The Daily Zeitgeist - The Zeit Sweats 11/25: Posh Spice, Mark McGrath, Black Friday, Storm Warning

Episode Date: November 26, 2019

Today on the Zeit Sweats Jack and Miles discuss Posh Spice not going on tour, Mark McGrath on Cameo, Black Friday, and a Storm Warning across the Country.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the Zeit Sweat. Courtesy of Nicholas Speer. We've all been there buddy. My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm Miles Gray. And this is the show where we check in with you in the afternoon slash evening. Tell you what's trending. Tell you what we think about it. Are night sweats from a fever or is that because you just are really hot? If you said there were night sweats, that's a disorder? I thought of it as being something that accompanies a really bad hangover or withdrawal.

Oh, got it, got it. That's what I mean. It's not like someone's just like, yeah, you know, it's hot. You get the night sweats. Yeah, yeah. No, I associate it with really bad benders, personally. Who's your favorite bender? Sven, Lars, or the one from Futurama?

Futurama bender. Okay. All the way. Let's talk about Posh Spice. Yeah. So posh. She's charting, man. Not very spicy.

Very posh, not spicy. No. She is trending because she's announced uh she isn't going on the spice girls tour yeah because she has kids yep uh that's like the shitty like i don't know hang it over your friend's head yeah is it underhanded where it's like you know i would but like i'm a parent right and like my life has progressed to more serious yeah and i'm kind of like taking that seriously right now but you know that's cool, you know, I would, but like I'm a parent. Right. And like my life has progressed to more serious. Yeah. And I'm kind of like taking that seriously right now.

But, you know, that's cool if you guys want to sort of get in your time machine. I don't even think it's backhanded because I mean, the way I guess the vibe that I always get from her is not is is kind of shading somebody like whether intentionally or unintentionally. is kind of shading somebody, like whether intentionally or unintentionally. Yeah, the caption of the post was like, it was a photo of the four other members for like, I guess the promo for the tour. It says, today marks a special day for the girls as they announced the first tour date

since we performed together in 2012. I won't be joining my girls on stage again, but being in the Spice Girls was a hugely important part of my life and I wish them so much love and fun as they go back on tour next year. I know they will put on an amazing show and the fantastic fans past and present are going to have a wonderful time xvb hashtag spice girls hashtag friendship never ends so it's pretty uh did she say anything

about well it's because she went on ellen so then this is the plot thickens oh she goes on ellen you know where one percenters go to tell their dirty secrets and basically throughout the conversation it was the whole thing was uh yeah you know i'm um i had so much fun and i'm still close with the girls and i was so proud of them and everything that they did the reunion was a huge success but you know for me i loved it uh when i did it but i feel like a very different person now i've got four children and i'm really busy doing what I'm doing. Yeah. I mean, it's true. Yeah. It's like, she might also just not need it.

Like she probably doesn't need it. She probably, I mean, also not necessarily monetarily, like for her ego or something. Right. Yeah. I mean, she might feel fulfilled from different things and it's not like being a

parent is a super cool thing. Well, she, her vibe was always like, I'm, I'm not really in the Spice Girls. She was like, I'm there. Watch, I'm the only one who's not going to dance.

This is the development that had literally zero effect on the vocal arrangements of the tour. Oh, no. There's just one person in a black cocktail dress not kinking their leg out. Yeah. But she was so good at doing that. She was my favorite Spice Girl.

Yeah, me too. Truth be told. Yeah. And it was for her kinking that leg out. Yeah. But she was so good at doing that. She was my favorite Spice Girl. Yeah, me too. Truth be told. Yeah. And it was for her kinking that leg out. I think it's because her energy was like, I guess I'm in this group.

Like, I'm kind of the really hot one or whatever. Like, my whole vibe is like, I don't know, they do their thing. Mm-hmm. Another blast from the past,

Mark McGrath, former host of Rock and Roll Jeopardy is that the show he hosted? I don't know I've never heard of this guy really? what's he from? isn't he the Sugar Egg guy?

oh Mark McGrath come on bro I couldn't believe you I acted like I didn't know yes so you know that app cameo where you can pay and like well not anybody but any celebrity who's willing to do something for a couple bucks on like selfie video like you can pay for bethany frankel from real housewives to like give you a personalized message or bagel boss guy or uh any number of like celebrities right you heard about this you

seen this you seen this you heard about this but yes so on on this app basically this woman from all we know is we have the video of mark mcgrath looking into a computer selfie screen like video thing with the light blowing out his forehead so much i thought his third eye was opening to like another dimension right or maybe he was blowing out his wrinkles. I don't know. Or he has plastic surgery, whatever it is, do what you got to do. But as he goes on, he's like, Hey, Brayden, this message from Cheyenne. And she just wants you to know, like, she really cares about you, man. She really loves you. And she really, really thinks the world of you, but you know, just this long distance

thing isn't working out. It's just not working out, man. And just keeps me like, and I know it's like your thesis, bro. He keeps saying like your thesis, bro. And you're working on your thesis, bro. And that's cool. But it feels like he was using thesis, like just as like a conversational thesis about life is like you want to party all the time and shy. Brayden, I would say your thesis, bro, is the thesis statement of your life in an essay form. But he it's after a while, like after he got the main points, it's like it's a long distance relationship.

You're working on a thesis. It's difficult for her drifting apart. He probably got that out in the first like minute. So then the next minute he keeps like it becomes this really circuitous, like just repeating rehashing. Yeah. As you know. Andhashing goes, yeah, as you know. And it's like, long distance, bro. And obviously, you got your thesis, bro. And that's cool. I wonder if she paid for two minutes.

