The Daily Zeitgeist - Roman Concrete = Pee + B.S.? Lower Than Snake Nipples 10.04.23

Episode Date: October 4, 2023

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 307, episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist Day, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Wednesday, October 4th, 2023. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Wednesday, October 4th, 2023. Oh, yeah. Miles. 10-4, good buddy.

You know what's funny? I couldn't find anything that was like CB Radio Day or something. Come on. You think we're radio enthusiasts? That thing's nailed on. Instead, it's National Taco Day, National Golf Lovers Day, National Vodka Day, National Walk to School Day, Pumpkin Seed Day, National Cinnamon Bun Day. Nothing about 10-4, Good Buddy, trucking, CB radios, none of that. Or just Good Buddy Day, where you just, you know, give some props to your good buddies.

Yeah. you know have you know good give give some props to your good buddies yeah no i feel like taco like this being national taco day is a mockery like it's not it yeah what are we doing it's not for us it's not tuesday yeah in the universe of this podcast right you know wednesday taco wednesday and i feel like you could tell me you could honestly slide in a national taco day it's like once every two weeks and i wouldn't notice because it's just such yeah such a it's always yeah and also just feels like a little like i don't know the presumption that it's like and this is america's national taco day. I'm like, really? Okay. But yeah, maybe national love of taco day.

Maybe we'll be a little more appropriate. Well, anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Sippin' Cream. Here is your brunch in a jar with way more booze in it than beer. Sippin' Cream. in it than beer. Sipping cream. It's Eggo waffle flavored and your liver lives in constant fear. Let's get pissed drunk first

thing in the morn. Let's get pissed drunk first thing in the morn. That is courtesy of Scouty on Discord. Shout out to Scouty. A little reference to Appalachian Sipping Cream. Eggo Waffle.

I don't have the whole word, but it's a brand of Appalachian Sipping Cream. Eggo Appalachian Sipping Cream Brunch in a Jar. Just the latest brand of Appalachian sipping cream that has hit the market. I'm thrilled to be joined by my good buddy and co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. And for Jack Aranda, because this one is Miles Gray, a.k.a. You don't have to be rich to egg my goal. You don't have to be cool to watch my fall early in the morning i have a little nip of that appalachian cream and your sip okay shout out to willie k for that one because yeah we're keeping it eggo appalachian cream still can't find it i called two more places yesterday still can't find it it might not be you 're making actual calls oh yeah because that's why i'm mad because when i asked my local liquor store i said y'all i'm like this is a long shot but would you ever carry this he's like

probably not he's like but we get stuff in from like a vendor like on mondays why don't you call back then see if we got he's like nah he's like we're not getting it so it's not still on the man still on the still on the search for that for that sweet sweet appalachian sipping cream well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny stand-up comic currently touring western canada yeah a writer actor and host of the podcast parenting is a, which is just dropping season two right now. It's Ophira Eisenberg! Hello!

I should have an Appalachian cream, sipping cream jingle, right? Are you aware of Appalachian sipping cream? Now I am, and I'm convinced. I can't believe I only learned about it on National Taco Day. Embarrassment. Well, it's also National Vodka Day. True.

You know what? Thank you. Thank you. They go hand in hand. I love a crisp white linen vodka drink with my taco. That's some cultural appropriation right there i don't think what mexico has a do they have a national hamburger day i'm trying to think of like what the equivalent would be they have national days or is that just something that was invented by america to right by like a calendar company to be like we know we sell days and we'll print

them on our calendar got you it does it does sound like a bunch of people you know who are in a knitting circle yeah you know embroidering pillows being like let's have more days to celebrate yes or after like our talk yesterday with douglas rushkoff talking about how like the need for like you know capitalists to always go meta on a product when they're out of one it's like almost like okay calendars are done let's go meta now let product when they're out of one. It's almost like, okay, calendars are done. Let's go meta. Now let's sell individual days that can be noted on a calendar. Go.

What do you got? 50 bucks. Taco day? Fine. What day do you want? Yeah. We'll reinvent Taco Tuesday on Wednesday, though, this time? Yeah, because they know it's Taco Tuesday,

so this is a reason to have something on Wednesday. What this presupposes is, what if Taco Wednesday? That was one of the details we didn't get to that I really want to. But this, he like goes to all these conferences. We had this writer, Douglas Rushkoff on yesterday. And he's like, you know, he writes about the tech industry. And he is asked to go to all these like conferences and one of the ones he went to was like this psychedelically guided like thing

for entrepreneurs and like disruptors and he's talking about how they like he there he it made him notice this thing where the tech industry loves to invent things that already exist and they kept like coming up with these ideas to be like what if we did like a culturally relevant like more punk rock environmental movement and he was like oh there's this one right here like that's happening in the uk they're doing those amazing protests right now and they were just like getting so frustrated with him because they just like they want to come up with the world changing idea. Yes. Yeah.

That's. Can we also say that we are slowly taking all the fun out of drugs? Yeah. All of it. Totally. Well, you got to optimize your workflow and your creativity with the drugs. Well, yeah. Yeah.

Anyone that is microdosing mushrooms and says that they're better at their work you're doing it wrong you better have you need to have an existential crisis while working if you're microdosing properly be like i don't know if this is right for me at all exactly exactly you're supposed to be like screw capitalism screw the man not like i love excel spreadsheets not supposed to be that way what if i rebranded Burning Man for rich people? Oh, no, that's not an idea. Oh, it is. Oh, they did it. My therapist has suggested ketamine therapy to me.

Have you read about that? Yeah, yeah. I know some people doing it. And again, I was just like, I'm not going to do Special K for the first time with my therapist. Right. Okay? That's not how we're doing this. Yeah, what if your therapist is just looking for somebody to do ketamine with?

I think they are. I do. Yeah. I was like, you find me a nightclub in Aruba and we'll do this therapy. It's all about therapists. Like during the pandemic, it all went online. They don't get to hang out with people anymore. So they're just like, would you just come over to my house and do drugs with me?

