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July 22, 2025 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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Ozzy Osbourne Dead at 76, Ghislaine Maxwell Subpoenaed and The CapEx Comeback

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The Justice Department now putting out a new statement and saying it could meet with Ghelane Maxwell in the coming days, saying if Ghelane Maxwell has information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the DOJ will hear what she has to say.
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Folks, huge and massive news.
You could call it the plot twist of all plot twists here in D.C. on the Epstein files case.
And this has taken a turn really towards a place that it should have been years ago.
Ghillaine Maxwell now potentially will be meeting with the Department of Justice.
So we got the information out very early this morning that the DOJ will be sending Todd Blanch over to meet with Ghelane Maxwell.
Now, where is Ghelane Maxwell held?
Tallahassee, Florida, the Federal Corrections Institute down there in Tallahassee.
So she's Lady Epstein, Lady Epstein right there, and saying that Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General, essentially personally will be headed down there to Tallahassee, Florida to meet with her.
We've got this statement out there saying the Department of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths nor from the responsibility to pursue justice for wherever the facts may lead.
Now, the question, of course, obviously I think a lot of people will have is what's in it for Ghelane Maxwell to cooperate?
Well, it's very clear what her motive is.
Her motive is that she either wants time reduced on her sentence or a full-on presidential pardon.
So this is where the competition, the tension, if you will, comes in.
The tension comes in where with Maxwell saying, okay, I'll sit down with you.
Here's what I want in exchange.
But of course, when it comes to any of these deals, a plea deal or in this case, a cooperation agreement, when it really comes down to it, you have to weigh that against a variety of things.
Number one, justice for the victim, which is something that absolutely deserves for her to be behind bars.
Then again, you also have to talk about accountability.
So if she's just going to say, oh, here's the Maxwell blacklist, which is the same thing as the Epstein blacklist.
No, sorry, not good enough.
Already been out there.
You need to provide names.
You need to provide receipts and name names.
So if Galene Maxwell wants anything from the Department of Justice, there needs to be names.
There needs to be receipts.
And by the way, a full-on chain of custody.
What do I mean by all this?
I mean, it's not enough to say, okay, here's the testimony.
You know, this guy did this and this guy.
No, no, no, no, no, not good enough.
We've been down that road before.
Everything.
Absolutely everything.
That's the deal.
And when I say everything, I mean who did what, where did it happen?
And you also have to provide information that is able to back up the credibility of the accusation.
Because there are people who are falsely accused.
President Trump was falsely accused in Russia gate.
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Who else is out there, Ghelane?
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And if you do have this information and it's able to come forward, then maybe, maybe there could be a discussion about some kind of, I don't know.
I really don't know.
But you'd want to also hear, by the way, from the victims as well.
And you want to hear about how the victims feel about that because Ghelane Maxwell was the recruiter.
Ghelene Maxwell was the one who began the process of grooming these young girls.
Ghelaine Maxwell was the first one they met before they ever met Jeffrey Epstein.
So what does this say about the culpability of Ghelene Maxwell?
Where does she belong?
Folks, this is a very serious story.
And this meeting between Deputy Attorney General Blanche and Maxwell could be the start of something absolutely massive.
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Okay, we're very excited now because folks, there's so much going on with the economy.
There's so many good news stories that people really could be reporting on, but they're just not for, well, political purposes or also just because they understand how economics works.
We figured we needed to get on someone who absolutely understands how that works.
That's why we've got Joe Lavorna, the counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besson, joining us now.
Joe, how are you?
Good, Jack.
I'm well.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for being on.
So Secretary Besson had this huge tweet up earlier this morning, and he's talking about the CapEx comeback.
Now, that's capital expenditures, investments of businesses into capital here in the United States.
Talk to me.
Why is the business community responding so positively to Secretary Besson and President Trump's economic policies, especially when I was told by the mainstream media that the entire economy was going to crash and burn by this summer?
It actually seems to be doing really well.
That's exactly right.
In the financial markets, Jack showed that with equities recently reaching all-time highs.
The CapEx comeback is a function of the One Big Beautiful bill, which was designed to get the CapEx moving as soon as President Trump took office because it was set up to be retroactive to Inauguration Day.
