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June 18, 2025 22 mins

In this edition of Operation Trendert Storm, Jack and Miles discuss the NYC Mayoral race, Ozzy Osbourne selling his DNA (feat. Liquid Death), the Tennessee ban on gender affirming care,  the corporate Juneteenth exodus, the California Anti-Mask ICE bill, the new Bruce Springsteen biopic and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
We're looking at. Seems seems like good things we talk
about on tomorrow's episode. Give a little much needed content.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Good news for warmongers.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
That's right, that's right. Man. The defense company people with
a lot of money invested in defense contractors, they are
having a they're having a good one. They're having all
off today. Anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien. That over there
is mister Miles Gray. These are some of the things
that are trending. Let's see. Let's start with let's start

(01:03):
with the mayoral race, because what's happening there. So Zorn
narrowed some some say even overtook Cuomo and saw the
polling poles don't mean shit, as we've as we learned
last time that we covered an election. But it does
seem like just in terms of overall name recognition, he's

(01:25):
he's making progress. How's the new York Times of the
mainstream media dealing with the fact that it looks like
this guy might have a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh, I understand, who knows, they're probably slamming him. I
just can't, I was saying earlier, I can't stop saying
Zorn's name in my mind, as if I'm like the
too much tuna fish guys like the oh hello, oh,
my good friend Zordani. It just I can't. It's stuck
in my fucking mind.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
That is a brain parasite that I have for anybody
named John. Like I have a good friend John Edward
than I always called Jin Edwards.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh you do, Yeah, yeah, I just I.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Can't not pronounce any John's as gin.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Wait, so wait, you're friends with disgraced former Senator John Edwards.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Disgraced is like a very strong word.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, controversial.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Learning lessons former Senator Jesus Yeah different, different to different
Jen Edwards.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
But no. The early voting apparently has been really, really
off the charts. Apparently, early voting in New York's mayor
waste doubles from twenty twenty one, with young people getting
out there.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Don't vote for fucking Andrew, probably all out there excited
to vote for Andrew Cuomo. Yeah, yeah, and everybody, the
youngs they love.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Them, No, they don't anyway, but yeah, please, let's let's
hopefully see some some new ideas injected into one of
the great American cities in terms of a mayoral candidate.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Let's do a bullshit story, shall we? Yeah, we talk
about you can you can buy hands of Ozzy Osbourne's DNA.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
What does that mean? Like it's a whole can filled
with his DNA.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
With his jiz. Yeah, I have to assume. Well, I mean,
what else does the DNA? No, no, I'm sorry, it's.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Enough true crime right to know it's only semen is
the only way that we can really get to the
bottom of.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
The inside of the crime scene speckled with the killers DNA.
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath are supposedly playing their final
show next month.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Should they keep mick ribbing their last show to people.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Every retiring rock band mc ribs that ship is like
and for the final time ever say goodbye forever to
the McRib right, which, by the way, the McRib you
can just you could buy twenty of them and just
keep them not even in the refrigerator just in your cupboard,
and they're they're not going to change at all. Now, Yeah,

(03:59):
other than the is going to be dead insects within
a five foot radius of them.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
But other than that, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Completely untouched, just a rib.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
It is completely impervious to germs or insects of any sort.
And time it actually stated it gets fresher as time goes. Anyways,
I forget what we were talking about. Ozzy Osbourne. We're
getting a bunch of unnecessary Ozzie merchandise, including a Where's
Waldo picture book called Where's Ozzy?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Where am I?

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Showing when somebody is just like kind of like sort
of has some things going on with regard to cognitive
decline and is like, you know, always seems to be wandering. Uh,
it's kind of weird to put them in a Where's
waldough asque picture book to be like, help literally help
us find Ozzy. We're worried about him.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Every time I see him, I'm like, don't don't make
him perform? Yeah, him lay down. It's like Diane Feinstein,
You're like, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (05:08):
What are you that.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Elderly person in a horizontal position in comfort.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
The good people of Liquid Death are doing something that
requires none of his energy and selling empty cans that
contain Ozzy Osbourne's DNA but apparently just saliva.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
How do they just know? How do they even verify that?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Like, is there like a rank from the cans.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Saying like the crime hands? Yeah, yeah, they're doing crime
scene stolen.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
And then the cans went for four hundred and fifty
dollars each and immediately sold out.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Do you know who bought them? Canas Cameron, Yeah, that's right,
she's getting this devil shit off the streets, right, you
know they're cursing all the canes.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
We talked about on one of the recent episodes Candae Camera,
So I forget what Like it turns out it was
like two years ago.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Guys, Ozzie passed away seven years ago, kids.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Cavin both doesn't allow scary movies to be viewed in
her house because she recognized that her TV it opens
a portal up to the devil. And then was like,
and we were just talking about how Liquid Death they
curse their cans when they send it out. I don't
want to invite that bad energy. And then I don't
do that, bro, not on my fucking watch not now,