I have like an unorthodox practice where, can you go to Ibiza in like three weeks? Because we're going to fucking get through the trauma with some sick ass hands music. In a one big K-hole. Yeah, but the other thing from that book was saying like how like he like douglas was like likening like the just utter misuse and abuse of alcohol to like the you know advertisers and then the madman era too and that's what now psychedelics are for the tech world it's like if you're not a fucking fall down drunk back then or like doing a bunch of psychedelics now you're not even in the game

man that's how you prove to people that your head's in the game so ridiculous yeah 9 000 edibles 50 million and and i love anyone that's like microdosing a lot it's like that's just doing drugs yeah yeah it's not microdosing any microdosing five microdoses this morning and I'm feeling great with my coffee. All right. All right, Ophira, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the stories we're talking about today. We'll give in. We'll talk about the Kevin McCarthy thing.

Fine. Fine. We'll talk about it. It's bad enough, I guess, at this point. We'll talk about Amy Coney Barrett's religious group slash cult, which might be being investigated by the FBI for some shit. We will talk about the sphere, guys. We saw it. We told you the sphere was coming back when we went to Vegas for our NBA podcast back in the summer, and it has arrived.

The first show inside the sphere happened over the weekend uh with you two and i think like one audience member i think summed it up well when they said i think i'm gonna throw up which but in the best way possible did you actually list did you watch that clip i was watching it to try and try and find the part where the guy says it but the whole time this guy's like oh shit the roof's coming down like he was screaming so violently i was like this is i don't know if this guy's having a good time or not aware of like how this thing works but yeah he might have been microdosing yeah with 7x microd the greatest, most effective way to microdose. That guy has always been a fun person at a concert. Everyone's always happy to be standing around that guy for years.

Oh my God! What the fuck? The fucking lights are dancing with the music. I'm going to fucking puke! I'm puking! My brain is puking. I've got to fucking puke. I'm puking. My brain is puking. I've got to upload this video. Hang on. Yeah.

Alright. We also might talk about cereal is going. Cereal sales are going in the wrong direction post-pandemic. Probably they're even trying pouring orange juice, like making a cereal that you can pour orange juice on. Gross.

Looks like shit. Maybe they should be trying Appal juice, like making a cereal that you can pour orange juice on. Gross. Looks like shit. Maybe they should be trying Appalachian sipping cream. Yeah. I feel like you could make your own Appalachian sipping cream at home by just taking Coffee Mate, like the hazelnut Coffee Mate, and pouring vodka into it.

It's just moonshine. It's basically, it's moonshine Baileys. Right. Yeah, yeah. That's all. So, yeah, you probably probably could i'm not recommending that i'm just saying that that it feels like that your own homemade recipe every everyone can get in on the action everyone make their homebrew sip and cream so is it for the people that say things like

just a little nipsy yeah just a little nipsy before we go out. You mean go out to pick up our kids from their soccer game? Drive three kids back. Just a little bit. Before we get to any of that, Ophira, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? This is the thing I do when I travel. I look at the top things to do in a city and then I just read all of the one star reviews of that thing. And just to find out how the town feels about everything. You find out that reading about a museum, you find out they're mad

about bike routes. You know, it's, I feel like you get a lot of information because whoever has gone out of their way to leave a one-star review is usually like you know they're they're on the fringes yeah of uh of the people of good taste or just like yeah or like lack total self-awareness and they just say like it was this restaurant's fault i'm bad at my marriage and you're like right right or just the uh i love just seeing how dumb people are like there was one about a museum and it said uh you know i really like some of the artifacts here but i've seen them a lot i would like some new ones uh-huh like well what's the music okay all right i come to this local small museum every Wednesday, and it's getting old. There's a beautiful Japanese garden here in Kelowna.

And someone wrote a review of, if you want to call it a garden, there has to be flowers. I think the name should be changed. So anyways, this is what I'm searching right now. So the Japanese Zen sandbox. Yeah, exactly. If I just wanted to see a bunch of bonsais, I'd watch Karate Kid. Exactly.

So yeah, that's what I've been, that's literally what all my tabs are right now. Yeah. Just engaging with the best humanity has to offer. I like reading an excellent review, but I always read the bad ones. Well, you have to also to understand like, because sometimes

you're like is this place bad but then you look at the one star reviews and you're like oh no you're just taking your personal stuff out on this place in your review like oh yeah and sometimes they're deserving you're like oh no this place sounds consistently bad or the one stars are just like i told them to bring the birthday cake out after the appetizers and they forgot. And you're like, that's not their problem. It was the worst day of my life. Exactly. Never going

back. It's also good for you get the response from the people who work at the venue. My favorite. The highest level, friendly, passive aggression, like just the highest form of capitalist communication where it's like, oh, Ron, thank you so much for your communication. And for we we love that you came here and we're

so glad you did. We are so sorry. It did not live up to your expectations. If we can do right by you at a future visit. However, there is one. There's a weirdly in Canada, there's a kangaroo zoo here. And I was like, that's weird. Maybe I should go to that. And then I looked at the one star reviews and everyone's like, unfriendly staff.

Owner is unfriendly. Like we were treated so badly by the staff and then the owner is clearly unhinged and writing back to them but defending his position right he's like what you think you think i'm your indentured servant responses the best oh i'm sorry you hate my passage to the new world is that why you feel like i owe you i don't you think it's easy hanging out with all these fucking kangaroos they're monsters have you met a joey have you met a joey you try karen for him you try it but then there's other ones too where the management claps back in the best way they're like thank you so much bruce for this comment, where the management claps back in the best way. They're like, thank you so much, Bruce, for this comment. If you recall when you were in the restaurant, we remember you, asshole.

