The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP ScanTrend 9/20: Scantron, Mountain Dew, Golden Bachelor, F-35, Don Trump Jr., Gen Z Tattoos

Episode Date: September 20, 2023

In this edition of RIP ScanTrend, Jack and Miles discuss the death of Scantron, Mountain Dew X Taco Bell's energy drink aspirations, the Golden Bachelor knockin' boots, the missing F-35, Don Jr.'s Twitter getting hacked, and Gen Z tattoo trends!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of RIP Scan Friend. Ah. Ah. You left us too soon. I bet it's miles. Yeah, it is. On this somber day. The somber day when, you know, a couple days ago we've been talking about it off mic, but we figured we might as well bring that conversation into the public. Scantron's going away. SAT going full dig. Yep yep they're going full digimon

the ace the ap exam uh like class quizzes apparently like there's just the you know a tablet and shit is taking over and the you know multiple choice form of education that we know is soon to, you know, go away, which is probably a good thing. Because like it like in this article, it's an interesting article in what is it? The Atlantic just talking about like the evolution of it, like how like suddenly with like the baby boom to like, man, we got to figure out how to like grade a lot of papers real quick right and then we got this form of being like hi to test your english skills do you know which can you do a one in four chance of getting the answer right question do the bubble i mean they're still they're not going away away from multiple choice are they or are no but it but it is bringing up in like this is like i guess this is the sort of knock-on effect of watching these things become more digital is that are we going

to now rethink this idea of like multiple choice test like this way of assessing through multiple choice um because if you're just really good at like narrowing it down i was always told in my like in school they're like yeah you know go with c there's a higher probability the answer is c if you don't know teachers it sounds like yeah yeah yeah they were really good probably c man i don't know um do whatever the fuck you want this feels like a couple things this feels like something that we're going to turn over to ai way too soon and they're they're just gonna be like yeah we're actually ai evaluate students and it's just gonna do a absolute shit job at it right um would be my guess it also feels like there's i don't know there's more like i feel like scantron

got bought by a private equity company because yes, it does seem like a day is coming soon where we won't need this. But certainly does not feel like it's not needed anywhere in the world right now. Like, already. We still have phone books. They're still dropping phone books on people. Where? I don't get you get a phone book still. Oh, yeah.

I have not gotten a fucking phone book in 10 years. Yeah. I mean, I don't I don't think I've had one dropped on my porch, but like I know my parents like have one for sure. They just got that old one they've been keeping since like 96. Yeah, because I think because they still sell ads in there there's like a whole advertising industry that uh you know was making bank like local advertising was making bank and in phone books and so they still i think they still drop maybe maybe that's gone away in the last few years but well like they're they're these things that like kind of keep going because they are profitable but i guess scantron was just poorly run they didn't

they didn't have their grift down strong enough i mean to keep it going there's also just the debate within education about how our standardized tests are fucking just biased as fuck totally and so i think there i think there's multiple things going on but but also the phone book thing you really got i was like man i miss a phone book because i used to tear phone books in half as a party trick in college yeah i know that was what got you the job this podcast and i was like was this a phone book you're like no that's a memoir i'm working on not anymore what you think of that dude that was like 300 pages i just ripped right there so i got the job um yeah so anyways but r.i.p scantron cool name

we can all agree like sounded like a fucking transformer in the middle of a school thing hell yeah bro fucking scantron it's like a sick ass dj name um but did you ever have someone brazen enough to mark their scantron with the key like you bubble in key because you know when you run it through the machine there's there's the answer key like you could bubble in and it would say that your your fucking scantron was the answer key no i didn't know about that someone fucking tried it i remember my high school and it was a fucking disaster like it didn't work out just didn't know about that. Someone fucking tried it. I remember my high school and it was a fucking disaster. Like it didn't work out. Just didn't think it through.

Like this asshole suddenly has a hundred percent on the test. And then everybody else is like fucking got like a fucking D score. It was like a whole fucking thing. Oh, but it worked. It was, it worked too well. It worked to the point that there's no way you could finesse that unless you are dealing with somebody who is so like not paying attention. Uh but like it it became very clear but anyway so those kinds of things

more important things to talk about than uh children's education yeah which you know some people believe the children are the future i believe the future is mountain dew taco bell collabos if you think children are the future you you're probably with Skynet, dude. Yeah, you're a fucking joke, man. I'm worried about that shit. Okay. Mountain Dew. Wow. This is a weird headline that they say Mountain Dew and Taco Bell are now

experimenting with a new energy drink. Cool. And I'm like, is Mountain Dew not already like a quasi-energy drink? Baja Blast? It feels like they've cracked the code already. But they're still experimenting.

