The Daily Zeitgeist - AsTrend City 3/28: Asteroid City, Adnan Syed, Emojis, Disney, Mike Pence, Luka Fersko

Episode Date: March 28, 2023

In this edition of AsTrend City, Miles and super producer Becca discuss Wes Anderson's new film 'Asteroid City', Adnan's conviction getting reinstated, the new emojis, Disney laying off 7000 employees, Mike Pence being "forced" to testify, and Luka Fersko's search for a mute carpenter/engineer/butler/assistant who'll work for peanuts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to this very special edition of the Daily Zeitgeist, Ashtrend City. Now, I know that sounds like I'm saying ass is trend. This is actually a play on the word asteroid about a new wes anderson film that's coming out fuck it let's just start with that so i don't have to be like and we'll get to that later uh anyway hi i am miles i'm joined with becca uh we're here and we're about to tell you what's trending and we're starting with asteroid city what is it it's the new wes

anderson movie so you know the shots are going to be symmetrical as shit that's all i'm a really beautiful past you know people do you know people who try to decorate their house as if like you can tell they're like wes anderson brain it's kind of freaky so i mean you know that they publish that book of that instagram account that's like wes anderson i forgot what it's called but it's like basically just like all these places that people have taken photos that are like wes anderson vibes and they made a whole book about it i saw it at the strand bookstore this weekend shout out to people with wes anderson vibes and you're like bro you don't even have anything in here it's like we'll fuck up the symmetry you have no personality or like i look i get it i i like i i like to have my house

a certain way but now with a baby it's like that shit goes out the window. Everywhere is a changing station. But like I see people who are like insist so much on an aesthetic where like they're making their lives harder. Or they're like, you need a coffee table. They're like, it just really wouldn't work in here. But I'm like, why am I eating on my lap right now? And you gave me a sheet of cardboard to not mess up my pants. This is not living anyway asteroid city is an actual wes anderson film i don't know what it's about it

looks like a billboard driving into a town that may have had an asteroid hit it or something it's supposed to be based on like a 1955 like uh sci-fi western um that is the vibe written with roman coppola oh um comes out on wednesday so we don't know shut up big rome uh yeah it will come out and it's got margot robbie tom hanks scar joe jeffrey wright oh so two people of color uh tilda swinton brian cranston adrian brody maya hawk steve carell hong chow that's three william william defoe and tony revelory who's tony revelory i know that name uh he looks south asian oh yeah there we go okay so no cap that's three even though i wasn't making a joke about scarlett johansson but still like when you google the movie like you have to like click twice to see the people of color you know like it gives you like the first 10 folks and you're like, oh, I know.

When I read it, I was like, come on, Wes. Don't don't do it like that. Like your favorite whites. All of them. Danny Glover together again. But we'll see how symmetrical it is. I hope he does not disappoint. All right.

Let's talk about this next trend. Adnan Syed, okay, from the hit podcast, the reason we even have careers right now from the podcast serial. So his murder conviction was reinstated because they believe this higher court, believe a lower court like denied Heyman Lee's family a chance to be at this one hearing. So they're like no no we reinstate in this shit he's not being taken back into custody but you know it looks like which is crazy yeah i don't they're like oh yeah yeah yeah you did that but yeah uh you know do your

thing for a while i don't know exactly how the law works especially with like reinstating the conviction but apparently the next step would probably be for his lawyers to appeal that, and I think they're going to appeal to the state Supreme Court of Maryland, and then if that goes left, then that means he will have another hearing. So, yeah. Keep on your toes.

Yikes. Yeah. But yeah, this is... It's like he was just out, and we're like, oh, well, good for him, and they're like, nah, reinstated. Nah, people were like, was just out and we're like, oh, well, good for him. And they're like, nah, reinstate it. Nah, people were like, you did that. We're going to make sure. But yeah, I'm like, really, what? Like, I thought the DNA evidence, there was something that they felt was like absolving him.

