The Daily Zeitgeist - Kay-Trend-Nada 5/17: Matt Gaetz, America, NYPD, LGBTQ+, NBA

Episode Date: May 17, 2021

On this edition of Kay-Trend-Nada Jack and Miles discuss how f*cked Matt Gaetz is, America bankrolling Israel's ethnic cleansing, NYPD not participating in Pride Day, International Day Against LGBTQ+ Phobia, and NBA news! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah. And Miles, it's a bad day to have the last name Gates, I'll tell you what, buddy. Oh, boy. Uh-oh, read the alarm. Uh-oh. So, we talk on tomorrow's episode about bill gates uh some some new troubling details that apparently aren't new but just like didn't really break break through to the mainstream because we respect our billionaires in this country when the when the media's goodwill tank runs out for you then they start reporting is how it works yeah it's like we'll sit on these stories till

it's actually it'll benefit us to talk like report the stuff rather than feeling like we don't want to you know slander somebody yeah these seem like things that people have known for a minute now we're just hearing about yeah like everybody who worked for him was like yeah he was just asking all the women who worked for him out. Hey, would you date me? If not, don't tell anybody. Don't tell anybody. Well, anyways, Matt Gates. Is there something new?

No, it's the same shit we were talking about last week. It just seems like maybe the way the news cycle hit, people missed it because now it's trending number one on Twitter that his homie, Joel Greenberg, he pled guilty and will be cooperating. Hence, Matt Gaetz is fucked. Somebody was flying a literal plane banner over the courthouse that just said, tock matt gates which i kind of respect yeah so his his days his hours are numbered i'm guessing i'm guessing i'm curious to know what happens as all these people try and sacrifice each other for their own well

being like like if this is a domino like you, you know, that meme where someone like pushes over a little domino and then it ends up like bringing down like the 70 pound domino piece, like down the line because of momentum. Like, I'm curious if this, I don't know, this spells larger trouble for, for,

you know, Trump, et cetera. But no, no, no, we can all live in a fantasy world where justice exists. The big domino.

I feel like the noid, the noid. Yeah. Once the the noid falls they all fall uh no the the new york times story on bill gates uh that we're talking about tomorrow uh just unquestioningly refers to jeffrey epstein's death as a suicide so you know that's uh that's one of those dominoes that just disappeared uh just disappeared that was i believe pretty pretty well positioned to fuck a lot of people over but all right 735 million dollars are trending why why is that what's happening well you know on top of just the absolute inaction of the administration to address what's happening with the israel palestine uh just right now it just looks like the unjust disproportionate attacks from israel against

uh the people of palestine and gaza um now there's a story coming out about a 735 million dollar arms deal that was okayed by joe biden between the u.s and israel so you know on top of just acting like you know when asked it, everyone in the administration is like, Oh, I don't know her. It's like, you don't know about you're doing a $735 million arms deal,

sir, that you've approved. How can anyone now, I mean, not even before any of this, but anyway, looking at this story, just as it is right now,

can think that the u.s has nothing to do with what's happening there we're arming them we're giving them the arms to commit their war crimes with so what how is the u.s not connected to this how are our tax dollars not connected to this i mean granted all of our tax dollars with all of the foreign policy um that the u.s chooses to engage in. But this specifically is just like another head scratcher. You're like, do we need that? Do we need to be doing this arms deal?

Do we need to have this over 10 years, like over $30 billion pledge to fund their defense systems? I don't think so. Now we have people here who need fucking help. help and on top of it that you should be using your might i don't know who i'm talking to this america that exists where it actually upholds like the ideals of democracy which isn't true ever at all but like in the movie version you think if they had shit to say now's the time to say something rather than just being like there's a clip of joe biden from the 80s saying

if israel didn't exist we'd have to invent it to protect american interests in the middle east um yeah so he's like he's basically a neocon like yeah i'm let's be real i mean like the there's a reason it's not because americans are like on board with the agenda of zionists it's that it is a critical military like it provides critical military infrastructure for all the things the united states also wants to do in the middle east so it's just there's so many things like you know it's like people talk about it's like it's our it's our one main military base in the middle east really like sort of colloquially i will say it does seem like it's breaking more like public opinion or at least in the media more so than i've ever seen it towards you know people being outraged on behalf

