The Daily Zeitgeist - Crisis on Trendfinite Earths 5/15: AP US History, Space Force, SCOOB!, Scarface

Episode Date: May 15, 2020

On this edition of Crisis on Trendfinite Earths Jack and Miles discuss students struggles to get the AP US history test working online, the Space Force flag is a Star Trek ripoff, the reviews for the new Scooby-Doo movie are predictable, and a Scarface remake is in the works with Luca Guadagnino set to direct written by the Coen brothers. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That is courtesy of someone whose name I did not take down. So while you were talking at one point during this recording, Miles, I will look that up. But for now, I'm Jack. That's Miles. And this is what's trending this Friday afternoon. Oh, yeah. Do you like my announcer voice? I feel like it's working for nobody.

I told you, don't ask for my opinion when you know it might not be the thing you're not going to want to hear. Yeah, that's true. Puts me in a rough spot. Okay, my bad, my bad. Because I love it. I knew it. Knew it. You brought me back, baby.

I knew it. That was my announcer voice faltering. Actually, no, I don't like that announcer voice now that I think about it. That sucks. i hate it i think it stinks and this is what's trending hashtag a push would not have known what that is oh i knew immediately because i have not seen a push in what how long like 19 years or something 7 18 whatever however long old i am ap us history is what that stands for and my goodness for all you nerds out there that took ap classes i forgot that this is ap test time right now and the ap tests have been happening this week and apparently there's just been all kinds of problems to the point where hashtag ap

ush is trending on twitter which is such a weird thing for me that we're now there we're like gripes that i had in high school i don't know maybe i'm just trying taking uh paying more attention to these trends but yes a lot of people have been having trouble uploading there's been a lot of criticism because they're like if there are people who don't have access to computers or high-speed internet like then they can't even take the test because normally ap tests for people who don't know their tests that are administered in a school normally and if you get a passing grade of a three or up on a scale of five you can receive college credit um and it was dude they gave the let these kids do normally these things are three hour tests 45 minutes just write something down.

But it seems like a lot of people were confused by how the document-based question or DBQ was operating. I've been moonlighting as a proctor for these, just going to various students' windows and peering in to make sure they're not cheating on the test. Good gig, good work if you can get it. How do they ensure that people aren't cheating using the internet? That's a thing. So what they did was the college board who administers the test, they were basically saying, like, should we cancel these? And then all the students were overwhelmingly like,

hell no, I've been studying for this thing the whole year. not take this from me i've been working so hard so they pivoted very quickly in march to try and do an online version where it's like they have to verify their work it's not even clear to me how it works but that's why i think they went to a writing question rather than like multiple choice because it's open book open note like let's just test people on their writing and then we can check against plagiarism from there. Makes sense. Space Force is trending because the flag was unveiled,

and it's basically just a Star Trek logo. I mean, they legit seem to be stealing things from Star Trek, right? That's just the Star Trek logo. Yeah, but I think that there's been a lot of talk about that form being used since time immemorial, but it's just a lame... I mean, we saw these mock-ups really early on, and you're just like, okay, fine, but it's just...

I feel bad for them parading this flag around like it's meaningful. It's whatever. It's such a weird moment. You feel bad for them parading this flag around. It's meaningful. It's whatever. It's such a weird moment. You feel bad for the president? Yeah, I really feel it. I'm really, really feeling it for him. I mean, just honestly, maybe we go too hard on him as he sort of intentionally lets people die in the country. I don't know.

Maybe that's our blind spot. He looks like a child at a parade as this flag is being unveiled, just like beaming in the background. No mask, obviously, standing right next to a human, another human. Space Force, all right. That's a thing. Oh, also, just so you know,

he was also saying, the president, something about a super-duper missile. Super-duper one? Yes, he used the words, I call it the super-duper missile i i'm glad we have him in charge of naming stuff uh we call it the super duper yeah so they're working on some kind of you know mass murder objects and it's a super duper missile so don't don't get the wrong idea well at least all those people who are killed by whatever missile they're working on will

have the dignity of being killed by something called the Super Duper Missile, which goes 17 times faster than current weapons, which are already, as I understand it, pretty fast. Yeah. Meanwhile, people are starving in our own country. Well done. Well done, guys.

Scooby-Doo is trending because a new movie called Scoob just came out. It's all caps S-C-O-O-B exclamation point. So you're required to say it that way. It's an all animated Scooby-Doo movie, and I don't know why this exists. Yeah. I'm sure I'll be watching it this weekend, so I'll be able to tell you.

