Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of JC Trendy.
Speaker 1: It's courtesy at Johnny Davis. Johnny, I actually wrote JC
Speaker 1: Trendy's and Johnny, it appears you and I are suffering
Speaker 1: from a similar Mandela effect. Where I always thought it
Speaker 1: was j C. Penny's plural it is apparently j C.
Speaker 1: Penny singular only one penny. Jac. Come on, I feel like,
Speaker 1: not my JC. When you refer to it, you have
Speaker 1: to do j C. Pennies. But if you look at
Speaker 1: the sign, it definitely doesn't have an S. We're going
Speaker 1: to j C Penny. Yeah, I would. I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever called it j C. Penny, but that's I.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I like made fun of my dad at
Speaker 1: one point, calling bread pit bred pits, and our listeners
Speaker 1: have repeatedly pointed out that I do this shit all
Speaker 1: the time. I put sas on the end of names
Speaker 1: that no one safe. No one's safe from the pluralization situation.
Speaker 1: I am jacking them through to be joined by today's
Speaker 1: guest co host, superproducer Becca Rabba. Happy first day of Spring,
Speaker 1: Happy first day of Spring. It is the first day
Speaker 1: of spring. My children were responding to the fact that
Speaker 1: it is a little overcast today, and they were like,
Speaker 1: when is it going to be spring? And asked Alexa,
Speaker 1: what is the first day of spring? And wouldn't you
Speaker 1: know it? It is today? It's today. Yeah. Anyways, here's
Speaker 1: the latest, I think. As we all know by now,
Speaker 1: Trump has claimed that he's going to be arrested tomorrow
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, So tomorrow, as we record this, he has
Speaker 1: called for his supporters to protest, just putting a lot
Speaker 1: of trumpy and insults out about the people who are
Speaker 1: trying to arrest him. This is in connection with the
Speaker 1: hush money scheme involving Stormy Daniels, and so that's that's wild.
Speaker 1: The wheels of justice do indeed turn slowly, so slow.
Speaker 1: But also his team said after his post that it
Speaker 1: had not received any notifications from prosecutors, so unclear if
Speaker 1: this is just like a vibe he's getting. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I was going to ask you. I was like,
Speaker 1: I saw it kind of bustling on TikTok and like Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I was like, but where is this information coming from?
Speaker 1: Like it just feels like a room mill, like someone
Speaker 1: said it and then they we're playing telephone as to
Speaker 1: like why is he getting arrested? And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: feel like there would be more coverage from like mainstream
Speaker 1: news that like they're out to get him to get arrested,
Speaker 1: and there's been way bigger charges and reason to get arrested.
Speaker 1: Why now Yeah, so yeah, and then some people Yeah
Speaker 1: that was My initial reaction was like, everybody knows about
Speaker 1: this one, so is it going to do anything other
Speaker 1: than motivate his base? But people are like, actually, the
Speaker 1: Stormy Daniel's bribe, it was a big deal. If you'll
Speaker 1: remember when it actually happened. It was pretty outrageous, straight
Speaker 1: up doing a bribe to win the election, just like
Speaker 1: real cartoon bad guy shit. But yeah, it does feel
Speaker 1: like we just don't know, We don't know when when
Speaker 1: it comes to Trump. And this gives me a flashback
Speaker 1: to the days when he was president and everybody had
Speaker 1: to respond to things he said like they were true,
Speaker 1: or at least as though a lot of people were
Speaker 1: going to take them to be true and it was
Speaker 1: going to cause chaos. So reportedly New York is ready
Speaker 1: to batten down the hatches and mobilize seven hundred riot
Speaker 1: cops if people do protest. But then other people are
Speaker 1: pointing out that the energy doesn't seem to be there
Speaker 1: for a big January sixth style protest storming of New
Speaker 1: York City's courthouse. Um, Kevin McCarthy not that. Like Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Green are like the voice of
Speaker 1: any body. But they have both been like, don't protest
Speaker 1: because yeah, this is just Marjorie Taylor Green was like
Speaker 1: this playing right into our own our hands. Democrats are
Speaker 1: sealing their own fate in the twenty twenty four election
Speaker 1: if Trump is indicted. But even online, they're like people
Speaker 1: who were specifically involved in the January sixth planning and organizing,
Speaker 1: who are specifically coming out and being like, you will
Speaker 1: not see my ass there. They're like, we can't pull
Speaker 1: me once, Yeah, pull me twice. Can't get fooled again.
