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