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

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. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Zite Sweat courtesy of Nicholas Spear. We've all been there, buddy.
My name's Jack O'Brien. I'm mild Gray, and this is
the show where we check in with you in the
afternoon flash evening. Tell you what's trending, tell you what

(00:21):
we think about it our our night sweats from a fever?
Or is that because you just are really hot? If
you said there were nights, that's a I thought of
it as being something that accompanies are really bad hangover
or withdraw Oh got it, like something That's what I mean.
It's not like someone just like, yeah, you know it's hot,

(00:41):
you get the night sweats? Yeah? Yeah, No, I I
associated with really bad benders personally. Um, who's your favorite bender?
Spend Lars or the one from Futurama, Futurama Bender all
the way. Uh, let's talk about posh Spice. Yeah, she's
art and man uh not very spicy, very posh, not spicy.

(01:04):
She is trending because she's announced she isn't going on
the Spice Girls tour. Yeah, because she has kids. That's
like the shitty, like I don't know, hang it over
your friends head. Is it underhanded or it's like you
know I would, but like I'm a parent and like
real life has progressed two more serious. Yeah, and I'm

(01:26):
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 gets backhanded,
because I mean the way I guess the vibe that
I always get from her is not is kind of
shading somebody, like whether intentionally or on it. Yeah. Her.
The caption of the post was like it was a

(01:48):
photo of the four other members for like I guess.
The promo for the tour says today marks a special
day for the Girls, as Day announced the first tour
dates since we performed together in I won't be joining
my girls on stage again, but being in the Spice
Girls is a hugely and 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 president are going to have a wonderful time. X

(02:09):
VB hashtag Spice Girls, hashtag friendship never friends. So it's
pretty did she say anything about, well, it's because she
went on Ellen. So then this is the plot thickens.
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, yeah, you know, I'm um.
I had so much fun and I'm still close with

(02:30):
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 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 does not need it, Like she
probably doesn't need it. She probably mean also not necessarily monetarily,

(02:52):
like for her ego or something. Yeah, I mean, she
might feel fulfilled from different things, and it's not like
being apparent is a super cool thing. Her vibe was
always like I'm not really in the spicecroll was like watch,
I'm the only one who's not going to dance. This
is this is the development that had literally zero effect

(03:14):
on the vocal arrangements of the Oh no, there's just
one person in a black cocktail dress, not you know,
kinking their leg out, but she was so good at
doing that. She was my favorite Spicecroll And it was
before her kicking that leg out. I think it's because
her energy was, like I guess I'm in this group,
like I'm kind of a really hot one or whatever.

(03:36):
Like my whole vibe is like, you know, they do
their thing. Another blast from the past. Mark McGrath, former
host of Rock and Roll Jeopardy. Uh is that the
show he hosted? I don't know, is that what he's from?
I don't I've never heard of this guy. Really, really,
what's he from? Isn't either Sugar Egg Guy? Oh? Mark mcgrash,

(04:00):
Come on? Um? Yes? So you know the app cameo
or you can pay a like we're not anybody but
any celebrity who's willing to do something for a couple
of 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

(04:23):
number of like celebrities. Right, you heard about this, you've seen?
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,
or maybe he was blowing out his wrinkles, I don't know,

(04:44):
or as plastic surgery, whatever it is, do what you
gotta do. Um. But as he goes on, he's like, hey, Brandon,
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 you. But you know,
just this long distance thing isn't working. It's just not
working out, man, And just keeps me like, and I

(05:05):
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 that he was using
thesis like just as like a conversational. Your thesis about
life is like you want a party all the time.
And Brad and I would say, your thesis, bro, is
the thesis statement of your life in an essay for him,

(05:26):
but he um, it's after a while, like after goot
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 goes yeah, as
you know, and it's like long distance bro, and obviously

(05:48):
like you got your thesis, bro, and that's cool. I
wonder if like she paid for two minutes and it
was like, oh fuck, yeah, I gotta stretch this the
funk out. It worth watching just to watch Mark McGrath
kind of like keep saying you're working on your thesis,
but little off camera producer in his mind is making
the stretch signal. It was. It was doing that thing

(06:09):
where you're just after a while you're just saying ideas
that are tangentially connected where you like I get it
and you know, like the holidays. It's like, you know,
that's tough, NA thinks he says, or naming things he sees.
It's like laptop green light, uh, Mark McGrath. There there

(06:32):
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.
I think it's been taken down off the internet, but
there is a clip of it on an old episode

