The Daily Zeitgeist - North London Is tREnD 9/27: R. Kelly, SNL, William Shatner, Frank Somerville, Tony Robbins, Matt Gaetz

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

In this edition of North London Is tREnD, Jack and Miles discuss R. Kelly being guilty AF, the new SNL lineup, William Shatner going to space?, a newscaster suspended for acknowledging 'missing white woman syndrome', Tony Robbins making shit up, and Matt Gaetz gearing up for 'a scorched earth trial' Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You hate to see it if you're a Tottenham fan. Or you love to see it if you support the Arsenal. I believe the score was, what, 3-1? Shout out to all the people just talking shit in the buildup. And then, where'd you go? Where'd you go? Okay. Well, see you later. Anyway, that was the bright spot of my week uh was watching us triumph over Tottenham so had to get that in

there has the season kind of rebounded prior to this or was this kind of the first big win well what was really interesting was at a certain point after the first few games Tottenham was in first place and Arsenal was in 20th place like literally at opposite ends of the spectrum and then we started turning our shit around and with our win yesterday we just went above them wow so things change very quickly you gotta keep your head on a swivel uh and you know it just look they got a new manager i'm sure you know they'll they'll be okay but you know in these derbies it's all about bragging rights so shout out to all my gooners out there celebrating is darby like derby but derby but yeah they pronounce it darker yeah so they raise each

other around a dirt track yes exactly cool you know football booty uh r kelly is trending because uh he is officially guilty as fuck not just a guilty as fuck to everybody with working, uh, eyes and senses. Um, and so that was just came, that just came down, that just came down.

Uh, the decision came down Monday afternoon. The trial included 50 witnesses overall, and apparently the defense was kind of muddled and confusing it wasn't really clear what they thought was happening yeah it was it was hard to just kind of keep track or just keep up with that uh entire trial just even like from a distance because it was just so like the testimony was harrowing from a lot of the witnesses that took the stand and then to know like his defense was like just i think they were literally evoking martin luther king in their like closing statement

before the defense rested and you're like this is all kinds of fucking bad um so hey look at that bit of accountability one of his witnesses said he had never seen r kelly around a uh underage girl and then also said that he was there when r kelly met alia who he married when he was she was she was still child 14 yeah so yeah just it's good to see some accountability there um and yeah uh snl is trending um because uh new cast members were announced and former Daily Zeitgeist guests, Sarah Squirm and Aristotle Athari are both members of the cast. Big news. I mean, look at it. Look at it.

I'm not saying it's all tdz but i mean clearly clearly also beck bennett is uh leaving the show uh lynchpin of the show for eight seasons uh was probably leaving to pursue other big things but i'm just gonna say be mac bennett he's never been a guest never easy no and he's leaving the show so um what does that tell you yeah not a lot but depends on your bias yeah that's cool to see them on there i'm oh man aristotle's so talented i did uh uh his podcast recently and it's just a, just super fun guy. And Sarah was great to have on too. So I'm looking forward to what their contributions will be this coming

season. Yeah. The Aristotle show. Uh, this is Americans lot. Yes, exactly. Yes.

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The second crew to take the space flight in the New Shepard capsule, the dick machine, which would make him the oldest person ever to be launched into space. Damn. That's wild that he's 90. Yeah. Is that, uh, is that okay?

Is that advisable? Uh, yeah, it seems weird to, you know, I, I get the thinking on Jeff Bezos and blue origins part that, well,

it's captain Kirk. So of course we're going to like that. That's just a great headline that dipshits like, uh, those guys at the daily zeitgeist will cover. Um, and you know, a hook,

line and sinker. But I do hope that they have thought through the implications of sending a 90 year old to space other than just, you know, having seen the movie Space Cowboys. I mean, I look I love where his heart's at, you know, but also have you considered where your heart will be at when you're up in there? Because it could it could i don't know i mean and look if it's safe for 90 year olds and shit good for you i hope you can uh you know i hope you put on your star trek outfit too just for fun you know just to kind of like fully make it all real space cowboys uh by the way i think the oldest member of that cast was Clint Eastwood. Um, and he was 70 at the time of that. So,

uh, we're, we're looking at 20 years older than that. Okay. Well, you know, uh, I hope you were able to convalesce in space.