So when the president was elected last year at the historic election with which he won, sentiment improved, the markets got excited.
Fast forward to the new year.
We're going to get this bill that's going to make the tax cuts permanent.
It's going to have even more pro-growth supply side initiatives in it.
And by the way, it's going to be retroactive to the first day that the president takes office.
That's going to encourage businesses to spend, to invest in their product, whether it's a good, a service, whatever it may be.
And what we've seen as that chart you had just shown up there shows is essentially, excluding the pandemic, the fastest two-quarter gain going all the way back to late 1997.
It's really stunning and is a direct function of President Trump's policies.
So when we're talking about this, so if businesses are making capital expenditures, so that's CapEx, capital expenditures.
If businesses are doing that, that's not something that businesses do if they think they're going into a decline or if they think that the economy is going into a downturn, because this is that if you're doing that, they'd be looking at offshore, they'd be looking at ways to protect their, you know, protect their assets, et cetera.
They wouldn't actually be looking to expand and grow.
But that's really what President Trump's one big beautiful bill and all of these other economic policies are actually pushing towards.
This idea that the American people are suddenly going to have more of their own wealth and that that's actually going to be what spurs this economic growth.
That's exactly right, Jack.
And the fact that you've had this boom in anticipation of the bill becoming law, which it now has, just only strengthens and solidifies this improvement and will carry it forward.
So the CapEx continues.
And that capital expenditure, the spending, the investment, they're all interchangeable words.
Yes, is a sign that the future is bright.
It's a sign that there's confidence in President Trump's policies.
What then happens after that is you get faster productivity growth.
You get stronger wages, which means bigger take-home pay for workers.
The good news is because President Trump has policy has been able to get inflation lower, we've seen a very large increase in what we call blue-collar wages.
Blue-collar wages are under a boom.
The only time that we've had a faster or larger six-month gain to start a new administration was the first six months of President Trump's first administration, and it was only a tenth stronger, so they're basically the same.
But with this bill now being implemented, the forward on households and living standards, it's all positive.
So it's great news, and I appreciate you being able to have us highlight it because people should talk more about it.
It's really good news, and it should be bipartisan.
Well, it actually is because one of the reasons, one of the side effects of this as well, is that when you see those capital expenditures, so this is something, and I'll try, of course, to translate it, right, for Normie speak, for the audience.
It's, it's, look, everyone sits there at their business, at their work.
Gosh, I complain about it all the time.
Rob Sig, you got to spend more on the lights around here.
You got to spend more on this.
You got to do more capital expenditures.
That's what we need, Rob, over here, Real America's voice.
But the point is, is that no business owner is going to be doing that.
Unless, by the way, Rob spends a ton of money on the lights, to be fair.
That no business owner is going to be doing that if they're not confident, if they're not seeing the returns that they want on their business.
And I would say in connection with that, the relationship with that, of course, is that your workforce is then going to be more motivated, number one, because they see these expenditures reinvesting in the business, but also if they see prices coming down, they say it's easier to afford things, they're going to be more motivated in general as well.
Right.
So this is the thing.
So to continue with your example, you have a business.
Let's buy new software.
Let's buy new computers because it's going to increase our cash flow and ultimately produce more of the things that people want.
But the point is with this one big, beautiful bill, you can now expense 100% of that.
So if you spend $10,000 on upgrading your technological infrastructure, you can deduct that off of your income.
So it's a real incentive.
And the one big, beautiful bill, there's a lot of great parts to it, but the other thing that's really innovative and new is now you also, if you're a company, you want to build a data center, you now can expense that data center 100% on that plant, on that factory.
You never had that before.
So what it encourages American business to do is to invest in themselves.
And then the people working there are going to do better.
They're going to make more money.
Their paychecks are bigger.
That income they'll spend, then we'll create more jobs.
So it becomes very additive, becomes very multiplicative.
We saw it during Trump 1.0.
And now we're taking all those positives.
And with the president's vision and the implementation by Secretary Besson, we're able to now put this forward so that the next handful, hopefully decades, are really a golden era, as the president has highlighted.
