The Daily Zeitgeist - The Bone Trendple 1/28: Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sydney Sweeney, Hollywood

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

In this edition of The Bone Trendple, Jack and Miles discuss the attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sydney Sweeney vs. the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and much more! WATCH: Gia's sad song “Waking up in the morning” - The Real Housewives of New JerseySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of The Bones Trent Pole. Oh, that one courtesy of David Lesser, the bone Trenple. Hell yeah. A lot of people talking. That is an iconic title. The Bone Temple.

The Bone Temple. That's what they, I'm sure there was like a frat house that nicknamed themselves. Oh, my God. Temple or some shit. I doubt this is, you know, there's been some terrible. uses of the phrase bone temple. Oh my God. And this is instead of saying this is my bedroom where the magic

happens, they're now saying this is the bone temple where the magic happens. This is the bone temple and I am its most dedicated monk. My name is Jack O'Brien. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yeah.

And we're early today, man. We're early. Don't worry about us. morning. Thinking about so many things. Thinking about what's the thing we get. Speaking of bone. She sounds like she could be in bone thugs and harmony the way she's cramming those syllables in.

Packing those syllables in. I wish there was another, yeah. Jim packed. I wish there was another like a bar to say you're packing those syllables in, but it's really only a rapper who would be packing syllables in. But I open it up to Zite Gang, you're witty too. Who else would be packing syllables in that I can say? Anyway, where are we at?

What day is it? What a member of Congress has been assaulted? January 28th. She probably did it herself. She probably sprayed herself. Also, just speaking of rap flows, we are going to be talking about the Chuck E. Cheese, Lynn Manwell Miranda thing on tomorrow's episode.

I know everybody's here for that. They're like, how are they not talking about the number one story? No, if you have time before tomorrow's episode, check that video out because we're not gonna... It's really one that you have to like kind of watch the whole thing

to get the full but it's basically they fed the entirety of the Hamilton soundtrack into an AI and then had it create a Chuck E. Cheese rep about having a good day

and it's just it is it's wild. Anyway, brain injury, Lynn Manuel Miranda. It is brain injury. It does feel like, uh-oh,

the coma that I'm in. Yeah. Something's happening to my brain. It is melting. I'm, I may be headed toward the light soon. Hell yeah.

Fall off the skull tender. He has some good lines this week. I got to say, I'm a big fan. Big fan, Miles Gray. Presidimential. That's not the, actually, I looked. I'm not the first person to do that, which seems right, because it's right there.

But like I said, I don't want, I'm not taking. All artists are curators, you know? Exactly. Look, everything is a remix of a remix. That's right. Including this new Chucky Cheese video that everybody should go check out. But, and by the way, the thing, waking up in the morning,

because I didn't know that before yesterday, is a child on Real Housewives of New Jersey, whose dad is being like arraigned. And she's just singing her heart about like how things are difficult. But it's like clearly written by a nine year. Yeah, yeah. It's so good. Going through some things. We'll throw that in the footnotes of today's episode.

And just so you know, she's done it many times. Oh, yeah? She's just like saying it multiple times. She even, she, she's at birthday parties doing that? She even, there was like a clothing line that she started called waking up in the morning. Hey, it just, look, not our best ideas. Like, you might as well, cash in. When you just hit me with the, waking up in the morning.

Dude, that's got the, hmm. Yeah. I'm going to miss everybody. And I'm going to miss that. I do wonder if she was a fan of Crossroads. Must be. I feel like it's the influences are crossroads. There's a little trapped in the closet if that had come out at that time.

Yeah. Because it's just like sort of that blank verse. Look, I don't want to say this is another example of white people stealing black culture. But look, I'll save my judgment. I want to know the full story first. But it does feel derivative. Gea. A little derivative.

All right. We have some news. to get to uh, Ilhan Omar was attacked by what appeared to be like a, a drunk mega guy who had slept in his clothes for the past three days. You, you might be right.

You might be right. And she's giving a speech about how the, the fucking ice evil doers must be brought to justice. Yes. And then some fucking maga scroat just pulls up like, yeah, as a syringe full of some yellow liquid that he sprayed all over her. I think as of now,

we still don't know what it was. The one thing that people did say was it stunk like shit. And yeah, he was quickly tackled and, you know, it looked like she'll fucking cocked her fist back like she was going to sleep on this dude. Before he's tackled by her security, she walks towards him with her fist back.

