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

What is it. It's the new Wes Anderson movie. So you know the shots are going to be symmetrical as shit, really beautiful pastily. 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. I mean, you know that they published 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. I saw a Frand 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 you have no personality or like, look I get it. I like I like to have my house a certain way, but now with a baby, it's like that ship 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 they're making their lives harder where 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 based on like a nineteen fifty five like sci fi western. That is the vibe written with Roman. Couple of um comes out on Wednesday, so we don't know. Shout out big Rome, Uh yeah, it will come out and it's got Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Scargio, Jeffrey Right. Oh so two people of color? Uh, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cranston, Adrian Brody,

Maya Hawks, Steve Carell, Hank Chou. That's three, William William Dafoe and Tony Revoloris. Who's Tony Revloris? I know that name? 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 Johanson. 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 ten folks and you're like,

I know. When I read it, I was like, come on, West, don't don't do it like Whites and Danny Glover together again. But we'll see how symmetrical it is. I hope he does not this a point. All right, let's talk about this next trend. Add Non sayed, okay from the hit podcast the reason we even have careers right now? From

podcast serial. So his murder conviction was reinstated because they believe this higher court believe a lower court like denied Hayman Lee's family a chance to be at this one hearing. So they're like, nah, noa were reinstate in this ship. He's not being taken back into custody. But you know, it looks like yeah, they're like oh yeah, yeah, yeah you did that. But yeah, you know, do your thing

for a while. I don't know exactly how the law works, especially with like reinstated conviction, but apparently the next step would probably be for his lawyers to appeal that and then and I think they're gonna appeal to like this state Supreme Court of Maryland, and then if that goes left, then that means he will have another hearing. Um, so yeah, keep on your toes. Yikes. Yeah, but yeah, this is it's like he was essed out and we're like, oh wow,

good for him, and they're like, nah reinstated. People were like you did that or what. But yeah, I'm like, really, like I thought that the DNA evidence there was something that they felt was like absolving him. But here, yeah, stay tuned, because it means I've been Sarah Kanig is like just rubbing her mits right now. She's like, oh shit, let's hear that. Let's bring that theme song back. Um. 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, went back to listen to Cereal again. It just doesn't work like that. Sometimes with podcasts like that, funny ones I can relisten 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 Okay,

these now what you use emojis? First of all, I was like, oh, we didn't have a blue heart before. I know have a dark blue heart. We don't have a sky blue heart. I was shocked that we didn't have a pink cart like that. It's like the regular red heart, but yeah from pink carts when you do the three hearts, yeah it's pink hm hmm. And then what else are we looking at? Up? Okay, so we got what's the first one with the mouth open emoji? Would like it's going, oh oh, it's like, what's that say?

I would encapitlize that as the crusty or not rusty, mister crabs meme that's like, oh, give me so little mind blown action. Yeah okay, rather than doing like the well there already was the mushroom cloud head there. Yeah, but this is more like a not that one of like the black kid in Red with the dreadlocks. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, so that is what it is. Like, it's the meme of like what is going on here versus like mind

blow and then what's this one? Under the hearts? Are these two hands about to high five like a hand like with a bench 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 it can't. 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 right hand. Well, when you separate it, now you can do stuff like yeah, yeah, you can 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 edemme like a fan afro pick. Hey look that, yeah, moroccas and a blunt is that it looks like a flute, but like a wooden flute. Oh okay, oh yeah, that's that's definitely a flute or yeah. I was like, that's not a blunt, okay, wi fi symbol. And I don't know what this purple thing is that is for I believe seeks. Yeah it's the Audi shakti. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, representation, yeah,

representation here. I hope that if Apple is going to keep auto correcting my fucking the ducking that they just put the emoji in, I will be less mad that it keeps if I'm saving like, fuck that shit that it says little duck that shit, I'll live with that, but stop duck this ducking this ducking job. I'm sure to god, well we have to just put fuck in your address book or whatever. Oh is that what I'm gonna 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 annoying understanding how it worked, Like if you have that in a name in your address book, then it will put in Yeah, I'm a lazy and be a horrible typer, so if my auto correct 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 my friend I'm like sending him like eight texts, it's just like and then one of those people do you power through the typos? Are you one of them? Yeah? I know, yo, I know I have a friend exactly like this, or 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

exactly my boyfriend is not. You know, he's not reading it right. He shouldn't 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 so, yeah, I guess that is a way because it's funny. I like, my my wife knows her better and she's way better at like getting through the code than I m. 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 fucker read.

Just as we were saying they were raising the wages of the workers at Disney World to eighteen an hour, I believe, Disney has announced they are beginning the process of mass layoffs, cutting seven thousand jobs, so many jobs in an effort to slash five point five billion dollars in costs, and I just feel like, if they didn't make like two movies this year, you know, 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, was there, what are the other three letter companies doing? 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 set, said, 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 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 employee. He's just like, good luck challenges.