Well, and this is totally different, by the way, from what we saw from the previous administration.
I saw Secretary Besson's fantastic interview regarding Danny Yellen recently, but that was really an administration where all of this was driven from the top down in terms of inflation and inflating the money supply and increasing the money supply.
Okay, you've got access to more capital, but that's not, that doesn't actually drive the behavior, does it?
No, that's right.
I mean, and I mentioned, you know, so we've got the one big, beautiful bill, which is encouraging companies to invest.
You've got the Genius Act.
The president has talked about making the U.S. the crypto capital of the world or the U.S. the crypto country of the world.
You need to build data centers and to operate those data centers.
What do you need?
You need energy.
Energy is integral, as Secretary Besson has highlighted.
And you need cheap and abundant energy.
So that was also part of the one big beautiful bill.
Trying to improve the permitting process, making it easier for companies to conduct business.
And that is literally the genius and the foresight that this administration has in trying to actually allow business to produce the goods and services that people want at affordable prices.
And that clearly was not the case in the prior four years.
Right.
So when you're in a situation like that, and we used to talk about the Katian effect many, many times here on the program, we're to say that, okay, this is great.
The price of money has gone down for people who have the direct access to those funds, but that has an inflationary effect because what you're doing is that increased spending at the top is driving up prices at the bottom.
Yeah.
Well, this thing is with the one big beautiful bill, which will drive the blue-collar boom.
Now we're looking at middle and lower income workers.
So that's really, as Secretary Besson's highlighted, Wall Street's done great.
We obviously would like Wall Street to do well, but it's really Main Street's term.
These are people who live paycheck to paycheck, who until President Trump's first term had seen no real wage growth, really, as I mentioned, in a decade and a half or so.
So they need to benefit from it.
And, you know, on inflation, you know, we could have strong non-inflationary growth as we had under President Trump's first term.
Growth was nearly 3%, was actually over 3% in the year before COVID, and yet inflation was de minimis.
When you have inflation, it's typically because the government spends way too much.
And this administration inherited the worst, basically, fiscal backdrop we've ever had.
And of course, the Fed monetizes or prints money to pay for the government's profligate spending.
And that's exactly what we had over the previous four years.
And it's incredible to see.
It's incredible for all of us to look into.
We want to get into more of this.
And so, Joe, I want to hold you over to the next segment.
This is huge.
It's huge.
I understand it's heady for folks that are just trying to figure things out out there, but this is absolutely positive news.
And I want to make sure to break it down for all of you.
Jack Pasovic up next here, Human Events Daily, Real America's Boys.
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These are influencers.
And they're friends of mine, Jack Pasovic.
Where's Jack?
Jack, he's done a great job.
Bringing back manufacturing to the U.S. It's the full expensing in the one big beautiful bill, which I think is one of the most important things that we did.
Companies can do 100% expensing for equipment, 100% expensing for factories.
If you bring your factory back here, I think we had big pent-up demand.
We are in the middle of this incredible AI boom that I don't know whether you want to say this is the third, fourth, fifth industrial revolution.
So we're seeing the hyperscaler spin like we never have before.
And I think what's really gone unheralded here is the Trump administration's emphasis on deregulation.
We are making it possible to build things in America again.
All right, Jack, what's up, here we are back live, Human Events Daily.
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By the way, folks, there's this letter running around on X. It's viral right now about Jerome Powell.
I don't think this thing is real.
I'm just going to say that right now.
I think there'd be a bigger announcement if that were the case.
But so we'll, you know, we'll look for that, but I don't think that one's real at this time anyway.
So we're talking, though, with Joe Laverna.
He is the counselor to Secretary Bettson.
And Joe, we talked about in the last segment how, you know, Bidenomics, it was this print and spend sort of mentality.
Print the money, spend the money.
Spend in government, spend in business, just spend everywhere.
And that'll make the economy better.
And it's very fake.
It's sort of juicing the economy forward.
That was Bidenomics.
It was a dismal failure.
It did have an inflationary effect, which, by the way, a lot of people said that it would.
