The Daily Zeitgeist - YTrendCA Has Never Been Gay 12/5: UnitedHealthcare CEO, Krampus Parade, Village People

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

In this edition of YTrendCA Has Never Been Gay , Jack and Miles discuss the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO,  San Antonio's Krampus parade, Village People lyricist Victor Willis declaring "YMCA has never been gay", and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Why Trends CA Has Never Been a Gay Song. Find a New Angle. My name is Jack that is miles Story of his wife That's right. If you say it is my wife is gonna sue you Okay, cool. All right, tough guy your wife Stand behind in some cases It is tough to stand behind your wife when everybody's saying the song you wrote is a gay anthem thing You have to you, be like, uh, first of all, would I be married to this woman?

Human woman? Second, anyway, she's going to sue you. Um, anyways, first, some quick updates on the CEO assassination. It continues to be a very popular story online. The the most celebrated murder that I think I've seen in in my life. Just generally even up there. I don't like the same Ben Laden. I think is in Laudan, I think is the last time like you saw like I remember, I thought there were people dancing in the streets that day

Yeah, yeah, like there was some light dancing in the street. Yeah, and there's some heavy dancing in the street They so the updates as of now They know what the shooter looks like because he took off his mask at a Starbucks Which leads leads me down the path of not? the super Jason Bourne assassin that some people thought he might be. Risen up the barista at Starbucks before it hit. He has one of the pictures of him. He has a smile on his face that just looks like he is being so charmed by whatever the

barista just said to him in a way does that not indicate some kind of like cold methodical person too I don't know or does it not indicate that Starbucks when you're here your home you know I'm just saying Starbucks might want to be like this guy couldn't even remember to keep his mask on to hide his identity. He felt so comfortable and comfortable. There's like smiling warmly inside the confines of Starbucks. The bullets had messages on them. So we were saying, it's unclear what the motive is.

Like is the motive going to just be some strange thing where it's like that guy's shirt is too bright blue or something? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, like just completely random. Yeah, random. But the bullets actually had the words deny, defend and depose written on them on the casings. I did see someone post one of those wooden like wine mom signs with like deny, defend, depose written in like,

this is what I'm, on driftwood. The, the speed at which the, like the memes are happening is also mind blowing. Like it's almost like everyone needed a way to articulate all of this anger at our fucked up healthcare system suddenly. And it's like a wave of shit posts. I feel like if we were going to have a French revolution today, like this is like that, the set, this is how the sentiment that fueled the French revolution would come out today is via shitposts, you know, but it does seem like there's a sentiment here. It would seem, you know,

no, definitely an escalation. And I think, you know, that's a just quick class consciousness, heat check. Um. Let's just see okay well a lot of people are quickly realizing they don't are aren't siding with this person but the other thing is that those three words deny defend to pose a lot of people are saying like that it seems like it's referencing just a thing within the healthcare industry and a book called deny delay defend which is like and the subheader of that book was how like insurance company try to deny coverage and how you can avoid that basically. Yeah.

So things are has a certain self or a certain class like warfare edge to it. But you were saying that depose is also a thing like they're like depose, like put someone through deposition if also a thing. They're like, put someone through deposition. The legal quagmire just gunk up the process by being like, all right, take us to court because you don't have... We can be in court forever. Can you? Yeah. The one person who's most on my mind at this moment is the multi-billionaire owner of Cartier who, you know, mentioned before that he was already losing sleep over the idea that poor, uh, the poor might rise up. Um, and like that was back in 2015. So who knows? Like he might be down to like 12, 11 hours of comfortable sleep at night at this point.

Yeah. Yeah. This is so worrying. Anyways, I wonder what those people are think like the rationalizing people level of wealth. I mean, they were already, I think a little bit terrified. So I feel like this is wouldn't be shocking to. Yeah. Do you think you're going to see like weird like diet maya culpas from billionaires to be like, whoa, let's turn the heat down guys. I'm giving away like 5% of my wealth today. There's no probably not in the immediate future. I think of the media future, we'll just see them doubling down on like personal security and security and and pushing the limits of weaponized ways to be followed around by a drone that will kill anybody who moves too quickly towards you.

All right. We're moving on to Krampus. We've talked recently about this idea that America just has this amazing ability to block out the darkness, only let in the light, just eternal sunshine of the spotless minds, their history, and really just everything that goes on around them. And it turns out Santa Claus is one of those things where we've only let in the cheerful person who knows when you're asleep and knows when you're awake. And there's a sinister other side to that coin called Krampus that I think people on

the internet are aware of, but it does seem like it's kind of becoming more of a thing, you know, as a major figure in Red One, a film that I don't know anyone who might have seen that. Yes. It's not even, it's probably so scary too, all the trailers they played in front of that. Way too scary. Yeah, there is a good, there's a good depiction of Krampus because you know, that's the sort of that's like the duality of the characters. There's JK Simons or Simmons as Santa and then Krampus played by the red hair guy from Game of Thrones.