I do too. I, yeah. I have more power to William Shatner, one of our great spoken word artists. Oh yeah. Um, all right,

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He's a veteran news anchor in the Bay Area in California. And apparently got in an argument with Channel 2 management over a tagline he wanted to include in the reporting about Petito's murder. He wanted to acknowledge that, hey, we really cover the hell out of missing white women versus missing women of color. And he said, hey, don't bring that up. Yeah. Don't bring, don't. What are you, some kind of journalist reporter trying to bring things to light for the audience?

Just stop that. Get back in there, Frank Somerville. Just stop that. Get back in there, Frank Somerville. Man, that just sucks that he took a stand, reading that he's like adoptive father of like a black teenage girl. So this was like resonating with him. He's like, I'm only seeing one kind of face

when we cover this. Yeah. You know, there are other people that live in this country too, not just the Gabby Petitos. Wow. So is he like fired or they're doing that thing where it's like he's gone for a little bit we'll see he's suspended for an indefinite amount of time yikes

um we'll see apparently this is his second suspension of the year in may he was taken off the air following a stumbling newscast and bizarre on-air behavior no word if that bizarre on-air behavior was acknowledging systematic white supremacy or like what their version could you imagine stumbling through a statement uh about racism or something get out of here we're saying words like systemic white supremacy i don't it's just a bunch of mumbo jumbo you know those aren't even words frank frank somerville by the way great name uh just great tv name great tv name you got frank somerville that's like a superhero's alias yes yeah all right here's something that you're not gonna believe miles okay try our boy tony robbins uh you know of our favorites. We take a lot of our cues from Tony about just the power of positivity.

Oh, absolutely. Personal power. Smile your way out of anything. Bankruptcy. Yes. He's saying a bunch of typical dumb bullshit that anti-vaxxers love. dumb bullshit that anti-vaxxers love. But his last most recent line of reasoning was wrong statistic claiming 1,200 people die per day in the U.S. in car accidents when the actual number is closer to 100.

And he was, I think, trying to make the case that, and we don't do it. This is one of the favorites of anti-vaxxers and COVID minimizers and deniers, you know, saying like, oh, okay, now do car accidents if you're going to try to fix this COVID thing. is closer to 100 daily car accident deaths because you know the government came in and came into your car and told you you had to wear a seatbelt it's not my right

so yeah and you know Tony Robbins happy to ignore the 2000 people who've died from COVID every day over the past two weeks. Yeah, just don't throw numbers around because quoting statistics sounds smart until you look at them and you're like, oh, this isn't even a real comparison or point that you're making. Just misinformation. And finally, Matt matt gates is trending yeah um it's it's getting it's getting apparently it's starting to get hot for him um it's getting real real hot and again we say this

all the time when there's people who have done crimes but when they're white and hold office like somehow they got the star from mario that will never you know allow them to enter a courtroom but in this instance for the charges he's facing apparently um there's a daily beast article that was saying like you know well the journalist who wrote it up said i spoke with legal experts and people familiar with the case they said it appears gates has been preparing for a quote scorched earth trial um so i think he's got the same lawyer as like weinstein and or no jeffrey epstein and keith reniere and like el chapo and you know all all those guys were famously got off there they they were found innocent um so okay up in a good place um yeah oh okay do that then the the fact that the republican

party kind of abandoned this guy or at least the establishment republicans kind of were like oh this guy seems like he's toxic uh months ago and we still he's still like out there uh is pretty pretty wild i want to see this guy let off in handcuffs but you know i mean look he's got epstein's lawyer right and so i don't know what that means but it sounds like someone who will take your money and do their best to pretend you're not guilty yeah as bill gates would say he's dead uh yeah right what's the lesson here well he's dead so i wasn't supposed to be identifying as jeffrey epstein in this case oh my bad uh oh anybody missed that yikes yeah right where whose perspective was that from william yeah what so what was the lesson that you learned from that?

Well, he's dead. So, you know, got to do a better job keeping these things secret. Oh, I mean, sorry. Bill Gates, killing it. All right. Those are the things that are trending here on this Monday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.

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