The Daily Zeitgeist - MegTrend Thee Stallion 11/4: Measure ULA, Drake vs Megan Thee Stallion, Twitter, Kyrie Irving

Episode Date: November 4, 2022

In this edition of MegTrend Thee Stallion, Jack and Miles are joined by Mike Dennis, director of organizing at United Way Los Angeles to discuss Measure ULA, Drake slandering Megan Thee Stallion on his new joint album with 21 Savage, Elon Musk firing half of the employees at Twitter and the platform going to shit and Kyrie Irving finally gets suspended by the Nets for 5 games for not denouncing anti-semitism after multiple previous opportunities to apologize. Measure ULA Phone Banking: https://airtable.com/shrcHu79ZmZPSBaouSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of meg trend the stallion trending for the wrong fucking reasons today yeah because fucking drake for the right reasons from her perspective but for the well yeah but but the reason she's trending because drake shut the fuck up fucking weird um let's just look we were we Look, we were talking about this just right before we got on. Should we just go right into it? We should let the people know first, of course. I am!

I am Damon Lockham. I'm Jack. That is Miles. And these, well, these things that you're about to hear us talk about right now, well, these are some things that are trending on this Friday afternoon. Indeed. Yeah, Drake's trending.

Megan Thee Stallion is trending. Yeah, the Drake and 21 Savage album came out, and there's this track, Circo Loco, on it where he's basically, I'm not going to say the lyrics. He's calling her the B word. It's just nonsense. He's basically, he's implying that Megan Thee stallion was lying about being shot by tori lanes and and the lyrics the bars are weak like for that i mean just for context it doesn't change anything like even if they were great

it wouldn't change anything but they're they're tired his dumb uh idea is spread is uh executed dumbly yeah it's it's it's i don't know i mean so there's a there's another line where he like comes at her for like going to college yeah face although he he has like there's definitely like drake bars where he talks about how he's like yeah like what did harvard get you but like i got this type stuff so i feel like he's like one of those weird chips on get you but like i got this type stuff so i feel like he's like one of those weird chips on his shoulder and just the rollout to the album was super weird like he was posting like hentai porn on his fucking stories like before the album dropped yes he thought he was like on some cool shit it's fucking weird he doesn't even know tori lane's like that

they're not on a track together aside from from, you know, I think many people rightly point out all this like fucked up, you know, misogynoir, black misogyny bullshit. And like on the heels of like you were talking about this one Instagram post, it's like rightly pointing out like takeoff was killed

earlier this week due to gun violence. And then, but yet Megan Thee Stallion being shot in some domestic violence shit is just like ha ha hardy har har shit right the fuck this dude's so i don't know he's also coming at serena williams like husband and shit like drake's a fucking he's so thirsty and it's just it's weird to just see all this shit come out you're like this is such a terrible look for you sir please i mean creative bankruptcy has to be somewhat uncomfortable you know he had a he had a spark when he started but now his shit's garbage and that's you know what when you are decent at first and then you are at

lows like this you you kind of probably recognize a little bit that your shit sucks and it's probably not fun sloppy sloppy so yeah he's doing doing things for he's clout chasing which is yeah it's pathetic bad look there's and then anna said she was like azalea banks we posted some shit she's like i'm gonna ready to die drake or some shit like some freddy and it's just yeah i don't know and you know becca was pointing out too like his album sales that last album the one that we it was so bad we memory hold it we were like oh certified lover boy yeah we were like wait so what was drake's last album you were like certified lover boy and i was like oh right right the one with the uh pregnant women emojis on the cover that's right that was drake yeah drake's

last album then we realized we memory hold a whole album yeah whatever never mind yeah honestly never mind or whatever the yeah honestly you can't even remember we we said the title mere moments ago before we started recording because it's just like I'm just depressed I'm bored you know whatever I'm tired of this being famous sucks

you guys being a child actor sucks speaking of sucks Twitter Twitter just over that seems to be it like that there's been a lot of times when people are like twitter's over right yeah sure this feels like real well they fully it's like they're like they're just tying like like untying the knot in a balloon and letting all the air out yeah you're like this

doesn't end this doesn't like end with the balloon getting bigger and then taking us to space it's gonna turn into fucking trash like yeah they got rid of all the like moderation people the fired half the employees today i think i don't know i mean it's it you can see it just feels odd like the the algorithms constantly serve me like they're like oh you like the nba and it's just like some weird anti-semitic shit like attached to kairi irving's name nothing really to do about basketball like i've the nature of like how i'm even seeing topics is just really fucking all over the place yeah but yeah i don't know yeah i don't know where people there's going to be something people are going to land somewhere else because

