The Daily Zeitgeist - The Democratic Republic of Trendo 6/17: US/Iran Peace Deal (?), American Pride, Kash Patel, Georgia Primaries

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

In this edition of The Democratic Republic of Trendo, Jack and Miles discuss the US/Iran deal, the new poll on American pride, an update on Kash Patel "thwarting" a "terror attack", the Georgia primaries and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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They pulled, like, everyone has, like, nice team gear for pulling up. They have, like, just this, like, really traditional African garb where they have, like, a, like, a leopard skin, like, looking like fucking, like, they're, I hate to use this ignorant reference, but as an America, Zamunda, from coming to them. It looked like the shit James Earl Jones hat on. Yeah. And I'm like, God damn. God damn. Just to kill, man. We'll see, they're playing, uh, Portugal. You have to go so hard. Yeah, they're playing against Portugal. And, uh, what's his name? Renaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo. Look, Messi had a hat trick. Handsling villain. Messy had a hat trick last night. Like, he just, uh, the beautiful game to me, never really delivers on, like it's, it's just such a, such a slug. It's not,

it's not like the NBA where you're like, oh, who's the best player in, in the league, okay, I'm going to watch a game and that person's going to put up 40.

Yeah, I can just watch this one guy the whole time. Yeah, yeah, I can just watch a game and like, I'll see who's the best. But like, soccer in my experience, it's always like,

I'm going to watch this game and he's going to lay down like three beautiful passes. And like, that'll be, that'll be enough. And people will be like, but it's about the pass before the past.

This motherfucker is just going like Kobe. You know, just like Jordan. Just like, I'm going to put up buckets. A lot of you were like, can Messi do it again?

And he's like, man, I'm gonna, I'll fucking show you. Rinaldo, though, he looks like one of these guys where he cannot admit

that it's over. Oh. So, and he's like, he's not looking that good. He's not the best player on the Portuguese team anymore. Like,

I get the deference you pay to somebody who's like that legendary. Yeah. But it's like, it's kind of like, like how LaBron is going to look if he plays like one more, two more years when you're just like,

I get it. That's what we would have said three years ago. I mean, yes, yeah, LeBron is actually doing it still. LeBron is just defies the law of physics. Ronaldo went to Saudi Arabia to just play at a lower level to still kind of keep scoring goals. And that's when you,

you kind of got to be like, yeah, not a good sign. I mean, did Messi go to the Saudi Arabia of the West? True. Miami. True. Anyways, my name is,

Jack O'Brien that over there is Miles. Gray. Oh, Gray. Miles, oh, gray. Miles Old Gray. Earl Gray. Um, and this is the episode where we tell you what is trending on this Wednesday, June 17th.

Mm-hmm. Happy birthday Eve to my wife. Oh. Yeah. This is, oh, damn. This is a birthday season for the people, a lot of the most important people in my life. So, uh, her majesty is next is a week after.

That's what I'm talking about. sorry. That's exactly, man. What do you think I'm referring to? Wait, Jack, what do you mean? Hey, man, I'm sorry. Shout out to my friend John, whose birthday is today. Shout out to my best friend from growing up, Chris.

Another one of my best friends from growing up, Jose. She was both June 20th. Early June. Wow. theoretically, I don't, I'm the opposite of most people. Like, theoretically, I don't believe in Zodiac stuff, but I live my life by it. Like, it's just, it's all over. Yeah.

Anyways. You're like with that one, there's a French national team manager who only picked his squad based on Zodiac signs. It didn't matter how good they were. He's like, this guy's one of the best players that the country has. He's like, he's a Scorpio, bro. Get him out of here. And people were like, what are you doing? Scorpio out of my face.

People were like, no, he's a star. The guy's like, no, he's a Scorpio. Yeah. And they did terribly because of it. I got a real Gemini thing going on, I guess. I got a lot of cancers in my life. Gemini and Leo. It's supposed to be a good match.

