Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of No
Speaker 1: Trends for the Wicked. That is a short show title
Speaker 1: courtesy of one Johnny Davis. Thank you, Johnny. I'm Jack
Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled to be joined by super producer Justin Comma.
Speaker 1: I'm back, y'all with this perfect um. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good? Uh, you know, glad to be back.
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying being part of the Zeit gang. I've
Speaker 1: been getting positive messages and I still have not joined
Speaker 1: the someone How again, what's with the invite thing? What's it?
Speaker 1: Was this exclusive club happening? I have not been a
Speaker 1: part of this court before. Hit him up? Where did
Speaker 1: they hit you up? At? Jacon the Smith J C
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Speaker 1: it sounds like a lot of me figuring things out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna pressure you with that. Someone will figure
Speaker 1: it out. Eventually, it'll happen them up. I'm not Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not gonna do And it is a
Speaker 1: long weekend. We're heading into President's Day. We are going
Speaker 1: to take that opportunity to rest too. Trends, even though
Speaker 1: we are wicked, we are going to trends. So we're
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Speaker 1: long weekend, we apologize. The episode will not cover that.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a silly one. We'll drop on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and then we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming. Also,
Speaker 1: don't don't be mad at me or Jack if I
Speaker 1: edited the show wrong and left in the part where
Speaker 1: he said the date wrong, that that might have he
Speaker 1: he gracefully did have done at Uh. You know, we're
Speaker 1: all human over here. We're trying. We're all human. And
Speaker 1: I read whatever is in the prompter. People, there was
Speaker 1: a point as an exclamation point in the prompter. That's
Speaker 1: why I just shouted that part. A lot of typos
Speaker 1: in there. Um. Anyways, justin let's tell the people what
Speaker 1: is trending, shall we? Um? John Fetterman is trending. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's checked himself in for treatment for depression. UM. And
Speaker 1: this is new and groundbreaking because he was honest about that.
Speaker 1: It was just like, yeah, I'm suffering from depression. I'm
Speaker 1: going to check myself in for treatment. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, there are a lot of people saying the
Speaker 1: right things and commending him for his honesty and pointing
Speaker 1: out that he is by no means the first UH
Speaker 1: politician to do this, just the first politician at this
Speaker 1: level to be open about it. But the conservative takes
Speaker 1: are pretty ugly. Yeah, it truly stopped me in my
Speaker 1: tracks when I got the news alert about that. I
Speaker 1: was his staff came out and said he's being hospital
Speaker 1: ask for depression. I I was. I was like that.
Speaker 1: My second thought was has this ever happened before? That's
Speaker 1: really truly groundbreaking. So he continues to you know, be
Speaker 1: pretty groundbreaking and transparency and honesty while dealing with very
Speaker 1: difficult things. So shout out to him. Hopefully he gets
Speaker 1: better soon, his family gets through this, and you know,
Speaker 1: the mainstream and conservative media don't completely turn this into
Speaker 1: the cancer that I'm sure they are already fully churning away,
Speaker 1: turning it into the takeout had a list of the
Speaker 1: best foods to order take out UH, which I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have my opinions on this. I think I think
Speaker 1: this changed with the advent in my household of the
Speaker 1: air fryer. Getting an air fryer really changed French fries
Speaker 1: from being a no go unless I'm eating them in
Speaker 1: the car after Um, they've been shoveled into into my
Speaker 1: uh through my driver's side window. Absolutely, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: me me too. It's I have been blessed with an
Speaker 1: air fryer. It has definitely changed my life. But I'm
Speaker 1: also lucky enough to be an essentially located area. I
Speaker 1: don't want to give the the name of the chain away, um,
Speaker 1: but uh, there was a chain that's like maybe three
Speaker 1: feet three feet away from my front door, and it's
Speaker 1: really good. So when I order from there, the fries
Speaker 1: come hot, and that's the only place I order fries from.
Speaker 1: But this is the first time I've been lucky enough
Speaker 1: to be that close to a restaurant that I actually like.
Speaker 1: But unless you have that, you gotta get yourself an
Speaker 1: air fryer. It's really changes everything. So they're putting burgers
Speaker 1: in sandwiches at Number one, which I don't like. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure I guess what they mean by take out right.