Trumponomics is substantially different from that because it's about allowing businesses to do what they do best in a better environment for themselves and hopefully for their workers as well.
So if you could contrast Trumponomics with Bidenomics for us.
Right.
I mean, the Biden approach is basically demand side, focus on weak demand or what's known as Keynesianism.
And you basically have the government spend money to get demand up.
But demand has been strong.
And this is the problem with the past four years, in large part from an economic perspective, is that we've left with the highest deficit, highest deficit to GDP in an environment of full employment we've ever had with record high debt.
And that is a reflection of the fact that the government spent way too much money to stimulate an economy that didn't need stimulus.
And therefore, you've got a 40-year high in inflation.
Demand is not the problem right now.
What the problem has been trying to get businesses to invest in their communities, to invest in their businesses, and then to hire and lift wages.
And that as a builder is what President Trump understands, that you need to create things.
So it's not demand-driven, but rather supply driven.
How can we increase the economy's potential capacity?
How can we increase its ability to produce more of the goods and services that people and firms want at a low cost?
That was what the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was designed to do.
And that is what the one big, beautiful bill that was passed in record time is set to accomplish, which is let business operate in a way that's productive, that's constructive, that the shackles of government regulation and high tax rates aren't going to impede that progress because if businesses do well, the economy does well, people do well, their paychecks grow.
As Secretary Besson has said, economic security is national security.
It's all connected.
It is fundamentally different.
The results of the first Trump term were excellent.
That's why people put President Trump back in office because they love the results that he had in terms of lifting middle and lower class wages.
As I mentioned earlier, real household incomes boomed and it's supply driven.
You focus on producing things that people want.
It's not just giving money out or spending money to try to create demand because what you wind up getting, as we saw, is inflation.
And so you're looking at this and I'll just, you know, I'll zoom out a little bit here in the sense of saying, look, you know, we're out of the weeds and we're talking about what does this mean to say you're, you know, I have a family of four and, you know, we live in the mid-Atlantic and it's summertime and we're looking at things as they go.
And what we're looking at and seeing is that gas seems to, you know, the gas prices seem to be lower than they were a year ago this time.
Prices in general certainly seem to have stabilized or come down in some places as well.
Something, by the way, I'm seeing just anecdotally, but I've noticed it out there, is that people seem to be, you tend to see a bit more middle-class Americans taking more summer trips to Europe.
And that is not something that you're going to be seeing if more people are worried about economic.
I'm not saying that economics aren't an issue or anything like that, but you are starting to see these huge signs of comeback from the Biden economy that we can absolutely track.
And they are tangible metrics.
So I'm seeing this more and more often.
And I hear people making more trips like this.
And I think you're going to see more and more people sort of getting back to where they were, quite honestly, kind of at pre-pandemic level.
For sure.
I mean, two of the signature issues which President Trump has delivered on that people voted him in office for is one, getting the cost of living down, which he has.
So you're seeing energy prices fall rapidly.
This past Memorial Day, gas prices were at the lowest level in four years.
You're not seeing food prices accelerate as they were under President Biden.
You're seeing rents come down.
So like people's cost of shelter and their eating, the ability to feed themselves and be able to move from place to place, those costs, the every man or every person inflation rate has come down quite significantly.
That is really positive news.
And the other issue, of course, as you know, is the immigration side.
And now that there's going to be much less illegal immigration, wages are not going to be set artificially low.
So if you get lower prices, which is the trumponomic supply side boom like we had in the first term, combined with the market seeking a natural rate, not an artificial depressed wage rate, you get faster nominal wages.
That is real wage growth.
That is the blue collar boom we're seeing.
And we'd like to see that continue and perpetuate and strengthen.
And that will lift everybody's.
The rising tide lifts all boats.
That's a wonderful story for U.S. households.
And that's what it comes down to.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
So there are ways to do this that actually benefit the businesses, benefit the families, benefit the economics of the average blue-collar worker that's out there right now.
And people work.
I mean, the businesses employ the people.
People are employed.
You know, businesses are employed.
And they employ the people, right?
Those people can hate business, which is why, by the way, Jack, under President Trump's first term, small business optimism was the highest registered by any president in President Trump's first term, even when you include the pandemic, which is incredible.
