The Daily Zeitgeist - Peak TrendMoji 3/20: Emojis, Trump, Biden, Willy Wonka Experience Doc

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

In this edition of Peak TrendMoji, Jack and Miles discuss the new emoji drop, an update on the primaries and Trump's finances, Biden's continued inaction in Gaza, the Willy Wonka Experience getting a documentary already, and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of peak trend moji i am jack that is miles and new emoji just dropped yep um and yeah we're asking the question are we hitting do we need more emoji i you know i think we need more and more this is the big stars of this year's emoji pack or a new new emoji pack drop it's a loud pack miles i gotta say i don't know this one this this is not that loud uh this is so the stars of this one i'm feeling every square inch of my skin right now smiley face this shit is smiley face shaking their head no smiley face nodding up and down yes and you do you say how do they how do you know it's motion because of little motion lines yeah there's a little little cartoon whooshes yeah coming from

the head um then a phoenix phoenix i mean yeah yeah that's that's good imagery you know i guess for to like sort of rebirth kind of vibes then a lime wedge lime wedge a brown mushroom right chain link chain link breaking break working breaking chain break that one i feel like i like that i like that visually you know i mean breaking the chain break good um i feel like chain could have been a stronger looking chain it's a very loose it's a very uh kind of delicate looking chain so it almost looks like an accident happening on a playground more than like we've broken through there you know what i mean yeah no you're right that that does look very much like your standard swing chain yeah it's a swing chain it's not a uh like chains that bind us right so it's not about it's not about liberation

or you know removing yourself from a bad situation it's about a terrible liberation yeah a lot of terrible accident has occurred at the park avoidable accident at the park um this necklace just broke um yeah yeah yeah and so some like other icons for like two parents with a kid one parent with two kids one parent one kid two parents two kids and then the other thing is i think the actual thing that i think is maybe interesting is the directional movement. Sort of like, because there are these emojis of people walking in a direction or in a motorized wheelchair or jogging, whatever. And they're all going to the left.

And now to placate the Republicans, they've put an entire set now where they're moving to the right. Placate me, man. I never move to the left. me man i never moved to the left i'm always running walking you know uh jogging sprinting doing a weird like wide leg thing that makes it look like i'm walking on the moon always to the left so yeah to the left or to the right to the right to the right um the big star i think is the head shake head nod and but they've chosen to give smiling eyes? Yeah, like closed eyes that are smiling and mouth that is smiling, which I associate with the perverted drooling face for some reason.

You know the perverted drooling emoji? Yeah, sure. It looks like that same guy who's always pervertedly drooling is now shaking his head no or yes, at least on the emojipedia for someone is mixing alcohol with benzodiazepines and they're like no advised or literally nodding off they're like just nodding yeah why does his eyes got to be closed you know don't know don't

know but yeah i mean like gone are the days when we're like we need an avocado god damn it yeah i think you know what i mean and now we're like we need a phoenix a red phoenix please please we need a mushroom but not a mario brothers mushroom like a baking shiitake mushroom i think that is actually good that we have a baking shiitake mushroom now um sure because the other ones look poisonous like we needed a non-poisonous mushroom is there one i mean i remember there were a few things that i thought were like this one that the pinched hand a la italiano that one is good that was perfect then i i really wish they had one that was like someone dunking like really good like a shack dunk yeah just something that felt like yo you're getting yammered bro with this one just because then you could just post

that be like oh yeah just dunked on this full that's a good point i can't believe they don't have a dunking like and you could have like multiple you could have just a regular dunk dunking on someone you know someone in mid-euro step. Anything. Just more basketball ones. More hooping, please. Yeah. Anyways, it's I think we've hit peak. There's only someone dribbling. There is someone dribbling? Yeah, they got

people dribbling. Do they look like they know how to hoop? No. Are they looking down at the ball? Yeah, you know like when somebody just dribbles with a ball way out in front of them because they can't control the ball? That's what it looks like. When it's like, oh, this person who was cast as a high school

basketball star is actually a 28-year-old who's never picked up a basketball before. Or that episode of The Office where they're playing basketball in the warehouse and then Michael picks Stanley because he's racist and he thinks a black guy can play basketball and he starts dribbling and he's like, what the fuck is going on with this dude? All right.