Speaker 1: This is Nation's Restaurant News reporting that they did a
Speaker 1: survey like, yeah, I drive through where you're eating it
Speaker 1: very soon after, but take out where you were taking
Speaker 1: it home and eating it maybe fifteen minutes after you
Speaker 1: get home, after you like get the kids down at
Speaker 1: the table, get table set. Like the burger sandwich. Um,
Speaker 1: have you ever tried a Hamburger sandwich before the Hamburger sandwich?
Speaker 1: Have you seen? Have you seen these things? They're all
Speaker 1: the ridge with the kids. I mean, I've definitely been
Speaker 1: poor enough to like not want to get the expensive
Speaker 1: like burger buns and have been like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna use some wonderbread and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know does that count as a sandwich? I like
Speaker 1: a wonder bread burger when it just gets thrilled, just
Speaker 1: stuck to the top of the roof in mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's already doing the thing that happens when
Speaker 1: it gets stuck to the roof of your mouth even
Speaker 1: before you put it in your mouth, because it's like
Speaker 1: the burger so wet and and see that's the with
Speaker 1: take out though, depending on where you get it from,
Speaker 1: especially in sandwich form, if you're getting like again, I
Speaker 1: think we covered this on the pod the other day.
Speaker 1: But you know, sandwich is having you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: want that crisp vegetable Like I'm a person who I
Speaker 1: don't like any it's controversial, take I don't like cooked
Speaker 1: or roasted vegetables like necessary. I like that for the
Speaker 1: most part. I I yeah, period, point blank. For the
Speaker 1: most part. I really like the friend. If I'm going
Speaker 1: to eat a vegetable that kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: I want there to be a little bit of like
Speaker 1: crispness and freshness, and I want it to be cold. Um.
Speaker 1: I like the separation of textures and temperatures in a sandwich. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't want it to be moist and heated. I
Speaker 1: don't even like it, you know, um when it comes
Speaker 1: out the oven, Like I know, many people find that delicious.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna get carrots or whatever, they gotta be
Speaker 1: like raw, I'm I love it raw. I'm sorry, it's delicious.
Speaker 1: Maybe I like it wrong. So you might be more
Speaker 1: of a fan of the number two, which they have
Speaker 1: a Deli subs That makes sense to me. That makes
Speaker 1: more sense to me than the burger sandwiches, burgers and
Speaker 1: sandwiches they're not required to be hot. The temperature is
Speaker 1: not as important. And burgers also, I think the thing
Speaker 1: we were discussing recently, they are not saved by the
Speaker 1: air fryer. No, not really. But I can make do
Speaker 1: like sometimes I will. I will chef it. I'll put
Speaker 1: in maybe a little more effort than you might even
Speaker 1: want to with reheating, like fast food, taking it apart. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I will take it apart, and I will break out
Speaker 1: like you know, a little pan. I'll put a little
Speaker 1: olive oil in there. Um, I'll heat up the burger
Speaker 1: separately from the bun. Yeah, there's a whole process there,
Speaker 1: and it can kind of revive it. I gotta say
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It will never bring it back, you know,
Speaker 1: to the original form. But it's it gets the job done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know this. This list is just
Speaker 1: a little bit bra for me. And it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like they're saying burgers and sandwiches are the best. It
Speaker 1: seems like there's a bunch of commentary on these things.
Speaker 1: But these are the categories that they ran. Donuts they've
Speaker 1: got in there. Crispy Kreme, I think, is specifically mentioned,
Speaker 1: and it is a food that will like that, there
Speaker 1: are Krispy Kreme donuts in existence right now that will
Speaker 1: still be delicious after I'm dead. You know that is true.
Speaker 1: That's a hunt. But have you ever been to like
Speaker 1: someplace in the South where they where the Crispy Kreme
Speaker 1: donuts come right off the conveyor belt and and they're
Speaker 1: so warm and hot like best. Yeah, they're super good.