platforms come and go all the time but i just don't know this one is a this one has a very specific function though that i'm having trouble being like well what's the sort of analog here yeah that's the thing like the standard response that i'm seeing is whatever it's not the end of the world like this happens to social media networks twitter sucked you hated it all along and like we're just gonna move on to the next one and i do think it's worth like at least acknowledging that there was like twitter peak twitter was good at spreading ideas that you weren't going to see elsewhere because we have a broken mainstream media and like to you know it has the lowest barrier of entry for people with ideas that they want to

spread so like i do think i don't know like everyone's just being like yeah we'll just go to tiktok it's like well but tiktok is like i'm not gonna fucking look presentable so i can record a video yeah you got like this i can do much higher on barrier to shit yeah like it was people like derisively call twitter the internet's comment section and but like that is I think an important thing for something to fulfill is like having a place where people who have things to say can go and yeah like any comment section it needed a healthy amount of moderation to keep it from being overrun by Nazis and but that shit's all over like any that's that's like i'm not confused about whether twitter is dead because like any movement to just take the

you know moderation away from twitter is going to go very very badly well we're looking at like two versions right one is we're seeing what happens when someone fires half the staff at a social media platform. Right. Yeah. They're already drastically understaffed to begin with. That's right. Whole problem. And then the other is like we're watching this other bigger story, which is Elon Musk realizing what the fuck Twitter even is as a business and like not knowing what to fucking do.

and like not knowing what to fucking do and it's causing more chaos because he's like posting conspiracy theories or just like now like begging people like hey eight dollars is cool you know alexandria ocasio-cortez has a 58 hoodie she sells so and everyone's like this isn't what the fuck are you saying yeah um but it's i mean as most people look at the financials they're like the amount of money that has to be made is like absurd and when you couple that with the fact that you're saying like well i don't want it i want free speech so i don't want it to be a safe place for advertisers to come but it i don't have revenue coming in i don't yeah you need like millions of people like on day one to be like yeah give me my check mark yeah and it just feels weird to me to not more like just very big picture we're losing something that was at the

very least very entertaining like i think it was toxic in many circumstances and like to put too much of your life into it was definitely toxic but like could be very useful was like how a lot of good writers got discovered um was how i found a lot of like interesting ideas uh and it is we're losing it to nazis straight up like that's that's an l like we can we can acknowledge that's an l we don't have to be like, whatever. Tumblr died and we just moved on. It's bad. Things are bad. I guess the only bright spot is inevitably another thing comes that people will find the same way to express their ideas.

But I mean, it's weird because on TikTok, you can find stuff like that too, but it's so highly produced. That's sort of the difference is the time it takes uh but i don't know i might be speaking about like an older person who takes yeah yeah back when i was in our final cut yeah it might just be like people over 40 who are not tick tock literate and you know are not going to learn how to use tick tock that that might be the only people who are affected in which case case great. Everything moves to TikTok. We'll move over to TikTok and find interesting ideas. Yeah, we're going to run by another government. Whatever. Who cares?

It's fine. They let us talk shit about our government though on there. Yeah, so Kyrie got suspended for five games by the Nets for not taking the opportunity to when given the opportunity, didn not taking the opportunity to, when given the opportunity,

didn't take the opportunity to, I think, say what he agreed he would say when in kind of negotiations with the Nets, which is that, you know, to denounce anti-Semitism and hate speech, it felt like a strong move until the end when they were like, and that is why we are suspending him for five games without pay i'm sure there are legalities but just ideally they should

have just cut his ass because now it's like he leaves it a conversation where he now has the opportunity to like act like he's standing on principle for this shit and like i don't know i don't know there's like a good resolution to this situation but well because all for people who are so hell-bent on staying in conspiracy world any any amount of accountability will feed or reinforce the idea that what they believe in is true right you know because that's just how this shit is like no matter what shit you're into you're like see and why would they do that unless it wasn't a threat or whatever i i i see so many takes of like just all kinds of excusing his shit it hasn't he this guy is absolutely no like he posted this documentary

that is if you just watch you're like well that's some fucking problematic shit if you even want to be charitable with that word yeah and there's a lot of anti-semitic nonsense in it but all that to say is i see a lot of people say well how come like this isn't fair people need to be going after amazon they actually should be going after amazon they actually should be going after amazon too you're right because this amazon is an absolute fucking cesspit of bullshit like that whether it's that kind of stuff election denial q like there's there's all kinds of terrible uh content on amazon and yeah there there should be some answers there. But the fact remains that for someone in that position to go and just sort of be like,

not really accurately articulate why he's even sharing something, just like posting it. Right. And then be like, and now everyone's saying, they're trying to say he got, he's getting fucking punished for posting a link. Right.

