#1379 - Ben Westhoff

Hello Ben.

Thank you for having me, Jeff.

My pleasure. This is a subject that scares the shit out of me. How did you stumble upon

the story of Fentanyl? Because weren't you at one point in time, didn't you write about rap music?

Yeah, I have a book about N.W.A. and Tupac and I interviewed Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg,

all those people. Yeah. But I was the LA Weekly Music Editor and I started looking into this story

about why people were always dying at raves. So like, I don't know if you remember a few years back,

every time there was a rave, they're like one person died, two people died or more. And they