The code red, dude. Mountain Dew, they cracked the code red. But apparently there's going to be Baja Blast Charged Berry, which includes... I never even fucking heard of this ingredient. No. Cytokoline? It's brought to you by Citicoline? Cytocoline?

It's brought to you by Citibank. C-I-T-I-C-O-L-I-N-E. It's an upper that is brought to you by Citibank and Mountain Dew. And actually, every sip does improve your credit score by a third of a point. So get in. Get in, young kids. It says it takes the Mountain Dew energy. I don't know what it says includes from the mountain dew energy baja blast which is 180 milligrams of caffeine per 27.2 ounce serving jack what do you think about that 180 that's not bad that's pretty high it's

not like illegal let's not put right you know it's pushing the limits of 200 milligrams which it's not many people were quick to point out when i suggested like there might be some sort of barrier there that there are energy drinks that go past 200 milligrams of of caffeine but it does seem like that was like the place where they a lot of different companies felt safe stopping was 200 milligrams of caffeine there was probably some study done where they're like people start getting fucking weird after 200 yeah they don't want to buy it again like this gets some double just second guessing their own brain when they drink it they're like am i freaking out you have to be like real desperate to make some money uh because like they're like you know one out of every 100 000 people's's heart will explode and literal lightning bolts

will start coming out of their eyes and nostrils as their heart explodes. But, you know, worth a shot because it's going to be, people are going to, that's good buzz marketing. Dude, producer Brian just dropped in the chat that it is a cytokine

or city, coline, thank you, Citibank, is a natural chemical in the body, seems to play a role in brain health, and it's sold as a supplement and is used to try and help sharpen thinking in people with blood flow problems in the brain. Okay.

So are we, as like part of, I wonder if part of the sort of value proposition is like you will have super brain and be geeked up off caffeine when you're drinking uh i'm i'm probably i don't know i don't i'm not a huge connoisseur of the energy drinks like i i will experiment with different levels of coffee different you know different drips different uh bean darkness yeah i don't uh the like it just like i felt too much like shit from actual energy drinks they kind of fuck me up a little bit you know consider like vietnamese

coffee and energy drink no because that's a lot of sugar in it doesn't it yeah but that shit i feel like it's so like i don't whatever reason, I'm not really caffeine sensitive, but whenever I have a Vietnamese coffee, I'm like fucking... I'm flying. I don't think I've spent a lot of time with the Vietnamese iced coffee, so maybe I need to give it another go.

But when I mix in sugar with my caffeine, it does kind of fuck me up a little bit and give me some weird... You're up, you're down, you're up, you're down. I'm up a little bit and give me like some, some weird, you're up, you're down, you're up, you're down.

I'm up, I'm down. I'm up. I'm down. Yeah. Suddenly it's three days later and I'm in a Taco Bell parking lot. Don't know how I got there. All right.

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She chimed in with the chat while we were talking and said, never forget, I almost died a few weeks ago on a Vietnamese iced coffee. And we're like, wait, what? Wait. And now we're saying, huh? I never felt closer to doing a hard drug than drinking a Vietnamese iced coffee a few weeks ago. I was real tired, had just come from a Costco run in the morning. My partner and I were like, let's get a Vietnamese iced coffee. Looks good. Why not? Both of us were like

itching out of our skin. He did like a 50 mile bike ride. It was not enough. I was like sweating. I was reorganizing the pantry. At one point i was just like screaming in my house because i was just like maybe this will burn the energy i was like like nothing was working i like could not sleep it was i didn't even finish it i like put it in the fridge for later i poured that out i was like this is too powerful yeah and i detoxed from coffee for like two weeks after that i was like no coffee actually any of it no telling you it's robusta beans not arabica oh okay and they say most of the coffee we drink is arabica yeah like out here so and apparently it's got it's like at least double or nearly double the fucking caffeine where'd you pick that shit up was it like a vietnamese restaurant or no it was like this coffee shop in brooklyn uh i want to say