Speaker 1: I think that is in my brain has replaced the yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely original saying. I don't think I even know the
Speaker 1: original saying anymore. I think I just know, shame on
Speaker 1: you fool me twice, shame on me for me three times,
Speaker 1: can't get fooled again. Um, now I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing you just said is the
Speaker 1: whole stead that's saying. But you know, it's like it's
Speaker 1: that's right. Uh. So, I don't know this is a
Speaker 1: direct quote. Ali Alexander, who was an organizer at the
Speaker 1: Stop the Steel movement, tweeted or made this statement. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly where we're both talking about himself and
Speaker 1: another organizer who were heavily implicated in the storming of
Speaker 1: the Capitol. He said, we've both got enough going on
Speaker 1: fighting the government. No billionaires covering our bills, which sounds
Speaker 1: a little salt, sounds a little bit like like, damn it.
Speaker 1: The billionaires are liberals, Yeah that's right, which arguably, but
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I mean their centrist which yeah, center
Speaker 1: right ak the Democratic Party. I think that somebody just
Speaker 1: tweeted something about how Biden vetoed a bill and I
Speaker 1: haven't had time to read up on what the bill is, uh,
Speaker 1: siding with woke Wall Street? So Wall Street is love
Speaker 1: wall St woke? Yes, can't. We can't have phrases that
Speaker 1: mean anything without them being immediately co opted and destroyed.
Speaker 1: Shazam two did not do very well at the box office. Shocker.
Speaker 1: It's so people are responding like it came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: I would say, this one did not seem like a
Speaker 1: good movie based on trailers like that seemed to be
Speaker 1: the big problem with it. But people are like looking
Speaker 1: at you know, Zachary Levi's politics and um, which are
Speaker 1: atrocious by the way, but um. He went on Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan and talked about Jordan Peterson being one of the
Speaker 1: deepest thinkers that he knows and just is an outspoken
Speaker 1: antiacxor so. But I don't I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: what killed it so much as the fact that it
Speaker 1: just seemed to be a CGI lightning fest. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did not see the first Shazam, but I would
Speaker 1: argue that Shazam in totality is definitely not the superhero
Speaker 1: people want or need. So I just never anticipated this
Speaker 1: movie being good. I don't know if the first one
Speaker 1: did very well or not, but it always felt more
Speaker 1: cartoony than like the rest of I would say superheroes
Speaker 1: are portrayed in the modern day when you're giving even
Speaker 1: like DC versus Marvel in totality, So never anticipated doing well.
Speaker 1: But of course it got a big budget, because like
Speaker 1: what superhero movie doesn't get a big budget. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know why anyone's shocked. The first one was
Speaker 1: fun because it was is like would if Big the
Speaker 1: movie Big with Tom Hanks was a superhero movie like that,
Speaker 1: That's basically what it was, and they just like took
Speaker 1: that genre and like dropped a superhero movie in the
Speaker 1: middle of it. And there were some very fun moments,
Speaker 1: and it had really good reviews and good word of mouth,
Speaker 1: and yeah, so it did. It did really well. And
Speaker 1: then they were like, Okay, well, so people clearly like
Speaker 1: Shazam and are ready for Shazam two, which looks like
Speaker 1: it's all just about going, you know, teleporting to different
Speaker 1: places and shooting lightning out of your hands at one another.
Speaker 1: And I think people are generally pretty lightning portaled out
Speaker 1: at this point by it from the Marvel movies. Would
Speaker 1: be myself, I would keep that, keep that lightning, the
Speaker 1: CGI lightning as far away from your movie as as
Speaker 1: possible over the next because like, that's what I got
Speaker 1: out of Quantum Mania too, is like this just feels
Speaker 1: and also like that was what I got from the
Speaker 1: Eternals was it just seemed like it was a bunch
Speaker 1: of that which always feels not just kind of arbitrary
Speaker 1: from a having any physics to it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just like I can shoot lightning, you can shoot lightning.
Speaker 1: Our lightning meats in the middle and we have a
Speaker 1: lightning battle that we decide who wins. But also, yeah,
Speaker 1: it just seems yeah, I guess just arbitrary. So yeah, well,
Speaker 1: very anti cham here on this podcast set here first,
Speaker 1: I'm anti cham two, I mean down with Chosam one.