Was this supposed to be a theatrical release? I think so, yeah. I think I remember seeing trailers for this a while back. Wow, man. So they're going for it. They're following trolls into the breach. That's right. Everybody is like this.

We have literally a captive audience of parents. This only would have worked if we were, like generationally, this isn't going to have the same heat. It would have taken an elder Gen X parent or a Boomer parent to be like, oh yeah, Scooby, I'll take my kids to that. That's like our parents. I remember that would have been something my parents would have been like,

yeah, let's throw Scooby-Doo on. I don't know if people who are parents now are like, oh, yeah, Scoob, my kids love it. I don't know. Is there the same? Are your children aware of the existence of Scoob? Yeah. No, they are not.

Not at all. Oh, okay. The reviews are all basically like pre-sold fans, especially fans with kids of scooby-doo shaggy velma daphne and the thud named fred are in the bag i don't know what to tell the rest of you like that's the best review i could find uh it's just like people people are saying it's not good uh which is not fully yeah i mean the cnn headline is scoob isn't much fun and neither are those meddling kids but it's written by like an old

guy who doesn't seem like he would think anything is fun unless they were like some like going through a picture book of classic the av club uh has a review from Katie Reif, who is a young person with dyed hair, and she says, any hopes one might have of the film exceeding the low expectations set by its unnecessarily punctuated title should be

abandoned forthwith. So she just basically said this movie sucks in a lot of wordy ways. We just need our favorite critic, Jay Sherman, to come back and just tell us it stinks. Scarface, which is a, is a movie that has had,

like has grown into very iconic status, uh, since it was released in 1980. So it makes sense that they would want to remake it, but it's written by the Coen brothers. Yeah. Well, cause the original screenplay is Oliver Stone stone and the brian de palma version

and that it's just weird like that we're needing a modernized reboot of scarface because i mean for the thing was like scarface was so huge because every rapper it became like just absolute necessary viewing for any rap fan because scarface is constantly referenced by rap rappers and just like that sort of drug dealer culture you know the glamorized drug dealer comes from scarface and i feel like that was my responsibility to watch it in the first place because i wanted to be literate in the films that rappers were talking about which is drove me and i think people, young men in college to have the poster on their board. It's like a symbol of like,

did you have the poster of like, don't fuck with me. Don't fuck with me, bro. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Classic,

classic. But now like, I'm curious, I don't know. At the same time, like I love, I think it would be, this sounds very interesting,

but it's just bizarre that this is where they've put their focus. And I was like, no, we need, we need them to do Scarface. I mean, it makes sense to me in the sense...

The very first Scarface came out in, I think, the 30s. It was pre-MPAA and it was the Hays Code, I think that is what it was called, was the morality that they used to judge movies at that time. It was before

ratings and it was pretty violent. It was about a Capone-like 1930s gangster. That's really all they took. I think it was Chicago bootleg era. And I think the only thing they took was that he had a scar on his face and that he wanted to have sex with his sister. Those were the only two traits that carried over to the 1980 version.

And did he murk his Manolo best friend character? I forget. I watched it for college in a class about movie violence. It's interesting to me to have every 40 years there's a movie that's about the gangster culture of the time i'm just curious what i think i read somewhere that they were going to do it as like a mexican drug lord which would be dope i mean the thing that interests me most is the coen brothers take yeah on this that's by far i mean no matter who's directing i mean no no shade for

luca uh but the coen brothers take on a gangster flick like this i think is probably the most interesting aspect of this entire story and i think the guadagnino aspect is interesting too because you're like the last couple things you know him for like suspiria and call me by your name yeah i mean the first or the 80s one had person with interesting things to say made by like a real aesthetic like artist and brian de palma so uh maybe this could be another a repeat of that formula we'll see all right well we got to get off because there's a a blue angel flyover coming and we have to yep have to go out and salute them. We have to boo them.

Oh, you're going to boo? Oh, actually, no. It's a Thunderbird flyover. I'm a Blue Angel stan, so I will be booing just the actual entity, not like what they're doing or what it stands for because of i still i i am appreciative of the military for uh you know saluting us with this flyover uh for completing season 133 yeah i mean look we take shots sometimes at the military industrial complex but in in this instance very specifically very narrowly if you're using the might of the united states navy uh to

get us you know our you know to give us our roses via a flyover then so be a thing all right miles have a great weekend listeners have a great weekend uh wash your hands stay inside be kind to each other and we'll talk to you guys on Monday. Bye. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.

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