(06:52):
of The Spit Take My YouTube show that I used
to uh something, but what would they google? Jack O'Brien spittake,
Mark McGrath cocaine. Yeah, like drugs, celebrity drugs or something.
But I've always respected him for that. For Williams, just lying,
f lying and just like not able to contain itself

(07:14):
at all. Uh yeah, man the Eagle, Yeah yeah, shout
out to him, Hopefully he's healthy. Black Friday is also trending.
One in two number one in number two are both
Black Fridays, just like a misspelling. No, it's like black
ones like best buy Black Friday, the other ones like
Black Friday deals. That's like, can you measue how much

(07:37):
somebody would pay for that promoted? Yeah? Uh, it says,
I'm I don't know. I mean, I'm not going to
give these people free advertising. But yeah, everyone everyone wants
it's the same ship. Everyone wants a TV, everybody wants headphones,
everybody wants washing machine, everybody wants free healthcare. You know. Uh,

(07:58):
that's like health insurance, like healthcare providers should have like
a big Black Friday, like they were a smart capitalist. 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 m R I right right? Um. I wonder how

(08:19):
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, absolutely.
I wonder how much of that is just that people
see the sticker price and they don't realize that the

(08:42):
prices on flat screen TVs have dropped like third since
like we last bought TVs, you know like that. I
remember there was just a point like probably five years
ago where I was done with one TV rated by
a new one, and I was like, holy wait, why
does this not Why is this so cheap? Yeah, well,

(09:05):
they got everything they wanted you to buy four K
and then fucking eight K. It's like, bro, I don't
what the funk I'm gonna watch in eight K. I
upgraded because the h d M I and port in
the back stopped working. So that's where I was at
we you just went like fucking get a new one.
It No, it was broken. It was like yeah, we
had somebody to look at it and try and fix it,

(09:26):
and it was just not picking up the signal. Well,
look it was eight years. Please recommend some eight K
content to me, because I mean sometimes it's a little
disorienting to watch it in four caven Like I'll funk
with the Nature documentary four K, Like great, because that's
like ship you want almost to mimic your eyesight if
not better. But like I remember seeing a Secretariat and

(09:50):
it looked like a like high school production, like all
the makeup was just like so obvious, like they just
do it. They had lit it and like put the
costumes together with four and I was just just like
watching it and I think it might have been high
it's like makeups yeah, um yeah, but I feel like

(10:14):
they're the disorienting, like two hyper high definition for a
positive viewing experience. Thing is is real? Oh yeah? Uh.
And finally we have a storm warning. Uh the whole
damn earth. Whole damn earth, it says quite literally, from

(10:35):
California to Michigan, there will be twenty million people under
winter weather advisories. So yeah, it's coming down from Oregon
down to northwest California. That's how we're getting a little
bit of rain on Wednesday and day. Man, you could
be a meteorologist. You just went. Miles was gesturing broadly
towards the window. I mean, what we're looking at is

(10:56):
probably something that will rival the strength of a Cat
one hurricane. Uh and we're talking wind gus of up
to seventy four 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, I wasn't just reading

(11:17):
an article beautiful, well done. Oh yeah, you were reading
from Jeds and Jones. I was like, why did he die?
What happens? No, he's fine, He's fine. All right. Well,
that's been another edition of Zeit Sweatstack. We hope you
learned something. We we loved hanging out with you. Oh

(11:39):
do we want to ask people? Prompt people to give
us ideas for our Thursday? Oh yeah, what do you
want to talk to about? Are on? Yeah Friday Show? Yes,
I want to hear Miles, you had a pitch about
maybe uh like broke Boy version of Oprah's Favorite Things. Yeah,
we'll tell what, We'll tell ze gang what we want

(11:59):
in the I'll start to go fund me and then
you can buy somethingthing. You can all buy it for us.
I was thinking of like underrated things, like basically things
we should be more thankful for, like a little positive uh,
like electricity. I had that thought over the weekend. Do
you someone's dad? I am thankful for this electricity, kid,

(12:20):
I was. I was listening to they might be giants
and they talk about a an electric outlet as an
electric well, like pulling electricity of an electric well, and
just the concept of bet it flows. How mind blowing
it must be two people that like, the government just
gives you free power, like not really free, but such

(12:43):
cheap power. This is going to sound like a Lid episode.
Think about this. So all the people who want to
hear me wax philosophical about how cool electricity is, let
me know on Twitter or something else. Yeah, just something
please favorite recipes. Alright, that's gonna do it for today. Okay,

(13:06):
bye bye m