it was probably closer to like cobble hill area if you're in brooklyn i think it was a vietnamese coffee shop like it was asian owned and they were like yeah have our specialty vietnamese iced coffee we're like oh that's so cool and then we were like never again we're gonna die in la like this is just what vietnamese iced coffee is it's not like this was a cursed i like i like have to put on like i need to get in the hannibal lecter thing and be like put on a dolly with a fucking mask on because i don't know what the fuck is gonna happen i remember biting himself i remember one of the first times i was hanging out with my friend like this is like back when we were younger right and

when someone's parent was like out of town like yo i'm watching my like come through my parents crib like we could fucking hang out party whatever and we got some banh mi sandwiches and some ice vietnamese iced coffee i, I got so anxious. I fucking, I, I've just bounced on him without telling him I had to go home. I didn't even say nothing. I was like,

I can't even fucking be here right now. Like some, that's how I felt. I was like, I, my brain is no, it's like, like,

that's how it felt. I don't know. I love that. I thought I was going to explode all over me. Screaming to try. I was like, I was like organizing the pantry, like in like a and get the shit. I was like organizing the pantry in a sports bra

and shorts. I was like, I can't even wear a shirt. It's too... What did you scream? Do you remember? Literally like that. I was just like, this isn't working. I was like, ah! If I just scream, it'll

release the energy. That tracks. It's like when yeah i just was like if i just scream it'll like release the energy yeah right no that makes that tracks but yeah anyway it's like when the caffeine pushes through to the point of being like unproductive yeah it's like you can't do anything because you're just feel on it yeah yeah yeah energy is going in every different direction thank you becca for thank you becca for being vulnerable and sharing your experience the podcast normally doesn't talk about ndes but you know we can't talk about your death experiences more i think yeah that sounds like to most people that was probably

like a great ad great reason not to do it but for me i'm like i am gonna have to do that in the next couple weeks yeah just find you a place so because you can make it a nice day you know you get like some spring rolls some pho some bami and then take that iced coffee and then make sure it's a full moon and chain yourself to the radiator in the basement to see where it goes uh all right uh the golden bachelor star jerry what do we decide here i gary i don't know it's like i mean he says his name is gary although we see it as jerry and i'm not i don't want to be rry yeah yeah yeah uh anyways gary jerry good jerry he has spilled some details about his fantasy suites and used the phrase knock in the

boots yeah and we were a little bit like what the fuck but apparently he was just trying to say like I'm you know I just like to do some fun cliche phrases and that's why he was trying to avoid cliches oh yeah he

said I guess what I was trying to do is avoid some of the cliche phrases about physical intimacy. And maybe I did just the opposite. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to feel old, the song Knockin' the Boots by H-Town did come out the year Jerry was born.

Oh, my God. Yeah. That was 1950. Wow. Yeah. Could you imagine that came coming out in 1950 body rocking uh knocking the boots like he was in his 30s when that came out so like he he like it just solidified as like a cool younger phrase for him in his brain this is gonna happen to all he was probably

like don't say making whoopee don't say making whoopee don't say and we made uh knock the boots yes that one but i like how he's he's really clarified he said the fantasy suites were about connecting intellectually and emotionally and not about connecting physically okay okay that's what he said i guess with some wisdom age of wisdom you realize that the most important and lasting things that you're looking for in a relationship come from the areas other than physical intimacy interesting all right i mean that's not a great ad for the golden bachelor probably well who knows maybe but you know you say that and then watch cut to you know the freaks come out at night. Yeah, yeah. Totally. We can all pray.

We can all pray. We have an update on the F-35 that it was found in a debris field. It was found 60 miles away from where the pilot ejected, so that shit just kept going. Shout out to DB on Twitter for bringing that to our attention.