We do not have the capacity to store 17 ice cream cakes in our freezer. And that's why we recommend this may not be the best venue for this birthday surprise. But still, go off, sir. The cakes were melted. Yeah. best venue for this birthday surprise. But still, go off, sir. The cakes were melted. And as you'll recall, you were racing back and forth between two families who didn't know about you. In one of them, you were

dressed like an old woman. It's not our fault. This is Doubtfire. You tried to Mrs. Doubtfire our restaurant, sir. It's not our badge. Sincerely, Cheesecake Factory. That's right. Ophira, what is something that you think is overrated?

More than overrated. I feel I've never seen more positive affirmations or motivational messages in public spaces in my entire life. I mean, from a point of view of capitalist branding, you walk into, I don't know, a Starbucks or whatever. They have positive messages everywhere. And I believe positivity has fallen in, much like the American flag, positivity has fallen into the wrong hands. Because it's like mind control. So I think there's a lot of like gratitude we all have to be more graded by the way gratitude journaling i don't think i don't know if you guys do it have you ever gratitude journaled no i'm not i'm not grateful for fucking anything so i don't think you point i would but my life fucking sucks thank you i have nothing to be grateful for

yeah right it's like all of this stuff like on, just be thankful for the little morsel that you've been given to by your overlords. Anyways, I hate the, I think it's all, I think none of it is real. That's it. Beyond overrated. I think none of it is real. when I am focused on the people around me as opposed to myself and like my own shit, like it's better for me to just be like, all right, let's, let's like hear what they're interested in, what they're, what's going on with them.

And like that thinking about things like in a grateful, gratitudinal, that's not a word. I like it. I like it. Can sometimes help me do that. But there is definitely like we have a shampoo in our shower that says the phrase. The greatest statement.

It says release that which no longer serves you. Right. On the fucking shampoo. On the shampoo. That's like all it says it doesn't really like i don't even know if it's shampoo it's just the you know and it's just like such a bummer vapors in a bottle yeah it's such a bummer like that like all these ideas like any good idea just gets fucking taken and stamped onto a bottle to sell you something that is just chemicals in a bottle. It's just chemicals

in a bottle. Head chemicals. Head chemicals? Like the grossest guy. Wow, I love head chemicals. Yeah. These head chemicals tell me to release that which no longer serves me. And I gotta tell you, as a woman, this stuff

is like shoveled at you. Yeah. Right. It's like, it feels like, kind of like the fall of Rome. It's like bread and circuses and affirmations. Yes! Just to kind of stave off the inevitable. Exactly! Exactly! It's like, okay, fuck, the bread and the circuses aren't working.

We need another thing to kind of get them to focus on not the fucking fall right now. I am with you. Yeah, I am totally with you. I'm like, shiny, shiny, everybody. Happy, happy, big smiles, big smiles, everybody. And I think that's where we're all realizing it's because everyone's reaction to it isn't like, you know what? I've read this really fun thing at Starbucks.

It's like, shut the fuck up, Starbucks. That's our reaction to those things so i don't know if they're working i don't know if they're working yeah i like shut the fuck up starbucks is like a that's the title yeah just a t-shirt just fucking a middle finger at the africa that's the album cover middle finger one of the starbucks shut the fuck up, Starbucks. My new EP that just dropped. With the hair around it of the old Starbucks logo, you know? Yeah. Right, right. I will say it sounds like both of you have not yet, today, this morning, released that

which no longer serves you. No, we have not. I clearly haven't had my coffee. Yeah. That's right. Or my morning tea. What's something you think is underrated? Okay.

Now it sounds like I'm going in the same direction, but on a different lane. You know, I'm on the road. It is pretty hard when you are eating out of restaurants to eat something that's good for you. So I am not a vegan, but I have taken to finding vegan restaurants wherever I go, even though I really usually avoid them

because I'm not a vegan. And I've learned that is the way you get fresh fruit and vegetables as your primary things on your plate. So I'm saying what's underrated are vegan restaurants for people who are not vegans. Yeah, I like it. Who like a bit of life in their food rather than something in like a pre-made bag that they heat up and back. Or just slathered. I mean, listen,

everything's slathered in butter. It tastes amazing, but it's just, it's not great for you after a while. That's what I hear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That does seem to be the secret ingredient and all. Like when you talk to like chefs, they're like, Oh yeah, we put a stick of butter in each bite of that food you're taking. That's why it tastes so good. Cause the reasoning too is like, they're like,

we're not your cardiologist. And also, we don't give a fuck what happens to you. You're a customer. And come back. That's all. Our job is to make food that tastes good. Yeah, exactly. That's our job.

It's in a kitchen that is completely invisible to you. So you don't know what is happening. You don't know what's going on. That's a big part of it. That's like what you're paying us to do is just be like hey you make the magic you handle the preparation and i'll be like oh my god this tastes great i've never had carrots that tasted so translucent with fat there's a there's a subreddit called our kitchen confidential and it's all people that work in kitchens and stuff and like in restaurants.

And it's like, it's an interesting insight because like you hear people really talk that shit like in the way. And like one guy was like being like, if people fucking knew, like we're not making health food back here. It's like, we're doing it. So you were like, this is fucking delicious. And guess what? The secret is so much butter or salt or sugar that your head would fall off if you really knew so don't eat out all the time 100 100 so um yeah and i'm sure you know the the vegan kitchen is doing their own thing but sunflower seed whatever but it's just a little different it's just a little once you say no animal fat no animal fat be found right And their whole infrastructure is built understanding that like all this shit's gonna go bad

in, you know, 36 hours. Like, you know, like that. So you have to have like a different

way of dealing with your ingredients, you know, as opposed to like another restaurant that can just, you know, take the

week old salmon and add a vat of butter. Now it's a stew. Daily special. Yeah. Now it's salmon chowder. That's right. Exactly.

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We've been trying to resist. We've been saying, we don't hear you. We don't care about you, House Republicans. But there, it seems like something might actually be happening. I don't know. I mean, like, so all last week, right, we didn't really talk about, like, the potential government shutdown because the MAGA Republicans are like, we don't want any money for Ukraine or this or that or whatever, and we'll shut it down. We don't care if kids, like, miss out on their, like, social, you know, safety'll shut it down. We don't care if kids miss out on their social safety net programs

and things. We don't care. We don't care if the people that serve us in the cafeteria of the Capitol are laid off. We look in the eyes. So it turns out it all ended up working out because Kevin McCarthy at the last minute pulled off a squeaker and funded the government with the help of the freaking Democrats.

