The Daily Zeitgeist - The Prisoner of AskaTrend 4/4: Harry Potter, Trump, Starbucks, Rupert Murdoch, Barbie, Spaghetti-O's

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

In this edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AskaTrend, Miles and super producer Becca discuss HBO Max's new Harry Potter streaming series, Trump getting charged with 34 counts of crime, Starbuck's new olive oil drinks, Rupert Murdoch's 5th engagement coming to an end, the new trailer for 'Barbie', and the Spaghetti-O's/Franks Red Hot collab!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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sex ed on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello everybody and welcome to this edition of harry potter and the prisoner of asca trend uh because that was the first harry potter thing i could think of because that's what's trending i'm miles gray and i am wonderfully welcomed by no you're not welcoming me i am wonderful i would like to announce there it is that i am joined by the wonderful becca ramos hello please help me i don't know how to speak anymore we got it it's okay i'm having to switch between japanese and english so much right now because i'm just trying to get my baby to like hear as much japanese and shit as possible and like you're a good dad you know that's something i wish my parents did but instead they would just insult me in spanish and best that i got that immigrant guilt

yeah it's like you know my mom's like don't let the culture die just because we came here i'm like okay okay i'm like trying to narrating everything in japanese now i'm like i have a song i say when someone changes diapers and everything anyway uh here we are talking trends and let's just talk the new trend out there the thing that a lot of people are talking about hbo max is trending because in absolutely nobody asked for this news, Warner Brothers is working on a Harry Potter streaming series for HBO Max. Not like a spinoff, but what their plan is, is to take each book and that would be one season of the show. I get it, I guess guess in the era of reboot culture but like you said i don't think anybody was asking for this i think the harry potter books and movies as they stand still get way too much

love in my opinion sure and it's one of those franchises that they did it so well the first time that i just can't simply imagine anybody else being any of those characters. Oh, you know who would fucking kill it as Hermione now? It's like, I don't know. I don't even fucking know. I was like, who? I felt like, for somebody too, I'm completely outside the fandom of this. But I was in high school when the film wave was really fucking popping off.

And I was like, okay, sure. And to like to me it seemed like based on how much people loved it i was like they seem to be getting it right because people fucking lose their minds every time this shit comes out and like to your point i'm like has there been enough time it's like people are like man we need a new harry potter well and like there's still the face of all the merch you know like if you go there's harry potter world in universal studios or whatever and then right if you go to the harry potter world in universal studios or whatever and then right if you go to the harry potter store here in new york there's like a fandom store yeah they got yeah there's one in like london too yeah yeah and it's cool and everything but i'm just like i i

don't know i'm having a hard time imagining what this is going to look like i feel like it's going to be bad because you know what they're doing it as a cash grab because people are really upset with hbo right now they keep canceling shit they keep you know through their requirement they're like killing things that are good and then bringing back shit that isn't so what happened to gordita chronicles you cowards yeah literally you fucking cowards that show was like actually a fun watch even though it wasn't it was like for young adults younger people but i was like there you go like it was cute yeah anyway i get it i mean in the cash grab scheme of things this is the lowest fucking hanging fruit ever we're like i don't know take harry potter movies and make that a fucking show because you know people are gonna watch they have a built-in audience a

huge built-in audience and you know i think we've talked about it on the show a while back with Jack. Like, I guess kids are like slowly no longer knowing what Harry Potter is. Yeah, he mentioned that. Where they're like, they're like, what? Oh, they're like, no, I don't really read that. And I was like, what? Yeah, because like my mom's a teacher. She teaches middle school. And like, she's like kind of baffled that some of her kids don't know what Harry Potter is.

Because like it was so, I was in elementary probably when the books came out and the first movie came out when I was, I think maybe in like fourth or fifth grade. And it was like, I grew up with it. Right. Like that's why it's such a phenomenon. Like there's over a decade of movies and people really love it.

I was never like the biggest fan. I saw the movies. I never read the books, but yeah, I'm sure it's, you know, they're trying to indoctrinate a whole new generation so they can continue milking this cow for another 20 years yeah i mean like

it's just like with star wars you know like you can you can go decades and people will keep this shit alive i'm sure there's i know there's enough people who love the fuck out of hogwarts that would do that organically but again you need cash need cash. I get it. You took an L because you were trying to fight the streaming wars and it didn't go your way. One thing is JK. She's going to be involved, not as a showrunner, but they said she would, quote, maintain a degree of creative involvement with the series. So what does that mean? I don't lose. No, everyone involved.