There's that good song about it. Anyways, what's going on? The Iran deal. We got a deal, baby. and oh, sorry about that. Just a bunch of sound boards went off. What is happening with the Iran deal?

It's going away. Or not. What is that from? That's from 90-day fiance. We got 90-day. Let's bring in the 90-day fiance drops. I'll just always say, what's that from?

What's that from? Is it going away or is it just? It's, you know, it's, it's, we're on pins and needles because,

you know, J.D. Vance, who's a Leo, We should include everyone's zodiac sign if we talk about this. He's having a weird week. So he got his head ripped off on the view on Tuesday. Now there's a lot of headlines about people in the White House are basically setting him up to maybe be the fall guy if the Iran deal fails. I remember on Monday in the trending episode, we talked about how like the CIA Heg Seth Rubio click in the White House is like trying to be like, this shit's not going to probably get done because they're like, we want to keep fighting them.

We want to keep killing people. There's a lot, like, so there's a lot because of these leaks that are sort of like framing J.D. Vance as like the person who's been like the leader of it. Uh, Senator, or Lindsey Graham called, uh, Vance the deal's architect. Mm-hmm. And Graham famously the horniest of Iran Hawks there is. He clearly was like, wants to set this at Vance's feet in case the deal fails or how, or the optics of it because it's right now. A lot of people are like, this memorandum of understanding is not good because my goal was to destroy a country and make their leaders beg us to stop. Right.

And so the issue with all the Hawks is that it's really just an admission of total failure since it's going back to the status quo, but like with added benefits for Iran. Yeah. They just did a war. And then we're like, how do we stop this war? Like, we'll do anything, man. All right. So you're going to stop. You're going to pay for all the shit you broke.

We're going to start charging fees. not crazy fees, but a little taste of the shit that goes through the straight and leave us the fuck alone. It's like you mug someone and then end up giving them your wallet is kind of like the vibe. And your gun. And your gun. Yeah, yeah. And then they start going, bro, you know what, actually, I like your shoes. What size are you, man?

Oh, please, man. As long as we can just get out, get over. I said what size of you. Yeah. Whatever you want. Whatever you want. So now the White House, because of like all of the outrage, like, all of the outrage, like, Fox News are like, this is, this is a humiliation for America.

The White House is like in denial mode. Stephen Chung was saying that, quote, that supposed text of the MOU that was obtained by CNN does not reflect the language of the actual MOU. Memorandum of understanding. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. And then when Trump was asked, they're like, yeah, what about this like $300 billion financing fund thing for reconstruction that we've been hearing about?

He said, quote, it's false. people you can invest if you want what am I going to do say nobody's ever allowed to invest we're not investing I mean that was kind of our entire policy yes you have been doing that as the president of the United States is kind of like what

our whole shit is you say nobody's allowed to give them money until they're like starving and things look really bad in their country and people are in the streets protesting and then we're like well I guess we got to go in and start bombing to help the people who we are choking off from resources. It's so anyway, then he was just like, we're not putting up 10 cents.

People can decide to do that, but that's up to them. So he's sort of being like, I don't know, like you fucking want to like you can do. Like this is crazy, dude. Yeah, that does sound wild. And then he started posturing again today or late early this morning by just because people are like, dude, I don't know about this memorandum of understanding. He's trying to act like he's in control. He said, quote,

It's a memorandum of understanding. And if I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their heads. I don't like it if they don't behave. We'll go right back to dropping bombs, right smack in the middle of their head. Right smack in the middle of their head.

Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. So you're saying. How big are these bombs? They sound tiny. It's a memorandum of if I don't like it, and I won't,

if I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting at them. If you don't like the deal, you made. That's right. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, sure. The one thing that I think is really interesting is how, just obviously, it's not like we're still,

just how truly entrenched in like Western imperialism, the mainstream media is because so many of the takes about this are like, oh my God, the U.S. lost a war. That's the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. They're treating this like it's the Luca trade. What? We didn't even. get picks. We're getting AD. And they get the straight

of Hormuz. The lesson here isn't, if you're going to do war, do it smarter so you don't lose when you kill a fuck ton of people. It's leave Iran the fuck alone. You know, all of the shit that these hawks point out as a threat to the U.S. were manifested

by U.S. foreign policy over the last century. Like, we talk about it. Like, Iran didn't just wake up and decide that America is an op. America set this whole thing off. with its destabilization campaign many decades ago when the Iranians were like, you know what? I feel like if British Petroleum's going to like drink up all of our oil milkshake,

we need to be getting like an actual significant portion of the profits rather than them just being like, no, this is all ours. Right. And because they were trying to look out for their own resources then began the, the takedown, the Mossadegh to Shah pipeline. So, right. Anyway, the main takeaway, I think that we should be talking about. as the U.S. is in decline,

and it seems to be doing everything it can to accelerate its own collapse. Sort of like maybe, it's probably what people will talk about a century removed. Leave you around the fuck alone, by the way, the number one piece of accepted wisdom of like international relations people heading into

him. Like that, the main thing, like I, granted, I'm not here to be like, what a fool. Look at this bitch. Like, you know, trying to taunt him into, like, bombing people again. harder. Yeah, but it does seem like more stark evidence. I think a big part of his myth and his cult is based on this idea that he knows something that everyone else doesn't. He's coming in

either because he is like an outsider. And so it's like the John McLean theory of things where the part of diehard where he just like throws a bunch of C4 down an elevator shoot and I was like there that'll fix it and I was like yeah yeah what what are he talking about but like he just gives so little

of a fuck that it's gonna like make things somehow work out in the end or they think that he's like smart and doing 4D chess and it's just every time like this is what Q was all about where they were like he has secret information. He fucking knows.

Let him cook. Yeah. And then it turns out he did have secret information. It was just the secret information was that he was king pedophile. Like he was mentioned the most mentioned name in the Epstein files besides Epstein. Right. And then with Iran, it was, yeah, based on the same belief. Like everyone's like this is generally seen as a terrible idea to attack Iran.

Of course. But you don't know what he knows. knows. You don't know what he knows. And it turns out he, it's not that everyone knows less than him. It's that he knows less than literally everyone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He thinks less about these things than anyone else. He is the absence. He is the embodiment of the absence of like deep thought. He is just like, he's a reactionary in like the most like cellular form of the word, you know? He's just reacting to whatever is stimulus. front of him in the moment. He is, but he's, he's, he's a blank wall for people to project shit onto.

And over and over again, it's just him revealing dramatically that he knows less and is wronger than anyone thought possible. Yeah. And so I, I don't, I feel like this has to kind of puncture his balloon a little, a little bit, like, continue to. I think it's, it's one of those things you're like, we're like, It's so obvious. It's so clear that he's incapable of leading the country.

He's incapable of actually just being like a productive human being at his age, just generally. But it's like, I feel like the, his base doesn't see it like that. It's, it's the biggest things that have been really destabilizing have just been like gas prices and just like rising costs.

Right. And I think they're not really, because they're insulated with their news environment, they're just like, yeah, it's like this other thing. But I think because of the straight of whore moves being talked about so much and the oil that has to go through their people are kind of being like, why are we

fucking doing this? Like I get dinosaur juice comes out of that place, but if it can't get to us because the straits closed, then my truck doesn't get filled. Like the very first thing he said when he came to his memorandum of understanding was let the oil flow. So he's, you know, it's pretty clear why he's doing this. Yeah. It is the very strategic problem. that everybody was pointing to every time anyone brought up the idea of going to war with Iran, but he doesn't listen. Yeah. And I think, again, like, the coverage of this also speaks to what the real currency or the

source of pride is for America, which is dominating other people. Sure. So if we are unable to dominate a, quote, unquote, like, lesser military nation, like Iran, which would be like, we should be able to crush them. And that doesn't happen. And that's true harm to the American identity of like this fake idea that like, we smack the shit out of everyone we come into contact with. Just don't look up, you know, like a lot of,

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About national pride. And I'm shamed to be an American. Oh no. Yeah. Oh, man. Just broadly, in 2013, over 80% of Americans said they were extremely slash very proud to be an American. Now it's at 51%. Damn, son.