Like she's about to whoop this dude's ass. Right. Which I just want to contrast that with how like Remember when that guy fainted in front of Trump And RFK And Trump like just kind of went into a fugue state And started like looking at the cameras

And RFK ran out of the room Yeah like it was an AN1 mixtape or some shit You just saw a terrible crossover Yeah it was bad But this is the thing that they can't handle On the right is like courage And people yeah You know like that I

But there's been a lot of Takes that really resonated with me about how the thing that they couldn't take about Alex Prady was that he was a courageous person looking out for someone else. Right. I mean, it's yeah. In those examples you gave like the guy, the

pharmaceutical dude passing out in the oval and then Ilhan Omar, we just saw literally the three response, the three responses that we have, fight, flight, or freeze. Yeah. So you have fight from Omar, flight from RFK and freeze from Donald Trump.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's I mean, I think, yeah, her courage is obviously, you know, being the center, being a Somalian, being a Somalian in Minnesota with all this bullshit happening right now and the president constantly, constantly attacking. And your community was always going to lead to some shit like this. But again, this guy's like, she probably sprayed herself. Have you read your own fucking? Well, no. But I don't know. I'm not talking to him.

One thing we should talk about is this guy, Andy Casmeric, who is the first. person who attacked her. Apparently, he was like yapping to his friends and neighbors for days about how he was going to do something dumb at this event. This is from the Daily Beast quote. Kelly recounted Casmeric's behavior in the days leading up to the confrontation in Minneapolis. He said that Casmeric had asked Kelly to mind his dog and suggested he might get in trouble. But he said, I'm going to this Omar thing. I'm like, Omar what? He said, this town hall thing. And he said, I might get arrested. The neighbor says, I figured it was nonsense. He wasn't going to do anything stupid. I said, sure, I'll walk her

talking about the dog. But then the next day he said, don't worry about it. I've got it covered. I figured he blew it off. They also said that he's been like on opioids because he had a back injury and was diagnosed with Parkinson's recently. This guy's got like, it's like one of these

things where you have somebody who des, like I'd imagine could use a bit of empathy. Oh yeah. These people are in hell. That shit turns into this other thing because the like the concern conservative ethos right now, the right wing ethos is to dead your sense of empathy completely and to never ever admit that you are vulnerable is the other huge thing that doesn't get talked

about enough. These people never, ever talk about a vulnerability. Because they show it as weakness rather than a sign of humanity that may- They're going to be laughing at me. Yeah, exactly. I need a help, but I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to go darker into the fucking abyss. And then get arrested at a town hall event. Yeah. There was a, did you see the footage from the Mar-Lago party the night Alex Prady was murdered with like all their like showgirls in balls

floating on pools? Like I mean this is every, every night basically in Mar-a- Yeah, yeah. But like it's just Yeah. Yeah. It's they can't they can't help but reveal who they are. They keep doing it. You know? Yeah. Well, I mean, I think that's the one thing about

what, especially with Minnesota and seeing how they were rebuffed by the people's sense of solidarity. is that it just laid waste to the idea that for all these MAGA freaks who thought, all right, I think we've got a mandate to completely brutalize human beings. Let's go for it. And then they quickly realize, oh,

we're so in the minority. But we thought maybe these people would be pushovers. But holy shit, we are actually the ones lacking deeply. We are terribly outnumbered in terms of people's morality and sense of, you know, who to stick by, which again,

And I think the whole Alex Prattie things feels retaliatory. And not to mention, there's reports that he had a previous interaction with ICE a week before that where they broke his rib. Jesus Christ. So there's just so much more texture. But again, it's so much of it isn't rooted to your point of like these just fucking debased freaks realizing how just outnumbered they are. And now they're just thrashing to try and make it all work. And they all scattered once they shot them 10 times. They all ran away.

Also, Representative Maxwell Frost was punched at an event in Utah by some mega guy. Yeah. Tell us all about the paid agitators and the radical freaks, the liberals who are trying to attack people. But it doesn't make, it's not the point. They say this because they just have to say the thing to not cross the Rubicon with their followers and say, guys, we're pieces of shit who fucking hate these guys, okay? And that's it. But they still want to pretend like there's still some sense of propriety to it all.

By the way, they better be testing whatever the fuck he spread it. I mean, it might be just his piss or whatever, but like... I'm sure they've tested. I mean, the whole thing was they're like, we have to get you to the hospital. Yeah. You need to get, we need to check this out because we don't know what the fuck this guy had. That's just fucking scary as hell. Her also, her words right after, I think it's worth hearing her actually speak because

they were trying to whisk her a way. way to be like, I'm sorry, like, I'm sure the protocol is like, the second somebody jumps and tries to break the fourth wall, you're like, we're out of here. Um, but she's like, hold on. Let me just say this shit. One, like, she's like, I'm not going to fucking let these people win. Here is the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand. We are Minnesota strong and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw in us. Before she was crazy, there's this moment. She's like arguing with her security detail.

