Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of val trend Zit's day, because we might have done that before. Also, it kind of sounds like herpes medication. I feel like val trend zites. Anyways, I'm Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined by t d Z writer extraordinaire Jam mc naw. Hello. Thanks for having me. Oh my god, thank you for being here. Jam. You've really been writing a lot for the show since Miles went out for a brief period.
Um And yeah, thanks for doing that. But your brain is just polluted with the trends of what is happening many trends Jesus. But first I should wish you a happy val trend lights day. Oh, thank you, thank you for I'm happy the thing you just said back to you unto you as well. All right, enough fucking round. Horrifying news is becoming very I guess common um or has been very common for a horrifyingly long time. Uh, there's a mass shooting at Michigan State University too. You know,
sad in progress story. But the forty three year old suspect was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Three students were killed, five were hurt. He had a three page document expressing his reasons for the attack, and a number of additional locations and Lansing and whole Michigan, a bunch of bunch of other places. Uh. Yeah, it just seems like another person who should have had a gun.
And like his dad, I think he came out and was like, I've been trying to keep guns out of his hands for a long time and the system just doesn't allow it. And the United States doesn't allow it. Yeah, and he said he asked him if he had a gun, and he would say no, even though he clearly had a gun. That's what we have to rely on in the United States. Jam, you're not from the United States. What do you think? How are we doing? We're killing it? Well, I mean, you know there's a lot of guns here too.
In Canada, there is, Yeah. I mean it's not the same, it's not the same culture, but it seems like more and more, I think everything, uh in Canada is kind of just like we copy everything in the U. S. It's just delayed a little. And I think I think that's happening now with the bad things as well. You know what it's like, it's not just yeah, culture ownership
and bro, what do you mean bad things? Okay, yeah, it's it's just it's just, you know, it's so appalling, and it's so it felt like reading the news today. Maybe I'm wrong because I'm not watching TV or anything or cable news, but it felt like this one was really just kind of accepted or glossed over or oh, this is the thing that happens. Yeah, it's just like and just the numbness to something that should be you know,
a rare, awful, extraordinarily terrible event. To have this just become a regular part of the news cycle is is just so depressing. It is. Um. Ted Cruise was so over it that, uh, you know, this morning already he was dropping gems like this on Twitter. Take Cruise quote, Uh, roses are red, violets are blue. Biden wants to ban gas stoves and is allowing the Chinese to surveil us too. Um the I mean, there's something about the the pentameter
of that that didn't quite work for me. But well, you've got to imagine it with like bongos in the background and like a San Francisco coffee house in the sixties. Ted Cruise vibes, you know, but does suggest that he's still doing his own tweeting, which is amazing. Did he just like have that in his drafts? And it was like, so it's too good not to send despite the tragedy. Yes, too good and also so good that it might distract people from the tragedy. Just want to share a little
bit of political joy with with my followers. You know, he's smart, he's he's got a good good ear for poetry, um and a keen sensitivity to the needs of the nation. So I like that he combined the gas stove thing, which everyone kind of forgot about with the Chinese surveillance story. Yeah, I did it so smoothly and is allowing that Chinese
to surveil on us too. Nailed it, poet, truly. Let's see what so the Rust movie that most people know about because Alec Baldwin killed somebody with a gun that was supposed to be firing blanks and firing not blanks. There are more articles about Rust now since the tragedy than there were. There wasn't a lot of hype for for Rust, yes, and they are now. So you would think that the fact that everybody knows about this would be a thing that makes them be like, well, that
is a stain on all of our careers. Uh, let's move along. All of us should change our names, moved to new countries and take up you know, coppling or something like that. However, instead they're like, there's a lot of heat on this Rust project, so we better We're gonna pick back up on the production. Um in the yeah, they're still going, that's what that Neil Young song is about. Rust never sleeps. It's about this production not showing down.