Yeah, Brian is like, what? Yeah, I was like, in 2013, really? But that did kind of feel like just kind of soothing the wounds of the 2008 crash and people kind of being on an upward bend. remember that's when like I got I got a job that was like that was like actually giving me insurance but I think anyone who went anyway the and I also think that it is probably like it's coming from a very high plate right like it's like people generally like America just has this feeling of superiority right yeah but it's probably more than most countries the discourse was never having a reckoning with our national identity ever it wasn't really until 2020 where people

were bad to being like, are we like fucked up? Yeah, yeah. So I think, yeah, this was a perfect time for people like, we whee! Yes. But yeah, a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that Americans are, quote, retreating into ideological camps, viewing the opposing side not as a political rivalry,

rival, but as threats to democracy itself. Less than half of Democrats believe that being born in America, that's 42% of Democrats, believing in God or being Christian are important to national. identity. Majorities of Republicans say being born in America, believing in God and being Christian are important to being

truly American. And then when it comes to the American dream, less than half believing that hard work gets you ahead among 18 to 29 year olds belief in the American dream has fallen from 50% in 2024 to 36% today.

Yeah. That's a big dropout. 2024? Yeah. So as Trump is entering the White House, this is the one that'll save our faith in the American dream. People weaponizing the inflation football. Like, who's got the inflation hot potato? Who's doing it to us?

And I think, you know, all of that. You're doing it to yourself. Yeah. With these expensive lunches. Stop paying for yourself so much. What? Start investing in diamonds. Okay.

You're fucking, you're killing the diamond industry. Yeah. Not surprising. But, you know, a lot of like experts are like, yeah, when countries tend to break down like this and they don't believe in like shared institutions holding up or a shared vision or story of the country, it's usually bad. It's usually bad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, inequality will do that too, but you know, we can, well, sure, let's blame it on this. There's actually a study that kind of ties into this and it was like some like person, that very soft sciences, the softest of sciences. The breechies of science. It was like a personality, like a journal of personality studies or some shit. But they were looking at people who feel what is called national narcissism, where it's just like that you feel that your country is actually superior to other countries in some way.

And like they actually, the study was done in the Czech Republic, I believe, with young women. and was so they're just like trying to get like the very essence of like do you feel like you are naturally like your country just naturally is superior and the thing they found is that like I think we usually assume that it's like you feel bad about yourself and so you're like so I'm going to cling to this larger narrative about my country and it's actually the opposite that people who hold that belief that their country is somehow superior to the rest of the world,

end up feeling worse about themselves and feel more stress about themselves, which kind of makes sense when you think about it, if you have that belief, like that belief is out of touch with reality. So you're having to like metabolize some idea that is completely out of touch with how things actually operate around you.

So you're just having to do a lot of work to, like, just maintain your kind of myopic view on the world. And you're going to be constantly, constantly disappointed. Yeah, because anytime that wobbles or you begin to, that, that has to be so stressful to be like, oh, fuck, are we not the best anymore? Fuck, I need this. Which is funny, because, like, you go to so many, like, countries in, like, Europe, like, especially, like, Scandinavians or so, like, just like, I don't know. Our country is fine. Like it's, it's, it is what it is kind of a thing. Like everyone, again, not that that's the reason why they're less stressed.

It's probably because they have like proper social safety nets. But it's interesting when you go to a place like, we're the fucking best. And you're like, why are you telling you? Yeah. Yo. Hey. Fucking relax, bro. Yeah.

And it also makes sense why we have the fear of the Chinese car. You're right. Acted like, this is the fucking village and shit. They're like, don't fucking look outside. You fuck. That's right. What the fuck was that flying? What was that?