But here. Yeah. Stay tuned because it means, I bet Sarah Koenig is like just rubbing her mitts right now. She's like, oh, shit. Let's hear that. Let's bring that theme song back. I literally heard the theme song. I was like, whatever that little like little piano thing is.

It's been a while since I've actually listened to it. I mean, it's not like a thing you go back to. You know what I went back to? I should listen to Serial again. It just doesn't work like that sometimes with podcasts like that. Funny i can re-listen to but like murder stuff not so much um so the next thing that's trending for all of us emoji obsessed people is the latest ios update has bringeth new emojis from the unicode Consortium. They have okayed these. Now, what... You use emojis.

I love emojis. First of all, I was like, oh, we didn't have a blue heart before? I know we have a dark blue heart. We don't have a sky blue heart. I was shocked that we didn't have a pink heart like that. It's like the regular red heart, but pink. Or like the mini hearts. We have a ton of different pink hearts.

When you do the three hearts, it's pink. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. And then what else are we looking at? Okay, so we got, what's the first one with the mouth open emoji with like, it's going, oh, oh. I love that one. What's that one supposed to say?

I would encapsulate that as the Krusty, or not Krusty, Mr. Krabs meme that's like, oh, that is what this emoji gives me. So a little mind blown action yeah okay rather than doing like the well there already was the mushroom cloud head wasn't there yeah but this is more like a not like mine or that one of like the black kid in red with the dreadlocks yes yes yeah yeah so that is what it is like it's the meme of like what is going on here versus like and then what's this one under the hearts are these two hands about to high five like a hand like with a bent wrist i think so it's like it's like maybe

you would send it and then they would send it because technically the prayer hands as much as we've used it as like high five it's prayer hands yeah i know yeah wait no no i thought i thought prayer hands was high five oh maybe i'm wrong and we use them as prayer hands but everyone's like that was high five and we're like that's prayer hands man well now it's like i don't know or i think it's good right hand well when you separate it now you can do stuff like yeah yeah you could like put a bunch of emojis in between and be like yeah exactly condense that or you can poke fun at someone's genitalia with it i'm already just seeing all of the applications of such a terrible meme then we have a moose a donkey

some angel wings a sparrow a duck a jellyfish um then we got some plants was that like a like a blue or blueberry then there's ginger. Looks like an edamame. Edamame, like a fan. Afro pick. Hey, look at that! Afro pick! Maracas in a blunt?

What is that? It looks like a flute, but like a wooden flute. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. That's definitely a flute. Or, yeah. I was like, that is not a blunt. Okay. That is a wooden flute. And then the Wi-Fi symbol.

And I don't know what this purple thing is. That is for, I believe, Sikhs? Yeah, it's the Adi Shakti. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, see? Yeah. We got some representation here. Look at that.

I really hope that if Apple is going to keep autocorrecting my fucking to ducking, that they just put the emoji in. I will be less mad that it keeps, if I'm saying like, fuck that shit, that it says, little duck, that shit. I'll live with that. But stop auto-correcting my duck. This ducking job, I swear to God. Well, that's why you have to just put fuck in your address book or whatever oh is that what i gotta do well there's like multiple ways that was like the brute force hack i learned i'm pretty sure you can just make it learn it but i remember initially when people were like not

really knowing understanding how it worked like if you have that in a name in your address book then it will put in um yeah see i'm a lazy and be a horrible typer so um if my autocorrect is not there people don't know what i'm saying i mean generally you don't know what i'm saying no no people do i wouldn't i wouldn't go that far i don't know when people know what i'm saying i'm like sending him like eight texts it's just like and then oh wait are you one of those people do you power through the typos are you one of them yeah oh my god i know yo i know i have i have a friend exactly like this where you're scratching your fucking head because they don't bother and they're like you know what i meant

and i'm like no it sounds like you were in trouble with some kind of plumbing like situation i'm the toxic friend that doesn't check the typos and sadly my boyfriend is not you know he's not reading it right he should know and he doesn't you know yeah and that's on him and that's on him because look you should know what i mean by these incoherent words after two years i hope you would be able to read, but yeah, I guess that is a way because it's funny. I'm like my, my wife knows her better and she's way better at like getting through the code than I am. Um,

