The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendstones 6/16: Brush Fire, Dexamethasone, Shake Shack, Tupac

Episode Date: June 16, 2020

On this edition of Trendstones meet Miles and Jamie as they discuss Brush Fires popping up in the South Western states, Dexamethasone is a steroid that is the first drug shown to help certain cases of COVID-19 in the UK, Shake Shack was accused of poisoning three police officer's milkshakes which turned out to be very untrue, and today is Tupac's 49th birthday. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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it was like a pterodactyl that was like i hate being a pterodactyl and ever and then there's like a laugh track trendstones meet the trendstones i like the there were toilet dinosaurs were there notstones. There were toilet dinosaurs, were there not? There were toilet dinosaurs. Will we just shat directly into their gullet? I don't know. You don't see that, but they would go like, well,

it's a living. Wait, is that where that character came from? It's a living. It could be. It's a living Flintstones dinosaur. Why is this not trending? Rex the pterodactyl. Oh my God. I guess their beak was being used as a vinyl player.

I don't know. Look, we're spending too much time on a literally archaic cartoon. Welcome to this trend episode. That's Jamie. That's Miles, which is I i now speaking and let's just talk about what is trending immediately right now right this moment all across america specifically uh brush fire is trending right now because uh there's a brush fire huge brush fire in

arizona at the moment and there's also fires in uh california um just so the southwest is entering that you know this isn't this isn't new but it's just so weird we're now we're like right we also have um apocalyptic fires to do oh there's another looming existential fear uh fear that we should all be aware of they say this fire was once one specific fire is the size of Salt Lake City. So that is really alarming. Yeah. I mean, all this is just reminds like, right. We're just we're just getting around to racism.

We got a few more things. We still got climate change, man. Damn. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's the time of year where everyone starts to remember about climate change yeah well they're also like a lot of few um environmental agencies saying too it's like let's please try and take this moment to think about our you know fossil fuel consumption while like we're still kind of making things work and let's just do things to be more efficient or maybe

we can make less or buy less i don't know i don't but i don't know moderation doesn't do too well when you're trying to make mucho dinero what's next dexamethasone dexamethasone is trending i don't know what what is this oh it's who is this i feel like every eight days there's a new drug that is trending that has something to do with coronavirus. Yeah. This is a proposed coronavirus. This is a steroid. And they say it is the first drug shown to help save severely ill coronavirus patients, according to a study in Britain. That's why it's trending. I'm not going to get into how, you know, ironclad this research is because I feel like it's part and parcel of like these news cycles because then it helps, you know, the investor class be like, who makes dexamethasone? Do we have, can we get that? How do we get that here? What is it? Do you think that if dexamethasone is working, does that mean we can start opening stuff up again? Okay, let's start.

Any excuse, any excuse to kickstart that economy. Just hand someone a pill. It'll probably be fine. What happened to like write ups that were like America is rapidly reopening, yet barely anywhere is flattening their infection rate. In fact, they're reopening and cases are rising. Like that just seems like a real easy piece to write about and to bring people's awareness to. I don't know why y'all think we're out of the woods here. I guess we should just look at who owns media companies. People who want to reopen the country.

I could talk about this for five million years, but the fact that there are just no major useful... You trace it up to someone who obviously wants the country open. My most trusted journalist right now is an aggrieved Amazon warehouse worker with a Twitter account. Citizen journalism is the only way to go but i think people start to realize that because i even had like like uh older people

i know where they would say a news story like i was gonna you know the the bow and arrow guy in utah who the news were like these rioters just beat this old white man up and like a lot of networks just running with that rather than like did you see the part before where he drew a bow on a crowd and then he was sworn because he was actually it's looked like trying to shoot someone with an arrow um oh that that that dropped from the iMovie file didn't didn't make it right they edit the news on iMovie when you but it's right but it's like when you show people that they're like wait where did you where did you see this? Like older relatives, like what do you mean? I'm like on Twitter.

And I've got even like other people my age who weren't on Twitter on Twitter now because like I was constantly sharing these Twitter posts about what cops are doing. Like, why isn't this on the news? Why isn't this on the news? It's because the news is part of this system of oppression. But just stay with us now and you'll connect the dots soon enough and you'll realize we have to do all kinds of work what i what i hope or what i feel like would be a real actual step in the right direction would be for a major journalist to like take the hit and explain like just fully unpack like here is what i am allowed to cover here's what i'm not allowed to cover here because because every major news organization has that list of like no no no and

if someone who works within that system at a high level would just cop to that it could like really stand to but you know people people need money i think the problem is though too like we have this problem in our culture where we just believe the tv like that's the big that's a that's a huge on tv like i thought like well you wouldn't write a fake thing in your movie script like if that's not how like a fire could be started or that's not actually how this thing could be done and it takes right takes a second to even for your news to then like so first when you get past me was like okay that's make-believe and then when you with your news you're like right so that's owned by general electric who's profiting off the military industrial complex like who has no interest in like actual reporting that might

stand that stands to make them look bad yeah like general electric oh we don't make liberation vehicles that's not what we do we make war machines okay that's not we make vehicles of oppression my friend. Okay? Oh, boy. Next up is Shake Shack, because wouldn't you believe it, the cops may have lied about something this time. Did you know about this story?

I knew about this story. I was kind of following this story in real time of as people started to call people on their various bluffs. It's an interesting one wait what do you mean so because i just knew it from like 10 000 feet where someone offhandly was like dude people were poisoning the cops and at shake shack in new york and then someone then and then i heard it's like ah it turns out they lied but like what was the evolution when i first saw the story, we had not yet arrived at, uh, they lied. It was, there was a series of, uh, small tidal wave of Gen Z memes that were just sort of like the revolution has spoken.

