The Daily Zeitgeist - There is a Zeit and it Never Goes Out 2/21: Quaden Bayles, Nikki Haley, Grimes, Westworld

Episode Date: February 21, 2020

On this edition of There is a Zeit Jack, Anna, and DJ Danl discuss the bullying of Quaden Bayles, Nikki Haley has hired Tim Chapman to her team, Grimes releases a new album, and a new Westworld trailer is out.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive

bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the U.S. elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. But in a new, hopeful season of my podcast,

I'll share what the science really shows, that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. Tune into my podcast each week to hear me and my friends in the community break down the latest matches, including the US Open. Plus hear from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief.

And once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of There is a light and it never goes out. To the tune of There is a light and it never goes out. Thank you, Latte Larry.

Good name. That's from Curb. What you, Latte Larry. Good name. What's that? That's from Curb. Oh, is it? Latte Larry? They call him that? No, well, it's a plot point so I'm not going to say it. Okay. Let's not. How about that? I am joined by Super Producer Anna Hosnier.

Hi. I'm Jack O'Brien. I'm Anna O'Brien. What? Nothing. Oh my god. Are we related? I'm your sister. Whoa. And your daughter. We're also joined in the background by super producer DJ Danal. That's how he communicates now. Just through monosyllabic grunts and exclamations of energy. Let's talk about what the internet is talking about on this fine Friday. The last thing you're going to hear from us this week.

The first thing on the list is Quaden Bayless. I said that like I was David Stern announcing the first pick of the NBA draft Quaden Bayless out of the University

of California Los Angeles Quaden Bayless is a nine year old child who suffers from dwarfism and has been bullied quite a bit and a bunch of celebrities have kind of turned him into a cause celeb. Is that how you say it?

That's right. A cause celeb? I've actually never heard that phrase before. I don't know. One of those vaguely French sayings that people say to sound pretentious. Anyways, he's super cute, and the reason that I think partially, People say to sound pretentious. Anyways, he's super cute. And the reason that I think partially part of the reason he's trending is because he's super cute kid who, you know, the world has been very cruel to. And then, you know, celebrities like Hugh Jackman are kind of rallying to his aid.

Well, so we give some backstory. Yeah. He's severely bullied. Yes. At his school. we give some backstory yeah he's severely bullied yes at his school he's from australia he's severely bullied his mom posted a video of him like basically bawling i watched the whole video it's really sad um he's crying because he's being bullied and the mom kind of goes into how it's every day for him like how he looks his size like people just torture this poor kid. Like even like going in. Like not even in school. Like going to the grocery store.

Like all day every day. And the mom has been like we've been private about it. And dealing with ourselves. But like I've had enough. I you know my son is suicidal now. He wants to kill himself. And apparently the first time he tried to kill himself. Was when he was six.

She walked in on him trying to kill himself. Which is like devastating to hear. That this poor child is just being tortured. That badly badly that he'd want to take his own life like that's not i mean what leave him alone and i understand the fuck alone his age they don't get it they see someone who's different than them and they automatically want to make fun of them they want to make fun of his height they want to make fun of what he looks like, where he's from. The mom makes a lot of good points, which is just educate your children to not treat other kids

like this. Another reason that he's trending is because there is a post that is making the rounds from Jasmine Dow. It's a screen cap of what looks like a Facebook post. I don't know if Jasmine Dow was a real person,

but because it's a screen cap, like I said. But the post goes like this. Just so you know, he scammed everybody. He's 18, has plenty of money, and yet everyone fell for it. Now, if I'm wrong, please source your link and explain why to me. He's an Instagram celeb at Quaid Doss and deleted captions pertaining to his 18th birthday post. And then there's a picture of him wearing a Gucci sweatshirt, picture of him pointing at the camera in a way that looks cool. And so they're like, well, he can't be nine.

He looks cool in this picture. And then most damning of all, a picture of him next to lights that spell out the number 18. And they're like, see, it's his 18th birthday. Case closed. And Snopes has looked into this. And in fact, he is not 18.

That was somebody else's 18th birthday. Nine-year-olds are allowed to be like what standing next to a number does not make you that age. It turns out. And also there is a video from five years ago where he appeared on the news with his mom and he is clearly four years old. So go fuck yourselves. The Internet. That is terrible. Truly is.