Oh, it must be. And it was like, oh, fuck. Yeah. I got to stretch this the fuck out. Yeah. It's worth watching just to watch Mark McGrath kind of keep saying, you're working on your thesis, bro. A little off-camera producer in his mind is making the stretch signal.

It was doing that thing where after a while you're just saying ideas that are tangentially connected. Where you're like, I get it. And you know, like the holidays. It's like, you know, that's tough. And your thesis. Naming things he says. Or naming things he sees. Plus like laptop green light

uh you know how it is man what else uh mark mcgrath there there is a video of him an appearance from the wendy williams show where he seems to be the most evidently coked up person that i've ever seen in my life oh really i i think it's been taken down off the internet but uh there is a clip of it on an old episode of uh the spit take my youtube show that i used to do on cracktiff uh something what would they google jack o'brien spit take mark mcgrath cocaine Or like drugs, celebrity drugs or something. But I've always respected him for that. For going on Wendy Williams, just flying and just like not able to contain himself at all.

Yeah, man, the ego. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to him. Hopefully he's healthy. Yep.

Black Friday is also trending. One and two. Number one and number two are both Black Friday. Just like a misspelling? No, it's like black. One's like Best Buy Black Friday. The other one's like Black Friday deals. Damn.

That's like. Can you imagine how much somebody would pay for that promoted? Yeah. It says, I don't know. I mean, I'm not going to give these people free advertising, but everyone wants, it's the same shit. Everyone wants a TV. Everybody wants headphones.

Everybody wants washing machine. Everybody wants free healthcare. Right. That's like health insurance, like healthcare providers should have like a big Black Friday. If they were smart capitalists, yeah. Why wouldn't you? Yeah. health insurance uh like health care providers should have like a big black friday like if they were smart capitalists yeah why wouldn't you yeah just yeah get get in on it look what do you want an amazon fire tv stick or an mri right right um i wonder how many people also because uh flat screens are always the thing that people seem like that seems to be if black friday

in the internet era has a single item it's a flat screen it's a flat screen tv yeah no absolutely i wonder how much of that is just that people see the sticker price and they don't realize that the prices on flat screen tvs have dropped like by a third since like we last bought TVs. Oh, yeah. I remember there was just a point like probably five years ago where I was done with one TV, ready to buy a new one. And I was like, holy shit. Wait, why is this so cheap? Yeah.

Well, they got everything they want you to buy 4k and then fucking 8k it's like bro I don't what the fuck I'm gonna watch in 8k I upgraded because the HDMI and port in the back stopped working so that's where I was at wait you just went like fuck it get a new one it no, it was broken. Oh, like it was fully fucked up? It was legit. Like, yeah, we had somebody to look at it and try and fix it, and it was just not picking up the signal. Well, look, please recommend some 8K content to me, because I'd love to see it. I mean, sometimes it's a little disorienting to watch shit in 4K even.

Like, I'll fuck with a nature documentary in 4K. Like, great, because that's like shit you want almost to mimic your eyesight, if not better. But, like, I don't need to see i still remember seeing a secretariat and it looked like a like high school production like all the makeup was just like so obvious like they just hadn't done it they hadn't lit it they hadn't like put the costumes together with 4k in mind and i was just like watching it and i think i might have been high it's like look at that guy's makeup yeah it was just like nub from star wars yeah um yeah but i i feel like they're the disorienting like too hyper uh high definition for a positive viewing experience thing is real.

Oh, yeah. And finally, we have a storm warning. Yep. Stay safe, stay dry. The whole damn earth. Whole damn earth. It's quite literally from California to Michigan. There will be 20 million people under winter weather advisories.

Wow. So, yeah, it's coming down from Oregon down in northwest California. That's why we're getting a little bit of rain on Wednesday and Thursday. Damn, man, you could be a meteorologist. The way you just, Miles was gesturing broadly towards the window. I mean, what we're looking at is probably something that will rival the strength of a Cat 1 hurricane. Whoa. And we're talking wind gusts of up to 74 mph miles per hour now that's stronger

than hurricane force cnn meteorologist judson jones said actually forget i said that last part everything i just said right now was from my brain okay wasn't just reading an article beautiful uh well done oh yeah you are reading from me just judensen jones i was like why did he die what happened oh no no he's fine he's fine uh all right well that's been another edition of zeit sweats yep got the jack uh we hope you learned something we we loved hanging out with you oh do we want to ask people prompt people to give us ideas for our uh thursday oh yeah what do you want to talk us out are on yeah friday show yeah let us know i was thinking uh miles you had a pitch about maybe uh like a broke boy version of oprah's favorite things yeah we'll tell wait we'll tell zy gang

what we want and then i'll start a gofundme and then you can buy us all i think you can all buy it for us uh i was thinking of underrated basically things we should be more thankful for, like a little positive spin on things. Electricity. I had that thought over the weekend. What are you, someone's dad?

Hey, you thankful for this electricity, kid? I was listening to They Might Be Giants. They talk about an electric outlet as an electric well, like pulling electricity out of an electric well, and just the concept of how mind-blowing it must be to people that the government just gives you free power. Not really free, but such cheap power. This is going to sound like a lit episode yeah

dude think about this like so all the people who want to hear me wax philosophical uh about how cool electricity is uh let me know on twitter or suggest something else yeah please suggest something else please favorite recipes all right uh's going to do it for today. Bye.