Right. Yeah. Good casting for Krampus. Anyways, San Antonio, which surprisingly German place I went to a wedding in San Antonio, which surprisingly German place. I went to a wedding in San Antonio and they like one of the events was at this bar that had like people dancing and Liederhosen and I was like, why is this happening in Texas? And they were like, Oh, this place is like mostly German for a lot of its history. Like a lot of the settlers who came in from elsewhere, the colonizers. Yeah.

Yes, since 1840, German noblemen formed the Adelsverein group to protect German immigrants coming to Texas, okay. So now San Antonio is going to hold its first ever Krampus walk this week, which will feature live jazz music, photos with Krampus walk this week, which will feature live jazz music, photos with Krampus, and an acrobatic wrestling match between St. Nicholas and Krampus. I love that.

Krampus looks like a horror movie villain. If you don't know, you know, Horned, their facial scarring is, yeah, it's like- Goat horned. Yeah, the central question of the central tension of Nightmare Before Christmas is the only exists because we edited out this Krampus figure. And you're never going to guess how American Christians in San Antonio are responding to the Krampus walk. They love it. They love it. And they're like, cool, very good. Let it rock. Looks fun was their official statement. Oh, you say Christians. Yeah, they're

calling it an attack on our kids arguing Krampus is not welcome in San Antonio. They even staged a protest outside of City Hall urging the city say no to Krampus Say no to Krampus choose peace God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind What does it do with fucking Krampus dude dude? Pull up a fucking Bible verse that's calling out Krampus dog Krampus is twisted dog. You don't know I mean Krampus ain't even in the Bible. What's the problem? Cuz he's demonic

Yeah, fine. Isn't that where we get demonic from in the Bible? Pikeville, Kentucky. I look shut up the south getting there letting their Krampus flag fly They also had plans to throw a Krampus parade, but it saw such backlash that the city eventually capitulated to the demands of critics and straight up canceled it, which then led to a backlash to the backlash and people bemoaning the war on Krampus.

I just love the, too, that like a local journalist is like, yo, the city cave to cancel culture, but in this version, it's the version of right wingers being like, get fucking Krampus out of here. Yeah. I mean, the idea of being canceled has been used so widely that it has lost all meaning. Yeah, it's completely meaningless.

It's just like when when somebody gets sick and has to cancel a tour date, it's cancel culture because the show is canceled. Yeah. It's like when I throw away expired yogurt, cancel culture. Krampus parades do have a tendency to get pretty rowdy and even violent. At the Austrian one this year, a drunken brawl involving 50 people broke out. But that does not seem to be the reason that Krampus was canceled. It seems to have more to do with like knee jerk, satanic panic freak outs. Yeah. The interesting thing about Krampus, right, like to your point of like,

we don't like to acknowledge any sort of darkness that exists within our culture. Whereas like many other cultures, like they have these figures that are like, yeah, and that's like kind of like this dark figure that can mess with you or influence you or whatever. In America, it's like all sanitized. It's like there's no such thing like it comes out. Oh, shit, that's a bar. Like, you know, I know you blew out his ears.

You guys fucking got my eyes are bleeding and shit. Because like I think you've said to like how horror is like the closest we come as a culture to actually acknowledging the darkness that exists within our culture rather than having some expressly manifest figure, folklore figure that kind of we can like touch on to be like, yeah, and then there's this thing. It's always like,'s always like that exists but that exists not that exists and then you just throw up what about the word shit

you're like yeah it's a very healthy healthy binge and purge that that's legit why it's really purged we binge and purge we completely purge ourselves of any darkness and then it all comes out all at once. When truly The Purge is more like The Binge. Yeah, The Binge. Indeed, Miles. Indeed. Related story about like why maybe America's Christmas culture needs something like this. Mariah Carey was just celebrating the 30th anniversary of her Christmas album with a tour and a stop in St. Louis, Missouri, and people just started punching each other in the face. So, yeah.

Don't laugh too hard at the Krampus fist fight because two old whites just started punching each other right in the face as All I want for Christmas is you started playing like you know this shit look like Phil Donahue or some shit I think when a woman throws up some wine on it Yeah, and this woman just goes oh just splash her with a wine gave her a slap the husband's holding her back There comes Phil Donahue is he gonna throw a straight right up? We don't get to see the punch thrown But yeah, the only reason we have this is because it happened

to be happening in the background as somebody was taking a selfie as the song started, which is great because I don't know if it was done cheekily or just like that perfect comedic timing where like a couple was like, babe, let's do our selfie video. There's Mariah singing the hit song. And then you're like, oh, I mean, they get the initial wine, wine splash. So I feel like they couldn't have positive unless they she's like, watch this, watch this, watch this. They've been talking shit and go up. It is about to go up. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about YMCA. Skylight frame is more than just a photo frame. It's the perfect way to keep loved ones close, no matter the distance.