Small businesses are the backbone for sure.
Joe, we're just about out of time, folks.
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Department of Treasury, right back, Jack, so we're Mark's voice, human events here.
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Thank you.
What a job you do.
You know, we have an incredible thing.
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All right, Jack Pasobic, we are back, Human Events Daily.
Guys, I was just sent this news over the break that apparently, just weeks after his final show, Ozzy Osborne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath and a solo artist in his own right, has died at the age of 76.
This is someone who, you know, I've seen him in concerts on Sabbath, saw my brother a number of times, working class background.
We actually have a clip of the final show.
we can play for you right now.
I see your face a thousand times Every day we've been apart And I don't care about the sunshine Yeah.
Thank you.
And that is mama.
I'm coming home.
So don't have any more info about that right now, other than it says that he was.
So I'll just read the statement.
The family statement put out.
Ozzy died surrounded by love in a statement to the son on Tuesday.
It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osborne has passed away this week.
He was with his family and surrounded by love.
We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.
Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Amy, and Lewis.
And just total shock.
I mean, so he did this.
He did this concert.
I watched every minute of the concert, certainly Ozzie and the Black Sabbath portions of it when it aired that weekend and just a tremendous show that he put on.
And he was able to do so.
He was able to do so from a, so he has had Parkinson's.
He's passed away now, now deceased.
He had Parkinson's and it affected his legs.
So he was actually raised up onto the stage through a, through the stage itself, right?
Through a lower platform on the stage, raised him up on a black chair.
And so he sang on that throughout.
And by the way, I'm just going to say something that people say, Jack, you know, you're Catholic.
How would you listen to Ozzie?
I said, well, first of all, Ozzy Osborne, the drummer for Ozzy Osborne, actually wrote for Black Sabbath, actually wrote all the lyrics and has been a devout Christian and a Catholic his entire life, is someone who always sang about morbidity from the perspective of warning people about it.
And in fact, you can go throughout, go and look throughout the years.
I'm not going to say that Ozzy was some like, you know, devout, sinless person or anything like that, but they always spoke out against Satanism.
He spoke out many times about Satan worship and in fact, urged many people to not worship Satan many times over the years whenever, you know, reporters or others would bring this up.
So it's, it's, you know, it's really just a shock because, you know, people saw this video a couple of years ago and, you know, obviously one of the, you know, certainly the father of heavy metal, himself along with Tony Iomi and, you know, just working, you know, a working class group of guys who got together and absolutely changed the world, absolutely changed the world in terms of their music, songs that everybody knows.
I want to bring Shane Cashman over here.
You guys know Shane from his work on Timcast and his own projects.
And, you know, Shane, we originally were going to talk about something else, but I, you know, I've got to get your reaction on this.
You know, Ozzy Osborne, dead at 76, just weeks after this, this whirlwind, you know, farewell concert.
You know, what was, what does this mean?
What was Ozzie's impact on, you know, the culture and the world?
Ozzy was very important to me.
My father put me onto the Beach Boys at a young age, and my mother put me onto Black Sabbath.
And I lost two very important musical figures in just the recent weeks.
We lost Brian Wilson, and now we lost Ozzy.
Ozzy's impact was monumental.
It'll live on forever.
He created a lot of the metal, the sound that I love today.
And like what you were saying before I came on, you know, a lot of people recoil at the darkness from Black Sabbath, but they did have themes of peace and love in like the original sense, not in the distorted sense that we hear today.
And Tony Ione wore a cross.
And there were these Christian themes in it, but they kind of showed you the darker aspects of life through their music.
So it's a very big loss in the music community.
Yeah, I mean, you go look at a song like War Pigs, Which is, it's an anti-war song.
You go look at the lyrics of that.
I think that was on their third album, second or third album.
And that it was, no, second album was their second album.
And, you know, at a very, I think they were in their 20s when they put this out, but it reflects the same thing, the same sentiment of anti-war that you would see from working class blue collar guys today when they're saying, why are we, why are we getting involved in these things that are overseas?
