The Daily Zeitgeist - I See You Baby, Shakin' That Trend 9/7: Fentanyl, Mac Miller, Rasheed Wallace, 'Matrix: Resurrections', Gov. Greg Abbot, Dr. Fauci, 'American Crime Story'

Episode Date: September 7, 2021

In this edition of I See You Baby, Shakin' That Trend, Jack and Miles discuss the recent fentanyl overdoses, the 3rd anniversary of Mac Miller's death, Rasheed Wallace's hot take on modern era players, the 'Matrix Resurrections' teaser, Gov. Greg Abbott passing a new voter restriction bill, Dr. Fauci saying US is close to doctors having to make tough choices, and the new 'American Crime Story' season on the Clinton impeachment.Visit DanceSafe to learn more about how you can get fentanyl test strips as well as other drug testing supplies. You can also purchase strips for delivery from HUP and The Bunk Police.https://dancesafe.org/shop/https://dosetest.com/product/fentanyl-test-strip/https://bunkpolice.com/product/fentkit/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of I See You, Baby. Shaking that trend. Shaking that trend. That's courtesy of Melisande. Remember that song wasn't that the theme song to cribs and shit oh was it that was just one of those tracks that like was just just like they retired off that track you know what i mean oh yeah so many like mix cds now that's what I call dance music. Yeah.

The grind. Season three soundtrack. Right. Exactly. Right. And it's like, oh, man, we sold so many Toyota Celicas with this one. All right. I am Jack.

You are Miles. Mm-hmm. And these are some of the things that are trending. Really sad news over the weekend about Michael K. Williams passing away. Likely heroin or fentanyl overdose. And then three people died at a comic's house in Venice after doing cocaine that was mixed with fentanyl. Fourth person was hospitalized. I don't know i you know i don't know what to say other than like you know send away for the for the testing kits because it's fucking dangerous yeah if you're out here doing drugs

like it's fucking yeah this is the scariest shit because yeah i don't know i mean this has like always been a threat to people who use drugs recreationally is like you never know what's in there but there's just been an just such an uptick in shit that never had fentanyl in it having getting cut with fentanyl yeah i mean uh it's yeah so i mean it's hard because like just that impulse of like doing drugs is not doesn't have the same like kind of part of the brain going as like the thing that's like and i'm to be a responsible person and like make sure that this is good for my health. But, you know, you could also be saving other people's lives if you catch a bad batch.

You could be, I don't know. It's really dangerous. One thing I've been seeing is people being like, but why would somebody like cut it with something that's more potent instead of baby laxative? And I've read two potential answers for that, like the mixing of fentanyl, which is killing people. It's so powerful with drugs. One explanation is that they're not doing it intentionally and there's just trace amounts that are on their mixing equipment and that's

enough to get into the product. People have been sharing this picture of a penny next to two to three milligrams of fentanyl. And it's like, you know, it looks like a piece of dandruff. It's nothing. And then also, you know,

they're, they're mixing it in because it gets you fucked up. And, you know, that's what people use drugs for. And then, then you have a drug dealer or you know drug supplier walking a tightrope mixing in fentanyl at not lethal doses that they may get

the reputation for having really good shit but then could go the other way and they just like push the line a little too far so it's just yeah and there's also a lot of fucking takes on like well how does michael k williams do drugs like what what if people just didn't do drugs like and that's a very person who doesn't have any substance abuse issues or has any empathy around that kind of take of like well why is it why doesn't that just happen because michael k williams i mean he he talked about how you know his like being in the wire and shit like he's had to go through a lot of shit and like i'm pretty sure he said he had relapsed um after doing the wire because it was just it was putting him it was very triggering situation for him um and it's not just it's not a simple thing of like well why don't

you just stop that's not how addiction works and again a lot of people are starting to show that how little they know about addiction or how little empathy they have around it yeah that's very frustrating you know i mean it's very it's very common for any like people who don't have a problem to be like hey you should just why don't you just have two beers? And it's like, can't. That's impossible. Also, Mac Miller died today, three years ago.

And this is a, I don't know, seems like a dangerous time for people out there using. So just be careful. We'll link off in the footnotes to some places where you can get fentanyl test strips um yeah and yeah be safe uh as much as you can sheet is trending rashid wallace has entered the uh ring group chat of of old timers who watch the game through a jaded lens where nobody today is as good as they were back in their day yeah i mean i and apologies if you hear this wood chipper in the background uh just i'm they're doing a like a play of fargo outside of my window um but you're duke

rashid look i love you she'd i love you rash, Rashid Wallace. You're one of my favorite players. I love your birthmark. I love the high Air Force Ones that have you doing a fadeaway on the heel logo. I love it all, Rashid. But you saying, he basically said, I'm not sure LeBron would be as successful back in my day because the league was just different back then. Are you for real?