(06:26):
can't catch me sleep.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And say maybe he's christening.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Hell no, but you know they're cheeky. I'll say the
Liquid Death people are cheeky. And they encourage fans who
were able to snag one of the four hundred and
fifty dollars empty spit cans to clone Ozzy Osbourne and
enjoy him for hundreds of years into the future. Right,
which I feel like is I don't know, at the

(06:49):
very least, take a swab of his DNA and submit
it to like twenty three and me and see if
you know, see if he has long lost relative, See
if you committed any crimes, See if he's the Boston
strangler or some shit you know, you never know, could
be Banksy. And I do have I do have a

(07:11):
vial of Banksy spit that I'm just looking to find.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
On that authority that this is Banksy's spit.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
All right.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
The Supreme Court has upheld a Tennessee ban on gender
affirming care for you.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, really funned up. This is just such a fucking
blow to trans be especially trans youth and their parents
now trying to figure out how they, you know, help
their children and advocate for them. The thing everyone. Again,
we are absolutely not the people to really tell you

(07:45):
about the legalese involved in how this case broke down.
But the simple version, all the Republicans obviously were like, Yep,
we're gonna uphold the ban. A lot of commentators who
have much higher levels of expertise versus mind which is
none our point out how just like legally fucking backwards,
this decision is like a lot of people describe it

(08:06):
as they went the conservative judge or let's just the
Republican justices, we're basically like, well, we know, just ideologically
we are not going to do anything that would advocate
for trans youth or trans people. So let's figure out
we're going to start from no, and then we'll try
and contort our legal minds on a justification for why

(08:27):
this is no, which is what is being pointed out
by the you know, democratically appointed justices or just like
what the like doesn't even fucking makes sense, like what
they're saying, like their arguments are completely backwards. But again,
the coolness is the point here. Yeah, And this is
all while also the Health and Human Services talked about
how they will also be taking down the suicide hotline. Uh,

(08:50):
so this is all just a lot of fucking terrible
things just coming to pass simultaneously, and all during Pride Month,
which I'm sure is not an accident. Yeah, just yeah,
this is specifically the suicide prevention line for LGBTQ youth.
You know, like this is just it's yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Very make sure we're not taking care of our most vulnerable,
most at risk citizens.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
And again but when you target them instead, yeah, when
you put that through the lens of American white supremacy,
it's going to be, oh, our most vulnerable are white
people from South Africa that we must that's right.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, but that's what the overall ethos of fascism is.
And just when you when you do any amount of
research on what it means for trans youth to get
gender affirming care, and just like how you know, vital
official vital, that is, it's it's impossible to view this
as anything other than just a fucking complete tragedy and

(09:48):
an attack on a whole group of people.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Look, if you're not white, cis hat, you know, just
don't even bother asking for rights.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, yeah, yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
We'll be right back, and we're back we're back.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
We talked, Uh, friends, I can't fucking stand.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I was oh yeah, Juneteenth, juneenth, rather the corporate fucking exodus,
the corporate cowardice around guventeenth.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, we talked about how it recently happened for Pride,
where they stopped sponsoring all the Pride events. You know,
they being like Fortune five hundred companies just trying to
be like, we don't want to get in trouble, We
don't want to draw any attention.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
By supporting people.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, that's like, that's what we used to do. These
days were more in the like lay the fuck low
and smile and nod when Trump looks at us.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, laylo and by crypto. That's kind of our thing,
right now, that's what we're going for. But yeah, Juneteenth
celebrations across the country are also facing the same corporate
cowardice bullshit. For example, in Denver, more than a dozen
companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which
is like one of the city's biggest Juneteenth celebrations, and

(11:21):
a lot of analysts out there are like, well, you know,
it's not just racism that's holding us back. It's also
like the economic uncertainty.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
June teenth in this economy mind yeahctly, Oh my god,
it's exactly what they're fucking saying, Like they're trying to
make it this fiscal argument when there's plenty of, plenty
of data to show that even in trying uncertain times,
companies found the fund somewhere to help financially support these celebrations.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
And you know, local governments though, are also in on this.
They're just trying to set the clock back to eighteen
sixty four with they're scaling back of Juneteenth events. The
Governor's office in West Virginia quote stated that the state
won't be hosting any Juneteenth events this year for the
first time since twenty seventeen, due to a budget deficit.
Yeah okay again, they said, due to the continued fiscal

(12:13):
challenges facing West Virginia state government, will not be sponsoring
any formal activities. City council members in Scottsdale, Arizona, dissolved
their DEI office in February. Well, what happened in late January?
What happened which led to the cancerbite comedies?