I mean, yeah, I don't i don't even know like it's like so the trolls are going to continue to look like anti-semitic like i don't know right right right i mean because what did she say like in her weird ass podcast where she was comparing like trans peoples to like death eaters and you're like no yeah i mean there's so many things if you like look at it just like with a finer tooth comb you're like, oh, this is racist. If you listen to all the Asian characters, they are very sterile, like what white people think Asian names are. What's the one Asian dude called? Cho Chang or some shit like that?

I think the girl is named Cho Chang. Yeah, and I remember being like, okay, this sounds like a white person just made up an asian character yeah they're like we don't even know cho chang and then uh like the all the um the people the goblets whatever that work in the banks like they're oh yeah depicted as like yeah like anti-semitic like yeah imagery from like propaganda from like the fucking early 20th century yeah yeah we caught that we caught that jk so it's just like i don't know like it's like she fought tooth and nail that like there really weren't black characters and then there are black characters and then it's just like you know it's yeah what she needs is she needs to do like george lucas did you know what i mean

and go lean even harder he's like oh you want to see offensive asian people check out the trade federation people what the fuck and put on the fucking screen um but anyway look people lose the thread at some point when they make all this money and i guess she will continue to profit off of that so hooray for these fucking people um next thing that's trending is 34 counts uh trump has been hit with 34 different charges uh in this indictment not guilty hey not guilty okay you feel me uh you know but his name stay filthy and yeah essentially it's for falsifying a bunch of records as it relates to the stormy daniels thing and hiding it and defrauding the people of knowing that he's a wild piece of trash um i think the wildest thing was just to see that photo of him sitting

at the desk like the table in full defendant mode because he's i thought he's gonna have his chest up and shit he looked a little fucking deflated in there i mean 34 counts how hard can you fight you know oh he'll fight you know he's fighting he's gonna go down swinging and we know that but i'm sure he's a little you know the stakes are high he's fighting. He's going to go down swinging and we know that, but I'm sure he's a little, you know, the stakes are high. He's never had. I don't think it's ever been this real for him. You know what I mean? This is the closest it's come.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. He's edging with accountability. Oh, we will see where it goes. We don't know. We just don't know. I mean, he's going to have a press conference later today and we'll see what he says. If he goes wild with it or maybe he cancels it but i have a feeling he will be defiant brooklyn dad

defiant if i may from that wonderful twitter account um anyway but yeah we will see what happens again like i said i don't know this is these are the least sexy charges that he's facing right now so we shall see moving on let's get on to actually fucking important things like i can't be talking about our crumbling fucking democracy here starbooks has been okay i know when i got back y'all were talking about this like off mic or maybe it was mentioned off handedly and i just put it in the back of my mind because it was too much to actually process, but the only auto line at Starbucks, which is just all olive oil, everything type drinks.

Yes. I, so there's three different Starbucks new olive oil drinks. I caught wind of this probably like a couple weeks ago. Cause on Tik TOK, I kept seeing people go and get these drinks and i thought it was a scam like i thought it was a joke or that it was one of these weird trends that popped up in tiktok because on often on tiktok people will just like make up drinks or like this is the best drink i've ever made at starbucks and they'll like list the way you would

like custom order this at starbucks but it's not actually a menu item right and make the person like you just be like i'm gonna quit man if another motherfucker comes in here yeah tick tock recipe i thought it was just like some random ass shit but no this is a real line they're trying to test new flavors and new like interesting uh things that they can do with their you know array of ingredients and i just personally i just i can't see it for me. I can't, I can't imagine myself ordering it. I associate olive oil with savory things just in general.

And I'm not even a fan of like olive oil cake and shit. Like when that's out, I'm like, bro, it tastes, it tastes like olive, like straight olive oil to me. Like I cannot, it just does not, you know, it doesn't vibe with my palate my very evolved palate that is used to taco bell and the life well so i guess the goal of this was supposed to be kind of achieving a similar to like the butter coffee that is like a very much a thing yeah i just can't you know i got schooled by super producer bae before we hopped on this call

about you know the the benefits of maybe having some straight oil in your life and all those things. Straight oil in your life, people of the world. I have a hard time. I think about my body the way I think about a drain when you pour oil on it. So I just worry about drinking straight oil and putting it in my coffee and seeing it separate. Becca, my dear colleague, put your attention on all the food you're eating. I try to cook a lot. I cook very healthy. I cook only vegetables.