So because of that, Matt Gaetz is now like he's taken upon himself to represent all the MAGA freaks in the in the house and be like, that's it. He's he's crossed us one too many times. And we hate that he's working with the demon crats. He's like they're he's actually a puppet of the Democrats is what he's been saying. Yeah. Okay. But now he's basically saying that it's time to call it on his speakership.

And if you recall, Kevin McCarthy is not a good negotiator. Uh, not only because, not only because he is untrustworthy scumbag, that's lower than snake nipples, but also because he is a terrible negotiator just terrible at like even understanding the dynamics or leverage of a negotiation

so on his way to get the votes to become speaker if you recall he'll do like they'd call like 15 votes before he finds like what do you want dude like i'll name my kid maga mccarthy if you want like just please let me get this he basically said here I will hand you the MAGA freaks a big red button in the form of being able to oust me. If one member wants to pursue a motion to vacate the speakership, a.k.a. get me out of here, then if you got the votes, then fine. And we've come to that moment where now Matt Gaetz is like, we're doing it. I'm doing it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. And he needs

less than 10 votes right now from his Republican colleagues to be able to oust Kevin McCarthy. Yeah. And so it looks like he's going to be ousted? Well, this is where it gets fun. He would need the Democrats to... Never mind, I already stopped listening.

Yeah, sorry. To be honest, I stopped listening when you turned into James Carville and said, lower than snake nipples. I love snake nipples. He's lower than snake nipples. That boy lower than snake nipples. That's so evocative. Yeah.

I don't know why. I just had to. I've been trying to put that in somewhere. You had to go full Carville. And I was like, had to. That's the thing when you're dealing with somebody like that. They're lower than snake nipples and you can't trust them. But the thing is,

the Democrats would have to save him. And most Democrats have just laughed at this notion where they're like, hey, would you vote? They're like, what? And like, you, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was like, the only way I would even think about it is if he came with some kind of deal to be done. But then still preface that with like,

but this guy's lower than snake nipples. So there's no way we can believe him, what he says, because the second he works with us, he goes around and says the opposite thing on Fox. So he would need the votes. We will see what happens. But like, when you look at quotes like this from Democrat, Jerry Connolly of, of, uh, Virginia, this is like, you would, you would imagine the deal would have to be gargantuan, AKA impossible. He said, quote, upon examination, I do not understand what any Democrat would find of redeeming value to allow him to persist in the speakership. We should not enable, aid, or abet his continuation in office. You know when someone pulls out the word abet?

Yeah. Yeah. That's the big gun. It does sound like this was like a 12-year-old trying to write a sentence that sounded official. It's all 12-year-old. They had like a little Twitter war. Yeah. Where it was like, bring it on.

Just did it. Like they're having little back and forths like on a schoolyard. This one. Just did it. They're having little back and forths on a schoolyard. Bring it on. Just did it. Dude, really? I'm surprised he didn't say, it's already been brought in. Just did it. It's already been brought in. Didn't go for that jam of a retweet. That would have been... I hearted it. I hearted it.

Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see where this ends up. The vote happened and he does not have the votes, McCarthy. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see where this ends up. But I mean, like the vote happened and he didn't get the he he does not have the votes. McCarthy. Correct. Which seems to be the only place he's comfortable. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, not not having the votes. It's beautiful. Back to my sweet spot. Yes. Oh, yeah. See, as of right now, they tried it.

But yeah, just by the he just barely got out so oh so he's still in but he also the it was not an encouraging vote no no got it yeah sorry just got a notification while we're recording the story anyways Anyways, guy like that, he's only comfortable when he's down in the muck, mucking it up with them other boys because they're low against snake nipples. Just trying to figure out how to best represent the American people.

That's right. That's all he's trying to do, everybody. That's all I'm trying to do, man. That's all I'm trying to do. Didn't know that was a crime. Didn't know that was a crime. Hey, speaking of didn't know that was a crime,'t know that was a crime hey speaking of didn't know that was a crime that's what amy coney barrett's gonna be saying because the fbi is apparently interviewing several individuals alleging that they were abused by members of the

people of praise the christian cult that amy coney barrett belongs to that got a lot of attention in the run up to her confirmation. Yeah. And not mentioned once. Yeah. It got attention from the activists and other people who were just so shook to their core that a creature like this would ascend to the Supreme Court. But yeah, in the hearing, people were like, and you're a family woman, right? It's like, oh, boy. That's why we need not our grandparents to be in those confirmation hearings.

So apparently the group encourages members to speak in tongues, make prophecies about the future, and expel gay people. So apparently that group, not totally on the level, which I think we all find shocking. I mean, I feel like the gay people are getting the best deal of all. Yeah. You're not allowed. They're like, cool. Oh, damn. I'm sorry I didn't even ask.

Sorry to hear that. Oh, no. Yeah, you're like, oh, no way. Okay. I guess I'll go. This is terrible news. But private schools closely affiliated with the group have admissions policies that in effect ban the children of gay parents from attending very frightening and yes and what right wow but

the thing is though like this it's not we're not sure if it's active right because the one thing we know is like it was i think the guardian confirmed that like five people were interviewed by the fbi so but we're still not sure if they're like, is this going somewhere? Or is it one of those things that FBI's like, yeah, we'll look into it and then do nothing. Yeah. Yeah, they tend to,

they have the ability to just ignore the shit out of some pretty wild shit. Brett Kavanaugh. Right. Yeah. Where they're like, yeah, we interviewed people, but we didn't really follow up. So they've been contacted by this group,

people of, what's it called? People of praise. People of praise. People of praise. Yeah, people of praise. There's also the group people of praise survivors. That sounds like a first draft, don't you think? That's a first draft of a name for a cult.