Shut the fuck up. That was nothing. You're fucked up. You're on drugs, dude. They should start doing, like, putting werewolf monsters in, like, just releasing viral videos of, dude. This Chinese car, dude. Look at it.

Chinese car is a werewolf dog. Dude, if you sit in it long enough, it takes enough biometric data that it don't know if, like, if you have any health conditions that you should have checked out. Oh, my God. Oh, God. It gets what kind of mileage? Oh my God. I thought that was impossible.

It's a funny thing too. Like with people also don't realize how shitty the internet is in America. Then you go somewhere else. You're like, what the fuck are these speeds that I'm experiencing? Right. There's just so many things that you can realize. And yeah, look, humble yourself. Humble yourself.

All right. We have an update on the terror attack that Kaspetel, heroically thwarted at the UFC fight. I know you guys mentioned the story yesterday. It got better. I mean, it deserves a follow up because at first you're just like, yeah, all right, sure, asshole.

And now even more detail that you're like, okay, asshole. Yeah. So, I mean, this was being reported like very credulously by the ESPN. Like ESPN was like, guys, the FBI saved the world. From, like, essentially it seems like it was a,

teenager who was like, I'm going to do a White House down. Yeah. I'm going to do the White House down on Jamie Fox. And he was in a chat group and they were talking about, you know, a drone attack and sniper attacks. And they are in the process of like investigating this group of people who was saying this shit. Kat Pat Patel, in keeping with his signature move, only found out about this because the

kid's mother was like, oh my God. What the fuck are they saying? Yeah, what are they saying in that chat room? And so, like, reached out and that's what, like, kicked off the investigation. It's always the only times he's been able to successfully solve anything is usually when a parent is like, yeah, it was my kid. Right, right, right. Yeah, like, because, I mean, he loved, the other thing that's interesting is he spiked the

football real early, quote, the secrets. Secret Service officials are angered that FBI director Cash Patel prematurely announced on Tuesday the details of a largely sealed and ongoing criminal investigation. Another one of his- Dude, he loves to jump the gun, dude. He's got that news burning a hole in his pocket. The Kirk shooting, the one at Brown was just saying stuff like, we got the guy. We didn't. Fuck.

Yeah. Right. Oh, shit. And such a rush to prove he's not a dip. shit. Turns out it wasn't him. What's like the Greek tragedy about a dipshit who only keeps dipshitting

harder in their pursuit of not dip shitting? That's me. Cash Patel. You're probably wondering how I got here. The crazy thing was the kid was bragging to his friends. He's like, I got $3,000 for high school graduation and I'm going to buy these guns and attack vest. And that's what the mom heard is like, what?

Wow. Okay. FBI. She put him in the hospital for homicidal ideation. And that's when that's when it all kicked off. I mean, good for that parent because too many times there are just so many moments where, yeah, parents are just like, I don't know. I just thought my kid was goofing around. So I just left a bunch of guns laying around loose. That is the American way.

Look at this goof. Let's give them some guns. The Georgia primary was yesterday. I keep seeing headlines about this. I have been having a hard time giving a show. shit, but can you put this in context? There's just one thing that's just really funny. Trump posted, like in the gubernatorial primary, this guy, Rick Jackson won.

So Trump on truth posted, Rick Jackson ran a great Trump campaign, very smart. Was that mean he was endorsed by Trump? That's what he's implying, right? He ran a great Trump, all caps campaign, very smart, was with me on Saturday night, making a pitch amazing. So this is his candidate? Another example of Trump's candidate winning in the primary? Dude, exactly.

I ran against a great guy, Bert Jones, who has a fantastic future. He's not usually that nice to the loser. Yeah, no, no, you're right. You're right. No, he endorsed the loser, Bert Jones, who has a fantastic future. The guy who won, he's trying to claim he backed because he's in a very delicate situation with taking out of the public. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the guy, too, was not, like, he was this guy, Rick Jackson was being attacked for not being

Trump. He gave to Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney. He's like one of these rhinos. And then he gave, he made a donation to Trump after he won the election. Like just to try and be like, no, I gave him money. You see? And then he like, he like, look, I was late to the Trump party

basically. So this guy was not running a Trump campaign in that he was like, oh my God. I love him. That was Bert Jones. But hey, yeah, he's got a lot of a lot. He's got a lot going on. Another article from ESPN that was annoying me.