So I feel pretty good about what I put in my body. Fair to you because earlier we were talking about Jamaican beef patties and Andrew T and I were like, yay. But we're like, it makes my skin see-through. It's so oily. No, literally. It's like, I, and that's not to say I, you know, I'm a sucker for pizza. I'm a sucker for some bad food.

I'm not saying you above it all. But I cook really well. I think I cook pretty healthy. Well, it looks like even like the reviews are kind of like, yeah, it's all right. Like, no one's like, this is the future. Everyone has some form of like, yeah, like like this is the future everyone has some form of like yeah like this is cool like that was it sounded like oh we never did we ever share that video of liga biga tiga that dude from tiktok i don't think he ever shared that he's like yeah we cool with that we cool with that

yeah we're cool we're cool with the olive oil coffee it's like what the vibe was of the for people who don't know it's a tiktok video where like this dude is asked if he's cool with the lgbtq community lgbtq community and he he's like i think it's a typo he said liga biga tiga and then he realized he's like oh lgbt he's like yeah we're cool with that and he goes to his wife who's driving like we're cool with that she's like yes well he's like yeah yeah that's cool anyway that's what that was the energy of the reviews um and i just again for me not for me i will have my natured uncooked olive oil by putting it on like a that is a salad dressing or something like that you know yeah i love it a salad dressing but i'm not too

much you know i love it like just like a little bit on some like avocado toast you know oh yeah you got to do a little drizzle look you could all you always got to drizzle it on yeah just a little drizzle just a topping but for me yeah don't need it I like how people are even talking like in the New Yorker. They said it's like, quote, taste it like a large spoonful of olive oil and coffee. Coating the author's mouth with a, quote, slick oleaginous sediment. Am I nailing that? Look, I'm not a scientist. I think so.

Better than me. Andrew T is. You're better than me? Yeah. Someone said the latte smells like the smell of toast. You might be having a stroke. But let's take a quick break and we'll be right back after this.

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if y'all want the anti if y'all want the, you know, anti-democratic tea, here it is. It says, a source said that the media magnate grew, quote, increasingly uncomfortable with Smith's outspoken evangelical views.

That was his new fiance. In an interview with Christian Broadcast Network, CBN 2013, Smith explained that after her divorce from her first husband, she found Jesus in a coffee shop and became a preacher congregating on the streets of marin county california quote when you let the lord take control of your life you can make it okay sure god is good like i said let go and let elon you know what i mean when you're in that car just let go of that steering wheel and let elon take you uh but I, this is like such feels like a succession storyline already.

Like, cause we're kind of seeing it in succession now with Carrie and Logan and like his weird, like a relationship with her. I'm really, I can see he's like, I liked her to a second. And then she just kept talking about this Jesus crap too much. So I'm calling it off. It's like, bro, have you seen the views that are being brought pushed on your fucking whatever forget it those are my views but look at my bank account okay and then tell me what's what um but i can't i like the views just like not those rules in my home, you know? Because, like, it's a lot of rules.

It's a lot of conservative. Yeah, it's so funny, right? He's like, oh, hell no, I would never do that. He's like, that's for some people, not me. I will not let that interfere with my life. Okay, also, new trailer. Barbie. Trailer watch. Trailer watch.

I have not seen it. The teaser was enough of a fever dream when I was like, this looks like some real good high material. Here, let me watch it real quick. Let me see. Okay. Edit note. I just watched it right now so I could properly talk about it. Looks fun.

Looks fun. I'm very excited. I did not know Michael Cera was in this. I know Issa Rae was in it either Looks fun. Looks fun. I'm very excited. I did not know Michael Cera was in this. I know Issa Rae was in it either. Yeah, I am shook. I love that there's no plot in sight. The only thing I could glean was it sounds like Barbie and Ken are going to leave Barbie world and hit the real world. Yes.

And it's like some kind of fish out of water thing when they're like now suddenly in the real world yes and it's like some kind of fish out of water thing when they're like now suddenly in the real world and like they have like any of the footage about the real world because i feel like in the build-up to this trailer we saw a lot of the leaked like footage from set about the real world you know like yeah yeah because they're like santa monica and stuff yeah yeah well and will ferrell and all that stuff so i do feel like this was kind of giving us a glimpse into bar Barbie's world. And we've seen footage of the real world. But we're going to see in the movie how they combine.