Are you serious, Rashid Wallace? I'm really trying to understand what you think like because lebron james is built to fucking bang bodies right that's what your argument is like who's way more physical we don't play don't play the same right i don't know what you're saying rashid and i wish that the people who wrote this headline gave you more than just that one isolated line because maybe it's a more nuanced take but based off of this i'm not sure sir i'm not sure what you're trying to say yeah this makes sense for so many other players uh to be like yeah they would have gotten bodied more but that's like being like yeah shack couldn't handle all the physical play of, it's like, yo, this dude thrives on

contact. Like, that is not, that is, I don't know, it's such a confusing take. Here's a larger quote. He probably would have done good with his physical stature, with him being bigger than the majority of the rest of the players.

This is on a recent podcast appearance isn't that where it always happens um so he probably would have held his own but i don't think he would be as successful as he is now it's a whole different era back then i couldn't necessarily say that he would have been a beast but i think he would have held his own okay i still come on i mean um no it it look at whenever you do hypotheticals people from the past are the ones if whenever you do this hypothetical shit it's the old school players that you always wonder how they would do like uh you know how they would do in the modern game right you know what i mean any person who goes

back will destroy shit because their whole platform is built on the experiences of those past generations so they're versed in that kind of play the game that's like i don't even know they're like going like down an evolutionary chart i'm like i don't know if the human being would have thrived in the time of crow magnet men right because it was different i'm like i might have outwitted them i don't know but like what are we i don't i just yeah it's just in sports it's such a it's a it's just such a like linear progression like you can just look back at the games and be like oh how is that guy on the court right now uh and that's not rashid wallace rashid wallace was

great but he was playing against people who wouldn't make it in the modern day nba you know super producer brian is saying that it's a bronze age and machine guns question i think that's pretty pretty accurate i mean oscar robertson is a great example of this he he averaged a triple double one of the great players of all time but he like always was like michael jordan's just a ball hog like the take that fourth graders have he's just like ah they wouldn't have made it in my day and it's just i don't know it's probably the same reason that they're not able to objectively uh realize when it's time to hang it up they're more compromised in their vision uh than yeah we are because they were there i just love how some people wrote about this like claim and really like used like facts and figures to debunk

it it's like however james is an extremely well-rounded player and he doesn't rely on merely one aspect of his game to be successful james who is six foot nine and 250 pounds is capable of scoring at all three levels thus making wallace's claim questionable it's like yeah we know thank you though right yeah i mean that also didn't sound like it was the most thought through position it sounds like somebody on the podcast was like do you think he would have done okay in your time and he was like you know just gave a kind of equivocating not strong take and people are like oh shit yeah yeah i mean because that's what he says he's like i couldn't necessarily say that just gave a kind of equivocating, not strong take. And people are like, Oh shit. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, cause that's what he says. He's like, I couldn't necessarily say that he wouldn't have been a beast, but I think he would have held his own. That goes without saying, but Hey,

look, that's, that's why we love when the old heads give their insights so we can get outraged and then reminisce about them too. And then finally matrix resurrections is trending with a trailer an interactive website where you get to choose the red or the blue pill kind of weird in our day and age okay well so that's what i'm wondering are they doing this intentionally because they know that red pilling has been so dramatically shit upon by the people who use that phrase like just completely uh robbed

of all value and so now they're like all right let's let's bring it back and uh right like put it in the context of the matrix i'm like i don't know i mean i don't i'm not gonna think too deeply about it um i just i realize like it's taking me back to 1999 uh and i'm 15 years old and i'd never seen anything like the first matrix trailer and i spent like two hours downloading the quick time file of the trailer to like my fucking like mom's computer and she got so mad because it like fucked the internet up because i was like mom they fucking the camera just goes i don't know what the fuck's happening um and this trailer it's a teaser because on thursday they said a proper trailer is going to come out so what this gave you was just a very

little tastes um of like what we could possibly be seeing you see yaya abdul-matin in it and i'm like okay this is fucking and but it's weird keanu looks like when they showed him walking with his long hair i'm like is this john wick right so it's like john wick for sure i'm worried about making sure i'm looking at neo and thinking is neo and not john wick but you know that's my own struggle this trailer made me very hopeful because the division between good matrix and bad matrix for me was like whether it was happening in the like reality where everything sucks like there's a real world as they say the battery like people are batteries and the giant like swimming robots are like flying around like that that shit was boring and that was where like a lot of the third one took place and then all the memorable scenes happen in the matrix and like

in the you know altered reality with neo having like wild wild abilities and it seems like there's like a lot of that shit happening in this so i am i am hopeful maybe they learn their lesson but who knows maybe they learn their lesson which is like hey if we just call some of the matrix we're gonna make like $100 million. So, fuck it. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hello, everyone. I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm Amber Ruffin, a better Lacey Lamar.