60 fucking miles is so... Every video i've seen of a pilot ejecting granted it's always on reddit and it's some catastrophic shit it's just like they're doing it because the shit's about to crash yeah but like this guy apparently is like yo motherfucker i don't know what the fuck this thing is doing like i don't i'm not going to be tethered to this fucking thing peace yeah that's wow it's a it's a long way that's um that's crazy yeah donald trump jr's uh twitter was hacked his spokesman has had to come out and say because there is a tweet by him that said i'm sad to announce my father donald trump has passed away

i will be i will be running for president in 2020 it's somehow believable that that's how it'd be announced that the king is dead but worry not i prince coca lot shall be your savior yeah that is funny yeah some of the tweets were fucking wild though yeah like some of them said fuck joe biden north korea is about to get smoked and when i become president i'm going to burn the sec yeah that's that is very specific that feels like worthy was he hacked or was he is did he just have like yeah cocaine induced psych psychosis? Hey, look, or he'll say, hey man, I had a couple of one too many Vietnamese coffees. Yeah. Yeah.

Because like... Screaming into the void and it screams back. How often do we see the, I got hacked defense and we're a little bit dubious? Yeah. But this is kind of like, it is wild fucking reckless shit that was being tweeted. So I don't know. Who knows? Who knows?

Yeah. I do. You know, I do really appreciate the, I will be running for president in 2024. reckless shit that was being tweeted so i don't know who knows who knows yeah i do you know i do really appreciate that i will be running for president in 2024 the same tweet where he announces that his father has died yeah that's isn't that like himself it feels real because that would be the like sort of pace of thought for like one of the trump kids where it's like okay dad's died what do i get now yeah yeah that's it like that's all they're waiting for is like to hear that and be like, okay, so what do I get?

Yeah. It would, it would be like the succession episode, except they would already be like fighting each other and scrapping for power by the time the boat docked again. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There would be like a 15 minute sadness. Yeah. A brief sadness. All right. And finally, uh, artists are breaking down Gen Z tattoo trends.

Um, you saw some cool stuff in there. Oh yeah, man. Well, I don't know what to think of tattoo. You know, I don't have tattoos.

I don't think about them that often. So this was just, this was informative, you know, to see what the, what the youth see, what I've been seeing described in a listicle. Yeah. What was the

one trend that you were a little bit like, huh? Well, the one that I think is neat, I think tiny tattoos are pretty neat, Miles. Okay. Hell yeah. Gen Z have their unique take

on the classic butterfly tattoo. Maybe some tiny butterflies i don't know yeah but more like iconic versions of butterflies um it's wild to see like people trying to do like chrome or metallic yeah i don't like that so one of them was uh a new wave of artists are experimenting with textures and materials and I am experimenting with saying no thank you to that one. If you got a tiny tattoo what would you get?

I don't know man. You never looked at your arms or your body and like yo what if I put a little tattoo there? Has it just never crossed your mind at all? It has but then I'm just really intimidated by the decision-making process of what I would put there. The permanence of it all, too.

One of the ones that Super Producer Becca has done that outlines as a new trend is letter, like things written in the penmanship of loved ones. So that's cool. I like that one. Maybe that's something I could do. Michael Jordan's autograph? Yeah, just Michael Jordan's signature. Next to

the jump man. Or one for you where you do like a big fake bloody shark bite on your thigh and it's signed by Jaws. And you're like're like dude you want to see something got my whole shit bit yeah i mean like if i had gotten a tattoo for like the majority of my life it probably would have been something involving a shark and i probably would have regretted it at some point um i say or yeah get a tiny one the jump man logo dude i remember there i've seen a guy with a jump man tattoo at this park we used to go to and it was thing does not look good at all it's logo and i'm saying that as someone who has a fucking sports logo emblazoned on their

fucking body uh but you know when i've tried to draw the jump man like i like get around to the start of it and i'm like oh that shit is lopsided as hell like maybe i would get my hand like something i drew my drawing of the jump man logo do you have a pen near you yeah try here you draw a jump man right now and i'm gonna draw a jump man and then we're gonna compare well all right well we'll do it off mic because we're out of time we'll do it off mic because we're out of time. We'll do it off mic and compare tomorrow. But I will say one of one of mine always seems to have a very lumpy leg. But he it's not him in a bull's uniform. You know, connoisseurs will know that it's actually him. Oh, hold that. Hold that. Whoa. It looks like an alien doing saturday night fever disco dancing it's pretty good

actually i'm actually really impressed mine would not look that good it looks like one of the creatures from arrival yeah to start it all right that is what is trending on this wednesday september 20th we are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Yeah. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. No. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow.

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