I'm excited. I'm very excited. Wow. Shout out to all the little Barbies out there who got a gig. The next thing that's trending. Super producer Victor put this in the chat. You might want to look at this. SpaghettiOs.

Mom's so bummed to talk about this. Look, I like stupid food collapse i recently had that sunny d vodka seltzer thing did you even know they made that i haven't tried it but i heard about it yeah i was at a party and somebody was like i thought they were joking they're like yeah we got sunny d vodka collab blah blah blah i'm like i'm like okay and i looked and it was a real fucking boozy sunny d thing i was like wow okay how far we've come and my first thing was like oh there's no sugar in this and i was like oh this is beneath me i'm like what did i think was in sunny d yeah that

was just high fructose corn syrup or whatever the fuck anyway i like a great food collab i like that i'm always pointing them out but this one is is SpaghettiOs and Frank's Red Hot. And I've said this a lot on the show. I do not like Frank's Red Hot Sauce. And this is just me. That's what it is. Okay. I don't.

I would. Like, if they did Tabasco SpaghettiOs, watch me regress to the third grade in an instant. See, you know what I'm going to say? Go ahead. I prefer Frank's over Tabasco. That's fine. And look, I'm not here to... There's no one true hot sauce. There's just one that is Tabasco and one that's

buttery crap. If we're really going to talk about it, it's Valentina all day. Valentina, yeah, salsa huichol is another one that I like. It's fucking hot. La Anita is another one that I like. fucking hot. La Anita is another one that I like. That's from like,

they make a habanero one. That's fucking spicy. But you know, when it comes to like the shit you can get, like at a restaurant. To me, Frank's Red Hot isn't what I'm going to get to put on things as hot sauce. I'm using it to make wings and that's it.

Oh God. It tastes so fake buttery. Like the fake butter dimension of Frank's Red Hot. I cannot fucking stomach. It's so weird. Because it's the only sauce. It tastes so fake buttery, like the fake butter dimension of Frank's Red Hot. I cannot fucking stomach. It's so weird. Because it's the only sauce that's like thick enough and big enough to put on wings. When I'm making cauliflower wings, what do you use to make a hot wing? Truth be told, whenever I make wings, I don't sauce them like that.

What I do is I'll buy a bunch of flats and I basically soak them in crystal hot sauce for like 14 hours. That is crazy. So you don't have saucy wings? No, because it absorbs so much flavor. And I like the char, like when I'm grilling them, I don't have a deep fryer. I'm not going to make them like the way a wing, you know, as God intended to be like fried and then sauced or whatever.

I'm going gonna say an air fried wing kind of slaps my mom be killing it in the air fry wing okay is that gang if you're cooking it up in the air fryer let me know how you do it but i've seen it's so funny like i've missed all like i don't have an instapot i don't have an air fryer and all i see are people be like oh man it's the shit damn brian just came in chat. He said air fryer all day for wings. Wait, so Brian, you're going from raw daddy wings that you buy at the store, then you put them in there and then are you reinvigorating a pre-frozen, pre-made wing?

Oh, he said Korean style with the what? The gochujang or what? Okay, all right. Well, look, maybe I will venture off to my local culinary proprietor and ask for the air fryer that I hear all the youth them talking about. All that to say is SpaghettiOs. No, no, no, no, no. I just don't like it. Like we were talking before these mics came on. I love I love SpaghettiOs. Like as a kid, that was my see, I was a ravioli chef. I was not a big SpaghettiOs fan.

I was like all about Chef Boyardee. Some of us were just fucking with the O's like that. And I had the SpaghettiOs. What I would do is I would take that. I would add Tabasco because I've always liked spicy food since I was a kid. And then I would take the green canned dandruff or Parmesan cheese and I'll put that all over it. Oh, fantastic. So then my question to you

miles did you feel a little like burning in the lining of your stomach from the acidic for the heartburn no not at all no never i've been blessed to not have those kinds of issues like digestive things uh when i when i go ham on the spicy food so you know we'll see and again if frank's red hot is your thing it's your lucky day and trump got indicted wow look at you you're probably an iowa fan also and you're loving the news that joe biden invited you got the team to the white house you got barbie trailer you got the indictment and you got frank's yes man that venn diagram that venn diagram if you're in that little overlap of all three

You know what? It's your day And if you are, let me know Because I wish you will Well, Becca, thank you so much for joining me It's been a pleasure And again, we'll be back tomorrow with a whole new episode Talking all kinds of shit Until next time, be kind to yourselves, be kind to each other

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