Yeah. She's like, just let me fucking, just let me speak. Don't fucking let these people win like this. Again, yeah, you wish more people had some kind of conviction like that. Yeah, that fight and that courage. That's what is needed at this moment. It's why like she, honestly, the way she pulled her hand back, which she's like, the, I mean, me, the old Ilhan was like, I'm fucking swinging.

And then she's like, I'm also representative Ilhan Omar. Yeah, so you take a step back. Yeah, you handle that. It was dope. One thing on just the sort of overall what's happening in Minnesota, because I kept hearing these stories of a judge who is, who's got some words for the Trump administration. They got some explaining to do.

Yeah. And people are like, I've never seen a judge like so furious in like an official opinion of him like, you know, about the ICE action. Well, when you juxtapose that, with what ICE has been doing to get that judge to that point. Yeah. Yeah. This guy isn't acting out of turn.

This, the fucking administration is. But that guy is a former Scalia clerk. He's like Amy Coney Barrett's mentor. Right. So like that does just like if you're, you know, looking at things from the MAGA perspective. Right. Like that. Because all this shit's eventually going to get to the Supreme Court because they're just violating the constitution over and over again.

again. That feels like a vote of no confidence, you know, a vote of get fucked from like the, the level of, you know, conservative shithead that is on the Supreme Court. Which I never know how they're going to react to a given situation, but it seems like they don't like this one. Yeah, I mean, this is like this is too,

on I think Friday, the DOJ was like, we got to arrest Don Lemon and those people that were protesting. And they judge, this is what he said. said in the response to that. It is important to emphasize that what the U.S. attorney requested is unheard of in our district or as best as I can tell any other district in the Eighth Circuit. I've surveyed all of our judges, some of whom have been judges in our district for over 40 years. And no one can remember the government asking a district judge to review a magistrate judge's denial of an arrest warrant. So at everything, they're like, you guys don't know how any

of this works, first of all. And I think that's the other thing. While they can change the machinery and like the bureaucracies. The judicial thing is like, there are people who have just been there for so long. They're like, hold on to what? No. And I think that's the, that's been the one thing that's somewhat slowed shit down.

But yeah, I think the big question now that Todd Lyons has before the judge is like, have you heard of due process? Right. And if not, get the fuck out, I think is, what are we doing here?

Seems pretty mad. Seems mad. Yeah, a little bit mad. Let's take a quick break. And we'll be right back. And we're back. And I think I now have the bone cadence because I keep being like,

waking up in the morning, but it's a little slower than that, right? Well, I mean, up in the morning. Thinking about some, it's, it's thinking about,

thinking about so many things. Waking up in the morning. Yeah. Thinking about so many. God. Yeah. The feeling. You got to,

you got to really roll into the butt of about, thinking about so many things. Yeah. That's what it is. You know what I mean? We figured it out, guys. vocal stims with Jack and Miles. Wicking up in the month.

Let's talk about Sydney Sweeney. Oh, yeah. This is, this belongs firmly in trends, a thing that's probably not going to happen, but our writer jam kind of found some interesting background to this story. So Sydney's latest promotional effort

is in the news this time for non-Nazi reason. She recently posted a video on Instagram of herself and a masked cohort breaking into some kind of compound. And for a brief moment, a lot of her followers must have wondered if she was about to promote the new season of euphoria by blowing up a pipeline. It turns out that it was just like some dumb shit for an underwear company involving stringing bras from the top of the Hollywood sign. That's so fucking sick.

Dude, bra on Hollywood sign. Wait, so you've got a fucking underwear company and your promo video because you're like a Hollywood siren is to launch you. your brand siren with bras pawn the Hollywood sign. Thank you. I'm so sorry, Sydney, for ever saying you were so desks for good publicity, fam. You're not bare desks with this move, fam. This was so well thought out, fam.

Credit to you, two tools, yep. Who is her team is just like stepping on rake after rake. So this is not the first time that the signs being used to sell products. was previously featured ads for Pepsi and Cool World. Fuck you. Cool world. The 90s movie that was like, what if who framed Roger Rabbit was even hornier?

