The Daily Zeitgeist - Trendatouille 8/18: Nancy Mace, USS Lincoln, AI Book Eaters, ‘Field Of Dreams’, Hayden Panettiere

Episode Date: August 18, 2026

In this edition of Trendatouille, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss Nancy Mace’s new tattoos, USS Lincoln sailors having a rough time, “AI” companies buying up rare books and destructively scanning them, baseball for ghosts, the passing of Hayden Panettiere and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You're hired to fill the space. with you. Listen to Joy 101 with Hoda Kotby on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Trenda Tui, courtesy of Vanadium Silver. I did it twice, because I didn't have the trending title ready, and then the fact that that was the one that I was like, ah, there it is. Now we're ready. Trenda Tendi Tui. That is a classic, though. Ratatooey Trenda Trenditoui. Tooie. That one courtesy of Vanadium Silver, one of the short show trending title, Goats. My name's Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Blake Wexler. That's sack of rats over there. We call it Blake Wexler. That thing.

What am I even looking at? Is it like, Lord, it's barely breathing. I mean, appropriate for Trenda towey. I agree. a rat, you know? I agree with that. I agree. That was appropriate. What I said. Interesting. No, I'll say I will actually, on this occasion, agree with you on that one. I think it was appropriate. You're right. You're right. Brilliant comedian, writer, actor, your special daddy long legs, people need to go watch right now. Would you agree with that? Yeah, yeah. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a puk. They gave it a

ratings. They gave it a single gunshot fired in the air. quietly on a pull out show the cabin single gunshot paid to black yeah I don't know what they're doing over there it seems like Jesus guys yeah I thought the tomato thing was perfect but I don't know Blake it's our first time being on together I believe since the big announcement that I that I think made both of us say what the fuck is happening. All right. What the,

what, sorry. Yeah, what in the heck is happening here? Thank you. With LeBron James deciding to join our Philadelphia 76ers. First, earlier in the summer, got a great trade from the Celtics,

a trade that I think we won. I'm going to go out and say we won. Because Paul George, not that great. And then LeBron James chooses us, and this is the point at which I start saying, oh, they're nice try guys.

You're setting me up for an even bigger failure. Yeah, this is their final swing. They haven't tried this yet. They haven't tried actually putting a life completely out of our bodies. We were like doing little like movements on the ground. And so they're like, what if we like got them,

like raised them up real, real high? And then dropped them from a great. height. What if we actually assembled an incredible team? That'll get, we haven't done that yet. We haven't tried that. No. Because in my heart of hearts, every season, I have known deep down, like this is not going to work out. We're not getting out of the second round at best. And it will fail. In a way that we previously were not able to comprehend how horrendous and just knife to the gut, you know, turning it would be. Yeah. And I was just down in Ocean City, our muse, the muse that we share, the sober island,

as we call it. That's where I was when the news broke, Blake. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And did you say that you saw LeBron shirts, like, immediately on the boardwalk? Is that what I heard? Yeah.

The day it broke, there were LeBron James shirts on the boardwalk, and I bought four. I bought five. I'm sorry. I bought two for each of my kids, two for my nephews, a one. one for myself. One for each of my starting five on my basketball team. Exactly. I was just down there.

They were going to a basketball. They were going to a, my nephews were going to a basketball camp the next day. They wore their LeBron shirts and they said everybody had LeBron shirt, like the whole camp within less than 24 hours, which is how you treat our king, LeBron James. Okay. I couldn't agree more.

And none of them, by the way, officially licensed. All of them horribly, horribly knocked off. and sometimes well knocked off. Yes. Or it's like there is no discernible difference. I think products, we will not start the episode. I think the quality of so much merch

is so poor these days that I now seek out knockoffs because the quality is better than the actual thing. Oh yeah, yeah. Because they're not, yeah. So that's what I'm doing. Anyways.

Oh yeah, hello the internet. Did I not say that? My name is Jacob, whatever is Blake Weikwip. So, like, quite, pardon.

And this is the episode where we tell you what is trending on this Tuesday, August 18, 2026.

Nancy May Scott tattoos, my first reaction of this story was, who gives a shit? Mm-hmm. And my best

Adam say on their voice. But, so what I didn't realize is, she got them all at once. Okay.