Speaker 1 (12:28):
I think, yeah, yeah, oh, that's when the economy got that.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
This isn't all of you just fucking bending over backwards
to accommodate Trump's bullshit, And I think, like.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
How long do we have for MLK Day at this point?
You know, like these fuckers are gonna probably change it
to Djay Day.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, you know they've tried to constantly tear down MLK
like they've.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Been losing sleep about that shit since like eighty one.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, you know, it's on the menu for them.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think there was a certain neoliberal train of thought
that was like, and this is why the market makes
sense because you can't you can't fuck with like that.
That all these Fortune five hundred companies wouldn't dare do
something backwards, like ethically backwards, because it would be bad
for business. And this just shows they are just they

(13:18):
go with whatever the fucking flow is.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
They're like, do you want you want travel manifests for people?
You can just like scoop up and can.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, well, whatever profitable, whatever is in power, that's that's
the direction that the money flows.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
You knew that the second they saw Trump winning and
this like red shift that occurred that all the corporations said, okay, dude,
where it is nineteen ninety eight, Now, okay, got it?
Got it got it. But then you juxtapose that with
the amount of people who are actually out in the
streets protesting against Trump, then they're like, oh shit, maybe

(13:52):
they're and then target they're still getting slammed with boycotts.
Maybe you can talk to the fucking people before you
fucking bend over backwards for Trump. But anyway, there's please
you know, there's plenty of great Juneteenth events around you.
I'm sure the one of them Luhmbert Park is fantastic
in La.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
There you go bending over backwards like that guy going
into the MRIR and and final Destination cat scan. There
is a anti mask bill being proposing California for ICE agents,
you know, just having to do with the problems that
we've been talking about this week, like the fact that
people not in uniform just playing close, people with masks

(14:33):
on are rolling up on people and abducting them into
unmarked cars and uh. But when being asked about that,
like everybody's getting real indignant on that side, which is weird.
And with regards to this legislation, a lot of people
on the riter like this is an attack on ICE,

(14:54):
but they're already there's already legislation happening around masks in
in this case, it's because they want to target people
who are protesting the killing of innocent people in Gaza.
Last year, some jurisdictions, yes, last year, some jurisdictions dusted
off anti mask laws that were passed in the nineteen

(15:15):
forties and fifties to combat the I'm not sure how
to pronounce this ku Klux Klan is that. I think
I've heard of them.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
They went away, right, they were? Yeah, they went away,
didn't that?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, America's great. America's great.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now we saw on in operator larp and pull guns
on people and put them into unmarked bands.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Just took off the pointy top. I'm just going to
throw something out here, and they hired the Pepsi logo
rebran people. Yes, just lop off that pointy top regular mask.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Where like camouflage, look kind of like, you know, a
militia member. And I think people are gonna go for
this dang thing.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Man, yes, man Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Anyways, hopefully that goes through because or like anything that
requires them to identify themselves while they're kidnapping people at gunpoint.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's obviously part of the chaos.
I'm sure that DHS doesn't care because, like you see
the potential for something going totally awry. Yeah, with someone
trying to fucking swoop you or your family member up.
They're not saying who the fuck they are in a
country that is this like armed, I don't know, man,
like it's they're just so It's feels so fucking precarious

(16:39):
now and now yeah in LA everyone's like, man, you
might as well. People are just like fucking walking around.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Their passports now, yeah you have to.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, like there was this, Yeah, there's just so many
you see. You hear so many stories. You read so
many stories, and like local papers and stuff and local
journalists talking about it like I'm a fucking US citizen,
but because my name is more ethnically sounding, like like
Mexican or whatever, someone from from Latin America that they're
immediately like, I don't care that you were born here

(17:07):
and are talking to me in English. Your name sounds brown,
and I don't believe your passport. Like it's fucking terrible
out here.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, it does not seem like it's being done in
any official, organized capacity. It's just sending people out there
and being like if they look brown, snatch them off
the streets, you know.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Also, I just like there's this New York Times like
it's just ambient shit. Like the New York Times was
like recapping Trump's like wet part of a parade, and
they still say that he sent marines to La to
quell protests. They're like, this was all happening in the
you know, context of Donald Trump sending marines to quell,
and they kept saying quell protests, he sent them to