Yeah, man. I bet it was the result of the longest, most boring meeting of all time when i came up with that holy shit but yeah so this group people praise survivors are a group that's like designed to call attention to the claims of sexual abuse survivors and members have been in touch with fbi have been apparently confused that the fbi hadn't reached out sooner following press reports about alleged abuse, which, yeah, it just all further illustrates how strange it is that her membership in People of Praise never came up in a Senate hearing to confirm her as an appeals court judge.

Yeah. Well, it's like on one side, Republicans, there's no way they would bring it up because it's like, get her in there. Let's tip the scales of the court. And then I'm sure Democrats, it's like an optics thing where it's like, they don't want it. Like, cause this is how they're probably thinking about it. If I question people of praise, I'm going to open myself up to being painted as an anti-Christian, like atheist person. And I, and I just don't have the spine for that. I'm also lower than snake nipples. It turns out. I just don't have the spine for that. I'm also lower than snake nipples, it turns out. I just don't touch it. Yeah, I tried to get into people of praise, and they rejected me.

Yeah. Right, exactly. And I don't want to mess up my chance in the future by, you know, casting aspersions on them publicly. That's right. They're just jealous. Alright, I want to offer an official overrated from from me oh i know we usually save those for monday but yeah roman concrete there's a new ap story about how they're

trying to figure out the secret to roman concrete And they just made a breakthrough earlier this year in a study where they found out that it is self-healing, that it's able to heal, don't crack. That story, we've like covered that story multiple times like over the past five years. Like it keeps coming up. Yeah, the last time was the beginning of this year. Okay. Where they're like, they've cracked the code. And when I was like, this is like nine months old, this story. Yeah.

At the very least. Because for people who don't know, we're not Roman concrete isn't like a new street drug. We're talking about the concrete that the Romans used. From the Romans. Yeah, that they were using. Because everyone's like, look, thousands of years. It's still standing. They must have a secret to their superior concrete.

Yeah. So, like, just yesterday, there was a new AP story being like, another breakthrough, and it's the same shit that we've seen before that, like, nothing has changed about the story. They acknowledge in the story also some things that we didn't have before, like that it couldn't hold over three stories.

Like, if you tried to build a building out of roman concrete today it would crumble now sounds like all the buildings in new york right if they're all roman concrete yeah but so part of the reason it survived as long as it did is because rome was basically abandoned for like it went from the center of the world to like 30,000 people and like livestock just roaming the streets right just immediately like there's the fall of Rome and then nobody wanted to live there anymore so nobody was building new buildings like nobody was trying to knock down the old buildings to build the new buildings so like in the article or in an article I read they compare it to london which like all the old buildings in london

for the most part are got knocked down like because they were building new buildings but like rome nobody was fucking with it so that's why we have the ruins yeah i think you'd have to go to like bath to see like roman relics anywhere like in the or at least that's the closest thing i've heard of like krakow poland that wasn't it has a super old you know buildings and architecture purely because it wasn't bombed to shit right yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah and so like oh it's like well actually it's just it wasn't destroyed yeah it's not that it made it it wasn't destroyed just nobody was really fucking with rome like that but the one thing i love about the roman cement roman concrete i'm sorry um stuff is that is the street drug that

is the and that shit is wild it's amazing it will optimize your workflow actually it makes you so effective at spreadsheets hr meetings with that, let me tell you, they just fly by. So it was like, right, they have these limestone chunks in it. That's why it's self-healing. There's like chunks in it. That's one of the theories. That's one of the theories. But I just love it

when people look at the way things were constructed in the past and they just go, oh, you know, like in this case they're like, it's all lumpy. Cause they were dumb and they just didn't stir well. Right. Like, no,

no, that's, that's, they weren't just bad stirrers in the past. We didn't just evolve to be better at stirring. Yeah. Yeah. That's my take.

I think that's, that was our secret. But so the AP article points out that like a lot of their cement mixtures are different. Like you check one sample and a different one and like they're like it's weird they put like a bunch of beer in this one and then this one has like a lot of piss in it and we're not sure why it's basically like the the experts in this article are like yeah they didn't they were just like trying different shit and seeing what worked. And obviously the buildings that worked are the ones that lasted and everything else crumbles.

And we're giving them credit for being masters of concrete. But they were just trying a bunch of different shit out, seeing what stuck. The stuff that stuck was able to last because nobody was trying to knock it down to build a highway to help with luxury housing. There was no luxury housing going up. I would put the beer one near the piss one. I'm sure those two different mixtures were happening pretty close. It was across the street. But yeah, I guess one of the things that doesn't get brought up a lot is like you can find examples of this where architecture has lasted for a long time, but it's in India. And, you know, India doesn't the the colonial brain doesn't like to think about India having figured stuff out. They like to think about Rome.

Right. Men are supposed to think about Rome every day. Is that what we're being told? Right. On TikTok, yeah. Because the Romans didn't have any slaves working on those things. It was all people that were pretty, they were psyched. Pretty good jobs. Yeah. Yeah. But volunteered happily. Yeah. Because they just believed in the project, you know? It's a shame we don't have that kind of work ethic now. That's right. I know. So just a quote from the article describing the two processes. Cecilia Pesci, a materials scientist at the University of Sheffield in England, said they'd toss just about anything into their mixes talking about Roman architects as long as it was cheap and available and the

ones that didn't work out have long since collapsed. But some materials seem to show more intention, like in India, where builders crafted blends of local materials to produce different properties. According to a civil engineer at the Velour Institute of Technology, in humid areas of India, builders use local herbs that help structures deal with moisture along the coast.

They added jaggery, an unrefined sugar, which can help protect from salt damage. And in areas with higher earthquake risks, they used super light floating bricks made with rice husks. They know the region, they know the soil condition, they know the climate.

So they engineer a material according to this. Yeah, but how much piss is in it, though? Exactly. How much vodka? Yeah. Just dumping it in. I don't know. This one works.