I'm sure that is an amazing reference to a Neil Young fanum or I just made it up because I know you're not a fan. Yeah, yeah, Rust in the immortal words of the Bard Neil Young, Rust never sleeps. Uh. That's that's a cool, cool little bit of poetry. Though Russ never sleeps. Uh and yeah truly does not in this case. Um, I did not realize this. Maybe it could be a thing that I covered at the time on this show and just didn't enter my brain, like
of the things we cover on this show. But uh that Alec Baldwin plays a character in the movie who is sentenced to hang for an accidental murder. He accidentally murdered somebody, um and is being prosecuted for it is you know, but it's like it's a Western, right, like it wasn't he didn't shoot someone like while they're making like a kinescope or something, right, Yeah, but it's I
don't know. And also one headline put it to resume production in the spring with a new cinematographer, which is like very dark and grim, but also probably deserved of the of the production to do that, um too, to put it that way, because yeah, that that must be happening. They must be hiring a new cinematographer who I don't know where they're at in their career where they're like a cinematographer on rust. Yeah, I'm sure, Yeah, let's let's
give it a shot. It does just seem like why not, why where where do we have to go for here? That we need this movie so badly? I don't know, And who's gonna go see it? Like? Does anyone want to go see this movie after the only thing we know about it is that something awful happened on it.
I really think that don't worry darling fucked us. I really, I really think the fact that don't worry Darling had a big opening weekend really sent the wrong message to Hollywood that that that was the Hairy Styles Olivia Wild movie that upon seeing it is truly not ship. Um it's not not it's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it's just like not good. And I was surprised that it hit as hard as it did, given it was like this movie that feels like a prestige, like
Oscar bait movie. And then it came out and everyone was like, oh, it's not good, it's not good, nobody go. But I think the accepted wisdom is that like controversy got people interested, and so now they're going to just like do ship like this, which is not great. That's not that's not ideal. I would say, it's just like the behind the scenes stories generate interests even if even
if they're terrible. I'm still not sure that's what happened like that, I think don't worry Darling had one of the like greatest good trailer to disappointing movie like ratios that I've seen. Like that trailer was intriguing, Like that trailer was awesome, it was like a great work of art, Like that was just a short film, I would have been like hell yeah, But then once you had to hang a narrative on that trailer that went for an hour a half, it was like, this doesn't really make Yeah,
it doesn't really work, doesn't hang together. But yeah, I didn't even mind that movie. But I think if you go through, if you watch it in the mindset that it's kind of like a goofy, like nineties outer limits kind of show. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's it's like a yeah, it's kind of just a bit more you know, frivolous than than maybe the trailers suggested. But right, Yeah, Also the town. We we talked about the trained railment a
week late, but we talked about it yesterday. Um and where I guess on this morning's episode we talked about the trained railment. But one thing we didn't mention was that they filmed So White Noise, the Dondelilo novel that is everyone's like that he predicted that this would happen, Like a small town, there's a trained railment. There is an airborne cloud that like doesn't behave like a cloud should.
It just kind of hovers over the town and like starts following people around and ship and it's very strange, which is kind of what we saw happening in Ohio that they filmed the Noah Bomback film adaptation of that novel that just came out on Netflix last year in the town where the trained railm it just happened, and a lot of the people who are being displaced because of the trained railm it are extras from the film adaptation that just happened, Like, what the funk is happening?
I think it's that. Uh, it's like a Goose Bump story or something where Noah Bomback has some kind of cursed, enchanted camera and whatever he films happens. Who knows how many divorces resulted as because he made Squid in the Whale, Like, we should probably check to see if wherever he goes the thing that he makes in his movies happen there. But this is just the biggest thing that he's made.
After that, we all just assumed that Jesse Eisenberg was the per and who made the Pink Floyd album The Wall, and I really love that movie, and I think that joke was very funny, but not the joke I just told the joke from the movie. By the way, And I think the joke I just told was very funny. Thank you, good job me. Yeah, very strange. I mean it does feel like reality is glitching out as these things happen. And there are UFOs, but I will get into why. I don't think the UFOs are alien in nature.
Um and yeah, in an article written by you to my episode, this story did remind me that I never watched the White Noise movie I just came out. I didn't watch, and then I forgot about it completely until right now. Yeah. I didn't watch the movie. I do love the novel, and I think I'm going to now reread the novel. Yeah, I think I might reread it too.