She, she, she, went into a tattoo parlor at age 48 or however she old she is without tattoos and was like make me look like I'm in a late 80s hair metal band like just get me out with the same yeah um so I don't know but I'm not here to judge I am here to you know just check in as a friend look Nancy there's a lot of people in this room who care who who are crazy about you. And we're just

worried, is all I'm going to say. Because some of these quotes from her, one of the quotes on her tattoos is Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself by Virginia Woolf,

who walked into a river with her pockets filled with stones. And she also said that the tattoo, she told Politico, she got the tattoos because of the pain that I need to feel, which also sounds tough.

Yeah. It's like giving divorced dead, going through a midlife crisis, energy, but then there are like just these little moments where it's like, Jesus. Jesus. My God. This is dark.

God, Nancy. You couldn't get like a Snoopy or something. It's dark literature on your head on your body. She told Politico back in February, got the tattoos in rapid succession after firing most of her staff. So it's like their tear drops for abusing your staff is like kind of. You and I have always had that phrase where never get tattoos after a breakup and never get tattoos after firing your entire staff.

Yeah. And not in that order, by the way. Yes. Interchangeable. She, this is just, I first found out about her for, you know, her. her mega psycho beliefs, but also for the way that she treated her staff. Like there was a expose in New York magazine. It was like one of those times when they're like, oh, my God, did you read the expose

about Nancy Mace? I was like, I don't know, I don't know who this is, but it better be juicy. If I'm reading an exposee about somebody that I don't care about, it better be juicy. And it was. It's not Ellen, you know. It's like, oh, my God. one's horrible to her staff. It's like,

yeah, I can see this. This person was horrible beliefs is horrible to her staff. But it was an interesting. She, like, would berate them if they didn't get her on multiple, like cable access,

or not cable access, cable talking head shows per day. She would make them create burner accounts to go at anyone talking trash about her. And also would make them deliver tequila to her at 2 a.m. So she's not totally uncool. but um right yeah see yeah seems like things are going well yeah she just didn't know about postmates right which i think that is what happens to like so many of these services that have been invented are

essentially like what celebrities have had for years with personal assistance it's like you know car service and like having things delivered to your house in the middle of the night that's so well put that is what it is. Yeah, or like, we all just want to be little celebrities. Yeah, I want to live in a fancy house for a little while. So I'm going to go, I mean, back when Airbnb, you know, this was a tenable situation. Yeah, that's right.

I want to live in. Back before there was just a guy, you know, you turn on the light. It's like, oh, sorry, there's just a guy with a gun. He sits in the dark. He won't hurt you. He's vacant behind the eyes. Oh, is that a problem for you? Yeah.

Yeah. And there is no central air. We would have mentioned both of those things. We didn't think that that would be a problem for you. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What else we got?

We got families of the USS Lincoln, the sailors who have been deployed for, I don't know, it's like some sort of record length of a deployment in, you know, they're supposed to, they're engaged protecting the straight of Hormuz. And people are like, don't you think they've been there for too long? like they they they they keep taking pictures of their food and it's just like a brown like it looks like a burnt hot dog cut lengthwise Jesus um and Donald Trump said uh something to the effect of uh I actually think they've not been there long enough actually instead of just being like we're we're working to get bring them home they've been there for to you just like, you know the correct thing that you said? I'm going to go the totally opposite way and be more wrong than ever.

Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. It's so not funny. It's just so crazy. How it's just like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's amazing. It's amazing how he's so wrong. Yeah, he'll double down.

If he's wrong about something, he will double and triple down. He will. if only the people who are negotiating against him had figured that oh wait everybody knows that and just use that against him to their advantage all the time and that's why we're the the worst country in the world as long as it's not the democratic party right everyone else they they haven't quite figured that out no no but yeah they're this mpr article uh like they ask the Pentagon about the horrible conditions. And the Pentagon is bright.

They're like, okay, first of all, yes, there have been some mental health situations that have required medical attention. Nobody has died. So get off that. Also, they haven't, they haven't missed a meal. It's like, damn, man. You guys are really, really killing it. I think that's true of most prisons is that you're not supposed to let them miss a meal.

It's what qualifies as food is the problem. Yeah, exactly. Trying to get by on a technicality of not having missed a meal. God, that's so scary. I went on, I don't remember when this was earlier this year, because my wife is still pregnant. It was one of the thousands of times my wife has been pregnant. Yeah.