We're going to go kill all these people because some rich generals and rich polit, they talk about the politicians, you know, and you could almost apply that to any war.
And they were growing up in Birmingham, England, you know, just huge working class, you know, industrial, dirty, grungy, gritty kind of area.
And that was reflected in the music.
And I'll tell the story of Tony Iomi that, you know, he's famously, but, you know, for people who don't know, that he was working as a teenager.
He worked in a sheet metal factory and he was working on the metal lathe.
And I guess it was right hand because he's actually left-handed, that he cut his fingertips off on the machine, but he was playing guitar and he never wanted to learn or he never wanted to quit playing guitar.
And so he devised these sort of like leather thimbles that allowed him to continue playing guitar and attach them.
And to this day, has to play guitar like this.
His fingertips don't grow back, folks.
But in order to continue playing, he had to down tune the, you know, the strings on the guitar, which created this deeper, heavier, metallic sound, which really formed the genesis of creating heavy metal.
And you listen to a story like that and you say, this is a guy who's lived through some stuff.
These are people who lived through an austere upbringing and overcame that.
And you just don't get music of that caliber when you don't have people who have lived through the same type of stories.
You just don't.
Yeah.
And they lived through an area that was torn up through World War II.
And like what you're saying with Tony Iomi's fingers, that music taught me, amongst other music like it, that tragedy you can use and turn it into something hopeful.
And that's what they did.
And that's what he did with his injuries.
That's what they did surrounded by war and death.
And generals gathered in their masses just like witches at black masses, which reminds me of a lot of the stuff I'm talking about with you today in terms of bio warfare and the military industrial complex.
Yeah, you can zoom out from there and you can hear so many of the same themes, so many of the same issues.
And I want to get into that in the next segment, but just hold on this for a minute because I think for a lot of people, they want to have this knee-jerk response.
They'll want to, and I'm not even looking at the comments right now, but I'm just going to speak from the heart that this is what blue-collar people listen to.
All right.
There's a lot of blue-collar workers.
And if you want to talk about those, you know, when we send guys off to war and they're forced to fight in Iraq and they're driving around in tanks and who even knows, what, 200 degrees in the middle of that tank?
Guess what?
They're going to pump some black Sabbath because those guys got ordered to do that and they got ordered to be out there or, you know, or just guys working, you know, working in a factory and having to swing a hammer or work a machine and work a shift, long hours, night hours, overtime, the rest of it.
This is the type of music that appeals to blue collar workers, whether you like it or not, by the way.
And those are the themes that when they, that's real stuff.
That's close to the earth stuff.
Memento Mori, right?
That, which is a very ancient and traditional Christian saying, remember that you are mortal.
Remember that you will die.
Every Ash Wednesday, right?
You are dust and from dust you came and from dust you shall return.
So it's these ideas that you see reflected because you're close to the earth.
And there's nothing more real than reflecting upon your own mortality.
And that's what metal is so great at.
It's like my favorite genre of music, you know, because in many regards, the memento mori, makes you confront your mortality.
And it's a very raw sound.
And, you know, I understand people recoil at the darkness and they think it's satanic.
But like you said, they talk about how they're not trying to be satanic.
They're not trying to be dark.
I think they're trying to hold a mirror to society, being like, society is actually what's dark.
You're living in an illusion and pretending that you're not within this, you know, surrounded by all this darkness.
So that's always appreciated about Ozzy and Sabbath is they shatter that illusion and, you know, and then they open up the doorway to so much music that I love today that, you know, you and I have talked about over the years.
There's just so many bands that wouldn't exist without Ozzy and that sound.
And I got to say, for people who want to look it up, you know, Ozzy and Sabbath, early Sabbath stuff after this, go look up on YouTube their like 1978 performance in Paris.
It's like in a bar.
Incredible show.
I highly recommend it.
It's one of my favorites.
I go back to it all the time.
And there's like, you know, Ozzy sweeping out on the stage and it's incredible.
It sounds so good.
Man, it's just hitting me.
My kids are, I mean, it was the final show just a couple of weeks ago, but, you know, never, that's it.
There's no more Ozzy Osborne.
No one's ever going to see an Ozzy show again.
