No Trends For The Wicked 2/17: John Fetterman, Take-Out, Walker County, Balloons, Fox News

the someone How again, what's with the invite thing? What's it? Was this exclusive club happening? I have not been a part of this court before. Hit him up? Where did they hit you up? At? Jacon the Smith J C O N T H E S M I T H on Instagram and only Instagram Onstagram, folks, someone might someone might know. I don't could do it. You could? That's it sounds like a lot of me figuring things out. Yeah, I wasn't gonna pressure you with that. Someone will figure

it out. Eventually, it'll happen them up. I'm not Yeah, I'm not. I'm not gonna do And it is a long weekend. We're heading into President's Day. We are going to take that opportunity to rest too. Trends, even though we are wicked, we are going to trends. So we're back on Tuesday. So don't hit any of our producers up being like, the episode is not up. The episode which we recorded today. So if anything happens over the long weekend, we apologize. The episode will not cover that.

It's kind of a silly one. We'll drop on Tuesday and then we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming. Also, don't don't be mad at me or Jack if I edited the show wrong and left in the part where he said the date wrong, that that might have he he gracefully did have done at Uh. You know, we're all human over here. We're trying. We're all human. And I read whatever is in the prompter. People, there was a point as an exclamation point in the prompter. That's

why I just shouted that part. A lot of typos in there. Um. Anyways, justin let's tell the people what is trending, shall we? Um? John Fetterman is trending. Uh. He's checked himself in for treatment for depression. UM. And this is new and groundbreaking because he was honest about that. It was just like, yeah, I'm suffering from depression. I'm

going to check myself in for treatment. And I think, you know, there are a lot of people saying the right things and commending him for his honesty and pointing out that he is by no means the first UH politician to do this, just the first politician at this level to be open about it. But the conservative takes are pretty ugly. Yeah, it truly stopped me in my tracks when I got the news alert about that. I was his staff came out and said he's being hospital

ask for depression. I I was. I was like that. My second thought was has this ever happened before? That's really truly groundbreaking. So he continues to you know, be pretty groundbreaking and transparency and honesty while dealing with very

difficult things. So shout out to him. Hopefully he gets better soon, his family gets through this, and you know, the mainstream and conservative media don't completely turn this into the cancer that I'm sure they are already fully churning away, turning it into the takeout had a list of the best foods to order take out UH, which I don't know. I have my opinions on this. I think I think this changed with the advent in my household of the

air fryer. Getting an air fryer really changed French fries from being a no go unless I'm eating them in the car after Um, they've been shoveled into into my uh through my driver's side window. Absolutely, I mean, yeah, me me too. It's I have been blessed with an air fryer. It has definitely changed my life. But I'm

also lucky enough to be an essentially located area. I don't want to give the the name of the chain away, um, but uh, there was a chain that's like maybe three feet three feet away from my front door, and it's really good. So when I order from there, the fries come hot, and that's the only place I order fries from. But this is the first time I've been lucky enough to be that close to a restaurant that I actually like. But unless you have that, you gotta get yourself an

air fryer. It's really changes everything. So they're putting burgers in sandwiches at Number one, which I don't like. I'm not sure I guess what they mean by take out right. This is Nation's Restaurant News reporting that they did a survey like, yeah, I drive through where you're eating it very soon after, but take out where you were taking it home and eating it maybe fifteen minutes after you get home, after you like get the kids down at

the table, get table set. Like the burger sandwich. Um, have you ever tried a Hamburger sandwich before the Hamburger sandwich? Have you seen? Have you seen these things? They're all the ridge with the kids. I mean, I've definitely been poor enough to like not want to get the expensive like burger buns and have been like, you know what, I'm just gonna use some wonderbread and you know, I don't know does that count as a sandwich? I like a wonder bread burger when it just gets thrilled, just

stuck to the top of the roof in mouth. Yeah, it's like it's already doing the thing that happens when it gets stuck to the roof of your mouth even before you put it in your mouth, because it's like the burger so wet and and see that's the with take out though, depending on where you get it from, especially in sandwich form, if you're getting like again, I think we covered this on the pod the other day.

But you know, sandwich is having you know, sometimes you want that crisp vegetable Like I'm a person who I don't like any it's controversial, take I don't like cooked or roasted vegetables like necessary. I like that for the most part. I I yeah, period, point blank. For the most part. I really like the friend. If I'm going to eat a vegetable that kind of like, you know, I want there to be a little bit of like crispness and freshness, and I want it to be cold. Um.