of palestine i don't know what that's good for when thousands of palestin being murdered but it's still to change like I think I don't know I I do think it's you know just where we are what happened in 2020 in America with the Black Lives Matter movement and uh just everything kind of pandemic and the pandemic yeah it's that pause I think gave people enough time to think for a second and see what's happening. And I think whether it's, you know, you see that, like, where there's a US where many white Americans had to confront this idea that, like, maybe societally I've been fed this thing very passively that I've been conditioned to look at another group of people as not being human. Yeah. And allowing to move like that. And I think that's happening in many different places and yeah i think you can just tell with what's happening even in within

israel with um palestinian israelis uh there who are in the streets you know protesting and the police are coming out it's it's much different than many other conflicts that have occurred where people usually didn't take to the streets. Like there was this weird tacit, like understanding of like, well, we'll tolerate these Palestinians who live in Israel as long as they don't get vocal about how we're genociding their people. And now even that is beginning to change.

And yeah, I mean, so everything is in flux at the moment and all we can do from our side is just look at how, I mean, everything is in flux at the moment. And all we can do from our side is just look at how, I mean, only a couple of our politicians are actually unequivocal in how they're describing what's happening. Right. Let's see. The New York City police will not be participating in the Pride Parade, New York City Pride celebration in in general until at least 2025 there it is um which is kind of dope it prevents the police from as you put it rainbow washing there yeah because before you know there would be there was a group of uh you know lgbtq officers who would

march in the parade and like you know kind of in solidarity with everybody there. But now they're like, you know what? Nah, we absolutely can't get over what we've seen with, I mean, I'm sure in this specific instance, the New York city police, um, and they're like, yeah, so what we're going to do, they said, quote, the sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provide can instead be threatening, uh, and at times dangerous to those in our community who are And yeah, great. from us unless it's absolutely critical that you intervene um and they're putting more of their budget for their security towards you know trained like community responders and volunteers like people who do this who aren't police and you know i think this makes sense um i mean just putting aside obviously like the opposition to police that's born out of stonewall and things like that with the history of the lgbtq uh community in this country but this feels like a good opportunity for an event

to happen where you don't need police to ensure the safety and you can begin to like begin to show people how you can manage things without police intervening where people how could this event be safe you're like we actually have people there who are trained to intervene and de-escalate any manner of situation that we've predicted probably like fights or stuff people getting drunk and getting each other's faces shit like that that we don't just need people come around clubbing people for no fucking reason um and i think that i hope like that could kick off a more momentum because I think that's the only way people are ever going to see a glimpse of what it means to say, you know, we're saying we don't need the police in the traditional sense because we're actually going to be using our own methods of community intervention and de-escalation. It'll be interesting to see how this spreads. Hopefully we start seeing uh kind of more and more and maybe see a city

or two adopt this approach we shall um uh it is international day against homophobia biphobia interphobia and transphobia yeah good i mean it's so weird again you know we we're like in 2021 and i just feel like the the way everyone should just be moving is everybody's just trying to live we have to begin to look at everybody as people just like us no matter how different the perceived differences are that we can connect connect to a basic level of humanity and so much like i just oh that's like the fucking one of the few last pieces is you know i think for anyone's development is to like let go of a lot of weird shit like i've over my years i've had to let go of all kinds of prejudices i've had which are born out of ignorance or lack of experience or knowledge wisdom and at the end you realize you live a

better life you interact with people in a better way when you just connect to the same fundamental thing, which is we're all fucking people, man. And we're all just we're all trying to do the same shit, which is just to do live our life and be happy. Maybe mine is about smoking blunts and hoping Arsenal does well and laughing when Harry Kane puts in a transfer request to leave Tottenham Hotspur for other people is to be validated in their gender expression. of Tottenham Hotspur for other people is to be validated in their gender expression uh having support of medical support community support not to be treated like someone who's subhuman and we're all just trying to do our shit and you know what and some people are also on the same agenda as me and you're like oh shit you like to smoke blunts and you like Arsenal too well look at us just a couple of people with common interests yeah that was beautifully put i i feel like you know there are a lot of people in power in america who are fighting for uh the cause of like basically

invalidating a lot of these people's lives like yeah they shouldn't exist like that's that is some fucked up shit to wake up to and it's nonsense and i think that's just it's it's barbaric and if if we're actually going to acknowledge that we moved on then you have to stand in direct opposition to that because that's absolute nonsense and that kind of thinking only like directly leads to our own downfall um so shout out to everybody and you know sorry to people who have to deal with hatred in their lives it sucks i know it did you want to feel like you are you belong or people don't you know want to let you thrive without fucking tossing their own bullshit your way but you know what i think more and more i hope that we're yeah we're moving towards this place of being able to see

everyone's humanity because shit honestly that's going to be the only thing we're left with eventually. And then some NBA shit. The Warriors are trending. They are going against the Lakers, the defending champs in a playing game on Wednesday. That's wild. I can see Steph losing his mind.