Speaker 1: They're still gonna be good later, but um, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they travel as well as if you're like
Speaker 1: in the restaurant and getting it right off the conveyor
Speaker 1: but you know it's it's good, but for me, it
Speaker 1: kind of you know, it's gonna have a steep drop
Speaker 1: off and then it maintains, you know, somewhat delicious this
Speaker 1: but that peak, I gotta be inside the store for that,
Speaker 1: I think. If I'm if I'm trying to get what
Speaker 1: I'm really looking for, I think I gotta be in
Speaker 1: the store for that. Um. And then they have pizza,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if you know about this, but
Speaker 1: you can have pizza delivered. You can get pizza take out.
Speaker 1: You don't have to eat in a pizza parlor. Uh,
Speaker 1: So that's cool. Maybe give that a try sometime maybe
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Jury has been decided on this industry
Speaker 1: article that they were just like I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: slow news day, but someone had to get their quota
Speaker 1: and this was it. Pizza's great for the air fryer.
Speaker 1: Fries are great for the air fryer. Um. Yeah. Anyways, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about some other stuff. And we're back. And there's a
Speaker 1: new story in Alabama where uh Anthony Mitchell was incarcerated
Speaker 1: for fourteen days in Walker County Jail under hellish conditions
Speaker 1: and died of hypothermia on the twenty six of January,
Speaker 1: according to a lawsuit filed by his mom, and the
Speaker 1: FBI is taking part in the investigation. But it would
Speaker 1: appear that they put this human being suffering a mental
Speaker 1: health crisis in a walk in freezer and he frus
Speaker 1: to death. Yeah, I mean all over. Of course, what
Speaker 1: do you think welfare check like, I mean, he fired
Speaker 1: a gun while welfare check was being performed. And does
Speaker 1: that mean a death sentence in this country? Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's one of those things where it wasn't
Speaker 1: it would be almost at this point merciful to give
Speaker 1: someone a death sentence. They tortured this man for hours,
Speaker 1: for so long, and it's appalling because they at their
Speaker 1: core they be you know, the authority is whatever that means.
Speaker 1: They know how wrong these acts are. Because again, one
Speaker 1: of their own tried to report it. She was not
Speaker 1: There was a security officer who was there who had
Speaker 1: heard rumors of this happening, and she searched through the
Speaker 1: security tapes and found what they had done to this man.
Speaker 1: Her name was Karen Kelly. She was fired for trying
Speaker 1: to say hey, for reporting it, for saying, hey, this
Speaker 1: is a human being. Um. They tried to cover this up,
Speaker 1: and so they know how wrong this is and they
Speaker 1: still let it happen time and time again, which is
Speaker 1: why it's so hard to see people being like, hey,
Speaker 1: that ship is disgusting and shaken me. That's why I
Speaker 1: want to be a part of this, to change this
Speaker 1: from the inside. And then you have people like a
Speaker 1: Karen Kelly who are like, hey, this is not right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna report this, and they're like, no, we're not
Speaker 1: changing anything. This is exactly what it was designed to be.
Speaker 1: And it's it breaks your heart. It is really heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: These are crimes against humanity that are just happening. This
Speaker 1: is and this is what the system is designed to do,
Speaker 1: and the investigation will treat it as you know that
Speaker 1: this is a few bad apples, but it seems like
Speaker 1: it keeps happening. This is again, this is not the
Speaker 1: same story that we were talking about last week the
Speaker 1: Harris County Jail in Houston, where many people were dying
Speaker 1: over the course of like fourteen months. This is a
Speaker 1: new one in Alabama, and it just the system is
Speaker 1: broken and white supremacist and deadly, and yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's why it's very Uh it's infuriating, Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: mean it's not even just the people who you would
Speaker 1: think are again the authoritarians in this, you know, the
Speaker 1: jailers in the correction officers and the wardens who kind
Speaker 1: of participate in the violence and then let it happen.
Speaker 1: But it's also unfortunately, the people not giving him medical treatment,
Speaker 1: Like there's a whole system set up to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: al right, clearly this person is going through some distress,
Speaker 1: even though we don't have the conditions here to get
Speaker 1: them the best medical treat like the world class medical
Speaker 1: treatment we're gonna do what we can and do our bead.
Speaker 1: They didn't even do what they could for this man,
Speaker 1: and that is the part where you kind of lose
Speaker 1: all hope in in the system in terms of like reform, Like,
Speaker 1: there's no reforming that. I think We've gone as far
Speaker 1: as we can in terms of, uh, where we go next.