We know that you're going to feel short staffed, right, y'all gonna have to do more, and we appreciate as this statement from Bob Iger is, I ask for your continued understanding and collaboration during this time, don't I'm sorry as a CEO. 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 Chappick or whatever. And I'm they're probably trying to say, like, you know, this is all because of the ship Chappick is, so I had to bring Eiger back whatever. But I just love the idea that, like, hey man, let's have some solidarity y'all with me the CEO. Please you're continued understanding that I'm not going to take a pay cut. Yeah, so i'one just fire seven thousand of you all right. Next

up is kind of the vibe of that story. But next up is this story Michael Pence, the former vice president.

Oh my god. And if you're one of these Democrats who love 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 sixth, But the judge said the ruling also it will remain under still that Pence can still decline to answer questions related to his actions on January sixth itself when he

was serving as the President of the Senate for the certificate, like, okay, y, 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 hope those people feel good about themselves being like, yeah, we won, but long game. I'm over it. I know. It's like I'm That's why it was so funny when I was on break and the when Trump

was like, they're rest me. I was like, no, they're not, mother fucker. And then I just remember like people being like, oh, well, 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, we already know what he did. He made five hundred thousand 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 going to 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 dust that 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 because it's clearly y'all are going to do anything, So like, can we actually like I don't know, Like it's just like, let's just I don't know. Look, let's just bring on a story, mean Daniel's Ghostbusters career. You'll hear more about that tomorrow's episode. That's more interesting at this point. And then finally, let's continue the outrage for working people with

this name. Luca first go, do you know this person? This I influencer? I was going to ask you who is this influence? I see they're verified, never heard of them, But you're also white and that's really not in my purview of people to pay att engine too of Luca first goes are old influencers. Don't make it by him being white. Maybe you're old and you're not up on things because the kids love it. I don't even know who the fuck Luca first Go looks like a Disney bad Like 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 Luca first Keys 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 assistance or an artist assistant in NYC slash Brooklyn. Here are the following skills I'm looking for needs. Basic carpentry skill, knowledgeable knowledge about tools, leveling, ironing, folding, cutting, sanding and oiling practice. General knowledge on different screws, anchors, not smelling anchors, right nails, nail guns, cable saw, jigsaw, drill, press, knife sharpening, know how to use printers. A plus is

software like photoshops. Also soft software. Oh you got that software on? I know, put that software on, girl. I'll you know. I like when you look healthy, like photoshop and design apps, etc. Patient the next one, he says, 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 a scene.

You can't write emails. We can't even write a job post. How do you formulate such a thing? Then 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 twelve fifteen hour? Is that? Chell? Are

you into that? Can you also lift heavy things? But you're tedious but discreet yet gentle in nature and patient? And you know about all kinds of screws. And then he put in like the Instagram text like he forgot to add it to the list. Sewing would be great too. Oh yeah, 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 what you like? Who is this person and if they if these persons, if this person has all these skills, you damn sure me they're they're probably going to make more than that because they could probably be in some kind of like trade union. I would hope that they're getting paid really well to make prop work like that is what it sounds like, right, But anyways, knife sharpening, I'm like, go rent a studio out.

I don't know, like I want to know what he's doing, you know, like I want to know what he's working on that he needs, Like 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 things, screw things, whatever. So that's one job, and then you have the job and ironing, so you need someone who's like a seamstress and or like a costume desire, and then you need an assistant. Yeah 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. But it sounds like what he's looking like. It sounds like what serious artists do when they need 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 dude 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 you're just like listing things you probably have to get done around the house. Yeah, But I just love that They're like, I need someone to

work for me. I need them to do almost everything, and I need to shut the fuck up. I want to start 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 wanted to be tedious too, like quiet, you know what I mean. But he wants convertationary work done quietly. Yeah, I don't know I'm gonna do that. 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 now. I mean, I just want to make sure because like, to me, anchor is the like portable charge o rs 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 breeches because I feel like you're talking about like wall anchors as someone who has worked on many shelves in this apartment, in a 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 first goal. He might know he might actually was talking about I don't know after he spelled um design software like work where there is 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, et cetera. 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 true, I guess maybe he meant that, but then he did hit the design apps. I'm like you photo shop. I'm like, say Adobe sweet, 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 oh, you know, fucking with CS six. They don't know. See these are We're talking like real people. If I had to where like actually,

you know, it's funny. I used to do this kind of ship when I was working like early digital media gigs where I was like a pa, a director also a writer. But also can you can you 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? Lime producers are the do it alls,

you know, Like I've my partner worked so hard. He owns his own production house and like he does everything like he like he is ironing and steaming and he's also you know, booking the equipment, 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 make sure people get paid.

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 kig. No, maybe you should maybe just to see, like, how with the response is he Apparently he's getting dragged on. I g right, when you ask for some acinine 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 one of those net bags, you know what I mean, if it's real, you know, if it's turned up soft where delicates? I like delicates should just say software now, I think that would 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. I just want

to share that tip with you. I always say that all the time, but a 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 or transphobia, none of that, and we will see you later. Okay, bye bye. You wait one more thing. I have a question to the Zeke gang Yo. 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, it would be cool and fun. I would like to know. Okay, Burley thinks, Hey, you know who I would hit up Luca first goal 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 then. And if you got tips for where Becca should be having her easy, low key birthday in New York, specifically Brooklyn, hit her up. All right, we'll talk to you soon. By I