We just like to check on the Donald Trump legal money problem. Check with Money League-y. Yeah, it's bad. It's bad, but also, here's the other question. Are his legal problems affecting his support, maybe? Do they affect him elector electorally i don't know

it's hard to tell but look there were two more primaries yesterday are there more prime sorry there are a few more primaries yesterday um and it's a good it's a good time to see just how turned off both democrats and republicans are uh by their respective candidates joe biden has been like losing around 10 of primary voters you know he's like protest vote right yeah he's not running against anyone really well it's like yeah exactly and you know i think it's a lot i think mostly to do with just people disgusted by his policies around arming israel and obviously acting like they are defending themselves um and then on trump's side the numbers are a little bit bleaker he's on average losing about 20 percent of the vote and from republican primary voters like in florida his favorite state he just took

a little bit over 81 of the votes haley took 14 de santis even got a couple points the man isn't even fucking he bowed out yeah um and look when you compare that to the 94% he got in 2020, a little bit different, but also that's, again, he was just also, he was the incumbent, he was in office. But then you look, Ohio, 79% of the vote Trump got. Haley got 14%. Kansas, 75% of the vote Trump got. Haley got 16. Arizona, he only got 80% of the vote. uh arizona he only got 80 of the vote yeah so these are i mean like again this isn't some prediction set in stone but at least gives an idea of like where voters are currently because

this is no i'm sorry arizona here we should take it over because it looks like 80 of the vote is in and he had 77 oh yeah yeah i don't know do we know if it came if the rest of the vote came in? I don't know. Who gives a shit? It's, let's see, what's in right now? Yeah, it's still around 80%. Anyway, but yeah, that's a big swing state. But I think, I don't know, like the people have said in polling that if he is convicted, if he's convicted, that would probably affect their support. But I don't know. It could also just be the fact that

he also is starting to look so vulnerable financially that maybe the brand is suffering a little bit not him yeah as like a candidate but just more people like the perception of the trump brand it seems like it could start to affect the vibes which he is a he's very much a vibes candidate like where he's just going up there and even though the words that are coming out of his mouth don't really cohere into sentences or a paragraph like he still has that same devil may care energy that people seem to respond to but if he starts you know the most important thing to him as we talked about like spy magazine uh used to do a thing where they would send all the millionaires in New York checks for increasingly smaller amounts of money to see who would cash them. And the only millionaire who cashed it all the way down to 25 cents was Donald Trump. Yeah.

Money is the most important thing to him. So I could see this fucking with the vibes a little bit. And you do hate to see that, Miles. Oh, and by hate, I mean I love it. Because I feel like that's the only way we can experience any kind of karmic outcome for Donald Trump. And I am trying out this new thing where when I love something, I say, and I just want to know how does that work for you? something i say yeah and i just want to know how to how does that work for you i've been ignoring it pretty intentionally to try to not have to articulate my utter dissatisfaction you know

what i think if you're ignoring it god the shittiest kind of asmr you could ever hope for creepy middle-aged guy going hey what's it who's creepy middle-aged hey who's middle-aged i'm creepy yeah um also i gotta say that this story really drives home how stupid my brain is because of how big of a difference i had given to florida 81 i mean that's still a lot and ohio 79 damn man he's emerging support yeah right what's that difference between a b and a c you're like yeah bro is that b minus the same as a c plus fucking loser but like the debt thing does seem to be a real problem as we talked about on truth

social he's just screaming about it non-stop um and apparently now like his the the reporting and cnn was that he's quote panicked and while he ran right now his last sort of ditch effort is asking for the court to stay the judgment against him we'll see what happens there not really sure but his team is essentially or not, allegedly been offering properties to wealthy donors in the hopes that they can scrounge together some pennies here and maybe do a sweetheart thing like, hey, man, why don't you pay? And then maybe we can get it back from you at a different rate, whatever. We'll see. His people have come out and be like, it's all bullshit. He's not bothered by this at all, at all, at all.

