The Daily Zeitgeist - Trenden Frasier 3/24: Vine, Cannabis, Voting, Nets, Prince Harry, Jensen Karp

Episode Date: March 24, 2021

On this edition of Trenden Frasier Jack and Miles discuss how amazing 'Vine' was, NY officials reaching an agreement to legalize cannabis, Mississippi Senator suggesting Sunday voting would offend God, Brooklyn Nets facing Utah Jazz w/o their Big Three, Prince Harry getting a job, and Jensen Karp, Cinnamon Toast Shrimp Man, is a dirtbag? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So pure. I can't believe it took us this long. Well done, sir. Trending Frazier. Get over this. I can't. And I love it. All right.

I'm Jack. is Miles this is what's trending what's trending Vine is trending here's a blast from the past Vine is trending yeah people are having like a debate on Twitter I guess some stupid people were like, Vine was not funny.

And then it activated Twitter to just start submitting all the funniest shit that's ever been on Vine. Oh, nice. So, yeah. I just thought like, that's such a fucking misstep. Like, that was such a fucking fantastic platform. Although it was just ripe for idea theft for a lot of like comedians of color and things like that but to say it's not funny or there was not funny shit on vine is the most some of the most absurd uh revisionist history type shit i've ever heard

who uh or what what is the your favorite vine video of all time. I never really got into Vine, so this is a great opportunity for me. I mean, Free Shabakadoo is one I'll laugh a lot at. And then there's one of this dude who's like in LA and there's this like God, I gotta just go through them all. There's so, I mean,

the thing is, there's so many like short form Vine videos that became memes that we just don't fucking consider being on Vine. There was the dude playing the piano, playing a classical tune, and then someone just comes in and starts whipping and doing the nay-nay and shit. I don't know. They're hard for me to name by names.

Yeah. I'm like, that one with this. Free Shavaka do is somebody reading a sign. I don't know. There's just some, they're hard for me to name by names. Yeah. Like I'm like that one with this, uh, free shavaka do is, uh, somebody reading a sign, a miss, fresh off,

fresh, fresh avocado, but they miss, they miss spaced the words. Yeah. That's pretty good. Del taco. Shout out to Del taco.

All right. Well, I'm going to use that to get up on. Was Lord Vader, was he always YouTuber? Did he start out Vine? I mean, the bigger ones were on YouTube. Yeah. King Vader. King Vader.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lord Vader is just my Lord Xavier. I was going to say, Grand Moff Tarkin. Yes. Pay respect. Recreational weed is trending. recreational weed is trending what's going on new york baby new york wow join the club new york's on the brink of joining the club to be i think with the 15th or 16th state with recreational weed um i don't know some deal is

being reached in albany so that that's like the thing that something is happening i'm not i have not been keeping up with it so i'm not sure how much like restorative justice elements are part of this legislation uh but yeah they're i mean like fucking everywhere just legalize weed and start taxing it what the fuck like what are you doing locking people up for this shit let people out of jail for having weed and drugs in general but yeah uh yeah uh recreational weed coming to a bodega near you uh possibly is there anybody who has both uh made recreational weed legal and also like fully addressed the all the incarcerated people who are like in prison for outdated laws that, I mean,

a lot of, yeah, I, I mean, there's a lot of like expunging of records and like freeing some, uh, like I know they, there were thousands of people being released,

but I think that's kind of why there's like the last prisoner project, which, you know, has like their stated mission of trying to get the, you know, the over 40,000 cannabis prisoners to just get them the fuck out of jail. So, uh,

yeah, I don't know. I don't know who's done it. Like really, I don't, I, it's, it's hard for me to believe that any state has really done it as best they

could. Like, I know that a lot of prosecutors, like we're going to clear the, you know, a lot of convictions, we're going to clear a lot of convictions and things like that. But really, until you are addressing the past fucked up,

just nonsensical policies of the drug war to take people out of bondage, I don't know how you really right the ship in that sense. And also, try and find a way to make sure that people of color are benefiting from this new legalized industry because for the longest time people of color were bearing the brunt of the legal consequences of providing many people their weed so um yeah

it's it's that's i mean i think that's why it's such a sticky situation in general because on one hand it's like a state's like yeah man we can make all this revenue but then it's also there's a lot of bureaucratic fees and regulations involved that would keep more like smaller operations out or people who you know are doing shit above board in the right way but don't have the 60k to put together to for the licensing fees and shit like that so yeah i mean it's it's like it's like any legislation in this country it's always like it on paper reads really cool, but keep looking at it, and yeah, there's still a lot more to be done.