and I'm just like, why you put up with this? He's just like, you're dyslexic. It's okay. And I'm like, that's not why you should be able to read it. All right,

let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk more news after this and we're back and so is disney with the fuckery just as we were saying they were raising the wages of the workers at dis World to 18 an hour, I believe. Disney has announced they are beginning the process of mass layoffs, cutting 7,000 jobs this year. So many jobs. In an effort to slash $5.5 billion in costs. And I just feel like if they didn't make like two movies this year you know yeah they could save that many jobs yeah i don't this is so yeah i don't every it's the way like whenever you see a company and they got their three little letters in those

parentheticals damn sure no they're like what's every what are the other three letter companies doing in yeah they're okay we got to do that then to maybe make our investors happy but i don't think it's really you said it hasn't done much to their stock price the stock market didn't really decline after the news so it's kind of like questionable why they chose to do it but they also said um after they announced the mass layoffs on Monday, the company outlined whatever. And they were like, you know what? We know that this is going to bring challenges ahead for our current employees. Just like, good luck.

You know, the challenges ahead. We know that you're going to feel short-staffed. Right. Y'all are going to have to do more. And we appreciate, as this statement from Bob I eiger is i ask for your continued understanding and collaboration during this time don't i'm sorry as a ceo home yeah and y'all can do some things y'all can do some things i think or take the l because of like because i know they were not fucking with the leadership of bob chapik or whatever and i'm they're probably trying to say

like you know this is all because of the shit Chapik did, so I had to bring Iger back. Whatever. But I just love the idea that, like, hey, man, let's have some solidarity. Y'all with me, the CEO. Please, your continued understanding that I'm not going to take a pay cut.

Yeah. So I'm going to fire 7,000 of you. Alright. Next up is kind of the vibe of uh that story uh but next up is this story michael pence the former vice president oh my god and if you're one of these democrats who loves to hear about legal issues for someone in the trump white house you're gonna love this because like all those stories it says things like a judge has decided that he must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with donald trump leading up to january 6th

but the judge said the ruling also it will remain under seal that pence can still decline to answer questions related to his actions on january 6th itself when he was serving as the president of the senate for the certificate like okay and we'll see we'll see just another it's like just you're building your little house of toothpicks one by one and we're waiting to see what it builds but it still just looks like a loose pile of fucking sticks on the ground i don't know if that was a good analogy it's my thing i hope those people feel good about themselves being like yay we won but long game i'm over it I know it's like that's why it was so funny when I was on break

and the when Trump was like they're gonna arrest me I was like no they're not mother fucker and then I just remember like people being like oh whoa did you hear the news today did you hear the news I'm like he says he thinks

that's nothing to do with his reality if anything he we already know what he did he made 500 000 a day off the back of that that's what he was doing so what the fuck are you doing whatever it'll be i mean if even if he does i'll just be like okay fine now like what else are you gonna do to prove this might be a half functioning society over here? Yeah. I'm like, I'm so tired of that news.

And can we just like fix everything else? It's like, it's like, okay, we've accepted this is done and dusted. It happened in the past. Y'all don't want to do anything about it, but there's no more we can do with it.

Cause it's clear that y'all aren't going to do anything. So like, can we actually like have, I don't know. Like, it's just, let's just, I don't know.

let's just bring on story. Me, Daniel's ghostbbusters career you'll hear more about that on tomorrow's episode that's more interesting at this point um and then finally let's continue the outrage uh for working people with this name luca fursco do you know this person this ig influencer i was gonna ask you who is this influence i see they're're verified. Never heard of them. But they're also white. And that's really not in my purview of people to pay attention to. Of Lucaferskos? Or are you just old?