So just shut up about it. I'm sorry. Did you just glitch out there? At all. At all. At all. Would. So just shut up about it. I'm sorry. Did you just glitch out there? At all. At all. At all. Would you like some more? Yes, Pepsi.

Thank you. But the other thing is that we've learned is that he is apparently against the idea of filing for bankruptcy. And that's probably because he will complicate his campaign a bit if he files for bankruptcy. Complicated from the perspective of looking like a loser or that and i think like there's money might be used what funds he has that he could suddenly use because the the thing is like this will have a down ballot effect especially now that his daughter-in-law is in the rnc um and all the money will probably mostly be funneled up to the president and not down ballot candidates so this this could be a small uh light uh light at the end of the shitty tunnel um yeah but i don't know this is but it is clear that he is not happy about this at all and even like when

at all at all at all at all at all and if he even tries to get money based on some of his assets, the problem is they would probably need to be appraised. And we know about his penchant for tricky fucking appraisals. So I think he doesn't even want to go down that rabbit hole. It's the most valuable property in all of... And not to mention their mortgage. There's all kinds of other complexities financially with these properties. But at the very least, he is panicked. And we shall see what the stress does to his very healthy body.

This is the number one golf course in all of the Milky Way. And everybody loves it. Sir, this is an adventure golf that was built on a parking lot that you owned um dude you're like you can't just keep did you fart on the windmill or something what there's what's that stain nothing anyway um netanyahu yeah uh is has requested to speak with the senate democratic caucus um and majority leader senator chuck schumer has denied his request yeah schumer is like kind of getting getting a little spicy over here and by spicy i mean slightly pivoting more to a humane response to what is happening in gaza by being like oh boy this is bad yeah um and saying that you know because he last week he Gaza by being like, Oh boy, this is bad. Yeah. And saying that,

you know, cause he, last week he came out being like, yeah, I think Israel needs new elections, man, because this ain't it. He just,

it's the, no, this is not, this is not a good look for them. This is not good for their own safety. And you're like, Oh, I'm sorry.

Are you a, are you one of these antisemitic leftists I've heard about on the mainstream news talking about ceasefires? But yeah, apparently Netanyahu is a bit concerned with the fact that the support is apparently i guess from his perspective beginning to fracture in the united states he tried he did speak with the republicans separately like on a zoom call um but again i mean this is all this is all because everything is looking terrible. Like, you know, the attack on Rafah is, you know, he was telling people, like, yeah, go to the north, man. Or maybe that's where some people will be displaced.

And now it's like, no, we're going to attack there and people are going to die. And we're still seeing that there is a lack of aid moving. It's still being blocked. seeing that there is a lack of aid moving it's still being blocked there was someone uh in gaza that was killed that was in charge of like from the palestinian side of making sure that aid was actually coming into the country yeah um so it's all just it's it's it doesn't get better um and not to mention remember that international court of justice ruling that said they had to stop, just knock it off? Yeah. Yeah.

Not really much happening with that. Or the U.S. really stepping in to try and minimize what's happening. So, yeah, it looks like at least from maybe Netanyahu's perspective, he thinks he's losing his grip on support for this, you you know genocidal streak that he's on right now yeah I mean Biden just met with him and uh you know about Rafa and he was like fuck off um yeah he's like I'm doing it red line I'm doing it yeah can't do it yeah yeah and I know and and and Biden is kind of like feels like fucking Red's dad and Friday when he tries to get the bike back from Debo. And he's like, oh, you want some too old, man? And he's like, no.

And just walks right off. Right. But yeah, we shall see. We shall see. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

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and we're back we're back and let's see uh the willy wonka inspired event organizer uh has said his life is ruined oh well let's hear it from let's there there's already a fucking documentary if y'all want to look there's a 45 minute documentary up on youtube that channel 5 in uh england made uh it's called wonka the scandal that rocked britain um and i don't know if it's a legal rip but it's on youtube and i saw it and here's a clip of the uh organizer of that saying um i'm so embarrassed i'm humiliated by what happened here he is shedding was saying it in a Scottish some crocodilo tears yeah because of everything that had happened it ran into my personal life i have lost It ran into my personal life.