Even hornyer? You know that movie that like made everybody feel uncomfortable because how horny it was? Yeah. People are like, I think I love a cartoon woman. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

They're like, yeah, yeah, go with that. I had the video game on Super Nintendo. Just like, yes, boss. But this one, it was not,

they did not get permission. Yeah. And this, so this led a researcher jam down a rabbit hole because, so the Hollywood sign is trademark. There's the CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is claiming that Sweeney didn't actually have permission to film on the site or even show the sign at all since it's owned and licensed by them. Right. Which we're not sure if that's like part of the PR stunt, but people are like, Swaney could face police investigation for trespass. that she appears to break into the site through a wire fence. Yeah, okay, okay.

Things that will never happen for 3,000 hours. I'm like, do we suddenly live in a just world where the law is equally applied across race and class? I don't think so. I'm worried for her. Perfect headline, though, to get people being like, Sydney Sweeney could get arrested for this dumb shit. Yeah. Because that's what I did see.

I saw so many headlines that were just a tautil. to Sidney might get arrested for this. Yeah. No, that like she could, this could be bad for her. This could be the end.

While she may have launched the campaign purely so that search results for Sydney Sweeney advertisement would now feature fewer articles about, uh, white supremacist dog whistles. Uh, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Hollywood Sign Trust are still kind of villains here.

Yeah. Um, so the idea that they should have ever been able to trademark the Hollywood sign is pretty debatable. They threatened to sue the kings, the hockey team's goalie for having the sign on his mask, successfully sued a German department store

in a town with a population of 77,000 for putting a version of the sign on their wall. How did you find that? I know. Where is Dorsten Germany? You know what I mean? How did somebody from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce be like, yeah, yeah,

Dorsten Germany store, cease and desist, motherfuckers. Yeah, just, homing the internet, waiting for anybody to walk past a something that's referencing the Hollywood sign. They've gone after student films, a UCLA law student recruitment brochure. Yeah, so people argue the sign belongs to the public, but the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce insists that it owns their trademark rights to the sign's likeness and therefore can charge for the use of that image. They tried to trademark it at first and was denied because you can't get trademark perfection

for the name of a place. But then they were eventually able to argue the sign was associated with a product. Yeah. Which, like, kind of, I guess, the product of Hollywood? I don't, yeah, it's a fucking, I don't know, dude. I don't even know what's going on with these fucks.

And then they're also, they also, there's like a weird conspiracy where they try and limit access to the sign. That's true. They changed the Google. So if you Google, directions to the Hollywood sign, they send you to the Griffith Observatory,

which is like not close. Because they don't want you going up Canyon or these other streets that are the ones that kind of are, there's a trailhead off the street canyon that you can take, but it's like, it's in the hills and all those people are like, get off my hill.

Right. So it's just all. It's just people with access to the chamber, you know, being like, hey, could you get these people out of here? Which then just like causes, a bunch of people to go to the Griff of the Observatory

and now you can't park there when you want to like take your kid to the observatory. Yeah. But yeah. And then they like post fake road closed signs to try and like keep people out of there. It is, I will say, at the risk of getting sued by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Like hiking up by the sign, it is kind of cool. Yeah. There are cool hikes and like being that close

to the sign and seeing how fucking big it is. There's a lot of good, a lot of good chances for the gram if that's the sort of thing you're into. Yeah, baby. Take your picture. Just don't break in and hang up your brassiers. But yeah, they just send people to a much more difficult and different path. So very protective of the Hollywood sign.

Yeah. There's so many, I always see tourists and, like, influencers just around L.A., like on a street that has a view of the Hollywood sign. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but, like, so, it's so far. away. Like the version of the picture they must have in their head and then like what it must actually look like.

It's like trying to, you know, any, any picture I've ever taken of the moon where it's like, oh, that came out like total shit. Yeah. There's so many. I mean, like a lot of people are like, I need a tree lined street with the Hollywood sign. And that's the one. That's the, that's Windsor that most people. For L.A., for people visiting, if you want to just cut right to it, you want the fucking

palm tree thing. on Windsor and fourth. Yes. But it's so far wet. It's so, you have to do some. I mean, I guess those shots are usually the tree line streets

and then cut to the Hollywood sign because trying to get those two in the same picture. You're not, you're not getting a little bit hard. All right. That's been inside L.A. talk. Inside L.A.

with a lot of bad info. I'm pretty sure that's Windsor. Pretty sure. I think it is. I'm going to go ahead. I think that's right. Yeah, yeah. I think it's right.

All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Wednesday, January 28th. We're back tomorrow morning with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get your vaccines. We still can. Get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about whites of privacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye. The Daily Zykeyes is executive produced by Catherine Law. Co-produced by Bay Wayne. Co-produced by Victor Wright. Co-written by J.M. McNabb. And edited and engineered by... Brian Jeffreys. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.