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Remember, they fled the state to prevent this from happening and it just couldn't get done. banning drive-thru voting new id requirements for voting by mail fucking partisan poll watchers to like just you know metal at a polling place essentially movement what the fuck yeah i mean they can just like go walk over stand over your shoulder typically you can't you can't go inside a polling place and there's a very specific area that you could stand um so i don't know just goon squads uh that are going to be out there uh and also requirements for people if you're helping voters who need assistance like they're just doing everything they can to make voting even more difficult and further underlining why the filibuster needs to just be fucking vaporized and you start putting this stuff at a federal level to

begin you know enshrining these protections properly but we'll see they are changing the rules to make to give themselves better chance at maintaining power and the democrats again are refusing to do that and so they're going to inevitably lose. And that, again, like just more and more clear that the Democrats benefit from the equilibrium being somewhere between them and Republicans and like the Republicans still having like a claim to power. And, you know, it gives them something to run on. It keeps the people who fund their campaigns happy because otherwise like if you just look at it like from a competition like game theory perspective it makes no sense that they wouldn't just abolish the filibuster because the republicans are already like doing doing unprecedented shit like what and you're not gonna you're like that we can't do that

now that that'd make them mad it's just right dr fauci uh the director of national institute for allergy and infectious diseases you heard of this guy yeah this guy i heard a couple things about yeah he says that uh hospitals in certain states know, are filling up with unvaccinated, infected COVID-19 patients, which means doctors will soon have to make tough choices about who will get an ICU bed. I mean, that's already happening around the country. And there are also growing concerns as the rate of children's COVID covet 19 hospitalizations uh is four times higher in areas with low vaccination so it's right not not great i feel like there's tendency i'm seeing in where where people are just like fauci god shut up i hate that guy because yeah he just keeps giving like bad news with a smile on his face and people

are just mad at reality yeah it's i don't know man it's just again uh we kind of touch on in tomorrow's episode but this is a thing that a lot of health professionals are saying like this are the health system is caving in. It's failing at the moment. And it's not like the fact that doctors have to make tough choices. I get it that there's a pandemic going on, but there's also a lot of like lack of infrastructural support and things like that, that have created a really bad situation for people working the front lines for

this. And yeah, I don't know. Just for all of the things that we've seen fail we're hardly articulating any kind of like uh solution to these things and it's just oh man making tough choices well where are the where's the legislation to like why isn't this being passed but right you know the people on the hill have trouble focusing on real things and finally monica lewinsky is trending because the american is it american crime story

is that what that franchise is called the the one that started with the people versus oj simpson uh now is taking on the clinton impeachment and it seems like things were somewhat quiet about this i just is it has it been airing already or is it just starting to air it premieres tonight okay tuesday night so you're gonna get the first episode okay um yeah so it's called american crime story impeachment uh it's, I don't know. This is the first time I've been remotely intrigued now that I'm finding out who plays everybody. Clive Owen as Bill Clinton.

Yeah. It's fucking Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton. Yeah. Hey, let's check it out. You know, let's see what's going on and also you know I think it's time for a reevaluation of that story in the

in the mainstream oh shit Monica Lewinsky's Beanie Feldstein yeah yeah oh shit damn son oh fuck dude Beanie Feldstein's Monica yeah so she out here yeah that's good casting Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp Oh, fuck, dude. Beanie Vasu's moniker. Yeah. Damn. So she out here. Yeah.

That's good casting. Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp. And yeah, like you said, playing Hillary. Edie Falco. Edie Falco, bro. You know. Edie Falco. Hey, look, I'll check.

I'm sure it'll be good or problematic. I don't know. We'll see we'll see how they they get her done um but that's i mean i get everyone from then who remembers the 90s like shit after oj you're like yeah yeah yeah this one this one um problematic like a how old was he who built yeah was he in his 40s 50s year? Yeah. A year old man having an affair with a 21-year-old intern? Yeah. We'll see.

We'll see how they... How they handle that one. Yeah. I'm sure... I mean, I'd imagine you handle it realistically because that's the most salacious version is the reality of the situation rather than some tired tired trope of like the the intern who was catching his eye anything else you're watching right now only murders in the building i think is what it's called that hulu show with steve martin title has like confused me every time i

saw it uh but yeah it it does look good yeah i look, it's a little meta because it's people getting into murder podcasts, trying to solve a murder. But the trio of Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short is very interesting so far out of the couple episodes I've seen. Yeah, I'm going to check that out. All right. It's about our industry, you know. We got to check it out. It's about our industry, man. See how it's being represented, bro.

All right. That is going to do it for us on this Tuesday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Test your drugs for fentanyl. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy.

We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. 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. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar.

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