It's frustrating. That's one of the things in that documentary series, Can't Get You Out of My Mind, that they talk about the idea that the reason that we've entered this new reality where people just maintain the status quo and nothing ever changes is because everybody's like, well, everything's so complex. We just want to leave it alone because otherwise. It's not complex to put a fire out, put water on it. It's not complex to solve inequalities, put money on it.

Yeah. fire out spread water on it it's not complex to solve inequalities put money on it yeah you know but it's just you know it's just disingenuous language to say i'm not willing to upend the systems of oppression that exist is this how does like america currently let's say denver uh compared to like what amsterdam was when we were growing up. Is it in what sense? Like in terms of the, what you legally can do. And because I remember like thinking Amsterdam was some magical land that, you know,

I would one day reach if I had played my cards right. And just the idea of having that in your own country I that would have like changed how I viewed the world I would have would have opened up horizons for me right I mean I you know it's I don't know I mean I'd last look last time I was in Amsterdam was 06 bro right that's changed a lot's changed man 15 years ago that's what i hear uh but i mean it's this but we are it's it's echoing the same thing in that like it's becoming a tourist attraction and there are there are like industries emerging to cater to you know cannabis tourism which is huge like so you know i know there's like things like in denver

and colorado where like you could take a ganja bus around and like get fucked up in a party van and go to like dispensary just get high in a van basically right right like air like a pub crawl for yeah airbnb is like oh we're 420 friendly like you know like we'll tell put it in the air bnb yeah oh hey nine five plus four pennies add that shit up I left that sticky situation I was going to say sticky icky before but you were kind of on a roll didn't want to distract from it

Sabbath is trending cause Black Sabbath is back at it again with a new track defending his wife Sharon Osbourne we're so active she's racist. It's actually a remix of Snowblind. It's about how white supremacy actually shields you

from understanding the world. Great song, actually, even though it's about cocaine. Yeah, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi is, you know, look, while everyone's trying to talk about how we need to expand the protections and, you know, look, while everyone's trying to talk about how we need to expand the protections and, you know, just laws in general to protect voting from the aggressive voter, racist voter suppression, because the new code word is illegitimate votes means how do you black people learn how to vote? How do you brown people learn how to vote? Yep. So there's ongoing debates.

Cindy Hyde-Smith is saying, well, yeah, I mean, I think Sunday voting is absolutely absurd. There's a reason we're getting rid of it. And the reason is Jesus Christ. So listen to her sick ass defense on why we need to actually limit and curb the times we can vote because we don't want to upset Jesus Christ. I would just like to respond to that. Georgia is a southern state just like Mississippi. Christ. And I would just like to respond to that. Georgia is a southern state just like Mississippi. I cannot speak for Georgia, but I can speak for Mississippi on why we would never do that on a Sunday or hold an election on a Sunday. You know, this is our currency. This is a dollar bill. This says the United States of America, in God we trust, etched in stone in the U.S. Senate chamber is in God we trust. When you swore in all of these witnesses, the last thing you said to them in your instructions

was, so help you God. In God's word in Exodus 2018, it says, rememberbath and keep it holy so that is my response to senator schumer thank you oh cool so solve that real quick it says god to suppress the vote of black churches that go to polling places in mass that's like a big, that's sort of the strategy. And cynically, she's bringing religion into it. Right. I mean, it's, look, there's so many Bible quotes you can use, Cindy Hyde-Smith, to just dismantle anything. But that's the disingenuous, you know,

literal take conservatives used to be like it says god okay um but you know jewish people observe a different sabbath yeah so what so then that's saturday and that's god to people so what is it cindy i mean i think that's why i think for good reason just keep that shit separate and let people decide based on their own beliefs how to move freely within decide based on their own beliefs how to move freely within the country including their own fucking bodies so like having her just say all that with a straight face like is i don't know not surprising for republicans and where they're at but just totally disregarding of, um, yeah.