That is it.
Folks, we'll be right back.
Shane Cashman, Real America's Boys, Human Events Daily.
Jack is a great guy.
He's written a fantastic book.
Everybody's talking about it.
Go get it.
And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
And we're going to turn it around and make our event be quite a good time.
Amen.
Okay, Jack Prasopic.
Here we are back live Human Events Daily.
We're talking about, you know, we didn't know we were going to be talking about this.
We're talking about the death of Ozzie Osborne.
And we're on with Shane Cashman from Teamcast.
But, you know, Shane, there's also another way we can talk about this because we've also seen, here's an interesting take.
And it's funny because I was actually, I was with Russell Brand last night at a Maha event in Washington.
We're also seeing the, we've also already seen the death of the rock star in a sense as well.
You know, the rock star in the West, that's the rebel.
That's the rebel against society.
That's the rebel against all of the things that society is pushing for you.
And we don't have that, right?
We have, we have conformity, right?
The conformity of cancel culture, the conformity of postmodernism, the conformity of electronica AI music slop.
You know, there's no, there's no fear of the rock star anymore.
There's no, like, and like half the guys that are out there, even like the Rage Against the Machine guys are running around telling everybody to get vaccinated and stuff like that.
There's no, there's no guy.
And that's the essence of rock music, right?
Rock music is supposed to be the middle finger to society.
Like, I'm just going to say it the same way that MAGA was the middle finger to American politics prior to that, the middle finger to the Uniparty, the middle finger to the Republicans and the Democrats was a third way for people to come up and be like, we're sick of this.
We're done with this.
And yeah, we're going to go with Donald Trump because of course he's a rock star.
He might even be the last rock star.
So, I mean, there's we're, we're really losing something in a society because we're a society now that doesn't produce rock stars anymore.
I think it's going to come back.
And I think it's going to be a huge wrecking ball swinging in the other direction after years of the dissenting voice being suppressed.
But in 2016, when I was telling all my punk rock friends and all, you know, I was in a metal band for years.
I said, whether you like it or not, Trump is the first punk rock president.
It wasn't Obama.
You know, it's not these people.
It's Trump.
And he might be a guy in a suit, but he is coming from the system and telling you, the people, the system is completely rigged against you.
The system actually hates you.
And we're going to blow it up, you know, metaphorically speaking.
And that's why I appealed to me because I grew up loving punk rock and metal.
And like what you're saying with rock stars, that was the whole thing that was appealing to the people is like, okay, this person might be, you know, on stage singing to a giant crowd, but they somehow are speaking for the people, like the blue collar people.
And, you know, the middle class has basically been wiped out in the past five or six years thanks to COVID and many other policies.
But the rock star was someone who said, you know, screw the system.
And it really hurt during lockdowns to see like Rage Against the Machine, the offspring, all these so-called punk rock guys, you know, become the establishment that they always raged against.
But there are a few.
You know, we still have Johnny Rotten.
Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is still out there speaking his mind.
You might remember a year or two ago, he had the MAGA hat on through a lot of people.
And Marcy has a lot of respect for that because that was an amazing moment.
And Morrissey, Morrissey has been crushing it everywhere he goes, right?
Exactly.
And I don't mean to take anything away from these guys, but my point is, though, is what kind of society produces an Ozzy Osborne?
What kind of society produces a Morrissey or a Johnny Rotten?
Or, you know, obviously those are British, but all the American rock stars.
By the way, you mentioned Beach Boys.
We did actually get to see them perform here in D.C. Sands, Brian Wilson on the 4th of July, which I was surprised.
I thought they were going to pull out, but they actually did end up coming and playing in Washington, D.C. at the at the Independence Day celebration on the National Mall, which was just incredible.
It was sad, but it was, you know, it was amazing to be able to be there with my kids.
And you see all, again, just these great American and just say Western, I'll say Western rock stars that we have a society now that doesn't produce that because we preach that you must conform, you must be like this.
Now, that being said, you could also, I suppose, argue that you're giving people something to rebel against.
And that is the essence of rock.
Yeah, I think that's what I'm saying.