We'll see. How much did you put in that one? I'm drunk, man. I have no idea. I have no clue. It's just piss. How did we lose the recipe for roaming concrete? I know.

It's because you gave it to Daryl. You gave it to Daryl. Daryl did not pass it along. No. He just pissed. Yeah. I know. It is kind of funny that nothing was passed along.

Stories, tons of folks' tales we have, mythology, but not one. No one decided to write down how you were making your cement? Not a person. Yeah. Nah. Just pee. Just some pee, man. You know what it is. No limestone or volcanic sand? Nah, I don't know. It's just piss, I think.

It's not just piss. I think it's my magic piss. Is that anything? The one man who pissed into all of our structures right could you imagine like if that really didn't take someone's like yeah i think it's the piss dude right but then they're too embarrassed to pass it down yeah the generation the truvius wasn't writing that one down huh yeah wait till they find out it wasn't it wasn't uh it wasn't you't the leader and it wasn't the strongest man.

It was the librarian. Yeah, right. We would get Mabel out here. She'd be. I don't know. Something about it. She has a lot of cats. I don't know.

Is it the tea? She likes tea. Yeah. But anyways, apparently we're supposed to be thinking of roman the roman empire every day and i just i this is my excuse for why i don't think about the roman empire every day i just i think it just never occurred to me to think about the roman empire in general like when i first saw that thing like the tiktok trend i'm like dude dudes be thinking about rome i'm like maybe is it is that i don't know how who is it white guys that are thinking about Rome. I'm like, maybe is it, is that, I don't know how, who is a white guys that are thinking about Rome?

I don't know. I guess just a good model of something else that has fallen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do think like, you know, there it's a ancient culture that is also,

you know, a like full of self devouring cannibals of consumption. Like we are. And so towards the end of Rome, self-devouring cannibals of consumption like we are. Exactly. Towards the end of Rome, they had an insatiable urge for micromilitarism to go outside their borders and just deplete their resources. I don't know. That doesn't sound like the U.S. at all. It doesn't sound like anything.

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And we're back. Miles, you can, as you can attest, when we were in Las Vegas together, I wouldn't shut the fuck up about this fear. No, you wouldn't. The amount of pictures you were taking, too, to be like, oh, my kid's got to see this an eyeball oh it's a basketball now it's a basketball now do you get a picture shit i didn't get a picture of this a basketball yeah it was i mean because at first we're like oh yeah that

thing exists and then when you really looked at it you're like this is fucking freaky as shit man it's really weird yeah it really feels like a thing has been photoshopped into a skyline. A landscape. Yeah. I only saw the beginning construction, I guess, of it when I was in Vegas. So it just looked like a hole. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. So now it is like a glowing orb on the on the skyline on the horizon and it's open for business baby i mean it's been open as a as basically a spherical billboard for a while but now you can go inside it and watch you too and you know feel like you are engaging in the worst mushroom trip of all time or the best i don't know i like feel like maybe you should be on mushrooms to see this to get the full effect but the visuals whoever conceived of the visuals was on mushrooms well you know who it is it's marco brambilla. The second I saw it, I was like, this looks like Marco Brambilla's work. Because if you stay at the Standard in New York and you've been on the elevator,

he stitches together all kinds of moving, cuts out frames from films. Also, the fucking director of Demolition Man. That's right. He only made one film because he was like i'm an artist like watch me do some trippy shit with demolition man and then he had to interact with the studios and he's like i'm fucking done it's like idiots get to chime in on my work that ain't art i'm out yeah and so he only made demolition man and now he just does like if you can again i always say this when his work comes up if you ever have the chance to see any of his, like, installations, they are mind-blowing.

Yeah. But this, I feel like, I don't think people could handle the Statue of Liberty-sized sphere version of his work because, yeah, people were like, I don't know. It is cool. Yeah. It looks amazing. It's another one of these, like, dissonance things. like dissonance things the same thing with like x twitter like where like i still like twitter because the people on there are funny and the stuff like i don't have i can still hold the the fact that like i'm rooting against elon musk and the people who are behind like the ruining

of twitter and also like still think that josh Gondelman is a delight like that, you know, and like similarly, like it just sucks that we have to like have these clashing ideas. But like James Dolan is truly the worst. He's the MSG guy. He's his dad invented HBO and he has just inherited all his money and power and uses it to surveil people and be in the sickest band of all time, J.D. and the Straight Shot. But yeah, it's just

it's truly a mess. He's clearly very happy. He's a happy guy. He's just surveying people. He's not paranoid or insecure or has a problem with haters or anything. He's fine. So just to go back to this fear, just to give, because I haven't seen it firsthand. And I get the, I have like a concept of the scale of it.

Yeah. And I looked at the videos of people at the u2 concert but is it projections or are there no it's all led lights all high def led screens like super high def it's like one giant television screen basically got it yeah with just yeah extremely high definition. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, the, it costs $2.3 billion to make. Hey clearly he wasn't dealing with the most sane client but you just know that thing where it's like what do you mean this is going to cost more money uh well you know it turns out uh putting the curvature near the top there was a little harder than we anticipated i mean i can i fear oh he's like look shit i can get it to you with your budget but it's not going to look great.

All right. All right. Fine, fine, fine, fine. And I love, though, to that point, like that the hiding of the ballooning costs got him also in trouble because he was trying to like obscure that fact from shareholders. Yeah, it's fine. It's coming in that budget. Yeah. it's fine it's it's coming in that budget yeah so that that's he was spying on and firing anybody who worked on the project who would who wanted to like tell people how much it was costing but

just generally like the footage from inside does make me like i'm like it feels like okay this is a moment of excess that like has to be experienced i i I mean, so let's put it in a different decade. Bellagio Fountain. Right. I think, so the last time I was in Vegas, of course, I was walking by the Bellagio Fountain. Still a huge attraction. It is obviously grand on all these levels. But there was all these people that i was speaking to that are like oh

yeah they're gonna drain it and it's because there's a drought in las vegas and so the evaporation of the water is so high that it doesn't like they can't recycle it and keep the height of that crazy water feature they have to keep feeding it, they have to keep feeding it water? So they have to keep feeding it water, which is incredibly expensive. Wow. All the other problems, but incredibly expensive. Well, luckily, yeah.