It's been pregnant. It had to only be. It was like in December or something. We went to this ship, this aircraft carrier in Charleston, South Carolina. the name of of which escapes me. But it's, you can like go like just walk around it. And it is the,

if you have any claustrophobia whatsoever, it is the most harrowing, which I don't and I was still nervous where you go, it's like a city. It's a mini city, but you're in this, there's no windows, you're in this tin box.

The air circulation is like, not what you would want it to be if you're with thousands of like, you know, other, I'm trying to avoid the word SEA. M-E-N. Sailors.

Sailors. Yeah, sailors. Yeah, sailors. Excuse me. And, um, but it is like, and I can't imagine. That was just like fighting to get out. That was lightning bolts hitting my brain and in preventing me from being able to speak. Just say the word, Blake.

Just say the word. No, they're not sailors. They're war sailors. That's right. Um, sailors of war. But no, I can't imagine being cooped up in something like. that for a second longer than you have to be. I, my eldest for his, he's very, he's very into World War II.

We went and stayed overnight on the USS, uh, not the enterprise. That's the one from Star Trek. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but one of the, one of the aircraft carriers down in San Diego. And yeah, we like slept in those. little things where you just like have to like back in sideways. And you stay there for a whole night.

You stay there overnight. Yeah, it was like. Oh my God. To like it was a high or sorry, a middle school and an elementary school on a field trip. And then my, my family because my son is so obsessed with the Navy. And yeah, it was fun.

It was like very impressive. It did it did make me have the. thought like, man, when people have like organization and like resources, they can do amazing things. It's just such a shame that the thing that we put all our resources and human, you know, energy and intelligence towards is killing things. Yes. Only thing. It's if only we target that, targeted that elsewhere would be huge. Yeah. There's also a viral image going around. that is supposedly like from one of the aircraft carriers

in the Gulf that has a bunch of people writing things like Project Epstein Fury and just things very critical. Oh, I saw that. Yeah. It still hasn't been confirmed. It does feel like the equivalent of like the critical of MAGA equivalent

of some of of those pieces of graffiti that came out during the Black Lives Matter protest where people were like, this one is written in cursive and says, Black's rule.

I was like, that's not actually how graffiti works, man. So I'm not sure. It is making the rounds, but I don't know if we've discovered yet whether that's actually been carved into the dust

on that particular thing or if that that is a work of AI. We shall see. We'll find out for sure. It was the USS Yorktown, by the way, was the ship. Oh, that you went to? Yes. In terms of what we're hearing from the actual families of sailors, they don't seem to be super excited to be stuck over there.

So the sentiment might actually, whether that image is AI or not, the sentiment might actually be pretty accurate. But let's take a quick break, shall we? And we'll come back and keep talking about the news. We'll be right back. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pasto survive the first bite?

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And you know what I'm fucking tired of? Say it. Books. Aren't they? Tell me something. Tell me someone's doing something about this. Please tell me. Her friendly neighborhood, AI companies have got us covered.

We made reference to this yesterday. I think Michael Swam. our guest this morning, I actually was talking about it, but I don't think we had necessarily covered the story in detail that, um, so we, we had covered the anthropics practice of buying up rare books in order to chop them up and scan them for AI training data, um, and that an internal planning document was unsealed by a judge as part of a copyright lawsuit revealing Anthropics. Project Panama was, quote, an effort to destructively scan. all the books in the world and that the document specifically noted, quote,

we don't want it to be known that we are working on this. So their internal documents said it's an effort to destructively scan all the books in the world and we don't want to be, we don't want it to be known that we are working on this. It's so apocalyptic. It's like they're destroying all the teddy bears in the world. You know, like just the most, ugh. But then we store their cuteness and sell it back to parents whose children are turning,

they are physically turning gray from the absence of teddy bears. And we don't want it to be known that we're working on this. So shut up. Yes. Don't tell anyone. Brian the editor has a very valid question. Why do they have to destroy the books? Why they can't just scan and release the books?

and there are two factors that people think are going on. One is that to actually turn the pages of the book and scan the pages of the book would take a little extra work and be less cost effective. And so they're cutting the spine and then they can just like, you know, take the pages into the scanner

and get, you know, so they're destroying the book in order to make the scan. ending cheaper and faster. But then there's also the idea that these corporations, if they're destroying these rare books, they're now the people who are the only people who have a record of the books, which gives them more power over the flow of information,

essentially. And so if nobody sees that they're doing this, then why not? You know, why not just destroy everything so that you have more power? And I think the third reason was that if you destroy the book, you can remove its soul is another reason why they want to do it. Because if you leave the book, even dismembered,

it still retains the soul. But to cut off its spine, again, wild fucking language, it destroys the soul of the book. Just rip its spine out. Yeah, it's most helpful to just view these people as, like a bad guy in a movie being struck by lightning going, I can feel it. I'm getting more powerful.