That's a really, really overly simplified way to describe that especially because we're in a fucking really weird time right now where there's so much hatred bubbling up that like any attempt to like normalize it is it's too it's at our own detriment yeah um and yeah so it's fucking frightening uh but yeah i mean this is happening as the kanye thing's happening yeah it's uh it's really scary and very frustrating that this is now being turned into a like i stand with kairi thing um yeah the quick tip don't you don't need to yeah he can support himself and he made his own decisions and they're bad ones all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back

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Mike Dennis is here because there's a sound like you said my dentist. So I just know Mike Dennis. Mike Dennis. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Also a talented photographer. Mike, welcome to the show. Wanted to have you on because, you know, L.A. There's a decent amount of Angelenos that listen to the show. Wanted to have you on because LA, there's a decent amount of Angelenos that listen to the show, but Measure ULA is a campaign you're working on.

And I've noticed there's so much opposition to one of the most simple fucking measures I've ever seen that I can't believe it. So for those that don't know and are voting in LA, Measure ULA is basically a mansion tax. Yep. To tax properties that are over $5 million. To help address what, Mike? Homelessness, baby. It's actually all about homelessness prevention because we've spent the last 10 years in the city and the county of LA putting a lot of money into production of new affordable housing. But there hasn't been, and there's been a lot of talk of it, especially during the pandemic, but there hasn't been any real efforts and dollars put behind like homelessness prevention, stabilizing, uh, people that are at risk of losing their, their apartments, uh, seniors living on

SSI. The inflow into homelessness is outpacing the amount of folks that are getting out of homelessness every day. And so we're sort of running up on, you know, in the red. Oh, right. So this is a really vital measure to say, okay, not only do we have to meet people on the other side of it, but try and prevent as many people from even experiencing homelessness. And it seems like a lot of the spending on like building housing for, you know, people in need is very piecemeal at this point. And like this,

the thing that this would change is it would give a steady like stream of income for like addressing that problem, which is something we, you know, we talked to Nitya Raman about like that being a thing that just needs, needs that steady stream. Right. Yeah. I mean,

there's been a lot of one-time funding measures. Probably folks remember triple H in the city of LA, which was, I think it was 2016, 2016, you know, that was, that was a one of LA, which was, I think it was $1.3 billion. That was in 2016. You know, that was a one-time, you know, billion plus dollar pot of money that was basically borrowed to help pump capital into brick and mortar construction for new affordable housing, specifically permanent supportive. But, you know, we burned through that really quickly

for a number of reasons. The cost of construction is really high. The amount of, the amount of power that are mostly corrupt, uh, local city council members have over projects in their districts increases the cost of per door because it just takes forever for things to get, to go online and pencil out. And so we've had these like one time, you know, rough shot attempts at doing stuff. We don't have dedicated funding. There's no dedicated revenue in the city of L.A. for this. There's at the county we have Measure H, which is, you know, it's a sales tax. And that pays for, you know, that pays for a bunch of different homeless services across the county.

That pays for a bunch of different homeless services across the county. But City of LA has the lion's share of people that are unhoused. And so we need our own tools to be able to fund new construction and do homelessness prevention, stabilize rents, renter protections, etc. And the way this works is it's a tax on property sales of $5 million or more. So the opposition right now has spent, as of yesterday, $6.6 million against us to try to kill this thing. And I'm guessing that's an upstanding group of concerned local citizens with no business interests, right? Upstanding group of shitheads, yes. is it isn't it like landlords like what groups is it oh it's it's just it's just crazy we have folks well number one you know republicans let's just say that right we got we got republican consultants we got folks that you know former director of government affairs for philip morris mall bro you know wow i'm a

smoker but i don't support the smoking industry i do just want to jump in and say like for you know listeners outside of la like i think this is like really important to everyone because this is like this is such a clear-cut example of okay this this law affects the richest 2% to 1% of Angelenos, and yet it is pulling, it's trending towards actually not going. And so how does something like that happen, where the richest 1% are able to message some bullshit that is going to help your city, help the people around you who are much closer to you and your life. How does that not pass when it's only in the interest of the 1% and 2%? So I think this is like a good kind of peek inside of how that operates. Right. Well, you know, Miles, you'll remember this. We we did a renewable energy campaign many, many years ago.

Yeah. And it was, you know, essentially was the proposition was to increase the number of renewable sources in the state's portfolio. And the utility companies came out and said, fuck you guys. We're going to pass these on to the ratepayers. We can't sustain this type of growth, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so people fell for it. People fall for that argument over and over again. They're doing the same thing here. They're saying basically, and it's the Realtors Association, the California State Realtors, the National Realtors Association just put in a million bucks last week. They're basically saying, if you do this, yeah, the business round table, If you do this table, right? Yeah. Yeah. The business round table. If you do this, we're going to pass all of these fees on to tenants, right? That's, that's how they're scaring people. And unfortunately, you know, people, people fall victim to this messaging.

