Probably Unanswerable Questions
What is Jake's tomorrow? Did watching it make anyone want to try PCP, and how long would it take to wear off?
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- One host has no questions beyond not knowing enough about PCP; what is Jake's tomorrow is floated as another sequel, the day after Training Day, whether he is still a cop.
- A likely trajectory: like Edmund Exley, the Guy Pearce character in LA Confidential, a straight arrow who sees the dark side and wants to rise, Jake would try to make lieutenant very young and climb the ranks, with the wise men asking what it takes to keep him quiet.
- Asked directly, one host has no other unanswerable questions; the closing question is whether watching this ever made anyone want to try PCP or wonder how long it takes to wear off.
- Nobody wanted to try it, but it gave pause about laced pot, something to look out for; the possibility of accidentally smoking dust and ending up in a situation like this had not really landed before for a guy working at record stores.
- One host recounts being in the Bahamas with his wife, wanting pot they had not brought, going downtown to a shady part of town, and his wife saying she had it and going off alone, the alpha dog in these situations, Alonzo in that moment. — Bill Simmons
- The others call it one of the all-time great what-ifs, how Bill did not get murdered buying drugs in a foreign country, note it was good he did not bring pot to the Bahamas, and ask the statute of limitations on a crime committed 17 years ago.