I remember I went to a book signing that Don Delilo had a few years ago, and he was only signing his new book and the guy in front of me brought White Ways and like a handler came over. I was like, no, no, no, no no, yeah, yeah, that's funny. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back, and let's see. Farrell Williams will be Louis Vetan's next Men's creative director, so Pharrell Williams will
succeed Virgil Ablow as Louis Vuitton's men's creative director. Uh, which this this doesn't really mean a lot to me. Farrell Williams, it's a Virgil a blow was known to me for making some of my favorite sneakers, the one piece of men's attire that I actually pay attention to. Pharrell Williams is mainly known to me for making great beats and wearing a funny hat and being happy all
the time. Yeah, and being happy all the time. But also the hat was like a little ahead of at the time, because like the stupid full brimmed hat wave came afterwards. So maybe he is like way more fashion forward than I assumed. But I don't think he's done other things too, Like I don't think this is the first fashion job he's had. I think he's he's had some other gigs. Oh yeah, I think he did have
a pair of sneakers that I liked from Adidas. Yeah, they were like easy light, like they were Easies but a little less stupid looking. And I did have those. Um yeah, but I don't think, Yeah, I don't think this is going to affect my life too much either. The the Louis Vaton uh, the next time event Louis Vaton store. I don't even know. I was going to make a joke the next time I'm in the store. But is that a thing? Yeah, dude, timet Uh, restaurants
to watch sometimes a little behind the scene, behind the scenes. Uh. Sometimes when we're doing trends, I just go to the takeout dot com and I look at their front page and sometimes they have an article that I want to talk about. And today is one of those one such day. Eleven restaurant chains to watch ine number one on their list seven eleven. M. Yes, do you guys have seven
seven's eleven up there? We do. And I think they just like within the last year so announced that they're gonna be doing this, like having like little restaurant areas that are like licensed for alcohol, so you can you know, I'm sure they're booked for Valentine's Day, but uh, you know you can go have dinner and a and a cocktail maybe and and you know watch people watch drunk teenagers,
you know, buying chips. Yeah. Yeah. The article starts with the sentence, if you don't think of seven eleven as a restaurant, you haven't been paying attention I don't think that's true. I don't think that's why I don't think of seven eleven as a restaurant. Um, the convenience story leader isn't just nipping at the heels of major fast food brands, it's surpassing them. Yeah, I mean it's a
I think, okay fast food. If you don't think of it as a restaurant, you have standards given up, yes, and I do not have standards, And yet here we are. I didn't I think of seven eleven as a restaurant until now. I think it talked about Wendy's Burger King, Sure, but seven eleven I always associated more with scratchers and getting jewel things there, like a jewel album from the nineties, like the jewel cartridges, the vape cartridges. Yeah, and the big goal, you know, which is which is you know,
a food item? Another thing that they called out another restaurant to call that they called you know. They They've got Chipotle, They've got David Busters, which I'm excited to find out. Why I need to be paying attention there fat burger Um. They also have Fizzoli's, the restaurant they recently came up because I went to middle and high school in Lexing in Kentucky, where Fizzoli's originated. This is Italian food. Ellipses fast um and you can get drive
through baked ZD. The Big ZD is good, but it's I don't know. I was surprised as I mentioned this, I was like, so shout out to Kentucky. Fazzoles is on the move. They are everywhere throughout the South, so I don't know. They opened a ghost kitchen serving chicken wings in Atlanta and so they're trying different things out. Keep your eye on Fazzolets. They also had like Jersey Mike.
I don't know. These are all restaurants that kind of run together for me otherwise, but fizzoli is baby if if it does feel like an idea that should work fast fast Italian food, nobody else has tried it. The breadsticks are solid, little breadstick Marinara. Do you guys have fast Italian chains where where you are? We probably do. We don't have Fizzoli's. I've never heard of Fizzoli's. It looks it doesn't sound real ort and the logo looks
like it was it's just a tomato. Yeah, it looks like it looks like a fake restaurant created for like a Garfield cartoon or something to me. But I don't know. We do have like there's like the pizza vending machines now where you can get like pizza made by a vending machine or something that's pretty fast. I guess that is very fast. Do they have it like where you can drive up to it and not get out of your car when in order a pizza? That? Then? I
don't think so. I think you have through a pneumatic tube, like one of the old tiny bags, you can get pizza shot in into your car. Um. All right, Well, fortunately you were on this episode, so now you know Fasilities is not a fake restaurant and is in fact one that you should be watching actively. J M. I'm gonna go watch it as soon as I scope at seven eleven and David Busters get some reservations. Okay, Yes they're on the rise. J M. Pleasure having you, Thank
you for joining. Where can people find you? Follow you? I'll take good stuff. Oh you can find me on Twitter. I'm at j M McNabb again. Uh, and that's pretty much it. J M McNabb again, A J A G A I N Yes Okay, yes, exactly all right. That is going to do it for us this afternoon. We're back tomorrow 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 you all tomorrow. Fight people,