I have lost... Dramatic pause, dramatic pause, dramatic pause. My friends have lost the love of my life. Damn, he got dumb. I was made to feed the face of all evil. He wiped his non-existent he wiped his nose he got the case he goes on I was made to look like I mean dude that was

we saw it bro a lot of people saw that not gonna lie a lot of people fucking caught that one my man and your pants fully came down in front of everyone in front of the whole class. We saw it. And we saw your Power Ranger underwear. Okay.

And they are cool. And I'm asking you, where can I get them? And do they come in five packs? I only like to buy them in odd number packs. He kept like, apparently like leaning on this thing. It was like, man, if I just got a smaller venue and the projection equipment came in, I would have had, it would have been exactly how I marketed it. What kind of projection mapping shit were you going to do?

Because we saw that empty-ass warehouse. The problem, yeah, among other things, is that it is completely evident. You have black curtains up, but it's completely evident that you are in an empty warehouse like the whole time with like three little like plastic sculpture things that are only like there's one chocolate bar but the other one is just like a like look like fisher price toys that you what about that box of spoons yeah that box of spoons was pretty lit and the kids are pretty excited i have like since this all how much you want for your box of spoons yeah that box of spoons was pretty lit and the kids are pretty excited i have like since all how much you want for your box of spoons

daddy like she would have been like get the fuck out of here uh the spoiled girl from willie wonka since this i don't know if wonka is just like in the zeitgeist because the movie came out, but, uh, the original movie is trending in kindergarten and first grade at my kid's school. And so we recently watched it and it's a blast. It's, um,

I didn't realize how much it is. Like it has the plot structure of a slasher film. Um, but you know, nonetheless, my kids really responded to it. They still listen to the music that comes on. The Oompa Loompa songs are always sung right after someone died. And so they'll listen to the song and then ask me to describe once again, like how the, that kid died,

that version of the song. Mike TV die. Yeah. Um, Mike TV's death is weird. It, they got kind of worse and worse, the deaths,

unfortunately. but, uh, it really like drove home the, the magic of when that door opens and you are in that little like meadow where everything's made of candy yeah like oh shit my kids keep like talking about that asking me if it's real even though i told them it's not no you're just not old enough to like talk about okay what what would you if you could have that an edible meadow made of you know food what would it be like one of my kids was like oh

shit what if it was like sushi that would be oh damn go on yeah yeah uh i was like that would be a little fucked up though that would be gross man but uh two hours into a summer day you're like yeah dude we gotta get out of here don't eat that don't eat that flies everywhere yeah um with a with a river of soy sauce but um so it just drove home like how like what the expectations of those children were going into that place oh right right what was delivered is fuck truly fucked yeah so don't it's hard like don't you can't promise like something that is like as vivid as an acid trip to kids that there's a real life version of that yeah because that ain't it i remember even like seeing i remember being disappointed in the

simpsons world when it first opened at universal studios hollywood yeah man yo bro i love this i'm like yo this shit is fucking stupid but again it's because our expectations are so much higher than what can be delivered um but yeah hey hey at least this guy's life is ruined um exactly so we can all feel better about that um i uh was his the love of his life the woman the bartender dressed as an oompa loompa no that no that was an actress who okay just yeah i was kind of shipping them i don't know why a lot of people were i was yeah yeah a lot of people were shipping him and the wonk the actual wonka guy too yeah there. There's all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Also, just speaking of plot structure, I finally saw Dune 2. And I'm not going to get too into it because I think people are still seeing that film. But in retrospect, the balls of them putting Dune 1 out is kind of staggering.

Because in retrospect the whole movie happens it's one long movie and the whole ass movie happens in Dune 2 right right yeah it's kind of wild yeah it's really like Dune exposition and Dune 2

it's wild I mean Dune 1 in retrospect probably more fun to watch now that Dune 2 has happened. But, yeah. Good time at the movies. I will say. Yeah. Alright. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, March

20th. We are back tomorrow with another one of the very faces on Mount Zeitmore. Man. All the way from New Zealand. Yeah. Kiwi time. You'll have to figure out who that is on your own.

We have a lot of Kiwi guests on. You might remember this friendly voice. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.

Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out

when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports.

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.