Influencers. Don't make it by him being white. Maybe you're old and you're not up on things. Maybe. I don't even know who the fuck. Lucafersko looks like a Disney bad. He looks like a bad guy in a Disney Channel show. Yeah. He just looks like a model. I mean he looks like a bad guy in a disney channel show yeah he just looks like a model i mean he is an ig influencer so he just he looks like he's just supposed to be hot

like yeah exactly well like italiano so luka first skis is looking so he posted this job fucking offer or whatever like listing on his stories which is basically a screen cap notes entry which we know means you're not paying for shit if that's how you announce that you have a job and i'm just gonna read this job posting and this is not a fucking joke it says hey i'm looking for artists assistants or an artist assistant in nyc slash brooklyn here are the following skills i'm looking for needs basic carpentry skill uh knowledgeable knowledge about tools leveling ironing folding cutting sanding and oiling practice general knowledge on different screws anchors not spelling anchors right nails nail guns table saw jigsaw drill press knife sharpening

know how to use printers a plus is software like photoshop also soft software oh you got that software on i know put that software on girl you know i like when you look healthy uh like photoshop and design apps etc patient the next one is just patient okay knowing about lighting is a plus quiet is ideal can lift heavy things gentle in nature ha ha can ride a bike knows the city well can formulate emails can formulate like you can't even write an email it seems you can't write emails we can't even write a job post how do you formulate such a thing uh then uh discreet also because it can't have you knowing that you i'm also gonna ask you can build simple things shelves etc then tedious ideal but not necessary and then finally the most important skill okay with minimum wage i didn't even get to the bottom yo i need you to be a

superhero and also i'm gonna pay you 12 15 hour is that chill are you into that can you also lift heavy things but you're tedious uh but but discreet yet gentle in nature and patient and you know about all kinds of screws and then he put in like on the instagram text like he forgot to add it to the list sewing would be great too oh yeah he yeah he typed that on right i forgot he typed that on top of the IG post because he forgot to fit that in his incredibly fucking disconnected from reality list of who is this person. And if this person has all these skills, you damn sure they're probably going to make more than that because they could probably be in some kind of trade union. I would hope that they're getting paid really well to make prop work. Like that is what it sounds like. Right.

Woof. But anyways, I was like, knife sharpening. I'm like, go rent a studio out. I don't know. I want to know what he's doing. You know, like, I want to know what he's working on that he needs. Like, this is a job for, like, I would argue, like, three people. Like, you need someone who is literally a carpenter.

Someone who can build things, make screw things whatever so that's one job and then you have the sewing job and ironing so you need someone who's like a seamstress and or like a costume designer and then you need an assistant yeah uh all that to say he is i am not impressed but maybe somebody will be he did say just to just to be fair to him that he would be willing to up the rate if someone was really you know coming with it like that um but it sounds like what he's like it sounds like what serious artists do when they need uh like a studio assistant or a studio manager who can like help with the creation of your art pieces but this is like it's done in this really weird way where it reads like this dude is so lazy he was like oh god i wish i just knew somebody who knew how to do knife sharpening oh god oh add this

to the list like can you use a printer because what the fuck is going on with this printer also like about that one the printer was crazy yeah also that motherfucker was too loud somebody who's quiet and And you're just listing things you probably have to get done around the house. Yeah. I just love that they're like, I need someone to work for me. I need them to do almost everything that's possible.

And I need them to shut the fuck up. I don't want to hear from them. I don't want to hear their opinions. I just need them to do it and be my little assistant. But I want you to be tedious. But I want you to be tedious too but I want you to be tedious too. We're like quiet. You know what I mean? But he wants complimentary work done quietly.

Yeah. I don't know how he's going to do that. I don't know how we're going to. They're like, I'm sorry. What is going on with all that drilling and banging and shit? I'm trying to make a video. Ow.

I mean, I just want to make sure. Cause like to me, anchor is the like no it's portable charger ors for sure i know i know part of me is like let me just make sure that like i'm not you know getting too big for my britches because i feel like you're talking about like wall anchors as someone who has worked on many shelves in this apartment and car with my partner um no it's definitely no i know that's how but see that's how he's got me

fucking sweating i'm like i don't want to fuck you're like oh i'm making fun of him first go he might know he might actually know what he's talking about i don't know after he spelled um design software like work where there was a soft space where is i'm kind of that's kind of the best thing i think i've read in a long time. And design apps, etc. What is hardware like a helmet? You know what I mean? Like, what is hardware? Like, what do we wear for that? Like, I'm guessing elbow pads.