Speaker 1: When Zachary Levi had great politics, I'm sure, yes, a
Speaker 1: good man. All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. And we're back, and Jason Sudek
Speaker 1: is his in character as Ted Lasso addressing mental health
Speaker 1: in an absolutely packed White House briefing room. Um, I too,
Speaker 1: am pro mental health, but this just feels like such
Speaker 1: a weird so I have a questionline that we live them.
Speaker 1: As someone who has now watched a lot of Ted Lasso,
Speaker 1: I've seen some of season one. My partner is a
Speaker 1: big Ted Lasso fan. But is mental health a big
Speaker 1: topic on Ted Lasso? No clue? He like, I think
Speaker 1: the idea guy. He's a fun, goofy guy, and he
Speaker 1: like I think the quote that he got up there
Speaker 1: and said, is I truly believe that we should I'll
Speaker 1: do our best to help take care of each other,
Speaker 1: which is true, true, and also I don't know, just
Speaker 1: a mess that this is what we're doing. I just
Speaker 1: feel like I don't know. As of late, the appearances
Speaker 1: at the White House trying to do good have been
Speaker 1: distasteful at best. It has just been off the wall.
Speaker 1: Like I remember post Hamilton, they brought Linmoa Miranda recently,
Speaker 1: I think to do something and it was like, yeah
Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party, Yeah, I forget what it was exactly,
Speaker 1: Like that was weird. You know, we have here in
Speaker 1: the dock about how you know Tom Hanks came and
Speaker 1: helped with COVID because that one was like at least
Speaker 1: the line, the through line was like kind of there
Speaker 1: because he was like our first major documented case of
Speaker 1: COVID here, Like people were like as celebrities getting COVID,
Speaker 1: America's dad Tom Hanks got COVID. But then like Olivia
Speaker 1: Rodrigo came right at the height of her viral fame
Speaker 1: where she really have a fan base yet she just
Speaker 1: had viral hits and they were like you're young, speak
Speaker 1: to the young people were getting vaccinated. She showed up
Speaker 1: and just slayed and that's all anyone talked about it.
Speaker 1: Slay Queen. That was amazing, had no recollection that it
Speaker 1: was in relation to the vaccines. But exactly, people were
Speaker 1: like huh, and they were like, didn't she just gave
Speaker 1: famous why she had the White House? But they were like,
Speaker 1: she's famous to the gen z ears, we must get
Speaker 1: her on the stage. It was wild. She is famous
Speaker 1: to the gen z Ears, right, like she's yeah, but no,
Speaker 1: that's not made up. She is gen Z. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I feel like that was more of it. It was
Speaker 1: like she is gen Z. Gen Z made her viral,
Speaker 1: make her make vaccines go viral. Yeah, I guess. And
Speaker 1: in this case, yeah, they made the calculation that Americans, like,
Speaker 1: as superducer Brian pointed out, like the Americans will not
Speaker 1: listen to a real mental health professional. But ted Lassa
Speaker 1: was a show that, like, when people were suffering from
Speaker 1: pandemic related or just not just general anxiety and you know,
Speaker 1: a really horrible time in the country, ted Lasso was
Speaker 1: something that made them feel optimistic and happy, and so
Speaker 1: they're like, let's commodify that and turn that into something.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it just it's I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: great messages. You know, the lasso heads don't come for me.
Speaker 1: But I just I felt like I was reading some
Speaker 1: piece of dystopian sci fi written like five years ago
Speaker 1: that I would not have believed. Rupert Murdoch stays married.
Speaker 1: This ninety two year old has revealed he's engaged to
Speaker 1: marry Anne Leslie Smith, who I read almost the whole
Speaker 1: article and could not figure out what she's like like Rupert.
Speaker 1: My husband was a businessman, worked for local papers, developed
Speaker 1: radio on TV stations, and helped promote Spanish language TV
Speaker 1: network Univision. So I speak Rupert's language. We share the
Speaker 1: same beliefs. Um. But yeah, he just he is not
Speaker 1: comfortable unless he's married. He recently got divorced from Jerry Hall,
Speaker 1: who's a famous model. I think, Um, and you know,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know it? Engaged again? So she is she young?
Speaker 1: Is she like she's the sixties relatively young? Kay? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But he's the giant diamond that has like a name
Speaker 1: I've never heard before, like the cut of the diamond
Speaker 1: or I don't know if it's the name of the diamond,
Speaker 1: if it's like a such a big diamond that they have.