Speaker 1: It's just more I guess death. And then people will
Speaker 1: be like, well, maybe we need to reform that. And
Speaker 1: then it's like, well, that's a little too far from me,
Speaker 1: and they just it. It's a never ending cycle. And
Speaker 1: it goes back to the point that Biden made where
Speaker 1: he said that we don't need to defund the police,
Speaker 1: we need to fund them. Think about all the things
Speaker 1: we rely on police for, we rely on them to
Speaker 1: be psychiatrists, were and like so he he was making
Speaker 1: the point that that is the system that we have
Speaker 1: and we need to double down on it, instead of
Speaker 1: making the point that this is a fucking mess that
Speaker 1: started when Reagan closed all the you know, mental health
Speaker 1: care facilities, and now the police do all of these
Speaker 1: jobs that they aren't meant to do and are in
Speaker 1: fact the worst fucking people to possibly put in in
Speaker 1: charge of that yeah. I mean they they you know,
Speaker 1: create a problem and try to sell the cure and
Speaker 1: with terms of you know, we're not going to focus
Speaker 1: on mental health. It's never a conversation on mental health.
Speaker 1: It's never a conversation about care or compassion, because then
Speaker 1: you look weak on crime and then you lose your
Speaker 1: constituents who want you to be some kind of I
Speaker 1: don't know, medieval ruler or something. But there are over
Speaker 1: a million people in the prison system who have mental
Speaker 1: health issues. We are already understaffed because we have the
Speaker 1: most populous prison system in the world. How are you
Speaker 1: going to tell me that just throwing more beatings at
Speaker 1: people is going to help solve this issue. It's like
Speaker 1: it's never going to work. We should as you made
Speaker 1: before the you know, you made this case before saying that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we have the most funded police force in
Speaker 1: the his security force whatever. In the history of the globe,
Speaker 1: history of the world, no one has ever been this
Speaker 1: funded to enact the laws of their society on on
Speaker 1: the public. And we have every single year conservatives talking
Speaker 1: about how crime is out of control. So you are
Speaker 1: essentially telling me that you have been useless your entire career,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm supposed to trust you with my safety.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is that? Like who buys that ship?
Speaker 1: And and unfortunately it's like half of America. It's it's
Speaker 1: unbelievable to me. Yeah, yeah, I mean it creates a
Speaker 1: atmosphere where things that feed into their white supremacists worldview
Speaker 1: keep happening, right, because that that's what it's designed to do.
Speaker 1: And it creates a cycle that is sort of self
Speaker 1: fulfilling and yeah, self reinforcing. All right. Just a couple
Speaker 1: like kind of update things. Uh, the balloon controversy piers
Speaker 1: that we seem like we're getting a little clarity on this.
Speaker 1: Um A hobbyist group says that they one of their
Speaker 1: balloons that I think was like costs under a hundred
Speaker 1: dollars or under a couple hundred dollars, uh, was in
Speaker 1: the area of the Yukon when the U S. Melotk
Speaker 1: Verry shot down a something that they didn't know what
Speaker 1: it was and still haven't really identified. So like the
Speaker 1: front page of Drudge is still like we don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. There's like this this arms race happening
Speaker 1: between In fact, the front page of the New York
Speaker 1: Times like the top stories. As we're recording this, U
Speaker 1: S and China by in hazy zone where balloons, UFOs
Speaker 1: and missiles fly. Uh, and it's all about like American
Speaker 1: officials are worried China is far along and developing military
Speaker 1: technology that operates in the unregulated high altitude zone of
Speaker 1: near space. And meanwhile it just seems like it's what
Speaker 1: we said it was last week that it was basically
Speaker 1: they widened after the you know, Chinese by balloon, they
Speaker 1: widened the aperture to be like, well, anything we see
Speaker 1: up there is now a threat, and they started seeing
Speaker 1: more stuff has been there all along. Yeah, it's incredible,
Speaker 1: like you see the system kind of play out like
Speaker 1: from the inception of a story, like and you see
Speaker 1: it's like this is the new threat target and then
Speaker 1: it's a new story every single day. And it kind
Speaker 1: of I think reiterates the point of you know, you
Speaker 1: can make anything public enemy number one from you know,
Speaker 1: you have the powers at B and then you have
Speaker 1: some sort of like nationalistic like jangoistic kind of implications
Speaker 1: in there, and then you tied it together with like
Speaker 1: a fascination of the unknown, and the media plays along.