That's hardware. I need someone with software. Like, you know, cashmere. Yeah, that's true. I guess maybe he meant that, but then he did say the design apps. I'm like, you... He said software like Photoshop. I'm like, say Adobe Suite. that's like the corporate slang baby like yeah he's not a he's not about to hit

you with like you know must be he's not a corporate baddie oh you're not fucking with cs6 uh you don't know they don't know see these are we're talking like real people if i don't wear like actually you know it's funny i used to do this kind of shit when i was working like early digital media gigs where i was like a pa a director also a writer but of course can you can are you good with lighting can you also set up a like fucking rotating table so we could take a picture of a can i mean line producers are the do-it-alls you know like i've watched my my partner work so hard he owns his own production house and like he does everything like he like he is right ironing and steaming and he's also you know booking the equipment and he's setting it up and he's formulating emails he's patient he's like he's kind he's discreet yeah he's tedious as well but but not necessary

but he is tedious but he makes sure he gets paid you know what i'm saying and he makes his people get paid so So this is crazy. Anyway, we should work for all that to say, Becca, you're in Brooklyn. So I wouldn't... You know, maybe I should hit him up. I need a part-time gig. No.

Maybe you should... Maybe just to see what the response is. Apparently, he's getting dragged on IG rightfully. I would hope so. When you ask for some asinine shit like this. Well, some things will always stay the same, but make us laugh. Folks, make sure you treat your software kindly and put it on a gentle spin cycle. Okay.

Or put it in one of those net bags. You know what I mean? If it's real, you know, if it's turned up. Real delicate. Software. Delicates. I like it. Delicates should just say software now.

I think that would make. For your softwares? Yeah make for your softwares. Yeah. For your softwares. Of course. Of course. All right. Well, Becca, thank you for joining me.

We are going to be back tomorrow. Whole episode until then. Take care of yourselves. Be nice to yourself. Be nice to yourself. I know it's so easy to get down on yourself. Try and put your hand on your heart and say, hey, man, it's all good. It's wild to say, but when I started doing that, it's amazing how much differently you feel

when you talk to yourself and say like, I forgive you for whatever it is. Because sometimes, look, I'm going through a lot right now, but I just want to share that tip with you. I always say that all the time, but hey, self-kindness is truly

the one of the most underrated skills that you can cultivate. Anyway, get a vaccine, do all that. Don't say nothing about white supremacy or homophobia, transphobia, none of that. And we will see you later. Okay, bye. Bye. Wait, one a vaccine. Do all that. Don't say nothing about white supremacy or homophobia, transphobia, none of that. And we will see you later. Okay, bye. Bye.

Wait, one more thing. I have a question to the Zeitgang. Oh, yes. If you are from the New York City area, where should I have my birthday? Because I feel like I feel really lost in trying to book a bar for my birthday. And if you have any suggestions that would be cool and fun i would like to know okay verbally brooklyn thanks hey you know who i would hit up luca first go he said first city so yeah hopefully you know oh that actually don't say that because then he'll be like you don't know

the city actually you don't know but you are tedious it wasn't ideal but i like it all right folks we'll see you then and if you got tips for where becca should be having her easy loki birthday in new york specifically brooklyn uh hit her up all right we'll talk to you soon bye in 1982 atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest, because the company had promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades.

We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. Tune into my podcast each week to hear me and my friends in the community break down the latest matches, including the US Open. Plus hear from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief. And once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Bruce Bozzi. On my podcast, Table for Two, we have unforgettable lunch after unforgettable lunch with the best guests you could possibly ask for. People like Matt Bomer, Emma Roberts, and Colin Jost. Did you say a Caesar salad with lobster? Yeah. Whoa.

Our second season is airing right now, so you can catch up on our conversations that are intimate and often hilarious. Listen to Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.