Anyways, 404 Media was able to work with a used bookseller because they're like, well, if Anthropics doing this, like they can't be the only ones who had this brilliant idea. They're just the ones who are worse at keeping the secret. So they put an air tag in one of their, shipments that was being sold by a used bookseller. And it eventually ended up at a Las Vegas Amazon facility where workers are tasked with

destructively scanning books. Jesus. And the unit even has their own logo, which is an AI generated T-Rex holding a book. It's called VGT3, which the fuck knows what that stands for. Yeah. Which is actually the scariest part of all this is what does that mean? Yeah. So it's like, ah, we, we consume your books.

We eat them up. Nom, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num. Um, so yeah. And of course, the T-Rex, and that doesn't have the right amount of claws. Just like AI makes the worst amount of fingers on it. Yeah. He has two claws on one hand and then kind of three-ish on the other. Yeah.

Anyways. Um, but that, that will be fixed once they've, um, consumed and destroyed every copy of war and peace. They'll be able to get the right number of claws or not. It seems like the problem with numbers might just be an unfixable bug. They'll never fix. I know somebody's really into clawed and they're like, yeah, it's just, it's weird because it's bad with numbers and dates.

I was like, well, that's kind of a big fit for something that's your personal, assistant. Like, that seems bad. Oh, you mean a third of the stuff on Earth? Yeah. His numbers and dates. The main organizing principle for the entirety of human life? Yeah. Yeah. Did you watch the Field of Dreams game? Yeah. So I saw this story and I felt like, why are we trashing the thing that made my August? Why are we making fun of the thing that I got the most out of this entire month? Of course I did.

Yes. And the Phil's. I loved. Obviously, the Phillies were in it. So I loved it. Is it hokey? Yes. Did I completely misremember what that movie was?

I did for sure. I'm like, wait, what is the Black Sots scandal? What is going on with this? It seems like a, like, the movie seems like a dream someone had that, like, you then forget. It's such a weird premise. It's so weird. Yes. Yes.

Brian, Brian said, baseball for ghosts. is essentially, yeah, it's a ghostball. It's ghostball. So I don't think this is why. Say your smut. Say your smut. Say your smut. I watched it too because we had done a story about it and like the amount of work

that went into creating this field right by the field of dreams where the movie was filmed. And so I checked it out. Also, at this time of year, I have. have spent two weeks in a row with my dad whose life revolves around catching the Phillies game, you know, that's a big part of his life, how the Phillies are doing.

He's given everybody updates. Nobody's asking, but he's like, no one's asking. Phil's are down 3-1 and the set, you know, but it's- 162 games.

It works. It's effective. I come away from my time with my dad and I am like checking the Philly score for basically the rest of the season. So I was watching this one. My kids were in, to it. We were not in, there weren't that many people doing this. It averaged 1.6 million viewers

on Netflix, which is down from 2022's 3.1 and the first game was watched by 5.9 million people. So it seems like it's like kind of going down by half. And I don't think this is why fewer people are watching, but a number of baseball fans were kind of weirded out that the tribute to a movie about baseball players who were banned for life after gambling was plastered with ads for betting apps. Yeah. Polymarket fendul. Yeah. Just everywhere.

I thought they did a nice job with it. The thing that weirded me out is that they put a promo together during the All-Star game, where they're essentially asking baseball players who are the, as a demographic, probably the least creative people in the entire, not a creative bone in their bodies. to like act kind of. And they're not really filled in on really what's going. So they're supposed to like, all right, walk out, put your hands on your hips, look around. And it just looked very, I think they were asking a little too much.

A little too much out of the athletes. And then, so you're, you're actually emerging from the afterlife in this moment. Yes. You're walking out of the cornfield. You're emerging and you're feeling what it is to be alive again, Mike Prout. Yes. Yes. You are someone's son.

They are your father. You're also a father. You have a son. It's like a lot of weird father's son things going on. Here's the thing. Okay. Here's what I want you to be thinking about. Okay.