I like the separation of textures and temperatures in a sandwich. Um. I don't want it to be moist and heated. I don't even like it, you know, um when it comes out the oven, Like I know, many people find that delicious. If I'm gonna get carrots or whatever, they gotta be like raw, I'm I love it raw. I'm sorry, it's delicious. Maybe I like it wrong. So you might be more of a fan of the number two, which they have

a Deli subs That makes sense to me. That makes more sense to me than the burger sandwiches, burgers and sandwiches they're not required to be hot. The temperature is not as important. And burgers also, I think the thing we were discussing recently, they are not saved by the air fryer. No, not really. But I can make do like sometimes I will. I will chef it. I'll put in maybe a little more effort than you might even

want to with reheating, like fast food, taking it apart. Yes, yes, I will take it apart, and I will break out like you know, a little pan. I'll put a little olive oil in there. Um, I'll heat up the burger separately from the bun. Yeah, there's a whole process there, and it can kind of revive it. I gotta say it doesn't. It will never bring it back, you know, to the original form. But it's it gets the job done. Yeah, I mean, I don't know this. This list is just

a little bit bra for me. And it doesn't seem like they're saying burgers and sandwiches are the best. It seems like there's a bunch of commentary on these things. But these are the categories that they ran. Donuts they've got in there. Crispy Kreme, I think, is specifically mentioned, and it is a food that will like that, there are Krispy Kreme donuts in existence right now that will still be delicious after I'm dead. You know that is true.

That's a hunt. But have you ever been to like someplace in the South where they where the Crispy Kreme donuts come right off the conveyor belt and and they're so warm and hot like best. Yeah, they're super good.

They're still gonna be good later, but um, I don't know if they travel as well as if you're like in the restaurant and getting it right off the conveyor but you know it's it's good, but for me, it kind of you know, it's gonna have a steep drop off and then it maintains, you know, somewhat delicious this but that peak, I gotta be inside the store for that, I think. If I'm if I'm trying to get what I'm really looking for, I think I gotta be in

the store for that. Um. And then they have pizza, which I don't know if you know about this, but you can have pizza delivered. You can get pizza take out. You don't have to eat in a pizza parlor. Uh, So that's cool. Maybe give that a try sometime maybe over the weekend. Jury has been decided on this industry article that they were just like I don't know, man, slow news day, but someone had to get their quota and this was it. Pizza's great for the air fryer.

Fries are great for the air fryer. Um. Yeah. Anyways, Uh, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about some other stuff. And we're back. And there's a new story in Alabama where uh Anthony Mitchell was incarcerated for fourteen days in Walker County Jail under hellish conditions and died of hypothermia on the twenty six of January, according to a lawsuit filed by his mom, and the

FBI is taking part in the investigation. But it would appear that they put this human being suffering a mental health crisis in a walk in freezer and he frus to death. Yeah, I mean all over. Of course, what do you think welfare check like, I mean, he fired a gun while welfare check was being performed. And does that mean a death sentence in this country? Yes, I mean it's it's one of those things where it wasn't it would be almost at this point merciful to give

someone a death sentence. They tortured this man for hours, for so long, and it's appalling because they at their core they be you know, the authority is whatever that means. They know how wrong these acts are. Because again, one of their own tried to report it. She was not There was a security officer who was there who had heard rumors of this happening, and she searched through the security tapes and found what they had done to this man.

Her name was Karen Kelly. She was fired for trying to say hey, for reporting it, for saying, hey, this is a human being. Um. They tried to cover this up, and so they know how wrong this is and they still let it happen time and time again, which is why it's so hard to see people being like, hey, that ship is disgusting and shaken me. That's why I want to be a part of this, to change this from the inside. And then you have people like a Karen Kelly who are like, hey, this is not right.

I'm gonna report this, and they're like, no, we're not changing anything. This is exactly what it was designed to be. And it's it breaks your heart. It is really heartbreaking. These are crimes against humanity that are just happening. This is and this is what the system is designed to do, and the investigation will treat it as you know that this is a few bad apples, but it seems like

it keeps happening. This is again, this is not the same story that we were talking about last week the Harris County Jail in Houston, where many people were dying

over the course of like fourteen months. This is a new one in Alabama, and it just the system is broken and white supremacist and deadly, and yeah, I don't know, that's why it's very Uh it's infuriating, Yeah, because I mean it's not even just the people who you would think are again the authoritarians in this, you know, the jailers in the correction officers and the wardens who kind of participate in the violence and then let it happen.

But it's also unfortunately, the people not giving him medical treatment, Like there's a whole system set up to be like, hey, al right, clearly this person is going through some distress, even though we don't have the conditions here to get them the best medical treat like the world class medical treatment we're gonna do what we can and do our bead.

They didn't even do what they could for this man, and that is the part where you kind of lose all hope in in the system in terms of like reform, Like, there's no reforming that. I think We've gone as far as we can in terms of, uh, where we go next. It's just more I guess death. And then people will be like, well, maybe we need to reform that. And then it's like, well, that's a little too far from me,

and they just it. It's a never ending cycle. And it goes back to the point that Biden made where he said that we don't need to defund the police,

we need to fund them. Think about all the things we rely on police for, we rely on them to be psychiatrists, were and like so he he was making the point that that is the system that we have and we need to double down on it, instead of making the point that this is a fucking mess that started when Reagan closed all the you know, mental health care facilities, and now the police do all of these jobs that they aren't meant to do and are in fact the worst fucking people to possibly put in in

charge of that yeah. I mean they they you know, create a problem and try to sell the cure and with terms of you know, we're not going to focus on mental health. It's never a conversation on mental health. It's never a conversation about care or compassion, because then you look weak on crime and then you lose your constituents who want you to be some kind of I don't know, medieval ruler or something. But there are over a million people in the prison system who have mental

