i do yep where i talk 90 day fiance with sophie alexandra a tweet that i like you know this one is from carnival of joel's at books three or 5 30 and just tweeted a picture of like dr bonner's like castile soap and then uh this like the brag organic apple cider vinegar and it said you can't tell me these two haven't hooked up and i don't know why i just look at those two bottles and I'm like yeah what's going on with those two

so many words on the label too much they have so much to share you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien and I'm Mazenja I got my boosties some tweets

I've been enjoying somebody was like responding angrily to all the Benoit Blanc tweets. All the things in Benoit Blanc's voice. FKA Cooper Cooper Co. tweeted, Haven't seen a single Blanc tweet that actually captures his voice. Just a bunch of nonsense that sounds nothing like him. Truly awful posts. And Mrs. Brown's cat boys responded with a

screen cap of benoit blanc and it said borat voice my wife gotcha gotcha got his ass right back and i like i like the benoit blanc tweets and i enjoy i watched what's it called glass onion and then had to re-watch the first one because we enjoyed Glass Onion and I enjoy it. And I think people are nailing the voice. Gary Lovely tweeted, I've been selling books long enough to know when a guy is going

to buy Infinite Jest. It's just a weird little superpower that you get from being a bookseller. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post

our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles. Hey. Hey. Is there a song you think people might enjoy? Yeah.

There's a song. If you've heard DJ Daniel and I talk when he's guest co-hosted, we keep talking about this one artist, Fred, again. And there's this track that he teased in the summer called Rumble. And I was always saying, when is this going to come out? I always see him do the performance of it. And then he does a spin back and then teases the audience. And he's like, I can't play it for you. And it sounds dope.

You were ready to rumble. I was ready to rumble. And it turns out I'm not rumbling only with Fred again, but also Skrillex, I guess, is also a co-producer on this track. So this is Fred again. And the track is called Rumble. And it's just like the beat is nasty. It just feels like, I don't know, were like uh like more like what we know is like american gangs uh in the fifth element i feel like they would be slapping this out of their

like floating cars sorry i just also wanted to share this one tweet terrence ray tweeted the simply wouldn't know what to do with a guy like ace venture a pet detective conversely ace would be stumped by the fauna of Pandora. Just a disaster all around. He would beat the shit out of you. Remember he plays the mushrooms like drums in Ace Ventura 2? He actually might be pretty fun

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