I think there will be a resurgence of massive dissenting, authentic voices in music because everyone's been so thrown into silos where you're not allowed to say this, you're not allowed to do that, you can't be this.
And I think people are young kids are sick of it.
And of course, there'll be people who conform widespread.
That's always the case.
But I think we're going to see other Aussie types, other Marilyn Manson types.
That's another type of Black Sabbath lineage that offends people.
But he's another person who puts that mirror up to society, being like, look, everything's really dark, you know, and hypocritical, like with Bill Clinton's condemning Marilyn Manson while bombing Kosovo.
So it's like you're actually causing death, but you're blaming a musician for being an artist and ragging on free speech, which is completely ridiculous.
So I do think there's going to be some people coming back, but Ozzy is like, that's a once-in-a-lifetime situation.
That voice, like you were saying with the lyrics written by, was it Geezer?
That happened again.
I thought Bill wrote most of the lyrics.
I could be wrong.
But even still, you zoom back, right?
And it's, it is, I was talking to somebody recently that I just met, and he was telling me about, oh, my son plays.
And you see this with like Gen Z at Zoomers, musicians who are so technically good and so technically better than millennials and Gen Xers in general.
You know, I mean, Kurt Cobain wasn't like the greatest guitarist or anything, right?
You know, his, the technical proficiency of some of these bands was not that high.
But then you, you flip it around and you say, wow, they're so good because they learned on YouTube and they just like sit and practice.
But but then they, you also hear they don't form bands.
And he was telling me, he was like, oh, well, you know, I was like, what does he play?
You know, your kid.
And he said, oh, he plays guitar, bass, and drums and piano.
That way, you know, if he wants to put some music together, he doesn't need anybody else because he can just do it all himself.
And I was like, but doesn't that kind of defeat the whole point?
I agree.
I think we need, you know, kids in rooms playing their instruments together, practicing, learning that riff.
You know, it's invaluable.
And I did that for so long.
I love those experiences.
But I also appreciate, you know, kids learning instruments and trying to do it on their own.
But I don't think that translates on the stage in the same way it does with a big loud band like Ozzy.
When you're standing, then what you are blaring.
It's the best.
Yeah, because then what you are, because when you get multiple people together, that's the pressure that creates diamonds.
And that's why you take these acts.
And Ozzy, of course, being the notable exception, I would argue, thanks to like Randy Rhodes and Zach Wilde.
We just saw Zach Wilde a couple of weeks ago when he played with Minterra and they opened for Metallica.
That he, you know, most of the solo acts don't really surpass the group acts.
And that's because of that group dynamic that really refines things and merges things together in a way to create that magic that you never really seem to be able to get when it's just one person.
And yeah, you can have these great, you know, I don't know, like, it's like, it's like the difference between a concert pianist and like a Billy Joel or, you know, an Elton John, someone who could just sit down and rock it out because that's a fundamentally different thing.
But, you know, last minute to you, Shane Cashman, the death of the rock star.
Yeah, it's, I think we're watching a generation of rock stars pass away that define music for so long, that music that we like new music coming out today that they have been inspired by.
But I do have hope for the future of new rock, dissenting, awesome punk rock.
And, you know, we're seeing things come back like Oasis, not that there's so much punk rock, but Liam Gallagher is one of the last living rock stars who still says what's on his mind.
And I'll always appreciate that.
So just hopefully the new generation of kids will come back and rock unafraid and brave.
And that's what it's all about, right?
You know, kids forming rock bands together again.
So there's been on this whole sort of like nostalgia kick of, you know, is Trump going to return us to the way things were before?
And the way things were before was kids forming those garage bands and going through it and scraping together a couple of bucks for an amplifier or getting a bass or, you know, excuse me, finding someone who's willing to play bass, right?
You know, and then like getting the drummer.
It's true.
Yeah, getting your drummer there, et cetera, et cetera.
And it is what it is, right?
You know, and that's, I think, part of the essential nucleus of what growing up in the West has always been about.
And a great society, a great society will be a society that produces rock stars.
Use your fingers to create, not just to scroll.
So hats off to Black Sabbath, to rock stars, to rock music in general.
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