They see these crazy TV ads that say your rents are going to go up. We're already in a rental crisis. We can't, we can't sustain this type of another type of tax thing we just another tax baby that's it right i know it's tired it's boring and so they're spending six million to blow ula out with their air war and stuff in print i'm guessing the united way or the the campaign that's supporting ula has spent also maybe double that i I'm guessing, right? Oh yeah. You know, we're swimming in cash over here. Um, no, I mean, we've, we've raised, uh, I don't know what our numbers are today, but we're, you know, we're, we're not terribly outspent, uh, but we're definitely getting clobbered on TV. Right. Um, and so, you know, our power right now is, as you guys know, you talk to

many of my friends that we have people power, right? That old saying, we've got a lot of bodies on the ground that get, that are directly impacted by this. People that have lived experience who have 200 organizations that have endorsed the campaign. We've got a field operation that's really leaning on all of them to do the voter engagement work because we don't have TV ads. So, you know, I think the biggest thing that your listeners can do right now is sign up for a phone bank. If you have if you have an hour to spare and you are on Zoom already, don't lie. Just just log on to our Zoom and make some calls to voters, man. It's easy. The other thing people can do is if you really hate talking to people, you can text.

We text thousands of voters every day. There's a younger you know, there's a younger block of of of millennial voters that uh only do texting i'm one of them i don't like taking phone calls anymore so you know i've never done a phone call yeah they didn't even know their phones operated that way they didn't know you could speak into it like used to be such a used to be such a monster on call fire dude back when we were. All right. Well, things are different. Oh, my God, dude.

Thanks so much for now. Yeah. Oh, dope. Well, thanks so much for stopping by, man. And I mean, any any last words? Because you're you do a lot of great work, whether it's been with like vendors, like street vendors or working with the unhoused or doing making sure like the proper counts done of the unhoused. Just anything that you just want to say to people who like are like-minded and wanting to just

generally put their mind in the right direction right now. Yeah. I mean, I think the one thing I'd say is homes and homelessness. There's no other way around this, right? Like we can't sweep people away. We can't move them around. It costs everybody in the long run. It's dehumanizing for the people that are experiencing it. But for everybody else, if you only care about taxes and government efficacy and all that shit, it's a bad system we have where we just move people around. We absorb them into the first responder system or in the jail system. Then they're back out on the street. We need to get people off the streets and into permanent housing.

And the only way we're going to do it is we've got to spend money to do it. And there are way too many people out there that are trading their houses like Pokemon cards. And they're very threatened by this shit. And that says a lot. They've done nothing, uh, to help the situation. And we got Gwyneth Paltrow out there supporting Rick Caruso.

And, you know, that's the type of folks we're talking about here. So, you know, I just hope that everybody wakes up and get, get out there and vote yes on ULA. Yeah.

Rick Caruso and Karen Bass, both, neither candidate has supported the measure, according to the LA Times. Has Karen Bass changed on that or is she still not? This is LA, Jack. Okay. She, you know, you know how they work. They wait, they like to wait till the last minute. Yeah.

Real, is, is it just that real estate is like the most powerful industry in Los Angeles and that's, that's where, that's where the money comes from from and so they know they can't cross that i mean i think what it is is uh i mean for rick it's it's simple i think he just is diametrically and philosophically opposed to his business to this you know this strategy but you know for Karen and others, I think anybody that's running for mayor in the city of LA knows that, uh, once you get in there, you have actually very little power to do anything. The council controls everything. You know, you get to sign the, you get to sign stuff into law and you get to propose budgets, but you know, there's yeah. And cut ribbons, maybe that's it. And I think that, I think that both of them know that they've got to be careful of what they promise, because once they get in there, they're going to get they're going to get hit with a pretty cold reality.

You know, and again, it goes back to not having resources for to like fund the solutions we know work like permanent housing and services. And then and then dealing with city council that has extreme local control over what's built and what isn't. And we've had just very sluggish progress on this stuff and a lot of lip service. So I think it's just caution. And I hope whoever ends up winning, I hope they get their sleeves rolled up and get out there and do the things they've got to get done. They both talk about affordable housing production, but they don't get very specific. So we'll have to wait and see. They have no money for like in their plan to actually fund affordable housing.

No. And when they're talking about, oh, we're going to do 40 million here, 40 million there. It's like, that's going to pay for 35 doors. Right. We need, we need like 500,000 homes in LA County tomorrow right yeah well thank you so much for coming on man absolutely you guys yeah we'll catch y'all later back yeah for sure man all right well those are some of the things that are trending on this Friday afternoon we are back on Monday with a whole ass episode of the show.

Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Get the flu shot. Go out and vote. Vote early. And vote yes on United LA. And we will

talk to you all on Monday. Bye. There it is I'm Jess Casavetto executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil the 7M TikTok cult and I'm Clea Gray

former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church and we're the host of the new podcast Thank you. on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of

a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from

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Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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