They, they're, cause there's certain things like if it's God, they're like, okay, that's a topic that's like beyond reproach. So if I keep using that word and I point to things in the country that have the word God on it,

that's the argument against everything. Hmm. They love the founding fathers, except when the founding fathers like main focus was separation of church and state they don't like that part they know james harden is trending uh because he is injured and won't be playing in the game against the jazz tonight as of uh right now that's what the expectation is but uh i don't know man i just keep watching the Nets. They're so fun to watch.

He's playing so great. He is such a unique player. Somebody just told me that he has a seven-foot wingspan, and that changed how I watched his game. And it's pretty impressive. He's become one of my favorite players to watch even though people are like, he's so boring. He does dribble out there. On this team

for whatever reason, he's just really a lot of fun. At that level with LeBron where he's just a computer who always makes the right pass. It just always makes the right decision. Yeah, which is a fun type of player to watch. Yeah.

They're just like Matrix-level hoopers. Yeah. Where they're like, I've seen this a thousand times. Yeah. I know how to operate within this sequence. Engage. BetterUp is a billion- dollar tech startup in Silicon Valley who is making headlines because they have hired Prince Harry to a made up position. Chief Impact Officer.

That's the shit only white people get. You know, I want that. I want a made up fucking c-suite title chief ganja mandem what is it wait what do they do what does this company even do i think it's some manner of combining technology with mental health care so obviously is that in his wheel pro mental health care well that's what it is in his wheelhouse? Pro mental health care. Well, that's what it is after the Oprah interview, right? Which makes it sort of cynical

or feel weird. Yeah. That doesn't seem transparently opportunistic at all. Right. Yeah. And the idea

Chief Impact Officer seems like it's like chief title that we made up so that we could put it in a press release that would make like an impression in the media like it's almost too transparently named chief impact yeah and i bet harry's embarrassed to tell people about that too because he we were born the same day so i know

probably almost you don't want to be at a dinner party because that's what we do when you're in the royal family or you know x firm now but you got your maskless dinner parties and someone says oh harry what's the new job you have and i'm kind of um i'm the cio at better help c i see is that information chief information you're doing like no intelligence no it's it's a different title just the cio um Impact officer. The what? Nothing. Just shut up. Just shut up. Eat your fucking steak.

Impact. What are you impacting exactly? I don't fucking know. Okay. They cut a check. My grandmother fucking cut me off. So I had to take the gig. Okay.

Now leave me the fuck alone. C-I-C-I-O. And finally, so we mentioned yesterday uh jensen carp was trending uh he's the cinnamon toast crunch uh shrimp tail guy who uh also had a background as a rapper hot car. He was like, there were Freestyle Fridays, a local hip-hop radio station. Power 106, where hip-hop lives. Right, and he was like the

reigning champion for many weeks in a row. Got a record deal off of it. Had a brief, you know, not super successful music career. And then has just been kind of doing hollywood shit ever since um he had a podcast that i used to listen to called get up on this um and now it is coming out uh that he's kind of a shithead yeah i mean more specifically there's a lot of abuse allegations

from people that have dated him um that are very like very unequivocal um in what they are what the accusations are uh whether it's like you know just emotional abuse or sexual like whatever so i don't know what i mean there's a lot there's a lot of allegations coming out so yeah that is a quick evolution i know um you know eliza skinner who like worked on the like rap battle show that he did super producer anna hosen he just shared a tweet from him because she was like talking about how this guy stole the idea for this rap battle show that she had and she tweeted on on the, on the one hand, he is a huge liar,

but on the other hand, getting attention for work, some other rat did is very on brand for him. Uh, so on top of like create allegations of like creative theft and things like that, there's like a few of, uh,

his exes that are just coming out with, uh, just really shitty stories. Yeah. So a lot of, and again, it starts like one of those things so a lot of psychological and again it starts like one of those things where a lot of people like oh yeah everyone said that guy's an asshole and i'm like oh and then you're like so then essentially we can follow it's like you can

almost follow that pattern to some kind of you know transgressions that are far beyond just categorizing someone as it yeah let us know zeitgang uh who who are the the unacknowledged everyone knows that person's a monster and yeah we'll dig in but anyways yeah fucked up fucked up yeah i mean that's again we we learned about milkshake duck and that was it right there it started off being like oh ha ha shrimp tails and cinnamon toast crunch and you zoom out and you're like oh my god this person has this people saying this guy's a monster okay well that was quick also he's married to panga which i think is uh making him stay in the headlines for a little longer. Yeah. Danielle.

Alright. Those are the things that are trending right now. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

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