So there's this motion to drain the Bellagio Fountain, which then makes you go, but that's this iconic, like kind of over the top spectacle of Las Vegas. What could possibly replace it? Yeah, right.

Exactly. Yeah. How about the most electricity spectacle of Las Vegas. What could possibly replace it? Yeah, exactly. How about the most electricity ever pumped into a single geographic location? Well, it's not water. But I like how they're like, well, it's going to use... Also, for all my enviros out there, it's going to use all solar power. Oh, is it?

Well, don't read the fine print. What does the fine print say? That's not even on the table until like 2017 or 20 uh 27 it's like the fine print says we'll kill all wildlife and nature around it within 40 000 meters and after that yeah one yeah i think it's really bad for wildlife like so one of the complaints is this is really bad for wildlife right like that's too much light it's too bright it's gonna fuck everything up on the other hand if you're going to do that like this las vegas strip like does feel like i don't know you can if you're driving to las vegas at night you can see it like glowing on

the horizon before it even comes over the horizon it's like well weirdly it's daylight over to the east right there but i don't know he he seems like a real fucker james dolan it's a bummer the ultimate fucker truly seems like the ultimate fucker and that's why i think it's peak capitalism because he's not self-made he's like avowedly like inherited his dad's money and her his dad's power and then just like used it to build to be like a complete asshole like he's the he kicked a woman like a woman who was trying to bring her daughter to a Rockettes concert at Madison Square Garden yeah like was held at the entrance and like her daughter had to go in with like other

family friends because what what did she do because she was she worked for a law firm that was representing like a party that was filing a lawsuit against him in a completely unrelated case but it just it the facial recognition thing just spot her and be like that's a op get her yeah i mean i know this happens over and over again and so i'm not saying anything new but it's like these iconic comic book villains lex luther you know that we have uh had and then you just see them yeah and you just meet them right yeah like facial recognition like all of like crazy technology mad men with technology also i think it is fitting that you two say what you want about their music i have no problem with you two's music but like to be the kind of band that is the big big opening act i guess you know it's like i can see the

thinking there it's like who just shoved an album into everyone's email let's get that guy yeah yeah they love it they love it they love they love a big spectacle like behind their sure concerts yeah it's a good point that like at a certain point in the 20th century, we had these movies with superheroes and supervillains. And both of those things were unrealistic. Yeah, we only got one. Now we have the supervillains. The supervillains all came true. It's just the superheroes.

We never got those. And this guy is a sci-fi. Right? That's part of his evil vision is based on uh his love of sci-fi right yeah so it's based on a ray bradbury book that he read when his dad was busy inventing hbo and not paying attention to him in it like he invents a holodeck like ray bradbury like invents this technology like that's a high-definition holodeck where it basically comes to life

and I think lions eat the parents. And he specifically is like, that's the thing I like totally. That's my favorite. I was impressed by the parents getting eaten by lions. Yeah. Delightful. So delightful. Just delightful.

You think he like the first time, like the thing came online, he's like, Hey, play the video and everybody gives me five minutes alone in the sphere. And it's just like a rendering of his dad getting like mauled by lions. And he's like, okay, all right,

we're good here. All right, let's test the YouTube visuals. All right, let's see. You know, there is a call for sci-fi writers to start writing happier, I don't know, more positive visions of the future because there is a theory that all this dystopian villain, destructive tales that we're literally fulfilling the prophecy because that's the only vision all of us humans have.

Yeah. I'm like, oh, we're going to blame Octavia Butler now for being the goat? I don't think so. I don't think so. Half of this shit was just gaming it out into the future. Like, let's see, based on our inability to take care of each other. You seem to be headed. Yeah.

I think this is where this ends up with, hey, no, you shouldn't have articulated that or else I wouldn't have the idea to fucking crush people with my company. Oh, it's their fault. Yeah. It's the writers, the artists fault.

Yeah. Yeah. No, why'd you have to like, look, why'd you have to have comment on the situation in a creative way like that? Oh,

I hate this stuff. I do think it would be good if sci-fi writers would start like writing more specific solution-based visions of the future that weren't just like and then everything crumbles right remember when the robots helped people right yeah yeah exactly not even wally oh god the biggest scariest movie i've ever seen in my life i cried and screamed yeah that was a rough one still is but yeah dolan's you know he is a major trump donor he's also he also uses the donald trump method of like making these massive projects but not paying anyone like he's in litigation with a bunch of contractors who are like he doesn't pay us oh look at that yeah i know yeah real and he was brave enough to to not open his mouth at all

after george floyd was killed i think he was the only only NBA owner. No comment on that. Yeah. And it's because I'm against it. Right. I don't even need to say it. You guys know where I'm at. Don't read my past comments or my political donations. You guys know where I'm at. Well, no wonder the contractors are adding another billion. I would too.

Yeah. Yeah, fuck this guy. That probably just offsets the losses of not being paid you know what i mean it's like i don't know i charge two billion to get one so yeah how much i love but just that's such a great thing to say can you imagine someone being like well how much more will it be and just going a billion let me just carry the Yeah, it looks like it's going to be a billion. One billion. That's a billion.

That's a billion. At least a billion. Like, conservatively? Yeah, I'm giving you a deal on this. Yeah. I'm giving you a deal. Hold on. Your name's William because this shit's a billy.