Speaker 1: They have a specific name for it from like centuries
Speaker 1: ago when they fought a war over it. But um,
Speaker 1: it's we were trying to figure out, like what what
Speaker 1: this comes from. Like I was thinking back to the
Speaker 1: movie The Untouchables where Kevin Costner as Elliott Ness keeps
Speaker 1: just being like, man, it's cool to be married. Huh.
Speaker 1: I like, being married is the greatest. I love my wife.
Speaker 1: But and it's like weird, he like does it multiple times,
Speaker 1: and it's Brian to Palma made the movie so and
Speaker 1: he's like a weird, you know, subversive filmmaker. And I'm
Speaker 1: like wondering if it was like that was what people
Speaker 1: like the acceptable way to be, Like hey, hey buddy,
Speaker 1: I'm getting laid. How about you like type thing at
Speaker 1: the time. Probably yeah. And Rupert Murdock is, you know,
Speaker 1: contemporaries with elliot Ness, So maybe that's where this is
Speaker 1: coming from. Just as many married, as many marriages as
Speaker 1: he can get under his bread. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he is an old man who's afraid to die alone,
Speaker 1: and he got to figure it out. He's getting up there.
Speaker 1: He was like, my wife suddenly divorced me. Can't say divorce.
Speaker 1: I'm moving it along keep it moving, folks whose neck moving.
Speaker 1: And then finally, frozen strawberries. There is a recall on
Speaker 1: a number of different types of frozen strawberries. You and
Speaker 1: I both frozen strawberries collectors. Absolutely, yeah, this is something
Speaker 1: that I just don't always feel like I can't have
Speaker 1: enough of. And that is not true. By the way,
Speaker 1: you can have enough of frozen strawberries, but I buy
Speaker 1: too many of them, and then they and then you
Speaker 1: forget about them, and then what really is is that
Speaker 1: labor of making a smoothie in theory is easy because
Speaker 1: like the ingredients are easy just right there. It is
Speaker 1: kind of a pain in the ass. Personally, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't like cleaning the blender. It is like, if
Speaker 1: you want to make more than once smoothie a week,
Speaker 1: you have to clean the blender every day, and that
Speaker 1: is just a chore that I personally don't like to do. So,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a lot of frozen strawberries in
Speaker 1: our house. Specifically, my partner really loves him some frozen strawberries.
Speaker 1: Every time I go store, he's buying a frozen strawberry.
Speaker 1: Will he make more smoothies? No? So I am personally
Speaker 1: worried that I have to go through my freezer and
Speaker 1: check if my strawberries have hypatizs a UM. If you
Speaker 1: go to the FDA's website, they have the full list,
Speaker 1: but they do say that stores like Costco, Trader Joe's,
Speaker 1: and Aldi have been affected. So if you have bought
Speaker 1: strawberries from any of those places and they have best
Speaker 1: buy dates, buy um April twenty four. It's a whole range. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of twenty twenty four dates. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing with this recall that I feel like it's
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times the recall will come
Speaker 1: out and it's like, well, I would have already eaten
Speaker 1: that ship by the time y'all are telling me about
Speaker 1: this recall. But with frozen food, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I have frozen strawberries from the year two thousand and
Speaker 1: three and my freezer, so I'm probably like, I will write,
Speaker 1: when we're done recording, go double check that I haven't
Speaker 1: given my children. What is it? Habtight is a Heppe
Speaker 1: because Hepe notoriously lives through frozen I guess when I
Speaker 1: was reading up on this, So yeah, that is why
Speaker 1: I think this is such a big recall, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they are dates ranging between April and June twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: it seems, yeah, but definitely check on this fday website
Speaker 1: for the full list of stuff. Yeah, simply nature, Vital Choice,
Speaker 1: Kirkland signature, how dare you Kirkland signature? You've betrayed us?
Speaker 1: Anything made with organic strawberries best before eleven, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, PCC Community Markets Trader Joe's Organic Tropical Fruit Blend.
Speaker 1: So it's not even just if you have the Tropical
Speaker 1: Fruit Blend, which I am am fond of. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: got you gotta gotta throw it out or go get
Speaker 1: your money back or you know whatever. However these recalls work.
Speaker 1: Beccar Ramos as always such a pleasure having you on
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Speaker 1: You can find me and follow me at bex b
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Speaker 1: There you go, that is going to do it for
Speaker 1: us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the wholes
Speaker 1: episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy, and we will talk to y'all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bye bye, s