Comrade Shake Shack. Comrade Shake Shack. Shit like that. And then, and then, um, I don't, I mean, again, the, my concept of time is totally shot, but shortly after it turned out to not be true and then it turned out to just be a really weird blip of a story. I mean, as if we needed another example of cops just being mask-off li. Right. But this was an interesting, this was an interesting swing. I mean, cause it's a big thing to be like,

say that, you know, police had to go to the hospital because they were, they ingested some kind of poisoned milkshake at Shake Shack, Bellevue hospital specifically. And then like the NYPD begins like a search through discarded trash cans and be like i think maybe there's bleach or something involved the cops couldn't find it and then they're like yeah maybe no foul play and then everyone's like what the fuck was that like but it reminds me that

thing of like that one cop who like was like they wrote fucking pig on my on my starbucks cup and he's like i actually wrote it myself right and then you're just like okay so you are you live for drama and you hate yourself is what i'm taking away from this the cognitive dissonance of not even beginning this conversation of saying like first of all do you you know just by the nature of our laws the police are very much a protected class of people so i don't know what would this like self-victimization oppression narrative is coming where people. So I don't know what with this like self-victimization oppression narrative is coming where it's like, I don't know, like what happens?

It's like, bro, like I could fucking like sneeze in your direction and it would be like, it could potentially be like assaulting a peace officer. Like, no, no, no, no, no. This other, these poor attempts at trying to like curry the sympathy of people when their wrongdoing has just been on full display the last three weeks is like well and also watching the way that this what appears

to be a pretty bad faith story escalated so quickly on social media like the way that like the nypd was like oh my god that was so like there from here. Here's a tweet from the NYC PBA hashtag breaking when NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack. It is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level. We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a moment. And in the meantime, you've got shake shack they're actually not comrade shake shack because they're tweeting out you know like we are horrified by the

alleged reports of police officers and then they have the rainbow capitalism shake shack logo and you're just like what a fucking disaster they're i don't know it's so weird to see those two entities interact in this way you're like you're like oh why are the police talking to shake shack there i might i i honestly don't know as of this recording where the shake shack uh story has quite landed the last thing from shake shack is that shake shack has been Shake Shack's name has been cleared officially. And now they are saying, we are horrified. This is a tweet from at Shake Shack.

We are horrified by the blue check. Verified. We are horrified by the reports of police officers injured at our 200 Broadway. We are working with the police. Oh, wait, no, that's old. Yeah, that's the old. That's when they still thought they might be guilty. Oh, that is the horrified. We're the one where they're saying, oh, no, that's old. Yeah, that's the old. That's when they still thought they might be guilty. Oh, that is the horrified.

We're the one where they're saying, oh, why don't you eat a dick, NYPD? And also, we're going to stop paying our rent. No, the last trending story is NYPD says there is, quote, no criminality by Shake Shack employees after three police officers fall ill. So now the news needs to be on why this happened rather than yeah all right that's fine you know because because i guess the attitude i'm sure is like well that's what cops do like here we go it's like no right now this is the absolute kind of bullshit we can't tolerate especially when cops are like they're trying to act like they're being willful like people are maliciously poisoning them at shake shack come

the fuck on the only people who maliciously harm random people they don't know is the police my theory they ate too fast they're like they're they're no they're just lying they're obviously just like yeah uh there was a good tweet about this whole situation that i wanted to share from danielle weisberg they investigated that shake shack faster than they've ever investigated a sexual assault but okay like the wow yeah i mean it's true yeah yeah i mean and it shows you two protected class one of their own look everybody shows, everybody shows up. Everybody shows up. For, you know, the citizens that are telling you that they've been injured.

How about I give you something to cry about? Now, if a cop has a bellyache at a Broadway Shake Shack, now we've got a case. Oh, you're flipping dumpsters. Where's the bleach? You're roughing up fucking couriers on bikes. Come on, asshole. What happened? Let's get Jerry Orbach down there. Stat.

There's a cop with a bellyache. And finally, Tupac is trending because today would have been his 49th birthday. He was not assassinated. And there's many, many theories about what could have actually happened with Tupac's death. Very interesting to think about because, man, he was talking. His lyrics were pretty fiery back then. Jamie, thanks for joining on this little trend venture with us. Always a pleasure.

Yeah, so don't, and please be careful the next time you go to Shake Shack or Duncan. Jamie, I don't want anything to happen next time you go to shake shack or duncan jamie i don't want anything to happen to you duncan would never do anything to you i'm really grateful to say that yeah i i trust my duncan implicitly and if they if my duncan chooses for me to die i accept that decision oh so this is your like trumpist cult is duncan like if that's what they say then that's what it's meant to be. You think I think Ben Affleck would agree if the dunks chooses you as as tribute. It is what it is.

You do it. I love it. All right. Well, we'll talk to you all tomorrow. We got a fantastic episode. Check that out. It's going to be a one for the books. All right.

Be careful. Not be careful. Take care of yourself. Take care of yourself. Take care of others. Try and help somebody in need if you see them. Trust me, it will feel good. It will feel empowering that you could actually help somebody, even in the smallest way. I swear. Try it out.

I'm not even joking. Just try it out. You will feel good. I'm serious. Thank you. We love you. Love yourself. Bye-bye.

Bye. Thank you. We love you. Love yourself. Bye-bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.

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