What? Sorry, it's going to be a billion dollars. Oh, okay. He's also, yeah. We need to find one security officer who's worked for dolan who's been who like is willing to defy their nda because like he he his security officer like spied on his own executives reading their emails covertly recording them in order to manufacture reasons to fire them to keep the costs of the sphere under

wraps so like he basically would just keep hiring and firing people so that nobody saw that it started at 1 billion dollars and was ballooning to 2.3 billion dollars if you just like keep firing people over and over like the one sphere in las vegas middle of the desert in a place that already is the light pollution capital of the universe is probably like if you're gonna do it that's the place to do it he's also trying to do it in like the uk and london he's trying to like could you imagine having this in the city that you live in no i can't even stand the uh sort of in new york like the not quite full dispensary pot stores that just cover their entire facade with uh the lcd lights right because they're so bright right right crazy bright on the street you're like oh my god

this like the site that they've chosen in like east london or west london i forget where they're like it's surrounded by what they say three blocks of residential housing like it's just gonna be in the middle of a neighborhood and the best they've done is offer residents blackout curtains oh like hey i thought this was a problem never mind no no it's not that they had solved it yeah yeah exactly but luckily all the people are like fuck right off with that offer yeah like there's no way i want like i wouldn't i don't fucking even wish that on my enemy to have the fucking a spear in the middle of their neighborhood but we shall see i mean there's way more opposition to that one because it makes free tickets to the sphere oh well hmm yeah and go have your go do some uh roman concrete therapy and that's right you know self-heal yourself like some cement yeah we're just gonna blast affirmations at you for

fucking five hours in there hopefully you guys don't fucking think about turning against capitalism you freaks that's right be thankful you're allowed to exist yeah that you've made it to this era of human existence you're fucking welcome i think dubai also probably makes sense vegas and dubai sense and then we'll we'll leave it there yeah yeah and also that this should only exist for like a couple more years until everyone like has the collective mind shift of like, my God, that is a grotesque amount of electricity that has to be coming from somewhere. Maybe, maybe the sphere will be the site of the coming proletarian tribunals

against the business owners of the world. And we, that's, it's like our new Hague. I love that you're writing positive sci-fi right now. You're doing it. Thank you. You're doing it.

Exactly. Thank you. And then, yeah, folks. Exactly. Thank you. And then, yeah, exactly. And the proceedings will be projected on the outside for all those to see. And we learned a way to actually, instead of converting

solar into energy, LCD light into the kind of light that can, I don't know, be used for organic farming. Thank you. There it is. See? I don't know how.

Just turn it into a giant sun. I just need it. There it is. See? I don't know how one billion dollars. Turn it into a giant sun. I just need it. It makes everything. Well, Ophira Eisenberg, such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can follow me all around at all the socials, at Ophira E. And if you like making fun of positive affirmations, I do that by attaching my own little post-it notes to positive affirmations with my response around town every week.

So go to my Instagram. You can check out Parenting Podcast. Parenting is a joke on iHeart. New episodes every week. And yeah, my tour dates also are announced up through my socials. There you go. If you're in Western Canada, keep an eye out, folks. I know, my tour dates also are announced through my socials. There you go. If you're in Western Canada, keep an eye out. I know. I'm all over.

Oh, we got a Zyte gang all over Canada. Pull up. Oh, yeah. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I, too, have been looking at my Instagram a lot. And there is a comedian who does a lot of stuff.

It is parenting focused, but I think funny to all, as I like to say, her name's Caitlin Murray. And she has a podcast and her stuff on Instagram is under big time adulting. And it's funny. I hate using the word irreverent, but I'm going to use it irreverent. But it's also, it's mean in the right direction.verent but I'm going to use it irreverent but it's also it's mean in the

right direction that's what I'm going to say it's got that little edgy meanness but it's I'm always I guess I agree with it okay there you go so it is funny it's just funny stuff she's very funny and very prolific awesome Miles where can people find you what is the

work of media you've been enjoying you can find me twitter instagram At miles of gray you know the basketball podcast Miles and jack got bad boosties You know the true crime show the good thief And if you like 90 day fiance Check out for 20 day fiance Cause we're doing it

We're doing the lords over there Let's see Any media I've been liking I just finally finished the last season of top boy and what a what a what an ending to a storied series uh and also annoying this shit out of her majesty because i keep talking like i'm a road man in it get my food bruv where's my peas bruv and she's just like you're so. Just please answer me like normally. Did you feed the pets?

And I'm like, I'm not a waste, man, right? I feed my pets, man. And yeah, so shout out to everybody because I see on my TikTok stream, I'm seeing constantly just videos of someone who has been infected by top boy talk and they're annoying the shit out of their family by doing it so i love it shout out to all you you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien

tweet i've been enjoying the author seamus o'reilly at shockproof beats tweeted one very underrated pick me up is deliberately mispronouncing things. Commit to saying arples and banarnars and you'll see results in days. Only ever pronouncing Moby as Moby has been an absolute game-changer for my mental health and I'd recommend it to anyone. Mispronunciations.

The best. Moby is a fun one. Moby. I love it. 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 yeah hey miles yeah is there a song that you think people might enjoy oh yeah man uh i was just listening to some vaporwave and uh you know just it's like post

music music uh like a lot of it i listen to it just sounds like the theme something like the soundtrack of like a haunted food court in a mall but this artist is called uh lush crayon but in japan but also like a lot of like vaporwave artists use japanese like like characters and their name so he goes by nuigurumi crayon which means in japanese nuigurumi is like a stuffed animal but the english name is lush crayon and i'm like do you think you were plush crayon is that what you're going for because the two do not match as a bilingual person here but anyway it's still interesting like background music this track is called lisa l-i-s-a by lush crayon check it out now when you say a haunted food court yeah is the food court abandoned or is it a crowded food court that just has ghosts

it's up to you so when i say haunted or like i picture like you've broken into a mall but there are still like apparitions you know using the food court and you're like oh shit bro what the fuck is going on in here because i always wonder that about like haunted places do are they do we just notice that they're haunted because they're so quiet because everybody left already and everything else is haunted but we just can't hear the ghosts because everyone's talking and being loud or is the haunted food court like just like ghosts are right are like animals wild animals they prefer the quiet they're like yeah i don't know away from these people anyways teach their own teach their own we'll just have to wait for science to answer that question for us.

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