Like just vaporizing us somehow. He also ended the season by uh leading the leading the league and scoring stuff and just continuing to be completely out of his mind and unconscious it's unreal to see so i i fear that i'm not gonna lie because i know his propensity to do supernatural things on the basketball court. Yeah. And, you know, granted, we have our big stars back, but it's only been a couple games, you know. Who would you rather play in the first round,

the Suns or the Jazz? I don't even know, man. That's a fucked up question. I like you in either series. I like the lakers in either series yeah that's i think that's wild that that's your choice i think the jazz will give us a better psychological boost if we come out of there beating that right i think that would be that would help set the tone for the rest of the postseason and luck i mean shit we fucking we eked out a win the last time we played in the regular season so and that was without the the main attractions yeah and then kwame brown is uh out here talking talking shit is straight good to hear from him again i don't

look he's just got a bunch of clips on he was on all the smoke and he was delivering he had something to say about fucking everybody um but more than that like then he i think it's just a secondary wave because then he went on like instagram live to like keep popping off um and as i just read the articles it's just kind of funny to to just sort of see like what he's like really in his feelings about like you know he definitely um there was like talk about gilbert aranis was like yo i you know michael jordan destroyed his confidence and like that fucked him up and like they're also kind of talking about you like kobe i guess kobe had said kwame was afraid of the ball and like that was like a big thing for him so that hurt young kwame which is wild to think like when they say retired player kwame brown he's 39 yeah oh yeah he's he's a

when he was famous he was literally a child yeah yeah man that because that number one pick fucked him up oh for sure it fucked and i do think jordan yeah jordan's enough to fuck any anybody mind up like he he should have drafted somebody who was based on not like their promise and like their physical gifts but like on them being somebody that he could he felt like he could work with and you know just physically and mentally dominate into into being great i don't know i don't even know who the best player was who came out of that draft but that was definitely not the right pick to put michael jordan in there with a child uh because as we've heard him say fuck them kids uh yeah he's like sink or swim motherfucker i. I mean, who's, let's see.

Just look at this class. Kwame, Tyson Chandler, Pau Gasol, Eddie Curry, Jason Richardson, Shane Battier, Eddie Griffin, Rodney White, Joe Johnson, Vlad Rad. Joe Johnson probably would have been a good. Stephen Hunter, Kirk Heston, Michael Bradley. Joe Johnson, number one.

Zach Randolph. Who else is in there? Yeah. Zach Randolph on a Jordan team? That would have been interesting. Yeah, there's some tough dudes in there, though, that might have been able to. Oh, and fucking Tony Parker. Yeah, Tony Parker.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Fucking 28th. Yeah, yeah. Okay. i'm sorry yeah those mistakes were mistakes are made mistakes this is a fucked up draft class i'm sorry yeah yeah for sure all right that is gonna do it for us for this monday we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show until then be kind to each other be to yourselves. Wear a mask if you'd like to. Definitely go out and get your vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And

we'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.

They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons? Hit play on the sex-positive and deeply entertaining podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Join hosts Gabe Gonzalez and Chris Patterson Rosso as they explore queer sex, cruising, relationships, and culture in the new iHeart podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Sniffy's Cruising Confessions will broaden minds and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

New episodes every Thursday. How do you feel about this, kids? New episodes every Thursday. It's right here in black and white in print. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Captain's Log, Stardate 2024. We're floating somewhere in the cosmos, but we've lost our map. Yeah, because you refuse to ask for directions. It's Space Gem, there are no roads.

Good point. So, where are we headed? Into the unknown, of course. Join us on In Our Own World as we uncover hidden truths, navigate the depths of culture, identity, and the human spirit. With a hint of mischief. One episode at a time. Buckle up and listen to In Our Own World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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