I mean, my God. My God, indeed. So that's that's an incredible story. So that's an incredible story. Also trending, Nikki Haley, because I guess she hired onto her stand for America, which is her conservative policy group. She hired a powerful conservative political organizer, Tim Chapman. political organizer, Tim Chapman. So people are speculating that she's preparing to become the next big Republican politician that everybody rallies behind. Great.

So, yeah, we'll see. She is. It'll be interesting because so much of what the Republicans stand for currently is racism and sexism. And we'll see. Grimes is trending because she just dropped her latest album. Some people are calling it her darkest album to date. I'd believe that.

But it's supposedly pretty good. Spend a few years with Elon Musk. I know. Just complete nihilism. Yeah. Yeah, but she's a pretty good musician. Also, she claims that memes predicted the names

she's considering for her baby, which is wild because I'm gonna just read you some of the memes about her baby names. List of Elon Musk and Grimes potential baby names. Baby.exe.

Marble Hornets. Okay. Error 404. Johnny Tsunami. A emoji that is just then in parentheses that says pronounced Gruyere. Wait. That's kind of genius. That's kind of genius. That is kind of genius.

It is a weird point where we could be in the future where children have emojis as names. Yeah, probably. It's probably, we just need to know how they're pronounced. We have transcended. Someone also wrote Grimes list of baby names and it's just a page of code. I mean, yeah, my tops are error404 Gruyere. But it's just an emoji.

And then Johnny Tsunami. Johnny Tsunami is fucking dope. That's a pretty good name, actually. HTML, just code, just a page full of HTML. So you'd have to pronounce it like like a dial-up. Well, I also think it's like i don't think i think we need to get past the uh

fear of being unoriginal because it's not like memes or the internet come up with a better idea than uh we did because uh i've been saying this for years because the internet came up with a better ending to Harry Potter than JK Rowling did. And I think she saw that ending on like in the chat boards and was like, Oh no, that can't be the ending. Same thing with Twilight. Writers should just embrace the fact that their fans, like a thousand fans thinking about the same plot,

A thousand fans thinking about the same plot, like one of them is going to come up with a better ending than you, and a thousand fans thinking about your baby name, one of them is going to come up with a better baby name than you. So just go with it. We have reached the singularity, and the singularity is just our collective hive mind on the internet. We should name all our children Taylor. Taylor!

And we will all be Taylor. That would be like the most fucking wild thing she could do is be like, her name's Taylor. Hey, Taylor. What's up, Taylor? Nothing much, Taylor. West World is trending. There's a new trailer out. Marshawn Lynch is apparently in it.

I watched it. That's fascinating. I did not see him, but he's apparently in this season of the show. Good for him. Like, I've been super, I've been really into all the Westworld season three trailers. I was into Westworld seasons one and two. I'm not sure if I'm going to enjoy this. Like, I don't know if this season's going to work because it just totally violates all

the rules of the first two seasons. And it's, you know, there's a part of you, if you watch the first two seasons of Westworld, it all takes place inside this like artificial world. That's like an amusement park mixed with a virtual reality, mixed with like a weird place where you can kill and torture. Sounds like our office. Hey, watch out now.

That's been my time. There's part of you that wanted them to escape into the present day because you wanted to see what it actually looked like. But it's just a completely new show now that has nothing to do with... I mean, I guess it'll have some of the same themes because it's being

written and performed by the same people. It's almost like anthology-like where it changes same themes because it's being written and performed by the same people. But the whole it's like almost like anthology like where it changes. No, it's not. It's it's following the same characters. But robots who were inside this like amusement park that was like a self-contained world that was set in the Old West have escaped now and they live in this like future world. Oh, OK. You know, Marshawn Lynch Lynch hometown legend for us so we uh

we stan yeah I'm so young we have no choice yeah uh and it also has Jesse from Breaking Bad and I'm not sure how I feel about that well he can only play one role now since he did Jesse I've noticed yeah just like angry guy who the world never gave a chance. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I will be watching. I'm just not sure how confident I feel heading into season three. Well, that's been this week. That's been this Friday.

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26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeartTrue Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts. Delicious cuisine and even lucha libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask,

a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of lucha libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of lucha libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the U.S. elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. But in a new, hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share what the science really shows.

That we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. Tune into my podcast each week to hear me and my friends in the community break down the latest matches, including the US Open. Plus hear from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief.

And once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.