(17:48):
start a fight, Like that's yeah, saying fucking like quell
is just like such. I don't know, it's just the
liberal bias. New York Times just using the language that
the Trump administration is, you know, just speaking on the
same term.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
They're just at the absolute fiction. Yes, there was nothing
to quell. Therefore you trade up quell. Yes, unquellable. So
please don't try to quell meet.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Thank you all right. New Springsteen biopic. I'm actually reading
the book this biopic was based on, right now Springsteen
Deliver Me from Nowhere. Oh, it's about the making of Nebraska,
which is one of my favorite albums.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
And oh when you were talking about that when we
were all hanging out with Doug yesterday and you were
talking about the making of Nebraska. I thought you were
talking about the Alexander Payne movie, the.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Absolute classic Alexander Damn. Jack really likes the Alexander Payne movie. Nebraska. Anyways,
cool book and the movie's coming out, which is like,
I didn't realize that that's what the movie was based on,
but it's somehow based on him recording this like lo
fi thing in a bedroom. And there's also a bunch
of shots of the Jersey Shore right there. I think

(19:02):
I see the music here from Asian City.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I also didn't know that, like Donald Trump was so
mad at Force Springsteen. So the movie, the trailer I
thought looked pretty cool. Although there's one part where Jeremy Strong,
playing his agent, is like he's gonna this is gonna
fix him and then he's gonna fix the world. And
it's like, I don't know if we could say Bruce
Springsteen did that. He's pretty mainstream dem here, man.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
It sounds like something Jeremy Strong would say in real life.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, yeah, exactly about about an acting role, yeah or something.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
But he is he is.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Beefing with Trump right now.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
I remember that he.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Said uh, Springsteen said there's some very weird, strange and
dangerous shit going on out there right now, and Trump responded,
this dried out prune of a rocker parentheses his skin
is all atrophied. Ought to keep his mouth shut until
he gets back into the country. That's just standard fair. Uh,
then we'll all see how it goes for him exclamation point.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
So like real a specific old person dig like you, like,
you know about skin after feet if your skin is
after yeah, yeah, exactly, Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
But anyways, the performance looks what like he apparently the
guy So it's the guy from Chef. It's the guy
from the Bear, Jeremy Allen White playing.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Springs, the guy from Chef.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
It's the guy from Chef. It's the guy from Yes
Chef behind chef, John Favreau. Yeah, John Favreau playing Springsteen.
But he sounds like I was like, oh they got
him like lip synching. He sounds a lot like Springsteen.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
All right, So it passes the boss fan test in.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Terms of I feel like it does all right. I'm happy,
but yeah, this is and then the album after this
was born in the USA, so it's like this weird
lo fi album he released between his two like two
of his biggest albums. But yeah, like, like I said,
I don't know, his politics have always been like more
Biden then Bernie. Like he'll be like, yeah, Bernie is alright,

(21:03):
alright with me, but like he.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Endorsed like that Clinton.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Man, but that Clinton.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
What for real? Anyways? Uh? I thought the trailer looked
fun all right, great.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
H Jeremy Allen White. No, when I see him? Yeah,
please do I see him all over the valley?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
N Is he really?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh? I'm not joking. I crossed paths with him like
once every ten days for the last three months, like
at the grocery store, at this coffee shop. It's just
so funny to the point where like I feel like
pretty So I'm like, dude, I don't know what the
fuck's going on, but like we see each other like
way too much. Maybe we should like date or something.
I don't know, just think about it. Dude, I love

(21:42):
Chef Man great movie. Ye what you do like Manjaro
or something? Dude, you look great, bro, he does look
pretty good being in Chef After that, Dude, Oh does
that turnaround? Like, oh, that's John Favreau. Oh all right,
I'm all mixed up man.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Sorry. Those are some of the things that are trending
on this Wednesday, June eighteenth. We are back tomorrow with
a whole ass episode of the show that we're off
tomorrow afternoon and Friday. We're off for Juneteenth, So two
last episodes this week. Go, go celebrate, enjoy, enjoy your week.

(22:21):
We will talk to you all tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourself,
get the vaccine while you still can't get your flu shots,
don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk
to you all tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
We shift the Daily Zeite guys As Executive produced by
Catherine Law, co produced by Bay Wayne.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Co produced by Victor Wright

Speaker 1 (22:42):
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