Did you see the article about James Dolan giving the Knicks a rousing speech? No. Before the playoffs. Did he have a guitar with him too? He did not. Hey, straight shot. Get in here. We got to tell these boys something. James Dolan

is the billionaire owner of the Knicks who has, for years, decades, been kind of, it's been an open secret that he is like one of the worst owners in sports and like always standing

in the way of them succeeding and winning games. So the story that came out on ESPN because I think a lot of people were posting online being like it's so annoying that this guy was given the trophy first

after the championship and so the story comes out where it's like actually this team owes the championship to James Dolan. He gave a speech about personal sacrifice, a thing he clearly knows all about. And he was telling them that they have to withhold, they have to watch their diet and listen to their coach and maybe even stop having sex with their wives. He went like old school raging bull. He was like, yeah, don't tell them I told you to do this. But you got to go home, tell your wives,

things are going to be different for the next 10 weeks. And it was, it was a very good. What do you know about fucking achieving? Fuck any, fucking anything, dude. Last I heard you're like to achieve things with your band, you want to play Madison Square Garden? I got it. My band opens then.

Right. Great achievement. Great achievement. His band, JD and the Straight Shot, which definitely worth going to check out some of their music. Dude, I'm surprised they still only have 5,000 followers, even off this Knicks victory.

There's not an increased interest. Any time you talk about it officially, it gets, uh, it gets taken down. So, well, we're not talking about it officially. We're not officially talking about it. We're just talking about this ESPN article.

And yeah, he had his band where he's the lead singer of a blues band open for the Eagles. Yeah. But anyways, that story came out. Another story that came out is that people within the organization believe that the reason that the Knicks were able to actually win a championship was because he, was distracted focusing on the sphere or the... In Vegas?

Yeah, the Vegas. So that's the James Dolan project. And it's cool. It's cool. It's like the one cool thing that he's like, I got this idea. He was focused on doing that

for the past like five years and everybody within the organization or people, unnamed sources within the organization who, you know, if they were named would be immediately fired, have said that like

it's the best thing that ever happened to the organization and basically that him being distracted with this other massive project allowed them to make all these moves that smart teams know

to me. And like it's just this is a thing that happens when they're like it happened to the Red Sox when they were on a massive drought that like you know you bring in the smartest

people in sports to try to you know turn things around and when you have like such a massive of fan base. There's just like a lot of incentive to make the team win. But like the fact that they hadn't won in 53 years is the weird thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The second most high profile organization in the NBA. And like it was massively in the interest of like front office people,

but also like players to go there and like get them a championship. But to win a championship in New York. Like everyone was always like, that is the holy grail. Yeah, right. But nobody would go there specifically because of the ownership. The ownership. It reminds me of what the administration is trying to do with Trump where it's like he needs a fucking thing to just focus on. Like building a fucking arch or a fucking dumb golf course or some fucking thing. So we can fucking try and do something and have our version of the New World Order.

But it feels like everyone's always like, yeah, man, it's way better when the dipship billionaire can just focus on some dumb other the thing that isn't essential or just another thing. So we can just we can actually make things happen. Well, shout out to the orb or the street. You choose, you, you can decide which one you, which one you think is true, whether he got, got the team to win a championship by telling them not to have sex with their wives. or whether him being distracted by this other project allowed them to win for the first time. Yeah.

Guys, take it from me. I haven't had sex with my wife in 15 years. And look at me. You know what I mean? Have you guys been to Vegas? Have you seen the sphere? Dude, it's so cool. I can make it look like a boob on the inside just for me.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm... Anyway, you guys got this, man. Just don't have sex with your wives, please. For me. For me? For me? For me? For me?

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