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. I will say baseball does seem to be the sport at which it can be an advantage to not have a lot going on behind the eyes. Yes, yes. Because it's such a, it's just like automatic. You just want to be,

you have to get up there and deliver without thinking, essentially. If you overthink it, you're fucked. Yes. And yes. So to then be like, these guys who are the best at

not thinking about things and just letting their God-given fast-twitch ability come through, be like, All right. Give us a emotionally complex moment here that really work. This whole moment hinges on your face.

Go. And it's live. Also, it's live. Just so you know, so you're going to get a second shot at it. Yeah. It was I, of course, looked into going, which I couldn't have been able to go because of the babies. But it is a pain in the ass to get to, which might make it a cool and even cooler thing

to go to where you have to fly into, I think maybe Cedar Rapids, Iowa. So I think, like, as a live event, that would be really fun because it's only 10,000 people can fit in there, whereas, like, a major league baseball game is probably around 30,000 generally, 32,000. But, yeah, as a live event, it would be cool. I don't know how the hell people get in and out. I don't know where a hotel. It kind of reminded me of, like, you know, like baseball, what's it called?

I was called it Mudville. Burning Man. Oh, Burning Man. Mudville. Mudville is a good name for it. Yeah, where you get stuck there. Like, you're fucked, you know,

because there's one road in, one road out. And it is a fully barter-based economy once you go there. You have to trade away your kids to go. You have to show up with eight gloves. That's right. Yeah, I don't, it feels like, yes, I think that's right. It feels cool to be there. there.

And, but as a televised event, you're just, the, the main shot that you're seeing in baseball is from over, like, somewhere in shallow left, you know, just like, a shot from over the pitcher shoulder at the bat and, like, the batter. And you can see the stands behind it. So it, like, doesn't give you any of the mysties. Like, you can't tell on TV that it's a smaller stadium. And then when they hit it into the outfields, you can see that there's like a little corn field back there.

But that's about it. When I'll make this quote, when we were playing baseball, when I played baseball growing up, we had like, there were just so many fields called field of dreams. And they were like varying degrees of shitty. And like it would often just be a field. Like there was no dream associated with it.

But there was this one that we would play on where it was like wheat growing in the back. So it wasn't corn. It was like, it was just like large reeds. And I remember someone spread a rumor. that there were just venomous snakes out there. And then whenever a ball would go back there, you know, like you would take turns getting the ball.

And it was always the most stressful thing in the entire world. Because I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go get this ball. I'll be a team player. I don't even play. I'm not good. And I'm going to get bit by what a cotton mouth or something back here. Like it was just one of these rumors that like pass from generation to generation of children that there were boys that at stakes.

The pool on the roof of the middle school and the poison of snakes out of them. Yeah. That's exactly right. Poisonous snakes in the outfield sounds like something that my baseball coach would have told me to keep me from sitting down which was the main problem they had with my baseball

I was both super into baseball and the worst little league baseball player of all time to the point that I once came home from a game where I had just made like foul tipped a ball and that was the closest I had gotten to getting a hit and so I just told my parents

I got a hit even though I just tipped it just got a foul out to it. You did hit it. I did. I wasn't wrong. One line about that. That line. And finally, sad news from the entertainment world, Hayden Penitier,

passed away at the age of 36 over the weekend. No cause of death has been given. But she starred in shows like Heroes and Nashville. I hadn't realized I haven't been up on my scream, but she appeared in Scream 4 and was such a fan favorite that even though she had died and Scream 4, they brought her back in Scream 6 and they were like, nah,

no, you were actually seeing things. She didn't die in that part. It's the ultimate compliment, I feel like, to be so, to just throw away plot, like, the most major plot points would be like, what are we going to miss this opportunity to bring her back? Yeah, exactly. Anyways,

RIP2, a real one. Those are the stories for August 18th. we're back tomorrow morning with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines, but you still can't get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy,

and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. The Daily Zykegeist is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. And edited and engineered by Brian Jeffries. If your bookshelf and your friends, for you page are equally important to your personality. Welcome home. Pro Society is a weekly podcast

that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture with your favorite writers, book talk creators, and plenty of overthought opinions. Yeah, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Listen to Pro Society on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I survived nine months in captivity, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the Survivor Files. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable, abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced.

These are stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Hoda Kotby, host of the podcast, Joy 101 with Hoda Kotby. You know, I'm always searching for inspiration and useful tools to maximize joy. Like when my friend Henry Winkler offered advice to aspiring actors and really anybody hoping to stand out. You're not hired just to fill time and space. You're hired to fill the space with you.

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