health issues. We are already understaffed because we have the most populous prison system in the world. How are you going to tell me that just throwing more beatings at people is going to help solve this issue. It's like it's never going to work. We should as you made before the you know, you made this case before saying that, like, you know, we have the most funded police force in

the his security force whatever. In the history of the globe, history of the world, no one has ever been this funded to enact the laws of their society on on the public. And we have every single year conservatives talking about how crime is out of control. So you are essentially telling me that you have been useless your entire career, and yeah, I'm supposed to trust you with my safety. What the fuck is that? Like who buys that ship? And and unfortunately it's like half of America. It's it's

unbelievable to me. Yeah, yeah, I mean it creates a atmosphere where things that feed into their white supremacists worldview keep happening, right, because that that's what it's designed to do. And it creates a cycle that is sort of self fulfilling and yeah, self reinforcing. All right. Just a couple like kind of update things. Uh, the balloon controversy piers that we seem like we're getting a little clarity on this.

Um A hobbyist group says that they one of their balloons that I think was like costs under a hundred dollars or under a couple hundred dollars, uh, was in the area of the Yukon when the U S. Melotk Verry shot down a something that they didn't know what it was and still haven't really identified. So like the front page of Drudge is still like we don't know what it is. There's like this this arms race happening between In fact, the front page of the New York

Times like the top stories. As we're recording this, U S and China by in hazy zone where balloons, UFOs and missiles fly. Uh, and it's all about like American officials are worried China is far along and developing military technology that operates in the unregulated high altitude zone of

near space. And meanwhile it just seems like it's what we said it was last week that it was basically they widened after the you know, Chinese by balloon, they widened the aperture to be like, well, anything we see up there is now a threat, and they started seeing more stuff has been there all along. Yeah, it's incredible, like you see the system kind of play out like from the inception of a story, like and you see it's like this is the new threat target and then

it's a new story every single day. And it kind of I think reiterates the point of you know, you can make anything public enemy number one from you know, you have the powers at B and then you have some sort of like nationalistic like jangoistic kind of implications in there, and then you tied it together with like a fascination of the unknown, and the media plays along.

Everyone plays along and it's says, I'm worried this is gonna get conflated with you know, America has a history of other rising and you know, for lack of a better like like alienating Asian populations and the whole thing of like you know, the Chinese government and aliens and then conflating it in like unknown foreigners and all this stuff like coming together. It's it hasn't been fully like

put out there yet. But again we have also, I guess over here on the liver real side expressed like no fear over a fucking balloon, like like and and it feels like you can turn any foreign object into a source of terror if you're part of the conservative media cycle. And now liberals kind of feed into that

as well. On the other side of just like, oh hey, this gets us ratings, let's talk about this quote unquote you left The New York Times is like making this and and of course the New York Times is a instrument of capitalism, is what we've kind of come to realize. And this creates a need to spend more on weapons and defense. The story if you're reading it the way that they are, as like all of these things are a threat as opposed to, man, do we have some egg on our face? It turns out that was a

balloon sent up there by a hobbyist. Yeah, And I don't think that will be talked about even when it is, like when you find out, hey, you know, this was a hobby New York Times isn't gonna run a story about that. I don't give a funk. They already put the narrative out there, but I don't know, man, this

is it's it's a bunch of nothing. And then there's also just some so because the company that made the voting machines that Fox News was like, you know, Dominion might have been in cahoots with some foreign power and trying to overthrow democracy. Fox News allowed that to be said on their news channel. Uh. And and so they

got sued. And so now some papers and you know, uh, text messages are coming out in the public, and they reveal some things like the Tucker Carlson called Trump a demonic force and a destroyer on the day of the Capitol riot to his own producers like that, so this is like what the people actually believe. They were also like making fun of the people that were having on their show, who are claiming like election fraud or like

who were you know, perpetrating the big lie. They were like, these people are idiots behind the scenes, but then when they got in front of the cameras, they were like, yeah, we we agree with all of the ship. This gives me hope that like at least like once a day, Tucker Carlson and his ILK are like we fucked up. Like they're just saying, like, yo, he chose wrong, Like god damn, we're so stupid. And then like alright, guys, you know they just put on that face, but they're

picking real bad. Yeah. I love this that he's gonna like age at like five x the normal rate over the next coming decade because he is experiencing so much inner turmoil. I would love that version of events. I don't think that that, I know, I was just saying. I was just saying, this is a villain. He's gonna stay around for a long time. He's gonna have great

skin for some reason. It's it's just, yeah, I think because they all end up being Billy tayres Um, so they they just have human teenager bloodbags that they're getting transfusions from. Announced though, I mean, you know, yeah, I'm working my way up there. That's right, all right, justin pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you? Follow you? You can find me at j con the Smith on Instagram at j C O N t H E S M my th h. Thank you so much, guys,

thanks for having Jay awesome. We are back on Tuesday with the whole last 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 on Tuesday. Bye bye,