Speaker 1: Everyone plays along and it's says, I'm worried this is
Speaker 1: gonna get conflated with you know, America has a history
Speaker 1: of other rising and you know, for lack of a
Speaker 1: better like like alienating Asian populations and the whole thing
Speaker 1: of like you know, the Chinese government and aliens and
Speaker 1: then conflating it in like unknown foreigners and all this
Speaker 1: stuff like coming together. It's it hasn't been fully like
Speaker 1: put out there yet. But again we have also, I
Speaker 1: guess over here on the liver real side expressed like
Speaker 1: no fear over a fucking balloon, like like and and
Speaker 1: it feels like you can turn any foreign object into
Speaker 1: a source of terror if you're part of the conservative
Speaker 1: media cycle. And now liberals kind of feed into that
Speaker 1: as well. On the other side of just like, oh hey,
Speaker 1: this gets us ratings, let's talk about this quote unquote
Speaker 1: you left The New York Times is like making this
Speaker 1: and and of course the New York Times is a
Speaker 1: instrument of capitalism, is what we've kind of come to realize.
Speaker 1: And this creates a need to spend more on weapons
Speaker 1: and defense. The story if you're reading it the way
Speaker 1: that they are, as like all of these things are
Speaker 1: a threat as opposed to, man, do we have some
Speaker 1: egg on our face? It turns out that was a
Speaker 1: balloon sent up there by a hobbyist. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't think that will be talked about even when it is,
Speaker 1: like when you find out, hey, you know, this was
Speaker 1: a hobby New York Times isn't gonna run a story
Speaker 1: about that. I don't give a funk. They already put
Speaker 1: the narrative out there, but I don't know, man, this
Speaker 1: is it's it's a bunch of nothing. And then there's
Speaker 1: also just some so because the company that made the
Speaker 1: voting machines that Fox News was like, you know, Dominion
Speaker 1: might have been in cahoots with some foreign power and
Speaker 1: trying to overthrow democracy. Fox News allowed that to be
Speaker 1: said on their news channel. Uh. And and so they
Speaker 1: got sued. And so now some papers and you know, uh,
Speaker 1: text messages are coming out in the public, and they
Speaker 1: reveal some things like the Tucker Carlson called Trump a
Speaker 1: demonic force and a destroyer on the day of the
Speaker 1: Capitol riot to his own producers like that, so this
Speaker 1: is like what the people actually believe. They were also
Speaker 1: like making fun of the people that were having on
Speaker 1: their show, who are claiming like election fraud or like
Speaker 1: who were you know, perpetrating the big lie. They were like,
Speaker 1: these people are idiots behind the scenes, but then when
Speaker 1: they got in front of the cameras, they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we agree with all of the ship. This gives
Speaker 1: me hope that like at least like once a day,
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and his ILK are like we fucked up.
Speaker 1: Like they're just saying, like, yo, he chose wrong, Like
Speaker 1: god damn, we're so stupid. And then like alright, guys,
Speaker 1: you know they just put on that face, but they're
Speaker 1: picking real bad. Yeah. I love this that he's gonna
Speaker 1: like age at like five x the normal rate over
Speaker 1: the next coming decade because he is experiencing so much
Speaker 1: inner turmoil. I would love that version of events. I
Speaker 1: don't think that that, I know, I was just saying.
Speaker 1: I was just saying, this is a villain. He's gonna
Speaker 1: stay around for a long time. He's gonna have great
Speaker 1: skin for some reason. It's it's just, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: because they all end up being Billy tayres Um, so
Speaker 1: they they just have human teenager bloodbags that they're getting
Speaker 1: transfusions from. Announced though, I mean, you know, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: working my way up there. That's right, all right, justin
Speaker 1: pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you? You can find me at j con the
Speaker 1: Smith on Instagram at j C O N t H
Speaker 1: E S M my th h. Thank you so much, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for having Jay awesome. We are back on Tuesday
Speaker 1: with the whole last episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to y'all on Tuesday. Bye bye,