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last year, last summer. in concert last year. Yeah. So this ties into something that we've talked about before, because you went and saw the Village People last year, last summer. In concert last year. And you were pointing out how like one of the singers. Well, first of all, I just wanna say why I went to see the Village People, okay? Because the thing is, they had discounted tickets at the Hollywood Bowl because I bought them the day of,

and I got really good seats for $40 that would normally cost hundreds. So that's why I was there. Uh-huh, okay. Watching them because it was for the deal for the seats. Now go on. I don't know what you're about to say about one. You were there with your wife. And I was there with my human wife. That's right. Email. But you were set.

You were pointing out that during that show, like one of the members kept taking the mic and like talking about how, yeah. How he has a wife. It was very, how he has a wife. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The the specifically the guy who played the soldier, it wasn't the lead singer, whatever Willis, that guy's name, it was the it was the guy who played the soldier. He was the one introducing the like the other village people, members.

And he had been like the longest serving. So he had the honor of like going down and introducing everyone but he like reiterated at least two times in a way that was completely unrelated that he was married to a woman like in this very very hamfisted kind of way or just sort of like and yeah obviously i've been with the village people for very long and this is a very storied group i'm honored to be a part of. And you know, I just want to say my wife of 35 years is out in the crowd tonight. I love you, baby. My human lady wife. All right. Now native American come up to like introducing

everybody and they came back. And when it was done, he's like, and thank you so much. And again, my wife who is in the audience, who does exist. I love you, baby. Now let's sing Macho Man. Yeah. So they, yeah, they're, they're, whether it was this person in particular, it seems like in this band, in this group, there has been some difficulty, some internal conflict happening with the legacy of their music and their, who and who they think of themselves

as. Right. So one of the lead singers announced, come January 2025, my wife will start suing each and every news organization that falsely refers to YMCA either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story, that YMCA is somehow a gay anthem Because such notion is based solely on the song's lyrics alluding to illicit activity for which it does not That sounds like somebody trying to pretend they have a legal degree Yeah, 100% 100% I mean again you ask anywhere that like Whether you like it or not you know YMCA did become a gay anthem

uh but they are very they're so about that you can't get it like that's your music likes your song yeah what that's cool but yeah oh and victor does point out in the chat he said well be careful now uh you know we should we might have to edit this out because we don't want another lawsuit from the Philippines. But actually, you know what, Victor, in our defense, he said starting January, 2025, so we can get it in until then. Get your licks in, boys. Yeah.

That's what he said afterwards. It does start on January 6th, so get your licks in, boys. It is really odd. I mean, I guess it makes sense for somebody who is such a like a Trump supporter like this The like lead singer is of people that he would then be doubling down on like his homophobia and being like this is like The most manly fucking shit ever dude. What else have you seen a ripped construction worker a ripped Native American with a very problematic costume on a biker. Like it's just, yeah, I don't know this.

Yeah. I feel bad for him. I feel bad for him, but I don't cause he's also making so much money. So just fucking deal with it. She did say the financial benefits have been great. YMCA is estimated to grow several million dollars since the president elects continued use of the song. Therefore I'm glad I allowed the president elects continued use of YMCA and I thank him for choosing to use my song."

All of these statements sound like they were generated by like chat GPT, but like a bad version. Yeah. It's interesting. Again, there was another thing that it was supposed to be, I think originally San Francisco and then it became YMCA. San Francisco. Yeah, it became YMCA. Like, and I don't know, apparently like I've just been reading other articles with this, that lead singer, the Willis guy.

And he's I guess forever been so defensive about this, like always saying, he's like, I don't see it like that. I don't see it like that. I don't see it like that He's like why won't you focus on my other songs about completely straight subjects like in the navy and macho macho man uh Which you Were we're reading some lyrics for before we started recording and people people can go Do the genius? Yeah, just whatever who gives a shit who honestly gives a song

But they're fucking making so much money. Yeah, I know it a shit who honestly is song but they're fucking making so much money Yeah, I know it's just like just shut up, dude. I saw you live bro. You had to sit down for half the show so Fuck fucking miss me with all this nonsense about like Save your energy so you can stand and breathe and just enjoy what time we have on this precious marble. That's right All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white

supremacy. No. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a player boy, my doll. He was like, I'll take you to the top, I'll make you a star.

To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated. We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel, listen to The Bunny Trap on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join iHeart Media Chairman and CEO Bob Pitman for a special episode of the hit podcast,

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan, or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Ooh, chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on, including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show,

Angela Carrasso, and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Alpha Podcast, or whatever you get your podcast, girl. Ooh, I know that's right. Welcome to Decisions Decisions, the podcast where boundaries are pushed and conversations get candid. Join your favorite hosts, me, Weezy WTF, and me, Mandy B, as we dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often taboo topics surrounding dating,

sex, and love. Every Monday and Wednesday, we both invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. Tune in and join the conversation. Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Y'all, what up? It's your girl Jess Hilarious, and I think it's time to acknowledge that I'm not just

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